Human Flow is artists Ai Weiwei's cinematic examination of refugees across the world. It is no means exhaustive.
While Weiwei is a huge artist, his smashing pots work has been seen at the Museum of Contemporary Craft and his Zodiac Heads at the Portland Art Museum. A Zodiac Heads show is currently at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene. The Portland Art Museum hosted the Ai WeiWei Never Sorry filmmaker previously.
For this film he traveled with refugees, employed documentary moviemakers and solicited comments forming the soundtrack from thinkers on refugees in today's world. It's a documentary made by an artist informing social conscience.
https://www.humanflow.com/videos/
Human Flow https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/film-human-flow/ at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park. 1PM film, 3:30 discussion $19.99
Saturday, May 05, 2018
Friday, May 04, 2018
May 4 Eastside Art Openings
Spring sprang. We don't have all the things because they are spranging. But we have some.
Dust to Dust is a newer alt space on Mississippi with strong curatorial action. They open Ice Cream Social with artists Josh Bolin, Emily Counts, Brian Giniewski, Shaina Kastztelan, Erica Prince, Amy Santoferraro, and Jessie Rose Vala tonight. Recommended. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
We love the 811 East Burnside block - 811 East Burnside. It includes upper and lower, front and back. Go. 6-8 timey.
ANX, the gallery of ADX Portland, has work by Ali Balter, Winnie Black, Marcelo Fontana, Emily Wise, Kevin Holden, Alan Page, Pace Taylor and Maya Vivas. In my experience, they curate Eastside competently, far above average. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Stphanie Chefas opens Adrian Landon Brooks. 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
Eutecic has Trey Hill and John Zimmerman along with Iván Carmona. Eutectic is Portland contemporary ceramics central. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Dust to Dust is a newer alt space on Mississippi with strong curatorial action. They open Ice Cream Social with artists Josh Bolin, Emily Counts, Brian Giniewski, Shaina Kastztelan, Erica Prince, Amy Santoferraro, and Jessie Rose Vala tonight. Recommended. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
We love the 811 East Burnside block - 811 East Burnside. It includes upper and lower, front and back. Go. 6-8 timey.
ANX, the gallery of ADX Portland, has work by Ali Balter, Winnie Black, Marcelo Fontana, Emily Wise, Kevin Holden, Alan Page, Pace Taylor and Maya Vivas. In my experience, they curate Eastside competently, far above average. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Stphanie Chefas opens Adrian Landon Brooks. 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
Eutecic has Trey Hill and John Zimmerman along with Iván Carmona. Eutectic is Portland contemporary ceramics central. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, May 03, 2018
May 3 Westside Art Openings
Many galleries continue openings from last month.
Eileen Isagon Skyers has Eyes Without A Face. It an obvious and topical examination of Internet and social media voluntary surveillance. And it wins the copywriting award for the month.
"We have a tendency to approach the verisimilitudes of computers and other non-human intelligence with a striking amount of unearned trust. Todays AI mimics the dynamic relationships we engage in with other people, using elements of our input to both soothe and comfort us at all times. Plotting techniques for facial analysis render bright, minimal geometries over the face — a seemingly perfect recalculation of facial specificity. We have grown to rely on this, desperately ensnared by the elaborately orchestrated mirror that always recognizes us, always tells us what we want to hear, and shows precisely what we want to see. In search of reflections, we glean together the distorted elements of a self.
Taking its title from her recent essay by the same name, this exhibition evokes the beyond — or other-than networked self—as-something-necessary, and yet no longer fully known, or understood."
At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. Early Close 6PM-8 Free
En Foco Photography Fellowships are a curatorial process in New York State with Blue Sky, odd. Their selectees are here this month. Read if you like on the Blue Sky website. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Dweomer, Adaptive Machines and System Lords. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Eileen Isagon Skyers has Eyes Without A Face. It an obvious and topical examination of Internet and social media voluntary surveillance. And it wins the copywriting award for the month.
"We have a tendency to approach the verisimilitudes of computers and other non-human intelligence with a striking amount of unearned trust. Todays AI mimics the dynamic relationships we engage in with other people, using elements of our input to both soothe and comfort us at all times. Plotting techniques for facial analysis render bright, minimal geometries over the face — a seemingly perfect recalculation of facial specificity. We have grown to rely on this, desperately ensnared by the elaborately orchestrated mirror that always recognizes us, always tells us what we want to hear, and shows precisely what we want to see. In search of reflections, we glean together the distorted elements of a self.
Taking its title from her recent essay by the same name, this exhibition evokes the beyond — or other-than networked self—as-something-necessary, and yet no longer fully known, or understood."
At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. Early Close 6PM-8 Free
En Foco Photography Fellowships are a curatorial process in New York State with Blue Sky, odd. Their selectees are here this month. Read if you like on the Blue Sky website. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Dweomer, Adaptive Machines and System Lords. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Sunday, April 29, 2018
April 29 Figures
Thick in the Ground are figurative sculpture-paintings by Christian Rogers and Kyle Vu-Dunn. Opening at Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
April 28 The Politics of Dancing
All the cool kids will be at the experimental music event by White Gourd, The Orchardist, The Tenses, Ambassador Dulgoon, Numbskull + DJ DNA & Nighthawk. Somehow the annual Cascade Aids Auction http://www.capartauction.org/gallery and another competing art event benefit were scheduled on the same night. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 9PM $5
April 27 Magenta Thought Flower
Anna Schachinger has paintings Lost in Thoughts. It is colorful and individualistic, fitting well with the Fourteen30 brightness. 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 5PM-7 Free
Adams and Ollman does several things in their curation. One is showing older less-discovered artists. Katherine Bradford is one with Magenta Nights. 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
Manu Torres is a floral artist in Portland. Other plant arts, like Tropical Gardens and the Dust to Dust collaborations are attempting to contextualize flowers into galleries. And it's Spring. At S1 www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 7PM-9
Adams and Ollman does several things in their curation. One is showing older less-discovered artists. Katherine Bradford is one with Magenta Nights. 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
Manu Torres is a floral artist in Portland. Other plant arts, like Tropical Gardens and the Dust to Dust collaborations are attempting to contextualize flowers into galleries. And it's Spring. At S1 www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 7PM-9
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
April 26 Fascism: A Warning
Not art but serious. Former Secretary of State, and the first woman in that role, Madeleine Albright speaks tonight. It is in support of her new book, Fascism: A Warning. She has been the longtime chair of the National Democratic Institute. And she seems especially hated by Russian trolls, which means she must be doing something right. https://www.revolutionhall.com/event/1654180-former-secretary-state-portland/ At Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark. 7:30PM $38, including the book
April 24 Weird Grapefruit
Weird Shift Microtalks are constantly on the move. It is an open source platform for short talks ranging from obscure to faux. Since it is a larger location, you simply must come to fill the space. You can even give a talk - they have a projector, so bring it on a laptop or on a flash drive or have it online somewhere. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 7PM Free
Friday, April 20, 2018
April 21 Indian Spring
Many classical Indian music ragas are specific to a season or time of day. Tonight is an intimate performance of Spring evening ragas. Michael Stirling sings the rags, with Joss Jaffee on tabla and Lucy Stirling on tambura. Michael Stirling studied ragas with Terry Riley, who, after his seminal In C, turned to Indian music. Bring Spring flowers. At the Nritya Mandala Mahavihara 1405 SE 40th 8PM by donation
Tejendra Majumdar, sarod and Subhankar Banerjee, tabla perform this evening. Here is an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NWoUJ994g. Presented by www.kalakendra.org. At the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7PM $30
Tejendra Majumdar, sarod and Subhankar Banerjee, tabla perform this evening. Here is an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NWoUJ994g. Presented by www.kalakendra.org. At the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7PM $30
April 20 Pixel Design Tropical Triad
We mentioned the recommended talks early, 5 at the Tropical Gardens. They were canceled at the last minute.
Portland Creative Mornings hosts Momo Pixel. She is a poet, singer, writer, game designer and ad woman! Thursday she sings at the Soul'd Out Music Festival. This morning she talks about her creative works. Creative Mornings is looking for someone new to take over producing it. The Portland crew is now focused on making Design Week Portland year around. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map Doors 8AM, talk 9. Free
Design Week Portland - https://www.designweekportland.com/events - is wrapping. Plan your own adventure. I'm stopping by the 811 E Burnside open house - https://www.designweekportland.com/events/construct - and some other SE events.
Triad opens act 3, the last. https://www.facebook.com/events/1611803095599906/ It is at the always recommended OV Project Space, a gallery in the basement of a home, Portland style-y. At OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington Map 6PM-9 Free
Portland Creative Mornings hosts Momo Pixel. She is a poet, singer, writer, game designer and ad woman! Thursday she sings at the Soul'd Out Music Festival. This morning she talks about her creative works. Creative Mornings is looking for someone new to take over producing it. The Portland crew is now focused on making Design Week Portland year around. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map Doors 8AM, talk 9. Free
Design Week Portland - https://www.designweekportland.com/events - is wrapping. Plan your own adventure. I'm stopping by the 811 E Burnside open house - https://www.designweekportland.com/events/construct - and some other SE events.
Triad opens act 3, the last. https://www.facebook.com/events/1611803095599906/ It is at the always recommended OV Project Space, a gallery in the basement of a home, Portland style-y. At OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington Map 6PM-9 Free
Sunday, April 15, 2018
April 15, 19, 20 Plants Are Everywhere
Portland Tropical Gardens are on fire! (in a good way) It is an artist project gifted surplus City of Portland space. A great example representative of the new City arts engagement program https://racc.org/2018/02/28/portland-city-council-adopts-arts-affordability-plan/.
For future reference, artists, the City, Prosper Portland (nee the Portland Development Commission) and arts-supporting commercial developers often have space available for the cost of insurance.
April 15 is Water: a talk/Q&A by Portland Tropical Gardens Lead Horticultist Shawn Creeden. He will talk about water and plants and answer questions about how to care for your own, neither watering too much, watering too little, and hopefully watering just right! Noon
April 19 is 5 Movements For The City Dweller by composer Ben Glas. He has a fascinating approach to composition expounded at https://www.thankyouforyourunderstanding.com/. 5PM
April 20 is not to be missed. It's {SMASH} The Glass House. The white box and the glass house are archetypes. It's always a good idea to question them from time to time and reform or discard them as needed. Photographer Sarah Meadows opines on The Victorian Garden: A Convergence of Technology & Desire, aptly titled. Emma Colburn speaks From Porte Dorée to Notre Dame: 12 algo-rhythms of white Time in Black space or how 21st century streetscapes of Paris repattern a Cartesian plane. 5PM
Keep tuned to the project at https://www.facebook.com/pg/portlandtropicalgardens/events/. At Director Park 877 SW Park Free
For future reference, artists, the City, Prosper Portland (nee the Portland Development Commission) and arts-supporting commercial developers often have space available for the cost of insurance.
