July 16 Full Moo

The moon governs many things in its orbit like the gravity of tides. This celebrates that. Performance includes Gina Altamura and Nate Wey, reading Italo Calvino's "The Distance of the Moon" with ambient musics. More music by Moss Wand and DJ Palm Dat as well as other interactive experiences. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-10 Free/donations to performers accepted

July 15 Rockz

Rock Moving Rocks is an installation and documentation of a performance by Jess Perlitz. There is also a book. Should be fun. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

July 14 Slow Ambiguity

Patrick Durka has Removal: Ambiguity of Land, a pop-up installation themed on Portland Hill Faults and the Missoula Flood. We think of land as static, but it is always moving and performing. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM Free

July 12 Fourth Dimensional Noise Implications

A&O are moving, so tonight they are doing a show at Melanie Flood Projects: Fourth Dimensional News, drawn from the 10 year running Portland zine Free Spirit News. Artists include Adam Amram, Sean Christensen, Espen Friberg, Leif Goldberg, Natalie Ann Howard, Dave Hubner, Dylan Jones, Maren Karlson, Joshua Kermiet, Jeffrey Kriksciun, Corey Lunn, Eric W. Mast, Dino Matt, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Nick Norman, Mike Olson, Dawn Riddle, Maya Rose, Karissa Sakumoto, Raf Spielman and Lasse Wandschneider. Adams and Ollman at Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 5PM-7 FREE



One Grand has photos by Ivan Salcido of his grandmother's professional basketball team, topical. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7-10 Free



Extended Implications is a group show. Artists are Jess Ackerman, Loretta Blue, Jonah Primiano, Nathan Paul Rice and Molly Strohl. It's at Here/There Gallery www.heretheregallery.com 1920 N. Kilpatrick 6PM-8 Free



Stratum is a show of tattoo artists lensed through race and gender. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free



Fuller Rosen closes their current show tonight. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free



We don't usually cover film, but Fuck Film School Fest of shorts is happening. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM Free



We don't usually cover music, but we like Xhurch. Pink Noise Radio + Freeform Portland Present: Warm Waves: An Electronic Sound Bath by Treneti, Indira Valey, & Trine with visuals by Maura Campbell-Balkits & Sarah Turner At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7:30PM-10 $8

July 7 Homies

Portland loves the home and garage galleries. Home Base has Katelyn Nicole Kilburg with I haven’t forgotten anything despite how I pretend to. It's at Home Base welcomehome.gallery 5829 Southeast Hawthorne 5PM-8 Free

July 6 Ny By is Bē Nē

Jessie Weitzel Le Grand has a show of artifacts from an imaginary town. The show opens alongside a paid Disjecta event next door, so unsure if the show itself is free or a paid side dish. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9

July 4 Skate Like A Girl

July 4 is a great day to reread both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.



A few day skate, music and art event, Colorways, organized by the Aesthetesociety opens today. Inside is a show of skate themed art. Outside, music, ramps and skate instruction. Throughout the day learn to skate or learn your kids to skate! Instructed by Skate Like A Girl, underrepresented folks in the skate community today, become part if it tomorrow. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 2PM-8 Thursday July 4, 10AM-3 Friday-Sunday. Free



One Grand is having an event all day too.

July 3 Westside Art Openings+

Owing the July 4th holiday, galleries are opening tonight, and several continue last month's shows.



Whitney Nye has a show of paintings Tack.She makes abstracts of smaller patterns. Along with Roll Hardy, Last Legs, decaying industrial landscape paintings, and Maya Vivas with ceramic work. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free



Sean Healey and Joseph Park continue. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



Dear Lucy is a group show with Faith Wilding, Wendy Red Star, Michelle Grabner, Bean Gilsdorf and April Bey. It is themed on women, much more eloquently described on the Upfor website. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



It's Summer! is a massive show of most of the gallery artists including: Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Natalie Ball, Tina Beebe, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Amjad Faur, Bean Finneran, Jacques Flechemuller, Ellen George, Peter Gronquist, Victoria Haven, Elizabeth Knight, James Lavadour, Nancy Lorenz, Jeffry Mitchell, Megan Murphy, Jenene Nagy, Georgina Reskala, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Andy Stout, Storm Tharp, Molly Vidor, Nell Warren and Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Atlanta photographer Nancy Floyd has Weathering Time, self portraits exposed over a lifetime - over 2500 are in the show. Years ago, Blue Sky in the PCVA space had a show with a similar process, daily self portraits of a pregnancy. Alternate Sunsets is a project by Bruce Conkle in the Nine Gallery, At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Over Eastside Union Knot has a photo show, Via Paralax with Sam Sangermano and Ellen Robinette. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



