October 3 Eastside Art Openings + Wires and Strings

Worksound is back with an excellent group of curators: Modou Dieng, Jason Doizé and Jesse Siegel. Their first show in the old space is Furniture Porn by Mark Takiguchi. At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-9 Free



Coral Brush Node, a series of five artists operating for a week of 24x7 viewing at Fourteen30 Gallery starts its last cycle with a show by Patrick Rock. There will be a reception this evening. You can come by the weekend open hours or just peer through the window an evening in the next 7 days. 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. 6PM-8 tonight Free



Apple of my Iris is a show by Carly Mandel & Rebecca Peel. Their theme is material consumption and its associations. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-10 Free



Punk seems remote. It does seem to be able to update itself to a degree. But the updates lack what must have been the original spirit.

Don Pyle lived in Toronto, Canada in the 1970's. He brought his film camera to Toronto's punk shows, sneaking in at age 15 from 1977-1979, and using his high school darkroom to develop and print.

He brings a book of images, prints and projected images of that place-time. Music by DJ's Candy and Justin of Dark/Light


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



Paula Rebsom has the photographic documentation of a site-specific installation on her family's land, If We Lived Here: Then and Now. The description on the gallery web site explains a moving project. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free



Liv Rainey-Smith has woodcuts on a Halloween theme. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside



Snapshot Aesthetic: Domestic and Everyday is a group show. You can see it at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free



The cello range in pitch is like that of the human voice. Beautiful set of overtones we love.

Zoe Keating is a contemporary cellist. She lived in Portland for a time. She was a founding member of the Portland Cello Project and played in many other ensembles. Now she is known for her layered and looped solo work with electronics.

Zoe Keating plays this evening at the Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie 8PM $18



Electronic music instruments go back almost as far as electronics. Early versions looked like a physics lab. In the 1960's and 1970's they resembled analog computers. Since then we have gone digital. The music is computed in bits in the embedded processors of Korgs and Yamahas; or computed in the processor and memories of laptops.

But there is a resergence of the "modular (analog) synth" of the 1960's and 1970's.

The documentary I Dream of Wires tells that story and the story of musicians who are passionate about it. Those include Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Gary Numan, Vince Clarke (Erasure), Morton Subotnick, Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle), Daniel Miller, Carl Craig, Flood, Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy), James Holden, Factory Floor, Legowelt, Clark, John Foxx and Bernie Krause, as well as manufacturers and modular industry leaders Doepfer, Modcan and Make Noise.

The Portland showing is sponsored by Control Voltage, a store with modular synths you can play with.

I Dream of Wires one night at the Clinton Street Theater 7PM $8

October 2 Fruit of Paradise

The Fin de Cinema is a series of beautiful vintage films with subtitles presented with live sound scores by Portland musicians. Tonight Fanno Creek, Ben Darwish & Coco Columbia and Murmur Ring - Jem from the Ghost Ease have composed a score. The film is The Fruit of Paradise (1970) by Czech new wave filmmaker Vera Chytilova. This NSFW opening sequence depicts Adam and Eve being expelled from Eden. These events are always fascinating. Fin de Cinema at Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8:30PM, film 9 promptly $7

October 2 Westside Art Openings

Critter is a new show by Ralph Pugay. He specializes in ironic, and even slightly disturbing, illustration-style paintings as social commentary. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free



Anna Fidler has painting collages with elements of her early work. The artist has ranged, successfully, from land-seascapes, to sports portraits to landscape installations. In this show, figures layered of paper cutouts, receding in dimension as they near the eye, are affixed in abstract painted fields, some almost landscapes. Recommended. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th



Storm Tharp is back with paintings ranging in approach and subject. It is not as severe as previous work in the Bacon style. So less bacon in PDX tonight. Recommended. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM



Carol Yarrow has One Mahogany Left Standing, a photo essay exposed in Nahá, Chiapas, Mexico, 1995-2002. It is a 200 person indigenous village near the Guatemalan border. Also Sage Sohier has photographs of same sex couples made in the 1980s. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9



Rainy Day With A Chance Of Sun by Yoskay Yamamoto opens tonight 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



Tonight you will find contrasting landscapes at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Long time Portland painter and printmaker Stephen Hays has luminous colorist pastel landscapes in a dry brush style. Ryan Pierce of Signal Fire has large landscapes, still lifes and illustrations, not of the Northwest, in a flat style. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9



PNCA continues SuperTrash, cult film ads, 1930-1990 and the post apocalyptic Borderlander's Outfitter by Abigail Anne Newbold. They open landscapes Reflections on the Columbia River Plateau and Beyond Erotic in the MFA gallery. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map



There is no admission to the PNCA MOCC on first Thursday. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis



Glyph has Entitled, a group show of roughly 10 inch on a side paintings titled by options picked at random from a hat. All works are under $50. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-9



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



Usually we are not interested in art about cats. It's not only jumped the shark, it has jumped the entire ocean. But our interest here is an archaic printing technology from Japan, the Risograph. Artist Jason Sturgill has a show of cat art printed on this more than 25 year old combination of a silk screen printer and copier. At Compound Gallery, Portland's unofficial Japanese embassy www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10



The Diode Art Gallery across from Ground Kontrol is having their rituals as we mentioned last week.



Hand Eye Supply is opening their new location 427 NW Broadway from 6PM-9.

October 1 Future Music

Music is one of the streams of culture. It is a stream ever flowing, and ever changing. It is possible to wade in and experience it. Or stay out for a while. You can wade in other streams. You can come back and it will still be flowing.

Some other streams of culture include the news, spectator sports, literature, technology, fashion, design. Each has a broadcast structure dedicated to making it easy to wade in.

The aesthetics of each stream are ultimately registered in each individual by the receptors for familiarity and novelty, pleasure and irritation. The familiarity-novelty response is informed by the sum of our past experience. Increasingly that cultural experience will be curated by our friends and less so by broadcast structures. Broadcast structures are difficult to support in the age of infinite reproduction for free.

Another attraction of cultural streams is anticipation. We each predict the future in a stream, and then are pleasured by seeing it come to pass. It is an equivalent neurological response across the cultural streams.

