Ashley Miller at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-01-03 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Ashley Miller, Sweet Things
January 3–February 3, 2019 First Thursday opening reception: January 3, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talks: Thursday, January 3, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/
In Sweet Things, Ashley Miller creates abject still lifes with unsettling imagery that draw attention to the subtexts of desire, consumerism, and overabundance present in product and food photography. Miller’s particular brand of grotesque also alludes to culturally reinforced anxieties about the female body and sexuality that are often manipulated in advertising. The artist playfully disarms these notions using humor and an uncanny ability to present the familiar as strange, and vice-versa. However, despite these critiques of consumer culture, Miller admits, “I am a consumer, too. I crave sugary food that has been marketed to me all my life. I bite and I chew and I swallow what I am given. Modern society is built on overabundance and addiction. This state of anxiety is the starting point for my work, in which I attempt to embrace the tautological regurgitation. After all, I am peddling the fetish.”
Ashley Miller was born in Aleppo, Syria and raised on the island of Guam. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is completing an MFA at the University of New Mexico. Miller previously earned a BA from Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington. Her photography has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina and at the Organ Vida International Photography Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia.

Darcie Sternenberg at Camerawork Gallery
2019-01-12 15:00 - 17:30 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Darcie Sternenberg, Earth Etchings : Emigrant Lake
January 5 – February 1, 2019Artist Talk, Saturday, January 12, 3pm-4pm; Artist Reception 4pm-5:30pm.
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-534Event is free and open to the public.
Jacksonville, Oregon photographer, Darcie Sternenberg, notes, “In the series, Earth Etchings, I explored Emigrant Lake reservoir in southern Oregon during drought conditions over a 3-year period. At one point the water level was 10% of normal. Ironically, the drought was a “wet” one. Due to unusually warm winters, most of the precipitation fell as rain. Therefore, there was not a considerable visual change in the surrounding landscape but the reservoir, that relies on melting snowpack to sustain water levels, became a new world. One could think of it as an inverse oasis.
“The heat of summer created the cracked earth suggesting a displaced desert. There was almost a post-apocalyptic feel at this near barren reservoir and an overwhelming feeling of quiet and loneliness. Walking on the lakebed somehow felt surreal—as if it shouldn’t even be allowed. And the landscape was not static. With sequential modest filling and emptying of the reservoir, for irrigation needs, it continually changed. I felt compelled to return again and again.
“Initially conceived as a climate change documentary project, I found the more I was there the more I developed a fascination with the interplay of the forms created by the drought and the changing atmospheric conditions, at times with a magical effect. I began to see beauty amongst these earth etchings, and became more connected to the natural world than ever before.”
Darcie Sternenberg is a Southern Oregon-based B&W photographer who prefers to search for images in the everyday. For her, capturing these images involves a deliberate process of searching for and ultimately visualizing the familiar, forgotten or unnoticed in an extraordinary way. She earned a B.S. in Microbiology at Oregon State University and an M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After a number of years in private practice Nephrology, she left the world of science to pursue her passion and interest in art.
Sternenberg’s work has been included in group and 2-person exhibitions including: •What is the Question?, Rogue Art Gallery, Medford, OR. •Beauty in the Time of Climate Change, Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR. •On Iceland, Copper Country Art Gallery Hancock, MI.
Juried exhibitions: •The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA • A Smith Gallery Johnson City, TX. Published work includes: •Redwood Portraits, LensWork Sixes, 2016 •Divine Places, LensWork, 2017 •On Folded Earth portfolio, LensWork, 2014. •Earth Etchings – Emirgrant Lake, LensWork Magazine #135, April 2018. •Earth Etchings – Emigrant Lake was also selected as a PhotoLucidia 2018 Critical Mass finalist and received an Honorable Mention Award in the International Photography Awards— FIne Art Landscape category.
www.DarcieSternenberg.com

J. Cyril Coggins at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2019-01-12 16:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
J. Cyril Coggins, Personalized Nude Portrait Project
The show runs from January 12th through March 7th, 2019An artist reception will be held on Saturday, January 12th from 4-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery2833 Willamette, Ste. B., Eugene, OR. 97405541 729 3572Open Weekdays, call to be sure we’re open.email: waltobrien1945@gmail.comWebsite: http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm
Starting on January 12th , some images from the ‘Personalized Nude Portrait Project’ will be presented by J. Cyril Coggins. Over a period of more than 25 years, in and around the Eighties, he worked in collaboration with each of twenty or so women to produce “personalized nude portraits”. Their aim was not to create precise likenesses as in classic portraiture. Nor did they aim at producing sterile classical nudes. Rather they worked to discover ways to express aspects of participants which were unapparent in a standard portrait.
This work was collaborative. There was no money exchanged, either way. One woman would pass on her experience in the project to another woman by word-of-mouth. Then, the second woman, to a third woman. In the end, about 26 women participated.
The project is a paradigm for conceiving of photography as being found in the interaction between three sets: graphic photochemical and interpersonal. When asked if she, too, could participate, he listened to hear whatever he could about her reasons for wanting to join the project. They would discuss what she wanted to portray of herself and who the imagined audience might be, and then worked together to produce the image
The process created some degree of empathy between the subject, the photographer and the intended audience. For, example, when suggesting a modification of one pose, the subject is temporarily taking the role of the photographer. In one instance the photographer took the place of the subject. Otherwise, the photographer maintained his expertise in questions of photochemistry and graphic design.
An understanding of confidentiality among all participants has been kept over these years.

Adam Bacher at Pro Photo Supply
2019-01-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Pro Photo Supply, 1112 NW 19th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Adam Bacher, Ravens in Winter
Mural print exhibitJanuary 15th to March 15thArtist Reception: Jan 15th from 6-8pm
Pro Photo Supply1112 NW 19th Ave, Portland, OR 97209Mon-Fri, 9:00am to 6:00pmSat, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Larger than life, 30 mural size Raven prints reflect a raw intimacy between photographer and subject. Often close enough to feel air rushing through muscular wings, Adam concentrates his time photographing Ravens during and after heavy snowfall to emphasize the contrast of the black birds in a white environment.
Artist reception on January 15th, 6-8pm. Meet the artist to hear inside stories about this exciting project. Light refreshments, snacks and good company for all.
Contact Adam directly for more information:info@conspiracyofravens.com503.281.3777
Adam Bacher is a professional photographer living in Portland for over 25 years. Prospering as both a commercial and fine art photographer, it’s not uncommon for him to begin a day photographing a Fortune 500 CEO, and end the day in a snowstorm photographing ravens.
AdamBacher.com – Business and commercial portfolios.ConspiracyofRavens.com – Raven galleries.

