The Oregon Biennial is a sprawling affair in time and space. This year it is curated by Amanda Hunt from LA, the first out of region curator. The event opens tonight at the main Disjecta space. There are other openings Sunday, then onward. There are public projects outdoors, and a fine Saturday series of talks and video.
Tomorrow there are openings at the UO Whitebox by the artists behind Appendix and at Upfor. We will leave it to you to navigate your way on www.biennial.disjecta.org.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10
Friday, March 07, 2014
March 7 Eastside Opening Songs
Many people are going to the Luc Tuymans talk tonight at PNCA previously mentioned.
Art and Commerce engage in a dynamic. The common dishonesty of commerce makes art suspicious. But creativity and commerce are each large organizing fields which subsume the other. Creativity works best with optimism, while commerce is unafraid to exploit both pessimism and optimism. Nonetheless, commerce, on its best days, loves creativity. The Art of Work is a show of photography by artists made in service of their day jobs, but never used. Curated by Julia Dolan, photography curator at the Art Museum and John Jay at the ad agency. Artists include Neil DaCosta, Scott Dalton, Maia Flore, Eugenie Frerichs, Tom Hassler, Joshua Hobson, Carter Johnston, Kristianne Koch, Mark Mahaney, Tasia Markoff, Robbie McClaran, Christopher Onstott, Shawn Records, Alan Thornton, Allan Visnick, Bruce Wolf and Dave Woody. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Black Box turns in Landscape: Looking at Photography, their collection of contemporary landscape. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Conny Purtill has The Ground, drawings and collaborative works by Felix Culpa, Jay Heikes, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Barry McGee and Todd Norsten. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213 6PM-9 Free
After some fierce for Portland snow, Spring energy is in play, with the Hawthorns blooming and a burst of fashion, Portland's other art form. In that spirit, independent fashion photographer Christine Shields has a show. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8
All at 811 East Burnside Map
The Way We Think We Are is a portrait show by Ken Sellen, David Slader and Matt Schlosky. www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Portland has many musical ecosystems. More so than many places they are collaborative tribes. The March Music Moderne is an example, the old-timey revival and its influence on rock and folk, many shades of punk, new psych, the Valentnes-curated-in-the-day flows, the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls phenomena, gamelan, Indian, African, the list goes on.
We have many artists that are creative polymaths, and pursue music making as a creative facet. Chris Johansen is one. He has a visual show up at PMOMA. In honor of that show, Tara Jane ONeil with Dragging an Ox Through Water and Morgan Ritter play tonight. It's a free show for homies on her world tour.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map Show 8PM Free
Art and Commerce engage in a dynamic. The common dishonesty of commerce makes art suspicious. But creativity and commerce are each large organizing fields which subsume the other. Creativity works best with optimism, while commerce is unafraid to exploit both pessimism and optimism. Nonetheless, commerce, on its best days, loves creativity. The Art of Work is a show of photography by artists made in service of their day jobs, but never used. Curated by Julia Dolan, photography curator at the Art Museum and John Jay at the ad agency. Artists include Neil DaCosta, Scott Dalton, Maia Flore, Eugenie Frerichs, Tom Hassler, Joshua Hobson, Carter Johnston, Kristianne Koch, Mark Mahaney, Tasia Markoff, Robbie McClaran, Christopher Onstott, Shawn Records, Alan Thornton, Allan Visnick, Bruce Wolf and Dave Woody. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Black Box turns in Landscape: Looking at Photography, their collection of contemporary landscape. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Conny Purtill has The Ground, drawings and collaborative works by Felix Culpa, Jay Heikes, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Barry McGee and Todd Norsten. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213 6PM-9 Free
After some fierce for Portland snow, Spring energy is in play, with the Hawthorns blooming and a burst of fashion, Portland's other art form. In that spirit, independent fashion photographer Christine Shields has a show. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8
All at 811 East Burnside Map
The Way We Think We Are is a portrait show by Ken Sellen, David Slader and Matt Schlosky. www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Portland has many musical ecosystems. More so than many places they are collaborative tribes. The March Music Moderne is an example, the old-timey revival and its influence on rock and folk, many shades of punk, new psych, the Valentnes-curated-in-the-day flows, the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls phenomena, gamelan, Indian, African, the list goes on.
We have many artists that are creative polymaths, and pursue music making as a creative facet. Chris Johansen is one. He has a visual show up at PMOMA. In honor of that show, Tara Jane ONeil with Dragging an Ox Through Water and Morgan Ritter play tonight. It's a free show for homies on her world tour.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map Show 8PM Free
Thursday, March 06, 2014
March 6 Westside Art Openings
Stephanie Simek sets up her studio in the Museum of Contemporary Craft's Storefront Residency Project. It runs the other Thursdays in March 2PM-5. Tonight it is 5PM-8. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis 5PM-8
Swiss artists Françoise and Daniel Cartier work collaboratively as f&d cartier. They open an installation of unfixed photosensitive papers which will change over the time they are up. Lucy Capehart has photos of the long stored clothing of her parents who perished in an airplane crash when she was a child. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
PNCA has Luc Tuymans: Graphic Works – Kristalnacht to Technicolor. The artist also speaks at the school Friday 6:30PM. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-8
I like wind turbines. I don't understand those who don't. More wind turbines please. Painter Shannon Passon does too, and paints them in landscapes. They are there with poetry book arts. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-9
Eliza Fernand, PNCA minted in '06 presents a show of quilts, Bright Shroud. Sculptor, illustrator, animator and installationist Fernald has a great sense of humor and that has always been reflected in her work. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd
Compound has Minutiae Enchantica miniature paintings and sculpture by Ben Adams, Jennifer Parks, Arax Sargsyan and Kim Slate. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Swiss artists Françoise and Daniel Cartier work collaboratively as f&d cartier. They open an installation of unfixed photosensitive papers which will change over the time they are up. Lucy Capehart has photos of the long stored clothing of her parents who perished in an airplane crash when she was a child. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
PNCA has Luc Tuymans: Graphic Works – Kristalnacht to Technicolor. The artist also speaks at the school Friday 6:30PM. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-8
I like wind turbines. I don't understand those who don't. More wind turbines please. Painter Shannon Passon does too, and paints them in landscapes. They are there with poetry book arts. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-9
Eliza Fernand, PNCA minted in '06 presents a show of quilts, Bright Shroud. Sculptor, illustrator, animator and installationist Fernald has a great sense of humor and that has always been reflected in her work. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd
Compound has Minutiae Enchantica miniature paintings and sculpture by Ben Adams, Jennifer Parks, Arax Sargsyan and Kim Slate. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
March 5-9 And So It Begins
The art world embraces the dynamic between the Confucians and the Taoists. The Confucian pole is all about a hierarchy of curators, venues, collections, critics, collectors and artists, dollars too. The Taoist pole is about experimentation, DIY, and influence on society and aesthetics within, the unassuming sage changing the world.
The Reed College Reed Arts Week combines these polar impulses with grace. Reed College is Reed College. They extend their Reed College essence to their students to organize, curate and execute a national-scale art event-show which includes their own student artists along side international artists.
You can get all the details at the website designed by students - reed.edu/raw/2014/index.html. At Reed College , www.reed.edu 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Free
The Reed College Reed Arts Week combines these polar impulses with grace. Reed College is Reed College. They extend their Reed College essence to their students to organize, curate and execute a national-scale art event-show which includes their own student artists along side international artists.
You can get all the details at the website designed by students - reed.edu/raw/2014/index.html. At Reed College , www.reed.edu 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Free
Friday, February 28, 2014
March 1 Notice to Selfies: Steer Country to Peace Corps Planet Christmas
Alicia Eler is curator, writer and artist. Yes, today, you can have it all. Her show Self(ie) Portraits closes today. She speaks in person on her work exploring the edges between social media selfies and artist self portraits. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 11:30AM
Many people have given up on politics. That plan is a tactic by some of the most cynical: make politics so dirty that supporters of your opposition give up in disgust. Then you can eat the whole cake and get all the properties on the monopoly board. Unfortunately that tactic is working. If you let it. Portland, Oregon and the Northwest has an increasingly powerful congressional delegation. One is Senator Ron Wyden. He hosts one of the periodic town halls he holds throughout the state today. The Senator and staff are here to listen to you. Which is how it's supposed to work. Cool. Arrive early. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden town hall at the Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capitol Highway 2PM Free
We have visited Peace Corps volunteers on station, worked with NGO staffers who are former Peace Corps, met UN officials who were influenced to follow world changing careers because they observed Peace Corps volunteers in their home town in Zaire and we knew the gentleman who designed the Peace Corps at its founding using an ethnographic approach.
So we think the Peace Corps is A-OK, in fact, it is the best it can be. It is one of our country's greatest accomplishments.
If you are interested in possibly joining the Peace Corps they are having an in-person event today. You can meet returned volunteers with their stories.
There are significant student loan benefits involved and the Peace Corps is a great spot between undergrad and graduate school in a variety of fields, for international business, NGO's and State.
You can gather some first-hand information today beyond this introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxR8XZOeV, on the Peace Corps, www.peacecorps.gov at Hip Bone Studio 1847 E Burnside St., #104 4PM-5:30 Free
Not sure what to make of this one. Artist Kathryn Andrews presents a performance For Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Continuous Roll). The plan is audience participation. Should be might be fun! At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7:30PM, performance 8 Free
And today, all day, is Dynamic Range Day! 8dB may not sound like a large thing, but in the music world, it is. dynamicrangeday.co.uk/challenge/
Many people have given up on politics. That plan is a tactic by some of the most cynical: make politics so dirty that supporters of your opposition give up in disgust. Then you can eat the whole cake and get all the properties on the monopoly board. Unfortunately that tactic is working. If you let it. Portland, Oregon and the Northwest has an increasingly powerful congressional delegation. One is Senator Ron Wyden. He hosts one of the periodic town halls he holds throughout the state today. The Senator and staff are here to listen to you. Which is how it's supposed to work. Cool. Arrive early. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden town hall at the Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capitol Highway 2PM Free
We have visited Peace Corps volunteers on station, worked with NGO staffers who are former Peace Corps, met UN officials who were influenced to follow world changing careers because they observed Peace Corps volunteers in their home town in Zaire and we knew the gentleman who designed the Peace Corps at its founding using an ethnographic approach.
So we think the Peace Corps is A-OK, in fact, it is the best it can be. It is one of our country's greatest accomplishments.
If you are interested in possibly joining the Peace Corps they are having an in-person event today. You can meet returned volunteers with their stories.
There are significant student loan benefits involved and the Peace Corps is a great spot between undergrad and graduate school in a variety of fields, for international business, NGO's and State.
You can gather some first-hand information today beyond this introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxR8XZOeV, on the Peace Corps, www.peacecorps.gov at Hip Bone Studio 1847 E Burnside St., #104 4PM-5:30 Free
Not sure what to make of this one. Artist Kathryn Andrews presents a performance For Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Continuous Roll). The plan is audience participation. Should be might be fun! At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7:30PM, performance 8 Free
And today, all day, is Dynamic Range Day! 8dB may not sound like a large thing, but in the music world, it is. dynamicrangeday.co.uk/challenge/
Thursday, February 27, 2014
February 28 China Art Close
This show opened on our snow day. It is closing tonight with a reception 6PM-8.
Changjiang River waves behind drive the waves ahead. China. It is big. It is changing fast. It has all the communication overlays of, say the United States. Internet usage is higher and social media, mobile everything are thriving. The country is largely optimistic. The family structure is strong. Even so, it is hard to follow China from afar, and on the ground, the view is limited by the geographic extent and shear numbers. And I have to say I find lecturing China as immature.
University of Oregon professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Jenny Lin, has gathered a sample of contemporary art across media and geography. They are presented in a deep dive in her courses. And for you they are on display in Portland.
Artists include John Alexander, Chang He, Patty Chang, Chen Fei, Chen Xiaofeng, Chen Yina, Chen Yuan, Gu Zheng, Hai Liang, He Pei, Hu Chengwei, Huang Shizun, Huang Xiaoliang, Ji Tao, Jin Xu, Jing Yi, David Kelley, Liu Jiajia, Liu Jianhua, Liu Jie, Liu Kai, Liu Tao, Liu Wanyi, Liu Yanpeng, Liu Yuanyuan, Luo Dan, Ning Zhouhao, Tong Dazhuang, Wang Wenlong, Wang Peibei, Wu Pengfei, Xie Ying, Xu Yang, Jay Yan, Yan Yibo, Yang Ming, Ye Baoliang, Zhang Wenfeng, Zhang Xiao, Zhang Yujiao and Zi Bai.
The Chinese art world is unimaginatively vast and China is minting large numbers of MFA's per year.
By Whitebox Gallery at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch Closing reception 6PM-8.
