June 3 Faux Apparition in Real Life

ADX is back, and concert poster art shows are back, and even concerts are back. ADX founder Kelley Roy has been promoting local artists virtually in the ARTV program with curator-artist Rachael Allen. Tonight is an in-person show of faux concert posters for imaginary and improbable concert lineups.


It is a branch of fictive art covered in the new book “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation," by Antoinette LaFarge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3UK5TZDqBM.


Hip hop artist Bird Bennett, singer-songwriter Stellah The Artist, and metal outfit Kill Abyss perform. It's also the 11th anniversary of ADX and their traditional anniversary party to meet artists and makers and see some of the studios. ADX has been back for in person events and now they are returning to First Friday evening openings with an urban art, lowbrow, and illustration interest, well executed.


Arty party https://artdesignxchange.com/artv at adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 2PM-7 Free

June 2 Art/Lab Ground

From the Ground Up by artists https://colabpdx.org/artlab/#artists Michelle Alany, Justin Carroll, Rebecca Clarren, Jennifer Gwirtz, Amy Leona Havin, Daniela Molnar, Jessica Rehfield, Sonya Sanford, Leila Wice, and Ahuva Zaslavsky opens tonight.


They are the first resident artists of Art/Lab at the East Side Jewish Commons, a coworking and event space.


Ground Up at the East Side Jewish Commons https://ejcpdx.org/events-1/2022/6/2/from-the-ground-up-an-evening-of-ancient-texts-contemporary-art-and-evolving-jewish-identity RSVP requested at https://colabpdx.org/artlab/. 2420 NE Sandy Blvd 6:30PM-9 Free

June 2 Westside Art Openings

Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving is more of a street party than ever, not contemporary art https://urbanartnetwork.org/.


The most important show tonight is from the next generation at the Russo Lee Gallery. Samantha Wall has Beyond Bloodlines, large ink drawings that use whitespace more than her previous work. Lisa Jarrett has Heart Condition. You can preview the shows at https://www.russoleegallery.com/exhibitions/samantha-wall5 and https://www.russoleegallery.com/exhibitions/lisa-jarrett2. Highly recommended. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free



Photographer Ian Van Coller all the way from South Africa speaks about his climate photography projects tonight. RSVP and proof of vaccination required. Talks are produced out to YouTube for later viewing. https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/6/2/artist-talk-ian-van-coller at Blue Sky Gallery 6PM Free


PNCA has their MFA thesis show reception. https://events.pnca.edu/e/3106 At three locations: 412 NW 8th Ave, 925 NW Flanders and 1231 NW Hoyt (Entrance on 13th) 5PM-7 Free



The Laura Vincent Gallery has abstract landscape printings by Scott Gellatley with Point of Departure. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


It's easier for you to see whatever is transpiring at the Everett Lofts 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

June 2 Outside the Frame in 360 Degrees

Outside the Frame and Open Signal have collaborated with youth who have been homeless to make a series of short 360 degree films on their life experience. They usually would be seen with VR glasses, tonight they are presented in the OMSI Planetarium.


From the organizers, the pieces are:

"Masks, the most turbulent piece, reveals what living with schizophrenia really feels like and the humble dreams of the protagonist—to have a place to live and a caring roommate. Filmmaker Colefire says: 'To give more of an understanding of psychosis because a lot of the time it’s very invalidated, and I think it will help people understand what the other side of it is like.'

Hibiscus explores challenges of contemporary Black life. 'Black trauma is not just the experience of racism but manifests as a constant state of vigilance and the internal dilemma of whether or not to bring more Black children into the world,' says Hibiscus filmmaker Rhone. 'Our Black children are guaranteed the same racial stress and trauma that continues to be neglected and trivialized by White America.'

In One of My Names is Bash, a Black queer woman provides a 360-degree view of her first apartment. The work portrays Bash’s emotions tied to the space, seen through her own eyes, as transcends homelessness."


It is a unique project and future opportunities to see it are unknown.


Films https://tickets.omsi.edu/events/a886537a-ea0d-81b9-c4d7-d443fad1bf3a at OMSI 6:15PM and 7 with reception Sliding scale admission + $5 parking, advance tickets recommended

June 2 - September 23 Judy Chicago on Paper

Judy Chicago https://www.judychicago.com/ and video https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-judy-chicago-on-making-a-name-for-herself/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h is an artist working across media and still working at age 83. She was a key participant in feminist art emerging on the cusp between the late 1960's and the early 1970's along with the second wave feminist social movement. This show, Turning Inward, was curated by Bruce Guenther from the Jordan Schnitzer collection of multiples. It is a good view of her work since art school at UCLA. There is not a public opening, but there are events in June and July connected to the show. Judy Chicago at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocost Education https://www.ojmche.org/events/turning-inward-judy-chicago/ 724 NW Davis Wednesday-Sunday: 11AM-4PM $8

June 2 - September 24 Black Portlanders

Black Domain is a show of photographs by Intisar Abioto. It is part of her Black Portlanders Project https://theblackportlanders.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R717XcEQl0 which pairs portraits with interviews. It has been covered by the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/arts/design/black-artists-portland.html and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places.


Also showing is Northeast Voices, interviews recorded at Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Shop. Here is an excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrbFhRl2EJI.


The show https://visitahc.org/current-exhibits/ is at the Architectural Heritage Center 701 SE Grand open Thursday-Saturday 11AM-5PM admission by donation

May 26 Epilogue

PSU opens it BFA & MFA thesis show live and in person. Then they have artist talks.


Artists are: Vika Ayers, Madeleine Beer, Rebecca Copper, Sage Corradini, Nate Doogan, Mo Geiger, Robert Groff, Danny-Olivia Hanson, Johanna Houska, Hailey H., Jessica Joner, Tony Kane, Kylee Kaihūlalilali Iku Kubojiri, Shelbie Loomis, Kaitlyn Lundelius, Justin Maxon, Keenan Mccune, Renee Ollison, Luz Orellana, Alisyn Smith, Ni Made Maya Sutriasa, Laura Swingen, Tenzin Tardiff, Raja Timihiri, Sims Vincent, Maggie Wang, and Illia Yakovenko.