Jan Cook at the Portland Art Museum
2019-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Jan Cook, Pushing Boundaries
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch).
Jan Cook is a fine art photographer who works with alternative photography processes. Her images are a combination of photographic reality and fabrication created by using traditional darkroom techniques in unconventional ways. In this talk she will show a selection of her work including Fugue, a dreamlike series of portraits and Bright Ideas, photograms of unusual light bulbs. She will discuss her inspirations and some of the techniques she uses to create her images.
Jan lives in Portland and is originally from Seattle. She studied and worked in Mexico and this has had a big influence on her imagery. She received her BFA in photography from the University of Washington.
Recently, she has shown at Gallery 1/1 and Gallery 110 in Seattle, was published in Diffusion Magazine, received a Regional Arts and Council Professional Development Grant and was a Critical Mass finalist in 2017. You can see some of her work at www.jancook.com

Therese Gietler "Taking Charge of What you Charge!" workshop at Ask a Producer’s studio
2019-01-17 18:30 - 22:00 | Ask a Producer’s studio, 1910 NW 23rd Place, Portland, OR, 97210, United States
Therese Gietler, Ask a Producer and Cobalt Studios presents: Taking Charge of What you Charge!
January 17, 2019 at 6:30pm
Ask a Producer’s studio1910 NW 23rd Place (not Avenue!) Portland OR 97210503-970-1245hello@theaskaproducer.comhttps://www.instagram.com/theaskaproducer/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/take-charge-of-what-you-charge-registration-53620069070$50.00
GET YOUR PRICE! Designed for all levels of photographers, you will learn how to deal with the hard, tough pricing questions from clients that are keeping you from getting the work you want at the price you want.
“What do you charge?” The most important question you will hear when selling your creative services. This 3 hour workshop will help you develop a strategy to answer the question in a way that will build repeat business by meeting both your needs and your client’s needs by building better fees and contracts.Learn how to use proposals and pricing scripts and role-play techniques to convince your clients that you’re the best (not the cheapest) person for the job. Find out how to tell a client what it would cost them to pay less! Learn how to teach your clients to ask, “What does it cost me?” instead of “What do you charge?’
Help your clients make the right choice -hiring you – by presenting them with proposals instead of prices. This workshop will give you an unbeatable edge over your competition (especially the low- bidder). It will help you become more comfortable and confident when quoting jobs and help you get more of the jobs you quote.
• I was quietly buzzing after a whole day workshop with Therese, she went in depth to all the key areas that most Creative professionals struggle with.—Elin Eriksen, Portrait painter, Illustrator and graphic designer | Oslo, Norway
Also, if you are interested in this event, you might also like my social media seminar “Get Ahead in Social Media: IG+LI+my database=$$$” on January 24! https://bit.ly/2S42Cgk
Sign up link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/take-charge-of-what-you-charge-registration-53620069070
“Ask a Producer” is powerhouse producer Therese Gietler’s boutique consulting business. She lectures about better business practices and consults with creatives, offering portfolio editing, marketing advice, and production services. People hire her for her astute business advice in negotiating contracts, especially at high anxiety times when they just aren’t sure what to do. She’s very active on Instagram, follow her there! @theaskaproducer

Don Jacobson at Lan Su Chinese Garden
2019-01-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 Northwest Everett Street, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Don Jacobson, Botanicals
January 2 – January 30, 2019Reception: January 19, 2019, 1 – 3pm
Lan Su Chinese Garden239 Northwest Everett StreetPortland, Oregon 97209503.228.813110am – 4pm everydayhttps://lansugarden.org/
Portland photographer Don Jacobson will be presenting a collection of his botanical images in the Scholar’s room of the Lan Su Garden. The exhibit will consist of both native wildflowers and images taken at the Lan Su Chinese Garden.
www.donjacobsonphoto.com

Therese Gietler "How to Get Ahead in Social Media" workshop at Andy Batt Studio
2019-01-24 18:30 - 22:00 | Andy Batt Studio, 1910 NW 23rd Place, Portland, OR, 97210, United States
Therese GietlerAsk a Producer presents: How to Get Ahead in Social Media: IG + LI + your database = $$$
January 24, 2019 at 6:30pm
Andy Batt Studio1910 NW 23rd Place (not Avenue!) Portland OR 97210503-970-1245hello@theaskaproducer.comhttps://www.instagram.com/theaskaproducer/Sign up link here: https://bit.ly/2AqonQm$50.00
We now spend more time on social media than in our email inboxes. Because of this fact, we can no longer ignore the platforms that can impact our business!
This 3 hour class is for beginners AND seasoned social media users of the CREATIVE CLASS. Photographers, designers, illustrators, and makers will all benefit. Our time together will be jam-packed with information that will immediately improve your social accounts.
We’ll start with Instagram, where we’ll discuss• Bio Pages• Personal vs. Business Accounts• What to Post• What to Write• Hashtags• Stories / Live Stories• The Algorithm• Robots and Robot Behavior• How to Get More Followers
Then we’ll move on to LinkedIn, where I show you why you need to be there too!• Profile Page• Home Page• Jobs• Messaging• Notifications
And then, for the best part, I show you how I use my IG + LI + MY DATABASE to get jobs!!!
Sign up now, space is limited. I sure hope you’ll join me! Sign up link here: https://bit.ly/2AqonQm
Therese – Ask a Producer
“Ask a Producer” is powerhouse producer Therese Gietler’s boutique consulting business. She lectures about better business practices and consults with creatives, offering portfolio editing, marketing advice, and production services. People hire her for her astute business advice in negotiating contracts, especially at high anxiety times when they just aren’t sure what to do.
She’s very active on Instagram, follow her there! @theaskaproducer

Adrian Klein at UO Law School Gallery
2019-01-26 08:00 - 17:00 | University of Oregon School of Law, 1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
Adrian Klein, “Essential Nature” Landscapes
Now – June 11, 2019
UO Law School Gallery (2d floor)1515 Agate St.Eugene, Oregon 97403Every day / 9 am-8 pm541-346-1559

“Essential Nature” landscapes of the Northwest and Hawaii is an exhibit of 20 color photographs by award winning Portland photographer, Adrian Klein. The adventure mountain and ocean photographs on canvas and aluminum are on display at the Oregon Law Gallery from January 21 to June 11, 2019 from 9 to 8 PM daily.
Klein’s photography often is the result of long backpacking hikes into national parks and wilderness areas. The beauty of flowers, landscapes, and running water come through in his wonderful images. As Klein explains ‘my love of nature has nurtured my love of photography.”

