Newspace Center for Photography permanently closes tonight. They continue 2 weeks of scheduled youth classes. They homed a community, created a place for learning and experimenting, they curated great shows.
Object Memory is a show by Eli Coplan, Addie Lehuauakea Fernandez and Kalaija Mallery. Inspired by shape memory metal alloys, the show captures the interpretations by the artists of memory projected into space and shapes returning to form after deformation. The show in a basement gallery is curated by Tessa Bolsover. Recommended. Object Memory https://www.facebook.com/events/1893499014195385/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington (enter on 76th) 6:00PM-9 Free
Narrative Photography is at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Redux Brent Wear and Kirsten Moore in a new larger space. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Further West is a show of staged photographs by Mako Miyamoto who works in the ad agency world. His conceit is masks on models, including of the Wookie from Star Wars. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Lightleak is a project by Oregon Portland protographers to visit LA in Portland winter for a photo expedition. This show is by Lightleakers George Kelly, Scott Binkley, Gary Gumanow, Steve Rockoff, Bob Gervais, Blake Andrews, Missy Prince, Lisa Gidley, Jason Shiloh Moore, Faulkner Short, Jenny Olsen and Bryan Wolf. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Eutectic continues Tinder, with Chris Baskin, Frank Boyden, Richard Brandt, Perry Haas, Samuel Johnson, and Simon Levin. They all fire with wood kilns, which marks the glaze with ash. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Friday, July 07, 2017
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
July 6 Westside Art Openings
Brenna Murphy presents a floor installation, Axis Spread, with daily reconfiguration. It is made of her signature cutout shapes, reminding ancient Mayan or Chinese architecture, and digitally printed blankets. In both, color abounds. Her nightly reconfigurations are a way of adjusting the relationship of ideas embedded in the secret language of the components. There is also a preopening Wednesday. She and collaborator in the MSHR project have decamped to NYC, illustrating if you have talent you don't need an MFA, but you might want to get out of little Portland on your journey. Strongly Recommended. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Whitney Nye and Anna Siems, longtime Russo Lee artists, open paintings tonight. Nye has Midst, detailed component paintings representing change in Portland in an abstract way. Siems has Essence. It's figurative, with pre-Renaissance faces, adding a focus on more abstract surroundings than her previous work. Both mid-career artists are recommended. At the same gallery is Farbenkugel: New Variations on a Theme by Narangkar Glover. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
PDX has a sprawling Summer group show, Dislocation. The selection is excellent, and an excellent opportunity to see the range of the gallerist's interests. It includes Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Amjad Faur, Bean Finneran, Ellen George, Johannes Girardoni, Elizabeth Knight, James Lavadour, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Megan Murphy, Vanessa Renwick, Tad Savinar, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Terry Toedtemeier, Gus Van Sant, Molly Vidor, Nell Warren, Marie Watt and Masao Yamamoto. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Portrait photographer Sage Sohier has worked for many years perfecting her Arbus gaze. Her mother, Wendy Morgan, now 89, was an in-demand fashion model in the late 1940's. Photographer In this show, Witness to Beauty, Sage has updated fashion shots with her mother, her self and her sister, Laine, as models. The work spans the first decade of the millennium and includes family photographs in the 1950's and '60's. It's generational relationship work.
Between Sheets and Seamless is an exploration in staged portraits and still lifes by Nakeya Brown of the intersection of female beauty ritual, consumer culture and identity as a black woman.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Christine Clark opens Give. It combines her long running wire chain work with other contrasting materials. Recommended. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
Anna Fidler continues at Hartman, reprising the stacked paper cutouts of her debut work, now combining it with complementary painting. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
You can get a free early-century modern history lesson with Augen's Picasso and Miro print show. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The Urban Art Project programs NW 13th Street where throngs gather for a curated but not gallery-curated show of art and crafts. Meanwhile all the cool kids will be at Upper Playground, Floating World, Compound and Sticks & Stones.
The Jewish Museum has a permanent collection and traveling shows. They will be open until 8 on First Thursday in the previous Contemporary Craft Museum space.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. 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
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
Whitney Nye and Anna Siems, longtime Russo Lee artists, open paintings tonight. Nye has Midst, detailed component paintings representing change in Portland in an abstract way. Siems has Essence. It's figurative, with pre-Renaissance faces, adding a focus on more abstract surroundings than her previous work. Both mid-career artists are recommended. At the same gallery is Farbenkugel: New Variations on a Theme by Narangkar Glover. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
PDX has a sprawling Summer group show, Dislocation. The selection is excellent, and an excellent opportunity to see the range of the gallerist's interests. It includes Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Amjad Faur, Bean Finneran, Ellen George, Johannes Girardoni, Elizabeth Knight, James Lavadour, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Megan Murphy, Vanessa Renwick, Tad Savinar, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Terry Toedtemeier, Gus Van Sant, Molly Vidor, Nell Warren, Marie Watt and Masao Yamamoto. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Portrait photographer Sage Sohier has worked for many years perfecting her Arbus gaze. Her mother, Wendy Morgan, now 89, was an in-demand fashion model in the late 1940's. Photographer In this show, Witness to Beauty, Sage has updated fashion shots with her mother, her self and her sister, Laine, as models. The work spans the first decade of the millennium and includes family photographs in the 1950's and '60's. It's generational relationship work.
Between Sheets and Seamless is an exploration in staged portraits and still lifes by Nakeya Brown of the intersection of female beauty ritual, consumer culture and identity as a black woman.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Christine Clark opens Give. It combines her long running wire chain work with other contrasting materials. Recommended. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
Anna Fidler continues at Hartman, reprising the stacked paper cutouts of her debut work, now combining it with complementary painting. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
You can get a free early-century modern history lesson with Augen's Picasso and Miro print show. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The Urban Art Project programs NW 13th Street where throngs gather for a curated but not gallery-curated show of art and crafts. Meanwhile all the cool kids will be at Upper Playground, Floating World, Compound and Sticks & Stones.
The Jewish Museum has a permanent collection and traveling shows. They will be open until 8 on First Thursday in the previous Contemporary Craft Museum space.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. 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
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
Thursday, June 22, 2017
June 24 Social Practice Art & Photography
Wendy Ewald has a social practice photography at Blue Sky. She distributed cameras to the people of 14 Israeli and Palestinian communities and the show is the result of the story the people wanted to tell. This afternoon is a panel of artists speaking on social practice art and Ewald's work: Emily Fitzgerald, Nolan Calisch, Harrell Fletcher, Lisa Jarrett, Julie Keefe and Patricia Vazquez Gomez.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free
June 23 +&>
Traci Sym has the greatest business name: +&>, Plus and Greater Than, for her design firm. She designs exhibition experiences.
The event is fully subscribed, but you can watch the video soon after the event, and for all past Creative Mornings, worldwide & free, anytime.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 8:30AM Free
The event is fully subscribed, but you can watch the video soon after the event, and for all past Creative Mornings, worldwide & free, anytime.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 8:30AM Free
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
June 22 Title Bones
In one of our more unusual show titles, painter - digital collage artist Alisa Bones presents her show Your clothing is animal hair, your purple is fish blood. It's at Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 Free
June 21 Summer Purpose Transformation Retors
We don't usually cover glass. It has its own aesthetics and collector base. The material is overwhelmingly beautiful which can distract from its impact on contemporary art viewers. Often the narrative or conceptual ingredient we love in contemporary work is absent.
This show has some artists who have contemporary cred and have used the Bullseye facilities to make truly archival work. They are Ligia Bouton, Kate Clements, Emily Counts, Emily Nachison and Judy Tuwaletstiwa in show Transformations.
Show http://www.bullseyeprojects.com/exhibitions/268/overview/ with closing reception September 23. At Bullseye Projects 300 NW 13th Noon-5 Free
Zach Krahmer speaks on Listening with Purpose in photography. He has captured portraits of everyday people worldwide. It's part of the monthly free Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series by the Portland Art Museum Photography Council. Feel free to bring lunch. At the Portland Art Museum Miller Gallery in the Mark building 1219 SW Park. Noon Free
House for Summer is a landwork of live trees planted 30 years ago in the Hoyt Arboretum by artist Helen Lessick. It's hidden in plain sight, I've never noticed it. Celebrating yesterday's Summer Solstace, the artist will be there 3:30PM-5:30 today, then will speek at the Jefferey Thomas Gallery after. House for Summer at the intersection of SW Fairview Blvd. and SW Knights Road on the hill above the Zoo parking lot. 3:30PM-5:30. Talk & reception At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-8 Both Free
This has been an artist space from time to time and from time to time under different guidance has art shows by recent art school graduates. Tonight is Wet, paintings and sculpture by Theadora Frost and Maddy Inez Leeser. I got to learn a new word from their announcement, retors! More here: https://www.facebook.com/events/296573384100889/. At Project 205, 707 NE Broadway. 6PM-9 Free
This show has some artists who have contemporary cred and have used the Bullseye facilities to make truly archival work. They are Ligia Bouton, Kate Clements, Emily Counts, Emily Nachison and Judy Tuwaletstiwa in show Transformations.
Show http://www.bullseyeprojects.com/exhibitions/268/overview/ with closing reception September 23. At Bullseye Projects 300 NW 13th Noon-5 Free
Zach Krahmer speaks on Listening with Purpose in photography. He has captured portraits of everyday people worldwide. It's part of the monthly free Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series by the Portland Art Museum Photography Council. Feel free to bring lunch. At the Portland Art Museum Miller Gallery in the Mark building 1219 SW Park. Noon Free
House for Summer is a landwork of live trees planted 30 years ago in the Hoyt Arboretum by artist Helen Lessick. It's hidden in plain sight, I've never noticed it. Celebrating yesterday's Summer Solstace, the artist will be there 3:30PM-5:30 today, then will speek at the Jefferey Thomas Gallery after. House for Summer at the intersection of SW Fairview Blvd. and SW Knights Road on the hill above the Zoo parking lot. 3:30PM-5:30. Talk & reception At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-8 Both Free
This has been an artist space from time to time and from time to time under different guidance has art shows by recent art school graduates. Tonight is Wet, paintings and sculpture by Theadora Frost and Maddy Inez Leeser. I got to learn a new word from their announcement, retors! More here: https://www.facebook.com/events/296573384100889/. At Project 205, 707 NE Broadway. 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, June 17, 2017
June 17 Seeds
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. It's polluted too. 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 perfectly wheel chair accessible. http://pdxseedstudios.com/pdxstudios/2017-open-house-21st-annual-summer-kickoff 2127 N. Albina 4PM-10 Free
Thursday, June 15, 2017
June 15 Sexy Work
If you subscribe to the evolutionary psychology model, we are all sex workers. Artist and audience. And there has been a history of collaboration in Portland between artists and sex workers going back to Marne Lucas working with Danzine in the late 1990s, starting the Sex Worker's Film Festival, and costarring in the infrared short film The Operation. Organized by a new generation, tonight is the New Third Annual Portland Sex Worker Art Show. The show is one night. More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/1812445585675065/. At PCC Cascade Paragon Gallery 815 N Killingsworth 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, June 08, 2017
June 10 Public Chemistry Home Cover+
Photographer, collage artist and curator Serrah Russell, from Seattle has a one night pop-up Take / Cover tonight. This show, themed on safety and addressing fear, is an installation incorporating photography, sculpture and video. Her work themes inner emotion suggested my the juxtaposition of minimal collage elements or figures in the natural landscape. This show includes collaboration with CL Young and Samson Stilwell.
Take / Cover https://www.facebook.com/events/1187157988076918/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 6:00PM-9 Free
Helen Lessick makes installations themed on home, as in the gabled architype. Some has been interior work, like a home about to be torn down filled with glass furniture and objects. Some has been outdoor work, where the gabled form is comprised of natural materials, even living plants. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 4PM-6 Free
Art From the WPA Era is a show of paintings and prints made in the 1930s. The country was in the Great Depression. The government hired musicians, writers, performers and visual artists through the Work Projects Administration in Federal Project Number One, and the show has some of the visual results. There is a longer description worth reading on the PMOMA website. Matt Emmonds will perform on steel drums at the opening.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Linus Pauling went to Washington High School. From there he went to Oregon State University and CalTech. He is the only person to have won two solo Nobels.
Artists Chris Haberman, Karen Wippich, Amy McLain and Eric Blackburn have made artworks themed on Pauling's life and work incorporated into the architecture of the Washington High School Marthas Cafe.
