We are not quite out of the woods yet on Covid, this is more what's up for a private visit throughout the month. Blue Sky and Nine move their opening to Saturday. No idea of percolations at the Everett Station Lofts.
Henk Pender is one of our late career painters. That means he has seen a lot, including wars. You can see some at a large show at the Oregon Jewish Museum. Henk Pender: Eyewhitness to History www.ojmche.org/events/henk-pander-the-artist-as-eyewitness-to-history/ at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis $8
Holding's gallery now has the daughter of Don't Shoot Portland. Some of those archives are in the gallery for your review as Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience. It is under the umbrella of University of Oregon Center for Art Research program Habits of Denial. By appointment. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders Free
PDX Contemporary has new work by gallery artists They have two locations now. Artists include Nick Blosser, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Jeffry Mitchell, Joe Rudko, and Adam Sorensen.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map and 1825 B NW Vaughn Map Free
Sabina Haque is an activist artist who has been researching Portland communities and their history, wherever it may lead. (Un) Belonging admixes large drawings of people and their homeland-borders. Here the border of India-Pakistan and Mexico-US are explored in the abstract. There will be an artist talk March 13 at 2. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Tom Prochaska is another late career painter and instructor from PNCA. He is known for his rough impressionistic figures. Froelick also has a group show of some of their backstock on paper. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
AO has a group show, The Gound, with Edgar Arceneaux, Taylor Davis, Luc Fuller, Jay Heikes, Nick Herman, Adam Horovitz, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Pierre Leguillon, Ari Marcopoulos, Dianna Molzan, Todd Norsten, Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill, Alex Slade, Oliver Strand, Ricky Swallow, Lesley Vance, Emmett Wilkins, and Keith Wilkins. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th early close 5PM-7:30 Free
Time In-Between: Temporal Matter(s) is the first-year readout of MFA students at PNCA. They have online reservations for the opening. Not sure how by appointment works. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-7 Free
Blackfish has Alice Christine Walker with Unfinished Business: An Exploration of Grief, staged photos themed on her father's passing. They are doing their opening live and on Facebook Live. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th. 5PM-8 Free
Leach is doing opening on Facebook Live as they have been doing in the pandemic. Christine Bourdette has Mantle/Dismantle themed on geology. Works on paper from Julia Mangold are also up. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Free
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
March 2 Basquiat’s Self-Portraits - Talk & Stream
In Eugene, Fred Hoffman dealer for Basquiat, and with more art world accomplishments, speaks. He is lately known for his monograph, The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat has a Portland connection in Paige Powell. He was an important contributor to the NYC downtown cultural movement of the 1980s and brought graffiti art into the gallery world. There are primary source interviews with him you can find. The Eugene Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has Self Portrait and Hardware Store as part of their short-term Shared Visions-on-loan. They are on display now until March 13 and May 15 respectively. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Self Portraits at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene. Stream https://youtu.be/b6sq6kIbSyQ 5:30PM Free
Sunday, February 27, 2022
February 27 Land of Dreams
Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat is known for her photography and video art work. With Land of Dreams, she steps out into long form art film with professional actors.
The protagonist artist, played wryly by Sheila Vand is a field worker for a future fictional census bureau. Her job is to collect dreams for the census. That leads to many surreal adventures. Her side gig is to steal the dreams and reenact them on her social media channel. Along the way, she collects a proposed paramour, played by William Moseley, and a bodyguard played by Matt Dillon. It is artfully shot in the American Southwest with an additional cast of strange characters. The feature film is paired with a gallery show by the same name. The gallery work is a large collection of straight black and white portraits of Southwesterners, and two video artworks.
The film center at the art museum shows the film, which is making its rounds of film festivals. It is yet rarely seen, but you can. Land of Dreams at the Northwest Film Center in the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 3PM $12
The film center at the art museum shows the film, which is making its rounds of film festivals. It is yet rarely seen, but you can. Land of Dreams at the Northwest Film Center in the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 3PM $12
Saturday, February 19, 2022
February 20 Thank You for Supporting the Arts
Gene Youngblood (1943-2021) wrote Expanded Cinema and was an inspiration for the culture of the Internet in his famous essay Mass Media and the Future of Desire, 1977. In a Portland lecture, the recording of which was lost, he proposed a venn diagram of art within a circle and not-art without. No one would argue that the Mona Lisa and David are safely within the center of the definition of art enclosed by that circle. What is interesting is the boundary for an individual, a subculture or tribe, and how it varies over time.
Viva Las Vegas is a writer, musician, and a dancer. Her work, over years, is an intellectual exploration of sex work, social politics, and the experience of exotic dancing. Thank You for Supporting the Arts her film biography.
We live still in the Victorian age, in a puritan land, immersed in the media of beauty to sell soap. Our brains engage neuro-aesthetics formed from birth. In that neural wiring, emotion is entwined too. Viva Las Vegas is interested in how that all unwinds performing, and in individual personal conversations, in the club. The film is her explanation of how dancing is art within the circle.
PICA put together a fine exhibition of the history of sex work politics in Portland, the community of workers, and their artworks. https://www.pica.org/events/symposium-art-activism-publishing-sex-work. Oregon's famous First Amendment of the Constitution of 1857 is stricter than the federal one of 1787. In State v. Robertson, 1982, stripping moved into the circle of legal, from outside, not-legal, in Oregon. Now the line between art and not art is increasingly being discussed for the variety of sex work.
Film Thank You for Supporting the Arts https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/thank-you-for-supporting-the-arts/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM $10
Viva Las Vegas is a writer, musician, and a dancer. Her work, over years, is an intellectual exploration of sex work, social politics, and the experience of exotic dancing. Thank You for Supporting the Arts her film biography.
We live still in the Victorian age, in a puritan land, immersed in the media of beauty to sell soap. Our brains engage neuro-aesthetics formed from birth. In that neural wiring, emotion is entwined too. Viva Las Vegas is interested in how that all unwinds performing, and in individual personal conversations, in the club. The film is her explanation of how dancing is art within the circle.
PICA put together a fine exhibition of the history of sex work politics in Portland, the community of workers, and their artworks. https://www.pica.org/events/symposium-art-activism-publishing-sex-work. Oregon's famous First Amendment of the Constitution of 1857 is stricter than the federal one of 1787. In State v. Robertson, 1982, stripping moved into the circle of legal, from outside, not-legal, in Oregon. Now the line between art and not art is increasingly being discussed for the variety of sex work.
Film Thank You for Supporting the Arts https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/thank-you-for-supporting-the-arts/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM $10
Saturday, November 20, 2021
November 19-21 Seattle Butoh Festival
Butoh is a strange dance performance style. Up in Seattle they are having a 3 day festival of performance and workshops. One of the performers visiting is Vangaline from New York City. Her book offers a contextualization of the performance process in feminism and neuroscience. Events at https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/seattle-butoh-festival. Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S $20+
Saturday, November 13, 2021
November 13 Longest Dry Cleaning Origin
Yellena James has poppy paintings that may be sea life or land plants, Origin. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Free 1PM-6
Emmanuela Soria Ruiz opens The Longest Leg, video work. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 5PM-8 Free
The UK brings quartet Dry Cleaning to Portland. Their music video for Strong Feelings is great glitch video work, inspired by discrete cosine encoding errors, over their solid instrumental rhythms. Their breakout was Magic of Meghan an abstract reaction to royals Americans can never understand. Two of the members of the band are art professors, including the talk lyrics singer. At Vitalidad Movement Center 116 SE Yamhill Doors 8PM $25
Saturday, November 06, 2021
November 6 Softwood Landscapes, Water Murmurs, Bottoms Up Proximities
Three new shows take Adams and Ollman Gallery to mid-December when the pandemic should be over amiright?
Joy Feasley has Lysuslukker, abstract and impressionistic romantic landscapes, paintings and silk screen on photographs. Emma cc Cook has impressionistic black, grey and white landscape paintings of barns and billboards in the countryside of her base in Austin and around the Midwest and South. Vince Skelly has In Between, softwood sculptures.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Natalie Ball collaborates with artist Annelia Hillman in Water:NFS, themed on water problems in the Klamath Basin. The artists speak at 6. Lucy Cotter is a well known curator. This is her last show of her curatorial residency at Oregon Contemporary. It is Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive by Katarina Zdjelar of Serbia. She represented Serbia at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
At the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
A group show, Nobody's Fool, closes tonight. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate#2. 5PM-8 Free
Bottoms Up by Jeremy LeGrand, and Murmurs by Nathanael Moss, open. The works of each are colorful and graphic. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, November 04, 2021
November 4 Westside Art Openings
November First Thursday is much like October, few in person items.
Blue Sky is open in person. Likely Blackfish and PDX are open. Leach is live-streaming artist interviews.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
October 22 Mecanica Mechanics
Chris Chandler opens Art-Mecanica. He fits well in Portland's romance with art printmaking birthed by Gordon Gilkey, and the Portland letterpress crowd of the IRPC, the CC Stern Type Foundry and others. Chandler's method is to carve type into large woodblocks, print them, then deconstruct and collage the prints into the final piece. Chandler is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
October 20 Vampire Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) is a slow, surreal, vampire story of the Czech new wave, and based on an earlier Czech novel. It is an art film in monochrome. Akila Fields (Palm Dat) and Noah Bernstein play a live soundtrack. It is part of the Fin de Cinema series, always beautiful. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Proof of vaccination required. Doors 8PM, show 830. $10
Saturday, October 16, 2021
October 16 Transmitting Receiving Receiving Transmitting
Michelle Segre is a sculptor-installationist. She has a show, Transmitters and Receivers, opening at the Lumber Room today. A quick take is that her work is Miro-like, crossed with more organic forms than Sarah Sze. It is an interesting selection of a late career artist. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-6 Free
Friday, October 08, 2021
October 9-10 Here and Now
We are a little Covid late to this party, but a new artist group, showing in itinerant spaces, Playground, has an interesting group show, Here and Now.
You can see what they are up to with their list of artists: V Maldonado, MK Guth, Dylan Beck, Carl Diehl, Rachel Milstein, Rachel Rodriguez, Sarie Bettineski, Marty Trammell, Crimson Ravarra, Limei Lai, Taylor Evans, Sydney Kattine, Eli West, Shezuet Harger Miller, Subarna Talukder Bose, Julianna Paradisi, Lauren Sinner, Nathan Cooper, Justin Tuttle, Warren Simon, Autumn Cornell, Perry Chandler, Kevin Smith, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky, Tyler Young, Lynn Stephens Massey, and Yasmin Correa.
Several of their talks have passed, but this Saturday and Sunday, as the show is closing, has the following schedule of events:
Saturday:
2:30PM - Artist Talk - Tyler Young
3PM - Group portrait drawing - Taylor Evens
3:30PM - Live painting - Taylor Evens
Sunday:
2:30PM - Artist talk - Warren Simon
3:30PM - Live Music - Cortez Ravarra.
See Playground https://playgroundgallery.org 140 NW 4th 11AM-5PM Free
October 9 Travels
The Seattle Asian Art museum is guesting a favorite travel writer, Colin Thubron. I've been fortunate to travel unusual places. I enjoy the great writers on the exerience. We have synapses and neurotransmitters for travel. Thuberon makes full use of those, relating research, amid observations, and wraps it up with a touching emotional experience. His latest work is The Amur River: Between Russia and China on which he speaks. You can join by https://seattleartmuseum.org/visit/calendar/events?EventId=78631 10AM-11:30 Free
Thursday, October 07, 2021
October 7 Westside Art Openings
Mapping Utopia by Manal Abu-Shaheen’s are photographs exposed in Beirut, Lebanon. He was born in 1982. The civil war slightly overlapped. Most of the work is urban photography with an ironic and surreal bent admixed with The Yale School.
Noelle Mason has X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility. We each have eyes and a gaze. Technical means such as night vision, radar, and infrared sensors are available and they are used to surveil the US border with Mexico. Mason has sampled and recontextualized images from the the US Border Patrol and border vigilantes. She has also commissioned a carpet hand woven in Mexico from a satellite image. Her work was selected by the Critical Mass competition. This show is strongly recommended. Check the video of her gallery talk as available.
Artist talk 5PM tonight by Noelle Mason. Saturday 11AM by Manal Abu-Shaheen. Registration for the artist talks is required to limit safe attendance. Proof of vaccination required. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th early close 6PM-8 Free
Michael Brophy has Passage, NW landscape paintings inspired by road trips. Audrey Tulimiero Welch has Damascus: Mapping Place, Home, & Exile, abstract paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5:30PM-7 Free
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is doing their opening of Stephen Hayes and Gregg Renfrow on Youtube and Facebook live. Details on thir website. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Free
As far as we can tell, the other usual suspects have continuing shows and/or are open regular hours or by appointment, but not First Thursday evening in Covid time.
Michael Brophy has Passage, NW landscape paintings inspired by road trips. Audrey Tulimiero Welch has Damascus: Mapping Place, Home, & Exile, abstract paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5:30PM-7 Free
Everett Lofts has one opening on a spooky theme tonight at the Chaos Gallery. 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-10 Free
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is doing their opening of Stephen Hayes and Gregg Renfrow on Youtube and Facebook live. Details on thir website. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Free
As far as we can tell, the other usual suspects have continuing shows and/or are open regular hours or by appointment, but not First Thursday evening in Covid time.
Saturday, October 02, 2021
October 2 Salt Flood Spooky Lavender
Salt - A Story of the Land & Landscape is a show of aerial photographs by Sandra Chandler of salt evaporation ponds at the edges of the San Francisco Bay. You can get an idea at https://www.salt.photography/gallery/. At the Murdoch Collections 2219 NW Raleigh 3PM-7 Free
Lavender House is a video work at Oregon Contemporary by Sarah Rara themed on the vicissitudes of the landlord-tenant relationship. It is even humorous. The artist, and the curator Asha Bukojemsky, formerly of Portland, and now working in LA, speak at 5:30PM At the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Maria Lux has Waiting for the Flood, photographs. She wins the copyright award for "Continuing Lux’s recent work on de-extinction (bringing extinct animals back from the dead), Waiting for the Flood asks how alternative stories, emotions like humor and weirdness, and irreverent approaches to mainstream environmentalism can help us cope with, and perhaps reimagine, what appears to be inevitable."
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate#2. 6PM-9 FreeSpooky Season is a group show on that theme curated by Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, who had a recent excellent show at Chefas. Artists include Andrea Alonge, Paolo Puck, Sarah Hughes, Yaloo Ji Yeon, Pam Puck, Dan Lam. Anthony Roberto, Jenny Ollikainen, Jessie Weitzel Lagrand, Jeremy Legrand, and Alyson Provax. The closing show is October 30 with costumes encouraged. At Well Well Projects https://www.wellwellprojects.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
September 30, October 2, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26 Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7xJhImnLw has worked with large themes of family, the body, death, and the unconscious informed by memories of family problems and WWI from her childhood. This show is prints and collages, while two of her sculptures are on loan to Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta. Her parents were tapestry restorers, so you will find textile collage, and also a few spiders for which she was known.
The gallery has invited local artists to respond to her work. On October 12, 19, and 26, artists Srijon Chowdhury, Ellen Lesperance, and Jovencio de la Paz will speak at noon.
It is textile month for many Portland galleries, and there is a participatory weaving studio, good for you and children on Saturdays this month and to see the show. See the calendar and open times on their website.
At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway Free
Saturday, September 04, 2021
September 4 Masked
The Portland art world is going into Covid-Delta masked mode for good reason.
It is not our usual interest, but the Pearl District art stands are up this weekend. Blue Sky is open special hours and Converge 45 is on their published hours.
Mia Farrington and Nathan Paul Rice have openings today. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Free 1PM-6 Free masks and social distancing
Tips on Falling has activated. Ursa Nüffer-Rodriguez and Holly Haney has Tips on Them themed on their trans life. Right now, the dream of the Portland 90s is alive in self managed spaces and the LGBT+ community. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta/Oregon Contemporary has a closing tonight 5PM-8.
Saturday, August 07, 2021
August 8 Coming: Becoming, Be Here Now
Barry Johnson, from Federal Way, Washington, opens a show of portraits, Becoming.
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August 7 ¡Viva Vivas!
Joy Feasley, Lee M. Hale, Maya Vivas have a group show of abstract paintings, bronze sculptures of plant thorns, and abstract organic shape ceramic sculptures, respectively.
Late career artist Kinke Kooi from the Netherlands has The Grotesk of Raising. It's a mixture of abstract and surreal with a Miami nights palette and forms complementary to Vivas' work.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 11PM-2 Free
A Sometimes Gallery has a colorful show of primarily 2d work, Summer. At a Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook St. Ste C 4PM-8 Free masked and vaxed
Jessie Weitzel Le Grand has a strange and beautiful series of sculptures Limbo Lounge.
The work comes with the copyrighting award of the month, very Invisible Cities.
The works are the "peculiar creations by the citizens of Ny By. Imagined as a potential afterlife or alternate dimension, Ny By is a place governed by rules unlike our own. Le Grand’s sculptures capture the objects and arrangements its citizens celebrate. Each artifact reveals more about this constructed reality you may never see yourself.
Ny By is a town. Not a town of this world, but another. In Ny By, citizens worship blossoms and sandwiches. They pull threads from the soil and collect geodes on the shore. Life here is a mystery. There is no language, no laws, and no existential crises. Each life form is unique, funny, and content."
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Free 1PM-6 Free masks and social distancing
The Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, nee Disjecta, has a closing reception. It is the show Time Being, curated by Blake Shell, and well worth seeing if you have not yet. It includes ceramic sculptures by Maya Vivas, cofounder of Ori Gallery. It is Maya Vivas month with work at A+O, Eutectic, the Fourteen30 house show in Aurora, and here.
At 8pm, Maya Vivas will perform A Comlicated Remedy to my Soft Hands.
The adjacent galleries, always recommended, Carnation Contemporary and Well Well are open too.
At the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, August 05, 2021
August 5 Westside Art Openings
We thought being vaccinated everything would be back to normal in person. But some galleries are still virtual or require masks.
Blue Sky has a survey of the Ingeborg Gerdes. She was a German American photographer making landscape and streetscape work in the Western US.
Enfant Terrible Bill Will is back in the Nine space, aways recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-8 Free
The Stumptown Fellowship is back with paintings by Michelle Ramin in her series Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. It's oils, loosely themed on the trauma of our BLM realizations, climate, and pandemic. I predict as we process our reckoning, an accompanying exploration of our experience with first arrivers will emerge.At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Galleries often observe the dog days of August and mount group shows. It is unknown which are open tonight. PDX Contemporary has Walking, Augen has a group show and Froelick has a group show.
Blue Sky has a survey of the Ingeborg Gerdes. She was a German American photographer making landscape and streetscape work in the Western US.
Enfant Terrible Bill Will is back in the Nine space, aways recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-8 Free
The Stumptown Fellowship is back with paintings by Michelle Ramin in her series Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. It's oils, loosely themed on the trauma of our BLM realizations, climate, and pandemic. I predict as we process our reckoning, an accompanying exploration of our experience with first arrivers will emerge.
Monuments and Memorials by Dinh Q. Lê opens tonight at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê's approach of weaving two photographs never tires. This show mixes samples of Cambodia. It is visually pleasing, but heavy matters hide in it. Lonnie Holley has The Influence of Images there too. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map As far as we can tell, they are doing a YouTube opening only at 6.
Saturday, July 17, 2021
July 18 Waking Walking Mountains
1122 has new digs for their outdoor gallery, including a scrubbed out chicken coup. They are hosting an ambitious show of ceramics and 2d work, Walking Mountains by Erika Rier. As part of the show they are having a paint your own mountain workshop at 1PM, followed by a poetry reading by Allison Cobb, Yukiyo Kawano, Endi Bogue Hartigan, and Jesse Morse at 4. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 1PM-6 Poetry reading is Free.
July 17 Resound Birdcalls
Our beloved eatery Güero Tortas has a side project they love, watchng birds. They have formed it into a birdwatching club meeting weekly. They have an arty membership package too. This afternoon, they meet at the bar for a social. All the information is on their socials and website. Güero Burd Club www.guerotortas.com/birdclub in the club at 200 NE 28th 4PM-6 Meet and Join
Resound by Angélica Maria Millán Lozano and Frankie Krupa Vahdani opens with a reception today. It is mixed media work and a much more eloquent explanation is on the gallery website. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 5PM-8 Free
Resound by Angélica Maria Millán Lozano and Frankie Krupa Vahdani opens with a reception today. It is mixed media work and a much more eloquent explanation is on the gallery website. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, July 11, 2021
July 11 5th Dimensional Cookbook
Artist Susan Cianciolo, @5th_dimensional_plain_, brings an exhibition and a book to Portland. The artist has a long established body of work parallel to Portland's conceptual and social practice craft vectors. Her projects have included fashion, social practice embodied by sewing circles, film, and collaborations with her 11 year old. She is a visual artist too, with collage and loose expressive 2d work informed by her early career as a fashion illustrator. The Lumber Room site has a well written capsule on the artist and a catalog of works: lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2021/susan-cianciolo. An artist book, This Cookbook is Made For the 5th Dimension, was commissioned for the show. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-5 Free
Saturday, July 10, 2021
July Covid Catchup
A long time ago, I worked in a federal water polution virology research laboratory for the Summer. I learned about viruses, micoplasmas, cell lines, logrithmic titrations, nanopore filters, and sewage in rivers. The most important thing I learned was the inevitability of zoonotic pandemics that would make a dent in the human population. Covid is making a dent, but there are certainly viruses with higher fatality rates, known viruses, and viruses yet to evolve. Viruses are the perfect example of Dawkins' Selfish Gene. We live in the biosphere and we are not immune from it.
I think the human response has been quite good; of course there is room for improvement! We were accidentially lucky that the Bedford Lab and the Seattle Flu Study quickly isolated and sequenced the virus. We were lucky Moderna was already far down the road on mRNA vaccine development. There has been a great outpouring of compassion throughout the world. And the vaccine development was unprecedented.