But music is different in a few ways. First, the neurological path for music through primitive brain structures brings animal responses and emotion. Second, the programming of the cortex and paths to it are determined by synaptic branching and paring. Most of that occurs in the late prenatal time and then from infancy to childhood. We are learning language with those same brain structures. So we are programmed to learn music at the same time.

Implanting an electrical interface to the nervous system changes things. Today we have cochlear implants for nerve deafness. In the deaf community parents have to navigate the conflict between a baby receiving and implant for an early start on learning local language verses that same baby not learning deaf culture, and its distinct language. In the novel The Terminal Man, an implant leads to an addictive and ultimately destructive neural pattern. The future of implants changes the programming and metaprogramming in the human biocomputer. That could impact the aesthetics of music, perhaps missing the emotional responses in the primitive brain.

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Claire Evans @TheUniverse is a musician and futurist. She combines both in a talk today: Science Fiction and Synthesized Sound. The announcement wins the copywriting award for the month:

""Turn on the radio in the year 3000, and what will you hear? When we make first contact with an alien race, will we—as in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"—communicate through melody? If the future has a sound, what can it possibly be? If science fiction has so far failed to produce convincing future music, it won’t be for lack of trying. It’s just that the problem of future-proofing music is complex, likely impossible. The music of 1,000 years from now will not be composed by, or even for, human ears. It may be strident, seemingly random, mathematical; like the “Musica Universalis” of the ancients, it might not be audible at all. It might be the symphony of pure data. It used to take a needle, a laser, or a magnet to reproduce sound. Now all it takes is code. The age of posthuman art is near; music, like mathematics, may be a universal language—but if we’re too proud to learn its new dialects, we’ll find ourselves silent and friendless in a foreign future.""

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My belief is that the question should be considered in the context of the above brain science framework. Unfortunately, the brain of the future is unknown. When machines replace parents in rearing infants, we will have different brains. Machines react more quickly. Today they interact much more predictably within a tiny universe of possibilities, compared to humans. They are absent facial microexpression and tone of voice, both extremely complex communication channels learned in infancy and developed onward. We will have to see how ToyTalk and childhood robots change human. Perhaps the future of music will be governed by childhood experiences with machines. Or perhaps we will develop a way to turn on at any time in life the rapid growth of synaptic connections and intuitive learning we experienced as babies without knowing.

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Claire Evans speaks today at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 3PM Free

September 27 A Lot of Lots

A few years back, Disjecta went to a rotating curator system. For a year or two the curator, often from out of town, discovers Portland artists, gives them an export channel and imports national and international artists.

This is the first show by curator Rachel Adams.

The show is Intimate Horizons: Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu. Ashley makes inflatable sculptures. Yurukoglu projects landscape she has videoed onto environments built in the gallery. They also prepare a work together for Disjecta.

At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free



There is an ambitious group show at Surplus Space opening tonight themed on the body, horror and industrial design by Tim Stigliano, Lauren Seiffert and Maggie Heath.

Video work by Omer Gal. As Surplus Space is a house, guest curator Kayleigh Nelson has programmed the kitchen, hallways and bathroom with Annalise Reinhardt, Hannah Andrews and Melina Bishop.

Maggie Heath performs her work at 6:30PM. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free

September 27 - April 26 Occupy Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei does not have a passport today. But he is mounting a large set of works on Alcatraz. It is really a poignant statement.

The works are With Wind, Trace, Refraction, Stay Tuned, Illumination, Blossom and Yours Truly.

With Wind is a large dragon kite and a collection of smaller kites painted by Chinese kite makers. It is a dying tradition. The kites are not flying free. They are indoors, captured in the New Industries Building. It was the site of prison labor for over 20 years.

Trace is a collection of portraits of 176 imprisoned or exiled people. They are prisoners of conscience. The portraits cover the floor of another part of the New Industries Building. They are entirely executed in LEGO® bricks. What is the relationship between the individual and bricks of their experience, between the bricks representing individuals and society?

Refraction is a flying wing constructed of Tibetan solar cookers. Viewers observe it from the gun gallery halls of the New Industries Building. There, armed guards looked down upon the prisoners working.

Stay Tuned are a series of recordings, spoken words, poems and music by people who have been detained for their beliefs. Some of the recordings were made in their prisons. The work is installed in 12 cells. The audience is invited to sit in the cells and listen.

Illumination, in the Hospital, has two sound recordings. One is from the Hopi Eagle Dance. In Hopi belief, the eagle connected the Hopi and the Creator. The second recording is of Tibetan Buddhist chants. The recordings are set in two tiled cells reserved for those deemed mentally ill.

Blossom, in the Hospital, encrusts the toilets, sinks and tubs used by prisoners with a dense installation of white porcelain flowers.

Yours Truly, in the dining hall is the final intervention. Here participants may write personal post cards to some of the prisoners in the Trace installation. The cards are illustrated with the plant life and birds of their homes each.

There is a nice article about the event at www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-his-work-to-a-prison.html. There will be more. The organizers are For-site Foundation /@Large, working in San Francisco.

It open today and runs through April 26.

Ai Weiwei @aiww showing @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz on Alcatraz Island. The ferry is $18.25-$30, but admission is Free

September 26 Art Music Video Motorcycles

The Projects #3 festival, organized by the IPRC, occupies S1 tonight with Undervolt & Co. Undervolt artists Johnny Woods, e*Rock and Peter Burr each have a program.

Johnny Woods presents a live video set and video works from Adam Ferriss, Suzy Poling, Cristopher Cichocki, Sabrina Ratté, A. Bill Miller, Giselle Zatonyl, Yoshi Sodeoka, Emilio Gomariz, and Jennifer Juniper Stratford.

E*Rock drops a dj set with visuals by Dane Overton.

Peter Burr has Green|Red, a 4chan video installation with the viewers inside a cube.

At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map All Ages 8PM-late $5



To celebrate the close of the amazing Lonnie Holley installation, the Portland Museum of Modern Art has Neal Morgan and Lisa Schonberg drumming on a cymbal structure forged by blacksmith Angie Terry. Plus experimental music on Casio, trumpet and drop in instruments by Grand Style Orchestra.

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



The dirt jumping, back road and back country touring crowd, centered around See See Motorcycles has a photo show about their adventures at Union|Pine as well. 7PM Free



The Portland Art Museum is open for Free 5PM-8.

