Annotation: Configure is a show of new work by Portland-based artist and OCAC grad, Derek Faust. At Alpern Gallery (2552 NW Vaughn) for the month of February, there will be an opening reception for Annotation: Configure this Friday, February 12 from 6-9 PM. Information systems made visually manifest, especially in abstract and minimal forms, is definitely an intriguing hopping off point.

Statement:
Annotation: Configure is a formal examination into the aesthetics, materials, and means of information storage and reproduction. By combining image with the language of objects, Faust’s new body of work explores analog and digital information through abstraction and minimization. Be it a dot and dash of Morse code or the shape of a USB port, there is a language that has a direct lineage to how we view, value and communicate with each other. Specifically, Faust’s work grapples with information systems through an investigation of their physical and visual language.

Gallery hours Friday 12-5 & Saturdays 11-5 (and by appointment)

images: top, Derek Faust, Transmission Lineage, 2009, Series of 23 24″x36″ Prints. bottom l-r, detail. Derek Faust, Transmission Lineage, 2009, Series of 23 24″x36″ Prints.

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

Nothing says summer like a good group show (except maybe margaritas and Dr. Scholl’s sandals). And I have to love a gallerist (Jeanine Jablonski) who quotes Camus—“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”—while deploying Cheech and Chong in the show poster.

Tonight Fourteen30 Contemporary (1430 SE 3rd) opens SUMMER SHOW with a reception from 6 to 9 PM with a Left Coast-heavy lineup of artists whose work I’m really looking foward to seeing including Mike Bray (Eugene, OR); David Corbett (Portland, OR); Hamlett Dobbins (Memphis, TN); Alex Felton (Portland, OR); Corey Lunn (Portland, OR); Jenene Nagy (Portland, OR); Devon Oder (Los Angeles, CA); Nicholas Pittman (Portland, OR); Patrick Rock (Portland, OR); Jennifer Shimatsu (Los Angeles, CA); and Nick Van Woert (Brooklyn, NY).