Alexis Mackenzie & Francesca Berrini present a pairwise show of their collage, Drift, tonight. You may have seen Berrini's maps and dresses at the Seed Building open houses. Mackenzie's work is more abstract collage with found paper. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
6PM-10
Antler has a winter group show, as does Screaming Sky. At Antler www.antlerpdx.com
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
November 28 General Education
General Education is a performance by Carlos Gonzalez and Kyle Thompson which happens one time, tonight. Kyle reads from a book he has created from encyclopedia samples on the theme of growing from childhood to adult while Carlos performs in response. Both artists are well known to Portland non-profit visual art spaces and Thompson is an organizer of the Labrador Boatspace 12128. The readings will be published by Publication Studio. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 7PM-8 Free
Sunday, November 25, 2012
November 27-28 Growing Psychology
Project Grow in its early days is the social practice art project we hold up as an example of socially conscious social practice art. That's the branch that is social work, community organizing and world changing.
Project Grow works with intellectually disabled adults. One of the founder's inspirations is Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing (1927-1989). Laing advocated learning from the experiences of his patients, rather than discounting them as victims of abnormality. Today that is a branch of disability activism.
Laing self produced many films of his work with clients. They are cinéma vérité, almost ethnographic documentation, and time consuming. Filmmaker Luke Fowler took Laing as a starting point to produce a very experimental film, All Divided Selves. So while this work is not necessarily expository, it is an entry point to Laing work which might pique your curiosity.
Presented by the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 7:30PM $7
Project Grow works with intellectually disabled adults. One of the founder's inspirations is Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing (1927-1989). Laing advocated learning from the experiences of his patients, rather than discounting them as victims of abnormality. Today that is a branch of disability activism.
Laing self produced many films of his work with clients. They are cinéma vérité, almost ethnographic documentation, and time consuming. Filmmaker Luke Fowler took Laing as a starting point to produce a very experimental film, All Divided Selves. So while this work is not necessarily expository, it is an entry point to Laing work which might pique your curiosity.
Presented by the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 7:30PM $7
Saturday, November 17, 2012
November 18 The Northwest is Great
Filmmaker and artist Matt McCormick shows his film The Great Northwest tonight. In 1958, four Seattle women took a 3,200 mile road trip around the Northwest. They left behind a scrapbook of their trip which Matt found. He recreated their trip, making photographs and shooting video. Many things have changed in 50 years, but in some cases impressions and traces remain. It is a more human-centered version of the Rephotographic Survey Project, with the original 1958 material shown together with the current state of the land. At the NW Film and Video Center in the Whitsell Auditorium of the Portland Art Museum. 1219 SW Park 6PM $9
November 17 Mystical Musical Place Conjurer
Mush, Mush, the Sloping Midnight Line, what an image. It is an image from Norway. Portland artist Carson Ellis has made paintings inspired by a series of historical novels set in the Middle Ages, tracing the arc from birth to death of Kristin Lavransdattar. For this work, the writer, Sigrid Undset, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Ellis' work taps eco-mysticism, adding characters to her magical landscape. Midori Hirose contributes complementary work, always a treat. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8
The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a show Azawad Libre! New Media and Imagined Geographies in the Sahel. Portland field sound explorer Chris Kirkley has traveled Azawad collecting music from mobile phones. Along the way he also gathered photographs from phones, from Facebook and stills from viral videos. The visual work is built upon compositing, digital collage, with a North African face, as is the music. Music is traded by phone. And the feature phones have cameras and compositing apps which Northern Africans use to mod their photos. It's newsworthy as well, Azawad is an area spanning Northern Mali in Africa envisioned as a Tuareg homeland. Currently the area is occupied by a mix of fighters and has ceded from Mali. Foreign fighters, arms from the Libyan revolution and fundamentalists are involved, tempting a regional war in the Spring. Unfortunately too, some of the Islamists have banned music. But there is no denying the sense of identity and regional pride expressed by young people in this art show. Stay tuned for history... At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 8PM Free
