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The Top 45 Events in Portland This Week: July 8–14, 2024 – EverOut Portland
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Centering homespun filmmaking from Portland and beyond, local artist Eva Knowles’ Pixels of Eden will travel from “a jello cave, to a Russian village, to the suburbs of Eden” with flicks spanning the last three decades. The lineup includes short films by Knowles, Frankie Almutawa, Steve Brown, Cecilia Condit, and many others, so head to Clinton Street Theater to catch something strange and wonderful. LC
(Clinton Street Theater, Hosford-Abernethy)
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Likening their legacy to the King of Filth John Waters, punk outfit Redd Kross has built a name for themselves by making subversive music in a “high pop celebrity style.” Tracks like “Annette’s Got The Hits” and “Candy Colored Catastrophe” bring an effortless “fuck it” attitude to self-aware satires of ’60s pop and ’70s rock hits. But don’t get it twisted—Redd Kross is not a parody band—their tracks are cheeky and fun without being a mockery. Melvins’ drummer Dale Crover will open with a DJ set. AV
(Aladdin Theater, Brooklyn)
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Compton-born rapper YG, best known for his collaborations with artists like Lil Wayne, Drake, Meek Mill, and Snoop Dogg, will stop by on his JUST RE’D UP tour named after his forthcoming album, JUST RE’D UP 3 (out August 16). Originally announced on his social media in 2016 (and again in 2017), the DJ Mustard-produced album will finally see the light of day. Fellow rapper Doe Boy will open. AV
(Roseland Theater, Old Town-Chinatown)
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Gnarfest Vegan Market’s queer prom will take over Swan Dive for a masquerade-themed shindig, so you should pregame with a rewatch of Eyes Wide Shut. The event will include a raffle for the local food justice organization Meals on Us, a best-dressed contest, a photo wall, gogo dancers, and tunes spun by DJ Lu. Don’t forget your (sparkly, outfit-enhancing) purse: Vendors will show up with plant-based ice cream, vintage jackets, vegan soap, and more. LC
(Swan Dive, Buckman)
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Portland’s best improvisers will gather again for this who’s who of Rose City comedy. Each Secret Aardvark event features an extra-special mystery guest (past guests have run the gamut from David Lynch to Waluigi, Tinder Dracula, and random high school theater students), and the show’s so spicy that it’s named after the organizers’ fave local hot sauce. Head to Kickstand to find out why Secret Aardvark bills itself as a “late-night cult comedy institution.” LC
(Kickstand Comedy, Ladd’s Addition)
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Are the straights okay? LGBTQ comics will chat gay culture with their hetero comic friends in this show, which spills the proverbial tea on the queer experience and permits the straights to ask their most pressing questions. Local millennial and sweet potato brownie critic Ricci Armani will be on deck with something giggle-worthy, too. LC
(Siren Theater, Boise)
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This year, Topaz Farm is amping up its Americana Harvest Fest series with a mix of nationally and internationally renowned folk, country, and bluegrass artists on Thursday nights until the end of August. Bring your own blanket or lawn chair to lounge on the pastoral farm surrounded by farm animals, fruit fields, freshly grilled food, and a beer garden. The series continues this week with a performance from Astoria-based indie folk band Horse Feathers. AV
(Topaz Farm, Sauvie Island)
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When I shelved books at Powell’s during the pandemic, the coziness of Juneau Black’s Shady Hollow series stood out against the more brutal entries in the mystery stacks. A sweet vulpine sleuth, framed by spindly trees, decorates each cover; if your literary interests fall somewhere between Phoebe Wahl’s folk magic charm and Agatha Christie’s whole vibe, you’ll likely dive head-first into the woodland realm of Shady Hollow. The latest entry in the series invents a “dark academia” twist, with an “ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture” and a still-warm body that intrigues a local fox and raven. LC
(Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton)
