April 15 !Women, Art, Revolution¡

Lynn Hershman Leeson is a video artist. She is also the creator of the film !Women, Art, Revolution. The film traces groundbreaking artists beginning in the about 1968 to 2010 through interviews and archival materials. She shows and discusses the film this evening as part of University of Oregon media conference. The film is recommended and can be found online. It covers a huge number of artists, some painful episodes like the outrageous death of Ana Mendieta, whose continued work is missed, and brings the film up to date with artist Miranda July. Film !Women, Art, Revolution www.nwfilm.org/films/media-exploration-emergence-women-art-revolution/ at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 6:30PM $9

April 15 Dance Central

The Heidi Duckler dance theater occupies Central Centrl Office tonight. The dancers are Teresa Barcelo, Conrad Kaczor, William Jay Ylvisaker, Kiel Moton, Brittany DeLano and Carly Ostergaard with actress Sarah DeGrave.

The space is a tech startup shared office space serving all of Portland. There are two performances each evening Friday and Saturday.

Site specific performance at CENTRL office 1355 NW Everett. Friday and Saturday 7:30 and 9 $35 door

April 14 Experimental Music Movement

Cecil Taylor is a piano prodigy and star in the free jazz-experimental music world. He performs tonight with butoh prodigy Min Tanaka.

I have been very, very, very fortunate to see them perform together at Aku Aku before an audience of twenty. Other close friends have performed with Tanaka san on his family farm. Both performers are intimate with experimental art.

Not experimental for play, they both have demonstrated experimental risk taking for real over years.

Tonight Cecil Taylor, piano, engages Min Tanaka, movement. It is sold out but there is a line up to experience.

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OpenPlanCecilTaylor. Butoh, piano, drums in performance at the new Whitney 99 Gansevoort, New York City. 8PM $50

April 13,20,27 May 4,11 Map Circles

Social practice art and mapping. They can be approaches to talk person to person. With map circles, they are.

Artist Emma Colburn invites children, neighbors, families and everyone to an exploration of the N-NE Williams neighborhood over history through maps.

The project has sessions:

April 13th Before 1865: Pre-industrialization/pre-railroad
April 20th 1865-1935: Industrialization
April 27th 1935-1965: Suburban development
May 4th 1965-1995: Disinvestment
May 11th 1995-2025: Reinvestment

Each session has a short introduction, followed by participation, by you!

Children encouraged, sometimes-often they get things adults are slow to realize.

Map Circles at Poa Cafe 4025 N Williams. 4:40PM-5:30 Free

April 10 Six Bauhaus Artifacts

Delaney Allen has A R T I F A C T, staged portraits in the landscape and other photographs. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-6 Free



Mary Henry is a West Coast modern painter. Artists Laura Bender and John Early discuss the influence of the Bauhaus, Rudolf Steiner and the Waldorf School on her thinking and work. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 4PM-6 Free



Six is ten. Six is an evening of 6 channel music by six artists with the audience surrounded by the speakers and musicians. Started in Portland it is in its tenth year.

The artists this year are Justine Highsmith + Anita Spaeth, Patricia + Cameron, The Driftwood Orchestra, Amoxtli, Reliqs + Mike Jedlicka and Montgomery Word + Mike Hendrickson.

You might bring a blanket to sit or nap on.

Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/501040466749635/.

At PNCA New Commons, on the 2nd floor www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map

April 9 Shadow Diver

The Volt Divers evening consists of 6-10 short analog synth performances, accompanied by live visual projections. Performers this month are: Body Shame, Neglect Sound, Angel-11, No Parades, Clavitronics, EMS + Jeph Nor, SunFalls, Andrew Dobbles and Claude Barker. Visuals by Alisa Akay. The event starts on time and sells out free. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM-10 Free



The Shadow is Offended is a collaborative painting, drawing and sculpture project by Dana Dart-McLean & Johanna Jackson. It is a continuation of a project they started in LA: www.vernissage.tv/2015/09/11/johanna-jackson-dana-dart-mclean-at-human-resources-los-angeles/. The visual show will be accompanied by performances by Cat Mahatta, Jae Choi, Arthur, Yvette Hall and Morgan Ritter. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free

April 8 Selves I

Stephanie Chefas gallery presents a group show Selfie. Artists are John Felix Arnold III, Ana Bagayan, Jana Brike, Adrian Landon Brooks, Adrian Cox, Vanessa Foley, Monica Kim Garza, Caleb Hahne, Maria Kreyn, Mike Lee, Brian Mashburn, Mako Miyamoto, Jennifer Nehrbass, Jeff P., Meryl Pataky, Erik Mark Sandberg, Lucien Shapiro, Kevin Sloan, Marnie White, Kristen Liu Wong and Christine Wu. Au courant. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free



A little later is a concert in a warehouse by vocalist Sorne. Sorne, with a 5 active range, uses loop samplers to build a vocalscape, live. He will be accompanied by a long butoh performance by Mizu Desierto and her Water in the Desert performers, creating a visual opening for the vocal work and a background throughout. 8PM $15-20

April 7 Westside Art Openings

Ema are small wood plaques found at Shinto shrines in Japan. Visitors make a donation to the shrine for a wish - 願意, then write that wish on the ema.

For this show artists AJ Fosik, Maryanna Hoggatt, Eric Wert, Nosego, Ben Venom, Casey Weldon, Souther Salazar, Olivia Knapp, Jon MacNair, Mary Iverson, Robert Bowen, Jesse Hazelip, Karilise Alexander, Andrew Schoultz, Josh Keyes, Stephanie Buer, KozynDan, Zach Johnsen, Ren Sakurai, Yoskay Yamamoto, Koralie, Jean Jullien, Amandine Urruty, Nicolas Barrome, Alexone, Koleo, JM Ouvry, Haroshi, Tamaki Mori, Nino, MHAK, Renan Santos, Heather Mclean, Kojiro Ankan Takukawa, Ewa Prończuk-Kuziak, Peca, Joram Roukes, Dilka Bear, SAL Jeff P and Yu Maeda have used about 4"x6" ema as their canvas. This show is a followup to a similar show at Hellion Tokyo.

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 Upfor show closes soon. It's good. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Amanda Harman has Garden Stories, Hidden Labours, intimate garden landscapes. Documentary photographer Peter Brown Leighton has Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast. It is the title of one of his photographs and one of the greatest ever show titles. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Guilty Pleasures is a show by Jay Muhlin, themed on being snowed in in Syracuse, NY. I guess we have something similar bring rained in. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing in Winter is 9ish

April 6 Regionalism in Art

Michelle Grabner is the visiting curator for the Oregon 2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art. This year the selectees are more geographically diverse than ever.

Tonight Sue Taylor moderates a discussion between Michelle Grabner, Pat Boas and Prudence Roberts. Taylor is one of the few arts writers in Portland consistently publishing outside Oregon. Roberts is a noted curator with long game deep Portland and NW art experience, including with the Museum.

The discussion will be on NW regionalism in contemporary art in the context of world art.

At Portland State University Lincoln Hall Room 75 7PM Free

April 2 Indivisible Surplus Graffiti

Indivisible is an itinerant gallery in a home.

Surplus Space and Heidi McBride have done and it is common in NYC apartments.

