Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads opens today at the Portland Art Museum. It is a work of 12 sculptures; each is an animal in the Chinese zodiac.
It is inspired by a similar set created as a fountain, with the water flow representing a clock, at the Summer Palace. The originals were looted by French and English troops at the end of the Second Opium War. The palace was burned.
Ai Weiwei is the leading political artist in China. He was imprisoned in 2011 for almost three months for his work and is prohibited from traveling outside the country today. The story of the original works, their cultural sensitivity, and Weiwei's interpretation is told in a video on the project website: www.zodiacheads.com.
Portland, the site at one time of the second largest Chinatown on the West Coast, is fortunate to be visited by the sculptures. It is a great opportunity to learn about the artist and his other works.
The show continues until September 23. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park. Regular Museum hours and admission
Daniel H. Wilson is a robotics engineer turned novelist on robot themes. He gives a talk this afternoon in Portland's tiniest public library on robot futures. Admission available 30 minutes in advance of the talk. multcolib.org/events/author-talk-daniel-h-wilson/43330 NW branch of the Multnomah County Library 2300 NW Thurman Talk 3 Free
Xhurch has a leisurely chill musical panorama today curated by Caitlin King with Betony Palm, Black Jaw, Brian Levin, Jai Milx, Joshua Convey, Numbskull, Procedural Sky, Thunderfoot, Very Rare Artifacts and Scott Mayoral. There is a BBQ potluck starting a little earlier and maybe running coincidently. Be gracious, the venue is in a residential neighborhood. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Music 5PM-10ish Free
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
May 22 Titled
Brian Kennon and Bobbi Woods present paintings & collage entitled Blowjob. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
May 19 Colour
Gamblin Artists Colors makes paints and mediums for artists. Their main products are oil paints, mineral pigments mixed with oil, ideally less toxic oil. Scott Gellatly from the company talks about the process and then how artists select a palette - a specific set of colors creating a theme or look for their paintings. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Sunday, May 17, 2015
May 17 Eyeing Dance
Modern dance, movement, performance, experimental, art goes in cycles in Portland. Just when you think it is dead, some cells in the petri dish start multiplying. One such creative life form is the Pure Surface monthly. It ia a collaboration between a dancer, a writer, and a videomaker. Pure Surface #16 today is Ajna Lichau, film; Endi Bogue Hartigan, text; Dawn Stoppiello, dance. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6:00PM, performance 7 sharp Free
Occasionally we dip into the modern dance worlds here. Dance can be arranged in lineages: studied with who studied with. I have always heard the name Yvonne Rainer spoken with reverence by modern dance friends. If you want to know what that is all about, you can see the film Feelings are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer. She is active today at age 80. Part of the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, with the director and producer presenting. Advance tickets at http://www.queerdocfest.org/film/feelings-facts-life-yvonne-rainer/. Film at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 4:30PM $11
Occasionally we dip into the modern dance worlds here. Dance can be arranged in lineages: studied with who studied with. I have always heard the name Yvonne Rainer spoken with reverence by modern dance friends. If you want to know what that is all about, you can see the film Feelings are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer. She is active today at age 80. Part of the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, with the director and producer presenting. Advance tickets at http://www.queerdocfest.org/film/feelings-facts-life-yvonne-rainer/. Film at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 4:30PM $11
Thursday, May 14, 2015
May 14 Game Kinfolk
Surplus Space does not shy experimental curation. We are not a fan of mass pop culture applied to art. Or gamification of everything. But that is the conceit tonight. Competitive spectator curation. http://opencall2015.tumblr.com/ At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 7:30 Free
Not art, but there is a talk on the Kinfolk phenomena by its founder Georgia Frances King. In the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30 Free
Not art, but there is a talk on the Kinfolk phenomena by its founder Georgia Frances King. In the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30 Free
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
May 13 Abstraction
Mary Henry (1913 - 2009), is known for bright geometric abstract paintings. Tonight a show of her work opens. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-8 Free
May 12 A Show About Nowhere
Recess presents A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere by Martine Syms. It is an experimental situational comedy two channel video work comenting on the representation of African Americans and their lives in television culture. Syms speaks tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 7PM Free
Saturday, May 09, 2015
May 11 Pandering
Portland has several art families. One is the Panders. Henk Pander is a grand painter. His sons are illustrators, graphic novelists and film makers. Some of their film work shows tonight. Not showing, but worth looking up is their early experimental film The Operation, they reprised it in a project shown at Disjecta. Tonight Selfless is a feature cyber-noir film on identity theft. Subtext is a short on relationships as mediated by text messages. Recommended. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 6:30PM $8
Thursday, May 07, 2015
May 9 Song in a Bottle
The World Is Not the Earth is a group show by James Castle, John O'Reilly, Blair Saxon-Hill, Austin Eddy and Timmy Straw. Tonight Timmy Straw performs, creating a great opportunity to see the show. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th. 7PM Free
Kyle Simon has The Catacombs, prints, paintings, ceramic sculptures, text and media. It is inspired by his fantasies of archaeoacoustics, sound stored in ancient pottery vessels. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina. Map 8PM-10
Kyle Simon has The Catacombs, prints, paintings, ceramic sculptures, text and media. It is inspired by his fantasies of archaeoacoustics, sound stored in ancient pottery vessels. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina. Map 8PM-10
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
May 8 Paint Grad
Tiffany Calvert, Reed professor and painter, references historical works. You can see www.facebook.com/events/896178483779776 at Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
Meanwhile next door Disjecta has a show of UO MFA graduates Farhad Bahram, Fei Chen, Matt Christy, Alex Krajkowski, Anne Magratten, Andrew Oslovar, Brandon Siscoe, Megan St. Clair, John Tolles and Jessie Rose Vala. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Meanwhile next door Disjecta has a show of UO MFA graduates Farhad Bahram, Fei Chen, Matt Christy, Alex Krajkowski, Anne Magratten, Andrew Oslovar, Brandon Siscoe, Megan St. Clair, John Tolles and Jessie Rose Vala. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
May 7 Westside Art Openings
The President is visiting disrupting traffic downtown, to and from, including the streetcar and the Max.
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery has a group show of select visual artists exhibited by PICA from 1995 to 2005. Artists include Francis Alÿs, Erika Blumenfeld, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Roland Brener, Tseng Kwong Chi, Nan Curtis, Harrell Fletcher, MK Guth, Carol Hepper, Jim Hodges, Ryoji Ikeda, Malia Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Dinh Q. Lê, Shirin Neshat, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Swallow Press (x2), Kate Shepherd, Valeska Soares, Robert Wilson, and Jin-me Yoon. PICA caught some early, some mid- and a few late; it launched a few successful careers too. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map. 6PM-9 Free
Sarah Horowitz is a printmaker. She has also been making one of a kind sumi ink works, including this series In the Pines. She has become one of Portland's experts on handmade Japanese papers, making the work on them. Recommended. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8
Nadia Sablin, presents From the Mountains and to the Sea. She was born in Leningrad, pre-the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and came to Ohio age 12 as the city was renamed St Petersburg. She returns to the extents of the former Soviet Union to photograph regularly. This work was made in Ukraine.
Scott Dalton has an impressionist photo essay Where the River Bends. It is set in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas; dual border towns.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Midori Hirose has The Joker is Wild. She is well known for kawaii-flavored installations. She also has a talk about the work and performance May 14, 7PM. Tonight it opens in the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite Littman Gallery, PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. 5PM-8 Free
Dana Lynn Louis is a sculptural installationist. Her work is organic, tending toward minimalism. She has a large gallery show here, opening tonight. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Duplex has Those Days Are Over by Jeremy Okai Davis inspired by found 1970s photographs. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Ben Buswell closes No One Above or Below. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
The Living With Glass show closes mid-month, so this is the last opportunity to see it for free. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8
Mitsuya Watanabe opens illustrations Immaculate Eve. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-9 Free
Around the city are graduating and in-progress MFA shows. That includes at the UO White Box - interdisciplinary program students Anya Dikareva, Summer Gray, Krista Heinitz, Steven Joshlin, Daniel P. Lopez, Sarah Mikenis, Stephen Nachtigall, Rachel Widomski. PSU Galleries have shows, some on a two week cycle. The joint PNCA-OCAC program has a show that went up last week. Mid-month, PDX and Upfor have shows. Disjecta opens one Friday.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Pam Minty video in the AB Lobby Gallery, PSU Art Building, 1st floor, 2000 SW 5th. 4PM - 7 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
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery has a group show of select visual artists exhibited by PICA from 1995 to 2005. Artists include Francis Alÿs, Erika Blumenfeld, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Roland Brener, Tseng Kwong Chi, Nan Curtis, Harrell Fletcher, MK Guth, Carol Hepper, Jim Hodges, Ryoji Ikeda, Malia Jensen, Anish Kapoor, Dinh Q. Lê, Shirin Neshat, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Swallow Press (x2), Kate Shepherd, Valeska Soares, Robert Wilson, and Jin-me Yoon. PICA caught some early, some mid- and a few late; it launched a few successful careers too. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map. 6PM-9 Free
Sarah Horowitz is a printmaker. She has also been making one of a kind sumi ink works, including this series In the Pines. She has become one of Portland's experts on handmade Japanese papers, making the work on them. Recommended. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8
Nadia Sablin, presents From the Mountains and to the Sea. She was born in Leningrad, pre-the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and came to Ohio age 12 as the city was renamed St Petersburg. She returns to the extents of the former Soviet Union to photograph regularly. This work was made in Ukraine.
Scott Dalton has an impressionist photo essay Where the River Bends. It is set in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas; dual border towns.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Midori Hirose has The Joker is Wild. She is well known for kawaii-flavored installations. She also has a talk about the work and performance May 14, 7PM. Tonight it opens in the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite Littman Gallery, PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. 5PM-8 Free
Dana Lynn Louis is a sculptural installationist. Her work is organic, tending toward minimalism. She has a large gallery show here, opening tonight. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Duplex has Those Days Are Over by Jeremy Okai Davis inspired by found 1970s photographs. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Ben Buswell closes No One Above or Below. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
The Living With Glass show closes mid-month, so this is the last opportunity to see it for free. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8
Mitsuya Watanabe opens illustrations Immaculate Eve. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-9 Free
Around the city are graduating and in-progress MFA shows. That includes at the UO White Box - interdisciplinary program students Anya Dikareva, Summer Gray, Krista Heinitz, Steven Joshlin, Daniel P. Lopez, Sarah Mikenis, Stephen Nachtigall, Rachel Widomski. PSU Galleries have shows, some on a two week cycle. The joint PNCA-OCAC program has a show that went up last week. Mid-month, PDX and Upfor have shows. Disjecta opens one Friday.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Pam Minty video in the AB Lobby Gallery, PSU Art Building, 1st floor, 2000 SW 5th. 4PM - 7 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 6 Direct Route By Past
Once upon a time, the Portland Art Museum awoke from a traditionalist art and meandering regionalism dream and created a contemporary art program. After a few successful years of the program, the Museum hired a new director who focused on impressionism, blockbuster pop shows and alienating progressive board members. So the contemporary art staff quit, going to SFMOMA and starting PICA.
PICA took a radical approach for the time, not taking government money. It was an insight, as the culture wars by conservative politicians soon dismantled peer-reviewed curation of adventurous contemporary art at the National Endowment of the Arts. In a common tactic, funding was reduced and shifted to block grants to the states.
PICA was supported by creative technologists, creative agencies and creative individuals. It was a gathering place. Unfortunatley it is not today what it was. But they do throw a good party later in the month.
Tonight the original founder of PICA, Christy Edmunds, now performance curator at UCLA speaks. She is joined by some early PICA players, Kristan Kennedy and Topher Sinkinson. Kennedy is PICA's current visual arts curator.