Changjiang River waves behind drive the waves ahead. China. It is big. It is changing fast. It has all the communication overlays of, say the United States. Internet usage is higher and social media, mobile everything are thriving. The country is largely optimistic. The family structure is strong. Even so, it is hard to follow China from afar, and on the ground, the view is limited by the geographic extent and shear numbers. And I have to say I find lecturing China as immature.
University of Oregon professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Jenny Lin, has gathered a sample of contemporary art across media and geography. They are presented in a deep dive in her courses. And for you they are on display in Portland.
Artists include John Alexander, Chang He, Patty Chang, Chen Fei, Chen Xiaofeng, Chen Yina, Chen Yuan, Gu Zheng, Hai Liang, He Pei, Hu Chengwei, Huang Shizun, Huang Xiaoliang, Ji Tao, Jin Xu, Jing Yi, David Kelley, Liu Jiajia, Liu Jianhua, Liu Jie, Liu Kai, Liu Tao, Liu Wanyi, Liu Yanpeng, Liu Yuanyuan, Luo Dan, Ning Zhouhao, Tong Dazhuang, Wang Wenlong, Wang Peibei, Wu Pengfei, Xie Ying, Xu Yang, Jay Yan, Yan Yibo, Yang Ming, Ye Baoliang, Zhang Wenfeng, Zhang Xiao, Zhang Yujiao and Zi Bai.
The Chinese art world is unimaginatively vast and China is minting large numbers of MFA's per year.
By Whitebox Gallery at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch Closing reception 6PM-8.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
February 22 Edge the Crater
Caldera is the region's Djerassi residency with better facilities. Today they open to you to see. Details: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/ At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Know the Ledge is a long running b-boy/b-girl Portland battle. Dets: http://www.facebook.com/events/473081629470480. At Conduit PDX 918 SW Yamhill # 401. Small space, may be fully subscribed. Doors 5PM, battles 6. $12
Know the Ledge is a long running b-boy/b-girl Portland battle. Dets: http://www.facebook.com/events/473081629470480. At Conduit PDX 918 SW Yamhill # 401. Small space, may be fully subscribed. Doors 5PM, battles 6. $12
Friday, February 14, 2014
February 15 Self(ish) Expression(ism)
I think we have mentioned artist, musician, skater Chris Johanson once or twice before. I think we have mentioned the Portland Museum of Modern Art - PMOMA - before. And if you have seen the shows at PMOMA, you might come to the conclusion that Johanson is an influence on the Museum's aesthetics. And you might be right.
Mr Johanson opens his new show Self(ish) Expression(ism) at PMOMA tonight. Musicians Gift Horse accompany. There will be interesting people there. It will be fun.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Robert E. Gilpin reopens The Black Back Door. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free
Several other 811 building galleries are holding reopening receptions.
Mr Johanson opens his new show Self(ish) Expression(ism) at PMOMA tonight. Musicians Gift Horse accompany. There will be interesting people there. It will be fun.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Robert E. Gilpin reopens The Black Back Door. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free
Several other 811 building galleries are holding reopening receptions.
February 14 Thawing
Fourteen30 opens a new post snow show by Perry Doane, Michael Dopp, Rachel Foullon, Evan La Londe, Andrea Longacre-White, Israel Lund, Niall Macdonald, Brian Sharp, Josh Tonsfeldt and Bobbi Woods. Group shows are rare for this venue, so it is a perfect chance to see how the curator weaves aesthetics. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Several galleries have rescheduled openings from last Friday's biblical snowstorm. You can refer to the opening listings for details, and we encourage readers to do so throughout the month every month.
Blue Sky reopens its February show.
Glyph reopens its February show. Piano music 6:30PM-9:30 art reception 7.
Several galleries have rescheduled openings from last Friday's biblical snowstorm. You can refer to the opening listings for details, and we encourage readers to do so throughout the month every month.
Blue Sky reopens its February show.
Glyph reopens its February show. Piano music 6:30PM-9:30 art reception 7.
Monday, February 10, 2014
February 10 Meadows Edition
Curator and photographer Sarah Meadows has selected Mack McFarland, Drew Scott Swenhaugen and Matt Carlson for Getting to Know You(Tube). At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $5
Friday, February 07, 2014
February 7 Poetics
Reed is a hidden gem which has a penchant for staying hidden. And often they have stellar visitors. I would be happier if some gems had remained hidden.
Poetry is a vast and obscure realm we leave to experts. But here is one that crossed my path.
Gary Snyder studied at Reed. He is a polymath. Cool dude.
He reads some of his poems this evening, including some of his translation, first published in 1959,
of Cold Mountain 寒山 Poems.
Reed is more self-sufficient transportation-wise than most, so check the school website for updates on cancellations.
Gary Snyder reads poems events.reed.edu/posts/2013-14/eliot-award-gary-snyder.html at Reed College Vollum Lecture Hall, www.reed.edu 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Map 5:15PM Free
Poetry is a vast and obscure realm we leave to experts. But here is one that crossed my path.
Gary Snyder studied at Reed. He is a polymath. Cool dude.
He reads some of his poems this evening, including some of his translation, first published in 1959,
of Cold Mountain 寒山 Poems.
Reed is more self-sufficient transportation-wise than most, so check the school website for updates on cancellations.
Gary Snyder reads poems events.reed.edu/posts/2013-14/eliot-award-gary-snyder.html at Reed College Vollum Lecture Hall, www.reed.edu 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Map 5:15PM Free
Thursday, February 06, 2014
February 6 Westside Art Openings
Almost all the galleries are closed tonight because of snow, but the shows are up all month.
Changjiang River waves behind drive the waves ahead. China. It is big. It is changing fast. It has all the communication overlays of, say the United States. Internet usage is higher and social media, mobile everything are thriving. The country is largely optimistic. The family structure is strong. Even so, it is hard to follow China from afar, and on the ground, the view is limited by the geographic extent and shear numbers. And I have to say I find lecturing China as immature.
University of Oregon professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Jenny Lin, has gathered a sample of contemporary art across media and geography. They are presented in a deep dive in her courses. And for you they are on display in Portland.
Artists include John Alexander, Chang He, Patty Chang, Chen Fei, Chen Xiaofeng, Chen Yina, Chen Yuan, Gu Zheng, Hai Liang, He Pei, Hu Chengwei, Huang Shizun, Huang Xiaoliang, Ji Tao, Jin Xu, Jing Yi, David Kelley, Liu Jiajia, Liu Jianhua, Liu Jie, Liu Kai, Liu Tao, Liu Wanyi, Liu Yanpeng, Liu Yuanyuan, Luo Dan, Ning Zhouhao, Tong Dazhuang, Wang Wenlong, Wang Peibei, Wu Pengfei, Xie Ying, Xu Yang, Jay Yan, Yan Yibo, Yang Ming, Ye Baoliang, Zhang Wenfeng, Zhang Xiao, Zhang Yujiao and Zi Bai.
The Chinese art world is unimaginatively vast and China is minting large numbers of MFA's per year.
By Whitebox Gallery at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch
Reverse Engineered is a group show by AJ Fosik, Jshea, Souther Salazar, Troy Coulterman, Michael Alm and Yosakay Yamamoto. Tonight the sculpture instance opens. On February 27th, each artist presents 2D companion work at Antler. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
Unless you have been snowed in for some time you know the word selfie. It is the venerable Oxford English Dictionary 2013 Word of the Year. It is also the inspiration for show Self(IE) by artists Lorna Barnshaw, Ian Ingram, TJ Norris, Julie Perini, Jordan Rathus, Samantha Wall and Tyler Wallace. Alicia Eler provides a closing talk for the show March 1. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
PNCA has a previously opened An Exhibition That Might Exist, Bean Gilsdorf, recent CCA grad. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Unveiled Nudes by Robert Hanson, Stephen Hayes, Malia Jensen, Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Joseph Park, John Sloan, David Smith opens tonight. It accompanies a very interesting project by photographer Chris Rauschenberg of artist studios. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
The late photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier is noted for his pictures of rocks. But he often included in the image rock's yang to yin, skies. That is the theme of this show of his work, Skies. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
We are actively selective and passively selective covering cafe shows. To many moar arts. But we have great hopes for this cafe in a dorm, Glyph. They open their visual shows with Drawing a Blank, paintings by Theodore Holdt and an exhibition in shadow boxes that are the cafe tables Sea of Hooks – Writing Process Ephemera & Broadsides by Lindsay Hill. Both are have a lot of detail worth an extended visit. The new cafe has food items, beer and wine for your everyday pleasures. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-9
Laura Ross-Paul has Urban Forest this month. Ross-Paul is known for strong use of color, yet not overpoweringly so, in oil and water color. Along with Pecker Tracks by Nat Meade. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Augen has a large group show by by Mark Andres, Phil Bard, Bill Brewer, Sharon Bronzan, Laurel Bustamante, Sally Cleveland, Matt Cosby, Jonnel Covault, Ron Cronin, John Dempcy, Karen Esler, James Florshutz, Trish Grantham, Jef Gunn, Yoko Hara, Mary Chomenko Hinckley, Yuji Hiratsuka, Chris Kelly, Stu Levy, Wendy Franklund Miller, Cynthia Mosser, Jim Neidhardt, Trude Parkinson, Gerald Purdy, Jim Riswold, Rita Robillard, Naomi Shigeta, Sara Siestreem, Dharma Strasser MacColl, Morgan Walker, Mary Wells, Mark Wilson and Thomas Wood. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Longtime Portland artists Henk Pander and Mel Katz have a show this month. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Compound has Parallel Worlds by Andrea Wan, Betsy Walton and Sandra Dieckmann. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Changjiang River waves behind drive the waves ahead. China. It is big. It is changing fast. It has all the communication overlays of, say the United States. Internet usage is higher and social media, mobile everything are thriving. The country is largely optimistic. The family structure is strong. Even so, it is hard to follow China from afar, and on the ground, the view is limited by the geographic extent and shear numbers. And I have to say I find lecturing China as immature.
University of Oregon professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Jenny Lin, has gathered a sample of contemporary art across media and geography. They are presented in a deep dive in her courses. And for you they are on display in Portland.
Artists include John Alexander, Chang He, Patty Chang, Chen Fei, Chen Xiaofeng, Chen Yina, Chen Yuan, Gu Zheng, Hai Liang, He Pei, Hu Chengwei, Huang Shizun, Huang Xiaoliang, Ji Tao, Jin Xu, Jing Yi, David Kelley, Liu Jiajia, Liu Jianhua, Liu Jie, Liu Kai, Liu Tao, Liu Wanyi, Liu Yanpeng, Liu Yuanyuan, Luo Dan, Ning Zhouhao, Tong Dazhuang, Wang Wenlong, Wang Peibei, Wu Pengfei, Xie Ying, Xu Yang, Jay Yan, Yan Yibo, Yang Ming, Ye Baoliang, Zhang Wenfeng, Zhang Xiao, Zhang Yujiao and Zi Bai.
The Chinese art world is unimaginatively vast and China is minting large numbers of MFA's per year.
By Whitebox Gallery at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch
Reverse Engineered is a group show by AJ Fosik, Jshea, Souther Salazar, Troy Coulterman, Michael Alm and Yosakay Yamamoto. Tonight the sculpture instance opens. On February 27th, each artist presents 2D companion work at Antler. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
Unless you have been snowed in for some time you know the word selfie. It is the venerable Oxford English Dictionary 2013 Word of the Year. It is also the inspiration for show Self(IE) by artists Lorna Barnshaw, Ian Ingram, TJ Norris, Julie Perini, Jordan Rathus, Samantha Wall and Tyler Wallace. Alicia Eler provides a closing talk for the show March 1. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
PNCA has a previously opened An Exhibition That Might Exist, Bean Gilsdorf, recent CCA grad. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Unveiled Nudes by Robert Hanson, Stephen Hayes, Malia Jensen, Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Joseph Park, John Sloan, David Smith opens tonight. It accompanies a very interesting project by photographer Chris Rauschenberg of artist studios. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
The late photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier is noted for his pictures of rocks. But he often included in the image rock's yang to yin, skies. That is the theme of this show of his work, Skies. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
We are actively selective and passively selective covering cafe shows. To many moar arts. But we have great hopes for this cafe in a dorm, Glyph. They open their visual shows with Drawing a Blank, paintings by Theodore Holdt and an exhibition in shadow boxes that are the cafe tables Sea of Hooks – Writing Process Ephemera & Broadsides by Lindsay Hill. Both are have a lot of detail worth an extended visit. The new cafe has food items, beer and wine for your everyday pleasures. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-9
Laura Ross-Paul has Urban Forest this month. Ross-Paul is known for strong use of color, yet not overpoweringly so, in oil and water color. Along with Pecker Tracks by Nat Meade. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Augen has a large group show by by Mark Andres, Phil Bard, Bill Brewer, Sharon Bronzan, Laurel Bustamante, Sally Cleveland, Matt Cosby, Jonnel Covault, Ron Cronin, John Dempcy, Karen Esler, James Florshutz, Trish Grantham, Jef Gunn, Yoko Hara, Mary Chomenko Hinckley, Yuji Hiratsuka, Chris Kelly, Stu Levy, Wendy Franklund Miller, Cynthia Mosser, Jim Neidhardt, Trude Parkinson, Gerald Purdy, Jim Riswold, Rita Robillard, Naomi Shigeta, Sara Siestreem, Dharma Strasser MacColl, Morgan Walker, Mary Wells, Mark Wilson and Thomas Wood. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Longtime Portland artists Henk Pander and Mel Katz have a show this month. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Compound has Parallel Worlds by Andrea Wan, Betsy Walton and Sandra Dieckmann. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Saturday, February 01, 2014
February 1 Get Down Forest
Portland has music and Portland has forests. In fact, for a large city, we have outstanding forests. We love, Portlanders love, and Portlander's Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis love, forest parks.