September 24 Altar of Film

Diode Gallery is Portland's gallery dedicated to electronic art. Right across from Ground Kontrol.

The Church of Robotron is their current installation with interactive altars. The gallery is usually open by appointment and for events. Some work of the work is visible 24x7 through the windows.

The Church of Robotron presents its rituals tonight and first Thursday at 7PM. The Diode and Robotron website copy is worth a read.

The altars are based on pairs of game controllers versus the machines. The Church of Robotron www.churchofrobotron.com at Diode Gallery for Electronic Art www.diodegallery.com 514 NW Couch. Ritual at 7PM Free



The Cinema Project is a well curated presenter of experimental film on celluloid. Many of the works have never been telecined to video, an expensive process.

To raise funds for their season, they are showing loops by Mia Ferm and found footage by Stephen Slappe with live accompaniment by Matt Carlson of Golden Retriever.

The evening finishes with DJ DNA of xray.fm playing obscure 80's finds. Presented by the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org at Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $8

September 19 Ambient Noise

Xhurch is a live-perform space and a manifesto to document the reuse of places of worship, the ex-churches.

The Xhurch invites you into their home tonight for an early quietish musical experience.

Matt Jenkens from Dogheart performs solo. Then Catlin King-CKfirefighter, half of Planets Around the Sun performs her new unit Numbskull. Calvin Johnson and The Hive Dwellers finish.

Many may head over after to the MSHR live performance. MSHR has performed installations at Xhurch. At Xhurch 4550 NE 20th. 6:30PM-9:30 $5 donation



MSHR is Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. They have made four installations, each about ten feet square, in an about forty foot square very dark room. Each pod is a geometric arrangement of Brenna Murphy's extruded patterns. Birch Cooper's analog synths, in primarily noise timbre, run in optical feedback-driven patterns. Some lighting free runs too, including white LED chasers, circling each pod.

Tonight they perform the piece in an interaction between their bodies and the sensors.

At 2010 SE 8th, 10PM $10

September 14 Enough Enuf

This one wins the copywriting award for the month: "Posters for nothing. Begetting and beheading. Breakout hits, not enough. Genuine excellence in cratering. Fake drips, late to the game. Everybody loves distribution. Brancusi playing golf. Maybe later for the win. Lost and found flavors. I want the information. Hooray no one’s here. Let’s rebrand them as terrorists. Production life. There’s always coffee. Everything takes forever. You/me a small part of forever, and everything."

It's an art show, Is it Contemporary Enuf: New Works on Paper, by John Brodie. Brody is a cultural force in Portland. One of his vectors is collage done well.

Recommended, and we hope he worked in larger format to take advantage of the wall height there.

At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd Reception 4PM-6 Free

September 13 Singing Mobile Sculpture

The Hawthorne Eagles is a meetup today of art projects in mobile trailers. Art cars too. 4904 SE Hawthorne 11AM-? Free



St Johns has a sculpture park. Who would have known? Now you do and can see it at Green Anchors Studios 8972 North Bradford. Noon-6 Free



Qawwali is the musical expression of devotional ecstasy in Sufism. The performers call themselves a party. I have been fortunate to see the great Qawwāl Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. There are some great remixes of his work available.

Fanna-Fi Allah is a party of Western Qawwali performers. They tour Pakistan and are making a documentary of their performances and meetings with musicians there. They are unusual in having a woman performing. And I have been fortunate to see Fanna-Fi Allah in a back yard concert.

The Fanna-Fi Allah Qawwali Party performs this evening. Presented by Kalakendra www.kalakendra.org at the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7:30PM $20 advance, $25 door

September 9 So Many Microphones!

Have you ever thought where microphones come from? Well some come from Portland, Oregon, USA, where they are made in the workshop of Philip Graham at Ear Trumpet Labs. It makes sense, one of the great DIY efforts, Tape-Op started in Portland. Tape Op has instructed, documented and sponsored many microphone DIY efforts. So many microphones! Come hear Graham explain the in(side)s and out(sides)s of small scale manufacturing of microphones for musicians. 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

September 8 DIY Science

Portland loves lectures. The Summer of Science is an example of crowd sourced talks on many, many topics in science and surrounds. It takes place in a backyard. It's Portland!

September 6 Publication Piano

Publication Studio is 5. So they are having a party! At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 8PM-late Free



We generally don't cover music here, there are others who do it better! We also have an interest in acoustic instruments of many varieties. One of the most expressive is the piano. Tonight Portland native in New York, Kathleen Supové plays. She is known for her performance of modern works. She performs tonight as a guest of Fear No Music www.fearnomusic.org in the Brunish Theatre, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts 1111 SW Broadway 8PM $15-30

September 5 Eastside Openings+

Jason Hirata from Seattle opens Coral Brush Node: Part I. 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 Free



Primary Motions is an exhibition by Myranda Gillies. The show includes weavings of sunset images gleaned from the Internet, and brass castings of lava rock. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8



Ellen Lesperance opens You & I Are Earth, paintings of sweaters seen on women at activist events. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213 6PM-9 Free


Michelle Erickson has botanical watercolors, how perfect for Summer's swan song. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-9 Free


Black and White is a group photography show spanning landscape, portraits and interiors. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free


Mary Tapogna continues mosaics at Redux. For many years, her studio and gallery was at 30th and Killingsworth. Until the neighborhood fancified. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free

All at 811 East Burnside Map



Ready to Die is a large group show themed on a piece by Biggie Smalls at 20 years. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free



Will Bruno opens Comics With Still Life: Finding The Inevitable Place, work inspired by a residency on the Oregon Coast. 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



Jeremy Rotsztain's Digital Gestures continues at Pushdot. It's electronic illustration, some based on photographic images. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free

September 4 Westside Art Openings+

Jenene Nagy has some stunning minimalist drawings and some concrete and metal leaf sculptures. Recommended. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM



Upfor has four videos by Ryan Trecartin from the Venice Biennale: Center Jenny, Item Falls, Junior War and Comma Boat. It is their first anniversary, they wanted to do something notable and they have! At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free