They are unveiled tonight.
Art http://www.revolutionhall.com/event/1498443-chemistry-revolution-4-portland/ at the Washington High School Revolution Hall Martha's Cafe. 1300 SE Stark 7PM-9 Free
ADX celebrates their 6th birthday with an all day party. It's a great opportunity to see the space, work being done there and meet makers. Plus there is a competitive thumbwrestling competition! ç
Tonight modular synth performers Alani, Sky Symbol Rituals, Dump Shock, Dr Burtrum, Body Shame, S.H.E., Chaos SoahC, Clavitron and Bifurcation perform. Visuals by Cysmic! Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10
Take / Cover https://www.facebook.com/events/1187157988076918/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 6:00PM-9 Free
Helen Lessick makes installations themed on home, as in the gabled architype. Some has been interior work, like a home about to be torn down filled with glass furniture and objects. Some has been outdoor work, where the gabled form is comprised of natural materials, even living plants. At Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 4PM-6 Free
Art From the WPA Era is a show of paintings and prints made in the 1930s. The country was in the Great Depression. The government hired musicians, writers, performers and visual artists through the Work Projects Administration in Federal Project Number One, and the show has some of the visual results. There is a longer description worth reading on the PMOMA website. Matt Emmonds will perform on steel drums at the opening.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Linus Pauling went to Washington High School. From there he went to Oregon State University and CalTech. He is the only person to have won two solo Nobels.
Artists Chris Haberman, Karen Wippich, Amy McLain and Eric Blackburn have made artworks themed on Pauling's life and work incorporated into the architecture of the Washington High School Marthas Cafe.
They are unveiled tonight.
Art http://www.revolutionhall.com/event/1498443-chemistry-revolution-4-portland/ at the Washington High School Revolution Hall Martha's Cafe. 1300 SE Stark 7PM-9 Free
ADX celebrates their 6th birthday with an all day party. It's a great opportunity to see the space, work being done there and meet makers. Plus there is a competitive thumbwrestling competition! ç
Tonight modular synth performers Alani, Sky Symbol Rituals, Dump Shock, Dr Burtrum, Body Shame, S.H.E., Chaos SoahC, Clavitron and Bifurcation perform. Visuals by Cysmic! Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
June 7 - August 6 Who is Watching the Watchers?
Artist Ai Weiwei, and architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron open Hansel and Gretel in the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. The large installation is a comment on our state of surveillance. The installation creates an environment surveilled by cameras and drones.
The project is documented at https://hanselgretelarmory.com/, which includes a livestream of the visitors to the installation and the history of drones and surveillance.
Hansel and Gretel www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/hansel_gretel at the Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue (enter on 894 Lexington Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets) Closed Mondays $15
The project is documented at https://hanselgretelarmory.com/, which includes a livestream of the visitors to the installation and the history of drones and surveillance.
Hansel and Gretel www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/hansel_gretel at the Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue (enter on 894 Lexington Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets) Closed Mondays $15
Saturday, June 03, 2017
June 3 Don't Blame the Sun
Michelle Ramin has watercolors Blame the Sun, opening this afternoon. For this show, she paints friends on campouts, at barbecues and in other social situations. Great Stumptown is showing her, she often garners gallery shows. At Stumptown Coffee Division, 4525 SE Division 4PM-6 Free
Friday, June 02, 2017
June 2 Eastside Art Openings
In Response: Revisiting the Documerica Project is new work by Shane Anderson, Sarah Christianson, Peter Crabtree, Donna DeCesare, Elizabeth Gritzmacher, Sara Quinn, Stephen Slappe, Terray Sylvester and Linda Wysong. It reprises the 1971 EPA project on the impact of pollution and environmental destruction on community. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Haunt new photography by Onyx Marie who specializes in fashion. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8 Free
Color: The Visual Spectrum is at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Redux has Light Fuse and Fly Away: Crows Playing With Fire by Brent Wear and Kirsten Moore At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Neon Love is a show by Dan Lam, Meryl Pataky, Erik Mark Sandberg and Kristen Liu Wong. Three use neon-fluorescent pigments in their work. They affect the color we see by the fluorescent emission in addition to reflecting ambient light as conventional pigments and color in nature dies. Meryl Pataky works in neon tubes and neon-filled glass sculptures. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Are wakes are wasted on the living? Photographer Sean M. Johnson has Burials, photographs with LGBT individuals to visualize their last rights. The result is lush and imaginative. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
A Series of Slips by Hannah Piper Burns and Dominic Amorin is the result of their residency at Open Signal. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Emik has music posters. Gallery at the Jupiter Hotel www.galleryatthejupiter.com 800 E Burnside
Eutectic has Tinder, wood-fired ceramics by Perry Haas, Chris Baskin, Frank Boyden, Richard Brandt, Samuel Johnson and Simon Levin. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Haunt new photography by Onyx Marie who specializes in fashion. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 6PM-8 Free
Color: The Visual Spectrum is at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Redux has Light Fuse and Fly Away: Crows Playing With Fire by Brent Wear and Kirsten Moore At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Neon Love is a show by Dan Lam, Meryl Pataky, Erik Mark Sandberg and Kristen Liu Wong. Three use neon-fluorescent pigments in their work. They affect the color we see by the fluorescent emission in addition to reflecting ambient light as conventional pigments and color in nature dies. Meryl Pataky works in neon tubes and neon-filled glass sculptures. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Are wakes are wasted on the living? Photographer Sean M. Johnson has Burials, photographs with LGBT individuals to visualize their last rights. The result is lush and imaginative. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
A Series of Slips by Hannah Piper Burns and Dominic Amorin is the result of their residency at Open Signal. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Emik has music posters. Gallery at the Jupiter Hotel www.galleryatthejupiter.com 800 E Burnside
Eutectic has Tinder, wood-fired ceramics by Perry Haas, Chris Baskin, Frank Boyden, Richard Brandt, Samuel Johnson and Simon Levin. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, June 01, 2017
June 1 Westside Art Openings+
Wendy Ewald is an early era social practice artist. That garnered a McArthur and participation in the 1997 Whitney. This is Where I Live is her project of photographs from 14 communities over three years in Israel and the West Bank. The 400 images were made by the people there. Ima Mfon has Nigerian Identity, portraits of Nigerians living in the US. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
James Florschutz has sculptures and Chris Johanson has prints ranging over many years. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto has a show of primarily monochrome animal images. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Morehshin Allahyari has She Who Sees the Unknown: Huma, her reimagined dark goddess sculptures in 3d and in video. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Anna Fidler has her paper collage characters attached to paintings of surreal landscape. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
The Crow Shadow print studio has a group show by contemporary Native American artists. Benny Fountain also shows paintings. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Heidi Schwegler, Andrea Furtado, Keylay Tukor, Jason Traeger and Rachel Oleson have a group show at the Thru Gallery 1706 NW Glisan, Suite 7. 6PM-9 Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. The BFA thesis show is up now. At 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
S1 reopens in its new space with Sidony O'Niel's ;; NÉANMOINS UNE CATACHRÈSE. She will be the artist in residence in June and July. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 7:30PM-10 Free
James Florschutz has sculptures and Chris Johanson has prints ranging over many years. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto has a show of primarily monochrome animal images. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Morehshin Allahyari has She Who Sees the Unknown: Huma, her reimagined dark goddess sculptures in 3d and in video. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Anna Fidler has her paper collage characters attached to paintings of surreal landscape. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
The Crow Shadow print studio has a group show by contemporary Native American artists. Benny Fountain also shows paintings. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Heidi Schwegler, Andrea Furtado, Keylay Tukor, Jason Traeger and Rachel Oleson have a group show at the Thru Gallery 1706 NW Glisan, Suite 7. 6PM-9 Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. The BFA thesis show is up now. At 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
S1 reopens in its new space with Sidony O'Niel's ;; NÉANMOINS UNE CATACHRÈSE. She will be the artist in residence in June and July. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 7:30PM-10 Free
Friday, May 26, 2017
May 27 ¡Never Not Baila, Canta, Toca!
Artists as curators is beautiful. Artists think deeply and critically as they are making personal work. They expand the possibilities creatively, then they eliminate most as they test and refine. That experience: the knowledge of possibility and the experience of paring down, is the modus of the curator.
Portland artist Midori Hirose has curated Never Not Here, visual work by Natalie Anne Howard and Shawn Creeden, Rainen Knecht and Dino Matt accompanied by performance with Mia Ferm, Michael Reinsch and The Tenses.
Never Not Here www.facebook.com/events/1041845215945829/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 6:00PM-9 Free
La Peña: ¡Baila, canta, toca! is an evening of flamenco. Brenna McDonald dances with guitarist Jed Miley, cantaor Pepe Raphael, Christina Lorentz, Lillie Last and Nick Hutcheson. More: www.facebook.com/events/1464816210237538/. At Artichoke Music
3130 SE Hawthorne 8PM $20
Portland artist Midori Hirose has curated Never Not Here, visual work by Natalie Anne Howard and Shawn Creeden, Rainen Knecht and Dino Matt accompanied by performance with Mia Ferm, Michael Reinsch and The Tenses.
Never Not Here www.facebook.com/events/1041845215945829/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 6:00PM-9 Free
La Peña: ¡Baila, canta, toca! is an evening of flamenco. Brenna McDonald dances with guitarist Jed Miley, cantaor Pepe Raphael, Christina Lorentz, Lillie Last and Nick Hutcheson. More: www.facebook.com/events/1464816210237538/. At Artichoke Music
3130 SE Hawthorne 8PM $20
Thursday, May 25, 2017
May 26-28 Be Here Now
You Are Here is an artist-organized exploration of immersive media, like virtual, augmented or mixed reality. Yes, you get to put on the glasses. It takes place at Pioneer Square and is free and open to the public as part of the Houseguest program.
The schedule:
Friday
4PM-6 TGIF VR Spa treatments for Portland’s hard working folk
8PM-9 Commencement ceremony featuring music by Golden Retriever and movement artists exploring motion capture.
8PM-10 Experience Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
Saturday
3PM-4 Tech Talk by Kent Bye - The Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality
4PM-5 Workshop: Metafesto: Refiguring Social Media, Preparing for the Metaverse with Matt Henderson
6PM-7 Performance: EMA + EMS with movement artists exploring motion capture.
7PM-8 Live DJs + VR lounge
8PM-10 - Google Earth + Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
Sunday
1PM-4 Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
2PM-3 Tech Talk: Calm Technology with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case
3PM-4 Workshop: Adventures in Anyland
7PM-8 Down tempo dance party in virtual & real Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Houseguest at Pioneer Square. Afternoon-evening Free
The schedule:
Friday
4PM-6 TGIF VR Spa treatments for Portland’s hard working folk
8PM-9 Commencement ceremony featuring music by Golden Retriever and movement artists exploring motion capture.
8PM-10 Experience Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
Saturday
3PM-4 Tech Talk by Kent Bye - The Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality
4PM-5 Workshop: Metafesto: Refiguring Social Media, Preparing for the Metaverse with Matt Henderson
6PM-7 Performance: EMA + EMS with movement artists exploring motion capture.
7PM-8 Live DJs + VR lounge
8PM-10 - Google Earth + Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
Sunday
1PM-4 Pioneer Courthouse Square in High Fidelity VR
2PM-3 Tech Talk: Calm Technology with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case
3PM-4 Workshop: Adventures in Anyland
7PM-8 Down tempo dance party in virtual & real Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Houseguest at Pioneer Square. Afternoon-evening Free
Saturday, May 20, 2017
May 21 Animal Laughter
Philadelphia artist William Matheson opens paintings this afternoon in his Animal Laughter show. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Thursday, May 18, 2017
May 19-21 Self Assembly
Assembly is an event and an invitation. It's organized by the social practice artists at Portland State University, one of the top programs for social practice art in the world. It is an open invitation for you and anyone you know to stop by and participate in anything you think interesting.
