Think of Me is a group show by self-taught artists on the theme of keepsakes and mementos. So it has narrative. 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 5PM-7 Free
Reverie Room, is a show by teen artists Ella Jones and Ruby Zapf-Gellar. It takes a long time to regain as an adult the edit-free work of young people, and witness KSMOCA. Artists have kids, often producing good work. At 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com, gallery in a garage, 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, February 08, 2019
Thursday, February 07, 2019
February 7 Westside Art Openings+
Reed photographer Leo Rubinfien has Eyehold to Eyehold, work of almost 40 years documenting globalization, much in Southeast Asia. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Talk, Eliot chapel 5:30PM, Reception after in the gallery. Free
WAYout: Worldwide Arts for Youth works in Sierra Leone making art. Sierra Leone had a bad situation between 1991 and 2001 which especially impacted the personality development of children to teens of the time. They are old enough now to have their own children. Tonight P:ear Mentor youth artists show vérité photographic work inspired by Sierra Leone youth artists. At P:ear www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th early close 5PM-8 Free
Chip Thomas has In Messages from the Underworld, a meditation on the agriculture of corn in the Americas, where it originated as a native wild grass. Jinhyun Cha from South Korean has Post-Border Line, photographs of the most mined border in the world amidst a great thaw between North and South. Chip Thomas has an artist talk 3PM Saturday, Jinhyun Cha has an artist talk tonight at 5PM.
Jerry Mayer is in the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Kendra Larson works in impressionistic landscapes. It is cool she is at Augen. The new work mixes in color. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The Night Lights video projection project outdoors in a parking lot has Megan Mckissack piece using Oregon LIDAR data and climate change. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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
WAYout: Worldwide Arts for Youth works in Sierra Leone making art. Sierra Leone had a bad situation between 1991 and 2001 which especially impacted the personality development of children to teens of the time. They are old enough now to have their own children. Tonight P:ear Mentor youth artists show vérité photographic work inspired by Sierra Leone youth artists. At P:ear www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th early close 5PM-8 Free
Chip Thomas has In Messages from the Underworld, a meditation on the agriculture of corn in the Americas, where it originated as a native wild grass. Jinhyun Cha from South Korean has Post-Border Line, photographs of the most mined border in the world amidst a great thaw between North and South. Chip Thomas has an artist talk 3PM Saturday, Jinhyun Cha has an artist talk tonight at 5PM.
Jerry Mayer is in the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Kendra Larson works in impressionistic landscapes. It is cool she is at Augen. The new work mixes in color. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The Night Lights video projection project outdoors in a parking lot has Megan Mckissack piece using Oregon LIDAR data and climate change. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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
February 7-9 Moar Light!
The Portland Winter Light Festival is inspired by light festivals around the world and hometown DIY projects like the Light Bar. It's in its fourth year. So there are more events in locations beyond the OMSI center, including performances in the World Trade Center. It's big enough and dispersed enough that you can experience it over multiple evenings. It's child friendly and popular with families. Some installations are warm wood-burning fire. We may have snow and that will be beautiful! The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com some daytime locations, OMSI evenings, the World Trade Center evenings. The Portland Street Car is free after 5PM each night: go by train! 6PM-11 Free
Sunday, February 03, 2019
February 3 Soft Shades
Lilian Martinez has Soft Shades, impressionist portraits in a domestic setting. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Saturday, February 02, 2019
February 2 Natura Redacted Birthday+
It's NoPo night!
Ním Wunnan has paintings and drawings, Natura Morta. It is at the new ExtraOrdinary Gallery space in a private home 3554 N. Missouri 6PM-9 Free
Alan Page from Portland, operating as Sic Redacted, has his first solo show tonight. He works in video glitch and noise. We would like to see more of this branch of video art. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
The [web instantiation of the] Internet is 30 years old*. So Carnation Contemporary mounts Http://www:A Birthday Celebration on that theme. HBTY!
Artists include: Bjørn Magnhildøen, Elizabeth Withstandley, Julia Tatiyatrairong, Justin Lincoln, Larissa Garcia, Louis Frehring, MidGray (Simon Boas + Kris Blackmore) + Catherine Chen, Morgan Buck, Nathan Paul Rice, Olivia No, Qigemu (April Lin + Jasmine Lin), Sarah C. Blanchette, Tannon Reckling, Tricia Knope and Zach Whitworth. They are having events and interventions all month which could be interesting.
The first opens tonight. There is a more eloquent exposition on their web site which will link to events.
*The first primitive implementation of the Internet was in 1969. Mass usability emerged in 1989 from the CERN high energy physics lab by Tim Berners-Lee. The rest is (continuing) history.