Open Call for Art for Black History Month at Angst Gallery
2019-01-26 15:00 - 18:00 | Angst Gallery, 1015 Main Street, Vancouver, OR, 98660, United States
Open Call for Art for Black History Month at Angst Gallery
Submit up to three pieces for $10.Art can be dropped off on January 26 from 3-6 or Wednesday, January 30 from 12-6.
Black History Month at Angst Gallery February 1-23First Friday Art Walk Opening Reception: 5-9pm February 1
Angst Gallery1015 Main StreetVancouver, WA98660angstgallery.comHours: Wed, Thur, Fri: 12-4Saturday: by appointmentContact: Leah Jackson Leah.AngstGallery@gmail.comAccessible via Niche Wine Bar (1013 Main Street) after 4pm Tuesday through Saturday.
In honor of Black History Month, Angst Gallery seeks art which reflects all aspects of African- American life, culture, and history. All media are welcome.
According to show organizer Claudia Carter, “I would like people to have a better understanding of African American culture and what it means to be recognized for our worth to the community in which we live. Living in the Northwest, it is easy to be overlooked and to feel like you don’t belong. Black History Month is not automatically recognized as a holiday. We have to insist that it be recognized. Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievement by Black Americans. It is a time for recognizing the central role African Americans have played in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week” founded in 1926 by noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black History.” Since its opening in 2008, Angst Gallery has hosted solo and group shows featuring more than 300 local and national artists and cultural events including art shows, musical performances, book launch parties, art talks, classes, workshops, and the monthly Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic. More than just a place to show art, Angst Gallery is also a safe space for community discussion, where all people are respected for who they are. We donate the use of the space to organizations that work for human rights and progressive social change.

Charles Purvis at Multnomah Arts Center
2019-01-28 20:00 - 21:00 | Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR, 97219, United States
Charles Purvis
Monday, January 28 Artist talk from 8-9pmThe Forum meeting begins at 7pm.All are welcome.
Multnomah Arts Center Portland Photographer’s Forum 7688 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 https://www.portlandphotographersforum.com/ https://www.portlandphotographersforum.com/news/2019/featuredjanuary-speaker-charles-purvis
Charles Purvis will be presenting select work from his time in New York and from work made more recently in Portland, including handmade books and image objects.
“Two things that (generally) deﬁne my work: traditional materials and personal interpretations.Faithful rendering is not of interest to me. I prefer to express an intuitive experience of objects. In my mind’s eye, everything is alive.
What interests me is to create images that I have not seen before, images that are, in some way, not fully resolved, stimulate associations, or present a visual tension.
I like to work with traditional materials because the limits of analogue photography call forth particular creative strategies and solutions.”
Bio: For many years Charles Purvis worked as a photographer in New York City creating groundbreaking imagery for a wide variety of internationally known clients. In addition to commercial assignments, Charles has created a large body of innovative work inspired by a relentless curiosity and desire to uncover the creative potential of camera, light and ﬁlm.

Morgan Buck, John Whitten & Rachel Wolf at Hoffman Gallery
2019-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Hoffman Gallery, 8245 SW Barnes Rd., Portland, OR, 97225, United States
Morgan Buck, John Whitten & Rachel Wolf, Surface / InterruptedCurated by Sam Hopple
February 1- March 1, 2019Opening Reception: Friday, February 1, 4-6p
Hoffman GalleryOregon College of Art and Craft8245 SW Barnes Rd. Portland, OR 97225503-397-5544Gallery Hours: Monday–Sunday, 10:00 am–5:00 pmEmail: hoffmangallery@ocac.edu

The Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art and Craft is proud to announce Surface / Interrupted, an exhibition of new work from Morgan Buck, John Whitten and Rachel Wolf, curated by Sam Hopple.
Through the mediums of Drawing, Painting, and Photography, Surface / Interrupted is an exhibition full of poetic optics. The visual disruption, surface tension, and optical illusions present in the artists’ compositions pose the question if what we are viewing is analog or digital. Buck, Whitten and Wolf all use experimental methods of making to produce visual enigmas that challenge the eye’s ability to clearly comprehend what is being seen.
Morgan Buck uses photography and painting to produce blurry large scale works that invite the viewer to play a guessing game of what the subject matter actually is within the canvas. Using a special IPhone lens, Buck distorts imagery from the internet, rendering an image of spatial discombobulation. Using an airbrushing process, Buck removes the digital elements of these found images; the pixels, glitches, and hard lines to create soft, out of focus versions of the original.
John Whitten’s laborious drawings navigate the sound and noise of the everyday by employing methods of intuition and chance as a means to disengage from pictorial realism. Moving away from the representational, he translates the chaos of the everyday into static abstraction. Whitten presents his own system of personal mapping, translating emotional experiences into lines and waves. The result is reminiscent of a digital print or Magic Eye stereogram, but is in its essence the artist’s therapeutic process in documenting the unknown.
Rachel Wolf is a photographer working without a camera whose experimental processes with chemicals and light make her a practicing alchemist. By removing the camera, a tool for representational documentation, Wolf’s elemental approach lets her create images of the unseen, unexplainable, other. While her process is analog, Wolf uses a digital printing process to realize her compositions as large scale prints and aluminium transfers. According to Wolf, “taking the camera away from photography doesn’t remove the possibility for an image, instead it provides space for proposing images for an un-lensed, visual world.”
A panel discussion with the artists regarding their work and practice will be held in the Hoffman Gallery as a Lunchtime talk on Monday, February 25 at 12:45pm. OCAC’s Drawing and Painting Department Head Michelle Ross and Curator Sam Hopple will be guiding the discussion.
About the ArtistsMorgan Buck is a visual artist living and working in Portland, OR. He earned an MFA in Craft from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2015, and a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2010. Buck’s work has exhibited throughout the Portland area and internationally in Leipzig, Germany.
Rachel Wolf is an educator and speaker in the field of photography based in Portland, OR. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH and National Video Center, New York, NY. Wolf is a founding member of FO(u)RT Collective, a multi-disciplinary arts collective that creates/curates exhibitions and events. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Rachel earned her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art.
John Whitten earned his MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR and his BFA from Watkins College of Art in Nashville, TN. He recently had solo exhibitions at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art and Eastern Oregon University’s Nightingale Gallery, and his work has been included in group exhibitions at Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in Korea, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Tropical Contemporary, Linn-Benton Community College, S1, and Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, OR. Recent awards include a Project Grant from the Regional Art and Culture Council, a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, and a Faculty Research Award from Oregon State University. Whitten, who lives in Portland, OR, is a co-founding member of Carnation Contemporary, and is currently a Full-time Instructor of Digital Art and Time-Based Media at Oregon State University.
About the CuratorSam Hopple is an independent curator and arts writer currently based in Portland, OR. Hopple received her B.A. in Art, Design and Media from Richmond University in London in 2012. She is interested in contemporary visual culture and investigating the relationship between space and object. Hopple currently serves as the Gallery Manager at Oregon College of Art and Craft and Senior Editor at 60 Inch Center.