As for the theories around the Wuhan Lab, it does not matter, because there will always be another zoonotic pandemic in the future.
Now is the time to resume in-person life with the learning we have gained.
Gellery Fourteen30 Contemporary has curated an outstanding show in an outstanding space, Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart. It is in a private residence in Aurora and viewable by appointment. The artists are Joanna Bloom, Iván Carmona, Melanie Flood, John Houck, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Rainen Knecht, Chris Johanson, Elizabeth Malaska, Lynne Woods Turner and Maya Vivas. It is a collaboration with NO ARCHITECTURE, who designed and built the Courtyard House and surrounding garden. By Fourteen30 Contemporary, the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com Private visit reservations June 12 – August 15 are available by emailing info@fourteen30.com
In a Landscape piano recitals have resumed. Principal Hunter Noack brings a full size grand piano, and guest artists, to parks and gardens throughout the region. The season runs from June 17 to September 11. Advance tickets are required, the concerts use "silent disco" wireless headphones, and their number is limited. Bring a blanket or sand chairs, or wander as you like throughout the concert. The dates and tickets are listed at www.inalandscape.org/ and many of the events are free or by donation.
We can't catch up every gallery show that has reopened for normal visits. But the new show at Oregon Contemporary - Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, nee Disjecta, is worth a visit. Borrowing some Louise Bourgeois sculptures is a mark of their new ardor. While you are there, you can buy an open edition print by Portland's Arvie Smith for a bargain price of $25. In the same building, Well Well Projects has an ambitious show by Hyun Jung Jung.
I think the human response has been quite good; of course there is room for improvement! We were accidentially lucky that the Bedford Lab and the Seattle Flu Study quickly isolated and sequenced the virus. We were lucky Moderna was already far down the road on mRNA vaccine development. There has been a great outpouring of compassion throughout the world. And the vaccine development was unprecedented.
As for the theories around the Wuhan Lab, it does not matter, because there will always be another zoonotic pandemic in the future.
Now is the time to resume in-person life with the learning we have gained.
Gellery Fourteen30 Contemporary has curated an outstanding show in an outstanding space, Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart. It is in a private residence in Aurora and viewable by appointment. The artists are Joanna Bloom, Iván Carmona, Melanie Flood, John Houck, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Rainen Knecht, Chris Johanson, Elizabeth Malaska, Lynne Woods Turner and Maya Vivas. It is a collaboration with NO ARCHITECTURE, who designed and built the Courtyard House and surrounding garden. By Fourteen30 Contemporary, the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com Private visit reservations June 12 – August 15 are available by emailing info@fourteen30.com
In a Landscape piano recitals have resumed. Principal Hunter Noack brings a full size grand piano, and guest artists, to parks and gardens throughout the region. The season runs from June 17 to September 11. Advance tickets are required, the concerts use "silent disco" wireless headphones, and their number is limited. Bring a blanket or sand chairs, or wander as you like throughout the concert. The dates and tickets are listed at www.inalandscape.org/ and many of the events are free or by donation.
We can't catch up every gallery show that has reopened for normal visits. But the new show at Oregon Contemporary - Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, nee Disjecta, is worth a visit. Borrowing some Louise Bourgeois sculptures is a mark of their new ardor. While you are there, you can buy an open edition print by Portland's Arvie Smith for a bargain price of $25. In the same building, Well Well Projects has an ambitious show by Hyun Jung Jung.
Friday, July 24, 2020
July 24 Open Signal Live Interweb
Open Signal is Portland's public open source video stream.
The strength of Open Signal is their maker community, professional facilities, and their early embrace of diverse voices and engaging youth. For instance, they have a black filmmaker program and have built great content through that.
It was birthed in the "cable access" era, pre-low cost/no cost ad-supported and selling private data-supported, open source Internet video outlets like YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, and a hundred others.
But it was only available for individuals with cable.
Now they have watch.opensignalpdx.org in beta.
The strength of Open Signal is their maker community, professional facilities, and their early embrace of diverse voices and engaging youth. For instance, they have a black filmmaker program and have built great content through that.
It was birthed in the "cable access" era, pre-low cost/no cost ad-supported and selling private data-supported, open source Internet video outlets like YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, and a hundred others.
But it was only available for individuals with cable.
Now they have watch.opensignalpdx.org in beta.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
July 21 Film 13th and Benefit Concert Stream
The Mobile Projection Unit has turned their illuminating power projector to Black Lives Matter projects in Portland. One is tonight at 12th and SE Stark. Check their insta. Program 8PM, film 9:30. Free
The Boedecker Foundation is hosting an online streaming concert "Show Up" of youth musicians organized by youth musicians. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Portland's Don't Shoot PDX justice project. The Bodecker Foundation will also be matching all ticket and tip jar proceeds up to $5,000. 7PM $5 on up. Tickets at the local virtual venue https://noonchorus.com/bodeckerfound/
The Boedecker Foundation is hosting an online streaming concert "Show Up" of youth musicians organized by youth musicians. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Portland's Don't Shoot PDX justice project. The Bodecker Foundation will also be matching all ticket and tip jar proceeds up to $5,000. 7PM $5 on up. Tickets at the local virtual venue https://noonchorus.com/bodeckerfound/
Thursday, July 16, 2020
July 16 Yale Union - YU Transitions to Native Art Center
We love YU for their programming, the studios and small businesses they host, and their basement. This transition creates a new arts opportunity for Portland. Here is their press release:
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) and Yale Union (YU) are proud to announce the transfer of ownership of the land and historic Yale Union building at 800 SE 10th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, from YU to NACF.
“Together, the NACF board and staff believe that this free land and building transfer will set an example for recognizing the value of Native ownership of property in urban areas across the nation,” says NACF President/CEO Lulani Arquette. “It’s liberating and encouraging to witness this kind of support for First Peoples of this country. The potential for local community and national partnerships around shared interests through Indigenous arts and cultures is wide open. We are deeply grateful for this transformative opportunity afforded NACF by YU board and staff, and stand united with all to reclaim Native truth, engage anti-racism, and address important issues we face today.”
NACF is a Native-led national organization committed to mobilizing Native artists, culture bearers, communities, and leaders to influence positive social, cultural, and environmental change. As such, it focuses on strengthening Native arts, providing artists and the creative community with the resources and tools they need to be successful, and expanding awareness and access to Native knowledge and truth. NACF is accepting this special property with great appreciation for what came before. We honor and respect the elders past and present, and acknowledge the land that this building sits on and the previous Native tribes and peoples who inhabited the land.
“I am proud of what we have accomplished with Yale Union over the last decade. Having been able to fulfill our mission through the unearned privilege of property ownership, it’s now time that we hand over the keys!” says Flint Jamison, President, Board of Directors of Yale Union. “I am inspired by NACF’s leadership, unwavering commitment to their mission, and capacity to operate on a large scale. I am eager to listen and learn from them as they use the land and historic building to fulfill their vision.”
The new national headquarters for NACF will be called the Center for Native Arts and Cultures, and the property will continue to be a site of contemporary artistic and cultural production. The building will benefit the local community and be a strong cultural asset for the city of Portland. NACF has just completed a planning process that determines its national programming and includes a vision for how it plans to maximize opportunities in the new space. The building will be a vibrant gathering place for Indigenous artists and local partnerships. It will provide space to present and exhibit, places to practice culture and make art, and areas for cultural ceremony and celebration. There will be opportunities for broad community learning, including workshops and seminars covering pertinent issues relative to decolonizing space, anti-racism, and environmental justice.
The process to transfer Yale Union’s historic property to NACF began in mid-2018 with discussions between YU’s then Executive Director, Yoko Ott, and YU’s Board President, Flint Jamison, regarding art institutions’ potential for proposing models of restorative social change. Ms. Ott then made initial contact with NACF’s President/CEO, Lulani Arquette, which led to NACF conducting a thorough feasibility study. In December 2019, NACF’s Board of Directors approved to move forward with taking ownership of the property. Both NACF and YU would like to acknowledge Ms. Ott’s vision and leadership in initiating this transfer of ownership.
YALE UNION BACKGROUND
Since opening to the public in 2010, Yale Union has presented the work of hundreds of artists through the labor of its dedicated board and staff, and the incalculable support of its donors, volunteers, colleagues, and friends. It has created and fostered a cultural community by hosting countless events, providing subsidized studio space to dozens of local artists, and facilitated numerous community programs. It has preserved its historic building and used its 9,400 square-foot exhibition space to present the work of internationally-recognized and under-represented artists in Portland. Through its publishing imprint, YU has published ten books, and it has housed a unique and publicly accessible art library.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale Union has suspended in-person events for 2020, but it will collaborate with NACF to co-present artistic programming in 2021. Later that year, Yale Union will dissolve its nonprofit. The property transfer to NACF will serve as a natural culmination of Yale Union’s decade-long mission to support artists, propose new modes of production, and stimulate an ongoing public discourse around art. Yale Union’s board and staff sincerely thank all of those who helped in achieving its mission and building a community of artists around the Yale Union building and beyond.
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) and Yale Union (YU) are proud to announce the transfer of ownership of the land and historic Yale Union building at 800 SE 10th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, from YU to NACF.
“Together, the NACF board and staff believe that this free land and building transfer will set an example for recognizing the value of Native ownership of property in urban areas across the nation,” says NACF President/CEO Lulani Arquette. “It’s liberating and encouraging to witness this kind of support for First Peoples of this country. The potential for local community and national partnerships around shared interests through Indigenous arts and cultures is wide open. We are deeply grateful for this transformative opportunity afforded NACF by YU board and staff, and stand united with all to reclaim Native truth, engage anti-racism, and address important issues we face today.”
NACF is a Native-led national organization committed to mobilizing Native artists, culture bearers, communities, and leaders to influence positive social, cultural, and environmental change. As such, it focuses on strengthening Native arts, providing artists and the creative community with the resources and tools they need to be successful, and expanding awareness and access to Native knowledge and truth. NACF is accepting this special property with great appreciation for what came before. We honor and respect the elders past and present, and acknowledge the land that this building sits on and the previous Native tribes and peoples who inhabited the land.
“I am proud of what we have accomplished with Yale Union over the last decade. Having been able to fulfill our mission through the unearned privilege of property ownership, it’s now time that we hand over the keys!” says Flint Jamison, President, Board of Directors of Yale Union. “I am inspired by NACF’s leadership, unwavering commitment to their mission, and capacity to operate on a large scale. I am eager to listen and learn from them as they use the land and historic building to fulfill their vision.”
The new national headquarters for NACF will be called the Center for Native Arts and Cultures, and the property will continue to be a site of contemporary artistic and cultural production. The building will benefit the local community and be a strong cultural asset for the city of Portland. NACF has just completed a planning process that determines its national programming and includes a vision for how it plans to maximize opportunities in the new space. The building will be a vibrant gathering place for Indigenous artists and local partnerships. It will provide space to present and exhibit, places to practice culture and make art, and areas for cultural ceremony and celebration. There will be opportunities for broad community learning, including workshops and seminars covering pertinent issues relative to decolonizing space, anti-racism, and environmental justice.