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Portland Art Museum will switch it up in July with a free second Thursday event, which is a prime opportunity to catch up on current exhibitions, including Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, Pissarro to Picasso: Masterworks on Loan from the Kirkland Family Collection, and Throughlines: Connections in the Collection. Visitors can also hear a curator talk on French Modern art, participate in community zine-making, and learn about custom sneaker design. Since July is Disability Awareness Month, Free Thursday visitors can also “experience art through touch in Sensing Art, a new installation of tactile graphics for blind and low-vision visitors created by artist Michael Cantino.” Head to Tomorrow Theater at 7 pm for a free screening of Richard Linklater’s latest, Hit Man. LC
(Portland Art Museum, South Park Blocks)
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I have never met anyone who knows who Arthur Russell is and isn’t obsessed with him. With a genre-spanning career that covered country/folk, disco, experimental electronic, new wave, and classical, there’s a sound for everyone in his body of work. Whether you’re already a massive fan or going in blind, take a deep dive into Russell’s life with an evening of film and music with Matt Wolf’s 2008 documentary, Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell, and Phill Niblock’s 1985 short film, Terrace of Unintelligibility. After the screenings, cellist Harlan Silverman, experimental folk musician Dragging An Ox Through Water, singer-songwriter/producer Skyler Pia, and folk rock band Half Shadow will perform a live set of Russell’s trailblazing tunes. Plus, Mississippi Records’ co-founder Eric Isaacson will sit down for a conversation with Audika Records founder and archivist Steve Knutson. AV
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District)
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Thrash the night away with a beer-soaked set from the local heavy metal institution, Red Fang, whom former Mercury senior editor Ned Lannamann once called “Portland’s sturdiest and most reliable purveyors of full-volume riffs.” They will stop by on their headlining summer tour with support from psych-rock outfit Spoon Benders. AV
(Crystal Ballroom, West End)
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Most people know local nonprofit Pride Northwest as the group that puts on the pride parade, but this year they’re also partnering with Hotel Zags to host an evening market—everyone loves a night market! All are welcome to check out wares from LGBTQIA2S+ vendors (carrying everything from vintage threads to handcrafted goodies), get groovy on the dance floor, and enjoy a variety of snacks and drinks. Recommended mood: unleashing your inner fabulousness. SL
(The Hotel Zags, Downtown)
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We live in Oregon, dammit, and if there’s one thing Oregonians love more than watching movies, it’s being in nature. ¿Por qué no los dos?! Hollywood Theatre has teamed up with the Oregon State Parks Department to do just that, offering up a series of screenings in scenic state parks throughout the summer. The series continues this weekend with ParaNorman at Milo McIver State Park, so head there for some surprisingly emotional, kid-friendly spoopiness from the stop-motion geniuses at LAIKA. LC
(Milo McIver State Park, Estacada)
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The specialty neighborhood grocer and restaurant P’s and Q’s Market is throwing a down-home, Louisiana-style crawfish boil. Prepare to get messy and dig into a slew of crawfish, shrimp, andouille sausage, corn, potatoes, mushrooms, and cornbread. The event will also feature drink specials and live music. JB
(P’s & Q’s, Woodlawn)
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It doesn’t get much fresher than eating a meal in the very place where the ingredients were grown. Topaz Farm’s resident “farm-to-plate” chefs and culinary power couple Christian and Janelle Ephrem will craft a series of five-course meals sourced from Topaz itself, with menus designed mere days in advance and produce harvested just hours before the dinner. You’ll get to take a seat at a long communal table and dine beneath a 500-year-old oak tree. JB
(Topaz Farm, Sauvie Island)
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Channel your inner Uncle Iroh at this annual festival dedicated to tea in all of its many forms. You’ll get to connect with other connoisseurs of camellia sinensis (though you don’t have to know the technical name for tea plants to attend) and learn about tea culture, history, health benefits, varieties, brewing methods, teaware, and more. Plus, peruse booths from vendors such as Smith Teamaker, Tao of Tea, Mizuba Teahouse, Sugimoto Tea Company, Floating Leaves, Oregon Tea Traders, and Mountain Rose Herbs. Who knows—you might just go home with a new daily ritual. JB