Between the two they have penned childrens' fantasy books with a forest focus. They read from newest, Wildwood Imperium.
Recommended and recommended for small ones and their companion parents.
Reading by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis at Powell's books Beaverton. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd 2PM Free
When we talk about hip hop dance we say b-boy/b-girl. And when we think builders we think man builders and female builders. And when we think humanity. Identity includes all.
Habitat for Humanity and Women Build throw down a b-boy/b-girl/b-person competition, fundraiser and Bhangra dance party.
It's tonight. Details http://www.facebook.com/events/586405948080364/. At the Village Ballroom 700 NE Dekum 8PM-11 $12
And covers and blankets.
Between the two they have penned childrens' fantasy books with a forest focus. They read from newest, Wildwood Imperium.
Recommended and recommended for small ones and their companion parents.
Reading by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis at Powell's books Beaverton. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd 2PM Free
When we talk about hip hop dance we say b-boy/b-girl. And when we think builders we think man builders and female builders. And when we think humanity. Identity includes all.
Habitat for Humanity and Women Build throw down a b-boy/b-girl/b-person competition, fundraiser and Bhangra dance party.
It's tonight. Details http://www.facebook.com/events/586405948080364/. At the Village Ballroom 700 NE Dekum 8PM-11 $12
And covers and blankets.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
January 25 Caldera X Box
Caldera is a great Oregon arts residency. It is a Summer art camp for at risk youth. In Winter, sometimes, but not this year, snowed in, it's a residency for grown artists. The artists' studios are open, and the work made on view, a few hours of a few days in a year. Today see musician Christi Denton, photographer Jim Leisly, filmmaker Alain Letourneau, writer Maxim Loskutoff and artist Katie Rose Pipkin. Details:
www.calderaarts.org/caldera/january-2014-open-studio. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
We are not a fan of artworks derivative of (sampled from) pop culture. The audience that can relate to the work is too narrow for the work to be meaningful. But we often do like what Disjecta does. Tonight Disjecta does an artwork derived from a television (television??) series that broadcast (broadcast?) between 1993 and 2002. We're going to be at Multiplex. Details at www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/zero. Opening at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10
The experimental show. about desire, at the University of Oregon’s White Box visual laboratory, mounts a conventional close this evening. Curator Meagan Atiyeh has seleced paintings, sculpture, video, photography and mixed media works by artists Delaney Allen, Nancy Bulalacao, Jacques Flechemuller, Sally Haley (1908-2007), Tahni Holt, Kristan Kennedy, Isaac Layman, Storm Tharp, and Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008) for the show. Several of the artists may speak about their work at the closing. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 5PM-8 Free
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www.calderaarts.org/caldera/january-2014-open-studio. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
We are not a fan of artworks derivative of (sampled from) pop culture. The audience that can relate to the work is too narrow for the work to be meaningful. But we often do like what Disjecta does. Tonight Disjecta does an artwork derived from a television (television??) series that broadcast (broadcast?) between 1993 and 2002. We're going to be at Multiplex. Details at www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/zero. Opening at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10
The experimental show. about desire, at the University of Oregon’s White Box visual laboratory, mounts a conventional close this evening. Curator Meagan Atiyeh has seleced paintings, sculpture, video, photography and mixed media works by artists Delaney Allen, Nancy Bulalacao, Jacques Flechemuller, Sally Haley (1908-2007), Tahni Holt, Kristan Kennedy, Isaac Layman, Storm Tharp, and Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008) for the show. Several of the artists may speak about their work at the closing. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 5PM-8 Free
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January 24 Free Museum
Tonight after 5 the Museum has free admission. These Fridays really give the museum a sense of life. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, January 18, 2014
January 19 Places to Go
We've known musician and all around good person Enrique Ugalde performing as Soriah for some time. He has been a generous creative collaborator. For several years he has been adventuring off to Tuva in the Russian Republic to study and perform traditional and non-traditional throat singing. He is off on a new epic journey to the east to start his own Tuvan family. Wish him the best by stopping by his send off performance. At the Star Theater 13NW 6th 8PM $10
January 18 Places to Be
Place has a series of openings tonight as does the Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland. See it all for the amazing price of free! At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
Thursday, January 16, 2014
January 17 Scapeing the Future
In an interesting social practice, ethnographic or market research exercise, hard to tell which, the National Nanotechnology Initiative polled a focus group of Portlanders on their views of tech. In turn, artists are responding to that material, with their own experience, in this branch of the PSU Futurescapes project. Presentations at 7. At RECESS recessart.com in the Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
January 16 Studio Momenta
Christopher Rauschenberg is known for urban landscape photography, using monochrome and color sensitively, not sensationally. For a new show he lenses the intimate interiors of artist's studios. What is common? A collage of images from here and there. Paint tracks. You can see for yourself, artifacts, absent finished work, that are traces of the inspiration process. Along with Unveiled, a show of nudes, by David Smith, Gaston Lachaise, John Sloan, and Henri Matisse, Malia Jensen, Stephen Hayes, Joseph Park and Robert Hanson. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free
Energy, our survival depends on it. It is energy that keeps us warm or cool when the weather is other. Energy takes us to and from families and jobs. Energy grows our food, delivers it and cooks it. Pumps our fresh water and disposes of waste. It runs our media and Internet.
In the United States today, 78% comes from millions of years of underground fossil plant deposits in the form of coal, natural gas and oil - http://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/energy_flow_2012/2012new2012newUSEnergy.png. In fact the two major electric utilities serving Portland Portland General Electric and Pacificorps have significant use of coal as a source. Maybe we need to come up with a plan to not dig that up!
Why? Our methods of converting those sources to use are woefully inefficient. They are limited by Carnot efficiency, but typically operate at about 33%. Add transmission losses and the inefficiency of building insulation. The result of primitive burning, fossil fuel sources are leading to extreme weather events like wildfire, floods, hurricanes, heat waves and low temperatures. They are leading to crop failures and loss of centuries stable ecosystems. Those landscape plants in your yard. Some will survive. The weeds will survive, guaranteed. Fisheries - we are already losing our oyster business in Oregon because burning carbon fuels is increasing ocean acidity. So yes we are the lobster who starts out on the fire in a cold pot, then realizes too late they are cooked.
I have not seen this documentary. And being me, I would probably make it differently. But seeing the trailer, I suggest it. Because it is about something happening here, now and that you can influence by volunteering, writing an email or just showing up. And if you don't, it is going to affect you.
Yes, easy to ignore. But what are you going to say to your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and grand nieces and nephews if you ignored it? They will ask.
Showing of the documentary Momenta, produced in Portland, on American coal exports from Wyoming, Montana and Colorado through Portland and Northwest locations over rail to China and other Asian countries.
This is an early edit and advance free tickets required - http://www.eventbrite.com/e/momenta-advanced-screening-tickets-10036231639.
At Patagonia in Ecotrust. Ticket includes raffle. Beer available for purchase. 907 NW Irving Doors 7PM, showing 8 $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Energy, our survival depends on it. It is energy that keeps us warm or cool when the weather is other. Energy takes us to and from families and jobs. Energy grows our food, delivers it and cooks it. Pumps our fresh water and disposes of waste. It runs our media and Internet.
In the United States today, 78% comes from millions of years of underground fossil plant deposits in the form of coal, natural gas and oil - http://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/energy_flow_2012/2012new2012newUSEnergy.png. In fact the two major electric utilities serving Portland Portland General Electric and Pacificorps have significant use of coal as a source. Maybe we need to come up with a plan to not dig that up!
Why? Our methods of converting those sources to use are woefully inefficient. They are limited by Carnot efficiency, but typically operate at about 33%. Add transmission losses and the inefficiency of building insulation. The result of primitive burning, fossil fuel sources are leading to extreme weather events like wildfire, floods, hurricanes, heat waves and low temperatures. They are leading to crop failures and loss of centuries stable ecosystems. Those landscape plants in your yard. Some will survive. The weeds will survive, guaranteed. Fisheries - we are already losing our oyster business in Oregon because burning carbon fuels is increasing ocean acidity. So yes we are the lobster who starts out on the fire in a cold pot, then realizes too late they are cooked.
I have not seen this documentary. And being me, I would probably make it differently. But seeing the trailer, I suggest it. Because it is about something happening here, now and that you can influence by volunteering, writing an email or just showing up. And if you don't, it is going to affect you.
Yes, easy to ignore. But what are you going to say to your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and grand nieces and nephews if you ignored it? They will ask.
Showing of the documentary Momenta, produced in Portland, on American coal exports from Wyoming, Montana and Colorado through Portland and Northwest locations over rail to China and other Asian countries.
This is an early edit and advance free tickets required - http://www.eventbrite.com/e/momenta-advanced-screening-tickets-10036231639.
At Patagonia in Ecotrust. Ticket includes raffle. Beer available for purchase. 907 NW Irving Doors 7PM, showing 8 $10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Monday, January 13, 2014
January 15 Pope.L Portland
William Pope.L opens Claim tonight and speaks on his work. Pope.L is a great artist provocateur and star guest of PICA in its strong experimental visual art period of 10 years ago. And the exhibition is winner of the copywriting award for the month:
"When we quantify, we point. We point with a wavering finger. Like a child. Like a drunk. Like a dyslexic. Like a palsied person. Like a college student filled with helium. Like an old person filled with wisdom, we point with a wavering finger. And of course we insist; we insist we know, we know where we are pointing.
Claim is a piece, an exhibition about making sense of things and concomitantly making nonsense of that. Claim uses simple, poetic counting and quantification strategies to gnarly up a discussion about making sense/nonsense. The hinge between sense and nonsense is consciousness, or, more precisely, intention. This is a weak hinge: intention is ‘pointed at’ in this exhibition, usually where things do or do not come together. It may seem visually reticent, yet even so, it is important for use and interpretation."
Pope.l speaks tonight at Shattuck Hall Annex at 7PM, followed by a reception in the Littman and White gallery. In Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus and in the https://www.facebook.com/events/1489212924657398/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1489212924657398/Talk 7PM Reception ~8-10. Free
"When we quantify, we point. We point with a wavering finger. Like a child. Like a drunk. Like a dyslexic. Like a palsied person. Like a college student filled with helium. Like an old person filled with wisdom, we point with a wavering finger. And of course we insist; we insist we know, we know where we are pointing.
Claim is a piece, an exhibition about making sense of things and concomitantly making nonsense of that. Claim uses simple, poetic counting and quantification strategies to gnarly up a discussion about making sense/nonsense. The hinge between sense and nonsense is consciousness, or, more precisely, intention. This is a weak hinge: intention is ‘pointed at’ in this exhibition, usually where things do or do not come together. It may seem visually reticent, yet even so, it is important for use and interpretation."
Pope.l speaks tonight at Shattuck Hall Annex at 7PM, followed by a reception in the Littman and White gallery. In Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus and in the https://www.facebook.com/events/1489212924657398/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1489212924657398/Talk 7PM Reception ~8-10. Free
Sunday, January 12, 2014
January 13 Your YouTube
This month's Getting to Know YouTube has Shawn Creeden, Rachael Jensen and Morgan Sutherland, curated by Krystal South. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
January 11 Collect Here Now
Manuel Izquierdo, Todd Haynes, John Fahey, Lucinda Parker, Sister Corita Kent, Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, Sally Haley, Leroy Alman, Cynthia Star, Storm Tharp, Terry Toedtemeier, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Vaginal Davis, Michael Hall, BF Perkins and Arthur Renquist are artists often found in museums, or may be found in future museums.