The Caldera offices have work from Baba Wague Diakite, James Florschutz, Eugenie Frerichs, Carolyn Hopkins, Jim Leisy, Patty Freeman Martin and Ben Rosenberg. Each artist worked in residence at Caldera in Sisters, Oregon. At Caldera Arts www.caldera.org 224 NW 13th 5PM-8 Free



Welcome Strangers, Paintings and Drawings of the Neighborhood is a show by Mateu Velasco. 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



Lindsay Kretchun, coprincipal at the gallery shows her watercolors. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



Michael Brophy is a painter of Northwest landscapes. Worth seeing. Also showing Rene Rickabaugh. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8



PNCA has Borderlander's Outfitter by Abigail Anne Newbold. It's survivalism lensed through art. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-10 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



A new Taiko is launching in Portland: Unit Souzou. They are playing an event with Korekara Taiko this evening. Unit Souzou www.unitsouzou.com at Zoomtopia, Studio 2 810 SE Belmont 7:30PM By donation



Anjali and the Incredible Kid are playing at the Saucebox 9:30PM to late, Free

August 30 Art Not Surplus

Tori Abernathy, Anna Gray, Ryan Wilson Paulsen and Jabari Jordan-Walker present work about unrecognized work. That's a lot of work! The FOuRT Collective also guest curates another part of the space which is a home. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM Free

August 29 Dawg Rock Nativity

It's August and late August so everyone is out of town. But if you are in town, you can see a show Scenario Of Work, paintings by Eric W. Mast. https://www.facebook.com/events/373005752856184/ At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map All Ages 6PM-10pm Free



The art collective FOuRT is also doing Neo's Nativity. https://www.facebook.com/events/351252978357725/ at 8, see their FB for details.

August 24 Pure Art Book

Delaney Allen, Ty Ennis, and Jaik Faulk, artists, are contextualized in a new book by Matthew Kyba. The book is published by Publication Studio and presented tonight by Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 4PM-6 Free



Modern dance. Some hate it. Some don't get it. Me, I love it, the result of a modern dance girlfrend, and I don't try to get it. An easy audience entre is just to let the watching create whatever impression. Don't try to force meaning, or impose narrative. Another approach is to imagine you making those moves. Be in that body.

Modern is upswinging in Portland. The Pure Surface events at Valentines are modern dance, literary and video -creator collaborations. They are free, and filled with interesting creative people.

This month is Danielle Ross/movement, Brandi Katherine Herrera/speaking and Andrew Glei/video. So you can has it all!

Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny

August 23 Pit Beast Cypher

A cypher is a code. It hides high information content in lower information content. Sometime I have to look up the etymology of the word's use in hip hop dance. Because by design, or by accident, it captures something beautiful, and something profound.

Preserving identity is a common source of conflict. I, you, we each, all accrete and construct identity by cognition which results in action. When others threaten that identity, we defend it. We express it in our lives. It is important. Critically. It is existence.

It's playing out in the news, and the news is not over.

In this case, a cypher is a circle of b-boys/b-girls expressing their identity from the sum of their past, and in relation to one another, by a competitive and playful competition. Each all of their experience is encoded in their moves, and adapted to the reaction to those moves, by their competitors, and by their audience.

The Pit | One Cypher | One Beast is a b-boy/b-girl battle with identities Lord Tummi, NeffSaid, Juan, Victor, Skrilla, Kyle, Merk, Zesty, Bao, Fligh, Dawn, Deondre Castro, Chucks, King Vrep, Jayswiss, Scooter, Hero, Fluurd, Blazii, Matt, Classique, Johnny Dont Ly, David, Andy Manivong, Tombo, Leap, Fern C Jiminez and Madeinmanilla Motorman as well as 2on2 crews with Project Mayhem, Deviant Munkees crew, Last Samurai's, Tru Roots, Chucks in da house, STC, Tru Roots Zero, HoodValley, Kyojins, Original Kid, #2on, Misguided Formula , Real Family, Soulbreakerz Krew, Yayonaise, Fresh from the 90s, SPLASH SQUAD, Mo money Juan problem, Oly Rockers, DoggPound, Dirty Rotten Scoundrelz, DRS, Jokers, Salem's Only Boys, Dance Broomz and Shibal Tribe.

The seemingly freeform rules require some heavy strategy. Like life.

Hosted by Brian Mightymoves Baker and Tonyy Tang. On the wheels of steel Mighty Moves from Def Con 5. Judges Boogie-Moon Patrol, Boxcutta-Fraggle Rock and DialTone-Art of Movement.

You can see this cypher unfold at the Ballroom Parkrose 4848 NE 105th. 6PM $10

August 19 - September 28 Nature Sound City

This blog revolves home in Portland, Oregon, USA, with occasional forays to Seattle and the Bay Area. But note this item in Portland's sister city Sapporo. It is the first international art festival there www.sapporo-internationalartfestival.jp, themed City and Nature and the artistic director is Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of our favorite soundscape composers. If you go we want to know because it will be cool. The Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japan.

August 18-23 Forest for the Trees

Forest for the Trees began because Portland gallerist and Japan-Portland ambassador Matt Wagner invited graffiti artists from both countries to paint walls. This is the second year, adding Brazil. It's revolutionary, really, given Portland's history with the Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, and its past Portland artistic expression outdoors based on interpretation of the Oregon bill of rights. Let's just say that the subconscious art of graffiti removal, like the subconscious art of cultural removal is in the news and a constant concern, worldwide.

Forest for the Trees invites artists Blaine Fontana, Blakely Dadson, Brendan Monroe, Curiot, DALeast, Faith47, Gage Hamilton, J.Shea, Mary Iverson, Maryanna Hoggatt, Mateu Velasco, Never Satisfied, NoseGo, OGI, Paige Wright, Souther Salazar, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Rather Severe, The Lost Cause and Zachary Yarrington.

You can stop by any painting location listed on the website to see the live action this week, and the finished results after. Forest for the Trees www.forestforthetreesnw.com at various locations in Portland. Free

August 17 Held by Light and Cloud

What's today? It's ambient Sunday! In church (Xhurch!)!

