First Friday Openings

Cadence
Worksound
820 SE Alder
Opening 7 PM

Curated by Victor Maldonado, this group show brings together artists “to explore the phenomenology of sound and music as hubs for culture, including sculpture, video, installation, and performance art” with work by Chris Lael Larson, Mike Welsh, Missy Canez, Alexander Florence, Gabi Villasenor and Adrienne Huckabone, Bryson Hansen and Anja Lichan, Wayne Bund is Feyonce (opening night), Allison Halter (opening night), Tim DuRoche (opening and closing night), Cripple Athlete (closing night), Elite Beat (closing night), Carla Deal – DJ Carlita (opening and closing night).

Conventional Hoards
Chase Biado and Lydia Rosenberg
Car Hole Gallery
114 SE 12th
6-10 PM

Award for the best press release ever goes to Sam Korman of Car Hole:

Works Cited

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Carter, Chris. The X-Files Complete Series. Fox. 1993-2002. Television.

Chatham, Rhys. A Crimson Grail: for 400 Electric Guitars. Table of the Elements, 2006. CD.

Craven, Ann. 400 Paintings. 2006. Oil on canvas. Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.

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Cremaster Cycle. Dir. Mathew Barney. Perf. Mathew Barney, Norman Mailer, Richard Serra, Dave Lombardo, and Aimee Mullins. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1995-2002. Film.

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Groening, Matt, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. The Simpsons Seasons 2-9. Fox. Television.

Korman, Sam. Car Hole Gallery Back Catalogs. Portland: Car Hole Gallery, 2010. Print.

MacKaye, Ian. Complete Discography. Perf. Lyle Presler, Jeff Nelson, and Brian Baker. Minor Threat. 1990. CD.

Man, Method, GZA, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, U-God, Masta Killa, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers. Cond. RZA. Loud/RCA, 1993. CD.

Mercury, Freddy, and John Deacon. Greatest Hits. Perf. Roger Taylor and Brian May. Queen. Hollywood Records, 2002. CD.

Meyer, James, comp. Minimalism. New York: Phaidon, 2010. Print.

Montague, Julian. The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a Guide to Field Identification. New York: Abrams Image, 2006. Print.

Nickas, Robert. Painting Abstraction New Elements in Abstract Painting. London: Phaidon, 2009. Print.

Now That’s What I Call Music 75. Phantasm Inc., 2010. CD.

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Screen Tests. Dir. Andy Warhol. Perf. Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono, Nico, Dennis Hopper, Etc. 1964-66. Film.

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The Decline of Western Civilization. Dir. Penelope Spheeris. Perf. Black Flag, The Germs, X, Circle Jerks, and Fear. Media Home Entertainment, 1981. Videocassette.

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Wallach, Amei, Il’i.a. Iosifovich Kabakov, and Robert Storr. Ilya Kabakov: the Man Who Never Threw Anything Away. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Print.

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—Sam Korman

Mnemosyne
Erika Diehl
Golden Rule Gallery (811 E Burnside suite 122)
Opening Reception June 4, 6-9 PM

Golden Rule opens its first exhibition (in Nationale’s former space), a solo show of paintings, drawings, and prints by Portland-based artist Erika Diehl. “Diehl’s work reveals the inner lives of objects, that they have their own pasts and their own potentialities of being; they long not for us but for each other. … She deliberately chooses her color palette from bygone eras of painting—delicate tones buried almost as relics in our cultural history—to create landscapes both foreign and nostalgic.”

Ambush: The Story of TDA
Bailey Winters
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
First Friday June 4, 6-9PM

Ambush “depicts a fictionalized revolutionary group living on the West Coast of the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.”

No One Everyone: Not So Bright Please
Nationale
811 E Burnside (new location, front and center)

A two-part exhibition. “Celebrating both the energizing sensory effect of bright colors and the calming simplicity of raw materials, NATIONALE invited several artists to participate in a month long collaboration of what we hope will be the burial of a dark and overly intellectual winter. After the initial and minimal set up of Part 1 the artists will have a week to experiment with the provided materials, some with the help and participation of the public. Part 2 will see the presentation of their final projects, culminating in a closing reception Friday June 25.” Participating artists include Marty Snap, Rikki Rothenberg, Jason Rens, David Neevel, Christy Lutz, Chelsea Heffner, May Juliette Barruel, Emily Baker. And there will be a special edition mix tape contribution by Josh Kermiet and Mike Elias. Opening features White Rainbow at 8 PM.

Research Club and Grand Detour Grand Opening
215 SE Morrison, Suite 2020
6-10 PM

New space for contemporary art, experimental film and video, new media, and critical discussion. Opening night will feature Obscured, work from founder Ním Wunnan, and Grand Detour Presents “screening a variety of experimental video pieces, including Mathew Lippincott’s multi-channel installation “TV Infant,” a “golem-like arrangement of monitors displaying recent political imagery to a curious and unsettling effect.”