April 15 is Water: a talk/Q&A by Portland Tropical Gardens Lead Horticultist Shawn Creeden. He will talk about water and plants and answer questions about how to care for your own, neither watering too much, watering too little, and hopefully watering just right! Noon
April 19 is 5 Movements For The City Dweller by composer Ben Glas. He has a fascinating approach to composition expounded at https://www.thankyouforyourunderstanding.com/. 5PM
April 20 is not to be missed. It's {SMASH} The Glass House. The white box and the glass house are archetypes. It's always a good idea to question them from time to time and reform or discard them as needed. Photographer Sarah Meadows opines on The Victorian Garden: A Convergence of Technology & Desire, aptly titled. Emma Colburn speaks From Porte Dorée to Notre Dame: 12 algo-rhythms of white Time in Black space or how 21st century streetscapes of Paris repattern a Cartesian plane. 5PM
Keep tuned to the project at https://www.facebook.com/pg/portlandtropicalgardens/events/. At Director Park 877 SW Park Free
Friday, April 13, 2018
April 14 Yu Geys, Cats!
Belgian artist Jeff Geys opens one of his last shows at Yu tonight. It is an exploration of a lifetime of work including work made at Yu in a Sol LeWitt-process and combining samples from Geys previous works. Included is a project with Da Vinci middle school students; Geys worked for years in experimental arts education. His blog https://jefgeysweblog.wordpress.com/ may provide a view of his work and the Yu website has a description of the show. Jeff Geys at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free
Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are 6 performers and 2 quartets: Cat Synth (S.F.), ANON, Grease Envelope, Cult Quartet II, bifurcation, Occurian, Star Blade (Corvallis) and Cult Quartet I. Live visuals by Victoria - spacepunk.media. The theme tonight is cats, it's caturday, right? 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the a cat shelter. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5
Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are 6 performers and 2 quartets: Cat Synth (S.F.), ANON, Grease Envelope, Cult Quartet II, bifurcation, Occurian, Star Blade (Corvallis) and Cult Quartet I. Live visuals by Victoria - spacepunk.media. The theme tonight is cats, it's caturday, right? 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the a cat shelter. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5
April 13 Cat Self Triad
Painter and mixed media artist Mira Dancy has Self Seed. She is a rising NYC artist. This evening Portland modern dancer Allie Hankins performs at 6 to accompany the art. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 5PM-7 Free
Cat Castle is an art collective doing shows in a home in St Johns. They have been curating shows from their own network.
They have a show at the PSU White Gallery, That Femmiliar Feeling, with collective members Lily H. Valentine, Merry Jo Carter, Indigo Wrenn, Amy Woelbeast, & J. Simspon. It's early, 6PM-9. After, they retire to the Cat Castle for a show with Maxwell Benedetti and Scarlet Hasseries from 8PM-11:59. Cat Castle at the White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 6PM-9 Free
The Triad show, started last Friday, continues at Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-10 Free
Cat Castle is an art collective doing shows in a home in St Johns. They have been curating shows from their own network.
They have a show at the PSU White Gallery, That Femmiliar Feeling, with collective members Lily H. Valentine, Merry Jo Carter, Indigo Wrenn, Amy Woelbeast, & J. Simspon. It's early, 6PM-9. After, they retire to the Cat Castle for a show with Maxwell Benedetti and Scarlet Hasseries from 8PM-11:59. Cat Castle at the White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 6PM-9 Free
The Triad show, started last Friday, continues at Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-10 Free
Saturday, April 07, 2018
April 7 Flat White
Ann Ploeger has photographic portraits The Woman Who Was Alive There. They are studio-lit against a white background straight portraits of friends. She is known for portraits in homes, so this is a little different and loses her trademark bare feet from that house portrait series.
Sometimes Mississippi-Albina observes gallery night on the first Saturday of the month.
At Luke's Frame Shop 4703 N Albina 6PM-8 Free
Sometimes Mississippi-Albina observes gallery night on the first Saturday of the month.
At Luke's Frame Shop 4703 N Albina 6PM-8 Free
Friday, April 06, 2018
April 6 Eastside Art Openings
Small Talk Collective, 7 women photographers, have We’re Always Touching By Underground Wires. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Kate Bingaman-Burt has a mural and new print works dropping tonight. At Project Object 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Photographer Lisa Bauso has exposures of modern life and tradition commingled in Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
ANX, the gallery at ADX, has a show focused on taking design by software, them implementing it physically. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Ann Wilson has photographs Uncovering Language. At Passages Bookshop 1223 NE ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
True Measure has part 1 of 3 shows, Triad, distributed over 3 weeks inspired by one, two or three by 21 artists making 3 works each. Parts 2 and 3 are at Grapefruits in a week and OV a week after.
Got that?
The artists are Alex Oslance, Dustin Houston, Severin Moore, Elizabeth Lovell, Hanako O'Leary, Cameron Hawkey, Winnie Black, Martha Daghlian, Henry St John Newell, Andrew Auble, Anthony White, China Faith Star, Sam Klickner, Matthew Henderson, Erin Guy, Srijon Chowdhury, Arrington de Dionyso, Colin Manning, Misha Capecchi, Courtney Knight and Isis Fisher. Tonight also includes a performance by Pelican Ossman. One, Two, Three at True Measure 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Ryan Bubinis has from the ground up, bright flat schematic illustration. Jeff Pfeil has Rhizome, graphic designs suggestive of biological illustration. 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
José Sierra and Janice Jakielski have ceramic work. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
A Wild Hare is a bunny themed show by Heidi Davis, Tripper Dungan, Lisa Laser and Amelia Opie. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Taking Pictures, a broad theme show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Kate Bingaman-Burt has a mural and new print works dropping tonight. At Project Object 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Photographer Lisa Bauso has exposures of modern life and tradition commingled in Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
ANX, the gallery at ADX, has a show focused on taking design by software, them implementing it physically. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Ann Wilson has photographs Uncovering Language. At Passages Bookshop 1223 NE ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
True Measure has part 1 of 3 shows, Triad, distributed over 3 weeks inspired by one, two or three by 21 artists making 3 works each. Parts 2 and 3 are at Grapefruits in a week and OV a week after.
Got that?
The artists are Alex Oslance, Dustin Houston, Severin Moore, Elizabeth Lovell, Hanako O'Leary, Cameron Hawkey, Winnie Black, Martha Daghlian, Henry St John Newell, Andrew Auble, Anthony White, China Faith Star, Sam Klickner, Matthew Henderson, Erin Guy, Srijon Chowdhury, Arrington de Dionyso, Colin Manning, Misha Capecchi, Courtney Knight and Isis Fisher. Tonight also includes a performance by Pelican Ossman. One, Two, Three at True Measure 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Ryan Bubinis has from the ground up, bright flat schematic illustration. Jeff Pfeil has Rhizome, graphic designs suggestive of biological illustration. 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
José Sierra and Janice Jakielski have ceramic work. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
A Wild Hare is a bunny themed show by Heidi Davis, Tripper Dungan, Lisa Laser and Amelia Opie. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Taking Pictures, a broad theme show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, April 05, 2018
April 5 Westside Art Openings
April is Portland photo month inspired by Photolucida.
Matthew Picton has El Dorado, schematic city maps and photographer Robert Lyons has hometown One Eye Crying.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Svetlana Bailey has Once There Was There Wasn't and J. Fredric May has Apparition: Postcards from Eye See You. They are inspired by growing up in Russia and having a stroke respectively.
In the Nine Gallery, Bill Will has Symphony of the Small Appliance. His work is often kinetic. This is an array of kitchen and other household appliances which activate in a sequence of musical noise. It's topical, all but two of the appliances are imported from China.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Southwoods, Skin Lies, and Mike Gamble. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
The Feeling Good Handbook is a dual show by Heidi Hahn and Shana Moulton. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Matthew Picton has El Dorado, schematic city maps and photographer Robert Lyons has hometown One Eye Crying.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Svetlana Bailey has Once There Was There Wasn't and J. Fredric May has Apparition: Postcards from Eye See You. They are inspired by growing up in Russia and having a stroke respectively.
In the Nine Gallery, Bill Will has Symphony of the Small Appliance. His work is often kinetic. This is an array of kitchen and other household appliances which activate in a sequence of musical noise. It's topical, all but two of the appliances are imported from China.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Southwoods, Skin Lies, and Mike Gamble. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
The Feeling Good Handbook is a dual show by Heidi Hahn and Shana Moulton. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
April 4, 11, 18, 22, 25, 29 Foot Stomping Your Should See
Butoh is a weird beautiful modern dance movement. You can see it and decide. There are international visitors here to see. Performances will sell out. Yumiko Yoshioka from Japan, Maureen Flemming from New York, Mizu Diserto and Anastazia Arnaga from PDX/SF, Dengerate Ensemble from Seattle. Meow! Each performance is about $25. Dancing at Headwaters https://www.witd.org/performance/butoh-college-performance Various nights $10-25
Thursday, March 29, 2018
March 29 German Jazz
German Jazz is a show of bright, alternately geometric and bulbous, paintings by David Wien, along with some wood sculptures. Opening tonight at Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free
Jason Borders, wood carvings by Laura Buchan and paintings by Wendy Matenga At Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Jason Borders, wood carvings by Laura Buchan and paintings by Wendy Matenga At Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Friday, March 23, 2018
March 24 Eye Within I; Caldera Within Caldera
In her eye you see another small eye is a show including Cristine Brache, Sally Jerome and Sarah Smiley with painting, ceramic, sculpture and poetry. It's curated by Rose Dickson. The closing reception is this afternoon. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 2PM Free
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.
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
Arrive for the 1PM sharp presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.
Camp Caldera is itself within the Blue Lake caldera, as well as being a metaphor for the artistic work there: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=322030.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
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.
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
Arrive for the 1PM sharp presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.