The event accompanies a show at the gallery by artists PICA showed in the day.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM Free
Pam Minty speaks about her video work Direct Route tonight. Minty is known for her landscape documentary about the little-populated lower right hand quarter of Oregon. With Direct Route, she adds more characters and narrative: "Direct Route observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, alongside landscapes and recollections prior to losing her vision. Through conversations and word puzzles with her daughter, a story emerges about the relationship between memory, sense of direction, and the texture of experience".
The 45 minute work runs in the AB Lobby Gallery for the next 2 weeks. There will be a reception for the work there, Thursday from 4PM-7
Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7PM Free
PICA took a radical approach for the time, not taking government money. It was an insight, as the culture wars by conservative politicians soon dismantled peer-reviewed curation of adventurous contemporary art at the National Endowment of the Arts. In a common tactic, funding was reduced and shifted to block grants to the states.
PICA was supported by creative technologists, creative agencies and creative individuals. It was a gathering place. Unfortunatley it is not today what it was. But they do throw a good party later in the month.
Tonight the original founder of PICA, Christy Edmunds, now performance curator at UCLA speaks. She is joined by some early PICA players, Kristan Kennedy and Topher Sinkinson. Kennedy is PICA's current visual arts curator.
The event accompanies a show at the gallery by artists PICA showed in the day.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM Free
Pam Minty speaks about her video work Direct Route tonight. Minty is known for her landscape documentary about the little-populated lower right hand quarter of Oregon. With Direct Route, she adds more characters and narrative: "Direct Route observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, alongside landscapes and recollections prior to losing her vision. Through conversations and word puzzles with her daughter, a story emerges about the relationship between memory, sense of direction, and the texture of experience".
The 45 minute work runs in the AB Lobby Gallery for the next 2 weeks. There will be a reception for the work there, Thursday from 4PM-7
Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7PM Free
Monday, May 04, 2015
May 5 Calm Out
Calm technology. We need more and we will have more.
Each day we focus on our screens to command and demand the Internet to do our bidding. Sometimes we lean back to consume entertainment. Other times we are alerted, called to a decision, to engage the machine, a message, or an individual interaction.
For a long time our brain and senses have engaged in subliminal monitoring of our surroundings. The sounds, vibration, peripheral vision, more.
Calm technology is an experimental design field to build mobile device, home and workplace interfaces that engage those subliminal capabilities. It is an extension of the work by Mark Weiser at Xerox PARC in the 1990's. Michael Rose at MIT is a proponent.
Amber Case is writing a book about Calm Technology. She provides a peek into the topic for you tonight. She has a website calmtechnology.com as an introduction. Recommended.
A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Each day we focus on our screens to command and demand the Internet to do our bidding. Sometimes we lean back to consume entertainment. Other times we are alerted, called to a decision, to engage the machine, a message, or an individual interaction.
For a long time our brain and senses have engaged in subliminal monitoring of our surroundings. The sounds, vibration, peripheral vision, more.
Calm technology is an experimental design field to build mobile device, home and workplace interfaces that engage those subliminal capabilities. It is an extension of the work by Mark Weiser at Xerox PARC in the 1990's. Michael Rose at MIT is a proponent.
Amber Case is writing a book about Calm Technology. She provides a peek into the topic for you tonight. She has a website calmtechnology.com as an introduction. Recommended.
A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Friday, May 01, 2015
May 1 Eastside Art Openings
Tonight the epicenter is the 811 Building. There is a fashion dimension, and an art dimension; you can't go wrong with neither. In the realm of fashion: Liza Rietz, Fortress of Inca Shoes, BOET, 6/7 and Holly Stalder + Kate Towers at HAUNT. Holly and Kate were the Portland indy fashion originators with their shop Seaplane. For art, Black Box upstairs and Redux represent. Recommended!
All at 811 East Burnside Map 7PM-9ish
Old Portland Hardware has vast digs in the old Portland bakery building. They have been reving up their art program with first Friday events. I'm especially interested in this one, Old Portland Hardware is taking names in their curation with this show.
History is written by the winners, and its record, beyond a generation, is preserved by moneyed institutions.
James Wasson's negatives were uncovered in a family trunk. He is an African American who served as a Buffalo Soldier in WWI, and a photographer of the African American experience in Portland before Vanport, I5 and the Colosseum deconstructed the community. The Buffalo Soldiers were a segregated African American Army unit.
See it, seriously. #BlackLives Matter
James Wasson at Old Portland Hardware www.oldportlandhardware.com/events 700 NE 22nd 6PM-9 Free
The Sumi Ink Club has visited Portland and they are back! Founded by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck in LA about 10 years ago, it is an open source participatory drawing experience. Arrive, leave any time and brush around some ink however you want with everyone. Their motto is "all ages, all humans, all styles." At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 6PM-8 Free
Australia - New York City artist Craig Redman presents Third Parties. Your ISP would love to sell a record of every URL you visit; your smartphone carrier, the same. Every browser, every search provider, every app, every software instance implemented in the cloud. They do, want to, will sell you.
If the service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
That is the focus of this show. Privacy in our interwebs age. Hopefully more artists will bring the topic to the fore. By the way, the Electronic Privacy Information Center - search for them - does great work on this.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Ethnographic photography is a sticky wicket. It is subject to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle maxim that you cannot measure something without disturbing it. A corollary is that we each, individually and in our tools, bring observational bias.
Photographer Scott Dalton has more practice than most with the issue. He spent many years in Central America photographing the proxy struggles between communism and capitalism, between profit and destruction, between human values and exploitation, between fear and hope.
After he moved to Houston, Texas. It's sprawling enough to be diverse, and the energy industry there generates 1%-level wealth. His neighborhood is modest and he has imaged it with a 4x5. Some of his work is at Blue Sky this month too. Recommended. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Eutectic continues with some new artists in the back gallery. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Near 811/One Grand, the PNCA+OCAC MFA Applied Craft + Design students, at the end of year one of two, show their stuff. These shows are worth seeing and individual artist visions range widely. But I always find something challenging in a good way to experience. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map 7PM-9ish
Old Portland Hardware has vast digs in the old Portland bakery building. They have been reving up their art program with first Friday events. I'm especially interested in this one, Old Portland Hardware is taking names in their curation with this show.
History is written by the winners, and its record, beyond a generation, is preserved by moneyed institutions.
James Wasson's negatives were uncovered in a family trunk. He is an African American who served as a Buffalo Soldier in WWI, and a photographer of the African American experience in Portland before Vanport, I5 and the Colosseum deconstructed the community. The Buffalo Soldiers were a segregated African American Army unit.
See it, seriously. #BlackLives Matter
James Wasson at Old Portland Hardware www.oldportlandhardware.com/events 700 NE 22nd 6PM-9 Free
The Sumi Ink Club has visited Portland and they are back! Founded by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck in LA about 10 years ago, it is an open source participatory drawing experience. Arrive, leave any time and brush around some ink however you want with everyone. Their motto is "all ages, all humans, all styles." At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 6PM-8 Free
Australia - New York City artist Craig Redman presents Third Parties. Your ISP would love to sell a record of every URL you visit; your smartphone carrier, the same. Every browser, every search provider, every app, every software instance implemented in the cloud. They do, want to, will sell you.
If the service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
That is the focus of this show. Privacy in our interwebs age. Hopefully more artists will bring the topic to the fore. By the way, the Electronic Privacy Information Center - search for them - does great work on this.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Ethnographic photography is a sticky wicket. It is subject to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle maxim that you cannot measure something without disturbing it. A corollary is that we each, individually and in our tools, bring observational bias.
Photographer Scott Dalton has more practice than most with the issue. He spent many years in Central America photographing the proxy struggles between communism and capitalism, between profit and destruction, between human values and exploitation, between fear and hope.
After he moved to Houston, Texas. It's sprawling enough to be diverse, and the energy industry there generates 1%-level wealth. His neighborhood is modest and he has imaged it with a 4x5. Some of his work is at Blue Sky this month too. Recommended. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Eutectic continues with some new artists in the back gallery. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Near 811/One Grand, the PNCA+OCAC MFA Applied Craft + Design students, at the end of year one of two, show their stuff. These shows are worth seeing and individual artist visions range widely. But I always find something challenging in a good way to experience. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
Friday, April 24, 2015
April 26 Laraaji Six
The dislocations, triumphs, tragedy, increased travel and communication of the early the 20th Century birthed many artistic innovations, continuing to today, and tomorrow. One was musique concrète, leading to expanded definitions of music, and music made by layered studio processes in expanded non-linear time, pioneered by Les Paul.
That lead to minimalism by Terry Riley. Brian Eno named ambient music, gathering all those tributaries.
A notable experimental musician in that realm is Laraaji, Edward Larry Gordon. Laraaji, like Riley, became interested in Eastern mysticism which influenced his electronically processed acoustic music. Brian Eno found him playing in a park and produced his breakthrough recording, Day of Radiance in 1980.
Laraaji presents a rare special performance tonight, preceded by Eternal Tapestry and Lyrels. Laraaji will also be at Xhurch Monday. www.facebook.com/events/1556584107927101 Seminal electroacoustic music. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 8PM $10
Six is eight. Yes, eighth year of an evening of electronic music composed and performed for six channels. It is a free form experience over hours, come, go, move around. Bring your blanket and a pillow to relax into the music with the audience on the floor in the center of six speakers. The musicians this year are Solenoid, Burke Jam, Reliqs, Christi Denton, No Parades and Jatun + Mike Jedlicka. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-10 Free
That lead to minimalism by Terry Riley. Brian Eno named ambient music, gathering all those tributaries.
A notable experimental musician in that realm is Laraaji, Edward Larry Gordon. Laraaji, like Riley, became interested in Eastern mysticism which influenced his electronically processed acoustic music. Brian Eno found him playing in a park and produced his breakthrough recording, Day of Radiance in 1980.
Laraaji presents a rare special performance tonight, preceded by Eternal Tapestry and Lyrels. Laraaji will also be at Xhurch Monday. www.facebook.com/events/1556584107927101 Seminal electroacoustic music. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 8PM $10
Six is eight. Yes, eighth year of an evening of electronic music composed and performed for six channels. It is a free form experience over hours, come, go, move around. Bring your blanket and a pillow to relax into the music with the audience on the floor in the center of six speakers. The musicians this year are Solenoid, Burke Jam, Reliqs, Christi Denton, No Parades and Jatun + Mike Jedlicka. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-10 Free
April 25 Over and Back Sum Meat Vibrations Are In No Great Hurry
Over and Back, abstractly themed on a basketball rule, is a group show by Terry Boyd, Carolyn Castaño, Amanda Leigh Evans, Greg Hayes and Hand2Mouth Theater. There is a talk by the artists at 11AM at Likewise. The show itself is in the evening at Surplus Space.
Over and Back overandback2015.wordpress.com at Likewise www.likewise.website 3564 SE Hawthorne 11AM Free
And at Surplus Space www.surplusspace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-10 Free
Conversations with Artists for the Sum of Its Parts show continues this afternoon with sculptor Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Damien Gilley presents a one night installation and releases a book, Vibrations. Gilley is known for mathematically-driven large scale architectural graphics. You may have seen at Little Big Burger. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
HQHQ complete a three week residency, The Chicken and the Hog, by John Knight. The project is based on the measurements reported on the weight and value of pigs slaughtered for food. Pigs are smart and they can uncurl their tails. Between elephants, whales, dolphins on through food fish, cows, chickens and shellfish, all of which we delight in ending, they are probably far above the median in the great chain of being. Knight based his work on the National Daily Base Lean Hog Carcass Slaughter Cost reported by the United States Department of Agriculture. The description on the HQHQ website is much more surreal. Tonight is the closing reception. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
In no Great Hurry - 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter is a documentary interview with the photographer-painter artist. Leiter worked as a fashion photographer. He also made contributions to street photography in the art world. The world only became aware of his paintings late in his life. He passed in 2013. The Ampersand website has a more eloquent description of his work and the film, sure to be poignant. What is sad is that respect has come posthumously, fully exploited by the art-making machinery. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7:30 Free
Over and Back overandback2015.wordpress.com at Likewise www.likewise.website 3564 SE Hawthorne 11AM Free
And at Surplus Space www.surplusspace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-10 Free
Conversations with Artists for the Sum of Its Parts show continues this afternoon with sculptor Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Damien Gilley presents a one night installation and releases a book, Vibrations. Gilley is known for mathematically-driven large scale architectural graphics. You may have seen at Little Big Burger. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
HQHQ complete a three week residency, The Chicken and the Hog, by John Knight. The project is based on the measurements reported on the weight and value of pigs slaughtered for food. Pigs are smart and they can uncurl their tails. Between elephants, whales, dolphins on through food fish, cows, chickens and shellfish, all of which we delight in ending, they are probably far above the median in the great chain of being. Knight based his work on the National Daily Base Lean Hog Carcass Slaughter Cost reported by the United States Department of Agriculture. The description on the HQHQ website is much more surreal. Tonight is the closing reception. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
In no Great Hurry - 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter is a documentary interview with the photographer-painter artist. Leiter worked as a fashion photographer. He also made contributions to street photography in the art world. The world only became aware of his paintings late in his life. He passed in 2013. The Ampersand website has a more eloquent description of his work and the film, sure to be poignant. What is sad is that respect has come posthumously, fully exploited by the art-making machinery. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7:30 Free
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
April 24 Wut The Yes Man
Composition Gallery does good things. When they do something first Thursday in the Everett Lofts, we don’t list it - up to you to explore and find!