Opening Thursday May 26. Talks by BFA students: Tuesday & Thursday, May 24, 26, 31 & June 2, 2PM-5 On view May 24 - June 11, 2022


PSU Thesis Showcase https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/events/epilogue-2022-mfabfa-showcase


At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free

May 26 - May 30 Seed

The CETI Institute https://ceti.institute evolved out of PNCA's Make+Think+Code. The City of Portland is reactivating downtown and the neighborhood with free events. One node is Pioneer Square. https://www.thesquarepdx.org/our-events/ and https://www.thesquarepdx.org/dome/


With Seed, Nanda D’agostino, Scott Garner, Scott Nieradka have a Spring and rejuvenation project there. Inside the dome, in the evening, there will be video artwork projections. Outside around in the day are plant installations hooked by an augmented reality app you put on your phone or tablet.


Seed https://ceti.institute/events/2022/seed/ on Pioneer Courthouse Square Map 10AM-10PM Free

May 21 Unfamiliar

Unfamiliar Thresholds by Padma Rajendran opens at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free

May 14 Relief

Jessica Jackson Hutchins opens No Relief. No more information is needed. ⁠At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of three members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free

May 13 Strawberry Fishbowl Get Down

Emily Wise, MoBak, Cayl Austin, and Jeff Pfeil open their new show this evening. The Fishbowl Gallery often shows bright colorful works, perfect for grey skies. Sometines the adjacent galleries and shops are open these nights.


At Fishbowl Gallery http://www.fishbowlgallerypdx.com 3450 North Williams Map 6PM-10 Free



Are you up for a sureal happy movie tonight? Strawberry Mansion imagines a future world in which dreams are taxed, advertising enters dreams, and time is fluid. It had a limited distribution in Portland, I believe it's on Jeff's streaming network, and it shows tonight at the NW Film Center/CUT. It's cute AF in a good way, the production design is amazing, and it is the perfect date night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPsvOSc1Gk Strongly recommended. Movie https://pamcut.org/screenings-experiences/whitsell-auditorium/strawberry-mansion/ at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 6:30PM $12



The Soul Night monthly, dancable 50's and 60's black music on vinyl, with DJ Cooky Parker, returns to the Spare Room tonight, just sayin'

May 13 City of Blue

Sari Carel https://www.saricarel.com/ started her art life in Israel at Bezalel, then an MFA from Hunter in 2001; now she is based in Brooklyn. She has been doing well traveling residencies, including Portland's C3: in 2019.


She has a new work, opening this afternoon, The Sun is a Mouth of Blue, cyanotypes with gouache. It is related to her City of Trees residency in New York. Cyanotypes are a chemical-based imaging process exposed by UV-A, freely available from the sun.


Her large scale installation works are modernist, inspired by, or in, nature. She works in video and drawing too. She is up to date on social practice works. Her work is visually beautiful, and it brings layers of ideas. That is apropos her interview with the late Dave Hickey, a proponent of beauty as an ingredient in contemporary art, but not the only ingredient. http://www.laalamedapress.com/davehickey.html His writing on beauty in art is easily searchable.


We hope she develops a connection to the Lumber Room and makes public artwork here.


At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 4PM-6 Free

May 13-14 Aliens Have Landed

Oregon weird extends beyond Portland. It even extends to congress holding hearings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/politics/ufo-sightings-house-hearing.html. I think the Senate Intelligence Committee is more intelligent than their counterparts in the House. The House Intelligence Committee Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation is having their hearing Tuesday. Maybe it is an expression of counterintelligence?


The annual UFO Festival lands in McMinville. The whole website is a wild read.


The Oregon UFO Festival in McMinnville Oregon https://ufofest.com/ 10:30 Friday - 11PM Saturday, with a UFO breakfast Sunday Free-$125 for an all parallel universe pass.

May 12 Main Character

The PSU Littman and White Galleries have a small budget and a rotating cast of student curators. That has sometimes produced some excellent shows. Nia Musiba, from the PSU graphic design department, has a show with bright colors, I'm the Main Character: Radical Dreaming and Art for the Masses. You can learn more about her at https://www.pdx.edu/arts/news/graphic-design-student-featured-opbs-oregon-art-beat.


At the Littmand and White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-7 Free

May 5-13 PNCA Thesis Zooms

PNCA is Zooming their MA/MFA thesis presentations. The schedule is: https://pnca.edu/academics/graduate/2022-grad-thesis-schedule. Free

May 8 The Crow's Shadow is Long

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts https://crowsshadow.org is on today's diminished lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. It was founded by James Lavadour, Walla Walla and Phillip Cash Cash, Cayuse & Nez Perce) It is a printmaking studio. Works printed there are in museums now.


Trinity brings a collection of works from Crow's Shadow artists.


The exhibit can be viewed any time the front office is open, Monday-Thursday, 10:00 am-3:00 pm, and Sundays 8:00 am-12:00 pm, May 8-July 3.


Crow's Shadow prints at Trinity Episcopal Church 147 NW 19th Free

May 7 Citizens Post- Heroes Saccharine Star Poem

Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has minimalist sculptures by Jerry Mayer.


Ukranian photographer Alexander Chekmenev https://www.alexanderchekmenev.com/ has Citizens of Kyiv https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html. He has a relationship with Blue Sky in his show https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2016/alexander-chekmenev?rq=Chekmenev. He is from the Donbass region and works in Kiev today.


There is a reception for that show May 21, 2PM-5. Your donations to the Ukranian Society of Beaverton for medical supplies and humanitarian relief allow you to select one 8.5 x11 for each $100 contributed. Collect early and often.


Blue Sky has Matthew Moore's Post-Socialist Landscapes.


Russian history has many defining points. The fall of the last czars and the socialist revolution. The rise of Hitler and his defeat left Russia with a Soviet Union. The vicissitudes of the Cold War, a world war of philosophy and ego by its respective parties. The denouement of Soviet Europe and the coda of Gorbechev's release of the union. The rise of the oligarch state. The invasion of Georgia, disputed patches, and now the war of Ukraine. The ultimate expression of Deng's soft power in China gaining control of Russia, adjacent to its own strange quest of Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the current chapter.


Blue Sky shows are planned far in advance. So it is pure accident that his photographic exploration of the post-Soviet countries lands now. They are photographs of abandonded, destroyed, and removed monuments to Soviet times. There is an excellent explanation of the project on his website. http://moorephotographs.com/post-socialist-landscapes.html.


The artist speaks at 1PM in the gallery today.


Shine Heroes, recommended, continues.


At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free



The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.