The process to transfer Yale Union’s historic property to NACF began in mid-2018 with discussions between YU’s then Executive Director, Yoko Ott, and YU’s Board President, Flint Jamison, regarding art institutions’ potential for proposing models of restorative social change. Ms. Ott then made initial contact with NACF’s President/CEO, Lulani Arquette, which led to NACF conducting a thorough feasibility study. In December 2019, NACF’s Board of Directors approved to move forward with taking ownership of the property. Both NACF and YU would like to acknowledge Ms. Ott’s vision and leadership in initiating this transfer of ownership.
YALE UNION BACKGROUND
Since opening to the public in 2010, Yale Union has presented the work of hundreds of artists through the labor of its dedicated board and staff, and the incalculable support of its donors, volunteers, colleagues, and friends. It has created and fostered a cultural community by hosting countless events, providing subsidized studio space to dozens of local artists, and facilitated numerous community programs. It has preserved its historic building and used its 9,400 square-foot exhibition space to present the work of internationally-recognized and under-represented artists in Portland. Through its publishing imprint, YU has published ten books, and it has housed a unique and publicly accessible art library.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale Union has suspended in-person events for 2020, but it will collaborate with NACF to co-present artistic programming in 2021. Later that year, Yale Union will dissolve its nonprofit. The property transfer to NACF will serve as a natural culmination of Yale Union’s decade-long mission to support artists, propose new modes of production, and stimulate an ongoing public discourse around art. Yale Union’s board and staff sincerely thank all of those who helped in achieving its mission and building a community of artists around the Yale Union building and beyond.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
March 15 Ost+
Hope everyone is well, and stays well!
Portlandorusnow focuses on in-person events: openings, closings, and occasional performances. Organizers and venues are suspending many to most; attendee-participants are opting out. Some galleries post most of the show online, so that is one way to experience them.
Variform postponed the musical event this evening.
Pianist and electronic musician Carly Barton releases an art book, OST, of her piano scores printed on the Risograph. She will perform and drop a very limited number of digital recordings on USB memories.
You can put a listen to her work at https://carlybarton.bandcamp.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/carl-420. She is an active remixer, including remixing anime soundtracks.
Portland-originated photo collective Lightleak had a group show scheduled at UofP today, but events there are shut. None the less, you can see the group online individually at http://www.lightleak.org/.
A great project out of Portland is Bedstock. Musicians perform in bed and the videos are online. It's a project of MyMusicRX who bring instruments into Childrens' hospitals. So if the kids are at home, it's a watch. It is https://mymusicrx.org/listen/
Portlandorusnow focuses on in-person events: openings, closings, and occasional performances. Organizers and venues are suspending many to most; attendee-participants are opting out. Some galleries post most of the show online, so that is one way to experience them.
Variform postponed the musical event this evening.
Pianist and electronic musician Carly Barton releases an art book, OST, of her piano scores printed on the Risograph. She will perform and drop a very limited number of digital recordings on USB memories.
You can put a listen to her work at https://carlybarton.bandcamp.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/carl-420. She is an active remixer, including remixing anime soundtracks.
Portland-originated photo collective Lightleak had a group show scheduled at UofP today, but events there are shut. None the less, you can see the group online individually at http://www.lightleak.org/.
A great project out of Portland is Bedstock. Musicians perform in bed and the videos are online. It's a project of MyMusicRX who bring instruments into Childrens' hospitals. So if the kids are at home, it's a watch. It is https://mymusicrx.org/listen/
Friday, March 13, 2020
March 14 Saints
Ain’t No Saint: a story told through photography and design is a book release and visual show. It's by Anthony Taylor. It's actually a large space for a gallery, social distance-wise. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
6PM-10 Free
6PM-10 Free
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
March 13-14 Sou'wester Art Residency Fest
Spaceness is moved to another dimension, and we are missing it. Something like it, including one of the Spaceness curators, Julia Barbee, is the Sou'wester Arts Week. They have curated an interesting batch of goodies, with events concentrated on Friday dinnertime-evening and Saturday noon-evening. More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/arts-week/.
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park in 3728 J Place Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park in 3728 J Place Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
Saturday, March 07, 2020
March 7 Godzilla Ecology Award
Hardware synths are Godzilla-crushing Portland in a good way. There is a synth show today to touch and hear free. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. 11:30AM-5:30PM Free with RSVP on their website
A Black Art Ecology of Portland curated by Sharita Towne has a new instance along with the Mobile Projection Unit. 4-6 show, 4:30-6 talks, 6-8 projections outside. At 15 NE Hancock Free
Hallie Ford endowed an artist award. It's been selective and notable. Tonight Disjects reprises. Strongly recommended. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Michael Endo is a smart experimental artist. He's curated a show of smart experimental artists. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
A Black Art Ecology of Portland curated by Sharita Towne has a new instance along with the Mobile Projection Unit. 4-6 show, 4:30-6 talks, 6-8 projections outside. At 15 NE Hancock Free
Hallie Ford endowed an artist award. It's been selective and notable. Tonight Disjects reprises. Strongly recommended. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Michael Endo is a smart experimental artist. He's curated a show of smart experimental artists. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Thursday, March 05, 2020
March 5 Westside Art Openings+
What a lovely month.
Blue Sky has a survey of the late John Baldasari arranged before he was late. He was noted for promoting his students' careers.
Enfant Terrible Bill Will is back in the Nine space, aways recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-9 Free
Tom Prochoska is a longtime Portland artist. He does prints, but his forte is notably fuzzy portrait paintings, this show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Upfor has Daniel Duford, working on slavery and Arvie Smith on privilege. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Westside+ Ivy J Campbell, Rachel Avallone, Nadia F. Almond-Chaparas, Lourdes Carmen Gallo, and Alexandra Gómez open Hearth. It's at Womxn.house, in the old Dust to Dust space 3636 N Mississippi 7PM-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 is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
Blue Sky has a survey of the late John Baldasari arranged before he was late. He was noted for promoting his students' careers.
Enfant Terrible Bill Will is back in the Nine space, aways recommended.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-9 Free
Tom Prochoska is a longtime Portland artist. He does prints, but his forte is notably fuzzy portrait paintings, this show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Upfor has Daniel Duford, working on slavery and Arvie Smith on privilege. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Westside+ Ivy J Campbell, Rachel Avallone, Nadia F. Almond-Chaparas, Lourdes Carmen Gallo, and Alexandra Gómez open Hearth. It's at Womxn.house, in the old Dust to Dust space 3636 N Mississippi 7PM-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 is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020
February 29 Soft Resident Interaction Wave
Myles de Bastion brings act two of his Ikigai Machine Experience. It involves interaction, a score by the artist, and limited edition multichannel SubPacs. Because the SubPacs are limited in number, there are hourly sign up time slots you can find linked at the PICA website. At PICA, 15 NE Hancock 11AM-10PM $35
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 Maura GarcÃa, Lawrence, KS; Daniel Granias, Portland; Sabina Haque, Portland; Shin Yeon Jeon, Bend; Dan Lau, Queens; and Nitin Mukul, New York.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
Wave Contemporary has a show with Marcelo Fontana, Hannah Newman, Alan Page, Midgray Studio, and Murphy Welch. At Wave Contemporary 425 SE 3rd (Oak Street Building) 8PM-late $10
Alexis E. Mabry has Static Age, a soft sculpture. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 6PM-9 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 Maura GarcÃa, Lawrence, KS; Daniel Granias, Portland; Sabina Haque, Portland; Shin Yeon Jeon, Bend; Dan Lau, Queens; and Nitin Mukul, New York.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
Wave Contemporary has a show with Marcelo Fontana, Hannah Newman, Alan Page, Midgray Studio, and Murphy Welch. At Wave Contemporary 425 SE 3rd (Oak Street Building) 8PM-late $10
Alexis E. Mabry has Static Age, a soft sculpture. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 6PM-9 Free
Friday, February 28, 2020
February 28 Failing Into Paradise
The Forest For The Trees was created by Gage Hamilton and Matt Wagner. Tips on Failing is the clubhouse and organizing spot for FFTT paint and visiting artists each year. Tonight Hamilton brings his own art in show Remember Paradise. The TOF openings are recommended. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10 Free
7PM-10 Free
Thursday, February 27, 2020
February 27 Elephants in the Gallery
Sam Noel has fiber works, But How Does One Eat an Elephant, inspired by the body. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free
Saturday, February 22, 2020
February 22 Dialectic Parallel Memories
Lindsay August-Salazar from LA has New Dialectic Memories. She makes colorful abstract paintings by alternative brush methods. Colorful is what we need in Portland this time of year! Accompanying are animations by K-26. At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday (bell by door) 5PM-8 Free
Portland painter Mia Farrington has big abstracts, Parallels. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free
Portland painter Mia Farrington has big abstracts, Parallels. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, February 16, 2020
February 16 Bridge Border
Put your warmies on and enjoy some projection art tonight!
The Mobile Projection Unit presents Nacer by Juracán and Rubén GarcÃa Marrufo. It's a remix of border crossing material.
You can see it on the Eastbank Esplanade projected on the Burnside Bridge pier. 7PM-8:30 Free
The Mobile Projection Unit presents Nacer by Juracán and Rubén GarcÃa Marrufo. It's a remix of border crossing material.
You can see it on the Eastbank Esplanade projected on the Burnside Bridge pier. 7PM-8:30 Free
Saturday, February 15, 2020
February 15 Ase - The Thing You Live For
Year Of Ase 2020 is an about 6 week exhibition opening with a party this evening. Artists are Lisa Jarrett, Melanie Stevens, Emma Rust, Jainai Jeffries, Kenn Amethyst, Celeste Noche. Ase is the Yoruba word meaning conceiving the power to make things happen and produce change. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
Power In Numbers is a periodic show of post card size art. Each piece is $75 cheap! A portion of the proceeds is donated to a charity announced at the event, so buy early and often. It is an invitational with over 170 artists. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd 5PM-8 Free
Ikigai, from Japanese, is the thing you live for.
The Ikigai Machine: Sensory-Immersion Installation preview is a one night ticketed event and all the free tickets are sold. But don't worry, as the piece is completed, it will be at PICA and Open Signal.
Artist and principal at Cyma Space, Myles de Bastion, has created an immersive science fiction work about an inventor born into a world without sound. The artist is a deaf musician and Cyma is responsible for projects like Push Play and other sound interactive light sculptures that allow people to hear with their eyes. This project has some gifted collaborators.
Thanks to Bodecker Foundation for hosting Myles as a resident artist and for hosting this preview. At the Bodecker Foundation, 2360 NW Quimby 6PM-9 sold out
Power In Numbers is a periodic show of post card size art. Each piece is $75 cheap! A portion of the proceeds is donated to a charity announced at the event, so buy early and often. It is an invitational with over 170 artists. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd 5PM-8 Free
Ikigai, from Japanese, is the thing you live for.
The Ikigai Machine: Sensory-Immersion Installation preview is a one night ticketed event and all the free tickets are sold. But don't worry, as the piece is completed, it will be at PICA and Open Signal.