Portland Museum of Modern Art is a museum and a future museum. They have reached out into their community of friends and lovers to loan pieces for this show. Portland Collects is a peak inside creative mind of Portland collectors. The intent is to show ordinary people can collect art and it is a source of great pleasure. By chance, it represents a counterpoint to the Bacon on loan, reportedly in exchange for a low 8 figure tax arbitrage. Portland Collects: PMOMA Presents Work from Private Collections www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com/Portland-Collects-Jan-2014.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Portland Museum of Modern Art is a museum and a future museum. They have reached out into their community of friends and lovers to loan pieces for this show. Portland Collects is a peak inside creative mind of Portland collectors. The intent is to show ordinary people can collect art and it is a source of great pleasure. By chance, it represents a counterpoint to the Bacon on loan, reportedly in exchange for a low 8 figure tax arbitrage. Portland Collects: PMOMA Presents Work from Private Collections www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com/Portland-Collects-Jan-2014.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
January 10 Jargon
Jargon is a collaboration between Cari Vander Yacht and Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun. They exchanged sketches between the East Coast and West, each sketch a response to their individual moves to a new city. The description on Nationale's website explains all. But what the surprise is, the end result, opens tonight: nationale.us/vander-yacht-kriksciun-jargon-2014. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-10 Free
Monday, January 06, 2014
January 9 Desire Ra
Portland has a few experimental curators. Art is risk, so in curation, shows and sales, compounding risk is avoided. UO Whitebox and some others embrace risk. Here is an example. Curator Meagan Atiyeh curates show, About Desire, connecting Delaney Allen, Nancy Bulalacao, Jacques Flechemuller, Sally Haley (1908-2007), Tahni Holt, Kristan Kennedy, Isaac Layman, Storm Tharp and Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008). The works have been shown solo in the space day by day. Tonight, and through show closing, they are all present. Curator's talk tonight. Roundup the 25th. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 5PM-8
Sun Ra. Art life.
Mr Sun Ra was a visionary musician and lived life as an art individual. Neither art or music has caught up to this day at the speed of his concepts.
Tonight on the big screen you can partake in a special treat, actually two special treats.
First is Mr Sun Ra's written, directed and produced fictional film Space is the Place. Recommended and strongly recommended having seen it a few times. Second is A Joyful Noise. I want to see and will see tonight on a big screen and sound system.
Sun Ra on screen at Hollywood Theater hollywoodtheatre.org/sun-ra-double-feature/ 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $8
Sun Ra. Art life.
Mr Sun Ra was a visionary musician and lived life as an art individual. Neither art or music has caught up to this day at the speed of his concepts.
Tonight on the big screen you can partake in a special treat, actually two special treats.
First is Mr Sun Ra's written, directed and produced fictional film Space is the Place. Recommended and strongly recommended having seen it a few times. Second is A Joyful Noise. I want to see and will see tonight on a big screen and sound system.
Sun Ra on screen at Hollywood Theater hollywoodtheatre.org/sun-ra-double-feature/ 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $8
Januray 7 A Light Spray
Portland has a ton of film and video makers. A Light Spray is a survey of that by Ashby Lee Collinson. Her selects include Carol Nhan, Mark Gonzalez, Ralph Fugay, Fred Armisen, Abby Lloyd, M. Blash, Chase Biado, Chris Irick, Dan Wilson, Grace Glenn, Stef Lister, Espen Friberg, Sara Magenheimer, Chris Lux & Julia Leonard, Linda McAllister, Phillip Iosca, Kersti Jan Werdal, Chase Allgood, Jeem Rinse, Madison Wood, Jeffery Kriksciun, Saoirse Wall, Francesca Ghabrier, Anna Zusman, Michael Gaughen, Alan Resnik, Rebbeca Peel, Underlords Take Acid, Donald Morgan, Sissy Williams, Zefrey Thowell, Kelsey McCurdie, Jake Dibler, Sarah Applebaum, John Mayer, Lia Marion, Nika Kaiser, Brenna Murphy, Caley Feeney, Jay Winebrenner, Sylvie Spencer, Rebbeca Carlisle-Healy, Thomas Arsenault and more. Whut - that's an impressive and recommended list. Maybe you need to be in it next year? Portland art moving image makers at Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM I think its Free
Sunday, January 05, 2014
January 6 Too Stupid to Quit
We have an interest in design of physical objects. Some call it industrial design, but that is an outdated term. John Economaki shares those sentiments and acts on same. He is subject of a design show now at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Mr Economaki has operated his business on those sentiments, Bridge City Tool Works, for 30 years in Portland. Bridge City makes tools of steel and brass. Tonight he talks about using computer design tools to make hard metal tools in a talk - John Economaki: Too Stupid to Quit. So if you have graduated from Shapeways, this is for you. Presented by OMSI Science Pub. At Hollywood Theater hollywoodtheatre.org/john-economaki-too-stupid-to-quit/ 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $5 suggested
Friday, January 03, 2014
January 3 Eastside Openings
With light starting its ever slow shift post Solstace, it is the photography studios capturing light, which are open this holiday week.
Newspace has Slough, photographs by Benny Wizansky of the Columbia Slough, a network of waterways, natural spaces and industry between the airport and Kelley Point. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
New Color Photography is the theme at Black Box this month. Descriptive. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Commercial photographer Jim Golden shows personal series Collections, ordered arrangements of obsessive collections. Opened last month, not sure if they are open tonight. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Newspace has Slough, photographs by Benny Wizansky of the Columbia Slough, a network of waterways, natural spaces and industry between the airport and Kelley Point. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
New Color Photography is the theme at Black Box this month. Descriptive. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Commercial photographer Jim Golden shows personal series Collections, ordered arrangements of obsessive collections. Opened last month, not sure if they are open tonight. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Thursday, January 02, 2014
January 2 Westside Openings + Cats
First cats. I know for some it's a hard choice, cats or art.
The easy choice of course, is cats or people. Correct answer is people. And though some say the internet is about cats, cats are not participating, though no one knows you are a dog in the internet.
Night on the Galactic Railroad is an anime inspired by the Japanese novel of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. In the anime, the lead characters are drawn as cats. The Fin de Cinema series attaches a new score to the film performed live by by Aan, Purse Candy and Philip Grass. DJ Spencer D remixes Japanese musician Haroumi Hosono known for psych and early electronic collaborations with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Fin de Cinema at Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $6
Commercial galleries have seasons planning shows. Forget August, throw up a group show. No one is in NYC. They are someplace more pleasurable. Likewise Thanksgiving to New Year. Most people are focused on the art of family or Miami. September-November and Spring to early Summer are good launch times for shows in Portland. So many commercial galleries have taken the group route for January openings. The value of group shows in commercial galleries are to see what they have and what they might want.
Fernando Brito opens Your Steps Were Lost in the Landscape, murder scene landscapes from the Mexico drug wars. It's tough material. I'm not sure I recommend seeing sad work that is distant and over which we individually have little control. For Brito, who is there, I think it's fine work to make. Inside the Gate are digital composite photographs of forests by Kent Krugh. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Froelich has Joe Fedderson working in glass from his cultural tradition of the Colville Tribe. There is also a group show themed on fire. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Compound has Basking in the Glow by Robin Adkison and Joseph McVetty. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
The easy choice of course, is cats or people. Correct answer is people. And though some say the internet is about cats, cats are not participating, though no one knows you are a dog in the internet.
Night on the Galactic Railroad is an anime inspired by the Japanese novel of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. In the anime, the lead characters are drawn as cats. The Fin de Cinema series attaches a new score to the film performed live by by Aan, Purse Candy and Philip Grass. DJ Spencer D remixes Japanese musician Haroumi Hosono known for psych and early electronic collaborations with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Fin de Cinema at Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $6
Commercial galleries have seasons planning shows. Forget August, throw up a group show. No one is in NYC. They are someplace more pleasurable. Likewise Thanksgiving to New Year. Most people are focused on the art of family or Miami. September-November and Spring to early Summer are good launch times for shows in Portland. So many commercial galleries have taken the group route for January openings. The value of group shows in commercial galleries are to see what they have and what they might want.
Fernando Brito opens Your Steps Were Lost in the Landscape, murder scene landscapes from the Mexico drug wars. It's tough material. I'm not sure I recommend seeing sad work that is distant and over which we individually have little control. For Brito, who is there, I think it's fine work to make. Inside the Gate are digital composite photographs of forests by Kent Krugh. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Froelich has Joe Fedderson working in glass from his cultural tradition of the Colville Tribe. There is also a group show themed on fire. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Compound has Basking in the Glow by Robin Adkison and Joseph McVetty. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Friday, December 27, 2013
December 27 Free Bacon!
Tonight after 5 the Museum has free admission. It's also an opportunity to see the Frances Bacon triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud. Let's just say it's been in the news. And you can see the Samurai exhibit for the low price of $5. These Fridays really give the museum a sense of life. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, December 21, 2013
December 22 Pray in You're Way
The earliest recorded history comes from civilizations built on slaves. Those civilizations left behind spiritual ruins, many of which can be visited today. In that period, the smartest and most creative often served the emperor or the church. Sometimes they were one. Today, the smartest and most creative have a myriad of options, thankfully.
The early period creatives realized that grand architecture was a spiritual attraction. It wowed. The spiritual experience is a neurochemical phenomena, and those soaring buildings, music and ritual make it happen. Those creatives set about building stunning temples, many with architectural innovations, to inspire. The proportions of the Parthenon, the arch of the Grand Mosque, the buttresses of Notre Dame, the extent of the Tōdai-ji, Pueblo kivas.
So church architecture is its own genre. Modern examples include Gaudí's Sagrada Família, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Louis Kahn's First Unitarian Church.
Artists are sampling churches. Damien Hirst has made kaleidoscopic compositions of famous stained glass work. And in Portland, artists Matt Henderson and Van Pham, living in a church, have traveled to churches all over the country which have been repurposed. The new churches are rock gyms, donut shops, band rehearsal studios, residences and more. Their project is Xhurch.
In past years they created the alien nativity scene, one of Portland's most perfectly formed art events. Tonight they bring their reports of Xhurches to you.
Accompanying the Xhurch field trip images and video are performances and art by Golden Retriever, Earth & You, Brenna Murphy, Scott Mayoral, Bike Temple, Emily Pothast, David Golightly, Guru Rugu, Sisters of the Lattice, and the Institute for New Feeling.
Where? Well, in an xhurch: Alberta Abbey.
M.A.S.S. IV + Xhurches Symposium at Alberta Abby. Advance tickets https://www.boxofficetickets.com/bot/wa/event?id=255713. 126 NE Alberta Street 8PM by donation to $15
The early period creatives realized that grand architecture was a spiritual attraction. It wowed. The spiritual experience is a neurochemical phenomena, and those soaring buildings, music and ritual make it happen. Those creatives set about building stunning temples, many with architectural innovations, to inspire. The proportions of the Parthenon, the arch of the Grand Mosque, the buttresses of Notre Dame, the extent of the Tōdai-ji, Pueblo kivas.
So church architecture is its own genre. Modern examples include Gaudí's Sagrada Família, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Louis Kahn's First Unitarian Church.
Artists are sampling churches. Damien Hirst has made kaleidoscopic compositions of famous stained glass work. And in Portland, artists Matt Henderson and Van Pham, living in a church, have traveled to churches all over the country which have been repurposed. The new churches are rock gyms, donut shops, band rehearsal studios, residences and more. Their project is Xhurch.
In past years they created the alien nativity scene, one of Portland's most perfectly formed art events. Tonight they bring their reports of Xhurches to you.
Accompanying the Xhurch field trip images and video are performances and art by Golden Retriever, Earth & You, Brenna Murphy, Scott Mayoral, Bike Temple, Emily Pothast, David Golightly, Guru Rugu, Sisters of the Lattice, and the Institute for New Feeling.
Where? Well, in an xhurch: Alberta Abbey.
M.A.S.S. IV + Xhurches Symposium at Alberta Abby. Advance tickets https://www.boxofficetickets.com/bot/wa/event?id=255713. 126 NE Alberta Street 8PM by donation to $15
Saturday, December 14, 2013
December 16 Getting to Know One
Getting to Know YouTube collaborators Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom celebrate the anniversary of the monthly series. They are one! So after seeing all those months of stuff, they are laying down their own favorites. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5
Illustration central Pony Club is also having a benefit sale of work tonight. There should be a cornucopia of great art for the right reason. Art party and sale with a live band. At the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. SW Stark and 10th. 6PM-10 Free
Illustration central Pony Club is also having a benefit sale of work tonight. There should be a cornucopia of great art for the right reason. Art party and sale with a live band. At the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. SW Stark and 10th. 6PM-10 Free
December 14 Moar Arts
Art is like food. If it tastes good, it is good. In other words, aesthetics are individual; good and bad are a neural response. Good and bad are also mutually self defining. Often people form tribes or subcultures around their aesthetics, and social processes contribute to neuroaesthetics. At Portlandorusnow, we operate in the gallery-museum chain of being, art school, art export, experimental and front edge aesthetic subcultures. But in Portland, there are dozens of other aesthetic tribes.
The Big 400 is a celebration of that.
There is a good argument that this format for a show began in Portland, 2001, with the Charm Bracelet: Meeting People show in Oak Street Lofts. That event was organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. Its opening was also an early social practice art project.