PNCA is recommended to stop in, though it is quieter Summers. 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-9 Free

June 30 Antigen Flower

Downward Flower is a Summer group show. Artists are Yevgeniya Baras, Katherine Bradford, Maria Calandra, Srijon Chowdhury, Gracie DeVito, Rainen Knecht, Sally Saul, Anna Schachinger, Storm Tharp, Geetha Thurairajah and Guimi You. 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



William Matheson has paintings Antigen, inspired by his family experience. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free

June 29 Quantum Art of Invisibility

Yutaka Matsuzawa is a seminal Japanese conceptual artist, little seen outside Japan. YU brings some of his works, including writing and video. In his 20's when Tokyo was leveled by firebombing, about five months before that fateful August, architect Matsuzawa began to envision works themed on invisibility. At YU Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 5PM-7 Free

June 28 Puzzling Music

The Lumber Room has been doing a long term project, A Puzzling Light and Moving, with artist Kate Newby from New Zealand. The project has been guesting performers to respond to and accompany the visual works. This afternoon it is musician Matt Emmons, and it's all afternoon. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Noon-6 Free

June 27 Swirly

LA artist Robert Pokorny has Dialogue, swirly geometries, perhaps abstract calligraphy, and even cubist faces. Opening tonight at Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-9 Free

June 22 High Desert Test Sites

High Desert Test Sites - www.artforum.com/diary/trinie-dalton-at-high-desert-test-sites-72401 is the new home to Dust to Dust by artists Emily & Michael Endo. Formerly Dust to Dust was in Portland.

The group show is Alien Phenomenology, perhaps similar to Long Beach's Spaceness. It's a brief pop up with an online version following.

Artists include Josh Bolin, Marne Lucas, Joe Merrell, Armando Minjarez, Derek Monypeny, Tuan Nyguen, Ralph Pugay, Heidi Schwegler, and Caitlin Rose Sweet. They interpret "alien" in mediums painting, photography, fragrance, sculpture, writing and sound.

Dust to Dust www.dusttodust.space at the High Desert Test Sites Headquarters at the Sky Village Swap Meet 7028 Theater Road, Yucca Valley, CA 9AM-1PM Free

June 20 Xenos

Marcelo Fontana has Return Eternal Return, installation and performance on the theme of xenophobia and human migration. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free

June 9 Söma

First Brick is a gallery in a home. They are having a Söm Ting Feast starting in the afternoon and going into evening. It's sculpture, performance, and more, in the yard. Artists include Autonomuse, Carson Terry, Cry Babe, Ellie Gordon, Garima Thakur, Hannon, JP Huckins, Laura Anne Whitley, Leo Lefevre, Steph Linn & Teal Bluestone, Takahiro Yamamoto and more. More info on their socials, respect the intent. At First Brick www.firstbrick.art @first.brick 4637 N Colonial 3PM-10 Free

June 8 Eagle Fire

Kazakstan is a big country in American's blindspot. Where is this country? Maybe they know it by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat parody, which has nothing to do with the country. In fact, a Borat song was accidentally played in place of the Kazakh national anthem in a highly embarrassing international situation. It would be like playing the Simpson's theme in place of the Star Spangled Banner.

I was fortunate to consult in Kazakstan for some international agencies. We interviewed many Kazakh officials and everyday people to understand what was going on. So I've kept up an interest in the country.

The traditional Kazakhs were nomadic tribes. Think yurts and horses. Kazaks are traditionally Islamic. So the role of women has a different pattern than the West. One of their customs is training eagles to hunt.

Photographer Oliver Klink has documented the experience of women eagle hunters in Kazakhstan. At Camerawork Gallery www.thecameraworkgallery.org in the Lorenzen Conference Center - Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 301 N. Graham. Talk 4PM, Reception 5PM-6:30 Free



Tess Rubinstein has primary color flow-y schematic paintings in show A Jug of Wine. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free



Signal Fire is 10. So they are having a party and fundraiser. C:3 is moving downtown. The fundraiser is from 6PM-9 with a $25 admission and the farewell dance party is 9PM-10 and free. www.signalfirearts.org/events/party/ At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-10

June 7 Eastside Art Openings

Eastside is fragmented and lacking in publicity. Here are some.



