The Portland Art Museum has a major show of Black Oregon visual artists. Saturday and Sunday they have talks and demonstrations. Saturday is ticketed. It appears Sunday in the large Masonic temple ballrooms is not, you can inquire if museum admission is required.
All the details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon-convening/#sunday-february-25-2024%c2%a0
At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Saturday 10AM Sunday 9:30AM
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
February 23 - May 19 Change in Art Institution Context
Social change is in the air. With instant Internet self-curated information sources people and artists naturally ask how they can change the world. It is a good form of self-actualization. Policing Justice is PICA's attempt to catch some of those winds. The whole program is on their website.
February 22 Ingredients
I have a theory of contemporary artwork ingredients. They may include beauty-anti-beauty, color, form, the title, the artist statement, the artist narrative, and emotional carriers.
Carriers can take many forms. The skill of an artist is to balance the ingredients. Too much beauty is not playing fair. Too much emotion is not playing fair, in my opinion. For instance, an artist can insert images of the Holocaust or similar. It is guaranteed to get a response from the audience.
I have followed the work of Alfredo Jaar for some time. He does socially conscious art. His causes are fine. I love much of the work, but I think he crosses over into exploiting too obvious emotional ingredients in some works. I have heard him speak twice. His ego does not admit the possibility of audience exploitation. Some of his audience like it. Hey, if you want to collect triggers into your living space, go for it! Personally I think artists Ai Weiwei and Banksy ply the same waters better.
Here is an exercise as an art-maker or in an art-making group, do a crit of Jaar's works.
To me, that question is an ongoing discussion for art makers and art audiences. He has certainly been successful in the art-making machinery.
Jaar speaks free tonight.
At PNCA www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM Free
Carriers can take many forms. The skill of an artist is to balance the ingredients. Too much beauty is not playing fair. Too much emotion is not playing fair, in my opinion. For instance, an artist can insert images of the Holocaust or similar. It is guaranteed to get a response from the audience.
I have followed the work of Alfredo Jaar for some time. He does socially conscious art. His causes are fine. I love much of the work, but I think he crosses over into exploiting too obvious emotional ingredients in some works. I have heard him speak twice. His ego does not admit the possibility of audience exploitation. Some of his audience like it. Hey, if you want to collect triggers into your living space, go for it! Personally I think artists Ai Weiwei and Banksy ply the same waters better.
Here is an exercise as an art-maker or in an art-making group, do a crit of Jaar's works.
To me, that question is an ongoing discussion for art makers and art audiences. He has certainly been successful in the art-making machinery.
Jaar speaks free tonight.
At PNCA www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM Free
Saturday, February 17, 2024
February 17 California Seen
Eastern curator Cornelia Stokes stops by to talk about ther show Seen they made at L'Atelier Yaffe. Artists are Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. At https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 2PM-4 Free
Ido Radon opens California. It includes bold abstract sculptures, some reminding of Louise Nevelson. She was born here, showed in many of our well-curated alt spaces, then nationally. internationally and recently recieved her MFA at UBC. She writes too. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 4PM-6 Free
Ido Radon opens California. It includes bold abstract sculptures, some reminding of Louise Nevelson. She was born here, showed in many of our well-curated alt spaces, then nationally. internationally and recently recieved her MFA at UBC. She writes too. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 4PM-6 Free
Thursday, February 15, 2024
February 15 Grapefruit
Grapefruits, originally in industrial Albina, is back. They are not resident in Mother Foucault's Bookshop and open with a show of paintings and drawings by Ním Daghlian. 523 SE Morrison 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, February 10, 2024
February 10 New Space is the Place
L'Atelier Yaffe is a new space with Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. They are curated by Cornelia Stokes and are https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 3PM-8 Free
Monday, February 05, 2024
February 9 - June 15 Sea
Damien Hirst is a polarizing artist. He was minted at Goldsmiths, forged the YBA with Freeze, and won a Turner. That momentum produced his shark at age 26. Few people know a former Portland collector was instrumental in his work. They lived in Texas, Hirst visited, he was in a challenging life period, they had a houseful of free physician pharmaceutical samples. That was the inspiration for Pharmacy, age 27.
Everyone hates taxes, including art collectors. Just like there is an Irish Sandwhich for reducing corporate taxes, there is an Oregon equivalent for art US collectors. After buying, if you loan your artwork to a museum in Oregon (and several other states,) you are excused from sales taxes. Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum tapped it bringing significant works. Those included Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms was also brought by the Oregon sandwich to the Portland Art Museum in 2019.
Cherry Blossoms came after his Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, widely considered a failure, though it funded numerous studio assistants and fabricators. Cherry Blossoms are large canvases painted in daubs of bright pigments. The floor of Hurst's very large studio was floored with grey canvas to catch the drips; Hirst seems to relish getting pigments all over himself. Blossoms out the door, Hirst stretched the drippy canvas and began his Where the Land Meets the Sea works.
The body has monochrome almost photorealistic images of surf, Sea Paintings; Coast Paintings and Seascapes. Hirst placed those canvases against the wall, flung paint at them, and added more paint, brush and stick in hand. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJ-xPJIuGf/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CvwaM1oopGl/. The pieces were named by found tourism post cards, now afixed to the back of the canvases.
Hirst has a new direct sales model through Philips and HENI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCG93Vh7h3U.
The Halle Ford Museum in Salem is part of Willamette University which absorbed PNCA. It is an Oregon private school with generous alumni. The museum is small with a good collection and some rotating shows.
The Halle Ford Museum has on loan Rhossili Beach, Colwyn Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea, 2019.
At the Willamette University Halle Ford Museum https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html, across from the backside of the Capitol 700 State St, Salem museum hours $8
Everyone hates taxes, including art collectors. Just like there is an Irish Sandwhich for reducing corporate taxes, there is an Oregon equivalent for art US collectors. After buying, if you loan your artwork to a museum in Oregon (and several other states,) you are excused from sales taxes. Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum tapped it bringing significant works. Those included Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms was also brought by the Oregon sandwich to the Portland Art Museum in 2019.
Cherry Blossoms came after his Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, widely considered a failure, though it funded numerous studio assistants and fabricators. Cherry Blossoms are large canvases painted in daubs of bright pigments. The floor of Hurst's very large studio was floored with grey canvas to catch the drips; Hirst seems to relish getting pigments all over himself. Blossoms out the door, Hirst stretched the drippy canvas and began his Where the Land Meets the Sea works.
The body has monochrome almost photorealistic images of surf, Sea Paintings; Coast Paintings and Seascapes. Hirst placed those canvases against the wall, flung paint at them, and added more paint, brush and stick in hand. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJ-xPJIuGf/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CvwaM1oopGl/. The pieces were named by found tourism post cards, now afixed to the back of the canvases.
Hirst has a new direct sales model through Philips and HENI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCG93Vh7h3U.
The Halle Ford Museum in Salem is part of Willamette University which absorbed PNCA. It is an Oregon private school with generous alumni. The museum is small with a good collection and some rotating shows.
The Halle Ford Museum has on loan Rhossili Beach, Colwyn Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea, 2019.
At the Willamette University Halle Ford Museum https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html, across from the backside of the Capitol 700 State St, Salem museum hours $8
Sunday, February 04, 2024
February 4 Different Walkabout
Outer Voice, a curatorial project by Sarah Rushford, has a physical space in the old Disjecta building but operates on its own schedule. The focus is on time-based art. We do miss the old PSU time-based art club.
Today Outer Voice brings Year of the Dragon, 2024, The American Standard by Qi You. She is doing a workshop and performance Sunday at 1. You are requested to wear two different shoes in your pair. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 1PM Free
Today Outer Voice brings Year of the Dragon, 2024, The American Standard by Qi You. She is doing a workshop and performance Sunday at 1. You are requested to wear two different shoes in your pair. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 1PM Free
Saturday, February 03, 2024
February 3 Northside Art Openings
Shintaro Kago brings his illustrations of deconstructed heads. They are very wild and instantly recognizable. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Kelda Van Patten brings If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Think of You. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Raphael Arar brings Value(s). At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues shows.
Kelda Van Patten brings If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Think of You. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Raphael Arar brings Value(s). At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues shows.
Friday, February 02, 2024
February 3 Learning from Land
The Japan Institute is the visionary cultural arm of the Portland Japanese Garden. This afternoon, in their Living Traditions series, they bring Yuko Hasegawa, Shohei Shigematsu, Dorothée Imbert, and moderator Ken Tadashi Oshima to discuss the aspirational role of the built environment.
The American relationship with land and building is framed by the great frontier, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, and landscape as a manifestation of a god. I often recommend the Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb to explain it. Those ideas informed the great Western expeditions, including photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and others. Law and land ownership are prime. With so much land, inspiration and care is confined to islands and instances, parks. The dark side is represented by Interior Secretary Watt. His belief in the pending apocalypse required maximum exploitation at maximum speed of all public lands.
Japan has a different vibe. Shinto spirits inhabit the land. Japanese care and aesthetics inform building and placemaking on land. Small farms are supported. There are, of course, industrial sacrifice zones. Maybe America can learn from Japan.
Thus, A Conversation on Art, Architecture, and Landscape unfolds this afternoon https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/ at W+K 224 NW 13th. Doors 3PM, talk 3:30, reception 5. Free (Sold out, wait for the video)
The American relationship with land and building is framed by the great frontier, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, and landscape as a manifestation of a god. I often recommend the Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb to explain it. Those ideas informed the great Western expeditions, including photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and others. Law and land ownership are prime. With so much land, inspiration and care is confined to islands and instances, parks. The dark side is represented by Interior Secretary Watt. His belief in the pending apocalypse required maximum exploitation at maximum speed of all public lands.
Japan has a different vibe. Shinto spirits inhabit the land. Japanese care and aesthetics inform building and placemaking on land. Small farms are supported. There are, of course, industrial sacrifice zones. Maybe America can learn from Japan.
Thus, A Conversation on Art, Architecture, and Landscape unfolds this afternoon https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/ at W+K 224 NW 13th. Doors 3PM, talk 3:30, reception 5. Free (Sold out, wait for the video)
February 2-3 Dark Sleep Concert
Imbolic is a traditional festival marking the transition between Winter and Spring. The Portland Imbolic Sleep Concert returns. It reminds an historic all night planetarium series with music and visuals in another city. The Portland one is dark music for dreaming. The lineup is Adriene Arwen, Pansophia, Operafication, Anastasia Darkwater, Soriah, Wicking Ground, Proqxis, and Shifting Harbor. Bring something to sleep on and things keep warm. At Azoth 10PM-7AM $30 Sold Out
February 2 Eastside Art Openings
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
February 2 Kowaii is not Kawaii
Nuceus House brings Japanese illustrator Mizna Wada https://miznaw.com/. She has been making horror-themed illustrations and sometimes 3D fgures for 20 years, showing worldwide. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
February 2 - March 2 34th African Film Festival
The 34th annual Cascade Festival of African Films begins tonight. Films show Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Most are in the PCC Cascade auditorium. The opening film and one February 16 are at the Hollywood Theater, one is at the PAM Cut Tomorrow Theater on Division and one at PCC Sylvania. February 24 has a matinee suited for children.
The schedule and film synopses are at https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/. All the films are Free
February 2-10 Light Art
The Portland Winter light Festival, https://pdxwlf.com/, is a festival of light art viewed after dark. It is distributed throughout the city over ten days It is concentrated on two Friday-Saturdays Downtown at Pioneer Square, around the Portland General offices and in the Eastside Industrial District. Most works are powered on from 6PM to 10. It is all ages and it is all free.
Thursday, February 01, 2024
February 1 Westside Art Openings+
February is Black History Month and many shows have that theme.
