Monuments: The Earth Exhibition of Sun Ra is the coda of Libby Werbel's We. Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments series at the Portland Art Museum. That is a year long series curated by Werbel who also curated the Portland Museum of Modern Art.
Sun Ra (1914-1994) was a visionary musician and seminal Afrofuturist. His underground film Space is the Place 1972 is worth a watch. The Black Panther film 2018 is an update to Afrofuturism. This afternoon the exhibit opens with live local performances in collaboration with Portland's Deep Underground.
The show is up until January 27. Opening event today. https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/.
The Earth Exhibition of Sun Ra at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 2Pm-5. Regular admission $20, student and 62+ $17, under age 17 Free
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
October 26 Costumes Encouraged
Winnie Black and Drew McIntyre bring Glaze, music videos, video installations and prints. Music from Magisterial and D.Jenx. Costumes encouraged. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-10 Free
Thursday, October 25, 2018
October 25 Living Dead Live On
Night of the Living Dead (1968) will screen with a live sound track by Amenta Abioto, Dolphin Midwives and Maxx Katz. These Fin de Cinema events are always lovely, though the price seems to have increased. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 7:30PM, show 8:30. $15
Friday, October 19, 2018
October 19 Shareholders Unite
An Assortment of the Relational: A Shareholder Show is a group show including Marguerite Bailey, Dylan J. Beck, Ben Glas, Leslie Hickey, Michael Lazarus, Eric Long, Raul J. Mendez, Jane Schiffhauer, Nikki Vene and Paula Wilson. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Sunday, October 14, 2018
October 14 Sun Secret Password Seashells
The sun runs everything, and just about every source of artificial light, from stored fossil fuels. So almost all photography by natural and artificial light is made by the sun. If But a Sunbeam Strikes Too Warm is a photo show by Teresa Christiansen, Anne Hall, Sarah Meadows and Kate Steciw. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Cartier Mull opens a show of paintings ;a)5516, \a)142, /a)13&3. For this project, the artist sent a photograph to be collaged into works painted on the gallery walls from instructions he sent, à la Sol LeWitt. The durable instantiation of the work are instructions for each as a minimal artist book. It wins the copywriting award for the month too.
"Paintings
Paintings are pure pleasure – when they are ripe. Vitamins, minerals, and fibers have no more persuasive salesmen than juicy, honey-sweet painting. Painting is good for everyone, of course: every painting, like every exhibition, contains all vitamins (except B12, which is found in apparel), minerals and phytochemicals – those nutrients whose health-promoting properties are forever being newly discovered. As always, the best advice is to eat the most fresh painting you can, and preferably to eat painting that is local, in season, and perfectly ripe.
Paintings
The painting is nature’s perfect shape. It is not surprising that so elegant a container should turn out to hold a small treasure of balanced nutrients – proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. The painting’s unique properties give it a unique versatility. Paintings bind ground meats, pureed vegetables, and doughs; they lighten cakes and breads; they thicken custards, tenderize timbales, and provide richness to mousses and puddings. Paintings emulsify mayonnaise, thicken sauces, and clarify to enrich soups. They are used to glaze breads and rolls, insulate pie dough against sogginess, and create ethereal meringues.
It is essential to understand exactly how paintings behave under certain conditions precisely because they are so diverse. The important point is that paintings are extremely sensitive. Unlike some aesthetic mishaps, mistakes with paintings are often irreversible and it is usually necessary to start over again.
Paintings
The painting is an estimable but endangered social institution. Its demise may be blamed on factors as various as the waning popularity of hard liquor, the regrettable decline of the sibling arts of conversation and flirtation, and the growing acceptance in this country of the European idea that painting by itself is a sufficient diversion for the evening. (The painting, remember, is an American invention.) We steadfastly defend the painting, however, both as an abstract notion and as an uncomplicated and extremely pleasurable means of entertaining. And we can’t help pointing out that it is also a relatively painless means of entertaining business contacts and of discharging social obligations to those with whom you may not care to share an entire meal."
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday 3PM-5 Free
Think of Seashells is textile work accompanied by poetry by Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Cartier Mull opens a show of paintings ;a)5516, \a)142, /a)13&3. For this project, the artist sent a photograph to be collaged into works painted on the gallery walls from instructions he sent, à la Sol LeWitt. The durable instantiation of the work are instructions for each as a minimal artist book. It wins the copywriting award for the month too.
"Paintings
Paintings are pure pleasure – when they are ripe. Vitamins, minerals, and fibers have no more persuasive salesmen than juicy, honey-sweet painting. Painting is good for everyone, of course: every painting, like every exhibition, contains all vitamins (except B12, which is found in apparel), minerals and phytochemicals – those nutrients whose health-promoting properties are forever being newly discovered. As always, the best advice is to eat the most fresh painting you can, and preferably to eat painting that is local, in season, and perfectly ripe.
Paintings
The painting is nature’s perfect shape. It is not surprising that so elegant a container should turn out to hold a small treasure of balanced nutrients – proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. The painting’s unique properties give it a unique versatility. Paintings bind ground meats, pureed vegetables, and doughs; they lighten cakes and breads; they thicken custards, tenderize timbales, and provide richness to mousses and puddings. Paintings emulsify mayonnaise, thicken sauces, and clarify to enrich soups. They are used to glaze breads and rolls, insulate pie dough against sogginess, and create ethereal meringues.
It is essential to understand exactly how paintings behave under certain conditions precisely because they are so diverse. The important point is that paintings are extremely sensitive. Unlike some aesthetic mishaps, mistakes with paintings are often irreversible and it is usually necessary to start over again.
Paintings
The painting is an estimable but endangered social institution. Its demise may be blamed on factors as various as the waning popularity of hard liquor, the regrettable decline of the sibling arts of conversation and flirtation, and the growing acceptance in this country of the European idea that painting by itself is a sufficient diversion for the evening. (The painting, remember, is an American invention.) We steadfastly defend the painting, however, both as an abstract notion and as an uncomplicated and extremely pleasurable means of entertaining. And we can’t help pointing out that it is also a relatively painless means of entertaining business contacts and of discharging social obligations to those with whom you may not care to share an entire meal."
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday 3PM-5 Free
Think of Seashells is textile work accompanied by poetry by Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Friday, October 12, 2018
October 12 Untranslated
Heidi Schwegler has Untranslated. It is themed on anxiety about teeth. That's scary. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Thursday, October 04, 2018
October 4 Westside Art Openings
Several galleries continuous previous shows.
Laurie Danial has abstract paintings and Sarah Horowitz has botanical prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The late James Lavadour was a noted Native American abstract landscape painter. He has a show of that work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Side Effects May Include is a photo-based installation by Tamara Staples and I’m Only Here to Leave is theatrical self portraiture by Tommy Kha. They are both from Brooklyn. In the Nine space, Chris Rauschenberg has urban landscapes from Vietnam. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues with Laura Medina. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
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-10ish 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: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Laurie Danial has abstract paintings and Sarah Horowitz has botanical prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The late James Lavadour was a noted Native American abstract landscape painter. He has a show of that work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Side Effects May Include is a photo-based installation by Tamara Staples and I’m Only Here to Leave is theatrical self portraiture by Tommy Kha. They are both from Brooklyn. In the Nine space, Chris Rauschenberg has urban landscapes from Vietnam. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues with Laura Medina. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
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-10ish 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: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Friday, September 14, 2018
September 14-16 Utopias
Utopian Visions Art Fair is a little different. It's little. Many of the fair participants have brought just a few artists that matter. It's curated by Asha Bukojemsky, from Portland with work in London, now an independent curator. Srijon Chowdhury is the instigator.