Place continues Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition by Elizabeth Lamb and opens Open Circles by Horatio Law, Crime Against Nature by Gwenn Seemel and Cocoon Orchard by Erin Grant Robinson. All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-8 Free 5PM-9
FalseFront has Conjurer, by Daniel J Glendening. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a show Azawad Libre! New Media and Imagined Geographies in the Sahel. Portland field sound explorer Chris Kirkley has traveled Azawad collecting music from mobile phones. Along the way he also gathered photographs from phones, from Facebook and stills from viral videos. The visual work is built upon compositing, digital collage, with a North African face, as is the music. Music is traded by phone. And the feature phones have cameras and compositing apps which Northern Africans use to mod their photos. It's newsworthy as well, Azawad is an area spanning Northern Mali in Africa envisioned as a Tuareg homeland. Currently the area is occupied by a mix of fighters and has ceded from Mali. Foreign fighters, arms from the Libyan revolution and fundamentalists are involved, tempting a regional war in the Spring. Unfortunately too, some of the Islamists have banned music. But there is no denying the sense of identity and regional pride expressed by young people in this art show. Stay tuned for history... At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 8PM Free
Place continues Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition by Elizabeth Lamb and opens Open Circles by Horatio Law, Crime Against Nature by Gwenn Seemel and Cocoon Orchard by Erin Grant Robinson. All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-8 Free 5PM-9
FalseFront has Conjurer, by Daniel J Glendening. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, November 15, 2012
November 16 Open Slappe Recess
The mid-program PNCA Visual Studies MFA open studios is a great opportunity to see a huge range of work in situ. This year's students are Sarah Abbott, Christy Bailey, Stephanie Brachmann, Terri Bradley, Mary Mac Dahlke, Erin Dengerink, John Dougherty, Kiel Fletcher, Mario Gallucci, Thomas Gamble, Jonathan Gann, Michael Horwitz, Linden How, Timothy Janchar, John David Knight, Matthew Leavitt, Leif Lee, Daniel Long, Andrew Lorish, Travis Nikolai, Cristin Norine, Mark Palmen, Anya Roberts-Toney, Justin Schwab, Lauren Seiffert, Jessica Speiss, Edward Trover, Lindsay Williams, Rachel Wolf, Takahiro Yamamoto, Richard York and Stephanie Yu. At the MFA Visual Studies Studios 1830 NW 19th Avenue 6PM-10 Free
Artist Stephen Slappe has written a book, People I Used To Know, for Publication Studio. In celebration for its release several artists will be relating stories about prople they used to know. At Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Starts 7:30PM, stories 8:15 Free
RECESS is one of Portland's smartest and most progressive independent non-profit galleries. Ditch Projects is a similar group operating in Springfield Oregon. Recess invites the co-directors of Ditch Projects, Jared Haug and Brooks Dierdorff to show their installation and video, entitled Window Smokers. It's a show inspired by landscape. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10 Free
Artist Stephen Slappe has written a book, People I Used To Know, for Publication Studio. In celebration for its release several artists will be relating stories about prople they used to know. At Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Starts 7:30PM, stories 8:15 Free
RECESS is one of Portland's smartest and most progressive independent non-profit galleries. Ditch Projects is a similar group operating in Springfield Oregon. Recess invites the co-directors of Ditch Projects, Jared Haug and Brooks Dierdorff to show their installation and video, entitled Window Smokers. It's a show inspired by landscape. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10 Free
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
November 15 Lathe of Heaven Mercy Spark
Ursula K. Le Guin is Portland's science fiction author emeritus. And though we now have Daniel Wilson, and Frank Herbert's Dune was inspired by the Oregon sand dunes by Florence, Le Guin will always be an inspiration. Four artists, Damien Gilley, Daniel Glendening, Laura Hughes and Jordan Tull have taken her novel, The Lathe of Heaven, as an inspiration for art, opening tonight.
