June 27-28 Too Quiet To

Who says music has to be loud always? Not the Quiet Music Festival ever.

In fact the event is more about quiet, unassuming creativity. No rock stars.

Started by artist skater musician Chris Johansen, it includes one of his musical projects Saturday. Friday performers are Marisa Anderson, Mark Eitzel, Neal Morgan/Neal Morgan+Pulse Emitter, Christine Shields and Jonathan Sielaff. Special guests Friday are the Von Trapp Family. Saturday performers are Tujurikkuja, Sally Timms, Hush Arbors, Chelsea Rector and Sun Foot. It's not the basement banger, it's the living room concert. There are 3 couches, otherwise the seating is on a collection of soft blankets with decorative pillows supplied by the venue, lit by scattered occasional lamps. There is also an art show of faux concert posters by William Keihn. Recommended.

Musical and ticket details at disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/quiet-music-festival-2.

At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, show 8. $8 advance/$15 both - advance or $10/18 door

June 27 Free 8-Bit

The Portland Art Museum monthly free admission day is today. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free



Control Voltage continues Data Port PDX with performances tonight. Musicians make music with or incorporate samples from antique video games, keyboards and rhythm machines. Performers this evening are A_Rival, Space Town Savior and Vaporware DJ - chiptune/synthwave/synthpop. Details on the series at https://www.facebook.com/DataPortPDX. All ages. At Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 7PM Free

June 21 The Wild Woolley

The Mark Woolley Gallery has more lives than the woolliest cat. The gallery's latest reincarnation is in the Pioneer Place Mall. Over Portland art history, the gallerist has collected quite a bit from artist friends. In the spirit of reduce, reuse and recycle, he is looking to find new homes for that work in a show Choice Cuts that opens tonight. At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com 5PM-9 Free

June 21 Gardens R Us!

Portland Botanical Gardens is an installation by Julia Calabrese. In the finest open source - social practice tradition, the artist has asked PMOMA neighbors, children and the Project Grow artists to make and title botanical paintings, which are complemented by an installation of botanical materials. Music by Michael Stirling. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free

June 20-22 Happening 13x3

The PSU Time Arts Club has organized the Future Arts Festival for your participatory pleasure. It's a sprawling affair best groked by reading their encyclopedic Facebook page - www.facebook.com/events/1386914694881453. Their Happenings one to twelve have been an evening, this is three. At PSU and an Everett Loft. Friday, Saturday 4PM-11, Sunday 6PM-9 Free

June 19 Sparkling Werewolves

Every month the Art Museum invites an artist to select a work from the collection, then give a talk about it to an intimate crowd, which might include you. This month, Anna Fidler is the ringleader. She is known for impressionistic portraits and landscapes. Her portraits have included women, basketball players, werewolves and vampires, often in glitter or interference paints. If interested, meet promptly at 6PM at the side entrance by the courtyard. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 6PM-8 $15, $5 members

June 16 Lead Pencil on Dark Cities

Lead Pencil Studio is a Seattle architectural duo, Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, working primarily as artists. Tonight as guests of Project Cityscope, they present Dark Corners/High F/Mannequins/Ugly/Downer Boxes: current projects. One project is the Dark Corners, deconstructed lidar scans of streetscapes in Rome, London and New York. At the Doug Fir Lounge 7PM Free

June 12 Lithop on Alberta

Portland's rainy Winters and smart residents promote literary culture. Writing and reading. Tonight writers read and, if you like, you can listen. In comfortable local businesses over food and drink. The venues are within walking distance with six schedules running simultaneously. Each reading is fifteen minutes, don't get bored. Lithop www.facebook.com/lithoppdx and lithoppdx.com. Locations on NE Alberta. 7PM-midnight Free

June 8 Church of Botany

Alexis Anne Mackenzie opens Interference at Ampersand. The work starts with botanical imagery which is then sliced and diced in by physical sampling and visually remixed. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 5PM-8 Free


Friends at Xhurch are fascinated by reused churches. One of their projects are music and art events, held in the Alberta Abbey. This seventh event has Benoit Pioulard, Like A Villain, Colin Manning, Edmond Booth and Zachary Schomburg. Sound by Tim Westcott. M.A.S.S. VII www.facebook.com/events/302365019918466 at Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta. All ages. 8PM Free

June 7 Blue Cadre Machine

The staff of Blue Moon Camera and Machine have their annual show of personal works tonight. It will be at C3:initiative gallery www.c3initiative.org 7326 N. Chicago 6PM-9 Free



Cadre is a sprawl of the thesis work from the PSU MFA Program. Artists are Perry Doane, Kaila Farrell-Smith, Mark Martinez, Wesley Petersen, Isaac Fletcher Weiss, Kathryn Yancey. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free

June 6 Shine a Light

Social Practice Art. Portland is world leader.

Social Practice Art, or social sculpture in the words of Joseph Beuys, is artists facilitating creative actions in others. It might be open source art.

Art museums protect, preserve and contextualize physical works, often spanning millennia. Slow art culture.

Shine a Light is social practice artists taking over the Museum for an evening of interactive participation, by you, in the moment, not in millennia.

Tonight there will be food and drink in the courtyard and ballroom. A chance to make art from cardboard boxes, movement performance by dancers and by you. DJs. Art discussions by you. Sound healing. Karaoke. Your stories, broadcast. Tarot. Drawing. More.

The museum will be filled with some of the most interesting people in Portland. It's an opportunity for you to share in the experience with them.

