Jady Bates at Blue Moon Camera and Machine
2018-11-17 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Blue Moon Camera and Machine, 8417 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Jady Bates, A Selection of Work
Nov. 1st- Nov. 30th 2018
Sat. , Nov 17th, 5:30-8:30pm
Blue Moon Camera and Machine
8417 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR 97203
503-978-0333
M-F 9-6 or Sat. 9-5
sales@bluemooncamera.com
www.bluemooncamera.com
We are excited to present an exhibition of work by Jady Bates during the month of November. Jady is a fine art and musician photographer. She is internationally published and enjoys life, animals, people, and the world.
She says this about her work: Photography is light. It exists only within the moment. I evoke from my subjects what is revealed within these moments. Photography is my lifestyle.
Come by to meet the artist behind the photographs at this celebration of them and the photographic processes she is keeping alive.
Opening Reception is Sat. Nov. 17th from 5:30-8:30pm but her work will be on display for the month of November.
www.jadybates.com

Kelli Pennington at the Portland Art Museum
2018-11-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Kelli Pennington, Manufacturing Memory
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art Museum
The Miller Room, Mark Building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org
503 226 2811
Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch).

Kelli will discuss her photographic “life project,” Liminal, started in the Summer of 2003. At that time, Kelli was determined to incorporate photography into her daily life. As her project evolved, over the last 15 years, society followed along, creating and participating in this inherently human compulsion. She will discuss the evolution of her project based on her belief that as we frame a photograph, so to can we frame the relationship that we have to our existence.
Kelli Pennington is a photographer, educator and curator living in Portland, Oregon. She earned her MFA from
Syracuse University in 2010. A member of Small Talk Collective. Formed in Portland, Oregon in 2015, Small Talk is comprised of seven women, who explore the nature of what it means to be a visual storyteller.

Wendy Red Star at Pushdot Studio
2018-11-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Wendy Red Star, 1873 Crow Delegation
OPEN/CLOSE: October 3-November 31, 2018
Closing reception on November 30 from 6-8pm.
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
Portland, OR 97202
Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
The poignant exhibition by Wendy Red Star consists of reproductions of photographs, taken in Washington D.C by the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Ethnology. The images were annotated by Red Star with notes on cultural detail in red ink, scrawled on the portraits, asserting each individual”s identity and accomplishments. The photographs reflect the deliberate erasure of Native American culture that served to dehumanize the Crow and other indigenous people in the U.S.
Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art.
Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Portland Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University, the Figge Art Museum, the Banff Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Dartmouth College, CalArts, Flagler College, and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs. In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2019 Red Star will have her first career survey exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark New Jersey.
Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.

Italy:The South Photographs by Lisa Bauso CLOSING PARTY at UnionKnott Gallery
2018-11-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Union Knott, 2726 MLK JR.Blvd, Portland, OR, 97212, United States
Lisa Bauso, Italy:The South Photographs
Closing Party
Friday Nov. 30 6-9PM
UnionKnott Gallery
2726 NE MLK Blvd.
Portland,Oregon 97214
contact: 503-866-3028

Zeb Andrews at Camerawork Gallery
2018-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Zeb Andrews, Sea
December 1 – January 4, 2019.
Artist Talk, Saturday, December 1, 3PM – 4PM
Artist Reception, Saturday, December 1, 4PM – 5:30PM.
Camerawork Gallery
301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227
Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.
9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pm
Free off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44
www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
www.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
503-701-534
Portland photographer Zeb Andrews will be sharing selections from “Sea”, a series of medium format film images made during his many trips to the Pacific coast of Oregon and Washington. Andrews is a prolific photographer who has been working in the Portland photographic community for nearly two decades as an educator with various institutions and on the retail side of things with Blue Moon Camera and Machine. For as long as he has been involved with the local community, he has been photographing along the Oregon coast for even longer.
Made predominantly using a Hasselblad camera older than he is, and with B&W film, “Sea” represents a portion of the Pacific Ocean images that reflect Andrews’ attempts to understand and explain his relationship with the ocean. Visiting in a variety of weather, returning again and again, and using neutral density filters to lengthen the time he stands there watching the waves, “Sea” contains images that explore where our coastline and the ocean meet over spans of time and year-round. His images capture tranquility as well as tempestuousness; they invoke beauty but also caution and danger. Their scope ranges from stretches of coast reaching miles into the distance, to smaller and more intimate nooks along the shoreline. Through it all, “Sea” offers a glimpse of many different oceans—each with a different emotional resonance for Andrews.
Zeb Andrews has lived the entire 40 years of his life in the Pacific Northwest and within easy distance of the Pacific Ocean. Most of his photographic life has been spent on its windswept shores, breathing its salty air and making photographs to slowly piece together the puzzle of what it all means to him. Andrews is many other things, just as the ocean can be many things, but this is the facet of himself he would most have you know. At least for now.
This will be Andrews’ second solo exhibit at Camerawork Gallery. He held his first-ever solo exhibit at Camerawork Gallery in February, 2008.
More of Zeb’s work can be found on his website at www.zebandrews.com, and he can also be e-mailed at zeb@zebandrews.com.

