Zack Kircher Savage Art Resources 1430 SE 3rd through August 13th Portlander Zack Kircher’s third solo exhibition at Savage presents another series of paintings steeped in art-historical allusion. These new works find figuration taking center stage, with the cannibalization of 20th-century styles that dominated his prior work fading to a consistent theme. Interestingly, even as […]
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Divorce
Divorce by Daniel Kaven, Gallery 500, 420 SW Washington, #500, through July 29 With his first major solo exhibition, Divorce, Portland’s Daniel Kaven continues to establish himself as a conceptually driven force on the local scene. In this work, Kaven explores the emotional fallout of divorce from the perspective of two children, Vincent and Annabella, […]
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1730 SW 22nd Ave
1730 SW 22nd Ave by Federico Nessi, FIX gallery, 811 E Burnside, #113, through July 31st In his new installation at FIX gallery, 1730 SW 22nd Ave, recent PNCA grad Federico Nessi attempts to recreate an apartment building courtyard. Through a series of photographs inlayed in light boxes, he creates “windows” into the private settings […]
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New Photography
New Photography Newspace, 1632 SE 10th Avenue, showing through June 26th Newspace’s New Photography exhibit–the center’s first annual national juried exhibition–assembles an eclectic mix of 39 photographers from 16 states. These works, executed in color and black & white as well as digital and traditional silver formats, take on a host of diverse subjects and […]
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Max Failian’s Fabulous Freak Show
Max Failian’s Fabulous Freak Show Tribe Theatre, 403 NW 5th, 227-3976, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm, through Dec. 16, $15 Much like the seductive powers of train wrecks, car crashes, and reality TV, freak shows inspire both fascination and fear, and that’s exactly why we love them. While never especially fascinating, Max Failian’s Fabulous […]
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Trigger Kids
Trigger Kids Tribe Theater, 403 NW 5th, 227-3976, Fri-Sat, 8pm, one week only, $6 Somewhere in the middle of Trigger Kids, a b-boy flunky explains how he came to turn his life around. By my count, it’s the eighth time Portlander Joe von Appen has switched personas in his character-driven monologue performance. A moment ago, […]
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Toxic Avenger: The Musikill
Toxic Avenger: The Musikill Disjecta, 116 NE Russell, toxicavengerthemusikill.com, Thurs-Sat 8 pm, Sat 4 pm, through October 31, $15 Toxic waste is always getting bad press. Yes, our natural resources are fucked, but what about the good things we get from chemical pollutants? Like the time it transformed a scrawny health spa janitor named Melvin […]
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Love and Lust: An Evening of Comedic Conundrums
Love and Lust: An Evening of Comedic Conundrums Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton, 238-8899, Fri-Sat 7 pm, through October 23, $10 L ittle Red Riding Hood begs a greaser wolf to devour her, and two mayflies erotically rub each other’s antennae, as “foreplay breaks into funeral” in their day-long life spans. It all sounds […]
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Tone Clusters
Tone Clusters Disjecta, 116 NE Russell, Thurs – Sat 8 pm, through October 9, $8-10 Oh, there’s so much misunderstanding,” remarks a flustered Emily Gulick (Fayra Teeters) in Upstart Theatre’s inaugural production of Joyce Carol Oates’ multimedia play Tone Clusters. Seated next to her husband, Frank (V. Spencer Page) in the midst of what seems […]