A Living Room by Victor Maldonado is the inagural show. There are a variety of performance events and viewings planned over the run of the show. You can find out more at https://www.facebook.com/events/210390105993850/. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free



Avalon Kalin presents his book One Hundred and Four Digitally Printed Color Photographs of Graffiti-Removal. To accompany the talk, Matt McCormick will screen his famous short film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7:30PM Free

April 2 Mission Statement Human Radiance

Today is Mission Statement Human Radiance Day.

Every day should be!

Mission Statement Human Radiance - MSHR - is Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy performing together.

They each have their individual art practices.

Murphy produces sculptures, prints and videos based on her electronic shapes, as well as video shot live outdoors and composited. Cooper produces electronic paintings and motion videos based on organic shapes in rainbow colors as well as building analog synths with optical and physical feedback.

Today at 2 at Upfor, Murphy gives a talk about her work along with fellow artist in the show, Alyson Provax. She has a print in the experimental printwork show up now at Upfor.

At 7 at the Projection Museum, Cooper opens a new show of his visual work, Shrine Gate Matrices. He and Murphy perform together as MSHR in the gallery.

Recommended.

Artist talk at UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 2PM Free

Shrine Gate Matrices at The Projection Museum, 53 SE 80th. 7PM=10 Free

April 2 End of the World

Until The End of the World is one of my favorite films. It is one of Wim Wenders' road movies, spanning continents.

It has two beautiful problems: it's too long and its soundtrack is too good.

Both problems are solved for one night only.

The film was shot in 15 cities over 7 countries. Made 25 years ago, it presages technology we have today, and some not yet invented.

It tells the story of a secret military invention which can record movies that blind people can see. A son steals the device to record visits to his parents' friends around the world and bring them to his elderly mother who is blind. A plot complication is the impending crash of a nuclear satellite to earth. Along the way he meets Claire and they fall in love. The son and Claire are chased across the world by many characters wanting the device back, chasing the proceeds of a bank robbery, lovers and exes chasing one another and chasing some rare opals. The plot is finally resolved in Australia in scenes surreal and beautiful. It's a science fiction road movie music video made by a gifted director.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozwu8XxQ-dI

Like many films, Until The End of the World has been released at various run lengths. It streams in the US at 157 minutes. It was released on VHS at 158 minutes. In Europe it has been released at 179 and 280 minutes. Janus has restored the film and worked with the director to release a 295 minute version at 4K. That shows tonight. One night only.

The film's other challenge is a sprawling soundtrack. The selections range from top pop bands, college radio favorites, to field recordings of Pygmies singing in the Central African Republic. Many parts of the film read as a very good music video. But getting worldwide musical rights for each film release is a challenge. For tonight, that problem solves as well. But there will unlikely ever be a 295 minute worldwide release.

Film Until the End of the World http://nwfilm.org/screenings/73/718/#3996 at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 5PM $9

April 1 Sonic Potions

April 1 Sonic Potions

In a little experimental synth show has Potions from Chicago along with Antecessor, 555 and Magisterial. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 7PM-11 $3-5

April 1 Eastside Art Openings+

Prison Obscura is a show of photography made in prisons curated by Pete Brook. Brook is made prison photography and research his life's work. Here he gives a long talk about it https://creativemornings.com/talks/pete-brook/1 and he operates the prisonphotography.org site. The Newspace website www.newspacephoto.org/prison-obscura has a longer discussion. This is an important show and a bold undertaking by Newspace. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



The Last Glacier is a show of photography, prints and a book by Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover and Ian van Coller. The artists have been hiking in Montana's Glacier National Park documenting its glaciers. In 1910 the park had more than 150 glaciers. Today it is 25. They are forecast to all be gone in 4 years. At Passages Book Shop www.passagesbookshop.com, 1223 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



Teresa Christiansen has photography: Indifferent Horizons. This body would fall under subtle interventions into andscape. She is a professor at PNCA. Art Museum photography curator Julia Dolan speaks. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington Suite 301 6PM-9 Free



Lewis and Clark also opens their student BFA show at 5 and Eutectic has its ceramics opening. There are probably bunches of other spaces open connected with the Southern Graphics print conference http://sgciportland.com/portfolio/exhibitions/.

March 31 Weird Shift

Weird Shift is an open source artists project in Portland. It has had an exhibition space, a library and a podcast. Tonight it invites short talks - micro talks - on obscure creative and societal topics, with visuals. Bring a USB drive or laptop with your talk! Examples of previous talks are on their event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1014052341975236/. At the Compliance Division compliancedivision.org in the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett #101 - entrance on NW 6th 7PM Free

March 27 Sharing Sharing

Risks. We all take them. There are downside risks and upside risks.

(We publish on mobile. If you want just the what where when, scroll to the bottom. This is an unusually long post!)

Downside risks are when you could feel discomfort, crash and burn, be injured, or die. Upside risk is when you survive another day, succeed, make someone happy or change the world for the positive.

The world of artists is taking risks.

We usually do not - as observers of finished art work - understand the internal and continuous experience of the artist with downside risk. Artists internalize that, in every moment.

Our experience as observers of artist risk - out the other (viewer) side - is as a touchstone for our own experience of risk. That is why risk is a powerful ingredient in artworks. It is an emotional carrier in my taxonomy of art ingredients.

Portland artist Wynde Dyer is an artist who takes personal risks in art making.

Classical artist risk takers are artists like Chris Burden. He approached real body risk from a masculine standpoint. Wynde Dyer goes far beyond that in the challenges she undertakes as an artist.

Existential risk.

She has an ambitious show this afternoon, sharing the scraps. you should see, it closes April 27, today is the reception and an event to meet the project collaborators and supporters. We will return to that in a moment.



Dyer moved to Portland and opened Golden Rule, a collaborative art vintage shop. Each month she invited an artist to make an installation in the shop. Dyer then selected vintage clothing items to be sold in the shop to accompany the art.

In the 1970's to 1990's her mother, with a fabulous fashion sense, acquired clothes. Many. Incredibly all one size. But she never discarded any.

Her single mother died alone in Wynde's small California childhood home. Wynde was called to remove her mother's every possession from that childhood home.

It became Wynde's burden to return each piece of clothing to the world.

Over several years, she returned those clothes through art exhibitions in the Golden Rule store, in itself a social practice art project, though that term was not yet common.


Her work has continued.

She reprinted her mother's letters to a lover inmate for an installation, 2010.

She constructed a 1/2 scale model of her childhood home in 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner, 2011. She spent weeks at night alone constructing it along with many volunteers at other times throughout.

She shredded her family photographs and then meticulously sorted the shreds by color, in Sorting Things Out, 2012.

She engaged in performances recreating intensely physically sickening experiences from childhood phobias - Things That Aren't Safe, Are, 2013.

She created the very, very intense Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment in 2013. The work included a cycling show in images of her mother's many lovers. Those mother's lovers competed (successfully) for her mother's attention; her child was emotionally abandoned, and they did bad things to that child growing. The work covered every wall with a list of the first names of every of the artist's crushes densely inscribed by hand on the gallery walls in metallic leaf, paired with her name. Trying to figure out adult relationships with imperfect models. It is a meditation on personal value when we are small, but when we need to be large, in relation to parental and personal crushes.

She has worked with Chinese artists recreating past living space illustrations.

She is a social activist. She is an accomplished organizer for taxi drivers facing exploitation and extinction.


In comparison, Burden is a poseur. We believe Dyer will be recognized as surpassing him and surviving too.


