Several of the artists in the photo show If But a Sunbeam Strikes Too Warm, Teresa Christiansen and Sarah Meadows, participate in a Q&A with the L&C photography department head. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 12:30PM Free
Ty Ennis has paintings The Marble Fountain. His painting and mixed media installations are playful abstractions of his life experiences. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Blue Moon Camera is vintage and chemical photography central for Portland and beyond. They have customers around the world. They have occasional shows. Tonight it is Jady Bates, Portland stylist and portrait maker. At Blue Moon Camera www.bluemooncamera.com 8417 N Lombard 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Angelica Maria Millan Lozano works between Queens and Portland with textile constructions. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 7PM Free
Friday, November 16, 2018
November 16-17 Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei is China's leading artist at taking risks. The results are beautiful too. The documentary Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry is available at the PSU cinema at a very attractive price. At the PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall 7PM, 9:30 Friday and Saturday, 3PM Sunday. Free for PSU students & faculty w/ID, $4 for all other students & seniors, $5 general
Friday, November 09, 2018
November 9 True Measure
True Measure is the gallery and studio of painters Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe.They are moving to a new space, so they are throwing one last show in this location. It's an opportunity to see their paintings and sculptures in their natural habitat, and maybe buy some to take home! @jessereno & @melissamonroeart at True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9:30 Free
Friday, November 02, 2018
November 4 How Many?
Camerawork Gallery has decamped their longtime NW location and recamped in N by Emanuel Hospital. Jānis Miglavs has Five Fingers, an 18 year project gathering stories with drawings and photographs of those narrating them in Africa. His intent is to see where myths of the original African diasporas, beginning as early as 120000 years ago, give or take, coincide with ours today in the Northern Hemisphere. The artist speaks at 4 with a reception following. See the gallery website for viewing hours. At Camerawork Gallery www.thecameraworkgallery.org in the Lorenzen Conference Center - Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 301 N. Graham. 4PM-7 Free
November 3 Splash Garage
McIntyre Parker operated a gallery in his garage and publishing project Pied-à-terre documenting some of it. He has shown at Ditch Projects and False Front Gallery. Now he has a big show of photographic work at YU. At YU Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free 4PM-6
Carnation Contemporary has been doing some excellent shows. Leslie Vigeant is interested critiquing how America grows girls into women in her show Splash Time, opening tonight. Why does culture portray young girls as adult and grown women as childish? Is that a cause of unacceptable current events? At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
Carnation Contemporary has been doing some excellent shows. Leslie Vigeant is interested critiquing how America grows girls into women in her show Splash Time, opening tonight. Why does culture portray young girls as adult and grown women as childish? Is that a cause of unacceptable current events? At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free
November 2 Eastside Art Openings
Kristin Cole has 45 Reasons Why. It is a photography project of portraits, each subject holds an object threatened by the socio-political currents surrounding us today. Free tickets required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/45-reasons-why-exhibition-tickets-51433462872. 45 Reasons Why at Uncorked Studios www.uncorkedstudios.com 811 SE Stark St. #300 6PM-8 Free/reservations required
Affiliated is a show by local street artists curated by Mad One. Artists are Voxx, Rx ASkulls, Rong, Bose One, Drsc0, Pamgood2, Dump la Rock, The Earwig22, Eric Able and Jerry "Joker" Inscoe. At Concrete Arcade 959 SE Division #135. 7PM-11 Advance tickets required at https://www.divisionheightspdx.com/events/ $10
I Love Ambrosia is a video, installation, sound and food performance by Katharine Forgan and Bobbi Woods. At Furthermore Space - the joint/joining PNCA/OCAC MFA studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
The Spectral Divide by Mako Miyamoto is a show of photography and video captured by a camera modified to be sensitive to near infrared.
It is a little different from the monochrome The Operation by the Panders and followon work or the stunning film work of Richard Mosse in The Enclave.