We refrain from noting college shows, there are many, and many good. This afternoon PCC Cascade on Killingsworth has a faculty show by DB Amorin, Elizabeth Bilyeu, Cristina Carver, Jacqueline Ehlis, Josh Hulst, Una Kim, Renae Kowitz, Ruth Lantz, Michael Lazarus, Joe Macca, Sam Morgan, Tara Murino-Brault, Darcy Neal, Kelli Pennington, Kathi Rick, Sandy Sampson, Kaite Thompson Chase, and Shannon Willis. At the PCC Cascade Paragon Gallery 815 N. Killingsworth 3PM-7 Free



One Grand Gallery has a group show Fuck Cancer of 30 international artists. They have done this benefit before and their openings are lively. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6-10 Free



The 811 building is always recommended. Notable is The Ones Shop with Belle Chesler. At 811 E Brurn 6PM-8 early close Free


Elliott Kayser and Paul Briggs have in The Shape of Time and Sarah Chenoweth has Necessities. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon

June 6 Westside Art Openings+

G. Lewis Clevenger has colorful abstract paintings, De Minimis/Maximus. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free



Sean Healey continues to expand his boundaries and shows along with Seattle's new mystic Joseph Park. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



D E May has passed, but left a large body of original works on paper. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Jovencio de la Paz has minimal textile works. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free



Mark Aghatise and Gioncarlo Valentine have portraits. In the Nine Gallery Gary Boswell has Entangle. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Willie Little has a new show, accompanied by a group exhibition of artists. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



For the +1, PNCA continues its MFA thesis show at the Eastside glass building. 2139 N Kerby 6PM-7:30 early close 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-9 Free

June 4 Anniversaries

Portlandorusnow is 15. Its interest in the arts in Portland goes back about 10 years before. We are still having fun! Our intent has always been to note events in advance of their happening, sometimes shortly, to a day, to a few days. We aren't interested in theory, criticism or history; we are interested in our own immediate experience; sometimes the work or the artist's relationship to our experience. We don't want more readers, we want reader to reader relationships. We list work we like and think well of. We list work in genres we are uninterested in, but think is good within its context. We list events to meet other creatives for conversation. We list unusual events that might be below your radar.

We are going to make just about our only political post ever. June 4 is also 30 in relation to the Tiananmen coda to the Chinese Democracy Movement of 1978-1989. Americans process June 4, 1989 Tiananmen in the American Christian absolutist and judgmental framework. I think the crushed aspiration of two generations and the lost discussion of democracy in China is the greater loss. The real source material is democracy wall posters. In that era, and early 1990's, the discussion within China was whether the Northern values of the Revolution or the Southern values of business at at any dishonest cost would prevail.

What would China be today if local and provincial democracy had headed off corruption? On need only look at artist Ai Wei Wei's art works around the Sichuan earthquake. This year is a good time to revisit the film Gate of Heavenly Peace, contemporaneous to the 1989 democracy movement. Readers may disagree, but a slight compromise by the students and the government could have created a better outcome. The government should have given the students the responsibility to organize an advisory shadow young persons' NPC. The topic is of interest to me, I was scheduled to travel to China that exact time to study Tai Chi.

American democracy is in trouble, so we can focus here, rather than afar. We have a broken mediasphere, a broken social mediasphere, education falling behind, a lack of interest, and more. Only we can fix American democracy.

June 2 Grand

Lenor B has paintings Grand Concourse, The Bronx. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 5PM-8 Free

June 1 Script

Script is a show by Hannah Newman, Leslie Vigeant, Katherine Spinella, Kathryn Zazenski and Sarah Hummel Jones. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free

May 30 Cover Belief Gods

Wendy Red Star, and her 11-year-old daughter, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher speak on their project with 1st and 4th grade classes. The students interpreted the Apsáalooke language in sculpture, drawing and painting. It is the language of the Red Star family and the Crow nation of the Midwest.

Jodie Cavalier has Belief. Curated by the kids. It is themed on Mexican healing ritual narrative using a broom or brush to remove fear and negative energy from a person. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th. 2PM-3 talk, 3PM-4 shows Free



The Third Room Project hosts Cover the Walls - drawing and painting over the walls, open mic and performances. Check their Instagram. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 5PM-10 Free




Jason Brinkerhoff is a self taught artist from the Bay Area. I was initially nonplused by the work with its focus on the female form. But a little research shows the artist was discovered by Matthew Higgs at White Columns, and has gone on to show well. Council of the Gods — Todestrieb Works, this show is his latest body of work, primarily abstracts and schematic work. It has an interesting story: http://www.ampersandgallerypdx.com/council-of-the-gods-todestrieb-works-jason-brinkerhoff. Opening tonight at Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free

May 26 Null Paintings

Mid-20's minimalist Francesco de Prezzo, from Northern Italy, joins Portland for his second solo show ever in the US. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map Noon-5 Free

May 25 Deep Salt

Deep Breakfast is back with Emily Pothast all the way from Seattle. Her topic is spiritualism and channeling in the visual arts. She is a writer and musician too, and embarking on a PhD this Fall at the unique Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley on art and spiritualism. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 1PM-3 $5-10



