September 26 JJHRMVP

Move as galleries do. New show, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ryan McLaugthan. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



New space Shed has Vinh Pham 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free

September 18 Skin

I never met him, but there was a color scientist at Kodak dedicated to studying the history of skin tone in print. Over the years in print magazines, skin tone has wandered into green, orange and blue. Color management is the term of art for reproducing the colors in nature in a naturally believable way. Color management was built into film; our eyes are very sensitive to the correctness of skin tone. Today the computer in your camera does the same, then you can remix it further in Photoshop.

Shirley Cards, named after Kodak model Shirley Page, were portrait standards including color patches used to calibrate photography from film to print. Similar systems are used in video. Their history is traced by Dr. Lorna Roth at Concordia University, Ontario, Canada, for instance: www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2196/3069.

The challenge is that if the final image we see, a photographic print, a magazine print, a web image, video, or projected film has a figure with a different skin tone to a Shirley card, and the Shirley card is used to correct the image, the skin tone will not be accurate. (We leave for a moment the abysmal lack of calibration in computer screens and home entertainment TV screens; Filmmaker Mode, welcome!)

In about the 1980's Kodak introduced Shirley cards with Caucasian, Asian, and African models on the same card. Meanwhile, Fujifilm introduced its own models to more accurately reproduce Japanese skin tone. Today, we have a variety of mass-produced color checker targets, and the implied class setting of Kodak's models have been updated as illustrated in Getty's surreal version at www.colourbalance.lornaroth.com/projects/shirley-card/.

Contemporary artists and social commentators worldwide have incorporated the male gaze and the Shirley Card into their creative analysis, though we don't see much critical thinking about beauty and the absence of male models, to say nothing of implied class and income/asset inequality. Maybe we need a Nomads or Residents of New York by Serrano, set in Portland? Nonetheless we are starting to get traction on simple things like first aid bandages.

The Presence of Color by painter Jeremy Okai Davis are portraits inspired by the Shirley Cards. He works in portraits from photographs with a great awareness of color, so the show is an ouroboros. Davis is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow, which this opening celebrates. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free

September 17 Shiny Wires

Tabitha Nikolai is a Portland artist opening Downstream a Shining Wire, new media work with video and game engines. She is the latest media fellow to work at Open Signal. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 6PM-8 Free

September 8 Cars!

Jesse Sugarmann is a founding member of Ditch Projects and UO MFA minted. Now he lives in Bakersfield, California. It's a desert agriculture region with boom-bust artifacts. His work has been focused on cars in an ironic way. The Way Forward is his new show. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-1 Free

September 7 Slow Thunder

Ryan Bubnis has illustrations Slow and Steady. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free



Thunderstruck is the product of several artists making several road trips to New Mexico. Along they way they visited the Lightning Field and other nature-made and human-made monuments. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9

September 6 Eastside Art Openings+

First Friday likes Summer, like last month when the Pearl went crazy on block parties.



The + is a tape release show for Chibi and Clamber. Musicians performing are Winnie Black, Chibi, Library Studies, Halfbird, and Clamber, followed by DJ Illigit. At the Boathouse Experimental Studios 822 N River Doors 7:30, show 8 $6 (do not park on or near the tracks!)



Blue City are watercolors & oils by longtime Portland graphic novelist and multi-artist Arnold Pander. At one time, studio space here was 25 cents a square foot, now it's 2 dollars+. Housing parallels. So the show represents that change in Portland. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



Kapo:Finding Heroes in the Age of Trump are Ming Dynasty-style blue on white vases by Shoji Satake. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free



Erik Markov has paintings at 350 SE Mill 6PM-9 Free



Wolff Gallery has The Allegories paintings by Jen Brown. 2804 SE Ankeny 6PM-9 Free



The Submissive Stone by Christine & Dana Parker is a show of jewelry by rockhounds. Skin Deep is a show by Portland tattoo artists. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free



One Grand has a great benefit show with $5 admission for a cause RAICES, the group that provides legal help to immigrants. 60 artists have been juried, there will be merch for sale, and music. The One Grand events are always fun, and this one is for a good cause. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 $5



Radius Annex has painter Beth Wooten and ceramic artist Brent Pafford. At Radius Annex 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free



Nina Bindi has paintings at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE Washington 5PM-8 Free



Kate Blairstone has botanical paintings at Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 6PM-9 Free



Tara Murino-Brault, Charlotte Flory, and Kim Manchester have prints at print studio Bite 2000 SE 7th 6PM-10



Deborah Kuprunas has photographs at Nucleus 1725 SE Hawthorne 6:30PM-9 Free



211 SE Madison has studios and art outdoors too. 6PM-9



Tatyana Ostapenko has paintings Family Album. Up all month, they open at Stumptown Division 4525 SE Division 4PM-6