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
More a happening in the music realm, the Imbolic Sleep Concert starts late and goes early.
Ním Wunnan has paintings and drawings, Natura Morta. It is at the new ExtraOrdinary Gallery space in a private home 3554 N. Missouri 6PM-9 Free
Alan Page from Portland, operating as Sic Redacted, has his first solo show tonight. He works in video glitch and noise. We would like to see more of this branch of video art. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
The [web instantiation of the] Internet is 30 years old*. So Carnation Contemporary mounts Http://www:A Birthday Celebration on that theme. HBTY!
Artists include: Bjørn Magnhildøen, Elizabeth Withstandley, Julia Tatiyatrairong, Justin Lincoln, Larissa Garcia, Louis Frehring, MidGray (Simon Boas + Kris Blackmore) + Catherine Chen, Morgan Buck, Nathan Paul Rice, Olivia No, Qigemu (April Lin + Jasmine Lin), Sarah C. Blanchette, Tannon Reckling, Tricia Knope and Zach Whitworth. They are having events and interventions all month which could be interesting.
The first opens tonight. There is a more eloquent exposition on their web site which will link to events.
*The first primitive implementation of the Internet was in 1969. Mass usability emerged in 1989 from the CERN high energy physics lab by Tim Berners-Lee. The rest is (continuing) history.
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
More a happening in the music realm, the Imbolic Sleep Concert starts late and goes early.
Friday, February 01, 2019
February 1 Love Together Breathe Beauty Morsels Together
Bite Studio has Love in Print, a massive group show. It's a benefit for P:ear, yes. The big list is on their website At Bite Studio www.bitestudio.org/UPCOMING-SHOWS 2400 SE 7th 6PM-10 Free
Abney Wallace and Daniel Glendening have a show Alone and Together. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
All This Useless Beauty are paintings from Serena Cole. Jeremy Okai Davis has Together, Brothers. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
Breathe In, Breathe Out is a show by Andrew Casto. Also Joy Morsels is there from Nick Weddell. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Abney Wallace and Daniel Glendening have a show Alone and Together. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
All This Useless Beauty are paintings from Serena Cole. Jeremy Okai Davis has Together, Brothers. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
Breathe In, Breathe Out is a show by Andrew Casto. Also Joy Morsels is there from Nick Weddell. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
January 31 Brink Ascent
It's last Thursday on Alberta. Twin galleries Antler and Talon have shows. Antler PDX has a show Brink, illustrations of wildlife. Talon has Ascent, a group show with their take on pop-surrealism. At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com
2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9
Some of the other art spaces on Alberta may be open too.
2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9
Some of the other art spaces on Alberta may be open too.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
January 26 The Caldera of Ego and Human Nature
Caldera holds 3 Saturday readouts of its resident artists. The residents get snowed in to work in a good year for global warming, and the buildings are used for youth art programs warm months. This resident readout is by Farooq Ahmed (Los Angeles, CA), Maria Alejandra Barrios (New York, NY), May Cat (Portland, OR), Andres Chang (Brooklyn, NY), Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen (Portland, OR), Jefferson Greene (Warm Springs, OR) and Anthony Hudson (Portland, OR.)
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
Human Nature is the show of papermaking residents of C:3 Initiative At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-8 Free
Ego Placebo is a new show by Kayla Wiley. The show includes a performance. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
Human Nature is the show of papermaking residents of C:3 Initiative At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-8 Free
Ego Placebo is a new show by Kayla Wiley. The show includes a performance. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, January 24, 2019
January 24 Mid-week
A Lie Nation, Alienation: New Paintings is a show from Ka’ila Farrell-Smith. She is a Klamath/Modoc from Chiloquin. She is also a recipient of the Stumptown fellowship, show opening tonight. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
André Filipek has a new show. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 Free
André Filipek has a new show. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 Free
Saturday, January 19, 2019
January 20 Brickwork
Kate Newby, from Auckland, continues her show A Puzzling Light and Moving. This afternoon musician Michael Hurley performs. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 3PM-5 Free
January 19 Borders
Dylan Mira has As If I Was a Thing I Could Do in the Dark. It is an ambitious video installation inspired by her Korean family. She performs at 8. This show is a good complement to the current show at Carnation Contemporary which will likely be open next door. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, January 18, 2019
January 18 Sublime Banality
Sublime Banality is a show by Madison Donnelly, Salt Lake City, Colin Kippen. Portland, Todd Schroeder, Savannah, and Rachael Tarravechia, NY. It's at Here/There Gallery 1920 N. Kilpatrick . 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
January 16 Alter
Open Signal, formerly known as Portland Cable Access, has a new director, formerly known for transforming the Hollywood Theater programming. Open Signal has contemporary art shows and residencies now too. We have listed some. Their shows are viewable free open hours.
