The Appendix of Tabor Robak +

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 Mopus performs at Hay Batch! at 8 PM.

At Appendix Tabor Robak‘s Quarterback opens. Robak uses digital means (website, video, digital print) to address digital product, material, environment. Here he’ll be showing sculpture. You’ll recall his fascinating, bottomless digital paintings (for lack of a better word) that were shown at Little Field earlier in the year into which one could zoom seemingly endlessly. They functioned like glitchy, abstract paintings operating along the same principles as the zoomable images of Google Earth. See what I mean in his b/w “Garbage” series.

From the gallery:
[Robak] creates a series of sculptures that are “the wounded icons of virility from a fetishized urban dystopia. They highlight the masochistic pleasure in failing to reach an ideal.” Embarking from a boyish notion of manliness, each piece fails to encapsulate the heroic man found in fiction, reveling in the fantasy of that dream instead.

At Little Field, the very busy Gary Wiseman (who’s running the arts space, Place in Pioneer Place mall downtown with Gabe Flores) presents new work.

In the meantime, enjoy Robak’s 2007 Reality CPU.