The 7th Annual St. Johns Bizarre!

May 1, 2013
By Ian Youngstrom
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A *free* celebration of all things St. Johns, happening on the same day as the 51st Annual St. Johns Parade. Featuring:

Arts/Crafts! – An open-air craft market featuring 70+ local artists. A perfect place to find a Mothers Day gift or a gift for yourself!

Music! – Ancient Heat • Blue Cranes • 1939 Ensemble • Kim Baxter (All Girl Summer Fun Band) • Orquestra Pacifico Tropical • Mo Phillips • The Tumble Down Library • Listen to all the bands here.

Beer! – A bier garten hosted by local brewers, Occidental Brewing.

Plus many other events and activities organized by the businesses of St. Johns. Make a day of it!

Learn more: StJohnsBizarre.com | Facebook | Twitter

St. Johns Bizarre
Downtown St. Johns
N Lombard St & N Philadelphia Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97203
ONE day only Saturday May 11, 2013
10:00 am – 7:00 pm (craft fair closes at 6pm)

* Poster artwork by Portland artist Meg Hunt

S plit Surfaces: Visual Arts Show

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Nance Paternoster’s bodies of work all have to do with breaking structure. Looking at things from a unique perspective, and carrying that uniqueness through in every stage of the creative process. Whether with under water photos, masked and hand printed onto metal, or through weavings of printed images or digitally enhanced photos printed onto denim and reworked with pastels. Each piece is completely original because of the many hand worked layers of her creations.
LaValle Linn’s photography captures the reflections that are everywhere and offer us another reality, an additional layer, sometimes more than one, of life. What you see in Linn’s reflection images are what she saw when she took the shots. The effect of multiples layers is not from post-processing. Just as they did when she first saw them, the additional layers will reward you with a heightened perspective.
Linn says, “Reflections are filled with fertile confusion that carries me to other moments, compelling me to keep looking, exploring and creating.”
Both artists worked intimately with Mel in designing their frames for this show, Paternoster training with Mel to frame much of her own work.

Mel
1007 SW Morrison St.
Portland, OR. 97205

Time of Event ( xx:00 pm – xx:00 pm ): 10:00 am-6:00 pm Tues-Sat, Artist Reception Friday May 10th, 2013 | 5:00pm-8:00pm

Show Ends: 2013-05-31

POCKET TONES : “EXILE WATER” [A POCKET NOTES HAPPENING/GATHERING/SOUND NIGHT]

May 1, 2013
By Stacey Tran
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We’re celebrating the release of Pocket Notes Vol. 1, Issue 2! The night will consist of a video/sound installation, a collective composition with tape recorders, guest reader Amaranth Borsuk (author of Handiwork and Between Page and Screen), and a collective performance piece by local Pocket Notes contributors.

Independent Publishing Resource Center
1001 SE Division St.
Portland, OR. 97202

Doors open at 7:30.

Wine and snacks will be provided. Cash donations appreciated. Come get wine drunk with us and be somebody.

7:30-8 — Two tape recorders will be provided for the attendees to participate in a textural composition. Video/audio installation.

8-8:30 — Poet/scholar/book artist Amaranth Borsuk performs from Between Page and Screen. Her work focuses on textual materiality—from the surface of the page to the surface of language.

8:45-9 — Erasure performance.

9-9:30 — “One Stone” segment featuring Pocket Notes contributors Amaranth Borsuk, Donald Dunbar, Gary Wiseman, James Yeary, Jessalyn Wakefield, Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, and Zachary Schomburg.

Public Space and Art paint and teach-in

May 1, 2013
By Eye
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Public Spaces
May 23rd, “Public Art, Not Clear Channel Signs”

Paint and Teach-In, Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:30-8:30pm at Montgomery Park, 2701 NW Vaughn St.

In Portland, the fight over Public Space and who has access to it is an almost virtually unheard of discussion.  Public art from murals to graffiti and street art is an integral part of cultural expression in any city.  Why does Portland have so few examples of public art.

In 1997 and 2006 Clear Channel Media sued the City, stipulating that Public Art be regulated under the same laws that govern city sign codes.  These regulations created a complex code of red tape and barriers for the community and individuals attempting to speak their voice, and instead protected the free speech rights of the corporate entity Clear Channel.  Also created was a zero tolerance graffiti and street art policy, both of which are often the only artistic means for those with less economic power to influence the urban landscape and dialog. Portland’s shared public spaces have been secured to serve private interests and left communities behind.