They do venture out in the world and an example is their wut guise project. It’s a mix of movement, video, clothing design, visual art and gender exploration. They present it in the Gallery Homeland space in the Ford Building.
They close the event tonight with a talk by Lief J Lee - Fabric: a contemporary queer resistance.
At the Composition Gallery compositioncomposition.com at Gallery Homeland in the Ford Building, SE 11th and SE Division. 4PM-5 Free
The Yes Men are children of Adbusters, related to earlier Cacaphony Society, Fluxus and Dada artistic and culture jamming movements. Igor Vamos AKA Mike Bonanno, cofounder, began his culture jamming at Reed. He is famous for his reverse peristalsis political protest in which participants ate mashed potatoes colored with food coloring to vomit red white and blue; for his Barbie Liberation Front, exchanging talking Barbie and GI Joe voice boxes, then reverse shoplifting them into stores; and for changing the signs on Front Avenue, subsequently named Naito Drive, to read Malcolm X Street, amidst the public debate over renaming Union Avenue Martin Luther King Blvd.
With Jacques Servin AKA Andy Bichlbaum, the Yes Men continued on a grander scale, exploiting the public relations, press and media machine to announce ironic faux news with an aspiration towards how the world could be if corporate persons practiced the values of real persons.
They have had many spectacular successes, captured in documentaries and online video.
Igor is also a cofounder of RTmark, using a corporate share model to fund art projects. That has been carried forth to the Yes Lab.
Igor Mike Vamos Bonanno speaks today as part of the PSU Art + Design lecture series. In the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7PM Free
They do venture out in the world and an example is their wut guise project. It’s a mix of movement, video, clothing design, visual art and gender exploration. They present it in the Gallery Homeland space in the Ford Building.
They close the event tonight with a talk by Lief J Lee - Fabric: a contemporary queer resistance.
At the Composition Gallery compositioncomposition.com at Gallery Homeland in the Ford Building, SE 11th and SE Division. 4PM-5 Free
The Yes Men are children of Adbusters, related to earlier Cacaphony Society, Fluxus and Dada artistic and culture jamming movements. Igor Vamos AKA Mike Bonanno, cofounder, began his culture jamming at Reed. He is famous for his reverse peristalsis political protest in which participants ate mashed potatoes colored with food coloring to vomit red white and blue; for his Barbie Liberation Front, exchanging talking Barbie and GI Joe voice boxes, then reverse shoplifting them into stores; and for changing the signs on Front Avenue, subsequently named Naito Drive, to read Malcolm X Street, amidst the public debate over renaming Union Avenue Martin Luther King Blvd.
With Jacques Servin AKA Andy Bichlbaum, the Yes Men continued on a grander scale, exploiting the public relations, press and media machine to announce ironic faux news with an aspiration towards how the world could be if corporate persons practiced the values of real persons.
They have had many spectacular successes, captured in documentaries and online video.
Igor is also a cofounder of RTmark, using a corporate share model to fund art projects. That has been carried forth to the Yes Lab.
Igor Mike Vamos Bonanno speaks today as part of the PSU Art + Design lecture series. In the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7PM Free
April 23 See the Sights
Photolucida is one of those world class Portland things. Tonight is the public portfolio review.
Photographers apply and are selected. Their portfolios are reviewed by curators, photo editors and art directors. The public is welcome too. It is an opportunity to see a lot of photography. Good photography.
The Photolucida Portfolio Walk at the Portland Art Museum Fields Ballroom in the Masonic Temple Building 1219 SW Park 6PM-9 Free
Photographers apply and are selected. Their portfolios are reviewed by curators, photo editors and art directors. The public is welcome too. It is an opportunity to see a lot of photography. Good photography.
The Photolucida Portfolio Walk at the Portland Art Museum Fields Ballroom in the Masonic Temple Building 1219 SW Park 6PM-9 Free
April 22 Fail!
Failure. It's a thing. For all the aversion to risk in business today, it is refreshing when agencies talk "fail harder", early failure and iteration is mainstream in design, and books by Henry Petroski are taught in engineering school.
Narrative is a human tool forming culture. Our brains work for it. So narrative is a fine format to explore failure.
Tonight Fredrik Averin (Razorfish ), Scott Erickson (Artist), Eric Corey Freed (International Living Future Institute ), Hunter Marshall (Liquid Agency ), Gabe Paez (WILD ), Mark Shapiro (Laika) and Kjell van Zoen (Plywerk) tell stories of failure on stage, no net. Design story hour a'la Moth.
It is a story hour presented by virtual museum, the Portland Design Museum. www.designmuseumfoundation.org/portland/blog/2015/03/23/story-hour-design-fail/ Advance registration required. At the Village Ballroom 700 NE Dekum Street 6:30PM Free
Narrative is a human tool forming culture. Our brains work for it. So narrative is a fine format to explore failure.
Tonight Fredrik Averin (Razorfish ), Scott Erickson (Artist), Eric Corey Freed (International Living Future Institute ), Hunter Marshall (Liquid Agency ), Gabe Paez (WILD ), Mark Shapiro (Laika) and Kjell van Zoen (Plywerk) tell stories of failure on stage, no net. Design story hour a'la Moth.
It is a story hour presented by virtual museum, the Portland Design Museum. www.designmuseumfoundation.org/portland/blog/2015/03/23/story-hour-design-fail/ Advance registration required. At the Village Ballroom 700 NE Dekum Street 6:30PM Free
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
April 21 Trust No Word
That is the thesis of Gus Nicklos. He speaks about typography and visual language underlying words in print and on screen, tonight. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Sunday, April 19, 2015
April 19 Forbidden Pure ESP
Pure Surface, a collaborative performance of a moving image maker, a dance performer and a writer, monthly, instantiates tonight, #15. It is Simon Boas, film; Jin Camou, dance and Robert Duncan Gray, text. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6:00PM, performance 7 sharp Free
ESP TV is an online property, the future, as dinosaur broadcast networks lemming to oblivion. They travel the country, making a show before a live audience, like you. In Portland. Tonight.
Marcus Estes, Hits, MSHR, Ashby Lee Collinson and Goodwin are hosted by Matt Carlson, with videos by Sabrina Ratté, Peter Burr, Jeremy Rotsztain and Jeremy Couillard. (I have to say that TV, video, taping, filmmaker and broadcast are words in my writing here that are under review) More details at https://www.facebook.com/events/1561498604104964/. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 8PM-11
We would be remiss to not mention a showing today of a favorite (of many) film, Forbidden Planet. A 1956 science fiction film, it combines a thoughtful narrative with old school gender tropes, charming in a way for their datedness. It is an interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the prototype for the Star Trek series. Distress call, arrive at planet, seems charming, danger, gets more complicated, resolved, leave, happy, but thought-provoking ending.
In this case, the complicated is the challenge we face as we engage more machine systems and AI in our lives.
It is the first with an all electronic soundtrack, includes backgrounds by Disney animators, the ultimate straight man, Robby the Robot, and monsters from the id.
The film shows on the OMSI bigger than big screen as part of their science fiction series. At the OMSI Empirical Theater www.omsi.edu 1945 SE Water Noon $7
ESP TV is an online property, the future, as dinosaur broadcast networks lemming to oblivion. They travel the country, making a show before a live audience, like you. In Portland. Tonight.
Marcus Estes, Hits, MSHR, Ashby Lee Collinson and Goodwin are hosted by Matt Carlson, with videos by Sabrina Ratté, Peter Burr, Jeremy Rotsztain and Jeremy Couillard. (I have to say that TV, video, taping, filmmaker and broadcast are words in my writing here that are under review) More details at https://www.facebook.com/events/1561498604104964/. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 8PM-11
We would be remiss to not mention a showing today of a favorite (of many) film, Forbidden Planet. A 1956 science fiction film, it combines a thoughtful narrative with old school gender tropes, charming in a way for their datedness. It is an interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the prototype for the Star Trek series. Distress call, arrive at planet, seems charming, danger, gets more complicated, resolved, leave, happy, but thought-provoking ending.
In this case, the complicated is the challenge we face as we engage more machine systems and AI in our lives.
It is the first with an all electronic soundtrack, includes backgrounds by Disney animators, the ultimate straight man, Robby the Robot, and monsters from the id.
The film shows on the OMSI bigger than big screen as part of their science fiction series. At the OMSI Empirical Theater www.omsi.edu 1945 SE Water Noon $7
Friday, April 17, 2015
April 18 Sum Bodies World Is Not a New York Box
Conversations with Artists for the Sum of Its Parts show continues this afternoon with Ben Buswell & Sean Healy, represented by Upfor and Elizabeth Leach Galleries respectively. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Melanie Flood Projects continues hosting artist Justin James Reed with his Shining Bodies Project. This instance is an installation at S1 for one night. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-9
The World Is Not the Earth show opens today with James Castle, Austin Eddy, John O'Reilly, Blair Saxon-Hill and Timmy Straw. Stroll in the afternoon, audience a performance by Timmy Straw in the evening. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th Show 3PM-6, Performance 7 Free
The Mark Woolley gallery guests New York artists, some from Portland. They are Noah Rice, Nathan Rice, Patrick Arias, David Hanlon and Kyle Rudd. 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
People's Art of Portland has Outside the Box, 3D art. They are adjacent to Woolley and open the same hours. Free
Melanie Flood Projects continues hosting artist Justin James Reed with his Shining Bodies Project. This instance is an installation at S1 for one night. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-9
The World Is Not the Earth show opens today with James Castle, Austin Eddy, John O'Reilly, Blair Saxon-Hill and Timmy Straw. Stroll in the afternoon, audience a performance by Timmy Straw in the evening. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th Show 3PM-6, Performance 7 Free
The Mark Woolley gallery guests New York artists, some from Portland. They are Noah Rice, Nathan Rice, Patrick Arias, David Hanlon and Kyle Rudd. 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
People's Art of Portland has Outside the Box, 3D art. They are adjacent to Woolley and open the same hours. Free
April 7 Blair Shining House
Blair Saxon-Hill has a new show opening tonight. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Justin James Reed opens Shining Bodies, tonight with an installation tomorrow at S1. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8
Tending Home ends tonight with artist talks. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 7PM
Justin James Reed opens Shining Bodies, tonight with an installation tomorrow at S1. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8
Tending Home ends tonight with artist talks. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 7PM
Saturday, April 11, 2015
April 11 Music Conversation
Ben Buswell & Sean Healy are artists in the Sum of the Parts show. They speak about their works and art-making today. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Xperimental advanced listening music presenters Xhurch have Water Diego, Abronia and Electro-Kraken. At an intimate home church. Early arrive, speak outside quietly, park conveyances politely. Do not bring down the venue for neighbor dissatisfaction over noise. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 8PM Donation would be nice.
Xperimental advanced listening music presenters Xhurch have Water Diego, Abronia and Electro-Kraken. At an intimate home church. Early arrive, speak outside quietly, park conveyances politely. Do not bring down the venue for neighbor dissatisfaction over noise. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 8PM Donation would be nice.
Friday, April 03, 2015
April 3 Eastside Art Openings
Isn't taxidermy disturbing? Yes. There are a few artists who use it as an art ingredient. Loved to Death is a show of taxidermy and taxidermy-themed art by Brooke Weston. At the Splendorporium and Art4Life Children's Gallery 3421 SE 21st 5PM-7 Free
Eutectic has Fluid by Bobby Silverman and Peter Christian Johnson. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Natural Selections are constructed landscapes by Teresa Christiansen. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Portland photographer Jake Shivery has Contact, photographs spanning a career. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Illustrator Jessie Fox-Nystrom has beauty-beast relations works and What-if hybrid creatures. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Taking Pictures is a varied group show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Eutectic has Fluid by Bobby Silverman and Peter Christian Johnson. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Natural Selections are constructed landscapes by Teresa Christiansen. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Portland photographer Jake Shivery has Contact, photographs spanning a career. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Illustrator Jessie Fox-Nystrom has beauty-beast relations works and What-if hybrid creatures. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Taking Pictures is a varied group show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, April 02, 2015
April 2 Westside Art Openings
Susan Seubert presents The Fallacy of Hindsight. The photographer is known for minimal idea-driven work, often in classical photographic processes. The show is in parts: 100 Memories are 100 images made over 25 years of the artist's photographic life. High Arctic Fast Ice images arctic Svalbard as global warming breaks vast ice fields into units, melting. Twinka Entwined is an image of the famous photographic model and writer, now 70, living in Portland. Recommended. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8
Photographer, writer, mover Intisar Abioto presents Contents. She has gathered the images and stories of people she meets. She views storytelling as a spiritual experience. You can get a sense from this video from Portland Creative Mornings. Highly recommended. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
On African Time is a show of photography made in East Africa by Christopher Rauschenberg. David Hilliard has photographs, Our Nature. Having spent a little time in East Africa, I recommend. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Colleen Plumb has Animals Are Outside Today, a meditation on the relationship of humans and animals, it could improve, though we rarely think about it. It accompanies a stunning video work Thirty Times a Minute.
It documents a display of mental illness in elephants only found in captivity. It manifests as rhythmic walking, pacing, rocking or trunk motion. Our human treatment of these animals in almost every case, poaching, breaking family units for relocation, zoos and circuses is a crime.
Natural Findings is a show Cheryle St. Onge, selected by the very competitive Photolucida Critical Mass award.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Hide In My Brain is illustration work by Hideyuki Katsumata. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
Deviant Cartography is a project by Doug McCune. He uses public data to make creative maps of crime and disaster. Burglaries, prostitution, murder, natural disasters, more. At Diode Gallery for Electronic Art www.diodegallery.com 514 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Grove is a group show themed on the wild nature around us. At Pond Gallery http://pondpdx.com/ 920 West Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Adams and Ollman, UofO White Box, Upfor and PNCA continue fine exhibitions from last month.
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
Photographer, writer, mover Intisar Abioto presents Contents. She has gathered the images and stories of people she meets. She views storytelling as a spiritual experience. You can get a sense from this video from Portland Creative Mornings. Highly recommended. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
On African Time is a show of photography made in East Africa by Christopher Rauschenberg. David Hilliard has photographs, Our Nature. Having spent a little time in East Africa, I recommend. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Colleen Plumb has Animals Are Outside Today, a meditation on the relationship of humans and animals, it could improve, though we rarely think about it. It accompanies a stunning video work Thirty Times a Minute.
It documents a display of mental illness in elephants only found in captivity. It manifests as rhythmic walking, pacing, rocking or trunk motion. Our human treatment of these animals in almost every case, poaching, breaking family units for relocation, zoos and circuses is a crime.
Natural Findings is a show Cheryle St. Onge, selected by the very competitive Photolucida Critical Mass award.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Hide In My Brain is illustration work by Hideyuki Katsumata. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
Deviant Cartography is a project by Doug McCune. He uses public data to make creative maps of crime and disaster. Burglaries, prostitution, murder, natural disasters, more. At Diode Gallery for Electronic Art www.diodegallery.com 514 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Grove is a group show themed on the wild nature around us. At Pond Gallery http://pondpdx.com/ 920 West Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Adams and Ollman, UofO White Box, Upfor and PNCA continue fine exhibitions from last month.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
April 1 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The tech world was shocked when Facebook acquired Kickstarter Oculus at 20X cash in for $2 billion. That has activated experimentation and innovation in virtual reality glasses, stereoscopic video displays that shut out a view of the real world around. It is only the last few years that it has been possible to recompute the stereo view of a scene in real time to conform to head movement. It is yet imperfect, with scene lag and motion sickness, dependent on the scene, viewer, and time in experience. It is anticipated they will be big in gaming. But as simulation develops, they will become commonplace, after overcoming the geeky valley.
The original Oculus Rift used a single display about 3 by 6 inches, viewed in halves by each eye through focal length-correcting lenses. Rival Google has distributed plans for a cardboard frame, Google Cardboard, which can hold a mobile phone to provide the same functionality.
Local creative concern Instrument has invited artists and designers to decorate these cardboard frames with images inspired by dreams. The frames will be sold as a benefit for the P:ear Mentor program.
The artists are Bakers Son, Jon Contino, Hannah Chloe Lee, Tron 444, Olivia Obritz, Whoopi, Audrey Davis, Craig Wheat, Gavin Potenza, Cameron Stewart, Osmose, David Wien, Kiriko, Kristin Reiter, Natalie Woo, Adam R Garcia, Hoang Nguyen, Jarrett Reynolds, Tina Le, Amy Ruppel, Toby Grubb, Kelly Purkey, Justin Morris, Anh Nguyen, Jason Sturgill and Aaron Rayburn.
One night only, with online sales beginning tomorrow. Dreams Incarnated www.dreamsincarnated.com by Instrument www.instrument.com at 2319 NE Glisan 6PM-9 Free
The original Oculus Rift used a single display about 3 by 6 inches, viewed in halves by each eye through focal length-correcting lenses. Rival Google has distributed plans for a cardboard frame, Google Cardboard, which can hold a mobile phone to provide the same functionality.
Local creative concern Instrument has invited artists and designers to decorate these cardboard frames with images inspired by dreams. The frames will be sold as a benefit for the P:ear Mentor program.
The artists are Bakers Son, Jon Contino, Hannah Chloe Lee, Tron 444, Olivia Obritz, Whoopi, Audrey Davis, Craig Wheat, Gavin Potenza, Cameron Stewart, Osmose, David Wien, Kiriko, Kristin Reiter, Natalie Woo, Adam R Garcia, Hoang Nguyen, Jarrett Reynolds, Tina Le, Amy Ruppel, Toby Grubb, Kelly Purkey, Justin Morris, Anh Nguyen, Jason Sturgill and Aaron Rayburn.
One night only, with online sales beginning tomorrow. Dreams Incarnated www.dreamsincarnated.com by Instrument www.instrument.com at 2319 NE Glisan 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
March 31 At Home in the Body
Janine Antoni is an artist working in sculpture with her body. In Slumber she wove the patterns of her dreamtime brainwaves into a blanket in the museum where she slept over weeks. There is more, including being selected for a MacArthur. She speaks tonight and two of her photographs are in a group show at the Cooley Gallery, open prior to he lecture. In Kaul Hall at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7PM Free
Thursday, March 26, 2015
March 28 Nude Caldera Surplus
Ampersand is primarily a bookstore, ephemera, second, and finally, original artworks. They do a fine job at all. April is Portland Photo Month and Ampersand launches it with probably the most visually interesting show of the Portland litter.
Saul Leiter was a NY photographer who made his living as a fashion photographer. He made excellent and respected fine art photography, particularly color street photography which was recognized by the art world later in his life. He passed away in 2013. His vast oeuvre is being cataloged at his East Village apartment of 60 years by the estate. Now new works are becoming known.
Leiter made rough outsider-style colorist paintings. Some of that work is collected by the Hundertwasser Museum, outsider outpost.
Ampersand had an opportunity to visit Leiter's apartment packed with a lifetime of art-making. This is the result, a previously private body of work numbering hundreds.
On occasion of the publication of a new book, Ampersand brings some Leiter original Painted Nudes. Leiter painted over his prints in his painting style with gouache and other pigments in bright rough strokes, leaving some photograph visible. Most are relatively small works in today's era of massive digital prints.
This is a bold move by the gallery. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free
Tending Home is a show by Emily Wobb, Jesse Siegel, Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Buzzy Napoli, Lauren Bennett, and Michelle Latourette Wood. There is an artist talk April 17 too. Opening at Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Caldera opens its studios to see the work of artists in residence Diana Arterian, Kyle Browne, Stephanie Del Rosso, Mandy Greer, Horatio Law, and Folawale. 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
Saul Leiter was a NY photographer who made his living as a fashion photographer. He made excellent and respected fine art photography, particularly color street photography which was recognized by the art world later in his life. He passed away in 2013. His vast oeuvre is being cataloged at his East Village apartment of 60 years by the estate. Now new works are becoming known.
Leiter made rough outsider-style colorist paintings. Some of that work is collected by the Hundertwasser Museum, outsider outpost.
Ampersand had an opportunity to visit Leiter's apartment packed with a lifetime of art-making. This is the result, a previously private body of work numbering hundreds.
On occasion of the publication of a new book, Ampersand brings some Leiter original Painted Nudes. Leiter painted over his prints in his painting style with gouache and other pigments in bright rough strokes, leaving some photograph visible. Most are relatively small works in today's era of massive digital prints.
This is a bold move by the gallery. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free
Tending Home is a show by Emily Wobb, Jesse Siegel, Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Buzzy Napoli, Lauren Bennett, and Michelle Latourette Wood. There is an artist talk April 17 too. Opening at Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Caldera opens its studios to see the work of artists in residence Diana Arterian, Kyle Browne, Stephanie Del Rosso, Mandy Greer, Horatio Law, and Folawale. 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
March 26 Recess Music
Recess art gallery inquires into what is critical. Tonight Soledad Muñoz Fiegehen interprets the work of Pedro Lemebel. Given our semi-to-minimal engagement with North-South relationships and languages, it may be relevant. At Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison, reception 6PM, reading 7 Free.
Musics in church, where have we heard of that before?
Xhurch micro venue, be polite, has White Gourd, Fever Witch and 451 Degrees performing in an intimate home church. https://www.facebook.com/events/1548026842138758/ Early arrive, speak outside quietly, park conveyances politely. Do not bring down the venue. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 7PM $3-5
Musics in church, where have we heard of that before?
Xhurch micro venue, be polite, has White Gourd, Fever Witch and 451 Degrees performing in an intimate home church. https://www.facebook.com/events/1548026842138758/ Early arrive, speak outside quietly, park conveyances politely. Do not bring down the venue. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 7PM $3-5
Monday, March 23, 2015
March 25 Part 2 Opening
The Sum of Its Parts is the first gallery salon by Jeffrey Thomas. Tonight the show continues with a different selection of works from the original artists placed in different locations than Part 1.