Blue Moon Camera's Annual Customer Show 2018
2018-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | 45th Parallel Wines, 8527 N Lombard, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Blue Moon Camera’s Annual Customer Show 2018
December 1st – December 31st, 2018
Reception: Saturday, December 1st, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dance party social: Saturday, December 1st, 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm (at 45th Parallel Wines)
Various venues. See below.
Blue Moon Camera and Machine celebrates their Seventeenth Anniversary with a presentation of their Sixteenth Annual Customer Show. As one of the last optical printing labs in the country, Blue Moon Camera handles film from thousands of photographers around the globe throughout the year. Tens of thousands of images pass through the lab – some destined for the walls of a gallery, others for an esteemed place on the refrigerator.
Regardless of where they end up, many of these images are so strikingly beautiful that they cannot be contained by the hands of the Blue Moon staff member who notices them, this is how the Customer Show is born. Candidate images are selected democratically by the staff, and after a majority vote and the photographer’s signature, they become the images that make up the Customer Show.
This year’s Customer Show will take place in the following venues. There will be an opening reception at all venues on Saturday, December 1sth from 7-9pm. Images selected in 2018 will hang at 45th Parallel Wines, and other venues will host images selected and shown in previous years.
A dance party social will follow the opening from 9pm until 11pm at 45th Parallel Wines.
45th Parallel Wines
8527 N Lombard
(971) 266-0886
https://www.45thparallelwines.com/
Anna Bannana’s
8716 N Lombard
(503) 286-2030
http://annabannanascafe.com
Leisure Public House
8002 N Lombard
(503) 289-7606
http://www.leisurepublichouse.com/

LeeAnn Gauthier at Bread and Ink Cafe
2018-12-03 08:00 - 20:30 | Bread and Ink Cafe, 3610 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR, 97214, United States
LeeAnn Gauthier, City Slicker
December 3, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Bread and Ink Cafe3610 SE Hawthorne Blvd.Portland OR 97214http://www.breadandinkcafe.com503-239-4756Mon-Thu: 8 am – 8:30 pmFri-Sat: 8 am – 9:30 pmSun: 8 am – 8:30 pm
LeeAnn is an urban adventuress who rarely visits Andrew Wyeth’s grassy field or Ansel Adams’ majestic parks. As the mid-’90s photographer/lab tech aboard The Love Boat, she had 3 hours and very long legs to explore the rustic fishing ports of Alaska. Skagway was a favorite for the jazzy 1920s vintage cabs.
As a member of the Architectural Heritage Center, she seeks beauty in texture, reflection and design. She is sadly addicted to her Etsy shop and aspires to get more than 20 likes on Instagram.
Carporn from Cuba shot with a Lensbaby included for the other four gearheads in Portland.
LeeAnn Gauthier503.235.7964http://StudioGauthier.Etsy.comIG: Studio.Gauthier

Lincoln Kwan Miller at Pushdot Studio
2018-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Lincoln Kwan Miller, Undocumented Credentials
December 5th – January 29, 2019
Opening reception on December 7th from 6-8pm.
Pushdot Studio
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104
Portland, OR 97202
Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
I had never considered myself as the primary subject in an image. But then I started thinking why not? A terrifying thought, because I have spent my life dealing with feelings of alienation and trying to fit into my skin. I’ve coped with this by attempting to become invisible, hopeless for the apparent but superficial reason of my physical appearance. This show is about the irony of feeling different yet wanting to fit in and a reflection on how our external environment helps define who we are.

Lightbox Members Exhibit at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-12-08 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Lightbox Members Exhibit
December 8, 2018 – January 6, 2019Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, December 8th, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, Or. 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery host the artists’ opening reception of the LightBox Members Group Exhibit on Saturday, December 8th, from 5-8 pm. LightBox members are a community of photographers and patrons from the North Coast and beyond that support the mission of the gallery to promote and educate in the photographic arts through exhibits, education, events and member gatherings. The annual members exhibit celebrates each individual’s unique creativity, this year over 40 members are featured in an open call.
Thank You to the Photographers in the 2018 Members Exhibit
Michelle Anderson • Joe Walden • Rich Bergeman • Sam BlairChris Bryant • Jim Congleton • Paul Cunningham • Michael DatoliJoseph Deiss • Mike Demkowitz • Roger Dorband • Jim FitzgeraldEleanor Gorman • Ed Greenley • Friderike Heuer ˙• Ken HochfeldZan Hare • George Johnson • Peter Karnig • Ann KendellenLaura Kurtenbach • Bob Levine • Jon Lingel • Donald MacDonaldJody Miller • Julie Moore • Walt O’Brien • Sandy O’BrienMike O’Brien • Robert Potts • Micheal Puff • Ram MadhavarapuLorraine Richey • John Ritchie • Bob Sanov • Dave SchaererBrooks Seymore • Kathleen Thompson • Terry Thompson Michael Van Buskirk • David White • George Willse • Mark Wiltrakis
The exhibit will show in the gallery from December 8th until January 6th. LightBox offers memberships as a way to become part of the community that helps to further the mission of the gallery. All the photographers are listed and images can be seen on the Exhibit Showpage. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 , info@lightboxphotographic.com and lightbox-photographic.com for info on events, call for submissions, and to view past, current and upcoming exhibits.
http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/members_exhibit_2018 http://lightbox-photographic.com/members/