At Oregon Contemporary Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, opened about 2 weeks ago. Mediating Bodies by Marne Lucas, Josh Meier and Pepper Pepper, closes.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free



Leslie Vigeant has Little Star, small works at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Ben Buswell and Petra Sairanen are reomatic partners and art collaborators. They have their collaboration, Two Poems, at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Jennifer Timmer Trail has Saccharine. She is a Small Talk Collective cofounder of four female-identified photographers. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

May 7 Print yur Day

Portland is a printmaking town. Much of that is the result of the tireless work of Gordon Gilkey who taught at PNCA. He was well known for recovering art stolen in WWII. From that he built a social network of artists, printmakers, and collectors, worldwide. Bob Koch established the next generation of that network with Augen Gallery. Jordan Schnitzer and his museums follow a philosophy of collecting multiples, many prints on paper, to eschew the astronomical price wars over rare originals.


Print Arts Northwest https://printartsnw.org is an association of printmakers supplementing Portland's several shared printmaking studios.


Print Day is a worldwide celebration of printmaking. Print Arts Northwest celebrates Print Day with indoor press printing, and a large exquisite corpse print project outdoors using a pavement roller, a steam roller, usually used to compact asphalt paving.


It is an experiential celebration, print sales benefit for Print Arts Northwest, and an arty party in the evening.


Print Day at Atelier Meridian https://www.ateliermeridian.com/ in River Studios 820 N River St, back of building, lower level. Masks & vax required indoors. Masks encouraged outdoors. 1PM-9 Free

May 7 Vocal House

Indian classical music has branches and roots. Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is the 7th generation of a style of sitar modeled on vocals in rags. He is accompanied by Amit Kavthekar, a young tabla player, at age 37. They play together here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttNmk8tEiY. Presented by Kalakendra https://www.kalakendra.org/events/shahid-parvez-khan/ at the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $20-35

May 7 Paper Yarn a Go Go

Gallery Go Go is the show space and shop of the work-show space Jailbreak Studios, a collective. It is in a former clothing store in Pioneer Place Mall. They have Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/ with Art is Home, yarn-made bas-relief reminding flowers or coral, opening today, and a group show, Maximalist. That is amidst their gift items and small artworks by their stable of artists.


At Gallery Go Go 3rd floor Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW 5th Ave #3015 4PM-7 Free



A Sometimes Gallery has creative openings.


Susan Dwyer, Esther Ramirez, Alison Owen, India K, Mary Snow, Brandi kruse, Han Cao, Amy Rowan, and Arnold Drake present works on paper in the show Paper. It is at A Sometimes Gallery 687 North Tillamook Street, Suite C. In the back. 6PM-9 Free

May 6 Eastside Art Openings

The Eastside art openings are gathering energy.


Angry Florist presents paintings by multiartist Laura Viers. Mike Gamble provides musics. Viers at Angry Florist 401b NE 28th 5PM-9 Free


Peace & Harmony, a themed group show, is at Splendorporium http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st 7PM-9 Free


Importer Cargo has an interest in local art. Sometimes they transform their freight elevator into a small gallery. Occupying it now are Patty Merrill and Claire Olberding, collage and mixed media. At Cargo 81 SE Yamhill 5PM-7 Free


https://orlyavineri.com/about Erika Rier has paintings and ceramics, Dream House. It is inspired by pandemic dreams of imaginary housing. At Lolo Pass 1616 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free


Sidestreet Arts has a group show Feathers, Fins, and Fur, by Daniel DeLeon, Melody Bush, Miss Cay, Sharon Comunale, Alison Grayson, Lisa Laser, Michelle Pappas, and Brett Superstar. At 140 SE 28th 5PM-7 Free


Rachel Mulder has Pleasure Vacui at Radius 2324 SE Belmont 6PM-9 Free


The 211 space opens its studios and shows Steve Dehlinger, Noah Alexander, and Isaac Stein. The Crow Show closes. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free


John Rigby shows. Amidst "ritual dance offerings with Jordan Sun, musical stylings with Calin Matei, rune readings with Emily Ra and a gongfu tea lounge with Russell Bohr." At Earthspace 4135 SE Gladstone 6PM-10 Free


Jailbreak Studios is having a Priced Out show. Fortunately they have a sparkly new gallery space Go Go in the Pioneer Place Mall. At Jailbreak Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8

May 5 Westside Art Openings

Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Blue Sky has shifted receptions to Saturday. Leach and Froelick are on mid-month opening cycles. PNCA is seems to be going back to sleep, hopefully we will see some thesis shows.


Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. If they are open and you haven't seen the current show at Fuller Rosen it is important. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management.


No idea on Everett Station

April 30 Ukraine Collapse Friends Close

The MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture closes Hoşçakal with their coda artist talk. At the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture until May 29. Fri, Sat, Sun 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233 1PM Free

Zezza closes their video installation by Chinese artist Yang Fudong. In a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock & McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 2PM-4 Free

Our lovely friends 1122 are back with A Creeping Normality by Claire Elliott & Asa Mease, paintings. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free

Miroslav Skorik, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky and Boris Lyatoshinsky are Ukrainian musical composers. Chamber Music Portland perform them in a benefit concert. Masks and vax. At All Saints Episcopal Church 4033 SE Woodstock. 7PM Direct donations to organizations working in Ukraine: International Committee of the Red Cross, UNICEF, Mercy Corps requested

April 29 - May 1 Get Your Motor Runnin'

Motorcycles. The One Moto event is the See See take on mororcycles. It's hipster motorcycle engagement. They have a sprawling trade show focused on custom bikes, spectator events, and ride yourself events. It's not specifically art, but it is a slice of Portland culture. Info at https://www.the1moto.com. $15-100

April 28 Here to Stay

Lori Damiano https://www.loridamiano.com/ is the new Stumptown artist fellowship awardee. She is a multiartist of illustration, animation, textiles; an educator too; CalArts schooled. She has a special interest in female identified skateboarders. As part of a collective she made Getting Nowhere Faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrNk-StycQY in 2004 post dating the 2001 Dogtown and the Z-Boys based on 1970's footage. The Stumptown fellowship is well respected and their openings are recommended. The shows are up for long enough you can stop in for coffeetime to see them. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free

April 28-30 Graveyards Gardens Memories Remedies

If you like your music new, in a unique space, and with abstract dance, you might like Graveyards and Gardens, music by Caroline Shaw, movement by Vanessa Goodman, in the Bodecker skate bowl.

Caroline Shaw https://carolineshaw.com/ is a composer noted for being the youngest Pulitzer awardee for music. She is a prolific composer and collaborator. Her instruments are violin and voice. Her compositions have expanded to other instruments and up to date spoken word samples and electronic effects on the voice as an instrument.