Come join us while we paint and speak out for Public Spaces.

For additional resources visit: pdxstreetart.org  or artsusa.org

Sex, Drugs & Rock’n'Roll Group Art Show opening night May 3rd

May 1, 2013
By Jonas
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AFRU may 2013
Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll At AFRU Gallery May 3rd, 2013

Is a group exhibition of local artists in the theme of Sex, Drugs, & Rock’n'Roll showing at AFRU Gallery through the month of May.

Opening night May 3rd, 6pm to midnight.

Visual Artists:

Mike Albano

Eric Blackburn

Bruce Arkansas

David Guardado

Jonas Nash

Evan Serrill

Steven Thomas

 

With performances by

SNOW BUD AND THE FLOWER PEOPLE

RIASTRAD

DJ MANHERO

and a special performance by IVIZIA

AFRU Gallery
534 S.E. Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97214

More info at AFRUGallery.com
and our Facebook Page AFRU Gallery

Thank You,
Jonas Nash
AFRU Gallery Curator

Show Ends: 2013-06-02

HungryEyeball presents “Nothing To Say” with Charlie Alan Kraft

April 15, 2013
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Steel by Charlie Alan Kraft

“Nothing To Say” with Charlie Alan Kraft

Not everything is created to be taken at face value. In fact some things are crafted for the very opposite reason. They are made to inspire thought, to give the viewer more power, power to move forward in their own interpretation with his/her own creative ideas. These images are here to do just that. – Charlie Alan Kraft

Meat Cheese Bread
1406 Southeast Stark Street
Portland, OR 97214
April 11 – April 28, 2013 / Everyday 7am-8pm
Available online in the HungryEyeball Gallery

Facebook event: “Nothing To Say” with Charlie Alan Kraft
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GRIDLORDS Indie Comic Art Collective Showcase

April 15, 2013
By sarah
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Gridlords
The Hollywood Theatre presents graphic novels spilling out of the third eye of GRIDLORDS. GRIDLORDS is a Portland based underground and art comics community, with a strong love of interdisciplinary performance and storytelling, and an unbridled desire to marry sound and vision in new ways.

In an era where the church of the mind and the soul of the state are dependent on individuals too wrapped up in their phones to be wrapped up in each other GRIDLORDS wants you, the audience, to feel a part of something. On April 27th at 9:30pm a massive exhibition of shadow puppets, warped sounds, strange lights, free hand animations and comedy will descend upon the theater with one goal – to inspire creativity and stimulate independent thought.

The smorgasbord includes:

Eamon Espey & Lisa Krause: performing Ishi’s Brain
Ishi’s Brain is a show by Lisa Krause and Eamon Espey that incorporates shadow puppets, a marionette, masks and a liberal use of painted cardboard. It’s based on a chapter in Espey’s new graphic novel, Songs of the Abyss. The true story is about a man who has often been referred to as “the last wild Indian.” In Krause and Espey’s version, it becomes a science fiction ritual where a lone spirit spends his final days and an alien shaman guides him into the next world.

MSHR
MSHR is a collaborative audio-visual project by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo works across digital, analog and organic media to build synthesizers, installations, recordings and rituals. “A hand tracing a spiral in the wet sand, meshing with the sky to form a nano chip.”

Chelsea Kamm w/ the Many Fur Puppet troupe
IN THE DARK TIMES. A short and sweet shadow puppet show about the end times by the Many Fur Puppet Troupe, set to a live soundtrack by a wild band of Portland locals.

Erin Tanner performing Dream Governor
Dream Governor: a multi media collage story of a full time dreamer who lives in the dome of a capitol building, inspired by recent travel time and conversations in Olympia Wa and Providence RI. Erin Tanner is a pacific northwest based artist in realms of comics, puppetry, performance, animation, piano, comedy, storytelling, and most recently mural paintings and video.

MARSUPLALA
MARSUPLALA is a collaborative performance project between artists Wally C. and Alex Chiu. The project can be described as a collage of creative vomit; some of the best there is to offer in the world of Weirdo Art Theater. Expect to see full body monster costumes, animated violence, and drippy cuteness.

Plus Lori D. presents a Gridlords Animation reel:

EDIBLE ROCKS by STEFAN GRUBER
Stefan Gruber is a Seattle animator and performance artist. He creates a short hand drawn, digitally finished film every year. Edible Rocks is his new film about the time he convinced his little brother that there were rocks you can eat.