Here is the full schedule:
Friday, May 19 in collaboration with Oregon Food Bank & Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI)
5:00–6:00PM Mural Kick-Off and Garden Happy Hour
6:00–7:00PM Assembly Potluck (please RSVP to shoshana@shoshanagugenheim.com)
7:00-8:00 PM Presentation and Dialogue by Roz Crews, Oregon Food Bank, Anke Schüttler, Emma Colburn, and Eliot Feenstra
8:00–10:00PM After Food Comes Dance
Saturday, May 20 in collaboration with Creek College, NAYA & Columbia Slough Watershed Council
9:00AM–5:00PM Experimental Family Project Space with PLAT
9:00–9:30AM Opening Ceremony with NAYA
9:30–10:30AM Creek College Class 1: Whispering Soil with Anupam Singh
10:45–11:30AM Morning Barter with Yoko Silk
11:45AM–12:45PM Creek College Class 2: Writing Together and Alone In Public with Roz Crews
12:45–1:45PM Cafeteria Staff Exchange Program: Lunch at NAYA with Spencer Byrne-Seres, Xi Jie Ng (Salty) in collaboration with cafeteria staff at NAYA
and MLK Jr. School
1:45–2:45PM Creek College Class 3: Creek Stories with
Eliot Feenstra, Lauren Moran and collaborators
3:00–3:45PM Afternoon Barter with Yoko Silk
4:00–5:00PM Creek College Class 4: Canoe the Slough
5:15–6:15PM Panel Discussion: Placemaking, Community & Environment
8:00–11:00PM Karaoke at Chopsticks III on Columbia Blvd.
Sunday, May 21 in collaboration with
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary & Middle School
10:00AM–5:00PM Experimental Family Project Space with PLAT
10:00–11:00AM Place Based Knowing in a Branded World with Alissa Hartman & Shoshana Gugenheim
11:15AM–12:15PM Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling
12:30–1:30PM Cafeteria Staff Exchange Program: Lunch at MLK Jr. School with Spencer Byrne-Seres,
Xi Jie Ng (Salty) in collaboration with cafeteria staff at NAYA and MLK Jr. School
1:45–2:45PM KSMoCA Tour & All The Feelings (Sculpture Garden) with Anke Schüttler and collaborators
3:00–4:00PM What We Make Together with Eliot Feenstra
4:15–5:15PM Whispering Soil Story Circle Part 2 with Anupam Singh
5:30–6:30PM The New Jim Crow Experiential Research Workshop with Anke Schüttler, Emma Colburn, Lauren Moran, Lisa Jarrett and Renee Sills
7:00–9:00PM Closing Conversation with Ariana Jacob at the Bye and Bye
All free, many child friendly events, free child care, and as good as you make it Assembly 2017 www.psusocialpractice.org/assembly/ various locations in NE Portland. Free
Here is the full schedule:
Friday, May 19 in collaboration with Oregon Food Bank & Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI)
5:00–6:00PM Mural Kick-Off and Garden Happy Hour
6:00–7:00PM Assembly Potluck (please RSVP to shoshana@shoshanagugenheim.com)
7:00-8:00 PM Presentation and Dialogue by Roz Crews, Oregon Food Bank, Anke Schüttler, Emma Colburn, and Eliot Feenstra
8:00–10:00PM After Food Comes Dance
Saturday, May 20 in collaboration with Creek College, NAYA & Columbia Slough Watershed Council
9:00AM–5:00PM Experimental Family Project Space with PLAT
9:00–9:30AM Opening Ceremony with NAYA
9:30–10:30AM Creek College Class 1: Whispering Soil with Anupam Singh
10:45–11:30AM Morning Barter with Yoko Silk
11:45AM–12:45PM Creek College Class 2: Writing Together and Alone In Public with Roz Crews
12:45–1:45PM Cafeteria Staff Exchange Program: Lunch at NAYA with Spencer Byrne-Seres, Xi Jie Ng (Salty) in collaboration with cafeteria staff at NAYA
and MLK Jr. School
1:45–2:45PM Creek College Class 3: Creek Stories with
Eliot Feenstra, Lauren Moran and collaborators
3:00–3:45PM Afternoon Barter with Yoko Silk
4:00–5:00PM Creek College Class 4: Canoe the Slough
5:15–6:15PM Panel Discussion: Placemaking, Community & Environment
8:00–11:00PM Karaoke at Chopsticks III on Columbia Blvd.
Sunday, May 21 in collaboration with
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary & Middle School
10:00AM–5:00PM Experimental Family Project Space with PLAT
10:00–11:00AM Place Based Knowing in a Branded World with Alissa Hartman & Shoshana Gugenheim
11:15AM–12:15PM Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling
12:30–1:30PM Cafeteria Staff Exchange Program: Lunch at MLK Jr. School with Spencer Byrne-Seres,
Xi Jie Ng (Salty) in collaboration with cafeteria staff at NAYA and MLK Jr. School
1:45–2:45PM KSMoCA Tour & All The Feelings (Sculpture Garden) with Anke Schüttler and collaborators
3:00–4:00PM What We Make Together with Eliot Feenstra
4:15–5:15PM Whispering Soil Story Circle Part 2 with Anupam Singh
5:30–6:30PM The New Jim Crow Experiential Research Workshop with Anke Schüttler, Emma Colburn, Lauren Moran, Lisa Jarrett and Renee Sills
7:00–9:00PM Closing Conversation with Ariana Jacob at the Bye and Bye
All free, many child friendly events, free child care, and as good as you make it Assembly 2017 www.psusocialpractice.org/assembly/ various locations in NE Portland. Free
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
May 19 Illustrating Weather Walked In
Illustrator Jason Sturgill speaks this morning on his creative journey. It is part of the Creative Mornings series, and the event was fully subscribed in advance. Creative Mornings www.creativemornings.com/talks/jason-sturgill at Instrument 3529 N Williams 8:30AM-10 Free
A Weather Walked In is a show of photographs made in 1968 and 1969 in Vietnam. Infantry person Charlie Haughey captured intimate candid portraits of fellow soldiers there. The photos remained untouched for 45 years. For the last few years, Charlie has made fine woodworks at ADX, who encouraged him to reveal his work.
A Weather Walked In https://www.facebook.com/events/761344294026309/ at adxportland.com in the new building at 1015 SE Stark 5PM-10PM Free
A Weather Walked In is a show of photographs made in 1968 and 1969 in Vietnam. Infantry person Charlie Haughey captured intimate candid portraits of fellow soldiers there. The photos remained untouched for 45 years. For the last few years, Charlie has made fine woodworks at ADX, who encouraged him to reveal his work.
A Weather Walked In https://www.facebook.com/events/761344294026309/ at adxportland.com in the new building at 1015 SE Stark 5PM-10PM Free
Saturday, May 13, 2017
May 13 Watercolor Flamenco Knob Twiddling
Just as watercolor style tattoo is gaining over hard line, Portland graphic novel illustrator Arnold Pander shows water colors in a break from his hard line work and paintings on velvet. It has a Japanese sumi style feel with Japanese oddness. At Alchemy Jeweler 1022 NW Lovejoy noon-3 Free
Feria de Portland is a festival of Spanish culture, including Flamenco. Details https://www.facebook.com/events/1494849170526250/. At AudioCinema 226 SE Madison 5PM-midnight $10-15
Tonight modular synth performers Paul barker + Josh holley from Malekko, Terror Apart, Juli Amore, Angela Johnson (Die Robot) + jeph nor, E*t My Shit, SunFalls, Darcy Neal, Astrowarrior + Gina, Zündfolge + William Hart perform. Visuals by Cysmic! Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5 for the ACLU
Feria de Portland is a festival of Spanish culture, including Flamenco. Details https://www.facebook.com/events/1494849170526250/. At AudioCinema 226 SE Madison 5PM-midnight $10-15
Tonight modular synth performers Paul barker + Josh holley from Malekko, Terror Apart, Juli Amore, Angela Johnson (Die Robot) + jeph nor, E*t My Shit, SunFalls, Darcy Neal, Astrowarrior + Gina, Zündfolge + William Hart perform. Visuals by Cysmic! Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5 for the ACLU
May 12-21 Art School Thesis Shows
Portland-Oregon art schools PSU, PNCA, OCAC, UO, L&C show graduating artist thesis shows. It is an opportunity to perceive a pulse in art. I bought my first work from a thesis show. You can find the details on the respective websites.
Friday, May 05, 2017
May 5 Eastside Art Openings+
The last show at White Box, which also had a dedicated video space is tonight. The UO used the space to colonize Portland and dominate the indigenous PSU.
Academic galleries are unique - they don't have a commercial aim, and they have a budget. In that category, Reed & PNCA still bring out of town artists. PSU, Marylhurst, OCAC and PCC Sylvania have good curatorial programs. This one had some good shows including contemporary Chinese artists. So sad to see White Box go.
Chris Moss has been curating White Box. He received his BFA from PNCA. He curated a series of shows, the Donut Shop in Portland, including a show consuming a house off gentrifying Alberta Street which included a rocket. He later gained an MFA from NYU.
Functionally United, opens tonight and is highly recommended. The artists are a beautiful sample of many years of contemporary work: Intisar Abioto, Holly Andres, Corey Arnold, Avantika Bawa, Carla Bengston, Pat Boas, John Brodie, Karl Burkheimer, Peter Campus, Bruce Conkle, Shelby Davis, Modou Dieng, David Eckard, Kristy Edmunds, Damien Gilly, MK Guth, Jesse Hayward, Sean Healy, Daniel Heffernan, Daniel Heyman, Craig Hickman, Laura Hughes, Malia Jensen, Todd Johnson, Kristan Kennedy, James Lavadour, Elizabeth Malaska, Christopher Michlig, Jenene Nagy, Liz Obert, Julia Oldham, Suzanne Opton, Melody Owen, Pat Boas, Wendy Red Star, Patrick Rock, Crystal Schenk, Heidi Schwegler and Storm Tharp.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Talk doors 5PM Free, Art opening 5PM-6 Free
Stephanie Chefas Gallery has a group show inspired by the work of Ryan Bubnis. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Academic galleries are unique - they don't have a commercial aim, and they have a budget. In that category, Reed & PNCA still bring out of town artists. PSU, Marylhurst, OCAC and PCC Sylvania have good curatorial programs. This one had some good shows including contemporary Chinese artists. So sad to see White Box go.
Chris Moss has been curating White Box. He received his BFA from PNCA. He curated a series of shows, the Donut Shop in Portland, including a show consuming a house off gentrifying Alberta Street which included a rocket. He later gained an MFA from NYU.
Functionally United, opens tonight and is highly recommended. The artists are a beautiful sample of many years of contemporary work: Intisar Abioto, Holly Andres, Corey Arnold, Avantika Bawa, Carla Bengston, Pat Boas, John Brodie, Karl Burkheimer, Peter Campus, Bruce Conkle, Shelby Davis, Modou Dieng, David Eckard, Kristy Edmunds, Damien Gilly, MK Guth, Jesse Hayward, Sean Healy, Daniel Heffernan, Daniel Heyman, Craig Hickman, Laura Hughes, Malia Jensen, Todd Johnson, Kristan Kennedy, James Lavadour, Elizabeth Malaska, Christopher Michlig, Jenene Nagy, Liz Obert, Julia Oldham, Suzanne Opton, Melody Owen, Pat Boas, Wendy Red Star, Patrick Rock, Crystal Schenk, Heidi Schwegler and Storm Tharp.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Talk doors 5PM Free, Art opening 5PM-6 Free
Stephanie Chefas Gallery has a group show inspired by the work of Ryan Bubnis. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
May 4 Westside Art Openings
Aleksey Kondratyev has Ice Fishers, photographs on the Ishim River in Kazakhstan of improvised fishing shelters. Seiya Bowen has Nadachi, portraits of the town in Japan of her grandparents. Many rural Japanese town are becoming ghost towns as the birthrate declines and city living attracts. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Quiet Until Something Falls is a collaborative installation between Maggie Heath and Emily Wobb. They are known for their Bronco Gallery project. At Erickson Gallery 9 NW 2nd 6PM-8 Free
Gregg Renfrow has minimal translucent washes on acrylic panels and Amanda Wojick has 2d collages and sculptures. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Williamson Knight is a new gallery birthed from the respected Cherry & Lucic. Social Learning Theory is Sheida Soleimani's work commenting on women executed by the government of Iran. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 Free
Sasha Barr has bright graphic work. He was the graphics director for Sub Pop back in the day. At gallery 135, 135 NW Park 6PM-8 Free
Yoonhee Choi has Sift, her trademark pinned wall sculptures along with abstract oil and beeswax paintings by Roya Motamedi. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
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
Quiet Until Something Falls is a collaborative installation between Maggie Heath and Emily Wobb. They are known for their Bronco Gallery project. At Erickson Gallery 9 NW 2nd 6PM-8 Free
Gregg Renfrow has minimal translucent washes on acrylic panels and Amanda Wojick has 2d collages and sculptures. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Williamson Knight is a new gallery birthed from the respected Cherry & Lucic. Social Learning Theory is Sheida Soleimani's work commenting on women executed by the government of Iran. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 Free
Sasha Barr has bright graphic work. He was the graphics director for Sub Pop back in the day. At gallery 135, 135 NW Park 6PM-8 Free
Yoonhee Choi has Sift, her trademark pinned wall sculptures along with abstract oil and beeswax paintings by Roya Motamedi. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
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
Sunday, April 30, 2017
April 30 Post-structuralist Reading Party
Philosophy and metaphysics, as we know it on the Left Coast, seemed to spring forth simultaneously in Greece, Nepal and China about 2500 years ago. The English had a running start about 800 years ago, the Germans had an impact in the 19th century. But it is the French who have dominated the 20th. One, Michel Foucault, has inspired the small Mother Foucault's Bookshop. It is the place for this afternoon's Silent Reading Party.