It is not an art opening, but the Pegasus Project is opening their new photo shooting studio today. At the Pegasus Project www.pegasusprojectpdx.com in Montavilla 518 SE 76th 3PM-9 Free



A Thirst for Saltwater is a new show by Lehuauakea Fernandez. The gallery has a monograph of the work too. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free

May 23 Space Sky

John Gnorski has Like a Train in the Sky. He is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow. He is also half of singing Space Babies, a hit at Spaceness. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 6PM-8 Free

May 17 Time, Space, Place, Tuva

Chirgilchin, a quartet from Tuva, perform throat singing accompanied by traditional intstruments. Portland's own Soriah completes the performance. Tickets. At the Old Church 1422 SW 11th doors 7PM, show 8 $30



Time>Space>Place is a large group show. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free



Phillip Kremer makes distorted portraits. He opens a show tonight. The One Grand events are always lively. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10ish Free

May 11 Enthusiastic Fire

Rob Halverson is an artist and curator in LA who has been in the PICA orbit for some time. He has drawings Enthusiastic - Remotest - Tree. 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 3PM-5 Free



For something with passion, Feria de Portland is Portland's annual celebration of Flamenco. Espacio Flamenco Portland, Ricardo Diaz, Reyes Barrios, Elena Villa, Flamenco Idaho Flamenco con Julia & Derek Brown, and schools Espacio Flamenco Portland, Portland Flamenco Events, Escuela Flamenca and Elena Villa perform. Spanish food and drink available at additional charge. Feria de Portland http://www.espacioflamencopdx.com/ at 15 NE Hancock. 5PM-10 Under 12 free, others $15

May 10 Surfing Failing

L.E.O., Reginald O'Neal is a painter, from canvas to wall murals. He opens Sun Beneath The Soil tonight. It is themed on everyday street life experience and portraits in Overtown, Miami, Florida. Overtown was home to African Americans in the segregation era, and suffered the indignity of highway construction cutting it and urban renewal crushing it. Where have we heard that before?

Many readers know Matt Wagner's Hellion Gallery and that he cofounded the continuing Portland Forest For the Trees (FFTT) mural project with Gage Hamilton. This gallery, the former FFTT workspace, is now their indoor gallery. It has a beautiful name, Tips on Failing. Failing early and often is the heart of design thinking. And it is on the alley off Failing Street.

At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
6PM-10



Osamu Kanemura has Surfing Speed Gel, photographs, writings and videos of urban Japan. He's here in person and will be interviewed by another noted photog, Robert Lyons at 7. The photographer is an all around swell guy who also is dropping his fourth book. At Ampersand Gallery www.ampersandgallerypdx.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-8 Free

May 9 Cult Bodega

Subcult is a collaboration between artists. Some of them are inside the Columbia River Correctional Institute and some are inside the PSU Social Practice program. At Outer Space outer-space.us 3726 NE 7th 5PM-8 Free



Art Bodega is a project of Union Knott. Within you will find inexpensive art objects inspired by the things you would find for sale in your neighborhood bodega. That art is for sale too. This instance, was curated by longtime Portlander Sean Croghan. Bring your own bag too! Many pics on their insta. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free

May 5 Six Opaque Dream Blades

Property of Opaqueness is a live dance performance by Takahiro Yamamoto and Roland Dahwen Wu with a sound score by Sofia Acosta. It is part of Portland performers accompanying the year long show of New Zealand artist Kate Newby's work in the gallery. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-4 Free



1122 closes Portland Dream Delivery Service. Dreamreading by Mathias Svalina & open-mike dreams by you. Bring your own fox mask welcome. At 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 4:30PM-6 Free



Michelle Blade opens paintings today. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free



SIX is a long running electronic and electroacoustic performance series in six channels. The audience participates in the center of the surrounding speakers. Artists this year are Francisco Botello, Crystal Quartez, Audioelectronic, Kelly Rauer and Atole. Bring a blanket or cushion if you like. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 7PM-9ish Free

May 4 Electro Diablo Carnation

The Hellion Gallery, formerly based here, is now focused on projects in Mexico City and occasional international pop ups. This is one, Taller del Diablo. They are Cartonería, paper mâché sculptures, of devilish spirits fabricated by the most well known maker and world famous Linares family workshop. Most are designed by Portland artists. At Gigantic Brewing 5224 SE 26th. Reception 4PM or 5ish Free



Home School at Yale Union has Bogosi Sekhukhuni from South Africa. His video works sound like an interesting exploration of spirituality, pan-Africanism and an update of Afrofuturism in an electronic performance art way. He was born in 1991, so formed in a post-1994 South African election environment. Again, the description on the YU website or on Facebook is recommended. After screening his films, he is interviewed by Home School principal Manuel Arturo Abreu, and MoMA curatorial fellow Hanna Girma. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 5PM-7 Free



Erik Geschke has, Parts and Accessories. It's consistent with Carnation's themes, you can read all about it on their website. explores issues surrounding class, dystopia, and modernity. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free

May 3-5 Assembly

Assembly is the PSU social practice art final project. It's free and participatory.

