December 1
Gallery Openings on Portland's Eastside
Portland children's book illustrators Stephanie Bauer, Susan Boase, Annie Cannon, Carolyn Digby Conahan, Scarlene Delage, David Delamare, David Horn, Susan Jerde, Robin Koontz, Abigail Marble, Nicole Rubel, Andrea Uren and Elsa Warnick show the original artwork for their books at a show at the Murdoch Collections Gallery. The opening is today 5-9. Each Saturday in December they have afternoon readings at 1 with milk and cookies. Not sure about naps.
4114 N Vancouver Avenue 503-284-1960 Opens 5-9 Free
The Mark Woolley Gallery is decamping from the Pearl District after 13 years and plenty of gallery shows and infamous events. All art operations will be focused at his gallery underneath the Wonder Ballroom on NE Russell.
Tonight a photo show of artist portraits opens. Marne Lucas has posed artists Tom Cramer, Paul Green, M.K. Guth, Storm Tharp, Chandra Bocci, Arnold & Jacob Pander, Jeff Jahn, Harvest Henderson, Bruce Conkle, Jayme Hanson, Henk Pander, Brenda Mallory, Molly Vidor, David Inkpen, Trish Grantham and LucasTom Cramer, Paul Green, M.K. Guth, Storm Tharp, Chandra Bocci, Arnold & Jacob Pander, Jeff Jahn, Harvest Henderson, Bruce Conkle, Jayme Hanson, Henk Pander, Brenda Mallory, Molly Vidor, David Inkpen, Trish Grantham and herself in tableau somehow going to the core of each artist's persona.
For example "In ‘Portrait of M.K Guth’, who is originally from Wisconsin, she is depicted ice fishing, a childhood memory- but at an ice hockey rink. Paul Green himself is cast as a proud, yet fragile figure from his own oil paintings and in ‘Bruce Conkle, Redwood Forest’ the artist becomes one of his own melting snowmen installations.” Jahn is depicted playing guitar at Stonehenge.
www.marnelucas.com
In the same show. “Only For Seeing” are new drawings and watercolors by Arnold Pander who alternates creative projects between Portland and LA.
www.pandermedia.com
Opening Reception: Friday December 1st, 6 - 9:30 pm
Artist talk: Saturday December 2nd at 2 pm (Lucas, Pander & Burns)
Closing Party: Friday December 29th, 7-11 pm
128 N.E. Russell (near MLK Blvd.) at the Wonder Ballroom
Hours: 11-6 Tuesday - Saturday (503 284-3636
Renaissance woman Alicia Rose shows portraits of Oregon ballet dancers lensed with rock attitude. Maybe that's because that's what she does. This woman's super powers include mad accordion playing, running an independent music distribution company, writing, radio, music supervision for a small ad agency, booking a nightclub and photography. More rockin' info at http://www.missmurgatroid.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliciajrose The Press Club 2621 SE Clinton 8-midnight free
Newspace Photo opens their volunteer show. http://www.newspacephoto.org/ 1632 SE 10th
Small A and New American Art Union continue their shows and may not be open late this evening.
Cartune Xprez music and animation at the Portland Art Center
Yacht, Universe, Hooliganship and Slow Dance Recyttal play live to animations by artists Michael Bell-Smith, Phillipe Blanchard, Martha Colburn, Gretchen Hogue, Cassandra C Jones, Amy Lockhart, Luke Meeken, Andrew Negrey, Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad, Drew Pavelchak, Francine Spiegel and Jim Trainor. A myriad of details may be found at the event website http://www.cartunexprez.com/
http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th 8PM $5
December 2
Artists' Talk at Woolley
Artists Lucas and Pander talk an artist talk at the Woolley gallery show noted above. 128 N.E. Russell 2PM
Art Auction at Disjecta
Disjecta holds their annual art auction. In past years, many bargains were had while at the same time record prices were set for artists such as Paige Saez and Chandra Bocci.
This year the auction includes artists Katherine Ace, Brad Adkins, Jason Adkins, Holly Andres, Paul Arensmeyer, Donna Avedisian, damali ayo, Steven Beatty, Joe Biel, Chandra Bocci, Mark Brandau & Andrew Ellmaker, John Brodie, David Corbett, Critical Art Ensemble, Richard C. Elliott, Karen Esler, Harrell Fletcher, Gene Flores, Bean Gilsdorf, Dan Gilsdorf, Gold Blizzard, Marianne Goldin, Jamie Goodridge, Jef Gunn, Cecilia Hallinan, Sean Healy, Mary Henry, Michael T. Hensley, Whitney Hubbs, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Scott Wayne Indiana, Philip Iosca, James Jack, Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson, Jo Ann Kemmis, Klutch, Jim Lommason, Joe Macca, Tamar Monhait, Chelsea Mosher, Arnold Pander, Pasha, Tom Prochaska, Christine Catsifas & Kyle Riedel, Patrick Rock, Rita Robillard, Ben Rosenberg, Paige Saez, Marty Schnapf, Margaret Shirley, Kimber Shiroma, Corey Smith, Mark R. Smith, Kara Sparkman, Kathleen Stephenson, Nishiki Tayui, Edie Tsong, Zefrey Throwell, Joe Thurston, John Sebastian Vitale, Elise Wagner, Amanda Wojick and the YesMen. Disjecta needs the money to complete its renovations, if they don't get it, the building goes back to the developer and Disjecta is homeless. So this is important to the art community and that's why so many artists are participating. Even if you don't have a lot of cash, just seeing this cross section of art in Portland in one place is a great value.
http://www.disjecta.org/ 5 SE 3rd under the Burnside Bridge 7-11PM $10
Weird Weeds, The MPO and Mise en Abyme at Holocene
Individualistic trio Weird Weeds, the incomparable Music Population Orchestra and Marriage Records darlings Mise en Abyme perform. 9PM $6
December 3
Darling Film at Valentines
Valentines film series shifts from France across the channel to London in the 60's with Julie Christie staring in Darling, for which she won the best actress academy award. Discovered in a street interview, Christie rises Courtney Love-style through London's heartless and snobby social ranks from hipsters to princes, ultimately learning money can't buy you love, which of course is what Holly Golightly discovered.
232 SW Ankeny 4:30 pm special early time this week $5
December 4
Lecture Series at PSU
Oregon Painter James Lavadour speaks. Lavadour is Umatilla. A self taught artist, his subject is abstract landscape. His work has a gestural feel, like sumi ink drawing, in thin pigments touching our Western landscapes' color; it is his intent to capture something of the landscape in the canvas that can hold the viewer's inspiration, if only for a moment.
His Gallery Website PSU 5th Avenue Cinema, Room 92, 510 SW Hall 8:15PM Free
December 6
Organism Deer Show above Backspace
Art Organism opens a deer show by San Francisco contemporary artist Jarrett Mitchell. The show is "The Dawn of The Birth Of The Battle of Right To Life vs. The Law Of Death". Departing from Brooklyn's romance of deer kawaii, Mitchell, who grew up in forested Kentucky, instead meditates on deer and death. In the film Deer Hunter, the protagonist, played by DeNiro has a moment like that, but the deer lives, establishing a motif which repeats, not always to a happy ending. Mitchell's show was well received in the UK, which also presents its own deer motif in the film The Queen. Mitchell's show of paintings and video deals with all manner of deer interactions including those in which the human protagonist faces death at the instrument of deer.
An early edit of the show's video component may be found here
107 NW 5th Ave (4th floor), Portland, Oregon Above Backspace/Compound
Opening Dec 6 6:00-9:00PM (artist in attendance)
First Thursday Dec 7 6:00-9:00PM (artist in attendance)
Dec 6 - Jan 28 2007
12:00 - 6:00 Wednesday - Sunday
Closed Dec 24, & Jan 1
Friday, December 01, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
November Arting 6,8,10-19,21,28-30
The month's remainder brings a great variety of curious things. And Thanksgiving, the last pure holiday.
November 6
Artists' Lecture @ Reed
Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell have a show at Reed College: "I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMEWHERE." In 1970 [2006] opposition to the Vietnam [Iraq] War had grown. Although a majority had concluded the war pointless and wrong, a strong pro war minority accused doubters of the war of being unpatriotic and not supporting the troops. There was also a military draft [volunteer army] making all college students [jobless military age people] targets, except for those with powerful family connections or wealth. Against this backdrop, students across the country protested the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia [Iran]. [Let's hope the story ends here...] On May 4, the Ohio National Guard shot 4 at Kent State University. Artists Hadley+Maxwell, working from photos of the time restaged the events on the Reed Campus with students alternating roles as the dead students and those around them in shock. In the gallery, the artists project the photos and draw over the projections. Lucien is a social artist, perhaps similar to Harrell Fletcher. He will engage gallery visitors personally in 100 photographs from his collection of 300,000 and produce more material from the interaction.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Lecture Vollum Hall 7:30 Free
November 8
Drift + Sonic Youth Shorts @ Holocene
You can read the Holocene calendar http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ for a description of live improv to film and experimental videos with Sonic Youth. 8 $5
Lecture-review of new Portland Parks @ Historical Society
The chance to design large is rare. In Portland, though, 3 new/redo downtown parks in the park blocks are in design. The excavation between the Guild and the Fox Tower will be a park. O'Bryant Square, sometime needle park or panic park. Ankeny Park by Lit. The designers seek public review of their designs at sessions 11:30AM-1:30PM and 6-7:30PM then lecture from 7:30-8:30PM at the Historical Society building.
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=43212
November 9
Art on Pirate Radio Opening @ Henry in Seattle
Artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, neuroTransmitter, operate in the realm of transmission arts, analog. Their installation at the Henry delves into pirate radio as one manifestation of of the phenomena. Up until December 31. http://www.henryart.org/ex/neurotransmitter.html
Landscape Architect Peter Walker @ UO Portland Center
Peter Walker is one of the world's leading landscape architects. His work creates the physical architecture upon which the cultural anthropology of moving through space, or just contemplating it, happens. He and his firm are known for their urban planning, university campus, city park and public space designs. His firm is responsible for the William Jameson Park, NW 11th and Johnson, with it's brilliant fountain-wading-pond. 722 SW 2nd Ave, 4th Floor Review Room Noon Free
Time Based Art Show of Artists' Clocks @ Local.35
Local.35 clothing store has great synergy with the Portland art community. They've commissioned murals for their walls and dressing rooms and have consistently represented a Hawthorne second Thursday art opening night. Tonight they have a group show of clocks by artists Miss Libby Ann, Damon Ayers, Kendra Binney, Tim Brenner, Rik Catlow, Claudia Drake, Lyla Emery Reno, Michael Fields, Chris Haberman, Shauna Haider, Jennifer Mercede, Ashley Montague, Bruce New, Derek Olsen, Casey Rae, Jesse Reno, Reuben Rude, Thinkmule, Daniel Damocles Wall, Joshua Williams, Wendy Stillwell Wise, Cathie Joy Young The show was wrangled by Black Market Culture which puts Portland artists on the web and arranges brick and mortar shows too. DJ and libations and nifty clothes. http://www.local35.com/ 3556 SE Hawthorne Blvd 6-9 Free
November 10-12
Food and Shelter Festival @ Center Space & Goldsmith Building
The Food and Shelter Festival explores improvised music and movement through workshops and performances. Workshops on the day. Performances evening.
Their website has all the details: http://foodandshelter.blogspot.com/
November 10-18
The Film Center hosts the NW Film and Video Festival, a juried show of short, medium and long work from the NW bioregions. You can scan their website for a myirad of details and find what sounds interesting to you. http://www.nwfilm.org
November 11
Residence show-buy-party @ Homeland
All those free art shows with free drinks need money and you need art. Inviting artists to visit and make work or show our work in the world outside Portland requires fundage too. So 50 artists: Nicole Amore, Holly Andres, Josh Arseneau, Joe Beil, Troy Briggs, Chris Buckingham, Sam Coomes, Brent Comstock, Bruce Conkle, Tim Dalbow, Marguerite Day, Nick diSessa, Fred Fliesher, Liz Haley, Kim Hamblin, Meg Hanson, Jimmy Hatch, Scott Wayne Indiana, Ryan Jeffery, Chris Johanson, JoAnn Kemmis, Kendra Larson, Erin Letterman, Amy Lincoln, Karl Lind, Gabriel Liston, Kurtis Lofstrom, Marne Lucas, Betty MacEntire, Mary Mattingly, Zak Margolis, Lisa Maurine, Paul Middendorf, Chelsea Mosher, Charles Moss, Tj Norris, Lauren Obenour, Tracy Olsen, Louise Osborne, Eugenia Pardue, Ethan Rose, Adam Ross, Paige Saez, Joe Spangler, Cynthia Star, Amy Steel, Jeremy Tucker, Max Turner, Annette Thurston, Joe Thurston, John Vitale, Vicki Lynn Wilson and Jim Wood have contributed small works to make it happen. Buy them for $20-200
Opening party 6-11PM. Show all month Saturday and Sunday 12-5 until December 2.
At Gallery Homeland World Headquarters 916 SE 34th Ave.
Classical Indian Music @ Lewis and Clark
All cultures seem to have a sandwich. Tasty breadish things with fillings. The Indian version might be the samosa. So this evening, if you are in the mood for and Indian sandwich consider this. Kalakendra presents North Indian vocalist Aarti Ankalikar-Tikekar accompanied by Milind Kulkarni on harmonium and Ramdas Pulsule on tabla. You can get in for free if you are a member and you can join at a prorated rate anytime. Then maybe take in an Indian dinner. Finally there is DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid's Atlas, Asian fusion dance music at Holocene.
Indian concert $15 advance, $20 door, free members details at http://www.kalakendra.org/flyer.html 7:30PM Lewis and Clark Evans Auditorium
Magnetic II @ Seattle Science Center
A dance party in a science center. Science experiments 10-11. The butterfly room, planetarium, dinosaur room, the robotic insects, an ocean petting tank, and other exhibits are open until midnight. Four rooms of DJ's until 4AM. Breakfast at the Hurricane?
Details http://www.infiniteconnections.org
November 12
Crafty Wonderland @ Doug Fir Lounge
Take in the church of craft, talk to the crafters, learn a new one at the DIY table. 11AM-4PM. http://www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
November 13
Valentines in launching a film night. This Monday they show Godard's Pierrot Le Fou. I have a feeling that the opening of Until the End of the World may homage this film. Admission includes snacks. They are also preparing tapas, which knowing the place should be tasty. Valentines 232 SE Ankeny 7PM $5
November 14
Cello+ @ The Artistery
Zoe Keating performs cello with looping. Joined by the Golden Arm Trio who scored the film A Scanner Darkly and Privacy of Marriage Records. http://www.myspace.com/zoecello Sounds good to me. 4315 SE Division St 7:30 $5
November 15
Art Conservation Now Lecture @ Reed
MOMA Director of Conservation, Jim Coddington, speaks on conserving today's contemporary art. Given electronic media and materials that aren't archival, plus all manner of installations and wild sculpture, it's a non trivial challenge.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Reed Vollum Hall 7:00PM Free
November 16
What's the point of copyright? @ PSU
You may be wondering. Many people are thinking deeply on this. Author, EFF'er and coeditor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow speaks on the topic. Details and bio at http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ Smith Hall Vanport Room 338, 1825 S.W. Broadway 5PM Free
First VJ Night @ 911 in Seattle
VJ's mix video samples live to music. They work harder than DJ's, mixing sometimes hundreds of samples per minute while the DJ manages transitions every few minutes. Their method is more like a producer, but they do it live. It's been going strong in the UK for over 20 years, lead by Coldcut's Matt Black. RISD students the Emergency Broadcast Network pioneered political cut ups using videotape and many videotape players live. Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center, with no analog in Portland, catches up tonight and presents a night featuring VJ's Killing Frenzy, scobot with DJ Hyasynth.
http://www.911media.org/events/vj-night.html 402 9th Avenue N between Belltown and Lake Union 7:30-10:30PM not sure of the admission
November 17
3 on 3 Bboy Bgirl Battle @ Reed
6 years, this spot has hosted battles. It's a friendly fierce night including some insane out of towners. It's no joke with a $300 first prize. Door is $5 with all the money going to support Ethos http://www.ethos-inc.org/, schooling the next generation.
Soundz - Ohmega Watts: Lightheaded (PDX). Judges - Jyant: Moon Poon Platoon, Dialog: Ninja Cipher Brigade, Big Sid: DefCon5. Hip hop is life. Reed Union. Doors 6, battles 7. $5
Odds and Ends Film and Animation @ Gallery Homeland
courtesy of our friends at Urban Honking: http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2006/11/odds_and_ends_g.html
3 Artists Open @ Small A Projects
Small A Projects, which has been making a great name for Portland lately by presenting artists' first solo shows, opens Green Light Green Light, Jamie Isenstein, Anissa Mack and Josh Shaddock. Anissa has done performances, such as Pies for a Passerby, in which she baked apple pies at the Brooklyn Public Library then placed them on the windowsill of a purpose built cottage for passerby's to steal.
Jamie Isenstein produces installations; Josh Shaddock is the coolest of the three, sometimes working with language. Small A Projects http://www.smallaprojects.com 1430 SE 3rd Reception 5-8 Talk Isenstein-Mack 7:30 Free
November 17-19
Sprockettes International Invitational @ Disjecta
The Sprockettes are one of those things that can bring only smiles. Their precision nano bike performances are the bike version of high school's synchronized swimming with much better costumes. Or precision Zoobombing. Tonight they invite international bike stars the Clettes, girl bike performers and the Brakes, boy bike performers - all the way from Vancouver BC! Also on the bill are Kazum!, local acrobats; and electro, disco, romantico rockers, Romanteek from Olympia. Fulfill all your entertainment needs, wants and out and out lusts with drinks, a pimp your bike booth, Sprockettes calendars and official Sprockettes clothing, a silent art auction, a live stenciling wall, more art and a dance party with DJ Sniffles and DJ Puppet. Self propelled fun.
At Disjecta. Doors 7, show 8. All ages. $5-10 sliding scale
But wait there is more, a whole minibike weekend...
Saturday brunch and make tall bikes at 11:11AM, alleycat on minibikes at 3 at Mt Tabor - points for style and then see bike movies at Free Geek at 7
and
Sunday bike a beer treasure hunt at noon, at 3, bike polo and learn bikedancing skills at Alberta Park then Zoobomb.
November 18
Japanese Butoh Performance Master Class @ Seattle Velocity Dance Center
Butoh is a Japanese performance form unlike other modern dance styles. Seattle Performers Haruko Nishimura & Sheri Brown present a lecture-demo-try butoh master class. The master class,4-4:45PM is an introductory movement class by
Haruko Nishimura, director/choreographer/performer for Degenerate Art Ensemble. From 4:45-6 butoh's history will be explored by in video and by demonstrations by performers Sheri Brown, Alan Sutherland, dk pan Douglas Ridings, Helen Thorsen, Kym Adams and Mish Curtis.
Instructor bios:
Haruko Nishimura- Since co-founding Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly The Young Composers Collective) in 1993, Haruko has produced a consistent stream of original and adventurous works combining physical theater and butoh dance with live experimental music. Many of these pieces are large scale works involving up to 5-15 performers and the Degenerate Art Ensemble’s 10-17 piece orchestra. Haruko’s choreographed works have been commissioned by On The Boards, City, County and State Arts Commissions, as well as a number of private foundations and have appeared in ten countries. As a performer, Haruko has appeared in as many as 60 performances per year over the past ten years, including performances in her own group Degenerate Art Ensemble, as well as in other ensembles including San Francisco/Berlin based InkBoat, Holland based R.A.M.M. Theater and others. These performances have taken place throughout the US West Coast, New York, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Netherlands and Italy.
