Thursday March 6, 2008
05:00 PM : Art Openings @ Portland Westside
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Elise Wagner is an encaustic painter, she teaches encaustic classes and formulates the pigments too. Her show "Particle Maps" incorporates imagery from cloud chambers in which charged particles in high energy physics experiments are bent to spiral patterns by magnetic fields. The texture of encaustic painting gives the feel of medieval illustration; so a mashup of DaVinci and quantum physics. Butters Gallery 520 NW Davis - 2nd floor
Ethan Rose is a musician's musician. Solo, Small Sails, Adelade; he has made somewhat ambient music which in a group could rock out too. It is music for dreams. He has been generous playing for all manner of art events, making them something special. Now he shows an installation themed on music machines, player pianos, in a gallery. Not to be missed at Tilt 625 NW Everett #106 Until 9
James Boulton launched a new generation of large bright abstract painters here. He has spent the last few years getting schooled in LA's art world and this show is the result. Pulliam Deffenbaugh 929 NW Flanders
British American artist David Hockney is known for pop imagery and collage. Living now in LA, swimming pools have become somewhat of a motif. Usually his work is seen in museums, Augen this month shows prints. Augen downtown 817 SW 2nd
David Levinthal and Jim Riswold are pop artists in culture sampling. Oh so po-po-mo. Often they photograph toy figures of historical icons, like Hitler, Mao, BarbieTM, sports figures, Marie Antoinette. This month it is Jesus, rising from the dead. Augen DeSoto 716 NW Davis
I'm not sure having an art show "Keep Portland Weird" at City Hall is the best mashup for either. Nonetheless, work selected for "great quality, overall weirdness, and inherent Portlandness" can be seen at City Hall early, 5PM-7
Painter Lorna Nakell started with 1950's style illustrations of meals like something from old cookbooks. Her paintings are abstract now and enigmatic. You can see them at Beppu Wiarda 319 NW 9th Ave.
Compound has a group show themed on Alice in Wonderland which somehow has an Easter theme, maybe by virtue of the rabbit. Compound 107 NW 5th
Laura Fritz shows a video installation Interspace at Quality Pictures. Fritz is known for laboratory-like artwork, enigmatic and maybe a little disturbing, in a good, puzzling way. At Quality Pictures 916 NW Hoyt
Moshi-Moshi has moved from East to West and is now curated by the owner, seller of vintage action toys and the like. So appropriate his first show is art inspired by b movie vintage character actor Mr. T. 916 SW Burnside
P:ear is taking over Backspace with art by kids in the project. P:ear engages homeless kids in art and more. Maybe that will cause them to move on, off the streets. 115 NW 5th 'til late
India, being bigger, has bigger problems, though it's arguable its family structure is more intact. Tonight, early, will be a party at the shop Chinoise. No cover charge, but sales tonight benefit Kids With Cameras project Hope House - Asha Niwas. It's a home for children born in Calcutta's brothels. At Hope House, they receive a free education through high school and an opportunity to form a new life. DJ The Incredible Kid will be playing the Indian subcontinent remixed and there will be complementary wine and vegetarian Indian snacks. 728 NW 23rd 6PM-10 Free
Meanwhile Anjali will be playing vintage Bollywood soundtracks as part of the Hexasion series. Visuals provided by the Pareidolia consortiuma. A Paint and Copter project. Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th 7PM-9 Free
05:30 PM : Cat Chow lecture @ RAW
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Thursday, March 6
5:30pm - Cat Chow lecture (Eliot 314)
Later:
7pm - Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment with Q&A (Chapel)
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
Friday, March 7
4pm - Mary Rothlisberger lecture and films about Elsewhere (Eliot 314)
6:30pm - Paper Rad lecture (Eliot 314)
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
9:30pm - Short films: G&g's I give this to you for something to do (Dad, is that you?), Paper Rad's new film Problem Solvers, a selection of Reed student films followed by Peter and Matt's Ghost Opera. (Chapel)
Saturday, March 8
7pm - Lucky Dragons (Chapel)
Sunday, March 9
6pm - Closing Event: Lucky Dragons and dessert (Vollum Lounge) *Featuring desserts by Grant Yarolin
06:00 PM : Mr. T Show @ Moshi Moshi
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Don’t Be a Fool – Mr. T Art is Cool!
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 Mohawked Messiah. Levi Pitters, a ten year-old artist and Mr. T enthusiast, came up with the idea and recruited some of his talented friends to create artwork dedicated to his idol. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of art in this show will be donated to a scholarship fund to help send 5th graders in Levi’s school to Opal Creek – a three day outdoor education program held in June. Mr. T would approve!