So we are interested to see where this artist takes infrared-sensitive imaging. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10
Italy : The South is a show of monochrome photos by Lisa Bauso. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Factitious Matter is a sculptural ceramics show by Brett Kern, Tim Kowalczyk, Dylan Martinez, and Mitchell Spain. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Here to Stay is an art book show and fair by art book galleries. It opens tonight and runs the weekend. 811 East Burnside #124 5PM-9 Free
Affiliated is a show by local street artists curated by Mad One. Artists are Voxx, Rx ASkulls, Rong, Bose One, Drsc0, Pamgood2, Dump la Rock, The Earwig22, Eric Able and Jerry "Joker" Inscoe. At Concrete Arcade 959 SE Division #135. 7PM-11 Advance tickets required at https://www.divisionheightspdx.com/events/ $10
I Love Ambrosia is a video, installation, sound and food performance by Katharine Forgan and Bobbi Woods. At Furthermore Space - the joint/joining PNCA/OCAC MFA studios 421 NE 10th 6PM-9 Free
The Spectral Divide by Mako Miyamoto is a show of photography and video captured by a camera modified to be sensitive to near infrared.
It is a little different from the monochrome The Operation by the Panders and followon work or the stunning film work of Richard Mosse in The Enclave.
So we are interested to see where this artist takes infrared-sensitive imaging. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10
Italy : The South is a show of monochrome photos by Lisa Bauso. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Factitious Matter is a sculptural ceramics show by Brett Kern, Tim Kowalczyk, Dylan Martinez, and Mitchell Spain. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Here to Stay is an art book show and fair by art book galleries. It opens tonight and runs the weekend. 811 East Burnside #124 5PM-9 Free
Thursday, November 01, 2018
November 1 Westside Art Openings
If you haven't connected to what is going on at the Haxton Hotel event-wise, you might.
Henryk Ross, photographing between 1940 and 1944, documented the Lodz Ghetto of Jews and Roma in Poland. He was employed by the ruling Reich for industrial photography, but made many other photographs, some saved and some destroyed. He understood the moral crux and buried many negatives in 1944, and certainly revisited that question onward over a life of 1910-1991. Many of his photographs he recovered, which were printable, are at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Jewish Museum. Memory Unearthed at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
In Transit is a large two month show by photographers George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa and Stefanie Zofia Schulz. The work explores the spatial and emotional travel between cultures. Topical. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Victor Maldonado is an artist to watch who chose to migrate to Portland after a BFA from California College of Art and their MFA from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. His show includes large paintings crossing impressionist landscapes with abstract expressionism brushing. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Nan Curtis has Numb. She is one of Portland's smart arch-conceptualists, always worth the challenge to experience. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Seattle ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell has Tyger! Tyger!, in his ultra-baroque style. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Ralph Pugay has A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, works made at residencies beyond his Portland home. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
George Johansen is a Portland painter working at the age of 90 years. He taught at PNCA, and his students subsequently made work or even taught there too. So you probably know students of students. Augen has assembled a career retrospective, from a drawing made at age 10 up to now. It may not be aesthetics au courant, but it is an opportunity to see a lifetime creative arc, especially of you are an artist. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Isaac Layman Has photographs Never Was a Thing, close up photos of everyday household objects. There is a performative aspect, including a 24 hour residency in his own bathroom, making images. It it is an inspiration, if anything, of what any photographer can do. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Roesing Ape and Beth Whelan have a video interactive dance performance event Windows 11 as part of the RACC Night Lights video projection project. Their live performance in situ is mixed with prerecorded video, live. RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection https://racc.org/2018/10/15/november-2018-night-lights-windows-11/. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. This month that includes celebrating the Day of the Dead. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 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-10ish Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. Jamondria Harris and Jason Urick perform. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Henryk Ross, photographing between 1940 and 1944, documented the Lodz Ghetto of Jews and Roma in Poland. He was employed by the ruling Reich for industrial photography, but made many other photographs, some saved and some destroyed. He understood the moral crux and buried many negatives in 1944, and certainly revisited that question onward over a life of 1910-1991. Many of his photographs he recovered, which were printable, are at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Jewish Museum. Memory Unearthed at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