Friday

4:00-6:00pm: Harrison Park Elementary School (2225 SE 87th Ave, Portland, OR 97216) will host an Harrison Park School Interplanetary Contemporary Art Fair sponsored by Imagination Academy with Students at Harrison Park School, The Living School of Art, Mudland, Tiny Gallery, Real Food Faux Truck Food Truck, Elijah Turner-Nelson, and KSMoCA.

6:30-8pm: Canton Grill (2610 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR 97266) Salty Xi Jie Ng and Eric John Olson will host a performative research tasting experience exploring the relationship between migration and food. (Small plates only; bring cash for additional food and drinks)

8-9pm: Karaoke of course

Saturday, May 4th, 2019

Mt. Scott Community Center (5530 SE 72nd Ave, Portland, OR 97206) will host a day-long (10am-6:30pm) series of physical activities, workshops and participatory projects- mapping the neighborhood, games, mindfulness boxing, time capsules, housing self-defense, and more.

10:00-10:30am - Welcome
10:30-11:30am - Mapping the neighborhood through resident’s personal stories about different places by Anupam Singh
11:45-12:45pm - Conscious Contact by Nola Hanson with Tia Kramer
12:45-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:30pm - Games People Play by Shoshana Gugenheim
2:45-3:45pm - Tomorrow's Time Capsule by Jordan Rosenblum
4:00-5:00pm - Tenant Self-Defense with the Office of Speculative Neighborship with Zeph Fishlyn and Eric John Olson
5:15-6:15pm - Physical Education workshop with keyon gaskin and Takahiro Yamamoto hosted by Spencer Byrne-Seres, Shoshana Gugenheim, Salty Xi Jie Ng and Anupam Singh

Ongoing throughout the day - SoFA Journal reading nook hosted by Spencer Byrne-Seres, Eric John Olson and Tia Kramer.

Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal will launch its latest issue, Recreation. Issues available throughout the weekend.

Following the days events Assembly Brewing (6112 SE Foster Road, Portland, OR 97206) will host the launch of "Social Practice Term Definitions" project from 6:30-8pm

Sunday

10:30-11:45am - At Harrison Park (near Harrison Park Elementary, 1931 SE 84th Ave, Portland, OR 97216) Scores for Psychological Space, with Carlos Reynoso, Jordan Rosenblum, Nola Hanson, Brianna Ortega.

12-1:30pm - At Panaderia Mexicana 5 De Mayo (1134 SE 82nd Ave, Portland OR 97216) Carlos Reynoso presents his new project, La Frontera: Una Conversación, with food provided by his celebrated vegan taqueria, Mis Tacones.

1:45-2:45pm -At Harrison Park (near Harrison Park Elementary, 1931 SE 84th Ave, Portland, OR 97216) Play & Work by Brianna Ortega and Students of Harrison Park School.

3:00-6:00pm - At A1 Birdbath (8560 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97266): A celebration of the life of beloved Portland sculptor, Jim Gion, with snacks, presentations, dog portraits by Roz Crews, Jim's art, a clay workshop hosted by Amanda Leigh Evans and dog themed events (he sculpted over 1000 animal portraits during his life!) hosted by Stefan Kovatchev of A1 Birdbath, Zeph Fishlyn, Tia Kramer, Eric John Olson, Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr, Roshani Thakore and Artist Matoska

Assembly 2019 various locations and times. Free

May 2 Westside Art Openings

Ellen George has I begin with a thin line, small paintings. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Stephen O'Donnell has portraits and Susan Seubert has photographs. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Sculptor Heidi Schwegler and and London video artist Quayola have Plane of Scattered Pasts. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Vladimir Antaki has The Guardians, portraits of individualistic shopkeepers. Arielle Bobb-Willis and Brittney Cathey-Adams have portraits of women. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Jeff Gunn has bright landscapes, Not Dark Yet, and shows with more landscapes by Chris Kelly, Some for Every. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Barbara Sternberger has large abstract paintings, Breath, and Ben Dallas has small abstract paintings, Sculptural Paintings. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



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



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish Free

April 27 Ma-ce-o

Maceo Paisley from LA is a multi-artist. He's traveling to spaces around the country and picked the Third Room as one. Expect performance and his Tao Of Maceo project. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7:30PM Free

April 25 Truth

The Best Truth We Got is an accessible show of light and glass by Elias Hansen. It's beautiful and playful in a Sottsass-Memphis way.

