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
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
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