First It Was One Thing, Then Another

Portland Art Galleries + Venues

ALT ART SPACE

Appendix Project Space
south alley between 26th and 27th on NE Alberta

Little Field
north alley between 28th and 29th off NE Alberta

Disjecta
8371 N Interstate

Gallery HOMELAND
2505 SE 11th

Worksound
820 SE Alder

UNIVERSITY GALLERY + MUSEUM

The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
BP John Administration Building, 17600 Pacific Highway, Lake Oswego

The Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space
1241 NW Johnson

Manuel Izquierdo Gallery
825 NW 13th

Cooley Gallery at Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park

PORTLAND GALLERIES

Fourteen30 Contemporary
1430 SE 3rd

Half/Dozen
625 NW Everett St. #111

Rocksbox
6540 N Interstate

Tractor
328 NW Broadway

IGLOO
625 NW Everett #102

Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th

Nationale
2730 E Burnside

New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny

PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders

Pulliam Gallery
929 NW Flanders

Sleeping Beauty

And ultra slept a dreamful sleep. Finger pricked. Tangle of briars. But we all know how that story ends.

First Thursday August

Should I tell you that I wrote this once already and that the computer ate my homework? You can tell me that what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. What are you doing First Thursday? Some suggestions.

First up, two shows about touring. At Compound Gallery (107 NW 5th) is Survival Drive a photo and drawing show with work by artist, Rei (Reijiro Mochizuki) and photographer, Hooky (Souichiro Fukuda) who chronicle Japan via a 131 day, 34,033km journey in the tradition of wandering great ukiyo-e artist Hokusai Katsushika, some 200 years gone.

And at Fontanelle Gallery The Art of Touring is a group exhibition featuring photography by Alissa Anderson (Vetiver), Hannah Mae Blair, Sharon Cheslow, Mia Clarke (Electrelane), Jem Cohen, Erika Spring Forster (Au Revoir Simone), Rebecca Gates, Emma Gaze (Electrelane), Megan Holmes, Andy Moor (The Ex), Tara Jane Oneil, Jean Smith (Mecca Normal) and more.

I am very much interested in seeing Jordan Tull’s installation, Reflexion, at Tractor. (Photo by Dan Mclaughlin.)

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery (417 NW 9th), Malia Jensen’s show of new sculpture and works on paper, Knee High to a Worm.

Night Poems, an installation by Aidan Koch and Paul Wagenblast at Pony Club Gallery (625 Everett #105) intrigues me.

And finally, before it comes down on August 8, please see Brennan Conaway’s In Joyful anticipation of Catastrophic Ruin- The First Colony at the PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders) Window Project (window on NW 9th at Flanders). Inside, find an exhibition of works by the late photographer, Terry Toedtemeier, entitled, Trees.

Introducing The Hybrid Gallery: A Roving Project Space

What’s more natural than a partnering between Portland’s on-a-roll arts school, PNCA, and pioneering Portland green developer Gerding Edlen (responsible for the Gerding Theater at the Armory in more ways that one as you can tell from the name)? PNCA and Gerding Edlin are partnering on the brand new Hybrid Gallery: A Roving Project Space (SW 12th and Washington) in GE’s latest project designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (and ZGF’s new home).

I’m into the idea of arts spaces in every building, in every lobby. Bring it on.

The space opens this First Thursday with a party at 5 PM (beer+food+music) but more importantly an exhibition called “movies”, a collection of short experimental videos by PNCA students Jacob Winfield, Ryan Tesar Freeman, Kevin Tinnell, Morgan Alexandra Ritter, Joey Lusterman, Chris Bodven, Bryan Colombo, Adrienne Huckabone, Israel Lund, Sarah Burke, Julia Perry, Brennan Broome, and Jim Hill.

Image via wmig.aiaseattle.org