The full program, and there will be handouts there night of to plan your explorations, are found here: www.portlandartmuseum.org/document.doc?id=136

There is also a participatory workshop for artists Friday through Sunday, Assembly. That program is an opportunity to practice social practice art making, and to sleep over in the Museum Saturday evening. More: www.psusocialpractice.org/assembly.

$5 Museum members; $15 general admission; Free for children 17 and under; $5 for College Pass holders; $12 for college students. Tickets available online in advance. Will likely sell out and have long ticket lines night of.

Shine a Light www.portlandartmuseum.org/shinealight at the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 6PM-midnight $5-15

June 6 Eastside Openings+

Ai Weiwei Never Sorry is a fine documentary. The filmmaker goto to know the artist over several years corresponding to quite a bit unfolding in his art and his life. A different filmmaker has continued Weiwei's story in Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case. The period covered is coincided with the transition of central government leadership. The year or more leading up to transitions are sensitive, agitation is discouraged in the strongest terms. You can see the film tonight and tomorrow - Saturday at the Film Center. Tonight the Museum will be very crowded. 7PM $9, $8 members



William Matheson presents Sunless. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9 Free



Ian Anderson has dark surreal illustrations, and Redux also adds a window show, ongoing 24x7, on the parking lot side. The first window show is photographs by Briana Cerezo. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside



Unbound: Artifacts of the Gemira Commission is a mythical project by designer Adam Garcia of The Pressure studio. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free



Homeland continues Columbia River Shadows by Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis. It is fine abstract work on photo paper. At Gallery Homeland 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



Pushdot has Measure Up diptych photographs by Rachel Siegel. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free



Lorenzo Triburgo has Transportraits, formal photographic portraits of trans individuals. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



Superficial is a show by Matthew Causey & Lauren Mabry. They work in ceramics, and each approach their glazing uniquely. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free



Rust is captured by LeeAnn Gauthier in photos Artful Oxidation. Of course ocean waters are relentless facilitators of rust which never sleeps. At Bridge City Counseling 712 SE Hawthorne 7PM-9 Free

June 5 Westside Art Openings+

We like talks. We like Asia, been. Will do more. A talk has been foolishly scheduled in prime art night. But worth considering for specialists and for following up with interested. Geoffrey Hiller Talk presents At Home in the World: Photographing Asia. His work, sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation spans Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia and Pakistan. Registration required at www.prophotosupply.com/p-events.htm. At Pro Photo Supply Event Center 1801 NW Northrup 7PM-8 Free



Sean Healy has Extroverts. Some of the work is made of cigarette ash or of cigarette filters, which may not be immediately apparent. Recommended. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9



Matsuo Bashō is one of the greatest poets of the Edo period. He enjoyed renku, and in particular, collaborative renku as exquisite corpse. His haiku is renowned.

One work, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 奥の細道 Oku no Hosomichi, is a poetic narrative of a walking trip.

Yukiyo Kawano has created work of hand-dyed silk and paper, Narrow Road to the Deep North - After Matsuo Basho, inspired by Basho's original. Kawano carries within her family history as granddaughter of a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb. Non-Japanese cannot understand the social dynamics of that history which has been recapitulated in the events at Fukushima Daiichi.

At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 5PM-9 Free




Pierre de Vallombreuse presents a show of developing world workers working, Hommes Racines. Many are affected by destruction of the lands where they live. Along with Chad States' Cruising and Takhiro Suzuki’s video 9214, accompanied by stills. In the Nines Gallery, Jerry Mayer and Ellen George have Stand, a minimal installation. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9



Fresh off the Rocket Ship is a show by Japanese new artists Daisuke Funaki, Mitsuya Watanabe, Kenichi Obana, Asami Muruyama, Ruri Clarkson, Mami Itagaki, Kanako Ozawa, Mayuko Matsumoto, Keiko Miyata, Yoruko Okamura and Ryosuke Matsuzono. 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



Matthew Roberts has made plaster impressions of automobile tire tracks. He then filled them with rain and used the reflective surface. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



Irish artist Alex Rose presents Another Furrow in the Forehead. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free



Portland State University has their BFA student thesis show by artists Shane Adair, Amanda Buckman, Carrie Clore, Eilish Connor, Maureen Gates, Eve Jakabosky, Annalise Reinhardt-Kohlberger, Kayleigh Nelson, Heather Palmer, Thomas Putman, Chacha Sands, Joel Stotesbery and Anastasia Tuazon. At the Autzen Gallery & AB Lobby & MK Gallery Galleries 5PM-9 Free


UO Portland also has their thesis show, which may include video works. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 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

May 28-June 1 (Good) Smackdown Experiment

The Portland Experimental Film Festival is an experiment started by Matt McCormick. It has been through a few reincarnations with new organizers. That's all good, and we are looking forward to this year's event.

The festival spans Wednesday May 28-Sunday June 1 with sit down showings, artful installations at Disjecta + live music, participatory workshops, family-friendly programs, a window installation on Alberta and after parties.

An always fun element of the festival is the bracketed throwdown, film on film, competitions, audience-judged, by you!

I'll not repeat the schedule available on the website. http://effportland.com/?p=801#install

Admissions are extremely reasonable and some events are free.

The Portland Experimental Film Festival. Various locations. Free and $5-$7ish for sit down films.

May 28-29 Thinking About Security and Internet Society

Most of us use computers and the Internet most of the time. The architecture of the Internet was developed in the late 1960's by Larry Roberts. One of the profound principles of the Internet is that all the brains of the Internet reside in your laptop or phone and in the servers at Netflix, Google, the BBC. The role of Comcast, Century Link and the companies that run fiber optic cables across the world are to passively transport packets unchanged between for a fee. The end nodes are smart and the network is a passive carrier.