Camp Caldera is itself within the Blue Lake caldera, as well as being a metaphor for the artistic work there: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=322030.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
March 23 Six
SIX is 12. 12 performances since 2008 of electronic music performed live in 6 surround channels. This performance's artists include Reese Bowes, Sage Fisher + Chloe Alexandra, Marcus Fischer and France Jobin. It has usually been at PNCA where the audience brought blankets and pillows to listen on the floor. This SIX is at 15 NE Hancock 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, March 17, 2018
March 18 Space Retriever
Nationale has Jake Manning with paintings Guests of Space, https://www.nationale.us/jake-manning-guests-of-space-2018/.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
The First Congregational Church is a great place to hear acoustic music. And they have an organ. So Veriform Gallery has teamed with them to present Golden Retriever, Hair and Space Museum and WL. Preview: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgQJnRQDyzl/?taken-by=variformgallery Veriform at the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7:30PM $10
At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
The First Congregational Church is a great place to hear acoustic music. And they have an organ. So Veriform Gallery has teamed with them to present Golden Retriever, Hair and Space Museum and WL. Preview: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgQJnRQDyzl/?taken-by=variformgallery Veriform at the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7:30PM $10
March 17 Saturation+
Daipan wraps their Butoh+ season tonight. Its butoh +visual art and maybe even comedy. Performers are Trio De Femme: Lela Besom, Sheri Brown and Marina White Raven; Dhyana Garcia-Snyder and Emily Batlan with live painter Carol Rashawnna Williams and musician Edelmar Obenza interpreting the Rite of Spring; Brittle Sisters dance: Helen Thorsen; and Erica Akiko Howard; Ari Rudenko’s experimental Prehistoric Body Theater; and more by Alan Sutherland, Brooklyn Dicent and Jeffrey Robert. At Youngstown Cultural Arts Center 4408 Delridge Way SW, West Seattle Doors 6:30PM $15-20 cash only
Sondra Perry opens digital works Chromatic Saturation. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Sondra Perry opens digital works Chromatic Saturation. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, March 16, 2018
March 16 Hope For the Flowers
Dust to Dust opens The Way of Flowers, flower themed work by Emily Counts, Laurel Hill, Hilary Horvath, Emma Lou Weber, Erica Prince and Anya Roberts-Toney. Normally we don't do flowers here, but it's Spring. They also are doing an olfactory workshop next week for Design Week Portland. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Monday, March 12, 2018
March 13 Weird Shiftiness
Weird Shift Microtalks have a new location. It is an open source platform for short talks ranging from obscure to faux. Since it is a larger location, you simply must come to fill the space. You can even give a talk - they have a projector, so bring it on a laptop or on a flash drive or have it online somewhere. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM Free
Saturday, March 10, 2018
March 12 Bansuri Flower Fodder
Flower(s) in Concrete is a show by Léonie Guyer, Wayne Smith and Lynne Woods Turner opening 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
Fodder by Renee Petropoulos is a show by a late career artist from LA. They are normally in commercial galleries and have a body of public art. The show is a great example of the network of this small alternative space. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp Noon-3 Free
Ustad Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia perform classical Indian music on tabla and bamboo flute. Both have a strong lineage and a lifetime of study. You can find their performances on YouTube. This hall is perfect for the music too. Recommended. Presented by Kalekendra www.kalakendra.org/events/zakir-hussain-and-rakesh-chaurasia/ at the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park. 6PM $50
Fodder by Renee Petropoulos is a show by a late career artist from LA. They are normally in commercial galleries and have a body of public art. The show is a great example of the network of this small alternative space. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp Noon-3 Free
Ustad Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia perform classical Indian music on tabla and bamboo flute. Both have a strong lineage and a lifetime of study. You can find their performances on YouTube. This hall is perfect for the music too. Recommended. Presented by Kalekendra www.kalakendra.org/events/zakir-hussain-and-rakesh-chaurasia/ at the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park. 6PM $50
March 10 Raining Volts
Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are Terror Apart, Science Patrol, Darcy Neal, Erin April Cooper, Plea, Mountain on the Moon and an octet of jam performers. 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the rainn.org. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5
Friday, March 09, 2018
March 9 Parallel Fantasy
Fantasies in Parallel is a portrait show in color by 13 female & non-binary Portland photographers: Alexis Paschal / @bigsaddumby, Danni Ordoñez / @synethetes, Haley Jensen / @thebonegoddess, Jenny Olsen / @jennyolsenphoto, Jess Garten / @flashbodies, Jordan Raye / @jordan_x_raye, Krystyna Solodenko / @_softpetals_, Miss Prys / @miss_prys, Rachel Lily (Kiki LeMiau) / @rachellilyphoto, Sevin Mundo / @no1mundo, Sofija Olson / @sofija.olson, Williejane Dent / @williejane and Yvette Aispuro / @yvettepet. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-10 Free
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
March 1 Westside Art Openings
This month art gets some serious shows. Many close early at 8.
Ma'at Mons is a new show by ever evolving Storm Tharp. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Imogen Cunningham is a force of nature in the world of photography. You can read about her accomplishments. And you can enjoy this video of part of her appearance https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/imogen-cunningham-on-the-tonight-show-with-johnny-carson/ at age 93 on the Tonight Show. If you can find the full version, recommended, it gets even more funny! At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Tom Prochaska is a painter and printmaker. His impressionistic portraits are enigmatic in their roughness of image and texture. Gail Tremblay is a contemporary sculptor weaving baskets with motion picture 35mm sprocketed filmstock. The work of both is strongly recommended. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Zun Lee has Father Figure, portraits of African American fathers. Manhood and fatherhood is explored in https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-28/boys-to-men-how-masculinity-is-made. The show was curated far in advance, but discussing it is continuously critical. Michał Cała has Silesia, documenting that industrial area in Poland between 1975 and 1992. The Solidarity trade union - Solidarność, Soviet military exercises and dissolution of the Soviet Union, freeing Poland all changed Poland in that period. The dramas Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Man of Hope by Wajda capture that era and are recommended. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Marcus Fischer, Chloe Alexandra & Burke Jam. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
The Coldest Night is a show of paintings by Srijon Chowdhury. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by http://www.url-gurl.com/wizardapprentice/, infinitely better than the conceit that is The Apprentice. At Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Ma'at Mons is a new show by ever evolving Storm Tharp. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Imogen Cunningham is a force of nature in the world of photography. You can read about her accomplishments. And you can enjoy this video of part of her appearance https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/imogen-cunningham-on-the-tonight-show-with-johnny-carson/ at age 93 on the Tonight Show. If you can find the full version, recommended, it gets even more funny! At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th early close 8PM Free
Tom Prochaska is a painter and printmaker. His impressionistic portraits are enigmatic in their roughness of image and texture. Gail Tremblay is a contemporary sculptor weaving baskets with motion picture 35mm sprocketed filmstock. The work of both is strongly recommended. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Zun Lee has Father Figure, portraits of African American fathers. Manhood and fatherhood is explored in https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-28/boys-to-men-how-masculinity-is-made. The show was curated far in advance, but discussing it is continuously critical. Michał Cała has Silesia, documenting that industrial area in Poland between 1975 and 1992. The Solidarity trade union - Solidarność, Soviet military exercises and dissolution of the Soviet Union, freeing Poland all changed Poland in that period. The dramas Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Man of Hope by Wajda capture that era and are recommended. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Marcus Fischer, Chloe Alexandra & Burke Jam. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
The Coldest Night is a show of paintings by Srijon Chowdhury. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by http://www.url-gurl.com/wizardapprentice/, infinitely better than the conceit that is The Apprentice. At Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
February 15 Bespoke Bodies
We occasionally drop design events. One is a collaboration between PNCA and the virtual Design Museum.
It is Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics. Included are 35 visual case studies. The field is thriving, advanced by design software, 3d printing and better understanding of biomechanics. It's interesting to see from my early work on artificial joint research.
Bespoke Bodies designmuseumfoundation.org/blog/2017/12/06/bespoke-bodies-design-craft-prosthetics/ at PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
It is Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics. Included are 35 visual case studies. The field is thriving, advanced by design software, 3d printing and better understanding of biomechanics. It's interesting to see from my early work on artificial joint research.
Bespoke Bodies designmuseumfoundation.org/blog/2017/12/06/bespoke-bodies-design-craft-prosthetics/ at PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, February 08, 2018
February 11 Wildwood Valentine
Carson Ellis opens new work in her fourth solo show at Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Be My Cinematic Valentine: a Valentine's Day show of short experimental films is here for your Valentine's Day warm-up and/or intervention. Along with the film program, Larry Peace-Love Yes performs live music. Boathouse events are popular and interest can exceed capacity, so arrive early. At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM Show 8 $8
Be My Cinematic Valentine: a Valentine's Day show of short experimental films is here for your Valentine's Day warm-up and/or intervention. Along with the film program, Larry Peace-Love Yes performs live music. Boathouse events are popular and interest can exceed capacity, so arrive early. At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM Show 8 $8
February 10 Invariants
Ampersand has geometric photographic still lifes by Erin O’Keefe, and photographic landscapes by Clayton Cotterell and Jordan Sullivan. Opening tonight at Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free
February 9 Selfie Accretion
Karen White opens a contemporary abstract show Accretion. It's 2D and 3D work on personal psychological themes. The work is her OCAC MFA thesis. Godeleine de Rosamel has Selfies, friendly characters as you might find at Pictoplasma. 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
February 9-11 Moto!
The Moto Show is not exactly contemporary visual art in a gallery. It is a show of custom built motorbikes. Also included are cycling clothing and accessories, and an indoor flat rack race in Salem. There will be a visual art show, DJs and live music, and coffee, drinks and food available for sale. There is very limited parking. The One Moto Show http://the1moto.com/ 900 N Columbia Blvd. See website for times. $10-20
February 8 Tropical
Portland Tropical Gardens is an artist project open to you in anything but tropical Portland. Ralph Pugay is behind it. They have erected a greenhouse in Director Park downtown. It's filled with tropical plants and tonight it opens with presentations gathered in real tropical gardens around the world. https://www.facebook.com/events/149513472400405/ Director Park 877 SW Park 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
February 7 Portrait Love Net
Tonight brings some outstanding art choices!
Stumptown Coffee Roasters presents their second fellowship award artist, Jennifer Brommer. Her color photographic portraits capture ordinary individuals in a dramatic way. We, each one, are special; Brommer lenses that.
This show is from her Memphis series.
It captures a generation of social grace, wealth and studied appearance. It is that generation's way to project identity entwining Southern culture with the East Coast Gilded Age. The photographer processed the contrast of growing up in the New York City surviving artist world, with her grandparents' experience. The artist discusses the project here: https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/blog/stumptown-artist-fellowship-jennifer-brommer.
Her work reminds Holly Andres and the Yale school along with local portraits of a different tribe by Ann Ploeger. Brommer is one of the many SFAI-schooled artists who have made an impact on Portland art over the last few years. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
British artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead investigate the intersection of flesh and blood people with the Internet. Many people do and many artists do. But it is always a pleasure to experience contemporary artists outside our country contextualizing our evolving relationship with the net.