Tonight her work Graveyards and Gardens is a collaboration with modern dancer Vanessa Goodman. Shaw is based on the East Coast, and Goodman on the West Coast in Vancouver, BC.

A description wins our copywriting award: "A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album of reconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquated innovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the body remembers." I saw this, it is strongly recommended.

Graveyards and Gardens https://www.graveyardsandgardens.com/ presented by Third Angle thirdangle.org at the Boedecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=91.

2360 N.W. Quimby Map Thursday, Friday & Saturday 7:30PM, Saturday 3PM $5, $10, $30, $35

April 27 Girls and Boys Together

The Thorns and Timbers play a coed match today. Each team fielded will be coed. It is a benefit for UNICEF in Ukraine. It is https://www.timbers.com/thornsfc/news/ptfc-for-peace-how-to-watch-attend-and-support-tonight-s-special-charity-match. Doors 5PM, match 6.

April 23 The universal solvent as metal

To End It All, with dirges, doom, death industrial, dark ambient, and art song visits from Seattle, Throbbing Gristle, Wax Traks and the 80s. It includes members of Eye of Nix and Serpentent. They bring butoh player Vanessa Skantze, a force of nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BekLUwNBmEw Also performing is Hail, with a metal set, JWW, and Zvi. Proof of vaccination required for entry. At Azøth NE Sandy Blvd & 87th. 8PM $10-20

April 23 Nuestro Camino, Nuestros Antepasados

This is a visual art show and street fair. The visual art show, closing today, with 13 artists, is inspired by the ancestors. The gallery opens at 2 with Mariachi Mexico En La Piel and Faded Memories Car Club & Impalas Portland in the street, 3 an Aztec ceremony & Dance performed by Huehca Omeyocan, 4 bands Caicedo & Gata Galactica, 6:45 drag with Perra Desgraciada and 7 to 9 DJ Global Based. At Tuck Lung Gallery 140 NW 4th and on the street. 2PM-9 Free

April 22-23 Battery-Powered Polyphony

Experimental musician Naoyuki Arashi ~ ASUNA https://sites.google.com/site/aaaaasunaaaaa/ is always laying down new work. It has been so since her teen punk time.

A 'wall of synths," paralleling Coltrane's "wall of sound" referred to a dizzying array of knobs and wires in the Moog days. ASUNA brings a floor of keyboards in work "100 Keyboards." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh3H6x1GFn4. It is on tour.

100 plastic portable keyboards change pitch as their batteries run down. It takes up part of a warehouse for two evenings here to walk around with your ears.

"100 Keyboards is a live music performance/installation featuring as the title implies over 100 keyboards. This performance focuses on the phenomenon of “interference sound," the complex distribution of sound pressure and other parameters as sound waves of the same frequency but with a different direction of transmission overlap. As each keyboard plays a sustained note of a certain pitch, and as the number of notes increases, a “moiré of sound” is created. The auditory experience is akin to weaving an individual “textile pattern" (the original meaning of “moiré") and a sound equivalent to the visual “moiré effect.” As you change the direction of your ears while listening, or move to a different location, the complex, interfering sounds and resonances in space will produce a different aural pattern composed of buzzes, loops, and beats, unique to each location. Most of the keyboards being played are inexpensive products or made as toys, so the pitch/tuning of each key may be slightly off and fluctuate slightly in pitch when played for a length of time. This slight misalignment creates the complex resonance" - the artist.

At 15 NE Hancock 6PM $5 Arts for All/Students ... $10 General Sliding Scale ... $20 General Sliding Scale ... $25 True Cost

April 22 Home Bird

"Home Bird is about paying respect to the peace and quiet of the place and the people that kept me going while the world was falling apart," is what Eliza Ivanova is saying by drawing. She was born in Bulgaria, studied at Calarts, and works in California. She is a multi-artist illustrator and animator. Nucleus engaged her in California early, continuing with this show. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-7 Free

April 21 Vision Quest

The Photolucida Portfolio Walk is back, masked and vaxed. 75 internatinally curated photographers show their work to the public. Photolucida Portfolio viewing https://www.photolucida.org/portland-photo-month/events/ in the Fields Ballroom of the Portland Art Museum 1119 SW Park 6PM-9 Free

April 15 Collapse and Rebirth Art Fills the Void

The MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture has paintings, Hoşçakal, by principals Ilknur Demirkoparan and Vuslat D. Katsanis. It is Portland and Turkey connecting. At the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture until May 29. Fri, Sat, Sun 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233 1PM-5 Free


Several spaces are open tonight at 3450 N Williams. They show art until the developer finds proper tenants, while marketing the building as hip. 6PM-9 Free

April 14 Darkness Darkness

The 45th Parallel Universe presents a variety of music on acoustic instruments. Some is classic chamber music, some modern, experimental, and genre-bending too. Tonight they have a modern piece, the String Quartet No. 3, by G.F. Haas. It will be performed in total darkness, as it was intended. They have several groups of musicians throughout their concert year, depending on the score. Tonight it is the Pyxis Quartet. Concert In the Dark https://www.45thparallelpdx.org/concerts/in-the-dark at PICA 15 NE Hancock 7PM $25

April 10 Revolution

Some classical music, meaning scored music where the paper scores survived, like the written word which survived for literature, was pop music in its time. That included chamber music improvised in a jam.

Even big famous works, that required a lot of money to stage with a symphony, were savaged by critics in their time. An amusing collection of those is in the book A Lexicon of the Musical Invective. The author of that Nicolas Slonimsky, https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/slonimsky-nicolas-nikolai-leonidovich, outlived his own critics to age 101. It is worth an entertaining read if you think classical music is boring.

Classical Revolution PDX takes a lighthearted accessible approach to classical music here. They have classical music open mics and they are back.

Classical Revolution PDX https://www.classicalrevolutionpdx.org instantiates their monthly chamber jam tonight at The Waypost, 3120 N. Williams 6:30PM-9 Free

April 9 ¡Superheroes!

Signals & Mysteries: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools are portraits now by late career artist Melissa Ann Pinney. It will be looked back upon perhaps as the boom-Covid-BLM era. The artist speaks in the gallery in person at noon. Registration on Eventbrite required https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/4/9/artist-talk-melissa-ann-pinney. I would suggest watching her talk when it goes up on the Blue Sky YouTube channel. It gives a lot of context to each photo.