Ginger Lukas, professional cake decorator by day, opens a light installation, Party Time, presaging our odd Christmas custom of multicolored lights. It's in the Vestibule space, a long hall. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
It's not unicorns and rainbows everywhere and all the time throughout the world. Two stellar organizations, Mercy Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), are there to help people when things are horribly broken. Often they need to negotiate their access and their own safety with people with guns. Tonight Mercy Corps and MSF staff discuss their experiences, working from the headquarters office and on the ground. An example of how things can go terribly wrong caused MSF to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2004, 5 days after I was there. Joining Mercy Corps will be Nick Lawson, director of field human resources for MSF. He has worked in Afghanistan, Burundi, East Timor and Malawi. Portland nurse with MSF, Colette Kerr, discusses her work in Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chad and other locations. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
Art Spark is back. The B Media Collective, making political work, hosts activist and artists groups Project Grow, Grand Detour, Sisters of the Road Empowered Voices Media Project and the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Later in the evening at 7, they show their 30 minute film Electile Dysfunction, a collage of political news footage. Art Spark www.portlandartspark.com at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-7:30 Free
Ginger Lukas, professional cake decorator by day, opens a light installation, Party Time, presaging our odd Christmas custom of multicolored lights. It's in the Vestibule space, a long hall. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
It's not unicorns and rainbows everywhere and all the time throughout the world. Two stellar organizations, Mercy Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), are there to help people when things are horribly broken. Often they need to negotiate their access and their own safety with people with guns. Tonight Mercy Corps and MSF staff discuss their experiences, working from the headquarters office and on the ground. An example of how things can go terribly wrong caused MSF to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2004, 5 days after I was there. Joining Mercy Corps will be Nick Lawson, director of field human resources for MSF. He has worked in Afghanistan, Burundi, East Timor and Malawi. Portland nurse with MSF, Colette Kerr, discusses her work in Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chad and other locations. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
Art Spark is back. The B Media Collective, making political work, hosts activist and artists groups Project Grow, Grand Detour, Sisters of the Road Empowered Voices Media Project and the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Later in the evening at 7, they show their 30 minute film Electile Dysfunction, a collage of political news footage. Art Spark www.portlandartspark.com at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-7:30 Free
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
November 13 Cryonics Out Loud
Portland prides itself on weird. Cryonics is the practice of freezing bodies, or brains, for the purpose of reanimation in an imagined future. It's weird science, though there is some controversy over the science part.
Chana de Wolf will discuss cryonics, based on her experience working at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Advanced Neural Biosciences and the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics.
This will be one of the most curious of Curiosity clubs. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
Chana de Wolf will discuss cryonics, based on her experience working at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Advanced Neural Biosciences and the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics.
This will be one of the most curious of Curiosity clubs. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
Friday, November 09, 2012
November 10 Disjecta Gamelan
Disjecta holds its annual art auction and party tonight. They have a very solid list of local artists who are participating with their work which you can see here: www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/disjecta-art-auction-2012 At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, live auction 8. $20 advance, $25 door
The gamelan. It's a mysterious symphony of bells and accompanying instruments with its own musical tradition from Indonesia. The gamelan is 12-1800 years old. The Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, based at Lewis & Clark College plays traditional and contemporary compositions tonight. They will be joined by Aloysius Suwardi from Surakarta, Midiyanto from Berkeley and guests Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. At Lewis and Clark College Evans Auditorium 7:30PM $5-15
The gamelan. It's a mysterious symphony of bells and accompanying instruments with its own musical tradition from Indonesia. The gamelan is 12-1800 years old. The Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, based at Lewis & Clark College plays traditional and contemporary compositions tonight. They will be joined by Aloysius Suwardi from Surakarta, Midiyanto from Berkeley and guests Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. At Lewis and Clark College Evans Auditorium 7:30PM $5-15
November 9-11 Dance Fury Road
Tahni Holt presents her new work Sunshine at Bodyvox. Her modern dance work has always been sculptural, and this is no exception with cardboard as the sculptural element. You can get all the information at www.tahniholt.com. At BodyVox Dance Center: 1201 NW 17th 8PM + 3PM Sunday
