Appendix Project Space presents Target Language, videos by Andrew Norman Wilson, Anne de Vries, Harm van den Dorpel and Oliver Laric.

"Appropriating visual material from tech marketing, Disney movies and the decorative arts, language from pop culture and philosophy, and even cannibalizing their own work, these artists investigate continuities so familiar as to be invisible."

Opening reception • 7-11pm • November 3
Appendix Project Space at 937 • 937 NW Glisan • 503.295.6144



Stumptown presents New Games, abstract paintings by PORTstar Amy Bernstein.

"Minimal but sensuous, Bernstein's paintings pay homage to the tradition of painting while searching for ways to upend the general mode of picture making. She endeavors to ask the viewer what intention or inference can be gleaned from shapes that have not yet become precise symbols."

Opening reception • 6-8pm • November 3
Stumptown Coffee Roasters • 128 SW 3rd • 503.295.6144


Vanessa Calvert, 2011

The Steven Goldman Gallery presents Pattern Recognition, a group show featuring Christina Cameli, Vanessa Calvert, Damien Gilley, Nathanael Thayer Moss, Salvatore Reda and Norton Young.

"They are a series of disparate parts, abstracted and untethered, and it is the viewer's personal interaction that takes the essentially fantastical architectures and evokes a sense of things known, things remembered or half forgotten... so fixing them in time and space."

Opening reception • 6-8pm • November 3
The Steven Goldman Gallery • Art Institute of Portland • 1122 NW Davis • 503.382.4843



PNCA presents Crocodile Tears by Erik Geschke.

Opening reception • 6-9pm • November 3
PNCA Manuel Izquierdo Gallery • 825 NW 13th • 503.227.4584


Jim Riswold, "Im Westen Nichts Nuese (All Quiet on the Western Front)," 2011

Augen Gallery presents The War to End All Wars That Didn't End All Wars, WWI-themed digital prints by Jim Riswold.

Opening reception • 5:30-8:30pm • November 3
Augen Gallery • 716 NW Davis • 503.546.5056



The University of Oregon presents George Baker, the opening speaker for the 2011-2012 Connective Conversations program. A professor of art history at UCLA, editor of October magazine and critic for Artforum, Baker is "internationally lauded as a modernist who seamlessly engages with contemporary art." In the coming week he'll be speaking at three different locations, but tonight's lecture, Paul Thek: Notes from the Underground, is at UO in Portland.

"Baker's lecture will focus on the challenging and vivid work of influential contemporary artist Paul Thek (1933–88). Drawing from his catalog essay for the recent retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective,' Baker identifies several key themes in Thek's approach to art. Baker attempts to account for Thek's unique contribution as a painter late in his life by turning back and looking at the logic of his larger body of work as a whole, identifying a new, disruptive notion of the 'underground' to name not only the social space in which Thek worked, but also the key formal devices he developed."

Lecture • 6:30pm • November 3
University of Oregon • White Stag event room • 70 NW Couch • 503.412.3718

Lecture • 7:30pm • November 7
Willamette University, Paulus Lecture Hall, E-201 • 245 Winter St SE, Salem, OR • 503.370.6124

Lecture • 6pm • November 10
University of Oregon • Lawrence Hall, Room 177 • 1190 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, OR • 541.346.3609