Bill Will shows you can make a living as an installation artist and art teacher in Portland, though maybe at yesterday's housing prices. See his work at the Nine Gallery NW Hoyt and 13th and a retrospective opening Sunday afternoon at the Marylhurst Art Gym.
Liz Haley's photographs seem as if captured from a lush cinematic narrative, but only one frame, leaving an emotional echo of what came before and what is after. Visage Eyewear 11th and NW Johnson
Jaq Chartier's bright work relates to electrophoresis plates used in laboratories to sequence DNA. Perhaps it can be thought too of a color test of the viewers feelings. (www,jaqbox.com) You decide at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery new location NW 9th between Glisan and Flanders
Eva Lake, local Artstar, shows her op art inspired geometric paintings at Augen Gallery. Don't leave without a look at the top of the stairs at prints by Takashi Murakami who successfully moved the creative side projects of Japanese commercial animators into the art world, leveling high art and low, with his Superflat show.
Bonnie Paisley makes cakes. See them at Ogle (www.ogleinc.com)
Also in the Everett Lofts, Josh Arseneau explores the world of child soldiers in Africa, far away, so close at Milk Studio.
DC Cooper makes abstract organic illustrations which look like they could be machines or urban landscapes. Decode them for yourself in the back right side room of Backspace.
PSU has been turning out some good MFA work - see a group show "Stone Soup" of MFA students at their 1 year point: Rebekah Miles, Maryetta Jacques, Scott Mazariegos, Steven Beatty, Rita deKelaita and Damali Ayo. Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall, PSU
Bored Saturday? You can go to the Cascade Aids Project auction, only $100 admission (free if your work is in it though) or you can go to a free art auction at the B&O warehouse. No idea of the work involved, but it's 8-10PM with downtempo provided by Bluechris, then perhaps avail yourself of the various afterparties.
Film Here Now April 20-24
Matt McCormick, the Magic Johnson of shoegazer cinema presents Portland's very own film festival with a look that is not Hollywood. The Peripheral Produce Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival samples the films that establish a meditative rhythm or are quirky, often non narrative. You can scan the details at peripheralproduce.com and in the local weekly papers. Some highlights include Miranda July's Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Sunday 8PM, film from a local performance artist who dedicated herself completely to her art in Portland to get to the point of writing, directing and acting in her own feature, well reviewed at Sundance (www.mirandajuly.com/). Also Saturday, the Experimental World Cinema Chamionship in which last year's champion Vladimir, who makes Viewmaster narratives faces challengers Harrell Fletcher, social performance artist and a raft of other fierce experimental filmmakers. The winner will be decided by audience ballot - you!
Meet, talk and hang events include
Wed Opening night party - Slow Dance Recyttal, a conglomeration of digital animation, inflatable glowing objects, live electronic jams and clarinet music plus Jackie-O-Mother-fucker, who will be collaborating with Detroit video artist David Dinnell in creating a live multi-projector and sound performance. Free with ticket stub or festival pass Holocene 9:30
Sat post indy film Battle Royale party Gallery 500 late
Sun closing party Masu Sushi 9:30, film tix stub gets you a PBR free
Friday, April 01, 2005
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
March
March 2-8
March is photography month for some reason...
Wednesday
Preopenings Gallery500, Leach, Pulliam, Wooley (generally 6-8, with Wooley later)
Thursday
Gallery 500 in conjunction with PICA presents large scale photos by the Sanchez Brothers from Quebec. Their psychological surealistic scenarios steal Lois Greenbergs's moment-in-time feel and Gregory Crewdson's sense of the cinematic. They also talk about their work Friday 7PM at PICA $10/8 members.
The Liz Leach Gallery shows Dianne Kornberg, whose inkjet printed photos of ocean flora are the result of a residency at the Friday Harbor Washington ocean laboratory. Kornberg is known for her sublime minimal documentary style which allows plenty of emotional space for the viewer's entry. She is also an excellent instructor at PNCA. In addition Leach shows a group photo show including Nan Golden who documented the art rough life of downtown Manhattan in the '80's, launching a genre and Richard Misrach whose large scale landscapes, with and without people, show how much information there is in the photographic equivalent of white space.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows Museum biennial artist Chris Timken whose pinhole landscapes alter our perspective of the everyday Northwest environment just enough to get us out of our heads. James Boulton also delivers some new paintings.
The Froelich Gallery shows tintypes by Susan Suebert who is known for dark images of tragic sites. In this show "remember thy mortality" Susan creates Dress-o-Grams, images of children and doll clothes.
The Wooley Gallery presents "One Foot After Another" a group show of photos each one foot square, including Marne Lucas.
Motel Gallery presents appropriately named artist Jill Bliss and her show of painting-illustrations and fabric sculptures "soft rock", also appropriately named. She also has some sweet journals for you to fill. Jill has written the perfect smart introduction, so I'll quit now:
"Motel is pleased to present “Soft Rock”, the sculptures and mixed media works of San Francisco artist Jill Bliss. Exploring the intersection of nature and culture as well as the similarities and differences between the handmade and mass-manufactured, Jill's soft rock sculptures attempt to personify rock forms by recreating them in fabric. Using patternmaking skills acquired during her years in the fashion industry, Jill tailors patterns from individual rocks and recreates them in multiples. Using the same flower pattern fabric in three different colorways she references an updated Japanese rock garden. Accompanying these soft sculptures are hand-drawn individual and group portraits of the rocks, rendered on transfer paper applied to stretched fabric canvases. Bold color, seemingly simple construction, and gentle humor underlie the conceptual framework within the work. Additionally, a modern/vintage aesthetic allows an instant familiarity and empathetic understanding of these natural objects and blends Jill’s twin loves of nature and contemporary popular culture. The result is a quiet, minimalist installation contemplating the false boundaries between nature and culture while revealing the relationships between plants, animals, humans, and technology are actually quite arbitrary, fluid, and mutable."
Blue Sky Gallery presents Charles Traub, NYC photographer, who captures unexpected images on the streets juxtaposing people and the built environment.
Starbucks employees' art show. No predictions on this, but we all have plenty of friends who have worked there. A benefit for the Cascade Aids Project who Starbucks just dropped twentyfive thousand on. At the Weiden and Kennedy building.
I'm not a big fan of Jock Sturges, but if you like his work, there it is at the Butters Gallery. There is also a retrospective of David Leventhal at Augen, all large format - 20x30" Polaroid portraits of dolls and toys, proving there is still subject material to exploit.His cheesecake doll portraits deliver a double entendre which isn't reaching me. Decide for yourself.
No advance information on the Everett Lofts, but often something fine can be found there.
Friday
The First Friday/SE galleries have really gotten organized this month, encompassing galleries, studio spaces, home studios and non traditional exhibition spaces. DIY power! Artist/ places/ maps at www.seportlandartwalk.com/
Portland Art Center, 2045 SE Belmont 7-10 installations by John Mace and Suzy Root, kicking off their year long focus on installation art.
I have always been suspicious of celebrity artists. David Byrne did go to art school though, but you won't be able to get your 80's fix from his Friday Art Museum fundraiser lecture, sold out at $25 and up per - so... The March Forth Marching Band plays their namesake birthday bash at the Bossanova Ballroom, costumes, dancing, stilts, fire! Art for sure.
Sunday, Tuesday
Art Museum talk Sunday 2PM SF MOMA photo curator on Diane Arbus and tour of the exhibit with commentary by Terry Todtemier, museum photography curator Tuesday 6-8 side entrance. Not sure what the charges are for these. Arbus, old school photographer, defined a major vector in photo-aesthetics which is also one of Blue Sky's curatorial themes.
Designing Portland
Teruo Kurosaki and John Jay think that Portland is the next Tokyo. Not Tokyo with 34 million people, not Tokyo with nifty trains going everywhere, nor Tokyo with the thousand dollar Kaiseki dinner, but Tokyo, design mecca. And they are doing something about it.
For starters they pulled together the Japanese Consul, art, business and language students, Japanese ex-pats, PSU, PNCA and Portland's design powerhouses Ziba, Wieden and Kennedy and Nike. Their Friday program at PNCA mixed video, slides, a DJ and a whole lot of vision for Portland's creative community.
