Several galleries continue shows from a previous month or have adopted different schedules than the beginning of the month to change shows.
Whitney Nye has a new series of large paintings with repeating components. Fine meditation material. From Seattle, Francis Celentano brings geometric op art paintings. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Promising Waters is a series of photographs made by Mila Teshaieva in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan between 2010 and 2013. They are former Soviet republics sharing the Caspian Sea as a border. Iran and Russia complete the Caspian borderlands. The Promising Waters countries have prospered from oil and natural gas underlying the Caspian.
The Void and the Country by Paris Petridis are photographs made in Egypt in 2011.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Christine Clark fills the Nine Gallery with hand formed chain suspended from the ceiling. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
Duplex has Habitat: A Video Mandala. The artist, Kello Goeller, performed rhythm-synched movement with others on Oregon lands, beach and in forest. She captured camp fire, river and waterfall flows. Those are woven in layers through hand painted masks into a 20,000x20,000 pixel composite as a mirrored symmetrical mandala, projected as motion video. Adjacent projections are pan and scan samples of the main composite in standard resolution. The projections tonight are accompanied by collaborator Biddy Thomas, completing the soundtrack to be presented ongoing with the piece. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
PDX Contemporary Art has a Summer group show www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Hellion has comic-style illustration by Julie Filipenko from Tel Aviv. 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
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
Thursday, July 02, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
June 30 Let's Get Theremined
Leon Theremin invented the first electronic musical instrument in 1919. It's named after him. It used the principle of heterodyne down conversion, invented only a year before. Heterodyne conversion is used in every radio in the solar system today, and in the fastest parts of the Internet. Yes, there are several heterodyne converters working right now in your mobile phone.
You have heard the theremin, it's a continuously variable tone common in scifi soundtracks, and occasionally even pop. It's pretty easy to play,
Rob Schwimmer, co-director of The NY Theremin Society, visits Portland for a free short performance and demonstration tonight. And after you can try your hand at the instrument. If you can't make it tonight, Control Voltage has theremins you can stop by anytime to audition.
Theremin demonstration https://www.facebook.com/events/821627541277977/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 7PM-8 Free
You have heard the theremin, it's a continuously variable tone common in scifi soundtracks, and occasionally even pop. It's pretty easy to play,
Rob Schwimmer, co-director of The NY Theremin Society, visits Portland for a free short performance and demonstration tonight. And after you can try your hand at the instrument. If you can't make it tonight, Control Voltage has theremins you can stop by anytime to audition.
Theremin demonstration https://www.facebook.com/events/821627541277977/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 7PM-8 Free
Saturday, June 27, 2015
June 29 Environmental Impact
Environmental impact statements are a tool of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1972. The law was conceived by conservative Washington State Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. It passed the Senate on unanimous vote, the House by 372-15 and was signed by Republican president Richard Nixon. The law has been emulated in other countries. But many of our current elected leaders have unfortunately gone astray in their environmental thinking, under the influence of pecunious and rapacious corporate interests.
Environmental Impact Statement is also Lisa Schonberg, Amy Harwood and Leif J Lee. They work to bring artists into local forests, threatened to be logged, as an inspiration for their work. They are the curators of a show opening tonight of artists who have participated. It runs for 3 weeks.
Artists include Jodie Cavalier, Jodi Darby, Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Amy Wheeler Harwood, Leif J. Lee, Alison Jane Clarys, Danielle Ross, Sidony O'neal and Gary Wiseman.
At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-10 Free
Environmental Impact Statement is also Lisa Schonberg, Amy Harwood and Leif J Lee. They work to bring artists into local forests, threatened to be logged, as an inspiration for their work. They are the curators of a show opening tonight of artists who have participated. It runs for 3 weeks.
Artists include Jodie Cavalier, Jodi Darby, Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Amy Wheeler Harwood, Leif J. Lee, Alison Jane Clarys, Danielle Ross, Sidony O'neal and Gary Wiseman.
At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-10 Free
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
June 26-27 q u i e t
The Quiet Music Festival is a special favorite. It is an intimate event with musicians who are not too loud. The audience lounges on an occasional carpet-, blanket- and pillow-covered floor, lit by scattered table lamps.
Beautiful.
It's organized for the fifth year by Portland-LA artist-musician-skater Chris Johanson.
Friday has the Secret Drum Band, Sonny Smith, Timmy Straw, Irma Vep and Linda Hagood Conditioner; Saturday, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Amenta Abioto, Peacers, Rebecca Gates, IIyas Ahmed and Johanson's Sun Foot.
