Tonight, a debut solo show of work by Abraham Ingle, If A Tree Falls… opens at FalseFront (4518 NE 32nd) with a reception from 6-10 PM. The show is six new video, installation, interactive and collaborative projects, through which Ingle proposes to “investigate the notions of presence in the age of ‘always

Portland’s favorite garage-down-the-alley art spaces Appendix Project Space (south alley between 26th and 27th off NE Alberta), Little Field, and the performance space Hay Batch! open shows and show openings beginning at 6 PM tonight, July 29 because it’s Last Thursday (beware summer hordes on NE Alberta). Foque

by Josh Noble Before beginning my review of Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s The Classroom at PDX Contemporary in earnest, I first need to offer a slight disclaimer: this is the sort of art to which I have deep sympathies and emotions that make me slightly uncomfortable. This neat, clean, clever, non-confrontationa

As part of Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s exhibition The Classroom at PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders), Helen Reed gives a short talk called Regifting Economies, Saturday at 11 AM. Helen Reed is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Over the past 5 years Helen’s art practice has involved working with speci

Ed Ruscha. Various Small Fires and Milk. 1964. detail. Earlier this year, Stephanie Snyder’s Scarecrow exhibition at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College, gave us a little glimpse of the strength of the college’s art collection. And now we get a look at Reed’s collection of art books. Yes. Summer Reeding i

I know it’s a coincidence, but…. Montreal-based Grier Edmundson’s painting in Fourteen30′s (1430 SE 3rd) Summer Show is located as far from the rest of the work, both literally (high on a wall in a corner) and figuratively (a figurative oil painting), as he is geographically from the rest of the feat

Social_Net_Works at Recess Gallery (4315 SE Division in the Artistery) Wednesday, July 14, 6-9 PM. Recess Gallery recesspdx: I don’t know, I might be coming to a suitable stopping point sometime soon here. I need to get out into the fresh air. I could meet you in the gallery areas did you see the blogspot? me: lemme

Is it true that now and forever whenever I write about Mack McFarland, I will also show you my favorite of his Kinetocasts (above)? Probably. I’d post this daily if I could find a fine excuse. On the occasion of his talk tonight at Grand Detour: Experiments in New Media (215 SE Morrison, Suite 2020), I’ll [...]

Oh technology. We love to love you to hate you to love you. Every innovation, every feature is a double-sided coin: every benefit comes with an attendant threat/detriment. So cultural commentators tie themselves in knots over the promise and perils of the latest (and not so latest) in device, online platform, &c. Soun

Reminder that as part of The Classroom, an exhibition of works by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen at PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders), tomorrow morning, Saturday, July 10 at 11 AM, PNCA professor Anne Marie Oliver will lecture on pedagogy. If that can be construed as teaching about teachings on teaching (the art [..

Tonight from 6-9 PM Fourteen30 (1430 SE 3rd) hosts a reception for its summer group show with a knock-out lineup including work by Jesse Durost, Grier Edmundson, Devon Oder, Blair Saxon-Hill (her “Not Red” is pictured above), John Sisley, Alex Steckly, Jesse Sugarmann, Nick van Woert, and Bobbi Woods.

Neither Higher Nor Lower Sarah Gottesdiener w/contributors Jenstar Brockman, Michelle Calvert, Lacy Davis, Kaetlin Kennedy, Aaron Montaigne & Publication Studio Nationale (811 E Burnside, Suite 112) Opening reception First Friday July 2, 6-9 PM Artist talk and presentation Thursday July 15th, 7 PM (as part of Nationale

Tonight, Publication Studio (717 SW Ankeny), celebrates the opening of their new storefront/studio on the Ankeny alley next to the Tugboat and ’round the corner from Mary’s from 6-10 PM with music by Lisa Schonberg (ex-Explode Into Colors) on drums and Jonathan Sielaff on bass clarinet. It’s also the launc

Tomorrow is Thursday, First, and you know what that means: art openings. Recommend: The Classroom Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen PDX Contemporary Art 925 NW Flanders Interested in “how we learn” and transmit knowledge, Gray and Paulsen have created a “new body of work that deals with the politics and a

