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Portland Show Listings

As of Mar.01.2006

Welcome to the first installment of the Visual Codec Portland show listings!! Note that this is a compilation, meaning we take most of the descriptive text on word from the venues. To be considered for inclusion in our show listings next month, send an email to pdxlist@visualcodec.com after reviewing our submission guidelines.

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12x16
1216 SE Division St, 503.239.4766
Maureen Herndon and Lee Ann Slawson, New Work, 03.02:04.02

Alysia Duckler
1236 NW Hoyt St, 503.223.7595
Mark Andres, New Paintings, 03.02:04.01

Augen
817 SW 2nd Ave, 503.224.8182
Sally Cleveland, Facing West/Other Portland Streets, 03.02:03.29
This exhibition deals primarily with Portland's built environment and its disappearing grittiness as it has slowly developed into one of the "most livable cities" in the nation. The Pearl District for example, formerly an industrial and inexpensive part of Portland which used to attract artists for its low rents, has since become a high priced urban chic neighborhood driving even Cleveland, one of the last artists there, to find less expensive studio space. However, Cleveland does manage to point out in this exhibition the few remaining industrial strongholds that once made the Pearl District a neighborhood with history and character. Her new east-side studio and its neighborhood thus becomes a reminder of what the Pearl District used to be: gritty, industrial, and on the fringes. It is the disappearing grittyness of the city that attracts Cleveland to the less savory but through her eyes what she sees as the real Porltand, and informs this body of work. Painted during the winter months, Facing West/Other Portland Streets is a realistic recording of the dark, wet days of winter in the Northwest.

Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave, 503.248.2900
A gaming center slash cafe slash gallery giving pre-emergence emerging local artists a chance for exposure.

Beppu Wiarda
319 NW 9th Ave, 503.241.6460
Jindra Vikova and Jim Romberg, Clay Perspectives, 03.01:03.31

Berbati's
19 SW 2nd Ave, 503.226.2122
One of auntie m.'s favorite music venues from days past...also a restaurant...and showcase for local pre-emergence emerging artists.

Blue Sky
1231 NW Hoyt St, 503.225.0210
Steven Benson and Louie Palul, 03.01:03.31

Bonni Kahn's Wild West
1524 NW 23 Ave, 503.293.9414
Zuni Fetishes 03.01:03.31
Featuring hand-carved Zuni fetishes from Zuni, New Mexico. These one-of-a-kind carvings are used for good luck in business, love lives, and your health and home.

Brian Marki
2236 NE Broadway, 503.249.5659
NCECA Ceramics Conference, 03.02:03.30

Broderick
814 SW 1st Ave, 503.224.4020
International Academy of Ceramics, 03.02:03.31

Bullseye Connection
300 NW 13th Avenue, 503.227.0222
Jun Kaneko, Sushi Plates, 03.01:03.31
A collection of new fused glass sushi plates by master ceramist Jun Kaneko.

Butters
520 NW Davis St, 2nd Fl, 503.248.9378
Kathleen Royster and Elise Wagner, 03.02:03.25

Cafe Nola
8638 N Lombard St, 503.445.2007
Another local cafe that features the work of local artists on a rotating basis.

Chambers
207 SW Pine St, 503.227.9398
Guest curator this month...

Compound
107 NW 5th Ave, 503.796.2733
A fabulous cross between commerce and art located in the Just Be Toys store that regularly features the work of noteworthy local up-and-comers in the upstairs gallery.

Cooley Gallery
3203 SE Woodstock, 503.777.7790
New Trajectories 1: Relocations, 01.24:03.11
Now showcasing recent painting, drawing, and sculpture from the Ovitz Family Collection in Los Angeles. The Cooley Gallery is also helping to sponsor a free public lecture Tues.Mar.07 at 7.pm in the Vollum Lecture Hall on the Reed College campus (Note: Closest parking is in the east lot off of Woodstock.) The lecture features Marina Abramovic, an internationally acclaimed performance and installation artist. Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has served as her subject and medium, and the parameters of her early works were determined by her endurance. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for transformation. In a recent performance series at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Abramovic presented Seven Easy Pieces, a series in which she reenacted seminal performance works by her peers dating from the 1960s and 1970s. The project is premised on the fact that little documentation exists for most performances from this critical early period; one often has to rely upon testimonies from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given piece. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibility of redoing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral. Other sponsors of the lecture include the Reed College departments of anthropology and art, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).

Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th Ave, 503.224.0521
Gregg Renfrow, Saturated Color, 03.01:03.31
Northern California based artist Gregg Renfrow uses minimal color to produce luminescent paintings on cast acrylic surfaces. Since his graduation from the San Francisco Art Institute in the mid 1970's Renfrow has produced subtle light infused paintings. Renfrow creates his illusionistic pieces by pouring thin uninterrupted washes of color onto acrylic supports, allowing each thin layer to set without obvious manipulation. Each completed panel is hung slightly away from the wall allowing light to reflect off of and through the paintings. This precise use of materials results in paintings that appear to float on the wall capturing and encasing light and color.

Everett Station Lofts
625 NW Everett St
A collection of small galleries and artist studios that usually opens a few doors on First Thursdays.

Froelick
817 SW 2nd Ave , 503.222.1142
Rick Bartow, Standing with the Humblers, 02.28:03.29

Gallery 114
1100 NW Glisan, 503.243.3356
War Fair, 03.01:03.31

Genuine Imitation
625 NW Everett, #110, 503.241.3189
Meredith Dittmar, Guys, 03.02:03.31

Gottlieb
220 SW Yamhill, 503.241.1070
Grégory Weingarten, Themes on Archeology, 03.02:03.31
Weingarten's art reflects a passion for ancient civilizations coupled with a keen eye for the modern world. His works on jute, composed of poetic ochre tones embedded in sand evoke a primeval state. His collage series, composed of advertisements painted in vivid candy-colored hues, delivers a biting and witty commentary on our consumer society.

Guardino
2939 NE Alberta St, 503.281.9048
Marilyn Lysohir, Good Girls, 03.01:00.56
While the artist was home visiting her family in Sharon, Pennsylvania, inspiration came from a chance meeting with someone she had gone to high school with 30 years before. It was then that she knew that she would do portraits of all the girls from her 1968 graduating class. Her goal is the ultimate figure of 167 busts; the show will feature at least 30-40 of that number.

Laura Russo
805 NW 21st Ave, 503.226.2754
Group Show, Ceramics, 03.02:04.01

Mark Woolley
120 NW 9th Ave, #210, 503.224.5475
Connecting the Dots / Tactile Appeal, 03.01:04.01

Motel
19 nw 5th avenue, 503.222.6699
Amy Ross, Unnatural World, 03.01:00.60

New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny St, 503.231.8294
See website for programming.

Nine
1231 NW Hoyt St, 503.225.0210
A haven for local artwork within the more internationally situated Blue Sky Gallery.

Office
2204 NE Alberta St888.355.7467
Lucia Johnson, Paintings and Furniture, 03.01:03.31

Ogle
310 NW Broadway, 503.227.4333
See website for programming.

Optic Nerve Arts
1829 NE Alberta St, #11, 503.287.0339
Tattoos, piercings, and art. See website for programming.

PDX Contemporary
925 NW Flanders St, 503.222.0063
Bean Finneran, Shift, 02.28:04.01
From the artist: "I work with a simple elemental form, a curve made from the most basic natural material, clay. I make and build with hundreds or thousands of these forms. The clay curve connects me to time, the earth, the elements and human culture. The geometry of a curve weaves and allows construction. The clay curves I roll are each similar but unique connecting them to the natural world where blades of grass are almost the same but never quite the same. The process I use to construct the sculptures follows the patterns in nature. The shapes grow in the space allotted them through adding curve after curve. The forms are always transitory, in a space for a given amount of time. The sculptures cannot be moved without taking them apart and reconstructing them. They are built curve-by-curve and disassembled one by one. This process of continual and possible change and transformation connects me to the natural world along with the ordered chaos that comes from organizing thousands upon thousands of individual elements into a form."

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave, 503.226.2811
See website for programming.

Portland Modern
1715 NW Lovejoy
Diedrich Dasenbrock, Photography, 03.02:03.31
From the artist: "My photographs are a response to the lights and nighttime energy of the city. Using the photographic process as a tool, I'm trying to create abstract, painterly patterns of form and color which I hope will take the viewers to some undiscovered places within themselves. I think of it as painting with light."

Print Arts NW (PAN)
416 NW 12th Ave, 503.525.9259
Birds on the Wing, 03.01:03.31
Featuring prints of birds by PAN artists such as Shu-Ju Wang, Dyann Alkire, Robert Royhl, Gesine Janzen, Marilyn Maricle, Sue Allen, Walt Padgett, Carolyn Kirchner, Eileen Kressel, Leslie Cheney-Parr and more.

Pulliam Deffenbaugh
929 NW Flanders St, 503.228.6665
Jeffry Mitchell, New Ceramics, 02.28:04.01
Seattle sculptor, printmaker, painter and conceptual artist, Jeffry Mitchell, will show ceramics in March. Mr. Mitchell references a wide spectrum of art history and decorative arts, even kitsch. In doing so, he takes ordinary objects and elevates them to express the profound.

Pushdot
830 NW 14th Ave, 503.224.5925
Daniel Barron, In the Knee of the Curve, 03.01:00.31
An image production studio slash art gallery featuring rotating monthly exhibitions.

Quintana
120 NW 9th Ave, 503.223.1729
Maribel Portela, El Querpo que Florece, 03.02:03.31
Maribel Portela of Mexico City brings to Portland a primal, subtle and sophisticated body of clay objects inspired by the richly colored and highly adaptable flora of Mexico. Portela's sculptures, in various media, combine elements of traditional, religious, and pre-Hispanic symbols taken from sacred cultures, to create art that is relevant in our modern world.

Rake
325 NW 6th Ave, 503.453.0434
Eliza Fernand and Michael Wilson, 03.01:04.01
Eliza Fernand's new series Abstracted Protrusions is visceral complement to Michael Wilson's more cerebral dialogue, Concatenation.

RC
1314 NW Glisan St, 503.229.1860
National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, 03.02:03.30
Commencing March 2nd and continuing through March 30, 2006, RC Gallery, in conjunction with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), will present a Raku exhibit with artists Paul Soldner, Jim Romberg, Dave Jones, Tim Andrews, Jean Biagner, Rich Hirsch, Toshio Ohi, Cheng-Yuan Chang, Aline Favre, and Fabienne Gioria.

Sequential
328 NW Broadway, #113, 503.916.9293
Jessica Kreutter, Childhood Residuum, 03.02:04.01
Kreutter works in low-fire ceramic sculptures, often incorporating various connectors (i.e. screw, wires, springs) into her glazed and fired pieces, thus assembling them into the toy-like contraptions that comprise her show. Combining a myriad of features (e.g. propellers, wheels, wings, spikes, animal forms, et al) allows Kreutter to merge the organic with the mechanical.

Small A Projects
1430 SE 3rd Ave, 503.234.7993
Josh Mannis, Iron Eagle, 02.16:03.18

Sugar
420 SW Washington St, #500, 503.222.7722
Maria Dixon and Christian Di Fillipo, Now you Know, 03.01:03.31

Talisman
1476 NE Alberta St, 503.284.8800
Kenneth Walker, 02.23:03.25
Kenneth Walker's work explores the limits and strengths of materials in a process of destruction and re-construction of the Photographic Image. This process parallels the ravages of time and nature on the human body and the psyche. These images, born out of the process are haunting, a precise photographic moment and a depiction of time's passage as subjects and objects fade into and out of obscurity.

Tilt
625 NW Everett, Suite 106
Jayce Dunaway and Stephanie Lanter, Habits, 03.02:03.26
The conceptually oriented work of these artists examines cultural and personal compulsions towards mass produced, seductive objects usually aimed at pleasure. Clay combined with glass, metal, and fiber creates clinically elegant abstracted forms that collide with a tense fragility and absurd sensuality.

Waterstone
424 NW 12th St, 503.226.6196
Kathy Haydon, 03.01:03.31