Photo Club PDX Presents Zeb Andrews on Personal Projects at Cobalt Studios
2018-12-11 18:30 - 21:30 | Cobalt Studios PDX, 1030 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Photo Club PDX Presents Zeb Andrews on Personal Projects
Dec 11th, 2018, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cobalt Studios PDX
1030 SE Clinton St
Portland, OR 97202
https://www.photoclubpdx.com
In December we are going to look at and celebrate what we have done as a group over the past year- in 3 parts.
A Presentation by Zeb Andrews on Personal Projects
A Pop-Up Gallery & Print Share
A Celebration!
This is our last meeting of 2018!
We are closing out a really exciting year!
This is a special meeting! We will start off with a presentation by Zeb Andrews on Personal Projects. This talk with inspire you and get your creative juices flowing. You will have a kickstart to consider all of the possibilities of what you could endeavor for 2019! Come with a notebook this month!
After the presentation, it’s Party Time, Excellent! It’s going to be a night of mingling and fun!
We will have a Pop-Up Gallery set up at Cobalt Studios PDX for viewing as well as a Print Swap Gifting happening. So come whether it is your 1st time or twelfth. It will be a great time to talk shop, create connections with your fellow creatives or just have fun and drink some hot chocolate!
It’s your LAST CHANCE to participate this year! It will be a good time to hop on board the photo club train! We are about to leave the station again! Year 2 here we come! See the Website for Important Details!
You can find us at our website, or our Facebook group. We also have a presence on Instagram. You can follow our Hashtag! #PCPDX

Ryan Gillespie at the Portland Art Museum
2018-12-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Ryan Gillespie, Sharing views from his ground glass
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, December 19th, 2018, 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).
Sharing views from his ground glass, Ryan Gillespie explores his obsession of light, shapes, and compositions and captures these elements in emotional images of the landscape around us.
Ryan works primarily with the black and white analogue process, working as the sole craftsman from the moment the negative is exposed in the camera to the creation of the final platinum palladium print.
Since being introduced to photography when I was 15,I have always used photography as a tool of self-expression, enjoyment, and relaxation. I am in love with the process of exploration, image capture, chemical development, and the final image presentation.
I learned photography with film and transitioned into digital when it became available. It was at that moment when my enjoyment of the photographic process was lost and I walked away from photography for more than a decade.
I decided to go back to photography and back to film, large film, and the large format process. The camera is big and the process is slow, but this oversized and somewhat primitive camera design is a romantic and creative way to become more intimate with the subjects before me.

Angst Gallery Call For Submissions
2018-12-22 14:00 - 18:00 | Angst Gallery, 1015 Main Street, Vancouver, OR, 98660, United States
Angst Gallery Seeks Work for its Annual Celebration of the Male Form
You can submit your art on Saturday, December 22 from 2-6 pm or Wednesday, January 2 from 11am-2pm.
Annual Celebration of the Male Form January 4-26, 2019
First Friday Art Walk Opening Reception: January 4, 5-9pm
Show: January 4-26, 2019
Angst Gallery
1015 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
angstgallery.com
Open call to artists for entries into Angst Gallery’s annual Celebration of the Male Form (January 4-26, 2019).
Art museums around the world are filled with images and representations of the human figure. Some of the Western world’s most famous and compelling works depict people, both clothed and unclothed. It usually goes unnoticed that the art has a disproportionate amount of female figures compared to male ones, especially nude forms.
Angst Gallery showcases the male form at the beginning of each year in order to bring more balance to the equation. We see this as an opportunity to appreciate the male body for what it is–natural, beautiful, and worthy of aesthetic examination–while also acknowledging the gender imbalance in the art world, both behind the scenes as well as in the work being displayed in museums and galleries. The show will include depictions of the male form in various media.
Submit up to three pieces for a sliding scale submission fee of $10-20.
You can submit your art on Saturday, December 22 from 2-6 pm or Wednesday, January 2 from 11am-2pm.
If neither of these times work, please contact Leah Jackson (Leah.AngstGallery@gmail.com) to make other arrangements.
Art that is not accepted for the show can be picked up on January 3 between 12 and 4.
Unsold artwork that appeared in the show can be picked up from noon til 5 on Saturday, January 26.

Ashley Miller at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-01-03 17:00 | 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
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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
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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.
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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.