Dyer returns with a deep-rich project in Sharing the Scraps. She has engaged houseless-homeless individuals to create designs. She has sewn them in the manner of quilts along with her own designs from colored poly tarp material. Poly tarp - blue is common and you know. It is a common Chinese-manufactured import available in many primary colors. Each work is for sale to benefit rent support for individuals about to be made homeless by Portland's changes.


For the reception, Dyer has invited individuals from Hazelnut Grove, a self-organized houseless community in North Portland to help out. A displaced Portland chef, Amanda Luna, will be cooking tasty food for the event. Our Olivia Darlings provide movement performance about 5:45PM. Music by Brendan Hanna. Special dranks by New Deal+Stumptown; chocolate+coffee is A-OK.

More information at www.wyndedyer.com/sharing-the-scraps.html. At Stumptown Coffee Division, 4525 SE Division 4PM-6 Free

March 27 New Tube

Getting To Know You(Tube) changes venues this month to the Cleaners at The Ace Hotel. The curators of their favorite videos this month are Kathryn Knowlton, Antonia Pinter and Lisa Ward. 7:30PM Free

March 26 Spring Caldera Patch

Caldera Arts is a Summer arts immersion for at risk youth. In Winter, guest artists visit for an uninterrupted residency in a beautiful setting. Today is an open house to see the work and meet the last artists in the cycle.

This residency has artists Amory Abbott, Visual Arts—Illustration, Portland; Turiya Autry, Literary Arts—Poetry, Portland; Sash Bischoff, Literary Arts—Fiction and Playwriting, New York; Kristina Marie Darling, Literary Arts—Poetry and Fiction, Ballwin, Missouri; Alex Hirsch, Visual Arts—Painting, Portland; Annie Varnot, Visual Arts—Sculpture and Installation, Brooklyn; and Lu Yim, Performing Arts—Dance and Choreography, Portland.

Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.

Arrive at 1PM sharp for presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.

Most years, the camp gets snow. But now we have global warming. You might check the Santiam Pass and road cameras on Tripcheck.

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free



Control Voltage is a musical synth store. You can try instruments in ear person. You can't do that at Amazon or the synth warehouse! They are one of the nodes of Portland synth community and well worth meeting up with, including at their free events. And you can stop by anytime to try and learn about synths.

This afternoon they give a free introduction to two things you would do with modular synthesizers. They will give an introduction to voltage controlled oscillators and frequency modulation. If you don't know what that means, you should come. If you do know what that means, you should come. And bring your ears. Because at the end of the talk, and some hands-on experimentation yourself, your ears will understand too!

Patching your musical ear vision https://www.facebook.com/events/1699247557016810/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 1PM-2 Free

March 25 Raquel!

Raquel Racquel is a show by Rachel Malin and Raque Ford, artists-in-residence at S1.

Malin has graphic elements mixed in with impressionistic figure elements. She is from Cal Long Beach and Rutgers. Ford, minted at Pratt and Rutgers mixes loose painting and cutout opaque panels as sculptural elements with a word or two. They have a psychedelic feel to me.

Their show opens tonight at S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-10 Free

March 20 Dr Strangelove

What do nuclear weapons mean to you? They were a thing for Hiroshima & Nagasaki, then the fear of them, then not so much a thing, maybe they will be a thing again with North Korea and Iran?

For Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick they are a thing.

In the 1960s, American military bombers flew straight toward Russia 24x7 armed with nuclear weapons to attack. They turned around just before the Russian border, every day. The film Dr Strangelove is a fictionalized version.

The filmmaker's grandfather was one of those pilots.

His grandfather's plane, carrying nuclear bombs crashed in Maryland. The crash was caused by the tail of the plane breaking off, a known design flaw. He survived, walking out a snowstorm at night. The bombs did not go off.

Matt McCormick is previewing his feature film Buzz One Four about the crash and the Cold War program tonight. It's a rough cut. And he is interested in audience feedback.

At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard.7PM $10

March 15 - April 3 International Butoh in Little Portland

Butoh is a contemporary dance performance movement from Japan. Water in the Desert brings some top butoh artists from Japan, Germany, Mexico and the US for three weeks of classes and public performances. The classes are sold out.

The founders of butoh were men. They were in a deep experiment with themselves, their bodies and a new performance form based on nature. They could not comprehend in the early days what explorations women would make.

Natsu Nakajima became the first woman butoh collaborator with the founders at age 19. She formed her own company, Muteki-sha, at age 26. She is an early pioneer incorporating intellectually disabled individuals into performances and continues to work at age 73.

Koichi Tamano was an early principal dancer with the founder beginning about age 19. He met his wife Hiroko in the founder's butoh dance studio when she was 18. They came to the United States in the 1970's to form their own troupe Harrupin-ha and teach in Berkeley. They also operated the wild sushi restaurant, Country Station, in the Mission, pre-gentrification. He often uses an about 10 foot diameter clear plastic sphere, performing inside it, like a giant egg. He continues to work at age 70.

Diego Piñón is a new generation butoh performer who combines psychodrama, Mexican shamanism, inspiration by the landscape of Mexico and butoh.

Yumiko Yoshioka was an early member of the female butoh group Ariadone. She now operates from the international performance center Schloss Bröllin in Germany. Each year, they gather a small number of butoh performers to collaborate.

There are a series of public talks which you can register for on the Water in the Desert Website. They are free.

Wednesday, March 16th 7pm The slowing of Time in Butoh Aesthetics
Wednesday, March 23rd 7pm Rewilding the Body
Wednesday, March 30th 7pm Unpacking Our Domestication and Domination
Sunday, April 3rd 7pm The Future of Feminine through Embodiment

There are also a series of performances with the guest artists joined by Portland and Seattle dancers. They are at 8PM and tickets are available on the Water in the Desert Website. Admission is $12-18 for each.

Saturday, March 19th Natsu Nakajima will be joined by Meshi Chavez, Teresa Venderkin, Tracy Broyles and Kay MacMillan

Friday, March 25 Koichi & Hiroko Tamano will be joined by Stephanie Lanckton, Pepper Pepper and Wobbly.

Thursday, March 31 Diego Piñón will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Douglas Allen, Christopher Mankowski and Dreaming Body.

Saturday, April 2 Yumiko Yoshioka will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Stephanie Lanckton, Sheri Brown, Helen Thorsen and Mary Cutera.

Butoh performances www.witd.org/witd-on-stage/ at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map various dates see above

March 15 Sad Night Live

Winter is sad time in Portland. Let's celebrate it! Especially since we are on the upswing in solar hours. That is Sad Night Live.

Musicians Michael Hurley, Shelley Short and Dragging an Ox Through Water will sing their sad songs and writers Patrick DeWitt and Jon Raymond read sad stories.

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

March 13 Capture or Not

Dance, like all performance, is ephemeral. It is difficult to record for vibrant experience later. It is a challenge for videomakers. It has an unusually large dynamic range in lighting, cameras are challenged to capture it. Color management is challenging. A multi camera setup is ideal. Synching across takes requires using the score as the timeline. There is a school of thought that a single long shot of the whole stage is the only way to record dance. That approach tends to be boring.

Today is an afternoon of dance videos from the 2015 Outlet Dance Project and a discussion with local videomakers Karl Lind, Wobbly Dance, SubRosa Dance Collective and more.

Discussion 3PM-4, Videos 4:30PM-6.

At Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 3PM-6 Free



Pure Surface, a collaborative performance between a mover, a filmmaker and a writer is back with Claire Barrera - movement, Kelly Rauer - video and A.M. O'Malley - text. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6PM, performance 7 sharp Free

March 12 Foster Dive Music That Counts

Some would say that SE Foster Road between 50th and about 74th gets no respect. But it has been quietly sprouting creative businesses for several years.

Portland has art walks First Thursday in NW, First Friday Eastside, Second Thursday N Mississippi, Last Thursday NE Alberta. Foster joins with Second Saturdays.

They are a little disorganized on getting the information out, we are guessing it is between noon and 8. More at http://fosterpowellpdx.com/2016/03/07/foster-gets-art-walk-2-0-will-commence-saturday/ Free



Volt Divers is a monthly show of analog synth performances.

Electronic music goes back in time - see www.120years.net. Robert Moog was an early pioneer in modular analog synthesizers, beginning in 1963. Analog synthesizers use modules such as tone generators, filters, compressors, gates, modulators, samplers and sequencers. The modules are connected in the musician's choice of patch cords. They often have a keyboard and a myriad of knobs.

Each musician essentially builds their own instrument by connecting the modules with patch cord wires and setting the knobs. The instrument can be changed, and is, within and between performances.

The Volt Divers evening consists of 6-10 short performances, accompanied by live visual projections. Performers this month are: Ross Fish, Dump Shock, Rise of Necropolis, Strange Haze, Dr Strangeknob, LoFI Freq, Dweomer, Grease Envelope and E*t My Shit. The event starts on time and sells out free. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM-10 Free



Disjecta has always had a musical vector. Portland is very early in the vector of social practice art.

The social practice artists at Portland State University: Emma Colburn, Roz Crews, Amanda Leigh Evans, Emily Fitzgerald, Harrell Fletcher, Lauren Moran, Anke Schuettler, Renee Sills and Kimberly Sutherland have curated Kenton neighborhood musicians for a project opening this evening.

Musical collaborators include Zahra Ahmed, De La Salle North Catholic High School Choir, Dorian Neira and Daniel “D.J. Max” Lasuncet, Austin Green, Robin Gordon and the Celebration Tabernacle Ministry of Music, Kenton Brass, Kenton Church Choir, Shirley A. Meador, The Obo Addy Legacy Project, Peninsula School in collaboration with Caldera, Heather Perkins, André Roberson, Lisa Schonberg, Norman Sylvester and The World Famous Kenton Club.

There are musical events throughout the month.

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



Emily Counts shows her sculptures tonight. Her work uses materials richly, in a step just beyond minimalism. The gallery website has a much more eloquent exposition. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free

March 11 Make Fourteen Published Objectives

Portland has a healthy maker movement. It is not all dedicated to art. Tonight a new maker space opens, Hedron Technology. You can find all about them at www.hedron.technology. Opening at Manifestation 2020 SE Bush 7PM-10 Free



Jon Raymond drops a new book of collected portland art writings tonight. Covering 1997 to 2016, The Community, will be presented in a reception tonight. At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 7:30PM-9 Free



Fourteen30 has a show by Julia Haft-Candell, Kristan Kennedy and Evan La Londe. 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 Free



HQ Objective is sprung from PNCA. Tonight current PNCA student Joseph McGehee has a performance or other as part of a class project, Hot Pants. At Fortune Gallery & Press, formerly HQHQ Objective, www.hqobjective.org 2235 W Burnside 6PM-9 Free



As previously mentioned To pick up what we set down, the installation by Maggie Heath, has a performance tonight at 8. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 7PM-9 Free

March 7 Spring Buds

Spring Buds is a timely painting show by Lora Baize, Annie McLaughlin and Claire Redman. We like the curatorial spirit at Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-6 Free

March 5 Edit Ritual Identity

The PDX Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit Party is a fun thing you can do today. Wikipedia is crowd sourced, and the crowd can be you! A lot of yous will be sitting down all day, or drop in and out as you like, to work on improving Wikipedia articles on art, artists and feminism. You can find out all the things at www.facebook.com/events/1107483612616621/. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 10AM-5PM Free



Lucien Shapiro is an Oakland artist. He constructs costumes and ritual objects from consumer waste. Then he performs with them live and on video as his own personal voodoo.

Many cultures today incorporate masks, ritual objects and ceremony. Many more lost cultures assuredly did too.

There is a much more detailed description of the work on the artist's website.

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 6PM-9



Menorah Horwitz is an artist resident at Rainmaker. Miss U.S. of Heya is her graphic novel about a future beauty pageant with only one rule, be fabulous! Reception and performance. www.facebook.com/events/1653410058257136/ 6PM-9

March 4 Eastside Art Openings

Per Schumann and Zefrey Throwell present Innenraum, installation, video and social practice. At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-9 Free



Newspace Photo has a show by its members. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



David Bray has Amateur Occult Club, flat naive style schematic figures. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free



Forest for the Trees is a ceramics show by Ted Vogel and Jeff Irwin inspired by patterns in nature. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free

March 4-5 La Centenare

Eunice Parsons turns 100 this year. She continues to make collages in her Portland studio. She moved to Portland at age 22, cofounded the 12×16 Gallery and taught at the Museum Art School between 1957 and 1979, before it became PNCA. The show includes her collages and a photographic portrait of her in a cloak covered in her collages. On Saturday, the artist will be present for a reception in the afternoon. Eunice Parsons www.rollupspace.com/exhibition/eunice-parsons-la-centenaire/ at the Roll Up Space www.rollupspace.com, a studio-gallery in a residential garage 1715 SE Spokane. 6PM-9 Friday, 2PM-5 Saturday. Free

March 4 Brain on Energy

Amory Lovins studied the intersection of energy, physics and economics at Harvard and Oxford. He was the first to bring back to earth inflated and costly plans to build hundreds of new power plants. His thesis, resisted mightily by electric utilities in the time, has proved true: energy efficiency is more cost effective than endless growth in generation and mining fossil fuels. Loving speaks today on Disruptive Oil and Electricity Futures. He has successfully disrupted them before, and continues to do so today. Amory Lovins speaks www.reed.edu/events/posts/2015-16/lecture-amory-lovins.html at in the Vollum Lecture Hall at Reed College 3203 Southeast Woodstock Noon Free

March 3 Westside Art Openings

Illustrator printmaker Sarah Horowitz has Lepidoptera, from her study of the University of Oregon collection of moth specimens. Recommended. Painter and printmaker Tom Prochaska has Baulmes, inspired by the Swiss town he lived in for a time at age 10 and to which he returned to visit. Both artists speak about their work Saturday at 11AM At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free



Variable States: Print Now is a show of 8 printmakers whose process has been updated by technology. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Jenene Nagy has Mass - abstract geometric charcoal on paper work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Christine Bourdette has Drawing to Planet Earth, finely detailed drawings that remind of Western geological landscapes. Also showing are bright abstracts from Charlene Liu. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



To pick up what we set down is an installation by Maggie Heath. It opens this evening. On March 11, DieAna Dae performs with the work at 8. Heath is one half of the Bronco Gallery, so worth a look to see her thinking solo. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 6PM-9 Free