Lynn Yarne has Altar, opening tonight.
Yarne's piece combines recordings, images, and animations of stories from Portland's Chinatown/Japantown district by Bertha Saiget, Gloria Wong, Jean Matsumoto, George Nakata, Fred Wong, Carol Lee, Franklin Qwan, Gary Lee, and Sharon Gattis.
She is supported by dozens of collaborators on the project.
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Lynn Yarne has Altar, opening tonight.
Yarne's piece combines recordings, images, and animations of stories from Portland's Chinatown/Japantown district by Bertha Saiget, Gloria Wong, Jean Matsumoto, George Nakata, Fred Wong, Carol Lee, Franklin Qwan, Gary Lee, and Sharon Gattis.
She is supported by dozens of collaborators on the project.
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Friday, January 11, 2019
January 13 Diffuse Hoop Baby
Rachel LaBine is a newly minted ColumbiaU abstract painter. This is her first solo show I think: Turn Diffuse and Binding. Her work is comfortable on the East and West Coasts. 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-1 Free
Kate Towers is half of the seminal clothing gallery Seaplane which launched the contemporary wave of Portland fashion in 2000. She continues to work independently in design and art. This afternoon, she reimagines basketball hoops with impressionistic but nearly functional versions. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map3PM-5 Free
Emily Endo Nachison has Water Baby. It's the last show for the excellent Dust to Dust which is moving to the California experimental desert. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound & open their hours Map 6PM-9 Free
Kate Towers is half of the seminal clothing gallery Seaplane which launched the contemporary wave of Portland fashion in 2000. She continues to work independently in design and art. This afternoon, she reimagines basketball hoops with impressionistic but nearly functional versions. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map3PM-5 Free
Emily Endo Nachison has Water Baby. It's the last show for the excellent Dust to Dust which is moving to the California experimental desert. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound & open their hours Map 6PM-9 Free
January 12 Glass Works Tide
Ben Buswell, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Sibylle Peretti, and Heidi Schwegler have all been contemporary artists who have engaged with Bullseye Glass to make work. This is a readout of some of those engagements.
Ben Buswell and Heidi Schwegler work courtesy of Upfor. Jessica Jackson Hutchins work courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery. At Bullseye Projects www.bullseyeprojects.com 300 NW 13th 1PM-3 Free
Keeping Time With The Tide is a show by Iowa BFA Christopher Willauer, visiting from NY. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
Ben Buswell and Heidi Schwegler work courtesy of Upfor. Jessica Jackson Hutchins work courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery. At Bullseye Projects www.bullseyeprojects.com 300 NW 13th 1PM-3 Free
Keeping Time With The Tide is a show by Iowa BFA Christopher Willauer, visiting from NY. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
January 11 Paper-based
The c3initiative is the St Johns experimental think tank make space. They do a paper-based residency too. This is the readout of residents @rozcrews, Laura Feldman, @glinnt, @http.sci_fi, and @la_pati_vg. At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-8 Free
Map 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, January 05, 2019
January 6 False New
Jason Vance Dickason has new paintings At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map Noon-4 Free
January 5 Fencing Infinity
Kusama: Infinity is a documentary on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, age 89. It shows with Kusama’s Self Obliteration, 1967. Urged by George O'Keefe to come to the United States, she painted huge canvases and staged happenings from late 1950s through the 1960s in NY. She has crafted individualistic fashion, penned poetry and written novels. She was rediscovered in the 1990s and has recently toured room-size sculptures, taking her 2d dot patterns into 3space. See this movie. Repeats Sunday at 4:30PM. Nwfilm.org/films/kusama-infinity at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 7PM $10
Renee Couture opens I Want to Lie Upon an Open Hillside. It is inspired by the dynamic between landscape and the fences upon it. Topical. The artist has a world travel background and resides in the Southern Oregon wilds. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
Renee Couture opens I Want to Lie Upon an Open Hillside. It is inspired by the dynamic between landscape and the fences upon it. Topical. The artist has a world travel background and resides in the Southern Oregon wilds. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, January 04, 2019
January 4 Eastside Art Openings+
The Boathouse is a longtime experimental film space, now they add experimental music events. Tonight it is Forrest Friends from Seattle, Noisechestra from Corvallis, and Portlanders Modal Zork, The Friendly Goblin, Walter Diego and host Clamber. Keith Foster provides live visuals. Note, do not park on the railroad tracks. They are active and you will be towed or your car will be smashed by a train or both. At the Boathouse 822 N River Map. Doors 7:30PM, show 8 $6
