August 22 Jack In To The Matrix

Virtual Reality Movies. Yes, that is where you wear immersive goggles and enter the video. When you turn your head, the video is rendered in stereo3D as if you moved your gaze in the real world. This is very early in the art form, experimental. Each viewer is supported by a dedicated computer to render their specific view in the instant.

The first virtual reality film festival is today in Portland, Oregon. You can read about it at http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/virtual-reality-film-festival-kaleidoscope-vr-1201556965/. That it is in Variety says something. Tickets are at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-the-kaleidoscope-vr-film-festival-tickets-18025083510. And you can tell you grandkids, 'Oh, yeah I was at the first one', if you can get them to unplug for a moment to listen. The Kaleidoscope Virtual Reality Film Festival at Flex Space, 1307 NW Overton. 3:30PM-8 $15

August 21 The Eighth Take

Melanie Flood Projects, taking the front space of Justin Oswald's 420 Washington space, presents Eight Takes. Emily Wobb, John Whitten, Erin Mallea, Lara Kim, Genevieve Goffman, Kello Goeller, Brittney Connelly and Travis Beardsley present works. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington Suite 301 6PM-9 Free

August 20 Drive In Werd Ware

The Ware show at Surplus space has an artist talk tonight on the show closing. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 7PM Free



Just Take My Word For It is a show by Jodie Cavalier and Taro Mashushio. You can visit the gallery website and Facebook to figure out this. At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 6PM-9 Free



At the Drive In is a Summer series of drive in movies, at a notorious (in a good way) and precious, art live-work space. Several creative organizations have programmed evenings. Tonight is the Portland Museum of Modern Art and it is also a celebration of their third anniversary. They host Grand Style Orchestra, a light show, the Muppet movie cake, ice cream, hot dogs and popcorn - back to childhood! Bring blankets, pillows, chairs. At The Drive In PDX, 3001 NE Ainsworth. 8PM Free

August 18 Curious Melody

Melody Owen is a UO & NY schooled artist, working here and in the world. You can't exactly put your finger on what she does. It ranges from Portland igloos, carved narwal horns and whale sculptures to sampling vintage magazines. She speaks on her art projects and inspiration tonight.

A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free

August 16 From Tuva With Love

Soriah is a force of nature. He combines Mexican indigenous mysticism with a fierce engagement in music. He immersed himself in Tuvan throat singing and won competitions there. He has a Tuvan family now which is held apart by US-Russia rivalries. Tonight he performs twice. As part of a reunion of band Black Orchid, and as throughout singer Soriah with keyboardist Ashkelon. At Star Theater 13 NW 6th 9PM sharp $10

August 14 Not Your Mother's Garden, Your Great Grandmother's Garden

Newspace Photo has an historic Portland gardens show now. Tonight there is a slide show (remember those?) of hand-colored transparencies of Portland gardens exposed between about 1920 and 1940. The projections will be narrated by Suzanne Bishop of Portland Garden Club garden history committee. The slides are from the Oregon Historical Society collection. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6:30PM-8 Free

August 9 Pure Surplus Sanctuary

Surplus Space is a gallery in a home (and yard). The Littman & White Galleries are student-run spaces at Portland State University. Both are known for excellent curation. They are trading places with shows in each curated by the other. Tonight at Surplus is -ware by Eli Coplan and Rose Dickson. Interestingly both artists are within the Surplus Space aesthetic. Early, you can go see Bernie after. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th Early 3PM-6 Free



Pure Surface, a monthly collaboration of modern dance, video and word, presents Julia Calabrese, Eileen Isagon Skyers and Patricia No, with those ingredients, respectively. Recommended. And you can catch Bernie on his campaign YouTube. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6PM, performance 7 sharp Free



Sanctuary Sunday is a regular third Sunday musical event at Xhurch. It is what it sounds like. Painting, Anannaki, Pirate Radio and ADOS 33 present ambient experimental electronic sounds. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Music 7PM-10 Free

August 7 Eastside Art Openings+

Women in the Landscape a group show by Jessica Auer, Jennifer Colten, Lauren Henkin and Dawn Roe which accompanies hand colored prints from transparencies of old Portland Gardens from the Oregon Historical Society. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free