Related, FRONT is a small dance-movement journal produced right in Portland. They distribute the issue #2 Vitus all over town for you to read. The process starts with volunteers like yourself and a party at Dig a Pony. 5PM-8 Free
Appendix Project Space has Fury Road curated by Nicholas Tammens and Matthew Greaves. It is a show of nine artists from Melbourne Australia: Brooke Babington, Jon Campbell, Holly Childs, Greatest Hits, Matthew Greaves, Christopher LG Hill, Lou Hubbard, Oliver van der Lugt and Lisa Radford. The title comes from a film in production, the fourth in the Mad Max series of dystopian romps. The curators speak at the gallery Saturday at 5:30PM. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8PM-late Free
Related, FRONT is a small dance-movement journal produced right in Portland. They distribute the issue #2 Vitus all over town for you to read. The process starts with volunteers like yourself and a party at Dig a Pony. 5PM-8 Free
Appendix Project Space has Fury Road curated by Nicholas Tammens and Matthew Greaves. It is a show of nine artists from Melbourne Australia: Brooke Babington, Jon Campbell, Holly Childs, Greatest Hits, Matthew Greaves, Christopher LG Hill, Lou Hubbard, Oliver van der Lugt and Lisa Radford. The title comes from a film in production, the fourth in the Mad Max series of dystopian romps. The curators speak at the gallery Saturday at 5:30PM. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8PM-late Free
Sunday, November 04, 2012
November 4 An Indian Music And Art Fictions
Kushal Das and Swapan Chaudhuri perform North Indian music on sitar and tabla this afternoon. Both are internationally known musicians. Sponsored by Kalakendra at the First Congressional Church 1126 SW Park. 4PM $20/15 students
Chris Kraus reads from a new fiction work, The Summer of Hate, this afternoon at YU. It is part of a program surrounding the photographs of Marianne Wex showing there. Her reading is of a fiction book, but Kraus is also a filmmaker, teaches in the art world, and is an editor of Semiotext(e). Her sharp witted criticism is captured in this quote from her Where Art Belongs: "there was absolutely no chance of developing an art career in Los Angeles without attending one of several high-profile MFA studio programs,"... "essential to the development of value in the by-nature elusive parameters of neoconceptual art. Without it, who would know which Cibachrome photos of urban signage, which videotapes of socks tossing around a dryer, which neominimalist monochrome paintings are negligible, and which are destined to be art?". Her event is sponsored by Reed's Cooley Gallery and is sure to be entertaining. Just a note, the Semiotext(e) website may be infected with malware, ironic. At YU Contemporary yucontemporary.org/chris-kraus 800 SE 10th. 3PM Free
Chris Kraus reads from a new fiction work, The Summer of Hate, this afternoon at YU. It is part of a program surrounding the photographs of Marianne Wex showing there. Her reading is of a fiction book, but Kraus is also a filmmaker, teaches in the art world, and is an editor of Semiotext(e). Her sharp witted criticism is captured in this quote from her Where Art Belongs: "there was absolutely no chance of developing an art career in Los Angeles without attending one of several high-profile MFA studio programs,"... "essential to the development of value in the by-nature elusive parameters of neoconceptual art. Without it, who would know which Cibachrome photos of urban signage, which videotapes of socks tossing around a dryer, which neominimalist monochrome paintings are negligible, and which are destined to be art?". Her event is sponsored by Reed's Cooley Gallery and is sure to be entertaining. Just a note, the Semiotext(e) website may be infected with malware, ironic. At YU Contemporary yucontemporary.org/chris-kraus 800 SE 10th. 3PM Free
Friday, November 02, 2012
November 2 Eastside Art, East Coast Talk, Far East Dance
Japanese butoh performer Atsushi Takenouchi performs this evening. He began performing with Bishop Yamada in Northern Japan's Hokkaido at age 18 then soon formed his own group. He was later influenced by Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno. He brings a strong influence of nature to his work. He works today in France and Japan. He will be accompanied tonight by musical collaborator Hiroko Komiya on small percussion and effects. At the Headwaters Theater, by www.witdpresents.com 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7PM $10-15
Artist Julie Ault, as part of the NY collective Group Material, is a figure in the decommodification movement, with a postmodern analytical lens on society. Those projects were often installations in temporary spaces. She speaks tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6:30PM Free
Tripper Dungan is known for his crazed schematic figures. He has amped them up with 3d in the last year or two. That means you will get the greatest benefit from red and cyan anamorphic glasses. Fun! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Spinning Yarns, a group show curated by Chris Moss themed on narrative. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Manchus shows video art tonight. At Manchus Clothing www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
ADX has a show of three tattoo artists. Their work tonight is on paper and canvas though. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 Free
Homeland has some, unusual for them, illustration artists in Pastoral Visions by Marc Roder and Richard Melloy, in both loose and tight styles. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Pushdot has Kelly Guthrie watercolor-illustrations in a show titled My Bug Collection. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 The reception will be in December.