Even if you don't know it, most of you are living in Portland's "creative economy" a'la Richard Florida. Perhaps you have heard of the City of Portland's efforts to find a way of promoting it, mostly talk to date. Kurosaki and Jay propose a regular interchange of designers between the cities and maybe a Portland version of the Tokyo Designers Block, a week long international designer's jam he likened to a designers' Burning Man Festival.
"Writers get writer's block. In the same way, designers at the end of the 20th century who designed things only for money developed, in a sense, a designer's block." Kurosaki's projects "break down the block." Occupying galleries, theatres, parking lots, abandoned apartments, restaurants, , embassies, public squares, an old elementary school and a geodesic dome (which got him into trouble with the building department), Kurosaki mixed Tokyo street art, DIY artists, corporate creatives, DJ's and VJ's into his design stew. He also launched the careers of design superstars Philippe Starck and Marc Newson, heard of them?
Can it be done here?
It depends on you.
March is photography month for some reason...
Wednesday
Preopenings Gallery500, Leach, Pulliam, Wooley (generally 6-8, with Wooley later)
Thursday
Gallery 500 in conjunction with PICA presents large scale photos by the Sanchez Brothers from Quebec. Their psychological surealistic scenarios steal Lois Greenbergs's moment-in-time feel and Gregory Crewdson's sense of the cinematic. They also talk about their work Friday 7PM at PICA $10/8 members.
The Liz Leach Gallery shows Dianne Kornberg, whose inkjet printed photos of ocean flora are the result of a residency at the Friday Harbor Washington ocean laboratory. Kornberg is known for her sublime minimal documentary style which allows plenty of emotional space for the viewer's entry. She is also an excellent instructor at PNCA. In addition Leach shows a group photo show including Nan Golden who documented the art rough life of downtown Manhattan in the '80's, launching a genre and Richard Misrach whose large scale landscapes, with and without people, show how much information there is in the photographic equivalent of white space.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows Museum biennial artist Chris Timken whose pinhole landscapes alter our perspective of the everyday Northwest environment just enough to get us out of our heads. James Boulton also delivers some new paintings.
The Froelich Gallery shows tintypes by Susan Suebert who is known for dark images of tragic sites. In this show "remember thy mortality" Susan creates Dress-o-Grams, images of children and doll clothes.
The Wooley Gallery presents "One Foot After Another" a group show of photos each one foot square, including Marne Lucas.
Motel Gallery presents appropriately named artist Jill Bliss and her show of painting-illustrations and fabric sculptures "soft rock", also appropriately named. She also has some sweet journals for you to fill. Jill has written the perfect smart introduction, so I'll quit now:
"Motel is pleased to present “Soft Rock”, the sculptures and mixed media works of San Francisco artist Jill Bliss. Exploring the intersection of nature and culture as well as the similarities and differences between the handmade and mass-manufactured, Jill's soft rock sculptures attempt to personify rock forms by recreating them in fabric. Using patternmaking skills acquired during her years in the fashion industry, Jill tailors patterns from individual rocks and recreates them in multiples. Using the same flower pattern fabric in three different colorways she references an updated Japanese rock garden. Accompanying these soft sculptures are hand-drawn individual and group portraits of the rocks, rendered on transfer paper applied to stretched fabric canvases. Bold color, seemingly simple construction, and gentle humor underlie the conceptual framework within the work. Additionally, a modern/vintage aesthetic allows an instant familiarity and empathetic understanding of these natural objects and blends Jill’s twin loves of nature and contemporary popular culture. The result is a quiet, minimalist installation contemplating the false boundaries between nature and culture while revealing the relationships between plants, animals, humans, and technology are actually quite arbitrary, fluid, and mutable."
Blue Sky Gallery presents Charles Traub, NYC photographer, who captures unexpected images on the streets juxtaposing people and the built environment.
Starbucks employees' art show. No predictions on this, but we all have plenty of friends who have worked there. A benefit for the Cascade Aids Project who Starbucks just dropped twentyfive thousand on. At the Weiden and Kennedy building.
I'm not a big fan of Jock Sturges, but if you like his work, there it is at the Butters Gallery. There is also a retrospective of David Leventhal at Augen, all large format - 20x30" Polaroid portraits of dolls and toys, proving there is still subject material to exploit.His cheesecake doll portraits deliver a double entendre which isn't reaching me. Decide for yourself.
No advance information on the Everett Lofts, but often something fine can be found there.
Friday
The First Friday/SE galleries have really gotten organized this month, encompassing galleries, studio spaces, home studios and non traditional exhibition spaces. DIY power! Artist/ places/ maps at www.seportlandartwalk.com/
Portland Art Center, 2045 SE Belmont 7-10 installations by John Mace and Suzy Root, kicking off their year long focus on installation art.
I have always been suspicious of celebrity artists. David Byrne did go to art school though, but you won't be able to get your 80's fix from his Friday Art Museum fundraiser lecture, sold out at $25 and up per - so... The March Forth Marching Band plays their namesake birthday bash at the Bossanova Ballroom, costumes, dancing, stilts, fire! Art for sure.
Sunday, Tuesday
Art Museum talk Sunday 2PM SF MOMA photo curator on Diane Arbus and tour of the exhibit with commentary by Terry Todtemier, museum photography curator Tuesday 6-8 side entrance. Not sure what the charges are for these. Arbus, old school photographer, defined a major vector in photo-aesthetics which is also one of Blue Sky's curatorial themes.
Designing Portland
Teruo Kurosaki and John Jay think that Portland is the next Tokyo. Not Tokyo with 34 million people, not Tokyo with nifty trains going everywhere, nor Tokyo with the thousand dollar Kaiseki dinner, but Tokyo, design mecca. And they are doing something about it.
For starters they pulled together the Japanese Consul, art, business and language students, Japanese ex-pats, PSU, PNCA and Portland's design powerhouses Ziba, Wieden and Kennedy and Nike. Their Friday program at PNCA mixed video, slides, a DJ and a whole lot of vision for Portland's creative community.
Even if you don't know it, most of you are living in Portland's "creative economy" a'la Richard Florida. Perhaps you have heard of the City of Portland's efforts to find a way of promoting it, mostly talk to date. Kurosaki and Jay propose a regular interchange of designers between the cities and maybe a Portland version of the Tokyo Designers Block, a week long international designer's jam he likened to a designers' Burning Man Festival.
"Writers get writer's block. In the same way, designers at the end of the 20th century who designed things only for money developed, in a sense, a designer's block." Kurosaki's projects "break down the block." Occupying galleries, theatres, parking lots, abandoned apartments, restaurants, , embassies, public squares, an old elementary school and a geodesic dome (which got him into trouble with the building department), Kurosaki mixed Tokyo street art, DIY artists, corporate creatives, DJ's and VJ's into his design stew. He also launched the careers of design superstars Philippe Starck and Marc Newson, heard of them?
Can it be done here?
It depends on you.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
February
This month -
Mathew Picton, the elegant sampler, from Ashland, shows pattern sampled from the
streets - literally - this month. Poetic without pandering, strong without being
overpowering, elegant without being cute, judge for yourself. Mark Woolley Gallery
Mona Superhero - the name fits - and just back from a successful show in Portland-
echo-Williamsburg (we were here first!), pairs her duct tape portraits, each a graphic
novel, with the Chroma show, a group show of monochromatic work curated by the blond
viking including Tom Cramer, Michael Knutson, Jacqueline Ehlis, Joe Macca, Ellen George,
Jesse Hayward and Katherine Bovee. Mona's multiples - prints - are cheap, cheap, cheap,
though not limited, but could be made unique by requesting (no guarantees!) a lip print.
See all these superheroes together! Consider the Chroma themed performance
www.telegrapharts.org/chroma.html Feb 11-13. At Gallery 500
Kristan Kennedy shows new and different work along with the brilliant work of Eugene artist
Amanda Wojeck whose sculptures of paint (can we say free here..?) chips were the star of
the last Museum biennial.