They bring a selection of work spanning almost 20 years, Academy of Saturn.
The lecture space is small, arrive early. After the talk, the artists open the show in the Cooley Gallery.
Talk Eliot Hall Chapel upstairs, reception and exhibit at the Cooley Gallery in the library building. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Talk 6:30 Free
Grapefruits Art Space drops their latest artist zine: Turkey Club Issue #3 - "The Love Edition." It includes Aki Kame, Artur Erman, Candice Goodman, David Dresbach, Jack Graydon, Kate Bingaman-burt, Kennedy Cruz, Lisa Kohn, Matthew Kramer, Ralph Pugay, Robby Day, Ruby Li, St. James Sneed, Tyler Alexander and Zac Pranji. Contributors David Dresbach, photography; Jack Graydon, painting and Zac Pranji, collage have full size work on the wall. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 7PM-10 Free
Stumptown Coffee Roasters presents their second fellowship award artist, Jennifer Brommer. Her color photographic portraits capture ordinary individuals in a dramatic way. We, each one, are special; Brommer lenses that.
This show is from her Memphis series.
It captures a generation of social grace, wealth and studied appearance. It is that generation's way to project identity entwining Southern culture with the East Coast Gilded Age. The photographer processed the contrast of growing up in the New York City surviving artist world, with her grandparents' experience. The artist discusses the project here: https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/blog/stumptown-artist-fellowship-jennifer-brommer.
Her work reminds Holly Andres and the Yale school along with local portraits of a different tribe by Ann Ploeger. Brommer is one of the many SFAI-schooled artists who have made an impact on Portland art over the last few years. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
British artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead investigate the intersection of flesh and blood people with the Internet. Many people do and many artists do. But it is always a pleasure to experience contemporary artists outside our country contextualizing our evolving relationship with the net.
They bring a selection of work spanning almost 20 years, Academy of Saturn.
The lecture space is small, arrive early. After the talk, the artists open the show in the Cooley Gallery.
Talk Eliot Hall Chapel upstairs, reception and exhibit at the Cooley Gallery in the library building. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Talk 6:30 Free
Grapefruits Art Space drops their latest artist zine: Turkey Club Issue #3 - "The Love Edition." It includes Aki Kame, Artur Erman, Candice Goodman, David Dresbach, Jack Graydon, Kate Bingaman-burt, Kennedy Cruz, Lisa Kohn, Matthew Kramer, Ralph Pugay, Robby Day, Ruby Li, St. James Sneed, Tyler Alexander and Zac Pranji. Contributors David Dresbach, photography; Jack Graydon, painting and Zac Pranji, collage have full size work on the wall. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 7PM-10 Free
Saturday, February 03, 2018
February 3 All You Need is Love
This show runs to self-taught local artists who do their art for love. Usually that is not our focus. The gallery in the Ford Building hall is different from previous Homeland.
But who can argue with love? This invitational of 200 artists has a potluck, live music, performance and a clothing drive for Transition Projects too!
And it's part of the Portland Winter Light Festival with an installation by Larry Steiner. The streets there to lower Division are a fine parking location for the OMSI Hub A Winter Light Festival, and the Ford Building is steps from the Clinton MAX station. The MAX will also get you toward the World Trade Center Hub B.
The Portland Love Show (of art) portlandloveshow.com at the Ford Building Gallery 2505 SE 11th. 6PM-11 Free
But who can argue with love? This invitational of 200 artists has a potluck, live music, performance and a clothing drive for Transition Projects too!
And it's part of the Portland Winter Light Festival with an installation by Larry Steiner. The streets there to lower Division are a fine parking location for the OMSI Hub A Winter Light Festival, and the Ford Building is steps from the Clinton MAX station. The MAX will also get you toward the World Trade Center Hub B.
The Portland Love Show (of art) portlandloveshow.com at the Ford Building Gallery 2505 SE 11th. 6PM-11 Free
Friday, February 02, 2018
February 2 Eastside Art Openings
Tonight your best option is the Winter Light Festival
Humanæ are head and shoulder photographic portraits by the Angélica Dass from Brazil. The backgrounds are Pantone colors approximating the skin tone of the model. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
ANX, the gallery at ADX, has aligned their openings with First Friday. They often have talks toward the end of the month. Tonight they open Ink + Press. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Victoria Christen has vessel sculptures, along with Sugar: sugar bowls by Dirk Staschke and sugar-themed prints by Lauren Gallaspy. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Redux has a collage show. Collage is upcycling, so right. They have upgraded their previews of the show at http://reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Black and White. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Humanæ are head and shoulder photographic portraits by the Angélica Dass from Brazil. The backgrounds are Pantone colors approximating the skin tone of the model. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
ANX, the gallery at ADX, has aligned their openings with First Friday. They often have talks toward the end of the month. Tonight they open Ink + Press. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Victoria Christen has vessel sculptures, along with Sugar: sugar bowls by Dirk Staschke and sugar-themed prints by Lauren Gallaspy. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Redux has a collage show. Collage is upcycling, so right. They have upgraded their previews of the show at http://reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Black and White. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
February 1 Westside Art Openings
This is not another cat show. It's from Alix Pearlstein who makes minimalist video works staging suggestions of human social interaction in architectural space. The cat piece, Harem Room-1, is a timely comment. You can see both and read about both. This is a great show by Upfor operating on a national stage. The artist speaks Wednesday January 31 in the gallery at 6 on art and #metoo/#notsuprised. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Ellen George and Jerry Mayer have Repose. It's a minimalist room installation involving rice. Loose material piled resolves into a natural angle of repose. It's an interesting topic. The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Henk Pander has new drawings. Pender is a Dutch artist and longtime portland artist resident with a unique rough realistic style edging surreal. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
G. Lewis Clevenger has Reclaiming My Time, along with Robert Yoder: Club Number and Heavenly Bodies by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has Willie Little, a California artist raised in North Carolina.
His work references self-taught, even visionary, artists from the South. Those artists always existed as folk artists. The art valuation excesses of Reagan-era Wall Street drew collectors to discover these folk artists.
Locally and in New York, the Jamison Thomas gallery added folk artists. Charles Froelick worked for the Jamison Thomas Gallery and assumed some artists in this style, so this is an apt return. The Portland Museum of Modern Art has also championed folk art & self taught art styles.
Willie Little is a new generation of self-taught artists embraced by the gallery-museum ecosystem. It's a nice complement to the work of Edwin Jeffery Jr now at W+K. Jeffery was a fireman involved in the civil rights movement who used firehouse free time to carve artworks of wood.
Also showing is the late Rick Bartow, a former Jamison Thomas artist. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
In a similar vein Alison O’Donoghue has New Bones, paintings. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside
Leach has collages by Jimmy Baker, Pat Boas, Claire Cowie, John Evans, Ann Hamilton, Lee Kelly, Kara Maria, Vik Muniz, Melody Owen, Eunice Parsons, Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Michael Scheurer, Brion Nuda Rosch, Michelle Ross and Myrna Tatar. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection has Julia Calabrese. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Brin and Christi Denton. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish, in cold Winter earlier
Ellen George and Jerry Mayer have Repose. It's a minimalist room installation involving rice. Loose material piled resolves into a natural angle of repose. It's an interesting topic. The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Henk Pander has new drawings. Pender is a Dutch artist and longtime portland artist resident with a unique rough realistic style edging surreal. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
G. Lewis Clevenger has Reclaiming My Time, along with Robert Yoder: Club Number and Heavenly Bodies by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has Willie Little, a California artist raised in North Carolina.
His work references self-taught, even visionary, artists from the South. Those artists always existed as folk artists. The art valuation excesses of Reagan-era Wall Street drew collectors to discover these folk artists.
Locally and in New York, the Jamison Thomas gallery added folk artists. Charles Froelick worked for the Jamison Thomas Gallery and assumed some artists in this style, so this is an apt return. The Portland Museum of Modern Art has also championed folk art & self taught art styles.
Willie Little is a new generation of self-taught artists embraced by the gallery-museum ecosystem. It's a nice complement to the work of Edwin Jeffery Jr now at W+K. Jeffery was a fireman involved in the civil rights movement who used firehouse free time to carve artworks of wood.
Also showing is the late Rick Bartow, a former Jamison Thomas artist. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
In a similar vein Alison O’Donoghue has New Bones, paintings. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside
Leach has collages by Jimmy Baker, Pat Boas, Claire Cowie, John Evans, Ann Hamilton, Lee Kelly, Kara Maria, Vik Muniz, Melody Owen, Eunice Parsons, Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Michael Scheurer, Brion Nuda Rosch, Michelle Ross and Myrna Tatar. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection has Julia Calabrese. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Brin and Christi Denton. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish, in cold Winter earlier
February 1-3 Let There Be Light
The Portland Winter Light Festival is inspired by light festivals around the world and hometown DIY projects like the Light Bar. It's in its third year. So there are more events in locations beyond the OMSI center, including performances in the World Trade Center. It has a large schedule and online catalog which is mobile friendly. It's big enough and dispersed enough that you can experience it over multiple evenings. It's child friendly and popular with families. The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com some daytime locations, OMSI evenings, the World Trade Center evenings. 6PM-11 Free
Thursday, January 25, 2018
January 28 Secret Revelation
Secrets is a new show by Katie Aliprando, Aline Cautis, Sonja Gerdes, Lia Lowenthal at Private Places. Revelation Theater is new a show by LA poet-visual artists Alec Egan and Andreas Gurewich at Chicken Coop. They are two independent exhibition spaces who focus on openings, beyond that, by appointment. So recommend to see it now! They are geographically diverse, with this opening coordinated and welcome to carpooling.
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday noon-2 Free
At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 2PM-6 Free
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday noon-2 Free
At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 2PM-6 Free
January 27 Winter Library
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.
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
Library Style is a show of artist books.
Portland has a rich history from the IPRC & zines, OCAC's books arts program for one of a kind, art publishers for few of a kind, like Publication Studio, Container Corps, Ampersand and Blue Sky along with local library rare book collections and the Gilkey Center. Many artists have some pretty epic journals and sketchbooks. This was an open call, so more likely one of a kind.
Library Style https://www.facebook.com/events/914991205336544/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 7PM-10 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
Library Style is a show of artist books.
Portland has a rich history from the IPRC & zines, OCAC's books arts program for one of a kind, art publishers for few of a kind, like Publication Studio, Container Corps, Ampersand and Blue Sky along with local library rare book collections and the Gilkey Center. Many artists have some pretty epic journals and sketchbooks. This was an open call, so more likely one of a kind.