Musicians are Puff Puff Give, Misty Montane (Ian Gorman Weiland) and Pulse Emitter with resident DJs Mike Jedlicka and Elias Foley and visuals by Ritzy Sheens. Sanctuary Sunday at Xhurch 4550 NE 20th. 7PM or 8 to 10 or 11. Free

August 16 Pandering Interactive Music Movement

Art families are always interesting. Jacob and Arnold Pander, brothers, and sons of painter Henk Pander, are an example. They have connection in LA and PDX. Their work has spanned film, graphic novels, live illustration. Tonight they present velvet paintings - Arnold and photographs - Jacob, with a talk at 7.

At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 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



Together is an electronic art show in a new space and coinciding with the Portland baby copy of SXSW sponsored by a newspaper. But it might be interesting. Artists include Alisa Akay, Chris Arth, Lindsey Bacon, Jey Biddulf, John Brown, Surya Buchwald, Robert Linnemann, Bill McKessy, Josh Michaels, Dimitrii Pokrovskii, Daniel Tankersley and Libbey White. There is something on their website about requiring free tickets, because it will be so popular, like SXSW. At Diode Gallery for Electronic Art www.diodegallery.com 514 NW Couch 4PM–8 Free



LAPDX may seem dissociated. This event resolves it. Dance movement artists and musicians collaborate from both places here. That's Jmy James Kidd + Tara Jane ONeil (LAX), Takahiro Yamamoto (LAX + PDX) and Heather Treadway + Lisa Schonberg (PDX). Plus dancey party Alex Norman DJ and clothing by James Kidd Studio (LAX). Deets https://www.facebook.com/events/1445690412382231/ At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map $10 All Ages 7:30pm



The Everett Lofts throw their 10th annual courtyard show - upstairs. At Everett Stations Lofts 328 NW Broadway Street, entry on Everett. 4PM-10 Free

August 15 Prison Photography

The American culture is particular and certain economic phenomenon thrive in it. One is the criminal justice system and the larger justice system. Certainly there are worse on the planet, some much worse. But the expense of it is out of calibration with the macro economy. To put a story to that, Pete Brook has curated a collection of current and historic photographers lensing individuals in prison in his www.prisonphotography.org. It is part of the always excellent Creative Mornings. Tickets are no longer available for the talk. At Ziba Design Auditorium www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall Map Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free

August 14 Cannot Decode Anniversary

First, we are suspicious of sampling commercial pop culture. Second we cannot understand what is proposed for this show from the announcement. Maybe you can decode their https://www.facebook.com/events/1489212924657398/. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite Littman Gallery, PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 7PM-9 Free



Black Wagon, a children's store with an art curator has an anniversary with art, snow cones and a photo booth. It's coincident with several businesses having art shows on Mississippi on the second Thursday of the month. Albina Press, Backtalk, Flutter, Good, Optik, Mississippi Chiropractic and Paxton Gate participate. At Black Wagon blackwagon.com 3964 N Mississippi Map 6PM-9 Free6PM-9 Free

August 11 You View

Getting to Know You(Tube) has collections by Jamalieh Haley, B. Frayn Masters and Jay Winebrenner. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5

August 10 Free Family

The Art Museum has free admission once a month Friday Evenings. Today they have a free day, all day, with hands-on family activities. There is a free outdoor film, Gigi 1958, France at 8:30. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 10AM-5PM, 8:30 Film Free

August 9 Tin Voltage Folk

The Art Museum walks a meandering line in selecting large shows. A percentage must be crowd pleasers which draw new audiences. Their current show is an example. Today as part of that show you can have a tintype portrait made in a portable wet plate photography studio in the outdoor sculpture court between the museum buildings. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 11AM-4PM $40



Control Voltage is two. To celebrate they are having a BBQ and music. Bring grillables and BYOB. All ages. At Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi BBQ 6PM, Music 7:30PM-10 Free



Lonnie Bradley Holley vibes with Portland Museum of Modern Art tonight. He is a self-taught artist from the Southeast and is represented in Portland by Liz Leach. The work of self-taught artists and folk artists, birthing Raw Vision and Juxtapoz, was a rebellion against questionable work questionably priced in New York. That New York art was funded by stock market speculation of the time. PMOMA has followed the self-taught artist theme including work from the Mission Art School.

Holley makes paintings and drawings. For this show, he makes an installation from found materials. That's a nice pair with show at Disjecta, Glean. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map Early start 5PM-8 Free

August 8 Glean

We are a tube, and our material life is a tube. Ideally we can be efficient in out use of those materials. And when our use is complete, some go to the Metro waste facility. They are transported to Arlington, Oregon and they are buried in the earth.

In a project called Glean, the waste people invite artists to make work from the materials passing through the waste facility. The project is gaining momentum with the arrival in the Metro area by waste hauler Recology, which has supported artists in residence sampling the waste stream in the Bay Area. Portland has its own Urban Ore: Cracked Pots Reclaim It!

The work is on display this evening by artists Sarah Bernstein, Francesca Berrini, Alyssa Kail, Michelle Licardo and Whitney Nye.

At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free

August 7 Westside Art Openings

Dog days of August, blame me not.



James Lavadour is an abstract landscape painter bringing a Native American eye on land. The work is gorgeous and he is celebrated. See why. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM



We do not cover indigenous art, music art, sports art or glass art. Each has their own aesthetic and collector base, into none of which we shall intrude. Except rarely, in a glass art show by Emily Nachison. She has steered the Bullseye to make The Realms of Unquantifiable Truth. At Bullseye Glass Gallery www.bullseyegallery.com 300 NW 13th



Korean artist Goseong Choi, schooled at Pratt, presents At the End of Winter, a meditation on generational passing in his family. Laura Larson has curated a show of rephotographed 19th Century tintypes of children. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9



We like academic galleries, especially when they are local-accessible. The University of Oregon Portland White Box is one. They open Immiscible Edges by Whitman prof Michelle Acuff, her take on new landscape, sampling graphics into landscape, or was it the reverse? At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



Upfor does not shy digital. They have Jack Featherly with analog paintings referencing ASCII text. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free



David Keller presents Free Portraits, a project to consume last exposures on limited length film rolls in camera. #antique problem when that was a problem. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



You can put a bird on (in) it or you can put a fur on it. Animal Battles is a show by Maryanne Hoggatt that gets at it. 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



Compound has a large group show, Pushing Weight. Artists include Risk MSK, Ed Haskell, Kick MSK, Kodak Kidd, Jase Ba, Holyshit, Kevin Russ, Con Ba, Poorboy, Menso, Bench Reporter, Wooden Axle, Myke Rids, Clawhamr, Lamps, Mike Glory, Zane WCA, Chris Burney, Leaf, Xxvism, Lerdy Drown, Savage Land, Smokin Joe, Victor Koast, El Gringo Chivo, High Ball, Janky Lean to, Gone Fishin, Boxcar Jiem, Big Dipper, Faves, 3 Fall, Hellaphant, Sunflower Seed Kid, Ginger Rails and Graham Nastrom. 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

August 4 UX Tufte

We have written before of Edward Tufte.