Bring a book to read, silently. No talking. This is a very small venue, and you might bring a cushion, blanket of chair of your own. This week there will be cookies for sale, you might sneak in a drink. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison 3PM-5 Free
Bring a book to read, silently. No talking. This is a very small venue, and you might bring a cushion, blanket of chair of your own. This week there will be cookies for sale, you might sneak in a drink. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison 3PM-5 Free
Saturday, April 29, 2017
April 29 Six Eleven
Six is eleven.
Six is the annual performance of 6 six-channel musical performances at 7PM for about 3 hours. It is in its eleventh year. While the audience chills on cushions and blankets on the floor or walks about, the musicians construct their performance over six surrounding speakers in six channels.
This year is Cat Ross, Marbletop Orchestra, Strategy, Felisha Ledesma, Rebecca Gates+Marcus Fischer and Choir.
Bring pillows and blankets. It's perfectly fine to zone out, just don't snore.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825037547735164/
Six in the PNCA Mediatheque on the main floor www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 7PM Free
Six is the annual performance of 6 six-channel musical performances at 7PM for about 3 hours. It is in its eleventh year. While the audience chills on cushions and blankets on the floor or walks about, the musicians construct their performance over six surrounding speakers in six channels.
This year is Cat Ross, Marbletop Orchestra, Strategy, Felisha Ledesma, Rebecca Gates+Marcus Fischer and Choir.
Bring pillows and blankets. It's perfectly fine to zone out, just don't snore.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825037547735164/
Six in the PNCA Mediatheque on the main floor www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 7PM Free
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
April 19-23 Photo Lucida
Photolucida happens every two years in Portland. It is a 'photography festival' wherein photographers may have their work critiqued by gallerists and experienced photographers, gallerists may find photographers, photographers are selected for recognition, and everyone makes love not war. It has paid registration for photographer programs which sell out far in advance. The full schedule is www.photolucida.org/portfolio-reviews/schedule/. There are a few events open to the public at no charge.
Thursday 6PM-9 is a portfolio walk in the Portland Art Museum Masonic Temple Marks Building Fields Ballroom. The public can see the Photolucida photographers' works. Friday is a photography book publisher display at Blue Sky Gallery 6:30PM-9.
Photolucida https://www.photolucida.org various locations and times, some events free.
Thursday 6PM-9 is a portfolio walk in the Portland Art Museum Masonic Temple Marks Building Fields Ballroom. The public can see the Photolucida photographers' works. Friday is a photography book publisher display at Blue Sky Gallery 6:30PM-9.
Photolucida https://www.photolucida.org various locations and times, some events free.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
April 14 Sky Fall Space
This isn't an art talk. But it is a talk about archiving digital art. Eventually, the Sky Will Fall: The Crisis of Sustainability in the Digital Humanities is a talk by Andrew Johnstone. He is a young scholar studying the topic from the Digital Humanities department at King’s College London. He provides his observations and possible solutions for digital archiving in libraries and museums. Post doc appointment trial? At Portland State University Millar Library 160. 1PM Free
Music For An Empty Space and A Full Mind by Ben Glas and Tyler Snazelle is a collaboration. Glas provides a sound field and Snazelle provides visual art. The One Grand events are always lively. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 8PM-11 Free
Music For An Empty Space and A Full Mind by Ben Glas and Tyler Snazelle is a collaboration. Glas provides a sound field and Snazelle provides visual art. The One Grand events are always lively. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 8PM-11 Free
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
April 13 X Ex X
Xhurches are ex-churches; churches which have been repurposed to new uses. Matt Henderson and Van Pham have lived in one in Portland. Inspired, they have traveled around the US, capturing former churches, their new uses and interviewing the people occupying them. The result is a series to be previewed this evening; audience feedback requested. Xhurches www.xhurches.org At Performance Works NW 4625 SE 67th Ave 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, April 08, 2017
April 11 Pivot
Pecha Kucha Portland is back. This month's theme is pivot applied to creative challenges. Presenters are: Michael Hyp (Nike), Chris Angelus (Portland Food Adventures), Ben Kloch (365), Al Ochosa (Cura Cannabis Solutions), Cort Johnson (KINK Radio), John Freisse (Starve Ups), Stuart Getty (Sockeye), May Picard , Kris Regentin (ADX Portland), Jim Hassert (Grovemade), Katrina Yarnell (Organizers NW), Tommy Gibbons (Portland City Boxing). The talks are captured with the slides and are available after on the Pecha Kucha website. Pecha Kucha Portland www.pechakucha.org/cities/portland-or at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 6:30PM, talks 7:30 $5 advance, $10 door
April 9 Lost Chord
Jack Ryan has The Lost Chord, a show of sculptures with sound transducers afixed. He is co-director of Ditch Projects, so you have an idea of the work.
A free shuttle service will leave NW 8th & Couch at 3:30PM and return to that location at approximately 5:30 on the day of the opening.
At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
A free shuttle service will leave NW 8th & Couch at 3:30PM and return to that location at approximately 5:30 on the day of the opening.
At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
April 8 Sensory Pose Divers
As part of photography month, Melanie Flood Projects, which often shows photography, has Basic Poses by Dru Donovan. She is from the Yale School, often working in monochrome. This show has photos and video. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 4PM-7 Free
Sensory Gymnastics is the final show at Disjecta curated by Michele Fiedler from Mexico City. It includes Rasames Figueroa, Eric Mast and Harry Smith. Pablo Guardiola performs at 7:30. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan - which is in dire need of your help repainting www.paintpaulpdx.org - www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
Tonight modular synth performers FreeCaustic Touch, Big Mountain Fudge Cake, Astral Synth Armada, SHH... with special performance by FLESHH, Glo Globes, The Viewer + Thomas Fang, Ben Davis, Dr. Strangeknob and Lasers of Love perform music. Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5 for the ACLU
Sensory Gymnastics is the final show at Disjecta curated by Michele Fiedler from Mexico City. It includes Rasames Figueroa, Eric Mast and Harry Smith. Pablo Guardiola performs at 7:30. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan - which is in dire need of your help repainting www.paintpaulpdx.org - www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
Tonight modular synth performers FreeCaustic Touch, Big Mountain Fudge Cake, Astral Synth Armada, SHH... with special performance by FLESHH, Glo Globes, The Viewer + Thomas Fang, Ben Davis, Dr. Strangeknob and Lasers of Love perform music. Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5 for the ACLU
Friday, April 07, 2017
April 7-9 Stepping Butoh Dancing Seattle
The Seattle Butoh Festival performances are this weekend with a theme this year of body as politics, hidden histories revealed, the feminine in its multitude of guises, personal primordial journeys and journeys of acceptance, synthesis and unity. That pretty much covers everything, right?
Friday April 7 is Compañía Ruta de la Memoria (from Chile) along with Seattle's Joan Laage and Sheri Brown.
Saturday April 8 is Compañía Ruta de la Memoria (from Chile) along with Seattle's Helen Thorsen and Diana Garcia-Snyder.
Sunday April 9 Ken Mai (from Finland/Japan) performs with Seattle's Kaoru Okumura
The Seattle Butoh Festival www.daipanbutoh.com/seattle-butoh-festival/ at Shoreline Community College Theater, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Shoreline, WA. Friday 8PM, Saturday 8PM, Sunday 3PM. Shoreline Community Collage Students free, Seniors & Students $15, $20
Friday April 7 is Compañía Ruta de la Memoria (from Chile) along with Seattle's Joan Laage and Sheri Brown.
Saturday April 8 is Compañía Ruta de la Memoria (from Chile) along with Seattle's Helen Thorsen and Diana Garcia-Snyder.
Sunday April 9 Ken Mai (from Finland/Japan) performs with Seattle's Kaoru Okumura
The Seattle Butoh Festival www.daipanbutoh.com/seattle-butoh-festival/ at Shoreline Community College Theater, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Shoreline, WA. Friday 8PM, Saturday 8PM, Sunday 3PM. Shoreline Community Collage Students free, Seniors & Students $15, $20
April 7-29 Portland Butoh Performances
Local butoh outpost Water in the Desert at Headwaters Theater has more than a month of movement workshops going on now. They have performances tonight, Friday then each Saturday this month.
Friday April 7th has performers Pepper Pepper, Yulia Arakelyan of Wobbly Dance, Mizu Desierto, Meshi Chavez with Lisa DeGrace, Hank Logan and Carl Annala, film.
Saturday, April 8, has Anastazia Louise (Bad Unkl Sista from SF), Stephanie Lanckton, Douglas Allen (from Seattle), Christopher Mankowski & Meghann Rose.
Saturday April 15 has Ken Mai (from Helsinki).
Saturday April 22 has Mari Osanai (from Japan).
Saturday April 29 has Yuko Kaseki (from Berlin).
Tickets http://www.witd.org/butohperformance/2017. Reservations 971 258 0748. Or at the door.
Butoh performance 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 8PM $20 advance, $25 door
Friday April 7th has performers Pepper Pepper, Yulia Arakelyan of Wobbly Dance, Mizu Desierto, Meshi Chavez with Lisa DeGrace, Hank Logan and Carl Annala, film.
Saturday, April 8, has Anastazia Louise (Bad Unkl Sista from SF), Stephanie Lanckton, Douglas Allen (from Seattle), Christopher Mankowski & Meghann Rose.
Saturday April 15 has Ken Mai (from Helsinki).
Saturday April 22 has Mari Osanai (from Japan).
Saturday April 29 has Yuko Kaseki (from Berlin).
Tickets http://www.witd.org/butohperformance/2017. Reservations 971 258 0748. Or at the door.
Butoh performance 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 8PM $20 advance, $25 door
April 7 Eastside Art Openings
Redux has Intertwined: A Contemporary Macrame Exhibition. Makers include Brooke Anderson, Emily Bixler, Terra Blakely, Michelle Blomstedt , Emily Katz, Audra Osborne and Rachael Perisho. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
Haunt is having a plant exchange and Julia Barbee has a new perfume, Mother Naturalist. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 5PM-8 Free
Taking Pictures is a group show with no discernable theme. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Dominant Form: Gestures in Recent Photography & Video is a group show, many wrks with political themes. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Lloydean Presents has Jorge Terrell with Clone, a resistance art installation. At Lloydean https://www.facebook.com/Clone.Art/ 2728 NE MLK Blvd @ Knott St 5:30PM - 8:30 Free
Robert Liles has Humans on Earth. Color photographs made in the Southern USA. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Haunt is having a plant exchange and Julia Barbee has a new perfume, Mother Naturalist. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 5PM-8 Free
Taking Pictures is a group show with no discernable theme. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Dominant Form: Gestures in Recent Photography & Video is a group show, many wrks with political themes. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Lloydean Presents has Jorge Terrell with Clone, a resistance art installation. At Lloydean https://www.facebook.com/Clone.Art/ 2728 NE MLK Blvd @ Knott St 5:30PM - 8:30 Free
Robert Liles has Humans on Earth. Color photographs made in the Southern USA. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, April 06, 2017
April 6 Dance, Dance, Evolution
Documentary maker Eric Nordstrom has made Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past and Present. It records the family tree of performers, choreographers and presenters between the 1960s and now. Modern dance under all its names is a small corner of the performance world. It is expensive to maintain a large warm space with a good floor in cities afflicted by real estate speculation while at he same time it needs a large population to attract the small percentage of people interested to be audience. Performance careers are often short, as in sports, but the pay for dancers is little to none. Nordstrom has captured the narrative of many of those who made, and make, the dance dream in Portland.