A snake is an alimentary canal is a hole in the ground. In spite of some decades now of avant-performance and theater  under our collective mental belts, some still seek neatly tied up referential packages and will be puzzled by the shifting tectonic plates underlying performance/installation artist and writer Bethany Ides

The Classroom Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen PDX Contemporary Art 925 NW Flanders Interested in “how we learn” and transmit knowledge, Gray and Paulsen have created a “new body of work that deals with the politics and aesthetics of education” for this anticipated show. Rigorous thinkers, Gray and

Thursday night was a sprint from a galleryHOMELAND dinner up to Alberta for the openings. At HOMELAND, we had dinner with visiting Berlin-based artists Malte Zacharias (Gartenstudio) and Per Schumann (Entwurf-Direkt) at the long table they’d built from scrap for the occasion with the help of Von Tundra. During dinner

Bethany Ides, Children Get Stuck Places Underground. Half/Dozen Gallery What’s important is you can pretend about things and dream about things you don’t completely understand. —Mr. Rogers Opening tonight, “Children Get Stuck Places Underground” is an an opera by poet, performance and install

Visiting Berlin-based artists Per Schumann and Malte Zacharias are the honored guests at galleryHOMELAND’s (2505 SE 11th) Mind the Gap dinner tonight at 7 PM around a table custom made by Schumann with Von Tundra that will act as a focal point for Gartenstudio’s programming at the gallery after the dinner. ($10

Mountains Michael Iauch FalseFront (4518 NE 32nd) Opening reception 6-10 PM Process made visible, the mountain comes to Moses or in this case, to FalseFront via Michael. Michael Iauch repeatedly walked up Pilot Mountain in North Carolina in late winter, 2009, dragging paper behind him. FalseFront shows the drawings that res

EVA LAKE TARGET NO. 42 (LANA) 2009 mixed media 17-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Frank O’Hara Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I

The release party for Issue 2 of the art/lit little magazine &Review is this evening at Tiga (NE 15th and Prescott) at 6:30 PM. The printed newsprint version includes a mailable postcard and a full color insert printed by Container Corps. Contributors include: Aidan Koch, Andrea Brandtner, Becky Jamieson, Claudia Peñ

How do you deal with the weight of breakthroughs made by your aesthetic forebears? Linda Austin meets them head on in the great Paired Spectacular: a performance diptych in honor of Deborah Hay & Yvonne Rainer, her two-and-a-half part dance work that opened last night at Performance Works NorthWest (4625 SE 67th). In &

PINATA is a live installation by Emma Lipp with Elizabeth Jaeger and Erin Perry tonight, Thursday, June 17 at Emerson Space Case (NE 30th and Emerson, one block south of Killingsworth). The five-minute performance is looped and will begin every nine minutes between 8:30 and 9:30 PM, approximately. Audience outside, performe

If I could introduce you to the work of Portland-based choreographer/dance artist Linda Austin with any performance of hers sight unseen, I’d choose Paired Spectacular: a performance diptych in honor of Deborah Hay & Yvonne Rainer opening Friday, June 18 at 7 PM with performances June 18-20, Friday and Saturday a

Cityscope is looking for proposals for a rad raw space in the bside6 building at SE 6th and Burnside for the month of July. Deadline is June 21. Notified June 22. Bam. Here’s all the info.

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by Joshua Noble There are myriad utopias and, one would like to hope, merely an equal number of dystopias. But given the number of nascent, contested, and at the moment, outright disastrous environmental concerns that we are faced with, it may seem more appropriate that our dystopias, our wastelands, might outnumber our uto

As part of Nationale’s (811 E Burnside) membership events series, tonight at 7 PM, Rad Wave U.S.A. plays music that will be released this fall on Who Let the Dog Out records. Alicia McDaid & Paul Wig & Erik Blad & Scott Blais are Rad Wave U.S.A. “All members have a thing for pizza and [...]

This Friday, galleryHOMELAND (2505 SE 11th at Division) opens Doing It To It, a group show that “focuses on individuals and groups working within a network of people and communities to make a final wonderful outcome. …This group exhibition highlights these projects, events, happenings, and objects through a mont