At Liz Leach Gallery.
Lewis Clevenger shows his de Stijl-like paintings, colorform studies which cross Allied
Works form with Gamblin color, beautifully thoughtfully, at Pulliam Deffenbaugh
German Herrera's digital collages reference dreams in their process and content along with
Soody Shariffi's fascinating portraits of Iranian teens sampling all the possibilities of
their place in the world. Though Iran has taken a detour to the religious right, style and
expression still thrive under the beard, burka and headscarf. Hear see Shariffi speak
Friday Feb 4, 7:30 free at Blue Sky Gallery
Reading Frenzy's Valentines-themed show should yield some great affordable work and loving
inspiration, likewise the Amorously show at the Motel Gallery. Mmmm...
Mathew Picton, the elegant sampler, from Ashland, shows pattern sampled from the
streets - literally - this month. Poetic without pandering, strong without being
overpowering, elegant without being cute, judge for yourself. Mark Woolley Gallery
Mona Superhero - the name fits - and just back from a successful show in Portland-
echo-Williamsburg (we were here first!), pairs her duct tape portraits, each a graphic
novel, with the Chroma show, a group show of monochromatic work curated by the blond
viking including Tom Cramer, Michael Knutson, Jacqueline Ehlis, Joe Macca, Ellen George,
Jesse Hayward and Katherine Bovee. Mona's multiples - prints - are cheap, cheap, cheap,
though not limited, but could be made unique by requesting (no guarantees!) a lip print.
See all these superheroes together! Consider the Chroma themed performance
www.telegrapharts.org/chroma.html Feb 11-13. At Gallery 500
Kristan Kennedy shows new and different work along with the brilliant work of Eugene artist
Amanda Wojeck whose sculptures of paint (can we say free here..?) chips were the star of
the last Museum biennial.
At Liz Leach Gallery.
Lewis Clevenger shows his de Stijl-like paintings, colorform studies which cross Allied
Works form with Gamblin color, beautifully thoughtfully, at Pulliam Deffenbaugh
German Herrera's digital collages reference dreams in their process and content along with
Soody Shariffi's fascinating portraits of Iranian teens sampling all the possibilities of
their place in the world. Though Iran has taken a detour to the religious right, style and
expression still thrive under the beard, burka and headscarf. Hear see Shariffi speak
Friday Feb 4, 7:30 free at Blue Sky Gallery
Reading Frenzy's Valentines-themed show should yield some great affordable work and loving
inspiration, likewise the Amorously show at the Motel Gallery. Mmmm...
Saturday, January 01, 2005
January
Opening Wednesday 7-10, the Pacific Switchboard on N Albina opens a group show with live music.
Opening Thursday downtown -
Linda Hutchens' typed and overtyped scrolls at Pulliam Deffenbaugh hide subtle complexity and rich associations within deceptively simple compositions of paper, words and the patterns of the type itself.
The Compound Gallery at Just Be Complex group show includes local heros including Scott Patt and Trish Grantham. Just Be has been striking very affordable limited edition prints of gallery artists available at the shows or afterwards until they run out. Recommended.
Motel shows “Wild Like Children”, paintings by Deth P. Sun and Jeana Sohn. These sweet paintings tap the fantasy worlds of childhood which we hopefully will never loose.
Debra Beers, a longtime worker with Portland's homeless community, presents her portraits of homeless kids at Mark Wooley.
Gallery 500 hosts a Portland Modern show - a welcome experiment in curation, exhibition, documentation and promotion. Sue Taylor, one of the few writer critics in Portland who operates on a (inter)national scale has been tapped to curate Portland Modern's next batch. Watch out!
Continuing from last month - The group show at the new Elizabeth Leach space designed by Randy Higgins includes brilliant local stars amid work by equally brilliant established international artists - look, learn, the Rucha print show at Augen, the dreamy photo montage portrait work of Smith Eliot at Pushdot, Mark Zirpel's glass sculptures, some animated, at Bullseye, the RC gallery group show and Valentina Graziano mixed media photo constructions at Ogle.
Also recommended, the Everett Station galleries and Backspace which usually yield surprises of the good type!
Opening Thursday downtown -
Linda Hutchens' typed and overtyped scrolls at Pulliam Deffenbaugh hide subtle complexity and rich associations within deceptively simple compositions of paper, words and the patterns of the type itself.
The Compound Gallery at Just Be Complex group show includes local heros including Scott Patt and Trish Grantham. Just Be has been striking very affordable limited edition prints of gallery artists available at the shows or afterwards until they run out. Recommended.
Motel shows “Wild Like Children”, paintings by Deth P. Sun and Jeana Sohn. These sweet paintings tap the fantasy worlds of childhood which we hopefully will never loose.
Debra Beers, a longtime worker with Portland's homeless community, presents her portraits of homeless kids at Mark Wooley.
Gallery 500 hosts a Portland Modern show - a welcome experiment in curation, exhibition, documentation and promotion. Sue Taylor, one of the few writer critics in Portland who operates on a (inter)national scale has been tapped to curate Portland Modern's next batch. Watch out!
Continuing from last month - The group show at the new Elizabeth Leach space designed by Randy Higgins includes brilliant local stars amid work by equally brilliant established international artists - look, learn, the Rucha print show at Augen, the dreamy photo montage portrait work of Smith Eliot at Pushdot, Mark Zirpel's glass sculptures, some animated, at Bullseye, the RC gallery group show and Valentina Graziano mixed media photo constructions at Ogle.
Also recommended, the Everett Station galleries and Backspace which usually yield surprises of the good type!
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
December
This month, take a look at the Ed Ruscha print show at Augen. Ruscha is a West Coast Artist who went unappreciated in NY for ever, but is back for the revenge of quality and longevity. He was selected to represent the US at the Venice Biennale and his 1970 Chocolate Room has been reconstructed at LA's MOCA. Also upstairs at Augen take a look at recent Portland arrival Chris Johanson's prints and a more refined encaustic look by Chris Kelly.
augengallery.com
The RC Gallery, above the Peruvian restraunt at the corner of 13 and NW Glisan has a group show curated by Trish Grantham including her work, Lisa Dejohn, Scott Patt and Amy Ruppel. The work is sweet as well as contemporary.
rc-gallery.com
Belinki and Deprey and Gallery 500 host a show of political pop art including many Portland art stars.
belinkiandduprey.com and gallery500.org
The New American Art Union hosts a group show of art they will actually buy from the artists and lottery off to their members. Keep an eye on this space and its great artist curators.
newarmericanartunion.com
Pacific Switchboard shows serial work - think multi panel cartoons and more abstract multiples. My favorite are Jason Funk's 3 panel illustrations set in Japan. Joe Hilsenrad has a great telephone installation which is not to be missed. All the prices are super reasonable! The cafe gallery is open many hours and they also host an always relevant antiwar poetry open mic on December friday evenings 7:30.
pacificswitchboard.com
Finally Savage has got its groove back with the Surface Tension show. The Parlato paintings of slick poured paint are outstanding. I confess, I like bright shiny things! The other work by Jacin Giordano shows a subtle sense of composition with materials that would be at home in Ready Made, while delicate paper tracery by Doug Morris offers layers of detail in which to loose yourself. Finally some of Aaron Van Dyke's (#2) constructions are dreamlike, simple, but hit home.
savageartresources.com
Also don't forget the Urban Art Network's indoor sale at the Crystal Ballroom 1PM-9PM Sunday December 19.
augengallery.com
The RC Gallery, above the Peruvian restraunt at the corner of 13 and NW Glisan has a group show curated by Trish Grantham including her work, Lisa Dejohn, Scott Patt and Amy Ruppel. The work is sweet as well as contemporary.
rc-gallery.com
Belinki and Deprey and Gallery 500 host a show of political pop art including many Portland art stars.
belinkiandduprey.com and gallery500.org
The New American Art Union hosts a group show of art they will actually buy from the artists and lottery off to their members. Keep an eye on this space and its great artist curators.
newarmericanartunion.com
Pacific Switchboard shows serial work - think multi panel cartoons and more abstract multiples. My favorite are Jason Funk's 3 panel illustrations set in Japan. Joe Hilsenrad has a great telephone installation which is not to be missed. All the prices are super reasonable! The cafe gallery is open many hours and they also host an always relevant antiwar poetry open mic on December friday evenings 7:30.
pacificswitchboard.com
Finally Savage has got its groove back with the Surface Tension show. The Parlato paintings of slick poured paint are outstanding. I confess, I like bright shiny things! The other work by Jacin Giordano shows a subtle sense of composition with materials that would be at home in Ready Made, while delicate paper tracery by Doug Morris offers layers of detail in which to loose yourself. Finally some of Aaron Van Dyke's (#2) constructions are dreamlike, simple, but hit home.
savageartresources.com
Also don't forget the Urban Art Network's indoor sale at the Crystal Ballroom 1PM-9PM Sunday December 19.