Jeff Sheridan has black and white compositions of shapes and Anya Roberts-Toney, paintings may be found tonight At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
7-10
Joanna Bloom has Exaggerated Stories, ceramics based on he forms of trophies, bowls and stemmed drinking vessels. 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
Baba Wague Diakite, Raven Halfmoon, and George Rodriguez Three have Cultural Couriers, work informed by their birth and growing up. Jim Wylder and Zach Wollert have High, Low, and Naked. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Jeff Sheridan has black and white compositions of shapes and Anya Roberts-Toney, paintings may be found tonight At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
7-10
Joanna Bloom has Exaggerated Stories, ceramics based on he forms of trophies, bowls and stemmed drinking vessels. 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
Baba Wague Diakite, Raven Halfmoon, and George Rodriguez Three have Cultural Couriers, work informed by their birth and growing up. Jim Wylder and Zach Wollert have High, Low, and Naked. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, January 03, 2019
January 3 Westside Art Openings
Veriform, Portland's sound art gallery, presents Non-Places by Clamber. It is a 90 minute sound performance with video. It is themed on the ambient sounds of locations like airports, the places in between: "spaces where people are put on pause and have no identity, relation or history." The piece includes accompanying video. @_clamber_ clamber.bandcamp.com. Highly recommended. Performance 7PM-8:30 At Variform Gallery vermiform.org 328 NW Broadway 6PM-9 Free
Eugene artist Julia Oldham continues her ongoing project Fallout Dogs. She travels to Ukraine to gather the stories of people and imagery of the wild dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Tonight you can see it at The Portland Pataphysical Society at the corner of NW 6th and NW Everett. 6PM-9
Linda Hutchens is one of Portland's arch minimalists, sometimes combining process. She shows Interference Study tonight. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
Ashley Miller has In Sweet Things, commercial style photography commenting on consumer culture. Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma have Talking Pictures, photographs exchanged while they were pregnant.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Wes Mills has drawings. The artist has a long interesting resume. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Rebecca Reeve has Sun Breathing, experimental in color landscape photography. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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
Eugene artist Julia Oldham continues her ongoing project Fallout Dogs. She travels to Ukraine to gather the stories of people and imagery of the wild dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Tonight you can see it at The Portland Pataphysical Society at the corner of NW 6th and NW Everett. 6PM-9
Linda Hutchens is one of Portland's arch minimalists, sometimes combining process. She shows Interference Study tonight. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
Ashley Miller has In Sweet Things, commercial style photography commenting on consumer culture. Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma have Talking Pictures, photographs exchanged while they were pregnant.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Wes Mills has drawings. The artist has a long interesting resume. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Rebecca Reeve has Sun Breathing, experimental in color landscape photography. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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
Saturday, December 29, 2018
December 29 Western Tone
Keith J Varadi has Concorde: A Western Tone Poem opening this afternoon. He maintains a busy internatonal show schedule in a variety of media and styles. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 1PM-4 Free
Friday, December 21, 2018
December 23, 24, 25 NTVTY IX
A long time ago, it is said, immigrant-refugees Joseph and Mary gave birth to Jesus camping out in a stable. It parallels current events. So it compels artists to comment by reinterpreting it, including creating a distance from the commercial orgy.
NTVTY IX drops three nights. It is the 9th year artists have made their own version here. It's a multi-artist creative collaboration.
Musicians Saloli, Geological Creep + Ryan Carlile perform Sunday; Joel Shanahan, Chloe Alexandra, Tuesday; and Maxx Katz, Car Blinker Satellite, Wednesday.
The repurposed tiny church will have a techno-futurist vibe with sculpture and interactive light works.
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9 Donations encouraged
NTVTY IX drops three nights. It is the 9th year artists have made their own version here. It's a multi-artist creative collaboration.
Musicians Saloli, Geological Creep + Ryan Carlile perform Sunday; Joel Shanahan, Chloe Alexandra, Tuesday; and Maxx Katz, Car Blinker Satellite, Wednesday.
The repurposed tiny church will have a techno-futurist vibe with sculpture and interactive light works.