That is the bedrock principle of Network Neutrality.

That also means that your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop; and the servers, are each smart enough to become infected with malware, or for the owner to install malware with intent.

One of the Internet's big thinkers on malware, hackers and bots is cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Today he spans philosophical and political questions of privacy and policy. He is a good source to track as we are on the way to connect every thing to the Internet, memed as the "Internet of Things" or the "Internet of Everything". Combined with ubiquitous facial recognition, governing policies for the Internet are something every world citizen should be thinking about.

In a talk, "Internet, Security, and Power." Schneier creates a non-technical framework for citizens to consider how we keep ourselves out of a dystopian totalitarian future - the one we all know is coming and can visualize based on film and fiction.

Bruce Schneier speaks Wednesday at UO Eugene in the EMU Ballroom - live streamed at media.uoregon.edu/channel/2014/05/15/kritikos-lecture-by-bruce-schneier/ and at UO Portland Thursday. Details http://ohc.uoregon.edu/S_2014-Schneier.html Event may be available after the event on UO video site. Suggest arrive early. 7:30 Free

May 28 Marylhurst Faculty+Students

Marylhurst is an academic gallery we often neglect to mention. Today they open a show which includes works by their faculty. The works themselves may not be the newest or best from each faculty member. But they will be representative of a very fine group of Portland artists: Marlene Bauer, Brenden Clenaghen, Dennis Cunningham, Julia Henning- Dittmer, Laura Hughes, Lance Pynes, Rich Rollins, Paul Sutinen and Vicki Lynn Wilson. Accompanies work of graduate Bethany McCamish. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 6PM-8 Free

May 27 Curious Recess

The Curiosity Club presents Nial McGaughey building Hovercraft Amplifiers. These are guitar and bass amp heads, often made with recycled and modified old amps. Hovercraft sometimes produces speaker cabinets to match. They are powered with vacuum tubes and they are loud! Vacuum tubes are an obsolete technology that many love. They have individualistic distortion when pushed, including that produced by magnetic non-linearity, and many people like that sound. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free



Recess is out. Rather Recess Gallery is planning a move as rents rise in the neighborhood. So they are looking for a new space and you can help them. Come to a celebration and fundraiser for the new Recess Gallery at Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8PM $5-50

May 23-25 Thesis PNCA

We list few academic shows, and fewer of students. Not all academic galleries are geographically convenient. But they are well worth the effort if you have the time. As my first art show to see in Portland was the PNCA thesis show; since I've enjoyed them.

PNCA has four thesis shows: the MFA in Collaborative Design, the joint PNCA/OCAC MFA in Contemporary Craft, and the visual studies, BFA and MFA. There are two locations and three nights

The MFA in Collaborative Design is Friday with Jake Richardson, Emilie Skytta, Sean Tichnell, and includes collaborative projects How Might Nature, Blight Magazine and The Bellwether.

The MFA in Contemporary Craft is Saturday with artists Alisha Sullivan, Alyssa Kail, Brian Hutsebout, Caitlin Sweet, Christian Donnelly, Daniel Hodges, Edward Key, Emily Wyant, Gopika Dahanukar, Joey Edwards, Lange Wei, Leah Brottman, Meghan Chalmers-McDonald, Meghann Gilligan, Sarah Davis, Willow Harmer and Ximena Bedoya.

The BFA thesis show is Sunday in the Stevens Building. The MFA in Visual Studies is also Sunday with Stephanie Brachmann, Mary Mac Dahlke, John Dougherty, Mario Gallucci, Thomas Gamble, Jonathan Gann, Michael Horwitz, Leif Lee, Travis Nikolai, Mark Palmen, Anya Roberts-Toney, Lauren Seiffert, Jessie Spiess, Rachel Wolf, Richard York, Stephanie Yu in the main building.


MFA in Collaborative Design show Friday at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson in room 210 Map 5:30PM-9 Free


MFA in Contemporary Craft show Saturday at PNCA www.pnca.edu in The Bison Building Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free


The BFA thesis show Sunday at the PNCA Stevens Studio Building 1432 NW Johnson 6PM-9 Free
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The MFA thesis show Sunday at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-9 Free

May 23 Attoe at Fourteen30+

Local artist Dan Attoe shows tonight at Fourteen30. His work includes ironic landscapes, figures and neon. He is founder of Paintallica. He makes his career almost entirely outside Portland, including in Europe; his landscapes are not Northwest regional, though others may disagree. Attoe is a great match for the gallery. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-6PM Weekends. Opening tonight 6PM-8 Free



The Portland Art Museum monthly free admission day is today. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free

May 17 Effigy Video

Video art done well attracts us. It necessarily references our motion life and motion film-video experiences, while standing askance as art. That's a fine boundary line to navigate.

Video art goes through cycles of popularity in Portland. There has been excellent documentation of performance by MK Guth. Filmmakers Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick and others lay down the film art branch. MSHR does outstanding with digital organic performative installation. The UO White Box Gallery presents video regularly.

This afternoon is a talk by UCLA video artist Jennifer Steinkamp. She is known for one of the major branches of video art: installations that paint patterns, often from nature, on walls, floors and ceilings. It is beautiful work in the Hickey pattern.

Artist talk tickets https://pam.spotlightboxoffice.com/purchase/step4?ticketID=69998 At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park
2PM Free to Museum members; $13, students, $15 adults, includes Museum admission




Grant Corum presents Effigy Mounds. Effigy mounds were ceremonial geoglyph mounds, sometimes for burial by ancient people found throughout the Americas. The artist transformed the inspiration of visiting effigy mounds in the Americas, and experiences with the Sundance Ceremony in the Midamerican forests and plains into the installation, and a musical project, Effigy Mounds: Ceremonial Music for Spore Alter.

Corum describes the music as: “An imagined field recording in a hallucinatory cave, where collaged snippets of tape reveal the gradual opening of a deep portal, the ingestion of strange and luminous compounds, and the rhythmic pulsation of spores entering Earth's atmosphere by way of shooting stars.” Music by Corum and White Gourd for the opening.

At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free

May 15 Unabridged Lilly Pad

Did you know Portland is ground zero for floating? Not little fluffy clouds floating; we are talking about floating in a sensory isolation tank. Be your own special lily pad.

Float tanks, sensory isolation tanks, are a shallow pool, eight to 10 inches deep, of purified salt water, heated to body temperature, in a very quiet space, to float peacefully.

The idea was created in 1954 for public health research by Harvard neuroscientist Dr. John C. Lilly. Portland's Float On has published a new unabridged edition of Dr. Lilly's classic book Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer.

I'm a scientist. We know much more about the brain now. But there is still excellent material in Lilly's book, and it is not necessary to go all new age to appreciate it. Float On celebrates the release of the new unabridged edition of the book tonight at the shop. At Float On 4530 SE Hawthorne 7PM-10 Free

May 14 Bright Talk

Sculptor Tony Feher speaks about his work at PSU tonight. He is known for bright sculptures of numbers of elements. He has a show opening at the Lumber Room Sunday, noon-2. At Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7PM Free

May 13-14, 16-20 Impossible

Chemical photography is magic. Saving the old magic is impossible. But that is what the Impossible Project is attempting. They bought the original machinery for making instant film from Polaroid and have brought it back to life. One marketing effort is to travel the country in an Airstream trailer, also impossible magic made possible, demonstrating their film. They will be parked at Blue Moon May 13-14, Pro Photo May 16-17 and Urban Outfitters May 18-20. Photo booth and photo talk. Details //www.the-impossible-project.com/airstream/.

At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard May 13-14 3PM-8. Contact other venues for times. Free

May 12 Tube Games

Getting to Know You(Tube) is curated this month by Mike Merrill and Marcus Estes from Chroma, with Robby Kraft, Kevin Noonan and Mike Merrill. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5



Same place same time, is the Siggraph 2013 animation compilation. Siggraph is an academic group that theorizes, writes software and makes graphics in computers. Their compilation is competitively drawn from animation artists and creators of new effects software each year. There is a fair criticism that storytelling is lacking in many films, especially CG films. As this is a showreel, there is no intent of narrative. More action eyecandy, much unfortunately in explosions, shooting chopping, monsters and spaceships.

Siggraph 2013 animation showreel wp.siggraph.org/cascade/en/category/events/ at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $8

May 10 Peace Out Recess For Now

Recess presents its last show in its current space. It is Paying Off My Student Loans by Heidi Nagtegaal. It is a common concern as college budgets and the portion funded by tuition have floated untethered. Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen present an illustrated talk, The Ghost of Vanished Ideals, at 7, and Brian Mumford of Dragging an Ox Through Water plays at 8.

All at RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 6PM-10

May 9 Fresh Off

Patrick Cruz presents Fresh Off the Boat. It is his Philippine and Canadian heritage combined in the USA, specifically the in the Multiplex Portland State of America. At Multiplex www.multiplexportland.com in the Multiplex Annex. 2400 NE Holladay Map 6PM-10 Free

May 8 Draw God

We take the controversial view that behavior is all and that belief is meaningless, except only in motivating good behavior. Others may differ. So God and spiritualism is a means not an end in our system. Nonetheless, how tribes process spiritual belief is a fine mine for ethnography. Taking the art pursuit of ethnography to heart, Xhurch invites artist and musician Emily Pothast to deliver her sermon. In a church. She presents How to Draw God from Direct Observation, a survey of historical visual representations of god. Recommended. At Xhurch 4550 NE 20th 7PM Free

May 7 Newcraftart

The joint PNCA+OCAC mid-program MFA students show what they are thinking this evening. They graduate a year hence. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free

May 2 Eastside Art Openings

PNCA student Annie McLaughlin presents a show of interior landscape paintings and home objects she has made. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map


Adam Burke & Noelle Barce have paintings and drawings, respectively. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside


Shadow and Light 2014 is a group show, as all are at Black Box, this one curated by Julia Dolan of the Art Museum. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free


Laura Heit has an installation of hand-drawn animation. It is inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, potentially wild. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213 6PM-9 Free


All at 811 East Burnside Map



No idea on this show by Trygve Faste at One Grand Gallery 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free



Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis have large pieces of photo paper developed in the waters of the Columbia River. At Gallery Homeland 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



John Isaacson, Caitlin Harris, Philip Stewart, Alisa Walton, Chloe Fields, Carye Bye, Noland Chaliha and Ed Trover show their print works made at the IPRC. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 6PM-8 Free



Sarah Knobels has Icescapes and Melanie Floods has Suggested Experiences. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



Decals, they stick on anything, including ceramics. Eutectic has put together a national show of ceramicists, Aaron Nelson, Andy Brayman, Ayumi Horie, Brian R. Jones, Chris Antemann, Dan Anderson, Jeff Irwin, Julie Guyot, Justin Rothshank, Lesley Baker, Mitchell Spain, Richard Shaw, Rimas VisGirda, Robert Harrison & Victoria Christen, that use decals. There is also a show by three OCAC artists. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9

May 1 May Day Westside Art Openings

Though this post is seemingly sparse, I'm sure tonight will be prime climate for art viewing.