"Utopian Visions Art Fair (UVAF) is an alternative art fair that provides a platform for artists, gallerists, and curators to present projects that work towards possible, alternative futures.
Art fairs allow transparency for conversations around the art world’s reliance on capitalist systems. Taking this model, UVAF asks: How do we free art from a system that both gives art its value but also makes it powerless? Presenting a range of collaborative, site-specific, accessible and community-oriented artist projects, UVAF will present an environment that explores and promotes engaged dialogue surrounding these topics.
The fair will include installations, performances, outdoor projects and a program of open conversations."
Artists include John Riepenhoff Experience, Carmen Winant, Alice Konitz, conversations curated and hosted by Asha Bukojemsky, the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations with: Aidan Koch, Shawn Creeden, Lisa Schonberg & Mixed Needs, The Institute for Queer Ecology with: POSADAS (Pablo Herza + Ignacio Hernández Murillo), Private Places with: M. Page Greene, Manuel Arturo Abreu, U: Curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy with: Kim Farkas, Alix Ferrand, Anna-Lisa Hölger, Hanna Hur and Michael Kennedy Costa, Lila de Magalhaes & Harley Hollenstein, Benjamin Reiss, Brittany Shepherd, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Et Al with: Laurie Reid & Cybele Lyle, Chicken Coop Contemporary with: Rnar Asgeirsson, The Orchards with: Chi Tran & Chaz Stobbs, Conduit, Williamson | Knight with: Maximiliano, 2727 California Street, Victor Maldonado with: Laura Medina, Marie Conner, Vanessa Briones Englund & Julian Adoff, Nicolo Gentile & Sam Williams, Lundgren Gallery with: Christopher Richmond, OV Project Space with: Cat Ross, the Pegasus Project, Garden with: Genevieve Belleveau & Themba Alleyne, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Sarah McMenimen, Lindsey A. Schulz & Kyle Welker, Keith J Varadi with: Joshua Bienko, Naomi Fry, Jeremy Jansen & Joe Sola, the Institute for New Connotative Action, Derek Franklin, Emma Courtney Cook, Midori Hirose & Mia Ferm with: Sam Hamilton, Ben Glas, Daniel Menche, Shannon Kerrigan, Nick Bindeman & Danny Sasaki, Lucy Chinen curated by Jesse Stecklow, Tropical Contemporary, Good Weather with: Layet Johnson, Demian Diné Yazhi’ and Upfor with: Moreshin Allahyari.
We believe OV Project space, a block away is a satellite, check their schedule at the fair.
The Utopian Visions Art Fair www.utopianvisionsartfair.com
at 518 SE 76th. Friday September 14, 5PM-8, Saturday September 15, 11PM-4 and Sunday September 16, 11PM-4 Free
"Utopian Visions Art Fair (UVAF) is an alternative art fair that provides a platform for artists, gallerists, and curators to present projects that work towards possible, alternative futures.
Art fairs allow transparency for conversations around the art world’s reliance on capitalist systems. Taking this model, UVAF asks: How do we free art from a system that both gives art its value but also makes it powerless? Presenting a range of collaborative, site-specific, accessible and community-oriented artist projects, UVAF will present an environment that explores and promotes engaged dialogue surrounding these topics.
The fair will include installations, performances, outdoor projects and a program of open conversations."
Artists include John Riepenhoff Experience, Carmen Winant, Alice Konitz, conversations curated and hosted by Asha Bukojemsky, the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations with: Aidan Koch, Shawn Creeden, Lisa Schonberg & Mixed Needs, The Institute for Queer Ecology with: POSADAS (Pablo Herza + Ignacio Hernández Murillo), Private Places with: M. Page Greene, Manuel Arturo Abreu, U: Curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy with: Kim Farkas, Alix Ferrand, Anna-Lisa Hölger, Hanna Hur and Michael Kennedy Costa, Lila de Magalhaes & Harley Hollenstein, Benjamin Reiss, Brittany Shepherd, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Et Al with: Laurie Reid & Cybele Lyle, Chicken Coop Contemporary with: Rnar Asgeirsson, The Orchards with: Chi Tran & Chaz Stobbs, Conduit, Williamson | Knight with: Maximiliano, 2727 California Street, Victor Maldonado with: Laura Medina, Marie Conner, Vanessa Briones Englund & Julian Adoff, Nicolo Gentile & Sam Williams, Lundgren Gallery with: Christopher Richmond, OV Project Space with: Cat Ross, the Pegasus Project, Garden with: Genevieve Belleveau & Themba Alleyne, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Sarah McMenimen, Lindsey A. Schulz & Kyle Welker, Keith J Varadi with: Joshua Bienko, Naomi Fry, Jeremy Jansen & Joe Sola, the Institute for New Connotative Action, Derek Franklin, Emma Courtney Cook, Midori Hirose & Mia Ferm with: Sam Hamilton, Ben Glas, Daniel Menche, Shannon Kerrigan, Nick Bindeman & Danny Sasaki, Lucy Chinen curated by Jesse Stecklow, Tropical Contemporary, Good Weather with: Layet Johnson, Demian Diné Yazhi’ and Upfor with: Moreshin Allahyari.
We believe OV Project space, a block away is a satellite, check their schedule at the fair.