The Infinite Well 2 is a group show. At Nucleus Portland 1445 SE Hawthorne 6PM-9 Free

September 5 Westside Art Openings

Christine Bourrette has Erosion and Ryan Pierce has Hot Hex. Both at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



Cranbrook-minted Kristin Miller has has minimal mixed media works inspired by time spent in Northern Finland. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Rodrigo Valenzuela has photographs Past/Present. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



The First Years by Josh Smith and Testament by Jennifer Thoreson are at Blue Sky Gallery. In Situ, photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg are in the Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Kaiju Hobo is small sculpture by Bwana Spoons mixing scrap materials, beach trash, and sofubi elements. At Grass Hut in Floating World 400 NE Couch 6PM-8 Free



Jaine Lowe, Arturo Villasenor, Alex Valle and Alvero Terrago have Borderline Stories at Newmark Theater Lobby 1111 SW Broadway early close 5PM-7 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. 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



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free

September 5, 9, 12-14 Eiko

For ballet, the body begins its decline through a cascade of injuries for most in their early 20s. All the while emotional expressiveness is on the rise. So there is a small window where they are balanced at their combined maximum. Modern dance can be more tolerant of aging. Butoh, the slow, ultra-modern style from Japan, and originated by Hijikata at age 31, is one of the most celebrating of age, with performers into their early 90s and beyond. Eiko is 67.

Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake began dancing together in their early 20’s in Japan. They are partners with a family and have only performed together for 38 years. They studied political science in college, and many of their works respond to environmental and social concerns we all share.

They are MacArthur Fellows, the first couple to receive that award.

New York City residents since 1976, they had a studio residency, an over 6000 square feet quarter floor, where they developed work and hosted performances in 1999 and 2000 in the World Trade Tower. Post the attacks, they adapted their work Offering to be performed for free throughout New York City parks.

In 2003 they brought Offering to Reed College, outdoors, and performed River in the Jamison Park fountain. It was a great privilege to work with them to stage the Portland events.

Eiko returns to Portland with work including some made in response to the Tōhoku earthquake tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.


From September 5 to October 24 photos from her project A Body in Places are on display at PNCA. Free

Thursday September 5 Eiko performs at PNCA amidst the photos 6PM-8 Free

September 9 the film version of A Body in Fukushima is at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium. It ia a montage of stills of her Body in Fukushima with an original soundtrack. 7PM $10

Thursday September 12-Saturday September 14 Eiko performs Distance is Malleable, duets with Ishmael Huston-Jones, Mark Mccloughan, and Alexis Moh at 15 NE Hancock 8:30PM $20

August 30 Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar: Where We At is a show by 10 Portland black woman artists: Asha Harper, Bernadette Little, Christine Miller, Danielle McCoy, Intisar Abioto, Julia Bond, Nia Musiba, Ruby Joy White, Sabrina Powell and Salimatu Amabebe. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10

August 25 Residency

Portland has many artist residency programs. One is at YU. Today is the readout of their work. Artists are: Soshi Nakamura, Kei Ota, Shiho Saito, Ai Sugiura, Misako Taoka and Rieko Tsuji. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6PM-9 Free

August 24 Biennial

The 2019Biennial opens tonight with Natalie Ball (Chiloquin, OR); Adam Bateman (Ashland, OR); Jovencio de la Paz (Eugene, OR); Demian DinéYazhi with R.I.S.E (Portland, OR); Dru Donovan (Portland, OR); Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Modoc Point, OR); Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice (Portland, OR); Sabina Haque (Portland, OR); Anthony Hudson (Portland, OR); Garrick Imatani (Portland, OR); Colin Ives (Eugene, OR); Rubén García Marrufo (Portland, OR); Jess Perlitz (Portland, OR); Vanessa Renwick (Portland, OR); Sara Siestreem (Portland, OR); Sharita Towne (Portland, OR); Lou Watson (Portland, OR); and Lynn Yarne (Portland, OR). At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free

August 22 Holding

Michael Lazarus has paintings: Untitled No.10. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

August 21 Fail Harder

Forest for the Trees is in peak busy time. But they made time for a reception for Undisclosed Chapters: Scratches on a Mirror by Drew Merritt. It is a "haunting installation representative of a polluted mind. Flooded with a constant stream of information and stimuli that we discard as quickly as we consume, we are left with the ghosts of our own lived experiences, emotions and beliefs. Love, loss, hope and depression are explored in an ethereal backdrop referencing mythology, religion and the occult, in a seemingly futile attempt to navigate through the clutter and fog that surrounds us."