Tufte is the original user experience - UX - designer. He teaches one day seminars in information design which are highly, highly recommended. His specialty is a design philosophy that is at once beautiful and effective. Think that's not important? Tufte heavily cites examples of PowerPoint presentations that were poorly designed. People died as a result of decisions based on those self same PowerPoints. The seminar is reasonably priced as it includes a set of Tufte's reference books. It is also fascinating and entertaining; Tufte is professor emeritus at Yale.

Edward Tufte one day seminar on information and presentation design in downtown Portland.

Details at www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses. 8:45AM-4 $380

August 2 PMOMA Pool Party

The Portland Museum of Modern Art invites you to its second anniversary with a pool party at Peninsula Park. Our own little Coney Island-Palm Springs. Bring water toys, towel, maybe a gym lock or bag for your dry clothes, and fun. Snacks, dancing and underwater camera provided. The Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com at Peninsula Park Pool, Albina and Rosa Parks 700 N Rosa Parks Way. 5PM-8

August 1-2 Get on the Boat

Michael Trigilio is an artist, musician and performer. He performs tonight as part of the Summer series a the Labrador 12128 Boatspace. Recommended. At the 12128 Labrador Project http://www.12128boatspace.com/ It's moored at Fred's Marina 12900 NW Marina Way, Portland. Map More detailed directions, don't get lost, on the website. 6PM, performance 8 Free

If you are interested and there is space, he is facilitating a DIY synth building workshop Saturday. Details on the website.

July 31 Hand Eye Last Church

Are you an artist, designer, crafter, maker?

Then you should make the acquaintance of Hand Eye Supply. Maybe you have.

They are the retail store for creative tools which grew out of Core77.

They are moving from their spot by the Chinatown Gate to one of the few Portland stainless steel-clad buildings, where they will be close to the new PNCA building.

Tonight they are having a get together to see the space and meet other creatives.

At Hand Eye Supply neu, 427 NW Broadway/714 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free



The anarchy (in a good way) that is Last Thursday touches down on NE Alberta Street between 12th and 30th tonight until 9PM Free



Ensemble Economique Je Suis le Petit Chevalier Tunnels & Visible Cloaks perform live at Xhurch 7PM Free

July 29 Curious Electronic Song of Love

Portland may have the only happy hour in the world with theremin accompaniment, at least tonight. Steve Hassett, who works days at OMSI, performs. The Theremin is an early electronic music instrument played by the motion of hands around its antennae. It is in honor of the release of the novel Us Conductors by Sean Michaels. The novel, published in the US by Portland's Tin House, expands the story of the love between Leon Theremin, the instrument's inventor, and Clara Rockmore, its greatest performer, who ultimately married another man. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 5:30PM-7:30 Free



Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator known for her visual essays on material consumption. She speaks tonight. 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

July 28 Song of Land

Project Cityscope is presenting a series of creative talks on the edges of architecture and design entitled New Structure.

Tonight Lisa Ward explores the special condition of Western lands, much publicly owned and "useless". She traces from the Louisiana Purchase, surveying, the Small Tract Act of 1938, to California's Senate Bill X1-2 - a far-reaching 2011 energy bill, with impacts on our region.

Ward contrasts "modern" land use with the patterns of Indian land use over tens of thousands of years.

I have always loved the dissent of Douglass in Sierra Club vs. Morton 405 U.S. 727 of 1972, later expanded in the essay Should Trees Have Standing by Stone, also 1972. That case, also known as Disney vs Mineral King, was over the plan to construct a ski resort adjacent to Sequoia National Park. Ultimately the resort idea failed, and the land became part of the national park, forever "useless".

Architect and artist Ward leads an exploration tonight of the land and our relations incorporating stills, voice, video and music.

Tickets in advance, free on Eventbrite. New Structure by Project Cityscope www.projectcityscope.org at the Shout House, 210 SE Madison Ste. 11 7PM Free

July 27 Research French Yardwork

Summer brunch. No wait. The Research Club Brunch is a pot luck brunch for creatives, with a few short talks. Presenters today are Kayleigh Nelson principal at Composition Gallery, Sandra Comstock creator of Glyph Cafe Gallery specializing in literature, poetry and visual art and Petra Fortes-Schramm artist activist currently exhibiting at Surplus Space. Bring food to share, a cup, plate and utensils. Research Club Brunch #41 at Surplus Space 3726 NE 7th Noon - 2 Free



The French! No one would dispute they are masters at modern philosophy. And no one would dispute they desire to preserve their language, aggressively. Less known is their early passion of photography in the 1800's, preserved today.

That is the subject of a museum talk this afternoon.

Portland Art Museum curator of photography Julia Dolan opines on The Mirror with a Memory: 19th-Century French Photography from Daguerre to Atget.

At the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Free PAM members, $20 which includes Museum admission



Jovencio de la Paz and Crystal Baxley social practice artist share their thoughts tonight. It is part of the Yardwork series of back yard salons. Yardwork event http://www.facebook.com/events/297977257032463/ at 4067 NE Mallory 8:30PM



Part 4 of the S1 series might be tonight at 8:30PM, or maybe not. Check their FB later.

July 26 Riso Shine

The Riso Book: Portland
 is a purpose made book of artwork. It is made in 5 days. It will be finished and presented tonight. It is a project of Los Angeles, Marfa, San Francisco, New York and Portland.

Portland artists creating are Lisa Radon, Blair Saxon-Hill
, Bean Gilsdorf, Anna Gray/Ryan Paulsen and Modou Dieng.