Artist and principal at Cyma Space, Myles de Bastion, has created an immersive science fiction work about an inventor born into a world without sound. The artist is a deaf musician and Cyma is responsible for projects like Push Play and other sound interactive light sculptures that allow people to hear with their eyes. This project has some gifted collaborators.
Thanks to Bodecker Foundation for hosting Myles as a resident artist and for hosting this preview. At the Bodecker Foundation, 2360 NW Quimby 6PM-9 sold out
Saturday, February 08, 2020
February 8 Sweet Situ
Amy Ruppel has In Situ: Refigia, illustrations of glaciers, icebergs, whales, and land animals. It has to do with small reservoirs of life that outwit ice ages. At Land Gallery 3925 N Mississippi 3PM-5 Free
The PSU Hip Hop Club n the Morpheus Youth Project hosts the Sweet 16 qualifier that rolls up to Seattle. It's got a 1 on 1 open - you; and a 1 on 1 invite. Invited is Motorman, the returning champion, JuanHunnid, Detailz, Bulletz, Jrip, Rona,Token, n Digz. Judgez are Tim Chips (Fraggle Rock) Seattle, One8Kevin (Moon Patrol Crew) Portland, n Kilam Fresh (Portland City Rockers) Portland. MC is Merk (New Birth Crew) n DJ is Magicsean (Raw Mindz.) At the PSU Native American Student and Community Center 3PM-9 Free
The PSU Hip Hop Club n the Morpheus Youth Project hosts the Sweet 16 qualifier that rolls up to Seattle. It's got a 1 on 1 open - you; and a 1 on 1 invite. Invited is Motorman, the returning champion, JuanHunnid, Detailz, Bulletz, Jrip, Rona,Token, n Digz. Judgez are Tim Chips (Fraggle Rock) Seattle, One8Kevin (Moon Patrol Crew) Portland, n Kilam Fresh (Portland City Rockers) Portland. MC is Merk (New Birth Crew) n DJ is Magicsean (Raw Mindz.) At the PSU Native American Student and Community Center 3PM-9 Free
Friday, February 07, 2020
February 7 Eastside Art Openings
Probably missing some, but the Winter Light Festival tonight and tomorrow is the star.
Multiartist Chas Bear opens Corporate Solutions, colorful blob paintings. He is known for murals, music, clothing and graphic design. At Fisk Gallery 3613 MLK 7PM-10 Free
Vintage Vandals is a new show by Haley Dixon, Courtney Hiersche, and Tyler Spencer. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free
Someday This Will All Be Gone is Mike Vos' interpretation of a world without humans using double exposures of postindustrial landscapes. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Jerilyn Verdin, Margaret Bohls, and Lisa Conway Have Across the Divide. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9
Multiartist Chas Bear opens Corporate Solutions, colorful blob paintings. He is known for murals, music, clothing and graphic design. At Fisk Gallery 3613 MLK 7PM-10 Free
Vintage Vandals is a new show by Haley Dixon, Courtney Hiersche, and Tyler Spencer. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free
Someday This Will All Be Gone is Mike Vos' interpretation of a world without humans using double exposures of postindustrial landscapes. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Jerilyn Verdin, Margaret Bohls, and Lisa Conway Have Across the Divide. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
February 6 Westside Art Openings
Marlon Mullen is an intellectually disabled artist with bright paintings. Many reference art world magazine covers. He developed his works at Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development, Richmond, California; a program similar to Portland's original Project Grow and Oakland's Creative Growth. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th early close 5PM-7:30 Free
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, though trained in art, produced work that today would be considered outsider. He was an architect too, with work that today would on the cusp of postmodern and deconstructionism. His buildings have been compared to Gaudi's baroque sculpture buildings, but I think he is more connected to Venturi, Brown, and Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas' "decorated shed." He was an environmental activist as well. Some of his prints will be on show, along with Tallmadge Doyle. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Adam Sorenson has paintings Skeleton. He makes luminous impressionistic landscapes, what water flowing over rock in the Northwest could be as a rainbow. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Dana Lynn Louis opens a show of new work, Weave. She is known for her sculptural installations, including those in the four story inside light courts of City Hall, and her social practice project to make ceramics in the homeless community. There is survey show of work by Jay Backstrand, a PNCA-minted Portland artist who cofounded PCVA with Mel Katz and Michele Russo. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free
The Quiet Show includes Judy Cooke, Russell Crotty, Richard Gruetter, Ann Hamilton, Jessie Henson, John Houck, Isaac Layman, Sol LeWitt, Emilio Lobato, Julia Mangold, Helen Mirra, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Joseph Park, Gregg Renfrow, Edda Renouf, Robert Ryman, Kate Shepherd, Joan Waltemath. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Sara Bennett has The Bedroom Project. They are portraits of women at home after long prison sentences. Natan Dvir has Platforms made in the NY subway, illustrating the personal spaces within the shared space. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
C3:initiative releases Class Set 4. They are contemporary political posters, printed on the Risograph. The designs are by Tannaz Farsi, Anna Fidler, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Nina Montenegro, Dylan Muldrew, Tara Murino-Brault, Ralph Pugay, and Samantha Wall, with an equal set of contributors of words. Jessalyn Aaland and Anne Greenwood Rioseco were the artist curators of this edition. The project has a prong helping students design their own posters. Poet Kim Stafford and there will be music by Zoo. This is a one night show. At c3:initiative www.c3initiative.org 412 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Froelick has a group show, worth a look to see the gallery's range. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Upfor and Holding continue shows.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8PM - 10:30ish, earlier in Winter 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
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, though trained in art, produced work that today would be considered outsider. He was an architect too, with work that today would on the cusp of postmodern and deconstructionism. His buildings have been compared to Gaudi's baroque sculpture buildings, but I think he is more connected to Venturi, Brown, and Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas' "decorated shed." He was an environmental activist as well. Some of his prints will be on show, along with Tallmadge Doyle. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Adam Sorenson has paintings Skeleton. He makes luminous impressionistic landscapes, what water flowing over rock in the Northwest could be as a rainbow. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Dana Lynn Louis opens a show of new work, Weave. She is known for her sculptural installations, including those in the four story inside light courts of City Hall, and her social practice project to make ceramics in the homeless community. There is survey show of work by Jay Backstrand, a PNCA-minted Portland artist who cofounded PCVA with Mel Katz and Michele Russo. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free
The Quiet Show includes Judy Cooke, Russell Crotty, Richard Gruetter, Ann Hamilton, Jessie Henson, John Houck, Isaac Layman, Sol LeWitt, Emilio Lobato, Julia Mangold, Helen Mirra, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Joseph Park, Gregg Renfrow, Edda Renouf, Robert Ryman, Kate Shepherd, Joan Waltemath. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Sara Bennett has The Bedroom Project. They are portraits of women at home after long prison sentences. Natan Dvir has Platforms made in the NY subway, illustrating the personal spaces within the shared space. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
C3:initiative releases Class Set 4. They are contemporary political posters, printed on the Risograph. The designs are by Tannaz Farsi, Anna Fidler, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Nina Montenegro, Dylan Muldrew, Tara Murino-Brault, Ralph Pugay, and Samantha Wall, with an equal set of contributors of words. Jessalyn Aaland and Anne Greenwood Rioseco were the artist curators of this edition. The project has a prong helping students design their own posters. Poet Kim Stafford and there will be music by Zoo. This is a one night show. At c3:initiative www.c3initiative.org 412 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Froelick has a group show, worth a look to see the gallery's range. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Upfor and Holding continue shows.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8PM - 10:30ish, earlier in Winter 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
February 6, 7, 8 Light
The Portland Winter Light Festival is this Thursday, Friday and Saturday from dusk to 11, though many pieces will be on view all night, particularly those in businesses.
The event is concentrated at OMSI and the Portland General Electric offices-Salmon Springs Waterfront Park. Saturday Open Signal hosts Perception, a video projection evening.
There are talks, and an illuminated bike parade, perfect for children. Of course visitors are encouraged to illuminate themselves!
Best of all, it is all free!
The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com Various locations in central Portland 6PM-11 Free
The event is concentrated at OMSI and the Portland General Electric offices-Salmon Springs Waterfront Park. Saturday Open Signal hosts Perception, a video projection evening.
There are talks, and an illuminated bike parade, perfect for children. Of course visitors are encouraged to illuminate themselves!
Best of all, it is all free!
The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com Various locations in central Portland 6PM-11 Free
Saturday, February 01, 2020
February 2 for a year Future Voice
Futel are artist technologists who repurpose old pay phones into a free phone service and a host for social practice art projects.
HoldThePhone by artists Emily Fitzgerald, Molly Sherman, Machado Mijiga and Sailor Winkleman meditate on North and Northeast Portland cultural history. You can make regular old voice calls too. More at opensignalpdx.org/holdthephone2020 The future phone is installed on the side of Open Signal by the Graham door.
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. All hours Free
HoldThePhone by artists Emily Fitzgerald, Molly Sherman, Machado Mijiga and Sailor Winkleman meditate on North and Northeast Portland cultural history. You can make regular old voice calls too. More at opensignalpdx.org/holdthephone2020 The future phone is installed on the side of Open Signal by the Graham door.
At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. All hours Free
February 2 Yes Rainbow Prairie
Outsider artist Larry Yes is back with more words. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 3PM-6 Free
A new experimental pop space inspired with Portland weird opens. It's Rainbow City. Their RainbowCityFanClub socials have the deets. At Rainbow City 21 SE 11th (around the corner from Hippo Hardwire) 7PM-11 Free
More music, Future Prairie with Church of Film launches their first concert with live visuals, Channel One, this evening. Music by Jonathon Mooney, Casey Marx, Onry, Dashenka, Amenta Abioto, and a special guest; visuals by Church Of Film; projections by Sarah Sarah Turner Turner; installations by Cody Acevedo, Talia Gordon, and Clamber; poetry by Joni Renee Whitworth; and tea ceremony by Brianna Sas. Recommended. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-prairie-and-church-of-film-present-channel-one-tickets-87779457721. At the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7:30PM $10
A new experimental pop space inspired with Portland weird opens. It's Rainbow City. Their RainbowCityFanClub socials have the deets. At Rainbow City 21 SE 11th (around the corner from Hippo Hardwire) 7PM-11 Free
More music, Future Prairie with Church of Film launches their first concert with live visuals, Channel One, this evening. Music by Jonathon Mooney, Casey Marx, Onry, Dashenka, Amenta Abioto, and a special guest; visuals by Church Of Film; projections by Sarah Sarah Turner Turner; installations by Cody Acevedo, Talia Gordon, and Clamber; poetry by Joni Renee Whitworth; and tea ceremony by Brianna Sas. Recommended. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-prairie-and-church-of-film-present-channel-one-tickets-87779457721. At the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7:30PM $10
February 1 Unit Imbolic Tropical Hex Ritual
Caldera reads out its residencies over 3 months, usually at Camp Caldera. Today they are reading out their first batch at the Bend Public Library. They have a percussion group, Unit Souzou, performing and artists Intisar Abioto, Timme Zhiyun Lu, Tristan Irving, Theresia Munywoki and Emma Rust, all from Portland. Caldera at the downtown Bend public library, 601 NW Wall St, Bend, OR 12:30PM-3, performance 1 Free
Christine Miller and Brittany Vega have their show American Hex opening tonight. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free
Tropical Contemporary an arts collective from Eugene opens their show tonight. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Nierika is a show by Santuario Somático and Edgar Fabián FrÃas. They are also doing a workshop at C:3 Sunday. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
It's a musical event; the Imbolic Sleep Concert is a bring your own blanket sleepover tonight. Details on their Facebook. Pegasus Project is is having one of their last confabs at their space in Montavilla.