Sheri Brown- Performance artist Sheri Brown (www.sheribrown.com) has performed extensively both as a solo artist and as a core member of the butoh-inspired troupe P.A.N.(www.prettyartnumb.org), where she began working with dk pan in 2001. Highlights from her work with the P.A.N. are the Chuncheon International Mime Festival (for which the group won the Dokkebi Award), the Overseas Korean Arts Convention in Seoul, the International Butoh Festival in San Francisco, and Spaceboat TV at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Additionally, Sheri has has performed with several other performance groups including Infernal Noise Brigade, Pyrosutra, Dappin Butoh, Kokoro, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, and TchKung. Sheri holds a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University and a Master's in Education from the University of Hawaii; her Butoh teachers include Shinichi Momo Koga, Akira Kasai, Joan Laage, Su-En, Minako Seki, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Jay Hirobashi, Yoshito Ohno, Kota Yamazaki. Sheri performs regularly as the angel-fairy in Bumbershoot, Folklife, Hempfest, and the Oregon Country Fair and has served on the board of directors for the Center on Contemporary Art for several years.
Master class $13, Lecture demo $5 at the Seattle Velocity Dence Center. To register and for more information, contact lizy@theparamount.com or call 206-467-5510, ext. 1171
Photographer Daido Moriyama Speaks @ Portland Art Museum
Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is known for his grainy black and white photos lensed with dramatic camera angles. Sort of punk style, except his career began in about 1960. After a 10 minute film on the photographer, he will be interviewed by photographer Michael Kenna who is known for his nightime landscape photography. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium http://www.portlandartmuseum.org $10 general $5 members
FO(A)RM Experiment @ Portland Art Center
FO(A)RM is a yearly journal which uses metaconcepts like autonomy, topography, duals & doubles, dis/embodiment and utility to organize writings and recordings. Tonight they branch from paper and ink to sound and video referencing too the sound recordings contained in autonomy. Organizer Seth Nehil made electroacoustic music, moved to NY, started the journal and now is back making more sound visual performances.
Performers Olivia Block, Chicago; Seth Cluett, Princeton; Luc, Portland; Borborygmus, Portland; DJ P Unity, Portland provide a counterpoint to experimental video material from Zak Margolis, Holly Andres & Grace Carter, James Sumner (Dirty Projectors), Brook Hinton, David Borengasser, Melody Owen and Animal Charm curated by Morgan Currie. See also video installations by Richard Garet, Michael Bullock, Kuwayama Kiyoharu (Lethe), Elizabeth Leister, Stephen Slappe, Cat Tyc, Linda Kliewer, Phillip Cooper, Ryan Jeffrey, Mark Owen, Mack McFarland and Sue Havens.
All this takes place at the Portland Art Center http://www.portlandart.org/ 32 NW 5th 8PM $8 advance/ $10 door includes $2 off the purchase of FO(A)RM autonomy journal.
November 21
Sankai Juku @ The Paramount Seattle
Sankai Juku's elegant minimal style gets inside your head. Their relationship with the Seattle audience is special, the emotional dynamic flows in both directions. 9/10 1985, Sankai Juku performer Yoshiyuki Takeda fell to his death before the audience in an outdoor performance due to faulty rigging suspending he and his fellow dancers from a Pioneer Square building. You can get more information and a video excerpt of the current perfomance in Seattle at http://www.theparamount.com/artists/artist.asp?key=368
$32-42 Paramount Theater, Seattle 7:30PM
November 28
Cello + II @ Someday Lounge
Cellist Zoe Keating, longtime Rasputina performer is another example of international level creatives picking Portland home. Ilyas Ahmed (with Grouper) and electroacoustic ambient gypsy trio Mugwort also perform. Someday Lounge http://www.somedaylounge.com/location/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
November 29
Dahlia @ DF
Dahlia, of whom we have written, performs their monthly residency at the Doug Fir. Their last residency created the good Ohm. http://www.myspace.com/dahliapdx http://www.dougfirlounge.com/$6 9PM
Flamenco Madness @ Big Stage Schnitz
Portland has a collection of flamenco dancers and their friends. After you have done, and done, and that, and the other, there now is flamenco. The big dance presenters in town are New Yorker's White Bird and tonight they present flamenco . This is for those who get hot seeing dancers in red and passionate music, this is the root passion of Spain that got all watered down in the new world. Schnitzer Hall $16-52 Student Discount Available 7:30PM
November 30
Show Closing with Music @ Valentines
Valentines has a closing reception for the show listed in the westside art openings above. OWL SOUNDS from NYC performs at 9pm probably free - check with the venue 232 SW Ankeny
Drats!!! another rock opera @ Holocene
Punkers Drats!!! release their cd Welcome to New Granada. Then they show a teen rebellion film from the 1970's, Over the Edge with Matt Dillon in his first role. The film has a soundtrack with Cheap Trick, The Cars and The Ramones! Don't leave early, though, because Drats then performs their own rock opera mashing up their New Granada songs and performing characters inspired by Over the Edge!! So !!! 8PM Free !!! !! !
World of Warcraft Gamers' Night Out @ Someday Lounge
If opera is not your cup of tea, welcome to the matrix at Someday's World of Warcraft Expansion Release party http://www.blizzard.com. From the lead game producer via www.gamespot.com: "In our next major update, we will be releasing Blackwing Lair, a 40-person raid dungeon, where you will be able to battle against the epic dragon Nefarian and his minions. We are also working on a 20-person dungeon called Zul'Gurub and the mysterious lands of Ahn'Qiraj in Silithus. Outside of dungeons, we want to continue adding new world events, such as a carnival that will take place in Mulgore and Elwynn forest." More news and a promotional video at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/. Irono-nazis, The Punk Group perform a purpose written song for the occasion. Blizzard's release date has been slipped to January to allow the beta testers to find bugs in each and every maze of twisty little passages, so check with the venue for updates. http://www.somedaylounge.com/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
November 6
Artists' Lecture @ Reed
Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell have a show at Reed College: "I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMEWHERE." In 1970 [2006] opposition to the Vietnam [Iraq] War had grown. Although a majority had concluded the war pointless and wrong, a strong pro war minority accused doubters of the war of being unpatriotic and not supporting the troops. There was also a military draft [volunteer army] making all college students [jobless military age people] targets, except for those with powerful family connections or wealth. Against this backdrop, students across the country protested the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia [Iran]. [Let's hope the story ends here...] On May 4, the Ohio National Guard shot 4 at Kent State University. Artists Hadley+Maxwell, working from photos of the time restaged the events on the Reed Campus with students alternating roles as the dead students and those around them in shock. In the gallery, the artists project the photos and draw over the projections. Lucien is a social artist, perhaps similar to Harrell Fletcher. He will engage gallery visitors personally in 100 photographs from his collection of 300,000 and produce more material from the interaction.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Lecture Vollum Hall 7:30 Free
November 8
Drift + Sonic Youth Shorts @ Holocene
You can read the Holocene calendar http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ for a description of live improv to film and experimental videos with Sonic Youth. 8 $5
Lecture-review of new Portland Parks @ Historical Society
The chance to design large is rare. In Portland, though, 3 new/redo downtown parks in the park blocks are in design. The excavation between the Guild and the Fox Tower will be a park. O'Bryant Square, sometime needle park or panic park. Ankeny Park by Lit. The designers seek public review of their designs at sessions 11:30AM-1:30PM and 6-7:30PM then lecture from 7:30-8:30PM at the Historical Society building.
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=43212
November 9
Art on Pirate Radio Opening @ Henry in Seattle
Artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, neuroTransmitter, operate in the realm of transmission arts, analog. Their installation at the Henry delves into pirate radio as one manifestation of of the phenomena. Up until December 31. http://www.henryart.org/ex/neurotransmitter.html
Landscape Architect Peter Walker @ UO Portland Center
Peter Walker is one of the world's leading landscape architects. His work creates the physical architecture upon which the cultural anthropology of moving through space, or just contemplating it, happens. He and his firm are known for their urban planning, university campus, city park and public space designs. His firm is responsible for the William Jameson Park, NW 11th and Johnson, with it's brilliant fountain-wading-pond. 722 SW 2nd Ave, 4th Floor Review Room Noon Free
Time Based Art Show of Artists' Clocks @ Local.35
Local.35 clothing store has great synergy with the Portland art community. They've commissioned murals for their walls and dressing rooms and have consistently represented a Hawthorne second Thursday art opening night. Tonight they have a group show of clocks by artists Miss Libby Ann, Damon Ayers, Kendra Binney, Tim Brenner, Rik Catlow, Claudia Drake, Lyla Emery Reno, Michael Fields, Chris Haberman, Shauna Haider, Jennifer Mercede, Ashley Montague, Bruce New, Derek Olsen, Casey Rae, Jesse Reno, Reuben Rude, Thinkmule, Daniel Damocles Wall, Joshua Williams, Wendy Stillwell Wise, Cathie Joy Young The show was wrangled by Black Market Culture which puts Portland artists on the web and arranges brick and mortar shows too. DJ and libations and nifty clothes. http://www.local35.com/ 3556 SE Hawthorne Blvd 6-9 Free
November 10-12
Food and Shelter Festival @ Center Space & Goldsmith Building
The Food and Shelter Festival explores improvised music and movement through workshops and performances. Workshops on the day. Performances evening.
Their website has all the details: http://foodandshelter.blogspot.com/
November 10-18
The Film Center hosts the NW Film and Video Festival, a juried show of short, medium and long work from the NW bioregions. You can scan their website for a myirad of details and find what sounds interesting to you. http://www.nwfilm.org
November 11
Residence show-buy-party @ Homeland
All those free art shows with free drinks need money and you need art. Inviting artists to visit and make work or show our work in the world outside Portland requires fundage too. So 50 artists: Nicole Amore, Holly Andres, Josh Arseneau, Joe Beil, Troy Briggs, Chris Buckingham, Sam Coomes, Brent Comstock, Bruce Conkle, Tim Dalbow, Marguerite Day, Nick diSessa, Fred Fliesher, Liz Haley, Kim Hamblin, Meg Hanson, Jimmy Hatch, Scott Wayne Indiana, Ryan Jeffery, Chris Johanson, JoAnn Kemmis, Kendra Larson, Erin Letterman, Amy Lincoln, Karl Lind, Gabriel Liston, Kurtis Lofstrom, Marne Lucas, Betty MacEntire, Mary Mattingly, Zak Margolis, Lisa Maurine, Paul Middendorf, Chelsea Mosher, Charles Moss, Tj Norris, Lauren Obenour, Tracy Olsen, Louise Osborne, Eugenia Pardue, Ethan Rose, Adam Ross, Paige Saez, Joe Spangler, Cynthia Star, Amy Steel, Jeremy Tucker, Max Turner, Annette Thurston, Joe Thurston, John Vitale, Vicki Lynn Wilson and Jim Wood have contributed small works to make it happen. Buy them for $20-200
Opening party 6-11PM. Show all month Saturday and Sunday 12-5 until December 2.
At Gallery Homeland World Headquarters 916 SE 34th Ave.
Classical Indian Music @ Lewis and Clark
All cultures seem to have a sandwich. Tasty breadish things with fillings. The Indian version might be the samosa. So this evening, if you are in the mood for and Indian sandwich consider this. Kalakendra presents North Indian vocalist Aarti Ankalikar-Tikekar accompanied by Milind Kulkarni on harmonium and Ramdas Pulsule on tabla. You can get in for free if you are a member and you can join at a prorated rate anytime. Then maybe take in an Indian dinner. Finally there is DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid's Atlas, Asian fusion dance music at Holocene.
Indian concert $15 advance, $20 door, free members details at http://www.kalakendra.org/flyer.html 7:30PM Lewis and Clark Evans Auditorium
Magnetic II @ Seattle Science Center
A dance party in a science center. Science experiments 10-11. The butterfly room, planetarium, dinosaur room, the robotic insects, an ocean petting tank, and other exhibits are open until midnight. Four rooms of DJ's until 4AM. Breakfast at the Hurricane?
Details http://www.infiniteconnections.org
November 12
Crafty Wonderland @ Doug Fir Lounge
Take in the church of craft, talk to the crafters, learn a new one at the DIY table. 11AM-4PM. http://www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
November 13
Valentines in launching a film night. This Monday they show Godard's Pierrot Le Fou. I have a feeling that the opening of Until the End of the World may homage this film. Admission includes snacks. They are also preparing tapas, which knowing the place should be tasty. Valentines 232 SE Ankeny 7PM $5
November 14
Cello+ @ The Artistery
Zoe Keating performs cello with looping. Joined by the Golden Arm Trio who scored the film A Scanner Darkly and Privacy of Marriage Records. http://www.myspace.com/zoecello Sounds good to me. 4315 SE Division St 7:30 $5
November 15
Art Conservation Now Lecture @ Reed
MOMA Director of Conservation, Jim Coddington, speaks on conserving today's contemporary art. Given electronic media and materials that aren't archival, plus all manner of installations and wild sculpture, it's a non trivial challenge.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Reed Vollum Hall 7:00PM Free
November 16
What's the point of copyright? @ PSU
You may be wondering. Many people are thinking deeply on this. Author, EFF'er and coeditor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow speaks on the topic. Details and bio at http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ Smith Hall Vanport Room 338, 1825 S.W. Broadway 5PM Free
First VJ Night @ 911 in Seattle
VJ's mix video samples live to music. They work harder than DJ's, mixing sometimes hundreds of samples per minute while the DJ manages transitions every few minutes. Their method is more like a producer, but they do it live. It's been going strong in the UK for over 20 years, lead by Coldcut's Matt Black. RISD students the Emergency Broadcast Network pioneered political cut ups using videotape and many videotape players live. Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center, with no analog in Portland, catches up tonight and presents a night featuring VJ's Killing Frenzy, scobot with DJ Hyasynth.
http://www.911media.org/events/vj-night.html 402 9th Avenue N between Belltown and Lake Union 7:30-10:30PM not sure of the admission
November 17
3 on 3 Bboy Bgirl Battle @ Reed
6 years, this spot has hosted battles. It's a friendly fierce night including some insane out of towners. It's no joke with a $300 first prize. Door is $5 with all the money going to support Ethos http://www.ethos-inc.org/, schooling the next generation.
Soundz - Ohmega Watts: Lightheaded (PDX). Judges - Jyant: Moon Poon Platoon, Dialog: Ninja Cipher Brigade, Big Sid: DefCon5. Hip hop is life. Reed Union. Doors 6, battles 7. $5
Odds and Ends Film and Animation @ Gallery Homeland
courtesy of our friends at Urban Honking: http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2006/11/odds_and_ends_g.html
3 Artists Open @ Small A Projects
Small A Projects, which has been making a great name for Portland lately by presenting artists' first solo shows, opens Green Light Green Light, Jamie Isenstein, Anissa Mack and Josh Shaddock. Anissa has done performances, such as Pies for a Passerby, in which she baked apple pies at the Brooklyn Public Library then placed them on the windowsill of a purpose built cottage for passerby's to steal.
Jamie Isenstein produces installations; Josh Shaddock is the coolest of the three, sometimes working with language. Small A Projects http://www.smallaprojects.com 1430 SE 3rd Reception 5-8 Talk Isenstein-Mack 7:30 Free
November 17-19
Sprockettes International Invitational @ Disjecta
The Sprockettes are one of those things that can bring only smiles. Their precision nano bike performances are the bike version of high school's synchronized swimming with much better costumes. Or precision Zoobombing. Tonight they invite international bike stars the Clettes, girl bike performers and the Brakes, boy bike performers - all the way from Vancouver BC! Also on the bill are Kazum!, local acrobats; and electro, disco, romantico rockers, Romanteek from Olympia. Fulfill all your entertainment needs, wants and out and out lusts with drinks, a pimp your bike booth, Sprockettes calendars and official Sprockettes clothing, a silent art auction, a live stenciling wall, more art and a dance party with DJ Sniffles and DJ Puppet. Self propelled fun.
At Disjecta. Doors 7, show 8. All ages. $5-10 sliding scale
But wait there is more, a whole minibike weekend...
Saturday brunch and make tall bikes at 11:11AM, alleycat on minibikes at 3 at Mt Tabor - points for style and then see bike movies at Free Geek at 7
and
Sunday bike a beer treasure hunt at noon, at 3, bike polo and learn bikedancing skills at Alberta Park then Zoobomb.
November 18
Japanese Butoh Performance Master Class @ Seattle Velocity Dance Center
Butoh is a Japanese performance form unlike other modern dance styles. Seattle Performers Haruko Nishimura & Sheri Brown present a lecture-demo-try butoh master class. The master class,4-4:45PM is an introductory movement class by
Haruko Nishimura, director/choreographer/performer for Degenerate Art Ensemble. From 4:45-6 butoh's history will be explored by in video and by demonstrations by performers Sheri Brown, Alan Sutherland, dk pan Douglas Ridings, Helen Thorsen, Kym Adams and Mish Curtis.
Instructor bios:
Haruko Nishimura- Since co-founding Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly The Young Composers Collective) in 1993, Haruko has produced a consistent stream of original and adventurous works combining physical theater and butoh dance with live experimental music. Many of these pieces are large scale works involving up to 5-15 performers and the Degenerate Art Ensemble’s 10-17 piece orchestra. Haruko’s choreographed works have been commissioned by On The Boards, City, County and State Arts Commissions, as well as a number of private foundations and have appeared in ten countries. As a performer, Haruko has appeared in as many as 60 performances per year over the past ten years, including performances in her own group Degenerate Art Ensemble, as well as in other ensembles including San Francisco/Berlin based InkBoat, Holland based R.A.M.M. Theater and others. These performances have taken place throughout the US West Coast, New York, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Netherlands and Italy.
Sheri Brown- Performance artist Sheri Brown (www.sheribrown.com) has performed extensively both as a solo artist and as a core member of the butoh-inspired troupe P.A.N.(www.prettyartnumb.org), where she began working with dk pan in 2001. Highlights from her work with the P.A.N. are the Chuncheon International Mime Festival (for which the group won the Dokkebi Award), the Overseas Korean Arts Convention in Seoul, the International Butoh Festival in San Francisco, and Spaceboat TV at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Additionally, Sheri has has performed with several other performance groups including Infernal Noise Brigade, Pyrosutra, Dappin Butoh, Kokoro, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, and TchKung. Sheri holds a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University and a Master's in Education from the University of Hawaii; her Butoh teachers include Shinichi Momo Koga, Akira Kasai, Joan Laage, Su-En, Minako Seki, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Jay Hirobashi, Yoshito Ohno, Kota Yamazaki. Sheri performs regularly as the angel-fairy in Bumbershoot, Folklife, Hempfest, and the Oregon Country Fair and has served on the board of directors for the Center on Contemporary Art for several years.