The Utopian Visions Art Fair www.utopianvisionsartfair.com
at 518 SE 76th. Friday September 14, 5PM-8, Saturday September 15, 11PM-4 and Sunday September 16, 11PM-4 Free
September 14 Abstract Surrealism
Claiborne Colombo has abstract layered landscapes. At 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com, gallery in a garage, 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-9 Free
Erik Mark Sandberg brings his pop surrealism from LA to Portland along with Jillian Evelyn making Shepard Fairey-style work. 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
Erik Mark Sandberg brings his pop surrealism from LA to Portland along with Jillian Evelyn making Shepard Fairey-style work. 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
Friday, September 07, 2018
September 7 Eastside Art Openings
Redux has a show, Repose, tonight through Thanksgiving. Artists
Casey Capell, Mike Wellins, Heidi Elise Wirz, Kendra Binney, Helen Mask, Alea Bone, Alison Greyson, Emily Brown, Anneke Wilder, Kirsten Moore, Mavis Leahy, Mary Coleman, Isaac Fletcher Weiss, Brent Wear, Robyn Lee Williams and Lisa Laser contribute. That's a great collection for a a good project. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Photo Shoot: 2018 is a photographic portrait, still life and landscape show, At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
We like the energy of True Measure and the hard work of Jesse Reno. He has his own show there tonight. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
The LA show is Jillian Evelyn and Erik Mark Sandberg. It's graphic design and pop surrealism work. 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
Susan Thayer and Cary Weigand have new ceramic work tonight. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Casey Capell, Mike Wellins, Heidi Elise Wirz, Kendra Binney, Helen Mask, Alea Bone, Alison Greyson, Emily Brown, Anneke Wilder, Kirsten Moore, Mavis Leahy, Mary Coleman, Isaac Fletcher Weiss, Brent Wear, Robyn Lee Williams and Lisa Laser contribute. That's a great collection for a a good project. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Photo Shoot: 2018 is a photographic portrait, still life and landscape show, At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
We like the energy of True Measure and the hard work of Jesse Reno. He has his own show there tonight. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
The LA show is Jillian Evelyn and Erik Mark Sandberg. It's graphic design and pop surrealism work. 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
Susan Thayer and Cary Weigand have new ceramic work tonight. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
September 6 Westside Art Openings
Portlander Chris Rauschenberg is a photographer, facilitator - co-founding Blue Sky, collector and a curator. Inspired by Charles Harbutt’s Blind Boy, Rauschenberg shows Touch works on the theme human sensation. Artists include Thomas Alleman, Catherine Angel, Talya C. Arbisser, Eugene Atget, Rich Bergeman, Cecilia Berkovic, Skyra Beveridge, Richard Brown, Jamila Clarke, Vernoll Coleman, Celeste Cottingham, Paul Dahlquist, Aristide Economopoulos, Sidney Felsen, Michelle Frankfurter, Mary Frey, Patricia Galagan, Dorothy Glenn, Alison Grippo, M Bruce Hall, Anita Hamremoen, Charles Harbutt, Phil Harris, Craig Hickman, Ann Hughes, Birney Imes III, Gwynne Johnson, Sara Kirschenbaum, Les Krims, Justine Kurland, Dorthea Lange, Robert Langham, Zun Lee, Catherine Leuthold, Holly Lynton, Robert Lyons, Chema Madoz, Heather McClintock, Julie Mihaly, Jennifer Lynn Morse, Zanele Muholi, David Pace, Gordon Parks, Keri Pickett, Ann Ploeger, Gus Powell, Romualdas Požerskis, Jana Romanova, Irina Rozovsky, Nadia Sablin, Kris Sanford, Dona Schwartz, Joshua Smith, Jan Sonnenmair, Larry Sultan, Chip Thomas, Paul Trevor and Carol Yarrow. Recommended. Matt Eich also has a show I Love You, I'm Leaving. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Momopixel is a compelling artist-designer. If you don't have time for the video, take our word for it. Her art is animation, 8-bit stylie. She recontextualizes her work into the art works at Ground Kontrol tonight, where you can play her Hair Nah. There is a rare admission charge for first Thursday, but there is freeplay. At Ground Kontrol https://groundkontrol.com/event/momoland-lvl-4-free-play/ 115 NW 5th 7PM-11 $10
Encounters is a show of Japanese artists participating the the Yale Union End of Summer residency. The residency results are shown here and in Japan. Northwest artists represented by the gallery join them. It is a representation of the long time relationship between Portland and Japan. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Malia Jensen makes sculpture, and 2d work. It's morphed over the years. Newest is Yields in ceramic. Longtime artist and PNCA painting faculty Judy Cooke has paintings Conversations: Aluminum, Oil, Rubber. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Samantha Wall is a preternatural skill with large scale ink washes capturing the body. Her newest work, Phantom Limbs opens this evening. Lisa Jarrett has Imagining Home -100 exercises in empathy (Part 3), a social practice project. Melanie Stevens has If You’re Watching This, It’s Too Late, a large tapestry imaged from broadcast news. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
Utopia Without You by Tabitha Nikolai is an installation, a video game and other works. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. early close 6PM-8 Free
Amy Stephens has minimalist sculptures Land | Reland [Portland]. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 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: Christi Denton and Glenn Sogge. 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 6PM-9ish Free
Momopixel is a compelling artist-designer. If you don't have time for the video, take our word for it. Her art is animation, 8-bit stylie. She recontextualizes her work into the art works at Ground Kontrol tonight, where you can play her Hair Nah. There is a rare admission charge for first Thursday, but there is freeplay. At Ground Kontrol https://groundkontrol.com/event/momoland-lvl-4-free-play/ 115 NW 5th 7PM-11 $10
Encounters is a show of Japanese artists participating the the Yale Union End of Summer residency. The residency results are shown here and in Japan. Northwest artists represented by the gallery join them. It is a representation of the long time relationship between Portland and Japan. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Malia Jensen makes sculpture, and 2d work. It's morphed over the years. Newest is Yields in ceramic. Longtime artist and PNCA painting faculty Judy Cooke has paintings Conversations: Aluminum, Oil, Rubber. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Samantha Wall is a preternatural skill with large scale ink washes capturing the body. Her newest work, Phantom Limbs opens this evening. Lisa Jarrett has Imagining Home -100 exercises in empathy (Part 3), a social practice project. Melanie Stevens has If You’re Watching This, It’s Too Late, a large tapestry imaged from broadcast news. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
Utopia Without You by Tabitha Nikolai is an installation, a video game and other works. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. early close 6PM-8 Free
Amy Stephens has minimalist sculptures Land | Reland [Portland]. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 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: Christi Denton and Glenn Sogge. 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 6PM-9ish Free
September 5 Unwalking Borderlines
Unwalking the West is a readout by Signal Fire artists. Tonight the show opens with a panel discussion by the artists Sarah Farahat, Joe Hedges, Garrick Imatani, Rachelle Reichert, Rick Silva, Ilvs Strauss and curators Ka’ila Farrell-Smith of Signal Fire and Mack McFarland of PNCA. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6:30PM-8 Free
Fernanda D'Agostino opens Mapping (Borderline) a 6 month, multi-site work on "the intersections between climate change, mass migration and surveillance." Tonight is a projected collage of moving images in the public space of Open Signal. We are interested in following the works over months. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Fernanda D'Agostino opens Mapping (Borderline) a 6 month, multi-site work on "the intersections between climate change, mass migration and surveillance." Tonight is a projected collage of moving images in the public space of Open Signal. We are interested in following the works over months. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Septemer 1 Post Apocalyptic Masterpiece Date
The Olympic Mills Commerce Center has sometimes had interesting shows. For a time they had sprawling shows of many dozens of artists all at once. This one is two.
Angelee van Allman has And A Thing Called Love, images a post apocalyptic world of gas masks. Julia Oldham has Dogs of Future Earth, collage envisioning a future earth without humans, but with dogs. It was inspired by a documentary she shot in the Chernobyl reactor area, abandoned by humans and reclaimed by wild and feral animals.
At the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SW Washington 6PM-9 Free
Nathan Paul Rice had drawings and paintings Masterpiece / Good Job / Big Shit. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 5PM-7 Free
New space Carnation Contemporary, inside the Disjecta Building, hosts a show of their collective members, First Date. At Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate 6PM-8 Free
Jaleesa Johnston has Encounters. It is shown in a gallery in a living room, opening tonight, with limited hours over its run or by appointment. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free
Angelee van Allman has And A Thing Called Love, images a post apocalyptic world of gas masks. Julia Oldham has Dogs of Future Earth, collage envisioning a future earth without humans, but with dogs. It was inspired by a documentary she shot in the Chernobyl reactor area, abandoned by humans and reclaimed by wild and feral animals.