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9 Donations encouraged
Friday, December 14, 2018
December 14 Sound of Dust
Material World is a show by Ryan Mitchell Boyle, Rachel Duvall and Vince Skelly. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-9 Free
Bicoastal artist Andrea Sisson has been an artist in residence at S1. She presents that work in progress tonight. It is a "focus on the sounds associated with my material interests while working with the S1 facilities. I ask questions in consumption, recognition, memorialization, and the death cycle of material." She is working on her MFA at Bard and has a recent film, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away. Portland is attracting some fine artists for residencies and this is an example. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 6:30PM-9:30 Free
Bicoastal artist Andrea Sisson has been an artist in residence at S1. She presents that work in progress tonight. It is a "focus on the sounds associated with my material interests while working with the S1 facilities. I ask questions in consumption, recognition, memorialization, and the death cycle of material." She is working on her MFA at Bard and has a recent film, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away. Portland is attracting some fine artists for residencies and this is an example. At S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 6:30PM-9:30 Free
Thursday, December 13, 2018
December 13 Scion
The Publication Fair is a small sale by small bookmakers and art book shops. They include Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books, About a Bicycle (AAB), Anthology Booksellers, Big Big Wednesday, Book Arts Editions, Bridge Lab by MediaSurf Communications, Container Corps, Couch Press, Division Leap, Floating World Comics, Future Tense Books, Gobshite Quarterly / Reprobate Books, Know Your City, Mini Chapbook Press, Monograph Bookwerks, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, Nationale, Octopus Books, Passages Bookshop, Perfect Day Publishing, Personal Libraries Library, Poor Claudia, Portland Museum of Modern Art, Publication Studio, Reading Frenzy, Sidebrow, Sincerely Analog Press, Two Plum Press, University of Hell Press and Whitewall of Sound Publications. Portland is a book town, but we don't usually cover it because others do it better. But here is an exception. At the Cleaners at Ace Hotel 1022 SW Stark Noon-6 Free
Katy Knowlton has launched the smallest gallery in Portland, the Scion Gallery. It takes place entirely in the passenger seat of a vehicle; the artwork is on a platform in the dashboard. The Scion Gallery may be found tonight on SE Ankeny at 6th at 6PM Free
Our favorite Tuvan throat singer, Soriah, is part of an early show this evening with dark punkers Christ vs. Warhol and Dead Cult. The show is followed by Portland's dark Hive dance party. At the Star Theater, an old burlesque theater once owned by Gus Van Sant, 13 NW 6th. 8PM $8
Katy Knowlton has launched the smallest gallery in Portland, the Scion Gallery. It takes place entirely in the passenger seat of a vehicle; the artwork is on a platform in the dashboard. The Scion Gallery may be found tonight on SE Ankeny at 6th at 6PM Free
Our favorite Tuvan throat singer, Soriah, is part of an early show this evening with dark punkers Christ vs. Warhol and Dead Cult. The show is followed by Portland's dark Hive dance party. At the Star Theater, an old burlesque theater once owned by Gus Van Sant, 13 NW 6th. 8PM $8
Friday, December 07, 2018
December 7 Eastside Art Openings
Some of the Eastside galleries have craft shows or are hibernating.
Lincoln Kwan Miller has Undocumented Credentials, self-portraits. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
No Budget Too Small is a mid-year readout by students in the joint PNCA-OCAC MFA program. At the The PNCA www.pnca.edu Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
Mark Copino, Kidlat, has a show The Red House. 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
Lincoln Kwan Miller has Undocumented Credentials, self-portraits. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
No Budget Too Small is a mid-year readout by students in the joint PNCA-OCAC MFA program. At the The PNCA www.pnca.edu Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
Mark Copino, Kidlat, has a show The Red House. 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
Thursday, December 06, 2018
December 6 Westside Art Openings+
There is a lot of somnambul in shows this month for various reasons. First, people spend less on art in December. Second, gallerists and collectors may be sunning at Art Basel Miami. Third, laziness. If they had something to say, we would say. But otherwise:
Many galleries are continuing November shows. They are in our November post.
An early kick off is at Downtown Stumptowm. Amy Bernstein is an abstract oil painter making colorful, minimal works. She is also a great writer, bringing a poetic tone to critical art writing. She is the latest Stumptown Artist Fellow, and the show of her work opens tonight. It's a great early start to First Thursday's gallery happenings. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Portland-made painter Molly Vidor is always worth a look. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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 Precipice Fund is a program of small grants to small art spaces, publications and arts collectives funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Furlotti Family Foundation. The grants have been running from about one thousand to five thousand dollars. Awardees can only reapply in 2 year cycles. The total amount in 2018 was about $75,000 - an efficient bargain for the impact!
The 2019 selectees will be announced tonight with a short description of their projects. These events are a great networking event for Portland contemporary artists. And there is a party after, though its intensity has been diminishing over the years. The scheduling is also problematic, competing with First Thursday gallery openings.