Master class $13, Lecture demo $5 at the Seattle Velocity Dence Center. To register and for more information, contact lizy@theparamount.com or call 206-467-5510, ext. 1171
Photographer Daido Moriyama Speaks @ Portland Art Museum
Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is known for his grainy black and white photos lensed with dramatic camera angles. Sort of punk style, except his career began in about 1960. After a 10 minute film on the photographer, he will be interviewed by photographer Michael Kenna who is known for his nightime landscape photography. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium http://www.portlandartmuseum.org $10 general $5 members
FO(A)RM Experiment @ Portland Art Center
FO(A)RM is a yearly journal which uses metaconcepts like autonomy, topography, duals & doubles, dis/embodiment and utility to organize writings and recordings. Tonight they branch from paper and ink to sound and video referencing too the sound recordings contained in autonomy. Organizer Seth Nehil made electroacoustic music, moved to NY, started the journal and now is back making more sound visual performances.
Performers Olivia Block, Chicago; Seth Cluett, Princeton; Luc, Portland; Borborygmus, Portland; DJ P Unity, Portland provide a counterpoint to experimental video material from Zak Margolis, Holly Andres & Grace Carter, James Sumner (Dirty Projectors), Brook Hinton, David Borengasser, Melody Owen and Animal Charm curated by Morgan Currie. See also video installations by Richard Garet, Michael Bullock, Kuwayama Kiyoharu (Lethe), Elizabeth Leister, Stephen Slappe, Cat Tyc, Linda Kliewer, Phillip Cooper, Ryan Jeffrey, Mark Owen, Mack McFarland and Sue Havens.
All this takes place at the Portland Art Center http://www.portlandart.org/ 32 NW 5th 8PM $8 advance/ $10 door includes $2 off the purchase of FO(A)RM autonomy journal.
November 21
Sankai Juku @ The Paramount Seattle
Sankai Juku's elegant minimal style gets inside your head. Their relationship with the Seattle audience is special, the emotional dynamic flows in both directions. 9/10 1985, Sankai Juku performer Yoshiyuki Takeda fell to his death before the audience in an outdoor performance due to faulty rigging suspending he and his fellow dancers from a Pioneer Square building. You can get more information and a video excerpt of the current perfomance in Seattle at http://www.theparamount.com/artists/artist.asp?key=368
$32-42 Paramount Theater, Seattle 7:30PM
November 28
Cello + II @ Someday Lounge
Cellist Zoe Keating, longtime Rasputina performer is another example of international level creatives picking Portland home. Ilyas Ahmed (with Grouper) and electroacoustic ambient gypsy trio Mugwort also perform. Someday Lounge http://www.somedaylounge.com/location/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
November 29
Dahlia @ DF
Dahlia, of whom we have written, performs their monthly residency at the Doug Fir. Their last residency created the good Ohm. http://www.myspace.com/dahliapdx http://www.dougfirlounge.com/$6 9PM
Flamenco Madness @ Big Stage Schnitz
Portland has a collection of flamenco dancers and their friends. After you have done, and done, and that, and the other, there now is flamenco. The big dance presenters in town are New Yorker's White Bird and tonight they present flamenco . This is for those who get hot seeing dancers in red and passionate music, this is the root passion of Spain that got all watered down in the new world. Schnitzer Hall $16-52 Student Discount Available 7:30PM
November 30
Show Closing with Music @ Valentines
Valentines has a closing reception for the show listed in the westside art openings above. OWL SOUNDS from NYC performs at 9pm probably free - check with the venue 232 SW Ankeny
Drats!!! another rock opera @ Holocene
Punkers Drats!!! release their cd Welcome to New Granada. Then they show a teen rebellion film from the 1970's, Over the Edge with Matt Dillon in his first role. The film has a soundtrack with Cheap Trick, The Cars and The Ramones! Don't leave early, though, because Drats then performs their own rock opera mashing up their New Granada songs and performing characters inspired by Over the Edge!! So !!! 8PM Free !!! !! !
World of Warcraft Gamers' Night Out @ Someday Lounge
If opera is not your cup of tea, welcome to the matrix at Someday's World of Warcraft Expansion Release party http://www.blizzard.com. From the lead game producer via www.gamespot.com: "In our next major update, we will be releasing Blackwing Lair, a 40-person raid dungeon, where you will be able to battle against the epic dragon Nefarian and his minions. We are also working on a 20-person dungeon called Zul'Gurub and the mysterious lands of Ahn'Qiraj in Silithus. Outside of dungeons, we want to continue adding new world events, such as a carnival that will take place in Mulgore and Elwynn forest." More news and a promotional video at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/. Irono-nazis, The Punk Group perform a purpose written song for the occasion. Blizzard's release date has been slipped to January to allow the beta testers to find bugs in each and every maze of twisty little passages, so check with the venue for updates. http://www.somedaylounge.com/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
Friday, November 03, 2006
Nov 4 Flight 64 Printmaking Benefit
Portland has some printmaking mojo. Maybe it's because of the relationship between trees and paper. It's probably because of Gordon Gilkey. In the army in WW II, his interest in art lead him to being responsible for researching art displaced by the war and returning it to its proper owners. So he met a lot of art people in Europe and built an economical print collection by trading prints with artists. Later he taught printmaking at PNCA and then created the Art Museum Print Center where anyone can take a look at super valuable prints from their archives - Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Daumier, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Miró, Cézanne, and Picasso. He met some artists in the day when maybe you could trade a print for a bottle of Absinthe.
Printmaking presses are heavy. Yes it would be nice to have one in the basement, but how do you get something that weighs a ton down the stairs? Thus Flight 64, a printmaking coop sharing a studio and presses. http://www.flight64.org/ Tonight hear music by Blitzen Trapper, The Shaky Hands, Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond and DJBJ. Two buck raffle tickets give you a chance to add prints to your collection from famous people and the members of Flight 64. Artist reception 5-8. Raffle drawn at 8. Bands 9. Holocene http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ $5
Printmaking presses are heavy. Yes it would be nice to have one in the basement, but how do you get something that weighs a ton down the stairs? Thus Flight 64, a printmaking coop sharing a studio and presses. http://www.flight64.org/ Tonight hear music by Blitzen Trapper, The Shaky Hands, Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond and DJBJ. Two buck raffle tickets give you a chance to add prints to your collection from famous people and the members of Flight 64. Artist reception 5-8. Raffle drawn at 8. Bands 9. Holocene http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ $5
Art Openings @ Portland East Side
Opening night Friday November 3, Shows up all month.
In the 811 E. Burnside mega art complex:
Yes continues last month's embroidery - quilt-y show. Yes is going virtual, so if you know of a creative business that would fit the 811 zeitgeist, make your move to occupy the space.
Moshi Moshi has small drawings and paintings by William McCurtin.
Denwave throws open their back studio with spooky candles and smores.
The Grass Hut has a yarn and driftwood shelter shrine pod and a group show of small work. Arrive at 6 with a 2-3 person team team or not for a scavenger hunt, the scav-obs will be revealed at 6 and not before. Trophies will be awarded for first, second and last place. The hunt ends at 7 sharp.
Redux shows their reuse-recycle objects.
Ty Ennis shows drawing oriented work with maybe a little watercolor wash here and there and a lot of white space. His compositions successfully provide a restful enigma by reducing the elements in each to the minimum, New American Art Union http://www.newamericanartunion.com/ 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace opens Everyday Unusual by Lawrence Shlim & Bruce Polonsky. Both image street scenes, Shlim's work includes many odd and compelling images from his world travels. Saturday they are also showing, at 7, The Immediacy Marathon, more video oriented work by Julie Perini at 7. http://www.experimentsinimmediacy.org/ Get the details at tonight's opening. http://www.newspacephoto.org/ 1632 SE 10th
In the 811 E. Burnside mega art complex:
Yes continues last month's embroidery - quilt-y show. Yes is going virtual, so if you know of a creative business that would fit the 811 zeitgeist, make your move to occupy the space.
Moshi Moshi has small drawings and paintings by William McCurtin.
Denwave throws open their back studio with spooky candles and smores.
The Grass Hut has a yarn and driftwood shelter shrine pod and a group show of small work. Arrive at 6 with a 2-3 person team team or not for a scavenger hunt, the scav-obs will be revealed at 6 and not before. Trophies will be awarded for first, second and last place. The hunt ends at 7 sharp.
Redux shows their reuse-recycle objects.
Ty Ennis shows drawing oriented work with maybe a little watercolor wash here and there and a lot of white space. His compositions successfully provide a restful enigma by reducing the elements in each to the minimum, New American Art Union http://www.newamericanartunion.com/ 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace opens Everyday Unusual by Lawrence Shlim & Bruce Polonsky. Both image street scenes, Shlim's work includes many odd and compelling images from his world travels. Saturday they are also showing, at 7, The Immediacy Marathon, more video oriented work by Julie Perini at 7. http://www.experimentsinimmediacy.org/ Get the details at tonight's opening. http://www.newspacephoto.org/ 1632 SE 10th
Thursday, November 02, 2006
November 2-5 Catlin Gabel Rummage Sale
Catlin Gabel school is an academically oriented K-12 private school. Thursday through Sunday they hold a huge rummage sale of stuff from the attics, basements and garages of the parents, grandparents, former students associated with the school and all their friends. The sale benefits scholarships to the school which is a good thing. Thursday all items are marked up 35%. Late Sunday bargain hard. Photos http://www.catlin.edu/page/903 It's a sociological portrait incorporating generational time, a giant dig and maybe a scary reminder of our own accumulations. Thursday, November 2 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 35% markup during this first night of the sale. Friday, November 3 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 4 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday, November 5 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. At the Expo Center - take the light rail
Nov 3, 10, 13 and all month - Hiroshima mon Mémoire - from the bombings
PSU's Littman Gallery, in the Smith Center, in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies shows materials, photographs and videos from the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The exhibit is not suitable for most children under 12, the bombings either. On Friday November 3, Mr. Sasao Akira presents “The Personal Account of a Survivor of the Nuclear Attacks,” at noon in Smith Center room 228. Mr Akira was 18 years old and living in Nagasaki in 1945. November 10, at 6PM Lisa Yoneyama presents, “Competing Views on the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima,” not sure of the location, Yoneyama is the author of “Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory” and professor at UCSD. They also show a film November 13 at 7 in the 5th avenue cinemas see, the website for info. The gallery is open noon-4 weekdays and 11-3 Saturday
http://www.pdx.edu/news/11698/
http://www.pdx.edu/news/11698/
Portland Westside Art Openings
November 2 First Thursday - Westside Galleries
MK Guth's show continues with a large hair braid-like installation, videos and lenticular prints which change as you walk by them. Jesse Durost has an installation which incorporates a large American flag-like drape. It is only up until Saturday, when he gives a talk at the gallery. http://www.elizabethleach.com/ 417 N.W. 9th Avenue until 9
Scott Wayne Indiana has an installation in the Portland Window Project at PDX Contemporary Art, Proposal for a Forest or a Desert. Indiana is one of the few Portland artists seriously (also sometimes playfully as with his toy horse project) exploring art in the natural landscape. http://pdxgallery.com/ 925 NW Flanders St. Window viewable anytime.
Radek Skrivanek shows photographs of environmental disasters in the former Soviet Union. His choice of black and white highlights the viewers response to the tragedy. Some photos depict the Aral Sea, which dried up along with its fish population to irrigate crops in Uzbeckastan, home to US military bases for the Afghan and Iraq war and in Kazakhstan the subject of a geopolitical charm offensive by both China and the US over it's oil and gas. This has nothing to do with Klamath Lake. In another meditation on water, Kate Mellor documents old hot spring spas in Europe, accompanying the photos with faux journals of a fictional landscape painter visiting the sites. http://www.blueskygallery.org/ 1231 NW Hoyt until 9, maybe a bit later
Marcus Brown performs music driven by galvanic skin response on instruments of his own construction. Galvanic skin responses are subtle changes in the electrical conductivity of skin caused by changes in blood flow and sweat. It is used in lie detectors and by Scientologists, so it's nice here to see it put to positive use. From the artist: "I use visual, audio and performance media in my work to create my own dishes which re-conceptualize and re-spiritualize American contemporary culture. Sonically, I transcribe the musical traditions of my African and Native heritages in both a spiritual and socio-economical context. With the use of my environment and the body, I aim to create spiritual tropes with my linguistic visual and phonic transmissions. Much like a voodoo craftsman, I view my role in society as a spiritual one, who uses many processes to connect society to the spirit world. My focus lies in revitalizing "spiritual making" in the midst of a capitalist-driven and spiritually diverse American society." http://www.pnca.edu/ Performance 7:30-8 in the Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery 825 NW 13th at PNCA across 13th from the main school, door on the loading dock
Also at PNCA Gilbert Neri creates a mythical archeology to "mimic a museum exhibit in an attempt to restore lost authenticity" - the perfect counterpoint to the Art Museum's show of Egyptian artifacts. http://www.pnca.edu/ until 9:30 in the Feldman Gallery NW 13th and Johnson. Neri also speaks free at the school at 12:30 Friday
Jen Corace shows meticulous drawings at Motel. "Overwhelmed" incorporates iconic threats to the mythological character, mirroring the dangers of navigating modern life. http://www.motelgallery.com/ NW Couch between 5th and 6th across from Ground Control until 9
Supernal is an angel-themed show. A good counterpoint to the preponderance of dark themed Portland halloween costumes this year. Curated by Monica HW Choy, artists include 2H, Liz Adams liz-adams.com, Andrew Hem andrewhem.com, Lori Field lorifieldfineart.com, Angry Woebots armyofsnipers.com, Lucy McLauchlan beat13.co.uk, Aric Miller, Luke Chueh lukechueh.com, Cho-Chan digmeout.net, Martin Ontiveros martinhead.com, Colin Johnson colinjohnsonillustration.com, Maya Hayuk mayahayuk.com, David D'Andrea dvdandrea.com, Meg Hunt meghunt.com, Edwin Ushiro mrushiro.com, P. Williams pwilliamsart.com, Erik Otto erikotto.com, Ren Sakurai, Hannah Stouffer grandarray.com, Ronald Kurniawan ronaldkurniawan.com, Jeremiah Ketner smallandround.com, Ryan Bubnis ryanbubnis.com, Jon Han jon-han.com, Madoka Kinoshita digmeout.net, Joshua Clay jclayart.com, Stella Im Hultberg stellaimhultberg.com, Kenichi Hoshine kenichihoshine.com, Thomas Han tomorama.com, Klutch klutch.org, Mr. Kin k3.dion.ne.jp/~lmtiny/, Leanne Biank eyesorestudios.com, and Hajime Yoshio digmeout.net. Also showing is Pet Show by artists Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock.
At Compound/Just Be Toys http://www.justbedesign.com/ 107 NW 5th until about 9:30
The girl half of APAK!, Ayumi Piland, shows Animal Friends!. The show includes paintings themed on animal friendship, an edition of 100 of the her "Animal ABC Book" and prints from the book. From their website www.apakstudio.com Ayumi and her husband Aaron met in a distant dimension and traveled to Earth together in a magic imagination machine. Using their art, they have learned to exchange energy with beings throughout the universe. From their secret cabin, they are sending out their signal hopes of contacting other creative life forms". At Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St until 9ish
Vino Paradiso has up a halloween-themed photography show. 417 NW 10th
At the Froelick Gallery, longtime artists Tom Prochaska and Laura Ross Paul show. Prochoska teaches printmaking at PNCA. In this show, his large scale paintings with a compelling colorful palate, seem to depict street scenes with barely discernible characters. His drawings are similarly impressionistic in a loose way that is actually coiled tight. Ross-Paul shows children and families seemingly in contemplation or at psychological play. Ross-Paul also is a master colorist, If you paint figures, take a look. http://www.froelickgallery.com 817 SW 2nd until 9
Caldera http://www.calderaarts.org is an arts camp and creative retreat in the mountains near Sisters, Oregon. What they do is very cool. Tonight they show some of the results, a show of photography and video, Seeing is Believing by young people in their program. In the W+K Lobby 224 NW 13th Ave until 9
The Portland Art Center shows an installation by PICA artist in residence Viktor Popovic http://www.viktorpopovic.com/ incorporating chairs and florescent tubes. Also IC2:Incidental Biographies by Elias Foley in the Light and Sound Gallery where live improvised music accompanies his video installation. http://www.portlandart.org/newsite/ExhibitionsNovember.html 32 NW 5th Avenue until 10
Valentines shows drawings "The Witchcraft Rebellion" by Arrington de Dionyso and Sophia Dixon. Their press release has a flair to it:
Two artists from opposite coasts conjure unseen worlds of alchemical oppositions: darkness and light, violence and love, populated by human-animal-vegetable hybrid forms with feathers, scales, hair, grass, water, clouds and blood. Pulsating with euphoria bordering on madness, these ink drawings of unbridled intuition expose us to an instinctual language of brush and quill. Sexy, edgy, fantastically risky, the viewer is invited to follow along with initiatory hallucinations, vine-ripened with suggested narratives and somnambular echoes. This is the stuff that dreams are made of, the dreams that draw themselves.
Both the opening and closing events will feature proto-musical sound performances by artist Arrington de Dionyso, drawing upon his synaesthetic readings of the artworks as scores for sound wave conduction.
SOPHIA DIXON-
I allow my own fantasies free rein in my work because I want to explore the nature and effect of representations of female desire within a culture whose collective imagination has been primarily formed by male fantasy. I am interested in the compact made between individual and cultural fantasies and the slippage between theatricality bordering on camp and almost embarrassing self-exposure. I indulge certain culturally inherited erotic aesthetics, and my drawings expose a fascination with young bodies and a desire to possess and ultimately form a collection of these bodies through portraiture. My interest in the intersection between personal desire and collective fantasy is connected to an interest in the ongoing cultural linkage of desire, especially non-normative desire, with illness and death, and the fantasy world of my drawings is populated by embattled or endangered sickly young bodies. In my red drawings, I am interested in both the teenage-melodramatic implications of the drawing being 'written in blood' and in the resultant relationship of paper to skin. I think about the viewer relating to the the paper both as a surface for the drawing and as a vulnerable, eroticized object, on which the drawing is a wound. I want her to feel implicated in the compromised eroticism of the drawing, and forced to participate in an eroticized representation of violence and self-violence.
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO-
Founding member of the band Old Time Relijun, Arrington deals with many of the same themes in both music and art, using performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll.
Lights on 6-9, music at 9 Valentines 232 SW Ankeny
MK Guth's show continues with a large hair braid-like installation, videos and lenticular prints which change as you walk by them. Jesse Durost has an installation which incorporates a large American flag-like drape. It is only up until Saturday, when he gives a talk at the gallery. http://www.elizabethleach.com/ 417 N.W. 9th Avenue until 9
Scott Wayne Indiana has an installation in the Portland Window Project at PDX Contemporary Art, Proposal for a Forest or a Desert. Indiana is one of the few Portland artists seriously (also sometimes playfully as with his toy horse project) exploring art in the natural landscape. http://pdxgallery.com/ 925 NW Flanders St. Window viewable anytime.