Moving History nwfilm.org/films/moving-history-portland-contemporary-dance-past-and-present/ at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 6PM reception 7 film $9
Moving History nwfilm.org/films/moving-history-portland-contemporary-dance-past-and-present/ at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 6PM reception 7 film $9
April 6 Westside Art Openings
April is Portland Photo Month. See www.photolucida.org/portland-photo-month/ for the big picture. Many galleries support it by photography shows.
Cory Arnold is a Portlander who fishes Alaska. He has some fine photographs, including some of waves where every flying drop in the churn was caught by light. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Susan Seubert is a PNCA-trained photographer. She has worked for some time with some heavy themes using monochrome fine print processes. This one is Not a Day Goes By. Seubert has will show at this year's Venice Biennale, congratulations. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Ervin A Johnson has a series of large scale color photographs which have been altered and with paint added. They are portraits of black lives lost in show #InHonor. Johnson is the 2016 Photolucida Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award recipient.
Cristián Ureta has Volviendo a la Tierra, photographs of the town of Chuquicamata in Chile. The copper pit mine has been in operation since 1910. As the mine has expanded, the town is being swallowed.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Portland minimalist and light artist has a tensioned wood installation. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
A broad 20th Century group show of photographers is at Augen including Sir Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Lucien Clergue, Elliot Erwitt, Godlis, Philippe Halsman, William Keck, Michael Kenna, Steve McCurry, Barbara Morgan, Billy Name, Arnold Newman, Anton Perich, Edward Pfizenmaier, Julius Schulman, Ezra Stoller and Jerry Uelsman. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Leach continues its March ceramics show and Rauschenberg's April photo show. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
PDX has high contrast color still life photos, most involving flowers, by Amjad Faur. He graduated from UO about 10 years ago. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Upfor has LA transplant Christoper Russell. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Momoland (lvl 3) is an 8-bit style graphic show by Momo Pixels www.instagram.com/momopixels/. Live music and a DJ accompany. At Sticks and Stones www.sticksandstonespdx.com/ 427 NW 6th 7PM-11 Free
Powells Books has many artist employees. They have a show this evening. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside
The ad agency has some large circus style graphic work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
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
Cory Arnold is a Portlander who fishes Alaska. He has some fine photographs, including some of waves where every flying drop in the churn was caught by light. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Susan Seubert is a PNCA-trained photographer. She has worked for some time with some heavy themes using monochrome fine print processes. This one is Not a Day Goes By. Seubert has will show at this year's Venice Biennale, congratulations. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Ervin A Johnson has a series of large scale color photographs which have been altered and with paint added. They are portraits of black lives lost in show #InHonor. Johnson is the 2016 Photolucida Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award recipient.
Cristián Ureta has Volviendo a la Tierra, photographs of the town of Chuquicamata in Chile. The copper pit mine has been in operation since 1910. As the mine has expanded, the town is being swallowed.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Portland minimalist and light artist has a tensioned wood installation. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
A broad 20th Century group show of photographers is at Augen including Sir Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Lucien Clergue, Elliot Erwitt, Godlis, Philippe Halsman, William Keck, Michael Kenna, Steve McCurry, Barbara Morgan, Billy Name, Arnold Newman, Anton Perich, Edward Pfizenmaier, Julius Schulman, Ezra Stoller and Jerry Uelsman. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Leach continues its March ceramics show and Rauschenberg's April photo show. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
PDX has high contrast color still life photos, most involving flowers, by Amjad Faur. He graduated from UO about 10 years ago. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Upfor has LA transplant Christoper Russell. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Momoland (lvl 3) is an 8-bit style graphic show by Momo Pixels www.instagram.com/momopixels/. Live music and a DJ accompany. At Sticks and Stones www.sticksandstonespdx.com/ 427 NW 6th 7PM-11 Free
Powells Books has many artist employees. They have a show this evening. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside
The ad agency has some large circus style graphic work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
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
Friday, March 24, 2017
March 26 Hack Art
Art Hack is an exhibition of local electronic media art. It will be the result of a hackathon that begins Friday. See what the teams make!
They also win one of the copywriting awards for the month:
"The Internet was originally hailed as an inherently democratic medium that would promote democracy, sweep away corrupt gatekeepers, and make it easy for anyone to create or access knowledge. From that would come better solutions, more transparency, and citizens with more power than at any time in history.
Now the basic assumption of a common truth has been disrupted by a technology that can offer any reality and alter any history, on demand, 24/7. Rather than heralding a peaceful global commons we find ourselves fragmented into echo chambers and struggling to find common ground outside of our friends list.
As the dream of a democratic Internet fades we are left to question what role it actually plays in our society and government. As hackers we have little time to mourn the loss of techno-utopian ideals as there is an urgent need to critically examine the impact of our creation and consider mechanisms for mediation.
As hackers, many of us were involved in the development and advancement of the very Internet that now seems to be working against us. What do we do now that the Internet has revealed many of our dreams to be illusory?"
PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM=10 Free
They also win one of the copywriting awards for the month:
"The Internet was originally hailed as an inherently democratic medium that would promote democracy, sweep away corrupt gatekeepers, and make it easy for anyone to create or access knowledge. From that would come better solutions, more transparency, and citizens with more power than at any time in history.
Now the basic assumption of a common truth has been disrupted by a technology that can offer any reality and alter any history, on demand, 24/7. Rather than heralding a peaceful global commons we find ourselves fragmented into echo chambers and struggling to find common ground outside of our friends list.
As the dream of a democratic Internet fades we are left to question what role it actually plays in our society and government. As hackers we have little time to mourn the loss of techno-utopian ideals as there is an urgent need to critically examine the impact of our creation and consider mechanisms for mediation.
As hackers, many of us were involved in the development and advancement of the very Internet that now seems to be working against us. What do we do now that the Internet has revealed many of our dreams to be illusory?"
PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM=10 Free
March 25 Caldera Spring
Caldera Arts is a Summer arts immersion for at risk youth. In Winter/Spring, 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 Kate Bredeson, Dramaturgy, Portland; Rachael Dichter, Dance, San Francisco; Saideh Eftekhari, Music, San Francisco; Allie Hankins, Dance, Portland; Jamie Howell, Film, Wenatchee; Zoe Keller, Illustration, Portland; Susan Murrell, Mixed Media, La Grande; Michelle Peñaloza, Poetry, Seattle; and Sherrie Wolf, Painting, 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.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free
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.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free
Monday, March 20, 2017
March 23-25 Ceramics Opening Receptions
This month, in coordination with the NCECA ceramics show, many spaces have traditional and contemporary ceramics exhibitions. We don't always mention crafts, but here we will.
C3:Initiative in St Johns has a good history of artwork with a social change theme. Tonight they host work by Portland's Socially Engaged Craft Collective. Social Objects includes interactive projects, performances and games, all ceramic.
There is a huge list nceca.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-Exhibitions-by-area-3.13.17.pdf with many concentrated on Friday from 6PM-9. Most of the shows can be seen over the month.
The show www.c3initiative.org/social-objects-nceca-exhibition.html opens tonight at 7326 N Chicago. 5PM-9 Free
C3:Initiative in St Johns has a good history of artwork with a social change theme. Tonight they host work by Portland's Socially Engaged Craft Collective. Social Objects includes interactive projects, performances and games, all ceramic.
There is a huge list nceca.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-Exhibitions-by-area-3.13.17.pdf with many concentrated on Friday from 6PM-9. Most of the shows can be seen over the month.
The show www.c3initiative.org/social-objects-nceca-exhibition.html opens tonight at 7326 N Chicago. 5PM-9 Free
Saturday, March 18, 2017
March 19 Silent Gourmet Sanctuary
Hannah Levy opens Gourmet Garden. Yum. 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 11AM-1PM Free
Bring a book to read, silently, over drinks and snacks. No talking. Recommended. This is a small venue. Suggest arrive early because publicity lends to over full. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at www.beechstreetparlor.com 412 NE Beech 3PM-5 Free
Monthly Sanctuary Sunday experimental music decamps at Beacon Sound tonight with Geological Creep, Marbletop Orchestrated and Scifi Sol. Visuals, Krystal Perez. At Beacon Sound, 3636 N Mississippi 7PM donation
Bring a book to read, silently, over drinks and snacks. No talking. Recommended. This is a small venue. Suggest arrive early because publicity lends to over full. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at www.beechstreetparlor.com 412 NE Beech 3PM-5 Free
Monthly Sanctuary Sunday experimental music decamps at Beacon Sound tonight with Geological Creep, Marbletop Orchestrated and Scifi Sol. Visuals, Krystal Perez. At Beacon Sound, 3636 N Mississippi 7PM donation
Friday, March 17, 2017
March 17 International Women's Front
The Lumber Room opens Women to the Front, a selection of women artists from the collection www.lumberroom.com/collections/. Artists include Etel Adnan, Jane Antoni, Leonor Antunes, Gina Beavers, Lynda Benglis, Sadie Benning, Andrea Bowers, Sarah Braman, Tracey Emin, Kiki Kogelnik, Johanna Jackson, Monique Mouton, Sara Greenberger Refferty, Emily Mae Smith, Kiki Smith and Valerie Snobeck. The Lumber Room is a private gallery and residence with limited hours. Check their website for details.
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map See the website for subsequent hours and days. Opening today. Visit Fridays noon - 6. Free
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map See the website for subsequent hours and days. Opening today. Visit Fridays noon - 6. Free
Thursday, March 16, 2017
March 16 Ceramic Poland
Christopher Rauschenberg has photographs made in Poland. There is also a group ceramics show curated by who was the contemporary curator and chief curator at the Portland Art Museum. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free
Monday, March 13, 2017
March 13 Fin Ne Pas Fin at 88
We thought the Fin de Cinema had ended. But the rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated. It is an occasional series of beautiful, exotic and obscure classic art films shown with a live score by Portland musicians.
Akira Kurosawa, one of Asia's most revered filmmakers, made Dreams at 80. It is an episodic mythical abstraction inspired by his dreams. It reads like a Greenway film, without the maddening pretense of Greenway.
Musicians tonight are Jonathan Sielaff of Golden Retriever; Brown Calculus, a project of Vaughn Kimmons - Brown Alice, Popgoji, Tribe Mars and Andre Burgos of Tribe Mars; Akila Fields of Shy Girls and Palm Dat; and atmospheric composer Dylan Stark.
These shows start earlier than most. The ninety minute film will have one or more intermissions.
Fin de Cinema live www.holocene.org/event/1437363-fin-de-cinema-akira-kurosawas-portland/ at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8PM, show 8:30. $8 advance, $10 door
Akira Kurosawa, one of Asia's most revered filmmakers, made Dreams at 80. It is an episodic mythical abstraction inspired by his dreams. It reads like a Greenway film, without the maddening pretense of Greenway.
Musicians tonight are Jonathan Sielaff of Golden Retriever; Brown Calculus, a project of Vaughn Kimmons - Brown Alice, Popgoji, Tribe Mars and Andre Burgos of Tribe Mars; Akila Fields of Shy Girls and Palm Dat; and atmospheric composer Dylan Stark.
These shows start earlier than most. The ninety minute film will have one or more intermissions.
Fin de Cinema live www.holocene.org/event/1437363-fin-de-cinema-akira-kurosawas-portland/ at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8PM, show 8:30. $8 advance, $10 door
Saturday, March 11, 2017
March 11 Gorilla Love Volts
Tonight modular synth performers MiniGorille, Alani, Juli Amore, SunFalls, Production Unit Xero, Ben Davis, Mulva Myasis, Body Shame and Ambient_distress perform music with Cari Gummer providing visuals. Volt Divers is all hardware synths, no computers. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 Free
Saturday, March 04, 2017
March 4 Synth Saturday
Sync02 is an analog sound synth equipment show day, and performance in the evening. It is focused on Eurorack synth modules. Sponsored by Control Voltage. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. All ages. Exhibition 10:30AM-4:30PM Free. 21+ Performance 5:30PM-8:30PM $10
Video Mixer PDX is a meetup, demonstration and hands-on opportunity with video synthesizers. Examples include LZX Industries, Paracosm Lumen and Glitch Art BPMC.