At the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SW Washington 6PM-9 Free
Nathan Paul Rice had drawings and paintings Masterpiece / Good Job / Big Shit. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 5PM-7 Free
New space Carnation Contemporary, inside the Disjecta Building, hosts a show of their collective members, First Date. At Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate 6PM-8 Free
Jaleesa Johnston has Encounters. It is shown in a gallery in a living room, opening tonight, with limited hours over its run or by appointment. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, August 09, 2018
August 9-12 Converge 45 Opens
Converge 45 is a Portland visual art event with strong curation. It was created to bring internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to Portland. It was created to create interactions between noted Portland artists and international artists. It was designed in an arc around curator Kristy Edmunds. This is the culmination of that arc for you to see.
The acclaimed guest artists have never had major shows in Portland. Ann Hamilton in a lyric minimal installationist. I've found her works simple and rich enough to not require an idea to stand on their own. For instance, Accountings, at the Henry, engaged textures underfoot, the smell of wax, and the sound of birds along with obsessively labored visual elements, the movement of birds, their droppings and South American ritual objects. Seattle has always had more commissioning resources and they have been working with Hamilton on another big project on the pier. Portland gets a more modest variation of her Armory project Event of a Thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM: a series of swings activating curtains of shear cloth amidst poetic sound recordings. That evolved into Habitus, with an open source of collected readings, https://habitus-a-commonplace.tumblr.com/. Habitus is installed at the Centennial Mills ruin. It opens 2PM-5 Friday, followed by a talk 6:30 at Reed. The installation is open Friday – Sunday, 3PM-7, August 10 – September 16. Free. That area is not convenient for parking, so consider walking, biking and transit.
Jenny Holzer is a minimal word artist. She made the LED reader board her canvas akin to Barbra Krugers Life Magazine style printed word works. She has expanded her material canvas to architectural projections, billboard trucks and words on graffiti-style canvases. Her early work was aphorism-inspired; it's sharpened its political and social point over time. This show is a large collection of prints lent by the Jordan Schnitzer museum.It opens Thursday 5PM-7 with the artist speaking at 6. It is at PNCA and viewable PNCA gallery hours after. All free.
King School Museum of Contemporary Art has an international exhibition opening in the 15 NE Hancock apace Friday 4PM-7.
There are other free events through the weekend on the project website.
Converge 45, converge45.org. Various locations and times. Free
The acclaimed guest artists have never had major shows in Portland. Ann Hamilton in a lyric minimal installationist. I've found her works simple and rich enough to not require an idea to stand on their own. For instance, Accountings, at the Henry, engaged textures underfoot, the smell of wax, and the sound of birds along with obsessively labored visual elements, the movement of birds, their droppings and South American ritual objects. Seattle has always had more commissioning resources and they have been working with Hamilton on another big project on the pier. Portland gets a more modest variation of her Armory project Event of a Thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM: a series of swings activating curtains of shear cloth amidst poetic sound recordings. That evolved into Habitus, with an open source of collected readings, https://habitus-a-commonplace.tumblr.com/. Habitus is installed at the Centennial Mills ruin. It opens 2PM-5 Friday, followed by a talk 6:30 at Reed. The installation is open Friday – Sunday, 3PM-7, August 10 – September 16. Free. That area is not convenient for parking, so consider walking, biking and transit.
Jenny Holzer is a minimal word artist. She made the LED reader board her canvas akin to Barbra Krugers Life Magazine style printed word works. She has expanded her material canvas to architectural projections, billboard trucks and words on graffiti-style canvases. Her early work was aphorism-inspired; it's sharpened its political and social point over time. This show is a large collection of prints lent by the Jordan Schnitzer museum.It opens Thursday 5PM-7 with the artist speaking at 6. It is at PNCA and viewable PNCA gallery hours after. All free.
King School Museum of Contemporary Art has an international exhibition opening in the 15 NE Hancock apace Friday 4PM-7.
There are other free events through the weekend on the project website.
Converge 45, converge45.org. Various locations and times. Free
Saturday, August 04, 2018
August 5 Together
Putting Itself Together is a show by Justin Caguiat, Indah Datau, Phil Davis and Sara Malpass. It's curated by recent art school grads Jenni Crain and Lydia Glenn-Murray. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 5PM-8 Free
August 4 Robot Uprising
Artists are the original and continuing technologists. Consider DaVinci. It goes back to the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Mesopotamians and Chinese. It goes back before them. In the current era, artists were early adopters of electronic sound, film and video.
So it's no surprise Dutch recent art school grads Marie Caye and Arvid Jense have a hackathon today with the readout tonight. The project theme is artificial intelligence and autonomous machines.
Sensory Performance at Blanc Space 215 SE 9th Ave, Studio 307 7PM Free
So it's no surprise Dutch recent art school grads Marie Caye and Arvid Jense have a hackathon today with the readout tonight. The project theme is artificial intelligence and autonomous machines.
Sensory Performance at Blanc Space 215 SE 9th Ave, Studio 307 7PM Free
Thursday, August 02, 2018
August 2 Westside Art Openings+
Many galleries are doing group shows. By coincidence, many of tonight's interesting shows close early at 8. Some are on the Eastside.
Grace Weston is a portland photographer known for constructing miniature dioramas and photographing them with short depth of field lenses. Many have the Lensbaby or plastic camera look of the center in focus and the surround in vague focus. Escaping Gravity is her first large scale installation, inspired by "loss, liberation and water." It will be exciting to see the result as she occupies the Nine Gallery.
In Blue Sky proper, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer have Ground Truth, photographs of 1960's era surveillance satellite ground targets from the Corona Project. The 60 foot diameter targets were used to calibrate spy satellite images of the Soviet Union and China. The satellites used film at about 170 megapixel resolution and up to 1.8 meter ground resolution, which was retrieved by airplanes capturing falling capsules. Light: On the South Side are 1970's candid portraits by Michael Abramson exposed in Chicago night clubs.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Willie Little turned his communication degree into an art career combining the visual language of self-taught Southern artists with social commentary on our country's racial injustices, continuing. He also makes abstract paintings. Growing up in North Carolina, he now moves his residence and art career to Portland, Oregon, where we could use some help we don't think we need. He gave a talk on his work and move to Portland: https://vimeo.com/254145376. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Hello! Good Morning! and Cargo bring a pop up of Tokyo's Tambourin Gallery. We are missing Matt Wagner's curation, this is likely a narrower, less edge, range of work. Cargo's show is Sunday 81 SE Yamhill 2PM-6. Both Eastside. At www.hellogoodmorningkids.com 2419 NE Broadway early close 4PM-8 Free
Claire Fontaine is an artist duo, British and Italian, working in Paris. They adopt conceptual and readymade tactics. Same War Time Zone is a pair of clocks representing the people of Gaza separated from the people of Israel by a wall. The floor of the gallery is papered with news, printed on paper. The artists usually operate in museums, so this show is special for Portland. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Upfor has a 5 year anniversary show. They have good curation. If you are not familiar with them, it is a good opportunity to see their range. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
P:ear has Inner Landscapes by Jeff Leake. He works with neuroscientists to study neuroaesthetics. At P:ear www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th early close 5PM-8 Free
Butters has a 30th anniversary group exhibition by gallery artists Katherine Levin-Lau, Julie Rall, Dorothy Goode, Ted Katz, Debra Van Tuinen, Jeffrey Butters, Andrea Schwartz-Feit, Susan Hall, Mark Rediske, Axel Breutigam, Fred Holcomb and more. Eastside. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 157 NE Grand Early close 6PM-8 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Szymon Kaliski and Amulets. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Grace Weston is a portland photographer known for constructing miniature dioramas and photographing them with short depth of field lenses. Many have the Lensbaby or plastic camera look of the center in focus and the surround in vague focus. Escaping Gravity is her first large scale installation, inspired by "loss, liberation and water." It will be exciting to see the result as she occupies the Nine Gallery.