Friday, October 01, 2004
October Surprises
Closing party Friday October 1 7-10... With live music and a great group show curated by Vicki Lynn Wilson. Be there early to experience the interactive "Who is the most.." installation - do not miss this!!! See Vladimir's hilarious narrated Viewmaster stereo viewer saga of roaches "Licifugia Thigmotaxis" , your kitchen friend. Yolanda Baca's "Waterfall Overload (7 days of news)" is a poignant personal response to the sad political news, so unfortunately commonplace. Philip Cooper's "Acrylight" continues his experiments with projection on diverse surfaces. Cynthia Star's "My heart is filled with Sugar" incorporates a live ant colony, but her work could be improved by a bit more time spent on fabrication. Chandra Bocci's "Ritual" presages her Haze Gallery show opening October 9. She again proves cute and contemporary art can coexist to create new mythologies. 420 NW 9th x Glisan www.blackfish.com
At the Burnside Powells, third floor, Jessica Bronk creates mysterious moody-romantic landscapes compatible with the Northwest but not quite in it. Her work is a welcome break from the usual encaustic encrusted Northwest style.
Closing party Friday October 1 Blackfish - see above
Opening Friday October 1 CO7 2000 SE 7th 7-11 ish
Opening Friday October 1 group show of past hits. Pacific Switchboard N Albina at Blandena 7-11 ish.
Visit Jupiter October 1-3
Portland's newest too cool for school hotel, the Jupiter Hotel - 800 East Burnside, wedged between KBOO and Union Jacks, is being taken over by art for just this weekend. Portland, and some Seattle, SF, LA and galleries elsewhere are showing their wares in the hotel rooms. Included are Portland's sweethearts, Motel. Disjecta, excluded, simply rented a room for its artists. So see where you fit into the schedule below since they are charging for some events.
www.affair-jupiterhotel.com
Also consider hearing some Portland artists talk for free Saturday at 5 at the Ecotrust building about their working process:
www.jeffjahn.com/HavingWords.htm
If you are a visual artist wondering how the hell you can support yourself doing it, this is good research material!
Friday, Oct 1
6-9 PM Opening Night Gala (collectors and press)
* $25 ticket (RSVP to stuart@affair-jupiterhotel.com)
Music by DJ Entropy
Catering by Devil's Food
Saturday, Oct 2
10-11:30 AM Panel Discussion on Biennial & Art Fair Culture
with Saul Ostrow, Andrea Fraser, Regine Basha, Stephanie Snyder
* FREE
Saturday, Oct 2 & Sunday, Oct 3
Hours 12-7 PM
* $5 general/$3 student
from the event's press release:
"AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel is the first professional art fair in the history of Portland. It brings together 22 adventurous art dealers and guest curators who will set up temporary galleries in rooms at the newly opened Jupiter Hotel. A lively panel discussion, impromptu parties, and surprise guests will provide additional infotainment.
Why Portland, why now?
Portland is known by artists as a great place to live and make work, but it's almost impossible to make a living here entirely as an artist. But as Portland develops its reputation among out of town collectors and galleries more opportunities for Portland artists to sell out of town. This art fair is part of that process.
At AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel there will be art on the beds, the walls, in closets, in bathrooms. Visitors will roam the rooms on the hunt for beauty, intelligence, and a good deal. Since the doors are blackboards, rooms come outfitted with colored chalk, each threshold is an instant message center for posting sales, phone numbers, websites, parties, etc. Most of the art at the fair will fall into the emerging or mid-career categories, with prices ranging between $500-$10,000."
October Roundup
This month, the non profits and indy galleries are the standouts!
At Blue Sky Gallery blueskygallery.org you can see the 10 photographers of mixed style selected from 6000 in a worldwide competition. All different and all outstanding.
In the Everett Lofts, Mo shows Etch a Sketch inspired portrait drawings made in one continuous line at Genuine Imitation genuineimitation.com in his Labyrinthine Projections show.
See Adam Haynes just rough enough drawings, Robert Mars retro car culture urbanscape compositions derived from photos and Mike McGovern's posterific characters in the Delamination show at Milk: milk-studio.com rock.
H Adam Haynes takes an original tack in his presentation of 360 degree panoramic landscape photographs at Koidu.
Down the street at Motel motelgallery.com the hug me illustrators Carson Ellis, Jen Corace and Susie Ghahremani present sweet work. Affordable!
In contrast, around the corner at Backspace backspace.bz, Bruce Walker shows hyperreal large format color portraits of American military men and women in Iraq. See it, think about it.
At Disjecta disjecta.org, Liz Haley has curated some standouts, mixing Brooklyn and Portland artists. The video work is uninteresting, but some of the photo work and the prints and drawings of Chris Johanson are well worth a look. It's Disjecta's last show, if you have a lead on a new space for them, contact Bryan.
PNCA plays host to presentation boards by the Portland Design Festival winners in the areas architecture, design, fashion, graphics and cross discipline work. All of the work is targeted for a life well beyond Portland and the quality shows. pdxdesigncollaborative.com/PDXDesign.html
Finally, over at Savage savageartresources.com, see the Bambi Effect show curated by Laurel Gitlen, one half of the force behind the Jupiter hotel Art Fair. The show includes international art stars, such as Justine Kurland, all of whose work seems disturbingly at home in rainy rur-urban Portland.
At the Burnside Powells, third floor, Jessica Bronk creates mysterious moody-romantic landscapes compatible with the Northwest but not quite in it. Her work is a welcome break from the usual encaustic encrusted Northwest style.
Closing party Friday October 1 Blackfish - see above
Opening Friday October 1 CO7 2000 SE 7th 7-11 ish
Opening Friday October 1 group show of past hits. Pacific Switchboard N Albina at Blandena 7-11 ish.
Visit Jupiter October 1-3
Portland's newest too cool for school hotel, the Jupiter Hotel - 800 East Burnside, wedged between KBOO and Union Jacks, is being taken over by art for just this weekend. Portland, and some Seattle, SF, LA and galleries elsewhere are showing their wares in the hotel rooms. Included are Portland's sweethearts, Motel. Disjecta, excluded, simply rented a room for its artists. So see where you fit into the schedule below since they are charging for some events.
www.affair-jupiterhotel.com
Also consider hearing some Portland artists talk for free Saturday at 5 at the Ecotrust building about their working process:
www.jeffjahn.com/HavingWords.htm
If you are a visual artist wondering how the hell you can support yourself doing it, this is good research material!
Friday, Oct 1
6-9 PM Opening Night Gala (collectors and press)
* $25 ticket (RSVP to stuart@affair-jupiterhotel.com)
Music by DJ Entropy
Catering by Devil's Food
Saturday, Oct 2
10-11:30 AM Panel Discussion on Biennial & Art Fair Culture
with Saul Ostrow, Andrea Fraser, Regine Basha, Stephanie Snyder
* FREE
Saturday, Oct 2 & Sunday, Oct 3
Hours 12-7 PM
* $5 general/$3 student
from the event's press release:
"AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel is the first professional art fair in the history of Portland. It brings together 22 adventurous art dealers and guest curators who will set up temporary galleries in rooms at the newly opened Jupiter Hotel. A lively panel discussion, impromptu parties, and surprise guests will provide additional infotainment.
Why Portland, why now?