Each has 20 pages, for a book of 100 pages, in an edition of 100, that drops tonight.

The history is interesting, you can learn about it at the event or on the link above.

At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 6PM-8 Free

July 25-27 DIY Performance

Conceptual Oregon Performance School, C.O.P.S, continues with part two. Friday evening is a BBQ, presentations by visiting performing artists, freeform discussion and socializing. It gets real all Saturday with people developing and testing work with the group. Sunday is preparing and presenting the documentation.

Visiting artists are Keith Boadwee, San Francisco Art Institute & California College of Art, San Francisco & Justin Lieberman, Yale, New York.

Conceptual Oregon Performance School www.facebook.com/conceptualoregon.performanceschool, instagram.com/conceptualorperformanceschool, vimeo.com/user28466870. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map

Friday 8PM-Midnight, Saturday Noon-Midnight, Sunday Noon-8 Free

July 24 Modern Vintage Life

Red Clouds Collective is a Portland crafter, notably in leather. They are mounting an art show, opening this evening, Byzantine Orgasm. The protagonist, and member of the collective, is photographer Jason Levins, operating out of NYC. He shoots, for want of a better word, hipsters, using vintage film cameras. He brands them into shows with catchy names and fonts. At the Red Clouds Collective www.redcloudscollective.com 1454 NE Prescott 6PM-10

July 23 Doing Pomes

S1 continues its film+discussion series, Lessons in Heterosexuality, with part 3: Doing the Act. Screenshadows is presented in collaboration with Arcadia Missa in London, who curated the films. The result of the project will be a book published by Publication Studio. The discussion is all you. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7:30PM Free



A vintage film of a poet whose poems became songs accompanied by a live musical score, as an art film. That's this.

Sayat-Nova was a poet and diplomat who made the mistake of falling in love with the king's sister. Those poets are so romantic! Banished, he roamed as a folk singer, became a monk and was killed by the invading Iranian army.

His poetry inspired an impressionistic film made in 1968, The Color of Pomegranates. www.archive.org/details/ColorOfPomegranates-SayatNova1968

Mr Sayat-Nova and his family lived in Syria, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. Time to take out the map. Part of that area was part of the Soviet Union until 1991, as was Ukraine. This is a chance to look at the culture of that area as imagined in the 1700's.

This evening a new score is presented to the film by Valet, Dreamboat (Golden Retriever + Ilyas Ahmed), and Spectrum Control (new band from Dewey of Plankton Wat).

It is part of the Fin de Cinema series. We have recommended these events without reservation. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $7

July 19 Empathy Shipping News Performance Works

Jordan Wayne Long completes a two week Portland residency with a performance this evening. He has been working on the Labrador, Portland's only gallery and studio afloat on the Willamette. Long is infamous for his 2011 performance curated by Patrick Rock at Fourteen30 Contemporary Gallery. He shipped himself by truck from Arkansas to Portland in a crate. Recommended. 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. 6PM, Performance 7 Free



In The Absence Of Empathy You Will Find Malevolence is a talk on their art projects by Nathanael Thayer Moss and Peter Fleming. How apropos where boys can find nothing better to do than play with guns and shoot down aeroplanes. Yardwork, the backyard Portland talks by artists suggests you bring a blanket to sit on, and refreshments if inclined. Yardwork at Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 8:30



[Modern] Dance is alive and well in Portland. New collaborative nodes, like Flock are blooming. Performance Works Northwest has been quietly operating off Foster since 2000. It is a live-work space home to rehearsals and performance. The creators have been consistently supportive of Portland artists and visiting artists. Tonight is also the third Saturday monthly Foster Art Night.

To celebrate, Performance Works Northwest opens their studio and yard to performers and you. It happens from 6PM-midnight. From 6:30 to 10 there will be performances including Linda Austin, Jin Camou, Douglas Detrick, Luke Gutgsell, Ben Kates, Noel Plemmons, Danielle Ross and Grace Hwang and video projections by Karl Lind, Julie Perini, Ben Glas, Chaz Stobbs III, Stephen Miller and Meg McHutchison. 10PM-midnight, a DJ.

FANfare at Performance Works Northwest www.pwnw-pdx.org 4625 SE 67th. 6PM-Midnight Free

July 18 A View of a Country

The United States is a vast place. It has space for individuals.

Photographers Jake Arcularius, Marshall Scheider and John Voves have traveled the spaces between individuals and photographed them.

The images represent a constellation overlaying our imagination of what America is today. What are their stories and what is our story?

You can see this show of photographs opening tonight. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free

July 16 No More Messiahs

A favorite book is The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin. His story is fascinating, beginning to end. In one segment he retraces the steps of George Schaller in Northern Africa, spending time with a nomadic goatherd family. They are resisting migration to the city as their way of life is outlawed. At the same time they are engaged and want to be engaged in the deepest way with fellow travelers. Some of the children have blue eyes.

Joni Kabana's day job is something like that. She is a photographer working for Mercy Corps. One project is working in Ethiopia, where she has photographed nomads, and photographed in the city.

She speaks on her experience today as part of the Portland Art Museum Photography Council monthly brown bag lunch. At the Portland Art Museum in the Miller Room of the Mark Building (Masonic Temple). It is to the right of the main entrance. 1219 SW Park Noon Free

July 15 The Failure of Image

Humans are infinitely more obsessive than beasts in seeking their own image. Mirrors go back to the beginning of recorded history. Elephants may go there, but you don't see dolphins making selfies.

It has been only about 200 years we have had photography. Jaclyn Hudak has been working to revive those early photographic processes, some of which are extremely toxic. She speaks about her experiences in a talk, Failure is Inevitable: The Unpopularity of Alternative Photography.

