GRIP, GRASP, GROPE, AND FONDLE
Lucas Murgida
Autzen Gallery
2nd Floor PSU Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 724 SW Harrison
SF artist Murgida makes work through (and addressing) his work … conducting “research” while employed as cabinetmaking, restaurant work, locksmithing, and now yoga instruction. Artist talk/performance at opening.
Wrecking Crüe
IGLOO
625 NW Everett #102
Titled cute, this is a group show of work by Jordan Tull, Josh Smith, Salvatore Reda, Joshua Pavlacky, and Jeff Jahn (like the j-alliteration…should Salvatore change his first name?). Bullet points from the quite poetic statement:
- constructed space
- structural invention
- half-made/half-undone
- hypershapes
- blueprints and Outer Space
- rendering philosophical material from impulsive architecture
3X_PWN_TRANZ
Future Death Toll
Tractor
328 NW Broadway
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you don’t know who is on the other line.
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you do all the talking.
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, the pwn does all the talking for you.
I’m into the idea of “evidence of a past or future mission to transmit” as well as the machines of communication.
Grassland Alphabet
Seth Nehil
In House Gallery
625 NE Everett St. #106
“…calligraphic exercises – letter-forms constructed from waves and clusters of marks. I imagined a field of wheat attempting to form itself into words, a mute landscape swelling in the wind, blades of grass arranging and aligning themselves.”
Constrain to Vertical
Brenda Mallory
DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Fabric wall pieces inspired by stacks of UPS “end-of-day” barcodes + Agnes Martin.
Also
Clouds
Lucinda Parker
Laura Russo
805 NW 21st
O.G. Ab-Ex powerhouse and longtime arts educator Parker with a show of new paintings. Parker gives a talk Saturday, March 27, at 11 AM.
Letters from Switzerland
Melody Owen
Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th
“For Letters from Switzerland, using the tools and media of the Swiss-originated Dadaists, Owen created a precise and strange group of collages, examining feelings of dislocation and disconnection. Featuring bisected animals spilling flowers from their guts, and hotels sprouting roots that can’t find purchase, these works allude to the deracinated experience of the contemporary traveler.”
Marker
Marie Watt
PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders
Show of new work by Watt including “Trunk,” this incredible, sinuous cedar sculpture.
Laurie Danial
Froelick Gallery
714 NW Davis
Abstract paintings by Danial that feature tracings, structures, transparencies, the built and the organic.