Portland is known by artists as a great place to live and make work, but it's almost impossible to make a living here entirely as an artist. But as Portland develops its reputation among out of town collectors and galleries more opportunities for Portland artists to sell out of town. This art fair is part of that process.
At AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel there will be art on the beds, the walls, in closets, in bathrooms. Visitors will roam the rooms on the hunt for beauty, intelligence, and a good deal. Since the doors are blackboards, rooms come outfitted with colored chalk, each threshold is an instant message center for posting sales, phone numbers, websites, parties, etc. Most of the art at the fair will fall into the emerging or mid-career categories, with prices ranging between $500-$10,000."
October Roundup
This month, the non profits and indy galleries are the standouts!
At Blue Sky Gallery blueskygallery.org you can see the 10 photographers of mixed style selected from 6000 in a worldwide competition. All different and all outstanding.
In the Everett Lofts, Mo shows Etch a Sketch inspired portrait drawings made in one continuous line at Genuine Imitation genuineimitation.com in his Labyrinthine Projections show.
See Adam Haynes just rough enough drawings, Robert Mars retro car culture urbanscape compositions derived from photos and Mike McGovern's posterific characters in the Delamination show at Milk: milk-studio.com rock.
H Adam Haynes takes an original tack in his presentation of 360 degree panoramic landscape photographs at Koidu.
Down the street at Motel motelgallery.com the hug me illustrators Carson Ellis, Jen Corace and Susie Ghahremani present sweet work. Affordable!
In contrast, around the corner at Backspace backspace.bz, Bruce Walker shows hyperreal large format color portraits of American military men and women in Iraq. See it, think about it.
At Disjecta disjecta.org, Liz Haley has curated some standouts, mixing Brooklyn and Portland artists. The video work is uninteresting, but some of the photo work and the prints and drawings of Chris Johanson are well worth a look. It's Disjecta's last show, if you have a lead on a new space for them, contact Bryan.
PNCA plays host to presentation boards by the Portland Design Festival winners in the areas architecture, design, fashion, graphics and cross discipline work. All of the work is targeted for a life well beyond Portland and the quality shows. pdxdesigncollaborative.com/PDXDesign.html
Finally, over at Savage savageartresources.com, see the Bambi Effect show curated by Laurel Gitlen, one half of the force behind the Jupiter hotel Art Fair. The show includes international art stars, such as Justine Kurland, all of whose work seems disturbingly at home in rainy rur-urban Portland.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Last Chance for September's Hits
Sean Healy is expanding beyond his photo/glass/acrylic constructions to more sculptural and more graphic forms. Though colorful, the sculptural work needs either more edge or more irony. The even more colorful graphic works etched into glass are a great new direction - a great sendup for Sean's upcoming show in Germany. at Elizabeth Leach 207 SW Pine www.elizabethleach.com
Sunday, August 01, 2004
August gone fishin
August
This month I have no data for first Thursday, I'm traveling to Central Asia and will miss August's First Thursday. So if you see something you like, spread the word!
Peace and freedom, we need more!
Superflat Godzilla spawns a brood
Only limited time this month for wall art? Visit Just Be Toys/Video/Art at the corner of NW 5th and Couch for this show:
http://www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/compound/0804_digmeout/0804_digmeout.html
The work is great and carries on in the vein of Murakami's 2001 Superflat show - art in the style of manga and anime. Is it art (Art)? - it's fun, so who cares?
The Digmeout model of a periodical showcasing the works of young Osaka artists to the world should be emulated here in Portland.
This month I have no data for first Thursday, I'm traveling to Central Asia and will miss August's First Thursday. So if you see something you like, spread the word!
Peace and freedom, we need more!
Superflat Godzilla spawns a brood
Only limited time this month for wall art? Visit Just Be Toys/Video/Art at the corner of NW 5th and Couch for this show:
http://www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/compound/0804_digmeout/0804_digmeout.html
The work is great and carries on in the vein of Murakami's 2001 Superflat show - art in the style of manga and anime. Is it art (Art)? - it's fun, so who cares?
The Digmeout model of a periodical showcasing the works of young Osaka artists to the world should be emulated here in Portland.
Thursday, July 01, 2004
July
July 1 First Thursday
Erin Kennedy's deceptively simple schematic compositions are the perfect mixer for summer love. "he loves me he loves me not" daisies abound.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 522 NW 12th opening until 8:30
Mail art show - buy good art here cheap - Zine Central:Reading Frenzy - 921 SE Oak opening til 9
Always a hit
Blue Sky/Nines Conceptual art space is hit or miss, but when it is a hit, how sweet; meanwhile the photos tend toward Arbus- style disaffection, be it David Lynchian suburbs or charmingly mythical images from South and Central America. 1231 NW Hoyt opening until 9:30
Compound/Just Be Toys/Video/Design/am I forgetting anything? The upstairs of this Japanese Action Figure Emporium is a great and affordable and very up to date gallery. A big hangout too for Japanese expats. corner NW Couch and 6th opening til 10
Motel - what can I say, the quintessential DIY spot for accessories and cool hand made household objects has a tiny gallery space with warm fuzzy art you would love to take home for a song. NW Couch between 5th and 6th
Fashion Incubator See and be seen - fashion, another of Portland's art forms. Every 2 months the laboratory store is remade by a new set of designers. corner NW 5th and Couch opening til 8ish
Always a party, sometimes a hit
Various Everett Station Lofts and Ogle corner NW Everett and Broadway opening til 10 or so
Group show Gallery 500 420 SW Washington, 5th floor opening til 2
Paintings of skateboarders? Mark Wooley Gallery 120 NW 9th til 10
First Friday July 2
Head over after taking in the SE - this is the big show of the evening
Uncle Unkeles - - a curated show of artists who rent space or who have in the past from this landlord to the warehouse artist Haze Gallery www.hazegallery.com 6635 N Baltimore opens 7-11ish (see the press release below)
Start early in the SE
5d Show: Exploring Space. This work / exhibition space is open random last Fridays. Sometimes the quality is good. _Hall Gallery 630 SE 3rd opens Friday 7-10ish
Hot Girls Cool Guys New Space Photo 1632 SE 10th opens Friday 7-9ish
And (don't know the artists, so pot luck):
Photos, pastels, jewlery Studio 1636 1636 SE 10
Photos and Paintings tiny's 1412 SE 12th
Group show Studio 2507 2507 SE Clinton
Photos genie's Cafe 1101 SE Division
Our friends at Dragonlilly are considering joining the first Friday art showings, stay tuned...
www.hazegallery.com
Who/What: Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Service
A historic exhibition that celebrates the work of more than 150 artists who, at some point since 1983, have harbored their Portland studio in one the Unkeles Family’s buildings.
When: July 2, 2004 - Opening Party! – 7-11pm
Food, beverages, entertainment
Gallery hours continue from noon-6pm on Saturdays and Sundays
July 10/11, July 17/18 and July 24/25
Where: Cathedral Park Place - 6635 N. Baltimore
Near the East End of the historic St. Johns Bridge
*note: The St. Johns Bridge will be closed July 10, 11, 24, and 25, eliminating access from Hwy. 30. However, the site can still be found easily. Directions: take I-5 North to the Portland Blvd. exit. Take a left onto Portland Boulevard. It will curve right and become Willamette Blvd. Pass both water towers, go under the St. Johns Bridge and take a left onto Baltimore, towards the boat ramp. Cathedral Park Place is the orange building on the right. Parking is available inside.
In 1983 the Unkeles family bought a vacant, pigeon-infested industrial building that had previously been home to the "North Coast Seed Co." Their business, Carton Service, needed only part of the warehouse to store its inventory, so they ran an advertisement to rent the leftover space. Peter Teneau, a mid-career sculptor, answered the ad and became their first artist tenant. "I hate moving," he said. "What I need is a studio I can stay in for the rest of my career that I won't get priced out of." He trained them well. They agreed on a month-to-month lease, shook hands, and Peter moved out when he retired seventeen years later.