Paccarik Orue has El Muqui, photographs of the city Cerro de Pasco, Peru. The town is being consumed by an open pit mine as its residents profit from its expansion and are cursed by its lead poisoning. Azimuth: Terrain and Direction: Deciphering the West are photographs by William Binzen. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Nature is a Metaphor is a print show with Raymond Arnold, Jonnel Covault, Nancy Friese, Etsuko Fuzuki, Gary Groves, James Lavadour, Nancy Macko, Ryan Pierce, Rita Robillard, Christy Wyckoff and Koichi Yamamoto. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free



Honey Honey is a show of surreal illustration art by Amandine Urruty. She is an artist in the Hellion-curated Tall Trees of Paris project to uncover compelling artists. 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 Museum of Contemporary Craft closes this month. This will be their last Free First Thursday. Some of the current show like the CARPA show will move to PNCA. At the www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing in Winter is 9ish

March 2-6 Reed Remains Raw

Reed Arts Week, RAW, runs today through Sunday. It is a student-curated and student-run look at the state of art. You can see the entire schedule at http://www.reed.edu/raw/2016/ Reed Arts Week at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free

February 28 Pure Pure Photo School Video School

Julia Dolan, Portland Art Museum Curator of Photography, gives a talk: Why Should There Not Be Many Schools of Photographic Art? Talk www.portlandartmuseum.org/event/lecture-why-should-there-not-be-many-schools-of-photographic-art/?instance_id=26104 at the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 2PM Free for Museum members; Lecture included with admission fee for non-members



Our friends at Xhurch are hosting a workshop by Max Schneider on Pure Data, software for creating audio and video. The event on Facebook has information on downloading the !free! software for a !free! workshop!! www.facebook.com/events/1702956873275433/. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 4PM-7 Free



Pure Surface, a collaborative performance between a mover, a filmmaker and a writer is back from holiday with Rene Sills - dance, Christopher Rose - writer and Sam Pirnak - video. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6PM, performance 7 sharp Free

February 27th Winter Caldera

Caldera Arts is a Summer arts immersion for at risk youth. In Winter, guest artists visit for an uninterrupted residency in a beautiful setting. Today is an open house to see the work and meet the artists in the cycle.

This residency has artists Kim Calder, Literary Arts—Poetry; Camas Davis, Culinary Arts and Literary Arts—Nonfiction Writing; Kylie Lockwood, Visual Arts—Sculpture; Christine Olejniczak, Interdisciplinary Arts; Jason Randolph, Performing Arts—Circus and Sculpture; Adriana Rojas Pretel, Performing Arts—Circus and Sculpture; and Brittany Reeber, Visual Arts—Film.

Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.

Arrive at 1PM sharp for presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.

Most years, the camp gets snow. You might check the pass and road cameras on Tripcheck.

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free

February 26 Creative Jelly Beans

Creative Mornings PDX hosts Jelly Helm this month. Helm worked as executive creative director at the Big Advertising Agency on Brands You Would RecognizeTM. He founded the Big Advertising Agency12 school of ad program. Then he set out on his own with Studio Jelly. www.studiojelly.com. The Timbers campaigns, including photographing fans with axes? He did that. This Creative Morning will not be recorded for rebroadcast. Creative Mornings at the First Congregational Church. www.creativemornings.com/talks/jelly-helm

Creative Mornings Portland at First Congressional Church 1126 SW Park Doors 8:30AM Talk 9 Free - advance tickets required

February 23 Forensic Lutherie

Portland has one of the finest makers of guitars in the world. Jeffrey Elliot speaks tonight about his guitar restoration projects for museums. He had to research the original materials in the guitar and replace them with materials available today. Fascinating! Jeffrey Elliot of Elliot Guitars www.elliottguitars.com www.curiosityclub.handeyesupply.com/new-events/2016/2/23/jeffrey-r-elliott-luthier 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

February 23 Quiet Fun

Long form reading builds strong minds in a myriad of ways. But it is being supplanted by short form reading and video. Once that gets built into culture by a generation of early childhood development, the societal implications will be profound.


About 200,000-100,000 years ago our ancestors experienced a mutation in the FOX2 gene. It is believed that evolutionary breakthrough allowed our ancestors more complex vocal expression and control of facial expression, a large part of nonverbal communication. We have not yet decoded the genetic basis of the accompanying advancing neocortex, giving humans the capability to integrate the senses, planning and abstract thinking.

Art and ritual objects are found about 100,000-50,000 years ago. So it is likely that language as we know it would have been well established by that time.

We have an archaeological record of written language beginning about 10,000 years ago in the fertile crescent.

A good friend started to write a book interweaving the entire history of all of our branches of language and the variation in dyslexia between languages. Unfortunately she was unable to complete the project as she developed dementia. It breaks my heart to never be able to read that book.


For eons our brains were oriented to passing knowledge by oral storytelling. The clay tablets, ink on strips of bamboo, writing on leather, papyrus and eventually paper has been with us for at least 4000 years. But they did not play a significant role in the everyday language of a life lived beyond governments, scholars and monks. Many great works, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Epic of Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, the Songlines of Australia come to us from oral tradition.

Where literature has been copied by hand, it evolves, albeit at a slower pace than the evolution of an oral narrative, which may change in each telling.

Only a few artifacts of the great historical libraries in China, India, the Eastern Mediterranien and the Fertile Crescent remain. Written Western literature was carried through the Middle ages in Europe by monasteries. Those isolated monastic libraries of hand copied books began to give way to the first universities and their libraries about 1000 years ago.


Wood block and even movable type printing emerged in Asia. For the West, it was Guttenberg who brought movable type and mechanized printing about 575 years ago. For several hundred years more, books were for the wealthy and the great libraries which emerged. Few people could read; oral narrative predominated.

Now we live in an era of infinite reproduction. In long form books, we have access to vast libraries, bookstores and electronic books.


But we have a way to go even in the United States to achieve our potential in literacy, especially for complex material. Key are the principles of Ready to Read: being read to daily as small children, learning the alphabet and parental vocabulary. We have libraries at the ready to help with that. (Where is Ready for Math?, Ready for Science?)

Today, now, we have ample social reinforcement for experiencing reading in 140 character chunks, political sound bites low in information content, along with Buzzfeed-worthy short writing which passes for journalism.

The building blocks for literacy are our entire human history of brain development, language, writing, printing, books and libraries. What it builds in an individual is best maintained in good working order by long form reading. See 1, 2.

Where is the social reinforcement for long form reading? Where is its pleasure?


It is right here in Portland!

Silent reading has been the raison d'etre of libraries since the beginning. A quick search shows silent reading parties in bars in Seattle as early as 2010.

In Portland, there is one now at the Beech Street Parlor, monthly.

It is tonight.

Bring a paper book, or an electronic book reader. Experience a drink or a snack. Bring a friend. Leave behind the chit chat for an hour or two. And immerse yourself in a book.

Lighting provided, free!

Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at www.beechstreetparlor.com 412 NE Beech 6PM-8 Free

February 22 GTKYT Is Back!

Eric Isaacson, Erica Thomas and Michael Bunsen present their favorite finds on YouTube. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5

February 21 Pure Data Sanctuary

Sanctuary Sunday celebrates its 3 year anniversary with Opaline, Soul Ipsum, Glas + Schneider and HOM vs Anthony Bisset. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Music 7PM-10 $5

February 20 Build, Don't Buy Love

Kayla Mattes has Live Buy Build opening this evening. Mattes masters contemporary textiles well. She has combined it with wallpaper she has designed, a floor pattern of varied materials and prints from a Risograph - an archaic Japanese copy machine which has attracted a cult following among artists. To update textiles is a challenge in Portland's craft-centric world with generations of craft instructors plowing deep aesthetic furrows. At FISK Gallery www.itsfisk.com 3636B N. Mississippi 8PM Free



Mark Woolley has collaborations between Sid Deluca (Astoria) & Stirling Gorsuch (Bend) and paintings by Portlanders Gustaf Mortier & Samuel Eisen-Meyers None of it is my style, but Woolley openings are always fun.