(World Forestry Center & Discovery Museum, Washington Park)
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Hear, hear, elder emos, mainstream punk fiends, and skater boys who bullied me in middle school—the original blink lineup of Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge, and Mark Hoppus are bringing their One More Time tour to Portland this month. Despite its name, this isn’t a farewell tour—rather, it’s named after the band’s ninth album, which marks the return of founding guitarist Tom DeLonge (who took a hiatus in 2014 to conduct alien research, but I digress…) Pop-punk outfit Pierce the Veil will open. AV
(Moda Center, Lloyd District)
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In today’s edition of “Why The Hell Is This Person Playing the Casino Circuit?” we have living legend and trailblazing singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson. Not only has he thrived as both a solo performer and with Motown vocal group the Miracles, but he has also written countless American standards, like “My Girl,” “Tracks Of My Tears,” “My Guy,” “You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me,” and literally hundreds of others. AV
(ilani Casino Resort, Ridgefield)
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“I think this place is haunted.” RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 Miss Congeniality is here to spread the good news that she’s stunning, but that’s not all: Sapphira Cristál’s also a classically trained opera singer and a composer who attended the same Houston church as Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland. I’ve never been so instantly jealous of someone’s church attendance before, but there’s a first time for everything, I guess! Sapphira will stop by Portland to spread some optimistic realness.
(Aladdin Theater, Brooklyn)
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It makes sense that one of Portland’s busiest streets is also home to one of the city’s most boisterous street fairs, and Mississippi Avenue isn’t showing any signs of letting up for the latest iteration of its annual celebration. Browse local products, arts, and crafts from hundreds of vendors while enjoying tasty treats and sips. Last year’s festival included a “Grandfathers Rib-Off” competition and performers like bluegrass outfit Whiskey Deaf, Americana janglers A Town Called Home, and DJ Brenda Russell across three stages. Expect a well-rounded mix of genres again this year. LC
(Mississippi Ave, Boise)
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Saturday Night Live staples Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson, and Devon Walker have teamed up for this summertime tour, which will see the millennial cast members pull out their solo material for fresh stand-up sets. If you haven’t heard their names before, familiarize yourself now: Dismukes shows up in the new Amazon animated sci-fi show The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, while Johnson voiced Pouchy in Inside Out 2 and Walker wrote for Phoebe Robinson’s Freeform show Everything’s Trash. LC
(Aladdin Theater, Brooklyn)
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“Ooh la la” alert!! This Bastille Day fête thrown by the Alliance Française de Portland celebrates the momentous occasion when the storming of the Bastille prison birthed the modern French nation. The delectably French day is typically held in a park, but this year, visitors can escape the heat with indoor live music and a French-English used book sale, plus a wine garden on Castaway’s covered patio. BYOB (bring your own baguette), or don’t—last year’s offerings included jambon pizza, merguez sausages, and tons of other delicious bites. LC
(Castaway, Slabtown)
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Pastry chef Cheryl Wakerhauser’s famed French dessert emporium Pix Pâtisserie closed its brick-and-mortar doors in 2022, but its legacy lives on in the form of the 24-hour Pix-O-Matic vending machine, which dispenses everything from macarons to berets to sourdough starter. And now, devotees who are nostalgic for the bakery’s heyday on Division Street will have a chance to revisit it for one afternoon with the spot’s annual summer ice cream social. The business will join forces with Can Bar to host a soirée complete with banana splits, sundaes, ice cream sandwiches, and unique flavors like tawny port, coconut sorbet, and “Pixies & Cream.” I’m particularly intrigued by the beer float, featuring Pfriem Belgian Strong Dark Ale and coffee bean ice cream. In between bites, play a casual game of pétanque. JB