This version began with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in 2007 in the Olympic Mills building. Olympic Mills developer Brad Malsin has consistently focused his historic reuse projects on small creative business, and art has been a branding element for his projects. Operating as Po Boy Art, Haberman and Brown have long curated the Goodfoot monthly art shows. The Goodfoot built on the art, music, beer model of the Blue Gallery, one of the first Pearl district galleries. And art shows are one of Portland's most vital social processes, magnetic attractors within their tribes. So we have several entwined virtuous cycles.
And there are really few cities in the world with the density, demographic structure and values for this phenomena.
Tonight 4-500 artists have made up to 10 pieces, 8"x8", for a total of more than 4000 works for sale, for $40 each. The works are labeled only on the back, and are in no particular order. This event is quite popular so many people arrive at the opening. If you find something you like, take it off the wall, and take it to the checkout. Cash or credit. Instant karma.
The price of admission is a can of food for the Oregon Food Bank. And you can do the math, a commercial gallery would be happy with the show's 10 hour revenue. Even the ultra conservative Portland Business Alliance sees value in art. 1000 free parking vouchers are available at the mall guest desk - lower floor - for the Smart Park directly East of the mall. Of course you can go by train, bus or bike too.
The Big 400 at the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 700 SW 5th 2PM-9 Can of food
The Big 400 is a celebration of that.
There is a good argument that this format for a show began in Portland, 2001, with the Charm Bracelet: Meeting People show in Oak Street Lofts. That event was organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. Its opening was also an early social practice art project.
This version began with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in 2007 in the Olympic Mills building. Olympic Mills developer Brad Malsin has consistently focused his historic reuse projects on small creative business, and art has been a branding element for his projects. Operating as Po Boy Art, Haberman and Brown have long curated the Goodfoot monthly art shows. The Goodfoot built on the art, music, beer model of the Blue Gallery, one of the first Pearl district galleries. And art shows are one of Portland's most vital social processes, magnetic attractors within their tribes. So we have several entwined virtuous cycles.
And there are really few cities in the world with the density, demographic structure and values for this phenomena.
Tonight 4-500 artists have made up to 10 pieces, 8"x8", for a total of more than 4000 works for sale, for $40 each. The works are labeled only on the back, and are in no particular order. This event is quite popular so many people arrive at the opening. If you find something you like, take it off the wall, and take it to the checkout. Cash or credit. Instant karma.
The price of admission is a can of food for the Oregon Food Bank. And you can do the math, a commercial gallery would be happy with the show's 10 hour revenue. Even the ultra conservative Portland Business Alliance sees value in art. 1000 free parking vouchers are available at the mall guest desk - lower floor - for the Smart Park directly East of the mall. Of course you can go by train, bus or bike too.
The Big 400 at the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 700 SW 5th 2PM-9 Can of food
Friday, December 13, 2013
December 13 - 14 What Mean We, American?
Americans are cowboys. The impact of the infinite frontier on American culture was laid out in Walter Prescott Webb's book The Great Frontier. He was from Texas, which takes those ideas further than most states. The freedom to experiment and to live large free from the social constraints of, say Japan, has made for some ironic, living large, absurd, cultural memes. It all makes sense, in the context of signaling theory and evolutionary psychology.
American ME is a dance theater romp inspired by some of Americans' odder cultural expositions in the context of, for most, a passing American dream.
Director, Mizu Diserto and collaborators Stephanie Lanckton, Douglas Allen & Nathan HG, collaboratively developed the material over many months. They all have a great sense of humor, so expect that. With Roland Toledo, sound design and Ian Lucero, film.
See American ME At the Headwaters Theater, 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map Friday 8PM, Saturday 6PM,8PM. Students, artists, seniors $12, $15
American ME is a dance theater romp inspired by some of Americans' odder cultural expositions in the context of, for most, a passing American dream.
Director, Mizu Diserto and collaborators Stephanie Lanckton, Douglas Allen & Nathan HG, collaboratively developed the material over many months. They all have a great sense of humor, so expect that. With Roland Toledo, sound design and Ian Lucero, film.
See American ME At the Headwaters Theater, 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map Friday 8PM, Saturday 6PM,8PM. Students, artists, seniors $12, $15
December 13 La Canada
This gallery has a relationship with Los Angeles. That means they have a better idea than most Portlander's about what art is collected in Los Angeles. Tonight Pieces by Canadian artist living in LA, Monique Mouton opens. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
December 12-13 Seavision: More Benning Than Hirst
The sea. Buried in our genome is an attraction, yet unexplained by science. You know.
This special event represents a collaboration between long running film archivists, the Cinema Project, and the most unusual underground art gallery in Portland, instantiating on a retiring ocean-going vessel.
The films tonight are themed on sea. The films of Jean Painlevé are star. Painlevé, who lived from 1902-1989, built a studio by the Normandy sea. He built film lenses to film sometimes microscopic sea life in aquariums he constructed, or built underwater breathing equipment to film in the ocean itself. His work was revived by American musicians Yo La Tengo who set improvisational scores on Painlevé, many of whose works were created in the silent era with subtitles. Perfect. Also on the program are filmmakers David Gatten and Alex Mackenzie. Gatten, in his What the Water Said series, uses seawater to alter the chemistry of film. Mackenzie presents a double projection made at the sea.
Recommended. Highly. Dress very, very, warmly, the projection space on the river is not heated, and allow time to get lost en route.
At the 12128 Labrador Project http://www.12128boatspace.com/ It's moored by Fred's Marina 12900 NW Marina Way, Portland. Map More detailed directions, don't get lost, on the website. 7:30PM $8
This special event represents a collaboration between long running film archivists, the Cinema Project, and the most unusual underground art gallery in Portland, instantiating on a retiring ocean-going vessel.
The films tonight are themed on sea. The films of Jean Painlevé are star. Painlevé, who lived from 1902-1989, built a studio by the Normandy sea. He built film lenses to film sometimes microscopic sea life in aquariums he constructed, or built underwater breathing equipment to film in the ocean itself. His work was revived by American musicians Yo La Tengo who set improvisational scores on Painlevé, many of whose works were created in the silent era with subtitles. Perfect. Also on the program are filmmakers David Gatten and Alex Mackenzie. Gatten, in his What the Water Said series, uses seawater to alter the chemistry of film. Mackenzie presents a double projection made at the sea.
Recommended. Highly. Dress very, very, warmly, the projection space on the river is not heated, and allow time to get lost en route.
At the 12128 Labrador Project http://www.12128boatspace.com/ It's moored by Fred's Marina 12900 NW Marina Way, Portland. Map More detailed directions, don't get lost, on the website. 7:30PM $8
December 11 Crafty Vixen
This blog does not often cover craft in Portland. It's big. Fortunately craft in Portland is a little different. It is often contemporary and idea-based, as opposed to exclusively tradition-based. The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts + PNCA MFA program magnets to idea-based work. I have always been pleasantly surprised by the work seen and conversations had at this yearly studio opening.
Artists Ximena Bedoya, Reese Bowes, Leah Brottman, Meghan Chalmers-Mcdonald, Jennifer Cooke, Gopika Dahanukar, Willow D’arcy, Sarah Davis, Shawn Daughton, Richard Decker, Christian Donnelly, Joey Edwards, Sam Estrella, Jadene Fourman, Meghann Gilligan, Marie Goebel, Elizabeth Goltz, Daniel Hodges, Brian Hutsebout, Alyssa Kail, Edward Key, Bukola Koiki, Rachel Mckenna, Cecelia Murphy, Ryan Newson, Tyler Peterson, Nicholas Parker, James Rouse, Michael Schnitman, Alisha Sullivan, Caitlin Sweet, Lange Wei and Emily Wyant show. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
Artists Ximena Bedoya, Reese Bowes, Leah Brottman, Meghan Chalmers-Mcdonald, Jennifer Cooke, Gopika Dahanukar, Willow D’arcy, Sarah Davis, Shawn Daughton, Richard Decker, Christian Donnelly, Joey Edwards, Sam Estrella, Jadene Fourman, Meghann Gilligan, Marie Goebel, Elizabeth Goltz, Daniel Hodges, Brian Hutsebout, Alyssa Kail, Edward Key, Bukola Koiki, Rachel Mckenna, Cecelia Murphy, Ryan Newson, Tyler Peterson, Nicholas Parker, James Rouse, Michael Schnitman, Alisha Sullivan, Caitlin Sweet, Lange Wei and Emily Wyant show. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
Sunday, December 08, 2013
December 8 Deluxe Bear Front
Front is a slim journal broadsheet style. It is focused on writing about dance and contemporary performance. It is written by the performers, not critics. Front edition 3: Rubies drops today. The party is free, the paper itself is $4, and also available around town. Front distribution party at PICA HQ 415 SW 10th Ave, Suite 300. 5PM-7 Free
I always think of the journal Orlo as something that could only exist in Portland, Oregon, US. It is a long running curation of the intersection of the literary arts, the visual arts and a reverence for the environment. More than a few writers have written in Orlo's Bear Deluxe before their breakthrough books. Tonight is their annual holiday party and issue 35 release. The event includes live music and readings. There is also an opportunity for photos with Santa Salmon from 5PM-6:30. Details and schedule at www.orlo.org/news/holiday-gala-release-party/#more-661. Orlo party at Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th 5PM-10 Free, donations encouraged
I always think of the journal Orlo as something that could only exist in Portland, Oregon, US. It is a long running curation of the intersection of the literary arts, the visual arts and a reverence for the environment. More than a few writers have written in Orlo's Bear Deluxe before their breakthrough books. Tonight is their annual holiday party and issue 35 release. The event includes live music and readings. There is also an opportunity for photos with Santa Salmon from 5PM-6:30. Details and schedule at www.orlo.org/news/holiday-gala-release-party/#more-661. Orlo party at Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th 5PM-10 Free, donations encouraged
Thursday, December 05, 2013
December 6 Appendix Adieu
The other big happy trails tonight is Appendix Project Space. It has operated in a series of garages off Alberta alleys. Hope their website is maintained as record to amazing art shows, including first American shows from world artists. The landlord is changing up the house in the late stage of neighborhood gentrification. And the remaining organizers are moving to New York. They release their book, a record of all the shows, published by Container Corp tonight. We are missing the hay bales and we'll miss the campfire. But we know the principals are going to do more better. Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 7-late Free
December 5 Westside Art Openings
Grass Hut Gallery has been online for a long time. Their curatorial vision needs an audience beyond Portland the interwebs provide. In its Burnside location, it was one of the best clubhouses in Portland. Not only a gallery, but a studio inside out to the world in a glass box. It was a strong contributor to the 811 vibe in its own special snowflake way. It also found home cohabiting with two locations of the Floating World world of comics and graphic novels. I'm sure the Grass Hut sculptures and paintings went to sleep with a smile each night surrounded by a room full of graphic energy. The Grass Hut has its last show tonight before returning to an online-only business. Stop by and send them off on their continuing adventure. And like them in the online world, because they will continue to have new cool artworks for sale there. Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch
Augen has Trish Grantham with illustration work and Mary Hinckley with geometric work in glass. Grantham is one of the hardest working artists in Portland and you have seen her work. It equally makes a home in the imagination of adults and children. While the bird-on-it-brand seems to have stuck to Portland, Grantham's signage for local businesses has equal stature in placemaking here. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Crystal Schenk is a perfect match for the Bullseye glass studio residency. She has always been very adventurous in materials and we can't wait to see the result. At Bullseye Glass Gallery www.bullseyegallery.com 300 NW 13th
Portland is filled with individuals who have done amazing things. One is Manya Shapiro. She was right there working along side the feminist artists of the 1970's whose names you had to study in school. Her new show is Tiny Dresses. She and her family have been one of the top supporters of the arts in Portland for a generation. Founding board member and key visionary for PICA. At Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery 120 NW 9th #102
Desire Path is a show of illustration by Jen Lobo. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
Though a small fraction of Americans, about fifteen percent deny it, the earth is warming. One result if more wildfire. David Nadel shows Burns, photographs of post burn landscapes in Montana. It's a good thing they have coal and natural gas to fall back on there. New Orleans is its own place. It has different law. It has many charming traditions. Its sinking. But it also has the second highest murder rate in the country, about fifteen times that of Portland. Tooth for an Eye is a series of photographs by Deborah Luster of the sites in New Orleans of murders. The photographs are remote in time from the actual event but are accompanied by narratives of the murders. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
American photographer Harry Callahan lived from 1912 to 1999. Over that time he made photographs in monochrome and color, developed a double exposure aesthetic and taught at RISD. Usually you would see his work in museums. But you can see it tonight in a small Portland gallery, free.