Library Style https://www.facebook.com/events/914991205336544/ at OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington 7PM-10 Free
January 26 Next Greyhound Optimism
Ampersand is a thriving art book store with a strong representation of photography. Photographer Robert Lyons launches Pictures From The Next Day, documenting the interior of a home. The occupant lived there from birth to death, excepting a service time in WWII. Chikara Umihara launches Tsumugu, five years documenting cross country Greyhound trips. All the exposures were made from the bus and the bus stations. Both photographers are showing their work as photobooks.
At Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7PM Free
ANX has an artist talk for the closing of the current show Ever the Optimist by Sami Lee Woolhiser. The ANX gallery is deepening its curatorial philosophy to include contemporary shows. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 7PM Free
At Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7PM Free
ANX has an artist talk for the closing of the current show Ever the Optimist by Sami Lee Woolhiser. The ANX gallery is deepening its curatorial philosophy to include contemporary shows. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 7PM Free
January 25 Agent Orange
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has Agent Orange, a Trump-themed graphic design-style commentary. He is joined by Edwin Jeffery Jr, sculptor and artist from Memphis. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Friday, January 19, 2018
January 21 Gender Endings
Emma Kohlmann opens paintings Sun Spots. They are bright primitive schematic style, installed over floor to ceiling reproductions from her zine in the same style. Good addition by Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Endings opens today. It's work by Portland artists Srijon Chowdhury and Bobbi Woods who each also operate independent exhibit spaces. Chowdhury works in oils; Woods, photography. At Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
Endings opens today. It's work by Portland artists Srijon Chowdhury and Bobbi Woods who each also operate independent exhibit spaces. Chowdhury works in oils; Woods, photography. At Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 4PM-6 Free
January 20 Flood
Portia Munson from the Hudson Valley opens her show Flood tonight. She is an installation artist working with plastic consumer goods staged en masse. She also has mandalas of biological materials in contrast. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
January 19 Psychological Propeller
AMPM is a show of paintings by Hayley Barker, previously a Portlander, now in LA. They are face forms abstracted by dense mark making as psychological studies. Her artist book Vintage Self Help will be available. It was commissioned by Cherry & Lucic. That gallery in a garage is no longer operating; one of the 3 principals is cofounder of Williamson | Knight.
The announcement also wins the copywriting award for the month:
"AMPM—like the convenience store. You walk in, looking to quench some kind of thirst. You want quickness and reach around, grabbing for something that does the job. All day. All night. Like dreams and psychological states. Spiritual experiences that you ultimately enter—knowing delicacy or disappointment. There is a little bit of everything in the store, but maybe not exactly what you want. Maybe it’s not enough.
In dreams and in shamanic meditation, there comes a flow of both spiritual and mundane imagery. Messages from guides and one’s intuition. Meetings with spirits, goddesses, and versions of my-self. The paintings are self portraits; they are icons—reminders of who I have met, been, and could be in vast internal realms. They start with the “beddrawings” then become paintings. They include text and faces which come intuitively in morning drawing practices and reveal a woman-looking self in a slightly awake state. This is a state of desire, anger, exhaustion, and anxiety, all at once."
At Williamson | Knight www.williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Huun Huur Tu - http://www.huunhuurtu.ru/ - a progressive throat singing quartet from Tuva, graces Portland tonight. They are one of the most extensively toured Tuvan throat singing performers in the West and we are one of a very select set of cities they are touring. Progressive means they have collaborated with Western musicians and electronica artists since 1992.
Huun Huur Tu is translated as “Sun Propeller” - beams of sunlight cast through clouds in the golden hour or through tree leaves by overhead sun.
Portland has its own Tuvan throat singer, Soriah! So it is natural they visit our small town. You can preview Huun Hour Tu by a video search.
At the Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta. Doors 7PM, show 8. $25 advance, $30 door (sold out)
The announcement also wins the copywriting award for the month:
"AMPM—like the convenience store. You walk in, looking to quench some kind of thirst. You want quickness and reach around, grabbing for something that does the job. All day. All night. Like dreams and psychological states. Spiritual experiences that you ultimately enter—knowing delicacy or disappointment. There is a little bit of everything in the store, but maybe not exactly what you want. Maybe it’s not enough.
In dreams and in shamanic meditation, there comes a flow of both spiritual and mundane imagery. Messages from guides and one’s intuition. Meetings with spirits, goddesses, and versions of my-self. The paintings are self portraits; they are icons—reminders of who I have met, been, and could be in vast internal realms. They start with the “beddrawings” then become paintings. They include text and faces which come intuitively in morning drawing practices and reveal a woman-looking self in a slightly awake state. This is a state of desire, anger, exhaustion, and anxiety, all at once."
At Williamson | Knight www.williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Huun Huur Tu - http://www.huunhuurtu.ru/ - a progressive throat singing quartet from Tuva, graces Portland tonight. They are one of the most extensively toured Tuvan throat singing performers in the West and we are one of a very select set of cities they are touring. Progressive means they have collaborated with Western musicians and electronica artists since 1992.
Huun Huur Tu is translated as “Sun Propeller” - beams of sunlight cast through clouds in the golden hour or through tree leaves by overhead sun.
Portland has its own Tuvan throat singer, Soriah! So it is natural they visit our small town. You can preview Huun Hour Tu by a video search.
At the Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta. Doors 7PM, show 8. $25 advance, $30 door (sold out)
Monday, January 15, 2018
January 17 Memory Wilderness Party
Science as an inspiration for contemporary art is a largely overlooked opportunity. Perhaps it's the math filter for science careers or the conceptual semantics filter for contemporary art careers. It could be the overall downward interest in science in America. Or it could be the culture wars on art.
But science produces beautiful and complex visual artifacts which can be sampled for art. And the conceptual base is right under the surface.
There is beautiful raw material in physics, nanomaterials, visualization of molecules, energy, climate, geology and tectonics as well as biological building blocks: phages, viruses, cells and organs.
Portland artist Elise Wagner has work inspired by high energy physics and climate. Geraldine Ondrizek draws inspiration from science. There are Portland scientists who make art, but not in the contemporary art ecosystem.
I've always loved Janine Antoni's Slumber, based on electroencephalograms.
A subset is bio art related to genetics.
Bioartist George Gessert's art is inspired by plant breeding. He has traced the history of DNA-inspired art: https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2012/IMK48/A_History_of_Art_Involving_DNA.pdf. Early, Dali was inspired by DNA https://www.nature.com/articles/422817a. In 2002, Robin Held at the Henry mounted Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, who ranges across many scientific topics, developed visual material based on gel electrophoresis of DNA. Now those DNA analysis patterns have crossed into consumer decorative and fashion items independent of the contemporary art world.
Genetics travels beyond primitive viruses in DNA. DNA? That was discovered by Watson and Crick and noted by a Nobel. The illustrations for the original paper were conceived by Odile Crick. Portland artist Kindra Crick is their granddaughter.
She has her own science-inspired projects.
Tonight artist Crick opens Illuminated Wilderness: Memory here. It occupies the whole of the Littman Gallery.
One piece includes models of neurons at about 30000:1 scale, with LED lighting suggesting action potentials. It was developed in collaboration with a neuroscience researcher in Washington. This should be a fun show and is included in the Winter Light Festival outlying shows.
The artist gives a talk January 31, 6PM at the gallery. Opening at the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.littmanwhite.com/ PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-8 Free
We don't cover every Open Signal event but some. Strewn: Lu Yim, Sidony O'Neal, Maya Vivas, & Hannah Krafcik with Pepper Pepper and They Gamble perform tonight. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM $8-$10 sliding
But science produces beautiful and complex visual artifacts which can be sampled for art. And the conceptual base is right under the surface.
There is beautiful raw material in physics, nanomaterials, visualization of molecules, energy, climate, geology and tectonics as well as biological building blocks: phages, viruses, cells and organs.
Portland artist Elise Wagner has work inspired by high energy physics and climate. Geraldine Ondrizek draws inspiration from science. There are Portland scientists who make art, but not in the contemporary art ecosystem.
I've always loved Janine Antoni's Slumber, based on electroencephalograms.
A subset is bio art related to genetics.
Bioartist George Gessert's art is inspired by plant breeding. He has traced the history of DNA-inspired art: https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2012/IMK48/A_History_of_Art_Involving_DNA.pdf. Early, Dali was inspired by DNA https://www.nature.com/articles/422817a. In 2002, Robin Held at the Henry mounted Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, who ranges across many scientific topics, developed visual material based on gel electrophoresis of DNA. Now those DNA analysis patterns have crossed into consumer decorative and fashion items independent of the contemporary art world.
Genetics travels beyond primitive viruses in DNA. DNA? That was discovered by Watson and Crick and noted by a Nobel. The illustrations for the original paper were conceived by Odile Crick. Portland artist Kindra Crick is their granddaughter.
She has her own science-inspired projects.
Tonight artist Crick opens Illuminated Wilderness: Memory here. It occupies the whole of the Littman Gallery.
One piece includes models of neurons at about 30000:1 scale, with LED lighting suggesting action potentials. It was developed in collaboration with a neuroscience researcher in Washington. This should be a fun show and is included in the Winter Light Festival outlying shows.
The artist gives a talk January 31, 6PM at the gallery. Opening at the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.littmanwhite.com/ PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-8 Free
We don't cover every Open Signal event but some. Strewn: Lu Yim, Sidony O'Neal, Maya Vivas, & Hannah Krafcik with Pepper Pepper and They Gamble perform tonight. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM $8-$10 sliding
Saturday, January 13, 2018
January 14 Mirror +
Portland artist Melanie Flood has Mirror Mirror. The artist also operates their own small gallery space. 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
Butoh+ is a flexible format variety show Seattle organized by DAIPANbutoh. This month has Helen America, Marcia Tate Arunga, Alycia Scott Zollinger, Izumi Fairbanks, Jay Hamilton, and DAIPANbutoh members Kaoru Okumura and Sheri Brown. At Union Theater 1406 18th Ave, Seattle, WA Map Doors 6PM, Show 7 $10-20
Butoh+ is a flexible format variety show Seattle organized by DAIPANbutoh. This month has Helen America, Marcia Tate Arunga, Alycia Scott Zollinger, Izumi Fairbanks, Jay Hamilton, and DAIPANbutoh members Kaoru Okumura and Sheri Brown. At Union Theater 1406 18th Ave, Seattle, WA Map Doors 6PM, Show 7 $10-20
Thursday, January 11, 2018
January 12 Bomb Grapefruit
Gataro is an artist and son of a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Those survivors, hibakusha 被爆者, have a complex place in Japanese culture which cannot be translated. Gataro makes drawings of his everyday life and the surrounding city. His day job of 30 years is working as a janitor in apartment complexes built for those displaced by the destruction.