Sometimes we note Art Institute of Portland art shows, they have a fine curator from time to time. Likewise occasionaly UO and PSU, geographically accessible university galleries. And we have noted fashion events from time to time. Because fashion is a Portland creative vector we note this combining fashion and art.

Photographer Christine Taylor presents Notions, thirty photographers capturing fashion themed work. You can see at the Steven Goldman Gallery at the Portland Art Institute, 1122 NW Davis 5PM-8 After event Jackknife Free



Sometimes thesis shows have stellar works and sometimes the opposite. I did buy my first artwork from one, so they are worth a look. UO thesis show, no predictions, at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



Brin Levinson paints poet apocalyptic landscapes of Portland. Not my thing but pretty, ironic. 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



Jordan Rathus presents a show. Hey, quit all capitals in the announcement and save us retyping! At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 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


Likewise we recommend if you are in a craft mood the Museum of Contemporary Craft, free first Thursdays, otherwise admission often applies, www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-9 Free

April 29 Endo, Photo, Holo

The Curiosity Club hosts Dr. Charles Boardman speaking on endoscopy. Endoscopes are viewing devices which can be used to see inside the body. They are usually tubes and they usually are used to see inside the tubes that are our respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems, or they are introduced into bulk tissue, including for endoscopic surgery. Dr Boardman has many other curious interests as you can read in the event link. www.handeyesupply.com/blogs/curiosityclub/12531293-charles-boardman-ohsu-04-29-14, A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free



UO has a photography lecture Photography Shoots Itself: The Objectification of the Photograph from Jiro Takamatsu to Camille Henrot. The speaker is Michael Darling, noted museum contemporary curator operating in Seattle, LA and Chicago. aaa.uoregon.edu/conversations. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch. 5:00PM Reception, 5:30 Talk Free



Holocene and PNCA have teamed up for an evening which you can read about on their respective websites. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM-late Free

April 27 Surplus Research

The Research Club is taking a more entrepreneurial bent. The friendly and interesting potlucks continue. Bring food, drink and your own plate cup and utensils please. The Research Club www.research-club.org at Flux Hackerspace, 412 NW Couch #222. Buzz the doorbell and go straight up the big stairs. Noon-2 Free



Surplus Space, created by Gabe Flores post Place opens drawings and installations by Daniel Duford and Caitlin Rose Sweet respectively. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9plus Space 6PM-9

April 26 J+Dance

We are excited about the potential of Yu. They have been reaching, curating, international artists. Too early to see where they land. But landing there tonight is Japanese artist Yuji Agematsu who makes mixed media work of found, often natural, objects gathered from streets. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6



Flock is a new group of modern dancers and their studio in the Disjecta building. They open their space tonight with movement and a video work by Kelly Rauer. Meanwhile in big Disjecta, the Oregon Biennial has their closing party. Flock www.flockpdx.com at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM-10 Free

April 20 Sun Propeller

Huun Huur Tu, Хүн Хүртү, translated as sun propeller, is a group of singers from Tuva who have been bringing the music of their region to the outer world. They bring it to Portland tonight. Tuvan throat singing establishes a resonance which allows the singer to sing more than one note simultaneously. If you enjoy the diversity of music the world offers, you will find a jewel tonight, amid a sizable community of Portland enthusiasts. Huun Huur Tu at the Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta. Doors 7PM, show 8. 7:00 $25 advance, $28 door

April 19 Obsession Velocity Broadcast

Richard Tracy, RichArt is an outsider artist in the Raw Vision tradition. He lives in Centralia, Washington, where he has transformed his yard into a fantastical installation. Over 30 years he has built a beautiful thing. He gives 55 minute tours to visitors for $5. Sadly his Art Yard was dismantled in 2013, but not before it was captured by filmmaker Vanessa Renwick who befriended the artist. Tonight his works on paper will be shown in the gallery and Renwick will screen a short film about the artist. Cellist Lori Goldston also performs.

At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free



Filmed by Bike is one of Portland's great seasonal bike confabs. 45 films show over three days. Saturday 4PM-9:30 is the bike street party. There is storytelling, adventure night and raffles. Filmed by Bike www.filmedbybike.org at the Clinton Street Theater 26th and SE Clinton. Saturday films 5PM, 7, 9; Sunday 3, 5, 7; Monday 7l Tuesday 6, 8. $10 individual films, $30 pass



Many people consider broadcast television, really broadcast of any kind, including print, a thing of the past. Public television, especially the BBC, is better. But in the US, public television is struggling to capture new audiences. Nonetheless, public television, and Oregon public television, does some things well. One is a series on Oregon artists. With a broad audience, public television takes a broad view of art. But that broad view has captured a few artists that interest us.

Their production is Oregon Art Beat, documenting 15 years of artists. For two months, they show visual artists and present live performances by 15 years of artists. In a mall. Very broad minded and without controversy.

You can see the performance schedule at www.opb.org/artsandlife/event/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-performance-schedule/.

Oregon Arts Beat retrospective www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-celebrates-15-years-of-creativity/ at Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com and the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 2PM-9 Free

April 18-19 Butoh in Portland, US, North America, World

On May 24, fifty five years ago, butoh dance was birthed by Tatsumi Hijikata in Daiichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Trained in European modern dance and ballet, Hijikata was part of a rebellious nationalist movement joined by artists occupying the streets of Japan. The piece was inspired by a homoerotic novel by Mishima of the same name, Forbidden Colors.