At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-9 Free
At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-9 Free
Friday, March 20, 2015
March 21 Equinox Woolley Ragas
In celebration of the Spring Equinox, Michael Stirling will sing ragas with Lieve Maas, tabla and Lucy Stirling, tambura. It will be an intimate event. At Sun Gate Studio www.sungatestudio.com 2215 NE Alberta 8PM $10-20
The Mark Wooley Gallery opens a new show of NY artists, including Portland expatriates! At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall, with the People's art of Portland opening at the same time. 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
The Mark Wooley Gallery opens a new show of NY artists, including Portland expatriates! At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall, with the People's art of Portland opening at the same time. 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
March 20 Museum Leap
Division Leap is a bookstore with some of the most obscure titles in Portland. They also collect ephemera, cards, announcements, prints. The Portland Museum of Modern Art has mined the Division Leap archives to put together this art show. For the opening event tonight, Dragging an Ox Through Water performs. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10
Saturday, March 14, 2015
March 14 Science Oil Science
Two artists who are in the inaugural show The Sum of Its Parts - Part 1, Brian Borello and Laura Fritz, speak about their work this afternoon. Borello is known for public art in New Orleans and Portland, and for his Guns in the Hands of Artists project. This show has minimal paintings of used motor oil on a white field. Topical as America discusses oil. Fritz is known for table top sculptures which remind science experiments. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Map 6PM-9 Free
Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Carl & Sloan Contemporary opens with Testable Predictions, paintings and sculpture by Amy Bernstein, Perry Doane and Michelle Liccardo. The title is based on the scentific method. Their website provides a more eloquent exposition of the show than I can. This new gallery is founded by artist-curators, Calvin Ross Carl and Ashley Sloan. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com
in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
Doors 3PM, talk 4 Free
Carl & Sloan Contemporary opens with Testable Predictions, paintings and sculpture by Amy Bernstein, Perry Doane and Michelle Liccardo. The title is based on the scentific method. Their website provides a more eloquent exposition of the show than I can. This new gallery is founded by artist-curators, Calvin Ross Carl and Ashley Sloan. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com
in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
Friday, March 13, 2015
March 13 Varied Messy
London multiartist and photograpger Liz Rideal speaks about her work in a talk sponsored by the Portland Art Museum Photography Council. Usually their talks are Wednesday noon. At the Portland Art Museum, Miller Room, in the NE corner of the Mark Building, first floor (Masonic) 1219 SW Park. 6PM Free
A new show by Alex Chaves, Josh Mannis, Annelie McKenzie and Nolan Simon opens tonight. It is curated by Adrianne Rubenstein. At Portland's first member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-6PM Weekends, tonight 6PM-8 Free
A new show by Alex Chaves, Josh Mannis, Annelie McKenzie and Nolan Simon opens tonight. It is curated by Adrianne Rubenstein. At Portland's first member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-6PM Weekends, tonight 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, March 07, 2015
March 8 Strong Clear Mind
With a Clear Mind is a group show shared by a collector. Collector curation represents a strong and valuable vector. Works are by Tacita Dean, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Chadwick Rantanen, Dorthea Rockburne and Lynne Woods Turner. The Lumber Room has a strong clear vision, always recommended. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 1PM-3 Free
March 7 Eugene Invades Control Home
The voice of the machine is a science as well as an art. Analog synths follow simple patterns of physics. How we hear them follows complex patterns of physics. Therein lies art.
Control voltage breaks the synthesis of sounds into modules with knobs. How to conect the modules and what the knobs do constitutes this free talk with hands-on.
Focus today is filters. It's a more fascinating topic than you might think. What's super cool is that filters are considered in the forward path and in a modulation chain. Who cares what that means, what matters is what it sounds like. https://www.facebook.com/events/852378954822621/ Synthesizer demonstration at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 1PM-2 Free
The University of Oregon is a popular school hereabouts. The Portland beachhead seeks studio arts cred in exchange for mounting shows. They have been doing a good job. Their customers, tuition-paying students, have a choice of in-town and out of town schools. Markets at work.
As part of that there are talks this afternoon and talks by UO art grads. 4PM Ken O'Connell, professor emeritus speaks. 5PM artists Carl Diehl, Heidi Schwegler and Cara Tomlinson talk. 5:30 reception. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 4PM-7 Free
Gallery Homeland has Joe Spangler, photorealistic painter. 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
Control voltage breaks the synthesis of sounds into modules with knobs. How to conect the modules and what the knobs do constitutes this free talk with hands-on.
Focus today is filters. It's a more fascinating topic than you might think. What's super cool is that filters are considered in the forward path and in a modulation chain. Who cares what that means, what matters is what it sounds like. https://www.facebook.com/events/852378954822621/ Synthesizer demonstration at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 1PM-2 Free
The University of Oregon is a popular school hereabouts. The Portland beachhead seeks studio arts cred in exchange for mounting shows. They have been doing a good job. Their customers, tuition-paying students, have a choice of in-town and out of town schools. Markets at work.
As part of that there are talks this afternoon and talks by UO art grads. 4PM Ken O'Connell, professor emeritus speaks. 5PM artists Carl Diehl, Heidi Schwegler and Cara Tomlinson talk. 5:30 reception. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 4PM-7 Free
Gallery Homeland has Joe Spangler, photorealistic painter. 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
Friday, March 06, 2015
March 6 Eastside Art Openings+
We don't really fetishize bones as decoration in NW culture. Or I don't. In the past there were reliquaries and relics in Christian culture. Probably others. Perhaps in the Southwest, skulls are a thing. Jason Borders thinks otherwise. He carves skulls and other bones with dense curvilinear illustrations. Tonight he shows them. If you're still craving art after visiting Eutectic, it's near. At steampunk central Old Portland Hardware & Architectural 700 NE 22nd 6PM-9 Free
Good has a group show of Sasquatch-themed art. At Good:a gallery 4325 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
Tsuyoshi Uenaka visits from Japan. He is the 11th and most recent generation ceramicists in his family. His village has one of the oldest kilns in Japan, making ceramics for the imperial court. He is part of the Stoked, wood-fired ceramics show. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Response Response is a show by Linda Kliewer and Ryan Patrick Krueger, work separated by 20-40 years in its making. It explores the queer experience between then and now. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 7PM-9 Free
Achieving and Underlining Too Many Dinner Parties is a show tonight of four this month. Tonight is Lewis and Clark MFA artists in flight at Surplus Space. The artists are Joseph Arzt, Olivia Cater, Liz Finch, Kelsey Gray, Malcolm Hecht, Kristina Nelson, Leah Reusch, Lilly Kiser Taylor and Clio Wilde. What a great way to fill the space. The series rotates weekly through this month with artists from different schools each weekend. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Taro Masushio has Untitled (re:space between our bodies) at Worksound International tonight. They are pinhole photographs. At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-9
The Justseed political poser artist collective, with Portland and Chicago roots, but now worldwide, speaks about their work at the 511 Gallery tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6:30 Free
Good has a group show of Sasquatch-themed art. At Good:a gallery 4325 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
Tsuyoshi Uenaka visits from Japan. He is the 11th and most recent generation ceramicists in his family. His village has one of the oldest kilns in Japan, making ceramics for the imperial court. He is part of the Stoked, wood-fired ceramics show. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Response Response is a show by Linda Kliewer and Ryan Patrick Krueger, work separated by 20-40 years in its making. It explores the queer experience between then and now. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 7PM-9 Free
Achieving and Underlining Too Many Dinner Parties is a show tonight of four this month. Tonight is Lewis and Clark MFA artists in flight at Surplus Space. The artists are Joseph Arzt, Olivia Cater, Liz Finch, Kelsey Gray, Malcolm Hecht, Kristina Nelson, Leah Reusch, Lilly Kiser Taylor and Clio Wilde. What a great way to fill the space. The series rotates weekly through this month with artists from different schools each weekend. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Taro Masushio has Untitled (re:space between our bodies) at Worksound International tonight. They are pinhole photographs. At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-9
The Justseed political poser artist collective, with Portland and Chicago roots, but now worldwide, speaks about their work at the 511 Gallery tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6:30 Free
Thursday, March 05, 2015
March 5 Westside Art Openings
PNCA invites you in to their new building this evening. They have at least one gallery space off the East-West hall on the main floor which is finished, the 511 Gallery formerly the Feldman Gallery. There will be performances, 2d art, video and open studios throughout the building on 3 floors. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
In Japan, Ema are wooden plaques offered at Shinto shrines. They have been repurposed by artists in a large group show at Hellion Gallery. They are small so they all fit. Artists include – Brendan Monroe (US), Tadaomi Shibuya (Japan), Mary Iverson (US), Dave Macdowell (US), Amandine Urruty (France), Skinner (US), Eric Wert (US), Stella Im Hultberg (US), Maryanna Hoggatt (US), Josh Keyes (US), AJ Fosik (US), Nigamushi (JAPAN), Yoskay Yamamoto (US), Mitsuya Watanabe (JAPAN), Naoshi (JAPAN), Nonnow Naruse (JAPAN), Mar Hernandez (SPAIN), Koichiro Takagi (JAPAN), Ryuichi Ogino (JAPAN), Casey Weldon (US), Yu Suda (JAPAN), Nosego (US), Sayuka Bloodstone (JAPAN), Lauren Gonsalves (US), Yoshi47 (Japan), Hideyuki Katsumata (JAPAN), JShea (US), Tadashi Ura (Japan), Jon MacNair (US), Martin Ontiveros (US), Kenji Nakayama (Japan), Mateu Velasco (Brazil), Souther Salazar (US), Yohei Takahashi (Japan), Yoriko Youda (Japan), Meredith Dittmar (US), Olivia Knapp (US), Ikumi Nakada (JAPAN), Gage Hamilton (US, Aki Miyajima (JAPAN), Cole Gerst (US), Rob Reger (US), Cho-Chan (Japan), Chris Valkov (US), Ryosuke Matsuzono (JAPAN), OT (JAPAN), Peach Momoko (JAPAN), Jordi Ferrándiz (SPAIN), Kousuke Shimizu and Tina Lugo (US). The show is 3 days only, not all month. It goes to Tokyo next, with over half the pieces sold. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
Rodrigo Valenzuela works in staged photography. Some work is with actors and others document rough sculpture. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Jeff Sheridan has Psychic Heaves, watercolors loosely inspired by science. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Cynthia Lahti, recent recipient of the Bonnie Bronson award has Battle. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Trish Grantham has Mystics, Stripes, and Thieves. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Hyoung Tae Lim has ISee inspired by his experience with cancer. Nicholas Nixon has Hospice Patients. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Museum of Contemporary Craft has the collection of Ed Cauduro. I have my differences with blown glass. But Cauduro is a seminal figure in Portland art and his family is from the Venetian glass blowing island Murano, driving his interest. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free
The UO Whitebox opens a new alumni show by Carl Diehl, Heidi Schwegler, Cara Tomlinson, Unfiltered Kilter. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://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 6PM-9
In Japan, Ema are wooden plaques offered at Shinto shrines. They have been repurposed by artists in a large group show at Hellion Gallery. They are small so they all fit. Artists include – Brendan Monroe (US), Tadaomi Shibuya (Japan), Mary Iverson (US), Dave Macdowell (US), Amandine Urruty (France), Skinner (US), Eric Wert (US), Stella Im Hultberg (US), Maryanna Hoggatt (US), Josh Keyes (US), AJ Fosik (US), Nigamushi (JAPAN), Yoskay Yamamoto (US), Mitsuya Watanabe (JAPAN), Naoshi (JAPAN), Nonnow Naruse (JAPAN), Mar Hernandez (SPAIN), Koichiro Takagi (JAPAN), Ryuichi Ogino (JAPAN), Casey Weldon (US), Yu Suda (JAPAN), Nosego (US), Sayuka Bloodstone (JAPAN), Lauren Gonsalves (US), Yoshi47 (Japan), Hideyuki Katsumata (JAPAN), JShea (US), Tadashi Ura (Japan), Jon MacNair (US), Martin Ontiveros (US), Kenji Nakayama (Japan), Mateu Velasco (Brazil), Souther Salazar (US), Yohei Takahashi (Japan), Yoriko Youda (Japan), Meredith Dittmar (US), Olivia Knapp (US), Ikumi Nakada (JAPAN), Gage Hamilton (US, Aki Miyajima (JAPAN), Cole Gerst (US), Rob Reger (US), Cho-Chan (Japan), Chris Valkov (US), Ryosuke Matsuzono (JAPAN), OT (JAPAN), Peach Momoko (JAPAN), Jordi Ferrándiz (SPAIN), Kousuke Shimizu and Tina Lugo (US). The show is 3 days only, not all month. It goes to Tokyo next, with over half the pieces sold. 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 second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
Rodrigo Valenzuela works in staged photography. Some work is with actors and others document rough sculpture. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Jeff Sheridan has Psychic Heaves, watercolors loosely inspired by science. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Cynthia Lahti, recent recipient of the Bonnie Bronson award has Battle. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Trish Grantham has Mystics, Stripes, and Thieves. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Hyoung Tae Lim has ISee inspired by his experience with cancer. Nicholas Nixon has Hospice Patients. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Museum of Contemporary Craft has the collection of Ed Cauduro. I have my differences with blown glass. But Cauduro is a seminal figure in Portland art and his family is from the Venetian glass blowing island Murano, driving his interest. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free
The UO Whitebox opens a new alumni show by Carl Diehl, Heidi Schwegler, Cara Tomlinson, Unfiltered Kilter. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://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 6PM-9
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
March 3 Free Space Painting
Heather Hutchison is an mid-career Oregon-born painter who moved to the East Coast. She paints on plexiglas extending from the plane of the wall, and in video. She is part of the inaugural show of the Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art salon, and speaks in person about her work this evening. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh Doors 4, talk 5 Free
Saturday, February 28, 2015
March 1 Hyenas
I have seen hyenas in the wild. They are a disturbing, opportunistic predator.