Catherine Haley Epstein, My Nose Made Me Do It
2019-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Catherine Haley Epstein, My Nose Made Me Do It
February 1st – March 29, 2019Opening Reception: February 1st from 6-8pm.
Pushdot Studio2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104Suite 104 – in the Ford Building, enter on Division StreetPortland, OR 97202Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Catherine Haley Epstein is an award-winning writer, artist, designer and curator. Over the past eight years she has pioneered the incorporation of scent into her visual and conceptual art practice. The effect has been an entirely new and more abstract dynamic to her work.
Mixing scent requires chance, knowledge and courage. In this installation, “My Nose Made Me Do It,” the artist has combined visuals with which she has been obsessed for over twenty years in the same manner she has combined scent materials – with love, patience and curiosity. The installation is a weaving of philosophy, art history and multimedia where scent, visuals, text and sculpture become distilled tales of her nose journey to date.
Most recently Catherine attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, and spoke at the Society of Illustrators in New York on her writing and scent practice. She is a multimedia artist and has recently done educational programming around scent at the Portland Art Museum, and with Public Annex, who serves community artists with disabilities. In 2016 she was selected to exhibit her experimental fragrance project at the inaugural AIX Scent Fair at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the 2017 Perfumed Plume Award in Fragrance Journalism, for her writing on the use of scent as an art medium, and has served on the panel for Visual Artist grants for the National Endowment for the Arts.
You may find Catherine’s portfolio at catherinehaleyepstein.com and her essays at www.mindmarrow.com (instagram/twitter @mindmarrow).

Jesse Rieser at Camerawork Gallery
2019-02-02 09:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Jesse Rieser, The Changing Landscape of American Retail
February 2 – March 1, 2019
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public with ADA access
Beginning in 2015, The Changing Landscape of American Retail is an ongoing documentation of the shift from traditional brick-and-mortar locations where we once socialized and interacted with our community to the stark and generic structures that house shipping, fulfillment, call, and server centers, now essential for E-commerce.Like memories, familiar retail entities are fading away. Today, they stand as modern-day ruins and architectural artifacts that reach into the not-so-distant past of our own maturing interests and evolving identities.
Toys “R” Us brings back of memories of avoiding my brother’s aerial assaults of red dodge balls and Nerf guns while simultaneously ignoring my mother’s plea to stop tearing into brand-new boxes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures and Lego Pirate sets.
The Battlefield Mall was once a central meeting spot for my junior high peers— anchored by the food court and Aladdin’s Castle arcade. Here, a myriad of sights and smells trigger the memory to act as a roadmap for navigating the mall. Orange Julius produced the sweet scent of Florida citrus in Southern Missouri; there was the salty cheese sauce wafting from Potato Plus; and the fragrant cinnamon-sugar of Auntie Anne’s baked pretzels. The nearby arcade elicits a sensory transaction when I’m greeted by the flashing lights of Street Fighter II, manic electronic beeps, purple geometric carpet, and the oddly unique odor of stale popcorn mixed with the metallic scent of quarters tucked into my front pocket.
During high school and college, I spent hours at the Best Buy listening stations, previewing new music releases from my favorite artists. Today, I laugh when thinking back to a time when a Circuit City sales associate begrudgingly answered my product question by reading the back of the box, all before returning to watch Shaq and Kobe’s Lakers in the NBA Finals. It makes sense, Circuit City was known for having the best televisions and poor customer service.
By 2012, Circuit City closed their doors. Toys “R” Us folded in the spring of 2018, and Best Buy continues to shutter underperforming stores. Additionally, arcades and food courts are endangered as small- and medium-sized “Class B” malls are closing all over the U.S.
Like most Americans, I love the ease and product availability of Amazon and online retailers. I order my toothpaste with a click of a button and can obtain work supplies from the comfort of my sofa. My concerns are rooted in our recent pattern of isolationism and shrinking human interaction. Store closings feel like a continuation of our declining thoughtful conversations, empty playgrounds, and sense of community as we opt for a digital facsimile. We are no longer previewing music and getting recommendations on new releases in person and in retail shops. We will no longer meet our friends in food courts. And there will never be an opportunity to watch an NBA game with an uninformed and complacent Circuit City employee.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Jesse Rieser’s exploration and celebration of the elements that often go overlooked in our day-to-day lives can be traced back to his midwestern upbringing in Springfield, Missouri. At ASU he majored in photography and art history while attending the Herberger Institute of Art and Design. Now working and teaching in Phoenix, he is internationally exhibited and in 2018, a judge for the prestigious One Club’s interdisciplinary Young Guns award.
He has been interviewed and his personal works have been featured in the NY Times Lens Blog, Time, National Geographic, Buzzfeed, NPR, Fast Company, Wired, The Guardian, and Refinery29.
These works, editorial assignments, and advertising commissions have been celebrated by the Communication Arts Annual (2X), PDN Annual (6x), American Photography Annual (8x), Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 (3x), an Art Director’s Club Young Gun (Top 50 International Creative Under 30), and a recipient of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward award in 2012
www.JesseRieser.com

Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-02-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma, Talking Pictures
January 3–February 3, 2019 First Thursday opening reception: January 3, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma: Saturday, February 2, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/
Originally commissioned by curator Mia Fineman for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Talking Pictures is a photographic conversation between Manjari Sharma and Irina Rozovsky. Over a five-month period surrounding the 2017 US election, the two artists exchanged iPhone photos in real time using a call-and-response format. Living different lives in different cities, Sharma and Rozovsky approached the exchange as a form of modern-day letter writing. Their improvisational images reveal personal chronologies that exist within public and private spaces and respond to current political tensions. Most importantly, the dialogue is focused on the creation of new life at such a precarious time, as the artists, both pregnant during this project, conclude the 122 image conversation with the arrival of their newborns.
Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow and raised in the United States. She is currently based in Athens, Georgia. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Smith College in Northampton, MA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA; Breda International Photo Festival in Breda, The Netherlands; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, PA; Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, WI; Chelsea Art Museum in New York, NY; Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL; and Noorderlicht Festival in Groningen, The Netherlands. Rozovsky participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in August 2012.
Manjari Sharma is an internationally published photo-based artist born and raised in Mumbai, India, and currently residing in southern California. In addition to many private collections, Sharma’s work is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from S.N.D.T University in Mumbai and a BFA in Still Photography from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.