(Pix Pâtisserie/Can Bar, Kerns)
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Haven’t gotten a chance to check out the acclaimed first-generation American food restaurant Xiao Ye, which won Eater Portland’s award for Best New Restaurant last year? Amend that posthaste with this event, the first of Winery Lane Collective’s monthly magnum party series. Your ticket includes a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage, and Louis Lin and Jolyn Chen of Xiao Ye will serve a special à la carte menu. Additional beverages will be available for purchase, and you can purchase a bottle of wine to take home if you’d like. JB
(Winery Lane Collective, Beaverton)
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I’ll go ahead and ask what we’re all wondering: What eldritch horrors loom in the shrouded hills of old Appalachia?! Steve Shell and Cam Collins may be the only folks who know for sure. The co-creators of the fictional horror anthology podcast Old Gods of Appalachia summon a Lovecraftian level of macabre imagination to weave the web of an alternate, or “shadow” Appalachia. Historical elements may feel familiar, but Shell and Collins’ hills and hollers are just a smidge off-kilter. The duo’s live show will take the form of an old-timey radio play, which is already a pretty creepy format if you think about it. A rotating cast of actors and musical performances will enhance your shivers. LC
(Revolution Hall, Buckman)
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Expanding upon the print hybrid-literary anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things created by Portland-based literary-social art project De-Canon, this group exhibition centers “visual-textual” works by women and nonbinary BIPOC writers. A Mouth Holds Many Things includes pieces by Samiya Bashir, Carolina Ebeid, Vi Khi Nao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Paisley Rekdal, Sasha Stiles, Anna Martine Whitehead, and many others. Head to Stelo to fill your artistic cup: You’ll spy interesting hybrid visions in video poems, textile books, and poetry/painting collaborations. LC
(Stelo, Pearl District, Monday–Sunday)
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Life is short. Manipulate over 20,000 LEDs by wiggling your hands around, “painting” with light, bouncing laser beams, and freezing your shadow. No idea what I’m talking about? That’s because you haven’t seen Playing with Light yet. OMSI’s latest exhibition is, naturally, kinda for kids, but it’s also for people with childlike wonder, $20 for admission, and a dream. Check out one of the museum’s summer screenings in the Empirical Theater when you’re done. LC
(OMSI, Central Eastside, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Indie horror ace Ti West (The Sacrament, The House of the Devil) returned in 2022 with a Southern-fried A24 slasher. Following a gang of youth cruising through rural Texas in the ’70s, X drew clear inspiration from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but still managed to craft a pretty fresh story centered around a psychopathic elderly villain. West made the best of it, quickly releasing the follow-up backstory Pearl, and MaXXXine will conclude the freaky trilogy. Who’s the common denominator? Mia Goth, our 21st-century version of Shelley Duvall. She’ll reprise her role as Maxine, a porn starlet hellbent on real fame in a serial killer-ridden Los Angeles. LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District, Monday–Thursday)
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QUERY: Do you like or LOVE nachos? ANSWER: You flippin’ LOVE ‘EM! So get ready to get very excited, because from Monday, July 8 through Sunday, July 14, the Portland Mercury celebrates the return of NACHO WEEK! That’s right! For one week only, Portland’s fave restaurants will be serving up specially crafted, full-sized plates of inventive, delicious nachos! And while it’s not a competition, you can bet your butt that these fun-loving chefs will be coming up with the most CREATIVE nacho combinations imaginable! And best of all? Every delectable plate is only a measly $8 each! TUMMIES, START YOUR ENGINES!
(Various locations, Monday–Sunday)
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Get ready for the coolest, most delicious event of the summer! The Merc and Jim Beam present Summer of Slushies, which brings boozy, frozen, custom-made treats to the frugal and thirsty denizens of Portland at just $8 a pop, all July long.