Since butoh has spread worldwide. It is an improvisational form, so each culture, and each individual brings their own spirit. One is Diego Piñón from Mexico. Piñón has studied with Kazuo Ohno, Hijikata's early collaborator, who performed into his 90's, Min Tanaka, famous for wild performances by students working on his rice farm, and Natsu Nakajima, one of the first female butoh performers. The influences of each are evident in Piñón's work. He also brings a relationship with the landscape, nature and shamanistic traditions of his homeland.

Piñón travels internationally performing. Over years he has attracted students who perform in his ensemble under the umbrella Body Ritual Movement. Tonight Sheri Brown, Amelia Burns, Leslie Castellano, Mizu Desierto, Nathan Montgomery, Christopher Mankowski, & Kevin Cochran, many of whom have worked with Piñón for more than ten years join him on stage.

Diego Piñón and Body Ritual Movement at the Headwaters Theater - information and tickets link: www.witd.org/service/diego-pinon-and-the-brm-dance-ensemble/diego-pinons-north-american-brm-dance-ensemble/, 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM. Students $12, $15

April 17 Whither Society?

Photolucida is an international curation and art photographer resource based in Portland. Tonight they bring photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield to present her work.

Cultural processes sometimes produce extremes which are not in accord with human values. A certain direction, value or behavior can be amplified, becoming its own end, unteathered. Greenfield is noted for her photography of young women, the societal psychodynamics of beauty, and her documentary Thin. She continuously seeks new moving documentary and still photography projects focused on individuals in relation to common social narratives. Her topic tonight is "From Gordon Gekko to The Queen of Versailles: A journey in pictures, film, and culture", including an exploration of her documentary on an extreme example of the 2008 financial bubble.

Photolucida at the W+K atrium. RSVP required info (at) photolucida.org. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 7PM Free



The other event tonight is Happening#12 organized by the PSU Time Art Club. It's a sprawling Spring rain edition with live music by step kid and Ch2, video by Riley King, Isaac Fletcher Weiss & Tim Ferrell, diva runway for Frankie Knuckles by Manny Layers, Two-Minute Party by Stephanie J. Brachmann, live painting by Leif J. Lee, installations by Annalise Reinhardt & Kayleigh Nelson and performances by LICHI & Jah Justice. Time Arts Club www.facebook.com/TimeArtsClub. All ages. In the PSU Art Building parking garage SW 5th and Jackson. 7PM-9 Free

April 14 Sun Tube

Getting to Know You(Tube) has collections by Jessica Hickey, Stacey Tran and Briar Levit At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5

April 13 Northwest Migrations

Vanessa Renwick is a filmmaker, installationist and provocateur. She has a great rich history of work. One of the themes of her work has been the fauna of the Northwest. This show is centered around birds. She has made a video of the vaux swifts, scored by Sam Coomes, and projections of a loon, a snowy owl, a raven, a woodpecker and a peregrine. She will give a gallery talk May 8 at 12:30PM. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon-3 Free

April 4 Eastside Art Openings

Collage with squares arranged according to the laws of chance is a show by Michael Dopp, Rachel Foullon, Israel Lund, Niall Macdonald, Brian Sharp, Josh Tonsfeldt. 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



Redux is back with a new curator and show of printmakers Adam Burke and Noelle Barce. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30



Black Box has Grayscale, monochrome photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free



Grays the Mountain Sends and Roll on Columbia is a show at Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



Go big or is a show at Homeland. Many studios in the building are also open tonight. At Gallery Homeland 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

April 3 Westside Art Openings

Hellion has a show themed around the Portland collection of artists curated into the book Tall Trees of Portland. Matt Wagner, gallery principal, summarizes his curatorial philosophy in a Creative Mornings video. He is too humble. One of his projects is to uncover the tall trees: artists in select cities who are taking risks beyond others, and taking risks that reward. The meme comes from Japan where taking those risks is highly discouraged. He has found artistic risk takers in Tokyo, now Portland, in progress, Rio. Tonight is the Portland book debut with artists AJ Fosik, JShea, Zach Johnsen, Meredith Dittmar, Souther Salazar, Jennifer Parks, Amy Ruppel, Keith Carter, Peter Gronquist, Bradley Delay, Blaine Fontana, Tripper Dungan, Stephanie Buer, Brett Superstar, Brin Levinson, Cole Gerst, Craig Thompson, Ryan Bubnis, Josh Keyes, Ren Sakurai, Jason Graham, Jen Lobo, Martin Ontiveros, Keegan Onefoot, Maryanna Hoggat, Morgaine Faye, APAK, Neil Perry, Susannah Kelly and Jon MacNair, all featured in the book. Tall Trees 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



Eva Lake is the artist's artist and accomplished cultural explorer with a solid geometric painting practice and stunning collages. She also propels smart discussion of Portland art in a radio show podcast. Augen has represented her geometric op art paintings using vibratory color contrasts, and now they dip into her collage. There are two bodies, Targets and Anonymous Woman. I did suggest she take some of her work into commercial reuse, and she declined that cup, wisely. But just saying, buy now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8



Tom Prochaska is a printmaker and painter. His impressionistic figures have a resonance hard to describe. See if you agree. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis



Lee Kelly is a long time Portland sculptor. Sculpture you can store outside for eons is less popular currently in an era of ephemera. Welding stainless is not for the feint of heart but Kelly is not feint of heart. Nonetheless worth contemplating his era, what comes and what lasts. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9



Patricia Galagan has Objects of Desire, portraits in Havana 2011 of individuals situated with items they selected as being their most meaningful. In many cases that was people not things. Shows with Craig Hickman. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9



We cast a jaundiced eye on pop culture sampling in art. So the frame of this listing is keep Portland weird. Floating World has invited artists to sample an early 1990's network television series, Twin Peaks, set in Northwest, USA, planet earth. You can see how weird at Floating World Comics www.floatingworldcomics.com 400 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



Shohei Takasak has a show of energistic illustration-style work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free



Portland is living on the fault line. The big one is a few miles out to sea, but it will destroy us. The other is our volcanic bud Hood which could erupt and destroy us. So the show, Dig: A Tectonic Art Show, may be relevant. Don't recognize any, but as always have your own experience. At Pond Gallery pondpdx.com 920 W Burnside 5PM-11



Some say that the journey of a thousand miles (li) begins with a single step. That was the philosophy of John Muir who walked from Indiana to Florida, from San Francisco to Yosemite, and in the Sierras. Migrations and documented explorations on foot, supported and not, have been equally epic. And so is the experience of Arthur Hitchcock who walked over 170 days from California to Maine. You can see photographs of opening tonight. At The Good Mod 1313 W Burnside 4th floor. 7PM-9 Free i



Upfor has Tim Flowers and Rebecca Ripple. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free



Expanse is a new installation by Marissa Green of cut paper geometries. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



Fight clubs gained name from a novel, but boxing clubs and variants go back; way. Photographer Jim Lommasson has traveled around the country photographing them. He shows American Fight Clubs at a private business Cargill Communications 819 NW Glisan. It is open tonight, but otherwise by appointment only in the month of April (503 939-1939). 6PM-8 Free



Grace Weston makes miniature scenes and photographs them with lensbaby-angles. Her latest is Unfamiliar Faces from a series Neo Noir. The work is inspired by film genres noir, pulp and spy. She speaks at the gallery April 13, 11AM. Grace Weston at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 424 NW 12th 6PM-9 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

April 2 Ducks, Dolls & Robots: a Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties

This blog is mostly about visual art. Sometimes performance. Art and performance interesting to us and maybe to you. But we sometimes dip into other events which may be interesting to you too.

Ethnography and anthropology applied to current time are in my toolkit. Those tools of mine are well worn. One of the uses for that type of tool is the coadaption of people to change. Technology is its own self-generating change agent. The response of individuals to that change is the topic of a talk tonight.

Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist who leads a team of anthropologists who study how people use technology, and how they might use future technology. You can find many videos of her talks by search.

Tonight she speaks about about technology anxiety and coping in a talk - Ducks, Dolls & Robots: a Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties. We will see if she taps narrative as a coping tool.

The talk is at Puppet Labs (thanks Puppet Labs!) 926 NW 13th 2nd floor. Arrive early event could reach capacity. Doors 6:30PM, intro 7, talk follows. $5

March 30 Research Place is No Place

The contemporary gallery Place in the mall closes tonight. Borne of the recession of shopping, the gallery occupied a mall. Over the lifecycle of Place, there were many stellar shows. With those shows, it has been a place for creative thinkers to compare notes. While the closing is regrettable, all good things must come to an end. It is an fine excellent dénouement. At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW Fifth. 2PM-5 Free


Join, bring, eat Research Club brunch. It's a creative potluck brunch with a few creative talks. This afternoon XRAY.FM and The Black Portlanders chat about their creative projects. Bring food, drink and your own plate cup and utensils please. The Research Club www.research-club.org at Flux Hackerspace, 412 NW Couch #222. Buzz the doorbell and go straight up the big stairs. Noon-2 Free

March 29 The Ice Man Goeth

Usually we do not note school galleries. Some, like Linfield College in Mcminville and the UO museum in Eugene are consistently excellent. PCC Cascade and Sylvania have cycles, as does Clark College in Vancouver. Reed often pulls stunners. We count on other other blogs to cover. We cover UO Portland because they are excellent and you can bike.

But a little trafficked photography gallery is on the menu this month. And they are not a drive.

The Camerawork Gallery is downstairs Peterson Hall at Linfield College Nursing Campus. This month they have a National Geographic-landscape photographer, Camille Seaman with The Last Iceberg.

It is the type of photography foreign to the art world because it is commissioned. The travel costs are high and the time involved is substantial. As art, this type of landscape photography struggles with a one note chord of beauty.

But this material is an important topic. We are all for beauty in art and these are beautiful. Very. They also have a very heavy narrative which art likes.

Seaman has photographed icebergs afloat. Icebergs separate from the ice floes and glaciers covering Greenland, parts of Alaska and Antarctica. Smaller ones are pieces of the Arctic sea ice - the vast ocean around the North Pole.

Explorers for oil and gas, as well as seabed minerals, are in hot pursuit of drilling all those places. Without ice it would be significantly easier. Their devils' handiwork is the destruction of that ice and other externalities to the detriment of life. And we are all complicit in our use of energy.

Other artists have approached the topic including Susan Robb with her proposed Sea Ice Life Boat. Here is new research result of loss of ice from satellite earth studies.

You can see Seaman's work at Camerawork Gallery www.TheCameraworkGallery.org, Linfield College Nursing Campus Peterson Hall, 2255 NW Northrup. See the website for hours. Free

March 27 Surplus Naught

The alt space energy is always shifting. The next wave is Surplus Space. There, The Naught Collective has a performance, participation, installation on the teaching industry. Maybe it operates similarly to the profitable disease treatment industry. Instead could they be replaced with the learning industry and the optimum health industry? Come tonight and see if you want to join their experiment. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9

March 15 Place Place Place

Place opens Linda Kliewer and Portia Roy while continuing Paul Clay, John Dougherty and Michael Reinsch. 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 have events. Free

March 14 Zeitgeist

Portland photographer Holly Andres had an interesting childhood. But so did we all. Andres has been able to recall the emotional resonances of those childhood experiences in the time, and recreate them, in photography, now. There are many, many photographers traversing this space. For few, if any, I know, is it personal. Andres recreates the feelings of those childhood dreams with friends as actors in a stop motion narrative. You may not know the story, but you know there is a story. And at a subconscious level those story lines are forming tendrils around your story lines.

This morning she speaks in Portland. The event is fully subscribed. Tickets are no longer available for his talk, but the video will soon be available on the Creative Mornings website. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings @Portland_CM at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free

March 10 SpringTube

Getting To Know You(Tube) is in with four contestants tonight! Tubes by Alexander Mackworth, Cecilia Ailicec, Timothy James Kelly and Rob Walmart. Tonight's contestants have been curated by Dalas Verdugo. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5

March 9 Color is Good

Sometimes people make fun of curators and galleries. The intent of art is not to get it, or make fun because you self-select as not getting it. The intent of art is pleasure. You have a set of pleasure receptors and I do too. Let's respect that each both. One of Portland's fine curators instantiates at Nationale. My pleasure receptors in art respect the curatorial accomplishments of Nationale.

Today Nationale opens painter Amy Bernstein in her first solo show at the gallery. Though calligraphy springs from another source, this work reminds. You make like. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 2PM-5 Free

March 8 Black Chime Metal Music Machine

Many curators are artists. They can be quite creative in their rivalries. And of course the biennial is opening tonight. So.



The International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Wind Chimes opens tonight. Artists include Brad Adkins, Portland, OR; Jesse Albrecht, Bozeman, MT; Chase Allgood, Portland, OR; Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Reykjavik, ICE; Dan Attoe, Washougal, WA; Gordon Barnes, Portland, OR; Steve Beatty, Portland, OR; Chase Biado, Portland, OR; Philippe Blanc, Paris, FR; Keith Boadwee, Emeryville, CA; Mike Bray, Eugene, OR; Nadia Buyse, Portland, OR; Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Brooklyn, NY; Brenden Clenaghen, Portland, OR; Bruce Conkle, Portland, OR; Fiona Connor, LA, CA; David Corbett, Portland, OR; David Dunlap, Iowa City, IA; Grier Edmundson, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Derek Franklin, NY, NY; Eric Franklin, Portland, OR; Mary George, London, ENG; Matthew Green, LA, CA; Amelie Guerin, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Linda Ford, San Francisco, CA; Jason Hirata, Seattle, WA; KeKe Hunt, SF, CA; Flint Jamison, Portland, OR; Sarah Johnson, Las Vegas, NV; Kristan Kennedy, Portland, OR; Brian Kennon, LA, CA; Arnold Joseph Kemp, Richmond, VA; Jennifer Locke, SF, CA; Brendan Lott, LA, CA; Marne Lucas, NY, NY; Pam Martin, Marin, CA; Alicia McDaid, Portland, OR; Mack McFarland, Portland, OR; Michelle Liccardo, Portland, OR; Reuben Lorch Miller, NY, NY; Thomas Moecker, Leipzig, DE; Donald Morgan, Eugene, CA; FUCK MOUNTAIN, Portland, OR; Lucas Murgida, SF, CA; Johann Neumeister, Vienna, AU; Paul Nudd, Chicago, IL; Joshua Pieper, San Francisco, CA; Ralph Pugay, Portland, OR; Amy Rathbone, San Francisco, CA; Sean Regan, Portland, OR; Michael Reinsch, Portland, OR; William Rihel, Portland, OR; Gary Robbins, Portland, OR; Zach Rose, Seattle, WA; Jay Schmidt, Bozeman, MT; Krystal South, Portland, OR; Tim Stigliano, Portland, OR; Brian Storts, Ventura, CA; Jesse Sugarmann, LA, CA; Tim Sullivan, San Francisco, CA; Joe Thurston, Portland, OR; Ian Treasure, San Francisco, CA and Ian Trout, LA, CA & Carl Alexander, HOU, TX. Moar chimes! At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free



Chiaroscuro is a conceptual performance by Matt Doyle. He has perfected the wall surfaces of the Recess Gallery, painted them black, then painted them white. Tonight's show is the documentation. Recess will also release a book on curation and custody by Tori Abernathy, gallery principal, artist and curator. Doyle is the sound designer for film Automated Futures. It places high frequency trading of financial instruments in the context of the post industrial decline of the rust belt economy. The vehicle is a road trip along a privately owned $300 million optical communication cable built by Spread Networks which connects the Nasdaq and NY Stock Exchange data centers in New Jersey with the Chicago board of trade. It also connects to a large multi tenant data center building owned by Google in Chelsea. While there are many fibers on that route, this one is a few milliseconds faster because it is shorter.

At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10



Metal Music Machine is a lengthy and legendary noise work by musician Lou Reed. Tonight is is reprised by March Music Moderne, presenter of dozens of events of 21st century music around town. Joan Laage, Sheri Brown and Alan Sutherland, butoh artists from Seattle perform. At Three Friends Coffee House 201 Se 12th 11PM Free

March 8-April 27 The Oregon Biennial

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.