In Blue Sky proper, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer have Ground Truth, photographs of 1960's era surveillance satellite ground targets from the Corona Project. The 60 foot diameter targets were used to calibrate spy satellite images of the Soviet Union and China. The satellites used film at about 170 megapixel resolution and up to 1.8 meter ground resolution, which was retrieved by airplanes capturing falling capsules. Light: On the South Side are 1970's candid portraits by Michael Abramson exposed in Chicago night clubs.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Willie Little turned his communication degree into an art career combining the visual language of self-taught Southern artists with social commentary on our country's racial injustices, continuing. He also makes abstract paintings. Growing up in North Carolina, he now moves his residence and art career to Portland, Oregon, where we could use some help we don't think we need. He gave a talk on his work and move to Portland: https://vimeo.com/254145376. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Hello! Good Morning! and Cargo bring a pop up of Tokyo's Tambourin Gallery. We are missing Matt Wagner's curation, this is likely a narrower, less edge, range of work. Cargo's show is Sunday 81 SE Yamhill 2PM-6. Both Eastside. At www.hellogoodmorningkids.com 2419 NE Broadway early close 4PM-8 Free
Claire Fontaine is an artist duo, British and Italian, working in Paris. They adopt conceptual and readymade tactics. Same War Time Zone is a pair of clocks representing the people of Gaza separated from the people of Israel by a wall. The floor of the gallery is papered with news, printed on paper. The artists usually operate in museums, so this show is special for Portland. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Upfor has a 5 year anniversary show. They have good curation. If you are not familiar with them, it is a good opportunity to see their range. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
P:ear has Inner Landscapes by Jeff Leake. He works with neuroscientists to study neuroaesthetics. At P:ear www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th early close 5PM-8 Free
Butters has a 30th anniversary group exhibition by gallery artists Katherine Levin-Lau, Julie Rall, Dorothy Goode, Ted Katz, Debra Van Tuinen, Jeffrey Butters, Andrea Schwartz-Feit, Susan Hall, Mark Rediske, Axel Breutigam, Fred Holcomb and more. Eastside. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 157 NE Grand Early close 6PM-8 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Szymon Kaliski and Amulets. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Thursday, July 26, 2018
July 26 Secrets
Fin de Cinema live has the animated short films of Czech director Jiri Barta. www.holocene.org/event/1713643-fin-de-cinema-short-films-portland/ at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8PM, show 9. $10
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
July 25 Broad Band
Claire Evans reads from her book Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet. We are hoping for a volume 2, including Anita Borg, Deborah Estrin, Adelle Goldberg, Lucy Suchman, Lynn Conway, Lixia Zhang, Barbara Simons, Monique Morrow and many others. Our standards processes and research leadership benefit from women being involved. More, please. At Powell's 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside 7:30PM Free
Saturday, July 21, 2018
July 21 You Graf First
YU has commissioned and loaned art by Irish artist Cathy Wilkes. It's an impressive undertaking by YU - Wilkes is the British contribution to the Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008. She makes large installations including figures which would be at home on a life-size Laika set, and paints. The artist studios in the building are also open. Recommended. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 4PM-6 Free
The Portland Street Art Alliance and For the Love, and Bridges throw down at Taylor Electric today. The burned warehouse ruin is a parking lot with one of the few active legal graf spots. Painting, breaking, MC, DJ, food, drink. www.TaylorElectricProject.org at Taylor Electric 240 SE Clay. Noon-10PM $5
Pop up gallery First Brick has Jodie Cavalier and Alex Deets. There may be music and a fashion show. Deets: www.instagram.com/the_envelope_pdx/. At The Envelope 5430 N Mississippi. 6PM-8 Free
The Portland Street Art Alliance and For the Love, and Bridges throw down at Taylor Electric today. The burned warehouse ruin is a parking lot with one of the few active legal graf spots. Painting, breaking, MC, DJ, food, drink. www.TaylorElectricProject.org at Taylor Electric 240 SE Clay. Noon-10PM $5
Pop up gallery First Brick has Jodie Cavalier and Alex Deets. There may be music and a fashion show. Deets: www.instagram.com/the_envelope_pdx/. At The Envelope 5430 N Mississippi. 6PM-8 Free
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
July 18 Object Artifacts
Rose Dickson is a minimal artist in a variety of mediums. She speaks about her process and narrative. Sponsored by the Portland Art Museum Photography Council. It's a brown bag lunch in the Miller Room (first floor to the right in the lobby of the former the Masonic temple) of the Mark Building. 1219 SW Park Noon Free
Friday, July 06, 2018
July 7 OV
Martina de Porres and Lucas Argento have a show. 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 8PM-11 Free
July 6 Eastside Art Openings
Nationale has an unusual first Friday opening tonight. It is paintings Cover Up by Sarah Mikenis. Bright and Summery, using found fabric as canvas. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Skate X Collage, a group show with Matt Mercurio, Jeremy Pegg, Ryan Bodiroga, Corey Lee Nicholson, Skip Marcotte, Jacob Silberger-Franek, Phonkadelic, Scott Majors, Paul Fujita and Rob Rodgers. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Meryl Pataky has neon along with abstract landscapes - Crumbling Castles by Adam Friedman. 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
Finding Figures is a show of figurative approaches Gracie Ellison, Pace Taylor, Nicolo Gentile. At Project Object projectobject.co 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-8 Free
The 811 is a retail destination sometimes with art to explore. A fun thing this evening is a plant exchange hosted by Haunt. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Camera Work: Landscape and Architecture. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Eutectic has a show of functional pots for food. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Skate X Collage, a group show with Matt Mercurio, Jeremy Pegg, Ryan Bodiroga, Corey Lee Nicholson, Skip Marcotte, Jacob Silberger-Franek, Phonkadelic, Scott Majors, Paul Fujita and Rob Rodgers. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Meryl Pataky has neon along with abstract landscapes - Crumbling Castles by Adam Friedman. 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
Finding Figures is a show of figurative approaches Gracie Ellison, Pace Taylor, Nicolo Gentile. At Project Object projectobject.co 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-8 Free
The 811 is a retail destination sometimes with art to explore. A fun thing this evening is a plant exchange hosted by Haunt. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Camera Work: Landscape and Architecture. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Eutectic has a show of functional pots for food. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, July 05, 2018
July 5 Westside Art Openings
Many galleries are doing group shows or carrying over this month as the dog days arrive early.
Jerry Mayer and Ellen George are a Portland art couple known for their minimal sculpture work solo and duo. Mayer is one of the founding members of the Nine space within Blue Sky. Nine has been operating for 10 years in its current space, before that in the Solheim building. In most galleries, the walls are patched and painted between shows. Ten years of patching and painting have left some bumps and binks in the walls of the Nine. In Here, the artists have outlined the scars in pencil.