WATER by AMY LOCKHART
Amy Lockhart is a filmmaker, animator and artist. Her animations have screened at festivals nationally and internationally, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival and International Animation Festival in Hiroshima, Japan.

LIKE A LANTERN by LILLI CARRE
Lilli Carré is an artist and illustrator living in Chicago. She primarily works in the forms of animation and comics, and is the co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. She has created several books of comics, most recently the short story collection Heads or Tails, published by Fantagraphics Books.

WEE WEE ATTRACTORS by LEIF GOLDBERG and URSA GOLDENROSE
Leif Goldberg’s mystifying films present the viewer with an ecstatic obstacle course of mutating images and delightfully warped sounds. In addition to filmmaking, Goldberg is an independent artist whose work ranges from drawings and objects to screen prints.
(from Anthology Film Archives program notes, Feb. 2013)

LORD I: THE RECORDS KEEPER by LORI DAMIANO
Lori D. is a Portland based independent Illustrator & animator. LORD I: THE RECORDS KEEPER is a hand-drawn animated film that she has been working on for over 10 orbits of the earth. LORD I is a story of a documentarian learning to shake off the mental barnacles of the past and the holographic barnacle projections of the future in order to encounter the indefinable present moment.

HungryEyeball presents Jennifer Parks solo show at Redux Gallery

April 1, 2013
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Jennifer Parks at Redux“Celestial Matter”
with Jennifer Parks
@ Redux Gallery

Artist Reception First Friday April 5th, 2013 | 6-9:30pm

Jennifer Parks’ latest body of work will be exploring our existence among the universe. Her images of floating heads are beautiful cosmic portraits as celestial bodies with flourishing plant life among the stars. If you are unable to attend the opening, the show will be up until April 29, 2013.

Jennifer Parks Bio:
She’s an illustrator, cartoonist, and co-member of the Ponyclub Gallery, currently living in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon. She loves nature, art, and all things magical. She’s inspired by childhood memories, dreams, nightmares, and the beauty and mystery of life, death, and the ever expanding universe. Her work without compromise tells a tale of a world intensely rendered in darkness. Jennifer was most recently featured in the comic anthology Study Group 12 with a tale of spirits that lurk someplace between your dreams and your window. jenniferparksillustration.com

HungryEyeball facebook event: “Celestial Matter” with Jennifer Parks
Celestial Being #2 by Jennifer Parks

April First Thursday at FIFTY24PDX Gallery: Strange Exchange

April 1, 2013
By Olivia Storm
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Strange Exchange at Fifty24PDX GalleryFIFTY24PDX Gallery and Upper Playground are proud to present “Strange Exchange”: a group show that explores feelings of apathy and perversion and the hunger for pizza and beer. The work presented comes from a geographically diverse group of artists, all of whom would choose puns and cheap art supplies over awkward silences and fancy sunglasses any day of the week.

Featured artists:

Dirty Adam
Clam Nation
Deladeso
Alex DeSpain
Mr. Frivolous
Hanako Mimiko
Wasted Rita
Brad Simon

An opening reception for Strange Exchange will be held First Thursday, April 4th 2013, from 6:00PM-10:00 PM. The show runs April 4th – April 27th 2013.

FIFTY24PDXGALLERY/Upper Playground
23 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
(503)-548-4835

Show Ends: 2013-04-27
fifty24pdx gallery

APRIL ARTBASH!! with Sarah Hoyt and Davey Cadaver! April 5th

April 1, 2013
By johnathan hall
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sarah hoyt* Please join us for a very special First Friday ART BASH at the home:bass gallery & shop! *

For the month of April we will showcase two extremely talented artists who work with layers and colors to create enchanting and eerie dreamscapes. A common theme will be the exploration of invisible and ghostly creatures who will find themselves at home at the bass.

DAVEY CADAVER

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SARAH HOYT

To go along with the colorful and spooky feel of the art, our music selectors will be playing a mixture of downtempo, drum n bass, dark idm and old school goth/industrial.

PENPOINTRED
and SKEME

OPENING ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, April 5th, 2013
All ages welcome!
Doors open at 5PM
FREE

home:bass gallery
123 NE 6TH AVE*
Portland, OR. 97232
*between Couch and Davis

Show Ends: (YYYY-MM-DD): 2013-04-28
davey cadavore