Radek Skrivanek shows photographs of environmental disasters in the former Soviet Union. His choice of black and white highlights the viewers response to the tragedy. Some photos depict the Aral Sea, which dried up along with its fish population to irrigate crops in Uzbeckastan, home to US military bases for the Afghan and Iraq war and in Kazakhstan the subject of a geopolitical charm offensive by both China and the US over it's oil and gas. This has nothing to do with Klamath Lake. In another meditation on water, Kate Mellor documents old hot spring spas in Europe, accompanying the photos with faux journals of a fictional landscape painter visiting the sites. http://www.blueskygallery.org/ 1231 NW Hoyt until 9, maybe a bit later
Marcus Brown performs music driven by galvanic skin response on instruments of his own construction. Galvanic skin responses are subtle changes in the electrical conductivity of skin caused by changes in blood flow and sweat. It is used in lie detectors and by Scientologists, so it's nice here to see it put to positive use. From the artist: "I use visual, audio and performance media in my work to create my own dishes which re-conceptualize and re-spiritualize American contemporary culture. Sonically, I transcribe the musical traditions of my African and Native heritages in both a spiritual and socio-economical context. With the use of my environment and the body, I aim to create spiritual tropes with my linguistic visual and phonic transmissions. Much like a voodoo craftsman, I view my role in society as a spiritual one, who uses many processes to connect society to the spirit world. My focus lies in revitalizing "spiritual making" in the midst of a capitalist-driven and spiritually diverse American society." http://www.pnca.edu/ Performance 7:30-8 in the Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery 825 NW 13th at PNCA across 13th from the main school, door on the loading dock
Also at PNCA Gilbert Neri creates a mythical archeology to "mimic a museum exhibit in an attempt to restore lost authenticity" - the perfect counterpoint to the Art Museum's show of Egyptian artifacts. http://www.pnca.edu/ until 9:30 in the Feldman Gallery NW 13th and Johnson. Neri also speaks free at the school at 12:30 Friday
Jen Corace shows meticulous drawings at Motel. "Overwhelmed" incorporates iconic threats to the mythological character, mirroring the dangers of navigating modern life. http://www.motelgallery.com/ NW Couch between 5th and 6th across from Ground Control until 9
Supernal is an angel-themed show. A good counterpoint to the preponderance of dark themed Portland halloween costumes this year. Curated by Monica HW Choy, artists include 2H, Liz Adams liz-adams.com, Andrew Hem andrewhem.com, Lori Field lorifieldfineart.com, Angry Woebots armyofsnipers.com, Lucy McLauchlan beat13.co.uk, Aric Miller, Luke Chueh lukechueh.com, Cho-Chan digmeout.net, Martin Ontiveros martinhead.com, Colin Johnson colinjohnsonillustration.com, Maya Hayuk mayahayuk.com, David D'Andrea dvdandrea.com, Meg Hunt meghunt.com, Edwin Ushiro mrushiro.com, P. Williams pwilliamsart.com, Erik Otto erikotto.com, Ren Sakurai, Hannah Stouffer grandarray.com, Ronald Kurniawan ronaldkurniawan.com, Jeremiah Ketner smallandround.com, Ryan Bubnis ryanbubnis.com, Jon Han jon-han.com, Madoka Kinoshita digmeout.net, Joshua Clay jclayart.com, Stella Im Hultberg stellaimhultberg.com, Kenichi Hoshine kenichihoshine.com, Thomas Han tomorama.com, Klutch klutch.org, Mr. Kin k3.dion.ne.jp/~lmtiny/, Leanne Biank eyesorestudios.com, and Hajime Yoshio digmeout.net. Also showing is Pet Show by artists Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock.
At Compound/Just Be Toys http://www.justbedesign.com/ 107 NW 5th until about 9:30
The girl half of APAK!, Ayumi Piland, shows Animal Friends!. The show includes paintings themed on animal friendship, an edition of 100 of the her "Animal ABC Book" and prints from the book. From their website www.apakstudio.com Ayumi and her husband Aaron met in a distant dimension and traveled to Earth together in a magic imagination machine. Using their art, they have learned to exchange energy with beings throughout the universe. From their secret cabin, they are sending out their signal hopes of contacting other creative life forms". At Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St until 9ish
Vino Paradiso has up a halloween-themed photography show. 417 NW 10th
At the Froelick Gallery, longtime artists Tom Prochaska and Laura Ross Paul show. Prochoska teaches printmaking at PNCA. In this show, his large scale paintings with a compelling colorful palate, seem to depict street scenes with barely discernible characters. His drawings are similarly impressionistic in a loose way that is actually coiled tight. Ross-Paul shows children and families seemingly in contemplation or at psychological play. Ross-Paul also is a master colorist, If you paint figures, take a look. http://www.froelickgallery.com 817 SW 2nd until 9
Caldera http://www.calderaarts.org is an arts camp and creative retreat in the mountains near Sisters, Oregon. What they do is very cool. Tonight they show some of the results, a show of photography and video, Seeing is Believing by young people in their program. In the W+K Lobby 224 NW 13th Ave until 9
The Portland Art Center shows an installation by PICA artist in residence Viktor Popovic http://www.viktorpopovic.com/ incorporating chairs and florescent tubes. Also IC2:Incidental Biographies by Elias Foley in the Light and Sound Gallery where live improvised music accompanies his video installation. http://www.portlandart.org/newsite/ExhibitionsNovember.html 32 NW 5th Avenue until 10
Valentines shows drawings "The Witchcraft Rebellion" by Arrington de Dionyso and Sophia Dixon. Their press release has a flair to it:
Two artists from opposite coasts conjure unseen worlds of alchemical oppositions: darkness and light, violence and love, populated by human-animal-vegetable hybrid forms with feathers, scales, hair, grass, water, clouds and blood. Pulsating with euphoria bordering on madness, these ink drawings of unbridled intuition expose us to an instinctual language of brush and quill. Sexy, edgy, fantastically risky, the viewer is invited to follow along with initiatory hallucinations, vine-ripened with suggested narratives and somnambular echoes. This is the stuff that dreams are made of, the dreams that draw themselves.
Both the opening and closing events will feature proto-musical sound performances by artist Arrington de Dionyso, drawing upon his synaesthetic readings of the artworks as scores for sound wave conduction.
SOPHIA DIXON-
I allow my own fantasies free rein in my work because I want to explore the nature and effect of representations of female desire within a culture whose collective imagination has been primarily formed by male fantasy. I am interested in the compact made between individual and cultural fantasies and the slippage between theatricality bordering on camp and almost embarrassing self-exposure. I indulge certain culturally inherited erotic aesthetics, and my drawings expose a fascination with young bodies and a desire to possess and ultimately form a collection of these bodies through portraiture. My interest in the intersection between personal desire and collective fantasy is connected to an interest in the ongoing cultural linkage of desire, especially non-normative desire, with illness and death, and the fantasy world of my drawings is populated by embattled or endangered sickly young bodies. In my red drawings, I am interested in both the teenage-melodramatic implications of the drawing being 'written in blood' and in the resultant relationship of paper to skin. I think about the viewer relating to the the paper both as a surface for the drawing and as a vulnerable, eroticized object, on which the drawing is a wound. I want her to feel implicated in the compromised eroticism of the drawing, and forced to participate in an eroticized representation of violence and self-violence.
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO-
Founding member of the band Old Time Relijun, Arrington deals with many of the same themes in both music and art, using performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll.
Lights on 6-9, music at 9 Valentines 232 SW Ankeny
Monday, October 23, 2006
November Photo Show at Clark College
This show pulls together some outstanding and varied work by local photographers Holly Andres, Blake Andrews, Amy Archer, Daniel Barron, Liz Haley, Mark Hooper, Tamara Lischka, and Grace Weston. Andres is known for her Crewdsonesque psychodramas of growing up a girl; Archer for gridding multiples, often of architecture; Haley for snapshots of enigmatic personal moments in characters you may know; Lischka for her photographs of animal embryos and Weston for her obsessive miniature sets upon which life is played out. The gallery website has more information
Opening tonight 7PM Clark College Archer Gallery Vancouver, WA free
Opening tonight 7PM Clark College Archer Gallery Vancouver, WA free
Thursday, October 12, 2006
October 13-30 a Few Portland Things
October 13-15, 19-22, 24-31
Catacombs @ Portland Art Center
The Portland Art Center opens Catacombs, a sort of grown up haunted house, involving a maze of rooms created within the Center's warrens. Each room is representative of historic happenings in the North End and Old Town Portland, enacted by actors with you in the scene, passing or tarrying as you wish. Continuous performance 8-11PM Admission $10-20 on a sliding scale October 13-15, October 19-22, October 26-31 (Halloween show runs 8-midnight)
Details http://www.portlandart.org
October 13
Classical Indian Dance Performance Updated @ Schnitzer Concert Hall
Kalakendra presents a bharatanatyam dance performance, Ekaanta Seetha, Lonely Furrow, commemorating women Sita in Hindu mythology, who raised the twin sons of Rama, Rani Lakshmi Bai, a key figure in India's struggle for independence and Aparajitha, a representative contemporary fighter for social progress in rural India. These dances have elaborate costumes, stylized hand movements and characteristic shifts of gaze (sit close or bring field glasses). Usually they retell historic myths, this one is contemporary. Schnitzer Concert Hall 8PM $30 Discounts for Kalakendra members. Details http://www.kalakendra.org
Haley-Briggs Art @ Gallery Homeland
Liz Haley and Troy Briggs show new works at Homeland’s one-year anniversary show Friday the 13th. Bring your party hats and rollerskates. "Let them eat cake!"
“With a Stranger” is up for the Month of October at gallery Homeland project space at 916 SE 34th Ave, opening Friday the 13th 7-10pm.
From their artists' note:
'The other day I ate Chinese food and my fortune cookie said “A chance encounter with a stranger will change your life” So Liz Haley and Troy Briggs started a project together for Scratching the Surface three months ago, meeting for the first time and with no idea what to do. While walking along the esplanade, they noticed couples asking people to take their picture. Something in this exchange was the seed for what will be shown at gallery Homeland this October. It began with questions of intimacy, projection and the exchange. The stories we create and the objects left over have become the medium that they will use to give notice to that moment that happens hundreds a time a day when we walk down the street. Who are you? Can I ever know you? Will you change my life?'
http://www.galleryhomeland.org
916 SE 34th ave just off Belmont 7-11PM Free
October 14
Foghat Ranchero Breakfast Car Wash Performance @ John Head World HQ
Portland has a concentration of particpatory social performance artists such as Harrell Fletcher, Red 76, the MOST and Sincerely, John Head - these folks who have also been doing the tailgating things from time to time.
At 10AM they will throw a campagne breakfast of "omelettes, pastries, waffles, hot coffee" "while supplies last" and champagne christen their life size Ranchero with FOGHAT vanity license plates. From 11-5 their installation is on display and you can get your picture taken in their personsize commemorative Foghat vinyl cover cutout.
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/sjh-images/welcomepix/foghatlive-sidebyside.jpg
10 Breakfast and Car Wash
11-5 Photo sessions and general carrying on, aka art viewing
It's at 18th and Overton in the Corberry Press
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/
October 14,15,21,22
Westside Open Artist Studios (14,15); Eastside (21,22)
Once a year, many Portland artists open their studios. It's an opportunity to look inside a star kitchen or mysterious science lab for maybe a flash of insight into how artwork is created. The website shows examples of each artist's work, not my minimalist conceptual cup of tea. Nonetheless it could be valuable for process or auditioning studio space with likeminded artists. West Side Studios October 14, 15, East Side October 21, 22. Details on getting tickets and maps at the website, of course your artist friends may invite you to their studios directly. $15 for two people and two weekends of open studios. http://www.portlandopenstudios.com
October 14,15
Last Open Art Studios @ 333
The 333 Studios are closing. Come by for their tenth and final open studio, sale and party. Surviving for 15 years an illegal speakeasy and a Russian nightclub downstairs, but not the fire marshall, the studios are over Dunes, which, as the building has been sold, will probably blow away too. These studios have incubated a few generations of Portland artists with monthly square foot rents a quarter of many of today's prices. See the work of artists John Brodie, David Eckard, Carol Ferris, Gilles Foisy, Cecilia Hallinan, Stephen Hayes, Robin Hoffmeister, David Inkpen, Una Kim, Blair Saxon-Hill and Marty Schnapf. RIP 4-9PM Sat, 12-4PM Sunday 333 NE Hancock, upstairs
October 14
Art Benefit @ PNCA
PNCA holds a silent auction art benefit to defray the medical bills of an alumna who was attacked in Old Town. Luckily this one is still alive as she was not attacked by the thin blue line. 7-11PM $5 donation at the door http://www.pnca.edu NW 13th and Johnson
Flamenco Guitar Concert @ Community Music Center
The flamenco community is passionate. No dancing tonight, but the guitar playing by Mark Taylor and Mark Ferguson will be passionate. Someday I would love to hear flamenco played on electric with miles of sustain, this concert will be on traditional classical guitars. Information: 503-972-1178
Community Music Center 3350 SE Francis $12 advance, $15 day of show; $9 youth under 17 7:30PM
October 16
Art Lecture Series @ PSU
The PSU Art Department lecture series continues with Julia Bryan-Wilson. She teaches art history and visual culture at RISD after a 2004 PhD from Berkeley. Writing extensively and curating, she is interested in the intersection of political issues of all types and art. If you are missing school, this talk should be a smart one. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
October 17
Register to Vote by Today
5PM Is the deadline for registering to vote in Oregon for the November election. You have to be registered at your current address to get you ballot in the mail. So if you moved, update your registration. For Multnomah county, the elections office is across the street from Holocene. Oh and it's free!
October 18
Sustainability and Environment Lecture @ Church
There are plenty of hipster events in Portland and this is not one of them. But if you are deep in the sustainability, environment or energy public interest movements, you may be inspired and pick up some good ammunition for your efforts at this lecture, maybe some allies too.
Author Bill McKibbens, longtime New Yorker writer and author of "The End of Nature" speaks on the theme "Earth on Edge: Choosing Our Future". Sponsored by Methodists, the talk may be slightly imbued with spiritualism of the good kind by cospeaker Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. I heard this guy speak at the Illahee series, he is smart and low key, a true thinker. What inspired me at his Illahee talk were his understated insights for world changing. At the First United Methodist Church, SW 18th and Jefferson across from the Goose Hollow Inn and by the MAX. http://www.emoregon.org/emo_events.htm
Cost: $10; $5 for students with ID. For more information, call Jan Elfers at (503) 221-1054
October 20-22,25-27
Portland Fashion Week @ US Bank Building
Urbane Portland has two fashion weeks, September's "The Collections", featuring Adam Arnold, Pinkham Millinery, Linea, Kathryn Towers, Holly Stadler, Jess Beebe, Elizabeth Dye, Church and State, Denwave, Liza Rietz, Emily Ryan and Anti-Domestic; and this two week long fashion week. Diversity is good for Portland. The events are held on the 43 floor of the US Bank Building aka "Big Pink", doors 7, shows 8PM
October 20 Clothing by sofada with eyewear from Visage and jewelry by Janine Gibbons hosted by Mayor Potter and Commissioner Adams
October 21 Heather Bell jewelry, The Black Fox, DarBeka - Jackie Steiner Originals Duchess and PoppiSwim
October 22 Louise Jeans, Naomi Raquel Sha Montana, the Elusive Collection and Segel Clothing
October 25 The Green & Sustainable Design Showcase with Saffrona - Nora Catherine Jewelry, MEWV, Maiti Nepal, EXIT and Flood Clothing
October 26 OSU Fashion Night with Melissa Ward, Tonya Schreiber, Alaina Shea, Diem Le, Marianne Egan, Morgan Tove, Lenore Semperviren and Gowns by Laura
October 27 Urban Metalics, Kicklet Kreations, Adriana Couture, Urban Girl NW, Leanimal DoubleCross Belt Co., Magali Corzo, Eden Dawn Apparel
http://www.myspace.com/portlandfashionweek2006
http://www.portlandfashionweek.net/
Tickets $10 General, $30 VIP advance; $15 General, $40 VIP door; Week-Long Pass-All Shows-Gen Adm - $55; afterparties $10
October 22
Church of Psychedelia @ Holocene
White Rainbow, Plants, Paint and Copter and Ghosting play the music that would have made church way more interesting accompanied by visuals from Andy Brown, Jason Frank, Penguin Jetpack and Sara Robbin. http://www.myspace.com/thechurchofpsychedelia This is the last Church of Psychedelia. Holocene 9PM Free
October 23
Art Lecture @ PSU
The PSU Lecture series hosts ultra baroque Seattle sculptor Jeffry Mitchell. You may have seen his work at the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery. Mitchell was a finalist for Seattle newspaper The Stranger's 2006 genius awards. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
October 24
Organism Salon @ Vendetta
This arts organization hosts a free salon at Vendetta on Williams - details at their web site http://www.artorganism.org
October 24,25
Miniature Golf Designed by Artists @ Holocene
Once a year artists and designers bend their creative minds around miniature golf. They fill Holocene with putting greens and all manner of cleverness to make golf holes with crazy ramps, chutes, funhouse mirrors and blinky lights. This year's holes include:
"Blowhole: The Hole" something about teeing off a surfboard into the hole which is the mouth of a whale. Except the whale hole mouth is moving! Once you sink the hole, the ball is blown from the whale's blowhole. By WK12.4
The "Labyrinth" requires friends to play. Tee off into a labyrnth maze. Your friends then tilt the maze to navigate the ball to the hole. They have to avoid spots on the maze where the ball drops from play. It's just like the hand held puzzle from childhood days of infinite time. Designed by Dave Selden and friends - The Minotards.
"Fancy" requires interactions with actors in play. Sort of performance art golf except you are in the performance. Luckily this all happens behind the curtains. Just like theater life world. By Lightbox Studio.
"Gnomes in Candyland" transforms the course into candyland. Whether candyland is the ultimate cradle to cradle sustainability strategy remains to be seen. Perhaps the course will be available to be eaten after day two, which might not be too bad since it is created by Pix Patisserie's Team Decadence.
"Superturboawesome" is always welcome, especially since this hole reference summer fun's skating, biking and the like. From Team Leisure Package - graphic designers Tom O'Toole and Ada Mayer.
"A Night at the Palms" involves navigating two floors of the Palms Motel, avoiding palm trees and whatever happens in the motel's rooms. By Flight 64, a coop printmaking studio. Press play!
"Destination Rampage" maybe recreates a life with the flying superpower. To score you need to dodge trees, rubble and "purple ponies" (?) then jump a ramp over the city. Home is where the hole is. By Team Monkey Punch (Anna Troupe and friends).
"The Mystery Hole" is not the mythical Gold Beach roadside attraction, but a devilish trap of optical illusions. Pass through the rabbit hole's shrinking corridor into a tiny village to the hole. By Team Half & Half, Cyrus Smith.
"Skee-Ball", the game you can never win at the Rose Festival's "fun center" is the inspiration for this hole by Omen (aka Nemo Design).
"FusGolf"TM requires running fusball paddles. Hopefully your "friends" are not running defense! By Elise Bartow and Daryl Freier.
"Virtual" is a game of electonically generated environments. Very Aeon Flux. By Alphonse Swinehart and Second Story Design.
"Pirate Golf" had to be. Dutch pirates in this case, navigating Holland's canals and windmills. By The Portland Radio Authority.
"Fleshtone" a performace hole by Portland's own costumed electro performers. Very steamy, surely. By "it's getting hot in here" Fleshtone.
Players - You - vote for champion holes in categories Best Action, Most Artistic, Greatest Technical Achievement, Hole I Most Want To Take Home With Me (odds on Fleshtone?), and the most mega ultra uber awesome Best in Show, the designers of which win $500 cash money! So play early and play often.
Get your game on, those funny pencils and golf clubs are provided for 2 nights October 24 and 25! Tuesday 9-late and Wednesday 2PM - late. Holocene $6
Dahlia @ Doug Fir
I wrote about this monthly electronica event previously. Still good. Still danceable. Show 9 $6
October 26
Barak Obama Booksigning in Seattle
Wonky, yes. But in politics, a ray of light is worth much more than the all of the fear and loathing which passes today for leadership. Thus the thesis of this Illinois senator's book "The Audacity of Hope". Unfortunately this Seattle reading and booksigning sold out 2500 seats at the Banaroya concert hall in a day. What's the fuss? A lot of people want this guy to run for president. Hopefully we'll see him talk in Portland soon.