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 Portland Love Show began in 2006 www.launchpadgallery.org/on-love.

It has always been a show of primarily self-taught artists. The People's Art of Portland has carried on the annual tradition for the last five years.

Tonight the tenth annual love show is a show by about 50 artists working on small panels. The show has dual themes: Portland and Love.

At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 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 5th 5PM-9 Free

February 12 Elemental

NY artist, gallerist and NYU professor Jonathan Berger has taken over Adams and Ollman with an ambitious installation. It is a minimal and elegant construct of painstakingly shaped and pigmented materials with an organic feel. They are modeled from tin, putty, charcoal and chalk; the artist's "elemental materials."

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th 6PM-9 Free

February 11 Parallelogram

Happy gravity wave day! Parallelograms is a group show of interactive web work by Alfons Knogl, Kayla Mattes, Gideon Barnett, Ben Alper, Joy Drury Cox, Rob Hult, Sheida Soleimani, Barry Stone, Eileen Isagon Skyers, Aeron Bergman, Alejandra, Salinas, Fabian Hesse, Brion Nuda Rosch, Chris Maggio, Sophia Le Fraga, Gabriela Salazar, Courtney Stephens and David Court. The S1 site has a longer description. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-9 Free

February 9 Riot Grrrls International

Masha Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago, formerly of the collective Pussy Riot, sit for an interview tonight in Portland. If you are interested in performance, art and risk taking in the women-identifed world, this will be a fierce event.

The Pussy Riot collective, made of many women, made political and social criticism performances in the Russian Republic which landed several members in prison, including Masha Alyokhina.

Since, Masha Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago have set out, taking the Pussy Riot brand as their own, on the lecture circuit including Portland. You can find many videos of their presentations online.

This event is probably the best thing you can do with your time tonight in Portland, OR, US. Masha Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago www.crystalballroompdx.com/events/148452-A-Conversation-with-Pussy-Riot- at the Crystal Ballroom. 1332 W Burnside. Doors 7PM, talk 8. $45

February 7 Tinderbox

Gary Wiseman has a show Tinderbox opening this afternoon. It was inspired by his work with Bark, and curated by Ka'ila Farrell-Smith. Rainmaker is the in-city residency program of Signal Fire, which was birthed by Bark. Talk 5PM. At Rainmaker Artist Residency www.rainmakerartistresidency.org 2337 NW York St, # 201 4PM-7 Free

February 6 Connect Study Dolphin Folk

The Portland Art Museum is hosting a talk by the architect of the new Japanese Garden pavilions. Unfortunately tickets sold out very quickly. Kengo Kuma speaks on Tsunagu, his Architecture of Relationships. The show of architectural drawings, models and materials at the AIA would make a good complement to the talk; the Portland Art Museum often posts videos of their talks on their YouTube channel. At the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Sold Out



Jaik Faulk, Justyn Hegreberg, Fredrik Averin, Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Ty Ennis, Elizabeth Malaska, Oriana Lewton-Leopold and Ním Wunnan have work inspired by the idea of artist studies. Nationale has engaged in consistently excellent curation for some time. If you are not acquainted please do. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-6 Free



The Tenses, Corum, Dolphin Midwives, Arrington de Dionyso play music tonight. The Facebook event has a good description: https://www.facebook.com/events/643293882478759/ At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-10:30 $3-5 donation appreciated



Mamie Deschillie and Sally M Mulda have their first show together. They are each self taught artists. Mamie Deschillie is Navaho and grew up on the Navaho Nation land. Sally M Mulda is an aboriginal Australian of the Luritja Yankuntjatjara who grew up in Alice Springs. Both first peoples. DJ Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) provides music for the opening.

Mamie Deschillie began her art work in her 60s and worked until she passed at age 90. Sally M Mulda also came to art as a mature adult.

The PMOMA web site has a great description.

PMOMA is a small gallery in the basement of a vinyl music store which flies under the radar. But they consistently show stellar work in the folk art and self-taught artist realms. Their openings are lively and conversational, or you can stop by anytime the vinyl music store is open. Highly recommended.

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

February 5 - March 5 Cascade Festival of African Films

The Cascade Festival of African Films is a favorite event. Each year on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for a month they show films from all over Africa.

This year they have films from Algeria, Cote d'Ivore, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda.

Every single one of the films is free!

Most are shown on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. The opening night and Friday February 19 films are at the Hollywood Theater, also free.

The PCC Library maintains a copy of all the films shown over 26 years for in-library viewing.

The 26th annual Cascade Festival of African Films www.africanfilmfestival.org at Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, 705 N Killingsworth; and the Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Check the schedule for times. Free

February 5 Eastside Art Openings+

Your best bet tonight is probably the Winter Light Festival. Eastside spaces are fluxing, and crowds sparse.



A new space from Fall is Stephanie Chefas Projects. The show, Straight Outta Portland, includes artists Ryan Bubnis, Stephanie Buer, Zach Erickson, Blaine Fontana, Adam Friedman, Peter Gronquist, Yellena James, Susannah Kelly, Brin Levinson, Jen Lobo, Mako Miyamoto, Jeremy Nichols, Jeff P., Neil M. Perry, David Rice, Souther Salazar and Ayumi Takahasi. It's an unusual mix of artists, with Peoples Art of Portland artists showing with artists that would show at Hellion and spaces that are art school-oriented. The curator is also active in the pop surrealism projects, curating in major West Coast cities. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free



We generally don't cover book arts. It is not our expertise, and contemporary aesthetics are rare. But tonight we are vary curious about Ink + Metal + Paper at 23 Sandy.

The C.C. Stern Type Foundry has curated this international show of letterpress work from C. Christopher Stern, Jules Remedios Faye, Jim Rimmer, Brian Bagdonas, Inge Bruggeman, John Christopher, Jennifer Farrell, Julia Ferrari, Rebecca Gilbert, Patrick Goossens, Joseph Green, John Grice, Barbara Henry, Richard Hopkins, Darrell Hyder, Myrna Keliher, Emily Larned, Norman McKnight, Sarah Nicholls, Pat and John Randle, Amy Redmond, Mark Sarigianis, Ivan Snyder, Jessica Spring, Barbara Tetenbaum, Sandy Tilcock and Jenny Wilkson.

At 23 Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8



One Grand has an artist residency. Max Rippon works in the gallery this month. His style of sampled old sign painting styles works with the One Grand aesthetic. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free



Forest for the Trees is a show by Ted Vogel and Jeff Irwin inspired by nature. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free



Alea Bone has Mexican folk art influenced wall pieces made from scrap metal. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free



Black Box has a group show of black and white photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free

February 4 Westside Art Openings

The Museum of Contemporary Craft is closing permanently. This may be the last opportunity to visit them for free on a First Thursday. Good friends have been involved with The Museum of Contemporary Craft and done stellar work. But there has also been faulty planning, communication and strategy. I prey that the collection finds a home where it can be properly cared for and contextualized. The Museum of Contemporary Craft shop will be permanently closed, but future contemporary craft shows may or may not fall under the PNCA exhibition program.