At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Likewise there are always good shows at PNCA, so stop by. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Augen has Trish Grantham with illustration work and Mary Hinckley with geometric work in glass. Grantham is one of the hardest working artists in Portland and you have seen her work. It equally makes a home in the imagination of adults and children. While the bird-on-it-brand seems to have stuck to Portland, Grantham's signage for local businesses has equal stature in placemaking here. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Crystal Schenk is a perfect match for the Bullseye glass studio residency. She has always been very adventurous in materials and we can't wait to see the result. At Bullseye Glass Gallery www.bullseyegallery.com 300 NW 13th
Portland is filled with individuals who have done amazing things. One is Manya Shapiro. She was right there working along side the feminist artists of the 1970's whose names you had to study in school. Her new show is Tiny Dresses. She and her family have been one of the top supporters of the arts in Portland for a generation. Founding board member and key visionary for PICA. At Annie Meyer Artwork Gallery 120 NW 9th #102
Desire Path is a show of illustration by Jen Lobo. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
Though a small fraction of Americans, about fifteen percent deny it, the earth is warming. One result if more wildfire. David Nadel shows Burns, photographs of post burn landscapes in Montana. It's a good thing they have coal and natural gas to fall back on there. New Orleans is its own place. It has different law. It has many charming traditions. Its sinking. But it also has the second highest murder rate in the country, about fifteen times that of Portland. Tooth for an Eye is a series of photographs by Deborah Luster of the sites in New Orleans of murders. The photographs are remote in time from the actual event but are accompanied by narratives of the murders. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
American photographer Harry Callahan lived from 1912 to 1999. Over that time he made photographs in monochrome and color, developed a double exposure aesthetic and taught at RISD. Usually you would see his work in museums. But you can see it tonight in a small Portland gallery, free.
At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Likewise there are always good shows at PNCA, so stop by. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Friday, November 22, 2013
November 23 Never Bored
Should you be bored this weekend? Never! And once the last sun ever for ever goes down tonight you can stop by the Portland Museum of Modern Art closing event for their current show, Primitive Moderne: The Art of Mr. Otis. The Woolen Men and Half Shadow are musicing and some people will reading short stories. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
November 22 Funding Tactics
Recess continues its social practice engagement. Emerging Tactics: Our Ordinary Lives is a show of engagements of Goods and Services (reprise) by Industry of the Ordinary, kimchi of here* by Grace Hwang and Untitled (Audio Interviews with Artists) by Crystal Baxley & Stefan Ransom. You can read eloquent descriptions on their FB, or just go and see. Which you should. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
The MFA art program at PSU needs fundage. So they have invited artists from their network local and afar to contribute works of art for a silent auction. Considering their stable, this event should be well worth visiting. This event is publicized to a small audience, so just tell them you were invited because you are a supporter of PSU and the arts, which you should be. PSU MFA Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series Benefit Auction. PSU School of Art + Design Building, 2000 SW 5th. 5PM-10 $10
The MFA art program at PSU needs fundage. So they have invited artists from their network local and afar to contribute works of art for a silent auction. Considering their stable, this event should be well worth visiting. This event is publicized to a small audience, so just tell them you were invited because you are a supporter of PSU and the arts, which you should be. PSU MFA Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series Benefit Auction. PSU School of Art + Design Building, 2000 SW 5th. 5PM-10 $10
Saturday, November 16, 2013
November 16 Who's Who in Whoville?
Alternative art spaces in Portland are often a narrative past. We are inventing the future in Portland, Oregon, US now. So alternative art spaces are a narrative future too.
Alternative art groups, in their time, resulted in the Portland Art Museum. Portland Center for Visual Arts (1972-1988) had its past sun-in-moment. Many, many past influential alt spaces, meetups and one-time events have each contributed greatly to the Portland cultural foment.
Spanning past and now, art and culture, is Disjecta. Disjecta has had its share of landlord negotiations. And it has landed in a low key space in Kenton that is thriving. Throughout its time and spaces, it has attracted in town and out of town emerging, recognized and established artists. If you are interested in visual arts and performing arts, Disjecta should be on your radar.
Tonight is Disjecta's annual art auction fundraiser. Artist donations to non-profits and the value of art are a serious question in need of discussion. But if you look at the artists participating tonight, you will see some of Portland's best voting with their feet by walking in.
Those artistic labors of love mate with lovers of art tonight. If you have some spare duckets and fall in love with a work that would give you pleasure gracing your walls, do it. If you want to meet artists and lovers of the arts come. If you want a well curated survey of most of Portland's top contemporary artists come.
At PortlandORUSNow, we are all about artists. So we laud Disjecta providing links to each artist. They are Delaney Allen, Corey Arnold, Hayley Barker, Avantika Bawa, Mike Bray, Wayne Bund, Ben Buswell, Vanessa Calvert, Calvin Ross Carl, Lea Cetera, Sang-ah Choi, Deville Cohen, Claire Cowie, Alex Dolan, Daniel Duford, David Eckard, Tia Factor, Leiv Fagereng, Eric Fischl, Melanie Flood, Chris Fraser, Damien Gilley, Daniel Glendening, Sean Healy, Vlatka Horvat, Grant Hottle, Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson, Courtney Kemp, Eva Lake, Ruth Lantz, Kendra Larson, Marne Lucas, Shana Lutker, D.E. May, Jeffry Mitchell, Akihiko Miyoshi, Donald Morgan, Emily Nachison, Jenene Nagy, Virginia Overton, Jacob Pander, Virginia Poundstone, Ralph Pugay, Paula Rebsom, Blair Saxon-Hill, Heidi Schwegler, Susan Seubert, Jeff Sheridan, Marie Sivak, Ashley Sloan, Adam Sorensen, Eva Speer, Whiting Tennis, Nathanael Thayer Moss, and Jen Wall. Music by DJ Cooky Parker.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM-10/11/12 $25 online $30 door
If you would like to get your prefunk on, I would strongly suggest you get to Place tonight. The Portland MAX Yellow Line is a direct connect. Place has Dreamscapes, Big Booty Bounce, Essentially Didactic, Retritus and Dark Element. You can't go wrong based on the implied narrative of the titles. But there is more.
Artist, curator Tori Abernathy combines social practice into curation and art making. Dreamscapes is a documentation of dreaming, or its prohibition, in public places.
J.P. Huckins mixes visual production and performance. J.P. is not afraid of risk, unlike 99.99999 percent of Portland, and 99 percent of humanity. He is undertaking an endurance performance in booty shaking. Twerk on!
Mark Martínez has Essentially Didactic, a meditation on identity. And finishing out earlier running shows are Karah Bruce-Larkin with Retritus on collecting the physical object and Emily Nachison's Dark Element from one of Portland's finest idea-based installationists.
At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland may have events. Free
Alternative art groups, in their time, resulted in the Portland Art Museum. Portland Center for Visual Arts (1972-1988) had its past sun-in-moment. Many, many past influential alt spaces, meetups and one-time events have each contributed greatly to the Portland cultural foment.
Spanning past and now, art and culture, is Disjecta. Disjecta has had its share of landlord negotiations. And it has landed in a low key space in Kenton that is thriving. Throughout its time and spaces, it has attracted in town and out of town emerging, recognized and established artists. If you are interested in visual arts and performing arts, Disjecta should be on your radar.
Tonight is Disjecta's annual art auction fundraiser. Artist donations to non-profits and the value of art are a serious question in need of discussion. But if you look at the artists participating tonight, you will see some of Portland's best voting with their feet by walking in.
Those artistic labors of love mate with lovers of art tonight. If you have some spare duckets and fall in love with a work that would give you pleasure gracing your walls, do it. If you want to meet artists and lovers of the arts come. If you want a well curated survey of most of Portland's top contemporary artists come.
At PortlandORUSNow, we are all about artists. So we laud Disjecta providing links to each artist. They are Delaney Allen, Corey Arnold, Hayley Barker, Avantika Bawa, Mike Bray, Wayne Bund, Ben Buswell, Vanessa Calvert, Calvin Ross Carl, Lea Cetera, Sang-ah Choi, Deville Cohen, Claire Cowie, Alex Dolan, Daniel Duford, David Eckard, Tia Factor, Leiv Fagereng, Eric Fischl, Melanie Flood, Chris Fraser, Damien Gilley, Daniel Glendening, Sean Healy, Vlatka Horvat, Grant Hottle, Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson, Courtney Kemp, Eva Lake, Ruth Lantz, Kendra Larson, Marne Lucas, Shana Lutker, D.E. May, Jeffry Mitchell, Akihiko Miyoshi, Donald Morgan, Emily Nachison, Jenene Nagy, Virginia Overton, Jacob Pander, Virginia Poundstone, Ralph Pugay, Paula Rebsom, Blair Saxon-Hill, Heidi Schwegler, Susan Seubert, Jeff Sheridan, Marie Sivak, Ashley Sloan, Adam Sorensen, Eva Speer, Whiting Tennis, Nathanael Thayer Moss, and Jen Wall. Music by DJ Cooky Parker.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM-10/11/12 $25 online $30 door
If you would like to get your prefunk on, I would strongly suggest you get to Place tonight. The Portland MAX Yellow Line is a direct connect. Place has Dreamscapes, Big Booty Bounce, Essentially Didactic, Retritus and Dark Element. You can't go wrong based on the implied narrative of the titles. But there is more.
Artist, curator Tori Abernathy combines social practice into curation and art making. Dreamscapes is a documentation of dreaming, or its prohibition, in public places.
J.P. Huckins mixes visual production and performance. J.P. is not afraid of risk, unlike 99.99999 percent of Portland, and 99 percent of humanity. He is undertaking an endurance performance in booty shaking. Twerk on!
Mark Martínez has Essentially Didactic, a meditation on identity. And finishing out earlier running shows are Karah Bruce-Larkin with Retritus on collecting the physical object and Emily Nachison's Dark Element from one of Portland's finest idea-based installationists.
At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland may have events. Free
Sunday, November 10, 2013
November 11 Turn That Video Up To 11
Getting To Know You(Tube) has presenters Avantika Bawa, Beth Herman and Krystal South tonight. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $5
Meanwhile if you are up in Washington, my dear friends perform their annual movement work in the forest to celebrate the spawning of salmon on a small undammed river in the rainforest. The annual 11/11 performance.