(Various locations, Monday–Sunday)
Taste of Thailand
This brand-new festival, created as a collaboration between the Yard Apartments, the Thai Royal Consulate, and Prosper Portland, aims to uplift Thai culture and cuisine and shine a light on Portland’s Thai culinary scene. The inaugural edition will feature dishes from local businesses such as Nong’s Khao Man Gai, Khao Moo Dang, Farmhouse Kitchen, Kati Thai Vegan, Somtum Thai Kitchen, BKK PadThai, and more. JB
(Yard Apartments, Kerns, Saturday–Sunday)
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This annual two-night music fest celebrates the region’s best purveyors of soundscaping with an array of post-rock, shoegaze, prog, post-metal, and ambient acts from the West Coast. On night one, avant-metal trio Eight Bells will headline alongside Dust Moth, A Collective Subconscious, Nine Forty: PM, and Museum of Light. LA-based math rock duo Standards will headline on night two with Childspeak, Object Unto Earth, Mike Scheidt, and Amber Ambedo. AV
(Polaris Hall, Humboldt, Friday–Saturday)
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Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble has worked to translate Chekhov plays for the last decade, and this interpretation of Lewis and Clark professor Štĕpán Šimek’s translation of The Seagull asks an important question: What are we all really doing here? The Mercury has frequently praised PETE’s Chekhov-inspired productions, so you shouldn’t miss this one. “There will be dead birds and beating hearts,” the organizers promise. Expect a tragicomedy that makes you think. LC
(Portland Center Stage, Pearl District, Tuesday–Saturday)
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Shaking the Tree’s theater productions have a reputation for being boundary-pushing, relatable, and just plain cool. Their upcoming summer festival is a solid opportunity to find out what the buzz is about: On two weekends in July, you can attend everything from the theater company’s birthday party and yard sale (with set pieces, props, and costumes up for grabs) to its latest “fashion performance brand launch” led by Josh Sin. I’m stoked for Moon Bloom, a play reading by local “honey-and-grass-fed” Kenyan writer Brandt Maina. LC
(Shaking the Tree Theatre, Hosford-Abernethy, Friday–Saturday)
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The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival brings its productions outdoors each summer, interpreting the Bard’s work in the classic First Folio style (that means limited rehearsal, an onstage prompter, and a fast-paced, improvisational feel). “Shakespeare should feel a little dangerous,” the fest’s promotional materials explain, and nothing sounds more dangerous to me than hopping on stage in front of a crowd to perform a barely rehearsed Elizabethan play. Check out the calendar for dates and locations of plays performed in parks across the city, including Succession-esque tragedy King Lear and forbidden love folktale Cymbeline this month. LC
(Various locations, Friday–Saturday)
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Portland’s free quarterly night market returns with over 175 vendors, selling everything from hand-poured candles and pottery to hair tinsel and kiln-formed glass. Fuel your shopping spree with food and drinks from local businesses, including lobster rolls from Cousins Maine Lobster, Vietnamese fare from Yoonique Pho & Grill, decadent Mexican-Southern fusion eats from Nacheaux, and more. JB
(100 SE Alder, Central Eastside, Friday–Saturday)
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Some of the West Coast’s finest vintage dealers will hawk their wares at this annual market that fills the Expo Center with antique, midcentury, and Americana treasures, plus sample sips from local distilleries and wineries. Even if you’re somehow unable to find something to your liking from the vast selection of decor, fashion, accessories, and other collectibles, a trip to the market should make for a satisfying game of “I spy.” LC
(Portland Expo Center, North Portland, Saturday–Sunday)
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When I last wrote about Charlie Salas-Humara, the Portland-based self-taught painter and musician was channeling liminal spaces in Carts Behind the Jewel Osco, a solo exhibition of thickly impastoed works reflecting on washed-out, forgotten, and ignored spaces. Salas-Humara will return to Nationale with Somewhere Off 290, another collection of poetic abstractions. This time, the artist broadens his palette and renders figures that retain his emphasis on the liminal, but feel more overtly personal. Once again, Salas-Humara’s layered paintings prompt an interesting question: What’s happening under the surface? LC
(Nationale, Buckman, Monday/Thursday–Sunday)