Precipice Fund Award announcement, 15 NE Hancock. Awards 6PM, party 8. Free
Many galleries are continuing November shows. They are in our November post.
An early kick off is at Downtown Stumptowm. Amy Bernstein is an abstract oil painter making colorful, minimal works. She is also a great writer, bringing a poetic tone to critical art writing. She is the latest Stumptown Artist Fellow, and the show of her work opens tonight. It's a great early start to First Thursday's gallery happenings. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Portland-made painter Molly Vidor is always worth a look. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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 Precipice Fund is a program of small grants to small art spaces, publications and arts collectives funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Furlotti Family Foundation. The grants have been running from about one thousand to five thousand dollars. Awardees can only reapply in 2 year cycles. The total amount in 2018 was about $75,000 - an efficient bargain for the impact!
The 2019 selectees will be announced tonight with a short description of their projects. These events are a great networking event for Portland contemporary artists. And there is a party after, though its intensity has been diminishing over the years. The scheduling is also problematic, competing with First Thursday gallery openings.
Precipice Fund Award announcement, 15 NE Hancock. Awards 6PM, party 8. Free
Saturday, December 01, 2018
December 1 True North
You can spend an evening arting tonight, if you like, in North Portland.
The Falcon Art Community occupies the basement of a large apartment building. Artists are curated in; many do large realistic landscapes and portraits in oil. Other artists include musicians and theater performers. Once a year they open their studios. Open studios at the Falcon Art Community 5415 N Albina 5:30PM-1130 Free
I’ve known rivers: I’ve Known Rivers Ancient as the World and Older than the Flow of Human Blood in Human Veins is a show by Carolina Caycedo and Sky Hopinka selected by the new curator in residence Suzy Halajian. Her cycle of a year curating is themed on The Politics of Landscape. There is a longer writeup on the Disjecta website and pointers to C3:Initiative and NW Film Center projects by the artists. The curator speaks at 6PM. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Moon Camera curates an annual show of its customers from around the globe. This year's photos, selected democratically by staff are up at Parallel Wines. Previous year photos are up at Anna Bannana’s and Leisure Public House. There is a dance party, 9PM-11 at 45th Parallel Wines. Show 7PM-9ish, Party 9PM-11. At Anna Bannana’s 8716 N Lombard, Leisure Public House 8002 N Lombard and 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard 7PM-11 Free
Provende is a show of drawings, prints and photographs by Boston artist Georgina Lewis and Portland artist Sarah Rushford. There is an eloquent description of the ideas within the work on the Grapefruits web. At Grapefruits www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-9 Free
The Falcon Art Community occupies the basement of a large apartment building. Artists are curated in; many do large realistic landscapes and portraits in oil. Other artists include musicians and theater performers. Once a year they open their studios. Open studios at the Falcon Art Community 5415 N Albina 5:30PM-1130 Free
I’ve known rivers: I’ve Known Rivers Ancient as the World and Older than the Flow of Human Blood in Human Veins is a show by Carolina Caycedo and Sky Hopinka selected by the new curator in residence Suzy Halajian. Her cycle of a year curating is themed on The Politics of Landscape. There is a longer writeup on the Disjecta website and pointers to C3:Initiative and NW Film Center projects by the artists. The curator speaks at 6PM. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Moon Camera curates an annual show of its customers from around the globe. This year's photos, selected democratically by staff are up at Parallel Wines. Previous year photos are up at Anna Bannana’s and Leisure Public House. There is a dance party, 9PM-11 at 45th Parallel Wines. Show 7PM-9ish, Party 9PM-11. At Anna Bannana’s 8716 N Lombard, Leisure Public House 8002 N Lombard and 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard 7PM-11 Free
Provende is a show of drawings, prints and photographs by Boston artist Georgina Lewis and Portland artist Sarah Rushford. There is an eloquent description of the ideas within the work on the Grapefruits web. At Grapefruits www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, November 16, 2018
November 17 Truces Between Portraits, Sunbeams and Marble
Several of the artists in the photo show If But a Sunbeam Strikes Too Warm, Teresa Christiansen and Sarah Meadows, participate in a Q&A with the L&C photography department head. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 12:30PM Free
Ty Ennis has paintings The Marble Fountain. His painting and mixed media installations are playful abstractions of his life experiences. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Blue Moon Camera is vintage and chemical photography central for Portland and beyond. They have customers around the world. They have occasional shows. Tonight it is Jady Bates, Portland stylist and portrait maker. At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Angelica Maria Millan Lozano works between Queens and Portland with textile constructions. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 7PM Free
Ty Ennis has paintings The Marble Fountain. His painting and mixed media installations are playful abstractions of his life experiences. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Blue Moon Camera is vintage and chemical photography central for Portland and beyond. They have customers around the world. They have occasional shows. Tonight it is Jady Bates, Portland stylist and portrait maker. At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Angelica Maria Millan Lozano works between Queens and Portland with textile constructions. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 7PM Free
November 16-17 Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei is China's leading artist at taking risks. The results are beautiful too. The documentary Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry is available at the PSU cinema at a very attractive price. At the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall 7PM, 9:30 Friday and Saturday, 3PM Sunday. Free for PSU students & faculty w/ID, $4 for all other students & seniors, $5 general
Friday, November 09, 2018
November 9 True Measure
True Measure is the gallery and studio of painters Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe.They are moving to a new space, so they are throwing one last show in this location. It's an opportunity to see their paintings and sculptures in their natural habitat, and maybe buy some to take home! @jessereno & @melissamonroeart at True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
Friday, November 02, 2018
November 4 How Many?