A favorite film shows today at noon. It is Hyenas, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's the Visit of the Old Lady. The play is often recontextualized to new times and places. This, by Djibril Diop Mambety, it is a tragedy set amid stunning production design in Senegal. Some plot elements parallel critiques of World Bank activities in Africa.
It is said that there are only a few plots. The protagonist leaves town, the protagonist arrives in town. The Visit is the protagonist who left town, and returns to town, for revenge. The final revenge is a small death, but the enormity of contributing revenge is epic.
Playwright Dürrenmatt/Duerrenmatt is known for his tragicomedies. Three stand out. This is the most tragic, though the dialog is subtile and there is scattered humor.
The most humorous of his plays is Romulus the Great. The protagonist is a fictional last emperor of Rome. He encourages its fall to barbarians because he believes it corrupt. In the end, it is revealed the barbarians are invading to adopt the culture of the empire.
In the middle is The Physicists. It is a meditation on the responsibility of scientists and engineers for the commercial application of their individual work. Let's just say this has been one of my projects over years. I have had some successes. But in the play, the dénouement is the utter failure of ethics against commerce.
This is a fine rare film to see.
Hyenas at the Cascade Festival of African Films. At PCC Cascade Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104. 705 N Killingsworth. Noon Free
A favorite film shows today at noon. It is Hyenas, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's the Visit of the Old Lady. The play is often recontextualized to new times and places. This, by Djibril Diop Mambety, it is a tragedy set amid stunning production design in Senegal. Some plot elements parallel critiques of World Bank activities in Africa.
It is said that there are only a few plots. The protagonist leaves town, the protagonist arrives in town. The Visit is the protagonist who left town, and returns to town, for revenge. The final revenge is a small death, but the enormity of contributing revenge is epic.
Playwright Dürrenmatt/Duerrenmatt is known for his tragicomedies. Three stand out. This is the most tragic, though the dialog is subtile and there is scattered humor.
The most humorous of his plays is Romulus the Great. The protagonist is a fictional last emperor of Rome. He encourages its fall to barbarians because he believes it corrupt. In the end, it is revealed the barbarians are invading to adopt the culture of the empire.
In the middle is The Physicists. It is a meditation on the responsibility of scientists and engineers for the commercial application of their individual work. Let's just say this has been one of my projects over years. I have had some successes. But in the play, the dénouement is the utter failure of ethics against commerce.
This is a fine rare film to see.
Hyenas at the Cascade Festival of African Films. At PCC Cascade Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104. 705 N Killingsworth. Noon Free
Friday, February 27, 2015
February 28 Warm, Even, In Real Life
Keith J. Varadi and Rebecca R. Peel are visual artists and curators. Tonight they do readings: Warm, Even. More info on the gallery website. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th 6PM Free
In person openings are the coin of the creative realm in Portland, like irl///onlineonly at Surplus Space tonight. Tonight is PSU MFA students, accompanied by artist interviews and social media archives. The series rotates weekly through March with artists from different schools each weekend. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
In person openings are the coin of the creative realm in Portland, like irl///onlineonly at Surplus Space tonight. Tonight is PSU MFA students, accompanied by artist interviews and social media archives. The series rotates weekly through March with artists from different schools each weekend. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
February 27 Urban Outdoor
Outdoor clothing retailer Evo operates a small gallery of art by artists connected to the outdoor industry. It tends to run to urban as does the store vibe. Tonight they have illustration by Stefan Hofmann, half of Spaceraft which produces graphic screened clothing for EVO. At Evo outdoor store, 200 SE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, February 26, 2015
February 26 Media, Art, Performance
Artist Kristin Lucas works in performance, video and other electronic media. She is fairly prolific. She discusses her work this evening at the art school. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6:30PM
Monday, February 23, 2015
February 24: How I Broke My Brain and Changed My Mind
Josh Berger speaks on brain injury. His own. As a result of a bicycle accident. Yes he was wearing a helmet.
He is a well known brand strategist and designer, you probably know him. His talk tonight is on his journey over the two and a half years since his injury.
A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply Website or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
He is a well known brand strategist and designer, you probably know him. His talk tonight is on his journey over the two and a half years since his injury.
A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply Website or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
February 21 On Masculinism
In 1978, structuralists Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall created the experimental film Argument. Inspired by Godard and Gorin’s Letter to Jane, it considered the image and expectations of men hidden in a then current edition of the New York Times.
The film was screened with discussions, post, by the audience. It is still relevant, and today's showing includes discussion too.
A longer fascinating explanation is on the project FB https://www.facebook.com/zenazezzaprojects/posts/1541514609461129:0.
At 1857 Hallock & McMillan, 253 SW Naito Parkway. Film noon. $7 general, $5 students, artists, seniors
The film was screened with discussions, post, by the audience. It is still relevant, and today's showing includes discussion too.
A longer fascinating explanation is on the project FB https://www.facebook.com/zenazezzaprojects/posts/1541514609461129:0.
At 1857 Hallock & McMillan, 253 SW Naito Parkway. Film noon. $7 general, $5 students, artists, seniors
Monday, February 16, 2015
February 20 Key Figures
Key Figures is a group show by self-taught artists that are better than average like Chris Bradley, Vaginal Davis, Luc Fuller, Arnold Joseph Kemp, Brian Kokoska, Michael Lazarus, Gladys Nilsson, Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso and Brion Nuda Rosch. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th 6PM-9 Free
Monday, February 09, 2015
February 11 Be There Salon
The Sum of Its Parts is the first gallery salon by Jeffrey Thomas. The first Portland contemporary art gallery was Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery which became the Laura Russo Gallery. The second was his.
Thomas was coprincipal, with William Jamison, in that second Portland contemporary art gallery, the Jamison Thomas Gallery. www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-9 Free
Thomas was coprincipal, with William Jamison, in that second Portland contemporary art gallery, the Jamison Thomas Gallery. www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, February 05, 2015
February 6 Eastside Openings
Building construction is serious and costly business. It is visually rich and understandable on inspection. So it's a ripe situation to make art of.
Tori Abernathy stages a construction intervention in HQHQ Project Space including activist discussions February 24th-26th by the Portland Renters' Assembly.
Tonight and throughout the month the artist injects a tactic of play and the female into the HQHQ construction site in an intervention Make Yourself At Home.
At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
Film can be finicky. Add to that uncontrollable accidents. It's a good way to get art. Myles Katherine is prone to using double exposure in a Holga plastic lens camera. Her work is centered on clothing and models in a dream style that works. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8
Portland does have a map GIS map community. And Portland has a wood craft community. Don Lee combines both vectors into his Woodmaping artwork. In the back of the building, Sarah Landa shows photographs, viewable 24x7. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
Black Box has a group black and white photo show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Eutectic Gallery has Stoked, wood-fired ceramics. They are fired from our wood here and fired around the world by their wood there. That makes them carbon neutral! Wood-fired ceramics, the first fired ceramics date back to ancient China and Japan. Several Japanese artists visit to present their work. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
We all know the Internet is overcrowded with cats! Carli Davidson has photos, Shake, of dogs doing exactly that, captured by high speed flash. So they might look a little odd, but they are happy for sure. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM- Free
Ghost Town is a photography show by young photographer Kyle Thompson. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Radical Color is a group photography show, just when we need color. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Tori Abernathy stages a construction intervention in HQHQ Project Space including activist discussions February 24th-26th by the Portland Renters' Assembly.
Tonight and throughout the month the artist injects a tactic of play and the female into the HQHQ construction site in an intervention Make Yourself At Home.
At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
Film can be finicky. Add to that uncontrollable accidents. It's a good way to get art. Myles Katherine is prone to using double exposure in a Holga plastic lens camera. Her work is centered on clothing and models in a dream style that works. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8
Portland does have a map GIS map community. And Portland has a wood craft community. Don Lee combines both vectors into his Woodmaping artwork. In the back of the building, Sarah Landa shows photographs, viewable 24x7. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
Black Box has a group black and white photo show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Eutectic Gallery has Stoked, wood-fired ceramics. They are fired from our wood here and fired around the world by their wood there. That makes them carbon neutral! Wood-fired ceramics, the first fired ceramics date back to ancient China and Japan. Several Japanese artists visit to present their work. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
We all know the Internet is overcrowded with cats! Carli Davidson has photos, Shake, of dogs doing exactly that, captured by high speed flash. So they might look a little odd, but they are happy for sure. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM- Free
Ghost Town is a photography show by young photographer Kyle Thompson. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Radical Color is a group photography show, just when we need color. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
February 6 - March 8 Cascade Festival of African Films
The Cascade Festival of African Films has been running for 25 years. All showings are free! The opening night is at the Hollywood Theater. The rest of the festival is on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. You can see their schedule www.africanfilmfestival.org/calendar/, the description of the films www.africanfilmfestival.org/films/ then plan your free Thursday - Sunday viewing schedule. For free! Did I say it is free! Absolutely! The Cascade Festival of African Film at PCC Cascade Campus www.africanfilmfestival.org/venues/pcc-cascade/ in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104. Check the website for days and times. Free
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
February 5 Westside Openings
It is still somewhat dark, many galleries are closing early, or promptly.