NHK made a documentary https://www.nhk.or.jp/peace/english/library/program/20130810.html about him and his work. This showing is of the English translated version.
Movement artists here, Meshi Chavez, Yukiyo Kawano and collaborators have drawn inspiration of the 1945 bombings, which could be repeated immanently. They encountered the documentary traveling their performance. So Kawano translated it to English. She is a hibakusha granddaughter.
That documentary is screened tonight in its premiere performance in English. Popcorn provided, bring your own refreshments. At Momentum Studio 1028 SE Water ave. #250 7PM Free
Grapefruits Rainbow in the Clouds by Momo Meow and Andrew Auble. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-9 Free
NHK made a documentary https://www.nhk.or.jp/peace/english/library/program/20130810.html about him and his work. This showing is of the English translated version.
Movement artists here, Meshi Chavez, Yukiyo Kawano and collaborators have drawn inspiration of the 1945 bombings, which could be repeated immanently. They encountered the documentary traveling their performance. So Kawano translated it to English. She is a hibakusha granddaughter.
That documentary is screened tonight in its premiere performance in English. Popcorn provided, bring your own refreshments. At Momentum Studio 1028 SE Water ave. #250 7PM Free
Grapefruits Rainbow in the Clouds by Momo Meow and Andrew Auble. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-9 Free
January 11 Beauty and Beast
Dino Mat and Marlon Mullen have stylized vintage magazine cover paintings and ceramic vessels that look like a gum wall. 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
Myths and fairytales inform our psychic DNA. Many originated thousands of years ago in oral tradition. They are entwined with brain development and our love of narrative. At points they have been captured in writing.
Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, is one. Many writers have captured it, including Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756. In turn, many film versions have been made. An early one is Cocteau's in 1946.
This evening it is accompanied by a live score with Patricia Wolf + CM Wolf Ensemble of: Noah Bernstein, John Niekrasz, Amenta Abioto & Jonathan Sielaff and Like a Villain.
It's part of the Fin de Cinema occasional we love. Recommended.
Fin de Cinema presents Beauty and the Beast https://www.facebook.com/events/1892468914126858/ at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8:30PM, film 9:15 $10
Myths and fairytales inform our psychic DNA. Many originated thousands of years ago in oral tradition. They are entwined with brain development and our love of narrative. At points they have been captured in writing.
Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, is one. Many writers have captured it, including Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756. In turn, many film versions have been made. An early one is Cocteau's in 1946.
This evening it is accompanied by a live score with Patricia Wolf + CM Wolf Ensemble of: Noah Bernstein, John Niekrasz, Amenta Abioto & Jonathan Sielaff and Like a Villain.
It's part of the Fin de Cinema occasional we love. Recommended.
Fin de Cinema presents Beauty and the Beast https://www.facebook.com/events/1892468914126858/ at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8:30PM, film 9:15 $10
Sunday, January 07, 2018
January 6 - February 10 SRL in NYC
Survival Research Labs - SRL is an art project started in 1978 by Mark Pauline and collaborators. They built large robots, usually powered by automobile engines running hydraulics with destructive capabilities, and staged theatrical performances of them in public. The performances were dangerous, though I don't think an audience member was ever injured.
Pauline had worked building military equipment in his early career. One interpretation of SRL is as critical commentary on our use of science, technology and industry for destructive ends.
SRL exchanged members with other cultural explorers such as the Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, Seemen in the 1970's to '90's San Francisco Bay Area.
The performances are much rarer, and Pauline-SRL has moved from underground, to art group-institution sponsorship, to the gallery.
This is art work, but au courant as AI & robots mate with military & industrial uses today.
Performances are documented in video. Perhaps you can imagine the audience risk.
The NYT covered it with some great quotes: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/arts/design/mark-pauline-survival-research-laboratories.html as does this short doc www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dcg9MpNYuc.
The show, Inconsiderate fantasies of negative acceleration characterized by sacrifices of a non-consensual nature www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/exhibitions/survival-research-laboratories, opens at Marlborough Contemporary 545 West 25th Street, New York, NY. Free
Pauline had worked building military equipment in his early career. One interpretation of SRL is as critical commentary on our use of science, technology and industry for destructive ends.
SRL exchanged members with other cultural explorers such as the Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, Seemen in the 1970's to '90's San Francisco Bay Area.
The performances are much rarer, and Pauline-SRL has moved from underground, to art group-institution sponsorship, to the gallery.
This is art work, but au courant as AI & robots mate with military & industrial uses today.
Performances are documented in video. Perhaps you can imagine the audience risk.
The NYT covered it with some great quotes: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/arts/design/mark-pauline-survival-research-laboratories.html as does this short doc www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dcg9MpNYuc.
The show, Inconsiderate fantasies of negative acceleration characterized by sacrifices of a non-consensual nature www.marlboroughcontemporary.com/exhibitions/survival-research-laboratories, opens at Marlborough Contemporary 545 West 25th Street, New York, NY. Free
Friday, January 05, 2018
January 6 Installation Work in Progress
Portia Munson opens her artist in residence studio this afternoon. The work is being made for a future show Flood at Disjecta. That show opens January 20. At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago Map 2PM-5 Free
January 5 Eastside Art Openings
Eutectic has Persistence of the Residuum, sculpture by Thaddeus Erdahl, Richard James and Russell Wrankle. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has Vara, abstract grid ink on paper by Paul Savovici. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Framed: Landscape Photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Chefas has a show of paintings. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has Vara, abstract grid ink on paper by Paul Savovici. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Black Box photo gallery has Framed: Landscape Photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
Chefas has a show of paintings. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
Monday, January 01, 2018
January 4 Westside Art Openings+
Robert Frank, now 93, started early in industrial photography and fashion. Perhaps that allowed him to move on early from the industrial objectives of commercial work.
At age 31 he started The Americans. It was a two year road trip, 1955-6 of 28,000 exposures; a view of America without hubris. Certainly his personal associations with the Beats placed him with the skeptics of that economic expansion which bypassed so many. Frank has lived an ascetic life and continuously explored new artistic challenges.
This is a two month show: Books and Films: 1947–2017.
It is ephemeral in that the works are printed on non-archival newsprint and will all be destroyed at the end of the show to discourage art collector speculation.
Vogue has an article about the show, naming him the Bernie Sanders of photography. The show is accompanied by a series at the film center nwfilm.org/film-series/robert-frank-frank-perspectives/. It launches January 10 with the documentary Don't Blink about Frank made in 2015, followed by several of his films.
This show is strongly recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
MK Guth is known for her ongoing social practice performance body of work. Collaborative Red Shoe Delivery Service brought social practice performance to NYC early. Later projects included connecting hair and memory. In a large Marylhurst show, she introduced social meals with handmade tables, utensils and journals. Instructions for Drinking With a Friend continues that theme, reprising a similar project at her East Coast Gallery. You may sign up in pairs to particpate.
Her work benefits from knowing the concept and narrative over pure instant visual pleasure. But it's worth it to engage.
Also showing Presence/Absence, monochrome abstractions.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Reed artist Vance Feldman has Foreverscape, an obsessive pop surrealist mural in panels, continuously expanded since 2009. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free
Georgina Reskala has Residue of a Vision. She is a recently minted CCA MFA originally from Mexico City, now LA. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month FreeIndira Valey, RON and Location Services. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. The first visual show in the series is made of works by intellectually disabled artists in Portland, Ricky Bearghost, Kurt Fisk, Perry Johnson, Elmeator Morton, Lawrence Oliver and Dawn Westover.
Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ at the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Damien Hirst is one of the bad boys of art in a number of dimensions. In the Fall he installed "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable." It is connected to the parafiction movement with examples by Josiah McElheny, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, RTMark and back to Dada. But it also represents a marker in time of the concentration of wealth in the world economy. The accompanying film has dropped on Netflix under the same name. Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable forms an interesting pair with the Robert Frank show.
At age 31 he started The Americans. It was a two year road trip, 1955-6 of 28,000 exposures; a view of America without hubris. Certainly his personal associations with the Beats placed him with the skeptics of that economic expansion which bypassed so many. Frank has lived an ascetic life and continuously explored new artistic challenges.
This is a two month show: Books and Films: 1947–2017.
It is ephemeral in that the works are printed on non-archival newsprint and will all be destroyed at the end of the show to discourage art collector speculation.
Vogue has an article about the show, naming him the Bernie Sanders of photography. The show is accompanied by a series at the film center nwfilm.org/film-series/robert-frank-frank-perspectives/. It launches January 10 with the documentary Don't Blink about Frank made in 2015, followed by several of his films.
This show is strongly recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
MK Guth is known for her ongoing social practice performance body of work. Collaborative Red Shoe Delivery Service brought social practice performance to NYC early. Later projects included connecting hair and memory. In a large Marylhurst show, she introduced social meals with handmade tables, utensils and journals. Instructions for Drinking With a Friend continues that theme, reprising a similar project at her East Coast Gallery. You may sign up in pairs to particpate.
Her work benefits from knowing the concept and narrative over pure instant visual pleasure. But it's worth it to engage.
Also showing Presence/Absence, monochrome abstractions.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Reed artist Vance Feldman has Foreverscape, an obsessive pop surrealist mural in panels, continuously expanded since 2009. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free
Georgina Reskala has Residue of a Vision. She is a recently minted CCA MFA originally from Mexico City, now LA. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month FreeIndira Valey, RON and Location Services. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. The first visual show in the series is made of works by intellectually disabled artists in Portland, Ricky Bearghost, Kurt Fisk, Perry Johnson, Elmeator Morton, Lawrence Oliver and Dawn Westover.
Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ at the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 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, in cold Winter earlier
Damien Hirst is one of the bad boys of art in a number of dimensions. In the Fall he installed "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable." It is connected to the parafiction movement with examples by Josiah McElheny, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, RTMark and back to Dada. But it also represents a marker in time of the concentration of wealth in the world economy. The accompanying film has dropped on Netflix under the same name. Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable forms an interesting pair with the Robert Frank show.
Friday, December 22, 2017
December 23-24 NTVTY VIII
Virgin birth of artworks is something artists do all the time. Whoops, where did that come from?
This is also the eighth year a group of artists have interpreted the nativity - www.xhurch.net/photomatrix.html. Each year has a big conceptual theme. A favorite was the alien nativity scene. Jesus was an alien, right?