Since then the Unkeles family has rented space to over 400 artists in ten buildings throughout the city. The primary studio complexes today are: The North Coast Seed Co. Bldg., The Carton Service Bldg., The Northwest Marine Iron Works Complex, River St. Studios, and their newest project, in partnership with David Gold, Cathedral Park Place in St. Johns. Artists have included: Cynthia Lahti, Matt McCormick, Kristan Kennedy, Raul Mendez and Ed King, Dana Louis, Melody Owen, Stephen Hayes, Alex Hirsch, Scott Becker, Julie Keefe, Philip Krohn, Jerry Mayer, Whitney Nye, Meg Rowe, Cris Moss, Joe Thurston, Kelley Baker, Jacqueline Ehlis, the Pander Brothers. . . and the list goes on.
To celebrate their 21st year of working with artists, in commemoration of Carton Service's 50th anniversary, and because there is some vacant space to use out in St. Johns (40,000 sq. feet for this show!), the Unkeles family invites you to come celebrate the work of these artists and explore the history behind Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Service.
Wed July 7
Gallery CO7 hosts an opening of painting and sculpture + an ambient/radioheadish DJ Wednesday July 7 from 7-11PM at 2000 SE 7th
Extra credit:
PNCA NW Johnson and 13th has a group show of recent art school graduates across Oregon. Take a look at Jennifer Zimmerman’s work made of plain old window screen and a most outstanding piece by Renae Kowitz “field” - an about 15 foot square carpet of toy plastic army men, in a pattern of pink and green. The variety of profiles of the figures, standing, laying, etc. creates a varied texture as shaggy as our current foreign policy.
Erin Kennedy's deceptively simple schematic compositions are the perfect mixer for summer love. "he loves me he loves me not" daisies abound.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 522 NW 12th opening until 8:30
Mail art show - buy good art here cheap - Zine Central:Reading Frenzy - 921 SE Oak opening til 9
Always a hit
Blue Sky/Nines Conceptual art space is hit or miss, but when it is a hit, how sweet; meanwhile the photos tend toward Arbus- style disaffection, be it David Lynchian suburbs or charmingly mythical images from South and Central America. 1231 NW Hoyt opening until 9:30
Compound/Just Be Toys/Video/Design/am I forgetting anything? The upstairs of this Japanese Action Figure Emporium is a great and affordable and very up to date gallery. A big hangout too for Japanese expats. corner NW Couch and 6th opening til 10
Motel - what can I say, the quintessential DIY spot for accessories and cool hand made household objects has a tiny gallery space with warm fuzzy art you would love to take home for a song. NW Couch between 5th and 6th
Fashion Incubator See and be seen - fashion, another of Portland's art forms. Every 2 months the laboratory store is remade by a new set of designers. corner NW 5th and Couch opening til 8ish
Always a party, sometimes a hit
Various Everett Station Lofts and Ogle corner NW Everett and Broadway opening til 10 or so
Group show Gallery 500 420 SW Washington, 5th floor opening til 2
Paintings of skateboarders? Mark Wooley Gallery 120 NW 9th til 10
First Friday July 2
Head over after taking in the SE - this is the big show of the evening
Uncle Unkeles - - a curated show of artists who rent space or who have in the past from this landlord to the warehouse artist Haze Gallery www.hazegallery.com 6635 N Baltimore opens 7-11ish (see the press release below)
Start early in the SE
5d Show: Exploring Space. This work / exhibition space is open random last Fridays. Sometimes the quality is good. _Hall Gallery 630 SE 3rd opens Friday 7-10ish
Hot Girls Cool Guys New Space Photo 1632 SE 10th opens Friday 7-9ish
And (don't know the artists, so pot luck):
Photos, pastels, jewlery Studio 1636 1636 SE 10
Photos and Paintings tiny's 1412 SE 12th
Group show Studio 2507 2507 SE Clinton
Photos genie's Cafe 1101 SE Division
Our friends at Dragonlilly are considering joining the first Friday art showings, stay tuned...
www.hazegallery.com
Who/What: Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Service
A historic exhibition that celebrates the work of more than 150 artists who, at some point since 1983, have harbored their Portland studio in one the Unkeles Family’s buildings.
When: July 2, 2004 - Opening Party! – 7-11pm
Food, beverages, entertainment
Gallery hours continue from noon-6pm on Saturdays and Sundays
July 10/11, July 17/18 and July 24/25
Where: Cathedral Park Place - 6635 N. Baltimore
Near the East End of the historic St. Johns Bridge
*note: The St. Johns Bridge will be closed July 10, 11, 24, and 25, eliminating access from Hwy. 30. However, the site can still be found easily. Directions: take I-5 North to the Portland Blvd. exit. Take a left onto Portland Boulevard. It will curve right and become Willamette Blvd. Pass both water towers, go under the St. Johns Bridge and take a left onto Baltimore, towards the boat ramp. Cathedral Park Place is the orange building on the right. Parking is available inside.
In 1983 the Unkeles family bought a vacant, pigeon-infested industrial building that had previously been home to the "North Coast Seed Co." Their business, Carton Service, needed only part of the warehouse to store its inventory, so they ran an advertisement to rent the leftover space. Peter Teneau, a mid-career sculptor, answered the ad and became their first artist tenant. "I hate moving," he said. "What I need is a studio I can stay in for the rest of my career that I won't get priced out of." He trained them well. They agreed on a month-to-month lease, shook hands, and Peter moved out when he retired seventeen years later.
Since then the Unkeles family has rented space to over 400 artists in ten buildings throughout the city. The primary studio complexes today are: The North Coast Seed Co. Bldg., The Carton Service Bldg., The Northwest Marine Iron Works Complex, River St. Studios, and their newest project, in partnership with David Gold, Cathedral Park Place in St. Johns. Artists have included: Cynthia Lahti, Matt McCormick, Kristan Kennedy, Raul Mendez and Ed King, Dana Louis, Melody Owen, Stephen Hayes, Alex Hirsch, Scott Becker, Julie Keefe, Philip Krohn, Jerry Mayer, Whitney Nye, Meg Rowe, Cris Moss, Joe Thurston, Kelley Baker, Jacqueline Ehlis, the Pander Brothers. . . and the list goes on.
To celebrate their 21st year of working with artists, in commemoration of Carton Service's 50th anniversary, and because there is some vacant space to use out in St. Johns (40,000 sq. feet for this show!), the Unkeles family invites you to come celebrate the work of these artists and explore the history behind Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Service.
Wed July 7
Gallery CO7 hosts an opening of painting and sculpture + an ambient/radioheadish DJ Wednesday July 7 from 7-11PM at 2000 SE 7th
Extra credit:
PNCA NW Johnson and 13th has a group show of recent art school graduates across Oregon. Take a look at Jennifer Zimmerman’s work made of plain old window screen and a most outstanding piece by Renae Kowitz “field” - an about 15 foot square carpet of toy plastic army men, in a pattern of pink and green. The variety of profiles of the figures, standing, laying, etc. creates a varied texture as shaggy as our current foreign policy.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
More June Events and Art
Haze Gallery Opening Saturday June 5th
topic posted Fri, May 28, 2004 - 6:04 PM
Hazegallery.com Way out in St. Johns (! carpool) Bruce Conkle appropriates weird and wonderful aspects of the Northwest environment to create works like the Sasquatch Feng Shui living room and repurposed video game landscapes. See his work in New York, London and ReykjavÃk, or this show in Portland! 7-10ish free postscript: the Haze closed, the curator went on a sailboat trip, was in the Indian Ocean when the Tsunami hit, survived and now is in LA. His assistant is in art history/theory at the Claremont Colleges
Pacific Switchboard - June
topic posted Tue, June 1, 2004
Pacific Switchboard a DIY-style exhibition space has great openings with a great crowd of artists, musicians and creative people!
Corner of N. Albina and Blandena
"Dear friends of Pacific Switchboard,
Perhaps some of you have already heard that JUNE IS THE LAST MONTH of
Pacific Switchboard’s art space as we currently know it. At the end of June
our lease is up, and our existence is changing. Renovations and structural
changes happen in July, and in August, PS will re-open as part of a shared
space, which we will no longer fully control. This means a lot of
interesting things, but for now what it means is that all of you are
expected to COME HANG OUT IN THIS SPACE WITH US WHILE IT IS STILL OURS!