Words, Words, Words is a group show loosely themed on text placing regional artists beside international artists. Artists represented are Ghada Amer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Pat Boas, Mel Bochner, Andrea Bowers, Peter Downsbrough, Jenny Holzer, Chris Johanson, Barbara Kruger, Michael Lazarus, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Melody Owen, Matthew Picton, Jack Pierson, Jaume Plensa, Michelle Ross, Ed Ruscha, Buzz Spector and Lawrence Weiner. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
My Dakota is a landscape photography series by Rebecca Norris Webb. It was made as she was processing a personal family loss. Origins of Emotions by Monika Merva is a minimal exploration of family. In the Nines Gallery Bill Will, always a wry installationist has Love Thy Neighbor. It is about short range missile warfare. There is a theory that if individuals had weapons of mass destruction, they would use them on their neighbors, which is not farfetched. What's next? Drones? At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Jeremy Rotsztain shows electric fields, digital paintings and Oculus Rift experiences. Some of the work is generative, created by software algorithms once removed from the painterly hand. It has parallels to the indirect work in social practice art, albeit with less soul, but more visual appeal. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Something is wrong with Yu Suda is the namesake, Yu Suda's work inspired by history brought up to date. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com in their new space 15 NW 5th. 6PM-10 Free
W+K has large group murals, looking like something from the Pictoplasma conference, big and bright. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Ok, Cupid? is a group show on modern love inspired by the world of online lust and romance. At Fifty 24PDX in Upperplayground.com 23 NW 5th 6PM-10 Free
Becoming What Was is a group show by current PNCA MFA students Candace Jahn, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern and Micah Schmelzer. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Augen has a group show by gallery artists Mark Andres, Sharon Bronzan, Sally Cleveland, Arless Day, Karen Esler, Trish Grantham, Pamela Green, Jef Gunn, Chris Kelly, Jim Riswold, Sara Siestreem and Mary Wells. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Joe Rudko has Picturesque, minimal work that started as photographs. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM 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 to 9PMish
Words, Words, Words is a group show loosely themed on text placing regional artists beside international artists. Artists represented are Ghada Amer, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Pat Boas, Mel Bochner, Andrea Bowers, Peter Downsbrough, Jenny Holzer, Chris Johanson, Barbara Kruger, Michael Lazarus, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Melody Owen, Matthew Picton, Jack Pierson, Jaume Plensa, Michelle Ross, Ed Ruscha, Buzz Spector and Lawrence Weiner. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
My Dakota is a landscape photography series by Rebecca Norris Webb. It was made as she was processing a personal family loss. Origins of Emotions by Monika Merva is a minimal exploration of family. In the Nines Gallery Bill Will, always a wry installationist has Love Thy Neighbor. It is about short range missile warfare. There is a theory that if individuals had weapons of mass destruction, they would use them on their neighbors, which is not farfetched. What's next? Drones? At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Jeremy Rotsztain shows electric fields, digital paintings and Oculus Rift experiences. Some of the work is generative, created by software algorithms once removed from the painterly hand. It has parallels to the indirect work in social practice art, albeit with less soul, but more visual appeal. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Something is wrong with Yu Suda is the namesake, Yu Suda's work inspired by history brought up to date. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com in their new space 15 NW 5th. 6PM-10 Free
W+K has large group murals, looking like something from the Pictoplasma conference, big and bright. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Ok, Cupid? is a group show on modern love inspired by the world of online lust and romance. At Fifty 24PDX in Upperplayground.com 23 NW 5th 6PM-10 Free
Becoming What Was is a group show by current PNCA MFA students Candace Jahn, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern and Micah Schmelzer. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Augen has a group show by gallery artists Mark Andres, Sharon Bronzan, Sally Cleveland, Arless Day, Karen Esler, Trish Grantham, Pamela Green, Jef Gunn, Chris Kelly, Jim Riswold, Sara Siestreem and Mary Wells. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Joe Rudko has Picturesque, minimal work that started as photographs. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM 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 to 9PMish
Monday, January 26, 2015
January 31 Last Night Raw Caldera Vision
We would not have today's "outsider art" movement if artists like the Reverend Howard Finster had not been "discovered" in the late 1970s and curated into the NY art world in the early 1980s, as a response to Wall Street-driven excesses in the New York art world. William Jamison and Mark Woolley were early on the phenomena in Portland.
Reverend Howard Finster's work stands on its own, of course. Opening this evening, it can be seen in a small selection in Portland at the Portland Museum of Modern Art. PMOMA has been inspired by outsider and visionary art, including that of Chris Johanson, and they are the hosts for the late Finster's work. Finster also created a prodigious collection of sound recordings before he passed in 2001.
His story is fascinating. The work is individualistic. It is well worth seeing.
Ural Thomas will perform his music for the opening, always a pleasure.
Howard Finster at the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10
It's The Last Night On Earth Again (Other People Are Also You) is a show by Michael Fish, Michael Horwitz, Matthew Leavitt, Heiko Julien, Karl Sims, Jack Fisher, Shiloh O'Connor, Walter Davis, Corwin Peck, Austin Kelley Way, Sadashiva Stavrum, Rachel Bell, Jia Gy and Kai Nollie. It should fill up Surplus Space. Somehow it is inspired by Terrence McKenna. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Caldera artists in residence Amy Bonnaffons, Glendaliz Camacho, Sonja Dahl, Jeff Leake, Tamara Lynne, Kaila Farrell-Smith and John Whitten invite you to Blue Lake to see their work. It is a special space. The studios will also be open February 28 and March 28. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Reverend Howard Finster's work stands on its own, of course. Opening this evening, it can be seen in a small selection in Portland at the Portland Museum of Modern Art. PMOMA has been inspired by outsider and visionary art, including that of Chris Johanson, and they are the hosts for the late Finster's work. Finster also created a prodigious collection of sound recordings before he passed in 2001.
His story is fascinating. The work is individualistic. It is well worth seeing.
Ural Thomas will perform his music for the opening, always a pleasure.
Howard Finster at the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10
It's The Last Night On Earth Again (Other People Are Also You) is a show by Michael Fish, Michael Horwitz, Matthew Leavitt, Heiko Julien, Karl Sims, Jack Fisher, Shiloh O'Connor, Walter Davis, Corwin Peck, Austin Kelley Way, Sadashiva Stavrum, Rachel Bell, Jia Gy and Kai Nollie. It should fill up Surplus Space. Somehow it is inspired by Terrence McKenna. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9 Free
Caldera artists in residence Amy Bonnaffons, Glendaliz Camacho, Sonja Dahl, Jeff Leake, Tamara Lynne, Kaila Farrell-Smith and John Whitten invite you to Blue Lake to see their work. It is a special space. The studios will also be open February 28 and March 28. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Sunday, January 25, 2015
January 30 KOMA Soma
For many music is soma. Like me.
Portland's music synthesizer store Control Voltage often has in-store demonstration performances. KOMA Elektronik does that this evening, demonstrates their personal quadraphonic helmet and lets you jam on their machines.
Which sounds cool.
Synthesizer demonstration https://www.facebook.com/events/790628231018190 at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 6PM Free
Portland's music synthesizer store Control Voltage often has in-store demonstration performances. KOMA Elektronik does that this evening, demonstrates their personal quadraphonic helmet and lets you jam on their machines.
Which sounds cool.
Synthesizer demonstration https://www.facebook.com/events/790628231018190 at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 6PM Free
January 29 Blue Rain
The Taureg is a traditionally nomadic ethnic group spanning the Sahel and the Sahara South to North. That would be Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria. Close your eyes and imagine their music. Ethnomusicologist Chris Kirkley travels there regularly, collecting music. He launches his first film project tonight.
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, in English: "Rain the Color of Blue with a little Red in it", tells the story of Taureg musician Mdou Moctar. It is inspired by the film Purple Rain. It's probably the first Taureg-American joint film production in history.
Film at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $8
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, in English: "Rain the Color of Blue with a little Red in it", tells the story of Taureg musician Mdou Moctar. It is inspired by the film Purple Rain. It's probably the first Taureg-American joint film production in history.
Film at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $8
January 27 Mission Statement Human Radiance
MSHR usually performs installations in galleries and alternative art spaces. Tonight they do a club. With The Tenses (Smegma), Matt Carlson and Noor. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8:30PM $5
January 26 Shake It
The Bright Lights series is usually about building things. Tonight it is a discussion of what Portland would be like after the big earthquake.
About every 200-900 years, the tectonic plate we sit on, the North American Plate, slides over the Juan de Fuca plate off our coast as it is driven East by upswelling at its juncture with the Pacific plate. The last time was January 26, 1700 at 9PM. It is a subduction fault which generates megathrust earthquakes of greater than 9.0 and tsunamis. The under layer is locked by friction with the over layer. Once there is enough pressure, it slips.
The Fukishima (Tōhoku) earthquake was a megathrust. Not only was it great in magnitude, it lasted for a long six minutes. The Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, creating the great Pacific tsunami in 2004, lasted for 10 minutes. It's not clear that any modern construction will be able to withstand a strong, long earthquake unharmed.
Beyond building physics, there is the human response.
For a discussion of that Carmen Merlo, Portland’s director of emergency management and Joe Zehnder, Portland’s chief planner speak this evening.
Portland earthquake discussion at the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
About every 200-900 years, the tectonic plate we sit on, the North American Plate, slides over the Juan de Fuca plate off our coast as it is driven East by upswelling at its juncture with the Pacific plate. The last time was January 26, 1700 at 9PM. It is a subduction fault which generates megathrust earthquakes of greater than 9.0 and tsunamis. The under layer is locked by friction with the over layer. Once there is enough pressure, it slips.
The Fukishima (Tōhoku) earthquake was a megathrust. Not only was it great in magnitude, it lasted for a long six minutes. The Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, creating the great Pacific tsunami in 2004, lasted for 10 minutes. It's not clear that any modern construction will be able to withstand a strong, long earthquake unharmed.
Beyond building physics, there is the human response.
For a discussion of that Carmen Merlo, Portland’s director of emergency management and Joe Zehnder, Portland’s chief planner speak this evening.
Portland earthquake discussion at the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
January 25 Shifting Practice
Marylhurst has a panel discussion at 3 today with Chas Bowie, Teresa Christiansen, Dru Donovan, Joel W. Fisher, Isaac Layman and Paula Rebsom, artists in their current show, Shifting Practice: allusions, interventions, and conventions in contemporary photography. A reception for the show follows until 6. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 3PM-6 Free
Friday, January 23, 2015
January 24 Hive Mind
Adam D. Miller presents Hive Mind, a show of LA-based artists. Miller is principal with Devon Oder, a photographer, who shows at Fourteen30, in The Pit LA, an alternative space. It is in Glendale, a new art frontier. It opened this Summer. The Pit LA also produces multiples of artist work on an antique Risograph printer. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free
January 23 Vivarium
Devon Oder opens Vivarium tonight. She has been working over the years at the intersection of altered landscape and altered photography. At Portland's first member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-6PM Weekends, tonight 6PM-8 Free
Thursday, January 22, 2015
January 22 July Show
ShowPDX is a long running furniture design show descended from Table, Lamp and Chair. We like those crafts in the NW! Christopher Douglas, Joe Futschik, Jennifer Jako, Andi Kovel, and Dave Laubenthal discuss the state of and challenges around craft in Portland. The growth of Portland design, the role of women, and balancing installation work with standalone pieces are some of the topics they have announced they will address. At the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis 6:30PM-8 Free
Miranda July appears at Powell's on Burnside at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22.
A long time ago, Miranda July was a Portland performance artist. At its core her work is story telling. She spent over a year in her studio in the Fez building on Burnside downstairs from the ballet studio writing what was to become her film.
Big Miss Moviola, media performances, film acting, writing, directing, social practice art, interactive art websites, a mobile app.
Speed up to now. She reads from her first novel First Bad Man tonight. Should be good.
Some of the audience are meeting up at the Ace before. At Powell's 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside 7:30PM Free
Miranda July appears at Powell's on Burnside at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22.
A long time ago, Miranda July was a Portland performance artist. At its core her work is story telling. She spent over a year in her studio in the Fez building on Burnside downstairs from the ballet studio writing what was to become her film.
Big Miss Moviola, media performances, film acting, writing, directing, social practice art, interactive art websites, a mobile app.
Speed up to now. She reads from her first novel First Bad Man tonight. Should be good.
Some of the audience are meeting up at the Ace before. At Powell's 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside 7:30PM Free
Friday, January 16, 2015
January 16 Golden Joinery
You can never step in the same stream twice.
It is the same with butoh dance, reinventing itself over years and in each moment.
Portland dancer Meshi Chavez does that with his own butoh and tonight with a workshop class he has facilitated. The dancers, Sara Alizadeh, Brenna Jagne, John Johnson, Anita Kress, Tanya McCoy and Joe McLaughlin have taken inspiration from kintsugi. It is a Japanese way to repair broken ceramics with gold laquer - “golden joinery”.
At the Headwaters Theater - information and tickets link: theheadwaters.net/?service=meshi-chavez-presents-kintsugi-being-moved-jan-16-17, 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 $18-25
It is the same with butoh dance, reinventing itself over years and in each moment.