Camerawork Gallery has decamped their longtime NW location and recamped in N by Emanuel Hospital. Jānis Miglavs has Five Fingers, an 18 year project gathering stories with drawings and photographs of those narrating them in Africa. His intent is to see where myths of the original African diasporas, beginning as early as 120000 years ago, give or take, coincide with ours today in the Northern Hemisphere. The artist speaks at 4 with a reception following. See the gallery website for viewing hours. At Camerawork Gallery www.thecameraworkgallery.org in the Lorenzen Conference Center - Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 301 N. Graham. 4PM-7 Free
November 3 Splash Garage
McIntyre Parker operated a gallery in his garage and publishing project Pied-à-terre documenting some of it. He has shown at Ditch Projects and False Front Gallery. Now he has a big show of photographic work at YU. At YU Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free 4PM-6
Carnation Contemporary has been doing some excellent shows. Leslie Vigeant is interested critiquing how America grows girls into women in her show Splash Time, opening tonight. Why does culture portray young girls as adult and grown women as childish? Is that a cause of unacceptable current events? At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
Carnation Contemporary has been doing some excellent shows. Leslie Vigeant is interested critiquing how America grows girls into women in her show Splash Time, opening tonight. Why does culture portray young girls as adult and grown women as childish? Is that a cause of unacceptable current events? At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
November 2 Eastside Art Openings
Kristin Cole has 45 Reasons Why. It is a photography project of portraits, each subject holds an object threatened by the socio-political currents surrounding us today. Free tickets required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/45-reasons-why-exhibition-tickets-51433462872. 45 Reasons Why at Uncorked Studios www.uncorkedstudios.com 811 SE Stark St. #300 6PM-8 Free/reservations required
Affiliated is a show by local street artists curated by Mad One. Artists are Voxx, Rx ASkulls, Rong, Bose One, Drsc0, Pamgood2, Dump la Rock, The Earwig22, Eric Able and Jerry "Joker" Inscoe. At Concrete Arcade 959 SE Division #135. 7PM-11 Advance tickets required at https://www.divisionheightspdx.com/events/ $10
I Love Ambrosia is a video, installation, sound and food performance by Katharine Forgan and Bobbi Woods. At Furthermore Space - the joint/joining PNCA/OCAC MFA studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
The Spectral Divide by Mako Miyamoto is a show of photography and video captured by a camera modified to be sensitive to near infrared.
It is a little different from the monochrome The Operation by the Panders and followon work or the stunning film work of Richard Mosse in The Enclave.
So we are interested to see where this artist takes infrared-sensitive imaging. 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
Italy : The South is a show of monochrome photos by Lisa Bauso. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Factitious Matter is a sculptural ceramics show by Brett Kern, Tim Kowalczyk, Dylan Martinez, and Mitchell Spain. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Here to Stay is an art book show and fair by art book galleries. It opens tonight and runs the weekend. 811 East Burnside #124 5PM-9 Free
Affiliated is a show by local street artists curated by Mad One. Artists are Voxx, Rx ASkulls, Rong, Bose One, Drsc0, Pamgood2, Dump la Rock, The Earwig22, Eric Able and Jerry "Joker" Inscoe. At Concrete Arcade 959 SE Division #135. 7PM-11 Advance tickets required at https://www.divisionheightspdx.com/events/ $10
I Love Ambrosia is a video, installation, sound and food performance by Katharine Forgan and Bobbi Woods. At Furthermore Space - the joint/joining PNCA/OCAC MFA studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
The Spectral Divide by Mako Miyamoto is a show of photography and video captured by a camera modified to be sensitive to near infrared.