Meanwhile if you are up in Washington, my dear friends perform their annual movement work in the forest to celebrate the spawning of salmon on a small undammed river in the rainforest. The annual 11/11 performance.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
November 7 Westside Art Openings
MSHR is Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. They build installations, they build analog physical synths, and they perform them together live together. Some of the most creative work going on in Portland and the world is noticing too. Get there early. Performance roughly 7:30. Did we say this is recommended? A-OK. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Craig Hickman is a photographer, cofounder of Blue Sky Gallery and professor of art at University of Oregon. He has made photographs of goings on in Portland and Eugene since the mid-1960's. Portland Creative Community 1.0 is his time capsule opened tonight. Friends, lovers, events, visitors, protests, politics in his creative world are all there. For you. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch Free
I know a cartographer or two which includes GIS now. So I'm looking forward to Cartographers Delight, a show by Maxime Francout (france), Cecilie Ellefsen (Norway), Courtney Blazon (us), Mar Hernandez (spain), Belicta Castelbarco (Italy/Germany), Carolin Lobbert (germany), Becca Stadtlander (us), Mark Giglio – Penpencilstencil (us), Marcus Schafer (Germany), William Buzzell (us), Gregory Euclide (us), David Fullarton (us) and Sylvie Faur (france). Along with Under a Veil of Frost by Melinda Josie. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
As mentioned, a big national late career show visiting Portland is Ann Hamilton. Hamilton has been at installation, sculpture and wall pieces with strong materials, sometimes fabric, words and video. Well worth studying the work in person, beyond books and the web. See last week's notes here for more details. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
A Series of Rectangles is a show by local conceptual minimalists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. They do it well where fail is easy. Along with artist, playwright, writer Tad Savinar, who presents I wonder. Savinar tends to be a little more explicit, owing his fascination with language. All around a good pairing. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Danish artist Susanne Wellm shows Inner Landscapes, intimate photographs. Intimate in a less prosaic way is Joshua Lutz with Hesitating Beauty. He has recontextualized family snapshots into the experience of caring for his mother going through psychosis. Sometimes you are in the mood for a good romcom or gaming and sometimes your in the mood for real. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
I haven't made up my mind about this. Here we have a relationship between a brand, shoe company Vans and artists. Vans was formed in Orange County in 1966, and made the skate shoe business when skating was early. This would also be early in the exmigration of families from LA, South, and before the Valley, North, filled. Bought in 2004, Vans is part of the company that is 20X, 7 For All Mankind, Bulwark, Eagle Creek, Eastpak, Ella Moss, Horace Small, lucy, Napapijri, JanSport, Kipling, Lady Lee Riders, Lee, Majestic, Nautica, Red Kap, Reef, Riders by Lee, Rock, Republic, Rustler, Smartwool, Splendid, The North Face, Timberland, Vans, Wrangler, Done Right, Downtown Showdown, Earthkeepers, Feels Good, Get What Fits, Green Index, Hard Working Jeans … Guaranteed, Inspired by Travel, Instantly Slims You, Long Live Cowboys, Never Stop Exploring, NEW DIMENSION, Off the Wall, Real. Comfortable. Jeans., S. Café, Storm Rider, Triple Crown of Surfing, We Are Animals. Sort of like P&G, brandwise. That big company grosses about 10B and nets about 1B yearly. Respectable gross margin. This a show of artists connected to Vans, branded Vans and with their own sticky paper on Facebook and Eventbrite to collect your identity. Anyway, I hope the art is good and that some duckets are flowing in the direction of the artists. The big shoe company and the ad agency do support artists, but with less incest between the company brand and the artist brand. Vans artists tour with Marco Zamora, Rich Jacobs, Nathaniel Russell, Tim Kerr, Zio Ziegler, Jai Tanju, Neil Blender, Chris Yormick, Russ Pope and Jay Howell. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10 Free
All encaustic all the time. Somehow Butters gallery has become a concentration point for encaustic painting. Is wax just butter with a higher melting point? Tonight, Infused - encaustic painting by Jeffrey Hirst, List Pressman, Elise Wagner and Kathleen Waterloo, opens. Alongside work by Carolyn Cole. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor 6PM-9:30 Free
There are a bunch of things going on tonight at PNCA and you should go. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish Free
Craig Hickman is a photographer, cofounder of Blue Sky Gallery and professor of art at University of Oregon. He has made photographs of goings on in Portland and Eugene since the mid-1960's. Portland Creative Community 1.0 is his time capsule opened tonight. Friends, lovers, events, visitors, protests, politics in his creative world are all there. For you. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch Free
I know a cartographer or two which includes GIS now. So I'm looking forward to Cartographers Delight, a show by Maxime Francout (france), Cecilie Ellefsen (Norway), Courtney Blazon (us), Mar Hernandez (spain), Belicta Castelbarco (Italy/Germany), Carolin Lobbert (germany), Becca Stadtlander (us), Mark Giglio – Penpencilstencil (us), Marcus Schafer (Germany), William Buzzell (us), Gregory Euclide (us), David Fullarton (us) and Sylvie Faur (france). Along with Under a Veil of Frost by Melinda Josie. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
As mentioned, a big national late career show visiting Portland is Ann Hamilton. Hamilton has been at installation, sculpture and wall pieces with strong materials, sometimes fabric, words and video. Well worth studying the work in person, beyond books and the web. See last week's notes here for more details. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
A Series of Rectangles is a show by local conceptual minimalists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. They do it well where fail is easy. Along with artist, playwright, writer Tad Savinar, who presents I wonder. Savinar tends to be a little more explicit, owing his fascination with language. All around a good pairing. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Danish artist Susanne Wellm shows Inner Landscapes, intimate photographs. Intimate in a less prosaic way is Joshua Lutz with Hesitating Beauty. He has recontextualized family snapshots into the experience of caring for his mother going through psychosis. Sometimes you are in the mood for a good romcom or gaming and sometimes your in the mood for real. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
I haven't made up my mind about this. Here we have a relationship between a brand, shoe company Vans and artists. Vans was formed in Orange County in 1966, and made the skate shoe business when skating was early. This would also be early in the exmigration of families from LA, South, and before the Valley, North, filled. Bought in 2004, Vans is part of the company that is 20X, 7 For All Mankind, Bulwark, Eagle Creek, Eastpak, Ella Moss, Horace Small, lucy, Napapijri, JanSport, Kipling, Lady Lee Riders, Lee, Majestic, Nautica, Red Kap, Reef, Riders by Lee, Rock, Republic, Rustler, Smartwool, Splendid, The North Face, Timberland, Vans, Wrangler, Done Right, Downtown Showdown, Earthkeepers, Feels Good, Get What Fits, Green Index, Hard Working Jeans … Guaranteed, Inspired by Travel, Instantly Slims You, Long Live Cowboys, Never Stop Exploring, NEW DIMENSION, Off the Wall, Real. Comfortable. Jeans., S. Café, Storm Rider, Triple Crown of Surfing, We Are Animals. Sort of like P&G, brandwise. That big company grosses about 10B and nets about 1B yearly. Respectable gross margin. This a show of artists connected to Vans, branded Vans and with their own sticky paper on Facebook and Eventbrite to collect your identity. Anyway, I hope the art is good and that some duckets are flowing in the direction of the artists. The big shoe company and the ad agency do support artists, but with less incest between the company brand and the artist brand. Vans artists tour with Marco Zamora, Rich Jacobs, Nathaniel Russell, Tim Kerr, Zio Ziegler, Jai Tanju, Neil Blender, Chris Yormick, Russ Pope and Jay Howell. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10 Free
All encaustic all the time. Somehow Butters gallery has become a concentration point for encaustic painting. Is wax just butter with a higher melting point? Tonight, Infused - encaustic painting by Jeffrey Hirst, List Pressman, Elise Wagner and Kathleen Waterloo, opens. Alongside work by Carolyn Cole. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor 6PM-9:30 Free
There are a bunch of things going on tonight at PNCA and you should go. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish Free
Saturday, November 02, 2013
November 2 Talk Talk Talk
The Lumber Room has former Yu curator Sandra Perceval in residence as Zena Zezza. In connection with the current show by Josiah McElheny, artist Ann Hamilton speaks today on The Abstract Body & Fashion along with academic Jessica Burstein. After will be a screening of a video Triadisches Ballett by Oskar Schlemmer, first performed in 1922. Schlemmer is known for innovation in live performance at the Bauhaus. This is an interesting combination of elements which we are curious to see.
A recent Hamilton piece is The Event of a Thread, curated by Kristy Edmunds in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory, New York City. The piece comprises dozens of paired swings, each holding one or two people. A system of pulleys moves a specific suspension point in a large white cloth curtain as determined by the dynamic balance between the weight of the pairs. Readers, writers, radios, and cutting sounds into vinyl and tones made from wind reeds are also part. Hamilton has collaborated with the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington. Unfortunately Portland has no counterpart. Hamilton also opens her show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery below 6PM-8 tonight.
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 3 Free
Place has artist talks by Wynde Dyer and Shelley Chamberlin on their works in the gallery. Both shows end today. At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. 700 SW Fifth. 4PM Free
A recent Hamilton piece is The Event of a Thread, curated by Kristy Edmunds in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory, New York City. The piece comprises dozens of paired swings, each holding one or two people. A system of pulleys moves a specific suspension point in a large white cloth curtain as determined by the dynamic balance between the weight of the pairs. Readers, writers, radios, and cutting sounds into vinyl and tones made from wind reeds are also part. Hamilton has collaborated with the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington. Unfortunately Portland has no counterpart. Hamilton also opens her show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery below 6PM-8 tonight.
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 3 Free
Place has artist talks by Wynde Dyer and Shelley Chamberlin on their works in the gallery. Both shows end today. At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. 700 SW Fifth. 4PM Free
Friday, November 01, 2013
November 1 Body White Yarn Sextet
I have always enjoyed the work of Ann Hamilton. Her minimal installations often focused on the body. She uses that emotional carrier well. She has also worked in words and video.
She gives a talk this evening at PNCA, and tomorrow at the Lumber Room. Ann Hamilton at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Philip Iosca celebrates the release of his book the White Paper with a reading. A meditation on the disconnect over humanity towards homosexuals and other sexualities from society as a whole, it was first published in 1928. Le Livre Blanc is almost universally believed to be written and illustrated by Jean Cocteau. Iosca has reillustrated and published the book with Container Corps in a limited edition. As a species, we can become caught up in trivial judgementalism. We really need to get onto saving each other and the world. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Tonight is First Friday full of wonder
Jaik Faulk has Radio on the Beach. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers is a group show curated by Anne Leighton Massoni and Libby Rowe. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Steve Hansen has Monochrome Sextet. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8
She gives a talk this evening at PNCA, and tomorrow at the Lumber Room. Ann Hamilton at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Philip Iosca celebrates the release of his book the White Paper with a reading. A meditation on the disconnect over humanity towards homosexuals and other sexualities from society as a whole, it was first published in 1928. Le Livre Blanc is almost universally believed to be written and illustrated by Jean Cocteau. Iosca has reillustrated and published the book with Container Corps in a limited edition. As a species, we can become caught up in trivial judgementalism. We really need to get onto saving each other and the world. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Tonight is First Friday full of wonder
Jaik Faulk has Radio on the Beach. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers is a group show curated by Anne Leighton Massoni and Libby Rowe. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Steve Hansen has Monochrome Sextet. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8
Thursday, October 31, 2013
October 31 Bug in
Eat-a-Bug. Eat a bug.
David George Gordon is a chef who develops recipes with insect ingredients. Eat-a-Bug is his cookbook. Tonight he demonstrates his recipes for you. To eat.
The perfect Halloween event in a weird way. At Paxton Gate www.paxtongatepdx.com 4204 N Mississippi 7PM-9 Free
David George Gordon is a chef who develops recipes with insect ingredients. Eat-a-Bug is his cookbook. Tonight he demonstrates his recipes for you. To eat.
The perfect Halloween event in a weird way. At Paxton Gate www.paxtongatepdx.com 4204 N Mississippi 7PM-9 Free
Saturday, October 26, 2013
October 26 Haunted Happening
The Time Arts Club is a group of PSU students creating "happenings". They are great art parties of the type going on as long as there have been artists. Specifically they are modeling the parties of Warhol, with music, video, live art making, food and drink.
Haunted Happening tonight has Live music by _wndfrm, (V)!_!(V), Mexorcist (Debut!) and Joel Stotesbery & Kali Valence. Live drawing by Isaac Weiss. Video art by Brooks Fuentes, Bugenhagen & Tim Ferrell. Costume contest, of course, judged by art professors. www.facebook.com/TimeArtsClub At Portland State University in Neuberger 293, 714 SW Harrison. All ages. 7PM-9 Free
Haunted Happening tonight has Live music by _wndfrm, (V)!_!(V), Mexorcist (Debut!) and Joel Stotesbery & Kali Valence. Live drawing by Isaac Weiss. Video art by Brooks Fuentes, Bugenhagen & Tim Ferrell. Costume contest, of course, judged by art professors. www.facebook.com/TimeArtsClub At Portland State University in Neuberger 293, 714 SW Harrison. All ages. 7PM-9 Free
Sunday, October 20, 2013
October 20 Deep Sun
The last Deep this year is tonight. There have been a series of master classes and workshops in support. Tonight tuneage by Freaky Outy, ComputerFAM and Mighty Moves. Performances by Isaiah Esquire, Kumari Suraj, Lady Cultura, RAW and PG Boyz.
2on2 crews are Boogie Frantick & Edge (LA), Animal & Bandicoot (SF), Main Event, Wreckonize Fam, Original Content, Daisuke & Fligh, House of Aquarius, Sharkboi Ft Cheese, RK47, Chicken & Ric, Daniel Jerome & Isiah Munoz, Don Found a Tiger, Lazy Riddle Rock, Beauty & The Beast, Blackman & Robin and Yen Boogie & Ra Boogie (Soul Trigger).
Alternates and lottery competitor hopefuls include Tigershift & Ringmaster, Impulse & Nuggs, Bible Black, L.E.D., Trigga & Soulja Hostile, Move Syndicate, Jake & Penny, Louisa Mengo, Shawn & Teddy, Toogie Barcelo, Kumari Suraj (LA / PDX), Professor Lock (Philly), Miss Prissy (LA), Sean Bankhead (ATL), Christian Owens (NYC), Kolanie Marks (SEA), Uflow, Rey Rey, Lil C, JoeTruVo, Kai, Po, Tannersaurous Rex, Matt Chun, Latya Caples, Joshua Bonifacio, Nick Chris , Dustin Tran , Hype, David Le , Henry Wu, Synikk, Derek Manyrath, Alexa Patey, Yuhki, Peter Pham, Yuta Shibuya, Jensine San, Deon James, Rosie, Bboy Apollo, Tiny Snubb, Young Liquid, Gumby, Crash, Jesus Rodales, Sammie, Jazzy, Marty Party, Dubstikz, Marika, Ben Vo, Fly Lice, Horizun, Roc, Clix, Superman Shadow, Hi Tek, Ryan Dewrk Bakker, Angel Tejero and Mango. So pos PDX not gangstering down crew names. Evolution.
There will be a special set of guests, East, West and down under performing individualistic styles including Miss Prissy, Professor Lock, Kumari Suraj, Toogie Barcelo, Christian Owens, Sean Bankhead, Kolanie Marks, and Parris Goebel.
As always, crowd judged!
