February 7 Westside Art Openings+

Reed photographer Leo Rubinfien has Eyehold to Eyehold, work of almost 40 years documenting globalization, much in Southeast Asia. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Talk, Eliot chapel 5:30PM, Reception after in the gallery. Free


WAYout: Worldwide Arts for Youth works in Sierra Leone making art. Sierra Leone had a bad situation between 1991 and 2001 which especially impacted the personality development of children to teens of the time. They are old enough now to have their own children. Tonight P:ear Mentor youth artists show vérité photographic work inspired by Sierra Leone youth artists. At P:ear www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th early close 5PM-8 Free


Chip Thomas has In Messages from the Underworld, a meditation on the agriculture of corn in the Americas, where it originated as a native wild grass. Jinhyun Cha from South Korean has Post-Border Line, photographs of the most mined border in the world amidst a great thaw between North and South. Chip Thomas has an artist talk 3PM Saturday, Jinhyun Cha has an artist talk tonight at 5PM.

Jerry Mayer is in the Nine Gallery.

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


Kendra Larson works in impressionistic landscapes. It is cool she is at Augen. The new work mixes in color. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free


The Night Lights video projection project outdoors in a parking lot has Megan Mckissack piece using Oregon LIDAR data and climate change. 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. 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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

February 7-9 Moar Light!

The Portland Winter Light Festival is inspired by light festivals around the world and hometown DIY projects like the Light Bar. It's in its fourth year. So there are more events in locations beyond the OMSI center, including performances in the World Trade Center. It's big enough and dispersed enough that you can experience it over multiple evenings. It's child friendly and popular with families. Some installations are warm wood-burning fire. We may have snow and that will be beautiful! The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com some daytime locations, OMSI evenings, the World Trade Center evenings. The Portland Street Car is free after 5PM each night: go by train! 6PM-11 Free

February 3 Soft Shades

Lilian Martinez has Soft Shades, impressionist portraits in a domestic setting. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free

February 2 Natura Redacted Birthday+

It's NoPo night!


Ním Wunnan has paintings and drawings, Natura Morta. It is at the new ExtraOrdinary Gallery space in a private home 3554 N. Missouri 6PM-9 Free



Alan Page from Portland, operating as Sic Redacted, has his first solo show tonight. He works in video glitch and noise. We would like to see more of this branch of video art. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free



The [web instantiation of the] Internet is 30 years old*. So Carnation Contemporary mounts Http://www:A Birthday Celebration on that theme. HBTY!

Artists include: Bjørn Magnhildøen, Elizabeth Withstandley, Julia Tatiyatrairong, Justin Lincoln, Larissa Garcia, Louis Frehring, MidGray (Simon Boas + Kris Blackmore) + Catherine Chen, Morgan Buck, Nathan Paul Rice, Olivia No, Qigemu (April Lin + Jasmine Lin), Sarah C. Blanchette, Tannon Reckling, Tricia Knope and Zach Whitworth. They are having events and interventions all month which could be interesting.

The first opens tonight. There is a more eloquent exposition on their web site which will link to events.

*The first primitive implementation of the Internet was in 1969. Mass usability emerged in 1989 from the CERN high energy physics lab by Tim Berners-Lee. The rest is (continuing) history.

At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free



More a happening in the music realm, the Imbolic Sleep Concert starts late and goes early.

February 1 Love Together Breathe Beauty Morsels Together

Bite Studio has Love in Print, a massive group show. It's a benefit for P:ear, yes. The big list is on their website At Bite Studio www.bitestudio.org/UPCOMING-SHOWS 2400 SE 7th 6PM-10 Free



Abney Wallace and Daniel Glendening have a show Alone and Together. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free



All This Useless Beauty are paintings from Serena Cole. Jeremy Okai Davis has Together, Brothers. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free



Breathe In, Breathe Out is a show by Andrew Casto. Also Joy Morsels is there from Nick Weddell. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free

January 31 Brink Ascent

It's last Thursday on Alberta. Twin galleries Antler and Talon have shows. Antler PDX has a show Brink, illustrations of wildlife. Talon has Ascent, a group show with their take on pop-surrealism. At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com
2728-2724 NE Alberta 6PM-9

Some of the other art spaces on Alberta may be open too.

January 26 The Caldera of Ego and Human Nature

Caldera holds 3 Saturday readouts of its resident artists. The residents get snowed in to work in a good year for global warming, and the buildings are used for youth art programs warm months. This resident readout is by Farooq Ahmed (Los Angeles, CA), Maria Alejandra Barrios (New York, NY), May Cat (Portland, OR), Andres Chang (Brooklyn, NY), Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen (Portland, OR), Jefferson Greene (Warm Springs, OR) and Anthony Hudson (Portland, OR.)

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free



Human Nature is the show of papermaking residents of C:3 Initiative At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-8 Free




Ego Placebo is a new show by Kayla Wiley. The show includes a performance. At the new Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building created by Killjoy Collective alumni. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free

January 24 Mid-week

A Lie Nation, Alienation: New Paintings is a show from Ka’ila Farrell-Smith. She is a Klamath/Modoc from Chiloquin. She is also a recipient of the Stumptown fellowship, show opening tonight. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free



André Filipek has a new show. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 Free

January 20 Brickwork

Kate Newby, from Auckland, continues her show A Puzzling Light and Moving. This afternoon musician Michael Hurley performs. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 3PM-5 Free

January 19 Borders

Dylan Mira has As If I Was a Thing I Could Do in the Dark. It is an ambitious video installation inspired by her Korean family. She performs at 8. This show is a good complement to the current show at Carnation Contemporary which will likely be open next door. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free

January 18 Sublime Banality

Sublime Banality is a show by Madison Donnelly, Salt Lake City, Colin Kippen. Portland, Todd Schroeder, Savannah, and Rachael Tarravechia, NY. It's at Here/There Gallery 1920 N. Kilpatrick . 6PM-9 Free

January 16 Alter

Open Signal, formerly known as Portland Cable Access, has a new director, formerly known for transforming the Hollywood Theater programming. Open Signal has contemporary art shows and residencies now too. We have listed some. Their shows are viewable free open hours.

Lynn Yarne has Altar, opening tonight.

Yarne's piece combines recordings, images, and animations of stories from Portland's Chinatown/Japantown district by Bertha Saiget, Gloria Wong, Jean Matsumoto, George Nakata, Fred Wong, Carol Lee, Franklin Qwan, Gary Lee, and Sharon Gattis.

She is supported by dozens of collaborators on the project.

At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 7PM-9 Free

January 13 Diffuse Hoop Baby

Rachel LaBine is a newly minted ColumbiaU abstract painter. This is her first solo show I think: Turn Diffuse and Binding. Her work is comfortable on the East and West Coasts. 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 11AM-1 Free



Kate Towers is half of the seminal clothing gallery Seaplane which launched the contemporary wave of Portland fashion in 2000. She continues to work independently in design and art. This afternoon, she reimagines basketball hoops with impressionistic but nearly functional versions. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map3PM-5 Free



Emily Endo Nachison has Water Baby. It's the last show for the excellent Dust to Dust which is moving to the California experimental desert. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound & open their hours Map 6PM-9 Free

January 12 Glass Works Tide

Ben Buswell, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Sibylle Peretti, and Heidi Schwegler have all been contemporary artists who have engaged with Bullseye Glass to make work. This is a readout of some of those engagements.

Ben Buswell and Heidi Schwegler work courtesy of Upfor. Jessica Jackson Hutchins work courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery. At Bullseye Projects www.bullseyeprojects.com 300 NW 13th 1PM-3 Free




Keeping Time With The Tide is a show by Iowa BFA Christopher Willauer, visiting from NY. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 7PM-9 Free

January 11 Paper-based

The c3initiative is the St Johns experimental think tank make space. They do a paper-based residency too. This is the readout of residents @rozcrews, Laura Feldman, @glinnt, @http.sci_fi, and @la_pati_vg. At C:3 Initiative www.c3initiative.org 7326 N Chicago
Map 6PM-8 Free

January 6 False New

Jason Vance Dickason has new paintings At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map Noon-4 Free

January 5 Fencing Infinity

Kusama: Infinity is a documentary on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, age 89. It shows with Kusama’s Self Obliteration, 1967. Urged by George O'Keefe to come to the United States, she painted huge canvases and staged happenings from late 1950s through the 1960s in NY. She has crafted individualistic fashion, penned poetry and written novels. She was rediscovered in the 1990s and has recently toured room-size sculptures, taking her 2d dot patterns into 3space. See this movie. Repeats Sunday at 4:30PM. Nwfilm.org/films/kusama-infinity at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 7PM $10



Renee Couture opens I Want to Lie Upon an Open Hillside. It is inspired by the dynamic between landscape and the fences upon it. Topical. The artist has a world travel background and resides in the Southern Oregon wilds. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9 Free

January 4 Eastside Art Openings+

The Boathouse is a longtime experimental film space, now they add experimental music events. Tonight it is Forrest Friends from Seattle, Noisechestra from Corvallis, and Portlanders Modal Zork, The Friendly Goblin, Walter Diego and host Clamber. Keith Foster provides live visuals. Note, do not park on the railroad tracks. They are active and you will be towed or your car will be smashed by a train or both. At the Boathouse 822 N River Map. Doors 7:30PM, show 8 $6



Jeff Sheridan has black and white compositions of shapes and Anya Roberts-Toney, paintings may be found tonight At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
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Joanna Bloom has Exaggerated Stories, ceramics based on he forms of trophies, bowls and stemmed drinking vessels. 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



Baba Wague Diakite, Raven Halfmoon, and George Rodriguez Three have Cultural Couriers, work informed by their birth and growing up. Jim Wylder and Zach Wollert have High, Low, and Naked. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free

January 3 Westside Art Openings

Veriform, Portland's sound art gallery, presents Non-Places by Clamber. It is a 90 minute sound performance with video. It is themed on the ambient sounds of locations like airports, the places in between: "spaces where people are put on pause and have no identity, relation or history." The piece includes accompanying video. @_clamber_ clamber.bandcamp.com. Highly recommended. Performance 7PM-8:30 At Variform Gallery vermiform.org 328 NW Broadway 6PM-9 Free



Eugene artist Julia Oldham continues her ongoing project Fallout Dogs. She travels to Ukraine to gather the stories of people and imagery of the wild dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Tonight you can see it at The Portland Pataphysical Society at the corner of NW 6th and NW Everett. 6PM-9



Linda Hutchens is one of Portland's arch minimalists, sometimes combining process. She shows Interference Study tonight. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.

Ashley Miller has In Sweet Things, commercial style photography commenting on consumer culture. Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma have Talking Pictures, photographs exchanged while they were pregnant.

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



Wes Mills has drawings. The artist has a long interesting resume. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Rebecca Reeve has Sun Breathing, experimental in color landscape photography. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 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. But Dolphin Midwives may be interesting at Variform. 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

December 29 Western Tone

Keith J Varadi has Concorde: A Western Tone Poem opening this afternoon. He maintains a busy internatonal show schedule in a variety of media and styles. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 1PM-4 Free