Transformation and memorial is this year's theme. There is a lot of white in the space and the music schedule is freeform - want to play music - do it!
The Xchurch has a fascinating history. It was a synagogue. In 1948, the Vanport flood displaced African Americans to the Alberta neighborhood. Alberta was one of the small areas allowed for African Americans to buy homes under the Red Line system. It reminds the South African Bantu act of 1913. Apartheid.
The Red Line system was a product of the federal Home Owners' Loan Association project. But in South Africa, the white South Africans out-flanked the government and sold homes in white-only areas to African South Africans. An example is the Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank. We used it as an elections disaster recovery site where all races of election staff would not be questioned. We laid disinformation that the secure disaster site was in Sandbank, a wealthy gated white suburb of Johannesburg.
In 1952, that Jewish congregation sold the Xchurch to an African American Christian church.
But there was an anti-Negro force opposing an African American church there. The brave synagogue overcame it.
Lately it has been a rare artist live-work-perform space, amid Portland escalating rents. I'm sure there are several layers there.
Now it may be converted back to its use as a synagogue by new gen Jews.
Is that an Xxhurch? That's much better than an apartment block.
This is a great opportunity to chat with artists in chill space.
NTVTY VIII https://www.facebook.com/events/222370621638553/ at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9+
This is also the eighth year a group of artists have interpreted the nativity - www.xhurch.net/photomatrix.html. Each year has a big conceptual theme. A favorite was the alien nativity scene. Jesus was an alien, right?
Transformation and memorial is this year's theme. There is a lot of white in the space and the music schedule is freeform - want to play music - do it!
The Xchurch has a fascinating history. It was a synagogue. In 1948, the Vanport flood displaced African Americans to the Alberta neighborhood. Alberta was one of the small areas allowed for African Americans to buy homes under the Red Line system. It reminds the South African Bantu act of 1913. Apartheid.
The Red Line system was a product of the federal Home Owners' Loan Association project. But in South Africa, the white South Africans out-flanked the government and sold homes in white-only areas to African South Africans. An example is the Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank. We used it as an elections disaster recovery site where all races of election staff would not be questioned. We laid disinformation that the secure disaster site was in Sandbank, a wealthy gated white suburb of Johannesburg.
In 1952, that Jewish congregation sold the Xchurch to an African American Christian church.
But there was an anti-Negro force opposing an African American church there. The brave synagogue overcame it.
Lately it has been a rare artist live-work-perform space, amid Portland escalating rents. I'm sure there are several layers there.
Now it may be converted back to its use as a synagogue by new gen Jews.
Is that an Xxhurch? That's much better than an apartment block.
This is a great opportunity to chat with artists in chill space.
NTVTY VIII https://www.facebook.com/events/222370621638553/ at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9+
Saturday, December 09, 2017
December 9 Kill a Volt
Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are Brain Washers = Caustic Touch + Rick Ghastly, Erin April Cooper, Arkham Sunset + Kakiharae, ∆ Cult Group II ∆, Chaos SoahC, Glo Globes, Vaelentine and ∆ Cult Group I ∆. Visuals by Neybuu. 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the ACLU. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5
The Killjoy Collective has Panteha Abareshi, Tyler Mackie, Katie Piatt, Caitlin Rooney and Hailee Va. Can You Handle Me? www.killjoypdx.com/events/2017/12/9/can-you-handle-me at 222 Southeast 10th Avenue #102B 7PM-9 Free
The Killjoy Collective has Panteha Abareshi, Tyler Mackie, Katie Piatt, Caitlin Rooney and Hailee Va. Can You Handle Me? www.killjoypdx.com/events/2017/12/9/can-you-handle-me at 222 Southeast 10th Avenue #102B 7PM-9 Free
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
December 7 Westside Art Openings+
Many of the commercial galleries are continuing last month's show or doing group shows. Some of them are in Miami for Art Basel Miami and adjacent contemporary shows.
The downtown Stumptown Coffee has been known for its art curation for some time. It is also a venue with walls that can accommodate large work. Tonight Wendy Red Star, who shows at very noted venues, opens Grandmothers (I Come As One But I Stand As Ten Thousand.) This project previously showed at the Seattle Art Museum. Wendy Red Star is Crow. This project starts with photographs of Crow women by Richard Throssel made between 1902 and 1911, beginning at age 20. It was the first generation on the reservation in Montana. The photos of Crow grandmothers are superimposed on mirrors so the viewer can join the grandmother of over 100 years. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 7PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues last month's collage portraits by Sylwia Kowalczyk. Added is a museum quality show of Wigs, 1994 and Details, 1996 by Lorna Simpson. The work is loaned from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a retrospective of photographer Terry K. Thompson. His monochrome works span portraits, abstract portraits, landscapes and naturescapes. There is also a print show by international names you would recognize, so free art history lesson! At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection has Ezekiel Brown from Chocolate Giant. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
Every First Thursday, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8. It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ at the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 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
In an exercise of bad planning, the Precipice grant award announcement is scheduled this evening on the East Side. The Precipice Fund created by the Warhol foundation gives small grants to individual artists and alternative spaces. At 15 NE Hancock St 6PM-8 Free
The downtown Stumptown Coffee has been known for its art curation for some time. It is also a venue with walls that can accommodate large work. Tonight Wendy Red Star, who shows at very noted venues, opens Grandmothers (I Come As One But I Stand As Ten Thousand.) This project previously showed at the Seattle Art Museum. Wendy Red Star is Crow. This project starts with photographs of Crow women by Richard Throssel made between 1902 and 1911, beginning at age 20. It was the first generation on the reservation in Montana. The photos of Crow grandmothers are superimposed on mirrors so the viewer can join the grandmother of over 100 years. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 7PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues last month's collage portraits by Sylwia Kowalczyk. Added is a museum quality show of Wigs, 1994 and Details, 1996 by Lorna Simpson. The work is loaned from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a retrospective of photographer Terry K. Thompson. His monochrome works span portraits, abstract portraits, landscapes and naturescapes. There is also a print show by international names you would recognize, so free art history lesson! At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection has Ezekiel Brown from Chocolate Giant. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
Every First Thursday, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8. It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/ at the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 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
In an exercise of bad planning, the Precipice grant award announcement is scheduled this evening on the East Side. The Precipice Fund created by the Warhol foundation gives small grants to individual artists and alternative spaces. At 15 NE Hancock St 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, December 02, 2017
December 2 Tidal Petals
Some of our favorite performers in Portland are Wobbly, the duo and partners Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson. They have been doing dream like films. Tidal screens tonight. Tidal "is an exploration of the relationship between the rhythm of mechanized breath and the rhythm of the oceans. It is a fantastical film, where breathing masks transform into diving masks, ventilator tubing morphs into costumes, and an ancient diver who calls the ocean home, draws us into his world. We fall, we dream, we dive." Strongly recommended. Screening and discussion by Wobbly www.witd.org/headwaters/2017/12/2/witd-recommends-wobblys-tidal-the-first-cut at 2PM & 8:30 $10
Sarah Meyohas opens an installation Cloud of Petals taking all of Disjecta. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Sarah Meyohas opens an installation Cloud of Petals taking all of Disjecta. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, December 01, 2017
December 1 Dust
Johanna Jackson has lived in SF, Portland and LA, doing art. Tonight she opens Dust, sculptures and textile pieces. Some of her hooked rugs are time consuming projects. They contain time. And on the floor they capture dust. Dragging and Ox Through Water performs at 7. Recommended. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th 6PM-8 Free
Sunday, November 26, 2017
November 26 Monad
Monad is a metaphysical concept of creation and spiritual force. The big bang, proposed by Lemaître in 1931 is our model of the formation of the material universe. The monad is the corresponding model of origin of the conscious universe.
Soriah is a force of nature. He has mastered Tuvan throat singing.
We might not know of Tuva but for the obsession of physicist Richard Feynman who planned to visit there, but was frustrated by visa problems. Feynman was one of the great Nobel fundamental physicists who contributed quantum electrodynamics, a building block for experimental work on the big bang theory.
Soriah did visit Tuva many times to study, despite visa obstacles, and ultimately won throat singing championships in Tuva where he has a new family.
He performs only a few times a year here. Tonight he performs The Monad, an improvised soundscape.
Proceeds will help bring his 3 year old son on his first visit to the US.
He has a channel if you are unfamiliar with his music.
Doors 9PM. Dance night begins about 10:45, The Monad is somewhere in between.
At the Star Theater, 13 NW 6th $10
Soriah is a force of nature. He has mastered Tuvan throat singing.
We might not know of Tuva but for the obsession of physicist Richard Feynman who planned to visit there, but was frustrated by visa problems. Feynman was one of the great Nobel fundamental physicists who contributed quantum electrodynamics, a building block for experimental work on the big bang theory.
Soriah did visit Tuva many times to study, despite visa obstacles, and ultimately won throat singing championships in Tuva where he has a new family.
He performs only a few times a year here. Tonight he performs The Monad, an improvised soundscape.
Proceeds will help bring his 3 year old son on his first visit to the US.
He has a channel if you are unfamiliar with his music.
Doors 9PM. Dance night begins about 10:45, The Monad is somewhere in between.
At the Star Theater, 13 NW 6th $10
Friday, November 24, 2017
November 24 Body Pomes
Mushimaru Fujieda, a veteran mover influenced by butoh, describes his movement as Natural Physical Poetry. He gives a rare performance this evening. 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 7PM $15-30
Sunday, November 19, 2017
November 19 Animation
Tonight is the last in the Fall Boathouse media series. Nathan Sonenfeld, Kello Goeller and Luca Dipierro present their experimental animation. Theo Bowen shows on the video wall. At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 7:30PM $8
Friday, November 17, 2017
November 18 Balkan Toy Auction
Butoh never sleeps, even when night is long. That's especially true in Seattle. They have a big performance tonight with Shoko Zama, Paula Helen, Honeydo, Beverly Aaron, Joan Laage and the Balkan vocal ensemble Dunava. Daipan Butoh www.daipanbutoh.com at the Taoist Studies Institute, 225 N 70th St., Seattle. 7PM $5-20
ANX is the new gallery space for ADX - ANX@ADX? Some of the makers creating in the ADX shop make toys. ANX has a show of their and other local toymakers. Children are welcome and it's a great opportunity to find some toy gifts. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark Noon-5
Disjecta is a nonprofit. The annual art auction helps them pay rent, pay the tiniest staff, heat the place, keep the lights on and ship art. Of local nonprofit spaces, they are one of the most funds efficient.