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

July 12 Guru Moon

Guru Purnima is celebrated the July full moon. For Hindus and Buddhists, it is a time to contemplate our teachers and their lineage. This evening Michael Stirling invites you to celebrate with evening vocal ragas. At Sungate Studio 2215 NE Alberta 9:30PM Free

July 10 Family West

Stephanie Coontz is a family culture researcher and professor at Evergreen College in Olympia. It is natural to reference the "good old days" in interpreting current change. The good old days are a mental model that is an anchor, ballast or keel. Coons had deconstructed commonly held models of the good old days, showing from original material that the "good old days" were just as chaotic, varied, innovative, even "immoral" as today. One of her books is the fascinating The Way We Never Were. This evening she speaks on the history of government intervention in family policy, gender identity and sexuality. Sponsored by Oregon Humanities at the Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan 6:30PM by donation



Beam and Anchor is a favorite local crafted store. They have an art show this evening imported from Montana, part of the other West. While we incorporate a fetish for trees, they have their own. See the art of Nicholas Coleman. At Beam & Anchor 2710 N Interstate 6PM-9 Free

July 9 Talk About It

Nee Multiplex, S1, occupies the interesting margins of art from a perch under a drug store. For their first show under the new name, they collaborate with Publication Studio and London's Arcadia Missa in a film and discussion series in parts. It is a four part series from their Screenshadows on sexuality and identity. Tonight is Lesson Two: Figuring out homosociality. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Handcock 7:30PM Free

July 8 Tempest You Get

Sara Greenberger Rafferty is an artist mixing visual work with performance inspired by comedy. Her latest performances are based on pop culture sampling, upon which we cast a jaundiced eye. She gave a more expansive view of her work at a PSU talk and is a PICA:TBA darling. Tonight you can see some of her visual work which maintains a higher and more pleasing remove from its societal sampling. 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

July 3 Westside Art Openings

Christine Clark is a sculptor, working large in base metals, often combined with natural materials, and a jeweler working small in fine metals. She has turned in many great works at the Nines Gallery. She is here this month with Amass, an installation of small resin units. The work started with the observation of varying scale of mountains, then trees, then groups of people; viewed at a distance, then closer as individuals. Clark has cast a field of individual shapes over 18 months, subtly colored with studio pigments stored for over 30 years. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Free



Off the inner NW paths well worn on First Thursday is an open studio by photographers Jim Lommasson, Stewart Harvey, Ben Z. Mund and Nuel Paguyo. Lommasson and Harvey are well known nationally, and add studio mates Ben and Nuel. At the Ideal Theater Photo Studio 2405 NW Thurman 5PM-9 Free



Elise Wagner is one of Portland's encaustic painters. For the last few years, she has made paintings inspired by science, in particular astronomy and high energy physics research. She has an opening tonight, and an artist talk Saturday, July 12, at 1PM. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor Free



We respect classic photography. Hartman Gallery does it, and adds a few contemporary, even local, photographers and painters. On the seventh anniversary of the gallery they mount a large group show spanning their stable. It is an opportunity to see the gallery aesthetic writ wide. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th Free



In an age of infinite reproduction, Archer makes repeat patterns of sampled elements of her photographs. Her new show is Brambles, which starts as a photograph in the foreground at the lower end of the image, and then devolves into a repeat pattern that seems like an accidental image processing error. It's not, it's thoughtful work. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free



Caldera student Ryan Heshka has graphic works inspired by comics and natural history. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free



Duplex has somewhat dark figurative work of the genre sometimes shown by Compound from Japanese artists. It is by Cathy Lu. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



Upfor has digital work by Katie Torn. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free



PNCA has a participatory installation by Jessie Hayward. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map Free



Hellion has Perfect Thirst, three female artists illustrating female figures. They are Makiko Sugawa, Mandy Tsung and Crystal Barbre. 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



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



Not gallery art but could be fun, Portland-based Stay Wild magazine drops at Snow Peak, 6PM-9 Free

July 1 Get Real or Get Faux

Artist Philip Guston died in 1980. He was a contemporary of Pollock, Rothko and Klein in New York. He rejected abstract expressionism and the moneyed gallery world in the late 1960's and turned to political illustration-style work. Many artists have done the same since 2008, and some are working in socially conscious social practice art today.

Musician Neal Morgan became excited about Guston's work and it illustrates one of his 12 inch recording jackets. Morgan gives a talk about the artist and the work tonight.

Details and background at www.facebook.com/events/1435028590099247/?ref=22

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



We don't like comedy. Not that it is all bad, mysoginistic, insulting and racist. But that it is too much work to find the good bits, the bits that move the world forward in a good way. Nonetheless, here is something that might be fun, PowerPoint Karaoke. Bri Pruett, Mike Merrill, Marcus Estes, Paul Schlesinger and Andrew Michaan have made PowerPoint decks on assigned somewhat ridiculous topics. Tonight they will be randomly given someone else's deck to present. You can see more about it on the Holocene website. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM Free

June 29 Brunch Without Hesitation

Research Club Brunch #40 has presenters Seth Peterson, Leif J. Lee, Jonathan Eric Gann and Erin Fussell. Bring some vegetarian or vegan-friendly food, a plate, cup and utensils, and yourself. Listen to engaging speakers. Chat with interesting people. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th Noon-2 Free

June 28: Surplus Sprocket Seed

Surplus Space is Gabe Flores' project post the Pioneer Place Place (Gallery). Tonight it's Manny Layers, Leif J. Lee, Jonathan Eric Gann performing as Roxxy Dazzles. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9plus Space 6PM-9 Free



Pink! Who can argue with that? Not the Sprockettes! The Sprockettes are a choreographed minibike performance. Started here, there instances now around the world. Friday June 27 they have a ride you can join. This afternoon they perform with many members back in town for their 10th anniversary reunion. at the Multnomah County Bike Fair sometime at 4. At Col. Summers Park SE 20th and Belmont. Free



Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Tonight is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios tonight. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be wheel chair accessible. 2127 N. Albina 4PM-10 Free

June 27-29 C.O.P.S.

C.O.P.S. is Patrick Rock's Conceptual Oregon Performance School. Performance artists meet aspiring performance artists meet audience artists, and all those categories are intermixed. Friday is a talk-meetup at the gallery, Saturday is a perform-discuss marathon. Sunday is document-debrief. The documentation will be on view in the gallery July 5-6. Visiting artists from San Francisco are Jennifer Locke, and Lucas Murgida. Details on the RocksBox website: www.rocksboxfineart.com/node/83, www.facebook.com/conceptualoregon.performanceschool, instagram.com/conceptualorperformanceschool, vimeo.com/user28466870

At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map

Friday 8PM-Midnight, Saturday Noon-Midnight, Sunday Noon-8 Free

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