Analog video synths have been artist tools since the 1960s. The NTSC (and PAL) analog video signal is delicate because it had to run the analog televisions of 1941. It added color in 1953, but had to be back compatible. The result is that the analog video signal is easy to alter for artistic purposes.
Later video synths and tools to alter the signal entered an era of hybrid analog-digital. The image in the digital frame buffer could be processed independently of the analog video signal with the Amiga Video Toaster, the Fairlight CVI and others.
Falling prices and more muscular laptops lead to the golden age of live video mixing to accompany EDM, with innovation in the UK and the Netherlands. Popular software included VDMX, Livid, VJamm, Green Hippo, Modul8, Pilgrim, Isadora and more. They were often combined with hardware analog mixers from Panasonic and Edirol which had fallen in price due to larger markets: school television studios and the use of video in churches.
The challenge is the artist interface.
A generation of software, like Processing, inspired by the MIT Media Lab, used virtual processing blocks connected by virtual pipes.
Today's demonstration is focused on patchable synth modules, analog and virtual. It is similar to Processing, but with physical patch cords. The virtual version, Paracosm Lumen, can exist within a system of virtual video pipelines, like Syphon, in software.
It's free, but registration is requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-mixer-pdx-a-video-synth-meetup-tickets-31164796746
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-10 Free
Video Mixer PDX is a meetup, demonstration and hands-on opportunity with video synthesizers. Examples include LZX Industries, Paracosm Lumen and Glitch Art BPMC.
Analog video synths have been artist tools since the 1960s. The NTSC (and PAL) analog video signal is delicate because it had to run the analog televisions of 1941. It added color in 1953, but had to be back compatible. The result is that the analog video signal is easy to alter for artistic purposes.
Later video synths and tools to alter the signal entered an era of hybrid analog-digital. The image in the digital frame buffer could be processed independently of the analog video signal with the Amiga Video Toaster, the Fairlight CVI and others.
Falling prices and more muscular laptops lead to the golden age of live video mixing to accompany EDM, with innovation in the UK and the Netherlands. Popular software included VDMX, Livid, VJamm, Green Hippo, Modul8, Pilgrim, Isadora and more. They were often combined with hardware analog mixers from Panasonic and Edirol which had fallen in price due to larger markets: school television studios and the use of video in churches.
The challenge is the artist interface.
A generation of software, like Processing, inspired by the MIT Media Lab, used virtual processing blocks connected by virtual pipes.
Today's demonstration is focused on patchable synth modules, analog and virtual. It is similar to Processing, but with physical patch cords. The virtual version, Paracosm Lumen, can exist within a system of virtual video pipelines, like Syphon, in software.
It's free, but registration is requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-mixer-pdx-a-video-synth-meetup-tickets-31164796746
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-10 Free
Friday, March 03, 2017
March 3 Eastside Art Openings
Portland Eastside First Friday art openings have been severely slacking. Here are a few.
Portland's ceramics gallery has Christine Golden and Doug Jeck. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Nearby, Rising Room Gallery has a show of ceramics workers from Radius Studio with Alex Simon, Alyssa Black, Korin Noelle, Maya Vivas, Scott Gray, Jamin London Tinsel, Chris Pate and Heidi Sowa Gray. At Rising Room Gallery risingroomgallery.com 2222 NE Oregon Unit 212 6PM-9 Free
Coinciding with Portland ceramics month is Them Are Us Too by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ariel Brice. At Ash Street Project Studios and Gallery. 524 SE Ash. 6PM-9 Free
Newspace opens their member show of more than 70 artists listed on their website. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map Early close 6PM-8 Free
Black Box has Mirror, Mirror a show of portraits. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Chefas Gallery, which usually operates on its own opening schedule, has Golden Age by Landon Brooks tonight. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map 7PM-10 Free
Portland's ceramics gallery has Christine Golden and Doug Jeck. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Nearby, Rising Room Gallery has a show of ceramics workers from Radius Studio with Alex Simon, Alyssa Black, Korin Noelle, Maya Vivas, Scott Gray, Jamin London Tinsel, Chris Pate and Heidi Sowa Gray. At Rising Room Gallery risingroomgallery.com 2222 NE Oregon Unit 212 6PM-9 Free
Coinciding with Portland ceramics month is Them Are Us Too by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ariel Brice. At Ash Street Project Studios and Gallery. 524 SE Ash. 6PM-9 Free
Newspace opens their member show of more than 70 artists listed on their website. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map Early close 6PM-8 Free
Black Box has Mirror, Mirror a show of portraits. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Chefas Gallery, which usually operates on its own opening schedule, has Golden Age by Landon Brooks tonight. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map 7PM-10 Free
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
March 2 Westside Art Openings
There is a ceramics conference in Portland this month. Many galleries dedicate their shows to the medium in March.
Bean Finneran makes the minimal colorful ceramic work PDX Contemporary is known for. Jeffrey Mitchel goes more for baroque. A fun pairing. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Heidi Schwegler is known for sculptures which can make the viewer slightly uncomfortable. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Zemula Fleming's The Narrow View is themed on expectations and Christianity. At Wolff Gallery 618 NW Glisan, Suite R1 6PM-9 Free
Compound has We’re Still Angry, politically-themed art. At Compound Gallery, Portland's unofficial Japanese embassy www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Patrick Seeley has schematic paper cut illustrations. At Impossible Box, 215 SW 1st 5PM-midnight 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Bean Finneran makes the minimal colorful ceramic work PDX Contemporary is known for. Jeffrey Mitchel goes more for baroque. A fun pairing. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Heidi Schwegler is known for sculptures which can make the viewer slightly uncomfortable. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Zemula Fleming's The Narrow View is themed on expectations and Christianity. At Wolff Gallery 618 NW Glisan, Suite R1 6PM-9 Free
Compound has We’re Still Angry, politically-themed art. At Compound Gallery, Portland's unofficial Japanese embassy www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Patrick Seeley has schematic paper cut illustrations. At Impossible Box, 215 SW 1st 5PM-midnight 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Monday, February 27, 2017
March 1 - May 31 Small Boat House Movies
The Boathouse Microcinema echoes Peripheral Produce independent and experimental film showings. Peripheral Produce activated the independent moviemaker community of Portland today.
The microcinema runs for 4 months with Wednesday showings and events in the mix other evenings.
It is a very, very small venue, with limited parking in an industrial area. Micro. There are active railroad tracks in the neighborhood, do not block them.
Micro cinema at Boathouse Microcinema 822 N River 7:30PM $8
The microcinema runs for 4 months with Wednesday showings and events in the mix other evenings.
It is a very, very small venue, with limited parking in an industrial area. Micro. There are active railroad tracks in the neighborhood, do not block them.
Micro cinema at Boathouse Microcinema 822 N River 7:30PM $8
March 1-5 Raw Meet
Reed Arts Week is curated by students. It brings individual artist works, from campus, and from the world; and art talks. Having a budget allows it to do above average. And always an opportunity to experience the new edge. Some of the events are on the Reed Events web http://events.reed.edu/group/reed_arts_week and some are on the Reed Arts Week Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ReedArtsWeek/. Reed Arts Week http://www.reed.edu/raw/2017/ at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
Friday, February 24, 2017
February 25 Art Signal Senate
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
Lauren Chandler (Culinary Arts–Portland), Shelby Davis (Sculpture–Portland), Genevieve Hudson (Prose–Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dain Mergenthaler (Sculpture/Installation–Brooklyn), Tomas Moniz (Prose–Berkeley), Kaj-anne Pepper (Choreography/Drag–Portland), Annesofie Sandal (Sculpture/Video–New York) and Crystal Schenk (Sculpture–Portland).
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
At 1PM sharp there is a presentation by the artists, after, 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 12:30PM-3:30 Free
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" proposed Andy Warhol. His version was The Factory, happenings and experimental film. Poet Gill Scott Heron announced "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Some of it is, and some of it is not. Calarts media theorist Gene Youngblood foretold the power of the Internet in cultural evolution with "Expanded Cinema" & "Mass Media and the Future of Desire."
Open Signal comprehends all those ideas.
Open Signal is the reborn, reenergized and rebranded Portland Cable Access.
Open Signal is a video studio, sound studio, library. It has training, youth to adults, and programs for schools. It broadcasts its own program channels. The new Open Signal has been open for a few weeks with a new staff and expanded mission. This afternoon they open their doors for you to meet them, again, or anew.
4PM-8 welcomes touring, interactive activities and an opportunity to provide suggestions for the new Open Signal. 8PM-10 is a televised dance party - costumes encouraged and provided!
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 4PM-10 Free
We almost never do politics here. But today there is an opportunity to visit with our Senator Wyden and meet his staff. It's our instance of his Town Hall program. Details: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/oregon/events/multnomah-county-town-hall2017. Parking is limited, arrive early, be polite, meet your neighbors. At David Douglas High School 1001 SE 135th. Noon Free
Lauren Chandler (Culinary Arts–Portland), Shelby Davis (Sculpture–Portland), Genevieve Hudson (Prose–Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dain Mergenthaler (Sculpture/Installation–Brooklyn), Tomas Moniz (Prose–Berkeley), Kaj-anne Pepper (Choreography/Drag–Portland), Annesofie Sandal (Sculpture/Video–New York) and Crystal Schenk (Sculpture–Portland).
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
At 1PM sharp there is a presentation by the artists, after, 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 12:30PM-3:30 Free
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" proposed Andy Warhol. His version was The Factory, happenings and experimental film. Poet Gill Scott Heron announced "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Some of it is, and some of it is not. Calarts media theorist Gene Youngblood foretold the power of the Internet in cultural evolution with "Expanded Cinema" & "Mass Media and the Future of Desire."
Open Signal comprehends all those ideas.
Open Signal is the reborn, reenergized and rebranded Portland Cable Access.
Open Signal is a video studio, sound studio, library. It has training, youth to adults, and programs for schools. It broadcasts its own program channels. The new Open Signal has been open for a few weeks with a new staff and expanded mission. This afternoon they open their doors for you to meet them, again, or anew.
4PM-8 welcomes touring, interactive activities and an opportunity to provide suggestions for the new Open Signal. 8PM-10 is a televised dance party - costumes encouraged and provided!
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 4PM-10 Free
We almost never do politics here. But today there is an opportunity to visit with our Senator Wyden and meet his staff. It's our instance of his Town Hall program. Details: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/oregon/events/multnomah-county-town-hall2017. Parking is limited, arrive early, be polite, meet your neighbors. At David Douglas High School 1001 SE 135th. Noon Free
Thursday, February 23, 2017
February 24 Iconoclastic Weird Stories
Creative Mornings is an international creative talk series. Narrative is built into our neurons for now from infancy. So that is why we tell stories, love stories and respond to stories.
Amina Moreau describes her story-making practice this morning.
Amina Moreau creativemornings.com/talks/amina-moreau at Portland Creative Mornings at Ziba Design Auditorium www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall Map Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free
Iconoclastic is a group show by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, Demian Dinéyazhi, Noelle V. Sosaya, and Maya Lin, Goshka Macuga, Michael Rakowitz, and Ryan Woodring. Woodring gives a talk. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 6PM
Weird Shift Microtalks are back. It is an open source platform for short talks ranging from obscure to faux. At the Compliance Division compliancedivision.org in the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett #101 - entrance on NW 6th 7PM Free
Amina Moreau describes her story-making practice this morning.
Amina Moreau creativemornings.com/talks/amina-moreau at Portland Creative Mornings at Ziba Design Auditorium www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall Map Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free
Iconoclastic is a group show by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, Demian Dinéyazhi, Noelle V. Sosaya, and Maya Lin, Goshka Macuga, Michael Rakowitz, and Ryan Woodring. Woodring gives a talk. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 6PM
Weird Shift Microtalks are back. It is an open source platform for short talks ranging from obscure to faux. At the Compliance Division compliancedivision.org in the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett #101 - entrance on NW 6th 7PM Free
February 23 Collecting Uncollectible?
Upfor, Leach and PDX are some of the few galleries in Portland representing media artists. Video-film, sound, synthesized visuals, VR, artist games, and what the future holds.
They come on electronic media, magnetic recording, DVDs, memory sticks, the cloud. How to preserve them is an interesting topic in itself. Are you going to be able to play them in 50, 100, 500 years? How are they editioned in the age of infinite reproduction?
Upfor has a talk this evening on collecting media art. Part of the talk will be locals Alex Payne and Nicole Brodeur relating their experience of having an Electric Objects EO1 screen broadcasting art into their home.
I'm suspicious of that platform. They do not allow searching for artists or collecting. What is the artist paid? The Uber-Spotify of arts? How does it relate to the layers in music: labels, ASCAP/BMI, streaming? Those are value chains diminishing artist income - business-law-review.law.miami.edu/digital-royalties/? (Spotify has vociferously lobbied it needs to pay artists less.)
At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-7:30 Free
They come on electronic media, magnetic recording, DVDs, memory sticks, the cloud. How to preserve them is an interesting topic in itself. Are you going to be able to play them in 50, 100, 500 years? How are they editioned in the age of infinite reproduction?
Upfor has a talk this evening on collecting media art. Part of the talk will be locals Alex Payne and Nicole Brodeur relating their experience of having an Electric Objects EO1 screen broadcasting art into their home.
I'm suspicious of that platform. They do not allow searching for artists or collecting. What is the artist paid? The Uber-Spotify of arts? How does it relate to the layers in music: labels, ASCAP/BMI, streaming? Those are value chains diminishing artist income - business-law-review.law.miami.edu/digital-royalties/? (Spotify has vociferously lobbied it needs to pay artists less.)
At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-7:30 Free
February 21 - March 17 Mensam Elementorum
Portland artist Stephanie Simek shows Table of Elements (and Minerals) in the Portland Building alcove gallery. She selected favorite minerals silicon, quartz, calcite, iron, copper and bismuth and made white light holograms of samples. The holograms are displayed in small pockets of a table. Table of Elements (and Minerals) is a delicate experience. You can place your finger through the hologram. It's a beautiful work. You can see it www.racc.org/2017/02/10/stephanie-simek-presents-table-elements-minerals-portland-building-february-21-march-17/ in the Portland Building alcove lobby gallery. Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM Free
Sunday, February 19, 2017
February 19 Tastesweet
Sanctuary Sunday celebrates its 4 year anniversary with experimental music stylings by Neybuu; Pantone and Tastesweet. Visuals by Krystal Pérez. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM Free
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
February 16 Bansuri + Tabla
Steve Gorn bansuri and Benjy Wertheimer tabla perform classical Indian music this evening.
Tickets https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=27668&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-8&view=week&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=02%2f16%2f17&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1
At Mandala Yoga http://mandalayogapdx.com/ 6833 SE Belmont. Doors 7:30PM, performance 8. $18 advance, $25 door
Tickets https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=27668&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-8&view=week&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=02%2f16%2f17&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1
At Mandala Yoga http://mandalayogapdx.com/ 6833 SE Belmont. Doors 7:30PM, performance 8. $18 advance, $25 door
Monday, February 13, 2017
February 16 East Annex
Portland artist and PSU art professor Sabrina Haque presents Annexation & Assimilation, Exploring the Archive, East of 82nd Avenue: her studies of the history of East Portland, drawn from her residency at the City of Portland archives and from interviews with the area residents today. Her project will be on display at Open Signal, opening tonight. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org, formerly Portland Community Access television, 2766 Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard. 6PM-8
Saturday, February 04, 2017
February 5 Refugee Tissue
The Camerawork Gallery is the longest operating and most highly respected photography gallery in Portland. They turn in great shows every month and we are sorry for not noting them here.
This month is The Refugees' Dreams by Friderike Heuer. Relevant.
The artist speaks at the opening. At the Camerawork Gallery www.TheCameraworkGallery.org, Linfield College Nursing Campus Peterson Hall, 2255 NW Northrup. 2PM-4 Free
Text means Tissue is a new show by visual artist, poet, and textile designer Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
This month is The Refugees' Dreams by Friderike Heuer. Relevant.
The artist speaks at the opening. At the Camerawork Gallery www.TheCameraworkGallery.org, Linfield College Nursing Campus Peterson Hall, 2255 NW Northrup. 2PM-4 Free
Text means Tissue is a new show by visual artist, poet, and textile designer Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
February 4-5 Moved
Portland butoh artist Meshi Chavez wins the copywriting award for the month:
"It is my belief that performance is not just for the artistic elite, that everyday people are made of movement and with that movement is an inherent and profound beauty. With adroit direction and focus, the quotidian can, in an instant, transform into something moving and delightful."
And his workshop students present Being Moved, a performance inspired by Lakota creation stories and Zen Koans.
Tickets http://m.bpt.me/event/2795159. Reservations 971 258 0748.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.Butoh performance 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 Saturday 7:30PM, Sunday 2PM and 7:30PM $20
"It is my belief that performance is not just for the artistic elite, that everyday people are made of movement and with that movement is an inherent and profound beauty. With adroit direction and focus, the quotidian can, in an instant, transform into something moving and delightful."
And his workshop students present Being Moved, a performance inspired by Lakota creation stories and Zen Koans.
Tickets http://m.bpt.me/event/2795159. Reservations 971 258 0748.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.Butoh performance 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 Saturday 7:30PM, Sunday 2PM and 7:30PM $20
Thursday, February 02, 2017
February 3 Black America and the World
Portland photographer Intisar Abioto shows The Black, portraits from around the world, tonight.
She is known for her photo essays Black Portlanders and State of Black Oregon: photographs and accompanying personal narratives. This project includes portraits from three continents, seven countries and eighteen cities.
She is a Renaissance woman www.creativemornings.com/talks/intisar-abioto/1 photographer, writer poet, performer and modern dancer.
The exhibition opening is followed by a talk: A Deeper Black: Race in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He speaks in Eugene, with the talk simulcast to the Portland UO meeting room. The free talk was ticketed and fully subscribed: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-ruhl-lecture-ta-nehisi-coates-portland-simulcast-tickets-29309145443. We hope the video will be available after the event on the UO website.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Talk doors 5PM Free, Art opening 5PM-6 Free
She is known for her photo essays Black Portlanders and State of Black Oregon: photographs and accompanying personal narratives. This project includes portraits from three continents, seven countries and eighteen cities.
She is a Renaissance woman www.creativemornings.com/talks/intisar-abioto/1 photographer, writer poet, performer and modern dancer.
The exhibition opening is followed by a talk: A Deeper Black: Race in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He speaks in Eugene, with the talk simulcast to the Portland UO meeting room. The free talk was ticketed and fully subscribed: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-ruhl-lecture-ta-nehisi-coates-portland-simulcast-tickets-29309145443. We hope the video will be available after the event on the UO website.
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Talk doors 5PM Free, Art opening 5PM-6 Free
February 3 - March 4 African Film Festival
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, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Niger Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda.
Every single one of the films is free!
Most are shown on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. The opening night, Friday February 3, is at the Hollywood Theater, also free.
That opening night film is by Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. It is a retelling of the film Purple Rain, staring musician Mdou Moctar from Niger, and filmed in Niger. Moctar performs his music at 11:15PM after the film's second showing. Free
February 25 is a children's program of films and storytelling by Baba Wagué Diakité of Mali. There is a week of films by women and a program of staged readings of African plays.
The PCC Library maintains a copy of all the films shown over 27 years for in-library viewing.
The 27th 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
This year they have films from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Niger Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda.
Every single one of the films is free!
Most are shown on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. The opening night, Friday February 3, is at the Hollywood Theater, also free.
That opening night film is by Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. It is a retelling of the film Purple Rain, staring musician Mdou Moctar from Niger, and filmed in Niger. Moctar performs his music at 11:15PM after the film's second showing. Free
February 25 is a children's program of films and storytelling by Baba Wagué Diakité of Mali. There is a week of films by women and a program of staged readings of African plays.
The PCC Library maintains a copy of all the films shown over 27 years for in-library viewing.
The 27th 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 2 Westside Art Openings
We the People is a two month show collecting creative resistance signs and resistance-inspired artworks from you. Bring it. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Jordan Rathus has That's Why I'm Here, videos of her performances. She weaves her own identity myths incorporating traditions of Norway, Iceland and the Hudson Valley. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Julia Mangold is a minimalist sculptor and printmaker. Her show is the result of the Leach Gallery engaging German artists over years. Also showing is Portland light artist Hap Tivey. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Johannes Girardoni has Resonance, chromatic spots. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Madga Biernat has Adrift, images of abandoned Arctic hunting lodges and melting ice floes in Antarctica. Katrina Kepule has sit silently, photographs of farm life in Latvia. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are on the next to be invaded list. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Nic Porter has Fools Gold, colorful photographs inspired by feminism. She is a commercial photographer, her personal creative work is buoyed by a dramatic approach. At Impossible Box, 215 SW 1st 5PM-midnight Free
We cannot cover all the student shows, cafe shows or artwork hung in Portland's many small businesses. But we note that Mona Superhero will show her graphic portraits made of chromatic duct tape. At A-List Hair Studio 1306 NW Hoyt 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. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-9 Free
Jordan Rathus has That's Why I'm Here, videos of her performances. She weaves her own identity myths incorporating traditions of Norway, Iceland and the Hudson Valley. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Julia Mangold is a minimalist sculptor and printmaker. Her show is the result of the Leach Gallery engaging German artists over years. Also showing is Portland light artist Hap Tivey. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Johannes Girardoni has Resonance, chromatic spots. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Madga Biernat has Adrift, images of abandoned Arctic hunting lodges and melting ice floes in Antarctica. Katrina Kepule has sit silently, photographs of farm life in Latvia. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are on the next to be invaded list. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Nic Porter has Fools Gold, colorful photographs inspired by feminism. She is a commercial photographer, her personal creative work is buoyed by a dramatic approach. At Impossible Box, 215 SW 1st 5PM-midnight Free
We cannot cover all the student shows, cafe shows or artwork hung in Portland's many small businesses. But we note that Mona Superhero will show her graphic portraits made of chromatic duct tape. At A-List Hair Studio 1306 NW Hoyt 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. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-9 Free
February 1-4 Light Art
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 runs running Wednesday through Saturday at OMSI, in the surrounding East Bank area and in the affiliated locations.
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.
And maybe we will get some snow to go with it
Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com OMSI and the industrial area nearby. 6PM-10 or 11 Free
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.
And maybe we will get some snow to go with it
Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com OMSI and the industrial area nearby. 6PM-10 or 11 Free
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
February 1 A Japanese Spaghetti Western
The 1985 film Tampopo is a fun classic from Japan by the great director Itami.
Widow Tampopo operates a failing ramen restaurant along a highway. Gorô is a truck driver inspired by the American West, with his cowboy hat, a truck festooned by a set of bull horns and his sidekick Gun in an early roe for Ken Watanabe.
He becomes inspired to work with her to improve her ramen. After a few comic twists, plenty of slapstick and wry commentary on Japanese cultural foibles, Tampopo's ramen shop becomes a national phenomenon. In the last scene, he rides his truck off into the sunset. It is a spaghetti Western!
Umi Organic Ramen Noodles with Hapa PDX Broth will be served to filmgoers as supplies last. It is also a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. It is a presentation by the Portland Museum of Modern Art and Mississippi Records. Advance tickets strongly recommended.
At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy 7:30 $9
Widow Tampopo operates a failing ramen restaurant along a highway. Gorô is a truck driver inspired by the American West, with his cowboy hat, a truck festooned by a set of bull horns and his sidekick Gun in an early roe for Ken Watanabe.
He becomes inspired to work with her to improve her ramen. After a few comic twists, plenty of slapstick and wry commentary on Japanese cultural foibles, Tampopo's ramen shop becomes a national phenomenon. In the last scene, he rides his truck off into the sunset. It is a spaghetti Western!
Umi Organic Ramen Noodles with Hapa PDX Broth will be served to filmgoers as supplies last. It is also a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. It is a presentation by the Portland Museum of Modern Art and Mississippi Records. Advance tickets strongly recommended.
At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy 7:30 $9
Friday, January 27, 2017
January 29 Silent Parting
Fourteen30 has an unusual mid-day opening of The Parting of the Green Sea by artist-curator Adrianne Rubenstein. Her paintings are loose and bright, from impressionistic still lifes to abstracts. Her curation hews to bright too. 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 11AM-1PM Free
Bring a book to read, silently, over drinks and snacks. No talking. Recommended. We are a little worried that this has been picked up by the media. It has always been full, even when the front porch was available; this is a small venue. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at www.beechstreetparlor.com 412 NE Beech 3PM-5 Free
Bring a book to read, silently, over drinks and snacks. No talking. Recommended. We are a little worried that this has been picked up by the media. It has always been full, even when the front porch was available; this is a small venue. Silent Reading Party www.silentreadingpartypdx.com at www.beechstreetparlor.com 412 NE Beech 3PM-5 Free
January 28 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
Lauren Chandler (Culinary Arts–Portland), Shelby Davis (Sculpture–Portland), Genevieve Hudson (Prose–Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dain Mergenthaler (Sculpture/Installation–Brooklyn), Tomas Moniz (Prose–Berkeley), Kaj-anne Pepper (Choreography/Drag–Portland), Annesofie Sandal (Sculpture/Video–New York) and Crystal Schenk (Sculpture–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. 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
Lauren Chandler (Culinary Arts–Portland), Shelby Davis (Sculpture–Portland), Genevieve Hudson (Prose–Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dain Mergenthaler (Sculpture/Installation–Brooklyn), Tomas Moniz (Prose–Berkeley), Kaj-anne Pepper (Choreography/Drag–Portland), Annesofie Sandal (Sculpture/Video–New York) and Crystal Schenk (Sculpture–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. 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
January 27 Spark Sport Touch Closer
Art Spark is back. It is an opportunity sponsored by RACC for creatives, curators and art business individuals to network over happy hour. Art Spark portlandartspark.com/ at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison 5:30PM-7:30 Free
GoodSport has 00:00:00, visual art at Project205. https://www.facebook.com/events/1843032199244902/ 707 NE Broadway #205. 6PM-9 Free
Maria Antelman has My Touch, Your Command, Your Touch, My Command. At Melanie Flood Projects, 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Lean in Closer is a group show by Ryan Bubnis, Ian Ferguson, Lori Field, Evan B. Harris, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Max Kauffman, Troy Lovegates, Jaime Molina, Kreh Melick, Stacy Rozich and Betsy Walton, curated by one of the artists. Lean in Closer www.stephaniechefas.com/lean-in-closer/ at Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map 7PM-10 Free
GoodSport has 00:00:00, visual art at Project205. https://www.facebook.com/events/1843032199244902/ 707 NE Broadway #205. 6PM-9 Free
Maria Antelman has My Touch, Your Command, Your Touch, My Command. At Melanie Flood Projects, 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Lean in Closer is a group show by Ryan Bubnis, Ian Ferguson, Lori Field, Evan B. Harris, Andrea Joyce Heimer, Max Kauffman, Troy Lovegates, Jaime Molina, Kreh Melick, Stacy Rozich and Betsy Walton, curated by one of the artists. Lean in Closer www.stephaniechefas.com/lean-in-closer/ at Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map 7PM-10 Free
January 27 The Fate of Iphigenia
If you happen to be in New York, Virgin Writes is a butoh performance tonight. It is based on the myth of Iphigenia, princess of Argos, in the Iliad, who is condemned to death for sins of her father, to be carried out by his hand.
The lyrics are written and sung by Esperanza Spalding, the music composed and performed live by Yuka C. Honda of Cibo Matto, the movement directed and performed by Vangeline.
Virgin Writes www.vangeline.com/calendar-of-upcoming-events/2017/1/27/virgin-writes-with-esperanza-spalding-yuka-c-honda-and-vangeline-at-pioneer-works at Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn Map. Tickets: https://pioneerworks.org/programs/virgin-writes/. Doors at 7PM.
Performance 8, $25 advance, $30 door
The lyrics are written and sung by Esperanza Spalding, the music composed and performed live by Yuka C. Honda of Cibo Matto, the movement directed and performed by Vangeline.
Virgin Writes www.vangeline.com/calendar-of-upcoming-events/2017/1/27/virgin-writes-with-esperanza-spalding-yuka-c-honda-and-vangeline-at-pioneer-works at Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn Map. Tickets: https://pioneerworks.org/programs/virgin-writes/. Doors at 7PM.
Performance 8, $25 advance, $30 door
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
January 25 S.A.D. Park
Ralph Pugay and Ariana Jacob have a talk on their Houseguest project tonight. It was the S.A.D. Park, a warm flowery tent on Pioneer Square with bright lighting to bouy our spirits and bring light back to our biological clocks. At Likewise www.likewise.website 3564 SE Hawthorne 7PM Free
Saturday, January 21, 2017
January 21 You Who!
You Who! is a musical and performance event for children and their companion parents. It was a monthly, now it's roughly a twice a year in Portland and occasionally in Austin and NYC, so don't miss it! From 1PM Rudy’s Barbershop will trim you, there will be big wheel bikes for the little ones. DJ Anjali starts the party. Sneakin’ Out, Ural Thomas, Cat Hoch and iAmMoshow perform, ending about 4. It is a project now of MyMusicRx, which you can ask about at the event. And it is part of the Crystal Ballroom's 103rd anniversary all day through evening. Free! You Who! at the McMenamins Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside 1PM-4 Free.
Portland is a city of books. We make paper here, we print on it, things we have thought. Nationale, in addition to its French goods and wall art, is one of Portland's unique art culture bookstores. They celebrate that today with the first in a series The Need for Books. Bookmaker/ designer/ collector Fredrik Averin and writer/ maker/ publisher Delphine Bedient speak. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Tad Savinar is a Renaissance person. He is a writer, visual artist, designer and urban planner. Youniverse—Past, Present, Future is a show of works on paper spanning years. In the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark Campus, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. Campus 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." Map 3PM-5 Free
Roxanne Jackson and Julia Oldham open their show Mother at the Art Gym. A free shuttle service will leave NW 8th & Couch at 3:30PM and return to that location at approximately 5:30 on the day of the opening. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
Portland is a city of books. We make paper here, we print on it, things we have thought. Nationale, in addition to its French goods and wall art, is one of Portland's unique art culture bookstores. They celebrate that today with the first in a series The Need for Books. Bookmaker/ designer/ collector Fredrik Averin and writer/ maker/ publisher Delphine Bedient speak. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Tad Savinar is a Renaissance person. He is a writer, visual artist, designer and urban planner. Youniverse—Past, Present, Future is a show of works on paper spanning years. In the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark Campus, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. Campus 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." Map 3PM-5 Free
Roxanne Jackson and Julia Oldham open their show Mother at the Art Gym. A free shuttle service will leave NW 8th & Couch at 3:30PM and return to that location at approximately 5:30 on the day of the opening. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
Friday, January 20, 2017
January 20-22 Some Days
Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick speaks on his work this evening at the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema. Free! Saturday and Sunday, they show his feature film, Some Days are Better than Others. If you are interested in independent film, made in Portland, he is a good person to meet. All details here http://www.5thavecinema.com/somedays. Matt McCormick at the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema. www.5thavenuecinema.org 510 SW Hall Friday. Talk 7PM Free; Film Saturday 7PM, 9:30; Sunday 3PM Free PSU community, $3 other students $4 everybody
Sunday, January 15, 2017
January 15 Chrome Siege
Chrome, helmed by Helios Creed since the mid-1970's Bay Area, plays industrial punk. They laid the path for Nine Inch Nails. Personnel have changed over 40 years, revolving around Creed. They make a rare appearance tonight.
Opening are Death of the West and Soriah. Portland Tuvan throat singer Soriah is not to be missed, he plays just a few times a year in Portland.
Chrome, Soriah and Death of the West https://www.facebook.com/events/239485759805911/ at the Star Theater 13 NW 6th. Early show 8PM-11, darkwave dance party after $15
Etat de Siege (Under Siege) is a lecture performance composed by Modou Dieng with the collaboration Aruni Dharmakirthi, Adrienne Fernandez, Jaleesa Johnston, maximiliano, Angelica Millan, Ruben Marrufo and Jamaali Roberts. https://www.facebook.com/events/188475021616659/ at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan - which is in dire need of your help repainting www.paintpaulpdx.org - www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM Free
Opening are Death of the West and Soriah. Portland Tuvan throat singer Soriah is not to be missed, he plays just a few times a year in Portland.
Chrome, Soriah and Death of the West https://www.facebook.com/events/239485759805911/ at the Star Theater 13 NW 6th. Early show 8PM-11, darkwave dance party after $15
Etat de Siege (Under Siege) is a lecture performance composed by Modou Dieng with the collaboration Aruni Dharmakirthi, Adrienne Fernandez, Jaleesa Johnston, maximiliano, Angelica Millan, Ruben Marrufo and Jamaali Roberts. https://www.facebook.com/events/188475021616659/ at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan - which is in dire need of your help repainting www.paintpaulpdx.org - www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM Free
Thursday, January 12, 2017
January 13 Broken Promises Plant Art Activism
Artist Noah Dillon (NYC), writer-critic Dr. Sue Taylor and activist video artist Julie Perini speak on Art and the Political Movement in the Littman before the opening. Recommended. It's https://www.facebook.com/events/235009660264403/ at the PSU Littman and White Galleries in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 5PM-6 Free
After, Stephen Nachtigall has Zero Vine an installation. He is a recent UO MFA based in Eugene with work inspired by plants. Sarah Levy has Morbid Symptoms, a reference to the failure of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Syria. The work itself is drawn portraits. At the PSU Littman and White Galleries in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 6PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has Broken Promises, a silent auction fundraiser for the Standing Rock Indian land rights and nonviolent political movements. The evening supports the Water Protector Legal Collective, www.waterprotectorlegal.org. The One Grand events are always lively. The event is www.facebook.com/events/353225538382100/ at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-11 Free
After, Stephen Nachtigall has Zero Vine an installation. He is a recent UO MFA based in Eugene with work inspired by plants. Sarah Levy has Morbid Symptoms, a reference to the failure of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Syria. The work itself is drawn portraits. At the PSU Littman and White Galleries in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 6PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has Broken Promises, a silent auction fundraiser for the Standing Rock Indian land rights and nonviolent political movements. The evening supports the Water Protector Legal Collective, www.waterprotectorlegal.org. The One Grand events are always lively. The event is www.facebook.com/events/353225538382100/ at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-11 Free
Saturday, January 07, 2017
January 8 Lovers' Painting
A Lover’s Race is a new show of paintings by Amy Bernstein. Her unusual style leaves a lot of white space amidst color. She is an arts writer too. But instead of most arts writing's cool academic reserve, Bernstein writes passionately. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
(Check with the gallery on the schedule v the weather)
(Check with the gallery on the schedule v the weather)
Friday, January 06, 2017
January 6 Eastside Art Openings+
It's a little quiet and cold tonight.
Dynamic Landscape is a photo show. Actually most of the photos are not very dynamic. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Kerry Davis and Anna Daedalus have Bas-Relief, found images cast into concrete. It opens tonight, and January 28 Kaia Sand and Allison Cobb, who wrote the catalog, will give a reading. At Roll-Up Photo Studio + Gallery 1715 SE Spokane 6PM-9
Alicia Gibson, Jennifer Levonian and Bruce M. Sherman have a group show opening 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
Float On is where you can experience float tanks. They were invented by Harvard neuroscientist Dr. John C. Lilly, who would be 102 today. He was an early researcher on dolphin intelligence too. Portland's Float On has published a new edition of Dr. Lilly's Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space. That sounds like a god read! They celebrate that this evening with a creative crowd. At Float On 4530 SE Hawthorne 7PM-10 Free
Dynamic Landscape is a photo show. Actually most of the photos are not very dynamic. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Kerry Davis and Anna Daedalus have Bas-Relief, found images cast into concrete. It opens tonight, and January 28 Kaia Sand and Allison Cobb, who wrote the catalog, will give a reading. At Roll-Up Photo Studio + Gallery 1715 SE Spokane 6PM-9
Alicia Gibson, Jennifer Levonian and Bruce M. Sherman have a group show opening 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
Float On is where you can experience float tanks. They were invented by Harvard neuroscientist Dr. John C. Lilly, who would be 102 today. He was an early researcher on dolphin intelligence too. Portland's Float On has published a new edition of Dr. Lilly's Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space. That sounds like a god read! They celebrate that this evening with a creative crowd. At Float On 4530 SE Hawthorne 7PM-10 Free
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