With all that is going on, you will need running shoes, dancing shoes, not ice cleats.
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Leach and Adams and Ollman continue. No idea on Stelo, Writers Block, Landdd or the Everett Lofts.
You have two+ today.
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM. This Sunday is the Miller Family free day too.
There are two notable shows now, African Fashion curated by Christine Checinska from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ends February 18. It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/africa-fashion/. Black Artists of Oregon is curated by Intisar Abioto - https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/. She is a polymath artist and photographer of The Black Portlanders - https://theblackportlanders.com/.
This afternoon and evening unfolds these events -
1PM-2 Artists Arvie Smith, Christine Miller and Julian Gaines talk about their work.
4PM-5 Artist Bukola Koiki explores the fabric of the Africa Fashion show.
For your plus2 Ily2 Too in the Lloyd Mall opens the residency of Father Fannie. For the opening he has a poppy program of installation, image and music by local Afrofuturist Keeks and Kymil Jeneé. Planet Loveship has one of a kind clothing and accessories. It's a perfect too to the Africa Fashion show at the museum. They announce happenings throughout the residency on their insta, I can't list them all.
At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls. 4PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colorful paintings, Beginner Nudes. He deconstructed discarded "student figure paintings into immersive installations and still-life photographs that continue the original creative idea of painting - taking abandoned impulses and giving them new life, meaning, and value." Sounds provided by eRock. Seaplane 2.0 Recommended. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings The Soul Shop. Combine art, music, an immersive barbershop + beauty salon. Art by Jeremy Oka, Bre DePriest, The Omni Q, and more, like Trap Kitchen.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
In the Nine Gallery is Sidewalk Stories - Japan by Christopher Rauschenberg. First trip.
Terra Fondriest has Ozark Life, tender documentation of life where she and her family live.
Sage Sohier has everyday life photos from negatives made between 1979 and 1985 in show Passing Time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. Emergence is an MFA program readout with printmakers Ebony Frison, Sarah Huttner, Jess O’Farrell, Salem Shinn, Genesis Turris, and Ray Zill; and visual studies artists Ryan-Ashley (Ray) Anderson, Charli Beck, Myra Crane, Erin Fox, Mai Ide, Pearl Lockwood, Ella Martini, Liz Medina, KP Phoebus, Annika Rausch, Adelina Ruvalcaba, Cynthia Souderm Danielle Van Dam, and Mallary Wilson.
Mai Ide x PCP + Kyoko Hasegawa + Steven Gosvener perform live in the Atrium at 5.
There is a community printmaking event with Don't Shoot PDX. Screenprint signs and posters to take home free. All ages.
DJ Mami Miami/author of Funeral for Flaca/PNCA professor/Emilly Prado provides music, dancing is A-OK.
And there is a photobooth with photographer and artist Ash Stone.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Waterstone has a group wood show by Kevin Jesequel, Masamichi Nitani, Jim Piper, John Strohbehn, Marjin Wall, Elizabeth Weber, Rebecca Welti, and David Williams. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with still life oil paintings Still Life of Lives Made Still by Malique Pye. Participants may leave small memorials of their own. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Ouroboros/Leviathan is a light installation by Noah Alexander and Isaac Stein. It alongside a group show Illuminations. All are part of Portland Winter Light Festival. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 6PM-10 extended hours Free
At Variance, by Whiting Tennis, are primitive mark-making style paintings and collage. Michael Dailey (1938-2009) worked and taught in Seattle, he is also represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery. He was known for abstract color in minimalsim with edge making similar to fellow Northwest artist Carl Morris. This show is titled Landscape Journey. Continuing is mid-career Portland artist Laura Domela. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Chris Kelly has A Wandering Wondering/Work from Then and Now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a Winter group show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
RACC has an open house including arts, crafts and zines for sale. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Street are abstract acrylic and pastel canvases by Erik Reel. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Jeffrey Fuchs has colorful abstract paintings along with Jennifer Fernandez and Joshua Peters. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5:30PM-7:30 Early Closing Free
With all that is going on, you will need running shoes, dancing shoes, not ice cleats.
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Leach and Adams and Ollman continue. No idea on Stelo, Writers Block, Landdd or the Everett Lofts.
You have two+ today.
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM. This Sunday is the Miller Family free day too.
There are two notable shows now, African Fashion curated by Christine Checinska from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ends February 18. It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/africa-fashion/. Black Artists of Oregon is curated by Intisar Abioto - https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/. She is a polymath artist and photographer of The Black Portlanders - https://theblackportlanders.com/.
This afternoon and evening unfolds these events -
1PM-2 Artists Arvie Smith, Christine Miller and Julian Gaines talk about their work.
4PM-5 Artist Bukola Koiki explores the fabric of the Africa Fashion show.
For your plus2 Ily2 Too in the Lloyd Mall opens the residency of Father Fannie. For the opening he has a poppy program of installation, image and music by local Afrofuturist Keeks and Kymil Jeneé. Planet Loveship has one of a kind clothing and accessories. It's a perfect too to the Africa Fashion show at the museum. They announce happenings throughout the residency on their insta, I can't list them all.
At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls. 4PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colorful paintings, Beginner Nudes. He deconstructed discarded "student figure paintings into immersive installations and still-life photographs that continue the original creative idea of painting - taking abandoned impulses and giving them new life, meaning, and value." Sounds provided by eRock. Seaplane 2.0 Recommended. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings The Soul Shop. Combine art, music, an immersive barbershop + beauty salon. Art by Jeremy Oka, Bre DePriest, The Omni Q, and more, like Trap Kitchen.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
In the Nine Gallery is Sidewalk Stories - Japan by Christopher Rauschenberg. First trip.
Terra Fondriest has Ozark Life, tender documentation of life where she and her family live.
Sage Sohier has everyday life photos from negatives made between 1979 and 1985 in show Passing Time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. Emergence is an MFA program readout with printmakers Ebony Frison, Sarah Huttner, Jess O’Farrell, Salem Shinn, Genesis Turris, and Ray Zill; and visual studies artists Ryan-Ashley (Ray) Anderson, Charli Beck, Myra Crane, Erin Fox, Mai Ide, Pearl Lockwood, Ella Martini, Liz Medina, KP Phoebus, Annika Rausch, Adelina Ruvalcaba, Cynthia Souderm Danielle Van Dam, and Mallary Wilson.
Mai Ide x PCP + Kyoko Hasegawa + Steven Gosvener perform live in the Atrium at 5.
There is a community printmaking event with Don't Shoot PDX. Screenprint signs and posters to take home free. All ages.
DJ Mami Miami/author of Funeral for Flaca/PNCA professor/Emilly Prado provides music, dancing is A-OK.
And there is a photobooth with photographer and artist Ash Stone.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Waterstone has a group wood show by Kevin Jesequel, Masamichi Nitani, Jim Piper, John Strohbehn, Marjin Wall, Elizabeth Weber, Rebecca Welti, and David Williams. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with still life oil paintings Still Life of Lives Made Still by Malique Pye. Participants may leave small memorials of their own. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Ouroboros/Leviathan is a light installation by Noah Alexander and Isaac Stein. It alongside a group show Illuminations. All are part of Portland Winter Light Festival. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 6PM-10 extended hours Free
At Variance, by Whiting Tennis, are primitive mark-making style paintings and collage. Michael Dailey (1938-2009) worked and taught in Seattle, he is also represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery. He was known for abstract color in minimalsim with edge making similar to fellow Northwest artist Carl Morris. This show is titled Landscape Journey. Continuing is mid-career Portland artist Laura Domela. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Chris Kelly has A Wandering Wondering/Work from Then and Now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a Winter group show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
RACC has an open house including arts, crafts and zines for sale. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Street are abstract acrylic and pastel canvases by Erik Reel. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Jeffrey Fuchs has colorful abstract paintings along with Jennifer Fernandez and Joshua Peters. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5:30PM-7:30 Early Closing Free
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
January 31 Known Legos
Industry is an ad agency here - https://www.adweek.com/agencies/can-a-creative-agency-reshape-portland/. They are in Dick Singer's 60's international style LEGO building where polychrome panels randomly inhabit a curtain wall exterior. The building was once home to PICA and Poler. Last February Industry opened a gallery in their offices. This evening, they open their second show, Let It Be Known. It includes Portland artists Rob Lewis, Milan Davis, James Bullock, Naomi Likayi, Christine Miller, Nia Musiba and Paola de la Cruz; Mikey Coleman, from Chicago, and Barry Johnson from Seattle. Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, January 27, 2024
January 28 Slip Bonds; Embrace Inspiration, Act With Grace
Space is the Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOIs1u8iwg Afro-futurist Sun Ra made in 1974. The earliest humans, and maybe other creatures, look up and wonder. The sky and space was projected as the home of gods and now we have become them.
Traveling up and out, beyond terra firma, is the realm of birds we wondered. Myth was made real by the Wright Brothers. It is poetically memorialized by John Gillespie Magee Jr. in his poem High Flight. Magee crashed at age 19. Risk is real. We were taken beyond the atmosphere by Sputnik, Laika, and President Kennedy.
We love the frontier as explored by Walter Prescott Webb's the Great Frontier. We have always projected utopia on that new frontier.
The United States asymptotically aspires to utopia. We have work to do in the spirit of continuous improvement. We can be much better gods.
You can see an inspiring move on NASA and African American pilots, scientists and engineers making Afro-futurism real.
They sought to slip the surly bonds of racism and be their maximum selves. The movie, The Space Race, https://films.nationalgeographic.com/the-space-race documents their experience.
To Afro-futurism, world population dynamics make it inevitable.
Movie The Space Race https://thereser.org/event/the-space-race/ at the Reser. Reservations required. 3PM Free
January 27 Eyes Closed
Music, like visual art, is always evolving and branching. It is not the shock of the new but love of the new. Through the magic of technology, a single individual can command a virtual orchestra with tools like Spitfire. That being said, the branches of 20th Century "classical" music and acoustic performers continue laying down new branches. Small ensembles playing expressive acoustic instruments for years achieve a mind meld you can hear. One is the Kronos. Tonight they perform, including with butoh player Eiko from New York. Eiko now moving solo, performed many years, including in Portland, with her partner Koma https://eikoandkoma.org/. They met studying with Hijikata and Ohno in Japan. They have performed together since they were 20 and 24 respectively and have a family. They had an art grant for a quarter floor on the 92nd floor for the year 2000 of the World Trade Center as a studio. Throughout their career, they have done idea-based work. Tonight Eiko performs Eyes Closed with the Kronos. After, there will be a panel discussion Artists Respond to Climate Change and Nuclear Disaster. The Kronos at Stanford Live https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/january-2024/kronos-quartet-five-decades in Palo Alto 7:30PM $32+
Friday, January 26, 2024
January 26 Folks
Modern Folk is a group show by Jess Ackerman, Luke Forsyth, Esther Pearl Watson, Godeleine de Rosamel, Betsy Walton, Lisa Congdon, Gina Contreras, and Justin Scrppers Morrison.
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, January 25, 2024
January 25 Talons Out
Antler and Talon has a large group show by Peter Bakacs, Heather Lee Birdsong, Eli McMullen, Chris Mrozik, Lisa Golightly, Stevie Shao, Pizza in the Rain, Nicole Gustafsson, Brin Levinson, Kristin Bell, Neil Perry, Juliet Schreckinger, Faunwood, Allison May Kiphuth, and Caitlin McCormack with each artist making 3 works. On talons, the ultimate is in eagle mating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JiLlNTpJE. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
January 25 Life Experience
KSMOCA is situated in a pre-K/K-5 school. It is the other arts magnet school. It's too cool. It started with art parents, adopted by social practice professors, it engages students with working artist residencies. Every child is an artist. The goal is not to lose that in doubt.