This show is not to be missed as it will feature work from local talent such as Beau Berkley, Bwanna Spoons, Cathy Pitters, Chelsea Fletcher, Cyrus Smith, David Wein, Gregular Pitters, Hilary Pfeifer, Jake Robertson, Juanita, Justin "Scrappers" Morrison, Klutch, Lucy Berkley, Matt Wagner, Martin Ontiveros, Meredith Mathews, Ryan Berkley, Steve Mathews, Tripper Dungan and more!
Don’t give me no back talk sucka - get yourself down to this show!
The show will also correspond with the grand re-opening of Moshi Moshi at its new West Burnside location right next to Billy Galaxy.
Opening Reception on First Thursday in March
March 6th, 2008
6 to 9pm
At Moshi Moshi
916 W. Burnside (between 9th + 10th)
Portland, Oregon
07:00 PM : Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment @ RAW
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Thursday, March 6
7pm - Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment with Q&A (Chapel)
Later:
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
Friday, March 7
4pm - Mary Rothlisberger lecture and films about Elsewhere (Eliot 314)
6:30pm - Paper Rad lecture (Eliot 314)
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
9:30pm - Short films: G&g's I give this to you for something to do (Dad, is that you?), Paper Rad's new film Problem Solvers, a selection of Reed student films followed by Peter and Matt's Ghost Opera. (Chapel)
Saturday, March 8
7pm - Lucky Dragons (Chapel)
Sunday, March 9
6pm - Closing Event: Lucky Dragons and dessert (Vollum Lounge) *Featuring desserts by Grant Yarolin
07:00 PM : UNWIN-DUNRAVEN LITERARY ECCLESIA Event @ The Mizpah Church
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THE UNWIN-DUNRAVEN LITERARY ECCLESIA presents...
JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON
&
NOAH ELI GORDON
Thursday, March 6th, 7:00PM
The Mizpah Church (located in Ladd's Addition)
2456 SE Tamarack Ave.
Venue website: www.funkychurch.com
Cost: $5 – 12, sliding scale
*Admission price includes a free chapbook, featuring previously unpublished work by the writers featured the night of the event, as well as free wine, beer, and light snacks.
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ABOUT THE READERS:
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books, most recently Figures for a Darkroom Voice with Noah Eli Gordon (Tarpaulin Sky, 2007). A new chapbook is just out with Pilot books, and Portland's own Pinball Publishing released his first book, Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms, in 2005. A new full-length collection, The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth, will be out next year with Tupelo Press, along with his first film, a tour documentary about the band Califone, and an anthology of younger poets in conversation with their mentors from University of Iowa Press.
After growing up in Seattle, and going to college in the Northwest, he lived briefly in Turkey, Slovakia, and for longer in Arizona, Ireland, and Colorado before recently settling in Illinois to take a teaching job at Loyola University Chicago.
Noah Eli Gordon's first book, The Frequencies, was published by Tougher Disguises Press in 2003. Since then, he has had five other books appear, including Novel Pictorial Noise, which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series, and published last year by Harper Perennial. Last year also saw the release of Figures for a Darkroom Voice, a book written in collaboration with Joshua Marie Wilkinson. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books, and his reviews and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly. He teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado in Denver, and is the puppeteer for Ohio's Book Corner, a video book review.
See him reading with Joshua Marie Wilkinson at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSENrRf0pNw
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ABOUT UDLE:
The Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia is a new literary convergence, encompassing a quarterly reading & performance series, finespun publications, special events, and extensive online archives, all in flux with our interest in Gnostic narrative, imagined cartographies, oracular utterance, and the alchemy of language. Its members include writers Ashley Edwards, Ashley Toliver, and Garett Strickland.
Website: www.unwin-dunraven.org
08:00 PM : tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) @ RAW
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Thursday, March 6
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
Later:
Friday, March 7
4pm - Mary Rothlisberger lecture and films about Elsewhere (Eliot 314)
6:30pm - Paper Rad lecture (Eliot 314)
8pm - tEEth, "Normal and Happy" (Kaul) *Doors open at 7:30pm; $10 or Reed ID
9:30pm - Short films: G&g's I give this to you for something to do (Dad, is that you?), Paper Rad's new film Problem Solvers, a selection of Reed student films followed by Peter and Matt's Ghost Opera. (Chapel)
Saturday, March 8
7pm - Lucky Dragons (Chapel)
Sunday, March 9
6pm - Closing Event: Lucky Dragons and dessert (Vollum Lounge) *Featuring desserts by Grant Yarolin
09:00 PM : Panther, Parenthetical Girls, Mattress @ Holocene
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Thursday 6 March
TIME
9pm
COST
$8.00 advance
Holocene Presents...
Panther
Parenthetical Girls
Mattress