And also, stay tuned for word on our closing party…
-love, PS."
FIRST THURSDAY GALLERY SHOW AND PERFORMANCE!
June 3, THURSDAY, 6:30pm
New work by Courtney Nyman, Jennifer Gleach, and, from the dingy bedrooms of
Brighton, England, Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance.
Performance and installation by Marty Schnapf and Monster Squad.
MUSIC, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE
June 10, THURSDAY, 8:30pm
video and performance - Hayley Barker (portland)
computer musician/video artist - Jake Elliott (Chicago)
drawing/computer/sound - Ezrara Hoffmann (Chicago)
music, video - Bad waste (New York)
RHIZOMATICA #4
June 12, SATURDAY, 8pm
multidisciplinary performance by artists:
Kathleen Keogh, Chris Piuma, Terrence Chiusano, Vladimir Solman, Tim
DuRoche; plus special guests!
AGAINST THIS WAR
June 25, FRIDAY, 7:30pm
some anti-war poets, including
duane poncy, heidi x, patricia mclean, fred nemo, brigid whipple, s. spyrit,
and many mystery guests…
THE SEATTLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
June 26, SATURDAY, 6pm
John Olson, Diana George, Selah Saterstrom, and others read from SRI's
poetry& essay anthology "Experimental Theology."
www.pacificswitchboard.org
for directions, schematics, descriptions
First Thursday Performance
topic posted Tue, June 1, 2004 - 11:39 AM
This performance + visual collaboration is part 2 of a series that began with Marty Schnapf's powerful LANDMINES paintings at Stumptown/Downtown in February.
"LEVEL TWO
FOUR PERFORMANCE BASED INSTALLATIONS WILL BE PLACED IN FOUR QUADRANTS OF PORTLAND FOR THE JUNE 3, 2004 FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK. EACH INSTALLATION INCORPORATES A DEVICE WITH WHICH A PERSON WILL BREAK A SMALL PANEL OF GLASS, AND A DIGITAL COUNTDOWN TIMER WHICH WILL INDICATE WHEN THAT PANEL WILL BE BROKEN. THE TIMERS WILL BE SYNCHRONIZED AND ALL OF THE PANELS WILL SHATTER SIMULTANIOUSLY AT 7:00PM."
THE LOCATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE
PDX GALLERY 604 NW 12th,,
SEAPLANE 3352 SE Belmont,
FROELICH GALLERY 817 SW 2ND
PACIFIC SWITCHBOARD 4637 N ALBINA
www.monstersquad.org
www.martyschnapf.com
free
This is a new gallery in SE near Goodwill. Fun openings...
"FASHION IS.
On the wall.
In the trunk.
On the runway.
On you.
At gallery co 7.
Gallery Co 7 invites you to celebrate style with us June 11, 2004.
Please join us dressed to the hilt, to gaze at new fashion by independent Portland, designers, dig through affordable summer styles in the trunk show, talk with your mouth full of delectable goumet cooking , stomp your stilettos to the fine
tunes of Max Murphy, question when fashion becomes art and sip a bit of wine."
June 11, 2004- Art Opening and Local Designer Fashion Show
June 11-30 Art Show will be up in gallery
Artists:
Kat Manock- Fashion Collage.
Erika Kohr- Glass Fashion
Designers:
OverHeadhats
Kelly Murphy
Jalopy
The cat haus
Xavier
Karen Lembke
*additional designers in trunk show
Music:
Max Murphy
Event:
Art opening and Summer Season trunk show in front gallery 7-10pm. (no cost)
Fashion runway show and Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner in back studio 8pm Gallery Co 7
503-231-8700
2000 SE 7th
Portland, OR 97214
Hours: Tues. Fri. Sat. 11-4
also by appointment or by chance
Studio sale and party Sat June 26
topic posted Thu, June 24, 2004
David Eckard, wildman extreme performance sculptor is performing in the TBA festival in September. So to raise some $ to build his performance sculptures, he is having a sale of monoprints, custom made for you at his studio Saturday 6/26 from 10AM to 8PM, with a party after. Studios are at 333 NE Handcock, 1/2 block off MLK upstairs.
To get an idea of his work:
www.marylhurst.edu/artgym/p...4-03.html
and www.davideckard.com
Last Show at Pacific Switchboard: Heaven&Hell on Film
topic posted Thu, June 24, 2004
FROM HEAVEN TO HELL
Unearthly multimedia concoctions
June 25, 9pm and June 26, 9:30pm
Pacific Switchboard
4637 N Albina Avenue
Donation $6 per night or $10 for 2 nights
"Two nights of otherworldly films, videos, and
performances by local and national artists creating
mind-exploding goods across the metaphysical spectrum.
Featuring Redemption and Punishment, God vs Satan,
Saints and Infernos, all stuffed into two evenings of
multimedia fringe spectacular. The lineup includes Jon
Routson’s fiendish bootlegs fresh from New York and
lauded by New York Times for subversive copyright
muddying; archive of Portland’s real first gay wedding
at the infamous Church of Elvis; performative film
antics and live music by Owl vs. Lemming; 1970s cult
horror arthouse films culled from the vaults of San
Francisco’s Other Cinema; soul-stealing portraits
available from etch-a-sketch artist Sarah Halpern; and
much much more! Feast your eyes on cinema taken to the
extreme of this world and the next, and bid farewell
to Pacific Switchboard on its last weekend before
reincarnating under new ownership."
VIEW OF HEAVEN
Friday June 25, 9pm
*archival footage of the 24-hour Church of Elvis’s
very first wedding
*ethereal video remixes by Sacramento artist Jenny
Stark
*live multiple film projection and music by Owl vs.
Lemming
STRAIGHT TO HELL
Saturday June 26, 9:30pm
*Jack Chick's “Somebody Goofed” comes to life
*Jon Routson's bootleg of "The Passion of Christ,"
among others
*Satanic Texan televangelist footage tweeked by San
Francisco’s Brian Boyce
*J.X. William's cult film "The Virgin Sacrifice"
*videos by Portland locals Sarah Halpern and Gretchen
Hogue
* Lloyd M. Williams's 1963 horror classic "Ursula"
*plus etch-a-sketch portraits, music, and much much
more!!
topic posted Fri, May 28, 2004 - 6:04 PM
Hazegallery.com Way out in St. Johns (! carpool) Bruce Conkle appropriates weird and wonderful aspects of the Northwest environment to create works like the Sasquatch Feng Shui living room and repurposed video game landscapes. See his work in New York, London and ReykjavÃk, or this show in Portland! 7-10ish free postscript: the Haze closed, the curator went on a sailboat trip, was in the Indian Ocean when the Tsunami hit, survived and now is in LA. His assistant is in art history/theory at the Claremont Colleges
Pacific Switchboard - June
topic posted Tue, June 1, 2004
Pacific Switchboard a DIY-style exhibition space has great openings with a great crowd of artists, musicians and creative people!
Corner of N. Albina and Blandena
"Dear friends of Pacific Switchboard,
Perhaps some of you have already heard that JUNE IS THE LAST MONTH of
Pacific Switchboard’s art space as we currently know it. At the end of June
our lease is up, and our existence is changing. Renovations and structural
changes happen in July, and in August, PS will re-open as part of a shared
space, which we will no longer fully control. This means a lot of
interesting things, but for now what it means is that all of you are
expected to COME HANG OUT IN THIS SPACE WITH US WHILE IT IS STILL OURS!
And also, stay tuned for word on our closing party…
-love, PS."
FIRST THURSDAY GALLERY SHOW AND PERFORMANCE!
June 3, THURSDAY, 6:30pm
New work by Courtney Nyman, Jennifer Gleach, and, from the dingy bedrooms of
Brighton, England, Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance.
Performance and installation by Marty Schnapf and Monster Squad.