There is a very small amount of seating for those who need that. And if you are in Seattle, there is a little Quiet version Thursday.
Tickets at http://www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/the-2015-quiet-music-festival-of-portland. Advanced tickets are recommended.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, show 8. Advance one night $10/$16 both. Door $12 one night/$18 both.
Beautiful.
It's organized for the fifth year by Portland-LA artist-musician-skater Chris Johanson.
Friday has the Secret Drum Band, Sonny Smith, Timmy Straw, Irma Vep and Linda Hagood Conditioner; Saturday, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Amenta Abioto, Peacers, Rebecca Gates, IIyas Ahmed and Johanson's Sun Foot.
There is a very small amount of seating for those who need that. And if you are in Seattle, there is a little Quiet version Thursday.
Tickets at http://www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/the-2015-quiet-music-festival-of-portland. Advanced tickets are recommended.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, show 8. Advance one night $10/$16 both. Door $12 one night/$18 both.
June 26 Gravity Be Gone
Gravity is a beauty and a curse. To float weightlessly, who wouldn't wish? To fly? I'm in. Aerial dance is a realization of that human desire.
A-WOL dance is one of several aerial dance companies and teachers. Tonight they have a free performance of dancers suspended by trapeze and fabric.
A-WOL aerial dance www.awoldance.org. At Director Park corner SW Taylor and SW Park. 7PM show and 8PM show Free
A-WOL dance is one of several aerial dance companies and teachers. Tonight they have a free performance of dancers suspended by trapeze and fabric.
A-WOL aerial dance www.awoldance.org. At Director Park corner SW Taylor and SW Park. 7PM show and 8PM show Free
June 25 Reading Words
Lit Hop is a night of many short readings an evening in walking distance. This year it is in Chinatown and SW Portland across Burnside. Details www.lithoppdx.com/readers. 7PM-9 Free
Sunday, June 21, 2015
June 21 Books at the Movies
Local artist filmmakers are partnering with Publication Studio tonight. It is not exactly clear what they are doing, so just read the description on the Hollywood Theater website. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $5
Saturday, June 20, 2015
June 20 Bright Aboriginal Seed
The aboriginal people of Australia have been there since 50,000BC ±10,000 years. They developed a rich land-based philosophy. The earliest surviving aboriginal art is 30,000 years ago. From that time there is an unbroken tradition. In the 1970s, the work started to become known by the Western art world. The Australian aboriginal culture came into my view with Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines. There have been rare exhibitions of Australian aboriginal art in Portland.
No Boundaries is a show of Australian artists Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (1958-), Paddy Bedford (1922–2007), Jananggoo Butcher Cherel (1918–2009), Tommy Mitchell (1943–2013), Ngarra (1920–2008), Prince of Wales, Midpul (1938–2002), Billy Joongoora Thomas (1920–2012), Boxer Milner Tjampitjin (1935–2009),and Tjumpo Tjapanangka (1929–2007). The works were gathered by a sole collector couple from Miami and trace years of each artist's painting.
This is the art price machine at work; we are waiting for the US to adopt a droit de suite law to allow artists to benefit.
If you would like to know more about the artists, there is a hardbound catalog available at book outlets and a monograph on academia.edu.
No Boundaries, six Australian aboriginal artists. Opening tonight. Until August 20 Thursdays & Fridays noon-6:30, Saturday & Sunday noon-4. At 467 NW Davis 7PM-9 Free
Portland painter Arvie Smith who attended PNCA and taught there is known for bright bold portraits influenced by his experiences in New Orleans and Africa. He has a show at the Woolley gallery. There is an artist talk at 1 then a reception at 5.
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 1PM, 5-9 Free
Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Tonight is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios tonight. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be wheel chair accessible. 2127 N. Albina 4PM-10 Free
No Boundaries is a show of Australian artists Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (1958-), Paddy Bedford (1922–2007), Jananggoo Butcher Cherel (1918–2009), Tommy Mitchell (1943–2013), Ngarra (1920–2008), Prince of Wales, Midpul (1938–2002), Billy Joongoora Thomas (1920–2012), Boxer Milner Tjampitjin (1935–2009),and Tjumpo Tjapanangka (1929–2007). The works were gathered by a sole collector couple from Miami and trace years of each artist's painting.
This is the art price machine at work; we are waiting for the US to adopt a droit de suite law to allow artists to benefit.
If you would like to know more about the artists, there is a hardbound catalog available at book outlets and a monograph on academia.edu.