Many sponsors including a certain drink and Portland's own Sol Republic headphones. Deep World Tour PDX www.deepworldtour.com finals at the Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside all ages, adult beverages available for 21+. Doors 4PM $16 in costume, $20
2on2 crews are Boogie Frantick & Edge (LA), Animal & Bandicoot (SF), Main Event, Wreckonize Fam, Original Content, Daisuke & Fligh, House of Aquarius, Sharkboi Ft Cheese, RK47, Chicken & Ric, Daniel Jerome & Isiah Munoz, Don Found a Tiger, Lazy Riddle Rock, Beauty & The Beast, Blackman & Robin and Yen Boogie & Ra Boogie (Soul Trigger).
Alternates and lottery competitor hopefuls include Tigershift & Ringmaster, Impulse & Nuggs, Bible Black, L.E.D., Trigga & Soulja Hostile, Move Syndicate, Jake & Penny, Louisa Mengo, Shawn & Teddy, Toogie Barcelo, Kumari Suraj (LA / PDX), Professor Lock (Philly), Miss Prissy (LA), Sean Bankhead (ATL), Christian Owens (NYC), Kolanie Marks (SEA), Uflow, Rey Rey, Lil C, JoeTruVo, Kai, Po, Tannersaurous Rex, Matt Chun, Latya Caples, Joshua Bonifacio, Nick Chris , Dustin Tran , Hype, David Le , Henry Wu, Synikk, Derek Manyrath, Alexa Patey, Yuhki, Peter Pham, Yuta Shibuya, Jensine San, Deon James, Rosie, Bboy Apollo, Tiny Snubb, Young Liquid, Gumby, Crash, Jesus Rodales, Sammie, Jazzy, Marty Party, Dubstikz, Marika, Ben Vo, Fly Lice, Horizun, Roc, Clix, Superman Shadow, Hi Tek, Ryan Dewrk Bakker, Angel Tejero and Mango. So pos PDX not gangstering down crew names. Evolution.
There will be a special set of guests, East, West and down under performing individualistic styles including Miss Prissy, Professor Lock, Kumari Suraj, Toogie Barcelo, Christian Owens, Sean Bankhead, Kolanie Marks, and Parris Goebel.
As always, crowd judged!
Many sponsors including a certain drink and Portland's own Sol Republic headphones. Deep World Tour PDX www.deepworldtour.com finals at the Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside all ages, adult beverages available for 21+. Doors 4PM $16 in costume, $20
Saturday, October 19, 2013
October 19 Raga Place
Place opens new shows this evening. Place is actually three: the Black Gallery, the White Gallery and a video screening room.
In the Black Gallery is Wynde Dyer with Things That Aren't Safe Are. It is a process for unwinding paralyzing childhood anxieties around everyday household objects by exposing herself to them while reassociating them with pleasant memories.
In the White Gallery is Dark Element by Emily Nachison inspired by 15th-17th century books from Yale's rare book collection on alchemy. And Retritus by Karah Bruce-Larkin based on her ceramics practice.
The Screening Room has video by Nicolas Reibel.
Shelley Chamberlin has An Exploration of Brokenness and Repair. You are encouraged to bring something to break that is meaningful to you, or something to be repaired.
At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland will have openings. Free
Michael Stirling sings ragas tonight. The performance is a celebration of Michael Stirling and his daughter Lucy Stirling traveling to India to perform at Shri Krishna Janmastham Bhoomi. And on an auspicious evening surrounding the full moon. Stirling will be accompanied by David Jacob, tabla, and Ted Bryan and Kat Macmillan on tambura. At Yoga Shala yogashalapdx.com 3808 N. Williams 8PM $10-20
In the Black Gallery is Wynde Dyer with Things That Aren't Safe Are. It is a process for unwinding paralyzing childhood anxieties around everyday household objects by exposing herself to them while reassociating them with pleasant memories.
In the White Gallery is Dark Element by Emily Nachison inspired by 15th-17th century books from Yale's rare book collection on alchemy. And Retritus by Karah Bruce-Larkin based on her ceramics practice.
The Screening Room has video by Nicolas Reibel.
Shelley Chamberlin has An Exploration of Brokenness and Repair. You are encouraged to bring something to break that is meaningful to you, or something to be repaired.
At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland will have openings. Free
Michael Stirling sings ragas tonight. The performance is a celebration of Michael Stirling and his daughter Lucy Stirling traveling to India to perform at Shri Krishna Janmastham Bhoomi. And on an auspicious evening surrounding the full moon. Stirling will be accompanied by David Jacob, tabla, and Ted Bryan and Kat Macmillan on tambura. At Yoga Shala yogashalapdx.com 3808 N. Williams 8PM $10-20
Friday, October 18, 2013
October 18 Knock Nacht
Glen Baldridge presents an installation including prints on the wall tonight. From the description it could go either way. See it yourself and decide. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Saturday, October 12, 2013
October 12 The Mysterious Mr O
The Portland Museum of Modern Art never fails to delight. They have reached back in the Portland archive to revive the art of Mr Otis. The narrative is beautifully absurd.
Mr Otis was so reclusive that he was never seen in public. But his paintings were shown around Portland, in New York, and he was collected nationally. The flat colorful outsider figurative work was often a sly comment on the big changes in the West on the shoulder of its resource extraction phase. Or comments on the art world itself. Mr Otis painted in the 1950s to early 1960's.
Stewart H. Holbrook represented the artist, arranged shows, penned a book on Mr Otis and appeared at openings on behalf of the reclusive artist. Holbrook is author of over 40 books on Northwest history. He worked as a logger then went on to write for 36 years at the Oregonian newspaper in its salad days, striking a populist chord.
Holbrook also founded the James G. Blaine Society. Its aim was to discourage people from moving to Oregon. It had no leader, no structure and no address. But it persisted and its meme was picked up in the 1970's and 1980's including by a famous governor who encouraged Californians to "visit, but not stay".
The James G. Blaine Society has been an obvious failure, because many Oregon home prices and rents are "too damn high". But it was also a success, laying the psychic groundwork for the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society, inspirations to writer Palahniuk.
Mr Holbrook passed in 1964. And with that passing did Mr Otis. Mr Otis' archive is held by the University of Washington, where they may be viewed. UW has loaned some of the works to the PMOMA where they are on exhibit, opening tonight. Cellist Lori Goldston accompanies the opening.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Mr Otis was so reclusive that he was never seen in public. But his paintings were shown around Portland, in New York, and he was collected nationally. The flat colorful outsider figurative work was often a sly comment on the big changes in the West on the shoulder of its resource extraction phase. Or comments on the art world itself. Mr Otis painted in the 1950s to early 1960's.
Stewart H. Holbrook represented the artist, arranged shows, penned a book on Mr Otis and appeared at openings on behalf of the reclusive artist. Holbrook is author of over 40 books on Northwest history. He worked as a logger then went on to write for 36 years at the Oregonian newspaper in its salad days, striking a populist chord.
Holbrook also founded the James G. Blaine Society. Its aim was to discourage people from moving to Oregon. It had no leader, no structure and no address. But it persisted and its meme was picked up in the 1970's and 1980's including by a famous governor who encouraged Californians to "visit, but not stay".
The James G. Blaine Society has been an obvious failure, because many Oregon home prices and rents are "too damn high". But it was also a success, laying the psychic groundwork for the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society, inspirations to writer Palahniuk.
Mr Holbrook passed in 1964. And with that passing did Mr Otis. Mr Otis' archive is held by the University of Washington, where they may be viewed. UW has loaned some of the works to the PMOMA where they are on exhibit, opening tonight. Cellist Lori Goldston accompanies the opening.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Friday, October 11, 2013
October 11 Design of Aliens By Humans
Design is inexpensive, including good design. But it can create cascades in high multiples of the original investment.
That is the thesis of Jason Schupbach, National Endowment for the Arts Director of Design. And that can be and arguably is the thesis of Portland.
He was going to speak on the topic as part of City Club and Design Week. But he was grounded by the Tea Party. So he was replaced by Chris Riley.
Reservations by Wednesday by a complicated ruleset on the City Club rulesite http://pdxcityclub.org/content/friday-forums. At the Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th 11:50AM $5-275
Or if you prefer later where he is interviewed by Randy Gragg bright lights style. But I'm not sure this is still on. At 415 SW 10th. 5ishPM Free
Tonight for design week is a big party at IPRC. It's a book fair! At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 4PM-9 Free
Case of Bass makes suitcase speakers, literally. Tonight see what Portland designers have done with the concept. Designers buimding are John Jay – WK Garage, Eric Trine – Furniture designer, Mike Hyp – Nike designer, Bradley Streeper – Artist, Adam Garcia – The Pressure, Tanner Goods - Taylor Ahlmark and Alex Nguyen Ed Challed – Second Nature Design, MHAK and Hellion Collaboration, Grove – Ken Tomita and Joe Curtis Pachunka – Wieden & Kennedy, Justin Morris and Emma Barnett – Wieden & Kennedy, Matthew Bietz – Quarter Twenty, Charlie Frye – Metal Craft, Cera Crockett – Leatherman, Case of Bass – Jay Yovu, Chris Bleiler – Fix Studios, Todd Isaacs and Ben Ediger – Spacecraft PDX, finally John Ceniceros and David Fredrickson – Figure Plant. All cases will be auctioned tonight to benefit cancer and autism programs. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 6PM-10 Free
The ESC Collective are the new kids with a fascination with geodesic domes. In their dome tonight will be custom motorcycles, furniture and more. Also Saturday. See the Design Week Portland website for the details. esccollective.com 3360 SE 21st 7PM-10 Free
Stanislaw Lem wrote a little book, Solaris, in 1961. It's an exploration on the meeting of humans and non. In the book, astronaut explorers drawn to an alien world are confronted with their own memories and myths by alien intelligence. It was filmed by Tartovsky in 1972. Later remade by Soderbergh in 2002. Pre it draws heavily from Shakespeare's Tempest written in 1610 and post it inspired Lost 2004-10. This is Tartovsky. 167 minutes. Film at the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema. www.5thavenuecinema.org 510 SW Hall 6:30, 9:30PM Friday & Saturday 3 Sunday Free PSU community, $3 other students $4 everybody
That is the thesis of Jason Schupbach, National Endowment for the Arts Director of Design. And that can be and arguably is the thesis of Portland.
He was going to speak on the topic as part of City Club and Design Week. But he was grounded by the Tea Party. So he was replaced by Chris Riley.
Reservations by Wednesday by a complicated ruleset on the City Club rulesite http://pdxcityclub.org/content/friday-forums. At the Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th 11:50AM $5-275
Or if you prefer later where he is interviewed by Randy Gragg bright lights style. But I'm not sure this is still on. At 415 SW 10th. 5ishPM Free
Tonight for design week is a big party at IPRC. It's a book fair! At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 4PM-9 Free
Case of Bass makes suitcase speakers, literally. Tonight see what Portland designers have done with the concept. Designers buimding are John Jay – WK Garage, Eric Trine – Furniture designer, Mike Hyp – Nike designer, Bradley Streeper – Artist, Adam Garcia – The Pressure, Tanner Goods - Taylor Ahlmark and Alex Nguyen Ed Challed – Second Nature Design, MHAK and Hellion Collaboration, Grove – Ken Tomita and Joe Curtis Pachunka – Wieden & Kennedy, Justin Morris and Emma Barnett – Wieden & Kennedy, Matthew Bietz – Quarter Twenty, Charlie Frye – Metal Craft, Cera Crockett – Leatherman, Case of Bass – Jay Yovu, Chris Bleiler – Fix Studios, Todd Isaacs and Ben Ediger – Spacecraft PDX, finally John Ceniceros and David Fredrickson – Figure Plant. All cases will be auctioned tonight to benefit cancer and autism programs. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Map 6PM-10 Free
The ESC Collective are the new kids with a fascination with geodesic domes. In their dome tonight will be custom motorcycles, furniture and more. Also Saturday. See the Design Week Portland website for the details. esccollective.com 3360 SE 21st 7PM-10 Free
Stanislaw Lem wrote a little book, Solaris, in 1961. It's an exploration on the meeting of humans and non. In the book, astronaut explorers drawn to an alien world are confronted with their own memories and myths by alien intelligence. It was filmed by Tartovsky in 1972. Later remade by Soderbergh in 2002. Pre it draws heavily from Shakespeare's Tempest written in 1610 and post it inspired Lost 2004-10. This is Tartovsky. 167 minutes. Film at the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema. www.5thavenuecinema.org 510 SW Hall 6:30, 9:30PM Friday & Saturday 3 Sunday Free PSU community, $3 other students $4 everybody
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
October 9-December 7 Art Not All It Seems
It took a minute to get it but I have enjoyed the work of Josiah McElheny after seeing it in a Seattle show. He makes sculptures with stories that are entirely fabricated. There is a huge emphasis on narrative in branding everything, so it is working for and against that idea. You get a chance to see Josiah McElheny's work Thursdays through Saturdays for the next two months free. Organized by www.zenazezza.org at The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Thursday-Saturday 1PM-6
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