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Curator-photographer Melanie Flood and artist Matt Morris come together in Designing Women to address (and critique) a polarizing question: What is a woman? When Flood’s photography is paired with Morris’s paintings, textiles, and perfumery, a multimedia experience floods the senses and conjures yet another question: Who is the designer of women? “Though the assertion that women can be designed establishes an aesthetic project and a subject position, it is unknown what actors are at play,” the artists explain. I’m intrigued by Flood’s beach ball breast and Morris’s digital prints on ruched satin. LC
(ILY2, Pearl District, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)
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When I last saw Emily Wise’s work in her 2023 Chefas Projects solo exhibition Hands that Hold the Melting Rope, the artist’s surreal, neon-hued acrylic compositions were populated with dream-world cool girls, flowing flora, and mystical patterns. The motto of Wise’s work seems to be “the longer you look, the more you find,” like a lucid dream in painting form. This time around, she depicts the Irish banshees of her grandmother’s fairy tales, and wonders whether the matriarch was “merely the keeper of these Irish legends, or indeed the very banshee she spoke of.” LC
(Chefas Projects, Central Eastside, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)
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In Jessie Weitzel Le Grand’s last solo exhibition at Chefas Projects, the sculptor’s quirky creations imagined an alternate dimension or afterlife called Ny By. Le Grand is nothing if not imaginative, and Two Suns Over the Neon Reef proves it: Another selection of “peculiar creations by the citizens of Ny By” conjures artifacts from the strange realm where geodes, blossoms, and sandwiches reign supreme. No language, no laws, and no existential crises emerge in Ny By. (BRB, applying for citizenship now.) LC
(Chefas Projects, Central Eastside, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)
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Beloved original Lonnie Holley, aka the “cosmic Steve Wonder,” doesn’t just defy musical genres—he also vacillates between artistic mediums, and has created a variety of visual artwork over the last 40 years. The self-taught artist will share works made with gesso, spray paint, and oil sticks in The Movement of Thought: Paintings & Works on Paper, his third solo exhibition at Elizabeth Leach. “Each work employs a laborious stenciling technique that unites fragmented silhouettes into wonderfully optical compositions,” the gallery writes. Anticipate a multimedia selection that echoes Holley’s musical compositions—urgent, exploratory, and ceaseless. LC
(Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Pearl District, Thursday–Saturday; opening)
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Math Bass’s latest is a mid-career survey of the Los Angeles-based abstract artist’s sculptural pieces, site-specific murals, and paintings. Bass began their practice in the performance art realm, but expanded their visual lexicon to include many mediums—and the graphic, symbolic style for which they’re best known—over time. In Full Body Parentheses, Bass’s sculptures “animate and complicate those more familiar, flattened forms, creating a resonant, playful world of iconic objects.” LC
(lumber room, Pearl District, Friday–Saturday; closing)
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You might be familiar with the significance of gift-giving in Japanese culture, but perhaps you haven’t seen fukusa, the elaborate silk textiles used to drape Edo-period gifts. Thanks to a recent donation from the Peter and Beverly Sinton Japanese Gift and Altar Cover collection, now you can! Fukusa were often embellished with intricate embroidery, weaving, and dyeing techniques, becoming art pieces in their own right. Painting with Thread: The Art and Culture of Fukusa centers nature-inspired fukusa “related to the plants and scenes familiar within Portland Japanese Garden.” LC
(Portland Japanese Garden, Washington Park, Monday–Sunday)
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British painter Rob Lyon’s second exhibition with Adams and Ollman explores landscape through a spiritual lens. Also Votives is also the first display of the artist’s drawings, and an accompanying zine makes the show an unusual treat for fans of his deceptively simple charcoal and oil compositions. Drawing inspiration from the chalk hills of England’s coastal South Downs, Lyon “conjures its unique spirits, which he then uses as a gateway to transcend the logic and limitations of the physical world in pursuit of spiritual or metaphysical connection.” The results are bold and portal-like, full of sharp angles and genuine curiosities referencing everything from Neolithic burial mounds to celestial forms. LC
(Adams and Ollman, Northwest Portland, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)
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