The Photolucida Critical Mass award is a big thing. Federico Estol from Uraguay won the Blue Sky solo show award this year. His project is Shine Heroes/Héroes del Brillo.

The project "started three years ago as he began engaging with the shoe shiners of Bolivia. There are 3,000 shoe shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of clients. They are from all ages and in recent years have become a social phenomenon in the Bolivian capital.

What characterizes this tribe is the use of ski masks so they will not be recognized by those around them. They confront the discrimination they face through these masks; in their neighborhoods no one knows that they work as shoe shiners, at school they hide this fact, and even their own families believe they have a different job when they head down to the center of the city from El Alto.

Estol collaborated with sixty shoe shiners associated with the shoe shiners newspaper "Hormigón Armado" with the idea to create a photobook. Together they planned the scenes during a series of graphic novel workshops depicting the new Andean architecture of El Alto as its background. In this process, the shine heroes became both producers and protagonists of a street-style photobook to fight against a social stigma.

Today this group makes its living primarily from selling the photobook and postcards of the project more than from being shoe shiners. This casts light on the possibilites of art in transforming discrimination into a sign of struggle and survival that could ultimately help promote social integration."

It is a modern superhero social practice art admix! The photographer speaks April 20, 6PM advance registration on Eventbrite required https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/4/9/artist-talk-melissa-ann-pinney-rl9sy

The Nines Gallery has Georgiana Nehl, longtime former instructor at OCAC, with Centering and Encircling.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 11AM-5PM Free



I'm sure there are aliens and I'm sure they haven't visited Earth. But if they did, they would be the 3d drippy amoeba sculptures of Dan Lam. She uses some kind of flow foam then decorates them with spiky cilia in jucy and flouro colors. She has a new series of flat blobs that remind of our new awareneness of microorganisms of late. These have bright color, while microorganmisms have little.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free



The big CAP auction art party is tonight. All the info is at https://www.capartauction.org/. Doors 5PM, art auction video stream 7. Dance party 8. At the Convention Center Hyatt 375 NE Holladay $55-300

April 8 Ambient Drawers Now

It is a homecoming tonight at Eutectic. Kat and Roger lived in Portland, now they are in the LA area. Roger was an early employee of Mudshark Studios adjacent to Eutectic.

They make functional art pots, they have production lines cast by Mudshark, and they have a line of tile at Pratt and Larsen. Roger makes the shape and Kat glazes the pattern. It is reminiscent of SW native pottery patterns or mid-20th century design. It will probably be collected hence.

The show is Here and Now https://eutecticgallery.com/show/eutectic-gallery-here-and-now At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 5PM-7 Free



Blue Sky splits their opening between tonight for the NW Photography Drawers and tomorrow for the main shows. The drawers are a multi-artist selection you can take an afternoon examining with white gloves. This 15th year was curated by Portland's Dru Donovan, and New York's Efrem Zelony-Mindell.

Artists are Jon Bagby, Candace Biggerstaff, Nika Blasser, Heather Boyd, Carolyn Kay Chema, Daniel Ciochina, Meghan Crandall, Elisabeth Dare, Misha Davydov, Danielle Dean, Dennis DeHart, Lucas DeShazer, Marico Fayre, Jon Feinstein, Kevin Fletcher, John Francis, David Frazier, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Conner Gordon, Lauren Grabelle, Tyler Green, Darwin Grey, Anna Guyton, Mick Hangland-Skill, Megan Hansen, Justine Highsmith, Kristy Hruska, Melinda Hurst Frye, Natalie Jenks, John Kane, Tom Kay, John Kirkley, Cheston Knapp, Zachary Krahmer, Laura Kurtenbach, Cole Lalomia, Adam Long, Brad Messinger, Loren Nelson, Chris Nesseth, Janet Neuhauser, Angel O'Brien, Jody Poorwill, Matthew Ragen, Michael Raines, Stan Raucher, Thibault Roland, Isaac Sachs, Darcie Sternenberg, Sharon Swanson, Jocelle Rosano, Andrew Thomas, Sandra Ullmann, Kelda Van Patten, Alice Christine Walker, Eric Walker, Marjorie Williams, and Sky Wilson.

NW Photography drawers https://www.blueskygallery.org/nw-drawers/2022/3/31/2022-pacific-northwest-drawers. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free



If you like your music ambient, Ambient Church touches down here tonight. Artists are Chihei Hatakeyama (Japan) and Patricia Wolf (US). They are accompanied by ambient video projection mapping on the interior of the church. From what I've seen from recent electronic music concerts, trucker hats and cute pointy wool beanies are out now finally. Ambient concert https://ambient.church/events/chihei-hatakeyama-in-portland-on-april-8-2022-at-7pm at the First Congregational Church of Portland 1126 SW Park. Doors 7PM show 8 $30

April 7 Westside Art Openings

Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management. PDX Contemporary has completely decamped to far NW. No idea about Everett Station.


The PSU architecture department has assembled a large international collage show, Corporeal Gestures https://www.pdx.edu/arts/events/corporeal-gestures. It is in Shattuck Hall 5PM-7 Free


PNCA is welcoming the public back to all of its galleries, Covid common sense but no rules. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-7 Free



The Laura Vincent Gallery has William Park with paintings and James Florschutz with Memory Fragments, mixed media sculptures. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free

April 3 April Flowers Bring Tweed

The Tweed Rides are an international phenomena recreating Victorian-era aesthetic bicycle rides and picnics.

Portland's Tweed Ride happens today. It may sprinkle, wear wool!

In the spirit of keeping Portland weird, you can find out more at
http://tweedpdx.net/

Meet at Grant Park. 11AM Free

April 2 Red Honeymoon Quick Majority Field Portal Untold

Rose Dickson is a Portland artist working in 2d and 3d. Her work has been morphing from minimal to compositions of glyphs, all with a conceptual basis in her own emotional landscape, drawn from her journals. Several recent shows include a craft-like variety of materials, but not in a precious craft way. Her show in 2020 at Melanie Flood is an example. It was reviewed by Sue Taylor https://www.orartswatch.org/more-than-a-sum-of-parts/.

⁠This show has three bodies. 2 1/2d glyphs are sand-cast aluminum wall hangings. There are watercolors on mirrors. Paintings layered with wax complete this show.

⁠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

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The Quick by Diedrick Brackens & D'Angelo Lovell Williams includes weavings, photographs, and objects. Bracken is a West coast artist working in tapestry. Williams is an East coast artist working on paper. Both are queer African American artists. This collaboration is inspired by love and intimacy. The show was arranged by local curator Ashley Stull Myers. The artists are visiting and giving a talk at 2 tomorrow at PNCA.