Perfect for a glass town, though we are very serious, serious, serious, very, about our cast glass, unlike aesthetically light as a feather Seattle blown glass.

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-8 Free

April 21 Deep Breakfast

Xhurch is an artist clubhouse known for experimental music and multimedia, even VR, art. Today, Easter, Manuel Arturo Abreu, co-principal of Home School, speaks for breakfast. He is a good one to follow for his collection of art and justice news. This morning over coffee, tea and donuts, he speaks about Titivillus, a medieval demon blamed for errors in religious manuscripts. Musicians Ben Glas, Anna Vo, The Occupant, Tabor Dark perform following

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 1PM Donations accepeted

April 18 River Hanging

Takahiro Yamamoto and Andy Paiko have collaborated on Hanging River. Paiko brings glass sculpture and Yamamoto brings movement performance; he's been a collaborator with art mover-writers Physical Education. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free

April 13, 20, 26, 27 Butoh

Butoh is a contemporary dance form from Japan. It has a concentration of people interested here.

Guest artists visit, including from Japan.

This is that.

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano perform with Kudo Taketeru. The Tamanos were very early performers with the founder. They were the very first to perform butoh in the Americas.

Taketeru Kudo performs solo. He studied with the Tamanos and Waguri, then performed with the seminal French and Japanese Sanki Juku between 1995 and 1998. His current troupe in Japan is Gien-kan.

Shadowtender is a project based in Portland with Brooklyn collaborators. They perform Lieber II tonight, based on the intersection of the id and the queer body.

Advance tickets suggested, the performances sell out. Performances www.witd.org/performance/butoh-college-2019-performance-series. At Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map April 13,20,26,27. See website for times. $12-27

April 13 Caramels

Kristin Texeira from Brooklyn opens Caramels, abstract geometric paintings. The work starts with her experiences, reduced to writings and finally distilled into these paintings. It would be fun to see the writing associated with each. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free

April 12 Drowned

Marjorie Dial opens Drowned World, abstract dark sculptures and prints. It is at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free

April 7 Converge

A long time ago, contemporary art was downgraded at the Portland Art Museum by entering director John Buchanan. John Weber went to SFMOMA and Kristy Edmunds founded PICA. Many would say that PICA absent Edmunds has lost its groove. A few years ago, Portland arts supporters engaged Edmunds again to form Converge 45. Edmunds has now passed curation of the project to Lisa Dent from NYC. Dent speaks this afternoon. At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Free

April 5 Eastside Art Openings

Pamela Chipman has Hireath theming on the longing for a romanticized past using material from the California wildfires. She was coprincipal for Portland's seminal Blue Gallery. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



Michal Fargo has abstract vases. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon Early close 5PM-8



The Print Art NW group show is at the Eastbank Building 107 SE Washington. Early close 6PM-8 Free



Land & Sea is a show of flora and fauna illustrations by Tegan White. More at @teahanwh. At Nucleus Portland 1445 SE Hawthorne 6PM-9 Free



Delineation is a fiveplex of artists. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

April 4 Westside Art Openings+

Speculative Frictions is a group show by Orphan Drift, Caspar Heinemann, Emily Jones, Ranu Mukherjee, Lisa Radon, and Stephanie Simek. "The title for this research-centric group show was inspired by poet Joan Retallack’s idea of a 'poethical wager on the Experimental Feminine.' Contrasted with the scientific method’s focus on testable propositions, this wager proceeds according to what Retallack calls 'a feminine dyslogic.'” At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



PNCA is friends with developers and landlords. They often find fine buildings for their studios. Tonight they open the MFA studios in the old Uroboros Glass factory. At PNCA MFA studios in the old Uroboros Glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 6PM-9 Free



April is the annual Photo Month promoted by Photolucida in Portland Galleries.


Noah Addis has Future Cities, photographs of less formal cities, with structures and planning by the residents, all over the world. Meghan L E Kirkwood has #ViewsFromDAPL, landscapes along the route of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In the Nines, backside, is a meditation on maps and immigration. It's straight graphic work, a break from his kinetics. But he is sampling the emotion about the issue, which has its own energy.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Christopher Rauschenberg has Angkor, always photogenic, along with late career abstract painter Willy Heeks. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



Stu Levy has landscape photographs. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Williamson | Knight, Upfor, and Froelick continue last month's shows. Blackfish has a huge retrospective.



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
Augen has a collection of small works from their stable, some of whom are interesting. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free

March 30 Sublim

Diana Palermo is an East Coast artist working in 2d, 2.5d, and performance. Her Sublimation project is collage. She opens that show tonight. 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

March 29 Nanoplastic Dough

Angela Haseltine Pozzi is a late career artist living in Bandon Oregon. She collects beach trash, plastic, and crafts it into large sculptures of the sealife it is impacting.