Union|Pine has Typeface, our alphabet repurposed as design art. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Newspace has old and new mediums this month. Clarke Galusha has tintypes, while Ditch Projects codirector Brooks Dierdorff uses a scanner to alter his images. Robert Beam also shows. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Artist Julie Ault, as part of the NY collective Group Material, is a figure in the decommodification movement, with a postmodern analytical lens on society. Those projects were often installations in temporary spaces. She speaks tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6:30PM Free
Tripper Dungan is known for his crazed schematic figures. He has amped them up with 3d in the last year or two. That means you will get the greatest benefit from red and cyan anamorphic glasses. Fun! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Spinning Yarns, a group show curated by Chris Moss themed on narrative. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Manchus shows video art tonight. At Manchus Clothing www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
ADX has a show of three tattoo artists. Their work tonight is on paper and canvas though. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 Free
Homeland has some, unusual for them, illustration artists in Pastoral Visions by Marc Roder and Richard Melloy, in both loose and tight styles. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Pushdot has Kelly Guthrie watercolor-illustrations in a show titled My Bug Collection. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 The reception will be in December.
Union|Pine has Typeface, our alphabet repurposed as design art. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Newspace has old and new mediums this month. Clarke Galusha has tintypes, while Ditch Projects codirector Brooks Dierdorff uses a scanner to alter his images. Robert Beam also shows. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Thursday, November 01, 2012
November 1 Bateson on Film
Longtime professor at UC Santa Cruz, anthropologist Dr Gregory Bateson, was a pioneer in cognitive psychology. He was also married to Margaret Mead. His daughter has made a film, An Ecology of Mind, providing insights to his pioneering ideas that crossed disciplines and laid the groundwork for new bodies of knowledge. It shows this evening at Mercy Corps in connection with the Design With the Other 90%:CITIES exhibition. The filmmaker will be in attendance. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 7PM-8:30 Free
November 1 Westside Art Openings
Christopher Rauschenberg, one of the founders of the Nine Gallery, has a show there this month, Heel of the Boot. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
Blue Sky has a pair of complementary portrait projects. Justyna Badach began her project in 2003 after a disruption of her life in post-9/11 New York. She photographed middle age to elderly men in their living places, capturing a glimpse of their inner lives. It is unexpectedly sensitive work. That is in contrast to a common photographic theme which exploits the oddness of portrait subjects in their home lives or pastimes. Rania Matar shows portraits of teen girls in their rooms. It is an age of transition and the formation of identity, expressed in an important refuge, the woman-cave. This is a popular genre for Blue Sky, and the work is well executed. Both artists were born outside the United States, perhaps an advantage in capturing these American images. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Greater has photographs by Nile Hagen. The photographer was recovering from head injuries while making the photographs he saw as a direct way of working while recovering his previous functionality. At Graeter Art Gallery www.graeterartgallery.com 131 NW 2nd Map 5PM-7
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up is a show by Portland illustration artists Timothy Karpinski & Brooke Weeber. Their work relates childhood imagination to our adult world. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
The Victory Gallery shows artists from Europe. They have their annual group show, which is a good way to see how they look at painting. At the Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
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
Blue Sky has a pair of complementary portrait projects. Justyna Badach began her project in 2003 after a disruption of her life in post-9/11 New York. She photographed middle age to elderly men in their living places, capturing a glimpse of their inner lives. It is unexpectedly sensitive work. That is in contrast to a common photographic theme which exploits the oddness of portrait subjects in their home lives or pastimes. Rania Matar shows portraits of teen girls in their rooms. It is an age of transition and the formation of identity, expressed in an important refuge, the woman-cave. This is a popular genre for Blue Sky, and the work is well executed. Both artists were born outside the United States, perhaps an advantage in capturing these American images. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Greater has photographs by Nile Hagen. The photographer was recovering from head injuries while making the photographs he saw as a direct way of working while recovering his previous functionality. At Graeter Art Gallery www.graeterartgallery.com 131 NW 2nd Map 5PM-7
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up is a show by Portland illustration artists Timothy Karpinski & Brooke Weeber. Their work relates childhood imagination to our adult world. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
The Victory Gallery shows artists from Europe. They have their annual group show, which is a good way to see how they look at painting. At the Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
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
Thursday, October 25, 2012
October 26-27 Seattle Butoh Treat
Seattle has long been a strong center for the Japanese modern movement art of butoh. They have a few international visiting performers this weekend.