Portland dancer Meshi Chavez does that with his own butoh and tonight with a workshop class he has facilitated. The dancers, Sara Alizadeh, Brenna Jagne, John Johnson, Anita Kress, Tanya McCoy and Joe McLaughlin have taken inspiration from kintsugi. It is a Japanese way to repair broken ceramics with gold laquer - “golden joinery”.
At the Headwaters Theater - information and tickets link: theheadwaters.net/?service=meshi-chavez-presents-kintsugi-being-moved-jan-16-17, 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 $18-25
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
January 15 Modulate This, The Enclave Versus the Dismal Science
On the Ground: Mercy Corps and the Democratic Republic of Congo is a talk by the Mercy Corps country director for Congo, Mark Dwyer. Mercy Corps has been working in the area where Irish artist Richard Mosse made his video work, The Enclave. The Enclave was first shown in the 2014 Venice Biennale and is showing at the Portland Art Museum until April. The Enclave is a do not miss work, of which we have written. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park Members free; non-members $15, seniors, students $12 7PM
Economics is called the dismal science. Perhaps because it is far from a science, and that it forgot the Pin Factory while placing all hope on the Invisible Hand. (see this for a decode)
David Warsh is a writer on economics. He speaks this evening about his book Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: The Discovery of New Growth Theory. It is a history of the origin of current economic thinking in the 1700's to today
It is a heady Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture. www.isepp.org/Pages/14-15%20Pages/Warsh.html At the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7PM $35
Central~Lattice Tool Array becomes an instrument this evening with a performance in the Resonant Entity Modulator series by MSHR. It is likely you will see lasers and modulated noise interacting with feedback paths in a network of analog synths. Recommended! At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 8:30PM Free
Economics is called the dismal science. Perhaps because it is far from a science, and that it forgot the Pin Factory while placing all hope on the Invisible Hand. (see this for a decode)
David Warsh is a writer on economics. He speaks this evening about his book Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: The Discovery of New Growth Theory. It is a history of the origin of current economic thinking in the 1700's to today
It is a heady Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture. www.isepp.org/Pages/14-15%20Pages/Warsh.html At the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7PM $35
Central~Lattice Tool Array becomes an instrument this evening with a performance in the Resonant Entity Modulator series by MSHR. It is likely you will see lasers and modulated noise interacting with feedback paths in a network of analog synths. Recommended! At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 8:30PM Free
Friday, January 09, 2015
January 9 Eastside Openings
Some Eastside openings happened last week, other galleries are carrying other December shows through January. With the darkness, many galleries are not open as late.
The Pain Quotidian, named for a micro bakery, is a group show by Andrea Crespo, Santiago Leyba, Carlos Reyes, Chloe Seibert, Flannery Silva, Eric Veit and Andrew Norman Wilson. At HQHQ Project Space 232 SE Oak St #108 - the Oak Street Lofts 6PM-9 Free
Back at the Crawdaddy is a show of paintings by Jaik Faulk. They were made in residency at False Front and inspired by his Louisiana birthplace. He invited visitors and painted portraits of some. 6PM-8 At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
The Pain Quotidian, named for a micro bakery, is a group show by Andrea Crespo, Santiago Leyba, Carlos Reyes, Chloe Seibert, Flannery Silva, Eric Veit and Andrew Norman Wilson. At HQHQ Project Space 232 SE Oak St #108 - the Oak Street Lofts 6PM-9 Free
Back at the Crawdaddy is a show of paintings by Jaik Faulk. They were made in residency at False Front and inspired by his Louisiana birthplace. He invited visitors and painted portraits of some. 6PM-8 At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
Thursday, January 08, 2015
January 8 Westside Art Openings
Central~Lattice Tool Array by Brenna Murphy continues until January 17. Included is a video work. Recommended. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
We like light art. From Thomas Wilfred to Dan Flavin, the sublime James Turrell, and Portlander Laura Hughes. We need more here. One is Hap Tivey who usually makes sculptures internally illuminated with combinations of primary colors. Also showing is Coincinnitas, prints by physicists and mathematicians. Recommended. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Wrest is a show by Heidi Schwegler themed on angst and internal struggle. Schwegler has been working for some time with material at least somewhat disturbing, often body centered. In this work, Schwegler videos herself against a green screen in wrestling matches with mixed martial artist Colt Toombs, also in green costume, son of World Wrestling Entertainment's Rowdy Roddy Piper. The result is an image of Schwegler wrestling an invisible opponent. Also showing is The Quick and The Slow, sculpture themed on imaginary travel by Evan Larson-Voltz. Congratulations too, to Chris Moss, soon to helm the gallery. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Spaces Between is group show curated by Elise Wagner. Even if you are not wild about Butters, this show might be worth seeing. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor 6PM-8 Free
Victoria Haven lived in Portland. Moving to Seattle she continued to refine her minimalist work. This show is based on diptychs of unrelated words, covering the gallery walls on all sides. They are on view at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Group shows are a great way to get a feel for a gallery, and do your once yearly "power viewing". That is the case at Froelick and Augen galleries this month.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Icon A is a group show reinterpreting the icon by Emily Counts, Jay Erker, Roni Feldman, Erin McCarty, Max Presneill and Rachel Warkentin. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
23 Sandy and sometime OCAC are Portland book art nodes. Add Glyph Cafe & Arts Space. This month they have Eugene librarian and artist Claire Dannenbaum with deconstructed books. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-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 Free
We like light art. From Thomas Wilfred to Dan Flavin, the sublime James Turrell, and Portlander Laura Hughes. We need more here. One is Hap Tivey who usually makes sculptures internally illuminated with combinations of primary colors. Also showing is Coincinnitas, prints by physicists and mathematicians. Recommended. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Wrest is a show by Heidi Schwegler themed on angst and internal struggle. Schwegler has been working for some time with material at least somewhat disturbing, often body centered. In this work, Schwegler videos herself against a green screen in wrestling matches with mixed martial artist Colt Toombs, also in green costume, son of World Wrestling Entertainment's Rowdy Roddy Piper. The result is an image of Schwegler wrestling an invisible opponent. Also showing is The Quick and The Slow, sculpture themed on imaginary travel by Evan Larson-Voltz. Congratulations too, to Chris Moss, soon to helm the gallery. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Spaces Between is group show curated by Elise Wagner. Even if you are not wild about Butters, this show might be worth seeing. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor 6PM-8 Free
Victoria Haven lived in Portland. Moving to Seattle she continued to refine her minimalist work. This show is based on diptychs of unrelated words, covering the gallery walls on all sides. They are on view at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Group shows are a great way to get a feel for a gallery, and do your once yearly "power viewing". That is the case at Froelick and Augen galleries this month.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Icon A is a group show reinterpreting the icon by Emily Counts, Jay Erker, Roni Feldman, Erin McCarty, Max Presneill and Rachel Warkentin. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
23 Sandy and sometime OCAC are Portland book art nodes. Add Glyph Cafe & Arts Space. This month they have Eugene librarian and artist Claire Dannenbaum with deconstructed books. At Glyph Cafe & Arts Space www.glyphpdx.com 804 NW Couch 7PM-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 Free
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
January 6 Let a Hundred Lillys Bloom
The story of John C. Lilly MD is fascinating.
Born in 1915, he attended Caltech, then studied medicine. He conducted research on the effects upon the body of high altitude flying and on muscle function. He developed electronic sensors to read nerve cell potentials. He was a research psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is also known for his study of dolphin intelligence. He was an influence on Carl Sagan and co-founder of SETI.
Lilly is noted for his philosophy of using his own body in research. He became interested later in life in the study of consciousness and altered mental states, through natural means, as well as psychedelic pharmaceuticals of the time.
Lilly also invented the float tank, a sensation minimizing meditation environment.
Float On is Portland's most dynamic float tank center, with an unparalleled community. They sponsor an international float tank conference each year in Portland.
Tonight they celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lilly's birth. There will be Lilly-themed games and quizzes, refreshments and music, as well as some of Lilly's books for sale including Float On's own unabridged republication of Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments by Dr John C. Lilly.
Float On celebrates John C Lilly's 100th birthday tonight at the shop. At Float On www.floathq.com 4530 SE Hawthorne 7PM-10 Free
Born in 1915, he attended Caltech, then studied medicine. He conducted research on the effects upon the body of high altitude flying and on muscle function. He developed electronic sensors to read nerve cell potentials. He was a research psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is also known for his study of dolphin intelligence. He was an influence on Carl Sagan and co-founder of SETI.
Lilly is noted for his philosophy of using his own body in research. He became interested later in life in the study of consciousness and altered mental states, through natural means, as well as psychedelic pharmaceuticals of the time.
Lilly also invented the float tank, a sensation minimizing meditation environment.
Float On is Portland's most dynamic float tank center, with an unparalleled community. They sponsor an international float tank conference each year in Portland.
Tonight they celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lilly's birth. There will be Lilly-themed games and quizzes, refreshments and music, as well as some of Lilly's books for sale including Float On's own unabridged republication of Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments by Dr John C. Lilly.
Float On celebrates John C Lilly's 100th birthday tonight at the shop. At Float On www.floathq.com 4530 SE Hawthorne 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, January 01, 2015
January 3 New Spectral Birth
New Year, new jam. The waves of hip hop have been blastin' out for like more than 40 from the Kool Herc mothership, East Coast. Bboyin', that wus mixed up whit it all from the start. But it united coupla generations and now it's worldwide. Know what I'm sayin'?
Fast forward. Hip hop dance is on the contemporary dance stage and in Cirque du Soleil. World-span competitions with real money. An Olympic-style scoring system from Dyzee has been growing for more than ten years. Could bboy/bgirling become an Olympic sport?
Let's get down to now, Portland. The six year old New Birth Crew throws down a jam and a battle tonight. It's got a lottery progressive elimination. The battles break down with 8on8 - Elimination, 4on4 Checkmate, 2on2 Category, and the final 1on1 Death Match. Prizes for power and footwork.
Exhibition by 1hunnid, New Birth Crew - Portland verses Rhythm Man, Waikiki Bboys - Hawaii. Judges are Thomas Origami, Soul Felons/HOODZ; Impulse, Moon Patrol and Roc, KHC/F2D. Beats by Dj Disast3r. Kasra & Kevin AKA Bboy Merk MC
New Birth Jam www.facebook.com/events/1483176981971791/. 1820 NE 40th. Doors 5PM, battles 6 $7 advance RSVP, $10 door
Derek Corns, mid-BFA at Otis, opens Teaches A Rainbow. It's mixed media and installation themed on desire. He is known for his prismatic palette. He showed previously at Multiplex, so this is a homecoming. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-9 Free
Fast forward. Hip hop dance is on the contemporary dance stage and in Cirque du Soleil. World-span competitions with real money. An Olympic-style scoring system from Dyzee has been growing for more than ten years. Could bboy/bgirling become an Olympic sport?
Let's get down to now, Portland. The six year old New Birth Crew throws down a jam and a battle tonight. It's got a lottery progressive elimination. The battles break down with 8on8 - Elimination, 4on4 Checkmate, 2on2 Category, and the final 1on1 Death Match. Prizes for power and footwork.
Exhibition by 1hunnid, New Birth Crew - Portland verses Rhythm Man, Waikiki Bboys - Hawaii. Judges are Thomas Origami, Soul Felons/HOODZ; Impulse, Moon Patrol and Roc, KHC/F2D. Beats by Dj Disast3r. Kasra & Kevin AKA Bboy Merk MC
New Birth Jam www.facebook.com/events/1483176981971791/. 1820 NE 40th. Doors 5PM, battles 6 $7 advance RSVP, $10 door
Derek Corns, mid-BFA at Otis, opens Teaches A Rainbow. It's mixed media and installation themed on desire. He is known for his prismatic palette. He showed previously at Multiplex, so this is a homecoming. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-9 Free
January 2 Slip Slab Coil Pinch Press Throw
Slip Slab Coil Pinch Press Throw is a sprawling group show and preview of 2015 at Eutectic. This is ground zero for ceramics experimentation. Over 50 artists are participating. It is a cash and carry show if you need ceramic items. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
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