⁠At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free

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If you are in Eugene, Ditch Projects opens a new show. Julieta Gil from Mexico City and now UO, has Field Recordings. The description on the DP website is better than I can recreate. Eric Ramos Guerrero has drawings, Age Of Majority, also explained on the DP website. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 6PM-8 Free

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Dana Robinson is a SVA-minted artist in NYC who has been participating in an impressive number of shows. Fuller Rosen is one, which is impressive too, with Second Honeymoon. They are large impressionistic portraits derived from vintage Ebony Magazine on transparent silk with accompanying sound loops. The FR web site has a more articulate writeup. Portland artists could take inspiration in the energy of the artist's accomplishments: https://danarobinsonstudio.com/CV At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free

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To Dog a Portal is a group show by the Well, Well family: Andrea Alonge, Ben Buswell, Erik Geschke, Jeremy Le Grand, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, and John Whitten. ⁠

⁠"Through pattern, pixelation, and repetition in action or motif, artists in To dog a portal observe the natural world through scientific data, human interaction, and magical thinking. Emboldened by the possibility of science and magic coexisting, this exhibition engages in a willful suspension of disbelief. Balancing these works on the horizon of time through careful precision in the making process, these artists cultivate a field for observing the super-natural qualities in seemingly everyday occurrences."
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At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 2PM-5 Free ⁠

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Rachael Zur and Heather Lee Birdsong have Told and Untold. ⁠

"Can we be content with the fragmented stories that will be told about our lives? Between what is said and unsaid, people create narratives about those they have loved and lost. Domestic objects and uninhabited rooms also give accounts of a life, allowing for those no longer with us to be felt as being simultaneously present and absent. Heather Lee Birdsong’s paintings of Pacific Northwest forests and architectural elements reflect on grief: how we hold it and, variably or simultaneously, fail to hold it. Rachael Zur’s expanded paintings of objects from living rooms give form to the residue of lives lived held in domestic spaces. Together the artists use place as a narrator to recall the absent."

At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 2PM-5 Free


Oregon Comtemporary has their fundraising auction dance party tonight. All the information is at https://event.gives/oregoncontemporary.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11ish $40-100
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Portland is fortunate because Seattle is fortunate to have some very talented performers of butoh, Japan's contribution to contemporary dance. Joan Laage studied and performed in Japan with a small group created by the founder of the genre. In that lineage, the improvised movement is inspired by images from nature. Laage is giving a workshop Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday evening is a performance.

Laage performs Rivers Running Red and Cosmo Rapaport & Sophia Solano perform their own works too.

"Rivers Running Red has a haunting commissioned score by Seattle musicians. The piece is greatly inspired by an article exposing the practice of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, often not surviving the harsh conditions, fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. It is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was performed as a duet in Milan, and a solo in Pontedera (Italy), Frankfurt and most recently in Seattle Butoh Festival 2021: FemAlchemy produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective last November.

Tickets can be purchased in advance through Venmo @interartistmotion for a suggested sliding-scale cost of $10-20.

Three works https://www.witd.org/butoh 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 7:30PM $10-20

April 1-2 Sou'wester Art Residency Readout

Your art options Friday and especially Saturday are lovely. This one, both days, is especially lovely.

The Sou'wester is a vintage trailer motel and lodge in Seaview, Washington. It is a short walk to the sea and adjacent to a wild native forest. They have arts and crafts events throughout the year. For a week the last few years, it is taken over by mostly Portland contemporary artists and musicians. They have a week of residency and a weekend of unfolding the work.

In the past years it had a space, aliens, and mystery theme. It is more freeform now. The curation, by artists, of artists, is stellar.

This year the artists are Anthony Alvarado + Jason Walker, Ana Anu, Rachel Blumberg, Laura Halsey Brown, Julia Canfield, Lindsay Clark, Brea Currey, Anouk De Clercq, Breana DePriest, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Ophir El-Boher, Elizabeth Goltz, Mikey Kampmann, Una Kim, Gino M Kline, Nicky Kriara + Cory Gray, Chris Lael Larson, Anis Mojgani, Phoebe Moore, Kaitlyn Nelson / The Gyer V Project, Emily Newton, Emily Pacheco, Jane Paik, Bobbie Robinson + Jordan Badger, Anna Rogers, Tracy Schlapp + Danny Wilson, Alison Segura, Adrian Shirk + Erin Adair, Andie Sterling, Jen Tam, Daren Todd, Kelda Van Patten and Fox Whitney / The Gender Tender Experiment.

There are performances and events on a schedule from 5PM-10 Friday, and Noon-10 Saturday with other installations and works to attend to on your own throughout.

More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/event/arts-week/?instance_id=27572.


It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby.


At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. Free

March 31 - April 1 Last Crow First Robots

Alberta has their low key cool weather gallery openings Thursday. The Eastside has the usual spots open Friday you can find on their Facebook page.

It is April 1. But according to the all-knowing Interwebs, the first annual Festival of Migrating Crows is this PM. It starts at Col Summers Park at 4:30. Crow-themed costumes are encouraged. Thence there is a naked, crow-costumed, or normcore bike ride, launching at 5, to the Treefarm Building 850 SE 3rd for a crow party-event. All the fun things are detailed at https://www.johndanielteply.art/festival-of-migrating-crows.html. All crows all the time from 4:30PM-9ish Free!

Captured by Robots is a metal band of robots rocking. They have one real person, Jay Vance. He built the robots 20 years ago, with no previous robot knowledge. Now they enslave him. I am not making this up! They are touring behind their releases Endless Circle of Bullshit and Broken as Fuck. The tour, Funeral for the Human Race rusts down, plugs in the robots, and makes noise tonight with Headless Pez, Sidewalk Slam, and NÜR. Advance tix https://www.quadspace.tv/198261. At the High Water Mark, 6800 NE MLK. 8:30PM $15

March 31 CAP Auction Curator Preview

The Cascade AIDS Project and Our House have long sponsored an art auction to fund their operation. It is April 9 with guests House of Ada. Each year they have selected a respected curator of cooperating artists and galleries contribute work. It's a party too. The work is divided into live auction works on the high end and silent auction works for the event. The curator this year, Tammy Jo Wilson, does an online Zoom to discuss her curation and the live auction works. Register at https://www.capnw.org/cap-calendar/2022-curators-talk to get the Zoom. 5PM-6 Free

March 28 Sleep Awake

Fennesz, Joseph Kamaru=KMRU, and Patricia Wolf perform experimental and ambient music tonight.