At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10

August 17 Ecstasy Mostly Water

Mostly Water is a new show of objects by Stephanie Simek. She is well known for her exploration of science and media in Portland. Now she is immersed in an MFA at UW in Seattle. Her work is always elegant and the connections made unexpected. Strongly Recommended. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 2PM-4 Free



In conjunction with the current show by arch Japanese conceptual artist Yutaka Matsuzawa, YU presents films by Masanori Oe: Filming Ecstasy. Art history professor Ignacio Adriasola from BC speaks on the work. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 7PM Free

August 15 People Helping People

Rahab’s Sisters is a volunteer social services group working with women out of an Episcopal church in Montavilla. They have been faithfully doing it for over 15 years. 1122 is hosting a photography show of portraits by Briana Cerezo of the participants. The gallery has also started their own social program to complement the program of the Rahab’s Sisters. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-8 Free

August 11 Autopoesis

Converge 45 launches its first show under new curator Lisa Dent. The artists are Roland Dahwen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Tuesday Smillie. The show opens in the Cooley Gallery at noon followed by a panel discussion with the curators and two of the artists in the Union, 1:30PM. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. noon-3 Free

August 9 Faust's Manhattan

The advance of modern physics is an amazing story.

Nuclear chemistry is a little different than electron chemistry. It gives us what the alchemists wanted, transforming one element to another. There have been naturally occurring nuclear reactors: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/.

Since the first human-built nuclear reactor, we have been able to do nuclear chemistry. The economics of WW II, and the Faustian bargain of many physicists, gave us the nuclear bomb, a very fast nuclear reactor.

There were two bomb designs. One used U-235, purified at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The other used Pu-239 made at the B Reactor in Richland, Washington. It was the first large scale reactor.

The B Reactor and nuclear history is the subject of Portland photographer Harley Cowan's large format photography. He grew up in Richland.

This show is Manhattan Project; it documents the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Richland.

Tonight the photographer speaks 6:30PM-7:30, with a reception and viewing 7:30-8:30

At Camerawork Gallery www.thecameraworkgallery.org in the Lorenzen Conference Center - Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 301 N. Graham. 6:30PM-8:30 Free

August 8 Iridescent

More an event than a visual event, Bushwick brings Iridescent Dreams. VHS sound poetry by Erica Schreiner, John Dydo, Caspar Sonnet, Andrew Jones, and Aurora Bodenhamer. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 8PM Free

August 5 Undertones

Undertones II invites video artists and sound artists to collaborate. Artists are Francisco Botello + Zack Rowe, Chloe Alexandra Thompson + Matt Henderson, Sonic Arts & Music Production Laptop Ensemble + Mia Ferm. Undertones II https://nwfilm.org/films/undertones-ii/ At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 7PM $10

August 4 Sun, Shadows, Stone+

Portland photographer Terry Toedtemeier was a cofounder of the Blue Sky Gallery and founding curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum. He built the museum's collection.

A retrospective of his work, Sun, Shadows, Stone, closes at the Museum today.

Photography became practical about the time of the American Civil War. The military hired photographers to document that war. Post the war, many of those photographers were employed on great expeditions to document the Western United States. Photographers William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others made enduring images of the Western landscape. The intent of the government was to encourage settlers. But the stunning large format exposures also supported Transcendentalist beliefs and offered an existence proof of God in the beauty of nature for many.

A self-taught photographer who studied geology, Toedtemeier continued the tradition of the great Western photographic expeditions, but with a more humble Northwest spirit.

This afternoon, there will be a panel discussion of his work.

Panelists are: Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum; Rock Hushka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Tacoma Art Museum; Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toby Jurovics, Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; and Prudence Roberts, former Curator of American Art, Portland Art Museum.

Talk https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-the-photography-of-terry-toedtemeier/
At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Museum admission fee



Namiko Kunimoto is an art historian. Tsujimura Kazuko is a butoh dance performer who collaborated with founding conceptual artist in Japan, Yutaka Matsuzawa, subject of the current YU show. The talk this afternoon is "Tsujimura Kazuko and Dance Without Body." At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6:30PM Free



Machines on the Spot is an outdoor performance by hardware synth musicians. DIY Portland style. Musicians are Ahpook, Chaos soahC, Dr. Strangeknob, Ian Hicks, Production Unit Xero, Transparent Aluminum, and J$Fur. It is in a back yard in a residential area. If you are interested, I'm sure you can look it up. Portland area 5PM-9



Jaik Faulk is an impressionist painter based in Louisiana. He is good at titling the paintings to puzzle. His latest show is the last at the current National location. They move to a larger space off Burnside in the Fall. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free