July 26 New Feeling

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

July 24 Oil Work Digging Fossils

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

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

July 22 Go Team Beauty

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

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

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

July 21 Bucky's Future

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

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

July 18 eX...it! Contingent Evolution

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

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

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

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



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

July 17 Statement on a Statement

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

July 16 Chromatic Graduate

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



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

July 10 Melt

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

July 9 Soft Serve

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

July 3 Eastside Art Openings

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

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



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



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

July 2 Westside Art Openings

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



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



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

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

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

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



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



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



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



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

June 30 Let's Get Theremined

Leon Theremin invented the first electronic musical instrument in 1919. It's named after him. It used the principle of heterodyne down conversion, invented only a year before. Heterodyne conversion is used in every radio in the solar system today, and in the fastest parts of the Internet. Yes, there are several heterodyne converters working right now in your mobile phone.

You have heard the theremin, it's a continuously variable tone common in scifi soundtracks, and occasionally even pop. It's pretty easy to play,

Rob Schwimmer, co-director of The NY Theremin Society, visits Portland for a free short performance and demonstration tonight. And after you can try your hand at the instrument. If you can't make it tonight, Control Voltage has theremins you can stop by anytime to audition.

Theremin demonstration https://www.facebook.com/events/821627541277977/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 7PM-8 Free

June 29 Environmental Impact

Environmental impact statements are a tool of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1972. The law was conceived by conservative Washington State Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. It passed the Senate on unanimous vote, the House by 372-15 and was signed by Republican president Richard Nixon. The law has been emulated in other countries. But many of our current elected leaders have unfortunately gone astray in their environmental thinking, under the influence of pecunious and rapacious corporate interests.

Environmental Impact Statement is also Lisa Schonberg, Amy Harwood and Leif J Lee. They work to bring artists into local forests, threatened to be logged, as an inspiration for their work. They are the curators of a show opening tonight of artists who have participated. It runs for 3 weeks.

Artists include Jodie Cavalier, Jodi Darby, Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Amy Wheeler Harwood, Leif J. Lee, Alison Jane Clarys, Danielle Ross, Sidony O'neal and Gary Wiseman.

At Surplus Space www.SurplusSpace.info 3726 NE 7th 6PM-10 Free

June 26-27 q u i e t

The Quiet Music Festival is a special favorite. It is an intimate event with musicians who are not too loud. The audience lounges on an occasional carpet-, blanket- and pillow-covered floor, lit by scattered table lamps.

Beautiful.

It's organized for the fifth year by Portland-LA artist-musician-skater Chris Johanson.

Friday has the Secret Drum Band, Sonny Smith, Timmy Straw, Irma Vep and Linda Hagood Conditioner; Saturday, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Amenta Abioto, Peacers, Rebecca Gates, IIyas Ahmed and Johanson's Sun Foot.

There is a very small amount of seating for those who need that. And if you are in Seattle, there is a little Quiet version Thursday.

Tickets at http://www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/the-2015-quiet-music-festival-of-portland. Advanced tickets are recommended.

At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, show 8. Advance one night $10/$16 both. Door $12 one night/$18 both.

June 26 Gravity Be Gone

Gravity is a beauty and a curse. To float weightlessly, who wouldn't wish? To fly? I'm in. Aerial dance is a realization of that human desire.

A-WOL dance is one of several aerial dance companies and teachers. Tonight they have a free performance of dancers suspended by trapeze and fabric.

A-WOL aerial dance www.awoldance.org. At Director Park corner SW Taylor and SW Park. 7PM show and 8PM show Free

June 25 Reading Words

Lit Hop is a night of many short readings an evening in walking distance. This year it is in Chinatown and SW Portland across Burnside. Details www.lithoppdx.com/readers. 7PM-9 Free

June 21 Books at the Movies

Local artist filmmakers are partnering with Publication Studio tonight. It is not exactly clear what they are doing, so just read the description on the Hollywood Theater website. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7PM $5

June 20 Bright Aboriginal Seed

The aboriginal people of Australia have been there since 50,000BC ±10,000 years. They developed a rich land-based philosophy. The earliest surviving aboriginal art is 30,000 years ago. From that time there is an unbroken tradition. In the 1970s, the work started to become known by the Western art world. The Australian aboriginal culture came into my view with Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines. There have been rare exhibitions of Australian aboriginal art in Portland.

No Boundaries is a show of Australian artists Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (1958-), Paddy Bedford (1922–2007), Jananggoo Butcher Cherel (1918–2009), Tommy Mitchell (1943–2013), Ngarra (1920–2008), Prince of Wales, Midpul (1938–2002), Billy Joongoora Thomas (1920–2012), Boxer Milner Tjampitjin (1935–2009),and Tjumpo Tjapanangka (1929–2007). The works were gathered by a sole collector couple from Miami and trace years of each artist's painting.

This is the art price machine at work; we are waiting for the US to adopt a droit de suite law to allow artists to benefit.

If you would like to know more about the artists, there is a hardbound catalog available at book outlets and a monograph on academia.edu.

No Boundaries, six Australian aboriginal artists. Opening tonight. Until August 20 Thursdays & Fridays noon-6:30, Saturday & Sunday noon-4. At 467 NW Davis 7PM-9 Free



Portland painter Arvie Smith who attended PNCA and taught there is known for bright bold portraits influenced by his experiences in New Orleans and Africa. He has a show at the Woolley gallery. There is an artist talk at 1 then a reception at 5.

At the Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 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 1PM, 5-9 Free



Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Tonight is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios tonight. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be wheel chair accessible. 2127 N. Albina 4PM-10 Free

June 16 Curious About Burma?

Burma is a relatively closed country. It is Buddhist, but its military government doesn't act that way. Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has been photographing there for 28 years. He speaks on his perceptions on the recent slight opening. The country also sits within China's sphere and is home to various insurgencies.

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

June 13 False Cold Cuts

Todd Johnson is a smart San Francisco Institute of the Arts-minted conceptual artist with a sense of humor. Tonight he opens a show that has something unspecified to do with malt liquor and cold cuts. Exactly what will happen will only be known by those there. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-9 Free