Richard Brown https://www.richardjbrown.me/ speaks there this morning. He is a photographer too https://www.richardjbrown.me/photography, presaging Insitar Abioto's Black Portlanders https://theblackportlanders.com/. In turn, Richard Brown is curated into the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/#artists-featured-in-black-artists-of-oregon by Abioto. Mr Brown has been artist in residence this Fall working with the students.
Please stop by the Main Office to sign in and receive a visitor pass to the school. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th. 10AM Free
Richard Brown https://www.richardjbrown.me/ speaks there this morning. He is a photographer too https://www.richardjbrown.me/photography, presaging Insitar Abioto's Black Portlanders https://theblackportlanders.com/. In turn, Richard Brown is curated into the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/#artists-featured-in-black-artists-of-oregon by Abioto. Mr Brown has been artist in residence this Fall working with the students.
Please stop by the Main Office to sign in and receive a visitor pass to the school. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th. 10AM Free
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
January 23 Japan Society Engages Ai Weiwei in NYC
Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist exiled from China. A fav is a documentary by Alison Klayman - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. His autobiography, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, is a review of Chinese history he experienced. He is present on social media and archived video. He has recent focus on refugees.
If you are in New York City, Ai Weiwei speaks. He has a new project in the form of a graphic novel. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir. He's touring the book release.
He has a project in London, Ai vs. AI with CIRCA - https://circa.art/artist/ai-weiwei-ai-vs-ai/. Each day he asks a question.
You can look up the book and hear. At https://thetownhall.org/event/pen-out-loud-ai-weiwei-with-mira-jacob shame on using Ticketmaster 123 West 43rd Street 6PM $27+
Saturday, January 20, 2024
January 21 Moths
Many musician friends have evolved their practice to the ambient - sound healing continuum. Even dedicated rockers. They inhabit small venues and intimate audience experiences. Alcohol which fuels local music, or really any other alterants, are not part of the equation.
Analog modular synths have resurged too. Musique concrète used vacuum tube electronics and magnetic tape. The next generation was epitomized by builders Robert Moog, Don Buchla, and others. They built small solid state synthesizers with large patches. Those modular synthesizers were akin to analog computers of the time used in solving calculus in science.
Trans musician Wendy Carlos provided Moog extensive user experience design feedback and subsequently was awarded multiple Grammys for her synthesizer performances. From there, purpose-built keyboard synths dominated. Now composition, tracking, mixing and mastering music is "in the box" - software.
But the kids rediscovered analog modules and built them on the inexpensive Eurorack ecosystem.
Live performance is popular, and the S1/Portland Synth Library, created by Felicia Ledesma, post her electronic media gallery Multiplex, is nestled in that world. We do mourn the sunset of Alisa Akay's Volt Divers synth+video performance series.
Some events combine synths, voice, and common sound healing acoustic instruments. Events can be lay down, some are sit down, and some are free improvised movement by all.
Tonight is MOTHS | Modular On The (Human) Spot: Movement to Modular Synthesis. It will be a small event, be nice, become part of the ecosystem, do not destroy it. It's a meditation with movement and community. Performer facilitators are Cave Cricket, Dashkasounds, and Wilder Rose. Presented in collaboration with the Portland Synth Library.
January 20 Opening Thaw
Kenji Ide from Japan has his second show in Portland. He was curated by founder Matt Jay into the Portland Japanese Garden contemporary art program with Poems of Perception. Ide’s Garden work is a contemporary interpretation of Japanese death rituals in minimalist sculpture.
Ruined Windows by Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman making glass shares the opening.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 2PM-4 Free
Pace Taylor has colorful bulbous paintings, Before the Doors Open. Perfect bright for grey.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-5 Free Masks are highly encouraged
The Schnitzer Collection is a foundation continuing the work of Fountain Gallerist Arleen Schnitzer. Their exhibition space hosts the first of their Art Fit events ~ "wear your art swag and art-inspired outfits" if you like. The show up, which you should see, is curated for the Converge 45 project. The signature piece celebrated today is a large silk screen authorized reproduction of Phooey, a Basquiat painting.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-5 Free
Out of Salem: D.E May & Friends, has D.E. May and contemporaries Brad Ford, Bonnie Hull, Craig Klyver, Natalie Laswell, Bryan Null, Dan Schmidt, Terry Schneider, Monte Shelton, and John Van Dreal.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-4:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of The Sibyl. She had a pink altspace, her own writing and art event/spaces newsletter, and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video.
"Leaves of The Sibyl is an installation of intricate embroidery, soft sculpture, cast metal, & analog video. stitching a through line between the Romantic Period & present day, a transformative & coded imagery emerges between mediums: cherubs, black cats, crescent moons, flowers & plants, human skulls/bones, & poems which require a special tool to be read. Martha’s work possesses a contemplative reverence for magic & beauty, while acknowledging the confusion, fear, death, & rebirth which accompany moments of change."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
Ruined Windows by Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman making glass shares the opening.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 2PM-4 Free
Pace Taylor has colorful bulbous paintings, Before the Doors Open. Perfect bright for grey.
At Nationale
The Schnitzer Collection is a foundation continuing the work of Fountain Gallerist Arleen Schnitzer. Their exhibition space hosts the first of their Art Fit events ~ "wear your art swag and art-inspired outfits" if you like. The show up, which you should see, is curated for the Converge 45 project. The signature piece celebrated today is a large silk screen authorized reproduction of Phooey, a Basquiat painting.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-5 Free
Out of Salem: D.E May & Friends, has D.E. May and contemporaries Brad Ford, Bonnie Hull, Craig Klyver, Natalie Laswell, Bryan Null, Dan Schmidt, Terry Schneider, Monte Shelton, and John Van Dreal.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-4:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of The Sibyl. She had a pink altspace, her own writing and art event/spaces newsletter, and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video.
"Leaves of The Sibyl is an installation of intricate embroidery, soft sculpture, cast metal, & analog video. stitching a through line between the Romantic Period & present day, a transformative & coded imagery emerges between mediums: cherubs, black cats, crescent moons, flowers & plants, human skulls/bones, & poems which require a special tool to be read. Martha’s work possesses a contemplative reverence for magic & beauty, while acknowledging the confusion, fear, death, & rebirth which accompany moments of change."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
January 20 It's Tomorrow Today in Tokyo
Today is a performance in Seattle commemerating the death of the founder of butoh dance in Japan. The first performance by a young dancer unfolded in 1959 amidst a fertile creative period for young people. That generation were children in the war. The Anpo protests of the time could be compared to the May 68 in France, depicted in the Bertolucci-esque The Dreamers movie, and events in the US on the continuum of the Civil Rights - anti-Vietnam War - Womens Rights transformations.
Butoh is an improvised branch of modern dance using body intuition and images, often from nature, to create movement.
That founder, Hijikata, broke from his ballet and Euro-modern dance training and launched a faimily tree of butoh players which extends to Seattle. Joan Laage, there, studied and performed in Japan, with the Western unit, Gnome, of Hijikata's last ensemble with Yoko Ashikawa, Hakutobo. That last period for Hijikata was with an all-women ensemble. The work is quite beautiful as seen in this documentary excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNi4oFvhrY.
From his wife on his death at 57:
"Usually in Japan people die quietly. They hide the last moments of life. But Hijikata wanted to share his moment of death with each and every person. And so everyone surrounded his death bed. Hijikata sat up straight in bed, and for a long time thanked us all expressing his gratitude through dance. His body was all entangled in intravenous tubes but he still performed this dance of death. Tears were streaming down the faces of everyone watching. I finally asked him to stop. And he said 'you should applaud, applaud, I want to go out amidst cheers and applause.'"
Tonight Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Aoi Lee, Kaoru Okumura and Vanessa Skantze perform. RSVP and details https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/tatsumi-hijikata-memorial-2024-in-seattle At Teatro de la Psychomachia 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle 7PM Free
Butoh is an improvised branch of modern dance using body intuition and images, often from nature, to create movement.
That founder, Hijikata, broke from his ballet and Euro-modern dance training and launched a faimily tree of butoh players which extends to Seattle. Joan Laage, there, studied and performed in Japan, with the Western unit, Gnome, of Hijikata's last ensemble with Yoko Ashikawa, Hakutobo. That last period for Hijikata was with an all-women ensemble. The work is quite beautiful as seen in this documentary excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNi4oFvhrY.
From his wife on his death at 57:
"Usually in Japan people die quietly. They hide the last moments of life. But Hijikata wanted to share his moment of death with each and every person. And so everyone surrounded his death bed. Hijikata sat up straight in bed, and for a long time thanked us all expressing his gratitude through dance. His body was all entangled in intravenous tubes but he still performed this dance of death. Tears were streaming down the faces of everyone watching. I finally asked him to stop. And he said 'you should applaud, applaud, I want to go out amidst cheers and applause.'"
Tonight Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Aoi Lee, Kaoru Okumura and Vanessa Skantze perform. RSVP and details https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/tatsumi-hijikata-memorial-2024-in-seattle At Teatro de la Psychomachia 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle 7PM Free
Saturday, January 13, 2024
January 13 Snow Day
As of now, check their Insta before going, Pace Taylor opens Before the Doors Open large pencil aand pastels.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-5 Free masks required
Stelo Arts planned Unfolding, a book project with Pulp and Deckle, to drop today over home-made soup. That's perfect! Check their Insta to see if it's on.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 30000 S Camp Colton DriveColton, OR https://www.google.com/maps/place/30000+S+Camp+Colton+Dr,+Colton,+OR+97017/@45.172119,-122.433292,16z 1-4
At Nationale
Stelo Arts planned Unfolding, a book project with Pulp and Deckle, to drop today over home-made soup. That's perfect! Check their Insta to see if it's on.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 30000 S Camp Colton DriveColton, OR https://www.google.com/maps/place/30000+S+Camp+Colton+Dr,+Colton,+OR+97017/@45.172119,-122.433292,16z 1-4
Friday, January 12, 2024
January 13 Mauve Fog Pastime
A new space PPSTMM - Pastime opens Mauve Fog by Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun. He has been bopping around the world and many galleries in Portland. This is a visual show and performance. In the same building tonight, Black Whole Press opens too. At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8, performance 6:30 Free
Saturday, January 06, 2024
January 6 Northside Art Openings+
Bric-A-Brac is a group show of small works alongside Ellen Surrey's Small Show inspired by thrift stores.
Bric-A-Brac artists are Alexander Vidal, Alyn Smith, Ana Serrano, Ann Shen, Bijou Karman, Drake Brodahl, Ellen Surrey, Erick Martinez, Hayden Evans, Ian Truong, James Heimer, Jared Andrew Schorr, Julia Walck, Juliette Toma, Kevin Chan, Krista Perry, Lesley Barnes, Libby VanderPloeg, Lydia Nichols, Marisol Ortega, Nellie Le, Monica Garwood, Sam Kalda, and The Little Friends of Printmaking. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Turn Me Over is drawings and ceramic sculptures by artists Molly LeckoHerro and Alim Ringgold. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Covered up in Dailiness is cermic sculpture and drawings by Elizabeth Arzani and Renee Couture. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Turn Me Over is drawings and ceramic sculptures by artists Molly LeckoHerro and Alim Ringgold. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Covered up in Dailiness is cermic sculpture and drawings by Elizabeth Arzani and Renee Couture. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, January 05, 2024
January 5 Eastside Art Openings+
Mississippi Records has been a champion at bringing unusual music to the Hollywood theater, such as Sun Ra's Arkestra. We can't bring back New York's Moondog, but tonight you can have East and West Coast street musician Space Lady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEcJMWRNT0. The Portland Museum of Modern Art showed the work of self-taught artists and drew Space Lady here - https://portlandmuseumofmodernart.com/SPACE-LADY. The PMOMA curator went on to helm the Lumber Room. BTW, Sun Ra's movie Space is the Place is a classic of Afrofuturism worth the time. Space Lady at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12 Sold Out
One Grand has Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days by UK-based designer Another Department - Bo Matteini). They made a work a day for a year, all here now. They will be pulling prints for early arrivers. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Shoko Ishida https://shoko-ishida.com/ from Detroit has figuative work, alongside similar, Stella Im Hultberg https://www.stellaimhultberg.com/ from California via Korea. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times. Hey, all the kids are doing https now.