In Transit is a large two month show by photographers George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa and Stefanie Zofia Schulz. The work explores the spatial and emotional travel between cultures. Topical. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Victor Maldonado is an artist to watch who chose to migrate to Portland after a BFA from California College of Art and their MFA from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. His show includes large paintings crossing impressionist landscapes with abstract expressionism brushing. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Nan Curtis has Numb. She is one of Portland's smart arch-conceptualists, always worth the challenge to experience. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Seattle ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell has Tyger! Tyger!, in his ultra-baroque style. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Ralph Pugay has A Spiritual Guide to Brute Force, works made at residencies beyond his Portland home. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
George Johansen is a Portland painter working at the age of 90 years. He taught at PNCA, and his students subsequently made work or even taught there too. So you probably know students of students. Augen has assembled a career retrospective, from a drawing made at age 10 up to now. It may not be aesthetics au courant, but it is an opportunity to see a lifetime creative arc, especially of you are an artist. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Isaac Layman Has photographs Never Was a Thing, close up photos of everyday household objects. There is a performative aspect, including a 24 hour residency in his own bathroom, making images. It it is an inspiration, if anything, of what any photographer can do. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Roesing Ape and Beth Whelan have a video interactive dance performance event Windows 11 as part of the RACC Night Lights video projection project. Their live performance in situ is mixed with prerecorded video, live. RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection https://racc.org/2018/10/15/november-2018-night-lights-windows-11/. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 6PM-9ish Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. This month that includes celebrating the Day of the Dead. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 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-10ish Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. Jamondria Harris and Jason Urick perform. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, October 27, 2018
October 27 Sun Ra's Earth
Monuments: The Earth Exhibition of Sun Ra is the coda of Libby Werbel's We. Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments series at the Portland Art Museum. That is a year long series curated by Werbel who also curated the Portland Museum of Modern Art.
Sun Ra (1914-1994) was a visionary musician and seminal Afrofuturist. His underground film Space is the Place 1972 is worth a watch. The Black Panther film 2018 is an update to Afrofuturism. This afternoon the exhibit opens with live local performances in collaboration with Portland's Deep Underground.
The show is up until January 27. Opening event today. https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/.
The Earth Exhibition of Sun Ra at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 2Pm-5. Regular admission $20, student and 62+ $17, under age 17 Free
Sun Ra (1914-1994) was a visionary musician and seminal Afrofuturist. His underground film Space is the Place 1972 is worth a watch. The Black Panther film 2018 is an update to Afrofuturism. This afternoon the exhibit opens with live local performances in collaboration with Portland's Deep Underground.
The show is up until January 27. Opening event today. https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/we-construct-marvels-between-monuments/.
The Earth Exhibition of Sun Ra at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 2Pm-5. Regular admission $20, student and 62+ $17, under age 17 Free
Friday, October 26, 2018
October 26 Costumes Encouraged
Winnie Black and Drew McIntyre bring Glaze, music videos, video installations and prints. Music from Magisterial and D.Jenx. Costumes encouraged. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-10 Free
Thursday, October 25, 2018
October 25 Living Dead Live On
Night of the Living Dead (1968) will screen with a live sound track by Amenta Abioto, Dolphin Midwives and Maxx Katz. These Fin de Cinema events are always lovely, though the price seems to have increased. At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Doors 7:30PM, show 8:30. $15
Friday, October 19, 2018
October 19 Shareholders Unite
An Assortment of the Relational: A Shareholder Show is a group show including Marguerite Bailey, Dylan J. Beck, Ben Glas, Leslie Hickey, Michael Lazarus, Eric Long, Raul J. Mendez, Jane Schiffhauer, Nikki Vene and Paula Wilson. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Sunday, October 14, 2018
October 14 Sun Secret Password Seashells
The sun runs everything, and just about every source of artificial light, from stored fossil fuels. So almost all photography by natural and artificial light is made by the sun. If But a Sunbeam Strikes Too Warm is a photo show by Teresa Christiansen, Anne Hall, Sarah Meadows and Kate Steciw. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Cartier Mull opens a show of paintings ;a)5516, \a)142, /a)13&3. For this project, the artist sent a photograph to be collaged into works painted on the gallery walls from instructions he sent, à la Sol LeWitt. The durable instantiation of the work are instructions for each as a minimal artist book. It wins the copywriting award for the month too.
"Paintings
Paintings are pure pleasure – when they are ripe. Vitamins, minerals, and fibers have no more persuasive salesmen than juicy, honey-sweet painting. Painting is good for everyone, of course: every painting, like every exhibition, contains all vitamins (except B12, which is found in apparel), minerals and phytochemicals – those nutrients whose health-promoting properties are forever being newly discovered. As always, the best advice is to eat the most fresh painting you can, and preferably to eat painting that is local, in season, and perfectly ripe.
Paintings
The painting is nature’s perfect shape. It is not surprising that so elegant a container should turn out to hold a small treasure of balanced nutrients – proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. The painting’s unique properties give it a unique versatility. Paintings bind ground meats, pureed vegetables, and doughs; they lighten cakes and breads; they thicken custards, tenderize timbales, and provide richness to mousses and puddings. Paintings emulsify mayonnaise, thicken sauces, and clarify to enrich soups. They are used to glaze breads and rolls, insulate pie dough against sogginess, and create ethereal meringues.
It is essential to understand exactly how paintings behave under certain conditions precisely because they are so diverse. The important point is that paintings are extremely sensitive. Unlike some aesthetic mishaps, mistakes with paintings are often irreversible and it is usually necessary to start over again.
Paintings
The painting is an estimable but endangered social institution. Its demise may be blamed on factors as various as the waning popularity of hard liquor, the regrettable decline of the sibling arts of conversation and flirtation, and the growing acceptance in this country of the European idea that painting by itself is a sufficient diversion for the evening. (The painting, remember, is an American invention.) We steadfastly defend the painting, however, both as an abstract notion and as an uncomplicated and extremely pleasurable means of entertaining. And we can’t help pointing out that it is also a relatively painless means of entertaining business contacts and of discharging social obligations to those with whom you may not care to share an entire meal."
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday 3PM-5 Free
Think of Seashells is textile work accompanied by poetry by Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Cartier Mull opens a show of paintings ;a)5516, \a)142, /a)13&3. For this project, the artist sent a photograph to be collaged into works painted on the gallery walls from instructions he sent, à la Sol LeWitt. The durable instantiation of the work are instructions for each as a minimal artist book. It wins the copywriting award for the month too.
"Paintings
Paintings are pure pleasure – when they are ripe. Vitamins, minerals, and fibers have no more persuasive salesmen than juicy, honey-sweet painting. Painting is good for everyone, of course: every painting, like every exhibition, contains all vitamins (except B12, which is found in apparel), minerals and phytochemicals – those nutrients whose health-promoting properties are forever being newly discovered. As always, the best advice is to eat the most fresh painting you can, and preferably to eat painting that is local, in season, and perfectly ripe.
Paintings
The painting is nature’s perfect shape. It is not surprising that so elegant a container should turn out to hold a small treasure of balanced nutrients – proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. The painting’s unique properties give it a unique versatility. Paintings bind ground meats, pureed vegetables, and doughs; they lighten cakes and breads; they thicken custards, tenderize timbales, and provide richness to mousses and puddings. Paintings emulsify mayonnaise, thicken sauces, and clarify to enrich soups. They are used to glaze breads and rolls, insulate pie dough against sogginess, and create ethereal meringues.
It is essential to understand exactly how paintings behave under certain conditions precisely because they are so diverse. The important point is that paintings are extremely sensitive. Unlike some aesthetic mishaps, mistakes with paintings are often irreversible and it is usually necessary to start over again.
Paintings
The painting is an estimable but endangered social institution. Its demise may be blamed on factors as various as the waning popularity of hard liquor, the regrettable decline of the sibling arts of conversation and flirtation, and the growing acceptance in this country of the European idea that painting by itself is a sufficient diversion for the evening. (The painting, remember, is an American invention.) We steadfastly defend the painting, however, both as an abstract notion and as an uncomplicated and extremely pleasurable means of entertaining. And we can’t help pointing out that it is also a relatively painless means of entertaining business contacts and of discharging social obligations to those with whom you may not care to share an entire meal."
At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday 3PM-5 Free
Think of Seashells is textile work accompanied by poetry by Francesca Capone. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Friday, October 12, 2018
October 12 Untranslated
Heidi Schwegler has Untranslated. It is themed on anxiety about teeth. That's scary. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Thursday, October 04, 2018
October 4 Westside Art Openings
Several galleries continuous previous shows.
Laurie Danial has abstract paintings and Sarah Horowitz has botanical prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The late James Lavadour was a noted Native American abstract landscape painter. He has a show of that work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Side Effects May Include is a photo-based installation by Tamara Staples and I’m Only Here to Leave is theatrical self portraiture by Tommy Kha. They are both from Brooklyn. In the Nine space, Chris Rauschenberg has urban landscapes from Vietnam. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues with Laura Medina. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It'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 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Laurie Danial has abstract paintings and Sarah Horowitz has botanical prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
The late James Lavadour was a noted Native American abstract landscape painter. He has a show of that work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Side Effects May Include is a photo-based installation by Tamara Staples and I’m Only Here to Leave is theatrical self portraiture by Tommy Kha. They are both from Brooklyn. In the Nine space, Chris Rauschenberg has urban landscapes from Vietnam. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection continues with Laura Medina. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It'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 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Graintable and Coast2c. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Friday, September 14, 2018
September 14-16 Utopias
Utopian Visions Art Fair is a little different. It's little. Many of the fair participants have brought just a few artists that matter. It's curated by Asha Bukojemsky, from Portland with work in London, now an independent curator. Srijon Chowdhury is the instigator.
"Utopian Visions Art Fair (UVAF) is an alternative art fair that provides a platform for artists, gallerists, and curators to present projects that work towards possible, alternative futures.
Art fairs allow transparency for conversations around the art world’s reliance on capitalist systems. Taking this model, UVAF asks: How do we free art from a system that both gives art its value but also makes it powerless? Presenting a range of collaborative, site-specific, accessible and community-oriented artist projects, UVAF will present an environment that explores and promotes engaged dialogue surrounding these topics.
The fair will include installations, performances, outdoor projects and a program of open conversations."
Artists include John Riepenhoff Experience, Carmen Winant, Alice Konitz, conversations curated and hosted by Asha Bukojemsky, the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations with: Aidan Koch, Shawn Creeden, Lisa Schonberg & Mixed Needs, The Institute for Queer Ecology with: POSADAS (Pablo Herza + Ignacio Hernández Murillo), Private Places with: M. Page Greene, Manuel Arturo Abreu, U: Curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy with: Kim Farkas, Alix Ferrand, Anna-Lisa Hölger, Hanna Hur and Michael Kennedy Costa, Lila de Magalhaes & Harley Hollenstein, Benjamin Reiss, Brittany Shepherd, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Et Al with: Laurie Reid & Cybele Lyle, Chicken Coop Contemporary with: Rnar Asgeirsson, The Orchards with: Chi Tran & Chaz Stobbs, Conduit, Williamson | Knight with: Maximiliano, 2727 California Street, Victor Maldonado with: Laura Medina, Marie Conner, Vanessa Briones Englund & Julian Adoff, Nicolo Gentile & Sam Williams, Lundgren Gallery with: Christopher Richmond, OV Project Space with: Cat Ross, the Pegasus Project, Garden with: Genevieve Belleveau & Themba Alleyne, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Sarah McMenimen, Lindsey A. Schulz & Kyle Welker, Keith J Varadi with: Joshua Bienko, Naomi Fry, Jeremy Jansen & Joe Sola, the Institute for New Connotative Action, Derek Franklin, Emma Courtney Cook, Midori Hirose & Mia Ferm with: Sam Hamilton, Ben Glas, Daniel Menche, Shannon Kerrigan, Nick Bindeman & Danny Sasaki, Lucy Chinen curated by Jesse Stecklow, Tropical Contemporary, Good Weather with: Layet Johnson, Demian Diné Yazhi’ and Upfor with: Moreshin Allahyari.
We believe OV Project space, a block away is a satellite, check their schedule at the fair.
The Utopian Visions Art Fair www.utopianvisionsartfair.com
at 518 SE 76th. Friday September 14, 5PM-8, Saturday September 15, 11PM-4 and Sunday September 16, 11PM-4 Free
"Utopian Visions Art Fair (UVAF) is an alternative art fair that provides a platform for artists, gallerists, and curators to present projects that work towards possible, alternative futures.
Art fairs allow transparency for conversations around the art world’s reliance on capitalist systems. Taking this model, UVAF asks: How do we free art from a system that both gives art its value but also makes it powerless? Presenting a range of collaborative, site-specific, accessible and community-oriented artist projects, UVAF will present an environment that explores and promotes engaged dialogue surrounding these topics.
The fair will include installations, performances, outdoor projects and a program of open conversations."
Artists include John Riepenhoff Experience, Carmen Winant, Alice Konitz, conversations curated and hosted by Asha Bukojemsky, the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations with: Aidan Koch, Shawn Creeden, Lisa Schonberg & Mixed Needs, The Institute for Queer Ecology with: POSADAS (Pablo Herza + Ignacio Hernández Murillo), Private Places with: M. Page Greene, Manuel Arturo Abreu, U: Curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy with: Kim Farkas, Alix Ferrand, Anna-Lisa Hölger, Hanna Hur and Michael Kennedy Costa, Lila de Magalhaes & Harley Hollenstein, Benjamin Reiss, Brittany Shepherd, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Et Al with: Laurie Reid & Cybele Lyle, Chicken Coop Contemporary with: Rnar Asgeirsson, The Orchards with: Chi Tran & Chaz Stobbs, Conduit, Williamson | Knight with: Maximiliano, 2727 California Street, Victor Maldonado with: Laura Medina, Marie Conner, Vanessa Briones Englund & Julian Adoff, Nicolo Gentile & Sam Williams, Lundgren Gallery with: Christopher Richmond, OV Project Space with: Cat Ross, the Pegasus Project, Garden with: Genevieve Belleveau & Themba Alleyne, Sarah Rosalena Brady, Sarah McMenimen, Lindsey A. Schulz & Kyle Welker, Keith J Varadi with: Joshua Bienko, Naomi Fry, Jeremy Jansen & Joe Sola, the Institute for New Connotative Action, Derek Franklin, Emma Courtney Cook, Midori Hirose & Mia Ferm with: Sam Hamilton, Ben Glas, Daniel Menche, Shannon Kerrigan, Nick Bindeman & Danny Sasaki, Lucy Chinen curated by Jesse Stecklow, Tropical Contemporary, Good Weather with: Layet Johnson, Demian Diné Yazhi’ and Upfor with: Moreshin Allahyari.
We believe OV Project space, a block away is a satellite, check their schedule at the fair.
The Utopian Visions Art Fair www.utopianvisionsartfair.com
at 518 SE 76th. Friday September 14, 5PM-8, Saturday September 15, 11PM-4 and Sunday September 16, 11PM-4 Free
September 14 Abstract Surrealism
Claiborne Colombo has abstract layered landscapes. At 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com, gallery in a garage, 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-9 Free
Erik Mark Sandberg brings his pop surrealism from LA to Portland along with Jillian Evelyn making Shepard Fairey-style work. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Erik Mark Sandberg brings his pop surrealism from LA to Portland along with Jillian Evelyn making Shepard Fairey-style work. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Friday, September 07, 2018
September 7 Eastside Art Openings
Redux has a show, Repose, tonight through Thanksgiving. Artists
Casey Capell, Mike Wellins, Heidi Elise Wirz, Kendra Binney, Helen Mask, Alea Bone, Alison Greyson, Emily Brown, Anneke Wilder, Kirsten Moore, Mavis Leahy, Mary Coleman, Isaac Fletcher Weiss, Brent Wear, Robyn Lee Williams and Lisa Laser contribute. That's a great collection for a a good project. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Photo Shoot: 2018 is a photographic portrait, still life and landscape show, At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
We like the energy of True Measure and the hard work of Jesse Reno. He has his own show there tonight. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
The LA show is Jillian Evelyn and Erik Mark Sandberg. It's graphic design and pop surrealism work. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Susan Thayer and Cary Weigand have new ceramic work tonight. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Casey Capell, Mike Wellins, Heidi Elise Wirz, Kendra Binney, Helen Mask, Alea Bone, Alison Greyson, Emily Brown, Anneke Wilder, Kirsten Moore, Mavis Leahy, Mary Coleman, Isaac Fletcher Weiss, Brent Wear, Robyn Lee Williams and Lisa Laser contribute. That's a great collection for a a good project. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Photo Shoot: 2018 is a photographic portrait, still life and landscape show, At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
We like the energy of True Measure and the hard work of Jesse Reno. He has his own show there tonight. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
The LA show is Jillian Evelyn and Erik Mark Sandberg. It's graphic design and pop surrealism work. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
Susan Thayer and Cary Weigand have new ceramic work tonight. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
September 6 Westside Art Openings
Portlander Chris Rauschenberg is a photographer, facilitator - co-founding Blue Sky, collector and a curator. Inspired by Charles Harbutt’s Blind Boy, Rauschenberg shows Touch works on the theme human sensation. Artists include Thomas Alleman, Catherine Angel, Talya C. Arbisser, Eugene Atget, Rich Bergeman, Cecilia Berkovic, Skyra Beveridge, Richard Brown, Jamila Clarke, Vernoll Coleman, Celeste Cottingham, Paul Dahlquist, Aristide Economopoulos, Sidney Felsen, Michelle Frankfurter, Mary Frey, Patricia Galagan, Dorothy Glenn, Alison Grippo, M Bruce Hall, Anita Hamremoen, Charles Harbutt, Phil Harris, Craig Hickman, Ann Hughes, Birney Imes III, Gwynne Johnson, Sara Kirschenbaum, Les Krims, Justine Kurland, Dorthea Lange, Robert Langham, Zun Lee, Catherine Leuthold, Holly Lynton, Robert Lyons, Chema Madoz, Heather McClintock, Julie Mihaly, Jennifer Lynn Morse, Zanele Muholi, David Pace, Gordon Parks, Keri Pickett, Ann Ploeger, Gus Powell, Romualdas Požerskis, Jana Romanova, Irina Rozovsky, Nadia Sablin, Kris Sanford, Dona Schwartz, Joshua Smith, Jan Sonnenmair, Larry Sultan, Chip Thomas, Paul Trevor and Carol Yarrow. Recommended. Matt Eich also has a show I Love You, I'm Leaving. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Momopixel is a compelling artist-designer. If you don't have time for the video, take our word for it. Her art is animation, 8-bit stylie. She recontextualizes her work into the art works at Ground Kontrol tonight, where you can play her Hair Nah. There is a rare admission charge for first Thursday, but there is freeplay. At Ground Kontrol https://groundkontrol.com/event/momoland-lvl-4-free-play/ 115 NW 5th 7PM-11 $10
Encounters is a show of Japanese artists participating the the Yale Union End of Summer residency. The residency results are shown here and in Japan. Northwest artists represented by the gallery join them. It is a representation of the long time relationship between Portland and Japan. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Malia Jensen makes sculpture, and 2d work. It's morphed over the years. Newest is Yields in ceramic. Longtime artist and PNCA painting faculty Judy Cooke has paintings Conversations: Aluminum, Oil, Rubber. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Samantha Wall is a preternatural skill with large scale ink washes capturing the body. Her newest work, Phantom Limbs opens this evening. Lisa Jarrett has Imagining Home -100 exercises in empathy (Part 3), a social practice project. Melanie Stevens has If You’re Watching This, It’s Too Late, a large tapestry imaged from broadcast news. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
Utopia Without You by Tabitha Nikolai is an installation, a video game and other works. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. early close 6PM-8 Free
Amy Stephens has minimalist sculptures Land | Reland [Portland]. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Christi Denton and Glenn Sogge. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-9ish Free
Momopixel is a compelling artist-designer. If you don't have time for the video, take our word for it. Her art is animation, 8-bit stylie. She recontextualizes her work into the art works at Ground Kontrol tonight, where you can play her Hair Nah. There is a rare admission charge for first Thursday, but there is freeplay. At Ground Kontrol https://groundkontrol.com/event/momoland-lvl-4-free-play/ 115 NW 5th 7PM-11 $10
Encounters is a show of Japanese artists participating the the Yale Union End of Summer residency. The residency results are shown here and in Japan. Northwest artists represented by the gallery join them. It is a representation of the long time relationship between Portland and Japan. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Malia Jensen makes sculpture, and 2d work. It's morphed over the years. Newest is Yields in ceramic. Longtime artist and PNCA painting faculty Judy Cooke has paintings Conversations: Aluminum, Oil, Rubber. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Samantha Wall is a preternatural skill with large scale ink washes capturing the body. Her newest work, Phantom Limbs opens this evening. Lisa Jarrett has Imagining Home -100 exercises in empathy (Part 3), a social practice project. Melanie Stevens has If You’re Watching This, It’s Too Late, a large tapestry imaged from broadcast news. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
Utopia Without You by Tabitha Nikolai is an installation, a video game and other works. At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. early close 6PM-8 Free
Amy Stephens has minimalist sculptures Land | Reland [Portland]. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Christi Denton and Glenn Sogge. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-9ish Free
September 5 Unwalking Borderlines
Unwalking the West is a readout by Signal Fire artists. Tonight the show opens with a panel discussion by the artists Sarah Farahat, Joe Hedges, Garrick Imatani, Rachelle Reichert, Rick Silva, Ilvs Strauss and curators Ka’ila Farrell-Smith of Signal Fire and Mack McFarland of PNCA. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6:30PM-8 Free
Fernanda D'Agostino opens Mapping (Borderline) a 6 month, multi-site work on "the intersections between climate change, mass migration and surveillance." Tonight is a projected collage of moving images in the public space of Open Signal. We are interested in following the works over months. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Fernanda D'Agostino opens Mapping (Borderline) a 6 month, multi-site work on "the intersections between climate change, mass migration and surveillance." Tonight is a projected collage of moving images in the public space of Open Signal. We are interested in following the works over months. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Septemer 1 Post Apocalyptic Masterpiece Date
The Olympic Mills Commerce Center has sometimes had interesting shows. For a time they had sprawling shows of many dozens of artists all at once. This one is two.
Angelee van Allman has And A Thing Called Love, images a post apocalyptic world of gas masks. Julia Oldham has Dogs of Future Earth, collage envisioning a future earth without humans, but with dogs. It was inspired by a documentary she shot in the Chernobyl reactor area, abandoned by humans and reclaimed by wild and feral animals.
At the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SW Washington 6PM-9 Free
Nathan Paul Rice had drawings and paintings Masterpiece / Good Job / Big Shit. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 5PM-7 Free
New space Carnation Contemporary, inside the Disjecta Building, hosts a show of their collective members, First Date. At Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate 6PM-8 Free
Jaleesa Johnston has Encounters. It is shown in a gallery in a living room, opening tonight, with limited hours over its run or by appointment. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free
Angelee van Allman has And A Thing Called Love, images a post apocalyptic world of gas masks. Julia Oldham has Dogs of Future Earth, collage envisioning a future earth without humans, but with dogs. It was inspired by a documentary she shot in the Chernobyl reactor area, abandoned by humans and reclaimed by wild and feral animals.
At the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SW Washington 6PM-9 Free
Nathan Paul Rice had drawings and paintings Masterpiece / Good Job / Big Shit. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 5PM-7 Free
New space Carnation Contemporary, inside the Disjecta Building, hosts a show of their collective members, First Date. At Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate 6PM-8 Free
Jaleesa Johnston has Encounters. It is shown in a gallery in a living room, opening tonight, with limited hours over its run or by appointment. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free
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