Christine Miller and Brittany Vega have their show American Hex opening tonight. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free
Tropical Contemporary an arts collective from Eugene opens their show tonight. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Nierika is a show by Santuario Somático and Edgar Fabián FrÃas. They are also doing a workshop at C:3 Sunday. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
It's a musical event; the Imbolic Sleep Concert is a bring your own blanket sleepover tonight. Details on their Facebook. Pegasus Project is is having one of their last confabs at their space in Montavilla.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
January 31 - February 29 African Films - Free
The Cascade Festival of African Films is a favorite event. Each year on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday for a month they show films from all over Africa.
Every single one of the films is free!
Most are shown on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. The opening night, Friday January 31, is at the Hollywood Theater, also free.
The PCC Library maintains a copy of all the films shown over 30 years for in-library viewing.
The 30th annual Cascade Festival of African Films www.africanfilmfestival.org at Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, 705 N Killingsworth; and the Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Check the schedule for times. Free
Every single one of the films is free!
Most are shown on the PCC Cascade Campus on N Killingsworth. The opening night, Friday January 31, is at the Hollywood Theater, also free.
The PCC Library maintains a copy of all the films shown over 30 years for in-library viewing.
The 30th annual Cascade Festival of African Films www.africanfilmfestival.org at Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, 705 N Killingsworth; and the Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Check the schedule for times. Free
January 30 Brink
Talon has Ascent, illustrations of endangered birds. Antler has Brink illustrations of endangered species. They are both large group shows and benefit the Portland Audubon. At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com 2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
January 23 Core Culture
Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva present Cores. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free
PSU's MFA Visiting Artists Series brings Guadalupe Maravilla to speak. His performances, videos, sculptures, and drawings fictionalize a pre-Columbian culture of Central America and his relationship to it. At PSU Shattuck Hall Annex. 7PM Free
PSU's MFA Visiting Artists Series brings Guadalupe Maravilla to speak. His performances, videos, sculptures, and drawings fictionalize a pre-Columbian culture of Central America and his relationship to it. At PSU Shattuck Hall Annex. 7PM Free
January 22 Out There
Vanessa Renwick has Out There, black prints on white of wolf-like creatures. She used a special watercolor-ink method to develop a beautiful rough texture. Renwick is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow, which this opening celebrates. Sam Coomes plays a live set. Strongly Recommended. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Friday, January 17, 2020
January 19 Private Movies
Private Places is one of Portland's most progressive galleries, curating in LA artists. LA has their own regional vibe and PP finds progressive work. In conjunction with their current Mark Flores and William E Jones show, Perverted by Language, they have some movies.
This afternoon the artists show Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie (1975) and Mario Banana, directed by Andy Warhol (1964) starring Mario Montez.
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday (bell by door) 3PM Free
This afternoon the artists show Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie (1975) and Mario Banana, directed by Andy Warhol (1964) starring Mario Montez.
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday (bell by door) 3PM Free
January 18 New Not No Flowers
Nationale opens in their new space today. It is a gallery, a home goods shop, and an art-design print store. Aruni Dharmakirthi brings No Flowers in Eden.
May has a solid and a highly respected curation history: represented artists, guest artists, the Stumptown 3rd space, and Stumptown Fellowship. Space highly recommended.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free
May has a solid and a highly respected curation history: represented artists, guest artists, the Stumptown 3rd space, and Stumptown Fellowship. Space highly recommended.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free
Thursday, January 09, 2020
January 9 Somatic Art Action
Somatic Verses is a show by Anne Fudyma and Joshua Sherburne, with a performance by Sherburne at 7. At the Erickson Gallery 9NW 2nd 6PM-8 Free
The Hank Willis Thomas show ends Sunday. It is well worth seeing and worth 2+ hours, more with the reading elements. This evening Kimberly Drew speaks on the intersection of photography, pop culture and social media in the artist's work, along with the history of photography in like work. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/lecture-kimberly-drew/ At the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 6PM Free (but sold out)
The Hank Willis Thomas show ends Sunday. It is well worth seeing and worth 2+ hours, more with the reading elements. This evening Kimberly Drew speaks on the intersection of photography, pop culture and social media in the artist's work, along with the history of photography in like work. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/lecture-kimberly-drew/ At the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 6PM Free (but sold out)
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
January 8 Future Filbert Prairie
We don't cover poetry, literary, theater, music, dance. Occasionally we catch one. Portland is in a Renaissance of LGBTPOC+ making their own creative ecosystem. Multiartist Joni Renee Whitworth presents their spoken work tonight. They are a principal of creative magnet Future Prairie Collective. At Literary Arts 925 SW Washington 7PM sharp Free
Saturday, January 04, 2020
January 4 Transitional Bachelorette Siren Myths
Johanna Jackson has Some Transitional Objects From My Extended Phenotype. Strongly recommended. It is along with Bachelorette, Milano Chow drawings. There is a musical performance by Shelley Short with Sunfoot at 7. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Iyvone Khoo and Pinar Yoldas have The Absence of Myth. Khoo is inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre. Yoldas explores designer babies enabled by genetic engineering. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Carolyn Ann Hopkins has Sirens. The description is better found on the gallery website and insta. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Iyvone Khoo and Pinar Yoldas have The Absence of Myth. Khoo is inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre. Yoldas explores designer babies enabled by genetic engineering. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Carolyn Ann Hopkins has Sirens. The description is better found on the gallery website and insta. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Friday, January 03, 2020
January 3 Eastside Art Openings+
Tonight's big + is in far Vancouver, Washington. Calico Randall, Hannah Piper Burns, Loulou Fernandez, Fernanda D’Agostino, Sarah Turner, Tara Murino Brault, and Vika Ayers, organized by Sandy Sampson, Helen Spencer-Wallace and Crystal Cortez, present Mass Residue. The far Tortugas may not be as far today, gentrification and all. At Art At The Cave, 108 Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver. 5PM-9 Free
Look into my Eyes by Sam Goreski and Thanks for the Feeling by Tara Johnson open at One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Our Bodies Are is group show by women artists contemplating the body. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Look into my Eyes by Sam Goreski and Thanks for the Feeling by Tara Johnson open at One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Our Bodies Are is group show by women artists contemplating the body. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, January 02, 2020
January 2 Westside Art Openings
At the Nine gallery, artist Lisa Jarrett has Shine. Recommended. Donna Gottschalk, is a self-taught photographer inspired by the work of Arbus. A feminist lesbian activist beginning in age 18, she began to photograph her world in 1970's New York, and continued it across the country into her 60's. The photographs became available from her archives in 2018, resulting in the show Brave, Beautiful Outlaws, first at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. The work now travels to Portland. Along with it is Kavanah by Hannah Altman: photographs abstractly inspired by the Jewish diaspora, memory, and narrative. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-9 Free
Many of the galleries have openings later in the month or group shows.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
Many of the galleries have openings later in the month or group shows.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019
December 22, 23, 24, 25 NTVTY X
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 X drops four nights. It is the 10th year artists have made their own version here. It's a multi-artist creative collaboration.
Come celebrate 10 years of NTVTY!
Hair & Space Museum + Sister Ashby perform Sunday; CK Numbskull & Jai Milx + Dramaturgy, Monday; Misty Mary + Tabor Dark, Tuesday; and Jen Tam's Mariah Carey Xmas + A.D.D.M. Wednesday.
This year, the time-space tunnel provides entry, an LED shrine to Mary occupies the center, and a 3d printer prints the Messiah. A VR experience of the xhurch is available along with some holographic plaques.
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9 Donations $5-10 encouraged
NTVTY X drops four nights. It is the 10th year artists have made their own version here. It's a multi-artist creative collaboration.
Come celebrate 10 years of NTVTY!
Hair & Space Museum + Sister Ashby perform Sunday; CK Numbskull & Jai Milx + Dramaturgy, Monday; Misty Mary + Tabor Dark, Tuesday; and Jen Tam's Mariah Carey Xmas + A.D.D.M. Wednesday.
This year, the time-space tunnel provides entry, an LED shrine to Mary occupies the center, and a 3d printer prints the Messiah. A VR experience of the xhurch is available along with some holographic plaques.
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-9 Donations $5-10 encouraged
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
December 17 Emotional Ingredients
Alfredo Jaar is an artist from Chile. He does socio-political work similar in some ways to Ai Weiwei.
My theory is that an artwork is made of ingredients: visual, conceptual as well as the title and artist statement. They combine to tell a story to the viewer. The entire and sole point of an artwork is to change the psychological state of the viewer. If not, why bother making it?
One description of Jaar's work is that he explores "public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines."
I believe it is a good thing to include emotional ingredients. They are a powerful ingredient. But they can overwealm the work, like the beauty of glass art. There, the material dominates the piece, and it is hard for the other ingredients to be perceived. Jaar works the edge with his emotional ingredients. I believe he sometimes goes over the edge in beating the viewer over the head with emotional ingredients. Part of that is Jaar is somewhat a minimalist. Ai WeiWei is a bit more maximalist and keeps his ingredients in subtle proportion. Maybe it a difference in cultures.
You can judge for yourself; Alfredo Jaar is a guest of Converge 45 in Portland tonight.
He speaks at PSU Lincoln Hall Room 75. The tickets are free, but they have all been reserved in advance. Alfredo Jaar at PSU Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Room 75 6:30PM Free
My theory is that an artwork is made of ingredients: visual, conceptual as well as the title and artist statement. They combine to tell a story to the viewer. The entire and sole point of an artwork is to change the psychological state of the viewer. If not, why bother making it?
One description of Jaar's work is that he explores "public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines."
I believe it is a good thing to include emotional ingredients. They are a powerful ingredient. But they can overwealm the work, like the beauty of glass art. There, the material dominates the piece, and it is hard for the other ingredients to be perceived. Jaar works the edge with his emotional ingredients. I believe he sometimes goes over the edge in beating the viewer over the head with emotional ingredients. Part of that is Jaar is somewhat a minimalist. Ai WeiWei is a bit more maximalist and keeps his ingredients in subtle proportion. Maybe it a difference in cultures.
You can judge for yourself; Alfredo Jaar is a guest of Converge 45 in Portland tonight.
He speaks at PSU Lincoln Hall Room 75. The tickets are free, but they have all been reserved in advance. Alfredo Jaar at PSU Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Room 75 6:30PM Free
Thursday, December 12, 2019
December 13 Many Worlds Leaving Time
The Mobile Projection Unit is occupying the Albina industrial district tonight. Artists Jaleesa Johnston and Megan McKissack will project Many Worlds. Check their FB for details. The Mobile Projection Unit at N Randolph & N River. 7PM-9 Free
Beam & Anchor hosts illustrator and portraitist Alexandra Becker-Black with Leaving Time. At Beam & Anchor 2710 N Interstate 6PM-10 Free
Beam & Anchor hosts illustrator and portraitist Alexandra Becker-Black with Leaving Time. At Beam & Anchor 2710 N Interstate 6PM-10 Free
Sunday, December 08, 2019
December 8 Gather: Make: Shelter
Gather: Make: Shelter is a social practice project organized by artist Dana Lynn Louis. It's all explained at www.gathermakeshelter.org/the-projectartist. Their big unveiling was in September. More bowls are on display and for sale today, and to the end of the month. At Cargo 81 SE Yamhill 3PM-6
Saturday, December 07, 2019
December 7 When it Rains it Pours
Tonight's special event is an open studios. Open studios at the Falcon Art Community 5415 N Albina 6PM-11 Free
2 Up and 2 Back is a retrospective of Portland painter and PNCA professor emeritus Arvie Smith. He paints colorful impressionistic portraits of the African American identity. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Moon Camara develops film from the world. Once a year they have a customer show from that. It's the best of the best from a large image flow. At 45th Parallel Wine Bar 8527 N Lombard. Show 7PM-9 dance 9PM-11 Free
On the Tip of My Tongue is a large group show guest curated by Katherine Spinella, PDX, and Kristin Hough, LA.The gallery website has a more eloquent description. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Laura Berge has Find Yourself Here. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free
2 Up and 2 Back is a retrospective of Portland painter and PNCA professor emeritus Arvie Smith. He paints colorful impressionistic portraits of the African American identity. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Moon Camara develops film from the world. Once a year they have a customer show from that. It's the best of the best from a large image flow. At 45th Parallel Wine Bar 8527 N Lombard. Show 7PM-9 dance 9PM-11 Free
On the Tip of My Tongue is a large group show guest curated by Katherine Spinella, PDX, and Kristin Hough, LA.The gallery website has a more eloquent description. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Laura Berge has Find Yourself Here. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free
Friday, December 06, 2019
December 6 Brown Space
Many of the Eastside spaces are open for group sales of small artist-made objects.
Shed.PDX is an altspace in a garage. It has grown out of the PSU Artists of Color Collective. Tonight Jordan Shelby has Brown Space. At Shed.PDX 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free
Shed.PDX is an altspace in a garage. It has grown out of the PSU Artists of Color Collective. Tonight Jordan Shelby has Brown Space. At Shed.PDX 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free
Thursday, December 05, 2019
December 5 Westside Art Openings+
Many galleries are continuing previous shows. More local galleries are in Miami this week, spreading the Portland love.
KSMOCA has an early event. Students have their work alongside the work of Hank Willis Thomas which inspired it. A second show is by local fabric-based artist Lauren Prado, curated by the students. More details on their Insta. Recommended. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th 10:30AM-11:30 Free
OCAC BFA-minted in 2015 Iván Carmona has bright bulbous minimal ceramic sculptures, Sublime. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau is an exploration of the people there and their stories as the region changes by Rachel Boillot. Umbral by Erika Morillo are her projections on her son's inner life. The Nine has Rachael Hibbard has an installation Flight - What Migratory Birds Show Us. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-9 Free
The PNCA MFA Applied Craft + Design has their mid-year readout tonight. The show, Can You Unpack That? will include activist and issue pieces. At the PNCA Eastside glass building, formerly Uroboros, 2139 N Kerby Map 9PM-midnight Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
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
KSMOCA has an early event. Students have their work alongside the work of Hank Willis Thomas which inspired it. A second show is by local fabric-based artist Lauren Prado, curated by the students. More details on their Insta. Recommended. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th 10:30AM-11:30 Free
OCAC BFA-minted in 2015 Iván Carmona has bright bulbous minimal ceramic sculptures, Sublime. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau is an exploration of the people there and their stories as the region changes by Rachel Boillot. Umbral by Erika Morillo are her projections on her son's inner life. The Nine has Rachael Hibbard has an installation Flight - What Migratory Birds Show Us. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-9 Free
The PNCA MFA Applied Craft + Design has their mid-year readout tonight. The show, Can You Unpack That? will include activist and issue pieces. At the PNCA Eastside glass building, formerly Uroboros, 2139 N Kerby Map 9PM-midnight Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8-9PM
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, November 28, 2019
November 29 Scope!
Last Thursday thins in cold and dark. But Antler and Talon have openings tonight. Antler has Neil M. Perry, Chris Austin, Ki Sung Koh and Calvin Ma, all with wildlife illustration. Talon has Teagan White and Jennifer Parks, with Susannah Kelly. Antler is bringing artists to Scope Miami, excellent! At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com 2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Nat Turner Project presents their first artists of the The Drinking Gourd fellowship. The Project is also a guest zine contributor at the well worth seeing Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… show at the Portland Art Museum. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
Nat Turner Project presents their first artists of the The Drinking Gourd fellowship. The Project is also a guest zine contributor at the well worth seeing Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… show at the Portland Art Museum. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free
Friday, November 22, 2019
November 22 X Squared
The Xhurch has musicians Keith Foster https://keithfoster.bandcamp.com/, Crystal Quartez https://crystalquartez.bandcamp.com/, Francisco Botello http://franciscobotello.com/, Winnie Black https://www.winnie.black/ and Flysch https://concretehorizon.bandcamp.com/. Visuals by Z. These events are always interesting and social. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-10:30 Donations to performers accepted
When we say truth is stranger than fiction, it is usually not a good thing. Local multi-artists Jacob and Arnold Pander are filmmakers, writers and graphic novelists. A few years ago, they wrote and illustrated Triple-X, about a cyberpunk Orwellian future. They have updated it and added to the story in Dissident-X. A longer interview about the motivation and the plot is at www.comicsbeat.com/interview-pander-brothers-dissident-x/. Tonight they drop the new edition at Bridge City Comics 3725 N Mississippi, 6PM-8 Free. After, they have DJ friends spinning music the characters in Dissident-X would listen to at the Mississippi Studios patio bar, 9PM-11 Free
When we say truth is stranger than fiction, it is usually not a good thing. Local multi-artists Jacob and Arnold Pander are filmmakers, writers and graphic novelists. A few years ago, they wrote and illustrated Triple-X, about a cyberpunk Orwellian future. They have updated it and added to the story in Dissident-X. A longer interview about the motivation and the plot is at www.comicsbeat.com/interview-pander-brothers-dissident-x/. Tonight they drop the new edition at Bridge City Comics 3725 N Mississippi, 6PM-8 Free. After, they have DJ friends spinning music the characters in Dissident-X would listen to at the Mississippi Studios patio bar, 9PM-11 Free
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
November 20 Bix
Emily Bixler has a new show as part of the Stumptown fellowship. She is principal at BOET and PNCA minted. Bixler is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow, which this opening celebrates. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Sunday, November 17, 2019
November 17 Insofar as I Knew
Jae Yeun Choi and Maysha Mohamedi have paintings and poetic words in Insofar as I Knew. 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
Friday, November 15, 2019
November 16 Developing Cuts
A Thousand Cuts, by by B. G-Osborne is a video installation we would like to see more of in galleries. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free
Rachel Rosenbaum has been developing photographs from her grandfather's negatives exposed in WWII. At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard, enter on N Kellogg 5PM-7 Free
Disjecta also has their annual fundraising auction tonight. Details on their website.
In Springfield, Oregon, Ditch Projects is holding a retrospective. They have had shows in Portland at Rock's Box and several of their artists are represented by Fourteen 30. It is https://ditchprojects.com/A-Good-Way-to-Invent-the-Future.
Rachel Rosenbaum has been developing photographs from her grandfather's negatives exposed in WWII. At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard, enter on N Kellogg 5PM-7 Free
Disjecta also has their annual fundraising auction tonight. Details on their website.
In Springfield, Oregon, Ditch Projects is holding a retrospective. They have had shows in Portland at Rock's Box and several of their artists are represented by Fourteen 30. It is https://ditchprojects.com/A-Good-Way-to-Invent-the-Future.
November 15 Animal Body
Sari Carel has The Coyote After-School Program. The gallery website has a description. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 6PM-8 Free
Amanda Triplett has Body Is, performance and installation. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free
Amanda Triplett has Body Is, performance and installation. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free
Friday, November 08, 2019
November 8 Salute Dust Sheep
Into Dust is a new show by longtime artist Corey Smith. PNCA-minted, his work is graphic and poppy; he is also a professional snowboarder and designer. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Black Sheep Collective presents their group show Curio. Artists include Olivia Pace, Cassandra, Vinh Pham, Tim Tran, Safiyah Maurice, Joe Connors, Kailea Figueroa, Christian Orellana-Bauer, Courtney Gallardo, Mason Mimi Yadira and Mui Easland. At the Erickson Gallery 9NW 2nd 6PM-8 Free
Salut! 4 is a huge show, 1000 pieces by over 100 artists, on small coasters, for sale cash/card and carry for $60 each. The Nucleus website has the list of artists, with their web/insta. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd 7PM-10 Free
Black Sheep Collective presents their group show Curio. Artists include Olivia Pace, Cassandra, Vinh Pham, Tim Tran, Safiyah Maurice, Joe Connors, Kailea Figueroa, Christian Orellana-Bauer, Courtney Gallardo, Mason Mimi Yadira and Mui Easland. At the Erickson Gallery 9NW 2nd 6PM-8 Free
Salut! 4 is a huge show, 1000 pieces by over 100 artists, on small coasters, for sale cash/card and carry for $60 each. The Nucleus website has the list of artists, with their web/insta. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, November 07, 2019
November 7 Westside Art Openings+
Hey November!
The PSU Schnitzer gallery opened earlier, and it is open tonight. Keep an eye on it.
Vanessa Renwick has Cold Holy Water, video in the Nine. Emma Kisiel, Jamila Clarke, Nolan Streitberger, Sam Wrigglesworth, and Troi Anderson as well as founders Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman, Robert DiFranco, and Terry Toedtemeier show at Blue Sky. Recommended. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Ellen Lesperance - Flowers Wrapped in Newspaper is here. The artist is epic, with a local gallery special to guest them. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Brenda Malory makes constructions. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Jess Perlitz has People Making People Sounds. She is a local performance artist to follow. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free
+Eastside Womxn House has taken the old Dust to Dust space. They have a large show Mirror. Emerging artists represent: Allison Jarman, Annie Dang, Beth Zimmerman, Brittany Wilder, Caitlyn Clester, Chloé Jarnac, Ellen Robinette, Jocelle Tade, Judith Sturdevant, Kelly Brand, Kelsey Hamilton Davis, Lauren Johnson, Lindsay Costello, Mary Snow
and Rachel Warkentin. At 3636 N Mississippi, the old Dust to Dust space. 7PM-9. Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
The PSU Schnitzer gallery opened earlier, and it is open tonight. Keep an eye on it.
