…This leads back to my initial question, why look at these paintings that are so blatantly not made for your aesthetic contemplation but rather to glorify or enact the infantile urges of these artists?

Tonight is a pre-launch party for FRONT, a new Portland journal for contemporary dance driven by dancemakers themselves: Tahni Holt, Danielle Ross, Alyssa Reed-Stuewe, Noelle Stiles and Robert Tyree.
Join them for a happy hour from 6-8 PM followed…
… I like how the shiny balloons perform their look-at-me job while the blank signs offer up no reward for that attention. I have nothing to say to you but please pay attention to me anyway.
Head up to FalseFront for Michael Reinsch’s opening, then swing back around to 811 E Burnside…
First Thursday highlights with Adds Donna at Half/Dozen, Josh Smith at Manuel Izquierdo at PNCA, and if you haven’t seen Here/Now at Elizabeth Leach, you should.