One Grand has Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days by UK-based designer Another Department - Bo Matteini). They made a work a day for a year, all here now. They will be pulling prints for early arrivers. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Shoko Ishida https://shoko-ishida.com/ from Detroit has figuative work, alongside similar, Stella Im Hultberg https://www.stellaimhultberg.com/ from California via Korea. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times. Hey, all the kids are doing https now.
Thursday, January 04, 2024
January 4 Westside Art Openings
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Gallery 114 is a coop like Blackfish. Several galleries are artist-curated and run, though not purely coops. That is A-OK. This month they have a group show by Linda Austin in the modern dance world. They are with Noah Beckham, Fernanda D'Agostino, many know for her video work, and Maximiliano in show Imprints, Objects in Performance. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5PM-7 Early Closing Free
In the Nine Gallery, Veteran Obsolete is a show by Geoffrey R. Bowton of an "indispensable exploration of war, post-traumatic stress, and mental wellness." Photographer Jim Lommasson has touched on that material in Exit Wounds.
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future are photographs of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire along the McKenzie River in the Oregon Cascades. Photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson working together are handing the project to a forest research group to continue the study for a generation.
Ebenezer Galluzzo a trans man. As a Home Changes are portraits made when he was a resident artist at Sitka.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Chris Chandler has prints, Elemental Forms. The estate of Deborah Horrell has glass work Vessels and Forms. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Early Close 5PM-7 Free
Blackfish has new member painters Noah Alexander Isaac Stein and Amy Turnbull. More: photo collages Aphelion by Hannah Theiss and What We Abandon images of train locomotives and cars by Chris Steinken. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Northwest Masters is a group show by classic modern artists Louis Bunce, Sally Haley, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, and Michele Russo. It is accompanied by Laura Domela with In the Office, abstracts. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
The Black Gallery is focused on events, other exhibition partners, and appointments. They are closing out their show at Expensify. You can follow their socials and connect with their shows that way.
Ily2, Aftertime Collective, Adams and Olman, Waterstone, Augen, Parallax, Laura Vincent seem to be continuing. No idea if they are open tonight.
PNCA and Frolick are on break
No idea on proof of life at the Everett Station.
Gallery 114 is a coop like Blackfish. Several galleries are artist-curated and run, though not purely coops. That is A-OK. This month they have a group show by Linda Austin in the modern dance world. They are with Noah Beckham, Fernanda D'Agostino, many know for her video work, and Maximiliano in show Imprints, Objects in Performance. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5PM-7 Early Closing Free
In the Nine Gallery, Veteran Obsolete is a show by Geoffrey R. Bowton of an "indispensable exploration of war, post-traumatic stress, and mental wellness." Photographer Jim Lommasson has touched on that material in Exit Wounds.
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future are photographs of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire along the McKenzie River in the Oregon Cascades. Photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson working together are handing the project to a forest research group to continue the study for a generation.
Ebenezer Galluzzo a trans man. As a Home Changes are portraits made when he was a resident artist at Sitka.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Chris Chandler has prints, Elemental Forms. The estate of Deborah Horrell has glass work Vessels and Forms. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Early Close 5PM-7 Free
Blackfish has new member painters Noah Alexander Isaac Stein and Amy Turnbull. More: photo collages Aphelion by Hannah Theiss and What We Abandon images of train locomotives and cars by Chris Steinken. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Northwest Masters is a group show by classic modern artists Louis Bunce, Sally Haley, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, and Michele Russo. It is accompanied by Laura Domela with In the Office, abstracts. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
The Black Gallery is focused on events, other exhibition partners, and appointments. They are closing out their show at Expensify. You can follow their socials and connect with their shows that way.
Ily2, Aftertime Collective, Adams and Olman, Waterstone, Augen, Parallax, Laura Vincent seem to be continuing. No idea if they are open tonight.
PNCA and Frolick are on break
No idea on proof of life at the Everett Station.
Friday, December 22, 2023
December 23-24+ NTVTY XI
The Xhurch is for sale. This year the Xhurch NTVTY is at the mall.
This year is NTVTY XI, the first was 2010. The format this year is a sculpture garden and votive shrine with artist collaborators. Many of the set pieces are nativity scenes with computers or technology as the baby messiah.
Xhurch and NTVTY have set up at the Mall. Find it "in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic," by Animal.Plant.Mineral.
In past years there have been musical collaborators.
Check their socials for hours ongoing, more interactive art, and more experimental music into the new year.
NTVTY XI https://www.xhurch.net/photomatrix.html at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. It is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. For now, check their socials. The mall doors are locked at 7, mall cleared around 8:30. Saturday 3PM-7+, Sunday 11PM-7+ Free
This year is NTVTY XI, the first was 2010. The format this year is a sculpture garden and votive shrine with artist collaborators. Many of the set pieces are nativity scenes with computers or technology as the baby messiah.
Xhurch and NTVTY have set up at the Mall. Find it "in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic," by Animal.Plant.Mineral.
In past years there have been musical collaborators.
Check their socials for hours ongoing, more interactive art, and more experimental music into the new year.
NTVTY XI https://www.xhurch.net/photomatrix.html at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. It is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. For now, check their socials. The mall doors are locked at 7, mall cleared around 8:30. Saturday 3PM-7+, Sunday 11PM-7+ Free
Monday, December 11, 2023
December 14 Neuroscience and Dance
I'm analytical so I need things to balance life in direct experience which resists analysis. I fell into the Portland modern dance crowd early. Modern dance girlfriend and all. After a few years, it lost its newness to me.
Then I discovered butoh through Sankai Juku and a Montreal performer with Zoviet France.
That Montreal performer combined butoh, Hindu temple dance and Hawaiian dance in her own style. It was a big impact on me. I had to speak to her and did. Her first language was French, and I have no French. But backstage she told this story I relate as shorthand for the koan that is butoh. Her teacher had this image. Imagine your body as only its bones. The bones are made of glass. In each joint is a flower. Improvise on that.
To Sankai Juku, unbeknownst to me, a friend was the producer of Sankai Juku in Pioneer Square, Seattle. My exposure to Sankai Juku was the second in their comeback post-Pioneer Square. At the end of the performance I felt an imediate visceral response across my scalp of chills and sparks; the entire audience was up in a standing ovation. It was not the usual few and checking to see if you should join the ovation. There was a collective rise by everyone. Somehow Pioneer Square was subliminally encoded in their performance. I did not even know that story at the time.
I always try to see Sankai Juku in Seattle because the audience has a strong emotional relationship. You feel it in the audience. I went on to study butoh in the flesh in Seattle, Japan, Portland, and San Francisco and see performances in each adding NYC and Denver.
Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ is a French butoh player in NYC. She has written a book on feminism, neuroscience https://www.vangeline.com/research, and butoh. It is a good read and complement to my discussion with Kazuo Ohno in Kyoto.
He said that the male originators were so engrossed in creation, they could not comprehend how women performers would bring their body experience to it. They were discovering butoh in their own male bodies.
Women did and do, ongoing. Many of us know trans persons who will bring their own to movement.
Even in the early days women such as Nakajima Natsu who works with intellectually disabled performers today; Yoko Ashikawa who brought a warm tone to butoh - she suggested an image our senile grandmother; Hiroko Tamano, who brings the darkest images to cute; Eiko Otake from NYC, who had a live-work in the World Trace Center and made free commemorative performance from that - she also suggests, with family, teach them to pretend to be sleeping to get them to sleep, then in butoh, dance as if you are asleep; Yumiko Yoshioka bringing butoh to a castle in Japan. I've studied with each. There are many American and international women in butoh. The Tamano legendary sushi restaurant, I patronzed in the Mission, and their home, was creative cradle to many female butoh friends.
One of my favorates, Dairakudakan is half women performers. I will travel to see them, have done, and have taken a workshop with Maro which challened me. I was also Portland host to Akira Kasai.
For whatever reason, Portland dance producers have been allergic to butoh. Bringing a group from Japan is expensive, but Seattle, SF, LA, Denver, NYC, and Vancouver BC do it.
Today Vangeline gives a free Internet talk - "Where the arts meet neuroscience - A virtual expert talk with Prof. Dr. Judith Revers and artist Vangeline."
"What happens inside our bodies and minds while performing and participating in the arts, and what are the mental and psychological benefits of it? In this last virtual lecture of the year, Prof. Dr. Judith Revers, Medical School Hamburg, dives into the field of performance art and dance with New York-based artist Vangeline, who’s involved in artistic research with neuroscientific methods around the Japanese artform Butoh. Together, they will be investigating interdisciplinary research in Arts and Neurosciences and its implications for the Arts Therapies."
"The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain is an art-science performance-research study. This new study investigates the brain dynamics of dancers while they are performing Butoh, a postmodern dance style that originated in Japan, through the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to record the participants’ brain waves. The study is a collaboration between the New York-based Vangeline Theater dance company, the Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems, IUCRC BRAIN Center, The Rockefeller University, and the Neurobiology of Social Communication Lab (funded by the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and New York University). In collaboration with neuroscientists Sadye Paez and Constantina Theofanopoulou, neuro engineer Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal, and composer Ray Sweeten, Vangeline choreographed a 60-minute ensemble butoh piece, which is uniquely informed by the protocol established for a scientific pilot study researching the impact of butoh on brain activity. For the groundbreaking art-science study, dancers' brain activity will be recorded at the University of Houston, Texas, with real-time visualization by multimedia artist Badie Khaleghian of the dancers' neural activity. Results will then be disseminated in scientific journals.
Vangeline and Sweeten have built on a 20-year history of creative collaboration with a soundscape that is informed by techniques of brainwave entrainment (techniques that affect consciousness through sound). The Slowest Wave investigates through the use of scalp EEG how brain waves during butoh dancing compare to those emitted during other conscious or unconscious motor behaviors, such as speaking or meditating. Moreover, the study will elucidate the functional neural networks of the dancers and the neural synchrony within and between them. This project is meant to foster connections and understanding between dancers, artists, scientists, engineers, and audiences from around the world."
Butoh is not for everyone to like. The Blackwood Productions documentary Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is an accessible introduction. Portland's Mizu at Headwaters theater is retiring. Seattle's Daipan Butoh has events several times a year.
Modern dance and neuroscience talk online. It is https://www.arts-and-social-change.de/virtuelle-kurzvortraege/ which your browser can translate. They are using Microsoft Team viewer. Teams Meeting-ID: 388 741 885 184 Code: yC9wdR.. 8:30AM Pacific time. Free
Then I discovered butoh through Sankai Juku and a Montreal performer with Zoviet France.
That Montreal performer combined butoh, Hindu temple dance and Hawaiian dance in her own style. It was a big impact on me. I had to speak to her and did. Her first language was French, and I have no French. But backstage she told this story I relate as shorthand for the koan that is butoh. Her teacher had this image. Imagine your body as only its bones. The bones are made of glass. In each joint is a flower. Improvise on that.