Thriller @ Alberta Art Walk
Here is a question. Do three wrongs make a right? First, Michael Jackson. Yes the music persists, but that was more a product of Jackson's producer from Seattle, Quincy Jones. Wiki his career. Second, the conjunction of Alberta and art. Yes it is heartfelt. Anyway taste is personal, or, as I say, aesthetics is tribal. Third, zombies. Put the three together and what you have is zombies performing the West Side Story-(on the East side - ?)-inspired dance sequence from the Michael Jackson music video for Thriller, live at the corner of 15th and Alberta beginning at 6:30 or 7 and for every 20 minutes for a few hours while the Alberta art walk happens this Thursday. Pop culture sampling. Start your halloween off right...
Free
October 27
Not an event here, though there may be a party in Bolognia or Paris and in San Francisco and Yokahama, but long time butoh performer Kazuo Ohno turns 100 years old today. Actively performing until about 90, Ohno is representative of the lighter, softer and romantic branch of this Japanese performance art. He is quite frail now, but for years he created improvisation inspired solely by birth, death and his mother. I know this is obscure, but butoh is an interest and there is a concentration of it in Seattle, Olympia, LA, SF, the Southwest's wild spaces and Portland. Not all of it is tortured or dark, in fact very little is. http://www.kazuoohnodancestudio.com/english/top/
October 28
Bollywood Horror @ the Fez
DJs Anjali and the Incredible Kid throw their annual Indian Horror Film dance party. I'm waiting to see if they have those improbable Bollywood dance scenes akin to Miike's zombie musical Katakuri-ke no kôfuku. $10 with costume Flier
October 29
Trick or Vote, today I say both, as long as they are not dirty tricks! If you know me, you know real democracy is a passion worth life risking. For reasons far far different than the current administration proposes, in fact, antithetical.
The Bus Project registers Oregon voters then encourages them to vote, the Dean strategy. Today join them visiting Oregon voters and encouraging them to get their vote by mail ballots in to count. Later in the evening they throw a great costume party at the Crystal Ballroom with Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes, Quivah and March Forth. http://www.myspace.com/trickorvote Doors 7:30 $13
October 30
Art Lecture @ PSU
The PSU Lecture series hosts Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick. She had the Trojan video in the Oregon Biennial. She has been making what could be classed documentry work as much as magical realism can be classed fiction. In other words, our region through a personal lens. You can get a feel for her work at http://www.odoka.org/. Renwick has also developed a low budget network of places to show her films by touring band style in a van, even to rural towns, showing films in Grange halls. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
Catacombs @ Portland Art Center
The Portland Art Center opens Catacombs, a sort of grown up haunted house, involving a maze of rooms created within the Center's warrens. Each room is representative of historic happenings in the North End and Old Town Portland, enacted by actors with you in the scene, passing or tarrying as you wish. Continuous performance 8-11PM Admission $10-20 on a sliding scale October 13-15, October 19-22, October 26-31 (Halloween show runs 8-midnight)
Details http://www.portlandart.org
October 13
Classical Indian Dance Performance Updated @ Schnitzer Concert Hall
Kalakendra presents a bharatanatyam dance performance, Ekaanta Seetha, Lonely Furrow, commemorating women Sita in Hindu mythology, who raised the twin sons of Rama, Rani Lakshmi Bai, a key figure in India's struggle for independence and Aparajitha, a representative contemporary fighter for social progress in rural India. These dances have elaborate costumes, stylized hand movements and characteristic shifts of gaze (sit close or bring field glasses). Usually they retell historic myths, this one is contemporary. Schnitzer Concert Hall 8PM $30 Discounts for Kalakendra members. Details http://www.kalakendra.org
Haley-Briggs Art @ Gallery Homeland
Liz Haley and Troy Briggs show new works at Homeland’s one-year anniversary show Friday the 13th. Bring your party hats and rollerskates. "Let them eat cake!"
“With a Stranger” is up for the Month of October at gallery Homeland project space at 916 SE 34th Ave, opening Friday the 13th 7-10pm.
From their artists' note:
'The other day I ate Chinese food and my fortune cookie said “A chance encounter with a stranger will change your life” So Liz Haley and Troy Briggs started a project together for Scratching the Surface three months ago, meeting for the first time and with no idea what to do. While walking along the esplanade, they noticed couples asking people to take their picture. Something in this exchange was the seed for what will be shown at gallery Homeland this October. It began with questions of intimacy, projection and the exchange. The stories we create and the objects left over have become the medium that they will use to give notice to that moment that happens hundreds a time a day when we walk down the street. Who are you? Can I ever know you? Will you change my life?'
http://www.galleryhomeland.org
916 SE 34th ave just off Belmont 7-11PM Free
October 14
Foghat Ranchero Breakfast Car Wash Performance @ John Head World HQ
Portland has a concentration of particpatory social performance artists such as Harrell Fletcher, Red 76, the MOST and Sincerely, John Head - these folks who have also been doing the tailgating things from time to time.
At 10AM they will throw a campagne breakfast of "omelettes, pastries, waffles, hot coffee" "while supplies last" and champagne christen their life size Ranchero with FOGHAT vanity license plates. From 11-5 their installation is on display and you can get your picture taken in their personsize commemorative Foghat vinyl cover cutout.
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/sjh-images/welcomepix/foghatlive-sidebyside.jpg
10 Breakfast and Car Wash
11-5 Photo sessions and general carrying on, aka art viewing
It's at 18th and Overton in the Corberry Press
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/
October 14,15,21,22
Westside Open Artist Studios (14,15); Eastside (21,22)
Once a year, many Portland artists open their studios. It's an opportunity to look inside a star kitchen or mysterious science lab for maybe a flash of insight into how artwork is created. The website shows examples of each artist's work, not my minimalist conceptual cup of tea. Nonetheless it could be valuable for process or auditioning studio space with likeminded artists. West Side Studios October 14, 15, East Side October 21, 22. Details on getting tickets and maps at the website, of course your artist friends may invite you to their studios directly. $15 for two people and two weekends of open studios. http://www.portlandopenstudios.com
October 14,15
Last Open Art Studios @ 333
The 333 Studios are closing. Come by for their tenth and final open studio, sale and party. Surviving for 15 years an illegal speakeasy and a Russian nightclub downstairs, but not the fire marshall, the studios are over Dunes, which, as the building has been sold, will probably blow away too. These studios have incubated a few generations of Portland artists with monthly square foot rents a quarter of many of today's prices. See the work of artists John Brodie, David Eckard, Carol Ferris, Gilles Foisy, Cecilia Hallinan, Stephen Hayes, Robin Hoffmeister, David Inkpen, Una Kim, Blair Saxon-Hill and Marty Schnapf. RIP 4-9PM Sat, 12-4PM Sunday 333 NE Hancock, upstairs
October 14
Art Benefit @ PNCA
PNCA holds a silent auction art benefit to defray the medical bills of an alumna who was attacked in Old Town. Luckily this one is still alive as she was not attacked by the thin blue line. 7-11PM $5 donation at the door http://www.pnca.edu NW 13th and Johnson
Flamenco Guitar Concert @ Community Music Center
The flamenco community is passionate. No dancing tonight, but the guitar playing by Mark Taylor and Mark Ferguson will be passionate. Someday I would love to hear flamenco played on electric with miles of sustain, this concert will be on traditional classical guitars. Information: 503-972-1178
Community Music Center 3350 SE Francis $12 advance, $15 day of show; $9 youth under 17 7:30PM
October 16
Art Lecture Series @ PSU
The PSU Art Department lecture series continues with Julia Bryan-Wilson. She teaches art history and visual culture at RISD after a 2004 PhD from Berkeley. Writing extensively and curating, she is interested in the intersection of political issues of all types and art. If you are missing school, this talk should be a smart one. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
October 17
Register to Vote by Today
5PM Is the deadline for registering to vote in Oregon for the November election. You have to be registered at your current address to get you ballot in the mail. So if you moved, update your registration. For Multnomah county, the elections office is across the street from Holocene. Oh and it's free!
October 18
Sustainability and Environment Lecture @ Church
There are plenty of hipster events in Portland and this is not one of them. But if you are deep in the sustainability, environment or energy public interest movements, you may be inspired and pick up some good ammunition for your efforts at this lecture, maybe some allies too.
Author Bill McKibbens, longtime New Yorker writer and author of "The End of Nature" speaks on the theme "Earth on Edge: Choosing Our Future". Sponsored by Methodists, the talk may be slightly imbued with spiritualism of the good kind by cospeaker Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. I heard this guy speak at the Illahee series, he is smart and low key, a true thinker. What inspired me at his Illahee talk were his understated insights for world changing. At the First United Methodist Church, SW 18th and Jefferson across from the Goose Hollow Inn and by the MAX. http://www.emoregon.org/emo_events.htm
Cost: $10; $5 for students with ID. For more information, call Jan Elfers at (503) 221-1054
October 20-22,25-27
Portland Fashion Week @ US Bank Building
Urbane Portland has two fashion weeks, September's "The Collections", featuring Adam Arnold, Pinkham Millinery, Linea, Kathryn Towers, Holly Stadler, Jess Beebe, Elizabeth Dye, Church and State, Denwave, Liza Rietz, Emily Ryan and Anti-Domestic; and this two week long fashion week. Diversity is good for Portland. The events are held on the 43 floor of the US Bank Building aka "Big Pink", doors 7, shows 8PM
October 20 Clothing by sofada with eyewear from Visage and jewelry by Janine Gibbons hosted by Mayor Potter and Commissioner Adams
October 21 Heather Bell jewelry, The Black Fox, DarBeka - Jackie Steiner Originals Duchess and PoppiSwim
October 22 Louise Jeans, Naomi Raquel Sha Montana, the Elusive Collection and Segel Clothing
October 25 The Green & Sustainable Design Showcase with Saffrona - Nora Catherine Jewelry, MEWV, Maiti Nepal, EXIT and Flood Clothing
October 26 OSU Fashion Night with Melissa Ward, Tonya Schreiber, Alaina Shea, Diem Le, Marianne Egan, Morgan Tove, Lenore Semperviren and Gowns by Laura
October 27 Urban Metalics, Kicklet Kreations, Adriana Couture, Urban Girl NW, Leanimal DoubleCross Belt Co., Magali Corzo, Eden Dawn Apparel
http://www.myspace.com/portlandfashionweek2006
http://www.portlandfashionweek.net/
Tickets $10 General, $30 VIP advance; $15 General, $40 VIP door; Week-Long Pass-All Shows-Gen Adm - $55; afterparties $10
October 22
Church of Psychedelia @ Holocene
White Rainbow, Plants, Paint and Copter and Ghosting play the music that would have made church way more interesting accompanied by visuals from Andy Brown, Jason Frank, Penguin Jetpack and Sara Robbin. http://www.myspace.com/thechurchofpsychedelia This is the last Church of Psychedelia. Holocene 9PM Free
October 23
Art Lecture @ PSU
The PSU Lecture series hosts ultra baroque Seattle sculptor Jeffry Mitchell. You may have seen his work at the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery. Mitchell was a finalist for Seattle newspaper The Stranger's 2006 genius awards. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
October 24
Organism Salon @ Vendetta
This arts organization hosts a free salon at Vendetta on Williams - details at their web site http://www.artorganism.org
October 24,25
Miniature Golf Designed by Artists @ Holocene
Once a year artists and designers bend their creative minds around miniature golf. They fill Holocene with putting greens and all manner of cleverness to make golf holes with crazy ramps, chutes, funhouse mirrors and blinky lights. This year's holes include:
"Blowhole: The Hole" something about teeing off a surfboard into the hole which is the mouth of a whale. Except the whale hole mouth is moving! Once you sink the hole, the ball is blown from the whale's blowhole. By WK12.4
The "Labyrinth" requires friends to play. Tee off into a labyrnth maze. Your friends then tilt the maze to navigate the ball to the hole. They have to avoid spots on the maze where the ball drops from play. It's just like the hand held puzzle from childhood days of infinite time. Designed by Dave Selden and friends - The Minotards.
"Fancy" requires interactions with actors in play. Sort of performance art golf except you are in the performance. Luckily this all happens behind the curtains. Just like theater life world. By Lightbox Studio.
"Gnomes in Candyland" transforms the course into candyland. Whether candyland is the ultimate cradle to cradle sustainability strategy remains to be seen. Perhaps the course will be available to be eaten after day two, which might not be too bad since it is created by Pix Patisserie's Team Decadence.
"Superturboawesome" is always welcome, especially since this hole reference summer fun's skating, biking and the like. From Team Leisure Package - graphic designers Tom O'Toole and Ada Mayer.
"A Night at the Palms" involves navigating two floors of the Palms Motel, avoiding palm trees and whatever happens in the motel's rooms. By Flight 64, a coop printmaking studio. Press play!
"Destination Rampage" maybe recreates a life with the flying superpower. To score you need to dodge trees, rubble and "purple ponies" (?) then jump a ramp over the city. Home is where the hole is. By Team Monkey Punch (Anna Troupe and friends).
"The Mystery Hole" is not the mythical Gold Beach roadside attraction, but a devilish trap of optical illusions. Pass through the rabbit hole's shrinking corridor into a tiny village to the hole. By Team Half & Half, Cyrus Smith.
"Skee-Ball", the game you can never win at the Rose Festival's "fun center" is the inspiration for this hole by Omen (aka Nemo Design).
"FusGolf"TM requires running fusball paddles. Hopefully your "friends" are not running defense! By Elise Bartow and Daryl Freier.
"Virtual" is a game of electonically generated environments. Very Aeon Flux. By Alphonse Swinehart and Second Story Design.
"Pirate Golf" had to be. Dutch pirates in this case, navigating Holland's canals and windmills. By The Portland Radio Authority.
"Fleshtone" a performace hole by Portland's own costumed electro performers. Very steamy, surely. By "it's getting hot in here" Fleshtone.
Players - You - vote for champion holes in categories Best Action, Most Artistic, Greatest Technical Achievement, Hole I Most Want To Take Home With Me (odds on Fleshtone?), and the most mega ultra uber awesome Best in Show, the designers of which win $500 cash money! So play early and play often.
Get your game on, those funny pencils and golf clubs are provided for 2 nights October 24 and 25! Tuesday 9-late and Wednesday 2PM - late. Holocene $6
Dahlia @ Doug Fir
I wrote about this monthly electronica event previously. Still good. Still danceable. Show 9 $6
October 26
Barak Obama Booksigning in Seattle
Wonky, yes. But in politics, a ray of light is worth much more than the all of the fear and loathing which passes today for leadership. Thus the thesis of this Illinois senator's book "The Audacity of Hope". Unfortunately this Seattle reading and booksigning sold out 2500 seats at the Banaroya concert hall in a day. What's the fuss? A lot of people want this guy to run for president. Hopefully we'll see him talk in Portland soon.
Thriller @ Alberta Art Walk
Here is a question. Do three wrongs make a right? First, Michael Jackson. Yes the music persists, but that was more a product of Jackson's producer from Seattle, Quincy Jones. Wiki his career. Second, the conjunction of Alberta and art. Yes it is heartfelt. Anyway taste is personal, or, as I say, aesthetics is tribal. Third, zombies. Put the three together and what you have is zombies performing the West Side Story-(on the East side - ?)-inspired dance sequence from the Michael Jackson music video for Thriller, live at the corner of 15th and Alberta beginning at 6:30 or 7 and for every 20 minutes for a few hours while the Alberta art walk happens this Thursday. Pop culture sampling. Start your halloween off right...
Free
October 27
Not an event here, though there may be a party in Bolognia or Paris and in San Francisco and Yokahama, but long time butoh performer Kazuo Ohno turns 100 years old today. Actively performing until about 90, Ohno is representative of the lighter, softer and romantic branch of this Japanese performance art. He is quite frail now, but for years he created improvisation inspired solely by birth, death and his mother. I know this is obscure, but butoh is an interest and there is a concentration of it in Seattle, Olympia, LA, SF, the Southwest's wild spaces and Portland. Not all of it is tortured or dark, in fact very little is. http://www.kazuoohnodancestudio.com/english/top/
October 28
Bollywood Horror @ the Fez
DJs Anjali and the Incredible Kid throw their annual Indian Horror Film dance party. I'm waiting to see if they have those improbable Bollywood dance scenes akin to Miike's zombie musical Katakuri-ke no kôfuku. $10 with costume Flier
October 29
Trick or Vote, today I say both, as long as they are not dirty tricks! If you know me, you know real democracy is a passion worth life risking. For reasons far far different than the current administration proposes, in fact, antithetical.
The Bus Project registers Oregon voters then encourages them to vote, the Dean strategy. Today join them visiting Oregon voters and encouraging them to get their vote by mail ballots in to count. Later in the evening they throw a great costume party at the Crystal Ballroom with Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes, Quivah and March Forth. http://www.myspace.com/trickorvote Doors 7:30 $13
October 30
Art Lecture @ PSU
The PSU Lecture series hosts Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick. She had the Trojan video in the Oregon Biennial. She has been making what could be classed documentry work as much as magical realism can be classed fiction. In other words, our region through a personal lens. You can get a feel for her work at http://www.odoka.org/. Renwick has also developed a low budget network of places to show her films by touring band style in a van, even to rural towns, showing films in Grange halls. 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
Sunday, October 08, 2006
October 15 Cello Now @ Doug Fir Lounge
The cello ranges close to the human voice, perhaps that is part of its sound's emotional appeal. It can be plucked, but bowed it reaches sublime expressiveness. Its low notes are felt as much as heard; it's woody overtones are intensely somatic.
Tonight the cello's magic is multiplied in ensemble as Cellodarity plays.
The program includes
Bachianas Brazileiras #5 by Villa Lobos
Double Cello Concerto by Vivaldi
Original Works by Gideon Fruedmann
Original Works by The Ahs
Original Works by Polly Panic
and experimental improvisational duos/trios
Cellodarity includes players known independently for their other musical projects. Details at http://www.myspace.com/cellodarity
At the Doug Fir Lounge, Doors 7:30, show 8, $7
Tonight the cello's magic is multiplied in ensemble as Cellodarity plays.
The program includes
Bachianas Brazileiras #5 by Villa Lobos
Double Cello Concerto by Vivaldi
Original Works by Gideon Fruedmann
Original Works by The Ahs
Original Works by Polly Panic
and experimental improvisational duos/trios
Cellodarity includes players known independently for their other musical projects. Details at http://www.myspace.com/cellodarity
At the Doug Fir Lounge, Doors 7:30, show 8, $7
October 8 Crafty Wonderland
The church of craft - Crafty Wonderland - continues. Work for sale by Portland's crafty vixens complements a DIY zone for learning new skills. 11AM-4PM. http://www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
Friday, October 06, 2006
October 6-8 HP Lovecraft Film Festival
Author Lovecraft (1890-1937) is considered to be the father of modern horror, more focused on dark occult themed stories than what passes today for horror in cinema. Afflicted with childhood disease, he suffered from poikilothermism leaving his body cold to the touch. He also suffered insomnia and is reported to have written for 60 hours without sleep to complete one story. His prolific letter writing, over 87 thousand letters in his lifetime, qualifies him as the first blogger.. His father was hospitalized for psychosis when Lovecraft was 3 and remained so for the rest of his life, later his mother was committed to the same asylum. He suffered a nervous breakdown at age 18, never completing high school. Many of his stories were inspired by his nightmares.