It is a little different from the monochrome The Operation by the Panders and followon work or the stunning film work of Richard Mosse in The Enclave.
So we are interested to see where this artist takes infrared-sensitive imaging. 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
Italy : The South is a show of monochrome photos by Lisa Bauso. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Factitious Matter is a sculptural ceramics show by Brett Kern, Tim Kowalczyk, Dylan Martinez, and Mitchell Spain. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Here to Stay is an art book show and fair by art book galleries. It opens tonight and runs the weekend. 811 East Burnside #124 5PM-9 Free
Thursday, November 01, 2018
November 1 Westside Art Openings
If you haven't connected to what is going on at the Haxton Hotel event-wise, you might.
Henryk Ross, photographing between 1940 and 1944, documented the Lodz Ghetto of Jews and Roma in Poland. He was employed by the ruling Reich for industrial photography, but made many other photographs, some saved and some destroyed. He understood the moral crux and buried many negatives in 1944, and certainly revisited that question onward over a life of 1910-1991. Many of his photographs he recovered, which were printable, are at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Jewish Museum. Memory Unearthed at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
In Transit is a large two month show by photographers George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa and Stefanie Zofia Schulz. The work explores the spatial and emotional travel between cultures. Topical. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Victor Maldonado is an artist to watch who chose to migrate to Portland after a BFA from California College of Art and their MFA from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. His show includes large paintings crossing impressionist landscapes with abstract expressionism brushing. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Nan Curtis has Numb. She is one of Portland's smart arch-conceptualists, always worth the challenge to experience. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Seattle ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell has Tyger! Tyger!, in his ultra-baroque style. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Ralph Pugay has A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, works made at residencies beyond his Portland home. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
George Johansen is a Portland painter working at the age of 90 years. He taught at PNCA, and his students subsequently made work or even taught there too. So you probably know students of students. Augen has assembled a career retrospective, from a drawing made at age 10 up to now. It may not be aesthetics au courant, but it is an opportunity to see a lifetime creative arc, especially of you are an artist. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Isaac Layman Has photographs Never Was a Thing, close up photos of everyday household objects. There is a performative aspect, including a 24 hour residency in his own bathroom, making images. It it is an inspiration, if anything, of what any photographer can do. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Roesing Ape and Beth Whelan have a video interactive dance performance event Windows 11 as part of the RACC Night Lights video projection project. Their live performance in situ is mixed with prerecorded video, live. RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection https://racc.org/2018/10/15/november-2018-night-lights-windows-11/. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. This month that includes celebrating the Day of the Dead. 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. Jamondria Harris and Jason Urick perform. 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
Henryk Ross, photographing between 1940 and 1944, documented the Lodz Ghetto of Jews and Roma in Poland. He was employed by the ruling Reich for industrial photography, but made many other photographs, some saved and some destroyed. He understood the moral crux and buried many negatives in 1944, and certainly revisited that question onward over a life of 1910-1991. Many of his photographs he recovered, which were printable, are at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Jewish Museum. Memory Unearthed at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
In Transit is a large two month show by photographers George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa and Stefanie Zofia Schulz. The work explores the spatial and emotional travel between cultures. Topical. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Victor Maldonado is an artist to watch who chose to migrate to Portland after a BFA from California College of Art and their MFA from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. His show includes large paintings crossing impressionist landscapes with abstract expressionism brushing. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Nan Curtis has Numb. She is one of Portland's smart arch-conceptualists, always worth the challenge to experience. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Seattle ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell has Tyger! Tyger!, in his ultra-baroque style. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Ralph Pugay has A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, works made at residencies beyond his Portland home. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
George Johansen is a Portland painter working at the age of 90 years. He taught at PNCA, and his students subsequently made work or even taught there too. So you probably know students of students. Augen has assembled a career retrospective, from a drawing made at age 10 up to now. It may not be aesthetics au courant, but it is an opportunity to see a lifetime creative arc, especially of you are an artist. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Isaac Layman Has photographs Never Was a Thing, close up photos of everyday household objects. There is a performative aspect, including a 24 hour residency in his own bathroom, making images. It it is an inspiration, if anything, of what any photographer can do. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Roesing Ape and Beth Whelan have a video interactive dance performance event Windows 11 as part of the RACC Night Lights video projection project. Their live performance in situ is mixed with prerecorded video, live. RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection https://racc.org/2018/10/15/november-2018-night-lights-windows-11/. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. This month that includes celebrating the Day of the Dead. 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. Jamondria Harris and Jason Urick perform. 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
Saturday, October 27, 2018
October 27 Sun Ra's Earth
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
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
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
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