Vanessa Renwick has Cold Holy Water, video in the Nine. Emma Kisiel, Jamila Clarke, Nolan Streitberger, Sam Wrigglesworth, and Troi Anderson as well as founders Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman, Robert DiFranco, and Terry Toedtemeier show at Blue Sky. Recommended. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Ellen Lesperance - Flowers Wrapped in Newspaper is here. The artist is epic, with a local gallery special to guest them. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Brenda Malory makes constructions. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Jess Perlitz has People Making People Sounds. She is a local performance artist to follow. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free
+Eastside Womxn House has taken the old Dust to Dust space. They have a large show Mirror. Emerging artists represent: Allison Jarman, Annie Dang, Beth Zimmerman, Brittany Wilder, Caitlyn Clester, Chloé Jarnac, Ellen Robinette, Jocelle Tade, Judith Sturdevant, Kelly Brand, Kelsey Hamilton Davis, Lauren Johnson, Lindsay Costello, Mary Snow
and Rachel Warkentin. At 3636 N Mississippi, the old Dust to Dust space. 7PM-9. Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
November 6 Outsider
Musician Sean Croghan is also a painter in the outsider art figurative genre. Further Stories of the Beforetime: Todd’s Bedroom & Beyond - Straight Outta Gresham is some of that work. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, November 02, 2019
November 2 Pop!
Faceland are cartoons on poppy backgrounds by Matt Bennett Laurents. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Earlier are closing events at Disjecta for the Biennial.
Earlier are closing events at Disjecta for the Biennial.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
October 28 - November 3 Raw Reality
Reed Arts Week is curated by students. It brings individual artist works, from campus, and from the world; and art talks. Having a budget allows it to do above average. And always an opportunity to experience the new edge. Some of the events are on the Reed Events web http://events.reed.edu/group/reed_arts_week, some are on the Reed Arts Week Facebook https://www.facebook.com/reedartsweek2019/, some are on the Inata https://www.instagram.com/reedartsweek/, TikTok, no idea. https://events.reed.edu/raw-2019 at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
Saturday, October 26, 2019
October 26 Butoh Pome
Natsu Nakajima is one of the first female butohs. Today she works with disabled individuals. She makes her second, and perhaps last, visit to Portland at age 76. Tonight she guests a discussion. At Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7PM $5-20
Jennifer Pons-Wilber reads poems alongside Todd Molinari‘s visual show: Trickster of the Dark God. The intent is to "open up a larger conversation of Jungian ideas of becoming, dreams, and moving through traumatic memories through artistic and alchemical processes." At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
Jennifer Pons-Wilber reads poems alongside Todd Molinari‘s visual show: Trickster of the Dark God. The intent is to "open up a larger conversation of Jungian ideas of becoming, dreams, and moving through traumatic memories through artistic and alchemical processes." At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free
Thursday, October 17, 2019
October 17-19 Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land
Butoh is an experimental modern dance style originating in Japan in 1959. Sankai Juku from Japan and France is responsible for exporting butoh to the world beginning in the early 1980s. Their style is one of the most refined and elegant - they are a great introduction to the genre. It is extremely rare for groups from Japan to tour the US. There are occasional events in Portland and Seattle by local or visiting solo performers.
Sankai Juku was founded in 1975 by Amagatsu, who cofounded Dairakudakan with Akaji Maro. Maro was an early friend and collaborator with butoh's originator, Hijikata. Video excerpts of all their performances are widely available on the Internet.
Amagatsu brought the first butoh to the West in 1980. In 1985, one of their dancers fell to their death in a public outdoor performance produced by a friend in Seattle. The group almost disbanded in grief. They did not. In turn, the Seattle audience and the performers have an emotional relationship that is palpable.
For three evenings Sankai Juku returns to Seattle, with Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land. The set resembles the sculptural relief backdrop of Shijima, updated to reference the sub-ocean deposits of fossils. The stage references the water of Unetsu.
Sankai Juku at the University of Washington World Series https://meanycenter.org/tickets/2019-10/production/sankai-juku Meany Hall UW Campus 8PM $61-69
Sankai Juku was founded in 1975 by Amagatsu, who cofounded Dairakudakan with Akaji Maro. Maro was an early friend and collaborator with butoh's originator, Hijikata. Video excerpts of all their performances are widely available on the Internet.
Amagatsu brought the first butoh to the West in 1980. In 1985, one of their dancers fell to their death in a public outdoor performance produced by a friend in Seattle. The group almost disbanded in grief. They did not. In turn, the Seattle audience and the performers have an emotional relationship that is palpable.
For three evenings Sankai Juku returns to Seattle, with Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land. The set resembles the sculptural relief backdrop of Shijima, updated to reference the sub-ocean deposits of fossils. The stage references the water of Unetsu.
Sankai Juku at the University of Washington World Series https://meanycenter.org/tickets/2019-10/production/sankai-juku Meany Hall UW Campus 8PM $61-69
Friday, October 11, 2019
October 11 Musics Failing
Chrispy Martin has a show. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
6PM-10 Free
There is recommended music at the boathouse too. At the Boathouse Experimental Music www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 8PM $6
6PM-10 Free
There is recommended music at the boathouse too. At the Boathouse Experimental Music www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River 8PM $6
Sunday, October 06, 2019
October 6 Puzzling Gestures
Maria Antelman and Jules Gimbrone open Incidental Gestures. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 1PM-3 Free
The Lumber Room has engaged a one year project, A Puzzling Light and Moving, with New Zealand artist Kate Newby. This is the final event in that project and the release of a catalog, Pocket Works. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-6 Free
The Lumber Room has engaged a one year project, A Puzzling Light and Moving, with New Zealand artist Kate Newby. This is the final event in that project and the release of a catalog, Pocket Works. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-6 Free
Saturday, October 05, 2019
October 5 Saturday Art is Not Boring
Mark Flores and William E. Jones have Perverted By Language. It's pop culture-inspired graphic-reduced portrait work in the Private Places conceptual curation lens. At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday 5PM-7 Free
Jeremy Le Grand has Genesis Lobby. The artist is known for op art raster pieces, silhouettes and bulbous sculptures. From the gallery description it's hard to tell which this work will be. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
The Mobile Projection Unit continues the RACC projection series, now driven by individual artists.
Mobile Projection Unit projects at the East Portland Arts & Literary Festival tonight. There is an interactive component, participants can draw on projections. Artist Sabrina Haque projects historic images of neighborhood residents involuntarily camped in WW2 because they were Japanese Americans.
There are many artists and readers involved in the East Portland Arts & Literary Festival. We frown on their suggested $5 donation. I believe the APNO location is more free.
The event is split between APNO 8188 SE Division and Fubon 2850 SE 82nd. Details https://www.apano.org/ampsummerseries.
Projections sunset. At APNO 8188 SE Division. Free
Jeremy Le Grand has Genesis Lobby. The artist is known for op art raster pieces, silhouettes and bulbous sculptures. From the gallery description it's hard to tell which this work will be. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
The Mobile Projection Unit continues the RACC projection series, now driven by individual artists.
Mobile Projection Unit projects at the East Portland Arts & Literary Festival tonight. There is an interactive component, participants can draw on projections. Artist Sabrina Haque projects historic images of neighborhood residents involuntarily camped in WW2 because they were Japanese Americans.
There are many artists and readers involved in the East Portland Arts & Literary Festival. We frown on their suggested $5 donation. I believe the APNO location is more free.
The event is split between APNO 8188 SE Division and Fubon 2850 SE 82nd. Details https://www.apano.org/ampsummerseries.
Projections sunset. At APNO 8188 SE Division. Free
Friday, October 04, 2019
October 4 Eastside Art Openings+
This month you will find spooky art at many galleries.
Curious Beasts is a group show of imagined beasts, each one with a story from the artist. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Trophies Unlimited is a show by Thomas C Bradley. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Splendorporium, the children's art school and gallery has a Tarot show and creepy fortune telling. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9 Free
Polaroid 55 P/N and a View Camera is a show of still life by Ron van Dongen over more than 15 years, until the film was discontinued. They get the digital print treatment. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Doug Jeck has an installation and Angela White has porcelain containers illustrated in spider webs. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Kay Myers, Patricia Stevens, and Dvora Robinson have prints at print studio Bite 2000 SE 7th 6PM-10
Haunts celebrates the remarkably similar-across-cultures rituals of Fall spirits. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free
Way up in Vancouver, Pamela Chipman has photography and video installation. At Art at the Cave 108 E. Evergreen Blvd. Vancouver 6PM-9 Free
Curious Beasts is a group show of imagined beasts, each one with a story from the artist. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Trophies Unlimited is a show by Thomas C Bradley. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Splendorporium, the children's art school and gallery has a Tarot show and creepy fortune telling. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9 Free
Polaroid 55 P/N and a View Camera is a show of still life by Ron van Dongen over more than 15 years, until the film was discontinued. They get the digital print treatment. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Doug Jeck has an installation and Angela White has porcelain containers illustrated in spider webs. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Kay Myers, Patricia Stevens, and Dvora Robinson have prints at print studio Bite 2000 SE 7th 6PM-10
Haunts celebrates the remarkably similar-across-cultures rituals of Fall spirits. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free
Way up in Vancouver, Pamela Chipman has photography and video installation. At Art at the Cave 108 E. Evergreen Blvd. Vancouver 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, October 03, 2019
October 3 Westside Art Openings+
Tom Cramer has his signature wood relief carvings. A long time ago, when he started the series. his pigments on them were inspired by painter Cassie Wright. This show also includes painter Roger Kukes. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Jenene Nagy has Box Breathing. She is a minimalist who birthed their art in Portland. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
In The Hour Before: This Land, by Stephen Hayes contemplates the locations of gun violence. If Trees Could Walk are sculptures by artist Lee Kelly. Both at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Sky has Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman, Robert DiFranco, and Terry Toedtemeier. They founded the gallery. In the Nine gallery Courtney Kemp is a guest artist. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Color Vision, textile works by Sarah Wertzberger opens. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free
Native artist Rick Bartow is deceased but his work lives on. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Deep NW the Bodecker Foundation has Erin Lacerra and performances.
Eastside, Fecund Flora by Violet Aveline opens. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 5PM-8 Free
Todd Molinari has sculpture, painting, and ritual. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7-9pm.
Jenene Nagy has Box Breathing. She is a minimalist who birthed their art in Portland. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
In The Hour Before: This Land, by Stephen Hayes contemplates the locations of gun violence. If Trees Could Walk are sculptures by artist Lee Kelly. Both at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Blue Sky has Ann Hughes, Christopher Rauschenberg, Craig Hickman, Robert DiFranco, and Terry Toedtemeier. They founded the gallery. In the Nine gallery Courtney Kemp is a guest artist. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Color Vision, textile works by Sarah Wertzberger opens. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free
Native artist Rick Bartow is deceased but his work lives on. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Deep NW the Bodecker Foundation has Erin Lacerra and performances.
Eastside, Fecund Flora by Violet Aveline opens. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 5PM-8 Free
Todd Molinari has sculpture, painting, and ritual. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7-9pm.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
September 26 JJHRMVP
Move as galleries do. New show, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ryan McLaugthan. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
New space Shed has Vinh Pham 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free
New space Shed has Vinh Pham 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free
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