The festival features films, panel discussions and artwork on Lovecraftian themes.
Details: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 6,7,8
The festival features films, panel discussions and artwork on Lovecraftian themes.
Details: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 6,7,8
October 6-November 15 Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai Exhibit
Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Exhibit is as surrealistic a combination of words as are these miniature trees sublimely beautiful. As far back as the second century, Chinese were creating miniature landscapes of rock and trees in pots. Chinese mysticism describes worlds inhabited by spirits in these penjing, "potted scenes", the first bonsai. Between the eighth and thirteenth centuries, bonsai spread to Korea and Japan. The exhibit is accompanied by lectures, some requiring reservations or a fee, exhibits of local bonsai and children's bonsai workshops. Call the Gardens for info 503-223-1321 or check their web site. The Chinese Garden also has bonsai on display.
Portland Japanese Gardens, Washington Park 10-4 daily, Monday noon-4 admission $8/6.25 students, various membership plans for unlimited admissions. http://www.japanesegarden.com
Portland Japanese Gardens, Washington Park 10-4 daily, Monday noon-4 admission $8/6.25 students, various membership plans for unlimited admissions. http://www.japanesegarden.com
October 6 B-boy/b-girl one on one dance battle competition @ Nocturnal
Know the Ledge! It's a one on one battle for $250. From the organizers a beautiful description: "B-boying/b-girling has always been rooted in battling. Whether you're in a circle with no judges or in competition performing for an audience, every dancer who considers themselves a b-boy/b-girl, battles.
There are two ways to represent: the first is with your crew and the second is for yourself. When you're representing for yourself, you're representing the style you've spent years laboring away to develop; you're representing who you are, how you approach the dance, what your battle strategies are, and ultimately your character as a person."
Cash money, all ages. Rundown:
6:00pm Doors
7:00pm Eliminations
8:00pm Preliminary Battles
8:30pm Quarter Finals
9:00pm Intermission
9:15pm Semi-Finals
9:45pm - Finals
Soul and breaks: Deejay Magneto (CA)
Judges: Dialog (Misguided Steps), Wendee (Street Masters Crew), Osker (Missile Fist)
Admission $10 at Nocturnal 1800 E Burnside
There are two ways to represent: the first is with your crew and the second is for yourself. When you're representing for yourself, you're representing the style you've spent years laboring away to develop; you're representing who you are, how you approach the dance, what your battle strategies are, and ultimately your character as a person."
Cash money, all ages. Rundown:
6:00pm Doors
7:00pm Eliminations
8:00pm Preliminary Battles
8:30pm Quarter Finals
9:00pm Intermission
9:15pm Semi-Finals
9:45pm - Finals
Soul and breaks: Deejay Magneto (CA)
Judges: Dialog (Misguided Steps), Wendee (Street Masters Crew), Osker (Missile Fist)
Admission $10 at Nocturnal 1800 E Burnside
October 6 Music Population Project Goes Oslo
The Music Population Project is opening a new front in its founder's home, Norway. The Music Population Orchestra will play this evening with a video installation and mad DJ's Safi and Stay in School later. http://www.myspace.com/thempo Apotheke 1314 NW Glisan 9PM free
October 6 Eastside Art Openings
NAAU shows paintings by cofounder Rose McCormick who has recently been living in NY. McCormick is known for schematic paintings in neutral egg tempura colors on unprimed burlap, rough and ready, as canvas. 922 SE Ankeny http://www.newamericanartunion.com
Newspace shows 3 of their national juried show photographers.Siri Kauer portraits of celebrity impersonators. JSwofford shows compositional studies of microlandscapes. My favorite, Jeffrey Milstein shows his straight images of the underside of airplanes in flight. Post 9/11, airplanes are imbued with much more than the mystique of travel to exotic destinations. 1632 SE 10th http://www.newspacephoto.org
12x16 Gallery shows work by TJ Norris. Norris is known for minimalist imagery and sound installations. 1216 SE Division
Free Geek begins a hopefully regular art show with the art of Laura Lameraux, Gordo, Cara Mia, Katie Evans, Tiago, Sarah, Debra Hubbard, Dingo, Shawn Patrick Kelly, Aaron Tarfman. The theme is waste into art, and of course, Free Geek saves tons of it from unsafe disposal in China. Free refreshments. 1731 SE 10th Ave. http://www.freegeek.org 7-10PM
Yes shows large scale abstract embroidery compositions. 811 E Burnside
Renowned shows It's All Wood, a group show on wood. Outsider urban cartoons mainly which will make you happy. Artists include Apak, Andrew Bell, Andrew Brandou, Ryan Bubnis, Mike Burnett, Guy Burwell, David Chung, Sandra Equihua, Maija Fiebig, Filth, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Friends With You, John Michael Gill, Robert Hardgrave, Evan B. Harris, Shane Jessup, Sylvia Ji, Colin Johnson, Aya Kakeda, Jeremiah Ketner, Pars Kid, Joshua Krause, Josh Langlais, Seth Levy, Mike Maas, David Mazak, Tim McCormick, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, Martin Ontiveros, Augie Pagan, Joshua Petker, Lisa Petrucci, Matthew Porter, Sophia Pottish, Sean Quinn, Aaron Reimer, Lesley Reppeteaux, Chris Ryniak, Jason Sho Green, Corrie Greening Corey Smith, Ryan Jacob Smith, Eric Solis, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, Jophen Stein, Cameron Tiede, Tragnark, miQ willmOtt (Tweeqim), Thuy3 (Tweeqim), Amanda Visell and Steve Withycombe. 811 E Burnside
MoshiMoshi shows Norse by Norsewest, 2 1/2d to 3d- felt figures. This is definitely another cheer up, winter coming show, super bright. 811 E Burnside
Small A Projects shows sculpture Diana Puntar. Puntar uses wood, laminates and mirrors to make bright shiny things. From the gallery: "The work exists somewhere between a post-minimalist or post-apocalyptic history where radical ideas about form meet nostalgic longings for suburban or space-age materials. Puntar’s work thus elicits a series of disturbances in aesthetic and social systems – confusing the useful with the formal and the natural with the built -- suggesting parallel breakdowns in contemporary culture". 1430 SE Third Avenue http://www.smallaprojects.com 6-9PM
Ivy Studios at the Jupiter Hotel shows outsiderish paintings by Jeremy Schultz. 800 E Burnside
Meanwhile there is a fashion show too by Magali Corzo at the Jupiter Hotel 6-8 800 E Burnside
Q Center is a new space showing the work of queer artists that is not queer art. They have a group show by their QuArt collective. 69 SE Taylor
Newspace shows 3 of their national juried show photographers.Siri Kauer portraits of celebrity impersonators. JSwofford shows compositional studies of microlandscapes. My favorite, Jeffrey Milstein shows his straight images of the underside of airplanes in flight. Post 9/11, airplanes are imbued with much more than the mystique of travel to exotic destinations. 1632 SE 10th http://www.newspacephoto.org
12x16 Gallery shows work by TJ Norris. Norris is known for minimalist imagery and sound installations. 1216 SE Division
Free Geek begins a hopefully regular art show with the art of Laura Lameraux, Gordo, Cara Mia, Katie Evans, Tiago, Sarah, Debra Hubbard, Dingo, Shawn Patrick Kelly, Aaron Tarfman. The theme is waste into art, and of course, Free Geek saves tons of it from unsafe disposal in China. Free refreshments. 1731 SE 10th Ave. http://www.freegeek.org 7-10PM
Yes shows large scale abstract embroidery compositions. 811 E Burnside
Renowned shows It's All Wood, a group show on wood. Outsider urban cartoons mainly which will make you happy. Artists include Apak, Andrew Bell, Andrew Brandou, Ryan Bubnis, Mike Burnett, Guy Burwell, David Chung, Sandra Equihua, Maija Fiebig, Filth, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Friends With You, John Michael Gill, Robert Hardgrave, Evan B. Harris, Shane Jessup, Sylvia Ji, Colin Johnson, Aya Kakeda, Jeremiah Ketner, Pars Kid, Joshua Krause, Josh Langlais, Seth Levy, Mike Maas, David Mazak, Tim McCormick, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, Martin Ontiveros, Augie Pagan, Joshua Petker, Lisa Petrucci, Matthew Porter, Sophia Pottish, Sean Quinn, Aaron Reimer, Lesley Reppeteaux, Chris Ryniak, Jason Sho Green, Corrie Greening Corey Smith, Ryan Jacob Smith, Eric Solis, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, Jophen Stein, Cameron Tiede, Tragnark, miQ willmOtt (Tweeqim), Thuy3 (Tweeqim), Amanda Visell and Steve Withycombe. 811 E Burnside
MoshiMoshi shows Norse by Norsewest, 2 1/2d to 3d- felt figures. This is definitely another cheer up, winter coming show, super bright. 811 E Burnside
Small A Projects shows sculpture Diana Puntar. Puntar uses wood, laminates and mirrors to make bright shiny things. From the gallery: "The work exists somewhere between a post-minimalist or post-apocalyptic history where radical ideas about form meet nostalgic longings for suburban or space-age materials. Puntar’s work thus elicits a series of disturbances in aesthetic and social systems – confusing the useful with the formal and the natural with the built -- suggesting parallel breakdowns in contemporary culture". 1430 SE Third Avenue http://www.smallaprojects.com 6-9PM
Ivy Studios at the Jupiter Hotel shows outsiderish paintings by Jeremy Schultz. 800 E Burnside
Meanwhile there is a fashion show too by Magali Corzo at the Jupiter Hotel 6-8 800 E Burnside
Q Center is a new space showing the work of queer artists that is not queer art. They have a group show by their QuArt collective. 69 SE Taylor
Thursday, October 05, 2006
October 5 Music and Westside Art Shows
Art Openings Portland Westside
Portland has design skills. Talented clothing, industrial, shoe, architectural and brand designers. Once a year they and other 3d designers stretch out and experiment with furniture design. For some it's a chance to break design blocks, maybe with a purely conceptual project, for others it's a chance to maybe have their designs picked up for production. Some brilliant design world judges have selected their winners from 40 entries. You can see the entries and hear the judges speak Wednesday October 4 between 6 and 9 at Design Within Reach for $10. Or see the show free at PNCA between October 5 and 28.
DWR corner of NW Everett and 12th, PNCA corner of NW Johnson and 13th
Details: http://www.showpdx.com
Valantines shows mixed media drawings by Cassandra Ann Adams themed on poppies. Inspired by Sylvia Plath's poems linking poppies to love's intoxication, Adams has refracted the connection through her own experience.
Art 6-10, open late 232 SE Ankeny
MK Guth, one of Portland's few artists working effectively in video, shows her work at Elizabeth Leach. Video art is tricky as we are immersed in moving images spanning the pedestrian on youtube to cinema's grand emotionally manipulative narratives. Also showing is Stephen Hayes known for his impressionistic portraits and landscapes in oil or as prints.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
Powell's Basil Howard Gallery shows Brandland, creative work by the WK12.3 gaggle. These twelve are a creative school within an advertising agency doing work that gets published, often for local nonprofits. As each has a varied background and are not exclusively sourced locally, the show might be interesting. On the other hand, it could be a not quite post ironic admixture of culture jamming and soft targeting.
Reception 7, show business hours at Powells Burnside and 10th
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/calendar#1194
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows seductive constructions by Jen Pack. She stretches brightly colored sheer fabric on wood frames. Her canvas is transparent, specular ambient light casts an impression on the wall behind. Pack has added wiglike falls to some pieces perhaps amping a conceptual facet, welcome because the work itself can be too beautiful. http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=208
929 NW Flanders closes early 8:30PM
Mona Superhero has the seventies down. She extends the pop graphics entry into the fine arts world in the 1960's with imagery of the disco era of the seventies, a time when black and white Americans really experimented with mixing socially on an equal basis, dancing. Her images are constructed of brightly colored duct tape. Mona comes off sucessful shows at Gallery 500 to show this month at Berbatti's. http://www.ducttapeart.com/gallery.html 19 SW 2nd until late
http://www.berbati.com/
Rake gallery shows the real sixties and seventies to complement Mona's show, portraits of the Black Panthers, as effectively wiped out then as the American Indian Movement and now perhaps the animal rights movement. Photographer Eve Crane, also known for documenting San Francisco's Hell's Angels, has selected these from hundreds of photographs she made as an intimate of the Panthers, an armed community development group of the day. http://www.rakeart.org/ 325 NW 6th
Blue Sky Gallery shows Zona, photographs of the Siberian gulags today. Now they are not filled with political prisoners, but for example by a 15 year old boy serving three and a half years for stealing 2 hamsters from a pet shop. Despite the bleak landscape and bleaker yet history of the camps, people there still leave a creative mark on the place, and photographer Carl De Keyzer has captured it. Perhaps this show is a touchpoint for contempation of our own justice system and our emerging special justice system. 1231NW Hoyt http://www.blueskygallery.org
Sarah Shields shows paintings at Stumptown on Third. Her imagery includes cities, figures and forests. Her forests appear as lensed through a sensor of heat, her figures seem vaguely Eastern European. The strong, almost fall palette produces a feeling of mystery.
Stumptown Downtown 128 SW 3rd
As always the Everett Station lofts are recommended for the sometimes experimental nature of the work...
If your eyes are not too tired, Holocene hosts Vision+Hearing, collaboration between moving image artists and moving sound artists. Strategy, Unrecognizable Now + gasp, Flora, Deelay Ceelay, Rob Tyler, Phillip Cooper and Chris Larson. I have found the crowd anything but hippie. Mixing live visuals with music is an emerging art form, now at the stage of DJing in Brooklyn in the 70's. DJ's such as DJ Spooky are expanding into visuals; the reuse of visuals is challenging copyright traditions and people are making a living as visualists - see VJCentral. 9PM $5
http://www.holocene.org
Portland has design skills. Talented clothing, industrial, shoe, architectural and brand designers. Once a year they and other 3d designers stretch out and experiment with furniture design. For some it's a chance to break design blocks, maybe with a purely conceptual project, for others it's a chance to maybe have their designs picked up for production. Some brilliant design world judges have selected their winners from 40 entries. You can see the entries and hear the judges speak Wednesday October 4 between 6 and 9 at Design Within Reach for $10. Or see the show free at PNCA between October 5 and 28.
DWR corner of NW Everett and 12th, PNCA corner of NW Johnson and 13th
Details: http://www.showpdx.com
Valantines shows mixed media drawings by Cassandra Ann Adams themed on poppies. Inspired by Sylvia Plath's poems linking poppies to love's intoxication, Adams has refracted the connection through her own experience.
Art 6-10, open late 232 SE Ankeny
MK Guth, one of Portland's few artists working effectively in video, shows her work at Elizabeth Leach. Video art is tricky as we are immersed in moving images spanning the pedestrian on youtube to cinema's grand emotionally manipulative narratives. Also showing is Stephen Hayes known for his impressionistic portraits and landscapes in oil or as prints.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
Powell's Basil Howard Gallery shows Brandland, creative work by the WK12.3 gaggle. These twelve are a creative school within an advertising agency doing work that gets published, often for local nonprofits. As each has a varied background and are not exclusively sourced locally, the show might be interesting. On the other hand, it could be a not quite post ironic admixture of culture jamming and soft targeting.
Reception 7, show business hours at Powells Burnside and 10th
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/calendar#1194
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows seductive constructions by Jen Pack. She stretches brightly colored sheer fabric on wood frames. Her canvas is transparent, specular ambient light casts an impression on the wall behind. Pack has added wiglike falls to some pieces perhaps amping a conceptual facet, welcome because the work itself can be too beautiful. http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=208
929 NW Flanders closes early 8:30PM
Mona Superhero has the seventies down. She extends the pop graphics entry into the fine arts world in the 1960's with imagery of the disco era of the seventies, a time when black and white Americans really experimented with mixing socially on an equal basis, dancing. Her images are constructed of brightly colored duct tape. Mona comes off sucessful shows at Gallery 500 to show this month at Berbatti's. http://www.ducttapeart.com/gallery.html 19 SW 2nd until late
http://www.berbati.com/
Rake gallery shows the real sixties and seventies to complement Mona's show, portraits of the Black Panthers, as effectively wiped out then as the American Indian Movement and now perhaps the animal rights movement. Photographer Eve Crane, also known for documenting San Francisco's Hell's Angels, has selected these from hundreds of photographs she made as an intimate of the Panthers, an armed community development group of the day. http://www.rakeart.org/ 325 NW 6th
Blue Sky Gallery shows Zona, photographs of the Siberian gulags today. Now they are not filled with political prisoners, but for example by a 15 year old boy serving three and a half years for stealing 2 hamsters from a pet shop. Despite the bleak landscape and bleaker yet history of the camps, people there still leave a creative mark on the place, and photographer Carl De Keyzer has captured it. Perhaps this show is a touchpoint for contempation of our own justice system and our emerging special justice system. 1231NW Hoyt http://www.blueskygallery.org
Sarah Shields shows paintings at Stumptown on Third. Her imagery includes cities, figures and forests. Her forests appear as lensed through a sensor of heat, her figures seem vaguely Eastern European. The strong, almost fall palette produces a feeling of mystery.
Stumptown Downtown 128 SW 3rd
As always the Everett Station lofts are recommended for the sometimes experimental nature of the work...
If your eyes are not too tired, Holocene hosts Vision+Hearing, collaboration between moving image artists and moving sound artists. Strategy, Unrecognizable Now + gasp, Flora, Deelay Ceelay, Rob Tyler, Phillip Cooper and Chris Larson. I have found the crowd anything but hippie. Mixing live visuals with music is an emerging art form, now at the stage of DJing in Brooklyn in the 70's. DJ's such as DJ Spooky are expanding into visuals; the reuse of visuals is challenging copyright traditions and people are making a living as visualists - see VJCentral. 9PM $5
http://www.holocene.org
Friday, September 22, 2006
September's 24,25,26,27,28,29,30 Swan Song
September 24
Electro Acoustic Influences from Africa @ Doug Fir Lounge
NWEAMO has had a large influence on Portland experimental music. Tonight East meets West and North meets South with Masonic & MarsBassMan, SWARMIUS, White Rainbow, , Maxime de la Rochefoucauld, Hybrid Groove Project
Doors 8, Show 9, $10
September 25
YACHT, Universe, Aaron Flint Jamison, & Wyld File @ Reed College Chapel
This blog does not usually cover music because friends at Urban Honking do a better job of it. In case you are not reading their excellent SuperCAL, some of their principals are doing a show in Reed's sublime chapel: http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2006/09/yacht_universe.html
http://www.teamyacht.com/whichsideareyouon/light.html
Free, but donations welcome to send these world warmers on the rest of their tour! 8PM
September 26
What's a Gertrude?
Organism launches their salon Gertrude tonight. It's an opportunity for creative people to get together and talk about art and whatnot. Details at http://www.artorganism.org. With excellent sponsorship by New Deal Vodka, there is no admission charge and there will be some complementary vodka drinks. Free is good. At Vendetta on 4306 N. Williams 7PM
September 26,27
Film on '60/70's Political Activists @ Cinema Project
So long ago, as the idealistic promises of the 1950's and early 60's waned, France's colonial failures were questioned even as the all powerful United States of America overthrew foreign governments and sank deeper into Vietnam's insurgency, ultimately into a war which it lost, while almost loosing its soul, and that of its children.