Jewish Ghetto Photographers: Reimagining the Holocaust lecture at Portland Art Museum
2019-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Jewish Ghetto Photographers: Reimagining the HolocaustAlan Ostrow Memorial Lecture SeriesA lecture by Judith Cohen, Chief Acquisitions Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Tuesday, February 5th, 6 PM
Portland Art MuseumWhitsell Auditorium1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811
This lecture is FREE but reservations are recommended.To reserve, visit: portlandartmuseum.org
The vast majority and best known Holocaust photography was taken by German photographers. These photos include such iconic images as the Warsaw ghetto boy and the selections at Auschwitz. Therefore, we largely visualize the Holocaust through Nazi eyes. However, there also exists a considerable corpus of Jewish ghetto photography taken both by professional and amateur photographers. These photographs not only capture aspects of the ghetto hidden to the Germans, but also show layers of ambiguity and nuance that the official photos miss. How do these photographs differ from the better known Nazi photographs? Does it matter who took the photo or just what appears in the image?
Organized in conjunction with the exhibitions Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross (Portland Art Museum) and The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz (Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education) both on view through February 24, 2019.
About the Alan Ostrow Memorial Lecture Series: Established in 1983 to honor the memory of Alan Ostrow, today this Portland Art Museum endowed biennial lecture series aims to highlight artists and other creative thinkers working in or exploring photography based practices.

Jinhyun Cha at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-02-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jinhyun Cha, Post-Border Line
February 7–March 3, 2019First Thursday opening reception: February 7, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Thursday, February 7, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
Post-Border Line by South Korean photographer Jinhyun Cha is a visual contemplation of the 160-mile border between North and South Korea and the ideologies that overlap within it. The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was created as a result of Cold War interventions in the region by the Soviet Union and the United States that led to the Korean War. The DMZ now functions as a consumer-driven tourist destination, with “Peace Parks” and “Unification Observatories” with entrance fees, souvenirs for purchase, and photo opportunities. For the artist, this commodification of conflict is at odds with this war’s fraught legacy. Through his thoughtfully composed black-and-white images taken within the DMZ, Cha presents a counter-narrative that reflects upon “the calamity caused by ideological conflicts and boundaries between remembering and forgetting.”
Jinhyun Cha (b. 1973) is a documentary photographer based in South Korea. He earned an MFA in Photography from Kyung-sung University and completed a doctoral course at Hong-ik University. His first photography project, Portraits of 108, won the grand prize in the first Sangsang-madang Korean Photographer’s Fellowship in 2008, and the Asian Pioneer Photographer Award at the 6th Dali International Photo Festival in China in 2015. In 2016, he was chosen as a finalist in the Daegu Photography Biennale in Korea. In 2017, his work was exhibited at the Go-Eun Museum of Photography in Busan and in 2018 at FotoFest Biennale in Houston, Texas. This is Cha’s first solo exhibition of Post-Border Line in the United States.

Portland Grid Project at Gallery 114
2019-02-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
The Portland Grid Project3rd Round Participants
February 7th – March 2nd, 2019Opening Reception: First Thursday, February 7th, 2019 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Gallery 1141100 NW Glisan St.Portland, OR 97209 http://www.gallery114pdx.com/
In order to see the whole city and not just its scenic cliches, a group of local photographers in 1995 created a plan to explore Portland methodically, one mile at time. They drew a grid in red ink on a Portland map, totaling 108 square-mile sections, enough to take up 9 straight years of photographic work. Phase one began then and lasted until 2004. A second phase followed, on display is work from phase three and includes photographers Pat Bognar, Larry Cwik, Sarah Graves, Gary Gumanow, Philippe Justel, George Kelly, Nathan Lucas, Alberta Mayo, Jenny Olsen, Missy Prince, Steve Rockoff, and Jeffrey Thorns.

Rich Bergeman, Hilda Champion, Stone Peng at Emerald Art Center
2019-02-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
Rich Bergeman, Hilda Champion, Stone Peng, Spotlight on Photography
Feb. 5 – March 1, 2019Reception: Feb. 8, 2019, 5-8pm
Emerald Art Center500 Main St.Springfield, Oregon 97477Tue – Sat 11am-4pm541-726-8595https://www.emeraldartcenter.org
Three award recipients from the EAC’s 2018 Photography at the Emerald Exhibition will be showcased in February’s “Spotlight on Photography” show at the EAC—Rich Bergeman of Corvallis; Hilda Champion of Naples, Florida; and Stone Peng of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A gallery talk will be held with Rich Bergeman as featured speaker on Sunday Feb. 24 at 1pm, with potluck to follow.
Bergeman will be showing recent black-and-white infrared work, all made within the past year. A native of Ohio and an Oregonian since 1976, Bergeman has been making pictures for over 30 years with all manner of cameras and processes—from silver to platinum and Polaroid to pinhole. About three years ago he turned his energies to exploring the infrared spectrum, photographing landscapes, seascapes and the remnants of forgotten histories around the Pacific Northwest.
Champion is a German/American fine art photographer born in 1959 near Munich, and has been living in Naples, FL, since 2001. Her aspiration in photography is less about showing the world as it is, but rather to release the poetry of the ordinary and help people see the un-seen. She tries to show an abstraction of what she sees, free of distractions, and describes her images as “based on a true fantasy.”
Peng was born in Taiwan and has been living in Michigan for over 30 years. He took up photography in the early 1980s and is largely self-taught. Describing his work as “Zen Photography,” he explains: “Every landscape has its own life and meaning, depending on the viewer’s mood. I try to catch that emotional feeling at specific moments in landscapes, using the Chinese philosophy of life and the aesthetic principles ‘less is more’ and ’empty is full’ in creating my images.”