To Sankai Juku, unbeknownst to me, a friend was the producer of Sankai Juku in Pioneer Square, Seattle. My exposure to Sankai Juku was the second in their comeback post-Pioneer Square. At the end of the performance I felt an imediate visceral response across my scalp of chills and sparks; the entire audience was up in a standing ovation. It was not the usual few and checking to see if you should join the ovation. There was a collective rise by everyone. Somehow Pioneer Square was subliminally encoded in their performance. I did not even know that story at the time.
I always try to see Sankai Juku in Seattle because the audience has a strong emotional relationship. You feel it in the audience. I went on to study butoh in the flesh in Seattle, Japan, Portland, and San Francisco and see performances in each adding NYC and Denver.
Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ is a French butoh player in NYC. She has written a book on feminism, neuroscience https://www.vangeline.com/research, and butoh. It is a good read and complement to my discussion with Kazuo Ohno in Kyoto.
He said that the male originators were so engrossed in creation, they could not comprehend how women performers would bring their body experience to it. They were discovering butoh in their own male bodies.
Women did and do, ongoing. Many of us know trans persons who will bring their own to movement.
Even in the early days women such as Nakajima Natsu who works with intellectually disabled performers today; Yoko Ashikawa who brought a warm tone to butoh - she suggested an image our senile grandmother; Hiroko Tamano, who brings the darkest images to cute; Eiko Otake from NYC, who had a live-work in the World Trace Center and made free commemorative performance from that - she also suggests, with family, teach them to pretend to be sleeping to get them to sleep, then in butoh, dance as if you are asleep; Yumiko Yoshioka bringing butoh to a castle in Japan. I've studied with each. There are many American and international women in butoh. The Tamano legendary sushi restaurant, I patronzed in the Mission, and their home, was creative cradle to many female butoh friends.
One of my favorates, Dairakudakan is half women performers. I will travel to see them, have done, and have taken a workshop with Maro which challened me. I was also Portland host to Akira Kasai.
For whatever reason, Portland dance producers have been allergic to butoh. Bringing a group from Japan is expensive, but Seattle, SF, LA, Denver, NYC, and Vancouver BC do it.
Today Vangeline gives a free Internet talk - "Where the arts meet neuroscience - A virtual expert talk with Prof. Dr. Judith Revers and artist Vangeline."
"What happens inside our bodies and minds while performing and participating in the arts, and what are the mental and psychological benefits of it? In this last virtual lecture of the year, Prof. Dr. Judith Revers, Medical School Hamburg, dives into the field of performance art and dance with New York-based artist Vangeline, who’s involved in artistic research with neuroscientific methods around the Japanese artform Butoh. Together, they will be investigating interdisciplinary research in Arts and Neurosciences and its implications for the Arts Therapies."
"The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain is an art-science performance-research study. This new study investigates the brain dynamics of dancers while they are performing Butoh, a postmodern dance style that originated in Japan, through the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to record the participants’ brain waves. The study is a collaboration between the New York-based Vangeline Theater dance company, the Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems, IUCRC BRAIN Center, The Rockefeller University, and the Neurobiology of Social Communication Lab (funded by the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and New York University). In collaboration with neuroscientists Sadye Paez and Constantina Theofanopoulou, neuro engineer Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal, and composer Ray Sweeten, Vangeline choreographed a 60-minute ensemble butoh piece, which is uniquely informed by the protocol established for a scientific pilot study researching the impact of butoh on brain activity. For the groundbreaking art-science study, dancers' brain activity will be recorded at the University of Houston, Texas, with real-time visualization by multimedia artist Badie Khaleghian of the dancers' neural activity. Results will then be disseminated in scientific journals.
Vangeline and Sweeten have built on a 20-year history of creative collaboration with a soundscape that is informed by techniques of brainwave entrainment (techniques that affect consciousness through sound). The Slowest Wave investigates through the use of scalp EEG how brain waves during butoh dancing compare to those emitted during other conscious or unconscious motor behaviors, such as speaking or meditating. Moreover, the study will elucidate the functional neural networks of the dancers and the neural synchrony within and between them. This project is meant to foster connections and understanding between dancers, artists, scientists, engineers, and audiences from around the world."
Butoh is not for everyone to like. The Blackwood Productions documentary Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is an accessible introduction. Portland's Mizu at Headwaters theater is retiring. Seattle's Daipan Butoh has events several times a year.
Modern dance and neuroscience talk online. It is https://www.arts-and-social-change.de/virtuelle-kurzvortraege/ which your browser can translate. They are using Microsoft Team viewer. Teams Meeting-ID: 388 741 885 184 Code: yC9wdR.. 8:30AM Pacific time. Free
Thursday, December 07, 2023
December 7 Westside Art Openings+
Leach continues shows. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Russo-Lee has a group show. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Paul Missal and Eddie Reed have paintings. Missal was a cofounder of blackfish and trained generations of painters at PNCA; they have two group shows too. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Ada Trillo has La Caravana Del Diablo, documenting the Honduran exmigration to Texas. She gives a gallery talk at 6 tonight. The late Zaharia Cușnir left a film archive exposed in Moldova 1950-1980. Moldova is South and West of Ukrane and North of Romania. Most countries relished independence from the Soviet Union, including Moldova. It is bordered by the wierd proxy immaginary country of Transnistria.
Bill Will os a great sculptor installationis provocateur at the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has Marci Marsden bright impressionist plant paintings. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
There is a group show at www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Arless Day has paintings of interior settings. Ad-man turned artistic provocateur has Two Wars in One. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
What the Crow Knows is an archive show from the late Native American artist Rick Bartow. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
After/Time has paintings by Gina Herrera, After Image. At After/Time Collective www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
It is strange to me when competing events schedule against well established events events by their friends. You can look up the next cycle Precipice Fund announcement and party on the PICA website.
Russo-Lee has a group show. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Paul Missal and Eddie Reed have paintings. Missal was a cofounder of blackfish and trained generations of painters at PNCA; they have two group shows too. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Ada Trillo has La Caravana Del Diablo, documenting the Honduran exmigration to Texas. She gives a gallery talk at 6 tonight. The late Zaharia Cușnir left a film archive exposed in Moldova 1950-1980. Moldova is South and West of Ukrane and North of Romania. Most countries relished independence from the Soviet Union, including Moldova. It is bordered by the wierd proxy immaginary country of Transnistria.
Bill Will os a great sculptor installationis provocateur at the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has Marci Marsden bright impressionist plant paintings. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
There is a group show at www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Arless Day has paintings of interior settings. Ad-man turned artistic provocateur has Two Wars in One. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
What the Crow Knows is an archive show from the late Native American artist Rick Bartow. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
After/Time has paintings by Gina Herrera, After Image. At After/Time Collective www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
It is strange to me when competing events schedule against well established events events by their friends. You can look up the next cycle Precipice Fund announcement and party on the PICA website.
Saturday, December 02, 2023
December 3 Heaven Earth Sand
Nona Faustine has photographs She was a culmination of all things in Heaven and Earth. They are from her series White Shoes spanning 2012 to 2021 and her series Mitochondria.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-5 Free
Naoshi https://nao-shi.com/ is a Japanese artist in LA. She came to Portland with the always excellent Hellion Gallery. She makes sunae, sand paintings. You can think of them as Tibetian sand mandallas with kawai themes and the colorful sand glued down. She brings a book, and offers a sand art workshop. Details - nucleusportland.com.Everything you need will be provided. You can choose 1 of 3 designs at the event.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-5 Free
Naoshi https://nao-shi.com/ is a Japanese artist in LA. She came to Portland with the always excellent Hellion Gallery. She makes sunae, sand paintings. You can think of them as Tibetian sand mandallas with kawai themes and the colorful sand glued down. She brings a book, and offers a sand art workshop. Details - nucleusportland.com.Everything you need will be provided. You can choose 1 of 3 designs at the event.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
December 2 On A Journey After Outer
Of course we need small works of arts and crafts by Shelley Turley, Alison Jean Cole, Chanel Conklin, Midori Hirose, Erica Eyres, Jackie Stewart, Stephanie Simek, Elmeater Morton, Julia Barbie, Jake Deering, Anne Greenwood, Martha Daghlian, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Olga Soft, Jessica Hickey, Beck Alfaro, Noah Greene, Andy Heck Boyd, Petra Poffenberger, Lena Lutz, Ruby Webb and more.
They have them at Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 11AM-4PM Free
Neo baroque ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell opens Elefant Medium. It's at PDX Contemporary. They require an email RSVP to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
On Kawara is a Japanese minimal conceptual artist who lived from 1932 to 2014, including New York in the 1960s. https://www.guggenheim.org/video/on-kawara-date-paintings is an example. Julie Perini https://julieperini.com/ is a local filmmaker minted at Cornell and SUNY Buffalo. She has a special focus on social justice; she got to see it not working up close in the tragic Critical Art Ensemble case. The Critical Art Ensemble came across the Northwest radar as part of the Henry Gene(sis) show https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/henry_art_gallery_case_study.pdf curated by the excellent Robin Held who posted a few years at the Schnitzer Collection at Washington State University Pullman.
It all comes home with an event presented by Zena Zezza - Sandra Percival. She is an international curator who came to Portland to lead the Yale Union https://yaleunion.org/ pre-the building being gifted to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/center-for-native-arts-and-cultures.
Perini will speak about On Kawara at the Zena Zezza collection today at 4, followed by a reenactment of Kawara's One Million Years (Future) performance at 5. Perini does daily videos as Kawara made daily paintings.
Probably the art event today with the most protein, Perini on On Kawara at Zena Zezza zenazezza.org, 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-6, talk 4, performance 5. Free
Ralph Pugay has new paintings, The Longest Journey, opening today.
They definitely wins the copywriting award of the day: "From vampires pumping iron to ravers being airlifted to safety by helicopters, to a group of meditators battling each other at a meditation competition, Pugay paints his errant thoughts and draws his non-linear narratives to extreme ends. The title of the exhibition, The Longest Journey, is a metaphor for self-discovery and has been referenced in literature and in movies, as well as in a video game from the late 1990s where the protagonist maneuvers between realities. In this exhibition, Pugay considers the tropic quality of the phrase with its range of meaning and use—something that, for Pugay, is critical to understanding the interplay between the flow of information and human perception as he considers the effects of the external world and its technologies on our internal world, our daydreams, and our relationships.
Pugay’s painted propositions are the result of the artist’s careful study of the human condition—particularly religion, specifically Catholicism, and history; his curiosity with contemporary culture as filtered through TikTok and other social media; and his critical engagement with ideas of class, race, gender and queer culture. The resulting works are characterized by bright colors, playful compositions, and patterning. Our popular trends, viral news stories, consumer fads, and all other manner of social phenomena are poignantly examined with great clarity and humor, locating the moments of tension in the collective unconscious."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Josh Stover, Portland artist and sign painter of studio Variety opens After Hours. They are Portland nightscapes after closing. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Oregon Contemporary has musical performances along with their currently-running shows. Jamondria Harris brings project Meroitic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NtfKba7Os and Christi Denton brings a 4 channel project. They will be emplaced with Marcus Fischer's What Was Lost and What Remains themed on mass shootings and the Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship 2.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8, performance 6 Free
Jessi DiTillio has curated a group show, A Very Queer Thing. They are competing for the copywriting award you can read at https://www.wellwellprojects.com/a-very-queer-thing.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Carnation has a group show. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is new arriver to the space, and have gathered a node of artists to watch. They have a performance and video in the Platform space nee Marie Watt's studio from 3PM-4. Their gallery space in Studio 4 will be open their regular hours with Show 01 by Claire Barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . Noon-5 Free
If after that, if you have the capability for more visal stimulation, Blue Moon has their annual customer show. Blue Moon is a mecca for vintage film photography. They sell film, old cameras, and they develop and print film. They also have typewriters. From their developing flow, they print images they like and display hundreds at this show.
It is spread across 45th Parallel Wines, Revolutions Bookshop, and Leisure Public House. 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard, Revolutions Bookshop 8713 N Lombard; and Leisure Public House. The show is 7PM-9, and 45th Parallel Wines goes to 11. Free
They have them at Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 11AM-4PM Free
Neo baroque ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell opens Elefant Medium. It's at PDX Contemporary. They require an email RSVP to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
On Kawara is a Japanese minimal conceptual artist who lived from 1932 to 2014, including New York in the 1960s. https://www.guggenheim.org/video/on-kawara-date-paintings is an example. Julie Perini https://julieperini.com/ is a local filmmaker minted at Cornell and SUNY Buffalo. She has a special focus on social justice; she got to see it not working up close in the tragic Critical Art Ensemble case. The Critical Art Ensemble came across the Northwest radar as part of the Henry Gene(sis) show https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/henry_art_gallery_case_study.pdf curated by the excellent Robin Held who posted a few years at the Schnitzer Collection at Washington State University Pullman.
It all comes home with an event presented by Zena Zezza - Sandra Percival. She is an international curator who came to Portland to lead the Yale Union https://yaleunion.org/ pre-the building being gifted to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/center-for-native-arts-and-cultures.
Perini will speak about On Kawara at the Zena Zezza collection today at 4, followed by a reenactment of Kawara's One Million Years (Future) performance at 5. Perini does daily videos as Kawara made daily paintings.
Probably the art event today with the most protein, Perini on On Kawara at Zena Zezza zenazezza.org, 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-6, talk 4, performance 5. Free
Ralph Pugay has new paintings, The Longest Journey, opening today.
They definitely wins the copywriting award of the day: "From vampires pumping iron to ravers being airlifted to safety by helicopters, to a group of meditators battling each other at a meditation competition, Pugay paints his errant thoughts and draws his non-linear narratives to extreme ends. The title of the exhibition, The Longest Journey, is a metaphor for self-discovery and has been referenced in literature and in movies, as well as in a video game from the late 1990s where the protagonist maneuvers between realities. In this exhibition, Pugay considers the tropic quality of the phrase with its range of meaning and use—something that, for Pugay, is critical to understanding the interplay between the flow of information and human perception as he considers the effects of the external world and its technologies on our internal world, our daydreams, and our relationships.
Pugay’s painted propositions are the result of the artist’s careful study of the human condition—particularly religion, specifically Catholicism, and history; his curiosity with contemporary culture as filtered through TikTok and other social media; and his critical engagement with ideas of class, race, gender and queer culture. The resulting works are characterized by bright colors, playful compositions, and patterning. Our popular trends, viral news stories, consumer fads, and all other manner of social phenomena are poignantly examined with great clarity and humor, locating the moments of tension in the collective unconscious."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Josh Stover, Portland artist and sign painter of studio Variety opens After Hours. They are Portland nightscapes after closing. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Oregon Contemporary has musical performances along with their currently-running shows. Jamondria Harris brings project Meroitic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NtfKba7Os and Christi Denton brings a 4 channel project. They will be emplaced with Marcus Fischer's What Was Lost and What Remains themed on mass shootings and the Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship 2.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8, performance 6 Free
Jessi DiTillio has curated a group show, A Very Queer Thing. They are competing for the copywriting award you can read at https://www.wellwellprojects.com/a-very-queer-thing.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Carnation has a group show. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is new arriver to the space, and have gathered a node of artists to watch. They have a performance and video in the Platform space nee Marie Watt's studio from 3PM-4. Their gallery space in Studio 4 will be open their regular hours with Show 01 by Claire Barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . Noon-5 Free
If after that, if you have the capability for more visal stimulation, Blue Moon has their annual customer show. Blue Moon is a mecca for vintage film photography. They sell film, old cameras, and they develop and print film. They also have typewriters. From their developing flow, they print images they like and display hundreds at this show.
It is spread across 45th Parallel Wines, Revolutions Bookshop, and Leisure Public House. 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard, Revolutions Bookshop 8713 N Lombard; and Leisure Public House. The show is 7PM-9, and 45th Parallel Wines goes to 11. Free
December 2-3 Marine Art Layer
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4 Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4 Free
Friday, December 01, 2023
December 1 The Fridays
Back from Covid readers may enjoy open studios at the Falcon Art Community. 5415 N Albina 5:30PM-9:30 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; 1FPDX is their insta, there are many possibilities. Chefas and Pushdot are some. Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; 1FPDX is their insta, there are many possibilities. Chefas and Pushdot are some. Free
Thursday, November 30, 2023
November 30 NEside Art Openings+
On the plus side, PSU is coming out of Covid with open studios. In the art building 2000 SW 5th. 4PM-6 Free
Blind insect has a group show by Jaimee Lee, Julie Forbes, Wyatt Pottorff, Stephanie Hatch, Staci Gundry, Cambria Kasten, Joan Callaway, Marina, Soumya Jayaraman, Anna Hothai, John Seng, Sheeja Ranjit, Christopher DeGon, Marieke Mertz, Claire Roig, Orquidia Violeta, Levant Karayalim, Amy Daileda, Antonia Gustaitis, Carol Armstrong-Iovanovici, and Carol Raphael. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-8
Jesus Benitezf from Mexico has a print show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta Noon-5 Free
Stephanie Brown has a show along with local tattoo artists Lo Gonsalves, David Tattselhoff, Spectral Gardens, and Meg Adamson. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-8 Feee
Blind insect has a group show by Jaimee Lee, Julie Forbes, Wyatt Pottorff, Stephanie Hatch, Staci Gundry, Cambria Kasten, Joan Callaway, Marina, Soumya Jayaraman, Anna Hothai, John Seng, Sheeja Ranjit, Christopher DeGon, Marieke Mertz, Claire Roig, Orquidia Violeta, Levant Karayalim, Amy Daileda, Antonia Gustaitis, Carol Armstrong-Iovanovici, and Carol Raphael. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-8
Jesus Benitezf from Mexico has a print show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta Noon-5 Free
Stephanie Brown has a show along with local tattoo artists Lo Gonsalves, David Tattselhoff, Spectral Gardens, and Meg Adamson. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-8 Feee
Friday, November 17, 2023
November 19 Sampling the Style of a Continent
Africa is a continent, not a country. Within there are over three thousand ethnicities. Whenever you see straight line on a map, it's a mistake. That doesn't even take into account nomadic people.
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
November 18 Applied Entangled Design
In addition to their regular show, Nationale has a project room pop-up by Irina Flore and Bilge Nur Saltik, Entangled Dimensions: Shape of Connection. It's functional sculptures, textiles, and design objects.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 3PM-5 Free
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
At Nationale
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
November 17 Time Cloud
It Is Our Time by Latoya Lovely opens. At 6 Latoya Lovely and Amenta Abioto perform. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
November 17-19 Seattle Butoh Festival
Butoh is a strange dance performance style. Up in Seattle they are having a 3 day festival of performance and workshops. Events https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/seattlebutohfestival at Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S 8PM $20-25
Friday, November 10, 2023
November 11 Bones Moan Glint Still Life
The show I Am A City of Bones opens. It is Dylan Beckman, Morgan Buck, Corinne Hamilton, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Juliana Huxtable, Mona Kowalska, Jenine Marsh, Martin Soto Climent, Pace Taylor, and Isabel Yellin.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, November 04, 2023
November 4 Northside Eastside Westside Openings+
No excuses of sun to see art today.
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 1PM-3 Free
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationale
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, November 03, 2023
November 3 Eastside Art Openings
There is a large annual show of post card size art. 5"x7" $110. Artist list and links https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/power-in-numbers-8-postcard-show. Collect them all and win! At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
Thursday, November 02, 2023
November 2 Westside Art Openings
Portland artists Malia Jensen and Stephen Hayes represent. Malia Jensen is known for 3d works from salt licks to bronze with ceramics in between. She is also known for the plywood stack giant beaver in the W+K lobby. Hayes is known for bucolic landcsape paintings. Melody Owen has collages based on bio-themes. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
Friday, October 27, 2023
October 27 Family
Joe Feddersen opens Extended Family mixed media graphic works on paper. 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 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
October 26 Landscape
Painter Lisa Yuskavage speaks with Jarrett Earnest and Christian Viveros-Fauné
as part of the Converge 45 project. Earnest and Yuskavage curated the paintings of Jesse Murry (1948–1993) at the Cooley Gallery now. He is an abstract landscape painter and writer. Yuskavage was one of the artists curated by Linda Ferris into the Seattle Contemporary Art Project, now in the Seattle Art Museum collection. Portland Art Museum is behind with only 2 works on paper. In the 1980s, some of the art world rebelled against the Reagan Wall Street inorganic art boom by bringing outsider art into the American gallery and museum world. In that movement, Murry wrote a seminal essay on artist Howard Finster and curated his work for a show at the New Museum. https://d2b8urneelikat.cloudfront.net/media/collectiveaccess/images/6/3/59637_ca_object_representations_media_6333_original.pdf
See the show in the Cooley at 5PM, talk at the Reed chapel, Eliot Hall 6, refreshments after. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
See the show in the Cooley at 5PM, talk at the Reed chapel, Eliot Hall 6, refreshments after. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
October 25 Shriek
Shriek of Color is a show opening today. For the opening feel free to channel color!
At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Street. 6PM-8 Free
At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Street. 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, October 21, 2023
October 21 Harvest Lone Vampire Meta Mural Psych Water
Cemetaries hold stories for time. Portland's Lone Fir Cemetary holds many families streets were named after. Block 14 is a city block size part of Lone Fir with the saddest history.
It held unnamed graves of people who died at the Hawthorne Hospital, predecessor to the State Hospital. It's debatable which is sadder, the buried there or the unclaimed remains left at the State Hospital in the library of dust. https://davidmaisel.com/works/library-of-dust/ It also holds the sad story of Chinese laborers. Solo men who did not fit into the mercantile class of the last dynasty journeyed East to work in the West in mines, building railroads, farming, and in professions like laundry. When they passed, they were buried in Lone Fir. Filmmaker Ivy Lin documented attempts to return the remains to families in China post facto in Come Together Home https://vimeo.com/6226018. Proper burial is important in Chinese culture and this was not that.
At a point Multnomah County disinterred some of Block 14's remains and built a maintenance building over it. As the building decayed, the county planned to auction the land for apartments. Now it is the "empty" section of the cemetary. There have been several artist residencies including Micki Skudlarczyk's cast sugar boats referencing the Chinese remains traveling back home.
A memorial and contemplative garden is being designed for Block 14. Your participation is welcome in person https://www.oregonmetro.gov/events/information-session-cultural-heritage-and-healing-garden-lone-fir-cemetery/2023-10-21 11AM-1 Free
Camp Caldera was the project and passion of the late Dan Wieden. They have public open houses sometimes. This one is a Fall festival - https://www.calderaarts.org/hearthfestival - at Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 11AM – 6PM Free
Bébé Vampire is paintings by Erica Eyres, Camila Oliveria Fairclough and Noah Greene plus collages by Jackie Stewart.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free
Emily Ginsburg has Metabolic, colorful put together ceramic forms. She is known for her longtime video work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free
Steven Paul Judd is Kiowa and Choctaw. He is a multiartist, film, writing, amd visual art. He is making a coda of his residency with an afternoon in conversation and collaboration with youth artists to make a mural, then an all ages talk. You have to register in advance for the thing at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afternoon-with-steven-paul-judd-tickets-737584845127. At Bodecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/ 2360 N.W. Quimby Map Youth collaboration 1PM-3, all ages talk and reception 4PM-6 Free
Auxart is a project by Philip Krohn nee behind the Bear Deluxe. He is back with large scale sculptures plus experimental soundscape collaborations. A raft of collaborators build them with reused and reusable materials. High Water fills the Building Five space for about a month. It has regular open times to just experience and musical collaboration events, some ticketed. Check their socials fo hours until November 12. High Water https://www.auxart.net/high-water at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th various times mostly free
Neolith, Starchild, Bloom Offering and Tengger bring music in an intimate space. Tengger is a family of ambient experimental psych musicians with harmonium, voice, synth and toy instruments. They travel to little Portland all the way from Seoul for their first North American Tour. Tengger.net and friends at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map Doors 7PM, musics 7:30 $5-20
It held unnamed graves of people who died at the Hawthorne Hospital, predecessor to the State Hospital. It's debatable which is sadder, the buried there or the unclaimed remains left at the State Hospital in the library of dust. https://davidmaisel.com/works/library-of-dust/ It also holds the sad story of Chinese laborers. Solo men who did not fit into the mercantile class of the last dynasty journeyed East to work in the West in mines, building railroads, farming, and in professions like laundry. When they passed, they were buried in Lone Fir. Filmmaker Ivy Lin documented attempts to return the remains to families in China post facto in Come Together Home https://vimeo.com/6226018. Proper burial is important in Chinese culture and this was not that.
At a point Multnomah County disinterred some of Block 14's remains and built a maintenance building over it. As the building decayed, the county planned to auction the land for apartments. Now it is the "empty" section of the cemetary. There have been several artist residencies including Micki Skudlarczyk's cast sugar boats referencing the Chinese remains traveling back home.
A memorial and contemplative garden is being designed for Block 14. Your participation is welcome in person https://www.oregonmetro.gov/events/information-session-cultural-heritage-and-healing-garden-lone-fir-cemetery/2023-10-21 11AM-1 Free
Camp Caldera was the project and passion of the late Dan Wieden. They have public open houses sometimes. This one is a Fall festival - https://www.calderaarts.org/hearthfestival - at Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 11AM – 6PM Free
Bébé Vampire is paintings by Erica Eyres, Camila Oliveria Fairclough and Noah Greene plus collages by Jackie Stewart.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free
Emily Ginsburg has Metabolic, colorful put together ceramic forms. She is known for her longtime video work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free
Steven Paul Judd is Kiowa and Choctaw. He is a multiartist, film, writing, amd visual art. He is making a coda of his residency with an afternoon in conversation and collaboration with youth artists to make a mural, then an all ages talk. You have to register in advance for the thing at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afternoon-with-steven-paul-judd-tickets-737584845127. At Bodecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/ 2360 N.W. Quimby Map Youth collaboration 1PM-3, all ages talk and reception 4PM-6 Free
Auxart is a project by Philip Krohn nee behind the Bear Deluxe. He is back with large scale sculptures plus experimental soundscape collaborations. A raft of collaborators build them with reused and reusable materials. High Water fills the Building Five space for about a month. It has regular open times to just experience and musical collaboration events, some ticketed. Check their socials fo hours until November 12. High Water https://www.auxart.net/high-water at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th various times mostly free
Neolith, Starchild, Bloom Offering and Tengger bring music in an intimate space. Tengger is a family of ambient experimental psych musicians with harmonium, voice, synth and toy instruments. They travel to little Portland all the way from Seoul for their first North American Tour. Tengger.net and friends at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map Doors 7PM, musics 7:30 $5-20
Saturday, October 14, 2023
October 14 Gnew What
Addie Roanhorse is an Osage artist and graphic designer. She designed a blanket for Gnew, a Portland-based clothing and accessoris brand. Today she discusses that work. Her family is artists, she brings examples of blankets she has made by traditionally embroidering ribbon applique. She negotiated on behalf of the tribe with the producer and director of a new film Killers of the Flower Moon filmed on Osage land.
Marie Watt's neon piece, Chords to Other Chords (Relative), in a show curated by Converge 45, closes tomorrow. It has been acquired, so maybe we will see it again. Hopefully it will be open and powered this evening.
Talk https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/addie-roanhorse-event at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5PM-6:30 RSVP in the link Free
Wait what, by Matthew Li is functional art. It opens tonight at Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Marie Watt's neon piece, Chords to Other Chords (Relative), in a show curated by Converge 45, closes tomorrow. It has been acquired, so maybe we will see it again. Hopefully it will be open and powered this evening.
Talk https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/addie-roanhorse-event at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5PM-6:30 RSVP in the link Free
Wait what, by Matthew Li is functional art. It opens tonight at Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, October 07, 2023
October 7 Northside Art Openings+
The Lobby at the Ellen Browning is doing a kids and faimily event. At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Noon-2 Free
Zena Zezza is back downtown. They are doing an archive show of visual and audio visual materials from Chantal Akerman, Ed Atkins, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Ravon Chacon, Hanne Darboven, Tacita Dean, Constance De Jong, Stan Douglas, Fischli & Weiss, Theaster Gates, Rodney Graham, Sky Hopinka, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Paci, Allen Ruppersberg, Pipilotti Rist, Frances Stark, and others. See their website for more viewing times. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-5 Free
Amjad Faur has prints A Spell for Letting Go. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 2:30PM-4:30, Talk 3 Free
Kyu-Tae Lee has travel illustrations along with charcoal portraits by Sena Adjovi. Adjovi has a reception October 29. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Though OCAC suffered an untimely death, its artists survived. The last OCAC gallery curator Sam Hopple has 30 OCAC artists in a show. At X Gallery & Art Storage xgalleryart.com 815 SE Grant 6PM-9 Free
Oregon Contemporary and Converge 45 have Te Moana Meridian by Sam Hamilton from New Zealand. It proposes the prime meridian of longitude at Greenwich, UK be relocated to the sea at approximately the International Date Line 180 degrees longitude. There is a more elegant explanation on the Oregon Contemporary/Converge 45 websites. There will be an august panel discussing it at 6PM today local time, 1AM tomorrow GMT and 1PM tomprrow at the International Date Line West. The panel with the artist should be good.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hyun Jung Jung has mixed media Emotions of Home. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Wild Peninsula: Color and Sound in North Portland is by collaborating textile artist Carolyn Hazel Drake, photographer Michael Brooks, and musician Eric Jordan. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Zena Zezza is back downtown. They are doing an archive show of visual and audio visual materials from Chantal Akerman, Ed Atkins, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Ravon Chacon, Hanne Darboven, Tacita Dean, Constance De Jong, Stan Douglas, Fischli & Weiss, Theaster Gates, Rodney Graham, Sky Hopinka, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Paci, Allen Ruppersberg, Pipilotti Rist, Frances Stark, and others. See their website for more viewing times. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-5 Free
Amjad Faur has prints A Spell for Letting Go. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 2:30PM-4:30, Talk 3 Free
Kyu-Tae Lee has travel illustrations along with charcoal portraits by Sena Adjovi. Adjovi has a reception October 29. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Though OCAC suffered an untimely death, its artists survived. The last OCAC gallery curator Sam Hopple has 30 OCAC artists in a show. At X Gallery & Art Storage xgalleryart.com 815 SE Grant 6PM-9 Free
Oregon Contemporary and Converge 45 have Te Moana Meridian by Sam Hamilton from New Zealand. It proposes the prime meridian of longitude at Greenwich, UK be relocated to the sea at approximately the International Date Line 180 degrees longitude. There is a more elegant explanation on the Oregon Contemporary/Converge 45 websites. There will be an august panel discussing it at 6PM today local time, 1AM tomorrow GMT and 1PM tomprrow at the International Date Line West. The panel with the artist should be good.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hyun Jung Jung has mixed media Emotions of Home. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Wild Peninsula: Color and Sound in North Portland is by collaborating textile artist Carolyn Hazel Drake, photographer Michael Brooks, and musician Eric Jordan. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, October 06, 2023
October 6 Eastside Art Openings+
Sator Projects has disability artists Torea Frey, Teague N., Alexis Neumann, and Marie Conner. They have events scheduled until November 4. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 5PM-8 Free
One Grand has Timme Lu from Portland with painting, prints and sculpture. Benjamin Ewig opens When We Met, bulbous sculptures and paintings. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
There is a cat themed show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials and for a beautiful night there are many possibilities. Free
The Republic Cafe has made a comeback as a cross between Hung Far Low and Satyricon. Tonight it's the monthly Satyricon Felini with Color and Sound in the Ming Lounge. Art, DJs, performance. 8PM-midnight $5-20
One Grand has Timme Lu from Portland with painting, prints and sculpture. Benjamin Ewig opens When We Met, bulbous sculptures and paintings. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
There is a cat themed show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials and for a beautiful night there are many possibilities. Free
The Republic Cafe has made a comeback as a cross between Hung Far Low and Satyricon. Tonight it's the monthly Satyricon Felini with Color and Sound in the Ming Lounge. Art, DJs, performance. 8PM-midnight $5-20
Thursday, October 05, 2023
October 5 Westside Art Openings+
Sean Healy has a new body of autobiographical monochrome painting-drawings, Lifer. Along with The Teckivy Nazdack, impressionist landscape paintings by Shane McAdams. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Kim Osgood has schematic botanical landscapes along with landscapes by Gabriel Liston. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Remembering, mixed-media paintings, by Clint Brown; In and Out of Darkness by Barbara Black and Linda Neufer are mixed media with text; Los Caprichos, something something BarbieTM, is by Monica Mitchell. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
In their building Garabatos is by Rodrigo Valenzuela and part of Converge45. Also part of Converge45 is work by Adriene Cruz, Jeremy Okai Davis, Patrick Hamilton, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Brian Maguire, and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. Claire Frances Spaulding has Quip n’ Craft: Bless this Niche "craft, kitsch, critique, and permanence." Fragmented Cantos//Returning Ensueño is mixed-media by Amoqiix-Araceli. Rosie Hebert & Eva Younkman have We Are All Made of Stars. High Stakes are oil stick drawings with a soundtrack by Bryce Frimming. Rotary 5 is a show by Megita Denton, Mychelle Moritz, Liz Borowski, Angel O’Brian, and Jolyn Fry themed on the telephone game.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge45.
Trude Parkinson has Plea, text-based work, accompanied by Terri Hopkins poetry at the Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has a band photography retrospective by Jason Quigley, with a DJ and acoustic. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
That would pair well with The Black Gallery, in the former Holding Contemporary space, retrospective on hip hop. You can contact them to RSVP to view. At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com and www.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffirst-thursday-hip-hop-50-paint-and-sip-at-the-black-gallery-tickets-728574424717 916 NW Flanders. 6PM-9 $25
Stelo continues its Converge 45 show, ending Saturday. at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has schematic climate-themed paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
You Ni Chae has paintings and Brad Mildrexler has 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 Free
Morgan Walker has mistical figurative paintings Watermelon Song and David Schell has geometric abstracts Casual Plans. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a 28th anniversary group sow, and opportunity to see their entire corpus. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
I believe PSU's Litman and White is has an event too tonight. W+K guests a market and event.
Plus, in the North, PCC Cascade's Paragon gallery has Volcano by Jen Sova. Reading 6:30PM At Paragonn Gallery 815 N Killingsworth 4PM-8 Free
Kim Osgood has schematic botanical landscapes along with landscapes by Gabriel Liston. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Remembering, mixed-media paintings, by Clint Brown; In and Out of Darkness by Barbara Black and Linda Neufer are mixed media with text; Los Caprichos, something something BarbieTM, is by Monica Mitchell. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
In their building Garabatos is by Rodrigo Valenzuela and part of Converge45. Also part of Converge45 is work by Adriene Cruz, Jeremy Okai Davis, Patrick Hamilton, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Brian Maguire, and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. Claire Frances Spaulding has Quip n’ Craft: Bless this Niche "craft, kitsch, critique, and permanence." Fragmented Cantos//Returning Ensueño is mixed-media by Amoqiix-Araceli. Rosie Hebert & Eva Younkman have We Are All Made of Stars. High Stakes are oil stick drawings with a soundtrack by Bryce Frimming. Rotary 5 is a show by Megita Denton, Mychelle Moritz, Liz Borowski, Angel O’Brian, and Jolyn Fry themed on the telephone game.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge45.
Trude Parkinson has Plea, text-based work, accompanied by Terri Hopkins poetry at the Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has a band photography retrospective by Jason Quigley, with a DJ and acoustic. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
That would pair well with The Black Gallery, in the former Holding Contemporary space, retrospective on hip hop. You can contact them to RSVP to view. At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com and www.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffirst-thursday-hip-hop-50-paint-and-sip-at-the-black-gallery-tickets-728574424717 916 NW Flanders. 6PM-9 $25
Stelo continues its Converge 45 show, ending Saturday. at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has schematic climate-themed paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
You Ni Chae has paintings and Brad Mildrexler has 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 Free
Morgan Walker has mistical figurative paintings Watermelon Song and David Schell has geometric abstracts Casual Plans. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a 28th anniversary group sow, and opportunity to see their entire corpus. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
I believe PSU's Litman and White is has an event too tonight. W+K guests a market and event.
Plus, in the North, PCC Cascade's Paragon gallery has Volcano by Jen Sova. Reading 6:30PM At Paragonn Gallery 815 N Killingsworth 4PM-8 Free
Sunday, October 01, 2023
October 1 Window Pomes
One of Portland's unique pandemic hapenings continues tonight. The weather is appropos. The street closes to listen to poems by Anis Mojgani Oregon’s Poet Laureate spoken from his apartment window. Bring warmies and something to sit on if you like. Sometimes you find similar outdoor neighborhod performances.
Livestream @themoraledept. In person at 3425 SE Yamhill 6:28PM Free
Livestream @themoraledept. In person at 3425 SE Yamhill 6:28PM Free
Sunday, September 24, 2023
September 24 Floating 'Trane
Feels Like Floating is a multi-city presenter of ambient and slow music. In LA they present Laraj. In Portland they send out music through the Leach Botanical Garden trees.
Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Present: Turiya Loka inspired by the music of Alice Coltrane.
They will have a tent for rain rather than the tree bridge. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like, and rainwear for wandering the garden.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recWSXibbimb0X41S At Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4PM-8 $22
Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Present: Turiya Loka inspired by the music of Alice Coltrane.
They will have a tent for rain rather than the tree bridge. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like, and rainwear for wandering the garden.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recWSXibbimb0X41S At Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4PM-8 $22
Sunday, September 17, 2023
September 17 Sensation and Color
Many know the name Museum Art School, that changed to Pacific Northwest College of Art after a divorce. After a marriage it is now PNCA | Willamette - https://pnca.willamette.edu/. The Hallie Ford Museum at the Willamette Salem campus opens a 25 year retrospective of regional artists which is recommended.
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ is launching four lectures, Women and Art in the 20th Century.
First is Prudence Roberts, noted local curator, formerly senior curator at the Portland Art Museum, consultant to marque collectors and a professor.
Her topic is We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Sonia Delaunay’s Multifaceted Career. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and lived in France as an artist. She was the first living female artist with a retrospective in the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was part of the "avant-garde circles in the early 20th century" and recieved the French Legion of Honor at age 95. Delaunay participated in the Orphist movement influenced by French avant writers and forming a bridge between Cubism and Abstract Expresionism.
Talk https://events.willamette.edu/e/5169 at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ is launching four lectures, Women and Art in the 20th Century.
First is Prudence Roberts, noted local curator, formerly senior curator at the Portland Art Museum, consultant to marque collectors and a professor.
Her topic is We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Sonia Delaunay’s Multifaceted Career. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and lived in France as an artist. She was the first living female artist with a retrospective in the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was part of the "avant-garde circles in the early 20th century" and recieved the French Legion of Honor at age 95. Delaunay participated in the Orphist movement influenced by French avant writers and forming a bridge between Cubism and Abstract Expresionism.
Talk https://events.willamette.edu/e/5169 at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Saturday, September 09, 2023
September 9 Rewind
Rewind is a show of clothing art by Martha Daghlian and Jen LaMastra.
""History is slippery like satin. We wear stories of the past like a uniform, a costume, a suit of armor, or a disguise. Timelines unravel and are stitched together as memory or custom dictates.
LaMastra’s meticulously constructed garments are as playful as they are assertive, evoking the lineage of feminist art and pop cultural artifacts, in alignment with her ongoing practice of political “craftivism.”
In Daghlian’s haphazardly sewn pieces, European archetypes like the fool and the scholar are reanimated before a backdrop of patchworked historical imagery, encouraging a poetic disassembly of the past.
Both artists take unique approaches to transform soft and discarded materials into adornments for acts of resilience, resistance, and reimagination.""
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8, short performance 5:30 sharp Free
""History is slippery like satin. We wear stories of the past like a uniform, a costume, a suit of armor, or a disguise. Timelines unravel and are stitched together as memory or custom dictates.
LaMastra’s meticulously constructed garments are as playful as they are assertive, evoking the lineage of feminist art and pop cultural artifacts, in alignment with her ongoing practice of political “craftivism.”
In Daghlian’s haphazardly sewn pieces, European archetypes like the fool and the scholar are reanimated before a backdrop of patchworked historical imagery, encouraging a poetic disassembly of the past.
Both artists take unique approaches to transform soft and discarded materials into adornments for acts of resilience, resistance, and reimagination.""
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8, short performance 5:30 sharp Free
September 9 - March 17 Black Artists of Oregon
Intisar Abioto is a multiartist in an art family. https://creativemornings.com/talks/intisar-abioto She is curator of a large exhibition of black visual artists, https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/.
She will speak at the museum today in a panel entitled Keeping Our Story with artists Adriene Cruz, Bobby Fouther, Richard Brown, and Isaka Shamsud-Din.
There is a talk September 14, black curator and art adminitrator panel: " Black Artists of Oregon curator Intisar Abioto will be in conversation with Elisheba Johnson of Wa Na Wari; Maya Vivas and Roux Haile of Ori Gallery; and Tai Carpenter of Black Gallery PDX about their practices of place-making for Black healing and communion."
Keep an eye on the museum website for more events.
Black Artists of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. Talk 2PM-3:30 Museum admission probably applies
She will speak at the museum today in a panel entitled Keeping Our Story with artists Adriene Cruz, Bobby Fouther, Richard Brown, and Isaka Shamsud-Din.
There is a talk September 14, black curator and art adminitrator panel: " Black Artists of Oregon curator Intisar Abioto will be in conversation with Elisheba Johnson of Wa Na Wari; Maya Vivas and Roux Haile of Ori Gallery; and Tai Carpenter of Black Gallery PDX about their practices of place-making for Black healing and communion."
Keep an eye on the museum website for more events.
Black Artists of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. Talk 2PM-3:30 Museum admission probably applies
Friday, September 08, 2023
September 8 Zymoglyphic
The Zymoglyphic Museum has one of Portland's underground art residencies. Compatible artists are invited to make work inspired by the museum and its principal. In Museum as Muse III, the third cohort presents their work this evening. The Zymoglyphic artists are Lyndsay Hogland, Shelly Smith, Shannon Amidon, Laura Carrera, Shelly Caldwell, Joe Harris, and Jim Stewart.
The Zymoglyphic residency readout Museum as Muse III http://zymoglyphic.org/about/residency2023.html at Experiment PDX https://www.experimentpdx.com/ 1421 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
The Zymoglyphic residency readout Museum as Muse III http://zymoglyphic.org/about/residency2023.html at Experiment PDX https://www.experimentpdx.com/ 1421 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, September 07, 2023
September 7 Westside Art Openings
Fine Art Fruit, a creative clothing store, Seaplane 2.0 opens Hadley A Clark with fabric collage. At Fine Art Fruit 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8 Free
W+K has a new campaign expressed as a mural, Portland Is What We Make It, at SE 3rd and Yamhill. They have a show of related material and a reception. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-8 Free
ILY2 continues its Converge 45 show. https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Painter Terrell James continues at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Augen Pop Art - Past and Present is a group show at Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Painters Pat Boas and Willy Heeks are at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Gary Boswell has Variations, minimalist paintings at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has its part of Converge 45 and five student shows. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ginna Wilson and Sherrie Wolf have paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Blackfish has Carol Benson and Michael Knutson have contrasting geometric and flowariffic abstract paintings. Essence of Oregon are landscape paintings by Lori Latham. Color Forms are abstract paintings by Ellen Goldschmidt. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Antifragility : Obsessions with Stress and Randomnessare sculptures by Kristy Kún and Greg Wilbur are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
W+K has a new campaign expressed as a mural, Portland Is What We Make It, at SE 3rd and Yamhill. They have a show of related material and a reception. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-8 Free
ILY2 continues its Converge 45 show. https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Painter Terrell James continues at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Augen Pop Art - Past and Present is a group show at Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Painters Pat Boas and Willy Heeks are at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Gary Boswell has Variations, minimalist paintings at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has its part of Converge 45 and five student shows. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ginna Wilson and Sherrie Wolf have paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Blackfish has Carol Benson and Michael Knutson have contrasting geometric and flowariffic abstract paintings. Essence of Oregon are landscape paintings by Lori Latham. Color Forms are abstract paintings by Ellen Goldschmidt. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Antifragility : Obsessions with Stress and Randomnessare sculptures by Kristy Kún and Greg Wilbur are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, August 26, 2023
August 27 Garage Convergence
Favorite garage galleries Helen's Costume and SE Cooper have openings today under the Converge45 umbrella.
August 25 Sixth Sculptures
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its sixth artist talk with participating artists Erik Geschke, Brian Borrello and Gabriel Liston. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Jennifer Wilkinson has ‘Depo(t)asis’!, ceramic sculptures. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Jennifer Wilkinson has ‘Depo(t)asis’!, ceramic sculptures. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
August 24 - Social Forms
Converge45 is a successor to PICA as PICA was successor to Art on the Edge. It mixes local and international with an out-of-town currator.
It spans venues. It opens this weekend. The component exhibitions start closing in October and persist through December. Almost all of it is free.
It is more efficient to refer you to the Converge45 website and socials than to catalog it here. I doubt anyone would be disappointed by any of the program. Personally I'm excited about Richard Mosse's work.
https://www.converge45.org/opening-weekend covers events Thursday August 24 - Sunday August 27.
https://www.converge45.org/ is the whole program and links to socials.
It spans venues. It opens this weekend. The component exhibitions start closing in October and persist through December. Almost all of it is free.
It is more efficient to refer you to the Converge45 website and socials than to catalog it here. I doubt anyone would be disappointed by any of the program. Personally I'm excited about Richard Mosse's work.
https://www.converge45.org/opening-weekend covers events Thursday August 24 - Sunday August 27.
https://www.converge45.org/ is the whole program and links to socials.
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