Filmmaker Chris Marker was there and made this film, Le Fond de l'air est Rouge "A Grin Without A Cat" about the rise of political left in Paris, Bejing, Prague, Chile, Iran and the United States. Marker examines the street battles between police and idealists, the fall of politicians such as Richard Nixon, the assassination of Che Guevara (the formation of whose political ideas were brought to film in The Motorcycle Diaries) and Salvadore Allende, the Soviet invasion of Prague (which provides the background for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), the student riots in Paris (depicted in Bertolucci's The Dreamers, the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, US antiwar protests (The War at Home) and the American Civil Rights Movement (Eyes on the Prize I and II).
At 3 hours it is more an impressionistic collection of impressive footage than an explanation of the left's psychic history worldwide. The Voice sums it up - skip past the Spiderman review: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0218,hoberman,34342,20.html. Here's hoping the film will be released to video as a source of astonishing historical samples or raw material for video term papers.
Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium [1219 SW Park Ave] 7:00 p.m. $7
www.cinemaproject.org
September 27
Dahlia@ the Doug Fir
Homies Dahlia hold down a monthly at the Doug Fir Lounge every last Wednesday. Kieth Schreiner, with the skilz to set his music making controls for the heart of the sun, dance and have it sound great, all at the same time, live, has been a force in Portland electronica from the beginning and has created beautiful collaborations with just about everyone. Dahlia's weeklies built the good Ohm, now Kieth has a weekly at East on Thursdays. Jen Folker adds a sexy organic vibe with her soaring vocals. This brilliant vocalist has collaborated with Toby Marks (Banco de Gaia), Drumattica (TV:616) and others. Oh, and it's dancable. Stalking Jane opens. Show 9PM $6
September 28
It's last Thursday on Alberta and perhaps the last circus day without rain. No animals were harmed in this performance.
September 29, 30, October 1
Art Fair Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel Motel
Fairs are the latest thing. Miami, the Hamptons, Santa Fe, Shanghi, Havana, Milano, Basel. Freed from the social formalities of the auction circuit, they assume each city's particular cultural admixture of socializing, partying, networking, oh, and art. This one has been crafted by organizers Stewart Horodner and Laurel Gitlen to bring select out of town galleries, some Portland ones, a lot of art, Portland artists and you together in one sweet mix.
The schedule:
Friday, September 29th
4-6PM Private Collector Preview (gala ticket holders)
6-9 PM Opening Gala to benefit the PSU Graduate Lecture Series ($100)
10-1AM Artist's party featuring Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Disco ($10 -open bar)
7PM-7PM (Saturday) Special video screening of “24 Hour Three Stooges” by Paul Collins
Saturday, September 30th
11-11:30 AM Keynote Address by Helen Molesworth, Curator of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Sponsored by Sarah and Andrew Meigs
12-7 PM Public Hours ($5)
Sunday, Oct 1st
12-7 PM Public Hours ($5)
12-7 PM A program of video screenings selected by guest curators
There is a charge to wander the hotel's rooms, each dedicated to a gallery. It's a great opportunity though to see what is being made in the world, maybe you can see a place for your own work to fit in. Generally the gallery rooms are closed by the 10PM party Friday because the gallery folks like to party too.
All details at: http://www.affair-jupiterhotel.com/
Event: http://www.jupiterhotel.com 800 E Burnside
September 29, 30, October 1
Northwest Solar Expo @ Oregon Convention Center
Cultural explorers seek the leading edge, the experimental, they are the vanguard. The Convention Center's million square feet of rain cover is for mass adopters. While this event is not to the million foot level, that solar in the Northwest is approaching mass adoption is a good thing. Witness the great attendance at the sustainability tour. The show includes vendor booths and a raft of seminars. Details at http://www.nwsolarexpo.com/
Fri & Sat 10am-7pm Sun 10am-6pm $8 per day under 12 free. Tickets at the door.
September 30
Reading Frenzy Art Benefit @ Department of Skateboarding
Reading Frenzy is Portland's OG of zines. A visit to Chloe's tiny store will never fail to uncover a new zine. comic, video, Vladmaster or Japanese thing. Chloe's sweet son, Henry, has cerebral palsy and a lot of Portland artists are kicking in for his special needs, community style. Artist friends Andi Zeisler, Anthony Capadona, Bill Branscum, Brad Adkins, Caleb Plowman, Chase Melendez, Chris Hotz, Chris Johanson, Chris Senn, Christine Shields, Dave Carnie, Dave England, David Petersen, Erik Railton, Ethan Fowler, Fran O'Connor, Jai Tanju, Jason Adams, Jeff Walls, Jim Hauser, Jo Jackson, Jon Humphries, Kim Hamblin, Martin Ontiveros, Meredith Leonard, Michael Brophy, Michael Sieben, Molly Quan, Noah Martineau, Ray Gordon, Roger Seliner, Russ Pope, Sam Coomes, Sarah Marshall, Steve Mathews, Storm Tharp, Sumaya Agha, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thomas Campbell, Thor, Tobin Yelland and Tom Greenway are all donating work.
Tonight also marks the launch of limited edition skate decks, the first by Jo Jackson and Chris Johanson. Johanson was part of the Rinder Whitney Biennial, Jackson's video piece was selected for purchase by the Portland Art Museum from the museum's biennial.
http://www.readingfrenzy.com
http://www.departmentofskateboarding.com/html/map/frameset.html
15 NE Hancock 6PM
Installation Art Show @ Disjecta
Patrick Rock, Brenden Clenaghen and Margaret Currin have curated a show of installation and sculpture by primarily out of town artists. Pictures of their works and their websites are listed at http://www.hauntedexhibition.com/. Some of the work has a halloween flavor and is consistent with Rock's sculptural aesthetic, the most successful of which was the giant interactive inflatable hot dog at the Fresh Trouble show. I will reserve judgement until I see the show, but I have a great resistance to conceptual work based on a single idea; I'm more interested in subtilty and rich context. Disjecta 320 E Burnside Opens at 7PM
Electro Acoustic Influences from Africa @ Doug Fir Lounge
NWEAMO has had a large influence on Portland experimental music. Tonight East meets West and North meets South with Masonic & MarsBassMan, SWARMIUS, White Rainbow, , Maxime de la Rochefoucauld, Hybrid Groove Project
Doors 8, Show 9, $10
September 25
YACHT, Universe, Aaron Flint Jamison, & Wyld File @ Reed College Chapel
This blog does not usually cover music because friends at Urban Honking do a better job of it. In case you are not reading their excellent SuperCAL, some of their principals are doing a show in Reed's sublime chapel: http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2006/09/yacht_universe.html
http://www.teamyacht.com/whichsideareyouon/light.html
Free, but donations welcome to send these world warmers on the rest of their tour! 8PM
September 26
What's a Gertrude?
Organism launches their salon Gertrude tonight. It's an opportunity for creative people to get together and talk about art and whatnot. Details at http://www.artorganism.org. With excellent sponsorship by New Deal Vodka, there is no admission charge and there will be some complementary vodka drinks. Free is good. At Vendetta on 4306 N. Williams 7PM
September 26,27
Film on '60/70's Political Activists @ Cinema Project
So long ago, as the idealistic promises of the 1950's and early 60's waned, France's colonial failures were questioned even as the all powerful United States of America overthrew foreign governments and sank deeper into Vietnam's insurgency, ultimately into a war which it lost, while almost loosing its soul, and that of its children.
Filmmaker Chris Marker was there and made this film, Le Fond de l'air est Rouge "A Grin Without A Cat" about the rise of political left in Paris, Bejing, Prague, Chile, Iran and the United States. Marker examines the street battles between police and idealists, the fall of politicians such as Richard Nixon, the assassination of Che Guevara (the formation of whose political ideas were brought to film in The Motorcycle Diaries) and Salvadore Allende, the Soviet invasion of Prague (which provides the background for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), the student riots in Paris (depicted in Bertolucci's The Dreamers, the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, US antiwar protests (The War at Home) and the American Civil Rights Movement (Eyes on the Prize I and II).
At 3 hours it is more an impressionistic collection of impressive footage than an explanation of the left's psychic history worldwide. The Voice sums it up - skip past the Spiderman review: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0218,hoberman,34342,20.html. Here's hoping the film will be released to video as a source of astonishing historical samples or raw material for video term papers.
Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium [1219 SW Park Ave] 7:00 p.m. $7
www.cinemaproject.org
September 27
Dahlia@ the Doug Fir
Homies Dahlia hold down a monthly at the Doug Fir Lounge every last Wednesday. Kieth Schreiner, with the skilz to set his music making controls for the heart of the sun, dance and have it sound great, all at the same time, live, has been a force in Portland electronica from the beginning and has created beautiful collaborations with just about everyone. Dahlia's weeklies built the good Ohm, now Kieth has a weekly at East on Thursdays. Jen Folker adds a sexy organic vibe with her soaring vocals. This brilliant vocalist has collaborated with Toby Marks (Banco de Gaia), Drumattica (TV:616) and others. Oh, and it's dancable. Stalking Jane opens. Show 9PM $6
September 28
It's last Thursday on Alberta and perhaps the last circus day without rain. No animals were harmed in this performance.
September 29, 30, October 1
Art Fair Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel Motel
Fairs are the latest thing. Miami, the Hamptons, Santa Fe, Shanghi, Havana, Milano, Basel. Freed from the social formalities of the auction circuit, they assume each city's particular cultural admixture of socializing, partying, networking, oh, and art. This one has been crafted by organizers Stewart Horodner and Laurel Gitlen to bring select out of town galleries, some Portland ones, a lot of art, Portland artists and you together in one sweet mix.
The schedule:
Friday, September 29th
4-6PM Private Collector Preview (gala ticket holders)
6-9 PM Opening Gala to benefit the PSU Graduate Lecture Series ($100)
10-1AM Artist's party featuring Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Disco ($10 -open bar)
7PM-7PM (Saturday) Special video screening of “24 Hour Three Stooges” by Paul Collins
Saturday, September 30th
11-11:30 AM Keynote Address by Helen Molesworth, Curator of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Sponsored by Sarah and Andrew Meigs
12-7 PM Public Hours ($5)
Sunday, Oct 1st
12-7 PM Public Hours ($5)
12-7 PM A program of video screenings selected by guest curators
There is a charge to wander the hotel's rooms, each dedicated to a gallery. It's a great opportunity though to see what is being made in the world, maybe you can see a place for your own work to fit in. Generally the gallery rooms are closed by the 10PM party Friday because the gallery folks like to party too.
All details at: http://www.affair-jupiterhotel.com/
Event: http://www.jupiterhotel.com 800 E Burnside
September 29, 30, October 1
Northwest Solar Expo @ Oregon Convention Center
Cultural explorers seek the leading edge, the experimental, they are the vanguard. The Convention Center's million square feet of rain cover is for mass adopters. While this event is not to the million foot level, that solar in the Northwest is approaching mass adoption is a good thing. Witness the great attendance at the sustainability tour. The show includes vendor booths and a raft of seminars. Details at http://www.nwsolarexpo.com/
Fri & Sat 10am-7pm Sun 10am-6pm $8 per day under 12 free. Tickets at the door.
September 30
Reading Frenzy Art Benefit @ Department of Skateboarding
Reading Frenzy is Portland's OG of zines. A visit to Chloe's tiny store will never fail to uncover a new zine. comic, video, Vladmaster or Japanese thing. Chloe's sweet son, Henry, has cerebral palsy and a lot of Portland artists are kicking in for his special needs, community style. Artist friends Andi Zeisler, Anthony Capadona, Bill Branscum, Brad Adkins, Caleb Plowman, Chase Melendez, Chris Hotz, Chris Johanson, Chris Senn, Christine Shields, Dave Carnie, Dave England, David Petersen, Erik Railton, Ethan Fowler, Fran O'Connor, Jai Tanju, Jason Adams, Jeff Walls, Jim Hauser, Jo Jackson, Jon Humphries, Kim Hamblin, Martin Ontiveros, Meredith Leonard, Michael Brophy, Michael Sieben, Molly Quan, Noah Martineau, Ray Gordon, Roger Seliner, Russ Pope, Sam Coomes, Sarah Marshall, Steve Mathews, Storm Tharp, Sumaya Agha, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thomas Campbell, Thor, Tobin Yelland and Tom Greenway are all donating work.
Tonight also marks the launch of limited edition skate decks, the first by Jo Jackson and Chris Johanson. Johanson was part of the Rinder Whitney Biennial, Jackson's video piece was selected for purchase by the Portland Art Museum from the museum's biennial.
http://www.readingfrenzy.com
http://www.departmentofskateboarding.com/html/map/frameset.html
15 NE Hancock 6PM
Installation Art Show @ Disjecta
Patrick Rock, Brenden Clenaghen and Margaret Currin have curated a show of installation and sculpture by primarily out of town artists. Pictures of their works and their websites are listed at http://www.hauntedexhibition.com/. Some of the work has a halloween flavor and is consistent with Rock's sculptural aesthetic, the most successful of which was the giant interactive inflatable hot dog at the Fresh Trouble show. I will reserve judgement until I see the show, but I have a great resistance to conceptual work based on a single idea; I'm more interested in subtilty and rich context. Disjecta 320 E Burnside Opens at 7PM
Monday, September 11, 2006
September 10,13,14,16 Some Things
September 10
Church of Craft @ Doug Fir Lounge
The monthly church of craft is in session 11AM-4PM.
September 11
The New Economy of Chamber Music @ PNCA
How did classical music so effectively maneuver itself into near extinction? Brede Rørstad explores its potential for its repopulation in a free seminar "The New Economy of Chamber Music". At one time, classical music was pop music. Critics assailed Chopin: " The wildness in both the melody and harmony is for the most part excessive... We cannot imagine any musician, who has not acquired an unhealthy taste for noise, and scrambling, and dissonance, to feel otherwise than dissatisfied with the effect..." as perhaps electroacoustic, noise or microtonal music today! Hear and participate with Rørstad in plotting musics' path forward. 9:30AM-11 PNCA http://www.pnca.edu Free
Filmmaker on September 11 @ Audio Cinema/PICA TBA
September 11 is a day replete. Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick connects some of that with a film showing this evening:
"On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms. In Renwick's intense personal documentary work, edgy and grim poetry informs a deliberate and steady stare at extreme states of existence. Humans and other animals are forced to take decisive action. Everything is a matter of life and death.
Daniel Menche’s thundering live soundtrack propels her latest wildlife epic Hope and Prey. 9 is a Secret ponders mystical visitations from crows and ravens after Renwick changes her name. The found footage gem, Britton, S. Dakota is constructed solely of haunting portraits of children filmed standing in the street of a desolate town in depression era America. Also screening: two Vietnam era artifacts—Travis Wilkerson’s harrowing and hopeless National Archive, v. 1 and Bill Daniel’s Selective Service System Story, which revisits a filmmaker who shot himself in the foot on film to make a statement against the Vietnam War and to get out of the draft. The evening commences with Wilkerson’s Superior Elegy, a portrait of a 25 hour-long improvisational concert held in Duluth, Minnesota in honor of a murdered friend. Despite being scheduled for the weekend following September 11, 2001, the event’s organizers chose to perform as planned. In so doing, the event acquired an unintended poignancy. The resulting film reads almost like a prayer: quiet, formal, and full of inexplicable power."
8-9PM at Audio Cinema as part of TBA
226 SE Madison
8 PICA Members, 12 General, Free pass holders...
September 13
Mexican Butoh
Butoh is a strange and delicate thing. It is a modern dance form from Japan unlike any other movement art you have seen. It is improvised, sometimes based on images from nature. The site http://www.butoh.net, though outdated, is valuable. First created in 1959 amidst the post WW2 Japanese nationalist cultural movement, of which author Mishima was a leader, butoh was wild. Now it is unknown by many Japanese, while taking root worldwide. Diego Pinion is its Mexican instance. Pinion is known for his intense workshops in which psychodrama is the entry point for creating new movement. If you are a movement artist, or curious, if you can leave aside narrative and judgement and enter a dream state of pure body imagination, this will be a worthwhile performance. If you desire more, consider seeing Sanki Juku in Seattle November 21 - they are a sublime performance group and one of the preeminent butoh performance groups in the world.
7-midnight Someday Lounge (Backspace) 125 NW 5th $10
September 14
Art @ Local.35 Store
Clothing store Local.35 shows "Seneca" - work by Erik Railton, Molly Quon and Justin Hawkins. 7-9pm.
Music by DJ Entropy.
Local35
3556 SE Hawthorne Blv
www.local35.com
www.myspace.com/local35
September 16
Surreal Dog Walk @ NW Portland
Whether dividing the world is useful, I've my doubts. It can be argued though that there are dog people and cat people. I fall on the dog side. I'm more interested in the medium to larger size, but I've many friends who prefer medium to small. One breed falling into this category is the west highland terrier. Yearly Portland westie guardians mount a surealistic visual conspiracy and walk their dogs en masse. The sight of a few hundred identical dogs at walk is not an hallucination. They wander NW Portland in pack - details at http://dovelewis.org/events/Westie_Walk.aspx. Begins 10AM at NW 20th and Raliegh. Free to watch
Sustainable Building Tour @ Portland
Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (that combination of words is so beautiful and sensible) sponsors "Build it Green" a tour of 19 homes, a high rise and three communiy buildings selected for their innovation in construction, materials, habitat restoration and neogemutlichkeit. The cost is $15, but $10 for people who use public transport or bikes for the tour. Details at http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=129526. 11AM-5PM. See the link for the solar homes tour and sustainable materials information fair which is free.
Art Crimes of Ron English @ Missing Link
Ron English is an agitprop artist. I find clowns disturbing and he does not. His work is internationally known, the subject of a documentary, we are lucky to see the work in situ. I think the value is where his career arc meets his psyche - who among our friends have the same potential?
I am not damning with faint praise here. This is solid lowbrow work. The Missing Link openings are an undiscovered great thing, bring your friends, go!
The Missing Link 3314 SE Belmont 7PM free
Indian Music @ Lewis and Clark College
We are surrounded by music. Sometimes it is deeper into a genre that we desire to explore and sometimes it is broader. Tonight you may hear North Indian classical music should you desire on sarod, a stringed instrument, and the saxophone, accompanied by tabla. The concert is sponsored by Kalakendra at Lewis and Clark College in the Evans Auditorium. $15 advance/20 door, or consider a season ticket. 7:30PM Details at http://www.kalakendra.org/flyer.html and http://www.kalakendra.org/
Fetish Butoh Performance @ Someday Lounge
Butoh, the modern dance form, is not by nature dark. Often it is sublime and beautiful. Improvised, it is inspired by images. One of the founding artists, now 99 years of age, is working entirely with images of his mother, birth, and flowers.
In Portland though, the dark disturbing branch of butoh has drawn adherents. Tonight you may see a butoh fetish hybrid. Societas Insomnia performs a nightmare in which a child dreams the terror of an evil circuis master, fire performers, ritual suspension by flesh hooks and much writhing. Interestingly some of the performers embrace the dark side, and some are the sweetest people you could meet. The chorus is the butoh, the fetish performers, just themselves.