Fennesz from Austria creates filmic music combining guitar and field recordings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKqybLrBho. Joseph Kamaru=KMRU splits time between Nairobi and Berlin. In addition to his music he makes installations and video work from field recordings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWZO3OM3b8. Patricia Wolf is a Portland musician, composer, and field recorder. She has built an excellent network in Europe and Japan, and brought musicians to perform in Portland. https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music. It would be lovely to have this as a sleep concert.

At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Proof of vaccination required. Doors 8PM $27+fees advance $30 door

March 27 India and Spain Spring

Portland has an active flamenco community of dance and music. It's intertwined with Spanish food and Spanish culture. They have regular classes. They have occasional performances with local and traveling artists.

Tonight Kelley Dodd, Lillie Last, Nela McGuire, Shiho Travis, and Elisa Rocha, dance. Christina Lorentz dances and sings. Nick Hutcheson is on percussion and Brenna McDonald performs on guitar.

Espacio Flamenco www.espacioflamencopdx.com presents the 7th annual Fall in Love with Flamenco at the Alberta Rose Theatre. Tickets and vaccination https://event.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do?performance_id=7114516 3000 NE Alberta 7:30PM $20


Kalakendra presents classical Indian music. Tonight they present Triveni by Zakir Hussain on tabla Jayanthi Kumaresh on veena and Kala Ramnath on violin. It is always a pleasure to hear Zakir Hussain. Kalakendra https://www.kalakendra.org/events/triveni-by-zakir-hussain-jayanthi-kumaresh-and-kala-ramnath/ at the Patricia Reser Performance Center 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Tickets https://secure.thereser.org/69/98 6PM $50-75 Sold Out

March 26 Painting

Painters Painting is a new group show opening today. The gallery website has a description. Please stop using all caps for the painter names. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 2PM-5 Free

March 23-26 Hovering Haven

The Haven is a small multispace in the zone of the old Recess but on the ground floor. They have been underground since mid-2020 and now they are officially opening. Festival crowd. Various times and events on socials. Wednesday circus, Thursday film, Friday and Saturday music. At The Haven 819 SE Taylor 9PM

March 20 A Mystical Equinox

Atrium Mystique is a Spring Equinox Salon. You can't miss the Equinox, and you should not miss this evening of performance.

Soriah is Portland's own Tuvan throat singer and performance ritual creator. He performs once or twice a year here in costumes of his own making and music of his own composition. Despite the implied dark performance trappings, he is really a lightworker in musical collaboration with other artists, and an all around excellent person. He has a big event May 17 when he shares the stage with Bauhaus at the Schnitz.

Tiare Valouria has deep movement roots and performed with her dark belly dance group, Serpentine, along a continuous thread of creative works. Now she performs as Valourian Theater with tonight's collaborators, Sol'Aura Pearl, Rachel Smith, Autumn Sage KaliMah and Paige Roselene.

Portland has its own small underground puppet community. One, the Nightmerriment Puppet Theater, also performs tonight with guest Sataray from Olympia.

Each audience member must provide proof of vaccination (vaccination card or photo ID of it) or a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours of the event.

At the Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Doors 7PM, show 8. Hive dance party 11. $22+fees advance $33 door

March 15-April 29 Back from the Precipice

If you are reading this you survived. Many did not and we lost many of our art conversations places. The Worhol Foundation is soliciting art collectives, collaboratons, and art speces for $5000 grants. PICA administers. More at precipicefund.org. Free

March 19 Parallel Undercurrents

Nucleus has Lily Seika Jones an illustrator from Vancouver BC with cute nature works. Cat Johnston has illustrations and sculptures of her parallel universes. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 2PM-5 Free

The artists are taking the means of production unto their own in a house show, Undercurrent. We are boycotting the Metaverse but you can find the instas of Spacecadetbryn, Ipegrusin, 4urayes2see, Ar.aete, Mostdefinitelymacmoss.mamii, Marble.mistress, Maxandmarspresent, and Kit!, BIPOC+Trans artists, presenting. At 2737 SE 60th 7PM $5-10 cash

March 16 & 18 The Journey of Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican artist, performer, visionary, and social critic. Some of his work has been humorous, but it has all been pointed.

Back when he was collaborating with Coco Fusco, another brilliant cultural critic and performer, they performed at the Portland Art Museum. After that, a new museum director started having prayer meetings in the museum at lunch time and refocused the museum on old French impressionist masters. The contemporary art program exited. John Weber went to SFMOMA, now he is director of the Schnitzer Museum at UofO in Eugene. Kristy Edmunds formed PICA with support of several Jewish members of the museum board who the new director made uncomfortable. Edmunds is now at MassMOCA nee UCLA and Melbourne.

He brings 2 events.

For The Pandemia Chronicles, he uses the John Cage method to randomly select material to present and perform. "Utilizing a casino roulette spinner to select his live spoken word texts and props, he is unplugged, thinking out loud and articulating the challenges and possibilities of reinvention during confinement and in the midst of multiple pandemics." He is joined by his wife and performance partner Balitronica Gómez. That event is at Pacific University.

He is doing a similar remix in a brief one hour retrospective performance from his archives at the Portland Art Museum. Much of Wednesday is poetic reading. Friday he started with his birth and about the first 30 of his performance years. You can start with the show announcements, see the performances, then dig into his work as you like. Much of his historic work would be considered contemporary today. 

Wednesday Pandemic Chronicles https://pacificuniversity.ticketspice.com/2022-benjamin-and-elaine-whiteley-distinguished-lecture at McCready Hall, Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center, Pacific University, Forest Grove. Tickets required. 7PM Free

Friday Multiple Journeys: The Life and Work of Gómez-Peña https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/multiple-journeys/ at the Portland Art Museum in the Mark Building-Masonc Temple Kridel Grand Ballroom 1219 SW Park 7PM-8 $5

March 13 Dark Market

I'm not really interested in the dark side, I've seen enough in real life. I never had a goth stage. Nonetheless, we will occasionally list Portland weird events, even if you don't think they are weird.

The Market of the Beast is a traveling craft show of the dark arts. It started in Seattle at the Unicorn Bar. One of the founders has a 3 leg opossum companion animal. Now it is materializing out of the vapours in Portland for an afternoon. You can see what they are up to on their website and socials. Market of the Beast https://www.marketofthebeast.net/ at 411 NE 18th 1PM-6 $1 admission 21+

March 12 Hey Backyard! Spring Ahead!