Chip Thomas at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-02-09 15:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Chip Thomas, Messages from the Underworld
February 7–March 3, 2019First Thursday opening reception: February 7, 6:00–9:00 PM
Panel Discussion and Screen Printing Event*Saturday, February 9, 3:00 PM
Participants will include: Chip Thomas, Thea Gahr, Jesse Hazelip, and Ryan Pinto, who will also perform a dance based in the grass dance tradition and hip-hop.*visitors are welcome to bring a t-shirt or other item to screen print after the panel discussion
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/

In Messages from the Underworld, Chip Thomas brings together a diverse range of photo-based work, including wheat paste murals, installations, and screen prints, to focus on the many ways that the agricultural development of corn has shaped the land, people, and cultures of the Americas.
He observes, “when one thinks of what it means to be an American – whether it’s indigenous people praying with corn pollen, religious groups ingesting corn flakes to curb sexual desires, people with amputations and blindness from type II diabetes, farmers feeding corn to their livestock or Central Americans pursuing a safer and better life, we have to examine our relationship with the plant that identifies us as Pan-Americans.”
Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama,” is a native of North Carolina and a photographer, public artist, activist, and physician who has been working between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon in the Navajo Nation since 1987. He coordinates the Painted Desert Project – a community building effort which manifests as a constellation of murals across the western Navajo Nation, painted by artists from all over the world. Thomas is a member of the Justseeds Artists Co-operative, an international cooperative of 30 socially engaged artists. His large-scale photographs can be seen pasted in the northern Arizona desert, on the graphics of the Peoples Climate March, the National Geographic Blog, 350.org, and the Huffington Post.

The Photographic Nude 2019 at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-02-09 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Photographic Nude 2019
February 9 – March 6, 2018Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9th, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery opens “The Photographic Nude 2019” with an opening artists’ reception on Saturday, February 9th from 5-8 p.m. This is the ninth year of the annual international juried exhibit, a collection of photographic prints exploring the artistic and creative view of the body and its form, dedicated to the creative spirit of photographer Ruth Bernhard.
LightBox established “The Photographic Nude“ series in 2010 to reveal compelling imagery and to gain an understanding of the nude historically in the photographic medium. With 50 images selected for the exhibit from 35 photographers, this year LightBox is happy to have Renée Jacobs as Juror for the Exhibit. Renée is a celebrated photographer of the female nude and recipient of the International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude. Renée, living in France, is Executive Director of Photos de Femmes, she is a fierce advocate of recapturing the “female gaze” and women’s agency in how they are depicted in art and photographic history.
The show features many very talented practitioners of the photographic fine art nude from around the world. This year’s International entries come from Israel, Spain, and Hungary along with work from around the United States. Congratulations to Allan Barnes of Los Angeles for receiving the Juror’s Award as well as Victor Zamanski from Israel and Ana Tornel from Spain for receiving the 2nd and 3rd Juror’s Awards.
Congratulations to all the artists exhibiting in The Photographic Nude 2019
Jason Guffey • Brian Winters • Joseph Deiss • Victor ZamanskiCharlie Noble • Eric McCollum • Steve Lease • Paul B. GoodeRobert Dutruch • Trinity Kai • Malcolm Lobban • Allan BarnesAna Tornel • Jim Hamstra • Patrick Whitaker • Nickolas HurlbutLászló Gálos • Ronald Butler • Steve Blackwell • Selina MayerBob Quaglia • Thomas Robinson • Beamie Young • Sheryl HessAndrew Graham • Michael Puff • Ryan Sumner • Gary SamsonSarah Graves • Erin Malone • Dave Hanson • George LefterisAndrew Janjigian • Sven Van Driessche • Robert A. Schaefer
The exhibit runs from February 9th through March 6th 2019. Visit http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/ for complete exhibit and artists info. LightBox offers memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or at info@lightbox-photographic.com, and visit lightbox-photographic.com for more info and to enjoy past, current and upcoming exhibits.

Photo Club PDX Monthly Meeting: Printing Demystified with Mark Fitzgerald at Cobalt Studios
2019-02-12 18:30 - 21:30 | Cobalt Studios PDX, 1030 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Photo Club PDX Monthly Meeting: Printing Demystified with Mark Fitzgerald
Feb 12th, 2019, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cobalt Studios PDX1030 SE Clinton StPortland, OR 97202https://www.photoclubpdx.com
Printing favorite images can be one of the most gratifying experiences for a photographer. But when the result doesn’t match expectations, it quickly becomes one of the most frustrating. That’s because there are a number of nuances you need to be aware of when printing, whether you do your own printing or send your work to a lab. This presentation is designed to explain important details of the printing process to help you get dependable results every time.
Some of the topics that will be covered:
• Sizing pixels to inches for print• Understanding color management• Downloading, installing and using color profiles• What you need to know about working with labs• Soft proofing explained• Getting your print to match the screen• Choosing the right paper• Overview of Lightroom’s Print module
Mark Fitzgerald is a photographer, author, and teacher living in Portland. He has written several photography books for Wiley Publishing, including Zen of Post Production. Mark taught Lightroom classes for 10 years at Newspace Center for Photography. Now he helps individual photographers worldwide through private training and mentoring.
You can learn more about Mark at www.ddroom.com

Cannon Beach Arts Association Photography Invitational Exhibit at Cannon Beach Art Gallery
2019-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Cannon Beach Art Gallery, 1064 S. Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR, 97110, United States
Cannon Beach Arts Association Photography Invitational Exhibit
February 13 – March 27Reception: February 16, 2019, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Cannon Beach Art Gallery1064 S. Hemlock StreetCannon Beach, OR 97110(503) 436-0744Wednesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.www.CannonBeachArts.orgdirector@cannonbeacharts.org
This exhibit features the exceptional photographic work of Justin Bailie, Don Frank, Maya Dooley, George Vetter, Kristin Steinke, Lynne Allison, Kim Rose Adams, Cindi Plath, Carolyn Propst, Julie Adams, and Bob Kroll.
Exhibit Sponsored By: The Wine Shack and Martha Moulton