This last month has a show by the Craft Advanced Research Projects Agency CARPA / CARPA. Their project runs parallel to Switzerland's EToy and is a parody of ARPA/DARPA, a USA Department of Defense agency with essentially unlimited resources to pursue new technologies which the military could use. ARPA/DARPA created the early space program and they created the Internet. They are great to follow if you are curious.

Rowland Ricketts also has a show Work Time involving fabric dyeing.

At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis Early close 6PM-8 Free First Thursday



Three Russo artists Dana Lynn Louis, Samantha Wall and Akio Takamori are selectees for the Portland Art Museum Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. They have a show this month. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8



Blue Sky is always worth a visit. In the Nine gallery, Bill Will, always the wry commentator, has The Rapture (Simulator). It fills the room with his trademark kinetic art carrying a social or political critique. At the Nine Gallery inside Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Thomas Kinkade was an American phenomenon. He created an arts empire outside the art school, gallery, investment bank collector, museum great cultural chain of being. Yes, he had a big ego. Yes, some of his most avid fans were evangelical. And yes, Upfor has a group show inspired by Kinkade. It's loosely inspired. But hey, fun is fun! At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Seated With is a show of paintings by Micah Hearn, Portland. The video space has artist Daniel Heffernan from New York. At theWhite Box Gallery at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 5PM-7 Free



Not purely art, but the Good Mod furniture store is doing room installations with an artistic bent. This month, Casey Keasler of Casework does it. At The Good Mod 1313 W Burnside, 4th floor. 6PM-9 Free



Other outlets cover architecture better than we. In eras, PICA and PNCA were or hinted at being a collaborative space for creatives across communities. Not it may be soon the Portland Japanese Garden. They are building several new pavilions in the former parking area right outside the existing garden ticket entrance. Kengo Kuma is the architect for that expansion of the Portland Japanese Garden. There is an architectural model, materials and drawing show about the project. It is at the Portland AIA office 403 NW 11th 5:30PM-8 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM to a little later in Winter



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free

February 3-6 Let There Be Light Festival

The Winter Light Festival is an installation of light art by over 20 artists, participatory illuminated events, talks and affiliated events scattered throughout the city. It is a new event for Portland, running tonight through Saturday at OMSI, in the surrounding East Bank area and in the affiliated locations.

It may have had its roots in the Light Bar event each February in a Northeast Portland yard. It also corresponded with Portland Minibike Winter. To combat Winter darkness, people gathered there evenings for art-themed events and conversation. Each year it was in a new temporary experimental structure, built for the event, heated by a wood stove and illuminated brightly. One year show collapsed the structure when it was unoccupied. It was fun while it lasted!

The organizers and advisors of the Winter Light Festival are artists, professional lighting designers and veterans of art festivals with night time light art installations.

The event itself is free. OMSI will host food and drink for sale if you would like to get inside to warm up.

Some items will be visible from the West Willamette shore.

Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com at OMSI and the industrial area nearby. 5PM-10 Free

February 3 Seconds Remaining

(we sleep) In The Seconds Between by Micah Schmelzer is a new show of interactive video by a recent PNCA grad in the Littman Gallery. Nicole Baker has Into the Trees in the White Gallery.

Also note that the Littman and White Gallery needs your support now. Portland State University is considering taking the Littman Gallery Space for another use. Portland State University has a thriving art program, particularly its world-leading social practice art program. That needs to be front and center in the Smith student union on that floor where it is. The competing uses can be easily accommodated in a variety of rooms in that same area. If PSU believes it cannot spare instructional spaces or meeting rooms on that floor for their new use, they can make room for those meeting rooms in the grand athletic center building they are constructing. If you are concerned, speak to the Littman and White staff this evening, and follow their FB page

At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 6PM-8

February 1 Oei!

OEI is an interdisciplinary art journal, an art/poetry publisher, and an exhibition space in Stockholm. They had a show at Inca space in Seattle Friday and now are visiting Portland for a talk tonight. What they are up to may not cross over in translation, but it sounds interesting. See the http://publicationstudio.tumblr.com/ for a description. At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 6:30PM Free

January 30 Print Passage Caldera Bunyan

Portland Fine Print Fair is an opportunity to see prints from Western, the rest of the US and even Irish galleries. It is today and Sunday. Full details http://portlandartmuseum.org/collections/printfair2016/. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park. Saturday 10AM-6, Sunday 11AM-5 Free



Passages Bookshop is not art, but they have many unusual art books. As you can imagine, moving them is an ordeal. They have moved to a new location and have an open house today to celebrate. Normally they are by appointment. At Passages Book Shop www.passagesbookshop.com, 1223 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. Noon-5 Free



Caldera Arts is a Summer arts immersion for at risk youth. In Winter, guest artists visit for an uninterrupted residency in a beautiful setting. Today is an open house to see the work and meet the artists in the cycle. This residency has artists Alela Diane, musician (Portland); Anne Greenwood-Rioseco, mixed media artist (Portland); Chaney Kwak, fiction and travel writer (San Francisco); Sara Mumolo, poet (Oakland); Ryan Pierce, painter (Portland); Marjorie Vecchio, photographer (Reno); and Emily Meg Weinstein, writer (Berkeley). Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.

Arrive at 1PM sharp for presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.

Most years, the camp gets snow. You might check the pass and road cameras on Tripcheck.

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free



Front Paper is a broadsheet about performsnce and contemporary dance, written by performers and dancers. Their fifth edition drops tonight with a small party. If you are a dancer there is a workshop 3PM-5 using ideas to compose movement. At Flock www.flockpdx.com at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Workshop 3PM-5, Release party 5:30PM-8 Free



The modest and considered Carl & Sloan Gallery has painters David Corbett & Amie LeGette. Their biographical info is on the website. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free



A Mortal Song is a show including performance by Tori Wrånes and Caley Feeney. Hey, alpenhorns have been done! At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free

January 29 Automatic Space Photoflood

Robert Rhee presents Disambiguation, sculptures and photographs. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington Suite 301 6PM-9 Free



Sam Ashley from Berlin is the son of and collaborator to the late avant opera composer Robert Ashley.

He presents experimental music along with John Krausbauer from Los Angeles. Also on the bill are Portland experimental sound artists Jeff Witscher and Seth Nehill. The description on Disjecta's site has more information: http://www.disjecta.org/portfolio-items/a-night-of-experimental-music/.

At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM $7-10

January 28 Cubanismo Pilgrimage

Lewis and Clark College opens Intersecciones Havana / Portland. It is a show by Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Reynier “El Chino” Novo, Elizabet Cerviño, Adriana Arronte, Rafael Villares and Yornel Martínez, six graduates of Instituto Superior de Arte. They have made works inspired by Oregon's history. Four of the artists will be at the opening.

There will be a performance for about 40 minutes, starting at 5PM sharp.