In Blue Sky proper, Pedro David has Hardwood, documenting eucalyptus plantations in Brazil and Alia Ali has Borderlands.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Eva Lake in s Portland artist nee New York. She has done op art paintings. She has also done some pretty handsome collages. Her newest are an Egypt series, combining dynastic imagery with images of women. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Invisible Cities and Jonathan Sielaff. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Jerry Mayer and Ellen George are a Portland art couple known for their minimal sculpture work solo and duo. Mayer is one of the founding members of the Nine space within Blue Sky. Nine has been operating for 10 years in its current space, before that in the Solheim building. In most galleries, the walls are patched and painted between shows. Ten years of patching and painting have left some bumps and binks in the walls of the Nine. In Here, the artists have outlined the scars in pencil.
In Blue Sky proper, Pedro David has Hardwood, documenting eucalyptus plantations in Brazil and Alia Ali has Borderlands.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Eva Lake in s Portland artist nee New York. She has done op art paintings. She has also done some pretty handsome collages. Her newest are an Egypt series, combining dynastic imagery with images of women. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Invisible Cities and Jonathan Sielaff. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Friday, June 29, 2018
June 30 Seedy
Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. It's polluted too. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Today is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be perfectly wheel chair accessible. At 2127 N. Albina Noon-8 Free
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
June 28 On Film
Tatsuo Takei is an Osaka-based surfing photographer who travels the world shooting on film. If you have seen the film Endless Summer, his work has that feel. He drops his book Authentic Wave in Portland tonight. It is a history of classic longboard surfing. He has been traveling to California for 20 years and living the #vanlife for three months a year shooting it.
He has worked hard to find the 60's cars and casual shots that make the best surfing seem effortless. The film is graded to the classic Kodachrome and very noisy Tri-X vintage look. He shoots Super 8 and stills on vintage cameras too. The film version of Authentic Wave has a pretty goofy 50s-60s jiggly jangly soundtrack. It's a great complement to his short on surfer Tommy Witt.
At Leeward, 2504 NE Sandy 7PM Free
He has worked hard to find the 60's cars and casual shots that make the best surfing seem effortless. The film is graded to the classic Kodachrome and very noisy Tri-X vintage look. He shoots Super 8 and stills on vintage cameras too. The film version of Authentic Wave has a pretty goofy 50s-60s jiggly jangly soundtrack. It's a great complement to his short on surfer Tommy Witt.
At Leeward, 2504 NE Sandy 7PM Free
Friday, June 22, 2018
June 23 Home School Field Day
Field Day is an arts event, primarily performance, organized by Home School. All the infos, there's a lot: http://homeschoolpdx.tumblr.com/. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock 2PM-8 Free
June 22-23 A Hiddur Mitzvah: My Own Saviour, I Do
A Hiddur Mitzvah: My Own Saviour, I Do is a 24 hour media installation by Kello Goeller. It is her personal impressionist meditation on the 24 hour (x 7 x 365 x hope it ends soon!) media culture.
Seminal cultural theorist Bill McKibben, with a career spanning the New Yorker and 350.org, undertook a similar labor with his 1992 Age of Missing Information project. Since, the media has greatly perfected its hooks, daggers, triggers and assault on privacy as well as assault on identity.
Goeller's project is more Joycean, filtered through the lens of a working media art maker in today's culture. The source material is primarily a long accumulation of artist-made source footage, not commercial footage.
Goeller brings the Jewish spiritual philosophy practice of hiddur mitzvah to the making and viewing the video. It is a sharpening and deepening exercise. The 25 hour event is contextualized within the tradition of Sabbath and the ritual of Shabbat.
Friday at 8:45PM ritual candles will be enflamed and blessings over bread and wine entoned. Then there will be a short performance by Goeller. The 24 hour video begins at 9PM. Ending the cycle Saturday at 9PM there will be a one hour discussion with the artist.
Goeller is a great experimental artist. We are always excited when they make larger projects with funding and collaborators. Sight unseen, this might be an example.
The exhibit space requests you contact them by private message ahiddurmitzvah@gmail.com to experience the installation late night or morning. The venue has stairs. Please contact as soon as you can for ADA accessibility.
It is in a private residence.
At My Apartment Wall http://www.megangraceharned.com/my-apartment-wall/ 6804 SE Pardee 8:45PM Friday to 10PM Saturday
Seminal cultural theorist Bill McKibben, with a career spanning the New Yorker and 350.org, undertook a similar labor with his 1992 Age of Missing Information project. Since, the media has greatly perfected its hooks, daggers, triggers and assault on privacy as well as assault on identity.
Goeller's project is more Joycean, filtered through the lens of a working media art maker in today's culture. The source material is primarily a long accumulation of artist-made source footage, not commercial footage.
Goeller brings the Jewish spiritual philosophy practice of hiddur mitzvah to the making and viewing the video. It is a sharpening and deepening exercise. The 25 hour event is contextualized within the tradition of Sabbath and the ritual of Shabbat.
Friday at 8:45PM ritual candles will be enflamed and blessings over bread and wine entoned. Then there will be a short performance by Goeller. The 24 hour video begins at 9PM. Ending the cycle Saturday at 9PM there will be a one hour discussion with the artist.
Goeller is a great experimental artist. We are always excited when they make larger projects with funding and collaborators. Sight unseen, this might be an example.
The exhibit space requests you contact them by private message ahiddurmitzvah@gmail.com to experience the installation late night or morning. The venue has stairs. Please contact as soon as you can for ADA accessibility.
It is in a private residence.
At My Apartment Wall http://www.megangraceharned.com/my-apartment-wall/ 6804 SE Pardee 8:45PM Friday to 10PM Saturday
Thursday, June 21, 2018
June 22 Meet Brand Colors
Where We Meet is a show of artists Ektor Garcia and Pei-Hsuan Wang guest curated by Little Rock's Good Weather Gallery. The Chicken Coop Gallery openings are leisurely and a good opportunity for conversation and a snack. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 5PM-8 Free
Vala Rae is a collaborative exhibition and brand launch by Jessie Rose Vala and Emily Rae Counts of functional ceramics. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Colors So True is the first solo exhibition by photographer Clifford Prince King from LA. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Vala Rae is a collaborative exhibition and brand launch by Jessie Rose Vala and Emily Rae Counts of functional ceramics. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Colors So True is the first solo exhibition by photographer Clifford Prince King from LA. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
June 21 The Bern
Amy Bernstein is a smart arts writer and a unique painter. Tonight she is the guest artist selecting a work at the Portland Art Museum and discussing her response to it. The event is limited to an intimate group, so suggest getting tickets on the Art Museum website in advance. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. 6PM-8 $5 members, $19.99 non-members (includes museum admission)
Saturday, June 09, 2018
June 9 La La Land
LA is strongly connected with the emergence of Pop Surrealism - Lowbrow Art - at La Luz de Jesus Gallery and 01. The expansion of that movement of primarily self taught artists-illustrators is the "New Contemporary Art" movement promoted by Culver City's Thinkspace, and is closely connected with Juxtapoz Magazine. Hi Fructose travels the same terrain. Thinkspace has been guesting itself into cities around the world to promote the movement. Thinkspace frames it as the West Coast vs the "rabid ‘conceptual-turn’" in East Coast art. Most of the art is presented without narrative.