Hillary Clements Atiyeh at the Portland Art Museum
2019-02-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Hillary Clements Atiyeh, Arranging Chaos
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch).
Hillary Clements Atiyeh, a fine art nature and documentary photographer based in Portland Oregon, will share imagery that she has created over the course of the last three decades. She will discuss her creative journey through multiple photographic mediums and her evolution from the darkroom, alternative processes and into the digital realm.
Fascinated by the Earth and its creatures, Hillary has traveled extensively and feels passionate about photographing the natural world, its inhabitants and the relationship of humans to the environment. In spite of being raised in New York City she has always felt a strong connection with nature and the desire to explore the wilderness. She will discuss several bodies of work including images from her new series of multiple exposures called “Chaos Theory”, Underwater images from the series “In Hot Water” which were made at Breitenbush Hot Springs as well as photographs created from her time living there as a community member and workshop instructor. She will also show work from some of her adventures including an intimate journey down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
“From my perspective, life, art and nature are intertwined so a result I aspire to express that connection through my photographs. I engage in the art and process of photography because I love it, the relationship between art and science excites and inspires me. I let intuition be my guide, finding new ways to experiment and play, often abandoning rules, pushing my own boundaries while attempting to accentuate the positive in everything that I do.”
Hillary Clements Atiyeh has won several awards and has shared her work in both solo and group exhibitions around the globe including Spain, France, China, Guatemala and the United States. Her work has been included in National Geographic Traveler, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Burn Magazine, Black & White Magazine and several other print and online Publications.
You can see a sample of her work at www.HillaryAtiyeh.com

Open Call for Art for Women Warriors at Angst Gallery
2019-02-23 12:00 - 16:00 | Angst Gallery, 1015 Main Street, Vancouver, OR, 98660, United States
Open Call for Art for Women Warriors at Angst Gallery
Submit up to three pieces for $10.Art may be dropped off on Saturday, February 23 (12-4) or Wednesday February 27 (12 -4).
Women Warriors at Angst Gallery March 1-23, 2019First Friday Opening Reception: 5pm, March 1
Angst Gallery1015 Main StreetVancouver, WA98660angstgallery.comHours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12-4. Accessible via Niche Wine Bar (1013 Main Street) after 4pm Tuesday through Saturday.Contact: Leah Jackson Leah.AngstGallery@gmail.com
Women warriors come in all shapes, sizes, and ages: Malala, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Florence Nightingale, Great Aunt Beatrice. So many women inspire us behind the scenes or in the public eye. What makes a woman warrior? Not all heroism involves violence. What drives such acts of heroism? What qualities or circumstances drive women to push back, protect, or change the world? Who are the women in your life who inspire you? Angst Gallery recognizes that women have shaped society in ways for which they are not often enough acknowledged. For the month of March, Angst Gallery will celebrate Women Warriors in all their various incarnations.
All media welcome Art may be dropped off on Saturday, February 23 (12-4) or Wednesday February 27 (12 -4). If these dates and times don’t work, please contact Leah Jackson to make other arrangements. Submit up to three works for a $10-$20 sliding scale submission fee. All work must be clearly labeled and ready to hang. Please download and fill out an Angst Consignment Form from our website and drop it off with your fee when you submit your work: http://angstgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Angst-Group-Show-Consignment-Form-3.pdf In 2018 the New York Times recognized that they had overlooked many important women in their obituary section and have been working to go back into the archives and feature those who were overlooked. In Sweden, ancient Viking remains were discovered to actually belong to a female and not a male 100 years after they were found. Sometimes it is our tendency to incorrectly assume that remains from archaeological conform to stereotypical gender roles. What other assumptions have we made in history? What assumptions will be made when looking back 100 years from now? “Wonder Woman lived: Viking warrior skeleton identified as female, 128 years after its discovery” By Amy Ellis Nutt September 14, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/14/wonder-woman-lives-viking-warrior-skeleton-identified-as-female-128-years-after-its-discovery/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8d2c0f585682 For more information about National Women’s History Month, visit the National Women’s History Alliance website: http://www.nwhp.org/womens-history-month/womens-history-month-history/ International Women’s Day is March 8, 2019:https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Portland Grid Project : Past, Present, and Future - A Conversation at Gallery 114
2019-02-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Portland Grid Project : Past, Present, and Future – A Conversation
Sunday, February 24, 2019, 3:00 pm
Gallery 1141100 NW Glisan StreetPortland, OR 97209http://www.gallery114pdx.com/https://www.portlandgridproject.com/The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 12 noon – 6 pm
The Portland Grid Project began twenty-four years ago when Chris Rauschenberg took a pair of scissors to a map of Portland and cut it into 98 pieces. He invited twelve Portland photographers using a variety of cameras, films, formats, and digital processes, to photograph the randomly selected square each month. Currently in the midst round three, twelve different photographers are continuing to explore the changing face of Portland
Please join Chris Rauschenberg and photographers Larry Cwik, Lisa Gidley, Sarah Graves, Gary Gummanow, George Kelly, Ann Kendellen, Missy Prince, Faulkner Short, and others who have participated in the grid project over the years in a conversation about the Portland Grid Project and their participation in it.
The Portland Grid Project, 3rd Round Participants, continues at Gallery 114 until March 2, 2019.

Angela Holm & PCPDX at Chehalem Gallery
2019-03-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Chehalem Gallery, 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, OR, 97132, United States
Work by Angela Holm & PCPDX, Photographic Intentions
March 1st 5:00 pm – 8:00 pmArtists Reception, Meet the Artists! First Friday Artwalk: March 1st, 5pm-8pm
Chehalem Gallery415 E Sheridan St,Newberg, OR 97132https://www.angelaholmphotography.com/events
In January 2018, seeking to be part of a photographic community in which she could learn and grow, Angela Holm created Photo Club PDX. The group meets monthly with the goal of becoming better and more creative photographers. For the past year, the club has worked on projects together, participated in creative challenges, shared work, gone on outings as a group and has developed as photographers. This show represents the photographic successes that Angela and Photo Club PDX have created during 2018.
Photography Projects Presented By:
Angela Holm – ‘West Linn Paper Mill Study, Pinhole’ and ‘Urban Landscapes’
Alicia Hill – ‘Faces of Fauna’
Abigayle Tarsches – ‘Looking In’
Andrew Greenhill – ‘Quadrant Series’
Cherie Savoie Tintary – ‘Steampunk-Kitsch’
Cora Coronel – ‘Still Life in a Modern Lifestyle’
Darnell McAdams – ‘The Black Santa Project’
Lori Ackerman – ‘Equine Portraits’
Luke Olsen – ‘Less Human Than Human’
Michal Rubin- ‘Don’t Touch the Mannequins Project’
Michelle Swanson – ‘Provocative Flora’
Ralph Daub – ‘Corvidae’
Zeb Andrews – ‘Urban’
https://www.photoclubpdx.com https://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org/exhibitions/2019/2/5/photography-by-angela-holm
This show will be displayed from Feb 4th – March 30th, 2019 The gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday

Small Talk Collective at Wolff Gallery
2019-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Wolff Gallery, 2804 SE Ankeny St., Portland, OR, 97214, United States
Small Talk Collective, Rumors Audra Osborne, Briana Cerezo, Jennifer Timmer Trail, Kelli Pennington, Kristina Hruska, Leslie Hickey, and Marico Fayre
February 27–April 28, 2019First Friday opening reception: March 1, 6:00-8:00 PM
Wolff Gallery2804 SE Ankeny St.Portland, OR 97214 Open Wed-Sun 11am-6pm // Open until 8pm every First Friday of the month
Wolff Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring new work by the members of Small Talk, a collective of seven women photographers based in Portland, Oregon.
“As a collective, we have the honor of witnessing and discussing the progression of our individual works. We find ourselves traveling along parallel paths, drawn to new directions and processes. We discover common ground in similar themes, investigating dark corners and intimate places. Here, our realities, our unverified stories, come together for a time before continuing onward. We present selections of new work from each member curated to tell a temporary fiction of rumor and truth.”
Small Talk is a photography collective comprised of seven women: Audra Osborne, Briana Cerezo, Jennifer Timmer Trail, Kelli Pennington, Kristina Hruska, Leslie Hickey, and Marico Fayre. The collective formed in Portland, Oregon in 2015.
As a group, we explore the nature of what it means to be a visual storyteller, pool resources, provide support and critique, and facilitate community events and discussions. We engage in the best kind of “small talk,” that which binds us together both as a collective and within a larger community of women and minority artists, fostering stronger work and collaboration. Our first book, We’re Always Touching by Underground Wires, was published in April 2018.

Small Talk Collective

Bernard C. Meyers at Camerawork Gallery
2019-03-02 15:30 - 17:30 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Bernard C. Meyers, Urban Abstracts
March 2 – March 29, 2019 Artist Talk, Saturday, March 2, 3:30pm-4:30pm Reception following 4:30pm-5:30pm Camerawork Gallery 301 N. Graham StreetPortland, OR 97227 Located in Lorenzen Conference CenterLegacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pm Free parking, ADA access; TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44 Free admission. Open to the public. http://www.TheCameraworkGallery.org http://www.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery 503-701-5347
Bernard C. Meyers notes, “I want to rattle the bones of a building, shake common perceptions of concrete reality. I want the temporal elements shifting between both the original architecture and my imagination. For me the higher ground of art has always been occupied by the unexplainable, the abstract. “I see architecture as possibilities, as material to mold and shape. My intent is to uncover uncommon collisions of color and form, to exemplify texture and the rearrangement of line. I am building and deconstructing simultaneously. I want the original geometric intentions of the structure to find new life. I want these elements to discover a new context, a world off kilter, where conventional space is fraught; as if caught between like ends of magnets. “Committed to lens-based capture I ask myself this question, “What is visually possible with new cutting-edge technologies, software and how can I apply it to my work?” Within that question this project was born. From a background as an architectural view camera photographer I have found a visual language between the structural impossibilities of M.C. Escher and the complex color spaces of Richard Diebencorn. The world of abstract expressionism has new chapter being written with the tools and techniques of the twenty-first century. “I am celebrating the latent beauty possible with the building blocks of 2D design, color and the technology available in 2019. The distinctions between painting, printmaking and photography for me have become irrelevant as all disciplines merge in these images. I love the work, it both intrigues and surprises me. The reward lies in creating what I have never seen before. Throughout my career as an artist my guiding premise, from Minor White, has always been, photograph something not for what it is but for what it can become.” To preview examples of Meyer’s Urban Abstracts exhibit, Click here.
Bernard C. Meyers is recognized internationally as an artist and master printer. His work is held in public, private, and corporate collections nationwide. He is represented by the Klotz Gallery in New York. Portfolios can be seen at www.klotzgallery.com/bernardmeyers. His pursuit of beauty and the abstract has been an unwavering life-long passion.
Bernard earned an MFA in traditional printmaking, etching and lithography and a BFA in photography as a fine art from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the eighties he founded and managed a fine art printing business, Portland Photographics specializing in portfolio and an exhibition photographic printing. This rapidly became one of the finest photographic printing facilities drawing clients from Magnum, National Geographic, ICP and photographers from around the world. From 1990 through 2010 his photographic studio specialized in architectural photography and art reproduction.
Bernard has taught photography at the University of New England and the University of Southern Maine, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Maine Workshops and currently at the Waterford School in Sandy. Throughout all of this time he has continued to exhibit work. Klotz gallery has featured his work at the last three AIPAD shows. His exhibition history includes numerous group and solo shows. In 2017 early Urban Abstracts work was a solo show of large prints exhibited at the Rochester Institute of Technology University Gallery.
www.BernardCMeyers.comhttp://www.instagram.com/Meyers_bernard/

Spencer Pond Photo Exhibition at Blue Moon Camera & Machine
2019-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Blue Moon Camera and Machine, 8417 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Spencer Pond Photo Exhibition
February 25th- March 31st, 2019Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 from 5-7pm
Blue Moon Camera & Machine8417 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR 97203503-978-0333M-F 9-6, Sat 9-5sales@bluemooncamera.comwww.bluemooncamera.com
Spencer is a queer photographer and a writer living in Portland; they identify as a non-binary femme (they/them pronouns), graduated from PSU, and are currently working in the service industry fulltime and making art when they can. They have been taking photos since they were 17, but it wasn’t until purchasing a Yashicamat 124g five years ago that their approach to photography changed.
Most of the presented works have been captured using an Olympus XA and a Hasselblad 500c. Their work is a mixture of landscapes and portraiture from their portfolio; the collection on display has been taken over the course of the last 3 years varying from travels through abandoned factories in Leipzig to intentional styling of a set. Most of their work revolves around explorations of queerness and identity. Spencer’s portraits originally started during a darkroom class at PSU in fall 2014, interpreting themes of existence and isolation as a queer and trans person in a society that – at a federal level – is working to erase trans identities.
These works are but the start of something bigger.