In the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark Campus, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. Map Please park in the Fir Acres lot. Parking Map Enter gate 2 off Palatine, proceed down the hill to the very end to find the Fir Acres Lot "E" on the parking map. Map 5PM-7 Free



Victoria Reynolds has Pilgrimage, colorful geometric paintings on paper. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free

January 20 Visioning Revisioning

Visions & Revisions is a show opening tonight by Stephanie Doyle, Trude Parkinson, Jef Gunn, Clinton MacKenzie, Pat Barrett, Claire Browne and Andrea Schwartz-Feit. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-8 Free

January 16 Hindu Reincarnation Expo

Fortune, the reincarnation of HQHQ, is adding books and publishing to their gallery projects. They open their new space today with an event of poetry and art by Jabari Jordan-Walker and Marc Matchak. We rarely cover book arts and never poetry, but HQHQ has a good history, so they might be worth keeping an eye on. At Fortune www.hqobjective.org 2235 W Burnside. Noon-6 Free



There is a community of families in the Portland area from the Indian subcontinent. Classical music and dance of the region are taught by small schools and private teachers, passing the tradition along from generation to generation. And many area adults learned those traditions from childhood and enjoy playing and performing for pleasure.

Tonight Surabhi Paranjpe, Hindustani vocalist, performs with with Bhvanesh Mathur on harmonium and Swati Phadke on tabla. Tejasvi Chakravarthy, on Carnatic Flute performs with with Mahesh Mudigonda on mridangam and kanjira.

It is a free concert in a small auditorium in an Intel office building in Hillsboro. You can use this map to locate the "JFCC" https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zR_HnT89ut60.kIJT5z1ryBis&hl=en.

Community Indian Music Concert presented by Kalakendra www.kalakendra.org at the Intel Jones Farm Conference Center in Hillsboro. 7PM Free



Downtown Light and Sound Solution from LA closes their Contact Expo show of interactive video and sound tonight. At 8 one of the creators will perform the system which changes the projections and sound in response to sensors in the space. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map

7 Free

January 15 Illusion Delusion

Mike Bray is an artist and cofounder of Springfield, Oregon's Ditch Projects. It is a big studio and gallery space in an industrial area with a great collection of artists and projects.

He opens his show light grammar/grammar light tonight. The theme is a conceptual appropriation of the technology and artifice in the film industry.

On January 18, Bray will give a talk at PNCA at 6PM https://cal.pnca.edu/e/1525.

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 Free

January 14 Stay Wild and Be Sharp

Stay Wild really has nothing to do with the usual art events we list.

But we like them because they are fun!

Stay Wild is a printed magazine and a website dedicated to the enjoyment by everyday people of the outdoors. They cover things like motorcycle road trip campout by 500 women.

They are interested in the usual diving off cliffs into wild rivers, skating where no one has skated, surfing, bringing a wood fired hot tub on your camping trip, bicycle camping. Really anything outdoors that is super fun.

When they release their printed edition magazine, they have fun event. At a previous launch, you could have a portrait made by Kirlian photography in a geodesic dome. This time, they are offering free axe and hatchet sharpening.

The Stay Wild 2016 Winter Release Party is at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/ 427 NW Broadway 6PM-8 Free

January 9 Relaxo Bus

Lindsay Kennedy has Relaxo Patio: paintings. It definitely wins the copywriting award for the month.

"Like the caviar dreams of gold chains and naked curvy physiques found in hip hop songs, artist Lindsay Kennedy’s third solo exhibition at Nationale, Relaxo Patio, provides a temporary respite from Portland’s weary winter through the myriad delights of Miami, Florida. Her minimalist compositions offer a contemporary reimagining of painter David Hockney’s scenes of Los Angeles swimming pools from the mid-60s. However, instead of stodgy Beverly Hills diving boards and chaise lounges, she evokes a sultrier, more luxurious lifestyle of cocktails at the Versace mansion, courtside tickets to the Heat, and bronzed beauties on a yacht.

Kennedy achieves this transportive effect through the use of two distinct painting styles. While always drenched in the downy pastels of polyester leisure suits and ocean-side sunsets, her compositions oscillate between more informed and more instinctual approaches. Within the former aesthetic, meticulously applied brushstrokes and layered gradations of color create a hypnotic illusion of depth and texture. Geometric forms float upon the background like dreamscapes, harkening to the emotive sparseness of Agnes Martin. In opposition to this meditative feel, Kennedy’s other works reveal a looser style wherein thick blobs of paint and colorful squiggles capture both the movements of Cuban dance and the spirited curves of tropical foliage. As a whole, Kennedy’s dynamic work deftly reflects the changing rhythms—from languid beach days to feverish club nights—that make Miami a haven for those looking to escape."

At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 1PM-3 Free



And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive is a show by Amy Bernstein, Pat Boas, Calvin Ross Carl, Jack Featherly, Ron Graff, Robert Hardgrave, Grant Hottle, Michael Lazarus, Michelle Ross and Amanda Wojick.

Marylhurst is running a bus to and from the event - see their website for details.

At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free

January 8 Eastside Art Openings+

Portland is still in sleep mode. Nonetheless.


Publication Studio has an event: Laura Foxman's Pencils & A Pen. This is a recommended thing which is not easily described. At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 6PM-8 Free



Marlon Mullen, painter, has a show tonight. 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



Water Warriors is a show of photographs capturing opposition to fossil fuel drilling. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free

January 7 Westside Art Openings+

Ryan Pierce makes artwork inspired by environmental issues and is cofounder of the Signal Fire residencies. This show explores parallels between native mythology in Mexico as a discovery and exploration process, colonial expansion as the same, and the unknown climate futures as a continuation of both. Wendy Given has photographs and sculpture which examine how we, in modern culture experience nature-based, mythology. At Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall, room 204, Portland State University 724 SW Harrison St 4PM-7 Free



I, You, Me is a poppy show by Ayumi Takahashi. She has lived in China, Japan and attended top art schools in LA & London. She lives in Portland now. Another impressive show by Duplex. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



24 Hour Empire is a recreation and update of a 1964 project by Jonas Mekus and Andy Warhol. Portland artist Josh Michaels made his own 24 hour shot of the Empire State building, then processed, recontextualized and remixed it into a variety of artworks. Recommended. Saturday 1/9 1PM to Sunday 1/10 1PM the gallery will be open 24 hours; Saturday 1/16 6PM-8 is the closing event. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Kendra Larson makes landscape drawings, often in charcoal and many with tinges of the mystical. She also presents an artist talk Saturday January 23 noon at the gallery. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free



Longtime Portland painter Lewis Clevenger has a show at Russo. It goes along with a retrospective of even longer time gallery artists. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free



Longtime Portland Photographer Jim Lommasson is at Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Recent PNCA graduate Lauren Gonsalves shows illustration style work. 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. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM to a little later in Winter



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free

Their Museum of Contemporary Craft is open until 8 and Free on First Thursdays

Both have the Alien She show ending this week.



And plus: Pecha Kucha is a night of short design talks which originated in Japan. The Portland chapter lapsed but is back. Tonight it is Kyra Bussanich, Founder & Pastry Chef, Kyra’s Bakeshop; Daniel Duford, Visiting Associate Professor of Art, Reed College; Carly Ellis, Designer, Nike Design Lab; Dan Frantz, Strength Coach, Big Sweet Health; Kristen Gallagher, Founder, Edify Education Design; Jelani Memory, Founder, Circle Media, Inc.; Mo Nishiyama, Technical Writer, OHSU; Skyler Pace, Entrepreneur, Recent Graduate; Amy M. Truitt, PhD Candidate, PSU; Tiff Wood, Founder, New World Rowing Club and Peter Zandee, US Sales Manager, Tony’s Chocolonely. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison doors 6PM, talks 6:30-8 Eventbrite tickets linked to the Holocene web site. Free