It is impacting us too. Most salt in food is processed from seawater. Our single use plastics find their way to the ocean where they are battered into smaller and smaller pieces. Those nanoplastics end up in table salt and in processed foods. www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-humans-a-microplastic-invasion-may-be-taking-a-toll/.

The work is accessible, not art school-driven art. That's good, because the message needs to reach everyone. Her project is documented at www.washedashore.org.

The talk is part of the international Creative Mornings monthly. It is almost always sold out in advance. Creative Mornings talk https://creativemornings.com/talks/angela-haseltine-pozzi at the Evergreen 618 SE Alder 8:30AM Free



Stacy Elaine Dacheux is a multi artist from LA. She opens her drawings show, Dough, tonight. The show includes her super 8 film and live readings by local writers 7PM-8:30. There is a writers conference in town, so this garage gallery will be host to events Saturday (and Thursday March 28.) All the information is at www.1122gallery.com/workshops--events.html. Some of the events are designed for children. At 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com, gallery in a garage, 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free

March 28 Hear See

There is a raging poetry scene and more literary readings than ever in Portland. Too many for us. But tonight is From Your Mouth to God's Ear: readings based on the work of Barbara Kruger. Kruger's prints are at Blue Sky now; Sanderia Faye, Sara Mumolo, L. Ann Wheeler, Rajiv Mohabir, more will perform. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 7PM



Paridolia is a large group show with the theme "things we think we can see." At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com 2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free

Some of the other art spaces on Alberta may be open too.

March 27 Women Are

Alla Nazimova (1879-1945) was a groundbreaking Russian immigrant to America in 1905. Her story is fascinating - look it up. She produced and stared the silent film Salomé in 1923. It does have an enigmatic plot. You can see it tonight with a live music score by Dolphin Midwives and Indira Valey. Recommended. It is part of the Fin de Cinema series, always beautiful; and part of the POWFest, likely to sell out. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 8PM, show 9. $10

March 26 I-II-III

Andreas Gurewich has Contemporary Chicken Coup I, II, III. This show gathers a project repeated 3 times over many years, new and old. After the opening, you can see it by appointment. Gurewich is a poet and painter and is in a dual show with her partner up at Private Places now. Chicken Coop will be producing a catalog accompanying the work. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 5PM-8 Free

March 24 Home School

The Home School social practice project previews its new season tonight and screens work by Aria Dean, Mandy Harris Williams, & Redeem Pettaway, DJ following. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6PM-9 Free

March 23 Caldera

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 Kemi Adeyemi, Literary Arts (Seattle, WA), Julie Hammond, Performing Arts (Vancouver, BC), Alexandria Martinez, Visual Arts, (Oakland, CA), Carolyn Monastra, Visual Arts, (Brooklyn, NY), Emily X.R. Pan, Literary Arts, (Brooklyn, NY), Analise Cleopatra, Visual Arts, (Portland, OR) and Alisa Yang, Visual Arts, (Saratoga, CA).

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free

March 22 Sun-kissed Pot

Pot is a group show by Matilda Alair, Iván Carmona, Emily Counts, Rose Dickson, Sharif Farrag, Sylvia Fragoso, Michael Frimkess + Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Ektor Garcia, Johanna Jackson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Dino Matt, Brad Mildrexler, Jeffry Mitchell, Deveron Richard, Jennifer Rochlin and Libby Werbel. 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-8 Free

March 17 Sleep

Shohei Takasaki has Where did you sleep last night?, bright abstract figure paintings. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free

March 13-17 Skeleton Flower

Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble is a long operating musical and performance project. They are inspired by the Japanese modern dance theater Butoh and contemporary music composition. The skeleton flower, diphylleia grayi, has a magical property. When it rains, the petals become transparent, like glass. Skeleton Flower is the new performance by the Degenerate Art Ensemble. It tells a personal, not as rare as it should be, story of family trauma; and, not as common as it should be, transcendence through creative endeavors. This is a very popular event in an intimate venue with a basis in psychodrama. Degenerate Art Ensemble http://www.degenerateartensemble.com/ at the Erickson Theatre 1524 Harvard Ave, Seattle $25

March 7 Westside Art Openings

Printmaker and ink on paper artist Sarah Horowitz has Surface Tension. Most often she works in botanical illustration. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Augen has a collection of small works from their stable, some of whom are interesting. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



RACC cycles down their projection series with Midnight Variety Hour, a group show. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park dusk-7