Performers include Soriah, Mizu Desierto, Malice Munz, Balance Suspension, The Fireninja, Ivizia Dakini, Cherry, Peach, Noah Mickens, Micah Perry, Synchronicity Frequency, Llewyn Máire, Lisa Newman, Germany, Pandora, Lana Guerra, Fredrick Zahl, Edifice Flesh, Yoshi Ironskin, Domina Betka Schpitz.
You may say echt, but if you are interested in today's boundaries of performance, this one may be worth your experience. Do not judge all butoh by this one though.
http://www.somedaylounge.com/performers/societas_insomnia/
Someday Lounge (Backspace) 125 NW 5th
10PM-Midnight $13
Church of Craft @ Doug Fir Lounge
The monthly church of craft is in session 11AM-4PM.
September 11
The New Economy of Chamber Music @ PNCA
How did classical music so effectively maneuver itself into near extinction? Brede Rørstad explores its potential for its repopulation in a free seminar "The New Economy of Chamber Music". At one time, classical music was pop music. Critics assailed Chopin: " The wildness in both the melody and harmony is for the most part excessive... We cannot imagine any musician, who has not acquired an unhealthy taste for noise, and scrambling, and dissonance, to feel otherwise than dissatisfied with the effect..." as perhaps electroacoustic, noise or microtonal music today! Hear and participate with Rørstad in plotting musics' path forward. 9:30AM-11 PNCA http://www.pnca.edu Free
Filmmaker on September 11 @ Audio Cinema/PICA TBA
September 11 is a day replete. Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick connects some of that with a film showing this evening:
"On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms. In Renwick's intense personal documentary work, edgy and grim poetry informs a deliberate and steady stare at extreme states of existence. Humans and other animals are forced to take decisive action. Everything is a matter of life and death.
Daniel Menche’s thundering live soundtrack propels her latest wildlife epic Hope and Prey. 9 is a Secret ponders mystical visitations from crows and ravens after Renwick changes her name. The found footage gem, Britton, S. Dakota is constructed solely of haunting portraits of children filmed standing in the street of a desolate town in depression era America. Also screening: two Vietnam era artifacts—Travis Wilkerson’s harrowing and hopeless National Archive, v. 1 and Bill Daniel’s Selective Service System Story, which revisits a filmmaker who shot himself in the foot on film to make a statement against the Vietnam War and to get out of the draft. The evening commences with Wilkerson’s Superior Elegy, a portrait of a 25 hour-long improvisational concert held in Duluth, Minnesota in honor of a murdered friend. Despite being scheduled for the weekend following September 11, 2001, the event’s organizers chose to perform as planned. In so doing, the event acquired an unintended poignancy. The resulting film reads almost like a prayer: quiet, formal, and full of inexplicable power."
8-9PM at Audio Cinema as part of TBA
226 SE Madison
8 PICA Members, 12 General, Free pass holders...
September 13
Mexican Butoh
Butoh is a strange and delicate thing. It is a modern dance form from Japan unlike any other movement art you have seen. It is improvised, sometimes based on images from nature. The site http://www.butoh.net, though outdated, is valuable. First created in 1959 amidst the post WW2 Japanese nationalist cultural movement, of which author Mishima was a leader, butoh was wild. Now it is unknown by many Japanese, while taking root worldwide. Diego Pinion is its Mexican instance. Pinion is known for his intense workshops in which psychodrama is the entry point for creating new movement. If you are a movement artist, or curious, if you can leave aside narrative and judgement and enter a dream state of pure body imagination, this will be a worthwhile performance. If you desire more, consider seeing Sanki Juku in Seattle November 21 - they are a sublime performance group and one of the preeminent butoh performance groups in the world.
7-midnight Someday Lounge (Backspace) 125 NW 5th $10
September 14
Art @ Local.35 Store
Clothing store Local.35 shows "Seneca" - work by Erik Railton, Molly Quon and Justin Hawkins. 7-9pm.
Music by DJ Entropy.
Local35
3556 SE Hawthorne Blv
www.local35.com
www.myspace.com/local35
September 16
Surreal Dog Walk @ NW Portland
Whether dividing the world is useful, I've my doubts. It can be argued though that there are dog people and cat people. I fall on the dog side. I'm more interested in the medium to larger size, but I've many friends who prefer medium to small. One breed falling into this category is the west highland terrier. Yearly Portland westie guardians mount a surealistic visual conspiracy and walk their dogs en masse. The sight of a few hundred identical dogs at walk is not an hallucination. They wander NW Portland in pack - details at http://dovelewis.org/events/Westie_Walk.aspx. Begins 10AM at NW 20th and Raliegh. Free to watch
Sustainable Building Tour @ Portland
Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (that combination of words is so beautiful and sensible) sponsors "Build it Green" a tour of 19 homes, a high rise and three communiy buildings selected for their innovation in construction, materials, habitat restoration and neogemutlichkeit. The cost is $15, but $10 for people who use public transport or bikes for the tour. Details at http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=129526. 11AM-5PM. See the link for the solar homes tour and sustainable materials information fair which is free.
Art Crimes of Ron English @ Missing Link
Ron English is an agitprop artist. I find clowns disturbing and he does not. His work is internationally known, the subject of a documentary, we are lucky to see the work in situ. I think the value is where his career arc meets his psyche - who among our friends have the same potential?
I am not damning with faint praise here. This is solid lowbrow work. The Missing Link openings are an undiscovered great thing, bring your friends, go!
The Missing Link 3314 SE Belmont 7PM free
Indian Music @ Lewis and Clark College
We are surrounded by music. Sometimes it is deeper into a genre that we desire to explore and sometimes it is broader. Tonight you may hear North Indian classical music should you desire on sarod, a stringed instrument, and the saxophone, accompanied by tabla. The concert is sponsored by Kalakendra at Lewis and Clark College in the Evans Auditorium. $15 advance/20 door, or consider a season ticket. 7:30PM Details at http://www.kalakendra.org/flyer.html and http://www.kalakendra.org/
Fetish Butoh Performance @ Someday Lounge
Butoh, the modern dance form, is not by nature dark. Often it is sublime and beautiful. Improvised, it is inspired by images. One of the founding artists, now 99 years of age, is working entirely with images of his mother, birth, and flowers.
In Portland though, the dark disturbing branch of butoh has drawn adherents. Tonight you may see a butoh fetish hybrid. Societas Insomnia performs a nightmare in which a child dreams the terror of an evil circuis master, fire performers, ritual suspension by flesh hooks and much writhing. Interestingly some of the performers embrace the dark side, and some are the sweetest people you could meet. The chorus is the butoh, the fetish performers, just themselves.
Performers include Soriah, Mizu Desierto, Malice Munz, Balance Suspension, The Fireninja, Ivizia Dakini, Cherry, Peach, Noah Mickens, Micah Perry, Synchronicity Frequency, Llewyn Máire, Lisa Newman, Germany, Pandora, Lana Guerra, Fredrick Zahl, Edifice Flesh, Yoshi Ironskin, Domina Betka Schpitz.
You may say echt, but if you are interested in today's boundaries of performance, this one may be worth your experience. Do not judge all butoh by this one though.
http://www.somedaylounge.com/performers/societas_insomnia/
Someday Lounge (Backspace) 125 NW 5th
10PM-Midnight $13
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Westside Art in September
Tonight's moon approaches earth at its closest in the year's cycle. What this all means, I have no idea.
Consider opening your evening with a free performance by Three Leg Torso http://www.3legtorso.com/ the gypsy chamber ensemble. They play at 6 in the Jameson Square Park at the corner of NW Johnson and 11th.
PICA's TBA festival opens with a performance at 8 by Brede Rørstad's Music Population Orchestra followed by Small Sails at 9 at Audio Cinema SE 3rd and Madison. 21 and over unfortunately, free fortunately.
Now for the visuals:
Valentines shows "Split Cities", photography by Portland and Brooklyn photographers Mikael Kennedy http://www.interruptart.com, Mike Powsner at http://www.mikepowsner.blogspot.com, Oriana Lewton-Leopold http://www.orianalewtonleopold.com, Sarah Meadows http://www.urbanhonking.com/owl, Brian Slaughter at http://www.babychickenwing.blogspot.com .
, Shayla Hason http://www.urbanhonking.com/dokuchan and Yoni Kifle http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/plrdyk.htm collaborating with E*Rock http://www.urbanhonking.com/lightandsound/. Music by Ryan Boyle as DJ Pogostick Yankovich.
Art 6-9, open late, but bring a flashlight for arting after 9 232 SE Ankeny
Ogle shows photographs by Chelsea Mosher. Her earlier work reminds me of that of Liz Haley in that it can capture an enigmatic solo or group moment. In this work, Mosher collages her photos into perhaps surealistic compositions, rephotographed. Also showing is Philip Iosca. Both are part of the Portland Modern #4 group. 310 NW Broadway, doors close at 9.
PNCA hosts a long traveling group exhibition "Illegal Art" http://www.illegal-art.org/ themed on copyright and other intellectual property issues. Sampling pop culture provides a ready emotional ingredient to new work. The question is who owns that effect? The original creator? Or is it really a phenomena in each of our psyches?
PNCA graduate Heidi Cody's "American Alphabet" was used to form the group's logotype. Portland filmmaker Todd Haynes is also part of the illegal art group on the basis of his 1987 film Superstar, exploring pop singer Karen Carpenter's fatal struggle with anorexia. The film is stop action animated with BarbieTM/KenTM dolls as the actors. When art is outlawed, only the outlaws will have art...
until 9:30 PNCA 1241 NW Johnson
Leach Gallery shows "Supernormal" sculpture and relief forks by Sean Healy. Supernormal is themed upon high school social power dynamics which are thankfully discarded by most people by age 18 at the latest.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
The Portland Art Center mega complex presents video loops accompanied by live improvisation l by Paint and Copter. Listen to soundscapes by Seth Neihil in collaboration with dancer Linda Austin.
See "The Inside Game", selections from the personal collections of Elizabeth Leach, Joel Leib, Rod Pulliam, Justin Oswald and Jeffrey Thomas, all collectors and gallerists. The artists in the collections include: David Altmejd, Chandra Bocci, James Bolton, Claire Corey, Russell Crotty, Roe Ethridge, Harrell Fletcher, Harry Fritzius, Nick Di Genova, William Kentridge, Dinh Q. Le, Frank Magnotta, Roy McMakin, Lari Pittman, Rob Pruitt, Nick & Sheila Pye, Halsey Rodman, Will Rogan, TM Sisters, Dash Snow and Pinar Yolcan. Finally, perhaps because of our damp cool winters, Portland has become somewhat of a center for encaustic painting using wax pigments that must be melted on a hotplate to use. Tonight see a show juried by Elise Wagner, Jeff Gunn and SparkPlugArt of 32 encaustic artists.
http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Rake Art shows work by Skyler McCaughey, Grace Luebke, April Alden. I am feeling particularly lazy so from the gallery press release:
" Skyler McCaughey's body of work, The Business of Sweetness is an exploration of what it really means to work and what work is in relation to our lives. She investigates the idea that not only do we work to make a living, but in turn the lives we lead can be defined by the way we work. She suggests that questions about goals and work performance should not be confined to the workplace, but should be asked for every aspect of our lives. This exploration of what one could call a life's work has culminated in an investigation into the lives of insects. Skyler considers insects, bees especially, as totems of industry, having an innate and insatiable work ethic. These are the icons of her work. Using constructed light boxes, etched glass, stainless steel, copper, and brass, she constructs a view into the lives of insects. Her interest in what happens when an unstoppable worker becomes exhausted is evident in the both the frenzied activity of "Punching In" and the fossilized amber stasis of "Work Environs". In these works, Skyler explores the sensations of feeling exhausted, yet simultaneously feeling capable of doing more. This is what she refers to as the work of our living: the alchemical transformation of pollen to honey.
Grace Luebke's 3-D installation/ performance art "Ephemeral Matter" is a conceptual design, symbiotically integrating form and dance in the site specific space of Rake Art Gallery. An installation of 200 yards of silacoat screen mimics the movement of shifting, slipping, and speeding momentum contained within an axis while coinciding with a butoh dance performance. Grace finds inspiration for her designs in butoh, an improvisational dance movement founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazou Ohno. The performance begins slowly, and gradually picks up to a fast, edgy pace. The combination of installation with live dance performance enforces a connection between spatial design and the body. This inevitably creates an interactive connection between viewer and installation once the dance performance has ended.
April Alden's work, consists of found materials from the natural environment applied to wood or canvas by means of gesso and encaustic wax. She draws her inspiration from the found materials which then dictate her organic and geometric arrangements. This process oriented work allows her to express a childhood reminiscence of collecting plant materials and obsessively manipulating them into various shapes and patterns."
http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th
As usual the other Everett lofts are recommended.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents abstract contemporary baroque paintings by Brenden Clenaghen. Clenaghen adds unique icepick prick textures to his work. I like it.
Until 9 929 NW Flanders http://pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/
A side trip sometime in the month is called for to see the work of mid career artist and Reed professor Geraldine Ondrizek. She samples nature and science producing large scale sculptures. This show is entitled "M168: Tracing the Y Chromosome"
Oregon College of Art & Craft, 8245 S.W. Barnes Road
Ringler's Annex is not the greatest venue for art viewing, particularly their subterranean space. But this month it is well worth the visit to see paintings by Brett and Whitney Superstar. Their styles partner well, maintaining their individuality; their subject matter is often schematic plants and animals.
1223 S.W. Stark St.
Consider opening your evening with a free performance by Three Leg Torso http://www.3legtorso.com/ the gypsy chamber ensemble. They play at 6 in the Jameson Square Park at the corner of NW Johnson and 11th.
PICA's TBA festival opens with a performance at 8 by Brede Rørstad's Music Population Orchestra followed by Small Sails at 9 at Audio Cinema SE 3rd and Madison. 21 and over unfortunately, free fortunately.
Now for the visuals:
Valentines shows "Split Cities", photography by Portland and Brooklyn photographers Mikael Kennedy http://www.interruptart.com, Mike Powsner at http://www.mikepowsner.blogspot.com, Oriana Lewton-Leopold http://www.orianalewtonleopold.com, Sarah Meadows http://www.urbanhonking.com/owl, Brian Slaughter at http://www.babychickenwing.blogspot.com .
, Shayla Hason http://www.urbanhonking.com/dokuchan and Yoni Kifle http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/plrdyk.htm collaborating with E*Rock http://www.urbanhonking.com/lightandsound/. Music by Ryan Boyle as DJ Pogostick Yankovich.
Art 6-9, open late, but bring a flashlight for arting after 9 232 SE Ankeny
Ogle shows photographs by Chelsea Mosher. Her earlier work reminds me of that of Liz Haley in that it can capture an enigmatic solo or group moment. In this work, Mosher collages her photos into perhaps surealistic compositions, rephotographed. Also showing is Philip Iosca. Both are part of the Portland Modern #4 group. 310 NW Broadway, doors close at 9.
PNCA hosts a long traveling group exhibition "Illegal Art" http://www.illegal-art.org/ themed on copyright and other intellectual property issues. Sampling pop culture provides a ready emotional ingredient to new work. The question is who owns that effect? The original creator? Or is it really a phenomena in each of our psyches?
PNCA graduate Heidi Cody's "American Alphabet" was used to form the group's logotype. Portland filmmaker Todd Haynes is also part of the illegal art group on the basis of his 1987 film Superstar, exploring pop singer Karen Carpenter's fatal struggle with anorexia. The film is stop action animated with BarbieTM/KenTM dolls as the actors. When art is outlawed, only the outlaws will have art...
until 9:30 PNCA 1241 NW Johnson
Leach Gallery shows "Supernormal" sculpture and relief forks by Sean Healy. Supernormal is themed upon high school social power dynamics which are thankfully discarded by most people by age 18 at the latest.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
The Portland Art Center mega complex presents video loops accompanied by live improvisation l by Paint and Copter. Listen to soundscapes by Seth Neihil in collaboration with dancer Linda Austin.
See "The Inside Game", selections from the personal collections of Elizabeth Leach, Joel Leib, Rod Pulliam, Justin Oswald and Jeffrey Thomas, all collectors and gallerists. The artists in the collections include: David Altmejd, Chandra Bocci, James Bolton, Claire Corey, Russell Crotty, Roe Ethridge, Harrell Fletcher, Harry Fritzius, Nick Di Genova, William Kentridge, Dinh Q. Le, Frank Magnotta, Roy McMakin, Lari Pittman, Rob Pruitt, Nick & Sheila Pye, Halsey Rodman, Will Rogan, TM Sisters, Dash Snow and Pinar Yolcan. Finally, perhaps because of our damp cool winters, Portland has become somewhat of a center for encaustic painting using wax pigments that must be melted on a hotplate to use. Tonight see a show juried by Elise Wagner, Jeff Gunn and SparkPlugArt of 32 encaustic artists.
http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Rake Art shows work by Skyler McCaughey, Grace Luebke, April Alden. I am feeling particularly lazy so from the gallery press release:
" Skyler McCaughey's body of work, The Business of Sweetness is an exploration of what it really means to work and what work is in relation to our lives. She investigates the idea that not only do we work to make a living, but in turn the lives we lead can be defined by the way we work. She suggests that questions about goals and work performance should not be confined to the workplace, but should be asked for every aspect of our lives. This exploration of what one could call a life's work has culminated in an investigation into the lives of insects. Skyler considers insects, bees especially, as totems of industry, having an innate and insatiable work ethic. These are the icons of her work. Using constructed light boxes, etched glass, stainless steel, copper, and brass, she constructs a view into the lives of insects. Her interest in what happens when an unstoppable worker becomes exhausted is evident in the both the frenzied activity of "Punching In" and the fossilized amber stasis of "Work Environs". In these works, Skyler explores the sensations of feeling exhausted, yet simultaneously feeling capable of doing more. This is what she refers to as the work of our living: the alchemical transformation of pollen to honey.
Grace Luebke's 3-D installation/ performance art "Ephemeral Matter" is a conceptual design, symbiotically integrating form and dance in the site specific space of Rake Art Gallery. An installation of 200 yards of silacoat screen mimics the movement of shifting, slipping, and speeding momentum contained within an axis while coinciding with a butoh dance performance. Grace finds inspiration for her designs in butoh, an improvisational dance movement founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazou Ohno. The performance begins slowly, and gradually picks up to a fast, edgy pace. The combination of installation with live dance performance enforces a connection between spatial design and the body. This inevitably creates an interactive connection between viewer and installation once the dance performance has ended.
April Alden's work, consists of found materials from the natural environment applied to wood or canvas by means of gesso and encaustic wax. She draws her inspiration from the found materials which then dictate her organic and geometric arrangements. This process oriented work allows her to express a childhood reminiscence of collecting plant materials and obsessively manipulating them into various shapes and patterns."
http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th
As usual the other Everett lofts are recommended.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents abstract contemporary baroque paintings by Brenden Clenaghen. Clenaghen adds unique icepick prick textures to his work. I like it.
Until 9 929 NW Flanders http://pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/
A side trip sometime in the month is called for to see the work of mid career artist and Reed professor Geraldine Ondrizek. She samples nature and science producing large scale sculptures. This show is entitled "M168: Tracing the Y Chromosome"
Oregon College of Art & Craft, 8245 S.W. Barnes Road
Ringler's Annex is not the greatest venue for art viewing, particularly their subterranean space. But this month it is well worth the visit to see paintings by Brett and Whitney Superstar. Their styles partner well, maintaining their individuality; their subject matter is often schematic plants and animals.
1223 S.W. Stark St.
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