Tonight there is a live auction and a silent auction. Artists include Alyson Provax, Amanda Wojick, Amjad Saleh Faur, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Annie Swiderski, Bobbi Woods, Braxton Congrove, Calvin Ross Carl, Carson Ellis and Le Oui, Chris Johanson, Christine Nguyen, Christopher Russell, Colin Kippen, Corey Arnold, Cynthia Lahti, Dan Attoe, Dan Gluibizzi, Daniel Duford, Daniel Peabody, Emily Counts, Emily Nachison, Heather Watkins, Jack Featherly, Jaik Faulk, Jeff Sheridan, Jennifer Rabin and Ross Lee Chappell, Jeremy Okai Davis, Jessi Reaves, Jessie Henson, Joby Barron, Jovencio de la Paz, Julia Oldham, Justin L’Amie, Justyn Hegreberg, Kathleen Murney, Kristen Miller, Larry S. Clark, Laura Fritz, Lindsay Jordan Kretchun, Malia Jensen, Marie Watt, Margie Livingston, Michael Boonstra, Michelle Grabner, Michelle Ramin, Michelle Ross, Nan Curtis, Pat Boas, Patrick Kelly, Polina Tereshina, Rachel Warkentin, Ralph Pugay, Roll Hardy, Ryan Molenkamp, Ryan Pierce, Samantha Wall, Srijon Chowdhury, Storm Tharp, Tannaz Farsi, Tessa Heck, Vanessa Calvert and Vanessa Renwick.
You can see art details at https://eventsavvyllc.tofinoauctions.com/disjecta17/catalog
Event design by Alyson Provax, Bill Will, David Bithell, Eric Mast and Fernanda D’Agostino.
Advance tickets at https://eventsavvyllc.tofinoauctions.com/disjecta17/tickets/ticket_sales. Art auction-party at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 6PM $40
ANX is the new gallery space for ADX - ANX@ADX? Some of the makers creating in the ADX shop make toys. ANX has a show of their and other local toymakers. Children are welcome and it's a great opportunity to find some toy gifts. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark Noon-5
Disjecta is a nonprofit. The annual art auction helps them pay rent, pay the tiniest staff, heat the place, keep the lights on and ship art. Of local nonprofit spaces, they are one of the most funds efficient.
Tonight there is a live auction and a silent auction. Artists include Alyson Provax, Amanda Wojick, Amjad Saleh Faur, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Annie Swiderski, Bobbi Woods, Braxton Congrove, Calvin Ross Carl, Carson Ellis and Le Oui, Chris Johanson, Christine Nguyen, Christopher Russell, Colin Kippen, Corey Arnold, Cynthia Lahti, Dan Attoe, Dan Gluibizzi, Daniel Duford, Daniel Peabody, Emily Counts, Emily Nachison, Heather Watkins, Jack Featherly, Jaik Faulk, Jeff Sheridan, Jennifer Rabin and Ross Lee Chappell, Jeremy Okai Davis, Jessi Reaves, Jessie Henson, Joby Barron, Jovencio de la Paz, Julia Oldham, Justin L’Amie, Justyn Hegreberg, Kathleen Murney, Kristen Miller, Larry S. Clark, Laura Fritz, Lindsay Jordan Kretchun, Malia Jensen, Marie Watt, Margie Livingston, Michael Boonstra, Michelle Grabner, Michelle Ramin, Michelle Ross, Nan Curtis, Pat Boas, Patrick Kelly, Polina Tereshina, Rachel Warkentin, Ralph Pugay, Roll Hardy, Ryan Molenkamp, Ryan Pierce, Samantha Wall, Srijon Chowdhury, Storm Tharp, Tannaz Farsi, Tessa Heck, Vanessa Calvert and Vanessa Renwick.
You can see art details at https://eventsavvyllc.tofinoauctions.com/disjecta17/catalog
Event design by Alyson Provax, Bill Will, David Bithell, Eric Mast and Fernanda D’Agostino.
Advance tickets at https://eventsavvyllc.tofinoauctions.com/disjecta17/tickets/ticket_sales. Art auction-party at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 6PM $40
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
November 14 Get Small
We rarely cover some of the more distant college galleries though their curation has been excellent episodically. That includes L&C, PCC Cascade, PCC Sylvania, Linfield in Newberg and Clark College in Vancouver. Here is one though. ULTRA Real are photographs by Alison Carey, Mark Hooper and Grace Weston. They build sets, some miniature, in the studio, and photograph them. At Archer Gallery www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/archer/index.php, Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA 6PM-8 Free
Monday, November 13, 2017
November 13 Revolution Africa
Not art. Dr Ali Colleen Neff speaks on innovation in Africa. It's a creative process like the visual arts we mention. And it pairs with art projects like the Ghana Think Tank in my view. Future Talks https://www.meetup.com/New-Relic-FutureTalks-PDX/events/244495000/ at New Relic 27th floor111 SW 5th. Reservations requested. 5:30 doors, talk 6. Free
Sunday, November 12, 2017
November 12 Boat Tube
Getting to Know You Tube is back with Ralph Pugay, Tabitha Nikolai and Ním Wunnan. At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 7:30PM $8
Thursday, November 09, 2017
November 11 Image Coup
The Chicken Coop Contemporary is one of Portland's well-curated galleries in a home. Portland has a history of home, basement, garage, live-work space and now a chicken coop. Today, Divine Image by André Fortes & Harry Gould Harvey IV opens. (Chicken Coop Contemporary is by Leach Botanical Gardens, always free. You might double check to see if it's open on Veterans Day. There is also a detour involving SE 122 explained at http://leachgarden.org/) At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 2PM-5 Free
November 10 The Philosophy of Human Development
Creative mornings presents a talk by Sohail Coelho on conceptual death in the creative profession. He is Director of Human Development at Instrument. In his ongoing study of philosophy he has realized the human pattern of building identity and the necessity to leave limiting pieces of it behind. Creative Mornings has https://creativemornings.com/talks/sohail-coelho at the PICA warehouse. 15 NE Hancock 8:30AM-10, Free
November 9 PDX History
Portland artist Sabrina Haque has been artist in residence at the City of Portland archives. Her work is making documentation and social practice art of the history of development in East Portland. In that project, she worked with 17-24 year olds of Portland Youth Builders. This is the result. You can see and discuss with the builder artists and Haque this afternoon. It is at the Youth Builders space 4816 SE 92nd. 3PM-4:30 Early Free
The Murdock Collections is a secondary market gallery. They hold the history of regional artists. For this show, Terrain: Native American Spirituality, they have Rick Bartow, Joe Fedderson, James Lavadour, Emmi Whitehorse, and others. When you are there, browse the back room. at the Murdoch Collections murdochcollections.com 2219 NW Raleigh Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Intisar Abioto continues her black Portlanders portrait series with a show of over 150 tonight. DJ 6PM, talk 7PM. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.littmanwhite.tumblr.com/ PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. 6PM-9 Free
The Murdock Collections is a secondary market gallery. They hold the history of regional artists. For this show, Terrain: Native American Spirituality, they have Rick Bartow, Joe Fedderson, James Lavadour, Emmi Whitehorse, and others. When you are there, browse the back room. at the Murdoch Collections murdochcollections.com 2219 NW Raleigh Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Intisar Abioto continues her black Portlanders portrait series with a show of over 150 tonight. DJ 6PM, talk 7PM. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.littmanwhite.tumblr.com/ PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. 6PM-9 Free
Sunday, November 05, 2017
November 5 Aeration
Trinie Dalton is an LA writer and curator. She has curated Epochal Aeration: Or, The Slow Hand with artists Sarah Braman, Sam Falls, Pearl C. Hsiung, Dorothy Iannone, Johanna Jackson, Xylor Jane, Chris Johanson, Elisabeth Kley, JP Munro, Cristina Toro and Hush Arbors.
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
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
Friday, November 03, 2017
November 3 Eastside Art Openings
The 811 building is always recommended. Black Box, upstairs, has a show ending at 8 - early. Redux has a regular show extending later. Other shops, up and down join in. The 811 building is always recommended. At 811 East Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free
Brian Donnelly has Reassemble, colorful surreal portraits. Marnie White has Vanity of Vanities, classical still lifes. 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
Shannon Goff has sculptures and Inherent Terrain with Undine Brod, Rain Harris, Sasha Koozel Reibstein and Amanda Salov continues. It is at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Brian Donnelly has Reassemble, colorful surreal portraits. Marnie White has Vanity of Vanities, classical still lifes. 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
Shannon Goff has sculptures and Inherent Terrain with Undine Brod, Rain Harris, Sasha Koozel Reibstein and Amanda Salov continues. It is at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
November 2 Westside Art Openings
Tom Cramer has Under the Sun, polychrome carved wood reliefs; Mark Andres, artist-filmmaker has Pompeii Portland, drawings from his film; and Janet Marcavage has prints at Lineation. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Sarah Horowitz has Fragments & Fences, botanical illustrations and landscapes made in Leavenworth Washington and Bellwald, Switzerland. Also showing is Nat Meade. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Adam Sorenson has Places, colorful schematic urban landscapes. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Sylwia Kowalczyk has Lethe, portraits made of collaged photographs, rephotographed. Benoit Fournier has Babylon, lo-fi monochrome urban landscapes made in Babylon, a favela in Rio De Janeiro. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Ben Buswell has fused glass and photo-based sculptures. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Raque Ford has con•fi•dence, monoprints inspired by their sculptures. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Night Lights continues its series of outdoor video art with a VR experience from Stephanie Mendoza, member of the Portland Immersive Media Group. http://pdximmersive.media/. It is in the parking lot to the North of 411 SW Park.
PNCA is recommended to stop in. There are galleries throughout. 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
Sarah Horowitz has Fragments & Fences, botanical illustrations and landscapes made in Leavenworth Washington and Bellwald, Switzerland. Also showing is Nat Meade. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Adam Sorenson has Places, colorful schematic urban landscapes. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Sylwia Kowalczyk has Lethe, portraits made of collaged photographs, rephotographed. Benoit Fournier has Babylon, lo-fi monochrome urban landscapes made in Babylon, a favela in Rio De Janeiro. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Ben Buswell has fused glass and photo-based sculptures. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Raque Ford has con•fi•dence, monoprints inspired by their sculptures. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Night Lights continues its series of outdoor video art with a VR experience from Stephanie Mendoza, member of the Portland Immersive Media Group. http://pdximmersive.media/. It is in the parking lot to the North of 411 SW Park.
PNCA is recommended to stop in. There are galleries throughout. 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
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