Barbra Kruger is an activist word artist of the 90s familiar to many. Today the message continues its weight. This is an archive show from a local collection. Natalie Krick with Natural Deceptions also shows. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



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



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish Free

March 7 Westside Art Openings

Printmaker and ink on paper artist Sarah Horowitz has Surface Tension. Most often she works in botanical illustration. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Augen has a collection of small works from their stable, some of whom are interesting. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



RACC cycles down their projection series with Midnight Variety Hour, a group show. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park dusk-7



Barbra Kruger is an activist word artist of the 90s familiar to many. Today the message continues its weight. This is an archive show from a local collection. Natalie Krick with Natural Deceptions also shows. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



There are a few retiring artist shows this month. Paul Missal is a longtime PNCA painting professor. I'm familiar with his portraits and landscapish scenes; he also does still lifes. He shares the space with painter Judith Wyss. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th. 6PM-9 Free



Mel Katz who spent time in NYC with the downtown art crowd who later accomplished much, brought that sensibility to Portland. Some of his wall sculptures are at Russo & Lee this month. Also there, Sherre Wolf, longtime painter and printmaker. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free


Ronny Quevedo has flatwork Every Measure of Zero on migration in America. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free


Dan Paz has The Sun Never Knew How Great It Was Until It Struck the Side of a Building having to do with equity. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free


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



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10ish Free

March 3 Offering

Butoh is an obscure, very postmodern, dance style from Japan. There are a few cities in the US and Canada where it happens regularly, including Portland. From time to time, there are small workshop classes. This one, taught by Meshi Chavez, Mizu Desierto & Stephanie Lanckton, has a workshop performance including the students as its finish. Live soundscapes by Roland Toledo. There is a don't miss one of these with out of town teachers in April. At Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map Doors 5:30PM, Performance 6, Discussion after. $5-20

March 3 Now

Sidony O'Neal opens And Now, Square Trees. She is a writer, modern dance mover and a visual artist. This work is minimalist, even colorful. It parallels her poetic writing. 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

March 2 History

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme have We know what it is for, we who have used it. It is themed on the history of Palestine. There is a longer explanation on the Disjecta website. It is a very large installation worth spending time with and with the program notes at the venue. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free

March 1-3 Space is the Place!

The Portland Art Museum guested the Portland Museum of Modern Art guesting Sun Ra. Sun Ra engaged Afro-futurism from 1936.

Spaceness is an annual art confab organized by Julia Barbee, Matt Suplee, Alison Jean Cole and many volunteers. It is loosely themed on futurism, the unknown, space, aliens and regional nature-based mysticism. The weekend, beginning late Friday dinnertime, and extending to Sunday noon, includes visual art, installations, music and performance. It's centered at the Sou'wester hotel trailer park in Seaview, Washington which has a direct connection to the Pacific Ocean beach where some installations engage. Recommended.

All information is on their spaceness.com. It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby. Friday 5 to Sunday noon. Free

February 24 Vestmenta

Martha Daghlian is the artist behind the Grapefruits Art Space, which we miss. The bright pink poppy website for Grapefruits parallels the aesthetics of Daghlian's own idea-driven art garments. Ceremonial Vestments is her show of those garments. Writer Amy Bay has a short essay on the work on the Melanie Flood Projects website; it's well worth reading. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Noon-2 Free

February 23 Wabi Sabi Social Caldera

The social practice artists have a participatory conference today: The Schemers, Scammers, and Subverters Symposium. The event mascot is a snake. You can drop in or out any time, the schedule is on their website http://schemersscammers.club/. In the Windsor Rooms A & B of the Crowne Plaza Hotel 1441 NE 2nd 9:30AM-6 Free



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 Sarah Abdel-Jelil (Minneapolis, MN), Gisell Calderón (Minneapolis, MN), Abigail Chabitnoy (Fort Collins, CO), Ian Hanesworth (Minneapolis, MN), Larry Krone (New York, NY), Rubén García Marrufo (Portland, OR), Aurora Masum-Javed (Lewisburg, PA), Maximiliano (Portland, OR), Jamila Osman (Portland, OR.)

At Camp Caldera (use your Tripcheck.com for weather conditions on the road) www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free



Wabi Sabi Lobby is a show by Alika Cooper and Eric Wesley from LA. Wesley is known for converting an abandoned Taco Bell in St Louis into an art gallery, www.bortolamigallery.com. Here is the story of that project: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmmqgw/why-an-la-artist-turned-an-abandoned-taco-bell-into-a-midwestern-art-exhibit. Alika Cooper is a mixed media painter, sculpts and intervenes. The space, Private Places has very limited hours, so see the opening at this gallery in a working studio that plies the space between Portland and Los Angeles. At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday Map 5PM-7 Free

February 8 Think Reverie

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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