No Boundaries, six Australian aboriginal artists. Opening tonight. Until August 20 Thursdays & Fridays noon-6:30, Saturday & Sunday noon-4. At 467 NW Davis 7PM-9 Free
Portland painter Arvie Smith who attended PNCA and taught there is known for bright bold portraits influenced by his experiences in New Orleans and Africa. He has a show at the Woolley gallery. There is an artist talk at 1 then a reception at 5.
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 1PM, 5-9 Free
Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Tonight is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios tonight. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be wheel chair accessible. 2127 N. Albina 4PM-10 Free
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
June 16 Curious About Burma?
Burma is a relatively closed country. It is Buddhist, but its military government doesn't act that way. Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has been photographing there for 28 years. He speaks on his perceptions on the recent slight opening. The country also sits within China's sphere and is home to various insurgencies.
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
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
Saturday, June 13, 2015
June 13 False Cold Cuts
Todd Johnson is a smart San Francisco Institute of the Arts-minted conceptual artist with a sense of humor. Tonight he opens a show that has something unspecified to do with malt liquor and cold cuts. Exactly what will happen will only be known by those there. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-9 Free
Friday, June 05, 2015
June 5 Eastside Art Openings
Cloud Sourcing is a show of ceramics by Kyungmin Park, Dylan Beck, Samuel Chung, Julia Galloway and Joe Page themed on the use of cloud form and cloud imagery in ceramics. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
The Sumi Ink Club has visited Portland and they are back again. 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
The 811 building is tapping the Spring-Summer transition energies tonight.
Emily Brown has Bird Mafia. She starts with one of a kind paper cut work/stencils. Branching come screen prints, like on pillows and household items. You can see. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Haunt has a group show by Jeannie Helzer, Michelle Erickson and Jennifer Finn, paintings and textile art. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9
Color Show is at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Not art, but fashion, which is an art with much more complex creative codes, are Six/Seven and xobruno. Easy to stop by on your art wanderings.
Likely some other studios in the building will be open.
All at 811 East Burnside Map
A new spot is Cameo. They have a group show as they stood together. At Cameo cameogallerypdx.tumblr.com 2809 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
HAHA...No! The Joke Was On Me The Whole TIme? is a group show by Jodie Cavalier, Mario Gallucci, Mary Ma, Jordan Mang, Dylan Redford and Jessie Spiess. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
Gary Beeber, Debi Cornwall, Katie Harwood, Sarah-Marie Land, Hye-Ryoung Min, Christopher Rauschenberg, Isaac Sachs, Joel Stevenett comprise a group show by new Newspace exhibition curator Yaelle Amir. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
The Sumi Ink Club has visited Portland and they are back again. 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
The 811 building is tapping the Spring-Summer transition energies tonight.
Emily Brown has Bird Mafia. She starts with one of a kind paper cut work/stencils. Branching come screen prints, like on pillows and household items. You can see. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Haunt has a group show by Jeannie Helzer, Michelle Erickson and Jennifer Finn, paintings and textile art. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9
Color Show is at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Not art, but fashion, which is an art with much more complex creative codes, are Six/Seven and xobruno. Easy to stop by on your art wanderings.
Likely some other studios in the building will be open.
All at 811 East Burnside Map
A new spot is Cameo. They have a group show as they stood together. At Cameo cameogallerypdx.tumblr.com 2809 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
HAHA...No! The Joke Was On Me The Whole TIme? is a group show by Jodie Cavalier, Mario Gallucci, Mary Ma, Jordan Mang, Dylan Redford and Jessie Spiess. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free
Gary Beeber, Debi Cornwall, Katie Harwood, Sarah-Marie Land, Hye-Ryoung Min, Christopher Rauschenberg, Isaac Sachs, Joel Stevenett comprise a group show by new Newspace exhibition curator Yaelle Amir. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
June 4 Westside Art Openings
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) presents Segregation Story, from his 1950's exposures in Alabama. Much of that series was published at the time. But new film, previously thought lost, was discovered in 2011, and makes this show. Gordon Parks went on to influence history through his photojournalism work for the seminal Life Magazine. Entirely self taught, Parks was a composer, author and feature film director.
Samer Mohdad has Accomplished Visions: The Arabs. It gathers images from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Qatar, Bahrain and Tunisia depicting everyday life.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
PNCA opened their thesis shows Sunday. They are available for viewing normal school hours. Tonight is the more public exposition. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6-10ish Free
Sound artist Ethan Rose is back with Entwined. It includes a sound installation, vibrating strings and ink marks on paper made by strings excited by instrumental sounds processed by Rose. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Mark Klett has Camino El Diablo, photographs made by the Arizona-Mexico border. Klett is noted for his Rephotographic Survey Project in which a team of photographers rephotographed famous Western landscape exposures of the 1800's, then displayed 100 years of change and stasis together. In this case, he followed the route of a mining engineer traveling the then dangerous route on the Arizona-Texas border in 1860. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Hellion has Sayuka Bloodstone with Daydream. The series are paintings in a neo Japanese gothic style, referencing historic fearsome Buddhist paintings, myths, monsters, ghosts and Shinto spirits. Sayuka has exhibited at Hellion previous, and is one of the artists in the Tall Trees of Tokyo compilation. 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
The UofO in Portland opens Everything is Ours, their BFA thesis show in the White Box Gallery. In addition, the entire building is open for viewing and all departments are showing their works. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Collective Caution is a show of safety posters by local designers. At Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Upfor has Urban Growth Boundary by Gregory Euclide, Alex Lukas and Laura Vandenburgh. It themes the tensions inherent in our mental models of urban-suburban, farm-forest as well as multiply and subdue the earth attitudes. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Evan Isoline, PNCA graduating MFA, has Uncarnate, sampling male and female body images used in advertising. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Joan Nelson and Joseph Yoakum have a show of landscape paintings. Joan Nelson references luminous landscape painting influenced by the Transcendentalists. Joseph Yoakum's is more schematic. 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 early close 6PM-8 Free
Mel Katz is a longtime artist and professor at PNCA, making sculptures and paintings. He brought many ideas to Portland from New York where he hung with influential artists of the 50-60's. He was a cofounder of the Portland Center for Visual Art (PCVA, 1972-1987) which mounted shows on a shoestring budget by art giants. Tonight he opens a show of his own work, instantly recognizable from his many public sculptures you have seen. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8 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
Samer Mohdad has Accomplished Visions: The Arabs. It gathers images from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Qatar, Bahrain and Tunisia depicting everyday life.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
PNCA opened their thesis shows Sunday. They are available for viewing normal school hours. Tonight is the more public exposition. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6-10ish Free
Sound artist Ethan Rose is back with Entwined. It includes a sound installation, vibrating strings and ink marks on paper made by strings excited by instrumental sounds processed by Rose. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Mark Klett has Camino El Diablo, photographs made by the Arizona-Mexico border. Klett is noted for his Rephotographic Survey Project in which a team of photographers rephotographed famous Western landscape exposures of the 1800's, then displayed 100 years of change and stasis together. In this case, he followed the route of a mining engineer traveling the then dangerous route on the Arizona-Texas border in 1860. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Hellion has Sayuka Bloodstone with Daydream. The series are paintings in a neo Japanese gothic style, referencing historic fearsome Buddhist paintings, myths, monsters, ghosts and Shinto spirits. Sayuka has exhibited at Hellion previous, and is one of the artists in the Tall Trees of Tokyo compilation. 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
The UofO in Portland opens Everything is Ours, their BFA thesis show in the White Box Gallery. In addition, the entire building is open for viewing and all departments are showing their works. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Collective Caution is a show of safety posters by local designers. At Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free
Upfor has Urban Growth Boundary by Gregory Euclide, Alex Lukas and Laura Vandenburgh. It themes the tensions inherent in our mental models of urban-suburban, farm-forest as well as multiply and subdue the earth attitudes. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Evan Isoline, PNCA graduating MFA, has Uncarnate, sampling male and female body images used in advertising. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Joan Nelson and Joseph Yoakum have a show of landscape paintings. Joan Nelson references luminous landscape painting influenced by the Transcendentalists. Joseph Yoakum's is more schematic. 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 early close 6PM-8 Free
Mel Katz is a longtime artist and professor at PNCA, making sculptures and paintings. He brought many ideas to Portland from New York where he hung with influential artists of the 50-60's. He was a cofounder of the Portland Center for Visual Art (PCVA, 1972-1987) which mounted shows on a shoestring budget by art giants. Tonight he opens a show of his own work, instantly recognizable from his many public sculptures you have seen. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8 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
June 3 Wants
Katie Batten, Jonathan Casella and Sarah Mikenis present Everything We Ever Wanted, bright paintings. The announcement wins the copy writing award for the month.
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Appropriation’s rapid takeover of the 80s art market, as exemplified in Richard Prince’s unapologetic rephotographing of advertisements, marked a cultural shift from the previous decade’s conscientious ethos into an economics of greed. While such overt decadence eventually waned in the face of grim financial realities, consumerism’s hold on the arts remains afloat, buoyed by the often contrarian demands of a new digital generation. For Katie Batten, Jonathan Casella, and Sarah Mikenis—the three young artists on view in Nationale’s group painting exhibition Everything We Ever Wanted—this friction between artifice and authenticity transpires into explosions of color and pattern appropriated not from magazine pages, but the Internet’s undulating stream of imagery.
The motivating tension within these works likewise parallels a uniquely millennial belief in the fallacy of potential. Nicknamed the “Me Generation,” today’s young adults harbor impossible personal expectations continuously stoked by daily reminders of their contemporaries “success” via social networks like Facebook and Instagram. Life viewed within this construct of carefully edited online personas confuses happiness with affluence, relaxation with indulgence. Batten, Casella, and Mikenis, while also rebelling against the high formalism of their chosen medium, utilize painting and its art historical context as a means of expressing this generational struggle. Abstraction, kitsch, and the still life find rejuvenation through extravagant textures, aggressive palettes, and conspicuous accumulations that question our narcissistic digital impulses. Batten’s canvases, for instance, playfully layer homages to the flat aesthetic of Manet and Matisse with materialistic objects like trendy mason jars, iPhones, and Artforum magazines. Casella, meanwhile, utilizes a similar neon color palette for his dizzying, collaged compositions, creating almost virtual spaces wherein the two- and three-dimensional battle for visual dominance. This interest in hyperrealism also carries into Mikenis’ heterogeneous constructions. Sourcing patterns from the image-collecting website, Pinterest, she fashions simultaneously figurative and abstract visions that, while seductive in their immediate materialism, remain unattainable in their irrationality. Dizzying in their excess, Batten, Casella, and Mikenis represent a contemporary aesthetic impulse that is guided by the moment, as opposed to the monumental.
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As for Prince, I think he is weak. But the reverse appropriation by the Suicide Girls of his appropriation of their alt-model Instagram feed is golden.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
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Appropriation’s rapid takeover of the 80s art market, as exemplified in Richard Prince’s unapologetic rephotographing of advertisements, marked a cultural shift from the previous decade’s conscientious ethos into an economics of greed. While such overt decadence eventually waned in the face of grim financial realities, consumerism’s hold on the arts remains afloat, buoyed by the often contrarian demands of a new digital generation. For Katie Batten, Jonathan Casella, and Sarah Mikenis—the three young artists on view in Nationale’s group painting exhibition Everything We Ever Wanted—this friction between artifice and authenticity transpires into explosions of color and pattern appropriated not from magazine pages, but the Internet’s undulating stream of imagery.
The motivating tension within these works likewise parallels a uniquely millennial belief in the fallacy of potential. Nicknamed the “Me Generation,” today’s young adults harbor impossible personal expectations continuously stoked by daily reminders of their contemporaries “success” via social networks like Facebook and Instagram. Life viewed within this construct of carefully edited online personas confuses happiness with affluence, relaxation with indulgence. Batten, Casella, and Mikenis, while also rebelling against the high formalism of their chosen medium, utilize painting and its art historical context as a means of expressing this generational struggle. Abstraction, kitsch, and the still life find rejuvenation through extravagant textures, aggressive palettes, and conspicuous accumulations that question our narcissistic digital impulses. Batten’s canvases, for instance, playfully layer homages to the flat aesthetic of Manet and Matisse with materialistic objects like trendy mason jars, iPhones, and Artforum magazines. Casella, meanwhile, utilizes a similar neon color palette for his dizzying, collaged compositions, creating almost virtual spaces wherein the two- and three-dimensional battle for visual dominance. This interest in hyperrealism also carries into Mikenis’ heterogeneous constructions. Sourcing patterns from the image-collecting website, Pinterest, she fashions simultaneously figurative and abstract visions that, while seductive in their immediate materialism, remain unattainable in their irrationality. Dizzying in their excess, Batten, Casella, and Mikenis represent a contemporary aesthetic impulse that is guided by the moment, as opposed to the monumental.
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As for Prince, I think he is weak. But the reverse appropriation by the Suicide Girls of his appropriation of their alt-model Instagram feed is golden.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
June 2 The Utility of Anarchy
The definition of anarchy may surprise you. Crowdfunding is a way to organize it. That is exactly what Portland startup Crowd Supply does. Well.
Founder Joshua Lifton tals about products people have developed on Crowd Supply. Many are small experimenter-prototyper modules. They may not be manufactured in the numbers that a Sony, Sharp or Samsung would undertake, and that may also mean that you would have difficulty buying them from even a Mouser, Sparkfun or Adafruit.
As an open platform, Crowd Supply funds clothing, printed objects, household goods, musical instruments, food, more.
So if you are curious about how small runs of items can be made, you can hear live and direct from Crowd Supply.
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
Founder Joshua Lifton tals about products people have developed on Crowd Supply. Many are small experimenter-prototyper modules. They may not be manufactured in the numbers that a Sony, Sharp or Samsung would undertake, and that may also mean that you would have difficulty buying them from even a Mouser, Sparkfun or Adafruit.
As an open platform, Crowd Supply funds clothing, printed objects, household goods, musical instruments, food, more.
So if you are curious about how small runs of items can be made, you can hear live and direct from Crowd Supply.
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 29, 2015
May 30 New Obscure Recess Ashes Composition for You
Portland Postcards from America is the Portland instance of a national project, and a group show of photography, tonight, one night. Nine photographic explorations in the series preceed. It is a project of the respected Magnum photo agency, and the work is by Magnum photographers Susan Meiselas, Jim Goldberg, Alec Soth, Bieke Depoorter, Peter van Agtmael, Donovan Wylie and Zoe Strauss. This show is lensed through the social practice modus. Thus it is part of the Assembly conference. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 7:30PM-10 Free
Today is Atlas Obscura Day. Atlas Obscura is an online entity that catalogs and maps unusual places on earth. Some are natural, but most are human-made. They can be drawn to irony, more so than say, The Center for Land Use Interpretation. They run parallel to Roadside America and others. Once a year, on Atlas Obscura Day, they arrange local events at their sites, and that day is today. Details at www.atlasobscura.com Free
Recess, as part of the Assembly conference, rocks Foucault. They present an author, exploring through science fiction, the exploitation of individuals by the financial system.
Student loans got you down? Be there.
Author Cassie Thornton has authored Rock. Not copywriting award of the month level, but getting the idea level:
""
ROCK is the story of a mass that is unable to be valued, because it is simultaneously a physical piece of debt and a meteorite. In this story, which began to unravel in 2011, Cassie Thornton experiences the impact of indebtedness on her unconscious while she yearns to feel the infinity offered by outer space. If debt were a meteorite—a condensed and heavy, physical thing—could it be thrown at the debt ceiling (which has replaced the ozone layer around the earth)? Imagine debt leaving earth, breaking through into a different, epic value system. Imagine a life in which the debt doesn't just loom over our heads or cloud our thoughts. If we could follow the debt into space, would we escape this hard landscape that does not support life over profit?
""
Recess Gallery Moving On recessart.com talk by author at Mother Foucault bookstore, a small space, arrive early and browse. 523 SE Morrison 7PM Free
Portland's hip hop dance community is smaller than Seattle and elsewhere. Nasty history TL:DR. Tonight is a big battle Ashes to Ashes. Fifth year. Big thing. Guests from other cities. Details https://www.facebook.com/events/1535339483401496/. Doors 1PM, prelim 2, main 4. At Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill. $20
Composition molds a participatory ceramics event, the clay will tell me what to do next, facilitated by Amanda Leigh Evans. "Drawing from imagery in Kabbalah and Peter Sloterdijk’s spherology, the project uses the metaphor of functional ware to consider self-orientation and service" is one way to look at it. Another way is that you can come, get your hands dirty in some mud, which will then be fired so you can take it home in about a week. Plus you get to converse with other artists. It is part of the Assembly conference. At Composition Gallery, part of the Everett Station Lofts. Mid block on NW 6th between Everett and Flanders. 5:30PM - 7 Free
All the way from Belgium, Willem Oorebeek opens a show, Monolith Regardless of the Millers. The work uses graphic art media and sampling. Where have we seen that before? Mr Oorebeek presnets an in-person talk June 5 at the space you can look up. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free
Today is Atlas Obscura Day. Atlas Obscura is an online entity that catalogs and maps unusual places on earth. Some are natural, but most are human-made. They can be drawn to irony, more so than say, The Center for Land Use Interpretation. They run parallel to Roadside America and others. Once a year, on Atlas Obscura Day, they arrange local events at their sites, and that day is today. Details at www.atlasobscura.com Free
Recess, as part of the Assembly conference, rocks Foucault. They present an author, exploring through science fiction, the exploitation of individuals by the financial system.