Zena Zezza is an independent project by Sandra Percival who did curatorial work for Yale Union. Continuing the noted Zezza curatorial arc, they present Yang Fudong from Shanghai.

Yejiang/The Nightman Cometh to Dawn Breaking and Backyard - Hey! The Sun is Rising are abstract narrative videos showing today.

It is in a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. RSVP requested on their website. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 3:30PM Free

March 5 Headstrong Groundhog Evening Ear Object Recognition Paradise

Portland has a history of galleries in private homes, their outbuildings, and in live-work spaces. It's like Manhattan's apartment gallery popups. Painter curator Srijon Chowdhury has his own Chicken Coop Gallery. Today he has a show at SE Cooper Contemprary. His Groundhog Day show "resonates with solitude and repetitiveness that has become ordinary. Subject matter fluctuates between still life, portraits, and floral imagery, communicating intimate domestic stories that might not entirely be what they seem. Subjects' interior lives are intertwined with fantastical objects often seen in a film, folklore, and religious story. The emotive work in the exhibition displays striking moments of hope and possibility" according to the show writer. The opening was in February. It's at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 11AM-5 Saturdays Free



Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. It gives the space a little more tempral breathing room. Abendlied (Evening Song) are photographs of her family's home as her mother ages out in dementia by German-Canadian photographer Birthe Piontek. In a way, it relates to the Kabakov's Treatement with Memories. I have a friend in this now. After several successful careers, including writing a book about genetics and male calicos, they set out to write a book on the entire history of written language intertwined with watching a neighbor child grow up manufesting dislexia. The dementia lost the book with their long term memory. HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda is a photo essay by Dan Nelkin with narratives by Beatrice Lamwaka. The Nines Gallery has to touch, to touch, drawings and etchings by Linda Hutchins. It is her longtime minimal work. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Fixed-format low-priced art shows have been in Portland since at least Charm Bracelet. The Alberta Street Gallery is back in year 3 of their 6x6x6 open call show. Each work on a 6x6 wood panel is limited to 6 in freespace, all inch. Works are $100 or less. Cash and carry, so arrive early. The show opened March 3. Reception today. At Alberta Street Gallery 1829 NE Alberta 2PM Free



The Brassworks Gallery took the Recess space. Then they moved. Dark City is their urban surrealist - lowbrow show. At Brassworks Gallery 3022 NE Glisan Ave 5PM Free



The big show today is at the Oregon Contemporary megaplex in Kenton. They close early at 8.

System as Object is a generative installation by Crystal Cortez, Francisco Botello, General QU, and Benjamin Johnson. It will be evolving for the next 3 weeks with a coda in the form of a live ticketed performance by the Third Angle musical ensemble on March 20. System as Object will be performatively unveiled tonight at 7.

The Hallie Ford Fellowships select noted regional mid-career to even late-career artists. Corey Arnold, Avantika Bawa, Pat Boas, Bruce Burris, Julie Green, James Lavadour, Niraja Cheryl Lorenz, Elizabeth Malaska, Demian DinéYazhí, Harrell Fletcher, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Flint Jamison, Jess Perlitz, Sharita Towne, and Marie Watt, slected between 2017 and 2019, show.

Bill Will, wry political sculptor, has If the Virus Could Talk, a talking Coronavirus!


At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free



The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair is at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



On the Verge of Recognition, curated by Jeremy Le Grand and Kelda Van Patten is at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Small Talk Collective has a new space shared with the offices of Photolucida which is double exciting news. Afterword is a show by Brittney Cathey-Adams, Tracy Chandler, Panos Charalampidis + Mary Chairetaki, Buzzy Sullivan, Yuyang Zhang and Muscle Memory Collective. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

March 4 Celilo - Never Silenced

The New World, the US, the West, the Northwest, and us have Native American artists in our midst. Meet them. Some are the inaugural visual arts show at the Reser Performing Arts Center in Beaverton. It is the first public event in the space.

Don Bailey, Rick Bartow, Joe Cantrell, Jonnel Covault, Ed Edmo, Joe Fedderson, Analee Fuentes, Sean Gallagher, Lillian Pitt, Pah-tu Pitt, Richard Rowland, Sara Siestreem, Gail Tremblay, and Richard York show. Marie Watt is another not in this show, and she does large public sculptures and installations.

There are talks with several of the artists 2PM, March 13, and April 30, see the link.

The announcement wins the copywriting award for the month: "Our lives flow in historic currents, sometimes direct and personal, others, more distant. As NChi’Wana (the Columbia River) runs through our communities, the past flows through us, literally, culturally, and figuratively, defining the lives of people connected to it. Wyam (Celilo Falls), sacred and primary to Indigenous people for hundreds of miles around, was destroyed by The Dalles Dam in 1957, obliterating a way of life, a thriving fishery, and far more than that. The flooded falls displaced those who celebrated and relied upon its essential life-giving forces, destroying a vital culture."

This new venue is right on the TriMet MAX train line.

Thereser.org/event/celilo-never-silenced at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Map 6PM-8:30 Free

March 4 Eastside Art Openings

Hey kids, the Eastside is more back than lately.


Sun and Moon is at Splendorporium 3421 SE 21st 7PM-9 Free


Portal Immortal by Marissa Avila of @makemakepdx has a show and sale of everything, including their homebrewed kombucha. At Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8 Free


A Walk in the Woods by Davis TeSelle, Bob Stensland, Rebecca Arthur, Kristen Etmund, and Jennifer Foran. It is at Sidestreet Arts 140 SE 28th 7PM-9 Free


East Creative is eventing titled as Escapism Through Art at 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free


Movie lounge and cafe 4TH Wall PDX is having an art show with no information other than it will be "hot" and "hugely successful" and their poster has an octopus at 1445 SE Hawthorne 6PM-10 Free

March 3 Westside Art Openings

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

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

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

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

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+

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 

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Emmanuela Soria Ruiz opens The Longest Leg, video work. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 5PM-8 Free 

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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

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

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. 

October 23 Night to Dawn

Zena Zezza is an independent project by Sandra Percival who did curatorial work for Yale Union. Continuing the noted Zezza curatorial arc, they present Yang Fudong from Shanghai's Yejiang/The Nightman Cometh to Dawn Breaking.

It opens today in a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock & McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 2PM-5 Free

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 Free

Spooky 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