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DRIVE WOLVES MAD
📍Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland OR
🗓️October 18-19 2024
⏳7:30pm show start both nights
🎟️Ticketed event!
Bringing their recent debut to Portland for two nights only, Seattle duo Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy present a dance work of horror, humor, and friendship. Told through their distinctive aesthetic of the unhinged and uncanny, DRIVE WOLVES MAD tracks the aftermath of an inciting event and ambiguous line between victim and perpetrator. A musical score by Jenny Peterson riffs on predatory pop songs, altering and abstracting them as an act of reclamation. Peterson/McCarthy’s journey seeks to transcend archetypes authored by men, finding their way to a place of survival and remediation–a way to exist in a context of their own creation.
Through the dance they move from a place of dissociation into states of empowerment–which sometimes looks like camaraderie, sometimes wild physical abandon, and sometimes a complete release of the societal obligation to be a palatable, consumable feminine entity.
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SYNTHESIS
mixed-media artist Sally Squire and sculptor Stephen Walter
📍Murdoch Collections Gallery @murdoch.collections
🗓️October 5-November 16
✨Opening reception with both artists on Saturday, October 5 from 2-5 pm.
These artists achieve a duet between organic forms and geometric structures. Squire’s intricate abstract compositions, elements made of porcelain, and other media unite in virtuosic patterns, evoking musical rhythms and the human heartbeat. Walter’s sculptures, composed of found and repurposed wood, alternate between biomorphic forms and the ordered regularity of the grid. These new bodies of artwork reference the lineages of mid-century modernism, hard-edge abstraction, and minimalism.
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Threads of Time: Textile Legacies from Junin, Peru Opening Exhibit Party 🎉
Thursday, October 10 from 6-9 PM
📍Origins and Legacies Gallery by Textile Hive, 516 NW 14th Avenue
📌 Free and open to the public, RSVP at @portlandtextilemonth
This exhibit showcases textiles collected by Andrea Aranow in Peru (1973 - 1980) and the stories of the Mantaro Valley artists who produced them.
In her travels through Peru, fashion designer and textile collector Andrea Aranow was captivated by the stunning beauty of the landscape, the rich culture, and the continued use of handwoven clothing around her. After six months of serving as the regional textile researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Aranow felt called to do original fieldwork, collecting and documenting the region’s unique, creative textiles and dress.
Aranow’s collection includes daily-use items like tapestries, mantas, and alto-relieve embroideries. These items, each a testament to the region’s history, feature heroic religious and military themes, with elements such as airplanes and flowers and distinct motifs and patterns. They serve as a unique connection to the past, preserving the historical significance of the region’s textiles.
The resulting Peruvian collection curated and managed by Textile Hive comprises over 700 textiles and garments, thousands of field photos, Aranow’s research notes, video interviews, and lectures about her time living and collecting in Peru between 1973 and 1980. Cultural historians, fashion, and art enthusiasts will be mesmerized by the breadth and beauty of this never-shared-before collection.
Conversation with Derrick Adams
📍Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU
🗓️Saturday, November 2. Conversation: 4–5 PM
✨Reception: 5–7 PM
Known for his bright palette and playful themes, Derrick Adams presents joyful depictions of contemporary Black culture.
📩Free and open to the public, RSVP at @psu_museum_of_art
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PTXM returns for its seventh year with the theme of Origin Stories. This theme asks: What was the spark—real or imagined—that infused your project, body of work, business, or other creation with life and energy? Amid the collective challenges we now face, which stories, journeys, spaces, gatherings, teachings, and solutions are crucial to carry us forward? Attend exhibits, workshops, talks, and other community events.
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NOTHING: all at once by Autumn Knight
📍 @picapdx
🗓️ October 3 - December 21
✨ free and open to the public
An exhibition that is an evolving installation that features the artist’s drawings alongside objects from each performance and shifting sound and lighting elements.
Knight invites audiences into a moment of respite from the creation of meaning as this experimental project crosses disciplines to consider the self with intimacy, impermanence, and impossibilities. Free and open to the public.
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NOTHING#15: a bed by Autumn Knight
🗓️ Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12.
🎟️ Purchase tickets
Two-person performance unfolds in a shared bed, exploring the possibility of rehearsing for the loss of a loved one.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Autumn Knight, Photo by Rachel Papp).
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THE COLOR OF WHERE WE ARE NOT: Pamela Hadley
📍 @carnationcontemporary
🗓️October 05 — 28, 2024
⌛️Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment
A collection of immersive perceptual experiences: dark environments housing abstract animations, projection-mapping, found and made objects, video, and sound.
The Color of Where We Are Not is an invitation to create distance from the everyday. In the dark, slow nuance of this work, the embodiedness of deep perceptual judgment presents itself as a strategy for healing and resistance. Taking its title from, The Blue of Distance, by Rebecca Solnit, this show seeks to connect us to the pleasure and comfort of letting go; loving more deeply those things that cannot be grasped.
PROGRAMS: Sonar Sessions
Sonar is a technology that uses emitted or reflected sound waves traveling through deep water to reveal the shape of things unseen. Sonar helps us map hidden realms and navigate safely. Please join artist Pamela Hadley and Carnation Contemporary for three evening sessions of perceiving, grounding, voicing, and listening; of co-regulation and care. RSVP Required.
Sonar Sessions offerings:
October 13, 2024 ~ 6:00-7:30 pm
October 19, 2024 ~ 6:00-7:30 pm
October 25, 2024 ~ 7:00-8:30 pm
Pamela Hadley is a time-based light artist living in Portland, OR where they are a member of Carnation Contemporary, WAVE Contemporary, and Borderline Salon. They will be in residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology this November. Hadley earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. This show was supported by a RACC Art3Cs grant.
MICAH KASSELL, Terms and Conditions
Bold, abstract, sometimes cheeky and always thoughtful, paintings and monochromatic drawings.
JAMES FLORSCHUTZ, Memory Markers
Imaginative abstract sculptures, assembled from found materials.
📍 @lvdesignandgallery
🗓️ October 2-November 3, 2024
⌛️Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30pm
✨First Thursday Opening Reception: October 3, 5-8pm
🗣️A Dialogue with Micah Kassell and James Florschutz, Saturday, October 19, 11am
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Gracie Ellison-Shortridge. QUITE
📍Fine Art Fruit 925 NW 19th Ave
🗓️October 1-31, 2024
⌛️7 days a week 11-5pm
✨Opening - First Thursday, October 3rd from 5-7pm
Gracie Ellison-Shortridge is a Portland based painter who focuses on portraits of surly-faced women. Ellison’s striking portraits are on display Fine Art Fruit for the month of October.
@gracieellison. @fineartfruit
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“Manong” by Ryan Frigillana
📍Blue Sky Gallery - 122 NW 8th Ave @blueskygallerypdx
✨First Thursday Opening October 3, from 5-8 pm
🗓️Oct 3 - Nov 2, 2024
Ryan Frigillana contemplates the legacy of Filipinx migration to the United States in his ongoing project “Manong”. Frigillana explores overarching themes of the diaspora — family, labor, faith, and mortality—centered on the life and experiences of his ailing mother. These pictures form a macrocosmic meditation on diasporic grief and resilience, honoring his mother’s story within a broader spectrum of sociopolitical history.
Ryan Frigillana (he/him), b. Iligan City, Philippines, is a Long Island-based visual artist working with photography and bookmaking. Drawing from collective memory and a heavy religious upbringing, his work explores the shared nuances of faith, grief, and home in the Filipinx diaspora primarily viewed through the lens of family.
He is the author of two monographs: “Visions of Eden” (self-published, 2020) and “The Weight of Slumber” (Penumbra Foundation, 2021). He has held both the Risograph Print & Publication Residency (2021) and the Workspace Program Residency (2024) at Penumbra Foundation. He has been awarded the NYFA / JGS Fellowship for Photography (2021), the En Foco Photography Fellowship (2023), and the Aperture & Google Creator Labs Photo Fund (2023).
En Foco, Inc. is a non-profit that supports U.S. based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander heritage. Founded in 1974, En Foco makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-served communities. Through exhibitions, workshops, events, and publications, it provides professional recognition, honoraria, and assistance to photographers as they grow into different stages of their careers.
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It’s a wrap on #TBA24 @picapdx ⚡️
Did you go? What events did you attend? Let us know in the comments 👇🏽
Here’s a little compilation of what we went to this year! Featured in this video🎥
🛟 Morgan Bassichis - Can I Be Frank?
🫖 Sarah Farahat & Alexandria Saleem - Teta’s Tea
🐍 Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt - Osten Cetto:Four Snakes
🎤 Autumn Knight - NOTHING#15: a bar
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Ashley McLean, Seeking you in other bodies...
📍Blue Sky Gallery - 122 NW 8th Ave @blueskygallerypdx
✨First Thursday Opening
🗓️Oct 3 - Nov 2, 2024
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Oct 5, 2 PM
McLean’s exhibition renders her subjects through photography with a deep sense of tenderness and sensitivity, highlighting their connection to the natural world. Her work explores themes of masculinity, Black identity, and subjectivity, considering the reclamation of the Black male persona and what visual capacity they represent. There is an accentuation of the body (while working with the formality of portraiture), a haptic representation of fatherhood, and engagement with nature that settles in the middle of the sublime and realism, with an aim to hold a moment in time that is both tender and mundane.
Ashley McLean (American, b. 1996, she/her/hers) is an artist based in New York City. She received her B.F.A. in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts and briefly studied in the Fine Arts program at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2021. McLean renders her subjects through photography with a deep sense of tenderness and sensitivity, highlighting their connection to the natural world. Her work explores themes of masculinity, Black identity, and subjectivity. She has exhibited both domestically and internationally. In 2023, she was honored as one of the recipients for the Creator Labs Photo Fund from Aperture Foundation and Google Pixel. Currently, McLean is pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University.
En Foco, Inc. is a non-profit that supports U.S. based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander heritage. Founded in 1974, En Foco makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-served communities. Through exhibitions, workshops, events, and publications, it provides professional recognition, honoraria, and assistance to photographers as they grow into different stages of their careers.
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How To Carry Water 💧⚡️
📍PRAx 470 SW 15th Street Corvallis, OR 97331
🗓️September 21-December 21, 2024
⏳Hours: M-F 10a-4p Sa 12p-4p
The exhibition How to Carry Water brings together contemporary visual artists and humanities scholars in shared observations and questions about watersheds. In this expanded conversation, the term “watershed” refers not only to ecological structures, but also to the spatial, temporal and cultural entities that catalyze collectivity and life alongside bodies of water. The exhibition considers how the lenses of history, philosophy and creative practice allow for alternative methods of witnessing the human relationship to water.
ℹ️Image Credit: Daniel Coe
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Saturday, October 5, 3pm: Artist panel with Francis Dot, Carlie Kinto, and Jessie Rose Vala at @gallery114 for Hyphae exhibition 🌀
🎨 Featured paintings by Carlie Kinto
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Near and Far Afield, an exhibition of new paintings by Tennessee-based artist Nick Blosser
📍PDX Contemporary Art - 1881 Northwest Vaughn Street
🗓️October 2-26,2024
⏳Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
Nick Blosser has been exhibiting in Portland for nearly 30 years, first at the legendary Jamison Thomas and then continuing on with PDX CONTEMPORARY ART. A native of Ohio, Blosser was well aware and influenced by Charles Burchfield’s artwork and philosophy. Blosser’s quiet, careful observation of the magic of nature—its patterns, forms, colors—found a natural and appreciative audience in the Pacific Northwest.
Working primarily in egg tempera and watercolor, Blosser paints from small study drawings that he creates while out in the woods and fields. Blosser is drawn to incidents in nature that others may not notice. Through these seemingly ordinary moments, the paintings capture the quivering aliveness of nature. The more time spent with a Blosser painting, the greater the rewards as one notices the many subtleties of shading and the abstract compositions made by the trees 🌳 branches 🪵 brambles, hills ⛰️and sky ⛅️.
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Chess Club Launch Party🎉
🗓️⏳Friday, October 4 from 6-9pm
📍Chess Club, 435 NW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97209
✨Chess Club is a playground assembly of visual cultures.✨ GLOBAL MAGAZINES 🌎📚 WATER BAR 💧 DESIGN LAB 📐🥼
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.” -Marcel Duchamp.
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Occulture Gallery Exhibit Opening Reception
📍Past Lives Makerspace, 2808 SE 9th Ave, Portland, OR 97202
🗓️ Friday, October 4, 2024 from 7-10pm
A witchy group art show featuring a blend of local PNW artists, members of Past Lives Makerspace, and incarcerated artists. This month’s show centers around 🪄magic, the esoteric, and mystic knowledge; 🔮exploring themes of surrender and the natural cycle of #life, #death, and #rebirth. 🍂
Expect to see a wide array of disciplines - #paintings, #encaustics, #metalwork, #ceramics, #softsculpture, drawings, and collage. There will be live music on our gallery stage by Luneau, live dance #performances by Katana Moon and Alexander Ramirez, tarot reading by Ann Heideman, pop up vendors, and complimentary refreshments.
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