MUSIC, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE
June 10, THURSDAY, 8:30pm
video and performance - Hayley Barker (portland)
computer musician/video artist - Jake Elliott (Chicago)
drawing/computer/sound - Ezrara Hoffmann (Chicago)
music, video - Bad waste (New York)
RHIZOMATICA #4
June 12, SATURDAY, 8pm
multidisciplinary performance by artists:
Kathleen Keogh, Chris Piuma, Terrence Chiusano, Vladimir Solman, Tim
DuRoche; plus special guests!
AGAINST THIS WAR
June 25, FRIDAY, 7:30pm
some anti-war poets, including
duane poncy, heidi x, patricia mclean, fred nemo, brigid whipple, s. spyrit,
and many mystery guests…
THE SEATTLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
June 26, SATURDAY, 6pm
John Olson, Diana George, Selah Saterstrom, and others read from SRI's
poetry& essay anthology "Experimental Theology."
www.pacificswitchboard.org
for directions, schematics, descriptions
First Thursday Performance
topic posted Tue, June 1, 2004 - 11:39 AM
This performance + visual collaboration is part 2 of a series that began with Marty Schnapf's powerful LANDMINES paintings at Stumptown/Downtown in February.
"LEVEL TWO
FOUR PERFORMANCE BASED INSTALLATIONS WILL BE PLACED IN FOUR QUADRANTS OF PORTLAND FOR THE JUNE 3, 2004 FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK. EACH INSTALLATION INCORPORATES A DEVICE WITH WHICH A PERSON WILL BREAK A SMALL PANEL OF GLASS, AND A DIGITAL COUNTDOWN TIMER WHICH WILL INDICATE WHEN THAT PANEL WILL BE BROKEN. THE TIMERS WILL BE SYNCHRONIZED AND ALL OF THE PANELS WILL SHATTER SIMULTANIOUSLY AT 7:00PM."
THE LOCATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE
PDX GALLERY 604 NW 12th,,
SEAPLANE 3352 SE Belmont,
FROELICH GALLERY 817 SW 2ND
PACIFIC SWITCHBOARD 4637 N ALBINA
www.monstersquad.org
www.martyschnapf.com
free
This is a new gallery in SE near Goodwill. Fun openings...
"FASHION IS.
On the wall.
In the trunk.
On the runway.
On you.
At gallery co 7.
Gallery Co 7 invites you to celebrate style with us June 11, 2004.
Please join us dressed to the hilt, to gaze at new fashion by independent Portland, designers, dig through affordable summer styles in the trunk show, talk with your mouth full of delectable goumet cooking , stomp your stilettos to the fine
tunes of Max Murphy, question when fashion becomes art and sip a bit of wine."
June 11, 2004- Art Opening and Local Designer Fashion Show
June 11-30 Art Show will be up in gallery
Artists:
Kat Manock- Fashion Collage.
Erika Kohr- Glass Fashion
Designers:
OverHeadhats
Kelly Murphy
Jalopy
The cat haus
Xavier
Karen Lembke
*additional designers in trunk show
Music:
Max Murphy
Event:
Art opening and Summer Season trunk show in front gallery 7-10pm. (no cost)
Fashion runway show and Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner in back studio 8pm Gallery Co 7
503-231-8700
2000 SE 7th
Portland, OR 97214
Hours: Tues. Fri. Sat. 11-4
also by appointment or by chance
Studio sale and party Sat June 26
topic posted Thu, June 24, 2004
David Eckard, wildman extreme performance sculptor is performing in the TBA festival in September. So to raise some $ to build his performance sculptures, he is having a sale of monoprints, custom made for you at his studio Saturday 6/26 from 10AM to 8PM, with a party after. Studios are at 333 NE Handcock, 1/2 block off MLK upstairs.
To get an idea of his work:
www.marylhurst.edu/artgym/p...4-03.html
and www.davideckard.com
Last Show at Pacific Switchboard: Heaven&Hell on Film
topic posted Thu, June 24, 2004
FROM HEAVEN TO HELL
Unearthly multimedia concoctions
June 25, 9pm and June 26, 9:30pm
Pacific Switchboard
4637 N Albina Avenue
Donation $6 per night or $10 for 2 nights
"Two nights of otherworldly films, videos, and
performances by local and national artists creating
mind-exploding goods across the metaphysical spectrum.
Featuring Redemption and Punishment, God vs Satan,
Saints and Infernos, all stuffed into two evenings of
multimedia fringe spectacular. The lineup includes Jon
Routson’s fiendish bootlegs fresh from New York and
lauded by New York Times for subversive copyright
muddying; archive of Portland’s real first gay wedding
at the infamous Church of Elvis; performative film
antics and live music by Owl vs. Lemming; 1970s cult
horror arthouse films culled from the vaults of San
Francisco’s Other Cinema; soul-stealing portraits
available from etch-a-sketch artist Sarah Halpern; and
much much more! Feast your eyes on cinema taken to the
extreme of this world and the next, and bid farewell
to Pacific Switchboard on its last weekend before
reincarnating under new ownership."
VIEW OF HEAVEN
Friday June 25, 9pm
*archival footage of the 24-hour Church of Elvis’s
very first wedding
*ethereal video remixes by Sacramento artist Jenny
Stark
*live multiple film projection and music by Owl vs.
Lemming
STRAIGHT TO HELL
Saturday June 26, 9:30pm
*Jack Chick's “Somebody Goofed” comes to life
*Jon Routson's bootleg of "The Passion of Christ,"
among others
*Satanic Texan televangelist footage tweeked by San
Francisco’s Brian Boyce
*J.X. William's cult film "The Virgin Sacrifice"
*videos by Portland locals Sarah Halpern and Gretchen
Hogue
* Lloyd M. Williams's 1963 horror classic "Ursula"
*plus etch-a-sketch portraits, music, and much much
more!!
Friday, May 28, 2004
First Thursday June 2004
Holocene.org at its best with artist-designed miniature golf course and tournament. What will artists from Seaplane, the Wieden+Kennedy 12, Cinco Design, HOLST Architecture, Junktown Allstars and many more create? Be there free 5-8, $4 after 8.
markwoolley.com 5-10 Rebecca Guberman-Bloom's paintings may lead you into a strange world tugging at subtle emotions of unknown origin. Free
alysiaducklergallery.com 5-8 This gallery is not a personal favorite. This month though, see PNCA professor Arvie Smith's large paintings, unique to Portland, showing the influence of his time in New Orleans. Bright. Free
pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 5-8:30 Group photo show of out of towner's - see biggies like Thomas Ruff, Alfredo Jaar, Vanessa Beecroft and Nan Golden. See, learn. Free
Pdxfashionincubator.org/announcements.htm Ensconced in a glam space in Old Town, the FI is promoting Portland fashion design. The showroom design, contents and management will rotate periodically – see it now 5-8PM free
Motelgallery.com Jen’s tiny gallery and crafty-vixen-design-object space is always a dependable art hit. The art prices are always affordable, the art lovable. This month Targets and Trophies pairs a NY artist with Portland’s Kim Hamblin 5-9:30ish Free
JustBeToys.com The gallery upstairs is always fun with locals to artists from Japan 5-9:30ish. Free
markwoolley.com 5-10 Rebecca Guberman-Bloom's paintings may lead you into a strange world tugging at subtle emotions of unknown origin. Free
alysiaducklergallery.com 5-8 This gallery is not a personal favorite. This month though, see PNCA professor Arvie Smith's large paintings, unique to Portland, showing the influence of his time in New Orleans. Bright. Free
pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 5-8:30 Group photo show of out of towner's - see biggies like Thomas Ruff, Alfredo Jaar, Vanessa Beecroft and Nan Golden. See, learn. Free
Pdxfashionincubator.org/announcements.htm Ensconced in a glam space in Old Town, the FI is promoting Portland fashion design. The showroom design, contents and management will rotate periodically – see it now 5-8PM free
Motelgallery.com Jen’s tiny gallery and crafty-vixen-design-object space is always a dependable art hit. The art prices are always affordable, the art lovable. This month Targets and Trophies pairs a NY artist with Portland’s Kim Hamblin 5-9:30ish Free
JustBeToys.com The gallery upstairs is always fun with locals to artists from Japan 5-9:30ish. Free
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