Friday Su-en from Sweden performs Soot, with musical accompaniment by Lee Berwick from the UK. Su-en studied for many years in Japan with Hakutobo, the seminal group of female dancers formed as his last project by the founder of butoh, Hijikata. Her working method fuses the founder's ideas, inspiration from landscape and modern physics.
The same evening, Helen Thorsen will be presenting a portion of her new choreography, Higher Ground, with Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Alan Sutherland, and Lin Lucas. Kaoru Okumura will present her solo work merging Esoteric Buddhism Shomyo Chanting and Butoh with chanting by Rev. Yuren Tai of Seattle Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Will Fredo will present LUWAL, with Liza Dino (Flamenco) and Sheri Brown.
Saturday, it is Silver Lining, inspired by the art of concealment and the play of light and shadow, directed and performed by Joan Laage (Kogut), in collaboration with Kaoru Okumura. Diana Garcia will present MA, The Space Among Us, an interactive butoh-inspired multimedia performance, with media artist Eunsu Kang, software developer/composer Donald Craig, and costume designer Bo Choi. Maureen (Momo) Freehill and NOLA kinetic artist Heather Hansen collaborate with dancer Sheri Brown, digital artist Anna Czsoki and musician Stephen Fandrich for (•) GeoSoma MuMatics (part 1), based on A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe/Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider and our embodied experience of numbers 1-5.
Details, including on workshops at www.daipanbutoh.com/seattlebutohfestival Performances at the Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Avenue Seattle. 8PM $22
Friday Su-en from Sweden performs Soot, with musical accompaniment by Lee Berwick from the UK. Su-en studied for many years in Japan with Hakutobo, the seminal group of female dancers formed as his last project by the founder of butoh, Hijikata. Her working method fuses the founder's ideas, inspiration from landscape and modern physics.
The same evening, Helen Thorsen will be presenting a portion of her new choreography, Higher Ground, with Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Alan Sutherland, and Lin Lucas. Kaoru Okumura will present her solo work merging Esoteric Buddhism Shomyo Chanting and Butoh with chanting by Rev. Yuren Tai of Seattle Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Will Fredo will present LUWAL, with Liza Dino (Flamenco) and Sheri Brown.
Saturday, it is Silver Lining, inspired by the art of concealment and the play of light and shadow, directed and performed by Joan Laage (Kogut), in collaboration with Kaoru Okumura. Diana Garcia will present MA, The Space Among Us, an interactive butoh-inspired multimedia performance, with media artist Eunsu Kang, software developer/composer Donald Craig, and costume designer Bo Choi. Maureen (Momo) Freehill and NOLA kinetic artist Heather Hansen collaborate with dancer Sheri Brown, digital artist Anna Czsoki and musician Stephen Fandrich for (•) GeoSoma MuMatics (part 1), based on A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe/Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider and our embodied experience of numbers 1-5.
Details, including on workshops at www.daipanbutoh.com/seattlebutohfestival Performances at the Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Avenue Seattle. 8PM $22
October 26 Cumulus Confucious
Vicki Lynn Wilson, has had the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery to herself and visitors as a studio installation site for a month. She has done similar projects at Blackfish which were fantastic. This one is a little more weighty. We usually don't print the release, but this one is better than we could rewrite:
"Cumulus is a sculptural installation comprised of Paper Mache, pattern drafted cardboard, sewn and cut paper, carved Styrofoam and other mixed media forms and structures. Several human forms traverse the monochromatic brown space of an implied flooded plane. Their postures are bent to the domestic objects which rise from their arms and backs. “I began with an idea of wanting to transform the space. I decided to use cardboard and paper as a practical matter. The gallery is large so I needed inexpensive and plentiful material. It was the disposability and transience of the material that led me to the subject of the installation.” Taking a “waste not” approach, the majority of the materials were collected from the recycling of Widmer Brewing Company, Rose City Upholstery and the PCC Bookstore. Even the coffee cups and trash of the artist and visitors to the space are being incorporated.
The work is inspired by the artist’s lifelong dreams of home interiors and family, and based on the theory that the state of a home in a dream reveals the psychological state of the dreamer. The work is also inspired by the powerful images of natural disasters around the world which have left survivors sifting through wreckage to recover their lost objects. “My dreams are often about loss and disaster, though I don’t always read them as bad dreams. I think they are a subconscious expression of compassion for those who are suffering. This installation is a conscious expression of the same. Objects become so significant to us when they take on symbolic qualities. When the memory of something lost becomes associated with an object, the significance can be so heavy”.
Wilson presents a closing performance tonight with Heidi Dyer and Eric Nordstrom in and around the gallery. PCC has fierce parking rules in effect until 10PM. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 8-9PM Free
Power, Wealth, and a Confucius for Today is a talk by Peter K. Bol, professor of East Asian Languages & Civilization, at Harvard, a longtime center for study of Chinese literature. Confucian thought stresses order and respect for elders. It has been observed by many that those in power are followers of Confucius, and those who want change, followers of Taoism's Lao Tzu. But when the revolution is successful, each group assumes the other's philosophy. Over the more than 2500 years of Confucian influence on China, there have been waves of Neo-Confucian interpretation. Of course today, it is a strong meme of government. Bol provides his view of Confucius in China today. At Portland State University Lincoln Hall Room 75. 1620 SW Park. Parking is free after 5 in PSU garages as marked. 6:30PM Free
"Cumulus is a sculptural installation comprised of Paper Mache, pattern drafted cardboard, sewn and cut paper, carved Styrofoam and other mixed media forms and structures. Several human forms traverse the monochromatic brown space of an implied flooded plane. Their postures are bent to the domestic objects which rise from their arms and backs. “I began with an idea of wanting to transform the space. I decided to use cardboard and paper as a practical matter. The gallery is large so I needed inexpensive and plentiful material. It was the disposability and transience of the material that led me to the subject of the installation.” Taking a “waste not” approach, the majority of the materials were collected from the recycling of Widmer Brewing Company, Rose City Upholstery and the PCC Bookstore. Even the coffee cups and trash of the artist and visitors to the space are being incorporated.
The work is inspired by the artist’s lifelong dreams of home interiors and family, and based on the theory that the state of a home in a dream reveals the psychological state of the dreamer. The work is also inspired by the powerful images of natural disasters around the world which have left survivors sifting through wreckage to recover their lost objects. “My dreams are often about loss and disaster, though I don’t always read them as bad dreams. I think they are a subconscious expression of compassion for those who are suffering. This installation is a conscious expression of the same. Objects become so significant to us when they take on symbolic qualities. When the memory of something lost becomes associated with an object, the significance can be so heavy”.
Wilson presents a closing performance tonight with Heidi Dyer and Eric Nordstrom in and around the gallery. PCC has fierce parking rules in effect until 10PM. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 8-9PM Free
Power, Wealth, and a Confucius for Today is a talk by Peter K. Bol, professor of East Asian Languages & Civilization, at Harvard, a longtime center for study of Chinese literature. Confucian thought stresses order and respect for elders. It has been observed by many that those in power are followers of Confucius, and those who want change, followers of Taoism's Lao Tzu. But when the revolution is successful, each group assumes the other's philosophy. Over the more than 2500 years of Confucian influence on China, there have been waves of Neo-Confucian interpretation. Of course today, it is a strong meme of government. Bol provides his view of Confucius in China today. At Portland State University Lincoln Hall Room 75. 1620 SW Park. Parking is free after 5 in PSU garages as marked. 6:30PM Free
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
October 25 Albertas Arts
Antler has papercuts and watercolors by tattoo artist Laura Jean Graham. At Antler www.antlerpdx.com
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Heather McLaughlin and Garrett Price, printmakers, show their works. Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 6PM-9 Free
Ampersand shows found vintage printed materials, line. letter. colo(u)r. In a way it's upcycling. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Heather McLaughlin and Garrett Price, printmakers, show their works. Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 6PM-9 Free
Ampersand shows found vintage printed materials, line. letter. colo(u)r. In a way it's upcycling. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
October 20 Plink Place
Plink Flojd is an international collaboration of artists making CG work and setting it to music. It is often based on visual or musical sampling. In a few years we may look upon the Plink Flojd work as we view 8bit music or games today. It was started by David Quiles Guillo, Yoshi Sodeoka and Eric Mast. Tonight they present some of their work on the big screen with a big sound system, and even with live music from Nice Nice and Regular Music. Cartune Xprez also shows work.
Just as the founders are distributed between Sao Palo, New York and Portland, the participating artists are everywhere on the Internet. Collaborating artists include Akin, Andrew Benson, Peter Burr, Cristopher Cichocki, Droid-ON, Manuel Fernández, Gusti Fink, Jason Forrest, Rollin Leonard, Sara Ludy, Shane McAdams, Jonathan McCabe, Austin Meredith, A. Bill Miller, Lorna Mills, Brenna Murphy, Daron Murphy, Sabrina Ratte, Jimmy Joe Roche and Mario Zoots.
Plink Flojd Portland 1.0 instantiates tonight at the Hollywood Theater in association with Floating World Comics. At Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 9:30PM $7
The galleries in the Pioneer Place Mall open new shows tonight. Elizabeth Lamb from Brooklyn, formerly the UO White Box Gallery opens Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition. The project collects open source audio which can be contributed by a toll free telephone number. The work is an exploration of the shopping mall. While the idea is ancient, it became an element of America's car culture zeitgeist. Today the megamall is in eclipse, replaced by the synthetic town, modeled after Europe's varied streetscapes. An example would be the Portland area's Bridgeport Village. How interesting that the event is held in the Pioneer Place Mall, developed by the Rouse Company, one of America's major mall developers.
Sculptor Michael Endo presents Black Field. Endo creates schematic representations of places and objects for this show.
Jason Doizé, curator of False Front presents Underlier. It is a sound installation themed on shipping and receiving.
All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
Just as the founders are distributed between Sao Palo, New York and Portland, the participating artists are everywhere on the Internet. Collaborating artists include Akin, Andrew Benson, Peter Burr, Cristopher Cichocki, Droid-ON, Manuel Fernández, Gusti Fink, Jason Forrest, Rollin Leonard, Sara Ludy, Shane McAdams, Jonathan McCabe, Austin Meredith, A. Bill Miller, Lorna Mills, Brenna Murphy, Daron Murphy, Sabrina Ratte, Jimmy Joe Roche and Mario Zoots.
Plink Flojd Portland 1.0 instantiates tonight at the Hollywood Theater in association with Floating World Comics. At Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 9:30PM $7
The galleries in the Pioneer Place Mall open new shows tonight. Elizabeth Lamb from Brooklyn, formerly the UO White Box Gallery opens Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition. The project collects open source audio which can be contributed by a toll free telephone number. The work is an exploration of the shopping mall. While the idea is ancient, it became an element of America's car culture zeitgeist. Today the megamall is in eclipse, replaced by the synthetic town, modeled after Europe's varied streetscapes. An example would be the Portland area's Bridgeport Village. How interesting that the event is held in the Pioneer Place Mall, developed by the Rouse Company, one of America's major mall developers.
Sculptor Michael Endo presents Black Field. Endo creates schematic representations of places and objects for this show.
Jason Doizé, curator of False Front presents Underlier. It is a sound installation themed on shipping and receiving.
All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
October 19 Impossible Worlds False Front
PNCA educated Mary Mattingly has been working in techno-dis/utopian futurism for ten years. She has created clothing for the future and photographed models outdoors in them. She conducted the grand Waterpod project, a floating gallery and live workspace on a Hudson and East River barge, complete with chickens and gardens. She is represented by the Robert Mann Gallery. She visits Portland for a talk Friday at the school. Arrive early, all the students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30PM Free
David Knowles is a photographer, graphic designer, book designer, performer and curator working in Portland. He has a firm footing in the book world, including at Publication Studio. Perhaps that is why his show titles are themselves almost an artist statement. "It was not so important - who did it and where they went. There was, after all, only one of them." is his new show opening tonight. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
David Knowles is a photographer, graphic designer, book designer, performer and curator working in Portland. He has a firm footing in the book world, including at Publication Studio. Perhaps that is why his show titles are themselves almost an artist statement. "It was not so important - who did it and where they went. There was, after all, only one of them." is his new show opening tonight. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
October 18 MK on Guth
October 18 Guth on Guth
MK Guth gives a gallery talk about her work on display and her new direction at the Marylhurst Art Gym today. It would be excellent if events like this were webcast or web archived. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon Free
MK Guth gives a gallery talk about her work on display and her new direction at the Marylhurst Art Gym today. It would be excellent if events like this were webcast or web archived. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon Free
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