Go Figure is a group ceramics show by Amber Aguirre, Wesley Anderegg, Chris Antemann, Stephen Braun, Kelly Garrett Rathbone, Gerit Grimm, Christine Golden, Calvin Ma, Crystal Morey, Heidi Preuss Grew, Erika Sanada, Keith Schneider, Russell Wrankle and Paige Wright. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free



Portraiture is a show of what it says. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free



Lea Barozzi has a creepy, pop surrealism show of doll-inspired images. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside



San Francisco urban illustrator Ferris Plock has show Personal Pizza Party At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free



On the Westside, Sabina Haque has animation: Reclamation. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map6:30PM-8:30 Free

August 6 Westside Art Openings

I've been through my metaphysics stage and I'm on to neuroreductionism. And since my interest is not to analyze art, I avoid art theory. Roy Harris does not. He is emeritus professor of linguistics at Oxford, and a semiotician. The Great Debate About Art is his 2010 essay on art theory.

The Great Debate About Art is a group show inspired by that book by artists Ben Buswell, Srijon Chowdhury, Max Cleary, Anne Doran, Zack Dougherty, Erika Keck and Rodrigo Valenzuela.

It's at UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Jan Kempenaers has photographs from the former country of Yugoslavia of WWII memorial spomeniks, large 1960's-1970's sculptures. They are not being maintained. They are also on the edge of entering design nostalgia and exiting design rejectionism. Mines, as in removing a layer of the earth's crust: you can't live without them, but you probably wouldn't want to live with them. Oregon has them, Colorado has a lot. South Africa does too. Marc Should has photographs of the Brakpan abandoned minescape, and the South Africans living there. It is so close to the wealth of South Africa's commercial center, Johannesburg and its prosperous suburbs, yet so far. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Ryan Woodring has small 3d printed sculptures in a show Decimate Mesh. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



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



Likewise PNCA is always worth a look www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map

July 26 New Feeling

The Felt Book is a project documenting home remedies and rituals by artists. It has been an email project, eFelt, a website, a documentary video, and a tour. The tour comes to Portland tonight, hosted by False Front. It's organized by The Institute for New Feeling. From 8-9 is the show and from 9-10 is the video. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 8PM-10 $5-10 donation

July 24 Oil Work Digging Fossils

Listen, Baxter, by Wyatt Niehaus from Norway, is a meditation on people, ships and shores, labor and industry. Workers in his videos bring North Sea oil buried under the sea floor to the surface; they load it, up to $150 million of oil in a single load, on tankers. Not too distant from our experience loading Midwest oil on ships in the Columbia today, or piping Canada gas to be loaded in Coos Bay in the future.

At S1 www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-9 Free

July 22 Go Team Beauty

Beauty in art is not dead. One of the contemporary fans of beauty is the critic Dave Hickey. Personally I see beauty as the initial attractor to the full experience including idea and narrative. Beauty alone is not enough. It is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient. The Jeffrey Thomas Gallery has their own take in a large show Beauty in the Age of Indifference. It includes artists

Chris Johanson, Eva Lake (courtesy of the Augen Gallery), Michael Lucero, Heather Hutchison, Eric Stotik (courtesy of the Laura Russo Gallery), Brian Borrello, Cynthia Lahti (courtesy of PDX Contemporary), Brad Mildrexler, Mary Jo Anderson (courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery), Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller, Anne Siems (courtesy of Laura Russo Gallery), Kevin Kadar (courtesy of Froelick Gallery), Mary Henry, Harry Fritzius
Sherrie Wolf (courtesy of Laura Russo Gallery), Paul Buckland, Tom Cramer (courtesy of Augen Gallery), David E. Stein, Jeff Carpenter, Amanda Snyder and Stuart Buehler.

Opening tonight t Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art www.jeffreythomasfineart.com 2219 NW Raleigh 6PM-8 Free

July 21 Bucky's Future

Trevor Blake is a fanboy of R. Buckminster Fuller. Geodesic dome, he invented that at Black Mountain College. Efficient manufactured housing, streamlined easy to park car, a new world map projection, he invented those too. He wrote extensively and had a huge influence on the culture of Silicon Valley. His most important contribution was his writing on the future, many things he proposed are still before us to accomplish. Trevor Blake has written The Buckminster Fuller Bibliography and The Lost Inventions of Buckminster Fuller. He has the largest collection of Fuller materials outside the Buckminster Fuller Institute. He speaks tonight of Bucky, and his work.

A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast, see the video archive on the Hand Eye Supply website, or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 427 NW Broadway 6PM Free

July 18 eX...it! Contingent Evolution

Wouldn't it be amazing to live in an 800 year old manor, practice your art there, and invite people from around the world to join you? That is Schloss Bröllin, in the former East Germany. It's been taken over by artists and this year they are organizing their 6th international performance workshop and festival, eX...it!.

Portland performers Meshi Chavez and Stephanie Lanckton have been incorporating the Japanese dance form butoh into their work. They present a benefit performance tonight, Bröllin Voyage!, with dancers Mizu Desierto, Tahni Holt, Jim McGinn, Tracy Broyles, Lisa DeGrace; as well as performances by Lanckton and Chavez themselves.

It is a benefit will help to offset their travel expenses to participate in eX...it! There will be cocktails, drinks, food and a dance party after the performance.

Bröllin Voyage! https://www.facebook.com/events/1698839767003654/ at the Headwaters Theater, hosted by www.witdpresents.com 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7PM-9 Performance, Dance party to 11. $25-100



Cedar jocks has a video installation Contingent Memory and Sergei Khlopoff has paintings Alternate Evolutions." They open tonight. At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall, with the People's art of Portland opening at the same time. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth 5PM-9 Free

July 17 Statement on a Statement

The art show inspired by local forest lands, Environmental Impact Statement, which we noted on its opening June 29, closes tonight. There will be a discussion with the artists Jodie Cavalier, Jodi Darby, Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Amy Wheeler Harwood, Leif J. Lee, Alison Jane Clarys, Danielle Ross, Sidony O'neal and Gary Wiseman tonight. At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th Talk 7PM Free

July 16 Chromatic Graduate

Composition has a show of one work each by five of this year's PSU MFA graduates. At Composition Gallery, part of the Everett Station Lofts. https://www.facebook.com/compositiongallery. Mid-block on NW 6th between Everett and Flanders. 6PM-9 Free



Isaac Tin Wei Lin presents Chromatic Intercession. They are colorful imagined alphabets and characters. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th early close 6PM-8 Free

July 10 Melt

Matthew Clifford Green opens a show of paintings, Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt, tonight. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8

July 9 Soft Serve

Soft Serve is a participatory installation by Kate Towers. She has made hand painted fabric, sewn it into clothing, in which the participants, you, can pose for photographs. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 5:30PM-7 Free

July 3 Eastside Art Openings

Holidays, heat and the dog days can disrupt else-wise normal art schedules. Lower expectations.

The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a new show tonight, Idea of A Door, by Astoria musician Liz Harris. Performance by Cat Mummies at the Louvre. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free



HQHQ has a boredom-themed show by Don Edler from LA. They have a grill for BBQ, bring stuff to grill. At HQHQ Project Space hq-objective.info 232 SE Oak St #108 6PM-9 Free



Blackbox has a monochrome show, Grayscale. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8 Free

July 2 Westside Art Openings

Several galleries continue shows from a previous month or have adopted different schedules than the beginning of the month to change shows.



Whitney Nye has a new series of large paintings with repeating components. Fine meditation material. From Seattle, Francis Celentano brings geometric op art paintings. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8



Promising Waters is a series of photographs made by Mila Teshaieva in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan between 2010 and 2013. They are former Soviet republics sharing the Caspian Sea as a border. Iran and Russia complete the Caspian borderlands. The Promising Waters countries have prospered from oil and natural gas underlying the Caspian.

The Void and the Country by Paris Petridis are photographs made in Egypt in 2011.

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

Christine Clark fills the Nine Gallery with hand formed chain suspended from the ceiling. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th



Duplex has Habitat: A Video Mandala. The artist, Kello Goeller, performed rhythm-synched movement with others on Oregon lands, beach and in forest. She captured camp fire, river and waterfall flows. Those are woven in layers through hand painted masks into a 20,000x20,000 pixel composite as a mirrored symmetrical mandala, projected as motion video. Adjacent projections are pan and scan samples of the main composite in standard resolution. The projections tonight are accompanied by collaborator Biddy Thomas, completing the soundtrack to be presented ongoing with the piece. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9



PDX Contemporary Art has a Summer group show www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Hellion has comic-style illustration by Julie Filipenko from Tel Aviv. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish