Sunday November 28, 2004
07:30 PM : Photo Shoot @ Daniel's Studio
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If you have a blog, or regularly participate, on UrbanHonking we want to take your picture!
Email kmikeym@kmikeym.com for more info!
Thursday January 6, 2005
06:30 PM : Flight 64 Prints @ Basil Hallward Gallery
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Thursday the 6th, 6:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Basil Hallward Gallery features a group showing from Flight 64's print collection. Works by Rachel Allen, Jennifer Cox, Lindsey Dresser, Patty Hune, Beth John, Yoshihiro Kitai, Rochelle Koivunen, Sarah Landwher, Brian Maguire, Michael McGovern, Kenneth Mitchell, Abe Mong, Kathryn Schaper, Wilder Schmaltz, Brandon Walker, Brandon Wilkensen, Dane Wilson, and others will be in the show. All prints have been donated by Flight 64 (a non-profit organization) members. Sale proceeds will help expand affordable work space for Oregon printmakers.
08:07 PM : world behalf front machine daniel menche @ nocturnal
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noise art show opening with noise bands
$5 suggested donation
art made by experimental musicians
event curated by lenny (behalf)
Thursday February 17, 2005
07:00 PM : Todd James (REAS) Lecture and Reception @ PICA
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TODD JAMES lecture + reception
Thursday, February 17, 2005 7 pm
PICA - 224 NW 13th Ave.
$8 PICA Members / $10 General
Working across formats and mediums Todd James belongs to a small yet influential group of artists who have taken their art from the street to the gallery. James counts cereal and cartoons specifically Frankenberry, Sid & Marty Kroft and Hanna-Barbera among his early artistic influences. However, his subject matter has ventured where these saccharine influences feared to tread- all five boroughs of New York, jail cells and unsupervised bedrooms where the cutesy and perverse cavort. Colorful, brash and outlandish his work is irreverent and slightly slapstick employing a balance of instinct and technique.
"Hovering between abstracted compositions and cluttered comics." - Rachel Greene
His collaboration with artists Barry McGee (TWIST) and Steve Powers (ESPO) entitled "Street Market" has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Deitch Projects in New York, The Tate in London and the Parco Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition went to Italy in May for the Venice Biennale. His work has also been exhibited at Enrico Coveri, 207 Gallery and Alleged Gallery.He is the creator of the cartoon series Zoo Force and Rap Toons for the design firm Funny Garbage. Last year saw the publication of his limited edition coloring book, Attitude Dancer. His clients include Atlantic Records, Def Jam Records, CartoonNetwork.com,The Source magazine, Virgin Records, the Beastie Boys, Eminem and Iggy Pop.
Saturday February 26, 2005
07:00 PM : Ed Carpenter @ PNCA
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All lectures take place at
Pacific Northwest College of Art, 1241 NW Johnson Street
General Admission: $5
CCMG Members/Students: free
For more information call 503.223.2654
Ed Carpenter
“The Heart, The Eyes, The Mind”
Wednesday, January 26 at 7 pm
Ed Carpenter studied architectural stained glass in Germany and England thirty years ago, but is now involved in public art commissions ranging from monumental sculpture to infrastructure design around the US and Asia. He works with teams of architects and engineering consultants to complete complex responses to sites where the unexpected is expected. He will discuss his career as well as current designs for a medical school in Honolulu, a train station in Taiwan and a bridge in Las Vegas.
Friday March 11, 2005
07:00 PM : Tokyo Design Revolution @ PNCA
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PNCA presents
Tokyo Design Revolution
Lecture: Friday, March 11, 7:00 pm
PNCA Campus Free & Open to the Public
Presenter, Teruo Kurosaki, Founder and Chairman of Idée’ in
Japan, is a major force in design, retail, food and the creation
of contemporary lifestyle in Tokyo. He was recently named as
a part of I.D. Magazine’s prestigious “Top 40 Most Infl uential
People in Design”.
Kurosaki will show examples of his most innovative collaborations
as a mentor to some of today’s infl uential global stars in
design as well as video from his annual Tokyo Designer’s Block
— a series of events that defy the status quo of design.
For more information call 503.226.4391 or visit www.pnca.edu/exposure
Wednesday March 16, 2005
07:00 PM : Joyce Tenneson @ Pdx Art museum
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Joyce Tenneson: Portraits. Renowned photographer Joyce Tenneson draws on a 25 year career in photography, illustrating her lecture with works from her books, including Wise Women and Amazing Men, 7pm. Contact: Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave Portland, http://www.pam.org , 503·226·2811.
Tuesday May 24, 2005
12:00 PM : Snapshot Chronicles @ Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
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May 24 - July 3
Art exhibition: Snapshot Chronicles: The Rise of The American Photograph Album, features 40 exceptional examples of the under-recognized creative narratives and material artistry of early snapshot photograph albums.
Noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. For gallery information call 503/777-7790.
Thursday June 2, 2005
05:00 PM : First Thursday reception @ city hall
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Commissioner Sam Adams
invites you to an open house and art exhibit:
Paintings by Jim Han*
First Thursday reception:
June 2, 5-7pm
City Hall, Room 220
light refreshments provided
*Jim Han is a painter living in Portland, Oregon. When he is not painting, he indulges himself with his many hobbies, which include; collecting shells on the coast and making thought provoking sculptures using the shells and other found material, and air-guitaring. His influences include Lucien Freud, divorce, old Warner Bros. cartoons, cotton candy, clowns and Vincent Van Gogh. When Jim is living within his imagination, he is an internationally known painter who travels the world.
Please check-out Jim's website http://graftmachine.com/vision360/jim.html
To see what Sam is up to, visit www.portlandonline.com/adams
**Commissioner Leonard will be showing paintings by Robert Tybie
**Commissioner Saltzman will be showing photos by Adam Bacher
Friday June 3, 2005
09:00 PM : THRILL OF IT ALL Art Show @ Hall Gallery
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THRILL OF IT ALL
opening reception ---->
First Friday - June 3rd, 2005 | 6:00-11:00pm
3 portland artists + 4 visiting san francisco artists
@ HALL GALLERY | 630 SE 3RD | PORTLAND, OR
SOUND + VIDEO + INSTALLATION + PERFORMANCE
RYAN BOYLE [paper sculpture/installation]
TIM SULLIVAN [large photographs/prints]
JEFF KRIKSCIUN [textiles/drawing/installation]
CLAUDIA MENDOZA [performance/installation]
CANDICE LIN [animation stills/drawing/installation]
MAGGIE FOSTER [video installation]
ZACHARY RENO [sound/sculpture installation]
We're all really proud/excited about the show, and hope you can make it!
Thursday June 30, 2005
09:00 PM : Rake @ PALA
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Rake art associates will be displaying some new art, photography, and music this thursday night (June 30th) at Pala on NW 3rd and couch. Look for work by Fernando Cabrejos, Noel Nelson, Davied Stein, and Jose Velazco. As well as audio entertainment by Ampex
Rake would like to introduce Dylan Gleason and his smooth electronic flavors. check em out. feedback is appreciated!
More on Rake: http://www.rakeart.com/rake.html
Friday July 1, 2005
06:00 PM : FIRST FRIDAY w/ GAVIN STEVENS @ HOLOCENE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HOLOCENE ARTS FIRST FRIDAY
July 1, 2005
Holocene, in conjunction with Central Eastside Arts District (CEAD) and First Friday, will exhibit New York artist Gavin Stevens.
Gavin Stevens is a 25 year-old photographer living in Queens, New York. He received his BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA and is currently the photo editor of Mass Appeal magazine. Gavin’s work has been exhibited at San Francisco’s Factory Gallery, Oakland’s Ego Trip Gallery, North Gallery and Swallow Tail Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI’s Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, and is often featured in Mass Appeal.
Prior to Gavin’s move to New York City he was the manager of San Francisco’s notorious gold front retail outlet, “Mr. Bling.” Over his three-year period of employment he took hundreds of promotional portraits of the store’s clientele. Word spread and front bearers throughout the Bay Area began to approach him to be included in Mr. Bling’s marketing campaign.
“Custom Fit,” 12 color prints, is a series of images of Mr. Bling’s clientele and environment. Unlike the general mass media depiction of gold front wearing people as criminals, Gavin has documented his subjects honestly, intimately, and ultimately, as individuals. Some he represents humorously, others stoically, but all, respectively. Other images integrated within the exhibit depict and pronounce Mr. Bling’s as a modern day, popular cultural center within the San Francisco Bay Area. Holocene is excited to bring “Custom Fit” to Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the first time ever July 1, 2005.
An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9pm on July 1st, 2005. Music will be provided by Portland / Florida’s favorite party dj, DJ Sew What.
Thursday July 7, 2005
05:00 PM : Art Exhibit/Open House @ City Hall
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Sam invites you to an open house and art exhibit:
Color of Life
Sculpture and Paintings by David Herbold
First Thursday reception:
July 7, 5-7pm
City Hall, Room 220
light refreshments provided
Artist Statement
Woven together from the materials, people, thoughts, rhythms and breath that surround me. This body of work explores two main themes. The presence of primitive human spirit which still resonates in us no matter how suffocated by our modern lives. And what it means to be a part of the American stew with our tainted history, spirit of freedom and individuality and fractured hope.
About David
David Herbold was raised in the Northwest, and two years in Germany with his family. He studied sculpture in Florence Italy and Bozeman Montana where he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Montana State University. David has recently returned to Portland from living in the San Fransisco bay area. For the last five years David has been a working artist maintaining a studio as well as running art programs for youth in community centers and high schools. David's work has been exhibited in galleries in Portland OR, Bozeman MT, Berkeley CA, Oakland CA, San Francisco CA and Italy (Florence and Siena). David's work continues to be influenced by his travels and the human spirit which threads community together.
06:00 PM : The Art of the Sharpie @ Reading Frenzy
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Male pattern baldness and hummingbirds
The art of sharpie!
First Stop, Portland Oregon
July 7th – 31st Opening reception Thursday July 7th 6pm – 9pm
Reading Frenzy 921 Oak St. Portland OR 97205
"So I had this superb idea to do a sharpie powered show at Reading Frenzy (those of you in town know reading frenzy as one of the worlds best shops for handmade zines and comics) here in Portland this July. I thought, yeah invite a few friends, and we will make some sharpie pen art, but no, I can't just do something that simple. Instead I am inviting 50 friends to bust out something really beautiful with sharpie pens, and I will make a little handmade zine with all the artists involved that will be available at the opening." - Bwana
Bwana Spoons is also the curator of “Plushtastrophe” A traveling artshow of plush creations that started in Portland, then moved on to San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, will finish up it’s U.S. tour in September at BLK MRKT gallery in Los Angeles, and then moves on to Belgium, and possibly France, and Australia. “When I created Plushtastrophe, I had no intention of traveling this little show of stuffed creations, but it just took off and kept growing.” Bwana.
So... running forward with seemingly ridiculous ideas that turn out to be big hits. Bwana is putting together a Sharpie show. “So many contemporary and young artists are already using them for their sketches, and even in their gallery work, and with the explosion of new Sharpie colors it seems the next logical step is to make a big fuss about it in the art world.”
About the title.
“It’s no fun to just throw a bunch of random art together. I like to give the artists both a challenge, and some directed focus.”
But why why why male pattern baldness. “not everybody wants to draw pretty birds. The sharpie is perfect for drawing balding men, and you get the added bonus of doing patterns, also, by the way, perfect for sharpie.”
We have confirmed emerging and established contemporary artists from Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Japan, Australia, and the UK. It’s only the beginning, and getting off to a great start.
Aaron Renier Portland/NYC
David Wien Portland
Jessica Lynch slowshirts.com Anacortes
Jessie Rose Vala Chicago/
APAK! Aaron + Ayumi apakstudio.com Tokyo/Portland
Justin “Scrappers” Morrison scrapperstown.com Portland
Bwana Spoons grasshutcorp.com Portland
Shawn Smith shawnimals.com Chicago
Jo Jackson Portland
Lart Cognac & Nathan Burazer San Francisco
Will McCurtin San Francisco
Rodney Greenblat whimseyload.com NYC
Kiyoshi Nakazawa Los Angeles
Maja D’Aoust Los Angeles
Sun-min and David Horvath Los Angeles/Seoul
Dave the Chimp visualrockstars.com U.K.
Martin Ontiveros Portland
Gary Taxali garytaxali.com Toronto
James Jean Los Angeles
Cupco cupco.net Tokyo/Sydney
Eric Broers phoenticontrol.com Chicago
Nate Beaty brainfag.com Portland
Amy Rupel amyruppel.com Portland
Brendan Monroe brendanmonroe.com Los Angeles
Michael Paulus michaelpaulus.com Portland
Trish Grantham trishgrantham.com Portland
Guy Burwell Portland
Luster Kaboom Phoenix
Ryan Jacob Smith ryanjacobsmith.com Portland
Mark Nagata marknagata.com San Francisco
Koa koadzn.free.fr France
Jilf mytuckus.com Seattle
E*Rock audiodregs.com/erock Portland
Muju mujuworld.co.uk
Souther Salazar southersalazar.net Los Angeles
Alec “P7” Longstreth alec-longstreth.com NYC
Mark Todd funchicken.com Los Angeles
Esther Pearl Watson funchicken.com Los Angeles
Fay Ryu fayryu.com NYC
Sakura Maku sakuramaku.com NYC
Jordan Crane reddingk.com Los Angeles
Patrick Fong doservewell.com NYC
Josh Simmons New Orleans
Ben Claassen the III D.C.
Shawn Granton Portland
Brian Kruse Portland
Luke Ramsey Victoria B.C.
For more information and updates contact:
Chloe Eudaly chloe@readingfrenzy.com 503.274.1449
Bwana Spoons rainbowmaster@earthlink.net
07:00 PM : Return of DigMeOut @ Just Be Toys' Compound Gallery
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"Digmeout" is a visual artist excavation project promoted by FM802, an Osaka based radio station. We felt the need to create a scene of our own,not only for the station's advertisements, but to expose the art and culture of Osaka, instead of being overwhelmed by the constant flow of Tokyo. FM802 assists young artists, whose medium is often posters, stickers,or magazine illustrations with their publicity. In July 2001, we published the first Osaka based illustration magazine, "digmeout" and introduced four unknown local artists to the nation and overseas. We recently received offers and inquiries from several international agents and artists. Not only have some of our artists been recognized for their work, but also the activities of digmeout itself have been considered worldwide as a remarkable art and artist-searching project. In April 2002, we opened "digmeoutCAFE" located at Minami-Horie, Osaka's trend-setting area. The cafe runs tee-week long art exhibitions and occasionally music events. It also functions as a salon for all various kinds of creators in Osaka. Digmeout has also collaborated with large corporations, such as Keihan Railway's MOVING!KYOBASHI campaign, the fashion complex BIGSTEP, and Resona Bank's Resonart to promote digmeout artists'work. In addition to the search for and promotion of original artists, digmeout recently started an agent and management department "digmeoutFACTORY".
http://www.justbedesign.com
Wednesday July 13, 2005
06:00 PM : Vintage Vandals Reprised @ Savage Gallery
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Inspired by the previous version featured on the wurst gallery:
http://thewurstgallery.com/vintage_vandals.html
The wurst has been asked to revisit the concept and curate another show featuring an all Portland cast. The artist opening/reception will take place 6-8pm on Wednesday, July 13th.
Vintage Vandals Reprised, featuring the works of:
APAK
Driscoll Reid
Bwana Spoons
Trish Grantham
Evan Harris
Martin Ontiveros
Jason Vivona
Wesley Younie
Chris Hutchinson
Corey Smith
Lyn Nance-Sasser
Corey Lunn
http://www.savageartresources.com/
1430 SE Third Avenue Portland, OR 97214 usa tel 503.230.0265
Tuesday August 16, 2005
08:00 PM : TONIGHT: Dirty Found @ Pacific Switchboard
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Tonight at Pacific Switchboard, you have two opportunities to get your kicks. The fine folks at Found magazine roll through town with a PowerPoint presentation of Dirty Found, a "celebration of lost and found letters, notes and pervy photos" including amateur boudoir snapshots, drawings, doodles, journal entries and naughty love notes. In the sprit of the magazine, this memorialization of lost personal effects should be hilarious, embarrassing, and at times, sleazy. You're even asked to bring your own dirty finds to share.
For adults only
Tuesday Aug 16 • 2 shows • 8 & 10p
Pacific Switchboard • 4637 North Albina Ave
Friday September 30, 2005
06:00 PM : Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel
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Jeff Jahn reports here: PORT
Office site here: Affair-jupitarhotel.com
Friday, September 30th
6-9 PM Preview Gala to benefit the
Portland Art Museum Center for Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturday, Oct 1st
12-7 PM Public Hours
8-12 PM Opening Night party & special performance
Sunday, Oct 2
10-11:30 AM Panel discussion
12-7 PM Public Hours
The 2004 AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel was the first professional
art fair in the history of Portland. It brought together 23 adventurous
art dealers, 7 publishers and guest curators who set up temporary
galleries in rooms at the newly opened Jupiter Hotel. In the three
nights and two days of the fair, over 3000 people visited the Jupiter
to buy art, participate in a panel discussion, watch a special
performance, and schmooze in the sunny courtyard.
Saturday October 1, 2005
09:00 AM : Stumptown Comics Fest @ PSU Smith Ballroom
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Saturday, October 1
9am - 6pm
www.pdxcomix.com
The Stumptown Comics Fest, now in its second year, was started almost on a whim when a small group of Portland-area cartoonists lamented the lack of local convention-style outlets. While there were certainly other comic book shows in town, there weren't any that gave much attention to the artists themselves. The dream was to design a festival with the creators as its focus, rather than dealers and work-for-hire publishers.
Using local resources, the first Festival was pulled together in just 4 months, thanks to the largely volunteer group at its nexus. It was hosted on a rainy June 6th afternoon by the Old Church, a non-profit organization whose goal is to maintain, well, an old church. The church was the beneficiary of the raffle held at the festival. All 22 exhibitor tables sold out for a full house (most of them being shared by several creators).
Cartoonists came from all over the country, both from here in Portland, to as far out as San Francisco, Seattle, and even Detroit, Michigan, and all of the exhibitors in attendance reported it to be an excellent experience. Even with little time to promote the show, the event still saw a respectable attendance of 150 comics fans, and garnered favorable press from the local arts weeklies. We were also host to the second ever Comic Art Battle, put together by Portland expatriat Ezra Claytan Daniels.
For this year's festival, we are doing our best to make sure it's at least twice the Festival as last year's. We've moved into a larger space, which means more than twice as many tables will be available, and we're also planning for a full-day show.
Our ultimate goal, of course, is to take over the world with comics. Help us, won't you?
Thursday January 26, 2006
07:00 PM : Richard Jones Art Opening @ Office
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OFFICE will be showing new work by RICHARD JONES, 14 pieces of skateboard deck art, as well as related ephemera.
ART OPENING / THURS JAN 26 / 7 TO 9 PM @ OFFICE
Richard Jones of United Design Group
artist, graphic designer, DJ and curator
Showing: Skateboard Deck Art - 14 new pieces and related ephemera
Show Title: WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
Office
2204 NE Alberta St
PDX OR 97211
http://www.officepdx.com
Friday February 3, 2006
06:30 PM : Walter's Daydream @ Renowed Gallery
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Walter's Daydream, a group show featuring new work by A.J. Purdy, Andy Dixon, Andrew Dick, Andy Rementer, and Justin B. Williams. The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 3, 2006, 6:30-9:30pm. The show
runs through February 28, 2006.
Renowned
811 East Burnside 111
Portland, Oregon 97214
www.renownedgallery.com
Thursday March 2, 2006
06:00 PM : Rob's Recommendations @ 1st Thursday
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Rob lives in Portland, Oregon, the center of the known universe. (see full bio below)
March 1-5
Reed Arts Week brings a host of events and opportunities to the Reed community, and you, as Reed's art programs increasingly engage Portland's larger art community. Details at http://web.reed.edu/raw/main.html
to May 28
The Portland Art Museum, after muddling about in 18th and 19th century painting and decorative arts, is getting today. For the next few months, the Museum is running Roxy Paine's Painting Manufacture Unit, a machine for making paintings. This Powerbook controlled, very industrial machine, sprays 16 gallons per minute of specially formulated white acrylic paint on canvas every 2 or 3 hours, building dozens of layers over a period of weeks. Paine in this piece, explores the interrelationships between machine time and materials time, between the program and randomness, between adhesion and gravity, as the heavy flows of paint form canyons and foothills. My only quarrel with the work is that the canvas resembles bland cubicle fabric! Ick.
The gallery shows PMU 24, completed in 2005. Between February 25 and May 28, when the show ends, the machine will make 5 more paintings PMU 25-30. Plan a visit to the Museum for a few hours, check the programmed painting time when you first arrive, and plan your museum wanderings to correspond to the next painting cycle.
www.pam.org
Museum admission has crept up to $15, so find a friend who is a member to get in for free or join, $45 per year for one and $75 per year for two.
March 1
Preopenings (note that some Everett Station Lofts are doing preopenings on the Tuesday of Wednesday before first Thursday)
March 2
Portland hosts the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference this month and so many galleries are showing local ceramics as well as out of town ceramic artists curated by out of towners. I'm am not super interested in ceramics. Portland though is living on the fault line between art and craft, so you are on your own to discover what is out there and form your own opinions. More conference info at www.nceca.net.
Greg Renfrow shows seductive minimalist colorfield flows on plexi panels. Simple and delicious. Elizabeth Leach Gallery until 9PM (417 NW 9th)
Vicki Lynn Wilson shows her installation "Love in the Wild". Wilson, a recent PSU MFA graduate is known for her curatorial chops ("The Locals" September 2004 at Blackfish), her ability to work across media and her wit. She is a smart pixie! In this show, imaginary species intermingle with household appliance-animal hybrids, such as an 8 foot refrigerator-polar bear. Wilson also performs amid the work. Saturday March 4 at 7PM. Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Avenue)
PDX Gallery presents ceramic koosh ball-like sculptures by Bean Finneran. Do not touch, though you know you want too! PDX is hit or miss as far as opening nights, having correctly determined that few sales, but a lot of stress and strife, accompany first Thursday. Besides, PDX-style work is best seen in a quiet gallery. They may be open Wednesday evening. www.pdxcontemporaryart.com (925 NW Flanders)
Kim Ray, PNCA graduate, shows in the Nine installation space in the Blue Sky Gallery. Ray has long been fascinated by Andy Warhol and multiples, fierce conceptual brilliance underlies her work. I've no idea what's up this time, but it may be worth a look.
Reading Frenzy presents a group show And Then You Were Born, curated by brilliant local artist, and PNCA grad, Shawna Ferreira. until about 9 Reading Frenzy (921 SW Oak)
Motel presents "Unnatural World" by Boston Artist Amy Ross. Alexis Rockman's dark future landscapes of plants and animals mutated by pollution recall David Lynch in tone. In contrast, Ross uses Audubon style illustrations of hybrid creatures which may presage genetic engineering gone wild. The significant white space in the pieces allows them to slip past our aesthetic filters like the illustrations in childrens' books. I have often felt that Motel's aesthetic would suit the rooms of children. Perhaps those children will be the ones who wreak these creatures upon the world as adults, or, maybe in high school biology lab. Motel Gallery until 9:30PM (NW Couch between 5th and 6th across the street from Ground Control)
Just Be Design/ Compound Gallery presents Stash and Sense. NY Graffitti artist by Stash is responsible for the Recon stores in NY, SF and Tokyo.
Just Be Design until 9:30PM (107 NW 5th Avenue)
Jessica Bronk shows her dark atmospheric landscapes at Vino Paradiso. This venue, with a new curator, is one to watch. www.vinoparadiso.com until 11PM (417 NW 10th)
The Hot Dish group show opens for three days, March 2-4, at a temporary space. This is the output of respected local painter Jacqueline Ehlis' class, so pot luck. In the old Fashion Incubator space (23 NW 5th).
In our espresso addled regional reality, the concept of an actual coffee pot may seem quaint. But for more pot luck, the Starbucks coffee sponsors a show of art by its employees curated by PICA's executive director Victoria Frey. It's perfectly fine to buy art you like from artists unsigned to the majors. Complementary appetizers and Oregon wine. 6-9:30PM Weiden + Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Free
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows the ultra baroque ceramic sculptures of Seattle artist Jeffry Mitchell.
www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com closes early first Thursday, about 8PM (929 NW Flanders)
Rm.744 shows Replicating the Object, sculpture including a sea of slipcast fingers by Jennifer Anable. This is a new space, let's see where they go. Show March 2-12 Tue-Sun 12-4 Opening 6-9 at 744 NW 12
Might take a peak in at the work of Judy Hill. In the past, Hill has produced subtle narrative sculpture. Now? At the Bullseye glass gallery 6-9PM (300 NW 13th)
At Blue Sky, Steven Benson shows The Cost of Power in China: The Three Gorges Dam and the Yangtze River Valley, documentary photographs of the area to be flooded by China's huge hydroelectric project. www.blueskygallery.org 1231 NW Hoyt
Butters Gallery, to my taste, presents work much too beautiful for its conceptual and emotional content. Elise Wagner, one of Portland's best encaustic painter makes vaguely, astronomical images. Encaustic is one of those luscious art materials but very tricky to use as it is based on wax, liquid only when heated to near inflammability. Judge for yourself. Until 9 www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd floor
The Everett lofts bounded by Everett and Flanders, Broadway and 6th NW will no doubt have something to see. As galleries are priced out of the Pearl district, they are migrating to Old Town. The Everett Lofts will soon be joined by upscale nonprofits across the street in the Daisy Kingdom building.
Valentine's presents Zak Margolis' Moon Babies, comics and diptychs inspired by twins separated at birth. According to the gallery cafe bar's own press release: "In his attempt to create a cohesive story in the gallery setting, Margolis has given us an underwhelming, disjointed show, with each piece seeming more meaningless than the next. Admittedly, the artist does receive points for the number of flaccid penises that appear in these works. There seems to be between 1 and 5 penises in each piece! But then, what else is new with the work of Zak Margolis? Margolis is best known in the art world as a collaborator in the Pacific Switchboard art group which, rumor has it, is on hiatus. It was also reported that Margolis is the recent father of twins - the apparent subject of this abysmal show." until late Valentine's 232 SW Ankeny
The Sugar Gallery, a new gallery, and successor to Gallery 500, is hard at work at establishing its identity beyond party space. We'll see how that develops. This month you can see an installation by Georgia artist Dallas Oliver titled Inflatable Control. Also on view: Now You Know, paintings by Christian DeFilippo and Maria Dixon "exploring the link between the known visible world and things intangible". www.sugargallery.org 420 SW Washington, 5th floor
A Little About Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa:
Little known but true facts of my life include having:
- Worked in a virology research lab with a freezer full of bad things and incubators full of worse
- Swam a class five rapid in a river full of crocodiles
- Been almost kidnapped in the former Soviet Union
- Ensured free and fair elections in a couple spots in Africa
- Translated ancient texts of Chinese philosophy (small parts anyway)
- Having been within 2 blocks of a car bomb explosion, which is definitely not recommended
- Done research on quantum tunneling in the vicinity of absolute zero, -459 degrees F
I am pretty much an optimist, except when I'm being realistic.
I see a lot of art, know what I like and act on it. Portland is a great place for artists now and my recommendations represent my personal opinion of the best. Sometimes recommendations also include great events to meet other artists, as well as other obscure cultural, political and plain strange events.
Friday March 3, 2006
06:00 PM : Art @ Burnside Arts Nexus
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Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa, gives the lowdown on what is happening in the Burnside art heart nexus with adjacent spaces Renowned, Denwave, Moshi Moshi and Yes having open shows.
Renowned presents a show, Business Minded, of artwork on found business cards. Artists include: Jeremyville, Lily deSaussure, Jill Bliss, Kevin Scalzo, Deth P. Sun, Luke Ramsey, Ryan Bubnis Jacob Magraw, Breanne Trammell, Jennifer Jackman, Wilson Hsu, I Like Drawing, Daniel Lim, Omar Lee, Victoria Keddie, Michelle Blade, Marci Washington, Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch, Kelly Lynn Jones. 6-9:30PM
Next door Denwave shows music posters and operates a barbecue.
Moshi Moshi shows work by artist couples including Brett and Whitney Superstar.
Yes, Yes will have art on the walls too.
All at 811 E Burnside
Across the street, the Ivy Studio design store, in the Jupiter hotel fashion megaplex, shows Checkered Past, Martin McBride's and Luke Smalley's work including '80's punk fliers. theivystudio.com (800 W Burnside)
NAAU shows photographs by Jim Lommasson themed Heaven and Earth - of down to earth storefront Christian churches and their relics. Until about 10PM www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace Center for Photography, way over on the right side of the Eastside industrial district presents a black and white show. Paul Hernandez shows nudes and landscapes, while David Reamer recreates found photographs. Until about 9PM www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Monday March 6, 2006
07:00 PM : Steven Badgett of Simparch @ PSU
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The PSU Art Department presents Steven Badgett of Simparch http://www.simparch.org whose work combines the politics of place with the politics of art into large scale structures. PSU 5th Avenue Cinemas SW 5th and Hall St 7Pm Free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Thursday March 9, 2006
07:00 PM : Kendra Binney @ Local.35
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Some Hawthorne area art spaces have claimed the second Thursday for openings. This includes Local.35, showing work by Kendra Binney. The clothing store is commissioning a mural by Binney and spectacular dressing areas by artist Jessie Reno. DJ 7-10PM www.local35.com 3556 SE Hawthorne
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Tuesday March 28, 2006
07:00 PM : Metronome Release Party @ PICA
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Metronome10 is here!
A zine presented by Future Academy
FREE
Tuesday, March 28, 7 - 9 pm
PICA Resource Room
224 NW 13th Ave. 3rd Floor
Drinks, Snacks, Music, Smart People
Future Academy will unveil the new issue of Metronome culled from data gathered here and abroad. Metronome 10 delves into issues surrounding mobile working environments, local institutions and is modeled after the long- running hippie survivalist zine Dwelling Portably, published in Philomath, Oregon. While living and working out of a temporary, mobile publishing studio in a RV, Future Academy has assembled Metronome no. 10, the first magazine to be published in conjunction with Documenta 12. The premier of Metronome no. 10 will be held at PICA next Tuesday! Collaborators Clementine Deliss, Marjorie Harlick, Oscar Tuazon will be in attendance.
Spanning five continents, Future Academy is a student-led investigation into the art college of the future, whereby key questions are raised with regard to the architecture of future buildings; mobility and portable working environments; the content and form of the future library and archive; and new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration between informatics and art.
Wednesday April 5, 2006
06:00 PM : Daniel Peterson and Kristan Kennedy @ Elizabeth Leach
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First Thursday from 6 - 8 pm at Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
See work from ITWONTFUCKINGKILLYOU Daniel Peterson and also new works from PICA blogger Kristan Kennedy.
From Port:
FRESH • Group Show • multi-media
New works by upcoming and mid-career artists range from paintings in wax, cellophane collages, hand-stitched photography, to sculptural topography. Chandra Bocci, Elise Engler, Pierre Gour, Sean Healy, Kristan Kennedy, David McDonald, Mark Mulroney, Yuki Nakamura, Melody Owen, Daniel Peterson, Michelle Ross, Adam Sorensen, Daniel Sturgis, Brad Tucker and Amanda Wojick
Elizabeth Leach Gallery • 417 NW 9th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 • 503.224.0521
First Thursday Opening 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Exhibit ends May 27.
Thursday April 6, 2006
06:00 PM : First Thursday Art Gallery Openings @ Downtown Portland
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From Rob, our Arts and Culture Sherpa:
You have before you Portland's art opening night. A night where bankers' hours galleries, Tue-Friday, noon to 5, fling themselves open till 8, 9, 10, even 11. Whew! All free, sometimes with free drinks and snacks, though that's more often found to ply the preopenings' collectors.
Blue Sky shows "Waiting for the End of the World", images of underground survival shelters by Richard Ross. Atomic age backyard fallout shelters; Beijing's tunnels replete with barbershops, stores and shrines; the secretly constructed shelter at West Virginia's Greenbriar Hotel, designed to hold the entire US Congress, are documented. Also included are examples from Switzerland, where each family is required, by law, to maintain a survival shelter.
The somewhat surreal world depicted represents the power of fear. That time has been replaced by CNN's micro-now feed, yellow alerts and an endless war on terror - a Brave New World/1984 made real - overstimulating our flight or fight reflex, to exhaustion. How nostalgic today, seems the possibility of nuclear annihilation, by evil Soviet submarines off our fair coasts, always 15 minutes, the time of a kiss, away.
With Johannes Hepp, panoramic photographs, documenting the locations today, seemingly normal, of previous terrorist attacks. This material is too close to me. Sorry.
til 9:30PM
www.blueskygallery.org
1231 NW Hoyt
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows work by artists new to the gallery: Yoshihiro Kitai, Sian Oblak and Kathryn Van Dyke. Van Dyke updates the drip painting with a style at once cool, reserved but also deeply affecting. Sian Oblak's deconstructed imagery balances detailed rendering, irregular soft color shapes and white space. She samples specific classical paintings, but the resulting work is solidly her own. Yoshihiro Kitai's training in printmaking is applied to Japanese flavored minimal sort of landscapes.
closes early first Thursday, about 8PM
www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com
929 NW Flanders
Rake Gallery presents a group video show "Out of Sync", in collaboration with the 4th Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. Included are the works are Holly Andres, Ian Coronado, AGF.3 + SUE.C, Carl Diehl, Disjunct, The EarthwUrms, Ogo Eion, Jesse England, Alex Felton, Shawna Ferreira, Emily Franz, Colin Ives, Jo Jackson, Alex Mackenzie, Mack McFarland, Gabe Parque, Tom Sherman and Stephen Slappe.
Andres, 2006 PAM biennial artist, taps into her world of growing up a girl. Ferriera, recent PNCA grad, covers her personal territory, abstracted, very abstracted, and challenging. Jo Jackson, http://www.jackhanley.com/id203.htm, nee SF artist, transfers her sharp eye, now, to Portland.
And in the most brilliant Portland DIY coup to date, Rake is sending the work of five of its artists: Jeremy Tucker, Brian Mathes, Michael Wilson, Michaela Endo and Rachel Allen to China.
Rake Art Gallery until about 10 rakeart.org 325 NW 6th
Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents Fresh, work by Chandra Bocci (Portland Art Museum 2006 biennial selectee), Sean Healy, Kristan Kennedy (PICA art program curator), Melody Owen (current Alfred University MFA candidate), Daniel Sturgis, Amanda Wojick, and others.
Bocci incorporates materials from our- my- your- waste stream into artworks. Owen, U of O grad, now at Alfred U, creates the sweetest minimalist work, such as her room filled with hummingbird feeders and her illuminated igloos. Wojeck samples materials such as those pick- a- color- paint chips into sculptures. The gallery also shows new work by Matt McCormick, Signs, in its streetside video window
See this show.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery until 9PM www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Is Kendra Binney the new Trish Grantham, with three shows in as many months, the hardest working artist in Portland? Binney shows sweet lowbrow-style portraits of wide eyed girls, in a double entendre, her subjects' eyes are set wide too. At Vino Paradiso
until 11PM
www.vinoparadiso.com
417 NW 10th
Augen Gallery presents samplings of lace by Todd Johnson. Johnson represents a flavor of intellectual sampling which ranges across the board of source material. This show covers lace stark white, against a black background. Also Jef Gunn presents encaustic paintings. Gunn has had an influence on a local generation of encaustic painters, notably Elise Wagner, now at Butters. This ancient technique requires melting wax-based pigments and managing layering them in the finished piece. Did I say that the vapors are inflammable and toxic-ultra?
until 8:30PM
www.augengallery.com
817 SW 2nd
Allison Edge shows "you're the one for me", finely detailed drawings of kittens and boys. Perhaps the common thread is that neither can be counted upon to always do the expected, but do it often enough to admit the possibility.
Motel Gallery
until 9:30PM
NW Couch between 5th and 6th across the street from Ground Control.
The Everett lofts bounded by Everett and Flanders, Broadway and 6th NW will no doubt have something to see. until about 10 Rumor has it that fire performers will be showing their art on the street.
Blackfish presents time variable sculptures incorporating industrial materials and vegetation by Stephan Soihl. Soihl speaks at the gallery April 29 at 2PM.
Blackfish Gallery till 9PM
www.blackfish.com
420 NW 9th Avenue
This is too beautiful not to just reprint: When Hope Hitchcock was but a young lass she sat in a small cafe with her parents and pointed to a window in the old brick building across the street. "That's the apartment I'm going to live in someday," she said, waving her fork over eggs B arnaise. Eleven years later she moved to Portland and right into her dream. Now this third generation artist and calligrapher pays homage to the building with our April exhibit, L'Appartement.
Hitchcock recreates the bizarre intimacy of strangers' lives stacked together with intricate drawings and portraits of her neighbors. Calligraphy samplers, tiny hand made residents and embroidered paintings divulge the secrets of one lovingly haunted Portland apartment building."
Work by Hope Hitchcock at Reading Frenzy
until about 9PM
www.readingfrenzy.com
921 SW Oak
Laika, the first dog in space, is the improbable name of the former Vinton Studios. Laika After Hours is a show of the personal work of the artists at the studio.
Compound Gallery until 9:30PM
www.justbedesign.com
107 NW 5th Avenue
Chambers Gallery presents paintings on wood panels by tattoo artist Peter Archer.
Chambers Gallery til 9
www.chambersgallery.org
207 SW Pine
Sean Croghan, Portland musician, the consummate insider, has lived his entire life in here. So he has had a lot of time to think about rain and depression. The result are outsider folk art style paintings of concepts for tattoos, uniquely Portland. Valentines til late 232 SW Ankeny
Portland Art Center presents 'Boredom: I learned it from watching you", a group show curated by Josh Arseneau and Gabriel Flores. I've no idea of the work, but the title is a close runner up to the description of the last show at Valentines by Zach Margolis. Portland Art Center til 10 portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
PNCA presents the NEXUS IV show, an open hanging of PNCA graduates. In the past they have had 60-80 artists - that's quite a slice of Portland's art world in one place. The show will be in the library gallery. Pacific Northwest College of Art til 9
www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson
Thursday April 27, 2006
08:00 PM : [PDXFF] Out of Sync @ Rake Gallery
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 8:00
Out of Sync
the PDX video installation show at the Rake Gallery
325 NW 6th Ave
Out of Sync is a satellite exhibition to the PDX Film Fest featuring video work that exists outside of the cinematic experience. Video installations, sculptures, performances, and single channel works from across the continent.
Live Video Performances and artist reception
Thursday April 27 @ 8:00pm featuring The EarthwUrms, Ian Coronado, DISJUNCT, and Jesse England.
*The Rake Gallery is located at 325 NW 6th Ave*
Thursday May 4, 2006
06:00 PM : First Thursday Art Gallery Openings@NW Portland
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Free is good. And so it is for radio. The concept of PRA, Portland pirate radio, is that the airwaves should be as open as the seas. On those airwaves we shall evolve culture at the fringes of fair use, what shall emerge? King Kong? YES! Walking catfish? Hopefully NOT... Musicians and DJ's Collective Consciousness, Hott Pink, Guau Guau, Quiet Countries, DATLOG, Uncle Nancy, DJ T'ant, Sappho, Masmod, AMPex and Dj Zombo lay down sonic experiments live, and on www.praradio.com. They will be accompanied by visual artists GerFunk, Dr. Medz, DFX, Chance Fisher, Christian Walker and Corey Smith. Where is pirate TV when you need it? Did I mention that this is totally illegal, oops. www.rakeart.org Rake Gallery 325 NW 6th til 10ish
Malia Jensen shows new work at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Jensen is known for her work themed on animals, including her well known giant beaver constructed of plywood. This later work departs from Jensen's playful minimalism adding color and more baroque elements. Brooklyn's usual fauns and bunnies give way to rats, which populate The City, Jensen's current home and bears which you will not find in New York. The Fresh show of last month continues. www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th until 9PM
Portland artist Linda Hutchins shows "Line Drawing" at Pulliam Deffenbaugh. Hutchins is known for using repetition to create somewhat minimalist compositions. Past work used repeated typewritten phrases, subtly offset, filling the page densely, and edge to edge. For this show, pen and ink lines are repeated to fill the papers' space, entirely. www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 929 NW Flanders closes early first Thursday, about 8PM
PDX shows a video piece, Fallen, by Ryan Jeffery. This was the work shown in the Peripheral Produce Portland Experimental and Documentary Film Festival world championship of film. It features a very Brothers Quay-esque machine of cast acrylic by artist Kari Merkle which will also be shown in the gallery. Jeffery is also known for his super-8 accompaniment of musicians Small Sails. This work represents a welcome evolution for PDX Gallery in showing video art. It illustrates perfectly the continuity between live music visuals in the club, sit down cinema, and video art shown in galleries. www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders if open on first Thursday, it will close by 9
Chambers presents a performance "Research and Development" by poet Lisa Radon and musician Tim Duroche at 7PM. Both draw water from deep creative wells, individually, and here, together. www.chambersgallery.org 207 SW Pine Gallery open until 9
I am a huge proponent of beauty in art. The Hickey school. But I require more, like thoughtfulness, and that is why this is a selective guide to Portland art shows. Glass? Portland is home to the Bullseye Glass Company, one of the world's few manufacturers of the raw materials for glass art. Bullseye does a good job at curating contemporary glass art into their gallery, but often the work is just all beauty. This month, I will make an exception for pure beauty: see the work of Anna Skibska. Its lattices of lampworked glass rod with the diameter of uncooked spaghetti. Might be better seen on a quiet day. www.bullseyeconnectiongallery.com 300 NW 13th until 9
The Mark Woolley Gallery presents a show of visionary art, "Internal Guidance Systems" curated by Seattle uber outsider Anne Grgich and London outsider heavyweight Colin Rhodes. Visionary art is usually classed with outsider art, art by self taught artists, crazy people and the like. One definition is "art outside the art world". It was popular in galleries in the late '80s and early '90's. Collectors, miffed at being manipulated by the red hot '80's art market turned away from New York. As a result many Southern artists inspired by god to create obsessive work, such as Howard Finster, were drawn into the gallery system, most notably by Atlanta's Fay Gold Gallery. Its popularity in commercial galleries has faded, although I understand there is more interest in Europe, which has its own homegrown visionary artist-architects such as Gaudi and Hundertwasser. The journal of outsider art is Raw Vision, yours for further study. Actually I like some of it, though less lately, but that's me.
Outsider art and its visionary branch are popular in Portland, so here is a chance to compare the gallery view of it with the street view on NW 13th or on Alberta. Portland locals Walt Curtis and Allison O'Donoghue show beside artists from the UK and France, as well as other US artists.
The show is spread across both Woolley locations 120 NW 9th and the Wonder ballroom site 128 NW Russell which will host and opening Friday www.markwoolley.com
Valentines shows "suite b" work by and benefiting the collaborative art group similarly named. Included are "eclectic crafty wares. pieces include sculpy objects, collaborative drawings, video media and much much more". All works inexpensively priced. til late 232 SW Ankeny
p:ear shows collaborations by street youth with Tom Cramer. p:ear corner of SW Alder and 8th
Portland Art Center shows Linfield College art department thesis work. This is totally pot luck, but perhaps artist Chris Moss, who teaches there, has had an effect. portlandart.org 32 NW 5th til 10
Compound gallery presents illustrations of some future universe, Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 by Kow Yokoyama. 880 years in the future opposing forces are fighting for control of earth. Still. When will they ever learn? www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th til 9:30
The Vorpal Space in the Everett Lofts will show "Readymech" flatpack paper toys. www.vorpalspace.com corner of Flanders and NW Broadway. until 11
Tilt shows "Horizon Line" new landscapes, curated by Mark Brandau, who is responsible for the Portland Modern project. www.tiltpdx.com 625 NW Everett #106
Genuine Imitation shows paintings by local multi artist Mo. www.genuineimitation.com 625 NW Everett #110
Friday May 5, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Gallery Openings@Portland's East Side
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In the 811 building, Portland's design block, Yes, Moshi-Moshi, Denwave, Renowned and Redux will all show work. No word yet on what, but well worth your time. Denwave wants to emphasize that Denwave=Don Jones+Hazel Cox+genevieve dellinger, and we concur. 811 NE Burnside
New American Art Union. It's not a surprise they are announcing second shows by their artists. This month Felice Koenig shows "Alliteration", abstract work which composes color and shape in a manner analogous to alliteration in literature. New American Art Union Until about 10 www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny
Light Leak is a show by photographers who meet monthly to share work and provide feedback to one another. Did I mention that participation is free? This show includes Blake Andrews, Bob Gervais, Lisa Gidley, George Kelly, Bruce Hall and Krista Wheeler. Newspace is mounting a capital campaign to expand their space next door. The plan includes a color darkroom and a digital media lab. If you have some excess cash this is a good place to put it. New Space Photo til 10 www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Tiny's Coffee shows work by painter Lisa Dejohn, Amy Ruppel and Briana Linden. Live music by The Escapists. 1410 SE 12th 7- 930 PM
Small A Projects opens "Out the Window" photographs of Los Angeles by Zoe Crosher. Crosher made many of the images shooting out the windows of vacant hotel rooms in the vicinity of the LAX airport. The pictures symultaneously capture the low rent neighborhood's ennui, a transient sense of place and the potential for adventure in each departing plane. The artist will speak at 8. This show continues the gallery's bold curatorial moves and strong sense of quality. www.smallaprojects.com 1430 SE 3rd Gallery open 6-9PM
09:00 PM : Like Then Yet Now Book Release @ Valentines
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Valentines hosts a book release party for Like Then Yet Now: drawings by Chris Nakayama and poems by Jeff Karl Butler. Produced by Red Ant Press/Ricky Pang Makes and printed by Pinball Press in an edition of 500. Music provided by Scrabbel from San Francisco, Giant Robot darlings: http://scrabbel.org ; http://myspace.com/scrabbel and Shanghi Soul Club DJ's til late 232 SW Ankeny
Monday May 8, 2006
07:00 PM : Swiss Artist San Keller Speaks@PSU
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PSU's art department presents a talk by Swiss artist San Keller. Keller is artist in residence at PS1 and mounts projects such as "The Long Way Home" in which New Yorkers are encouraged to drive back winter's emotional ebb by sharing unusual experiences with strangers. Curator Dorothea Strauss comments: "His works are complex, cheerful and melancholy at the same time. They pick up the concerns of the social sculpture and, in the most marvelous way, carry it into the 21th century." Social Sculpture - we like those words. PSU 5th Avenue Cinema Room 92, 510 SW Hall 7PM Free.
Thursday May 11, 2006
06:30 PM : Havoc in Suburbia @ Reed
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Havoc in Suburbia
an evening of gelastic puppetry and psychic geography
presented by Public Speakers and The Cooley Gallery
Thursday May 11, 2006
6:30 p.m. / Reed College Student Union
Please join us May 11 at 6:30 p.m., in the Reed Student Union for an evening of gelastic puppetry and psychic geography.
This expeditionary evening begins with Portland authors Matthew Stadler and Jon Raymond reading their collaborative work: "23 Propositions on the West Hills."
Followed by the Dim Sum Puppet Opera Company's original commission, Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Suburbia or The Journey to the West Hills, a theatrical explosion of the photographs of Gregory Crewdson inspired by the 16th Century Chinese novel The Journey to the West.
The evening continues with a blow out performance by the posi-dance-core hump rockers Show Me the Pink.
Preamble by Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder The Cooley Gallery will be open from 5:00-6:30 p.m . prior to the show.
FREE ADMISSION
FREE BEER
This event is presented by Public Speakers in collaboration with the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College. For more information, please contact Stephanie Snyder at snyders@reed.edu
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202
web.reed.edu/gallery
Friday May 12, 2006
06:00 PM : Portland Modern #4 Artists Catalog Release @ Apotheke
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Portland Modern #4 "Saturation", curated by Matthew Stadler & Kristan Kennedy is ready for release. This issue includes Roberta Aylward, Amber Bell, Michael Boyle, David Corbett, Alex Felton, Anna Fidler, Caleb Freese & Justin Gorman, Sarah Gottesdiener, Liz Haley, Levi Hanes, Mary Henry, Philip Iosca, Eva Lake, Jonathan Leach, Isaac Lin , Marne Lucas , Rae Mahaffey, Jeannie Manville, Chelsea Mosher, Daniel Peterson, Shawn Records, Spirit Quest (Khaela Maricich & Melissa Dyne), Amy Steel, and Casey Watson. The quality of previous Modern's has been excellent, and this continues that pattern judging from the artists in this batch I know. www.portlandmodern.org Release party 9pm at Apotheke 1314 NW Glisan Suite 2A
Monday May 15, 2006
07:00 PM : Art Opening @ Valentine's
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Josh MacPhee is a street artist, designer, curator, author and activist. His first book, Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of Street Stenciling was published in July 2004 by Soft Skull Press. He is currently co-editing a book of radical political graphics and a collection of writings about art and anarchism. He curated the travelling group show "Paper Politics" a collection of political prints from around the world (opens at PSU on May 11). He lives in Troy, NY. (www.justseeds.org)
Icky A. is a printmaker and publishes the zine Nosedive. He is a member (with Josh) of the Street Art Workers, a cooperative network dedicated to political poster campaigns. (streetartworkers.org) He lives in Portland.
valentine's
232 sw ankeny
503.248.1600
Friday May 19, 2006
06:00 PM : opening of a retail store and gallery @ DIESEL FUEL PRINTS
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DIESEL FUEL PRINTS HITS 15;
WORLDS LARGEST ROCK ART POSTER PUBLISHER PLANS OPEN HOUSE
Diesel Fuel Prints, the worlds largest publisher of screen printed rock art posters, has marked its 15th year in business with the opening of a retail store and gallery. Friday, May 19th from 6-9 PM they will be having a Grand Opening party at their new facility located at 726 SE 10th Avenue, Portland, OR.
The event, a decade and a half in the making, will feature new paintings by Klutch, an in-store mural by Klutch and Betti, refreshments, and music by DJs monkeytek and Safi.
Andy Stern, the person responsible for all those Mean People Suck stickers worldwide, started Diesel Fuel in 1991 and has grown it to the largest and one of the most respected names in screen printed art prints.
The retail store and related website are the exclusive poster publishers for many Internationally renowned artists including Frank Kozik and Tara McPherson. Diesel Fuel also offers posters, art prints, fine art, stickers, clothing, toys, and other items by many of the star artists in Diesel Fuels roster. The store is located at 726 SE 10th Avenue in Portland, Oregon and is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM.
Portland artist Klutch is often tagged as a street/stencil/skateboard artist, but these are only few of his multiple pathways. He has been continually creating visual mischief since his involvement in the early 1980's punk and skateboard scenes and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. His work has appeared in Time magazine, the poster bibles F*cked Up and Photocopied and The Art of Modern Rock, and the just released The Art of Rebellion 2. These days he is best known for being the mastermind behind Vinyl Killers, an international collective of artists who repurpose old vinyl records into new original artwork.
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Diesel Fuel Prints
726 South East 10th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97214
USA
503/231-8988
Diesel fuel Prints New Website!
Klutch
503/231-2790
klutch@mac.com
KLUTCH
Klutch's Krib at Hotel Des Arts - San Francisco
Saturday May 20, 2006
06:00 PM : Mike Maas Lowbrow Art Opening @ Missing Link Toys
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Mike Maas shows "Things That Go Bump and Grind in the Night" - lowbrow work that references cartoons, toys and pop culture "person"alities. One piece features a bear who is afraid of clowns! (?) Local designers UNKL, Jason Bacon and Derek Welch will be signing purchases of their figures between 6 and 8 - oh so otaku. The Missing Link is a big grown up joke we like! 'til 9ish 3314 SE Belmont
Monday May 29, 2006
10:00 AM : Free Admission @ Portland Art Museum
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Free is good, that's what we say. Normally $10-15, Art Museum admission has crept up. The new Museum managemant has seen good response to and encouragement for free days, and now they do them from time to time. Like this Memorial Day. When you arrive, head directly to the upper floor of the Masonic Temple building to the Roxy Paine Painting Manufacturing Unit - check the time of the next activation (about once every 2 hours) and you can plan your tour accordingly. The machine may invoke questions of the artist's hand/lack thereof, but it is really a meditation on time, machine time, drip time, drying time. On exhibit also are some monumental, free form, bronze castings by Hilda Morris who operated in our area in the mid century. Still fresh. The Museum has a very plush library too. 1219 SW Park Avenue 10AM-5PM
Thursday June 1, 2006
06:00 PM : Opening Party @ Portland Art Center
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"All I want is everything, and I want it now" seems the Portland Art Center's meme for June, as demonstrated by this show of shows which fills the Goldsmith Building's warrens, Louvre-like. 10,000 square feet is a quarter acre of space, and for the official opening, it will be filled. Comutatus is Oregonian editor Barry Johnson's installation. Gallery Guide exhibition I is a group show. OCAC students show upstairs. Jason Frank and Andy Brown curate Hexasion, a video and sound installation. Jeff Fontaine presents "Entropy and the Arrow of Time", paintings on steel. The art center also releases its Gallery Guide covering 187 Portland visual arts spaces. It's a party too, with music by Vagabond Opera and DJ Stylish. Catering by Pasha. Admission $5. But get this: if you become a member of the Portland Art Center, you get in for free, and also into many more things free throughout the year. How much? Well normally it's $35 a year, but for this one night only - "I can't save you money if you don't see me today" - it's $25 for the most inexpensive membership. Of course, you can contribute more..up to the stupendous member level! www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th 6-midnight, art earlier, party later.
06:00 PM : First Thursday Gallery Openings @ Downtown Portland
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Sculptor Ellen George displays small organic sculptures of some mysterious material. She explains: "my work reflects a private life enriched with curiosity. These sculptures draw inspiration from silence, sound and the natural world, yet seem to spring forth from a world all their own." Her sculptures would like last month's drawings by Linda Hutchins as do we. PDX Gallery www.pdxgallery.com 925 NW Flanders until 9
Chris Bruch shows '80s-style muscular sculptures. Thinking of working bigger? Maybe there are clues here. This size seems to be adapted to the public art ecosystem, where mid-career Bruch has had recent success having like works fabricated in materials like stainless steel. Elizabeth Leach Gallery until 9PM www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
The Beppu Wiarda Gallery shows the work of PNCA professor Arvie Smith. Reminiscent of Robert Colescot, Smith's dramatic and colorful paintings of a bigger than African American life would utterly fail in lesser hands. But Smith, who has been incorporating material from visiting Mali to trace his roots, is the real deal. At the preopening, Smith presided, chief-like, over enpearled doyens, in a custom suit of African fabric and necklaces no doubt imbued with powerful magic, not of the motherland, but the mother continent, the sideboard groaning with box wine, KFC and watermellon. Perfect! Smith gives an artist's talk at the gallery June 10 at 11AM www.beppugallery.com 319 NW 9th until 9
Woolley Gallery opens a group show themed "Alien and Sedition" Alien opens tonight alongside new work by damali ayo: Yarn, animated shorts and stills exploring variations on American identity. Sedition opens Friday at the Wonder Ballroom location. www.markwoolley.com 120 NW 9th until 9:30
"All I want is everything, and I want it now" seems the Portland Art Center's meme for June, as demonstrated by this show of shows which fills the Goldsmith building's warrens, Louvre-like. 10,000 square feet is a quarter acre of space and for the official opening it will be filled. Comutatus is Oregonian editor Barry Johnson's installation. Gallery Guide exhibition I is a group show. OCAC students show upstairs. Jason Frank and Andy Brown curate Hexasion, a video and sound installation. This space in the Art Center will be dedicated to sound and video work, including installations, so if that is your work, submit. Jeff Fontaine presents "Entropy and the Arrow of Time", paintings on steel. The art center also releases its Gallery Guide covering 187 (!) Portland visual arts spaces. It's a party too, with music by Vagabond Opera and DJ Stylish. Catering by Pasha. Admission after 9 is $5. But get this: if you become a member of the Portland Art Center, you get in for free, and also into many more things free throughout the year. How much? Well normally it's $35 a year, but for this one night only - "I can't save you money if you don't see me today" - it's $25 for the most inexpensive membership. Of course you can contribute more..up to the stupendous member level! www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th 6-midnight, art earlier, party later.
Apotheke shows the work of Keri Merkle, Through this Lens. Trained as an architect, Merkle is known for her resin cast light bulbs, and the mysterious resin machine, which may be a cross between a music box and a fairy tale laboratory experiment, shown last month at PDX Gallery.
For this newest work, which incorporates steel, her resin constructions capture surface impressions of found objects' textures. The bulbs within illuminate these impressions, samples of the artist's aesthetic travels, in the world. www.apotheke-nw.com 1314 NW Glisan upstairs 5PM-midnight
Compound shows Black and White, a group show of work as named, with miQ willmOtt (TWEEQIM), THUY3 (TWEEQIM), Kenichi Hoshine | kenichihoshine.com, Martin Ontiveros | sixspace.com, James Jean | jamesjean.com, Josh Cochran | joshcochran.net, Guyburwell | guyburwell.com, Mr. H, Chris Appelhans | froghatstudios.com, Kozyndan | kozyndan.com, Mio Matsumoto | miomatsumoto.com, Zanpon | digmeout.net, Kosuke Ikeda | digmeout.net, Ben Tour |thetourshow.com, Jennifer Poon | jpoonstudios.com, Andrea Wicklund | andreawicklund.com, Tyler Stout | tstout.com and Natalia Fabia | nataliafabia.com. Many of these artists have shown at Compound before. Compound Gallery www.justbedesign.com 107 NW 5th Avenue until 9:30PM
"Four artists and one design team... will transform Rake art gallery into an elegant foray of provocative questioning, sensual constructs, romantic de-construction-ism, and awakened spiritualism all inherent in a relationship of skin". Hmm. Photographer Kelli Pennington shows "Breathing Free Air", a show on immigration. Garrett Price shows "Elemental Decay", etchings themed on decay in urban landscapes. Rio Wren shows "Elemental", fabric work patterned by rust and touching all questions of aging. Benjamin Stagl shows "Skin", an installation inspired by plastic shrink wrap. www.rakeart.org Rake Gallery 325 NW 6th until 10
Froelick gallery presents Beastiary, a group show of paintings, photos, prints, sculpture and drawing by 30 artists. It's pot luck, but with some oh so tasty dishes, which, of course, you must judge for yourself.
www.froelickgallery.com 817 SW 2nd until 9
The PNCA thesis show is on view 11AM-6PM Monday-Saturday until June 10. Tonight it will be open until 9. Each year brings pleasant surprises, especially in installation and video, art forms in Portland too rarely seen. www.pnca.edu 1432 NW Johnson
Also at PNCA in the Feldman Gallery is Pablo Helguera's The School of Panamerican Unrest. PORT has an elegant explanation of the project which you can read there. The artist performs at 6:30. www.pnca.edu NW 13th and Johnson
Motel opens the work of Meg Peterson, Justin Williams and Juliana Bright, all new to the gallery. Peterson's work interests me the most: she crafts landscapes which make visible the invisible wireless waves which permeate them, and sometimes us. www.motelgallery.com NW Couch near 5th until 9:30
09:00 PM : Music, Art and Small Press @ Valentines
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Ghosting plus Pete Swanson and Leif Sundstrom play music, a small press microshop opens above, specializing in print, textile and auditory impressions and an art show by 2 people documenting their living situations, Harrell Fletcher-like, "Project House" opens. Valentines is what the well lit place Stumptown would be if it was a bar and dark, interesting people may be found there, like you. 232 SW Ankeny until late
Friday June 2, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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While Minnesota has the Mall of the Americas, Portland goes for sweet quality. The 811 building on East Burnside is Portland's design block. Yes, Moshi Moshi, Denwave, Renowned and Redux will be open for art shows 6-9ish It's well worth the visit. 811 E. Burnside
The New American Art Union's gone fishin', I mean is on vacation for the month.
Newspace Photo shows work by Bob Farr & Sam Devine Tischler www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Ave until 9
06:00 PM : The Oregonian Gentlemen @ Renowned Gallery
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(from back of card:) The Oregonian Gentlemen speaks loudest through his actions. He tips street musicians. He offers bubble gum and/or tobacco to strangers. He picks u your jacket when it falls to the ground. He jumps into freezing rivers to save injured animals. He hand-writes letters to friends and family. Even his presence on the downtown bus causes you to tingle with comfort, glad that he is there.
The Oregonian Gentleman is sensitive. Of course he cries at movies like the rest of us, but his version of sensitivity is more like a hunter's sixth sense. He stays alert, wide-eyed, ear to the tree and hand to the ground. He is sensitive to every breath and branch snap. Like a good naturalist and/or artist, the Oregonian Gentleman stays in touch and digs his roots deeper with every consideration.
The Oregonian Gentleman is kind. His generosity knows no limit, often letting others take credit for his good deeds by signing their names into the work he crafted by tooth and nail. It is a unique sort of selflessness that allows the man to give/forgive without any hope of an exchange.
The Oregonian Gentleman is resourceful. Living closer to the environment than most of us, he knows that resources are limited. To live within nature's obvious boundaries he salvages ll that he can and reuses it. Often he resembles a beaver squirrel due to his so-called "junk collection". To this he only shakes his head, smiles and says, "I can't believe they threw this away."
The Oregonian Gentleman is strong. If he has muscle it's only because he commutes by bicycle, turns wrenches, or swings an axe. His will gives him the strength to move mountains, dam rivers, build homes, and repair things with duct tape.
The Oregonian Gentleman is not hungry. He is content, satisfied with his own life, balanced and humble. The gentlemen never begs, but he is courteous enough to say "please pass the butter."
COME JOIN THE OREGONIAN GENTLEMAN'S CLUB
Paintings by Justin "Scrappers" Morrison
(First Friday) June 2, 2006 6-9:30 PM
At the Renowned Gallery - 811 East Burnside
06:00 PM : grey|area @ Guestroom Gallery
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Guestroom Gallery has announced it will host one of the summer’s most exciting invitational group exhibitions at 128 NE Russell in the space it shares with Woolley at Wonder under the Wonder Ballroom. The show, entitled grey|area, is curated by New England-native, Portland-based artist TJ Norris and will kick off with an opening on Friday, June 2, 2006 from 6 to 9 pm. The show will remain at Guestroom through June 30, 2006. grey|area is theme-less and non-narrative, peppered in shades of conceptual and abstract minimalism. The exhibition is stripped to bare, colorless tonal values and contrasts that navigate the betweens of the (un)conscious states of being/mind. The show consists of 2/3D work, some of which is partially installation-based. Other work incorporates light and sound in a show of hybrid/mixed media.
As well as penning Portland’s "Is It Art?", a weekly column appearing at Oregonlive.com, Norris is an acclaimed artist and seasoned freelance curator. His contemporary curatorial experience dates back 20 years with exhibitions at SUNY/Binghamton Art Museum, Tufts University's Aidekman Art Center, Anna Leonowens Gallery @ Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, the Artist Foundation Gallery as well as an integrated exhibition of children's artwork for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. White House (for VSA Arts, http://www.vsarts.org/) among others.
“grey|area is a challenge for me. It attempts to streamline a monochromatic ‘look’ of values, as well as attempting to blur genre and media lines, to present something raw with a group of the West Coast’s finest conceptual, edgy and physical artists,” he said. “The artists I selected for grey|area span from Los Angeles to Vancouver, BC. I’m searching for a mysterious epicenter where the state of mind-over-matter is materially questioned. grey|area is a lateral examination of minimal details, scratching a surface visible to the naked eye, but perhaps moreso to the viewers’ own frame of reference as a new higher form of truth. These circumstances may only be drawn by comparison.”
The 13 artists selected for grey|area are:
Daniel Barron: http://www.danielbarron.com
Troy Briggs: http://www.portlandmodern.org/issue2/PM2_briggs.pdf
Jamie Drouin: http://www.jamiedrouin.com/microforming1.htm
Daniel Duford: http://www.danielduford.com
David Eckard: http://www.davideckard.com
Ty Ennis: http://www.tyennis.com
j.frede: http://www.jfrede.com/works_installations.html
Laura Fritz: http://www.laurafritz.net
Ellen George: http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com/main/artists/artists_george.html
Scott Wayne Indiana: http://www.39forks.com
Chris Komater: http://www.chriskomater.com
TJ Norris: http://www.tjnorris.net
Abi Spring: http://www.abispring.com
All artists are independent with a few exceptions: Ellen George (represented by PDX Contemporary Art) and Ty Ennis (represented by New American Art Union). As a sidenote, David Eckard and Ty Ennis are both included in this year's Oregon Biennial.
About TJ Norris:
As well as contributing to his weekly blog for the “Is it Art?”, TJ Norris is an accomplished artist and past gallery owner. From 2002-03 Norris owned and operated Portland's seminal media gallery Soundvision (named one of "10 Best Places in Portland" 2002, The Oregonian, D.K. Row) which offered conceptual, interactive, multi-sensory and academic works dealing with installation, sound and other hybrid media often deemed difficult in commercial venues. As a visual artist, he has shown in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Portland and internationally in London, Montreal and Brosarp, Sweden. His essay "disembodied meditation" was published by MIT Press' "Leonardo" Magazine (2005). Norris also is an accomplished music/cultural journalist, having written for Signal to Noise, Grooves, Repellent and e|I as well as dot coms Brainwashed, Igloo, Dusted, Vital Weekly and Paris Transatlantic.
About Guestroom:
In January, 2006, Marilyn Murdoch opened Guestroom, a new concept in exhibiting art. Guestroom features selections of work as seen through the eyes of some of the city’s most important and well-known artists, collectors, curators and galleries. As the name implies, the art space is an inviting presentation of constantly evolving exhibits chosen by guest curators. For more information, please visit www.guestroomgallery.com
Sunday June 18, 2006
03:00 PM : Art and Immigration Talk @ Rake Gallery
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Kelli Pennington will talk of her current work at Rake Gallery themed on immigration. www.rakeart.org Rake Gallery 325 NW 6th 3PM free
Saturday June 24, 2006
07:00 PM : Tibetan Medicine Documentary @ Rake Art
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Filmmaker Heather Harlow/ Red Door Films presents her documentary in progress, Balancing the Elements: Tibetan Medicine in Exile. Tibet has a long continuous culture which was preserved by its monasteries. Their medical system is said to descend from the Buddha's medical teachings of about 500BC and is formalized in the rGyud-bzhi, books of 156 chapters and 5900 verses. The Tibetan system of medicine proposes an ideal balance of body elements. Imbalances caused by lifestyle, diet, the environment, spirits and negative thoughts lead to ill health. The root of all diseases are said to be the three mental poisons: desire, hatred and confusion. Tibetan practitioners diagnose patients by pulse (as in Chinese medicine), and examination of the tongue, skin, eyes, ears and gait. Though Tibetan physicians did not have access to the scientific method and the useful aspects of Descartes' reductionism, their emphasis on the impact of mental processes on the immune system is spot on. In the West, the most accessible book on Tibetan medicine (though ponderously encyclopedic) is Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine by Yeshi Donden, personal physician to the Dali Lama. No word on admission yet, but I'm sure if you have some extra cash they could use it to fininsh the film.
At Rake Art 325 NW 6th 7PM
08:00 PM : Plazm Aniversary @ Disjecta
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Plazm's octopus identity * magazine, font foundry, design house, identity hacker, artist, book publisher, gallery and cultural zeitgeist, has spread tentacles into Portland's creative world and far beyond. They are turning 15 years old - how many design years it that? Tonight marks the publication of Plazm#28. The content
- Legend Milton Glaser designed the cover
- Patrick Long's drawing series Cop Love. Finally published—in spite of police protests.
- Dave Thomas, the legend behind Pere Ubu, on the influence of the amazing Ghoulardi
- Julia Bryan-Wilson interviews Steven Kurtz on bioterrorism, art and the Patriot Act.
- getting lucky with Peaches
- three amazing drawings by Raymond Pettibon
- Iran's leading graphic designer Reza Abedini
- new drawings by Kristan Kennedy
- poster and packaging art by E*Rock
- anti-war graphics in the digital age
- Marlene McCarty interviewed by dramaturge Felix Ensslin and artist Sue de Beer
tells the story.
Fleshtone
E*rock
DJ Copy
Valet
The Watery Graves
DJ Shannon
+ Dim Sum Puppet Theater, Sissyboys, Mike Barber (10 tiny dances) & more
Tasty Snacks by Valentine's
Sweet Treats by St. Cupcake
Doors open at 8 pm
Entry $5
21+
Thursday June 29, 2006
07:00 PM : UNKL in Tokyo @ OFFICE
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Jason Bacon of UNKL shows new 2d work inspired by Tokyo. This Portland design powerhouse does a great job covering the map with great quality robots, tshirts, skate decks and messenger bags too. 7-9PM www.officepdx.com 2204 NE Alberta
Friday June 30, 2006
10:00 AM : Free Day @ Portland Art Museum
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Free is good. 1219 SW Park between Jefferson and Main. 10AM to 8PM www.pam.org
07:00 PM : Dru Donavan Photo Show Opening @ Holocene
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Dru Donovan, my friend, is talented as hell. I didn't realize just how hell-talented she was till I saw this website. Seeing her photos side by side like that, I realized this woman has a very clearly defined vision, and the technical expertise to realize it. Her photos are beautiful to look at, and moving. Each color and expression seems to communicate a kind of transcendent ambiguity, like in-between emotions trapped in glass. They are really, really good.
I'm bringing this up because Dru's going to be displaying her photography at Holocene throught out July. The show opens tomorrow, and there will be a reception, free, between 7pm and 9pm, Friday, June 30th. AND YOU SHOULD COME.
DRU DONOVAN
ALL THAT THEY ARE
RAD PHOTO SHOW
OPENING RECEPTION
HOLOCENE
7PM to 9PM
Thursday July 6, 2006
06:00 PM : First Thursday Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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July encapsulates the birthday of the USA. July 4th we're some 240 years old. Compare that to previous empires: the Egyptian Empire, 2720 years; the Persian Empire , 398 years; the Roman Empire, 520 years and the Byzantine Empire, 1058 years. The problem, as they all found, is that as the empire expands to control territory and protect the trade routes required to exploit more natural resources, its military costs become a drain on the economy, weakening the country and ultimately leading to its downfall. For a statistics-filled book expanding on this theme in recent history, see Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.
Me? I'm putting my bets on China.
First Thursday July 6
This month there is a lot happening! Rather than arranging items in order of importance, I'm arranging the events in walking order, taking into account closing times. Go by foot-bike. Car parking will be impossible. Of course, most exhibitions can be seen later in the month, Tuesday through Saturday... Must see's are *
See early or catch up on later in the month:
The Laura Russo gallery shows Bouquet, by German artist Anne Siems, now Seattle-based. Siems began her work using recycled materials as a canvas - old grocery bags and newspapers - laminated by wax and then painted with her own formula of wax medium. The new work references the formal compositions of 19th century studio photographs with a collage of dream elements. Somehow I'm envisioning a reference too, to the Wandervogel. Let's hope we are not headed in that direction as a country... Interestingly, Justine Kurland is fascinated by our Oregon Wandervogel, and their off-the-grid intentional communities, I wonder if she is going to the Oregon Country Fair? Until 9 805 NW 21st Ave http://www.laurarusso.com/
City Hall presents some sort of Bike Art Show at City Hall early 5-7PM 1221 SW 4th
Froelick Gallery shows paintings by Nat Meade and photos by Robert Hollingsworth. Meade documents performance like actions, almost photographically. Hollingsworth captured scenes in the 1950's created by others or nature, terming them "plagraphy" - plagiarism/photography. That concept now is so accepted to not even require the acknowledgment of naming. Until 9 817 SW 2nd http://www.froelickgallery.com
Stumptown Coffee shows maze/ bird feet track abstract, work seemingly created from rubber stamps. It's not heartstabbing me, but it is still an interesting exploit of the rubber stamp aesthetic, sort of populist printmaking. It's by Abra Ancliffe. By the way, Cathy Joy Young, shows outsider-style work that has a luminous, almost oil pastel palette - think Jessie Reno, and of equal quality, at the Division Stumptown. Until 9:30 128 SW 3rd
Now time for a break, or a convenient meet point, over stimulating herbal liquors and the current art show at Apotheke. http://www.apotheke-nw.com
There is a show at W+K - Exploration of the Role of Failure in the Creative Process. You aren't taking enough risks if you don't fail upon occasion. Until 9 NW 13th between Everett and Davis.
Bullseye continues Anna Skibska's insane lampworked glass latices, suspended in freespace. Opening are photos fused into glass for you photographers seeking an archival process good for a few thousand years. Until 9 300 NW 13th http://www.bullseyeconnection.com
For a perspective in time, if not culture, consider a show of historical photographs of the Pearl District at 1306 NW Hoyt on the 4th floor with well earned food and drinks for your climb. Until 9 1306 NW Hoyt
Bluesky presents photographs by Julie Blackmon and Mike Smith. Blackmon's images depict childhood's life. Smith travels Southern Appalachia, capturing a world which to us looks so foreign. I wonder if a photographer from there came to Portland, what they would photograph that telegraphs our identity? Bike messengers outside Stumptown? The Zoobomb bike park? Jay's garage, with B99 biodiesel? Kids playing in the Jameson fountain in NW? Last Thursday on Alberta at the clown house? The Rose parade? Something to think about... regional caricature. Til 9:30 1231 NW Hoyt http://www.blueskygallery.org/
Photographer Grace Weston shows Private Thoughts images of her miniature modeled worlds, painstakingly constructed and lit. Each is a metaphor in its content, and, in its process. Until 9 http://www.pushdotstudio.com/ 830 NW 14th Ave
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery shows late career artist Robert Calvo who uses maps as his base concept. Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
Blackfish shows recent art school graduates, so pot luck... 420 NW 9th http://www.blackfish.com
At PDX Gallery, Joe Macca shows Oxygen Paintings, minimalist abstractions inspired by the act of breathing: "I have developed a language of abstract curvilinear forms assigned soft gradations of color to describe this breathing. The forms intend to capture moments of pleasure, pain, tension, joy, rage, etc...I use a buildup of thin translucent coats of paint and exaggerated form and color to capture light within the surface, adding to that drama.
The PDX window project presents sculptural work by Molly Torgeson: GENERATE: "a series that renders movement, transformation and growth. This installation signifies multiplicity, which is produced and launched into the atmosphere" in steel. Until 8. 925 NW Flanders Street www.pdxcontemporaryart.com *
Portland artist James Bolton, now half through his painting MFA at LA's Claremont, shows new paintings with a sort of fern leaf or random hatch motif, brushed and sprayed. Boulton showed large colorful abstract paintings in a previous PAM Biennial. Some of that that work seemed to reference sushi, an apt metaphor for tasty work you crave, but which requires an educated palette. He has simplified his gestural palette, and his colors too, while maintaining great strength in both. The work is titled Traffication: "The title of this exhibition comes from an invented word to describe the concurrent events that disaffect drivers from the immediate task of driving; the ones that end up changing the flow of traffic and consequently the urban architecture of time." Until 8 925 NW Flanders Street http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com *
Vino Paradiso shows post ironic cartoonish scenes of characters in life by Lucia Johnson. Sort of rotoscoped snapshots. Until 10 417 NW 10th http://vinoparadiso.com/art_gallery/art_gallery_july06.html
Ogle shows installations and constructions by Valentina Graziano. This gallery has established a niche showing large installations, often of organic materials, that are too large or uneconomic for other galleries. The work often taps into our Northwest instance of arte povera. Until 8:30 310 NW Broadway http://www.ogleinc.com
I love this. A toy with a life story. So I'll just reprint it! :
"In 1955 SUG was born in a remote part of Iceland. He weighed in at a 40lbs and was an astounding 43" long. Today, the real SUG is all of 7'7" and weighs 655lbs. He continues to base his operations out of a remote location in the moonlike landscape of northern Iceland. (I guess sort of a Icelandic yeti...)
SUG's mission is simple: to assist the people of the world who are in desperate need of help. He has no affiliation with any one government and is not concerned with the politics of his actions, but rather views his role in global terms. His privately funded aid expeditions take him into the most dangerous areas of the world usually bringing him into war-torn regions, toxic atmospheres or other inhospitable conditions. Years of exposure to these extreme environments has taken a toll on his massive body. SUG's abnormally small noggin is a result of wearing early handmade protective suits that did not give him proper protection. As a result, his head shrank and prolonged exposure rendered his face featureless. After he realized what was occurring, modifications were made to the next generation of suits to eliminate these issues and the shrinking has stopped. His atrophied right arm is a result of a small tear in the third generation suit resulting in the brief exposure of his naked arm to a highly toxic environment while working in a subterranean location in Oklahoma. The arm was reduced in size almost immediately and is, for the most part, unusable. His current suit is the ninth iteration and appears to be nearly flawless. SUG1s bag contains 4 vials of undefined liquids. They have reportedly been gathered over the years from native medicine men, scientists and his own research. The four liquids can be mixed together in various amounts and combinations to formulate a "silver bullet" serum to cure any ailment currently known to man. SUG continues to develop more advanced serums and equipment and he continues to accept missions that put him in harms way for the good of the World."
This show is of SUG figures, produced by Portland's Derek Welch and Jason Bacon's UNKL www.unklbrand.com. Tonight, a large group of great artists present their interpretation of SUG. Artists SUGin' include: Derek Welch, Jason Bacon, Rob Mars, KOZIK, NYC Lase, Maol, Super 7, Jeremyville, Tristan Eaton, Mr. Jago, Miq, Kow Yokoyama, Ren Sakurai, Saiman Chow, Martin Ontiveros, Bwana Spoons, Corey Smith, Brian Elliot, Ryan Bubnis, Akira Wakui, Shin Tanaka, Charlie Kraft, Jesse Rend, APAK, Akira Wakui Ippei Gyoubu, Madoka, Kinoshita, Cicci, Kubota Mari, MAD BARBARIANS, BARON UEDA, PCP, Nekoshowgun and Zanpon. This will be good.
In other news, SF's Upper Playground http://www.upperplayground.com, somewhat a Just Be Design copycat, is moving to the old Fashion Incubator space across the street.
Until 10 107 NW 5th http://www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/main.html *
The Portland Art Center opens a new sound art show "The Lineage of Harmonic Sensation" by Adam Bailey and new work by Sarah Gunderson, the invitation has a pleasingly blurred photo of the Oaks Park roller rink. Other exhibitions continue. until 10 32NW 5th http://www.portlandart.org
Next door, Backspace presents a great show. James Newell shows sculptural wall boxes themed on maps and landscape. Newell's previous show there included commemorative plates themed on America's own chemical WMD's. Kim Hamblin shows graphic representations made of thin sheets of vinyl strategically tacked. Michelle shows photo-like paintings of dark industrial landscapes. Dan Ness, who also has a show at the Goodfoot shows his paintings drawn from found graphics and photos. Until midnight 115 NW 5th http://www.backspacegallery
Then head back up toward the Everett Lofts, always recommended...
I think Rake is doing a good job. So I'm reprinting this excellent press release. I have not seen the show, so I don't know how it compares to the quality of the writing, but Rake has created a great network, so I say yea!
"Michael Endo is an international artist who has a rich, yet youthful, career. His works in oil posses the meticulous patience of the Italian Renaissance, with an edgy interplay of the abstract mood evoking atmospheric movement. He approaches his subjects as an investigator. Every painting is an attempt to better understand who we are as individuals, who we are as a community, a civilization, and ultimately, as a species. Who are we when we're not trying to be anything? What do our surroundings reveal about our personalities? This investigation has led him to the spaces that we create around and between ourselves and each other. Zeno's dichotomy paradox tells us that in order to travel from one point to another we must first reach the halfway point. Every distance can be halved, meaning that no matter what the measured distance is between himself and any other person, the space separating us is infinite.
How do we bridge the infinite divide?
Through Lines of Communication"
Until 10 325 NW. 6th Ave. http://www.rakeart.org
Now to decompress...
Valentines shows Art is People Too: Jack Bouba, Liz Goltz, Lauren Hobsen and Rikki Rothenberg. Valentines is a good place to recap the night's art events over food and a drink, they have music too by Sustentacula. For some thoughts on their location's awesomeness... Until late 232 SW Ankeny
Save your energy, Friday's are events are equally packed...
06:00 PM : Agua Arte Show @ Reading Frenzy
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the Agua Arte Show
(a benefit for the Willamette Riverkeeper).
On July 6th (first Thursday) from 6-9pm,
you must come see the Water
at Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St .
It's a group show with work from these wonderful people:
APAK www.apakstudio.com
Jon Izen www.jonizen.com
Justin b. Williams www.somekindofnothing.com
The Reverend Benny Bob www.reverendbennybob.com
Amy Lynn Morrison www.willamette-riverkeeper.org
Justin ?Scrappers? Morrison www.scrapperstown.com
Bwana Spoons www.grasshutcorp.com
Martin Ontiveros www.martinhead.com
Brett Superstar www.homepage.mac.com/bwsuperstar
and Nicole Thompson.
p.s. This is the chance you've been waiting for. It's time to buy some art and
help protect our environment.
Friday July 7, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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If you are not on the Eastside, Blue Sky presents a free lecture by Mark Smith on his Appalachian photography project. 7:30 1231 NW Hoyt http://www.blueskygallery.org/
The _Hall Gallery presents a portrait show. This may be their last show, it's a lot of work collecting viewer garbage left behind, help by getting yours in the proper receptacle. Litter sucks. Ain't sustainable. OK.
Artists Nadia Anderson, Mary Juliette Barruel, Jennica Blanchard, James Boulton, Tim Dalbow, Maria Dixon, Levi Hanes, Sean Healy, Amelia Hendley, Midori Hirose, David Kennedy, Kristain Kennedy, Jen Krushinski, Chynthia Lahti, Kendra Larson, Corey Lunn, Syd Lytle, Tamar Monhait, Nadia Anderson-Fritz Donnally aka Nadia Fritz, Isaac Peterson, Meg Peterson, Paige Saez, Adam Sorenson, Chris Steurer, Alder Suttles, Lizzie Swift, Storm Tharp, Zefrey Throwell. Caitlin Troutman, A Very Dead Horse aka Joe Haege, Brandon Wilkinson, Mathew Yake, maybe even others show, portraits in all media.
Overall, I love Friday's energy, but this one is not to miss. Until 10:30 630 SE 3rd or hours by contacting thehallgallery at theyahoo mail domain or 971-570-2290. Also open Fridays 3:30-6:30PM
Closing reception July 27 6-10:30PM
Moxie is doing something too for first Friday, If you are a Moxie loyalist, stop by and maybe see what is happening nearby at Oddball tattoo, who too, has been reaching out to their art constituency, these nights. Until 9 Moxie 2400 SE Burnside http://www.moxiepdx.com; Oddball 2138 SE Burnside http://www.oddballstudios.com
NAAU shows black and white as well as colorful abstract paintings by Timothy Scott Dalbow, very summery, the colorful ones. Until 9:30ish 922 SE Ankeny http://www.newamericanartunion.com/
811 block (811 NE Burnside)
At the Renowned Gallery (wow), Ayumi and Aaron Piland, aka APAK, present Hidden Places. Their acrylic landscapes are populated by creatures of indeterminate origin, and they are accompanied by 3d versions of same. Until 9:30ish http://www.renownedgallery.com
Beginning about 8, Denwave shows the 1960 film White Doves. They may loop it, it can stand on its own even if you just catch a snipet.
Moshi-Moshi will have something ultraJ for sure.
And at REDUX, recycle crafter queen, Mary Topanga, shows mosaics of abandoned plates, inculding such functional instances as wall mirrors. Until 10 http://www.reduxpdx.com/
Yes shows Baily Winters' House in the Woods.
Small A Projects has a group show, Atlas of the Universe, maybe a good time to see the gallery's span, which is on the upswing. Until 9 1430 SE 3rd http://www.smallaprojects.com/
Newspace Photography presents a national show juried by Christopher Rauchenberg and Jennifer Stoots. Artists include
Aimee Helen Koch Richmond, Virginia
Kirby Jones Portland, Oregon
Stephen Marc, Tempe, Arizona
Michael Robertson Santa Barbara, California
Cole Thompson Laponte, Colorado
Rishi Singhal Syracuse, New York
Nicole Jean Hill Omaha, Nebraska
Paul Yurkovich Dyer, Indiana
Don Tremain Dallas, Texas
Wyatt Gallery New York, New York
Jackson Nichols Freemont, California
Holly Andres Portland, Oregon
Kurney Ramsey Jacksonville, North Carolina
Bryan Wolf Portland, Oregon
Keith Sharp Media, Pennsylvania
Jim Lommasson Portland, Oregon
Cara Fuller East Aurora, New York
Joseph Holmes Brooklyn, New York
Melissa Immesoete Portland, Oregon
Todd Stewart Norman, Oklahoma
Until 9 1632 SE 10th Avenue http://www.newspacephoto.org/
The Wonder Ballroom's Guestroom Gallery continues the Grey|Area group show for the month. Open until 9 on Friday 128 NE Russell http://www.wonderballroom.com
Saturday July 8, 2006
10:00 AM : Foster Art Walk @ 53rd-63rd Foster Road
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Artists, seeking refuge from Portland's raging rents are infiltrating Foster Road (Saint Johns too, I predict downtown Vancouver in the future...). Now they are activating Foster Road itself, home to a plumbing store, piano store, gun shop, Russian restaurant, Tango studio, and fire strippers, I mean dancers. Art will be shown at the Meticon, 5925 SE Foster Rd.The Cosmos Bar and Grill 6219 SE Foster will have art and DJ's Jimmie Jamma, Jinn, and Joe Dairy. Art on the street too 10-6 and FREE.
If you are interested in participating contact http://www.thevisualrevolution.org or http://www.myspace.com/thevisualrevolution. Another project of this group of artists was successfully infiltrating and showing art in biff and buffyland, the Barracuda nightclub, of which we will speak no further.
Sunday July 9, 2006
11:00 AM : Church of Craft @ Doug Fir Lounge
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The church of craft - Crafty Wonderland - continues. Work for sale by Portland's crafty vixens complements a DIY zone for learning new skills. 11AM-4PM. www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
Friday July 14, 2006
07:00 PM : Portland Modern #4 Art Show @ Disjecta
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
This edition of Portland Modern, curated by Kristan Kennedy and Matthew Stadler includes artists Roberta Aylward, Amber Bell, Michael Boyle, David Corbett, Alex Felton, Anna Fidler, Caleb Freese & Justin Gorman, Sarah Gottesdiener, Liz Haley, Levi Hanes, Mary Henry, Philip Iosca, Eva Lake, Jonathan Leach, Isaac Lin, Marne Lucas, Rae Mahaffey, Jeannie Manville, Chelsea Mosher, Daniel Peterson, Shawn Records, Spirit Quest (Khaela Maricich & Melissa Dyne), Amy Steel, and Casey Watson. See the work in person, and many artists, no doubt at Disjecta. Enter on SE 3rd under the Burnside Bridge and read the signs in the neighborhood carefully, if parking a car, as there are some tricky restrictions which could result in an unpleasant tow. 7-10 Free
Saturday July 15, 2006
06:00 PM : Homeland River Themed Public Art Show @ Willamette River
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Homeland , Paul Middendorf and Paige Saez, present "Scratching the Surface" - Portland and out of town artists' responses to our relationship with the River. Artists include: Nicole Amore, Susie Bartley, Troy Briggs, Christopher Buckingham, Sara Cella Tim DuRoche, David Eckard, Eliza Fernand, Daryl Freier, Kim Hamblin, Liz Haley, Sean Healy, Ryan Jeffrey, Kristen Kennedy, Andrew Klause, Todd Kurtzman, Kendra Larson, Jonathan C Leach, Carly Leinheiser, Erin Letterman, Gabriel Liston, Shira Loa, Mary Mattingly, Lisa Maurine, Betty McEntyre, Paul Middendorf, TJ Norris, Tracy Olsen, Eugenia Pardue, Ben Pink, Public Media Works, Lisa Radon, Jenny Richardson-Greene, Ethan Rose, Adam Ross, Paige Saez, Ben Stagl, Amy Steel, Andy Stout, Jennifer J Strawn, Tucker Teutsch, Annette Thurston, Joe Thurston, Aaron HH Trotter, Max Turner, John Vitale and Vicki Wilson.
Today, Saturday, from 6:00-9:00PM the project will kick off with a reception by the River between Salmon and Main on the EAST side. You can pick up a map there to explore the installations and performances of Scratching the Surface.
More events on July 15, 19, 21, 22, 27 and 29 are listed at http://www.galleryhomeland.org/calendar.php. I believe everything is free, contact Homeland with questions - contact info is on their website.
Monday July 17, 2006
10:00 AM : Edward Tufte on Information Design @ Portland Location
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
See "Presenting Data and Information" by Yale emeritus professor Edward Tufte, July 17, in Portland. I have attended the seminar and recommend it. Tufte is highly engaging, you will not be bored for a moment, and will take away many ideas which you can apply to presenting information on your projects.
Tufte's thesis is that in order to make decisions based on complex data, it needs to be presented clearly, not simplified to the point of stupidity. Tufte illustrates his ideas with innumerable examples, including some of the earliest movable type books on science. In the seminar I took, his white gloved assistants circulate by every attendee, so you can see the first editions of Galileo, Euclid and Newton, 4-500 years old, some with little pop up 3d cutouts! He also presents case studies where the failure to communicate information clearly has lead to disastrous consequences, presentations made to support subsequently lost space shuttle launches, for example. You may be surprised that Tufte is critical of PowerPoint, and how it is typically used.
Tufte is author of 3 major books: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information & Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. You may find them locally to get an idea of Tufte's range or review excerpts on Amazon.com. If you take the course, the books are included, along with a chart produced in 1869 clearly illustrating factors leading to the failure of Napoleon's march on Moscow of 1812. That chart is way, way cooler than it sounds. These are handsome coffee table books, and may be helpful in explaining to your grandparents what you do in an engaging way.
The class is $360. Groups of 10 or more registering together save 25%. Full time students may attend for $180. Note the books alone would cost $147. Registration and more detail on the content of the course is available at http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
Info on the location is available upon registration. The last time it was in a big room in the Convention Center, so get there early for a seat up front.
Thursday July 27, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Show and Otaku City Trading Party @ Missing Link Toys
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
See Loosers Weepers, art by Ryan Bubnis at the Missing Link. 7-10
From 6-8 it's a Dunny Trading PartyTM. First you need a checklist. OK. Now some strategy. There is a new cafe next to the missing link accommodating more art space and more creature space too, with coffee, gelatto and panini sandy's if you need some food power for the evening. 3314 SE Belmont http://www.missinglinktoys.com
Saturday July 29, 2006
08:00 PM : Art Biennial Party @ Portland Art Museum
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From 800 submissions, the Museum's new curator of contemporary art, Jennifer Gately has selected 34 artists. Gately, fresh to Portland, visited studios, asked for opinions and looked at a few thousand slides. The result is a snapshot in time of what is going on here, now, many of the names will be familiar to readers.
The artists are: Brad Adkins (Portland), Marcy Adzich (Eugene), Holly Andres (Portland), Pat Boas (Beaverton), Chandra Bocci (Portland), Michael Brophy (Portland), Benjamin Buswell (Portland), Grace Carter & Holly Andres (Portland), David Eckard (Portland), Andrew Ellmaker & Mark Brandau (Portland), Ty Ennis (Portland), Anna Fidler (Portland), Emily Ginsburg (Portland), Heidi Preuss Grew (Salem), Jesse Hayward (Portland), Mark Hooper (Portland), Houston (Portland), Jo Jackson (Portland), Kristan Kennedy (Portland), Zack Kircher (Portland), K.C. Madsen (Portland), Federico Nessi (Portland), Lucinda Parker (Portland), Matthew Picton (Ashland), Brittany Powell (Portland), Shawn Records (Portland), Vanessa Renwick (Portland), David Rosenak (Portland), Storm Tharp (Portland), Mariana Tres (Portland), Laura Vandenburgh (Springfield), Bill Will (Portland), Amanda Wojick (Eugene)
This evening, view the exhibition and discuss it over a party in the Museum courtyard, with music by White Rainbow and DJ Copy. At 8:15 biennial sculptor David Eckard will perform. Attendance by invitation, RSVP by July 21 at 503-276-4299 Free
Thursday August 3, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
The Laura Russo gallery shows watercolors by Henk Pender. Pender is known for somewhat dark interior landscapes with perhaps a touch of surrealism. Dutch, he extends the masters' traditions into much more psychologically complex territory. Until 9 805 NW 21st Ave http://www.laurarusso.com/
Augen shows very bright geometric paintings by Eva Lake. Some would call them op-art, art that taps the base mechanisms of the retina and lower visual cortex in our very complex and not well understood visual system to produce a sense of vibration in the image. Until 9 817 SW 2nd http://www.augengallery.com/
Leach Gallery shows work by late career artist Lee Kelly. Kelly is welll known for large stainless steel sculptures installed outdoors around the Northwest. Any art that involves a crane is worth extra points with me. Where would we be without Sera's Tilted Arc or Seattle's Hammering Man? Perhaps there are clues for Portland's emerging artists, how do you get to late career and working large in stainless steel?
Also on view are works by Hans Haacke, Dinh Q. Le, Ken Lum and Kimsooja inspired by their relationship to their home countries. Le, from Viet Nam, is known for weaving photographs of Viet Nam War cinema stills and photojournalism snaps; he was born in 1968 and relates to that wartime through its artifacts.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
PDX presents Sun Spots, new landscape paintings by James Lavadour. Lavadour is known for his individualistic abstract landscape paintings inspired by Eastern Oregon vistas.From the artist's statement: "Every painting talks about some ancient thing that is as old as ground we walk on and connects us all in a shared existence." If you are interested in landscape painting, you might want to take a look at Lavadour's work.
Until 8. 925 NW Flanders Street http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com
The Everett Station spaces are always worth a look. I rarely get the whole scoop ahead of time, but did get word of these:
Tilt Gallery shows Freeway Hypnosis paintings by Jonathan Leach and soft sculpture-prints by Amy Steel.
625 N.W. Everett St., #106
Melissa Armstrong shows Entomology 211 themed on bugs in the lobby 625 N.W. Everett St.
Love Punk is a show of visual art and music by hey Lover http://www.heylovermusic.com. Music at 8. Hovercraft 328 NW Broadway #114
Influence, a show by Nicky Kriara, Hadley Hutton & Winnie McDonnald will be at Backspace.
http://www.backspace gallery.com 115 NW 5th to midnight
Just be design presents a new show by Kobe's Digmeout design collective. Details at http://www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/compound/0806_digmeout06/digmeout06.html . Please someone in Portland, let's get something like this going here. 107 NW 5th
Motel Gallery shows Wind Inside by Liz Harris, a show of drawings and a drawing installation. I'm interested to see how this relates to Linda Hutchins work of a few months ago. Harris recently relocated from Oakland to Portland. http://www.motelgallery.com NW Couch between 5th and 6th.
Upper Playground of San Francisco, as we have written previously, opens a store in the old Fashion Incubator space. Artist designers Herbert Baglione, Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant, Estevan Oriol and Saber will be showing their work. They are out and about Saturday doing graf-murals and then having a book signing Sunday. Stop into the store or check their web site at http://www.upperplayground.com for details. They are a store with a blog too: http://upperplayground.blogspot.com/ Corner of Couch and NW 5th
The Portland Art Center presents several shows in their new space: a show of Art Media employees, past and present, with 40% of sales going to support PAC; Eclipse, a sound installation by David Abel and John Berendzen in the Light and Sound Gallery; Waiting Room, an installation by Scott Wayne Indiana; and Focus Group, an installation by Houston. http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Kendra Binney, a talented lowbrow artist, maybe a kindler and gentler Mark Ryden crossed with some serious kawaii sensibility, shows her paintings at Berbati's. Usually I view this type of work with a jaundiced eye, but in this case it's well executed and I like it. Oh, and very reasonably priced too. 19 SW 2nd until late
http://www.berbati.com/
Valentine's present a show by Alicia Cortney Eggert. Music by Gary Wiseman, Tre', and Bark, Hide and Horn
From Valentine's press release: "Alicia Cortney Eggert was born and raised in New Jersey as the daughter of a Christian minister, and spent four years of her early childhood living in Cape Town, South Africa, where her parents were missionaries during the Apartheid. She studied Scandinavian architecture and design at Denmark's International Study program in Copenhagen, and graduated from Drexel University, in Philadelphia, with a degree in Interior Design. Using common household objects and accessible materials, her artwork explores the essence of human nature in modern society, revealing it's presence and impact on aspects of every-day life, and examining it's relationship to the natural world. In addition to creating and exhibiting her own work, Alicia also organizes and curates multidisciplinary art events in Portland, Oregon, under the name of Kitchen Sink.
All My Clothes is a series of studies relating to the ideas of ownership and identity that focus on the artist's personal wardrobe. Every item of clothing was scrutinized, catalogued and drawn in detail. Each and every tag and label were removed from the clothes and sewn together one-by-one to create a vague shape of the artist's physical profile. The project's culmination will be an installation consisting of every single clothing item tied together to form an enormous mass, which will hang on the wall and be on display for the entire month of August."
Art 6-10, open late 232 SE Ankeny
We also recommend wholeheartedly the MPP performance of new music on NW 13th between Davis and Everett. Free too!
Friday August 4, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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At 811 E Burnside:
Yes shows "Maximum Warriors", post aesthetic impressions of '80's cultural excursions, curated by Seattle's Devon Varmega and featuring the art of Dearraindrop (New York), Andrew Jeffrey Wright (Philladelphia), Zeloot (Rotterdam), Seripop (Montreal), Matt Lock (Austin), Devon Varmega (Seattle), E*Rock (Portland) and Brent Wadden (Berling, Germany). E*Rock's 1999 unit and Romancing play.
Renowned shows printmakers working in silk-screens, photogravure, intaglio, wood-block, and lithography in styles they term "New Brow". Artists include: Jennifer Leong, Erik Sandberg, Tony Zepeda, Yoko Tanaka, Bowen Park, Pamela Henderson, Thomas Lee Bakofsky, Julie Murphy, Alex Gross, Youshi Li, and Seth Drenner
http://www.renownedgallery.com
Redux recyclers/reusers/repurposers show show Lucia Johnson. http://www.reduxpdx.com
Moshi-Moshi/the Grass Hut Gallery show work by Seattle's Le Merde - lowbrow cute. http://www.moshi-moshi.com/
Small A continues their group show until mid month but closes at 6 this evening. 1430 SE 3rd http://www.smallaprojects.com
NAAU shows paintings by Mazana Bruggeman, her abstractions of landscapes, "You are Here". To me they feel like Google Earth, something that could not be said a year ago. From the artist: '"You Are Here" is an exploration of the relationship between physical environment (in this case Portland) and mental space. Both affect each other and seem to inform each other. A slight shift in attitude, emotion, intellect (mental)? can change the way you notice and interact with streets you move through and visual stimuli you encounter every day. The reverse is also true. This work is about creating a view of these spaces, an unattainable perspective that makes it possible to see the chaos in the grid and the grid in the chaos.' Perhaps this is what NSA is grappling with daily. I say let's paint secret message art on our roofs. http://newamericanartunion.com/ 922 SE Ankeny
Burnside Proper presents "First Friday Under the Big Top" with "clowns (!?*#), music, games, prizes freaks and magicians" as well as handmade goods by Patrick Powell, Hubris and Sophrosyne, Emily McHenry and Moving Circus. 624 E Burnside 7-10pm
Meanwhile over at the Woolley Gallery at the Wonder Ballroom there will be a show themed on motorcycles. There are a myriad of motorcycle cultures, here's hoping the scoot gangs of Portland will softly roar in this evening. I'm not sure if the show will finesse the culture-commerce balance but their announcement sketches out the evening:
"The opening night event begins with the gallery opening at 5:00 pm. At approximately 7:30, motorcycles design and build will be presented by 4 motorcycle designers, including Michael Czysz and his "C1"...the new American Superbike, and Paul Gaudio and the new Norton Commando. After the Design and Build, local film artists including "Lines" will present their motorcycle Film Extravaganza. The opening will conclude in the Wonder Ballroom with Portland's premier DJ Mr. MUMU and DJ Teenage. Admission is free and all ages are invited to attend"
http://www.markwoolley.com http://www.wonderballroom.com 128 N.E. Russell
Newspace photo continues their curated national group show. http://www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Saturday August 5, 2006
12:00 PM : Outdoor art installations @ Mt Scott Park
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Scott Wayne Indiana has put together a project of site specific art on the land, in Mt Scott Park. Given our relationship to wild nature, within the city limits and so easily accessible without, I would like to see more. Here's hoping Indiana's LA friends take an interest in creating landscape art here.
Indiana's show is reminiscent of Mathew and Maxine Lennon's Horsehead Project in Seattle in the 90's. I only visited the last one held out in the woods. Searching out the art with no maps brought pleasant surprises in the woodland's nooks. That year the organizers sponsored a raffle with the prize being the privelege of smashing a Chihuly sculpture. I didn't win
Artists making work include: Abi Spring, Adam Graves, Blinglab (Marne Lucas/Bruce Conkle), Bonnie Fortune, Brenda Mallory, Carolyn Zick, Gretchen Bennett, Gwenn Seemel, Hamish Grieve, Harvest Henderson, Jacqueline Ehlis, Justin Oswald, Marty Schnapf, Megan Scheminske, Micheal Keenen, Mylissa Fitzsimmons, Paige Saez and TJ Norris.
http://www.39forks.com/inCLOVER.htm
Noon-7 Mt Scott Park SE 72nd and Woodstock Free
Sunday August 20, 2006
04:00 PM : Exchange Project @ Homeland
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Portland is one of the world's centers for social art. Artists such as Harrell Fletcher, Red 76, M.O.S.T, Miranda July and others work in this space.
Sunday for a few hours, Portland will be host to Vancouver, BC's Nancy Nisbet's Exchange Project. With a nod and a wink. perhaps, to eToy's traveling cargo containers, the Exchange Project is a free store of stories in objects on a semi truck.
You are invited to bring objects and exchange them with others on the truck. Each object comes with a story from its previous lifetime, in turn, your story, of your object will be recorded for its future journey of highways, truck stops and even border crossings.
The Exchange Project adds sly commentary too, on privacy and surveillance: each object is taged with an RFID - a tiny radio "bar code" which can be read at a distance of feet by anyone with a reader. (Note in recent news RFID tags have been demonstrated to be able to carry small computer viruses.)
Visit the Exchange Project at the Homeland squatter headquarters at 916 SE 34th Ave, across from the Belmont Stumptown anytime between 4 and 7PM. http://www.galleryhomeland.org
Thursday August 24, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Show Party @ Audio Cinema
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
ACVC, the Audio Cinema Visual Collective presents an art-show-band-party-benefiting P:ear www.pearmentor.org. The visual work is curated by part of Gallery 500's old team.
Details and a list of artists at http://www.audiocinema.org. Party Thursday 6pm-2am, $8 donation requested. Art show Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am- 7pm, admission by donation. 226 SE Madison
Friday August 25, 2006
08:00 PM : Performance "Grab Bag" @ Portland Art Center
Music Flyered by Rob W.
Susan Ploetz and Khaela Maricich are wrangling a new monthly performance night. It's an opportunity for performers and artists to experiment, to take a risk, to get feedback and to have fun; it is the same for the audience, but low key like a house party. So performer or audience performer, take advantage of this!
The first evening:
Pash (Susan Ploetz)
Brace Paine (of Gossip)
M. Blash (director of upcoming movie "Lying")
Khaela Maricich (of The Blow)
Admission is $3 or free for Portland Art Center Members (you can join at the event). Included in the admission is an actual grab bag. Beer and Wine for sale.
Portland Art Center
32 NW 5th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
503-236-3322
http://www.portlandart.org
Thursday August 31, 2006
07:00 PM : APAK, FUMI WATANABE @ Office
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ART OPENING @ OFFICE / THURS AUG 31 / FOR MORE INFO: http://www.officepdx.com
“Tokyo in PDX” - a first time pairing of 2 NW / Japanese luminaries:
APAK (Aaron + Ayumi Piland of Portland, OR) + FUMI WATANABE (Seattle, WA)
PRESS RELEASE (PDF + Word Doc) + JPG attached
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First Time Pairing of award-winning artists / graphic designers / trend researchers / product designers
All new work, mixed media, showcasing the juxtaposition of modern, urban East-West Aesthetic
Inspired by traditional Japanese Icons, transformed by Northwest Modernism
APAK
“came to earth in a magic imagination machine”
Husband-and-Wife design and art team at the core of Portland’s contemporary art movement
Past Shows @: Motel, Renowned, Just Be Compound, Moshi Moshi, and The Wurst Gallery
http://www.apakstudio.com
FUMI WATANABE
“artist / art director / designer / trend researcher / illustrator / conceptual thinker”
Recently created the “entryway experience” for Surface Magazine’s Anniversary
By Day: Art Director for Starbucks Coffee Co / By Night: Indie Illustrator + Artist
Past Shows + Awards: Velocity Art and Design, AIGA, Print Magazine
http://www.alkemidesign.com
OVERVIEW:
Art Opening: Tokyo in PDX featuring new work by APAK + Fumi Watanabe
Location: OFFICE – 2204 NE Alberta St Portland, OR 97211
Gallery Dates: Thurs Aug 31 through Sun Sept 24
Free + Open to the Public
Artist Reception Thurs Aug 31 from 7 to 9 PM
More Info: http://www.officepdx.com
Please Post / List as appropriate – thanks in advance for your kind consideration!
OFFICE
Kelly Coller + Tony Secolo, OWNERS
Phone: 503.282.7200
Email: event@officepdx.com
Shop Online: http://www.officepdx.com
Shop In-person: 2204 NE Alberta St. PDX, OR 97211
OFFICE – Recommended by The New York Times
Friday September 1, 2006
06:00 PM : "I Do Adore" exhibition @ Renowned
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RENOWNED, I Do Adore,, exhibition of photography by Angela Boatwright, Abbey Drucker, Cheryl Dunn, Helena Kvarnstrom, Ye Rin Mok, Chrissy Piper, Liz Haley, Emily Shur, Deanna Templeton, Claire Weiss. Curated by day19
Opening Reception Friday September 1, 2006, 6-9:30 pm. Closing reception Friday September 29 6:30-9:30 pm, 811 East Burnside #111. Closes September 30, 2006.
Show runs September 1, 2006 – September 31, 2006
"I Do Adore" is an exhibition of emerging and well established women photographers from across the world. Each of the featured artists have created names for themselves through various outlets from books to magazine features to exhibitions to ad campaigns. One thing that each of these women have in common is their passion and talent for photography. Their styles range from street documentation to editorial, fine art to photo journalism and portraiture. In a fusing of all these different styles from such influential photographers, "I Do Adore" brings with it all the character and emotion that these artists have captured from behind the lens. Every photographer that was invited to be a part of this exhibition has shown the exceptional ability to find the hidden energy within a setting and bring its image to life.
Monday September 4, 2006
10:00 AM : Free Day @ PAM
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free day at the portland art museum!!
there are a couple of really nice exhibitions on right now: the biennial, japanese woodblock prints, northern italian paintings and frescoes... there will be public tours every hour on the hour, as well. yeah!
more info here: www.pam.org
free day is monday, sept. 4, from 10am-5pm.
1219 sw park ave 97205
503.226.2811
thanks! hope all's well,
kristen.
Thursday September 7, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Tonight's moon approaches earth at its closest in the year's cycle. What this all means, I have no idea.
Consider opening your evening with a free performance by Three Leg Torso http://www.3legtorso.com/ the gypsy chamber ensemble. They play at 6 in the Jameson Square Park at the corner of NW Johnson and 11th.
PICA's TBA festival opens with a performance at 8 by Brede Rørstad's Music Population Orchestra followed by Small Sails at 9 at Audio Cinema SE 3rd and Madison. 21 and over unfortunately, free fortunately.
Now for the visuals:
Valentines shows "Split Cities", photography by Portland and Brooklyn photographers Mikael Kennedy http://www.interruptart.com, Mike Powsner at http://www.mikepowsner.blogspot.com, Oriana Lewton-Leopold http://www.orianalewtonleopold.com, Sarah Meadows http://www.urbanhonking.com/owl, Brian Slaughter at http://www.babychickenwing.blogspot.com .
, Shayla Hason http://www.urbanhonking.com/dokuchan and Yoni Kifle http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/plrdyk.htm collaborating with E*Rock http://www.urbanhonking.com/lightandsound/. Music by Ryan Boyle as DJ Pogostick Yankovich.
Art 6-9, open late, but bring a flashlight for arting after 9 232 SE Ankeny
Ogle shows photographs by Chelsea Mosher. Her work reminds me of that of Liz Haley in that it can capture an enigmatic solo or group moment. Also showing is Philip Iosca. Both are part of the Portland Modern #4 group. 310 NW Broadway, doors close at 9.
PNCA hosts a long traveling group exhibition "Illegal Art" http://www.illegal-art.org/ themed on copyright and other intellectual property issues. Sampling pop culture provides a ready emotional ingredient to new work. The question is who owns that effect? The original creator? Or is it really a phenomena in each of our psyches?
PNCA graduate Heidi Cody's "American Alphabet" was used to form the group's logotype. Portland filmmaker Todd Haynes is also part of the illegal art group on the basis of his 1987 film Superstar, exploring pop singer Karen Carpenter's fatal struggle with anorexia. The film is stop action animated with BarbieTM/KenTM dolls as the actors. When art is outlawed, only the outlaws will have art...
until 9:30 PNCA 1241 NW Johnson
Leach Gallery shows "Supernormal" sculpture and relief forks by Sean Healy. Supernormal is themed upon high school social power dynamics which are thankfully discarded by most people by age 18 at the latest.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
The Portland Art Center mega complex presents video loops accompanied by live improvisation l by Paint and Copter. Listen to soundscapes by Seth Neihil in collaboration with dancer Linda Austin.
See "The Inside Game", selections from the personal collections of Elizabeth Leach, Joel Leib, Rod Pulliam, Justin Oswald and Jeffrey Thomas, all collectors and gallerists. The artists in the collections include: David Altmejd, Chandra Bocci, James Bolton, Claire Corey, Russell Crotty, Roe Ethridge, Harrell Fletcher, Harry Fritzius, Nick Di Genova, William Kentridge, Dinh Q. Le, Frank Magnotta, Roy McMakin, Lari Pittman, Rob Pruitt, Nick & Sheila Pye, Halsey Rodman, Will Rogan, TM Sisters, Dash Snow and Pinar Yolcan. Finally, perhaps because of our damp cool winters, Portland has become somewhat of a center for encaustic painting using wax pigments that must be melted on a hotplate to use. Tonight see a show juried by Elise Wagner, Jeff Gunn and SparkPlugArt of 32 encaustic artists.
http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Rake Art shows work by Skyler McCaughey, Grace Luebke, April Alden. I am feeling particularly lazy so from the gallery press release:
" Skyler McCaughey's body of work, The Business of Sweetness is an exploration of what it really means to work and what work is in relation to our lives. She investigates the idea that not only do we work to make a living, but in turn the lives we lead can be defined by the way we work. She suggests that questions about goals and work performance should not be confined to the workplace, but should be asked for every aspect of our lives. This exploration of what one could call a life's work has culminated in an investigation into the lives of insects. Skyler considers insects, bees especially, as totems of industry, having an innate and insatiable work ethic. These are the icons of her work. Using constructed light boxes, etched glass, stainless steel, copper, and brass, she constructs a view into the lives of insects. Her interest in what happens when an unstoppable worker becomes exhausted is evident in the both the frenzied activity of "Punching In" and the fossilized amber stasis of "Work Environs". In these works, Skyler explores the sensations of feeling exhausted, yet simultaneously feeling capable of doing more. This is what she refers to as the work of our living: the alchemical transformation of pollen to honey.
Grace Luebke's 3-D installation/ performance art "Ephemeral Matter" is a conceptual design, symbiotically integrating form and dance in the site specific space of Rake Art Gallery. An installation of 200 yards of silacoat screen mimics the movement of shifting, slipping, and speeding momentum contained within an axis while coinciding with a butoh dance performance. Grace finds inspiration for her designs in butoh, an improvisational dance movement founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazou Ohno. The performance begins slowly, and gradually picks up to a fast, edgy pace. The combination of installation with live dance performance enforces a connection between spatial design and the body. This inevitably creates an interactive connection between viewer and installation once the dance performance has ended.
April Alden's work, consists of found materials from the natural environment applied to wood or canvas by means of gesso and encaustic wax. She draws her inspiration from the found materials which then dictate her organic and geometric arrangements. This process oriented work allows her to express a childhood reminiscence of collecting plant materials and obsessively manipulating them into various shapes and patterns."
http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th
As usual the other Everett lofts are recommended.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents abstract contemporary baroque paintings by Brenden Clenaghen. Clenaghen adds unique icepick prick textures to his work. I like it.
Until 9 929 NW Flanders http://pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/
A side trip sometime in the month is called for to see the work of mid career artist and Reed professor Geraldine Ondrizek. She samples nature and science producing large scale sculptures. This show is entitled "M168: Tracing the Y Chromosome"
Oregon College of Art & Craft, 8245 S.W. Barnes Road
Ringler's Annex is not the greatest venue for art viewing, particularly their subterranean space. But this month it is well worth the visit to see paintings by Brett and Whitney Superstar. Their styles partner well, maintaining their individuality; their subject matter is often schematic plants and animals.
1223 S.W. Stark St.
06:00 PM : Split Cities Collection @ Valentine's
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More info here: UHX Thread
Opening Party!
And just to add more info: This is a collection of works by photographers from Portland and Brooklyn. There will be DJ Pogostick Yankovich. It will be a cool party and a great show.
06:00 PM : Aili Schmeltz @ Tilt
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NEW WORK BY
Aili Schmeltz
September 7-30, 2006
(Portland, OR-) Using suburban middle America as source material, the new work of Aili Schmeltz continues her exploration of the interaction of architectural development and the natural environment. Materials such as shag carpet, vinyl, and Styrofoam serve as emblems, snapshot memories of Schmeltz’s youth. These materials speak to the dualities inherent in the suburban landscape as hideous and seductive, kitsch and homey, humorous and heartbreaking. Her work explores the standardized and controlled attitude of human interaction towards nature, resulting in surreal landscapes. Her sculptures are a hybridization of modern American architecture and landscape.
Schmeltz’s work will be on exhibit September 7-30, 2006 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett, Suite 106, Portland, Oregon. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday September 7 from 6-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays noon-5pm and by appointment.
Aili Schmeltz received her MFA from the University of Arizona in 2003 and her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 1997. She has recently completed a residency at Raid Projects in Los Angles. Schmeltz has exhibited at Dinnerware Gallery in Tucson, Sculpture Space in NY, and Gallery 500 in Portland. Her work has been reviewed in the Willamette Week, the Portland Mercury, and the Tucson Weekly.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
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Tilt Gallery and Project Space
625 NW Everett Suite 106
Portland, Oregon 97209
http://www.tiltpdx.com
Thursday September 14, 2006
05:00 PM : Art @ Local.35 Store
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Clothing store Local.35 shows "Seneca" - work by Erik Railton, Molly Quon and Justin Hawkins. 7-9pm.
Music by DJ Entropy.
Local35
3556 SE Hawthorne Blv
www.local35.com
www.myspace.com/local35
Saturday September 16, 2006
07:00 PM : Art Crimes of Ron English @ Missing Link
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Ron English is an agitprop artist. I find clowns disturbing and he does not. His work is internationally known, the subject of a documentary, we are lucky to see the work in situ. I think the value is where his career arc meets his psyche - who among our friends have the same potential?
I am not damning with faint praise here. This is solid lowbrow work. The Missing Link openings are an undiscovered great thing, bring your friends, go!
The Missing Link 3314 SE Belmont 7PM free
Tuesday September 26, 2006
07:00 PM : New Art Salon Gertrude @ Vendetta
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What's a Gertrude?
Organism launches their salon Gertrude tonight. It's an opportunity for creative people to get together and talk about art and whatnot. Tonight's focus is on video art. Details at http://www.artorganism.org. Free. Free is good. At Vendetta on 4306 N. Williams 7PM
Thursday September 28, 2006
07:00 PM : Molly Anderson's Art @ Office
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Molly Anderson has an upcoming art opening in Portland, OR.
Her latest series of photos, The Joneses, will be up this month at Office: 2204 NE Alberta
www.officepdx.com
The photographs are of hand-crafted vignettes depicting American ideals of the 50’s and 60’s.
This is her first solo show in Portland!
The reception is on Thursday from 7 to 9. If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello!
If you can’t make it out for last Thursday, the show will be up Sept 28 thru Oct 22.
Saturday September 30, 2006
06:00 PM : Reading Frenzy Art Benefit @ Department of Skateboarding
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Reading Frenzy is Portland's OG of zines. A visit to Chloe's tiny store will never fail to uncover a new zine. comic, video, Vladmaster or Japanese thing. Chloe's sweet son, Henry, has cerebral palsy and a lot of Portland artists are kicking in for his special needs, community style. Artist friends Andi Zeisler, Anthony Capadona, Bill Branscum, Brad Adkins, Caleb Plowman, Chase Melendez, Chris Hotz, Chris Johanson, Chris Senn, Christine Shields, Dave Carnie, Dave England, David Petersen, Erik Railton, Ethan Fowler, Fran O'Connor, Jai Tanju, Jason Adams, Jeff Walls, Jim Hauser, Jo Jackson, Jon Humphries, Kim Hamblin, Martin Ontiveros, Meredith Leonard, Michael Brophy, Michael Sieben, Molly Quan, Noah Martineau, Ray Gordon, Roger Seliner, Russ Pope, Sam Coomes, Sarah Marshall, Steve Mathews, Storm Tharp, Sumaya Agha, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thomas Campbell, Thor, Tobin Yelland and Tom Greenway are all donating work.
Tonight also marks the launch of limited edition skate decks, the first by Jo Jackson and Chris Johanson. Johanson was part of the Rinder Whitney Biennial, Jackson's video piece was selected for purchase by the Portland Art Museum from the museum's biennial.
http://www.readingfrenzy.com
http://www.departmentofskateboarding.com/html/map/frameset.html
15 NE Hancock 6PM
Thursday October 5, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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Portland has design skills. Talented clothing, industrial, shoe, architectural and brand designers. Once a year they and other 3d designers stretch out and experiment with furniture design. For some it's a chance to break design blocks, maybe with a purely conceptual project, for others it's a chance to maybe have their designs picked up for production. Some brilliant design world judges have selected their winners from 40 entries. You can see the entries and hear the judges speak Wednesday October 4 between 6 and 9 at Design Within Reach for $10. Or see the show free at PNCA between October 5 and 28.
DWR corner of NW Everett and 12th, PNCA corner of NW Johnson and 13th
Details: http://www.showpdx.com
Valantines shows mixed media drawings by Cassandra Ann Adams themed on poppies. Inspired by Sylvia Plath's poems linking poppies to love's intoxication, Adams has refracted the connection through her own experience.
Art 6-10, open late 232 SE Ankeny
MK Guth, one of Portland's few artists working effectively in video, shows her work at Elizabeth Leach. Video art is tricky as we are immersed in moving images spanning the pedestrian on youtube to cinema's grand emotionally manipulative narratives. Also showing is Stephen Hayes known for his impressionistic portraits and landscapes in oil or as prints.
Until 9 417 NW 9th http://www.elizabethleach.com
Powell's Basil Howard Gallery shows Brandland, creative work by the WK12.3 gaggle. These twelve are a creative school within an advertising agency doing work that gets published, often for local nonprofits. As each has a varied background and are not exclusively sourced locally, the show might be interesting. On the other hand, it could be a not quite post ironic admixture of culture jamming and soft targeting.
Reception 7, show business hours at Powells Burnside and 10th
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/calendar#1194
Pulliam Deffenbaugh shows seductive constructions by Jen Pack. She stretches brightly colored sheer fabric on wood frames. Her canvas is transparent, specular ambient light casts an impression on the wall behind. Pack has added wiglike falls to some pieces perhaps amping a conceptual facet, welcome because the work itself can be too beautiful. http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=208
929 NW Flanders closes early 8:30PM
Mona Superhero has the seventies down. She extends the pop graphics entry into the fine arts world in the 1960's with imagery of the disco era of the seventies, a time when black and white Americans really experimented with mixing socially on an equal basis, dancing. Her images are constructed of brightly colored duct tape. Mona comes off sucessful shows at Gallery 500 to show this month at Berbatti's. http://www.ducttapeart.com/gallery.html 19 SW 2nd until late
http://www.berbati.com/
Rake gallery shows the real sixties and seventies to complement Mona's show, portraits of the Black Panthers, as effectively wiped out then as the American Indian Movement and now perhaps the animal rights movement. Photographer Eve Crane, also known for documenting San Francisco's Hell's Angels, has selected these from hundreds of photographs she made as an intimate of the Panthers, an armed community development group of the day. http://www.rakeart.org/ 325 NW 6th
Blue Sky Gallery shows Zona, photographs of the Siberian gulags today. Now they are not filled with political prisoners, but for example by a 15 year old boy serving three and a half years for stealing 2 hamsters from a pet shop. Despite the bleak landscape and bleaker yet history of the camps, people there still leave a creative mark on the place, and photographer Carl De Keyzer has captured it. Perhaps this show is a touchpoint for contempation of our own justice system and our emerging special justice system. 1231NW Hoyt http://www.blueskygallery.org
As always the Everett Station lofts are recommended for the sometimes experimental nature of the work...
06:00 PM : PAULA REBSOM @ Tilt
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WHEN I CAN'T BE HERE, I GO THERE.
NEW WORK BY
PAULA REBSOM
(Portland, OR-) Tilt Gallery and Project Space is pleased to present the new work of Paula Rebsom. Haunting and nostalgic, Rebsom's images stem from a sculptural practice, resulting in a romanticized relationship with nature and the "wild" that is unattainable. When I can’t be here, I go there., is one small attempt to explore the many relationships that we form with ourselves and the environments in which we choose to settle and our attempts to connect and thrive within them.
Rebsom’s work will be on exhibit October 5-28, 2006 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett, Suite 106, Portland, Oregon. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday October 5 from 6-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays noon-5pm and by appointment.
Paula Rebsom received her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2006. She is the recipient of the prestigious Jan Zach Memorial Award in Sculpture. Her work has been shown locally at Blackfish Gallery and at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon. Rebsom currently works in the Sculpture Department at Michael Curry Design.
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday October 6, 2006
06:00 PM : Gallery Openings @ Portland Eastside
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NAAU shows paintings by cofounder Rose McCormick who has recently been living in NY. McCormick is known for schematic paintings in neutral egg tempura colors on unprimed burlap, rough and ready, as canvas. 922 SE Ankeny http://www.newamericanartunion.com
Newspace shows 3 of their national juried show photographers.Siri Kauer portraits of celebrity impersonators. JSwofford shows compositional studies of microlandscapes. My favorite, Jeffrey Milstein shows his straight images of the underside of airplanes in flight. Post 9/11, airplanes are imbued with much more than the mystique of travel to exotic destinations. 1632 SE 10th http://www.newspacephoto.org
12x16 Gallery shows work by TJ Norris. Norris is known for minimalist imagery and sound installations. 1216 SE Division
Free Geek begins a hopefully regular art show with the art of Laura Lameraux, Gordo, Cara Mia, Katie Evans, Tiago, Sarah, Debra Hubbard, Dingo, Shawn Patrick Kelly, Aaron Tarfman. The theme is waste into art, and of course, Free Geek saves tons of it from unsafe disposal in China. Free refreshments. 1731 SE 10th Ave. http://www.freegeek.org 7-10PM
Yes shows large scale abstract embroidery compositions. 811 E Burnside
Renowned shows It's All Wood, a group show on wood. Outsider urban cartoons mainly which will make you happy. Artists include Apak, Andrew Bell, Andrew Brandou, Ryan Bubnis, Mike Burnett, Guy Burwell, David Chung, Sandra Equihua, Maija Fiebig, Filth, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Friends With You, John Michael Gill, Robert Hardgrave, Evan B. Harris, Shane Jessup, Sylvia Ji, Colin Johnson, Aya Kakeda, Jeremiah Ketner, Pars Kid, Joshua Krause, Josh Langlais, Seth Levy, Mike Maas, David Mazak, Tim McCormick, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, Martin Ontiveros, Augie Pagan, Joshua Petker, Lisa Petrucci, Matthew Porter, Sophia Pottish, Sean Quinn, Aaron Reimer, Lesley Reppeteaux, Chris Ryniak, Jason Sho Green, Corrie Greening Corey Smith, Ryan Jacob Smith, Eric Solis, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, Jophen Stein, Cameron Tiede, Tragnark, miQ willmOtt (Tweeqim), Thuy3 (Tweeqim), Amanda Visell and Steve Withycombe. 811 E Burnside
MoshiMoshi shows Norse by Norsewest, 2 1/2d to 3d- felt figures. This is definitely another cheer up, winter coming show, super bright. 811 E Burnside
Small A Projects shows sculpture Diana Puntar. Puntar uses wood, laminates and mirrors to make bright shiny things. From the gallery: "The work exists somewhere between a post-minimalist or post-apocalyptic history where radical ideas about form meet nostalgic longings for suburban or space-age materials. Puntar’s work thus elicits a series of disturbances in aesthetic and social systems – confusing the useful with the formal and the natural with the built -- suggesting parallel breakdowns in contemporary culture". 1430 SE Third Avenue http://www.smallaprojects.com 6-9PM
Ivy Studios at the Jupiter Hotel shows outsiderish paintings by Jeremy Schultz. 800 E Burnside
Meanwhile there is a fashion show too by Magali Corzo at the Jupiter Hotel 6-8 800 E Burnside
Q Center is a new space showing the work of queer artists that is not queer art. They have a group show by their QuArt collective. 69 SE Taylor
06:00 PM : It's All Wood @ RENOWNED
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RENOWNED, It’s All Wood, group exhibition, paintings on wood featuring the wooden goodness of
Apak, Andrew Bell, Andrew Brandou, Ryan Bubnis, Mike Burnett, Guy Burwell, David Chung, Sandra
Equihua, Maija Fiebig, Filth, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Friends With You, John Michael Gill, Corey
Greening, Robert Hardgrave, Evan B. Harris, Shane Jessup, Sylvia Ji, Colin Johnson, Aya Kakeda, Jeremiah Ketner, Pars Kid, Joshua Krause, Josh Langlais, Seth Levy, Mike Mass, David Mazak, Tim McCormick, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, Martin Ontiveros, Augie Pagan, Joshua Petker, Lisa Petrucci, Matthew Porter, Sophia Pottish, Sean Quinn, Aaron Reimer, Lesley Reppeteaux, Chris Ryniak, Jason Sho Green, Corey Smith, Ryan Jacob Smith, Eric Solis, Jeff Soto, Bwana Spoons, Jophen Stein, Cameron Tiede, Tragnark, miQ willmOtt (Tweeqim), Thuy3 (Tweeqim), Amanda Visell and Steve Withycombe. Curated by Ryan Bubnis
Opening Reception Friday October 6, 2006, 6-9:30 pm. , 811 East Burnside #111. Closes October 31, 2006.
Show runs October 6, 2006 – October 31, 2006.
Renowned
811 East Burnside Suite #111
Portland, Oregon 97214
Free and open to the public!
06:00 PM : Liz Cohn @ Redux
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REDUX
jewelry boutique and gallery
is proud to present this first Friday in October, 2006
the fabulous assemblage and collage works of Portland artist
Liz Cohn.
Show opens from Friday October 6th from 6-10pm, and runs through Sunday, October 29th.
Liz works in oil, acrylic, mixed media, and collage to create abstract and whimsical works of art on paper and canvas. The pieces she has selected for this upcoming REDUX show display her signature vibrant color and riotous movement but also contain a definite visual organization. She has pared down each component in her mixed media pieces to only the most important ingredients and erased the surrounding chaos. These works often contain newsprint and lettering, vintage photography, paint, attachments of metal wire and nails. Constantly pushing the boundaries of assemblage with her brilliant use of color, texture, words and images, Liz conveys the multidimensionality of life and all it’s curious representations. These pieces are bold and saucy and divinely inspired. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself at Redux this First Friday in LoBu.
Other surrounding galleries also open late.
REDUX Boutique and Gallery
(503) 231-7336 (REDO)
811 East Burnside #110
open from 2-7 wed-sun.
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reduce reuse redux
http://www.reduxpdx.com
tamara@reduxpdx.com
artware reinventions adornment
Sunday October 8, 2006
11:00 AM : Church of Craft @ Doug Fir Lounge
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The church of craft - Crafty Wonderland - continues. Work for sale by Portland's crafty vixens complements a DIY zone for learning new skills. 11AM-4PM. www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
Monday October 9, 2006
08:30 PM : Super Premium Video Hits @ The Boathouse
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peripheral produce presents:
Super Premium Video Hits by Bryan Boyce
artist in attendance!
at Peripheral Produce World Headquarters
(aka the boat house)
822 N River St
Portland OR
monday october 9th, 8:30 pm
free (but a small donation would be super nice!)
San Francisco-based videomaker Bryan Boyce finds equal inspiration in the absurdism of American politics and the expansive possibilities of music. This collection of shorts celebrates the darkly comic antics of the conservative media circus as well as the ways in which music can act as a soundingboard for explorations of the image. Several premieres will be featured in the show which also includes the Dick Cheney-Scarface mashup, 'America's Biggest Dick', George W. Bush invading Teletubby-land in 'State of the Union' plus videos featuring the music of Tin Hat Trio, 20 Minute Loop and Jondi & Spesh.
www.peripheralproduce.com
Friday October 13, 2006
07:00 PM : Haley-Briggs Art Show @ Gallery Homeland Anniversary
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Liz Haley and Troy Briggs show new works at Homeland’s one-year
anniversary show Friday the 13th. Bring your party hats and rollerskates.
"Let them eat cake!"
“With a Stranger” is up for the Month of October at gallery Homeland
project space at 916 SE 34th Ave, opening Friday the 13th 7-10pm.
'The other day I ate Chinese food and my fortune cookie said
“A chance encounter with a stranger will change your life”
So Liz Haley and Troy Briggs started a project together for Scratching the
Surface three months ago, meeting for the first time and with no idea what
to do. While walking along the esplanade, they noticed couples asking people
to take their picture. Something in this exchange was the seed for what will be
shown at gallery Homeland this October. It began with questions of
intimacy, projection and the exchange. The stories we create and the
objects left over have become the medium that they will use to give notice
to that moment that happens hundreds a time a day when we walk down the
street. Who are you? Can I ever know you? Will you change my life?'
http://www.galleryhomeland.org
916 SE 34th ave just off Belmont 7-11PM Free
Saturday October 14, 2006
10:00 AM : Open Art Studios @ Portland's West Side
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Once a year, many Portland artists open their studios. It's an opportunity to look inside a star kitchen or mysterious science lab for maybe a flash of insight into how artwork is created. West Side Studios October 14, 15, East Side October 21, 22. Details on getting tickets and maps at the website, of course your artist friends may invite you to their studios directly. $15 for two people and two weekends of open studios. http://www.portlandopenstudios.com
10:00 AM : Foghat Ranchero Breakfast Car Wash Performance @ John Head World HQ
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Portland has a concentration of particpatory social performance artists such as Harrell Fletcher, Red 76, the MOST and Sincerely, John Head - these folks who have also been doing the tailgating things from time to time.
At 10AM they will throw a campagne breakfast of "omelettes, pastries, waffles, hot coffee" "while supplies last" and champagne christen their life size Ranchero with FOGHAT vanity license plates. From 11-5 their installation is on display and you can get your picture taken in their personsize commemorative Foghat vinyl cover cutout.
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/sjh-images/welcomepix/foghatlive-sidebyside.jpg
10 Breakfast and Car Wash
11-5 Photo sessions and general carrying on, aka art viewing
It's at 18th and Overton in the Corberry Press
http://www.sincerelyjohnhead.com/
04:00 PM : Last Open Art Studios @ 333
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The 333 Studios are closing. Come by for their tenth and final open studio, sale and party. Surviving an illegal speakeasy and a Russian nightclub downstairs, the studios are over Dunes. They studios have incubated a few generations of Portland artists with monthly square foot rents a quarter of many of today's prices. See the work of artists John Brodie, David Eckard, Carol Ferris, Gilles Foisy, Cecilia Hallinan, Stephen Hayes, Robin Hoffmeister, David Inkpen, Una Kim, Blair Saxon-Hill and Marty Schnapf. RIP 4-9PM Sat, 12-4PM Sunday 333 NE Hancock, upstairs
07:00 PM : Art Benefit @ PNCA
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PNCA holds a silent auction art benefit to defray the medical bills of an alumn who was attacked in Old Town. Luckily this one is still alive. 7-11PM $5 donation at the door http://www.pnca.edu NW 13th and Johnson
Tuesday October 24, 2006
09:00 PM : Miniature Golf Designed by Artists @ Holocene
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Once a year artists and designers bend their creative minds around miniature golf. They fill Holocene with putting greens and all manner of cleverness to make golf holes with crazy ramps, chutes, funhouse mirrors and blinky lights. This year's holes include:
"Blowhole: The Hole" something about teeing off a surfboard into the hole which is the mouth of a whale. Except the whale hole mouth is moving! Once you sink the hole, the ball is blown from the whale's blowhole. By WK12.4
The "Labyrinth" requires friends to play. Tee off into a labyrnth maze. Your friends then tilt the maze to navigate the ball to the hole. They have to avoid spots on the maze where the ball drops from play. It's just like the hand held puzzle from childhood days of infinite time. Designed by Dave Selden and friends - The Minotards.
"Fancy" requires interactions with actors in play. Sort of performance art golf except you are in the performance. Luckily this all happens behind the curtains. Just like theater life world. By Lightbox Studio.
"Gnomes in Candyland" transforms the course into candyland. Whether candyland is the ultimate cradle to cradle sustainability strategy remains to be seen. Perhaps the course will be available to be eaten after day two, which might not be too bad since it is created by Pix Patisserie's Team Decadence.
"Superturboawesome" is always welcome, especially since this hole reference summer fun's skating, biking and the like. From Team Leisure Package - graphic designers Tom O'Toole and Ada Mayer.
"A Night at the Palms" involves navigating two floors of the Palms Motel, avoiding palm trees and whatever happens in the motel's rooms. By Flight 64, a coop printmaking studio. Press play!
"Destination Rampage" maybe recreates a life with the flying superpower. To score you need to dodge trees, rubble and "purple ponies" (?) then jump a ramp over the city. Home is where the hole is. By Team Monkey Punch (Anna Troupe and friends).
"The Mystery Hole" is not the mythical Gold Beach roadside attraction, but a devilish trap of optical illusions. Pass through the rabbit hole's shrinking corridor into a tiny village to the hole. By Team Half & Half, Cyrus Smith.
"Skee-Ball", the game you can never win at the Rose Festival's "fun center" is the inspiration for this hole by Omen (aka Nemo Design).
"FusGolf"TM requires running fusball paddles. Hopefully your "friends" are not running defense! By Elise Bartow and Daryl Freier.
"Virtual" is a game of electonically generated environments. Very Aeon Flux. By Alphonse Swinehart and Second Story Design.
"Pirate Golf" had to be. Dutch pirates in this case, navigating Holland's canals and windmills. By The Portland Radio Authority.
"Fleshtone" a performace hole by Portland's own costumed electro performers. Very steamy, surely. By "it's getting hot in here" Fleshtone
Players - You - vote for champion holes in categories Best Action, Most Artistic, Greatest Technical Achievement, Hole I Most Want To Take Home With Me (odds on Fleshtone?), and the most mega ultra uber awesome Best in Show, the designers of which win $500 cash money! So play early and play often.
Get your game on, those funny pencils and golf clubs are provided for 2 nights October 24 and 25! Tuesday 9-late and Wednesday 2PM - late. Holocene $6
Thursday October 26, 2006
07:00 PM : AMY RUPPEL @ Office
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AMY RUPPEL / Opening October 26 and running through November 26 / THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM
All new encaustic work from this acclaimed, award-winning graphic designer / fine artist – lovely encaustic birds, deers (new) and introducing plaster and wax bird heads (new). More than 100 works will be shown in all, as Amy turns the OFFICE gallery into a fantastic world of birds, deers, forest creatures, and trees. (Images attached) Each month, her online art sale sells out in minutes – this is a rare opportunity to meet Amy in person and purchase a unique Amy piece, not found anywhere else – even online!
Monday October 30, 2006
08:15 PM : Filmmaker Vanessa Renwick Lectures @ PSU
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The PSU Lecture series hosts Portland filmmaker Vanessa Renwick. She had the Trojan video in the Oregon Biennial. She has been making what could be classed documentry work as much as magical realism can be classed fiction. In other words, our region through a personal lens. Nuclear reactors, wolves, personal folk shrines, bicycling in Portland, hunting...
Renwick spoke at our house hosted class organized by Mathew Stadler. Ask her about her punk style road trip tours to show her films and network in cafes and Grange halls across the US. You can get a feel for her work at http://www.odoka.org/ 5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall by PSU 8:15PM Free
Wednesday November 1, 2006
04:00 PM : New Directions in Photography @ Clark College Gallery
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This show pulls together some outstanding and varied work by local photographers Holly Andres, Blake Andrews, Amy Archer, Daniel Barron, Liz Haley, Mark Hooper, Tamara Lischka, and Grace Weston. Andres is known for her Crewdsonesque psychodramas of growing up a girl; Archer for gridding multiples, often of architecture; Haley for snapshots of enigmatic personal moments in characters you may know; Lischka for her photographs of animal embryos and Weston for her obsessive miniature sets upon which life is played out. The gallery website has more information
Opening tonight 7PM Clark College Archer Gallery Vancouver, WA free
Thursday November 2, 2006
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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MK Guth's show continues with a large hair braid-like installation, videos and lenticular prints which change as you walk by them. Jesse Durost has an installation which incorporates a large American flag-like drape. It is only up until Saturday, when he gives a talk at the gallery. http://www.elizabethleach.com/ 417 N.W. 9th Avenue until 9
Scott Wayne Indiana has an installation in the Portland Window Project at PDX Contemporary Art, Proposal for a Forest or a Desert. Indiana is one of the few Portland artists seriously (also sometimes playfully as with his toy horse project) exploring art in the natural landscape. http://pdxgallery.com/ 925 NW Flanders St. Window viewable anytime.
Radek Skrivanek shows photographs of environmental disasters in the former Soviet Union. His choice of black and white highlights the viewers response to the tragedy. Some photos depict the Aral Sea, which dried up along with its fish population to irrigate crops in Uzbeckastan, home to US military bases for the Afghan and Iraq war and in Kazakhstan the subject of a geopolitical charm offensive by both China and the US over it's oil and gas. This has nothing to do with Klamath Lake. In another meditation on water, Kate Mellor documents old hot spring spas in Europe, accompanying the photos with faux journals of a fictional landscape painter visiting the sites. http://www.blueskygallery.org/ 1231 NW Hoyt until 9, maybe a bit later
Marcus Brown performs music driven by galvanic skin response on instruments of his own construction. Galvanic skin responses are subtle changes in the electrical conductivity of skin caused by changes in blood flow and sweat. It is used in lie detectors and by Scientologists, so it's nice here to see it put to positive use. From the artist: "I use visual, audio and performance media in my work to create my own dishes which re-conceptualize and re-spiritualize American contemporary culture. Sonically, I transcribe the musical traditions of my African and Native heritages in both a spiritual and socio-economical context. With the use of my environment and the body, I aim to create spiritual tropes with my linguistic visual and phonic transmissions. Much like a voodoo craftsman, I view my role in society as a spiritual one, who uses many processes to connect society to the spirit world. My focus lies in revitalizing "spiritual making" in the midst of a capitalist-driven and spiritually diverse American society." http://www.pnca.edu/ Performance 7:30-8 in the Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery 825 NW 13th at PNCA across 13th from the main school, door on the loading dock
Also at PNCA Gilbert Neri creates a mythical archeology to "mimic a museum exhibit in an attempt to restore lost authenticity" - the perfect counterpoint to the Art Museum's show of Egyptian artifacts. http://www.pnca.edu/ until 9:30 in the Feldman Gallery NW 13th and Johnson. Neri also speaks free at the school at 12:30 Friday
Jen Corace shows meticulous drawings at Motel. "Overwhelmed" incorporates iconic threats to the mythological character, mirroring the dangers of navigating modern life. http://www.motelgallery.com/ NW Couch between 5th and 6th across from Ground Control until 9
Supernal is an angel-themed show. A good counterpoint to the preponderance of dark themed Portland halloween costumes this year. Curated by Monica HW Choy, artists include 2H, Liz Adams liz-adams.com, Andrew Hem andrewhem.com, Lori Field lorifieldfineart.com, Angry Woebots armyofsnipers.com, Lucy McLauchlan beat13.co.uk, Aric Miller, Luke Chueh lukechueh.com, Cho-Chan digmeout.net, Martin Ontiveros martinhead.com, Colin Johnson colinjohnsonillustration.com, Maya Hayuk mayahayuk.com, David D'Andrea dvdandrea.com, Meg Hunt meghunt.com, Edwin Ushiro mrushiro.com, P. Williams pwilliamsart.com, Erik Otto erikotto.com, Ren Sakurai, Hannah Stouffer grandarray.com, Ronald Kurniawan ronaldkurniawan.com, Jeremiah Ketner smallandround.com, Ryan Bubnis ryanbubnis.com, Jon Han jon-han.com, Madoka Kinoshita digmeout.net, Joshua Clay jclayart.com, Stella Im Hultberg stellaimhultberg.com, Kenichi Hoshine kenichihoshine.com, Thomas Han tomorama.com, Klutch klutch.org, Mr. Kin k3.dion.ne.jp/~lmtiny/, Leanne Biank eyesorestudios.com, and Hajime Yoshio digmeout.net. Also showing is Pet Show by artists Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock.
At Compound/Just Be Toys http://www.justbedesign.com/ 107 NW 5th until about 9:30
The girl half of APAK!, Ayumi Piland, shows Animal Friends!. The show includes paintings themed on animal friendship, an edition of 100 of the her "Animal ABC Book" and prints from the book. From their website www.apakstudio.com Ayumi and her husband Aaron met in a distant dimension and traveled to Earth together in a magic imagination machine. Using their art, they have learned to exchange energy with beings throughout the universe. From their secret cabin, they are sending out their signal hopes of contacting other creative life forms". At Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak St until 9ish
Vino Paradiso has up a halloween-themed photography show. 417 NW 10th
At the Froelick Gallery, longtime artists Tom Prochaska and Laura Ross Paul show. Prochoska teaches printmaking at PNCA. In this show, his large scale paintings with a compelling colorful palate, seem to depict street scenes with barely discernible characters. His drawings are similarly impressionistic in a loose way that is actually coiled tight. Ross-Paul shows children and families seemingly in contemplation or at psychological play. Ross-Paul also is a master colorist, If you paint figures, take a look. http://www.froelickgallery.com 817 SW 2nd until 9
Caldera http://www.calderaarts.org is an arts camp and creative retreat in the mountains near Sisters, Oregon. What they do is very cool. Tonight they show some of the results, a show of photography and video, Seeing is Believing by young people in their program. In the W+K Lobby 224 NW 13th Ave until 9
The Portland Art Center shows an installation by PICA artist in residence Viktor Popovic http://www.viktorpopovic.com/ incorporating chairs and florescent tubes. Also IC2:Incidental Biographies by Elias Foley in the Light and Sound Gallery where live improvised music accompanies his video installation. http://www.portlandart.org/newsite/ExhibitionsNovember.html 32 NW 5th Avenue until 10
Valentines shows drawings "The Witchcraft Rebellion" by Arrington de Dionyso and Sophia Dixon. Their press release has a flair to it:
Two artists from opposite coasts conjure unseen worlds of alchemical oppositions: darkness and light, violence and love, populated by human-animal-vegetable hybrid forms with feathers, scales, hair, grass, water, clouds and blood. Pulsating with euphoria bordering on madness, these ink drawings of unbridled intuition expose us to an instinctual language of brush and quill. Sexy, edgy, fantastically risky, the viewer is invited to follow along with initiatory hallucinations, vine-ripened with suggested narratives and somnambular echoes. This is the stuff that dreams are made of, the dreams that draw themselves.
Both the opening and closing events will feature proto-musical sound performances by artist Arrington de Dionyso, drawing upon his synaesthetic readings of the artworks as scores for sound wave conduction.
SOPHIA DIXON-
I allow my own fantasies free rein in my work because I want to explore the nature and effect of representations of female desire within a culture whose collective imagination has been primarily formed by male fantasy. I am interested in the compact made between individual and cultural fantasies and the slippage between theatricality bordering on camp and almost embarrassing self-exposure. I indulge certain culturally inherited erotic aesthetics, and my drawings expose a fascination with young bodies and a desire to possess and ultimately form a collection of these bodies through portraiture. My interest in the intersection between personal desire and collective fantasy is connected to an interest in the ongoing cultural linkage of desire, especially non-normative desire, with illness and death, and the fantasy world of my drawings is populated by embattled or endangered sickly young bodies. In my red drawings, I am interested in both the teenage-melodramatic implications of the drawing being 'written in blood' and in the resultant relationship of paper to skin. I think about the viewer relating to the the paper both as a surface for the drawing and as a vulnerable, eroticized object, on which the drawing is a wound. I want her to feel implicated in the compromised eroticism of the drawing, and forced to participate in an eroticized representation of violence and self-violence.
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO-
Founding member of the band Old Time Relijun, Arrington deals with many of the same themes in both music and art, using performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll.
Lights on 6-9, music at 9 Valentines 232 SW Ankeny
06:00 PM : "The Witchcraft Rebellion" @ Valentine's
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"The Witchcraft Rebellion"
drawings by Arrington de Dionyso and Sophia Dixon
opening reception thursday, november 2 6-9pm
performance at 9pm
closing reception thursday november 30
performance with OWL SOUNDS from NYC 9pm
Two artists from opposite coasts conjure unseen worlds of alchemical oppositions: darkness and light, violence and love, populated by human-animal-vegetable hybrid forms with feathers, scales, hair, grass, water, clouds and blood. Pulsating with euphoria bordering on madness, these ink drawings of unbridled intuition expose us to an instinctual language of brush and quill. Sexy, edgy, fantastically
risky, the viewer is invited to follow along with initiatory hallucinations, vine-ripened with suggested narratives and somnambular
echoes. This is the stuff that dreams are made of, the dreams that draw themselves.
Both the opening and closing events will feature proto-musical sound performances by artist Arrington de Dionyso, drawing upon his
synaesthetic readings of the artworks as scores for sound wave conduction.
SOPHIA DIXON-
I allow my own fantasies free rein in my work because I want to explore the nature and effect of representations of female desire within a culture whose collective imagination has been primarily formed by male fantasy. I am interested in the compact made between individual and cultural fantasies and the slippage between theatricality bordering on camp and almost embarrassing self-exposure. I indulge certain culturally inherited erotic aesthetics, and my drawings expose a fascination with young bodies and a desire to possess and ultimately form a collection of these bodies through portraiture. My interest in the intersection between personal desire and collective fantasy is connected to an interest in the ongoing cultural linkage of desire, especially non-normative desire, with illness and death, and the fantasy world of my drawings is populated by embattled or endangered sickly young bodies. In my red drawings, I am interested in both the teenage-melodramatic implications of the drawing being 'written in blood' and in the resultant relationship of paper to skin. I think about the viewer relating to the the paper both as a surface for the drawing and as a vulnerable, eroticized object, on which the drawing is a wound. I want her to feel implicated in the compromised eroticism of the drawing, and forced to participate in an eroticized representation of violence and self-violence.
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO-
Founding member of the band Old Time Relijun, Arrington deals with many of the same themes in both music and art, using performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the
folk imagery of rock and roll.
Saturday November 4, 2006
05:00 PM : Flight 64 Printmaking Benefit @ Holocene
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Portland has some printmaking mojo. Maybe it's because of the relationship between trees and paper. It's probably because of Gordon Gilkey. In the army in WW II, his interest in art lead him to being responsible for researching art displaced by the war and returning it to its proper owners. So he met a lot of art people in Europe and built an economical print collection by trading prints with artists. Later he taught printmaking at PNCA and then created the Art Museum Print Center where anyone can take a look at super valuable prints from their archives since he met artists in the day when maybe you could trade a print for a bottle of Absinthe.
Printmaking presses are heavy. Yes it wolld be nice to have one in the basement, but how do you get something that weighs a ton down the stairs? Thus Flight 64, a printmaking coop sharing a studio and presses. http://www.flight64.org/ Tonight hear music by Blitzen Trapper, The Shaky Hands, Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond and DJBJ. Two buck raffle tickets give you a chance to add prints to your collection from famous local people and the members of Flight 64. Artist reception 5-8. Raffle drawn at 8. Bands 9. Holocene http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ $5
Monday November 6, 2006
07:30 PM : Artists' Lecture @ Reed
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Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell have a show at Reed College: "I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMEWHERE." In 1970 opposition to the Vietnam War had grown. Although a majority had concluded the war pointless and wrong, a strong pro war minority accused doubters of the war of being unpatriotic and not supporting the troops. There was also a military draft making all college students targets, except for those with powerful family connections or wealth. Against this backdrop, students across the country protested the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia. On May 4, the Ohio National Guard shot 4 at Kent State University. Artists Hadley+Maxwell, working from photos of the time restaged the events on the Reed Campus with students alternating roles as the dead students and those around them in shock. In the gallery, the artists project the photos and draw over the projections. Lucien is a social artist, perhaps similar to Harrell Fletcher. He will engage gallery visitors personally in 100 photographs from his collection of 300,000 and produce more material from the interaction.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Lecture Vollum Hall 7:30 Free
Thursday November 9, 2006
12:00 PM : Art on Pirate Radio Opening @ Henry in Seattle
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Artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, neuroTransmitter, operate in the realm of transmission arts, analog. Their installation at the Henry delves into pirate radio as one manifestation of of the phenomena. Up until December 31. http://www.henryart.org/ex/neurotransmitter.html
12:00 PM : Landscape Architect Peter Walker @ UO Portland Center
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Peter Walker is one of the world's leading landscape architects. His work creates the physical architecture upon which the cultural anthropology of moving through space, or just contemplating it, happens. He and his firm are known for their urban planning, university campus, city park and public space designs. His firm is responsible for the William Jameson Park, NW 11th and Johnson, with it's brilliant fountain-wading-pond. 722 SW 2nd Ave, 4th Floor Review Room Noon Free
Saturday November 11, 2006
06:00 PM : Residence show-buy-party @ Homeland
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All those free art shows with free drinks need money and you need art. Inviting artists to visit and make work or show our work in the world outside Portland requires fundage too. So 50 artists: Nicole Amore, Holly Andres, Josh Arseneau, Joe Beil, Troy Briggs, Chris Buckingham, Sam Coomes, Brent Comstock, Bruce Conkle, Tim Dalbow, Marguerite Day, Nick diSessa, Fred Fliesher, Liz Haley, Kim Hamblin, Meg Hanson, Jimmy Hatch, Scott Wayne Indiana, Ryan Jeffery, Chris Johanson, JoAnn Kemmis, Kendra Larson, Erin Letterman, Amy Lincoln, Karl Lind, Gabriel Liston, Kurtis Lofstrom, Marne Lucas, Betty MacEntire, Mary Mattingly, Zak Margolis, Lisa Maurine, Paul Middendorf, Chelsea Mosher, Charles Moss, Tj Norris, Lauren Obenour, Tracy Olsen, Louise Osborne, Eugenia Pardue, Ethan Rose, Adam Ross, Paige Saez, Joe Spangler, Cynthia Star, Amy Steel, Jeremy Tucker, Max Turner, Annette Thurston, Joe Thurston, John Vitale, Vicki Lynn Wilson and Jim Wood have contributed small works to make it happen. Buy them for $20-200
Opening party 6-11PM Show all month Saturday and Sunday 12-5 until December 2.
At Gallery Homeland World Headquarters 916 SE 34th Ave.
Wednesday November 15, 2006
07:00 PM : Art Conservation Now Lecture @ Reed
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MOMA Director of Conservation, Jim Coddington, speaks on conserving today's contemporary art. Given electronic media and materials that aren't archival, plus all manner of installations and wild sculpture, it's a non trivial challenge.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Reed Vollum Hall 7:00PM Free
Thursday November 16, 2006
07:30 PM : First VJ Night @ 911 in Seattle
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VJ's mix video samples live to music. They work harder than DJ's, mixing sometimes hundreds of samples per minute while the DJ manages transitions every few minutes. Their method is more like a producer, but they do it live. It's been going strong in the UK for over 20 years, lead by Coldcut's Matt Black. RISD students the Emergency Broadcast Network pioneered political cut ups using videotape and many videotape players live. Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center, with no analog in Portland, catches up tonight and presents a night featuring VJ's Killing Frenzy, scobot with DJ Hyasynth.
http://www.911media.org/events/vj-night.html 402 9th Avenue N between Belltown and Lake Union 7:30-10:30PM not sure of the admission
Friday November 17, 2006
07:30 PM : 3 Artists Open @ Small A Projects
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Small A Projects, which has been making a great name for Portland lately by presenting artists' first solo shows, opens Green Light Green Light, Jamie Isenstein, Anissa Mack and Josh Shaddock. Anissa has done performances, such as Pies for a Passerby, in which she baked apple pies at the Brooklyn Public Library then placed them on the windowsill of a purpose built cottage for passerby's to steal.
Jamie Isenstein produces installations; Josh Shaddock is the coolest of the three, sometimes working with language. Small A Projects http://www.smallaprojects.com 1430 SE 3rd Reception 5-8 Talk Isenstein-Mack 7:30 Free
Saturday November 18, 2006
07:00 PM : Photographer Daido Moriyama Speaks @ Portland Art Museum
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Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is known for his grainy black and white photos lensed with dramatic camera angles. Sort of punk style, except his career began in about 1960. After a 10 minute film on the photographer, he will be interviewed by photographer Michael Kenna who is known for his nightime landscape photography. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium http://www.portlandartmuseum.org $10 general $5 members
08:00 PM : FO(A)RM Experiment @ Portland Art Center
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FO(A)RM is a yearly journal which uses metaconcepts like autonomy, topography, duals & doubles, dis/embodiment and utility to organize writings and recordings. Tonight they branch from treeware to sound eyeware referencing too the sound recordings contained in autonomy's CD. Organizer Seth Nehil made electroacoustic music, moved to NY, started the journal and now is back making more sound visual performances.
Performers Olivia Block, Chicago; Seth Cluett, Princeton; Luc, Portland; Borborygmus, Portland; DJ P Unity, Portland provide a counterpoint to experimental video material from Zak Margolis, Holly Andres & Grace Carter, James Sumner (Dirty Projectors), Brook Hinton, David Borengasser, Melody Owen and Animal Charm curated by Morgan Currie. See also video installations by Richard Garet, Michael Bullock, Kuwayama Kiyoharu (Lethe), Elizabeth Leister, Stephen Slappe, Cat Tyc, Linda Kliewer, Phillip Cooper, Ryan Jeffrey, Mark Owen, Mack McFarland and Sue Havens.
All this takes place at the Portland Art Center http://www.portlandart.org/ 32 NW 5th 8PM $8 advance/ $10 door includes $2 off the purchase of FO(A)RM autonomy journal.
Thursday November 30, 2006
07:00 PM : THE WURST GALLERY @ Office
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THE WURST GALLERY / Group Show Opening Thurs Nov 30 and running through Sun Jan 21 / A to Z: For the Love of Type
Jason Sturgill, curator, has gathered internationally award-winning graphic designers, typographers, artists, screen printers, graffiti artists, and “fine” artists (more than 26 in all) for a show based on the love of typography and the alphabet. No two pieces are the same, as only artist is showing one letter. Artists include but are not limited to high profile design firms such as: PLAZM, Sandstrom Design (Sarah Hollowood), Big Giant, Wieden and Kennedy, Nike, and others. (Shown: Z for Zamboni by Tony Secolo of OFFICE).
09:00 PM : Show Closing with Music @ Valentines
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Valentines has a closing reception for the show listed in the westside art openings above. OWL SOUNDS from NYC performs at 9pm probably free - check with the venue 232 SW Ankeny
Friday December 1, 2006
05:00 PM : I'll be 6 for ever and ever - kid's books @ Murdoch Gallery
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Portland children's book illustrators Stephanie Bauer, Susan Boase, Annie Cannon, Carolyn Digby Conahan, Scarlene Delage, David Delamare, David Horn, Susan Jerde, Robin Koontz, Abigail Marble, Nicole Rubel, Andrea Uren and Elsa Warnick show the original artwork for their books at a show at the Murdoch Collections Gallery. The opening is today 5-9. Each Saturday in December they have afternoon readings at 1 with milk and cookies. Not sure about naps.
4114 N Vancouver Avenue 503-284-1960 Opens 5-9 Free
06:00 PM : Portraits of Artists @ Woolley Gallery Eastside
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The Mark Woolley Gallery is decamping from the Pearl District after 13 years and plenty of infamous gallery shows and events. All art operations will be focused at his gallery underleath the Wonder Ballroom on NE Russell.
Tonight a photo show of artist portraits opens. Marne Lucas has posed artists Tom Cramer, Paul Green, M.K. Guth, Storm Tharp, Chandra Bocci, Arnold & Jacob Pander, Jeff Jahn, Harvest Henderson, Bruce Conkle, Jayme Hanson, Henk Pander, Brenda Mallory, Molly Vidor, David Inkpen, Trish Grantham and LucasTom Cramer, Paul Green, M.K. Guth, Storm Tharp, Chandra Bocci, Arnold & Jacob Pander, Jeff Jahn, Harvest Henderson, Bruce Conkle, Jayme Hanson, Henk Pander, Brenda Mallory, Molly Vidor, David Inkpen, Trish Grantham and herself in tableau somehow going to the core of each artist's persona.
For example "In ‘Portrait of M.K Guth’, who is originally from Wisconsin, she is depicted ice fishing, a childhood memory- but at an ice hockey rink. Paul Green himself is cast as a proud, yet fragile figure from his own oil paintings and in ‘Bruce Conkle, Redwood Forest’ the artist becomes one of his own melting snowmen installations.”
In the same show. “Only For Seeing” are new drawings and watercolors by Arnold Pander.
www.pandermedia.com
Opening Reception: Friday December 1st, 6 - 9:30 pm
Artist talk: Saturday December 2nd at 2 pm (Lucas, Pander & Burns)
Closing Party: Friday December 29th, 7-11 pm
128 N.E. Russell (near MLK Blvd.) at the Wonder Ballroom
Hours: 11-6 Tuesday - Saturday 503) 284-3636
08:00 PM : Rock Ballet Photo Show @ The Press Club
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Renaissance woman Alicia Rose shows portraits of Oregon ballet dancers lensed with rock attitude. Maybe that's because that's what she does. This woman's super powers include mad accordion playing, running an independent music distribution company, writing, radio, music supervision for a small ad agency, booking a nightclub and photography. More rockin' info at http://www.missmurgatroid.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliciajrose The Press Club 2621 SE Clinton 8-midnight free
Saturday December 2, 2006
08:00 PM : 'More Monsters' (New paintings by Driscoll Reid) @ Cals Pharmacy
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'More Monsters'
New paintings by Driscoll Reid
Saturday, Dec. 2nd
8-10pm
@ Cals Pharmacy
(gallery on mezzanine level)
11 NE Hancock
Driscoll's monster painting was a hot piece in the Wurst Gallery's 'Vintage Vandals' show and his monsters have been in high demand ever since. This will be his final Portland show before up and moving to Japan in January.
Monday December 4, 2006
08:15 PM : Artist Lecture Series @ PSU
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Oregon Painter James Lavadour speaks. Lavadour is Umatilla. A self taught artist, his subject is abstract landscape. His work has a gestural feel, like sumi ink drawing, in thin pigments touching our Western landscapes' color; it is his intent to capture something of the landscape in the canvas that can hold the viewer's inspiration, if only for a moment.
His Gallery Website PSU 5th Avenue Cinema, Room 92, 510 SW Hall 8:15PM Free
Wednesday December 6, 2006
06:00 PM : Organism inaugural show @ 107 NW 5th
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Organism announces its inaugural show with the US premier of Jarrett Mitchell’s “The Dawn of The Birth Of The Battle of Right To Life vs. The Law Of Death”
“Funny, political and weirdly spiritually charged” – Frieze Magazine (September 2006)
This body of work recently took top prize at the 2006 East International (awarded by 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller)
Dates:
Dec 6 - Jan 28 2007
Opening Dec 6 6:00-9:00 (artist in attendance)
First Thursday Dec 7 6-9:00 (artist in attendance)
Hours:
12:00 - 6:00 Wednesday – Sunday
Closed Dec 24, & Jan 1
At:
107 NW 5th Ave (4th floor), Portland, Oregon 97209
Details:
Through a challenging incorporation of video, installation and paintings Jarrett Mitchell has taken contemporary art’s frequently shallow obsession with deer and imbued it with a strangely philosophical purpose as well as a life and death sense of urgency. Here the deer isn’t just the noble lord of the forest or the trophy of a hunter; it’s a kind of turning point in people’s lives and a way of looking outside familiar worldviews. The work’s political nature is more about nature itself. (Those interested in potentially contributing an extraordinary story about a deer can email Info@artorganism.org)
“I’d call it an uneasy marriage between paganism, road kill and Al Jazeera mixed amongst the roots of today’s pressing political and ideological conflicts but without the omnipresent propaganda. Instead, there is common ground here and The Dawn Of The Birth Of The Battle Of Right To Life vs. The Law Of Death is Beuysian zeitgeist barometer. It is anything but cute and maybe this is the deer show to end all deer shows because Jarrett looks at how human and deer interactions reflect upon our humanity. It isn’t always pretty, though sometimes it is miraculous.” - jeff jahn curator
Historical Context:
Contemporary art has long held a fascination with deer, from Franz Marc to Bruce Nauman’s “Animal Pyramid” (at the Des Moines ArtCenter) or Kiki Smith, to recent photographers like Wolfgang Tillmans and Justine Kurland. Lately, younger artists have taken to using the deer in a more ornamental mode. Jarrett’s work differs distinctly from this practice.
Jarrett Mitchell:
Has shown at; Deitch Projects, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Jack Hanley, New Langton Arts in the USA and East International 2006 in Britain. He is a native of and currently resides in Kentucky.
About Organism:
Organism operates on the cusp of global visual culture providing Portlanders with tightly curated year round exhibitions of relevant and challenging international work. We have 10+ months worth of programming in the works including our next show, a Canadian artist who deals with transportation to “Model Behavior” a group show of national and international artists in the Spring. There is even some great stuff from Berlin. By stepping up and supporting promising young international artists before they have reached ubiquitous international renown Portland gets to share in their success as well as well take credit for being ahead of the curve. This positions Portland’s entire scene attractively and Organism’s curatorial program compliments other existing institutions while filling a large hole. Currently, we will use temporary spaces tailored to specific shows but in time intend to find a home.
Thursday December 7, 2006
01:00 PM : ANP Artists @ Local.35
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RVCA ANP artists Ashley Macomber, Rich Jacobs, and Matt Leines paint live at the Local.35 store on Hawthorne. 1-7PM Thursday and 1-4 Friday. Friday 5-9 at the Widmer brewery there is a party, reception for the artists, just in time for your later evening plans.
As Los Angeles grew more diverse and worldly, the dark inspiration for Blade Runner, middle class families with kids moved, colonizing first "the valley" to the North in the 60's and 70's. That kids' culture established it's mark on clothing, language and their parents' on porn in the 80's. The valley space filled, geography dictated the next move for families to Orange County and its environs, close to the beach in the 80's. The resulting Orange County culture has made a big imprint on music, clothing, graf, gaming, skating, surfing and extreme sports. RCVA, firmly rooted in Costa Mesa's youth culture clothing incubator, and at about $20M annual sales, has charted a brand trajectory tapping artists as authentically as Nike taps major athletes. Artists are perfect because they operate outside the world of music and its commercial machinery which can scale careers beyond the allegiance of cultural thought leaders.
It's Artists Network Program, including Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson, promotes artists and imprints their designs on shirts. To reach further, they started the ANP Quarterly, a sort of creative shoegazer lifestyle art magazine, distributed to stores in the network of their demographic.
Anyway the art is real and viewing free.
Local 35 3556 SE Hawthorne Blvd Widmer Brewery corner Interstate and Russell on the Yellow Line
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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New Photo Gallery Opens
Erik Schneider's Quality Pictures opens with photographs by Chris Verene and a group show "Pictures of Women". Quality Pictures is a transplant from Atlanta. Verene's show "self esteem" is an updated version of a popular aesthetic, subjects in everyday settings, perhaps derived from Arbus' unsympathetic gaze, and often seen at Blue Sky. Verene adds performance and participation vectors by constructing theatrical sets as an aspirational setting for his subjects' portraits. Funk electronica musician Carl Tietze performs 6-8 and Trashcan Joe from 8:30-10
Quality Pictures 916 NW Hoyt under Allied
11th Annual Cheap Art Show
Reading Frenzy presents exactly that. At 50 and under there will be work including paintings by Kjirsten Winters and Loni Gaghan; calendars by Nikki McClure, Katie Muth, Nicole Georges, Carye Bye, Jill Bliss and Saelee Oh; stationery from Proletariat Press, Meaghan Corwin, Nikki McClure, Katie Muth, and Carye Bye; prints by Ayumi Piland and Katie Muth; toys by J. Swan; wearables by Sarah Utter and artist's books, zines and mini-comics by Caroline Hwang and Ayumi Piland.
Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak
Compound Ghosts vs Robots in Mike Burnett's Neighborhood
Ghosts vs Robots is a collaboration by Brian Flynn, Mr Jago and Heather Amundy-Dey. What great contrasting metaphors. There is also a giant show of small wood figures modded up by a large number of artists.
107 NW 5th
Organism Deer Show above Compound
Previously noted it will be open tonight up on the 4th floor - enter at Just Be Toys
Upper Playground The New Scenery
Upper Playground's Portland outpost presents "The New Scenery" - Portland artists Legal Bees, Joseph Cross, Olivia Edith, Justin Goreman & Caleb Freese, Klutch, Ashley Montague, Dan Ness, Oddball Studios, Jessie Reno, Lyla Emery Reno, Brad Simon and Sorey Smith. Ohmega Watts spins. 23 NW 5th until about 9 http://www.fifty24pdx.com/ 23 NW 5th
Geometric Oils - G Lewis Clevenger
This work makes effective use of palette and composition breathing life into a mid century modern style. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh 929 NW Flanders until 8:30
The Everett Station Lofts, bounded by NW Broadway, 6th, Everett and Flanders are an always recommended grab bag.
06:00 PM : Photography @ Valentines
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This month Valentines shows photographers Ann Ploeger and Rachel Lang. Ploeger is known for a sly show of large format domestic portraits of families in their living spaces with serious looks at Newspace photo last year. Her Kodacolor palate provides a new nostalgia to her look at domestic life now. Olympia photographer Lang is a perfect complement. She poses with her subjects as a sibling or twin. 232 SW Ankeny Lights on 6-9PM, open late
06:00 PM : Chain Reaction @ TILT
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Tilt Gallery and Project Space is
pleased to present "Chain Reaction" by Portland artist
Stephen Slappe. Using equal parts satire and science
fiction, Chain Reaction captures the anxiety induced
by the invention of oppositional spectacles.
Transforming the gallery space into a multi channel
video installation, Slappe uses pop culture archetypes
to serve as ambassadors of falsehood.
Slappe's work will be on exhibit December 7-29, 2006
at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett,
Suite 106, Portland, Oregon. A reception for the
artist will be held on Thursday December 7 from 6-9pm.
Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays
noon-5pm and by appointment.
Stephen Slappe received his MFA from the University of
South Carolina in 2001 and his BFA from University of
North Florida in 1997. He is currently showing work
in Sisyphean Desires, Systems, and Devises" an
exhibition of time-based video works curated by
Avantika Bawa. His work has also been shown at Crawl
Space in Seattle, the South Carolina State Museum
Atrium, and in the 2004 TBA festival presented by
PICA.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Tilt Gallery and Project Space
625 NW Everett Suite 106
Portland, Oregon 97209
Saturday December 9, 2006
05:00 PM : PRINTS FOR PICA @ Studio 333
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PRINTS FOR PICA 2006
4th-annual all day print marathon and studio sale
Saturday, December 9, 5-9 pm
Studio 333 : 333 NE Hancock (@MLK Blvd)
More than 100 of Portland’s most established, revered, talked about and up-and-coming artists spend all day creating and collaborating. The end result? A floor-to-ceiling studio sale, open to the public. The best holiday art sale this city has ever seen. Artists spend all day Saturday creating and printing with the sale opening that evening from 5pm through 9pm. Ranging in price from $100-$250, prints are sold on a first come, first served basis. Proceeds to benefit PICA.
The Artists so far...
Patrick Abbey, Nat Andreini, Paul Arensmeyer, Josh Berger, Philippe Blanc, Christine Bourdette, Katherine Bovee, Kelly Britton, John Brodie, Christopher Buckingham, David Corbett, Kurt Dahlke, Timothy Dalbow, Laurie Daniel, Dana Dart-McLean, Melia Donovan, David Eckard, Karen Esler, Carol Ferris, Gilles Foisy, Ellen George, Cecilia Hallinan, Stephen Hayes, Sean Healy, Harvest Henderson, Joe Hockett, Deborah Horell, Linda Hutchins, Scott Wayne Indiana, Kristan Kennedy, Patrick Long, Rae Mahaffey, Mark Mahaffey, Lauren Mantecon, Mack McFarland, TJ Norris, Bonnie Paisley, Bruce Paulson, Nathanial Price, Blair Saxon-Hill, Rick Schmidt, Johanna Seligman, Stephen Slappe, Adam Sorenson, Storm Tharp, Joe Thurston, Morgan Walker, Valerie Wallace
The Sponsors
Prints for PICA 2006 is supported by Studio 333, Full Sail Brewing, Dennis Uniform, Gamblin Artists Colors, Katayama Framing, Utrecht Art Supplies.
Sunday December 10, 2006
11:00 AM : Church of Craft @ DF
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The Church of Craft is in session twice this month. The DIY table today features
Bre of Craft Magazine teaching you how to make shadow puppets. Then there will be a different mix of crafters showing their wares-works on the two dates. Today and December 17. Repent early and often as the first 100 people through the door get free goodie bags. That's a first for church. http://www.dougfirlounge.com 11AM-4PM All ages Free
A similar thing is going on at the Wonder Ballroom from 12-5 December 10 and 17 http://www.handmadebazaar.org/
Sunday December 17, 2006
11:00 AM : Church of Craft @ DF
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The Church of Craft is in session twice this month. The DIY table today features make a free snow globe! There will be a different mix of crafters showing their wares-works from the one on December 10. And there is a raffle to win prizes to support the Goose Hollow Family Shelterhttp://www.dougfirlounge.com 11AM-4PM All ages Free
A similar thing is going on at the Wonder Ballroom from 12-5 December 10 and 17 http://www.handmadebazaar.org/
http://portlandorusnow.blogspot.com/
Friday December 29, 2006
06:00 PM : Lucas Pander Art Show Close Party @ Wonder Ballroom
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The show mentioned previously closes with a party featuring DJ Allon and live painting by Pander. http://www.markwoolley.com/ 128 NE Russell 6-9PM Free
Thursday January 4, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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The Portland Art Center
Tonight only, Paint and Copter perform in white, in a white room, the walls and the musicians the screen for video projections inspired by the palace Fontainebleau.
In "Second Skin", longtime Portland artists JD Perkin and Anne Thomson, mashup the scene of a campout in the woods with an exploration of materials for representing it, including earplugs, cigarette butts, beer cans, animal hides, tires, rose petals, human hair, fake fur, doug' fir, antlers, and leaves.
That sounds like a good counterpoint to "Art & Ecology in the 5th Quadrant", art by Peg Butler, Cecillia Cannon, Clare Carpenter, Jedidiah Chavez, James Jack, Laura Foster, Courtney Frisse, Susan Harlan, TJ Norris & Abi Spring, Liz Obert & Mike Suri, curated by Art on The Peninsula, North Portland artists.
In the Light and Sound Gallery, installation sound artist Dan Senn presents "Many Pairs Sounding", involving tuned resonators driven by Senn's compositions.
http://www.portlandart.org/ 32 NW 5th Avenue til 10, maybe later. Free, your best entertainment value
Michael Chelbin shows portraits on the fringe of mass culture, highlighting our quirky USA. Dennis Chamberlin shows "Screen Culture" portraits in which his subjects are illuminated by television, computer and film screens. The light mimics that of softboxes, a lighting tool now visually familiar from feature films and portraiture, screen illuminated portraits are no stranger to Myspace either. Other artists also have captured the intense concentration in the faces of gamers absorbed in play. http://www.blueskygallery.org/ 1231 NW Hoyt until 9, maybe a bit later
Jim Riswold shows Mao Home and Garden. Former adman, Riswold is known for his paint by number Last Supper. Mutually overloading pop culture and historical figures is a delicate business. He did it well with the Last Supper, and we wish him he best with Mao. http://www.augengallery.com 817 SW 2nd til 9
Compound/Just Be Toys shows "4 Dreams": Amy Sol, Audrey Kawasaki, Mari Inukai & Stella Im Hultberg. Curated by: Monica HW Choy. At Compound/Just Be Toys http://www.justbedesign.com/ 107 NW 5th until about 9:30
PDX shows Storm Tharp's "We Appeal to Heaven", Baconesque portraits and caricatures in light washes. PDX Contemporary Art http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Street til 8:30?
Quality Pictures shows photographs by David Hilliard. Hilliard studied and taught at Yale and stages situations, photographing them on large format negatives as does fellow instructor Crewdson. Hilliard is less over the top than Crewdson, your choice on whether that is better or other. http://www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt to 11
Rake mounts a group show of works on paper. http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th Ave
Brett Superstar shows his giant robot at the B-Street Gallery at the corner of NW Davis and 13th.
Elise Wagner, one of the region's encaustic luminaries, shows new work in a group show at Butters 520 N.W. Davis, Second floor til 9
Laura Russo shows "Early Northwest Artists", Louis Bunce, Kenneth Callahan, William Givler, Sally Haley, Charles Heaney, Arthur and Albert Runquist, Mike Russo and Mark Tobey. This show is a good complement to the contemporary permanent collection hang at the art museum that places generations of Portland artists in the context of East coast art happenings of the time. So a history lesson. http://www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st Ave. til 9
These shows are up all month.
Friday January 5, 2007
05:00 PM : Artist Reception @ Brian Marki Gallery
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ARTIST'S RECEPTION: JANUARY 5th, 5:00 - 9:00PM at the Brian Marki Gallery,
2236 NE Broadway, PDX
Artist Auditions : Phase III
(in which the work is placed on public display)
Jessie Bean, glass
Lauren Black, oil and rust
Jeff Bramlett, photo
Liz Cohn, oil and collage
Derek von Essen, video and photo
Madoka Ito, oil and wood
Noah Nakell, mixed media sculpture
Kelly Neidiggity, acrylic
Soma Venus, collage
In June of 2006, two artists sat down to discuss the climate of the arts in Portland. Recognizing a need for more "fun" in the dynamics between artist and gallery, they decided to come up with a juried process that would applaud the artist's ability to take risks, exercise integrity, create exceptional work and have fun.
They put out a call to artists in several cities in the Northwest, from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC. They received nearly 200 submissions from artists, as well as a slew of disgruntled replies. At the time, they were offering a two-person exhibit at an undisclosed gallery here in Portland. They refused to mention the name of the gallery, or to reveal the names of the jurors. They wanted to see the work of those artists who were motivated by something other than a big name. They wanted to put the emphasis of the process back on the work, not the politics.
At this time, they have documented the entire process of the auditions, including a soiree at the Brian Marki gallery, in which artists were invited to attend, given secret passwords and buttons and asked to mingle with 50 collectors who were there to celebrate the expansion of the Brian Marki space. They also documented studio visits with the 9 finalists, as well as a rare karaoke round in which artists were invited to either perform themselves, or take 15 minutes, with video camera in hand, to arrange for a stranger to perform in their place.
In January, Brian Marki will be exhibiting work from the 9 semi-finalists. The show will run from January 2nd - 31st, with an opening reception on January 5th, from 5:00 - 9:00 PM. In March of 2007, the two selected finalists will have a two-person exhibit at the Brian Marki gallery. 2236 NE Broadway, Gallery Hours Mon. - Sat. 10AM - 6PM.
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland East Side
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In the 811 E. Burnside mega art complex:
The Grass Hut, in a bold curatorial move, expands its aesthetic with a show by Lisa Dejohn and Roberta Aylward. DeJohn is known for her composed collages and paintings. Aylward's work has a similar feel, her Portland Modern works included striking ink drips, perhaps Zen Rorschach.
Moshi Moshi has Jilf. Very Pictoplasma.
http://www.moshi-moshi.com/
Denwave has a vintage clothing sale, no conventional visual art this month
Redux shows kawaii paintings by Kendra Binney. Binney has those big eyed girls, songbirds and dolphins down. Somebody buy this work, hire her to illustrate childrens books or to create a huge animation series!
New American Art Union is the temporary home to large panels curated by Ruthann Brown to clothe a new residential building at tenth and E Burnside. They won't be open, but maybe the lights will be on to looksee. http://www.newamericanartunion.com/ 922 SE Ankeny
The Mark Woolley gallery is operating entirely out of the Wonder Ballroom space, with openings on the first Friday. Tonight he shows sculptures by longtime Portland sculptors James Lee Hansen, Tom Hardy, Robert Hess and Bruce West who started careers in the 1960's. Perhaps a history lesson paired with a tour of the Art Museum contemporary collection which is roughly chronologically hung. Details at www.markwoolley.com 128 NE Russell
Tunisia sits at the nexus of ancient North African East-West camel tracks, gateway to Saharan desert routes and the diversity of Medditerranean cultures. Sort of an oasis, a rich microcosm. The capital Tunis embraces discos and souks, and life where there is always time for tea. I imagine there more than a few of Calvino's Invisible Cities. Photographer James Ewing http://www.photoewing.com/ has captured some of this in his photographs. Whitney Hubbs presents autobiographical work "Nothing Happens in June"
Newspace Photo. http://www.newspacephoto.org/ 1632 SE 10th
Painter -sculptor -installationist -performer -curator -arts organizer and ace bike mechanic Paige Saez shows new bright work. Saez' abstracts have great energy and feel optimistic to me. Judge yourself! Moloko Plus • 3967 N Mississippi
Curation is mysterious. The art world game can be tiresome. So when you can't game the system, transform the system into a game! The artist auditionsTM has done just that. You can read a description at http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2007/01/artist_receptio.html The karaoke phase sounds like fun! See the results of this art game at Brian Marki Gallery 2236 NE Broadway
Saturday January 6, 2007
08:00 PM : Paper Work @ The Shotgun House
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Launching a collaboration between Madison, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon, Paper Work is a show exploring drawing today by Melissa Cooke, Stacey Helm, Kendra Larson, Zach Mory, Katarina Riesing, Robin Russo, Ariestya Tjhin, Nathan Vernau, Heather White and Joshua Wilichowski. Music by Chris Buckingham, Dennis Driscoll, Michael Parich, Brian Whitson and the Night Wolves. 1419 SE Pine Street 8PM
Tuesday January 16, 2007
09:00 AM : Julie Orser Video Show Opens @ PNCA
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Julie Orser, PNCA ('99) and Cal Arts ('05) grad, opens new video work at her alma mater. At PNCA she developed a quiet multi channel style. In California she added work by actors. Other multinarrative artists, such as Julie Talen operate in the conventional film realm; Doug Aitken, one of the founding photographic artists of Raygun magazine, does multi image installation, with a cooler feel; Japan's Dumb Type combines AV multinarrative with dance and performance art, live.
Orser won the best of show award at the 2006 Portland Experimental Film Festival for Bit Parts. At PNCA, Orser presents "Anna Moore", a three channel video installation in the enigmatic psychodrama style she has developed. She also programs the project space with findings from her ART OFFICE collective. Both shows are up until February 24, school hours. Orser speaks Wednesday January 31 at the school 12:30-1:30PM
http://pnca.edu free
Thursday January 18, 2007
05:30 PM : Hitchcock, Eckard Show Art @ Chambers
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Leanne Hitchcock is a photographer. In Cycle she explores the seasons in an abstract palette of image and hue. David Eckard does everything, sculptures, performance and tonight painting-drawing. The artist(s?) speak at 7. http://www.chambersgallery.org/ Opening 5:30-8:30PM
07:30 PM : Spyscience @ 911 - Seattle
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The 911 Media Art Center's VJ tonight is Spyscience. Drummer Tim Weeks combines commercial film snippets with personal footage in the visual rhythmic service of live musicians and DJ's.
http://www.911media.org/events/vj-night.html 402 9th Ave N.Seattle 7:30PM
Monday January 22, 2007
08:15 PM : Rigo 23 Art Muralist Talk @ PSU
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Rigo 23 is a SF artist, SF Art Institute and Stanford schooled. His murals and signs and sign murals are easy to relate to but au courant, Chinatown, live and learn. PSU Hall Street Cinema 8:15PM Free
Tuesday January 23, 2007
06:45 PM : Photographer-Collector Marc Joseph @ Reed Gallery
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Marc Joseph photographs indy book and vinyl stores. His large scale prints are accompanied by a catalog mixing the photos with prose and poems by complementary musicians and writers.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/
Opening and talk at 6:45PM in Psych 105 Free
Wednesday January 24, 2007
06:30 PM : Art Show Walk @ Oldtown Chinatown
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Portland's art space epicenter is shifting to Oldtown Chinatown. Tonight 3 spaces collaborate on a walk and talk about current shows. The details are eloquently laid out at
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2007/01/indoor_wilderne.html
7:00 Motel
7:30 Organism
8:00 Portland Art center
Free
Thursday January 25, 2007
07:00 PM : Critical Art Ensemble Talk @ UO Eugene
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I'll make a more elegant version later, but from the press release:
Steve Kurtz, an artist and professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will talk about the convergence of art, technology and radical politics during a free public lecture at the University of Oregon on Jan. 25. Kurtz made national headlines several years ago when he was accused of bioterrorism after police found lab equipment and books on bioweaponry at his home.
Kurtz will speak on the topic "Art and Discipline" which, in his words, will explore why violence against cultural resistance has escalated and intensified over the past five years.
The case against Kurtz began to unfold on May 11, 2004 when he called 911 after his wife, Hope, died at home of heart failure. Police officers who responded to the call saw the body, the lab equipment and the books and alerted the FBI. Kurtz was using the lab to produce harmless bacteria as part of a video installation on bioterrorism.
Federal agents in hazmat suits soon arrived at the residence, impounded Kurtz's equipment—including Petri dishes, test tubes and computers—and seized his wife's body from the coroner. Kurtz and his collaborator Robert Ferrell, former chair of the Genetics Department at the Graduate School of Public Health, at the University of Pittsburgh, were accused of bioterrorism and mail fraud each potentially carrying a sentence of 20 years. A grand jury returned indictments for mail and wire fraud, but declined to indict on the bioterrorism charge.
Both men are members of the Critical Art Ensemble, an arts group founded by Kurtz and his wife. Members use high school lab equipment and common household supplies to create art installations that publicize the increasingly privatized worlds of science, technology, and information.
"Marching Plague," an exhibition for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, was one of the projects Kurtz was working on when the federal agents seized his laboratory equipment and his library, correspondence and computers. "Marching Plague," which re-created a 1952 British military experiment wherein guinea pigs were infected with the plague to see how fast it would spread, was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2006, an event sponsored by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The Biennial is recognized as the nation's pre-eminent exhibition of contemporary American art.
A documentary film, "Strange Culture," based on Kurtz's recent experiences will be screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Kurtz is the 2007 George and Matilda Fowler Memorial Lecturer. The lectureship was established by the late Constance Fowler to honor her parents. Fowler, who received her master's of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1940, was an artist and a professor of art at Willamette University.
Event Location:
Room 177, Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO Campus, Eugene 7PM Free
11:59 PM : Call to Artists Deadline Today @ Kitchen Sink
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If two heads are better than one, then three must be better than two and four better than three. Up to the Mythical Man Month limits of O(n**2) read Order n squared.
(The above creative writing above may be ignored if you like)
From the Kitchen Sink website:
"Imagine randomly selected, interdisciplinary, collaborative groups.
Ok, got that?
Now imagine these groups producing site-specific installations/performances for a vacant office space. Each group will be allotted a separate area or room in which to present their work. All performances will occur simultaneously. Viewers will move fluidly throughout the exhibition during the event.
Groups may include individuals from any creative discipline (such as visual artists, writers, actors, musicians or bands, architects, filmmakers, gardeners, chefs, designers, etc).
To be placed in a randomly selected collaborative group, email us your contact information, a short description of your creative activities, and an example of your work by January 25th. Or, you may form your own interdisciplinary group and submit it via email by the same date (please include all of the above information for every person in your group)."
So artists, join this collaborative project with a team or meet a new one! Make work for a show April 6.
Details:http://www.kitchensinkpdx.com/
Saturday January 27, 2007
10:00 AM : Chris Johanson Opens @ Portland Art Museum
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The Art Museum is doing a good job at showing Portland artists. This another example. More to follow.
From the Art Museum:
"Portland artist Chris Johanson creates thought-provoking paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and installations that combine observations of contemporary society with a raw urban realism. Mixing human characters, narrative, and psychedelic abstraction, Johanson’s gritty approach conveys social isolation, political dismay, and environmental concern. As one of the original San Francisco skateboard and graffiti artists who helped define the Mission School of the 90s, Johanson earned international prominence at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe."
Thursday February 1, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland West Side
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Shows run all month, generally through the Saturday before the next month's first Thursday. Galleries love to see you on a lazy Saturday. They especially love you as do the artists when you take out that wallet from time to time.
Augen has created a disturbingly sweet paring of photographers Grace Weston and David Emmite. Weston continues her carefully lit tableau of small scenes entitled "Wonder Lust". Imagine photographs of fantastic doll house interiors or a stop action animation set. Emmite shows Field Guide, involving animals and machines.
www.augengallery.com 817 SW 2nd
Elizabeth Leach Gallery shows photographer Dianne Kornberg. Kornberg is known for large format photos of flora and fauna, especially collections or agglomerations in laboratories. I think she needs to return to the energy of earlier work - maybe ask them to pull out a chronosample from the back and decide yourself.
www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Quality Pictures continues David Hilliard and adds Picture Ping Pong curated by Elizabeth Huey. Huey created a community on myspace in which friends carried on conversations composed of messages containg almost exculsively images. For many, the familiarity of myspace made for conversations that might not work in real life; the fact that the community was spead across the US, Canada, Paris and Italy also made the myspace medium a well matched vehicle. One of Hickey's theses is that the creative conversation of artists can evolve faster than culture itself. Is myspace the new warehouse? The work is bright and has the 811 (E Burnside) feel - Moshi Moshi and the Grass Hut. A bold demonstration of QCPA's direction(s). NB Portland artists, introduce yourself to the project artists in attendance. www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt
PDX presents a group show by Mary Henry, D.E. May, identical twins separated at birth with their minimalist linear 2d compositions. Perhaps the art that Rabbit at rest would contemplate. Artist Ryan Jeffery shows documentation of a variety of projects including his awesome music box. Filmmaker and performer Vanessa Renwick shows material from her Trojan nuclear plant project last seen in the Museum biennial. PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Street til 8:30?
The Portland Art Center continues the installations of last month, which are excellent, and adds a new project by Paris artists Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet, “Reflected Waves”. In this case, they have gathered sound and light from Melbourne Australia, which in many ways resembles Portland. Close your eyes, listen and dream summer. www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th until 10
Margaret Stratton transmits emotion laden concepts simply and directly, selectively documenting the remains of material culture. For instance in this work “My Mother’s House” she presents straight b&w photos on a black background of objects from her childhood house. Acquired in their time, they trace the arc of the materiality of middle class life in the 1950’s and 60’s. Her work has a similarity to Belgian Henk van Rensberge’s abandoned places project www.abandoned-places.com, but Stratton brings a variety of conceptual viewpoints, mixed differently for each project. Other bodies of Stratton’s work include World Trade Center, A Guide to Wasteland, Inventory of an Abandoned House, Ancient Ruins: Abandoned Naples, Detained in Purgatory and Notes from the Nuclear Garden. www.margaretstratton.com. At Blue Sky Gallery with photos of companion animals impacted by Katrina. She also speaks for free at the gallery Friday evening. www.blueskygallery.org 1231 NW Hoyt until 9
In the Everett Lofts many a wonderous thing may ensue. Including at the Pony Club #105 "Open to Strangers" a group show; at Kolega 328 NW Broadway a Blackbird Tattoo art show; at Sugar "Black Metal" from blond Norway, documentation of the dark musical subculture by photographer Peter Beste. Mythical tribalism characterizes this cross between metal and the Lord of the Rings. These metaloids weren't playing when they murdered one another and burned 20 churches, including one 800 years old in an attempt to drive Christianity from Nord and reestablish the mythical pagan religions. Everett Lofts - the block of NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th.
Compound/Just Be Toys shows Illustrious: Deth P Dun, Jack Long, Manny Silva, Monica Canllao, Ogi and RINZEN. Curated by Monica HW Choy. At Compound/Just Be Toys 107 NW 5th until about 9:30
Rake shows work by Rachell J Siegel and Sarah Cruse http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th Ave
The metal sculpture, some heavy, show at Woolley continues. See last month’s listing.
Tonight the East Woolley (Wonder) will be connected by a free bus to Rake (West) www.markwoolley.com 128 NE Russell until 10
Brett Superstar continues his giant robot at the B-Street Gallery at the corner of NW Davis and 13th.
Upper Playground's Portland moonbase shows "The Early Bird", flat art and installation by Morning Breath, in graphic style hoovering pre '60's advertsing imagery and blenderizing it into a strange brew. http://www.fifty24pdx.com/ 23 NW 5th
Vino Paradiso shows "Key to My Heart" by Nubby Twiglet which is a great name. www.vinoparadiso.com 417 NW 10th until late
Paige Saez is known for her large bright abstract paintings and installations; but this month at Valentines she shows photographs and a bright wall piece. 232 SW Ankeny Lights on 6-9PM, open late
Anna Weber shows giant teeth at Motel, grrr. Actually these are models of teeth arrayed like some sort of school dental diorama, cavities repaired and all. Weber also shows photos by Daniel Peterson of herself in costumes of her own construction: "Squirrel", "Rainbow Beard" and "Sloth". An artist to watch? http://www.motelgallery.com/ NW Couch between 5th and 6th across from Ground Control.
Friday February 2, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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At the 811 Burnside Block
The Grass Hut continues serious shows with "Friends on the Endless Journey", the doodler's show, organized by Luke Ramsay. The artists are Peter Thompson, Luke Ramsey, Justin Williams, Etka, AJ Purdy and Andy Rementer.
Canadian Ramsey and his wife have created an artist residency on BC's Pender Island in which all of tonight's artists have participated. Justin Williams grew up in Japan and has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore. Now he's split between Montreal and Chicago where he recieved the Presidential Scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago. Etka began to get serious about drawing and painting after she busted up her ankle skating. She got an illustration degree in London, got bored doing commercial illustration and animation so she moved home to Sweden and started a gallery in Gothenberg (same place as the artists who spoke Monday at the PSU lecture series). Andy Rementer and AJ Purdy met in art school in Philly then decamped to the communication research center at Fabrica. Fabrica is the research arm of gentle Italian clothing giant Benetton who were early to incorporate socially enlightened marketing with their Colors project; Fabrica is a sort of neo-Bauhaus, near Venice. Canadian Thompson "rides a comic doodle style that's free, fun and under no pressure to perform or impress the viewer with fancy tricks" notes Ramsey. Much of the work shown are collaborations between two illustrators. www.grasshutcorp.com
Moshi Moshi has gotta side with the ninjas, right? The show is "Ninjas are Sweet, 13 artists answering one question: Why are ninja's so awesome?" We'll have to see what the zombies have to say about that...
Denwave is having a big sale on crosses crafted by one of their units. So if you need some savin'...
Redux has Rebecca Haack - illustration style paintings with touches of wax mediums.
At the New American Art Union, artist Jacqueline Ehlis has curated a group show DO NO HARM vs Step Up. See for yourself the varied work. www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace has a group show of work of auction spec, so a good cross section of current photography. www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Press Club has a show of lino cuts opening this evening with DJ sounds. If you are in the neighborhood - 2621 SE Clinton
Saturday February 3, 2007
06:00 PM : The Wurstminster Dog Show @ The Cleaners (Ace Hotel)
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The Wurstminster Dog Show
Over 100 international artists representing over 100 dog breeds.
Benefit for Dove Lewis Animal Hospital
http://dovelewis.org
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
6pm-10pm
The Cleaners @ Ace Hotel
http://acehotel.com
403 SW 10th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205
The Wurst Gallery launches their biggest show to date, with over 100 artists from all over the world each representing a different dog breed in their own unique way - from a five-foot plush doll to postcard-sized paintings. A portion of the proceeds of the art sales from this event will benefit Dove Lewis Animal Hospital in Portland, OR. Artists featured in the show hail from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Norway, Sweden and throughout the United States.
A one-night exhibit of the Wurstminster Dog Show will take place on Saturday, February 3rd at the newly opened Ace Hotel in Portland. Following the opening event, the work will be displayed and for sale online at http://thewurstgallery.com.
Featuring work by the following artists:
A.J. Purdy, Aaron Draplin, Aaron Meshon, Aaron Renier, Aaron Stewart, Adam Bayer, Adam Haynes, Allan Sanders, Amanda Visell, Amy Earles, Amy Ruppel, APAK, Arbito, Aya Yamasaki and Jason Brown (Overture), Beci Orpin, Benjamin Marra, Betsy Walton, Bill Barminski, Bjorn Lie, Blair Kelly, Brad Simon, Brandon Reese, Bubi Au Yeung, Bwana Spoons, Camilla Engman, Casey Burns, Charley Harper, Charles Whiteside, Chris Hutchinson, Cody Hudson, Cupco, Damion Triplett, Dan Anderson, Dan Funderburgh, Daniel A. St. George II, Derek Aylward, Derek Ballard, Driscoll Reid, Eamo Donnelly, Eleanor Grosch, Elisabeth Doherty, Emil Kozak, Emily Ryan, Erik Railton, Evan B. Harris, Eyeformation, Fawn Gehweiler, Feanne, Florencio Zavala, Frances Castle, Geoffrey Lorenzen, Gideon Baws, Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius, Grady Mcferrin, Greg "Pnut" Galinsky, Guy Burwell, Hannah Stouffer, Heiko Mueller, Holly Stevenson, Husk Mit Navn, Jason Vivona, Jen Leong, Jennifer Muskopf, Jeremyville, Jess Hutch, Jesse Ledoux, Jessica Barnes, Jessica Lynch, Jill Bliss, Johnny Yanok, Jon Klassen, Juliana Pedemonte (Colorblok), Julianna Bright, Junichi Tsuneoka, Kangaroo Alliance, Kate Bingaman, Kate Sutton, Kelly Haigh, Keri Smith, Kevin Scalzo, Kirsten Ulve, Klaus Haapaniemi, Koichiro Takagi, Le Merde, Leo Hillier, Linzie Hunter, Little Friends of Print Making, Luke Ramsey, Lyn Nance-Sasser, Martin Ontiveros, Matt Cassity, Matt Clark, Matt Furie, Mauro Gatti, Max Miceli, Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch, Meg Hunt, Mia Hansen, Michael Leon, Michael Paulus, Michael Wertz, Mike Burnett, Mikey Walsh, Miki Amano, Mister Pinks, Mizna Wada, Molly Anderson, Mona Superhero, Nate Beaty, Nick Deakin, Nick Weidenfeld, Noah Butkus, Nora Krug, Paul Clark, Rachel Blumberg, Ray Fenwick, Rick Froberg, Rob Flowers, Roman Klonek, Romantic Walrus, Ryan Alexander Tanner, Ryan Berkley, Ryan Sanchez, Ryan Waller, Saelee Oh, Sarajo Frieden, Scott Barry, Scott Rench, Shawn Wolfe, Snaggs, S.britt, Stephanie Davidson, Supermundane, Susie Ghahremani, Swigg, TADO, Teresa and David, Todd Hoffman, Todd St. John (Hunter Gatherer), Travis Lampe, Trish Grantham, Vincent Mathy, Wes Younie, Will Rhoten
About The Wurst Gallery:
Portland-based online art gallery, The Wurst, has been producing conceptual group art shows since 2003. The Wurst Gallery's shows have garnered coverage in Readymade Magazine, Relax Magazine (Japan), Form (Germany) and Craft Magazine.
Wednesday February 28, 2007
05:30 PM : RAW @ Reed (Wed-Sun)
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RAW=Reed Arts Weekend
Students make it happen, no fear; big out of towners mix with big student work and it's free or cheap. You can get some details at http://web.reed.edu/raw/2007/. In addition to the indigenous Reed work, consider these:
Wednesday
Portland mover Tahni Holt presents a 5 channel video installation " Passing Out Heart Game". In collaboration with Videominds' Emily Bulfin and animator Jalal Jamison, each of the screens tells a story related. "The work is a study of the landscapes that contain us and is a meditation on control: resisting the unknown and releasing into this unknown. [It] inhabits the contradictions these opposed actions hold and the treacherous space in-between." Introduction to the work by the artist. Reed Vollum Lounge 6PM Free
Portland painter Arvie Smith explores the myths and stereotypes of black men and women. But real lives are always more complex than any possible stereotype. Tapping his own experiences living in New Orleans and visiting Africa, Smith's larger than life characters seem to inhabit another time, but are we really over that past? Smith speaks about his work in Kaul's Gray Lounge. 6:30 Free
Saturday
"Liza Lou is best known for her expansive beaded landscapes and sculpture. In 1995’s Kitchen, Lou encrusted a 168-foot life-sized 1950s kitchen in dazzling beads. The project took her 5 years and an estimated 20-30 million beads to complete. The result was both visually arresting and a powerful commentary on the injustices and paradoxical dignity of the traditional roles of women, their work and their art. Since then, Lou has continued creating subversive sculpture and performance art with a pop sensibility, including the beaded portraits of 42 presidents, which comprised 2000’s Star-spangled Presidents. In 2002, Lou was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. Her work both celebrates and undermines the American dream, revealing through gaudy splendor the unsettling nature of some of this country’s most central traditions. At RAW, Lou will take on religion with the world premiere of a video piece about her upbringing in a highly-religious family." 5PM Eliot Chapel $5 Reed
Saturday and Sunday
Butoh dancers Eiko and Koma have been performing together since their 20's, 30 years. They have performed only with one another. They are married. Children together too. So seeing them move together is something special.
I had the pleasure of working with them a few years back staging two pieces. Eiko is clear, planned, decisive. Koma quiet and reserved, with great wisdom. One previous piece was staged in many cities at riverbank performance spaces. After the audience had gathered, the performers entered the river upstream. Becoming one with a flotsam log, they drifted slowly down river until near the performance site. They slowly left the log and made way through the water to the bank. Emerging slowly they performed an intense improvisation on land for more than an hour. Then they danced slowly back to the water where, in time, another floating branch bore them away from the performance. Downstream boatmen waited to recover them from the water's grip, sometimes hypothermic. The production crew downstream was responsible for saving them, in some East Coast cities, from being drawn into the green seas' tides. The events involved performers in extensive research of each river's ecology. How many performers can say the same? The Portland instance of the piece was arranged the morning of and performed in the Jameson fountain. By the end, the performers and crew were definitely hypothermic, but had experienced a dream together with the audience.
Another performance I saw in North Carolina was staged in and around a huge cave-like bed. The structure was formed by branches barnacled by knotted and shredded sheer fabrics in the manner of Collette's bedroom crossed with a viney dewy jungle. They moved slowly, together and separately, as the bed-cave rotated ever so slowly, in a dialog of embrace and independence. I believe that work was developed over 6 months through a special grant of studio space in their New York City home. That space was one fourth of an upper floor in the World Trade Center. Over that time they, their close friends and their children occupied the space in a deep way which is difficult to imagine.
The result of 9/11 was a redefinition of another piece, performed here. At night the space among the trees was lit by over a hundred candles. The performers emerged from a mound of earth. The sole props were a collection of the long arrows of Japanese archery. In the end, the performers reentered the earth. The piece before 9/11 was intended for the stage and was quite dark, a meditation on how we deal with death in Western society, Japan included. After 9/11, the piece became a quiet meditation on life. It was performed for free at parks all over New York City, a gift.
Tonight's work is "Mourning". Commissioned by the Japan Society, it has not yet premiered. So you will be seeing something special from these McArthur recipients. For the performance, they will be accompanied by John Cage collaborator Margaret Leng Tan on the toy piano.
Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2PM Kaul $10
06:30 PM : Sue Coe @ PNCA
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Illustrator Coe deftly avoids the landmines of commercial work surrounding us everywhere with good design. She goes directly to dig at the landmines of war, animal rights, factory farming, genetic engineering, plagues, 9/11 - check her site for an idea. She pulls no punches. In conjunction with a show at the school, Coe speaks PNCA Commons 6:30PM Free
Thursday March 1, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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They are up all month, so some rainy Sat, catch the ones that got away...
Sue Coe makes drawings and paintings that are not nice. Perhaps in the genre of Spiegelman's Maus, the only comic to win a Pulitzer. Auschwitz taken by Spiegelman, RCA grad Coe takes on the dark side of capitalism, meat, AIDS, 9/11, genetic manipulation, animal research, apartheid, racism and war. Active since the early 1980's, Coe shows new work in the Feldman Gallery. PNCA NW 13th and Johnson
Augen shows minimalist prints from some well known proponents of the era: Tara Donovan, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold and James Siena. Free art history lesson. Augen http://www.augengallery.com/ 817 SW 2nd
Blue Sky shows photos by Paula Luttringer of Argentina. Between 1976 and 1983, the military dictatorship there imprisoned and killed many. Luttringer, imprisoned herself, images some of the 350 secret prisons of the time, interviews with fifty women imprisoned place a life in some of those now empty places. http://www.blueskygallery.org/ 1231 NW Hoyt
Filmmaker Matt McCormick has lensed graffiti, nutria and tugboats. To me his documentary style quietly lays out a subtle enigma, allowing the viewer to enter and maybe see the world differently. His latest project "Future So Bright" is the result of traveling the West's abandoned landscapes. McCormick's unsustainable human settlements, built on mined out mines, water that wasn't quite there, railroads that no longer run, blue highways barely now on the map and 25 cent a gallon gas are now decaying back into the landscape. The remains represent the nostalgia of several generations, but the process is not limited to the West, or even America. Worldwide, changes in agriculture and in many countries shrinking population, certainly the desire to cohabitate cities are driving rural abandon. In Japan, towns are just closing. The same in Italy. Rural Ireland. The former Soviet Union. It will be curious to see whether these abandoned places will continue to be a reservoir of emotion, or just something less than a desiccated curiosity.
Also showing are Adam Sorensen's landscapes. In contrast, Sorenson's paintings are truly bright and imbued with surreal energy. Will Sorenson's forests meet the same fate someday as McCormick's abandoned places? Let's hope not!
At Liz Leach http://www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Usually a printmaker, Sarah Horowitz tonight shows intensely detailed sumi ink paintings "Magnolias". Mastering printmaking's deliberate and time consuming process and sumi's instant enlightenment Zen gesture is a rare feat, Horowitz does it. Also showing are two printmakers from Japan, where the art has been refined by centuries and culture. At Froelick http://www.froelickgallery.com/ 817 SW 2nd
Another history lesson are large metal sculptures by Mel Katz. They are painted not bare, his poppiest yet. At Laura Russo http://www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21
Seattle artist David French is known for enigmatic carved wood objects with obsessive but casually weathered appearing painted finishes. Some of his new work translates these thoughtful, maybe soulful finishes to 2d work. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/ 929 NW Flanders
The Portland Art Center is doing a good job of presenting sculpture and installation; if you make that work, you know the difficulties of finding venues. They have also carved out a good reputation for sound installations. This month they present Alchemy, by Christine Wallers and Steve Peters, involving processed voices. David Lindsay shows a 14 foot spiral frieze painting, Survey (at the edge of the continent). Lou Mallozzi presents Interval in the Light and Sound space upstairs. At the Portland Art Center http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Everett Lofts are always recommended even if random.
Rake shows what should be a pretty good group show "All Day Snacking" themed on excess, leisure, consumption. Given China's rise, to say nothing of India, maybe it's time to get that in now. Before the apocalypse too maybe, or that's what some say. Also a landscape show by Dane Wilson involving barcodes. At Rake http://www.rakeart.org 325 NW 6th
Mixed media painter Mantecon imbues her paintings with and intensity that shines through the abstraction. Perhaps her p:ear clients and collaborators have found the same facility. I'm curious to see the work side by side. At p:ear http://www.pearmentor.org/ 809 SW Alder
Sarah Boss and Trevor Gray photograph surfaces close up. Boss' are sometimes more abstract, Gray's concrete. The colors are bright, reminding us that not all is grey here, especially up close. Boss is the creator of the Artist Auditions I, a project to make curating and being curated fun. At
Vino Paradiso http://www.vinoparadiso.com/ 417 NW 10th
Nicholas Knapton shows at Valentines: "After graduating from Portland State University in 1994 with a B.A. in printmaking, painting and drawing I moved to Berlin, Germany, where I involved myself with the thriving art scene and cultural phenomenon of the reunification of Germany. During this time I worked on Wrapped-Reichstag: Project for Berlin from Christo and Jeanne Claude, as well as working as a construction worker, silkscreen-printer and working artist" [how PDX]. Now "I am working in an old net-loft built in 1896 that is situated precariously over the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. The building is an adventure in itself and the work I am doing there reflexes this feeling of adventure. The work is daring and bold combining the history and feeling of the building as well as my experiences as a painter working in precarious conditions, be it in Berlin or Astoria, Oregon. This body of work is about the physical activity of painting and drawing. Allowing my creative impulse to flow freely as possible, combining the figure with abstraction, and emotion with technique are some the of goals of my painting. It is work from the fringes of both west and east concentrating on what is juicy and delicious to me as a painter. Materials and sense of place are these juicy and delicious things. Trying to use both as an influence is what helps me decide which direction to pursue." So at Valentines 232 SW Ankeny
Musee16 is a little off the beaten path. It is making its own way with collage art curated from across the US and Europe. The work is somewhat romantic as is the space, it feels like it would not be out of place in some Paris androisment. Tonight it's the Traveling Menagerie, collaborative works by Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell and also works by Noe'lle Knight. The space is also showing free films the third Thursdays at 7:45PM Musee16 http://musee16.com/ 1005 NW 16th at the corner of Lovejoy in the rock block
Often visual and musical creativity are correlated. Perhaps it is the attraction of deep inside time required for creation. Maybe desiring the accolades of audience plays a role too. I wonder how the fancy hall's polite applause or old school moshing would work to mark gallery-goers appreciation? Tonight musicians Adam Zeek, Curtis Knapp of Watery Graves, E*Rock (whose bright drawings are well known from other 811 shows), Hooliganship (who may be making some kind of viewmaster animation totem pole), Lucky Dragons & the Sumi Ink Club, Phil Elverum, White Rainbow and YACHT make visual. Given the musicians schedules, the opening will be both Thursday March 1 and the regular first Friday March 2. Grass Hut 811 E Burnside
This is totally Backspace. A block away is a factory for game characters, objects and levels. Tonight Liquid Development artists show their work to Backspace's hardcore gamers. It's a fascinating look at the imagination in the machine. While this isn't a Superflat, that Portland supports this creative factory is a good thing. Certainly worth seeing out from behind the controller. 115 NW 5th
Artist and writer Harvest Henderson, who created an installation bedroom in which the bedclothes were sewn from hundreds of hand written lists and notes, combines again art and writing. THISENFRANCHISEMENT are six visual works using text. At Stumptown 125 SW 3rd
hard(ly)soft, curated by Amy Zollinger, with artists: Rachel Denny, Stephen Slappe, Cynthia Mosser, Scott Wayne Indiana, Jennifer Anable, Damon Thompson and TJ Norris opens at the Art Institute gallery space.1122 NW Davis
06:00 PM : Andy Holtin @ TILT
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Tilt Gallery and Project Space is pleased to present new work by Andy Holtin. Holtin creates meticulous objects that serve to investigate the cartography of our perception and experience. Intangible qualities such as distance, sound, and memory have become media. What results is not new information or experiences but an awareness or translation of old ones.
Holtin's work will be on exhibit March 1-31, 2007 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett, Suite 106,
Portland, Oregon.
A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday March 1 from 6-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays noon-5pm and by appointment.
Andy Holtin received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. His has exhibited at Kim Foster Gallery in New York, The Borowsky Gallery in Philadelphia, and Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh. He is the recipient of the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Currently, Holtin is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of North Texas.
This event is free and open to the public.
06:00 PM : Thunder Eyez @ Grass Hut
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Thunder Eyez
music-makers make art
Artwork by
E*Rock
Mt. Eerie
White Rainbow
YACHT
Hooliganship
Lucky Dragons/Sumi Ink Club
Adam Zeek
Curtis Knapp (Watery Graves)
Artists Receptions March 1st and 2nd, 6-9pm.
Grass Hut Gallery
811 East Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 445-9924
grasshutcorp.com
From the North a nakedness leaked out. It was a
naked sound full of sincerity, improvised creation and an untamed passion
for every passing breath. Here in the North you can seldom tell if it rained
or stormed during the night unless a tree fell or some mountain crumbled
over a road. It’s always wet and naked here. This naked sound is like
thunder, easy to hear and feel, but impossible to see or hold in your hands.
There is a camp of musicians who have opened many ears up to this naked
sound, this thunder. These
musicians are honestly trying to express their love for life without limits.
However, making music is only one of the many ways they express thunder.
These folks take the sound further with constructed environments, animation,
silk screening, posters, photography, paint, collage and unexpected mixed
media.
Dismissed as music-makers their work is seldom
recognized by the arts community. Retarding isn’t it? So for the month of
March these folks are going to have an art show at Grass Hut. Come see what
happens.
Friday March 2, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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811 block - 811 East Burnside
Kelly Williams Ray puts images on objects in "Body Double Image". " "Vintage magazines, Department of Defense manuals, children’s books, and propaganda posters" are repurposed as commentary on the impact of advertising on our identity. In celebration of Redux's first anniversary birthday cupcakes and pink champagne will be served. Saint Cupcake to the rescue! At Redux 6-9:30
MoshiMoshi shows Full Orange, a cartoony show.
Often visual and musical creativity are correlated. Perhaps it is the attraction of deep inside time required for creation. Maybe desiring the accolades of audience plays a role too. I wonder how the fancy hall's polite applause or old school moshing would work to mark gallery-goers appreciation? Tonight musicians Adam Zeek, Curtis Knapp of Watery Graves, E*Rock (whose bright drawings are well known from other 811 shows), Hooliganship (who may be making some kind of viewmaster animation totem pole), Lucky Dragons & the Sumi Ink Club, Phil Elverum, White Rainbow and YACHT make visual. Given the musicians schedules, the opening will be both Thursday March 1 and the regular first Friday March 2. At Grass Hut
The "Burnside Rocket" is a condo development at 10th and Burnside under construction next to the rock gym. Four by six foot persistent canvases will adorn the building's shell - they will be seen daily by passers-by. Curator Ruthann Brown selected artists Rachel Allen, Austin Bales, Mazana Bruggeman, Peter Burr, Cecellia Cannon, Matt Cardinal, Sean Clark, Tim Dalbow, Jessie Dejonghe, Arcy Douglass, Dave Edgar, Ty Ennis, Justin Fry, Jason Greene, James Gudat, David Herbold, Yoshihiro Kitai, Felice Koenig, Gabriel Liston, Rose McCormick, Gustaf Mortier, Eldon Potter, Greg Simons and Bailey Winters to create the panels. They will be on view for one night close up at the New American Art Union, otherwise see them on the building later in the spring! At New American Art Union http://www.newamericanartunion/ 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace Photo shows Mariana Tres & Scott Jackson 1632 SE 10th
Small A has taken a bold step at representing some recent PNCA grads. Gallerist Gitlin has the pulse of Miami and LA whose bold collectors are perhaps more broad minded. Yeah!
Brian Marki shows Noah Nakel Artist Auditions I finalist & Madoka Ito. 2236 NE Broadway
Saturday March 3, 2007
07:00 PM : Ryan Jacob Smith @ Cals Pharmacy
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TITLE:
Ryan Jacob Smith 'GOLDEN YOUTH'
@:
Cals Pharmacy
11 NE Hancock St.
Portland, OR, 97212
503-233-1237
DATE:
Saturday March 3rd
7-10pm
DESCRIPTION:
new paintings by Ryan Jacob Smith
+
free live music from:
Life at These Speeds and NOEL
Wednesday March 7, 2007
09:00 PM : Matt McCormick's "Future So Bright Film" w/ Live soundtrack @ Holocene
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Matt McCormick performs a live soundtrack to his new film Future So Bright.
Future So Bright is an abstract documentary about ghost towns. The
installation component of the film will be exhibited all month (march)
at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
White Rainbow and E*Rock will also be on the Holcocene bill.
the show starts at 9pm and costs $5
below are links that might be helpful
www.holocene.org
www.elizabethleach.com
www.rodeofilmco.com
Friday March 23, 2007
07:00 PM : IDENTITY @ Crux
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Crux will be hosting IDENTITY, an amazing night of visual and performing arts delivered by the Black Sheep Artist Collective of Portland. March 23rd at 7.00 pm, 55 NE Farragut St.
Identity delves into aspects of exploring the artists self definition through means of materials and process. Presented in many different forms and styles, the vast conceptual variance is brought to the viewer in multi media works including painting, installation and performance, metal work, writing, and sound escapes.
Members of the collective worked interconnectivly to weave a cohesive fabric of the mind map, which in turn informed the curation of the show and its included works.
Artists include those of the Black Sheep Artist Collective:
Allison Ulmer
Serena Barton
Doug Smith
Andrew Sperry
Barbi Touron
Stephen Ferreira
Alisa Walton
Matt Vosberg
Kiri Hargie
Jennifer Gritt
Terry Dote
Jerry Worley
There will be wine and refreshments available, as well as live musical entertainment. Please contact Crux for questions and directions.
Crux
55 NE Farragut St. Portland, OR
Thursday April 5, 2007
06:00 PM : Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer @ Floating World Comics
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FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS:
Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer have been making the world safe for independent & non-superhero comics ever since the early 90's with underground hits like 'Black Heart Billy' and 'LCD' (although they've also done their part in making superhero comics that don't suck).
Since then Rick has illustrated Bruce Campbell's 'THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN' and Brian Posehn's 'THE LAST CHRISTMAS'. Rick has also illustrated album covers for NOFX, Pitch Black, NUFAN, and Lagwagon. In 2000, Kieron was sued by Starbucks for designing a parody of their logo that reads 'CONSUMER WHORE'.
Both artists will be at FLOATING WORLD on Thursday, April 5th from 6-10pm, saying hello to fans and displaying a ton of original artwook and books. I have Joseph Cross to thank for putting me in contact with these awesome dudes. I must also thank him for designing incredibly gorgeous new logos, posters, mascots, and images for the store. These prints and other merchandise (bags, t-shirts) will make their debut at this First Thursday show.
I suppose they have me to thank for introducing them to emerging artist, Brian Churilla. After seeing Brian's 'ENGINEER' pitch and the stuff he had in the works for Dark Horse, I knew these guys had to meet. Hopefully, we'll see some more collaborations between all of these folks in the near future. Portlanders will also recognize his illustrations in the pages of the Portland Mercury.
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Rick Remender - writer of Image & Dark Horse comics: Fear Agent, Strange Girl, Sea of Red (http://www.rickremender.com/new/)
Kieron Dwyer - creator/artist: LCD, Marvel, DC, IDW, etc... (http://kierondwyer.com/)
Joseph Cross - illustrator, designed latest logo and mascot for the shop (http://josephacross.blogspot.com/)
Brian Churilla - emerging writer/artist who illustrates for Portland Mercury and is working on comics for Dark Horse (http://www.brianchurilla.com/)
In addition to displaying original art and comics by all 4 artists, I'll be proudly displaying new prints, t-shirts, and other merchandise based on Joseph Cross' new designs for the store!
07:00 PM : Step Into My Office @ 520 NW Davis
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KITCHEN SINK: Step Into My Office
First Thursday, April 5th, 7-11pm
520 NW Davis Street, 2nd Floor
($2-5 Sliding Donation)
Featuring 21 collaborative, multidisciplinary artist groups within a 5,000
square foot office setting.
KITCHEN SINK is a series of nomadic, multidisciplinary art events. It is a pouring together in one space of visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, performance artists, writers, and others from the greater creative community. By facilitating an open dialogue between disparate groups, these events endeavor to expose both artist and viewer to unfamiliar media and ideas. They serve to challenge preconceptions and provide the participants with opportunities to interact, collaborate, and establish ongoing relationships.
Step Into My Office is a multi-faceted art event designed for a vacant office space. A general call was sent out to creative individuals interested in participating in a collaborative project. Interdisciplinary groups were randomly selected from the respondents and asked to create and propose site-specific installation and performance artworks. Their proposals were reviewed by a selection committee comprised of Sam Gould of Red76, Kelly Rauer of the Portland Art Center, and Cara Tomlinson of Lewis and Clark College. 21 collaborative projects were selected and will be showcased in a one-night event occurring on April 5, 2007. Highlights include an edible gingerbread cubicle, a soft rock dee-jay, an artist sweatshop, and the opportunity to apply with The M.O.S.T. for your very own "fan for a day".
Food and drinks by Half and Half.
Bring an article of clothing for patchwork and silkscreen alterations.
Karaoke afterparty at Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave, beginning 11 p.m.
The exhibition will also be open for public viewing on the following days:
April 6, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
April 7, 12:00-6:00 p.m.
April 8, Artist Discussion at 12:00 p.m.
Visit www.kitchensinkpdx.com for more information.
Friday April 6, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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New Amercian Art Union presents a group show "invisible.other" curated by TJ Norris. Artist-curator Norris is known for elegant minimalism and the work reflects that. Especially noteworthy is a video art work by Thomas Koner entitled Peripheriques #2 which graces the showcard. It images an anonymous crowd on the street in which composited layers bring individual faces to the fore, after, they disappear behind subsequent figures. The show includes work by Ted Apel, Daniel Barron, Richard Chartier, Melia Donovan, Leif Elggren, Ty Ennis, Michael Paulus, Susan Robb, Steve Roden, Abi Spring, Laura Vandenburgh. www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny
Moshi Moshi shows Tokyo artist MAHK!!. 811 E Burnside
The Grass Hut shows "Pretty in Ink", illustration on paper by Meg Hunt, Miniature Mouse - Fumi Nakamura and Naomi Nowak. 811 E Burnside
Redux specializes in objects and art made of reused materials. Musician, painter, crafter, Rachel Blumberg shows her visual work, possibly including sock octopuses. 811 E Burnside
Sunday April 15, 2007
02:00 PM : What's Up in Chinese Art - Talk @ Portland Art Museum
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The New Museum of Contemporary Art is not stuffy. Operating since the 1970's, it has maintained it's freshness by a strategy of capture and release, selling collected works after a few years. This is good for the artists too, it keeps their art moving in the world. The Museum also operates Rhizome, a smart digital art program. (Hey Rhizome is putting on a benefit show Monday with YACHT and Cory Arcangel!).
So It makes sense that the Museum would turn its gaze Westward to China. The liberalizations begin under Deng have proceeded in fits and starts. But coupled with social and economic changes, China's dynamics are breeding some amazing contemporary art, including performance. It doesn't hurt that art has generally been permitted sly criticism of Chinese government policy. The fact that performance leaves little evidence helps too. Inside Out: New Chinese Art, curated by Gao Minglu, and shown in 1999 in SF and NY, was an early attempt to survey the landscape. Now even Saatchi is stalking Chinese art.
This afternoon, Dan Cameron, senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art will compare his perceptions of new Asian art in a talk "Gone Global". Cameron will attempt to place contemporary Asian art in the context of the currents and rivulets of contemporary art theory and criticism in the West. It sounds boring, but I don't think it will be. Tickets recommended in advance. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 2PM $10/5 members
Saturday April 28, 2007
08:00 PM : (PDXFF) Growing Awareness @ Hollywood Theatre
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Saturday April 28th @ 8PM
Sunday April 29th @ 7:30PM
Great Garbage Patch Kids
Mobile Installation by Devon Damonte
In front of the Hollywood Theatre
Recently it came to light that a giant ice shelf broke off an island near Greenland (just north of Devon Island) in 2005. For a very limited engagement, a shard of the Ayles Ice Shelf itself will be visiting Portland, cleverly disguised as a blue 1988 Toyota pickup truck so as not to arouse suspicion. This 300,000 year-old ice cube has a lot to say and show us, spreading the gospel word that we are all the children of the Great Garbage Patch (that huge eternally swirling slurry of plastics in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). Look for the blue Toyota pickup parked in front of the theater for a glimpse deep inside a footloose ice shelf, wandering amidst the gyres.
Sunday April 29, 2007
07:30 PM : (PDXFF) Great Garbage Patch Kids @ Hollywood Theatre
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Saturday April 28th @ 8PM
Sunday April 29th @ 7:30PM
Great Garbage Patch Kids
Mobile Installation by Devon Damonte
In front of the Hollywood Theatre
Recently it came to light that a giant ice shelf broke off an island near Greenland (just north of Devon Island) in 2005. For a very limited engagement, a shard of the Ayles Ice Shelf itself will be visiting Portland, cleverly disguised as a blue 1988 Toyota pickup truck so as not to arouse suspicion. This 300,000 year-old ice cube has a lot to say and show us, spreading the gospel word that we are all the children of the Great Garbage Patch (that huge eternally swirling slurry of plastics in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). Look for the blue Toyota pickup parked in front of the theater for a glimpse deep inside a footloose ice shelf, wandering amidst the gyres.
Thursday May 3, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland West Side
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Photographs and Video by Dinh Q. Lê
The most potentially engaging opening this evening are the works of Dinh Q. Le. Born in
He also shows a two channel video piece "From Father to Son: A Rite of Passage", closely matching action between Vietnam War films Platoon, staring Charlie Sheen; and Apocalypse Now, staring Martin Sheen. The multi dimensional and generational parallels between the unspeakably brutal Belgian colonialism in the Congo, the disaster of the Vietnam War, blind self destruction, moral crux and Iraq are inescapable.*
Le's work is in the permanent collection of the NY and SF Museums of Modern Art, LACMA and the Norton Family Collection. He has shown extensively in Asia and
On Saturday, Lê and art historian Moira Roth from Mills speak at 11AM. Between 1 and 5PM Le shows a three channel video "The Farmers and the Helicopters" juxtaposing the dreams of self taught mechanics who build their own helicopter for humanitarian aims and historical war helicopter footage.
www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
*Filmmaker Oliver Stone resented that privilege bought deferments from the Vietnam-era military draft (Cheney, Bush), so he dropped out of Yale to enlist in the Army at age 21. He served in
Quality Pictures overlaps J Bennett Fitts "No Lifeguard on Duty", images of sadly abandonded motel swimming pools, with Stuart Hawkins "Customs", "Appearing In" and video "Souvenir". Hawkins lives in
Quality Pictures www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt
Sculptor, painter and installationist Marty Schnapf shows at Stumptown downtown. Schnapf last showed large paintings there themed on landmine explosions. He has worked extensively with Monster Squad creating environments for their modern dance works. Stumpown 126 SW 3rd
PNCA
PNCA shows "Portland Collects" and a juried show of art made by the school's students. The value of "Collects" is that it demonstrates that key collectors here are able to take aesthetic risks. Next year, PNCA launches their MFA program. Several of the students in the program chose PNCA over top art schools elsewhere. www.pnca.edu
Real Superheros
P:ear kids this month have worked with duct tape collage artist Mona Superhero. Her graphic work references pop culture and Pop Art, with an aesthetic feel of the 1970's and 1980's. www.pearmentor.org 809 SW Alder
Bright and Odd
PDX Window Project shows bright constructions of spray foam by Midori Hirose. See it 24x7. www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Street
If you are out, the Everett Lofts, Compound and Valentines are recommended. Trish Grantham shows at Genuine Imitation.
06:00 PM : Oskar Radon-Kimball and Rose Gibian @ Valentines
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Valentines is proud to present works by
Rose Gibian
Oskar Radon-Kimball
please join us for the opening reception
thursday, may 3 6 - 9pm
Rose Gibian is an 8 year old native of Portland, Oregon. In her work, she presents an elaborate, whimsical universe of her own invention. Populated with flying cats, costumed animals, and so-called "mixed-up creatures", this world is host to a range of unlikely scenarios: Delirious hippos gorge themselves on landscapes of junk food. Kitty scientists perform experiments in laboratories of gurgling test tubes. Birthday parties are plagued by Raccoon bandits.
Rose began making art in preschool, and since then has been extremely prolific, often generating several drawings a day. She produces work in a variety of formats, including paintings, short books, comics, and dioramas. She currently attends second-grade at Abernethy Elementary. This will be her first art show.
Oskar Radon-Kimball is a multimedia artist and writer who has been working in various media for the past 13 years. He also happens to be a 13-year-old. Oskar's an avid actor who's done film and stage with several roles in his school plays at DaVinci Arts Middle School (recently in a version of Moliere's "Affected Damsels") and in 2005 had a role one of in Nick Peterson's trailers for the Northwest Film Festival. He has studied filmmaking at the Northwest Film Center and through Project Youth Doc. In 2005, Oskar sold out of many of his comics at the Stumptown Comic Fest.
He's worked on many comics for the past five years although he made his first hero, Star Man, when he was six. His main characters are the hero, Sock Man and his witty assistant, Bootie.
Currently he is writing a novel called Gemelle.
He enjoys reading, writing, myspace, and awesome.
06:00 PM : marty schnapf @ downtown stumptown
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marty schnapf @ downtown stumptown = the swallows
\ may /
opening = thursday 6-8pm
after three years of performances, installations, international dance party sculptures and online conceptual projects marty schnapf returns to downtown stumptown (128 sw 3rd ave) for a very personal take on swallows (as in birds as in gulp as in facing a situation). it is a piece written for four tables. it is the story of the artist's winter as experienced by strangers.
Friday May 4, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland East Side
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In the 811 Block...
While Stumptown has Swallow, the Grass Hut has Drifters. These drifters are not just any drifters. No, they are Dawn Riddle, Driftwould and The Reverend Benny Bob. Riddle makes drawing style paintings, only a little rough and folky, themed on sea creatures. Driftwould-Matthew Feyld lives in Canada where he creates clean cartoony figures. The Rev lives out in the woodsy woods and for this show paints wildlife on wood. The Grass Hut
Moshi-moshi shows Synthetic Down Comforter, paintings by Sean Christiansen and Stefan Salto. The flier shows a super odd portrait of two people and a teddy bear asleep. Moshi Moshi
Redux shows wall pieces by Faryn Davis. Davis is a painter, constructs mixed media wall pieces and makes jewelery. Redux
All 811 E Burnside
The New American Art Union mounts an artists' book show. 922 SE Ankeny
The Office hosts the 511 show, a group of studiomates - Forgash, British Sarah, Neir, Scotty, Emily, Coyle, Dan, Shelby and maybe some other gravity hounds, that have toiled all gray winter and are now busting out with "photos, carcasses, paint, found art, print media, rock music, and social awkwardness". OK. Massive bike arrival encouraged. At Office Skate and Snow 2136 East Burnside
Sarah Boss shows abstract photographs of familiar surfaces in macro. The fusion of our touch and visual experiences, perhaps even as babies, informs our sense of textural pleasure, for lifetime. At Brian Marki 2236 NE Broadway
Newspace shows "Defining Identities: Three Young Adults with Cancer" - portraits and "Columbia River Portfolio" - landscapes. http://www.newspacephoto.org/gallery/ 1632 SE 10th
Small A shows art by SF collaborators Bob Linder and Will Rogan - photos, drawing and video inspired by Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing. Rogan speaks Monday at the PSU lecture series. http://smallaprojects.com/ 1430 SE 3rd
The cozyultra Press Club shows artist Rebecca Haack 2621 SE Clinton St til 10
For completeness, but without editorial review, other possibilities include, Center Space 420 SE 6th; Tiny's coffee 12th and Hawthorne; the Night Light 2100 SE Clinton (last time I was in they had some fairy fantasy paintings, so you are on your own there); 12x16 gallery in Sellwood (Zeb Andrews - Pinscapes); Moxie - George Perrou casual tiki style paintings; and the Mark Woolley Gallery 128 NE Russell; possibly some Mississippi Street spots.
06:00 PM : The Drifters @ Grass Hut
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The Drifters
Hippies are drifters, bikers are drifters, migratory birds are drifters, hobos are drifters, jelly fish are drifters, rain clouds are drifters and even words are drifters. Can art drift? Is drifting a style? Yes.
Drifters live in the moment, they create from pure instinct without hidden agendas or pretension and if they have a message it's simply "let go".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1C6VkMfDQ
May 4th at Grass Hut Gallery
The Drifters Dawn Riddle, Driftwould and The Reverend Benny Bob
will share with us the art of letting go.
Bios:
Dawn Riddle-Lives in San Francisco, but is know through out Portland from the band Sour Grapes and just being a sweet person who like to ride bikes and share cookies and coffee with friends. Her last art show in Portland was at Half & Half, every piece was spoken for before the show opened. Dawn works with paint, thread, construction paper and whatever it takes to honestly and clearly speak of how humans can swim with sharks, whales and other creature from the deep. The secret is to drift with them.
Matthew Feyld-(aka Driftwould) Is Canadian working out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (home of Olympia brewing). Driftwould's work is world-renowned due to his pleasant web presents on Flickr and train murals. He uses pen, paper, watercolor, and acrylics to create "a world where both human, and animal share more than just their boots." Driftwould's use of posturing and icons reminds us that we all want to be simple again, we want to live in this moment.
The Reverend Benny Bob- Lives in a small cabin above the Siletz River near Kernville, Oregon. The Reverend cuts his own firewood, and eats clams, guts and all if he has to, when he isn't hiking streams following salmon for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. In his humble cabin he has mastered ceramics, wood, ink, graphite, sewing and painting. Once a month The Reverend drives his beat-up truck to Portland to show his artwork to folks on the sidewalks in the big city. His life and work are solid representations of content budda-like action.
The Drifters
(the art of letting go)
Dawn Riddle, Matthew Feyld and The Reverend Benny Bob
May 4th (First Friday), 6-9pm
Grass Hut Gallery
811 E. Burnside
Portland, Oregon
(503) 445-9924
grasshutcorp.com

Saturday May 19, 2007
07:00 PM : Mississippi: May (feat. Sarah Meadows)
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15 artists. 50,000 square feet.
3810 Mississippi Ave.
May 19th to May 31st
http://www.mississippimay.com
opening party May 19th 7pm
Wednesday May 30, 2007
07:00 PM : Lead Pencil Studios Talk @ W+K Ad Agency
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Amalgam Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo are Lead Pencil Studio, an art and architecture super duo.
As Lead Pencil, they are equally at home making buildings, designing interior spaces and creating site specific conceptual art. Their aesthetic is clear and elegant, practicing conservation of material and form.
Han and Mihalyo met at UofO in architecture school. After school they traveled the West, photographing the abandoned detris that once made fortunes grinding trees into wood. One result was Mihalyo's 1997 book "Wood Burners", photographs of giant furnaces for burning lumbering leftovers, and a show at Blue Sky Gallery. Another result: those giant scale ruins have informed their use of space in making installations today.
Tonight they show their work and talk about it.
Lead Pencil has been selected for residencies at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah; the SF Exploratorium; and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin. Shows include the Henry; COCA, both Seattle; the SF Exploratorium; Miami Aqua; Disjecta in the Columbia Gorge, Art in General, NYC; and SF MOMA. They have also received The Stranger Genius Award, the Architecture League of NY Emerging Voice Award, Artists' Trust and Creative Capital Awards, Seattle and NYC respectively.
See their show too themed on "light" at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle May 3- June 30.
W+K Atrium 224 NW 13th 7PM Free
Thursday May 31, 2007
05:00 PM : N-NE Art Madness @ Mississippi & Alberta
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If you are bored tonight, the closing of the Mississippi May warehouse show goes from 6-midnightish. Bands, DJ's, the art, and hourly fashion shows fill the time. There is a silent auction ending at 9 for a Sprockette who has some heavy medical problems too. Meanwhile the Sprockettes kick off the the First Quarterly Moon Castle Ballyhoo Family Fun Day! - beginning at 5 at 20th and NE Alberta. Free grills for grillin' your bringin's, a watermelon seed spitting contest, ice cream sundae making, fort building, hula hoops and blindfolded face painting. At 8:30 there is an animal costume marching band parade to the mystery movie location. Bring blankies and things for sittin' on.
Friday June 1, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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All the usual spots will be open. Recommended -
In the 811 Block
Moshi-Moshi mounts very special show of ray guns by Ray Horneau. There is en extensive explanation with pictures by curator Brian Elliot at http://kushitan.blogspot.com/2007/05/rayguns-at-moshi-moshi-portland-or.html. Horneau's rayguns are complemented by Portland artists' responses, including a felt raygun. Moshi-Moshi
The Grass Hut shows very poppy psych by the Hiberts! That would be family Snaggs H., her husband Arbito H., and his two cousins Oliver H. and Spencer H.. Brigt felt work sits beside glossy painting. This work will make you happy. Buy some now for the pick me up you will need next mid winter. Details at http://grasshutcorp.blogspot.com/2007/05/hiberts.html
Redux shows Vinyl Killers, paintings on old vinyl disks.
There is also a party out back behind 811 for a new Moss-like retail store opening in the building.
811 E Burnside 6-9+ish
Jessie Hayward presents THE HOOK UP at New American Art Union. It includes artists you should see if you don't know their work including Brenden Clenaghen, Jacqueline Ehlis, Ellen George, Sean Healy, Jenene Nagy, Jeff Jahn, TJ Norris and Stephanie Robison. At New American Art Union 922 SE Ankeny
06:00 PM : Artists of McMenamins @ Guestroom Gallery
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Artists of McMenamins: Olivia Behm, Kolieha Bush, Joe Cotter, Lyle Hehn, Jenny Joyce, Myrna Yoder
WHEN: June 1 – July 28, 2007
HOURS: Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5 PM
Opening reception for the artists: First Friday, June 1, 6 - 9 PM
WHERE: Guestroom Gallery
4114 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland, OR 97217
PHONE: 503.284.8378
EXHIBITION NOTES: Guestroom Gallery is pleased to present the art of six McMenamins’ artists. This is the first exhibition of their own studio work presented together as a group, and some of the artwork looks very unlike what they paint for McMenamins. The show will include paintings, woodblock prints, bronze and ceramic sculptures, and the work is as diverse as the artists themselves. For these individuals employed as artists, they still go home to their own studios to create, and these are their musings.
Monday June 4, 2007
08:15 PM : Dan Graham @ PSU Free Lecture Series
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Dan Graham makes art. Installation, sculpture, video, architecture. He speaks free, here, tonight. PSU Hall Street Cinema 515 SW Hall x5th 8:15PM Free
Wednesday June 6, 2007
07:00 PM : Alberta Arts District Discussion @ Office PDX
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Students from 5 studios studied the social history of the neighborhood and how that resulted in todays built and lived environment. They then developed models, renderings and social visions for the neighborhoods evolution. They present their findings tonight for discussion, the event will be moderated by Brian Libbey, local and national architecture writer and creator of the Portland Architecture Blog
At Office PDX 7-9PM Free
Thursday June 7, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside (mostly)
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All these are up all month in case there is a rainy Saturday. Note however this Saturday, when it usually rains on the Rose Parade, the parade will fully occupy downtown with strangeness.
The exception is a one night book release event by Ann Ploeger and it is on the East side. Ploeger is known for large photographic portraits of local luminaries in their homes, often barefoot and in nostalgic rich Kodacolor film tones. The book: "Portraits". At No Fish Go Fish 3962 SE Hawthorne 8-11PM Free
The 333 Hancock (333 NE Hancock, above Dunes) studios are also having a one night open studio to view the work of some of the new artists creating there. 6-10PM
I don't know much about the art, paintings by Cheyenne Sawyer, but the place - jàce gàce - is an "art construction collective working with glass, wood, metal, paint, music, and futuristic restorations" and eatery featuring art, waffles and beer. (!!) Waffles and chicken are an old Harlem tradition, is this a new Portland one? 2045 SE Belmont 6PM-midnight
Anna Fidler shows new works. A PSU MFA grad, Fidler continues to evolve her fantastic colorful maybe landscape painting collages. She is known for outdoor installations and performances on the landscape, and indoor installations of similar feel to her paintings. Her magical realism is real though. Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery 925 NW Flanders until 8PM only
New York artist Kenny Scharf is responsible for the totem pole trolley cable supports in the NW district around Jameson Square. He is probably one of the most successful lowbrow artists. His pop aesthetics may be in full play for his role in curating this show in support of the Platform Animation Festival. This part of Platform focuses on Basil Wolverton and Robby Cooper.
Wolverton (1909-1978)is an influential illustrator, well known for comic book work. His distorted caricatures influenced later illustrators such as R Crumb. Working outside established comic publishers, Crumb was the taproot of the independent comic explosion, which later grew along with the 'zine movement. Interestingly Platform now picks up independent animation as the next wave replacing paper-based independent publishing.
Robby Cooper shows photographs themed "Alter Ego:Avatars and their Creators". Avatars are folk art that represent characters in the online world of networked games and environments. In the short term, they are more lightweight than real time motion video representations of players; but they can carry the heavy weight of identity dreams. They are likely a generational change in the online world.
The Art Center hosts a reception for the show on June 29 as well.
The Art Center also shows Mapping Meg Ryan by Samantha DiRosa from Pullman in th e Light and Sound Gallery.
Portland Art Center 32 NW 5th until 10
Electric Garden is a show of the works of Apak, Peter Hamlin and Betsy Walton. Their styles are complementary and perfect in energy for the spring to summer flux. Compound Gallery upstairs at Just Be Toys 107 NW 5th
PNCA's BFA thesis show is installed in the now clean and neat senior studios. NW 15th Johnson. Dryden Goodwin shows in the Feldman Gallery in the main building NW 13th and Johnson
PSU's MFA students close their thesis work at 2000 SW 5th on the third floor
The Everett Station lofts and the Rake and Ogle galleries anchoring their diagonals are recommended for your exploratory viewing pleasure. The block bounded by NW 5th, Broadway, Everett, Flanders.
Seattle artist Anna Siems was an early regional worker in wax based mediums, often making work on scrap paper, archival by virtue of the wax. Her work has added more figures glimpsing a psychological landscape. Laura Russo Gallery 805 NW 21st Ave
Jessica Bronk shows dark ochre, yellow and umber impressionistic landscapes at Vino Paradiso 417 NW 10
We spend a lifetime understanding ourselves, but rush to generalize that others' internal processes are the same. No. Now imagine a complete break in your own internals. That is what newspaper photographer John Trotter experienced when he was beaten almost to death. With severe brain injuries, he had to relearn everything. Finally resuming photography, Trotter returned to document the hospital, with new internal processes. “Having been attacked because I was a photographer I needed, as much as anything else, to learn to be a photographer again. But I had taken pictures there [at the hospital] for about a year before I understood that I was trying to understand my own completely altered experience of life.” *
Nathan Baker's "People At Work" combines digitally composited multiple exposures, Gursky-like, documenting the not so quotidian details of the work world. The wonder of our adaptability and ability to work together spans to even the most ordinary of occupations. Both photographers also speak Friday June 8 at 7 st the gallery. Free
* For another take of the work of disabled artists, see the ANP Quarterly #6 article on Oakland's Creative Growth center.
At Blue Sky Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt
An interesting contrast to Trotter's show are illustration style paintings by Elizabeth Huey. Huey is responsible for organizing the myspace art show noted in portlandorusnow in February, 2007. Huey's Chronophobia explores the history of mental difference and its still primitive treatment. Her paintings include figures, structures, and fantastic landscapes in a dreamlike melange. Stuart Hawkins also continues her surreal Nepal work, previously noted and recommended. Quality Pictures 916 NW Hoyt
Joe and Annette Thurston show their work developed with the kids at P:ear. P:ear 809 SW Alder
Architecture is art. It's drawings too have a specific impressionistic flavor. In this unusual show, architects drawings, realized, and not, are presented. Brad Cloepfil, the principal of Allied Works Architecture, is known internationally for his designs, particularly of museums. Locally he is responsible for the design of the Wieden and Kennedy advertising agency within the historical shell of an ice warehouse. Most recently his Seattle Art Museum annex within a new office tower has opened. PDX Contemporary 925 NW Flanders until 8
06:00 PM : Periscope Studio Artists @ Floating World Comics
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Portland's best kept secret: we are a comics town. The list of local
comics creators and publishers gets larger every year. I think it should
be a point of pride that Portland is the West Coast comics capital of the
nation.
For example, 'PERISCOPE STUDIOS' (formerly MERCURY STUDIOS) located in
downtown Portland is the largest in the comic book industry. Home to over
20 artists and writers (including the artists of Superman, Batman,Wonder
Woman, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man), this studio represents the best
professionals working in the industry as well as new emerging artists.
First Thursday, June 7th from 6-10pm, Floating World Comics is proud to
present a PERISCOPE STUDIOS art show featuring as much of their all-star
roster we could fit in the store! The following artists will be on hand
displaying original comic art and comics:
STEVE LIEBER (Whiteout, Gotham Central, Civil War Frontline - Eisner Award
Winner)
PAUL GUINAN (Heartbreakers, Boilerplate - alternate history steampunk,
featured in US News & Report and NY Times)
KARL KESEL (Fantastic Four, Spider-Man)
DAVID HAHN (Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Bite Club, Private Beach)
COLLEEN COOVER (Banana Sunday, Small Favors - best girly porno comic ever)
DYLAN MECONIS (Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love -
history of psychology, featured in Publishers Weekly)
JESSE HAMM (Good As Lily, a new Minx title - DC's new imprint aimed at
young teens and female readers)
AARON MCCONNELL (The Young Pups)
RON CHAN (A Dummy's Guide To Danger)
http://www.mercurystudio.blogspot.com/
06:00 PM : david berkvam @ Downtown Stumptown
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Symbiogenesis by David Berkvam
June 1st - 30th
Artist Reception:
Thursday, June 7th, 6-8pm
Stumptown
128 SW 3rd Ave
Thursday June 28, 2007
07:00 PM : Finder Launch Party @ Office
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DATE: THURS JUNE 28 / 7 TO 9 PM / FREE
What: adidas art benefit show + Willamette Week FINDER launch party
Detail: OFFICE is hosting a Portland design/art blow out on June’s Last Thursday, with two events happening concurrently.
1) adidas originals is helping to sponsor a special art show featuring 12 luminary PDX artists (6 women and 6 men), all of whom are using an adidas skateboard deck as their canvas, and an adidas superstar II shoe as the inspiration to create one-of-a-kind works, with 20% of sales benefiting Portland Skateparks. Artists include: Amy Ruppel, Trish Grantham, Kara Yanigawa and Sam Tudyk (both of Egg Press), Julianna Bright as well as Mona Superhero. Male artists include: Brad Simon (shroomboy), Evan B Harris, Guy Burwell, Martin Ontiveros, Mike King and Tony Secolo.
2) ADDITIONALLY, The Willamette Week is launching their must-have FREE travel guide magazine, FINDER, and the WW will be there in full force. Be the first to get this limited edition, coveted travel guide to the City of Roses – what’s new, what’s cool and what defines our city.
Last Thursday at OFFICE includes fab cocktails and live DJ. Details later in the week....
Monday July 2, 2007
06:00 PM : Overkill Non-Juried Art Show @ Jáce Gáce
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Jáce Gáce presents a show of your art. Bring it by and as long as there is room they will put it on the wall.
Submissions accepted Monday July 9 and Tuesday July 10 8AM-8PM
3 entries max per artist
2d artwork and under 6'x6'
Ready to hang
Show opens Thursday July 12 6PM-midnight.
Pick up your art Friday July 27 and Saturday July 28
That is all.
[art, waffles, beer, coffee] http://www.jacegace.com/ 2045 SE Belmont
Thursday July 5, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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The Portland Art Center opens several shows including something from John Mace, known for large installations such as one with water raining at filling the Nine Gallery and one with blood-like liquid pumped through a network of tubes at the old Art Center space, now Jace Gace. One of the other shows is Portland Modern #5: Environmentalists. In the connected building up the funky elevator are individual artist studios some open for a look at work in progress.
http://www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th
Photographer Krista K. Wheeler is known for candid portraits of creative Portland at play and photographing her own family. Her photos of Portland 1990's nightlife are at Ogle http://www.ogleinc.com/ 310 NW Broadway until 8:30
Sculptor and installationist Brenda Mallory is known for unitized sculptures, each element just a little different, one to another. Handmade, her work reminds of nature's infinite variation, organized by pattern, be they plant or microorganism. At Nine Gallery in Blue Sky 1231 NW Hoyt (it's also good news that the Nine Gallery space will continue in Blue Sky's fancy new digs when they move later in the month)
P:ear pairs Portland artists and street kids working on art. Hundreds of local artists have participated. It costs money to run such a program and now P:ear has attracted the attention of a local pop radio station with the ability to reach a broad audience beyond the art making community. This is a good thing. Tonight they partner for a sale of encaustic painting at a local salon. If people buy it, it's good all around. Urbaca Salon http://www.urbacahairsalon.com http://www.pearmentor.org 120 NW 9th
Painter Gabriel Macca shows impressionistic landscapes at Froelick Gallery http://www.froelickgallery.com/ 817 SW 2nd
The Laura Russo gallery mounts a summer group show. Galleries are channels, connecting a group of artists to a group of art buyers through an aesthetic theme. Akin to the old television model. The channel which is Motel Gallery has the same concept, just a different aesthetic. Pick any other gallery, it is the same. It can be instructive however to see what the established galleries are programming, in other words what they are selling, which, in turn, pays the artists' rent.
Laura Russo Gallery http://www.laurarusso.com/ 805 NW 21st until 8
Deborah Oropallo shows "Guise" unusual digital photographs of women composited onto pre-20th century style formal painted portraits of royals and military men. The artist has an impressive resume, this work is more captivating than the paintings on her website. It's also an example of cultural vectors of acting-costuming employed by many current photographers and sampling, which is everywhere. Pulliam Deffenbaugh http://www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/ 929 NW Flanders until 8
Compound shows Fracture: illustrators Jason Shawn Alexander and Andrew Hem. This is a little rougher non-kawaii, non transformer illustration show than Compound's usual. At Compound/Just Be Toys 107 NW 5th
The Everett lofts are recommended as always, including Soft at Tilt curated by Kristan Kennedy.
The Saez show mentioned in Mike's listing is also recommended.
06:00 PM : Paige Saez @ Stumptown Coffee
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paige saez: god is a number
july 3rd- july 31st 2007
opening reception july 5th, 6-8pm
stumptown coffee
128 sw 3rd
portland, OR
06:00 PM : Kristan Kennedy's Juried Show @ Tilt
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SOFT
An exhibition juried by
KRISTAN KENNEDY
(Portland, OR-) Soft features the work of seven artists selected from an international pool. In this exhibition, each artist is exploring intellectual and perceptual interpretations of "soft". From painted, backless, shaped canvasses to images cut from diaper lining, Kristan Kennedy has selected work that negotiates a new visceral terrain.
Selected artists include: Aaron Bowles (MA), Jonathan Bucci (OR), Grant Hottle (OR), Dallas Kavanagh (NY), TJ Norris (OR), Katherine E. Sehr (NY), and Eva Speer (OR).
Soft will be on exhibit from July 5-28, 2007 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett, Suite 106, Portland, Oregon. A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday July 5 from 6-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays noon-5pm and by appointment.
Kristan Kennedy is the Visual Art Program Director for PICA. She is a graduate of the New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, and is an exhibiting artist represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Kennedy’s work was included in the 2006 and 1999 Biennials at the Portland Art Museum.
This event is free and open to the public.
Tilt Gallery and Project Space
625 NW Everett Suite 106
Portland, Oregon 97209
http://www.tiltpdx.com
Friday July 6, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings and Ephemera @ Portland East Side
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811 Block
Birds are everywhere, but for how long? The industrial revolution fueled by rapacious resource extraction generated massive new wealth. For some benefiting, the incorporation of bird feathers and even complete bird carcases into hats became the fashion rage.
In addition, mass production placed firearms within the reach of many Americans, in turn, placing birds within the reach of gunowners. Many species were literally driven into extinction by hunting. The massive depopulation of birds in the late 1800's alarmed many, fueling the founding of the National Audubon Society and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in England and their rapid growth. The movement to save birds was one of the earliest environmental movements.
There is a revival of plumassier today, so if you see their displays in public you might inquire how sustainable their source.
"The New Birds" is an art show to benefit the local Audubon Society. Artists Apak, Evan Harris, Martin Ontiveros, Bwana Spoons, Scrappers, Keith Shore, Amy Ruppel, Katy Horan, Matthew Feyld, Stefanie Choi, Tripper, Steve Mathews, Meredith Mathews, Brett Superstar, J.Otto, Cyrus Smith, Ryan Berkley, Adain Koch, David Neevel, Mr. Pinks, Shawn Creeden, Amy Morrison, Nick Robins, Jon Izen, Reverend Benny Bob, David Wein, Betsy Walton, Keith Greiman, Klutch, Matthew di Leo, Phoneticontrol, Mama Morgan and Maxwell Loren Holyoke-hirsch, Shayla Hason, more even, contribute their artistic meditations on bird.
As Mikey mentioned, at the Grass Hut http://www.grasshutcorp.blogspot.com/
Kendra Binney creates kawaii-styled work [1,2], but it is the eyes that get you. Her figures have preternaturally large eyes. They are dreamers and her paintings, their maybe dreams, hued in a subtle blue palate. Excellent. At Moshi Moshi http://www.moshi-moshi.com/
As Mikey mentioned, Joseph Valentino shows multiple exposure Polaroid (how did he do that?!) that have been modded up by collage at Redux http://www.reduxpdx.com/
All 811 E Burnside
Artist David Eckard makes strange sculptures which could be imagined the fabrications, in steel, canvas, fur and leather, of farm animal prosthetics by a mad Finnish farmer. Perhaps they the prototypes of primitive agricultural machines. He also performs in his contraptions, combining physical risk with maybe masochism. Example include "Tournament" and "Widow's Walk", floating the River in a candle lit skeletal podium for Gallery Homeland's "Scratching the Surface" art project. His work is disturbing but much more subtle, though less endorphin-fueled, than the hook suspensionists. He shows drawings and sculptures at Mark Woolley Gallery http://markwoolley.com/ 128 NW Russell
The Rocket building is at 11th and Burnside. It is covered in sliding ply shutters, painted by artists curated by Ruthann Brown. The building is also green certified by the LEED program. Sustainability is yet at an early stage. That means what it means is not completely clear yet. So people are experimenting with a myriad of sustainability vectors. Here is a chance to see a fancy building where people though about that in design and selection of materials. Rocket Building 1101 E Burnside
Artist Auditions creates fun in the usually painful dance between artists seeking representation and galleries seeking cold hard sales. Banishing that junior prom-like angst, the artist audition process is more a game. The first phase of selection involved a quest for golden tickets which contained the location of a secret event and the password. At the event the art-gamers were challenged to create an artist trading card. Following instructions to find the "woman in hot pink fishnets" at the next event, the artists exchanged their trading card for an envelope containing a white square stamped with a star. Their challenge was to create something with the star square using a Sharpie. Each phase also included a challenging Internet competitions for artists worldwide. Those artists who made it through these challenges show tonight. They are Aaliyah Gupta (WA, Aaron Morgan Brown (KS), Brynn Dizack (MA), Chris Miller (NY), Christian Rex van Minnen (CO), Jaime Lakatos (CA), Lisa Nersesova (TX), Matthew Broussard (Italy) and Naomi Falk (MI).
If you want in on the fun in the future, check http://www.artistauditions.org/
http://brianmarki.com/ 2236 NE Broadway
Brian Elliott makes ray guns and robots. Not transformer style, more 1950's sci-fi. He shows some at 12x16 8235 SE 13th Ave., Suite 5, 432-3513
Telegraph Arts presents the One Minute Film Festival tonight. Only slightly longer than a blipvert, these films tell a story in the manner of a television commercial. Short enough to guarantee you won't have time to get bored, but still leaving a residual impression of quality or not. At Holocene http://www.holocene.org $3-10 sliding scale
06:00 PM : new birds @ grass hut
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Birds are inspiring. They bring us sweet songs, they treat us to amazing aerial acrobatics and they remind us to look around and trip out on how wonderful this place is.
Grass Hut gallery is hosting a bird flavored group show. The New Birds show hopes to raise urban bird awareness, develop personal relationships with birds, inspire new-age touchy-feely ego-releasing bird-brain thinking and welcome a new breed of artist to Portland, Oregon.
With over 30 new artists we are bound to get over 30 new interpretations on the simple birds theme. Most of the outta town artists where mailed bird houses to decorate. As luck would have it some random person hung these same birds houses painted blue on telephone poles all around Portland. They also hung duck decoys from power lines. Only in Portland, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BlGIVoFljA
Here's the line up:
Apak, Evan Harris, Martin Ontiveros, Bwana Spoons, Scrappers, Keith Shore, Amy Ruppel, Katy Horan, Matthew Feyld, Stefanie Choi, Tripper, Steve Mathews, Meredith Mathews, Brett Superstar, J.Otto, Cyrus Smith, Ryan Berkley, Adain Koch, David Neevel, Mr. Pinks, Shawn Creeden, Amy Morrison, Nick Robins, Jon Izen, Reverend Benny Bob, David Wein, Betsy Walton, Keith Greiman, Klutch, Matthew di Leo, Phoneticontrol, Mama Morgan and Maxwell Loren Holyoke-hirsch, Shayla Hason and more.
July 6th (First Friday), 6-9pm
Grass Hut Gallery
811 e. Burnside
Portland, OR
(503) 445-9924
www.grasshutcorp.com
06:00 PM : Joseph Valentino @ Redux
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Redux presents
Joseph Valentino
illustrations on polaroids
When not thrifting for classic hip hop and punk tapes, blockprinting, producing music under the pseudonym Neglect http://www.myspace.com/neglect or recording the sounds of the desert at night, this former Portland resident also takes photographs with his beloved Polaroid Spectra.
Utilizing a multiple exposure trick that he learned from a fellow Polaroid enthusiast, he's able to construct double and triple layered ghostlike images that require close observation and patient investigation. In the recycling spirit of REDUX he has taken many of his Polaroid’s that he felt were incomplete and modified them with illustrations and letter transfers in an effort to push the possibilities of what can be done with Polaroid film. The end result combines his meditative line designs with images of nature, people, film stills, 80's television, geometric repetition and urban decay.
All photos are one of a kind originals (not prints) and have been framed using found materials.
Don’t miss this show as Joseph will be in attendance direct from Tucson, AZ, playing a dj set with cohort Gulls who will be doing a live performance art piece.
Opening reception is this First Friday,
On July 6th, 2007
from 6-9:30 pm
REDUX
recycle arts gallery and jewelry boutique
artware, reinvention & adornment for the 21st century
811 east burnside #110
Portland, OR
(503) 231-7336 (REDO)
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reduce reuse redux
http://www.reduxpdx.com
artware reinventions adornment
Thursday July 26, 2007
07:00 PM : art of illustration @ Office
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JULY 26 / art opening / 7 to 9 PM
In the gallery: July 26 through August 26
The art of illustration – featuring Ryan Bubnis (Portland), Martina Witte (new york) and matte stephens – all three illustratrators/ artists are redefining illustration on national / international level. Bubnis creates wonderful characters and has sold out shows across the US, Witte is known for helping to put Starbucks on the global design map, and Stephens has a wonderful mid-century modern flair.
Friday July 27, 2007
08:00 PM : Odds and Ends Vol. 2 @ Rake Gallery
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Odds and Ends Vol. 2
July 27, 2007 8pm-11pm
at Rake Art Gallery
325 NW 6th
Portland, OR 97209
As if PDX isn’t hot enough already galleryHomeland announces the debut of
Karl Lind’s Odds and Ends Vol. 2.
Dropping on July 27th at Rake Art Gallery Odds and Ends Vol. 2 is a fresh
batch of short films and animation curated by Karl Lind, the first in the
series being last years sold out screening of the first Odds and Ends. In
this edition Karl has assembled tales of transformation and disorientation
taking us on a hybrid cinematic journey through the annals of the human
soul.
Joining us on our inward expedition are filmmakers from both near and far,
we will see work ranging from the intricately hand animated award winning
film “Phantom Canyon” from Stacey Steers, two awesome short films by
Melanie Shatzky and Brian Cassidy, a short piece from Seattle animator
Salise Hughes as well as work from the likes of Portland powerhouses Grace
Carter and Holly Andres, Alec Cohen, Vanessa Renwick, Stephen Slappe, Kiri
Hargie and Liz Haley.
Suggested donation of $7*
Refreshments will be served.
* proceeds from the screening will benefit Gallery Homeland’s upcoming
Scratching the Surface project
**this is a 21+ event
Thursday August 2, 2007
05:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland West Side
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First Thursday is becoming simpler. DeSoto Block, Everett Block, NW 5th x Couch art megaplex. Here are some notes:
In the DeSoto Block check all the spaces, though the exhibit in the Contemporary Crafts Museum, free anytime, deserves more than a quick scan.
At Blue Sky, there are some great pieces in a group show in the Nine Gallery conceptual space. There is also a reprieve of the Rephotographic Survey Project. The government trained photographers to document the Civil War. After, it sent them West. At the time, there was a strong transcendental movement and a belief that dramatic natural vistas, then unspoiled, were proof positive of the hand of a creator. The landscape photographs captured by these expeditionary photographers were also used by the government to market the West to settlers. These first photographers transported glass plates up to 24 inches square, coated them on site, exposed the glass negative, developed them in a tent darkroom, then carried them back, all by pack animal. The first Rephotographic Survey Project was conceived in 1977 by East Coast photography students in Rochester, NY, Mark Klett, trained as a geologist, Ellen Manchester, JoAnn Verburg and others. They journeyed West to photograph the classic landscape images of the mid-late 1800's from exactly the same vantage point. The resulting photographs were displayed side by side with the originals. The results of mining, erosion, logging and diminishing water are plainly visible. Klett returns with a third view show of recent photos at Blue Sky now. Something to think about.
Blue Sky Gallery in the DeSoto building, NW Broadway and Davis
The Everett Station Lofts are always recommended for your viewing pleasure. Bounded by NW Broadway, Everett, 6th and Flanders.
You may have noticed there is some construction along 5th and 6th downtown. Hopefully you have not fallen down the rabbit hole because it is max treach. To celebrate the almost finishedness of the Old Town section, the City is throwing a free block party at 5th and Couch.
See the photo show at upper playground by Ricky Powell, "illy funksters", documenting the 80's hip hop scene in NY where it began. Powell also presents a slide show 4PM Saturday at the Gallery Upper Playground 23 NW 5th
At Compound, it's Bliss E*press: Illustrating Happiness. Artists Ogushi, Aya Kondo, Marcos Chin, Rain and Fuco Ueda show. Just Be Megaplex 107 NW 5th
Stop into the Portland Art Center which never disappoints. 32 NW 5th
On the Portland Transit Mall the Music Population Orchestra:PDX will play new chamber music. This is part of a series of performances held simultaneously in Oslo.
Just look for a small chamber orchestra with music stands and classical instruments. The plan, subject to improvisation is to begin at 7:00 at NW 4th and Flanders and continue South towards Burnside for a performance near the Chinatown Gateway Arch.
At 7:30, from the arch the orchestra will head West on Burnside and NW Couch until they reach the Park Blocks West of Broadway.
At 8:00 they will continue West a bit for as long as their weary legs will hold them, offering more of our "urban guerrilla chamber music" along the way.
Pushdot are some of the few local masters of putting digital photography to print. To do so is actually harder than with wet processing film and paper. That is pretty complicated in itself! The once mighty Kodak spent over 120 years getting film just right. There is a pile of color science including studies of what colors are found in nature, the inexact color temperature concept, CIE and Munsen mapping, multi primaries, the complexity of RGB-CMYK mapping and handling our uber-sensitivity to skin tone.
Pushdot helps photographers through the process. For select art photographers they mount exhibitions. Past work is available for sale on their website, a virtual gallery. This month they mount a 5 year retrospective group show. Soon they will move to the East side, reopening in a few months.
Pushdot Studio 830 NW 14th
The Art Institute of Portland is adapting to a cozy niche training industrial clothing designers and animators, as it should, because there are Portland jobs for them. There are also plenty of one person fashion units here turning out clothing you should wear. A world, national and local vector in clothing is sustainability. One look at the mountains of fabric never used, clothing never sold, rarely worn then sadly discarded and you get the idea. In the gallery, the AI shows clothing by local designers using sustainable materials including Emily Katz, Entermodal, Anna Cohen, Sameunderneath, Blairwear, Knot Ugly Designs, Faith Jennings and Flood Clothing.
AI Portland 1122 NW Davis until 8
The Portland City Hall has been doing early art openings every First Thursday. They run on narrow rails between populist and multicultural and that is fine. Tonight the theme is skate related. It's a perfect opportunity to collar your commissioner and tell them what you think. You can bring your board too, or better, go by board. Board of Art: A Historical Perspective of Stumptown Skate City Hall 1221 SW 4th 5-8PM
Self taught artist Joe Thurston shows new abstract work at Elizabeth Leach. Thurston previously produced glowering portraits that were strangely affecting. For this show he continues with wood as a canvas which has been meticulously incised with a hand chisel. See it at Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th
PDX presents a varied group show "True Bearing" with work by Sam Beebe, Christophe Berhault, Nick Blosser, Harrell Fletcher, Lucas Foglia, Justine Kurland, Raymond Meeks, Megan Murphy, Barbara Stafford, and Nell Warren. PDX Contemporary Art 925 NW Flanders until 8
Http://portlandorusnow.blogspot.com
Friday August 3, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings and More @ Portland East Side
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Scratching the Surface is an annual show of an evening that makes art on the river. Sometimes floating in the river too. It is centered on the East Bank Esplanade - the foot of SE Madison is a good place to start. Bruce Conkle's Mountain Romance kicks off at the Ash St. Pier at 6pm, architect artists Grace Luebke and Ben Stagl are floating their installation Tumbleweed at 7pm, and Brooklyn artist Tim Folland launches Ship Wrecked at 9pm. Last year, the maintenance guy hauled away some of the installations the morning of the event thinking they were refuse, but it is all sorted this year. More details at Gallery Homeland the river wranglers. 6-10ish Free
Note Stagl also has an installation in the Portland building lobby "Below Marquam" between August 6 and September 4.
Gabriel Liston shows Tearfully Remembering Familiar Things, nostalgic illustration style paintings as well as drawings and objects. At the New American Art Union 922 SE Ankeny
In the 811 block...
Ayumi Piland, one half of APAK, shows all her own My Secret Pocket Journey. "The one thing I try not to forget before doing the laundry is checking my husband's pockets. All his pockets are always filled with many little things... all types of twigs, rocks, plants, old screws, nuts, balls of fuzz, receipts, post-it notes, coins, dirt, broken piece of plastic, small metal parts, candy wrappers, toys, stickers, business cards, flyers...etc. In contrast, my pockets are usually empty and I feel sort of envious of his collection. But I do have a secret pocket that I keep non-objects, my imagination. I hide the secret pocket around my belly to keep it quite safe. This is where my soul curls up and takes a nap to dream. In this show you get a chance to peak at the world of my secret pocket. I hope you enjoy it!" This is a perfect example of the power of art in a world that seems to be falling apart. At Grass Hut Gallery
By cosmic coincidence the other half APAK, Aaron Piland shows Imagination Machine at Moshi Moshi. His illustration-style work is max kawaii too.
Redux presents P. Williams' Flotsam and Jetsam - paintings on salvaged materials.
"P. Williams current series of work is an exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. The work looks at the plastic divide between humans and the world at large, as well as the tragedy and disasters that come from ignoring the seemingly benign.
P. Williams’ began his professional career after graduating from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration Design. His work is a combination of comics and realism, using two stylistic approaches, fundamentally opposed, allowing for a deeper conversation between the viewer and the artist. There is a cast of characters that perform in these paintings. Being iconic yet completely general. Through subtle manipulations, the characters become distorted to mirror internal conflict, landscapes change from one painting to the next yet they all manage to stay firmly rooted within the same world, the same characters, just a different chapter in the mythology of suburbia. His audience is appreciative of the fact that the modern suburban landscape is that of a warped nature, and the resulting social structures are equally warped. These paintings don’t need to reflect a specific explanation or a title but have items that relate to many storylines and possibilities within a wide range of people."
In his own words;
“ My paintings are fun, and they are supposed to be fun, but they are also intended to be challenging. In many ways, my work functions like a comic, drawing heavily on the lexicon of comic mechanisms, but also invents, distorts, and leaves few puzzles for the viewer to discover. The paintings can be viewed as single panels, or as a collection of snapshots of some novel, standing perfectly alone yet some how complete.
I am also heavily invested in myths, and the way that they relay information, ideas and of course, misconceptions. I explore the way myths and stories tell us how to exist within a society, and what is important. The weight that myths give to creation and destruction have come to function heavily in this current series. Burning foot hills, bleak skies and giant beasts, the work has evolved in to a myth system of it’s own. It is a collection of repeating symbols and metaphors perfect for reinterpretation of modern life.”
Definitely the copywriter of the month award. At Redux
All 811 E. Burnside
Collaborators Justin Gorman and Caleb Freese, who had a recent show at Ogle, show their work at Jáce Gáce. It's their place and their design sense, including culinary, makes for a sweet spot to savor art, beer and waffles. Jáce Gáce 2045 SE Belmont
One of my obscure interests is Butoh, a very modern dance form from Japan. You can search my older posts for plenty of reference. Tonight butoh fusion artist Akira Kasei performs. Kasei fuses eurythmy with butoh. So I guess that would be Waldorf Butoh. He has been teaching a workshop this week at Portland State and he and the students will perform together and separately tonight. I took the same workshop last year and there is no way you should not see this. He is quite the rock star at 63! At Imago Theater 17 SE 8th 7:30PM Free(!!!)
For something completely different, the Film Center is reprising the works of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Tonight it's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The vastness of space and cinematography demands seeing this as film on the big screen. This is the famous meditation on the meaning of life and our spiritual evolution. Let's get it right! It also stars HAL9000, the sensitive AI. A space traveler is led by the monolith through a wormhole to the beginning of time, to become the creator of the universe. (I think you have to read the book to get that, sorry for the spoiler, but the last fourth of the film is a little abstract) See also Dr Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange later in the series. At the NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium in the Art Museum $7/6 members 7PM
06:00 PM : Ayumi Piland @ Grass Hut Gallery
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new work by Ayumi Piland (of APAK)
August 3rd, 6-9pm
Grass Hut Gallery
811 e. burnside
portland, oregon
(503) 445-9924
http://www.grasshutcorp.com
Statement:
The one thing I try not to forget before doing the laundry is checking my husband's pockets. All his pockets are always filled with many little things... all types of twigs, rocks, plants, old screws, nuts, balls of fuzz, receipts, post-it notes, coins, dirt, broken piece of plastic, small metal parts, candy wrappers, toys, stickers, business cards, flyers...etc. In contrast, my pockets are usually empty and I feel sort of envious of his collection. But I do have a secret pocket that I keep non-objects, my imagination. I hide the secret pocket around my belly to keep it quite safe. This is where my soul curls up and takes a nap to dream. In this show you get a chance to peak at the world of my secret pocket. I hope you enjoy it!
Bio:
Ayumi K. Piland was born in Saitama prefecture, Japan and moved to the U.S. by herself after high school. She found her passion in art, and 5 years later she graduated from Kendall College of Art & Design in Michigan with BFA majoring in illustration. Which is when she met her husband, Aaron and they started a creative team APAK. After living in Oakland, CA and Saitama, Japan, they stumbled upon Portland in 2005. Since then they support each other as freelance illustrators and also collaborate under the name APAK on paintings for galleries mostly on West coast.
Besides working on fun projects as APAK, she enjoys making things by hand. Designing plush dolls, self-publish picture books, creating handmade greeting cards, painting silly characters.. etc. Her handmade Gocco greeting cards have been well accepted and sold worldwide. Publishers like Little Otsu publishes her greeting cards as well. She is currently working on illustration for a book called "Biting the Wax Tadpole: Adventures in Word Travel" by Melville Publishing, a greeting card set with Chronicle Books, and also illustrations for a tote bag by Blue Q. Her picture book, Harry will be published in 2008 by Little Otsu. Visit me online at http://www.apakstudio.com
Friday August 10, 2007
06:00 PM : Visual Collective Show @ Audio Cinema
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Artists Bean Gilsdorf, Candace Gossen, Cat Coats, Cyruss Smith, Dan Gilsdorf, Geoffery Ellis, Ilan Laks, Jeremy Tucker, Josh Kim, Katie Behel, Kimber Shiroma, Mike McGovern, Pasha, Samantha Wall and Uli Beutter show work at Audio Cinema. Gallery 500 refugees organize the the space yearly - the results are varied but never boring. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to P:ear.
226 SE Madison Audio Cinema
Artist preview Thursday, August 9th 7-10pm. Invitation only.
Opening night Friday, August 10th 6-2am. $5 donation (also the same night Disjecta closing party)
Saturday and Sunday, August 11th and 12th 12-6pm. Sliding scale donation.
Saturday August 18, 2007
09:00 PM : T. Blood, R. Walmart, T.J. O'neil w/ Fred Nemo, Lylyylys @ Voleur
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Curated by Tom Greenwood and Chris Johanson. Weird art party in the atrium on the side of Voleur Restaurant and Bar which is one block west of the Willamette River and two blocks south of Burnside in the historic New Market Theater Building (1st and Ash).
Also art stuff by Sam Coomes and his daughter, and Johanson's art friend from out of town.
Tara Jane O'neil will perform with dancer Fred Nemo
Poet Tom Blood will say words out loud that are beautiful together
Rob Walmart/Marriage Family Band/Lyllyys will get psychedelic and crunk and drum circle and tryyped and a lot of phaser and distortion. (Members of Adrian Orange, Rob Walmart, Watery Graves, White Rainbow, Valet, Jackie-o motherfucker, Drone Bone, Dark Yoga, etc etc)
Night time on saturday August 18th, 2007
Wednesday September 5, 2007
06:00 PM : (TBA) Cooley re-opening @ Cooley Gallery
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Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
Wednesday, September 5, 6 p.m.
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
BBQ and live music at the Cooley Gallery
This exhibition is a special collaboration between the Cooley Gallery and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's 2007 Time-Based Art Festival, and the first exhibition in the newly renovated Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
September 4–December 9, 2007
Curated by Cooley Gallery director Stephanie Snyder
and PICA Visual Art Program director Kristan Kennedy
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Austrian artist Marko Lulic re-examines modernist art and architecture through a wide range of construction materials and media, often radically shifting the scale of historical monuments and artifacts. With roots in Serbia and Croatia, Lulic re-envisions degraded structures through models, installations, and drawings, incorporating original film into his exploration of potential futures and past (and present) political regimes and social philosophies. Lulic is particularly interested in the lives of utopian communities and charismatic individuals such as Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich. —Stephanie Snyder
Marko Lulic graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in 1997, and has completed residencies at the Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, 2007, and the MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, 1998. Lulic's recent exhibitions include: Disco Wilhelm Reich + Schlamm, Bastard, Oslo, Norway, 2007; Pressspanplatten für den Frieden, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, 2007; and Modernity in YU, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY, NY, 2005. Lulic is the recipient of the 2007 Krupp Foundation award for artistic achievement. He is represented by the Gabriele Senn Gallery in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Peter Kreider's work addresses a hidden potential in the content of the world and the interstices between wonder and understanding. Here Tesla's unattained dreams also come into play, as a nebula of electrical cords and adapters are re-calculated and cast at three times its "normal" size. This sculptural system both confounds and legitimizes the familiar and ubiquitous. Kreider's puffed up and organized mass of adapters suggests not only a scale shift but also a shift in power, threat, and influence. —Kristan Kennedy
Peter Kreider received his BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1995, and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, 2004. Kreider's recent exhibitions include: The Blank Show, Shanghai, China, 2007; Up as if Down, Cuchifritos, NY, NY, 2007; Tropical Punch, Jack the Pelican presents, Brooklyn, NY, 2007; and Material World , Public Art Fund, Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2005. Kreider is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. Kreider is included in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Thursday September 6, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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Visual art has seasons. September is a special month with out of town maybe art buyers visiting for T:BA and the Affair at the Jupiter hotel art fair.
Roberta Bayley shows photographs of punksters Blondie and the Ramones in the 70's. One wonders what the contemporary examples are, and how they will look 30 years hence. What is the interplay between familiarity/nostalgia and novelty in a generation of viewers? How will digital photography's look evolve? Compare this to, for instance, the current show at Dantes. Also showing, mixed media work with an old school master's etching feel, by Morgan Walker. Compare this style to illustration style work at Compound or the Grass Hut. At Augen www.augengallery.com One show at 716 NW Davis, the other at 817 SW 2nd
Yamamoto Masao shows quiet photographs at PDX. Chill. www.pdxcontemporaryart.com
PNCA schooled Rebecca Guberman-Bloom shows enigmatic mystical figurative work. At Mark Woolley in his new downtown location. www.markwoolley.com 817 SW 2nd
Portland photographer Dianne Kornberg shows vintage prints from her past work. Claire Cowie populates environments with creatures. Her fantastic constructions mirror the interplay of the natural and industrial environment near her Seattle studio by the Duwamish River. Some are a little scary. At Elizabeth Leach www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Jeffery Mitchel is ultra baroque. Take a look for yourself at Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 929 NW Flanders early close 8PM
Painter Abi Spring creates subtly textured minimalist abstract paintings. You want to touch. But don't. At Chambers Gallery 207 SW Pine
"The Awesome But True Electric Institute in Outfits" is a show of illustration at the always affordable Reading Frenzy. www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak
The Everett Lofts and the Portland Art Center - Everett and NW Broadway and 32 NW 5th respectively should be standard itinerary points.
Digmeout, of which we have written, shows the latest batch of Osaka-based illustration style art. At Compound/ Just Be Toys www.justbedesign.com 107 NW 5th
The US Bank branch shows graffiti style art by nishiki tayui 1040 NW Lovejoy until 8
Tender Loving Empire is a newish gallery, music label, small press, consignment space. They show Finn Riggins "a soldier, a saint, an ocean explorer" and Cameron Browne "moments of splendor" www.tenderlovingempire.com 18th and NW Lovejoy Opening 4-8PM
Arvie Smith's work is a wild portrait of of his African American world. What a pleasure to be invited in for a glimpse of "chitlin' circuit". At Beppu Wiarda www.beppugallery.com 319 NW 9th
Heather May Rodetzke shows new work at Quality Pictures in the long project space. www.qcpa.com 916 NW Hoyt
Tamar Monhait shows high contrast symmetrical prints, stencil or lace-like, at the downtown Stumptown. 128 SW 3rd
Westside, but not downtown:
Seattle's Darren Waterson makes dreamy abstractions which resemble landscapes or maybe the -scapes of celestial bodies. At the Lewis and Clark College Gallery www.lclark.edu/dept/gallery
06:00 PM : TAMAR MONHAIT @ Stumptown Downtown
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TAMAR MONHAIT
HYBRIDS
MIXED MEDIA CARBON PRINTS
SEPTEMBER 2ND- SEPTEMBER 30TH
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 6TH, 6PM-8PM
STUMPTOWN COFFEE
128 SW 3RD
PORTLAND, OR
503-295-6144
06:00 PM : THE LAND OF BROKEN HEARTS @ Floating World Comics
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FLOATING WORLD COMICS & ORANGE SUNSHINE PRESENTS:
"THE LAND OF BROKEN HEARTS"
A RARE EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK BY AL COLUMBIA
Floating World Comics presents a rare and exclusive opportunity to view
new work by the acclaimed and elusive artist Al Columbia. September’s
first Thursday will see the debut of “THE LAND OF BROKEN HEARTS,” marking
the first public exhibition and appearance by the enigmatic artist in over
a decade. The exhibition will feature a large collection of limited
edition prints, original artwork, handmade books, and other ephemera from
his Orange Sunshine Company, much of it created especially for this show.
The artist will also participate in an informal Q&A during the event.
"THE LAND OF BROKEN HEARTS" is a new series of illustrations that serves
as a preview for a new collection of work that Columbia will release in
2008 from Seattle’s Fantagraphics Books. Floating World will have all of
Columbia’s published works to date on hand at the event, including The
Biologic Show, Blab!, Mome, and Zero Zero.
The opening night reception will be documented on film by Kevin Belli, a
Boston filmmaker who has been creating the documentary "Whatever Happened
to Al Columbia?" over the last four years.
LISTING INFORMATION:
WHO: Al Columbia and “The Land of Broken Hearts”
WHAT: Opening Reception & Book Signing with the artist
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 6th, 6-10PM
WHERE: Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101
Portland, OR 97209
(503)241-0227
“The Land of Broken Hearts” runs through Oct. 2
Floating World Comics is greatly honored to host Columbia, who will be
visiting from his home in Connecticut. “I've been a fan of Al Columbia's
since I first read his groundbreaking masterpiece, ‘The Trumpets They
Play’,” says Floating World Founder Jason Leivian. Published in the
anthology Blab! Vol. 10 in 1998, “The Trumpets They Play” has been hailed
as one of the great short stories the comics medium has ever produced,
retelling the story of the apocalypse from the Book of Revelations in a
style that looked like stills from a 1930s Max Fleischer cartoon. The
story caused an instant stir, and comics fans couldn't wait to see what
Columbia would do next. Unfortunately, after “Trumpets” was released,
Columbia more or less disappeared from the comics scene. This show will
end a 9 year silence for him and offers his fans a very rare opportunity
to meet him in person.
If you are interested in obtaining an interview or providing coverage of
this event please contact Jason Leivian. A selection of digital imagery is
also available in a variety of formats.
Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101, Portland, OR 97209
Store hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11-7pm
06:00 PM : Seattle Showcase @ Backspace
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Portland Ore – September 6, 2007 – Young, precocious, and new on the scene, four of Seattle’s nubiles give us a peek into the budding art scene of Portland’s northern neighbor. Backspace Gallery is proud to present Seattle Showcase, a group exhibition featuring works from Carl Faulkner, Parskid, Peekaboo, and Soso.
In the past decade, Seattle has been the home to such prominent artists as Robert Hardgrave, Blaine Fontana, and Grant Barnhart. So what does this new generation of art mag cover-girls have to offer? How is their voice unique, and what are they saying?
Faulkner’s abstract and ethereal artwork features collage pieces, works in oil, and photography. Faulkner’s work is heavily influenced by his affinity for comic books, fantasy, and science fiction, and his affection for mixed media gives him a singularly characteristic style. Regardless the medium, Faulkner’s pieces all have an energy and vitality that really draws out the Sci-Fi junkie in every viewer.
The whimsical and dreamy landscapes of Parskid’s works are equally inviting. His characters drift effortlessly through peaceful fields of tall grass and within looming forests. Their fat bodies and thin arms make them undeniably cute, if somewhat creepy. Light and darkness play freely in Parskid’s pieces and he achieves this through the careful patterning and layering in his paintings.
Peekaboo brings a boisterous quality to the show. His bold lines and colors give his characters a freshness and humor that speak of his graffiti background. Twisty-armed, vacant-eyed, saggy-breasted fairy-tale animals are characteristic of his outspoken work. These adorable characters are further divorced from reality with switchblades and sharp teeth, giving Peekaboo’s pieces a capricious air that is both chic and well executed.
Soso rounds out the show with her doe-eyed caricatures. Her bittersweet portraits of little girls and owls in gorgeous vintage frames are juxtapositions – the characters are childlike, yet hold a strange wisdom in their eyes. However delicate, her pieces seem simple but are emotionally complex.
Please join these four artists for Seattle Showcase’s opening night at Backspace Gallery with a live-painting performance and artists’ reception from 6pm – 12am on First Thursday, September 6, 2007.
Friday September 7, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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Timothy Scott Dalbow is known for colorful paintings. They are at the New American Art Union this month 922 SE Ankeny
"Welcome to California [North]" may come sooner than later with global warming. Already we are becoming Brooklyn West. In the '70's? there was a famous sign on I5, to the effect "welcome to Oregon, enjoy your visit, but don't stay". So the copywriting award of the month goes to the Grass Hut Gallery:
"Bwana Spoons and Justin "Scrappers" Morrison are coming outta the closet. The secrets out, they're from California. They've kept it a secret because they thought Oregonians might get mad and hate on them with a "Locals Only" attitude. As it turns out though, everyone's been super nice and welcoming here in Portland. So take this show as a welcome right back at you.
In their new body of work the Cali-boys explore and reflect everything rad and lame about California. That covers everything from surfing legend Moon-Doggy to gangsta rap legend Easy-E.
Using vivid colors and bold icons in their new painting, Bwana and Scrappers celebrate their first show together in Grass Hut gallery"
"Bwana Spoons:
Growing up in California I began to think of it as it's own country. Born in Santa Ana on a dragbike, and after a momentary stint in Michigan, my folks moved me up and down the coast and the valley. We made pit stops in Trona(Death Valley)- where my dad worked at the the Kerry-McGee plant. Home to Silkwood. Then Fairfield- where I learned to skate like every other Californian. Central Valley- not the area, the town right near the Shasta Dam. Walnut Creek- where my mom thought our house was haunted, but really just felt uncomfortable because everybody was rich, Then off to the shithole Oakley- Again, not the goggle/sunglass company, just some walnut orchards, cholos, and rednecks out in the middle of suburbia. Then to mendocino- Where I realized that you didn't have to hate school, and fight, or run from fights everyday. The ocean, hippies, no fences, and no walkie talkies. And lastly, when I graduated from mendo I moved to SF. home to hills, killer art, king of slappies, and earthquakes. So... by the time i moved to portland back in '96, at first i just thought it was an extension of the country California. I love it here, and I still love california. This show is about my love for all things Cali, the good, the rad, and the ugly.
Justin "Scrappers" Morrison:
I am Californian: I have kicked Mickey Mouse in the balls, I have been to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, I saw the LA riots, I had my first kiss under the Hollywood sign next to Madonna's house, I listened to "Straight Outta Compton" by NWA while on spring break in Palm Springs, I smoked pot in a VW van parked in front of Jimm Morrison's house, I surfed my first wave at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, I watched my first movie on the Walt Disney studio lot, I've seen Erik Estrada (Ponch) from Chips dressed up as Santa Clause hand out gifts at the Los Angeles Mission, I learned how to tree-sit by Earth First protesters in Humboldt county, I found a seal's tooth on Catalina Island, I made a necklace from Big Bear mountain pine cones and I have hocked a loogie off the Golden Gate bridge.
I was born in Canada on Vancouver Island, had my diapers changed in Medford Oregon, but I grew up in Los Angeles county. I grew up around gnarly bikers, greasy mechanics, Armenian gang members, Hispanic family members, crazy surfers, bleach blond pool cleaners, Hollywood butt rockers, movie studio slaves, plastic surgery junkies and uselessly over-watered palm trees. Somehow my stoner buddies and I graduated from Burbank High School, then I studied random art, music and history at Pasadena City College and the College of the Redwoods. It wasn't till I moved to Portland that I got a History degree from PSU and devoted a year of my life to the Wieden+Kennedy 12 advertising agency/school/experiment. Now I live in Portland, paint with old house paint, run Grass Hut studio/gallery/shop with my buddy Bwana and swim in the rivers every chance I get."
At Grass Hut Gallery 811 E Burnside
Moshi-Moshi shows illustrations by Jun Seo Hahm. I'm all for palindromes and so is Ham: www.qbodp.net At Moshi-Moshi 811 E Burnside
Mylar is one of those "space age" materials. Thin plastic coated with evaporated aluminum. But it is not flat. Photographer Jason Kelley lined his studio with mylar which reflects its surroundings fun house mirror-style. His photographs "Mylarsian Dreams" are the result. Also with Jake Shivery at Newspace Photo 1632 SE 10th
Wednesday September 19, 2007
09:00 PM : DJ P, with live painting by DAVID CHOE, HERBERT BAGLIONE, SABER @ Rotture
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Sep 19 2007 9:00P UPPER PLAYGROUND Presents - DJ P, with live painting by DAVID CHOE, HERBERT BAGLIONE, SABER Portland, Oregon
Thursday October 4, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ portland Westside
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Shows are up all month, generally Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 or 6. So rainy Saturdays are a good time to see art without opening crowds.
Just Be Toys/ Compound duals Japanese illustration shows and small sculpture reliefs. Illustrators include Sayka, Makiko Sugawa, Yuka Yamaguchi and Micca.
The beautiful strange polymer clay reliefs are "The Evolution of Psychepolymereganics" by Meredith Dittmar.
Prolific Portland creative Merideth Dittmar had a great show a while back at Stumptown. Now her work is at Compound, a good suggested match. Her description wins the copywriting award of the month:
"Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and playing in Portland OR. Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games. Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to seek and you get the major elements of her person and work.
Dittmar's human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness. Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space. Dittmar believes it is this space we recognize in ourselves, and through convening in that space, the interconnectedness of all things is revealed. She sees the act of spontaneous artistic creation as part of a larger practice of being present, and a way to better understand herself and reality."
At Compound/ Just Be Toys www.justbedesign.com 107 NW 5th
Reading Frenzy has been a reliable art outpost for self taught artists since its inception. More than a few have blossomed into showing their creative work at galleries in and outside Portland. The 'Frenzy has always concentrated on small very affordable work - that means you can buy it. Repeat "you can buy it". This month see "Forget Me Not", a show themed on the Day of the Dead, holiday of remembrance. Take a look at the list of artists: Alicia Justus, Carye Bye, Cathy Pitters, Cynthia Lahti, Dan Ness, Donal Mosher, Edith Abeyta, Julianna Bright, Justin "Scrappers" Morrison, Nicole Georges, Philip Iosca, Tara Jane O'Neil, Theo Ellsworth. We each, and the artists too, have lost. Loved ones, the land, companion animals, places, the past and longed for futures. If you are so inspired, bring a small photo or drawing to add to an altar of remembrance. If you like, wear your Sunday-best to the opening. At Reading Frenzy 921 SW Oak
Busy-ness ontogulates efficiency. So I say see the Everett Lofts, the Portland Art Center and the Daisy Kingdom art megaplexes. It won't take much time to find things you like and I don't need to write about everything. The intent is for you to see a lot and craft your own quality. The Everett Lofts and cotravelers are bounded by NW Broadway, Everett, Flanders and 6th. The Daisy Kingdom houses very quality commercial and non commercial galleries. It is at the corner of NW Broadway and Davis. The Portland Art Center is at the corner of NW 5th and Couch and has multiple shows each month. Artist studios in the same building are often open first Thursday.
Mathew Picton is an Oregon artist from Ashland who operates on a global geographic. In this case, geographic is the meme. Picton's sculptural theme has been to sample the world, from lifting peeling paint from decaying walls; casting Alvord desert playa fissures; sampling the subocean topography; tracing the fascinating patterns below our feet of cracked concrete. Look sometime, those beautiful patterns are hidden around us all. For this show, Picton has sampled street grids and relayered them on the gallery walls. Especially fascinating is Baghdad's street grid, drawing us against our will into a sad maelstrom. Generations will know that map. Cartography is a more subtle art than appreciated, repurposing it for art maybe brings back the mystique. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh 929 NW Flanders early opening close - 8PM
We are a place. Unimaginably beautiful forests of fifteen foot diameter firs were cut to pieces to craft loving homes and a myriad of supporting structures. With them we realize now all the lost salmon and more. A great romantic swath for some, for others the loss of Rousseau's Eden. That is Karin Weiner's start point. Her schematic paintings depict stumps, lost bears, the houses made from all the long grown wood. At Elizabeth Leach 417 NW 9th
The Mark Woolley Gallery, now downtown, opens a themed show "Blue". Color and blue sky. At Mark Woolley Gallery
817 S.W. 2nd
Oregon (Salem?) quiet artist D. E, May shows minimal weathered work of paper. May has niched a spot that might be difficult for an emerging artist to enter now. Nonetheless, the work has a quiet Zen appeal which could play worldwide. At PDX Contemporary Art 925 NW Flanders early opening close 8PM
PNCA graduate Tom Cramer is known for bright geometric paintings on building walls, and painting vehicles from old school bugs to scooters. He is a sculptor, imprinting the same aesthetic on carved wood totem poles. His work of recent are low relief carved wood panels. Cramer carves wandering quiet patterns and colors them with rich finishes. At the start of this body of work, he collaborated with a lost friend, Cassie Wright, traveler and artist, to find the surface finishes which complete the work. The combination draws you in. Now at Laura Russo Gellery 805 NW 21st
06:00 PM : "WOMAN POWER" @ FLOATING WORLD COMICS
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FLOATING WORLD COMICS
"WOMAN POWER"
FEATURING OVER 20 LOCAL FEMALE ARTISTS
GALLERY OPENING: 1ST THURSDAY, OCT. 4TH, 6-10PM
This October we have a very special show dedicated to female artists in
Portland. The show features new paintings, collages, illustrations,
comics, zines, sculptures, mobiles, and embroideries from some of this
town's most exciting artists - all of which happen to be female.
Headlining the show are Bobbie Sue, Rikki Barney, Indgha Leigh, and Buket.
Bobbie Sue has prepared an amazing new zine, and paintings featuring
crying celebrities and our own celebrities from local bars. By going
beyond the normal comics scene, these works are uninhibited by any
preconceptions of what a comic could be. This results in work that is
more immediate, original and refreshing.
In addition to these 4 artists we've also invited the following artists to
show their work:
Maura Arraj
Janina Bain
Heather Campbell
Ashby Collinson
Britney Crump
Sarah Gottesdiener
Aidan Koch
Kristie Louderbough
Carolyn Main
Dylan Meconis
Sarah Oleksyk
Jennifer Parks
Jeannie Lynn Paske
Catherine Peach
Rachel Richter
Morgan Ritter
Nubby Twiglet
Jen Wang
Julia Wertz... and more to be announced!
These artists come from many different fields and professions: comics,
animation, fine art, graphic design, sculpture, illustration. It's going
to be one of our most diverse and interesting shows yet.
06:00 PM : Collaborative drawings by Roberto Visani and John Movius @ Sugar Gallery
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10 a.m. Phoenix
Collaborative drawings by Roberto Visani and John Movius
Sugar Gallery
625 N.W. Everett Street, #108
Portland, OR 97209
Opening Reception 10/4/07 6-10pm
10 a.m. Phoenix features a series of mixed media works on paper and a wall installation created by the NYC-based collaborative team of John Movius and Roberto Visani. Through collage, painting and drawing, their distinct sensibilities are fused into works of unpredictable elegance and complexity. Images ranging from mythology to current events converge to create volatile compositions reflecting the artists' experiences and working process.
More about the artists:
Roberto Visani: Visani received a BFA from Minnesota State University in 1993 and MFA from the University in Michigan in 1997. Recent exhibitions include Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York, and Sculpture Center, both in New York City and Black Panther, Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He has been an artist in residence at The Cooper Union, New York City and twice at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL. He won a Fulbright Grant to Ghana in 1997.
John Movius: Movius received a BFA in Photography and Art & Public Policy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Exhibitions include Hinterconti Gallery in Hamburg, Germany (artist and curator), Cinders Gallery in New York City, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in Portland, and the International Print Center New York. He received the 2003 Rosenberg Travel fellowship and has been a featured artist at the 2006 IMPACT festival and the 2007 National Grassroots Media Conference.
Friday October 5, 2007
06:00 PM : Art Openings@Portland Eastside
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At the Grass Hut, Shawn Wolfe shows "ponderous, playful, pointless and panicky" graphic work crafted with "heartfelt ambivalence". Sounds very post post ironic. Mike and Michelle Kelly, Le Merde make painting, sculpture and figures. See all of the above at the Grass Hut
Moshi moshi is vibin'on halloween too with a show by Brett Superstar, Tripper, Nicolai Dornstauder, Dung Ho, RITS, Nomearts, Geneva Smith and Justin Scrappers Morrison. Moshi-Moshi
Redux shows collage works by Jason Dietz. Some are glossy magazine snips or made from paint chips. Some are fantastic landscapes, others cityscapes. At reduce reuse redux
all 811 E Burnside
Painter Rose McCormick shows "Americana", paintings at the New American Art Union. McCormick's paintings are bright, made with egg tempura which works well with her style. Here is a link good for this month of her paintings. At New American Art Union 922 SE Ankeny
Newspace shows work by Todd Stewart, Paul Yurkovich & Rishi Singhal. Newspace is no longer new, it's 5. So later in the evening, they are celebrating their birthday at Holocene with music by Cicada Omega and Bark, Hide and Horn $8 Holocene:1001 SE Morrison. Newspace Gallery:1632 SE 10
The 23 Sandy photospace shows Photo+Construct. It's a group show in which artists incorporate photomaterial into sculptural and flatter mixed media work. This gallery is a welcome addition to Portland's photography ecosystem. 623 NE 23rd Avenue three doors north of Sandy Boulevard. http://www.23sandy.com/Location.html
The Eastside artshop guide has been updated, so there is much more cool stuff than I could possible know there: http://www.firstfridayart.com/
Thursday October 11, 2007
08:00 PM : m.o.n.o. Collective Exhibition @ PAC
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m.o.n.o. Collective Exhibition at PAC
Thursday October 11th. 8:00pm
Portland Art Center
32 NW 5th Ave
503.236.3322
http://www.portlandart.org/newsite
m.o.n.o.Collective is a group of Portland-based writers and visual
artists concerned with supporting and publishing difficult texts by
brave new authors. Come help us celebrate m.o.n.o.'s first book
release with a multimedia event featuring readings, sound performance,
installations, projections and libations.
This month's release is a meditation on embodiment and includes readings by:
"I know you." by Kristie Louderbough
Presented with images by Miranda Lehman
"Without manipulation or pretension, Louderbough reveals the
extraordinary in the familiar....Somehow she both observes and enters
her muses, she is drunk with them, trips over the same curbs, says the
wrong thing in chorus. In her world, dangerous as it is, every late
night driver is a saint, and in turn a teaching on her own failure."
— from the Introduction
"Women of Sand, Men of Salt" by Tiffany Edwards
Presented with images by Jaclyn Campanaro
Edwards presents poems based on a series of portraits of
Sahelian women by photographer Thomas Miller. These writings are not
so much categorical as they are textual; representations of the
history, lives, struggles and joys of the women of the Sahel. They are
pieces of a journey through rapidly shifting modernity in a
traditional context.
"Cedar Rapids, The Coming of Derrick Dean" by Lisa Wells
Presented with images by Sarah Meadows and Melanie Brown
The epic journey of metal drummer, Derrick Dean, rock-poet and
alter-ego of Lisa Wells.
"Lisa Wells is an extraordinary young talent. Her writing,
sometimes stark and always elegant, is deeply moving. Ms. Wells is a
writer to watch."
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
Sounds by:
Nicholas Bindeman and Rasheeda Lalsingh
Friday October 19, 2007
07:00 PM : The Crypto-Zoetropical Pursuit @ Rererato Art Space
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The Crypto-Zoetropical Pursuit
Friday October 19th, 7pm @ Rererato Art Space (5135 NE 42nd ave @ Sumner st)
Cost: $4, more info: www.rererato.com
Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, unknown or mystery animals, is a
field known for its
inquiries into creatures like the Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster. This
marginal pursuit
constitutes a challenge to established scientific authority by
presenting alternative theories and new taxonomic models. Conceptually
similar, experimental media practice is marked by a belief that hidden
forms of knowledge exist outside of high-tech systems, routine
procedures and traditional methodologies.
Supposing there are Bigfeet in our midst, what sort of hidden, unknown
and mystery
animations exist? The artists included in the "Crypto-Zoetropical
Pursuit"screening explore previously imperceptible experiences, from
close encounters with computer glitches to the outer limits of image
interpolation, circuit-bent nintendos and other curious creatures.
Artists include: LoVid (NYC), Gijs Gieskes (Netherlands), Eric
Ostrowski (Seattle), noteNdo (Baltimore) Phil Stearns (L.A.), Gretchen
Hogue (Portland) and other local, national and international artists.
Plus! Held on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the infamous Bigfoot
filmstrip--recorded
on October 20th, 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin- - this
showcase celebrates with Jason Jones' "Son of Sasquatch" performance,
anomalous electronics and cryptic sounds from Portland's Instinct
Control and Pulse Emitter, and the paranormal possibility spaces
presented by Universe.
Sunday October 21, 2007
03:00 PM : Art&War Four Decades of Social Commentary in Clay @ PNCA
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Richard Notkin makes maddeningly refined ceramic sculpture. Those finely detailed miniature YiXing Chinese teapots from Jiangsu province are his inspiration.
I believe craft is characterized by an overwelming emphasis on technique passed between individuals. Contemporary art places heavy focus on the idea behind the piece. Notkin gravitates more toward the idea pole but with work that reminds fine craft. Thus, he is perfect for a slide lecture sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Craft. It is "Art&War Four Decades of Social Commentary in Clay".
No matter your political persuasion, it is hard to disagree with Notkin's thesis, expressed in his work: "We have stumbled into the 21st Century with the technologies of 'Star Wars' and the emotional maturity of cavemen... Ultimately, my current works are about lessons heard, but not heeded, during the 20th Century, and how these ignored lessons will affect this new century and the human species' ability (or inability) to survive the next 100 years. My work is a visual plea for sanity. It's really quite simple."
Notkin speaks at PNCA NW Johnson x 13th. Reception 3, talk 4PM Free
Thursday October 25, 2007
07:00 PM : AMY RUPPEL @ Office
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THURS OCT 25 / 7 to 9 PM / AMY RUPPEL ART OPENING
10/25/2007 to 11/25/2007
Crtically acclaimed illustrator/product designer / artist AMY RUPPEL (www.amyruppel.com) joins OFFICE for an amazing show of all new encaustic work and characters. Ruppel, an award-winning graphic designer, likes to draw and paint. Her artwork has been seen across the world in sold-out solo and group shows as well in homes of Academy and Grammy Award winners. AMY RUPPEL takes over the OFFICE gallery with a new approach to her coveted and beloved work. Join us for the artist reception and art opening on Last Thursday; free.
Thursday November 1, 2007
06:00 PM : AMANDA BARR @ Motel
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AMANDA BARR
CASE OF THE WOLVES
NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 1, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION . THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 . 6 TO 9P
ARTIST WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE
Motel is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Amanda Barr (North Carolina), Case of the Wolves. In her first showing with the gallery, Barr presents a series of 3-dimensional sculptures. Using materials traditionally associated with craft, such as ceramics and wood, Barr creates concept-driven pieces which revel in humor and (im)possibility, while conveying a deep affection for nature. Her sculptures function as a series of mystical emblems, simulacra of the natural world animated by an oblique narrative. An homage to clay, Case of the Wolves, consists of seven sculptural pieces, each of which Barr describes as having its own story. In this respect, Barr anthropomorphizes her work, simultaneously capturing and creating the natural history of her objects.
Titled after a set of ceramic wolf finger puppets ensconced in a walnut carrying case, Case of the Wolves engages Barr's fascination with the interplay between viewer and object. The wolf figurines, made both precious and absurd by the context of their case, invite play. Barr initiates this imposition by presenting the briefcase propped open, making the figures readily accessible, rather than protected and guarded by a sterile vitrine. Similarly, "Rock Harp", a working harp connected to an unlikely rock-shaped ceramic amplifier, requires the creative involvement of the gallery visitor to "bring it to life".
Inasmuch as Barr instigates a transaction between her objects and the observer, she is likewise interested in the dynamic process of the artmaking. The shape of each wolf puppet is informed by the characteristics of the raw clay lumps, such that the final piece is a confluence of the artist's manipulation and the clay's own tendencies. "Broken Boobs", a cracked ceramic sculpture of a woman's breasts, becomes artifact when accompanied by a note that alludes to the numerous studio mishaps during it's creation. In this respect, Barr's sculptures result from a negotiation between her ideas and the constraints of her media and processes.
Ultimately, Barr's preoccupation with clay exemplifies not just a love affair with the medium but a broader regard for the natural world. Her concern with the natural history of her objects is not limited to their current representational forms, but reflects back to their elemental state, as unformed clay and wood. Pieces such as "Rock Clock" (a ceramic rock with two cigarette butts mounted on clock mechanism), and "Small Dream Mountain" (a miniature ceramic mountain) become both self-referential puns and deeper commentary on the human connection to nature. This reverence for the natural world, combined with a sense of playfulness and wit, are recurring themes for Barr, explored uniquely through clay in Case of the Wolves.
We are pleased to introduce this artist to the gallery.
06:00 PM : "DAY OF THE DEAD ART OPENING" @ Floating World Comics
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FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS:
"DAY OF THE DEAD ART OPENING"
FAREL DALRYMPLE & KAZIMIR STRZEPEK
Join us this 1st Thursday, Nov. 1st for a special Day of the Dead art celebration with local artist Farel Dalrymple and Seattle artist Kazimir Strzepek. Farel made a big splash in the indy comics scene with his debut 'Pop Gun War' and his acclaimed 'Meathaus' anthologies. Last month he made his Marvel comics debut with 'Omega the Unknown' written by novelist Jonthan Lethem. Kazimir is a relative newcomer to the indy comics world, but his debut "The Mourning Star" won an Ignatz award for Outstanding Series!
Listing information:
WHO: Farel Dalrymple & Kazimir Strzepek
WHAT: Art opening, book signing, and Day of the Dead themed celebration
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 1st, 6-10pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101
Portland, OR 97209
(503)241-0227
Show runs through Dec. 3rd.
Farel Dalrymple's debut book Pop Gun War featured a cast of surreal characters (a young boy with wings growing from his shoulders, a dwarf that becomes a giant) reacting to very human situations and conflicts, wandering (or flying) through a dreamlike version of New York City. Farel moved to Portland from Brooklyn a few years ago. With this in mind it seems appropriate that he is now working with award winning novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brookly, Fortress of Solitude) on Marvel's latest indy experiment, a remake of a weird comic from the 70's, Omega the Unknown.
One of my customers described reading Steve Gerber's bizarre superhero/not really a superhero book when he was a kid. "The book wasn't really about the normal fights that superheroes are generally known for. It was more about what it was like living in New York at that time, being poor, dirty slummy neighborhoods, bad food." I checked out some of the originals and it read like a prototype for Mike Allred's Madman. Psychedelic pop art action juxtapozed with strange philosophical musings on mind and body in the word bubbles. Lethem & Dalrymple's first issue hit the stands a couple weeks ago. It's an almost note for note remake of the original, with one strange new character added, The Mink aka Mr. Kansur. Farel mentions that their series definitely strays from the original in the next few issues. But he agrees on the weird tone of the original series. "Have you got to the part about the guy who controls cats and dogs?" he asked. Whoa don't give it away, not there yet.
The first volume of Kazimir Strzepek's comic The Mourning Star introduces a world that was recently destroyed by a comet. The survivors rebuild and continue to struggle against monsters and hostile tribes. The elvish warriors have cute names like Barbaraz, Daggerface, and Wilm, but they also carry big swords and drive motorcycles. The artwork is instantly appealing, especially to fans of Brian Ralph, Jordan Crane, Craig Thompson, or even Taiyo Matsumoto. This Ignatz award winning book will definitely have readers looking forward to Kazimir's next work.
Check out there respective websites for an up to date primer to what's awesome in comics and illustration today:
http://meathaus.com/
http://www.scubotch.com/
Tuesday November 13, 2007
07:00 PM : Gary Hill Lecture @ Reed College
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Lecture: Gary Hill
Around & About
Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Gary Hill has been working with electronic media and language since the early 1970s, producing a large body of single-channel video works, mixed-media installations and performance work. He comes to Reed through the Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Program in the Visual Arts.
7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
Friday November 16, 2007
07:00 PM : PCM Showcase @ PCM
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PCM’s Volunteer Appreciation and Showcase
Friday, November 16, 2007
7:00-8:30 pm
Volunteer Producer Showcase
PCM Studio A
2766 NE MLK Blvd
8:30-11:00 pm
Appreciation Party
Venue (across the street)
Featuring the band Cool Breeze
No-host bar
Thursday November 29, 2007
07:00 PM : Let Her Press @ Office
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THURS NOV 29 / 7 TO 9 PM / LET HER PRESS ART OPENING
11/29/07 to 1/27/08
Join OFFICE for an exclusive artist reception and art opening based on the love of letterpress. More than 15 female letterpress mavens will be contributing llimted edition 11 x 17 prints for sale only at OFFICE, created expressly for this show, LET HER PRESS. Look for your favorite letterpress studios as well as graphic designers and artists at this unique show! Artist Reception and Art Opening on Last Thursday; free.
Friday November 30, 2007
07:30 PM : Plastic Camera Book Talk @ Powell's Burnside
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The one word career advise "Plastics" in the 1967 film "The Graduate" has been the real life career of author Michelle Bates. Holga queen Bates is the author of "Plastic Cameras: Toying With Creativity". She teaches how to mod and use these inexpensive, lo-fi, primarily chemistry-based imagers too.
The book samples the work of photographers who use cameras such as the Holga, Diana(s), Action Sampler, Lomo, Fujipet, low tech digitals such as the Rollei Minidigi and Portland's own Lensbabies.
To illustrate her talk, Bates will present chemistry-based slides of plastic imaging artists.
At Powell's. 1005 W Burnside 7:30PM Free
Thursday December 6, 2007
05:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside (and one East)
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Jessica Bronk makes dark landscapes in yellow ochre and burnt umber with a sometime touch of pale sky blue. Maybe they would be landscapes you would like to be lost in. Enigmatic in a good way. Tonight she shows at Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery on the third floor. Hey galleries, sign this artist. Powell's Corner 10th and W Burnside.
Filmmaker Ryan Jeffery is well known for his work as visualist for Adelade/Small Sails and for lyrical, maybe mythical, films with characters set in landscape. One had a figure trapped in an illuminated translucent box in the deep forest. Another, Fallen, close shots of Keri Merkl's mysterious resin music box-like machine, juxtaposed with a character in the landscape. Tonight Jeffery shows Origin at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders
Ogle's ambitious exhibition program flies under the radar but consistently shows adventurous sculpture and arte povera. They close early, 8:30PM, in contrast to many of the Everett Loft spaces that surround their building, but they are open for viewing business hours largely in contrast to the intimate Everett Loft living rooms. Tonight they open a group show with artist Rob Tyler, Yoshi Kitai, Brenda Mallory, and Mary Lang. See this show. www.ogleinc.com 310 NW Broadway
Portland is a printmaking town and it is not because we had plenty of trees to make into paper. Artist, printmaker, teacher, collector Gordon Gilkey was born in Linn County Oregon. In his 20's, serving in WWII, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt proposing a project to minimize damage to European artwork and architecture in war planning. The project was approved and his unit later recovered thousands of artworks stolen and displaced by the war. For his work, he was knighted by France and similarly honored by Italy, Sweden, Germany and the United States. As a result, Gilkey developed lifelong friendships with print collectors worldwide and continued his own collection begun in Oregon before the war.
Gilkey taught at Albany College, Oregon State, where he headed the art department, and at PNCA. Curator of prints at the Portland Art Museum, Gilkey donated his collection of over 8000 prints to establish the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts. The entire collection is open to the public which is pretty awesome.
As a result of Gilkey's efforts, printmaking in Portland is vibrant. Tonight City Hall hosts a show of printmaking from some of Portland's print studios. Printmaking equipment is often large and heavy. So it makes sense to share it in a studio. Studios Lark Press, Letterary Press, Egg Press, Oblation Paper and Press, Stumptown Printers, Flight 64, Pinball Publishing, Shu-Ju Wang Studios, Oni Press, Top Shelf Comix, Bitch Magazine, Veneer Magazine, Stumptown Printers and Sharon Helms show work, from fine art to the practical.
At Portland City Hall 1221 SW4th Early 5-7PM Free
The Portland Art Center is doing things no one else is. They show unsaleable installation and sound work, they show video work consistently. The publish a mind blowing map of Portland art addresses. Now they need money. It's beyond juggling between paying the wireless bill and the rent, they will close without an infusion of support. Tonight they show panels of art for sale by artists Katherine Ace, Kelly Akin, Tisa Ambcosino, Michael Ambcosino, Matthew Anderson, Carl Annala, Melissa J Armstrong, Josh Arseneau, Adam Bailey, Hayley Barker, E. Dan Barker, Carolina T. Barres, Nicole Barton, Bennett Battaile, Jonathan Beaver, Susan Beck, Jordan Behr, Deanna Belinoff, London Bellman, Chris Bennett, David Benz, Ryan Birkland, Eric Blaisdell, Chuck E. Bloom, Jennifer Bogartz, Jacquelyn Bond, Mason Bond, Alisa Bones, Brian Borrello, Elizabeth Bottomly, Alison Boz Schurr, Jason Bradbury, John Brodie, Sharon Bronzan, Christopher James Brown, Tara Brown, Mazana Bruggeman, Huyden Buell, Peg Butler, Matt Carlson, Sarah Cella, Natasia Chan, Hannah Chavez, Niina Cochran, Thomas K. Conway, David Corbett, Robin Corbo, Dodge Corvallis, Michael Costello, Brianna Courtney, Kc Cowan, Kindra Crick, Leo Daedalus, Anna Daedalus, Kerry Davis, Margaret De Bona, Tatiana Defigueiredo, Rita Dekelaita, Brad Delay, Nathan Dinihanian, Kara Distler, Tore Djupedal, Tanja Djupedal, Melia Donovan, Shelby Dorneden, Robert R. Dozono, Tripper Dungan, Jessica Eastburn, Kara Edge, Joel Eisenhauer, Andrew Englehorn, Eleanor Erskine, Audrey Eschright, Peter Eschright, Karen Esler, Jenn Feeney, Chelsea Fletcher, Gabriel Flores, Jess Fogel, Shane A. Fortner, Sarah Fox, Jason Frank, Emily Freeman, Paul Francis Fukui, Alison Gayne, Ellen George, Pam Gibson, Bean Gilsdorf, Christina Glaze, Erik Goetze, Liz Goltz, Julie Gragg, Lisa Graham, Gordon Grant, Jen Gulzow, Christina Gyulafia, Chris Haberman, Cecilia Hallinan, Meghan Hanlon, Chris Harback, Carrie Hardison, Roll Hardy, Gregory Harrold, Sara Harwin, Fred Harwin, Sol Hashemi, Mo Hashemi, Kaebel Jk Hashitani, Stephen Hayes, Harvest Henderson, Paul Hendricks, Shelley Hersnberger, Helen Hiebert, L. Harrison Higgs, Lindsay & Nita Hill, E Ann Hinds, Beau Von Hinklywinkle, Kaz Hiromoto, Vidya Hivale, Theodore Holdt, Jeff Houghtaling, Scott Wayne Indiana, Colin Ives, Diane Jacobs, Collin Janke, Pamela Jayawardena, Molly Jochem, Lindsey Johnson, Barry Johnson, Marilyn Joyce, Jennifer June, Jaclyn Kampmeier, Eileen S. Kane, Emily Katz, Penny Kavan, Daniel Kaven, Joann Kemmis, Lindsay Kennedy, Kelly Kerwick, David Kimmel, Yoshihiro Kitai, Suzy Kitman, Linda Kliewer, Randall Koch, Nikki Kress, Nicky Kriara, Sadie La Rue, Bonnie Laing-Malcomson, Emily Larson, Tony Le Tigre, Stephanie Leet, Jeremy Legrand, Bishop Lennon, Maya Levy, Michelle Liccardo, Gabriel Liston, Rhoda London, Grace Luebke, Erin Mader, Rae Mahaffey, Bonnie Laing-Malcomson, Victor Maldonado, Sara Mapelli, Brian Mathus, Shannon Mayorga, Matt Mccalmout, Sef Mccullough, Mack Mcfarland, Jamshid Mehr, Bonnie Meltzer, Jennifer Mercede, Palmarin Merges, Leslie Miller, Don Minnerly, Nova Moisa, Cindy Monica, Ashley Montague, Monique Mos, David Mosher, Christine Mosher, Dave Mosier, Angela Muldoon, Brenna Murphy, Noah Nakell, Lorna Nakell, Seth Nehil, Jim Neidhardt, Kelly Neidig, Tj Norris, Dave Nunn, Caesy Oney, Shannon Page, Tammy Paladeni, Eugenia Pardue, Trude Parkinson, Timothy Peitsch, Carola Penn, J.D. Perkins, Hilary Pfeifer, Tom Prochaska, Nathoniel Prorka, Alex Rauch, Kelly Rauer, Jason Rhodes, William Rihel, Alexander Robbins, Mario Robert, Rita Robillard, Ben Rosenberg, Laura Ross-Paul, Blair Saxon-Hill, Lisa Sayles, Nancy Schaefor, Brian Schellinger, Megan Scheminske, Richard Schemmerer, Michael Schlicting, Jeremy Schultz, Gwenn Seemel, Mark E. Seibold, Evan Serrill, Dorthy Sharrar, Ty Shaver, Shannon Shea, Adam Sheppard, William Shouse, Colleen Siviter, Mark Smith, Cyrus W. Smith, Jessie Smith, Nicole Erika Smith, Moe Snyder, Kentree Speirs, Abi Spring, Benjamin Stagl, Dan Steffan, Blake Stellyes, Claire Stephens, Karen Stephens, Taylor Stevenson, Michelle Stiehl, Mika Suri, Angelita Surmon, Jenevive Tatiana, Lauren M. Taylor, Nishiki Tayui, Tyler Tervousen, Dave Tinman Edgar, Anna Todaro, Marjan Torabi, Anni Tracy, Jeremy Tucker, Nubby Twiglet, David Vanadia, Dana Vinger, Morgan Walker, Pat Walker, Sarah Walker, Shu-Ju Wang, David Ware, William Washburn, Staci Wendt, Alisha Wessler, Rebecca Wild, Emily Willis, Georgeann Wilson, Dane Wilson, Michael Wilson, Rachael Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, Linda Womack, Jana Woodson, Jennifer J. Woodward, Matthew Allen Wooldridge, Kerrie B. Wrye, Jenny Zajac. Just about everyone. They are priced at $300 which is cheap for an unknown and many of these artists are far from unknown. They are also doing a raffle at 221 NW 2nd at the Northwest Resource Credit Union - details. And they have a show by their own staff and Memory Machines by Alicia Eggert who is responsible for the awesome Kitchen Sink. If you ensure PAC survives, it is set to rename itself and set the stage for operating on a world stage with some serious backers. That is good for Portland because it offers an opportunity to inject Portland artists into the world. All details at www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th until 11PM
Fernanda D'Agostino is a mid career artist well known for installations. "Flight Studies" is video sourced from slow motion studies of bird flight done in collaboration with Dr. Bret Tobalske. CCA is an important West Coast art incubator. L'enfant terrible Larry Rinder, responsible for the 2002 Whitney Biennial shook up the NY art making machinery by presenting artists such as Miranda July and Chris Johanson who were formulating new aesthetic movements. Fully expecting to be fired, Rinder then curated risky show "The American Effect", art about America from outside America, in a post 9/11 New York. It was a success. Rinder is now dean at CCA from which he has launched a show "Coming Up: New Work by Recent Graduates of the California College of the Arts" Both at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Quality Pictures moved here from Atlanta for the art. They have shown Portland artists but now they are jumping in in a very positive way. This month they open a large group show "It's Kind of Endless Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture by new Portland talent". We say yea! www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt
Eva Lake is a painter and collage maker. She is the artist's artist with a pretty awesome history as an artist, fashion worker, blogger podcaster, and gallerist with a finger in the music world. Richter Scale is her new show of vibrating bright geometric work. Artists just starting will benefit from learning from her experiences, delivered point blank, no candy coating. Since we are sitting on the fault line, Lake's work provides both visual and metaphorical touchpoints. At Augen downtown
Former Portlander Dharma Strasser Maccoll is known for ceramic multiples and elegant minimal mixed media work. "Growth Patterns" would be that. Recommended. Augen DeSoto
www.augengallery.com 817 SW 2nd and 916 NW Davis.
A standing recommendation are the Everett Lofts, bounded by NW Broadway, Everett, 6th and Flanders. It's easier to see everything in an evening than to try to find out in advance what is happening. Likewise the DeSoto building NW Broadway and Davis is home to several established galleries of high repute.
PNCA has many things worth seeing anytime. One tonight is Rip City Gingerblaze, candy and gingerbread sculpture made with sincerity. It would be hard to top the gingerbread office at April's Kitchen Sink which was devoured by fans. At PNCA www.pnca.edu corner NW 13th and Johnson
A DIY show, Mellow Yellow, goes down Eastside late. It's a mixed media group show at new bar mecca East End. Curator Jhordan Dahl wrangled artists Jaclyn Campanaro, Jake Cartwright, Liam Drain, Damien Gilley, Sarah Johnson, Barbara Kinzle, Kristie Louderbough, Dam Markson, Sarah Meadows, Sophie Mckinley, Tamar Monhait, Jud Nichelson, Corey Smith, & Jason Traeger. East End 203 SE Grand 8PM-2AM
The AIA, the American Institute of Architects, is where architects hang. Portland has a vibrant chapter which has just completed its move to NW 11th and Flanders in the old SK Josefsberg Gallery. They present monthly shows of architecture, planning, design and art. Tonight they present a show of the record of Portland architect John Yeon. Active in the early mid late 20th century, Yeon is known for establishing the Northwest mid century modern style in houses and in landscape. He was an influence on Pietro Belluschi and many Northwest architects to follow. Interestingly his first built work, the 1937 Watzek House in the West Hills is home to part of Eugene's U of O Art program in Portland. The ecology of U of O, PSU and PNCA art programs here is yet to play out. At the AIA offices and gallery www.aiaportland.com 403 NW 11th Early close, 8PM
Other shows which might be interesting are Heidi Kirkpatrick "Lost & Found" at Chambers Gallery, Debra Beers, known for longtime work with homeless kids on art Woolley, and a Bullseye group show dedicated to legendary glass maker Murano from which some of Bullseye's secret formulas may have derived.
06:00 PM : SPACENIGHT – A TRIBUTE TO BILL MANTLO @ FLOATING WORLD COMIC
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FLOATING WORLD COMICS PRESENTS:
“SPACENIGHT – A TRIBUTE TO BILL MANTLO”
NON-PROFIT FUNDRAISER FOR BILL MANTLO FEATURING OVER 100 ORIGINAL
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ROM SPACEKNIGHT BY ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
(illustration by Renee French)
This December our First Thursday show is a tribute to my favorite comic
character of all time, ROM Spaceknight, and the man who brought his
adventures to life, Bill Mantlo. There will be over 100 contributors
including: Jeffrey Brown, Sal Buscema, Guy Davis, Renee French, Simon
Gane, Ken Garduno, Brandon Graham, Maureen Gubia, David Heatley, Kevin
Hooyman, Corey Lewis, Al Milgrom, Jeff Parker, Ron Rege Jr, Zack Soto,
Peter Thompson, Gordon Wiebe, Danijel Zezelj and more! A silent auction
will be held for original art, and 11x17” poster prints of every
contribution will be available for a suggested donation of $5 or more.
LISTING INFORMATION:
WHO: Over 100 independent and mainstream comic artists, illustrators and
graphic designers.
WHAT: Each artist has donated an original illustration of ROM Spaceknight
to benefit series writer, Bill Mantlo. Digital prints and original art
will be on display and all proceeds from the show will be donated to
benefit Bill Mantlo.
WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 6th, 6-10pm
Show runs through Jan. 1st.
WHERE: Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101
Portland, OR 97209
The first comic I ever read was ROM Spaceknight, a silver cyborg fighting
evil monsters throughout the universe. I collected every issue until the
series was cancelled at #75 (when I asked the comic clerk why it was
cancelled he kindly replied, "Well, they just ran out of stories to
tell."). Years later I learned that all of these incredible stories were
written by one man, Bill Mantlo. At the same time I learned that he had
been injured in a hit and run accident in 1992. Due to the severe
injuries, Bill currently resides in a Brain Injury Rehabilitation Nursing
Home, and will probably do so for the rest of his life.
This show will serve as a fundraiser and celebration of the stories Bill
has given us. All of the artwork and more will be compiled in a tribute
comic next year that will be sold as a non-profit benefit book for Bill’s
brother/caregiver, Mike Mantlo, to provide funding to enable Bill to enjoy
somewhat of a quality of life.
Based off an unsuccessful Parker Bros. toy, Bill Mantlo turned ROM into a
series that ran for 75 issues and has since become a cult favorite. It
has been an honor to connect with ROM fans all over the world and share
their feedback and contributions with the Mantlo family. Due to licensing
issues with Hasbro, Marvel Comics is unable to reprint any ROM stories or
do anything new with the character. This show will mark the first new ROM
material fans have seen in over 20 years.
Earlier this year, Publisher David Yurkovich and Mike Mantlo collaborated
on a 72-page magazine, Mantlo - A Life in Comics, that was also designed
to raise money for Mantlo. Copies of this magazine will also be available
at the show and private donations for Bill Mantlo can be sent to his
brother, Mike, at 425 Riverside Drive, Apt. 12-E, New York, N.Y. 10025.
Special thanks to Mike Mantlo, David Yurkovich, Steve Duin, Brian K.
Vaughan, Hero Initiative, and everyone who helped spread the word.
06:00 PM : Ryan Jeffery @ PDX Gallery
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WHO: Ryan Jeffery
WHAT: Origin
WHEN: December 4 - 29, 2007
WHERE: PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders Street, Portland, OR 97209
HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 pm
Open First Thursday December 6, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
EXHIBITION NOTES:
Jeffery will exhibit Origin a two-channeled video installation.
Chapter 1 Fallen, 6 minutes 5 seconds, looped, 16mm film, digital projection, 2006
Chapter 2 Rise, 6 minutes 45 seconds, looped, 16mm film, digital projection, 2007
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Each film plays as a chapter recounting the creation of humankind in a fantastical manner. The first chapter Fallen, depicts an Eve-like character's introduction to technology and the divine consequences of this meeting. The second chapter, Rise, resumes many years later, long after the female character's first meeting with technology. Here she has transformed from her original Eve-like state of naked innocence into a clothed mysterious being. In place of her original naïveté our character now holds a cryptic knowledge of the natural world often feared and marked as witchcraft. As a result of this transformation the two characters of machine and human have switched their roles of protagonist and antagonist. Again their meeting results in a dramatic shift in the environment. The cause and ramifications of this event remains an ambiguous mystery. Is the flood a positive transformation of this world, or a tragic loss of the original environment? By writing the story of how we have come to be, the authors of history have created stories and myth that reflect their morals, values and ultimately their objectives. My intention has been to portray a creation story that is aware of its fictional origin in an attempt to better understand continuously reshaped.
- Ryan Jeffery
BIOGRAPHY:
For the past seven years Ryan Jeffery has been creating short films with a particular ethereal surrealism throughout the imagery. Greatly inspired by music and the dialogue between sound and image Ryan's film work is the result of a close collaboration with musicians and sound artists, including Portland multi media band Small Sails, of which he is a founding member. His films have screened at such festivals as Peripheral Produce, TBA festival, the Bumbershoot festival, The Portland International Film Festival, micro cinema International in San Francisco, International Short Film Festival, in Leuven, Belgium, Festival Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal and the Istanbul Binelle.
Featuring music by Ethan Rose
Funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council
06:00 PM : Ryan Jeffery @ PDX Gallery
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a video installation at PDX Gallery on 9th and Flanders.
The opening is this thursday (1st Thursday) 6pm - 8pm.
"This installation is particularly special for me as it is the culmination of two years of work which involved a great number of people this email is addressed to." -R. Jeffery
06:00 PM : Jeff Warrin @ Stumptown
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Within and Without: New Photographs by Jeff Warrin
December 6th- 31st
Artist Reception: First Thursday, December 6th, 6-8pm
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW 3rd
Portland, OR
503-295-6144
http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/
Stumptown presents "Within and Without," an exhibition of new work by
San Francisco photographer, Jeff Warrin. The show consists of
photographs from three ongoing series: "Behind the City," a peek
into San Francisco's cloistered backyards; "Signs of Life," street
photographs of urban unplanning; and "Outlands," a collection of
landscapes.
Jeff Warrin gained acclaim as a member of the art group, Silt, who
were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Silt exhibited in
Portland in 2003, contributing a film installation/performance at
PICA's TBA festival.
This is Jeff Warrin's first solo show in Portland.
08:00 PM : Mellow Yellow @ East End
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Mellow Yellow
A Multi Media Group Show
Opening Reception Thursday December 6, 8 pm- 2 am
East End (brand new!)
203 SE Grand Ave
Featuring work by artists: Jaclyn Campanaro, Jake Cartwright, Liam Drain, Damien Gilley, Sarah Johnson, Barbara Kinzle, Kristie Louderbough, Dam Markson, Sarah Meadows, Sophie Mckinley, Tamar Monhait, Jud Nichelson, Corey Smith, & Jason Traeger.
(Curated By Jhordan Dahl)
Friday December 14, 2007
06:00 PM : Gallery Homeland Opens @ New Home
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Gallery Homeland is a NW Thang thing operating on a small international stage, and doing it well on the smallest of budgets, Portland style. Homeland has brought Portland artists to Art Basel Miami and Scope Hamptons in wry performance exhibitions. They have brought artists for residencies. They have had shows and skate parties. They were homeless, operating out of the studio-live space of one of their superheroes, now they have a home.
Tonight they open a show NW Thang in the new space. The show features Marc Dombrosky, Saya Moriyasu, Patrick Rock, Ultimate Blogger!Paige Saez, Cynthia Star and Jason Wood, commenting through a regional lens on "class, culture and aesthetics". Knowing some of these artists, I would expect a playful approach to such heavy topics. www.galleryhomeland.org At 2505 SE 11th Avenue x Division Doors 6, band 9, close not too late. Free
06:00 PM : It's Kind of Endless @ Quality Pictures
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From 6-9, opening artist reception for "It's Kind of Endless" group show at Quality Pictures at 916 NW Hoyt!
Corey Lunn, Midori Hirose, Dana Dart-McLean, Meg Peterson, Jason Traeger, Kevin Abell, Alex Felton, Kristie Louderbough, Nathaniel Price, Taryn Tomasello
Quality Pictures moved here from Atlanta for the art. They have shown Portland artists but now they are jumping in in a very positive way. This month they open a large group show "It's Kind of Endless Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture by new Portland talent". We say yea! www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt
07:00 PM : Local Artists Panel Party @ Portland Art Center
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The Portland Art Center commissioned a huge number of Portland artists to make works on the same size panels. They are all up and all do the Center and the artists right proud. Tonight the artists and you can gather for a party. Every beverage consumed will benefit the Portland Art Center. There will be a DJ and plenty of opportunity to talk to other artists. At the Portland Art Center www.portlandart.org 32 NW 5th 7-11
Saturday December 15, 2007
06:00 PM : Prints for PICA @ TodayArt Studios
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Prints for PICA—The fifth annual printmaking marathon and art sale. December 15th!
Event Information
5th Annual Prints for PICA
Saturday, December 15, 2007
TodayArt Studios
439 SE Grand at Stark (enter through red door on Stark, half a block west of Grand).
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
www.pica.org
Take a slew of emerging, established, revered, and talked about artists from across the burgeoning city of Portland. Put them all together in a studio. Give them access to accomplished printers, free flowing ink, and lots of coffee, and watch them turn stacks of blank pages into coveted art. Ranging in price from $100-$250, prints are sold on a first come, first served basis. All proceeds to benefit PICA’s Artistic Programming.
The 5th Annual Prints for PICA event: A printmaking marathon and floor-to-ceiling studio art sale returns this December 15, 2007. Conceived by artist Stephen Hayes and hosted by TodayArt Studios, Prints for PICA gathers artists together in support of PICA’s artistic programming. Over 50 artists spend all day Saturday creating and printing with the sale opening that evening for the public from 6:00 pm through 9:00 pm.
While Prints for PICA is a great chance to buy a very special gift, it’s also an amazing opportunity to create and build a personal art collection—either for a friend of for your own home “gallery”—all while helping make the world safe for contemporary art. In past years, Prints for Pica artists, printers and buyers have contributed significant funds to PICA’s Visual Art Program—providing important ballast for the creation of new work and the support of artist residencies.
This year we hop over to a new studio and switch some things up. A full artist list will be announced in early December. Stay tuned and please add the date to your Holiday Calendars!
Sunday December 16, 2007
07:00 PM : 59 Seconds Video Festival @ Ford Bldg
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Gallery Homeland is very excited to announce that we will be hosting The 59 Seconds Video Festival on Dec 16th at our new Gallery location!
Date: December 16th
Time: 7 pm
Location: SE Division and 11th at the Ford Bldg
Cost: Suggested donation of 5.00
Launched by Project 59 in the spring of 2005 at 59 Franklin Street in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Festival is an alternative festival and research media project. Unlike traditional annual or biannual film/video festivals, 59 Seconds is a one time project. Artists are encouraged to submit 59 seconds long works that incorporate number 59 in any manner. Works are being collected through a series of open calls until the final collection of the best 59 videos has been selected with help of national and international audiences during a series of 59 screenings.
59 Seconds Festival is a play off as well as a metaphor for the short video format, that gives an opportunity to introduce 59 international artists and a wide range of video works - mini documentary, political satire, metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59.
59 Seconds Festival is a video storm of a variety of techniques, ideas and visions that is sampling an emerging contemporary international video art scene. "Maximum entertainment in minimum time" San Francisco Bay Guardian 12/7/05.
59 Seconds Festival is developing a network and popularization of participating artists while introducing as broad an international audience as possible to a unique collection of works, providing an exchange of ideas and information.
A collection of 59 select videos, 59 seconds each by 59 international artists, shown 59 times around the globe is the ultimate goal of 59 Seconds Festival.
Preview available online at our Website
www.project59.org/59seconds/
Thursday January 3, 2008
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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The Everett Station lofts, and diametric coanchors Ogle and Rake, occupy the block bounded by NW Everett and Flanders, Broadway and 6th. The lofts' individualistic galleries represent the explorations of residents in their social-artistic sphere - it is arts' evolutionary edge. A worthwhile stop this evening as few are open the rest of the month.
The DeSoto block is bounded by NW Davis, Park and Broadway. The galleries there, including the Contemporary Craft Museum, are long time sustainable galleries and always worth stopping to see, and open throughout the month.
Quality Pictures continues "It's Kind of Endless", Portland artists previously noted. www.qpca.com 916 NW Hoyt
Hap Tivey is a longtime Portland light artist. Portland sees little of this medium, ditto video. Both share challenges to conserve. Lighting technology is changing as Edison's tungsten filament vacuum glass gives way to light emitting diodes. Although Tivey is no Dan Flavin, James Turrell or Robert Irwin, his work is welcome in dark Portland, and, for this show, his work incorporates LED's with their 10,000 hour lifetime! For local artists to advance, and bring collectors, seeing more light art her would be better. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th
Kristin Timken explores the limits of landscape photography, at Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/ 929 NW Flanders
Two longtime Portland artists, JD Perkin and Henk Pender show at Laura Russo. Perkins is known for sculptural multiples and the trailer in the woods tableau at the Portland Art Center. Pender paints in oil and watercolor with a individualistic, maybe a little dark style and has been commissioned for some large public works. At Laura Russo
Hiedi Kirkpatrick continues photographs themed on the body at Chambers Gallery. www.chambersgallery.org 207 SW Pine
Compound in presents a show Neulovers, presaging Valentines Day. Japan is unencumbered by some of our taboos, social pressure there substitutes for reducing antisocial behavior. More effectively. So this work is not J-taboo at all. In our, even West Coast, legal constricts, this show is open to those 18 and older. Silly. The group show artists include Ina Takayuki, Dennis Hayes IV, TRIP aka Meg Hasegawa, Tadaomi Shibuya, Kaz, Teriyaki, Kosuke Ikeda, the infinitely detailed Neri, Ippei Gyobu, ENA, Cho-Chan, Mitsuru Saigusa, Momoyon , Megumi Terada, Maya Nukumizu, Sayaka, Makiko Sugawa, Micca Icca, Yuji Moriguchi, Pomme Chan, J.W. Howard, Marguerite Sauvage, Panni Malek, Kozyndan, Yoshihisa Hakai, Edwin Ushiro, Richard Hogg, Naja Conrad, Christina Vantzou, Lydia Bradbury, Shannon McGlothin, Eveline Tarunadjaja, Peter Vattanatham. All at Compound/ Just be Toys www.justbedesign.com 107 NW 5th x Davis
And on the Eastside, outsider style artist Chris Haberman shows paintings. At 23 Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 N.E. 23rd Ave x Sandy
Friday January 4, 2008
06:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Eastside
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In the 811 Block
Photographer Alicia J. Rose presents Fairytales, inspired by select stories of the brothers Grimm. Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White. Someday perhaps the underlying basis in brain science for myth's appeal will be discovered. Until then we are left with our individual relationships with childhood myths and fairy tales. Rose writes "Once upon a time, long, long ago, a little girl lost the ability to remember her dreams. In picture books, and aging tomes she took shelter in the grandiose images they generated in her imagination. The girl grew up, making music with an accordion that she always described as "soundtracks to films in her head." Eventually the pictures she was making music for became larger than her music could properly accompany or her small head could possibly contain. The girl then took up another instrument, a camera, that allowed her the proper sight necessary to capture the stories that had been running amok in her skull for years, and share them with other sets of eyes everywhere." Rose, an accomplished musician, is a chemistry-based photographer. She has photographed many musicians in trademark style, saturated color and cinematic lighting. This work continues that.
At Grass Hut Gallery www.grasshutcorp.com
Pepe Moscoso shows collage and diorama documenting "life's everyday dramas". Redux is the queen of reuse, transforming valuable materials, normally discarded into crafty objects, one of sustainability's vectors. The art shown there is often based on this idea too. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com
The curator at Moshi-Moshi is now at Compound and Moshi-Moshi plans to relocate into a space adjacent to Billy Galaxy possibly continuing art under a new curator.
All at 811 E Burnside
Hiroshi Watanabe shows photographs from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, that would be the North, perhaps one of the few places left on the planet lonely of trekkers. "Ideology in Paradise" depicts a little of that closed land that now is opening up with limited visitations by families separated over 50 years ago.
At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Well known lowbrow artist Charlie Alan Kraft shows paintings and prints at The Destroy Store. Music and beer. At The Destroy Store www.destroystore.com 1712 E Burnside
Artspace 2000 SE 7th is back in external operation with a group show by its artists. Now dubbed Bite Studio it is open 6-9ish.
And Westside, Tilt Project Space, known for consistently challenging installation work opens a Jesse Hayward show. Biennial slectee Hayward is not shy about bright work, a welcome brightening flav in Portland's dark winter! At Tilt Gallery and Project Space 625 NW Everett #106 www.tiltpdx.com 7PM-10
Saturday January 5, 2008
01:00 PM : Children of the Revolution Art+Musics @ Audiocinema (and Sun)
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Art, music, beer (and conversation) would sum up this annual festival at Audiocinema. That is a good thing, and really the basis for art events from lowbrow to the Museum. It's the conversation that matters, and as noted by Dave Hickey, conversation advances art's aesthetics faster than society advances. That is the power of art. "Art, music, beer" was also the motto the Blue Gallery which showed Portland artists and alongside bands. Continuing this Portland creative tradition, curators Cassandra Adams and Holly Johnson have put together an art show by E«ROCK, SOHALE DAROUIAN, DAN ANDERSON , CHRIS JOHANSON, TARA JANE ONEIL, SARA ROBBIN, WILLIAM WACKER, LIZ HALEY, CHRIS HELD, KRISTIE LOUDERBOUGH, REBECCA SHELLY, COREY SMITH, YONI KIFLE, LAWRENCE ROBBIN, JHORDAN DAHL, JO JACKSON, BRIAN PIETROWSKI, MATT MCCORMICK, MIDORI HIROSE, CHRIS RIDER, ROXANNE JACKSON, JENEVIVE TATIANA, SARA GOTTESDIENER, ANDREW ELLIS, MAURA ARRAJ, JOSHUA KERMIET, MORGAN ALEXANDER RITTER, ANGELA WILLS, ARYA BENNER, EMILY PLEWS, ADAM BAZ, RYAN JACOB SMITH, KYLA CECH, PETE CHALEK, BIRCH COOPER, IAN HAWK, TARYN TOMASELLO, and BRAD ADKINS. Some of these are new Renaissance creatives who operate in the visual art, music, film and writing worlds altogether. There are art workshops 2:30PM-5:30. Many bands playing from about 6PM to late each day with the art on view. There is also an artists reception 1-2:30PM Saturday. All details http://myspace.com/cotrfest At Audiocinema www.audiocinema.org 226 SE Madison 5:30PM-Late each day, Advance tickets at Jackpot or at the door. $12, or $20 both days.
Monday January 7, 2008
07:30 PM : Rauchenberg Rephotgraphs Atget in Paris @ Powells
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I have never visited Paris, but I am digging lately the film Paris, je t'aimie, love stories and observations on the human condition shot in every neighborhood of the City of Light. (Someone should do the same for Portland!) Studying historic photography, I came across the documentary photography Eugène Atget who photographed Paris from 1888 to 1927, continuing the work of photographic pioneer Felix Nadar. Christopher Rauschenberg has visited Paris, often, photographing back streets, flea markets and landscapes. He has for some time also rephotographed Atget's Paris, same place, different time. Tonight he speaks of the experience and signs a book on Atget's Paris, rephotographed. Rauschenberg's book is Paris Changing, Princeton University Press. Perhaps in 100 years we will find the same fascination in rephotographs of Portland's Grid Project, founded by Rauschenberg, also a founder of the Blue Sky Gallery. At Powells City of Books www.powells.com 10th and W. Burnside 7:30PM Free
Saturday January 12, 2008
07:00 PM : Odds and Ends Vol. 3 @ Gallery Homeland
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Welcome to 2008! Odds and Ends Vol. 3 "The Sight and Sound of Music Videos" is just about here!
To celebrate we will be ringing in the New Year by bringing a bevy of local PDX as well as international Music Video making stars together under one roof for an evening of really rad independently produced music videos.
For artists including:
Lederhosen Lucil, Ohmega Watts, Mattress, Arthur and Yu, A Weather, Jean Grae, Plastic Little, Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Jakarta, Scream Club, Unrecognizable Now, Montague +?
Made by filmmakers such as:
Allen Cordell, Nate Goodman, Whitey McConnaughey, Kara Blake, Chioke Nassor, Ted Passon, Autumn Andel, Matt McCormick, Uli Beutter, Cat Tyc and Adam Long, Grace Carter, Melanie Brown, Tyrone Olsen, Mike Mudd, Ron Gassaway, Gretchen Hogue, John Bacone, Chris Bennett, Rob Tyler, Ali Cotterill, Vanessa Renwick +?
The idea with this screening was to re-capture some of those long forgotten moments back in the day when you could just zone out watching a certain corporate Music Television channel for hours on end (back when they actually played music vids) and for nostalgia's and ART's sake ODDS AND ENDS will be reclaiming the airwaves from the corporate buffoons for one evening and doing it how it should be done: All Art all the time. Does anyone else remember USA's "Night Flight"? Am I showing my age now or what....
As usual I didn't have to go farther than my backyard of Portland to begin locating some quality music vids, I also found a few more gems from the East Coast in Allen Cordell's videos for Future Islands and Dan Deacon, soon after not far away in Philly I found Ted Passon's video for Plastic Little and then I stumbled upon the most delectable treat in the form of Canadian Filmmaker Kara Blake's video for Lederhosen Lucil.
So on January 12th bundle up and head down to Gallery Homeland, we're looking forward to welcoming you to our new digs at the Ford Building and having a few brews and checking out and enjoying a fun packed evening of independently produced music videos SO PLEASE JOIN US!
Food and Beverages will be available
When: Jan 12th @ 8pm ( Doors will open at 7, we encourage you to come early and peruse galleryHomeland's Inauguaral Exhibit: A NW Thang )
Where: Gallery Homeland, 2505 SE 11th Portland
How Much: 7.00 suggested donation
Monday January 14, 2008
07:30 PM : Futurefarmers Art Lecture @ PSU
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Art, design and social change form a continuum today. Some artists are comfortable navigating the whole space and Amy Franceschini is one. Futurefarmers is one of her projects in which she and collaborators explore issues in the environment, energy, urban architecture and play through residencies, sculpture, installation and intervention. Some projects have had a mad scientist aesthetic with a message, such as Gameboys powered by lemon trees or homebrew hydrogen energy generators powered by photosynthesis. Others package information in beautiful design like their local farm project F.R.U.I.T.. Fingerprint Maze personalizes gaming, adds a social element, while making a comment on identity and security. Design oriented companies hire them from time to time to do projects too. So artists can be paid to change the world through play and beauty. Yes! Franceschini speaks at the PSU art lecture series, 5th Ave Cinemas 510 SW Hall Room 92 7:30PM Free
Rob
Thursday January 31, 2008
07:00 PM : Michael Cogliantry @ Rererato
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Come one, come all!!! This Thursday 1/31 7-9pm
Michael Cogliantry will present photos from his zany trip across the
Indian Subcontinent traveling in a Rickshaw!
Dal Masala deliciously prepared by Aaron Silverman!
Indian Soundscapes by EET!
Not to be missed!
Here is the Official Press Release:
Two Thousand Kilometers in Two Weeks:
Photographer Michael Cogliantry Takes on India in a Rickshaw
With little preparation, one flies to the Indian Subcontinent and does
ones damndest to force India's version of the taxi cab over 2000
kilometers of questionable terrain for international charity Mercy
Corps.
What better way to spend the holidays than two weeks of mountains, mud
tracks, tropical heat, cricket and that most noble of vehicular
genius, the three-wheeled motorized rickshaw? This real life
action-adventure road trip started on the fabled Malabar Coast of
Cochin (Kochi) India on December 2006 and eventually closed two weeks
later in the high-tech center of Hyderabad.
In addition to raising money for charity, Michael Cogliantry
photographed a unique narrative about his trip along the way. The
intention of the project was to use the actual journey, as seen
through the eyes of a fictional character, as a metaphor for the
age-old process of self-discovery. Think Hearts of Darkness meets
Borat.
Along with a book signing, Cogliantry will be showing new 40 x 50"
color photographs, all self-portraits of the artist, making his way
through this very foreign country.
Rererato 5135 NE 42nd Ave Portland, OR 97218
For more info visit: www.rererato.com
Friday February 1, 2008
12:00 PM : Joe Sacco @ PNCA
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Friday, February 1
Joe Sacco is a Maltese citizen currently residing in Portland, OR where he makes his living as a cartoonist and journalist. Sacco was awarded the American Book Award in 1996 for his book Palestine, a collection of his serialized comic book depicting Sacco's encounters with Palestinians and Israelis as he traveled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. His exhibit "Graphic Articles" curated by Mack McFarland, will be Sacco's first in Portland, and will include over 20 pages from four books: Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, and War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96. Also exhibited will be photographs, sketches, and audio interviews made during Sacco's travels.
Joe Sacco
EXHIBITIONS
Event runs:
Fri, Feb 1 –
Sun, Feb 24
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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06:00 PM : Wild Wild West @ gallery Homeland
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gallery Homeland invites you to join us and guest curator, Todd Johnson
, at the opening of "Wild Wild West"
Friday February 1st
6pm - 9pm
2505 SE 11th Ave
Portland, Oregon
A look at the legacy and influence of the mythology and romanticism of the
American western frontier on contemporary photography. Wild Wild West
looks at the cultural icon of the pioneer as an explorer of unresolved
wilderness; heroic individuals traveling across a rugged and dangerous
terrain, mapping out an idealized territory. Photography played a critical
role in documenting this magnificent and impressive landscape of the new
Americas. Manifest destiny stated the belief that the United States had a
mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom. What
captivates us still with the legends and myths of the Wild Wild West?
Artists:
Mark Hooper: Lewis and Clark: Re-expedition photographs.
Timothy Hursley: Brothels of Nevada,
candid architectural views of America’s legal sex industry.
Ethan Jackson: Spaghetti westerns, signs, symbols, and symptoms. David
Levinthal: Wild West, toy cowboys reconstruct historic icons. Marne Lucas:
Logging pin-up photographs.
Richard Misrach: Cultural landscape photography.
Pipo Nguyen-duy: AnOther Western: cultural identity and immigration. Lori
Nix: Disaster Photographs, blending truth and illusion.
Shawn Records: Ironic and anecdotal photographs of the suburbs.
Berthold Steinhilber: American ghost towns, luminous folklore images.
Wednesday February 6, 2008
06:00 PM : I ♥ Mr T @ Moshi Moshi
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For the first time ever, twenty of Portland’s finest artists will come together to present “I ♥ Mr T” - a show of art based on America’s favorite tough guy and real life super-hero, Mr. T.
You definitely don't want to miss this one, fool!
Please find all the juicy details in the attached press release. We've also attached the promotional postcard for your enjoyment.
Hope to see you there!
Opening Reception on First Thursday in March
March 6th, 2008
6 to 9pm
At Moshi Moshi
916 W. Burnside (between 9th + 10th)
Thursday February 7, 2008
06:00 PM : Art Openings@Portland Westside
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Portland's bike culture is varied and likely you are part of it. We have bikes who can haul heavy loads, even moving people from one apartment to another, a dynamic oh so sought messenger group that holds bike polo in the mud and mad alley cats, Zoobomber gravity players, fixie aficionados, velodrome and Fairmount-Skyline spandex racers, safe routes to schools advocates, tall bikers, the baby trailers, custom frame wranglers; more for sure. Documentation of this becomes a show, Teams of Portland, at the local ad agency. Four days only. W+K 224 NW 13th Thurs 6PM-9, Fri 10AM-6PM, Sat/Sun 12Noon-6 Free
Portland painter Molly Vidor is a master of lush still life and abstract work. Past work has spanned the tonal range, often with black backgrounds, fierce highlights and a sensual clear glaze over the finished work. This show, Destroyer, is a continuation, more abstract, and sometimes adding the suggestion of figurative observer. The work has a dreamlike emotion that some may enter and others may not register. Also in the PDX Window Project, a large display window viewable 24x7, is Artocracy, project by Portland artist Megan Murphy, to sell prints online at a great price and with maximum proceeds to the artists. A virtuous cycle. At PDX Contemporary Art 925 NW Flanders Closes early, 8PM
Paul Missal has trained generations of Portland painters at PNCA, that is 25 year's worth. Yale schooled, he founded the Blackfish Gallery coop in 1978 when the Portland's slim contemporary art world comprised the Portland Art Museum, PNCA, OCAC and Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery (-1986), later subsumed by Fountain gallerist Laura Russo into the Laura Russo Gallery. At Blackfish, Paul Missal shows his own work tonight. Though Missal paints still lifes and landscapes, he is primarily known for sensitive portraits. See and meet the master ibid at Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th
I like minimalism and conceptual work as well as the next, arguably more. Nonetheless unique figurative work that touches is a love too. I dig the energy of Superflat, no apologies, and collect it. One such figurative artist is Kendra Binney who shows "in better light" at Compound/Just Be Toys this month. Pacific Rim Binney is tapped into the kawaii-style, her figures have preternaturally large eyes. This is perfect fit for the illustration-style work so successively championed by Compound. Binney shows worldwide, from originals to very reasonably priced prints. At Compound-Just Be Toys www.justbedesign.com 107 NW 5th Avenue
Artist Gretchen Vaudt shows drawings at Valentines. Til 9, lights on, after Vaudt spins and Al James, aka The Un-phased, from Delorian plays. 232 SW Ankeny lateish
Stumptown has distinct curators for its downtown, Division and Belmont instantiations; resulting in distinct vibes at each - see yourself. This month the show downtown is Sacred Pop: Exploring Text Through Collaborative Processes. 3 collaborations share walls: Todd + Craft show oil paintings of landscapes, painted under the McLuhanesque tutelage of painting 1.5 phenom Bob Ross; Gary Weseman and Amy Steel show "A Penny For Your Thoughts" which includes and audio piece; Philip Cheaney and Laura Aiken show "You Are What You Sing" portraits of pop singers in Dymo lettering tape. 128 SW 3rd
This is too good to not note. Artists are the canaries in the coal mine of culture. Forever they have been critics-commentators on the leading edge of culture as noted by MacArthur winner Dave Hickey. Picasso was an early innovator and critic. The issue in his time was the Spanish Civil War. It is argued that the first world war, WWI, marked the transition to modern war, targeting civilians, aka people. So sad. (note my home was built in 1918 by a Spanish Civil War volunteer and a relative served in WWI, surviving it; many of his colleagues, sadly, did not) Artist Picasso, modded earlier work into the mural Guernica. This artwork is a touchpoint into the horror of total war, targeting civilians, to this day. To see it full scale pierces the heart. Portland State shows the preliminaries - Picasso's artist studies, which resulted in the final work. It is so apropos in the time of war and saber rattling. PSI shows 42 reproduction sketches for Guernica. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Center. Free
Always recommended are the DeSoto Block and the Everett Block. The DeSoto Block encompasses the Contemporary Crafts Museum, always free; Blue Sky-Nines Gallery-Nines conceptual gallery, Augen and the Charles Hartman Gallery. It is easy to see it all on opening night and through the month.
The Everett Block is bounded by NW Everett, Flanders, Broadway and 6th. Most of the live-work space are open first Thursday only. So see it until about 10PM.
Each venue, for visual arts, and for music, has its vibe. Brand. One of Holocene's vibes has been Portland's art community. Tonight they tap that with an art show by Cory Smith, Sarah Gottesdiener, Olivia Edith, Chloe Richard, Wesley Younie, Bradley Royce, Kjerstin Rossi and Hooliganship. That is accompanied by a fashion show by Denwave, Luxury Jones and Stand Up Comedy. (!) Musical contributions by Glass Candy, Fleshtone (!!!), and a myriad of DJ's. 9PM-late $8
06:00 PM : SACRED POP @ Stumptown Downtown
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SACRED POP: Exploring Image and Text Through Collaborative Process
February 1st-29th
Opening reception First Thursday, February 7th, 6-8pm
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW 3rd
Portland, OR
You Are What You Sing is a collaborative work created by Philip Cheaney and Laura Aiken. Cheaney and Aiken's vinyl label maker tape letters read as both song lyrics and pixels, creating iconic portraits of several musicians chosen by the artists as personally significant.
Philip Cheaney and Laura Aiken live and work in Portland, Oregon.
Todd and Kraft are friends who decided it would be fun to paint with Bob Ross, the great landscape master of 1970s public television. The Bob Ross videos available at the local public library all had seasonal themes, so the two nascent painters decided to get together seasonally, lay in a supply of wine and a Papa Murphy's pizza, and paint. Their first exciting efforts prompted a friend to exclaim, "Hey, these are really good - they could be hanging in some dentist's office!" Although frustration (and sometimes the wine) sends them veering off the Bob Ross method on occasion, Todd and Kraft have been painting happy little worlds for three fruitful years. Come see their entire oeuvre!
Todd Ballmer and Shannon Kraft live and work in Portland, Oregon.
Penny For Your Thoughts is an ongoing collaboration between Amy Steel and Gary Wiseman. Steel and Wiseman go to public places and offer passers-by a penny for their thoughts. In exchange for a penny extracted from a collection Wiseman started four years ago, participants permit the artists to record their thoughts on an iPod. The artists use the recorded thoughts to create a sound piece and present it in conjunction with a book of text and drawings documenting each penny-for-thought exchange. Sacred Pop: Exploring Image and Text Through Collaborative Process is the first installation of Penny For Your Thoughts in Portland.
Amy Steel and Gary Wiseman have been collaborating since 2006. They both live and work in Portland, Oregon.
Saturday February 9, 2008
05:00 PM : Genuine Imitation Art Opening@St Johns
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Genuine Imitation, one of the Everett Station's more active galleries has graduated. They have moved to St Johns' Northern frontier. To celebrate, they present "Lost and Found: A Show About Love". A second copywriting award this month is deserved: "Our lovely artists include Ashley Armbruster, whose work emphasizes the importance of things we hold dear like our hearts, our trinkets and our friends, illustrated with chubby cheeks and cupcakes; Kimmie Hutchins, whose paintings feature playful monsters dancing with robots in the sky, and children frolicking with oversized bumble bees on a hillside; Kendra Binney, who illustrates a world draped in memories, remorse, and fragile realities, evoking both nostalgia and contempt; and Kara Burke, whose work features a cast of big-eyed characters tackling misadventures". Also showing are Tom Luedecke, Ashley G, Not Too Pink, Ubiki, Chris Brindley, Creative Thursday, Brownington Forest, LilyMoon, Jun seo Hahm, and Joom. www.genuineimitation.com 8926 N. Lombard
5PM-9 Free
Monday February 11, 2008
07:30 PM : Artist Emily Prince Speaks@PSU
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Drawing has undergone a resurgence. From the mundane to the profound. Emily Prince spans both in a good way. "Familiar" are drawings of objects from Prince's living space, grouped. Sadly profound are Prince's "Memorial Drawings", drawings of each soldier killed in Iraq, mapped by hometown. Memorial Drawings was selected for the Venice Biennale. Prince speaks at the PSU artist lecture series. Early arrival suggested as it's been SRO. At the 5th Ave Cinemas 510 SW Hall Room 92 7:30PM Free
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Wednesday February 13, 2008
06:00 PM : Nicoya Peninsula @ LINFIELD COLLEGE GALLERY
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Observations from the Nicoya Peninsula
LINFIELD COLLEGE GALLERY
Feb. 11 to March 8th.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Feb. 13th from 6 to 8pm
Closing Party : Saturday, March 8th from 2pm to 4pm
900 SE Backer Street.
McMinnville, OR
Monday February 25, 2008
07:30 PM : Andrea Bowers @ PSU
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All The Way From Los Angeles!
Andrea Bowers Will Lecture About Her Work!
The Public Is Invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday Feb 25th, 7:30pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 90
510 SW Hall St. (at the corner of SW 5th & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, OR
Andrea Bowers has an MFA from CalArts and lives and works in Los
Angeles. Recent solo shows include "An Act of Radical Hospitality" at
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York; "The Weight of Relevance" at the
Secession, Vienna and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; "Vows"
at Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg; "Nothing Is Neutral" at REDCAT, Los
Angeles and Artpace, San Antonio. Recent group shows include "Tanzen,
Sehen" at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; "Personal
Affairs" at the Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany; "Particulate
Matter" at the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland and the "Whitney
Biennial 2004", Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Sara
Meltzer Gallery in New York, Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin, Galerie
Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and Van Horn in Düsseldorf. Bowers is
currently a Visiting Artist at CalArts.
For more information on Andrea go to: