Project Cityscope is seeking installation proposals for the bSide6 Gallery in Portland, OR . The month long exhibition is scheduled to run from October 1st through October 29th. Information on how to submit below.

Call for Proposals: October bSIDE6 Gallery Installation
What do you want to do with 910sf of FREE gallery space for one month?

cityscope is looking for installation proposals for the bSIDE6 gallery
space on the corner of SE 6th and Burnside. The installation will run from
Ocotber 1st through October 29th and will be open to the public during the
October 1st CEID First Friday.

Please send your proposals and questions to info@projectcityscope.org by
September 22nd.

The timeline is intentionally short so please consider the feasibility of
your proposal within this timeline and please consider that the space will
be locked up and inaccessible to the public at all times. Go to
www.projectscityscope.org to download full brief, floor plans and photos
or also find it attached.

Please direct any questions to info@projectcityscope.org and don’t forget
to check out the current installation BIG shirt / little TOP by Elisa
Linda Saether!

Beefmaster artist Gordon Magnin present new works in The Dregs at Face to the Sky Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Th opening reception is Saturay, Spetember 11th at 7pm.

Beefmaster artist Reuben Lorch-Miller present new works in Mouthful of Poison at Ramiken Crucuble in New York.

featuring work by: Reuben Lorch-Miller, Caris Reid, Borden Capalino, Andra Ursuta, Nolan Hendrickson, The Yes Men, Sarah Chacich, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Rikrit Tiravanija / SUPERFLEX, Ted Riederer, Rebecca Mir, Wyatt Nash, Lucas Blalock and Jonathan Hartshorn

Ramiken Crucible
secret location, open by appointment only
contact mouthfulofpoison@ramikencrucible.com

Beefmaster artist Kottie Paloma will be exhibiting work at Rubin Chapelle for Fashion’s Night Out.

‘The work in Brooklyn based artist Kottie Paloma’s newest exhibit at Rubin and Chapelle called GOLD and BROWN, includes drawings and sculpture. The drawings depicting young contemporary black woman posing on colorful rugs and striped mattresses brings to mind the works of Matisse, Cezanne and Manet with a 2010 twist. Most of these women are posing with 9MM guns and cigarettes. Paloma Brilliantly juxtaposes fluorescent pinks, blues and yellows while accenting everything with gold. The idea for his latest drawings began in 2008 in San Francisco where he lived in a loft at 6th and Market considered the armpit of San Francisco. These are the drug addicted and abused woman occupying the residential hotels next to Kottie’s studio. This drawing project originally called The Hotel Girls, transforms these women from battered to beautiful, yet still objectifying them as sexual objects lying in their bikinis and underwear. However, one gets the feeling that these women already know this and they don’t care. 22 soft cigarette sculptures (edition of 25) called Shortys each one numbered and signed stack the floor of the gallery. Each made by hand by Kottie. Another sculpture called Godiva, a small teddy bear, painted brown and gold leafed with 23 carrot gold reflects the nature of chocolate as an economic divide between rich and poor. Kottie Paloma GOLD and BROWN opens to the public at Rubin and Chapelle Friday September 10th 2010.’

To view Kottie’s video Officer Fuckface and Sidekick Gun visit our project room archives by clicking here.

For a bonus movie, visit our vimeo account.

Check out Beefmaster artist and contributor Erik Parra’s interview with KQED Arts. And if you haven’t seen his new work at Johansson Projects in Oakland, you only have a few days left!  His show  Between Currencies closes September 11th, so stop by while you still have a chance.

KQED Interview

On September 3rd, Disjecta hosts Alexis Gideon’s follow up to his genre-busting animated/stop motion video opera Video Musics. Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong is a one-hour multimedia video opera based on the 16th-century Chinese novel The Journey to the West, and is the result of two years of dogged research and collaboration with the brightest lights of contemporary animation and music. Gideon, in collaboration with Becca Taylor (Punk Planet), Cynthia Star (Coraline), Ezra Claytan Daniels (Darkhorse Comics), Rachel Blumberg (M Ward), Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western), and Shelley Short (Hush), creates an aural and visual universe that gleefully transcends both media. Is it film or music? Is it high art or pop? Marked throughout by ambition and commitment to detail, Sun Wu Kong demonstrates why Gideon has a cult following on both sides of the pond.

Also showing at Disjecta will be a group show of stills and fabricated characters from Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong, with work by Ezra Claytan Daniels, Shelley Short, Cynthia Star, Becca Taylor, and and Alexis Gideon

Them | Danny Treacy

London-based artist Danny Treacy searches his surroundings for discarded clothing to create suggestive, haunting costumes. Treacy then dresses himself in what he fabricates and, by making striking life-sized self-portraits, he becomes “Them.”

The “suits” he constructs are born out of the discovery of what’s been left behind by others, and ultimately allow Treacy to become something uncertain: evocative figures which seemingly transgress race, gender, and even reality.

“Somewhere in the process of collecting the clothing, of de-construction, re-creating, stitching, wearing and standing in the clothing, each stage done by myself, I feel that in the final image I disappear, not revealing anything of myself, the antithesis of self-portraiture.”

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave.,  Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 12-5, Tues – Sun, First Thursday 6-9 pm

Wisconsin Tavern League | Carl Corey

Over a period of 18 months, artist Carl Corey produced a series of color photographs of Wisconsin taverns in various locales across the state. “Wisconsin Tavern League” is Corey’s effort to document such sites as culturally important communal gathering places. His images are not just portraits of the people who own and frequent these establishments, but also of the taverns themselves, each one personalized with taxidermy specimens, hand-painted scenic murals, and the requisite pool tables and neon beer signs.

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave.,  Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 12-5, Tues – Sun, First Thursday 6-9 pm

Either Side | Norton Young

Nisus Gallery is pleased to present Norton Young in “Either Side”. Mr. Young is a self identified fence-post-modernist and non-objective in his descriptions. “Either Side” is where you may fall (or jump) on. He wants the experience to seem familiar and to resonate on various levels. Mr. Young expresses that his “work does not overtly stand for something else – not a tree, mountain, cloud, window, vase, or portrait. It is not my intention to represent a “naturally” or even artificially inspired reality even though the work may feel like a scene in nature or a gathering of objects.”

Challenging the viewer is the intent. For Mr. Young the most compelling art has power beyond its physical presence. Its impact goes on even after we stop looking. It endures because it is profound, because it is worthy, because its meanings are not always obvious.

Nisus Gallery
328 NW Broadway (at Flanders) #117,  Portland, OR
Hours: 11-4, Sat or by appointment

New Westerns | Adam Sorenson

Landscape painting affords me a wealth of tradition and influence, and provides a platform that seems familiar and recognizable. 19th century romanticism, Japanese woodblock prints, and Abstract expressionism all factor into my works vocabulary. I work primarily in a reactive sense. A certain rock may lead to another, which in turn may lead to a specific tree. The scenes I end up composing, function as both utopian and eerily post-apocalyptic. Both of which can be seen metaphorically as social concerns in contemporary life. By inviting the viewer in visually, I ask them to recall where we have been, explore where we are now, and confront where we may be headed.

PDX Contemporary
925 NW Flanders, Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 11-6, Tues – Sat

Trans-IT-ion | Group Exhibition

Tribute Gallery
625 NW Everett #102,  Portland, OR
Hours: 11-3, Sat or by appointment

Decoy | Damien Gilley

Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery
1241 NW Johnson St,  Portland, OR

Starting on Saturday, July 31 and continuing until Saturday, September 18, Americans for the Arts Action Fund will coordinate a “50 States 50 Days” initiative that supports local advocacy activities in all 50 states and in as many congressional districts as possible.

Tell us why the arts matter to you and you could tell everyone in Times Square too!

The winning video will be shown on the MTV screen in Times Square, letting you share your story with thousands of people. You’ll even be able to capture the big moment with your new Flip UltraHD.

Americans for the Arts Action Fund staff prepared a Powerpoint and video presentation to walk you through the easy steps to producing an event and using the 50 States 50 Days website to help you spread the word to your community, manage your event, and download materials you can use to advocate for the arts and arts education. This is an important opportunity for you to engage congressional district staff and reinforce your role as a ready resource for members of Congress, their staff, and constituents. For more information, view the links below, or visit their website here

Part 1 from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.

Part 2 from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.

Part 3 from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.

Part 4 from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.

Part 5 from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.