The LA/PDX show includes 80 artists promoted by the gallery, and includes some Portlanders. But the style will be familiar from Backspace, Jason Brown at Goodfoot, Playground PDX, Compound and Hellion.
LA/PDX www.antlerpdx.com/pages/laxpdx at Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6PM-11 Free
The LA/PDX show includes 80 artists promoted by the gallery, and includes some Portlanders. But the style will be familiar from Backspace, Jason Brown at Goodfoot, Playground PDX, Compound and Hellion.
LA/PDX www.antlerpdx.com/pages/laxpdx at Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6PM-11 Free
Friday, June 08, 2018
June 8 Expired Research
Lisa Radon is a Portland writer, poet and artist. She has Research and Development, sculptures and a reading. It is the result of her residency at ANX which offers access to otherwise very difficult to engage fabrication facilities. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6:30PM Free
Grapefruits has been having a good run with guest curators. This is that, Expired Recollection, photographs by Lula Durango and Roman Lopez. There will be live music at the opening too. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-9 Free
Grapefruits has been having a good run with guest curators. This is that, Expired Recollection, photographs by Lula Durango and Roman Lopez. There will be live music at the opening too. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
June 7 Portland Chinatown Museum
The Portland Chinatown Museum opens tonight with a photography show by Dean Wong. Raised in Seattle's Chinatown as second generation, he is the first artist in residence at the Portland Chinatown Museum. He is also the creator of the book Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown. More on the photographer: www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2016/08/22/24492606/dean-wong-has-been-the-portraitist-of-chinatown-for-four-decadesand-he-is-so-not-done and lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/why-chinatown-still-matters/.
Recommended. At the Portland Chinatown Museum https://www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org/ 127 NW 3rd. 4PM-8 early close Free
Recommended. At the Portland Chinatown Museum https://www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org/ 127 NW 3rd. 4PM-8 early close Free
June 7 Westside Art Openings
Portland galleries get serious in the Spring and Fall. They rest in December-January and August. This month, some of our galleries are getting very serious.
Since retiring as chief curator for the Art Museum, and the architect of the Museum upping its contemporary game, building relationships with the Broad Foundation and perfecting the use of the Simon Norton Wynn-Bacon rule, we haven't heard much from Bruce Guenther. He continues to make an art mark for Portland, curating R.B. Kitaj: A Jew Etc., Etc. It contextualizes the work of the contemporary painter who lived from 1932-2007. The show is focused on his later work, much made after significant shows in Europe. He left Europe after anti-Semitic attacks surrounding a major show at the Tate. England, the world's nation, has significant immigration owing its days as empire. That diversity is sadly met by xenophobia to this day, as we are having here. At the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
The Elisabeth Jones Art Center is an issue-focused gallery. They have a show by native artists associated with the Standing Rock resistance to an oil pipeline. That oil pipeline drains the Bakken Formation to Texas for export. There are several other projects in the opening of this new space. At the Elisabeth Jones Art Center elisabethjones.art 516 N.W. 14th 5PM-8 early close Free
Fueled by a Schnitzer grant, Blue Sky is expanding beyond their local open source curation committee with this show. It is curated out of New York and includes a fellowship. The first two artists are Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Food, Fashion and Capital Punnishment is a show of paintings on plates by Julie Green, OSU art professor. It complements her ongoing work The Last Supper, over 800 paintings of the last meal requested by death row inmates. She has started a new project, The First Supper, the first meals of individuals released from imprisonment. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Book is a Body that Bends is a new show by minimal conceptualists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. This is 2d and 3d work themed on the printed and bound book. They are good artists to get to know the work of in this genre. We don't track the Window Project, but noticed this month it is Emily Nachison with Gemini, glass sculpture. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The PNCA thesis show has been up since commencement, but many artists will be there on this first Thursday. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-10 Free
Willimason Knight has paintings by Annie Swiderski in show Pom-Palm. The artist made pigments from soil. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Leach vintage work by Portland-born Richard Diebenkorn and a retrospective of Lee Kelly who continues to work from his country studio. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of late career and vintage prints Face: 20th Century Portraits. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Heather Perkins, Reliqs, Wallflower. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Since retiring as chief curator for the Art Museum, and the architect of the Museum upping its contemporary game, building relationships with the Broad Foundation and perfecting the use of the Simon Norton Wynn-Bacon rule, we haven't heard much from Bruce Guenther. He continues to make an art mark for Portland, curating R.B. Kitaj: A Jew Etc., Etc. It contextualizes the work of the contemporary painter who lived from 1932-2007. The show is focused on his later work, much made after significant shows in Europe. He left Europe after anti-Semitic attacks surrounding a major show at the Tate. England, the world's nation, has significant immigration owing its days as empire. That diversity is sadly met by xenophobia to this day, as we are having here. At the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
The Elisabeth Jones Art Center is an issue-focused gallery. They have a show by native artists associated with the Standing Rock resistance to an oil pipeline. That oil pipeline drains the Bakken Formation to Texas for export. There are several other projects in the opening of this new space. At the Elisabeth Jones Art Center elisabethjones.art 516 N.W. 14th 5PM-8 early close Free
Fueled by a Schnitzer grant, Blue Sky is expanding beyond their local open source curation committee with this show. It is curated out of New York and includes a fellowship. The first two artists are Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Food, Fashion and Capital Punnishment is a show of paintings on plates by Julie Green, OSU art professor. It complements her ongoing work The Last Supper, over 800 paintings of the last meal requested by death row inmates. She has started a new project, The First Supper, the first meals of individuals released from imprisonment. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Book is a Body that Bends is a new show by minimal conceptualists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. This is 2d and 3d work themed on the printed and bound book. They are good artists to get to know the work of in this genre. We don't track the Window Project, but noticed this month it is Emily Nachison with Gemini, glass sculpture. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The PNCA thesis show has been up since commencement, but many artists will be there on this first Thursday. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-10 Free
Willimason Knight has paintings by Annie Swiderski in show Pom-Palm. The artist made pigments from soil. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Leach vintage work by Portland-born Richard Diebenkorn and a retrospective of Lee Kelly who continues to work from his country studio. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of late career and vintage prints Face: 20th Century Portraits. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish 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: Heather Perkins, Reliqs, Wallflower. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, June 02, 2018
June 3 Coop Delight
The Sunset Ceases to Delight by Royce Allen Hobbs is a minimal sculpture installation. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 4PM-7 Free
Friday, June 01, 2018
June 2 Tidal
Wobbly Dance is a Portland couple who travel by wheelchair. But that does not stop them from performing contemporary dance. When you think about it, it's the most radical dance happening in Portland. They perform live from time to time and they make dance productions on video. Tidal is their newest. Here is an explanation:
"The new dance film Tidal is a collaboration among Wobbly Dance, cinematographer Ian Lucero, costume designer Jenny Ampersand, and musicians Sweetmeat. It’s “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. We transform from human to jellyfish and everything in between. This film is a continuation of the exploration of Wobbly’s dark, dream-like and sometimes absurd aesthetic. Starring Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson as the Dreamers, Nathan H.G. as the Diver, and Grant Miller as the Forager.”
The work reminds of the surreal scenes in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Recommended.
You can see it free tonight at New Expressive Works, formerly Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont. 6:30PM Free
"The new dance film Tidal is a collaboration among Wobbly Dance, cinematographer Ian Lucero, costume designer Jenny Ampersand, and musicians Sweetmeat. It’s “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. We transform from human to jellyfish and everything in between. This film is a continuation of the exploration of Wobbly’s dark, dream-like and sometimes absurd aesthetic. Starring Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson as the Dreamers, Nathan H.G. as the Diver, and Grant Miller as the Forager.”
The work reminds of the surreal scenes in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Recommended.
You can see it free tonight at New Expressive Works, formerly Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont. 6:30PM Free
June 2 Tender Tough
Lindsey Cuenca Walker has paintings Tough and Tender. At a rare evening opening at Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
June 1 Eastside Art Openings
The Feeling Remains the Same Even After the Glitter Fades are abstract watercolors by Jess Curran. At a new garage-gallery, Portland has had several notable ones, 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-9 Free
Kendra Binney, Marisa Govin, Jaclyn Evalds and Alison Grayson explore the theme of emergence. It has to do withe the idea of expressive headdresses. There is a nice explanation at reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Color Space. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
30 From 10 is a group show of 30 artists from 10 years of Fraction: www.fractionmagazine.com. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Judith René Sturdevant has a show of colorful sculpture installations, Oracle. They are in the windows of the shop, so viewable a variety of times beyond the opening. It's at Adam Arnold's spot 338 SE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-8 Free
Platinum Blend 4 is a group show of artists Stephanie Chefas has collected over the years. So it is a one stop shop to see how this gallery thinks. 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
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Dinosaur group show. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Jeremy Brooks and Mike Stumbras have Threadbare, contracting contemporary and baroque styles of ceramics. Chanda Zea has contemporary soft geometric mixed media incorporating ceramics. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
One Grand Gallery has a group show benefitting a local cancer hospital. The work is international. It is organized by the group that runs Hood to Coast, so it may be graphic design-influenced. One Grand's openings can be fun. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Kendra Binney, Marisa Govin, Jaclyn Evalds and Alison Grayson explore the theme of emergence. It has to do withe the idea of expressive headdresses. There is a nice explanation at reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Color Space. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
30 From 10 is a group show of 30 artists from 10 years of Fraction: www.fractionmagazine.com. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Judith René Sturdevant has a show of colorful sculpture installations, Oracle. They are in the windows of the shop, so viewable a variety of times beyond the opening. It's at Adam Arnold's spot 338 SE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-8 Free
Platinum Blend 4 is a group show of artists Stephanie Chefas has collected over the years. So it is a one stop shop to see how this gallery thinks. 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
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Dinosaur group show. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Jeremy Brooks and Mike Stumbras have Threadbare, contracting contemporary and baroque styles of ceramics. Chanda Zea has contemporary soft geometric mixed media incorporating ceramics. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
One Grand Gallery has a group show benefitting a local cancer hospital. The work is international. It is organized by the group that runs Hood to Coast, so it may be graphic design-influenced. One Grand's openings can be fun. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, May 31, 2018
June 1-3 Assembly
Assembly is the annual confab or the social practice art node at Portland State University. They have enlisted friends and invited you to participate in dozens of events. Days, times and details are at www.assemblypdx.com.
Monday, May 21, 2018
May 22-23 Dance of the air in the heat of the day
Chirgilchin is one of the premier Tuvan throat singing ensembles. They have been singing for over 20 years, including collaborating with Laurie Anderson. They have a woman as ensemble member, as women expand their participation in the art form. And yes, the name of their group translates to "dance of the air in the heat of the day" or miracle.
They perform Tuesday free at City Hall at 5. From 6-8 they are offering a workshop. Wednesday they perform a concert at 8.
Tuva is a Russian Autonomous Area in Siberia. It entered the Western consciousness with a book about Nobel physicist Richard Feynman's obsession to travel there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scc0ZnZ4AN8.
But a Portland musician's obsession to travel there, study Tuvan throat singing, and study the indigenous land-based religion was realized. In turn, when Tuvan musicians tour, they visit little Portland.
Soriah is that Portland musician and he performs here about two or three times a year. It is a supreme honor for Soriah to join Chirgilchin on stage Wednesday.
Chirgilchin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJhrZn8o-s
Soriah - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xrdGb81kg
Performance and workshop Tuesday. At Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th. Performance 5PM Free. Workshop 6PM-8 $40
Performance Wednesday. Minors must be accompanied by an adult due to OLCC rules. At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta 8PM $25
They perform Tuesday free at City Hall at 5. From 6-8 they are offering a workshop. Wednesday they perform a concert at 8.
Tuva is a Russian Autonomous Area in Siberia. It entered the Western consciousness with a book about Nobel physicist Richard Feynman's obsession to travel there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scc0ZnZ4AN8.
But a Portland musician's obsession to travel there, study Tuvan throat singing, and study the indigenous land-based religion was realized. In turn, when Tuvan musicians tour, they visit little Portland.
Soriah is that Portland musician and he performs here about two or three times a year. It is a supreme honor for Soriah to join Chirgilchin on stage Wednesday.
Chirgilchin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJhrZn8o-s
Soriah - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xrdGb81kg
Performance and workshop Tuesday. At Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th. Performance 5PM Free. Workshop 6PM-8 $40
Performance Wednesday. Minors must be accompanied by an adult due to OLCC rules. At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta 8PM $25
Saturday, May 12, 2018
May 12 Spring Tube Feria
Getting to Know You(Tube) is back. Founded by social practice artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom, it is a moving image dialog between an artist selecting, an audience responding, and sometimes in the past, the audience bringing their own moving image selections time-available at the end.
Tonight, artists Brad Grose, Sarah Turner, and Michael Reinsch show their favorites made by others from the YouTube.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 7:30PM $8
For something with passion, Feria de Portland is Portland's annual celebration of Flamenco. It is the third year. Espacio Flamenco Portland, Oleaje Flamenco, Flamenco Pacifico, Flamenco Chico, and schools Espacio Flamenco Portland, Portland Flamenco Events, 3shine Flamenco and Escuela Flamenca Elena Villa perform. Spanish food and drink available at additional charge. I have been and this is a lovely event. Feria de Portland http://www.espacioflamencopdx.com/ at AudioCinema 226 SE Madison. 5PM-10 $15
Tonight, artists Brad Grose, Sarah Turner, and Michael Reinsch show their favorites made by others from the YouTube.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 7:30PM $8
For something with passion, Feria de Portland is Portland's annual celebration of Flamenco. It is the third year. Espacio Flamenco Portland, Oleaje Flamenco, Flamenco Pacifico, Flamenco Chico, and schools Espacio Flamenco Portland, Portland Flamenco Events, 3shine Flamenco and Escuela Flamenca Elena Villa perform. Spanish food and drink available at additional charge. I have been and this is a lovely event. Feria de Portland http://www.espacioflamencopdx.com/ at AudioCinema 226 SE Madison. 5PM-10 $15
May-June Art School Thesis Shows
An art school thesis show was my entree to the visual art world. Schools PNCA, OCAC, OCAC-PNCA, PSU, L&C, Marylhurst and others mount shows graduating. They will have an opening and be open for a week to a month. You can look them up. Recommended!
Saturday, May 05, 2018
May 5 Humans Flow
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
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
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
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