Student loans got you down? Be there.
Author Cassie Thornton has authored Rock. Not copywriting award of the month level, but getting the idea level:
""
ROCK is the story of a mass that is unable to be valued, because it is simultaneously a physical piece of debt and a meteorite. In this story, which began to unravel in 2011, Cassie Thornton experiences the impact of indebtedness on her unconscious while she yearns to feel the infinity offered by outer space. If debt were a meteorite—a condensed and heavy, physical thing—could it be thrown at the debt ceiling (which has replaced the ozone layer around the earth)? Imagine debt leaving earth, breaking through into a different, epic value system. Imagine a life in which the debt doesn't just loom over our heads or cloud our thoughts. If we could follow the debt into space, would we escape this hard landscape that does not support life over profit?
""
Recess Gallery Moving On recessart.com talk by author at Mother Foucault bookstore, a small space, arrive early and browse. 523 SE Morrison 7PM Free
Portland's hip hop dance community is smaller than Seattle and elsewhere. Nasty history TL:DR. Tonight is a big battle Ashes to Ashes. Fifth year. Big thing. Guests from other cities. Details https://www.facebook.com/events/1535339483401496/. Doors 1PM, prelim 2, main 4. At Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill. $20
Composition molds a participatory ceramics event, the clay will tell me what to do next, facilitated by Amanda Leigh Evans. "Drawing from imagery in Kabbalah and Peter Sloterdijk’s spherology, the project uses the metaphor of functional ware to consider self-orientation and service" is one way to look at it. Another way is that you can come, get your hands dirty in some mud, which will then be fired so you can take it home in about a week. Plus you get to converse with other artists. It is part of the Assembly conference. At Composition Gallery, part of the Everett Station Lofts. Mid block on NW 6th between Everett and Flanders. 5:30PM - 7 Free
All the way from Belgium, Willem Oorebeek opens a show, Monolith Regardless of the Millers. The work uses graphic art media and sampling. Where have we seen that before? Mr Oorebeek presnets an in-person talk June 5 at the space you can look up. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
May 28 Orange X
All the way from London, artist Emily Jones presents Orange House Action Clinic at S1. Some of her past work has themed water. It is an essential life ingredient and we have not heard the last of its shortages and destructive excesses. So it is a good subject for art exploration. Jones also titles her works and projects in that cryptic and poetic YBA-way. Actually I enjoy that. But the announcement for the show is pure artbabble which could be summarized as "because semiotics". Nonetheless you should go. Friday there is a panel discussion with the artist Friday at 7. Orange House Action Clinic opening at S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-9 Free
The TED Talks, sometimes they are interesting. A little too cheerful? Often. But the TED conferences musical curation is never thought provoking.
Portland's TED conference 2015 is themed on tomorrows. They have an art show to go along. Artists include Jonathan Case, Wendy Given, Skye Walker, Kyle Beck, Chelsea Parker Guidry, Nic Eldridge, Nick LaVecchia, Meg Kaczyk, Heather Noddings, Betsy Walton, Blaine Fontana, Nathan Rhoads, Lanakila MacNaughton, Kara Burke, Amanda Leigh Smith , Andrio Abero, Asher Moss x Melodi Meadows, Brian Madden, John Brown, Cameron Stewart, Dan Schechter, Jake Hollomon, Jordan Sowers, Josh O’Renick, Jud Nichelson, Justin Morris x Nicolle Clemetson, Justin Flood, Laura Austin, Jeff Luker, Nishat Akhtar, Jason Sturgill, Matt Sundstrom, Santiago Uceda, Anton Pearson of The Pressure , Tina Snow Le, Toby Grubb and Chris Hornnecker. In a nice touch, the conference attendees receive a book of the artists' work and a print. We sincerely hope it has more gravitas than the music in its curation.
The Visions of Tomorrows art show for TEDxPortland 2015; tonight is a ticketed reception-party, Friday it is open to the public 11AM-2PM. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7PM-10 Free with ticket
The TED Talks, sometimes they are interesting. A little too cheerful? Often. But the TED conferences musical curation is never thought provoking.
Portland's TED conference 2015 is themed on tomorrows. They have an art show to go along. Artists include Jonathan Case, Wendy Given, Skye Walker, Kyle Beck, Chelsea Parker Guidry, Nic Eldridge, Nick LaVecchia, Meg Kaczyk, Heather Noddings, Betsy Walton, Blaine Fontana, Nathan Rhoads, Lanakila MacNaughton, Kara Burke, Amanda Leigh Smith , Andrio Abero, Asher Moss x Melodi Meadows, Brian Madden, John Brown, Cameron Stewart, Dan Schechter, Jake Hollomon, Jordan Sowers, Josh O’Renick, Jud Nichelson, Justin Morris x Nicolle Clemetson, Justin Flood, Laura Austin, Jeff Luker, Nishat Akhtar, Jason Sturgill, Matt Sundstrom, Santiago Uceda, Anton Pearson of The Pressure , Tina Snow Le, Toby Grubb and Chris Hornnecker. In a nice touch, the conference attendees receive a book of the artists' work and a print. We sincerely hope it has more gravitas than the music in its curation.
The Visions of Tomorrows art show for TEDxPortland 2015; tonight is a ticketed reception-party, Friday it is open to the public 11AM-2PM. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7PM-10 Free with ticket
Monday, May 25, 2015
May 27-31 Assemble Your Own Practice
Social practice art is practiced. So if you have a school of social practice art you can put the students to work making a conference.
The previous Portland international social practice art conference was kidnapped, and this, Assembly, is the new edition. It covers five days of DIY, workshops, talks, play events and performances; day to late; all free!
Artists include Julie Ault, Bijan Berahimi, Erin Charpentier, Roz Crews, Phoebe Davies, Amanda Leigh Evans, Helene Fischman, Emily Fitzgerald, David Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher, Zach Gough, Derek Hamm, Ariana Jacob, Avalon Kalin, Tamara Lynne, Christopher Michlig, Mark Menjivar, Adam Moser, Travis Neel, Carmen Papalia, Julie Perini, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Michael Rohd, Renee Sills, Alysha Shaw, Strike Debt PDX, Cassie Thornton, Patricia Vazquez Gomez, Lexa Walsh, Arianna Warner, Lee Walton, Christine Wong Yap, Emily Carr Students and faculty, and Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Zoe Strauss, Peter van Agtmael, Bieke Depoorter, Donovan Wylie and Susan Meiselas.
The Assembly Social Practice Art confab, www.psusocialpractice.org/assembly with catalog at http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/713912/26247335/1432148645767/Assembly_v4.4_spreads.pdf?token=pbq%2F6TNOZURD6KmYRVuYxPTX4Xc%3D
Various locations. 9AM-late Free
The previous Portland international social practice art conference was kidnapped, and this, Assembly, is the new edition. It covers five days of DIY, workshops, talks, play events and performances; day to late; all free!
Artists include Julie Ault, Bijan Berahimi, Erin Charpentier, Roz Crews, Phoebe Davies, Amanda Leigh Evans, Helene Fischman, Emily Fitzgerald, David Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher, Zach Gough, Derek Hamm, Ariana Jacob, Avalon Kalin, Tamara Lynne, Christopher Michlig, Mark Menjivar, Adam Moser, Travis Neel, Carmen Papalia, Julie Perini, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Michael Rohd, Renee Sills, Alysha Shaw, Strike Debt PDX, Cassie Thornton, Patricia Vazquez Gomez, Lexa Walsh, Arianna Warner, Lee Walton, Christine Wong Yap, Emily Carr Students and faculty, and Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Zoe Strauss, Peter van Agtmael, Bieke Depoorter, Donovan Wylie and Susan Meiselas.
The Assembly Social Practice Art confab, www.psusocialpractice.org/assembly with catalog at http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/713912/26247335/1432148645767/Assembly_v4.4_spreads.pdf?token=pbq%2F6TNOZURD6KmYRVuYxPTX4Xc%3D
Various locations. 9AM-late Free
Saturday, May 23, 2015
May 23-24 Shake the Dust
Hip hop culture comprises music, body language, lyrics, MC, b-boy/b-girl motion and words. Culture. It is constantly evolving and ever fascinating. Shake the Dust is a documentary on hip hop as a worldwide social change movement with a focus on b-boy/b-girl motion. Movers' moves lensed in Colombia, Cambodia, Uganda and Yemen. And introducing the doc are OG Mic Crenshaw with DJ GrimRock and New Birth Crew. You can see it, then work on those moves and social movements yourself. Presented by KBOO. Shake the Dust documentary at Clinton Street Theater cstpdx.com/show/shake-dust 2522 SE Clinton 7PM $7-10
May 23 Chill Robot Zodiac
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
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
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
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