Sunday Jul 20top

The Art of Food Preservation

Before the invention of newfangled gizmos like refrigerators, food preservation was an essential art. Old-fashioned epicures relied on pickling and canning to enjoy produce year-round. Preserve, a local group celebrating this practice, provides workshops on the essentials of domestic cannery. Over the summer, Preserve will hold small outdoor classes devoted to jam-making, pickling and fruit-canning, respectively. During a few select Sundays, however, Preserve will offer a full-day, all-inclusive class encompassing all of the above subjects. Though, with a class size of just eight, classes are already filling up. So reserve your spot in advance. , 4039 NE 14th Ave., 280-9895. $50 per person, $150 for the daylong class. Visit portlandpreserve.com for more info. Map

Portland International Beerfest

It's time to mend geo-political rifts through drinking! Along with a selection of American beers, the PIB will feature a slew of European breweries and even a couple from Asia and Africa. The list of beers (and the countries they are from) is impressive. We're most excited about the Slaapmutske Triple Nightcap, a Belgian-style ale so different it will knock the IPA drinkers of this town down a peg. Or better yet, the Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza, an American bière de garde that has been aged in oak, giving it a complex sour bite to its yeasty body. Less flagrant beer nerds might enjoy the $3 pints of Pilsner Urquell and Peroni. Drinkers who want to expand their global beer repertoire without shelling out for a whole bottle: This is for you. North Park Blocks, Between West Burnside Street & Glisan @ Northwest 8th Avenue., 722-9017. 4-10 pm Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday. $20 for a tasting glass and 10 sample tickets. seattlebeerfest.com Map

Tour de France Avec le Pain

If you’d rather watch the Tour de France with an espresso and a croissant and not a glass of vin du terroir, point your road bike toward St. Honoré Boulangerie, where live coverage of the race will be aired every day starting at 6 am. This year’s race will be a test for competitors and fans—to see if they can fend off a heart attack after eating butter-rich pastries every day during the course of the monthlong event. St. Honoré Boulangerie, 2335 NW Thurman St., 445-4342. Map

Les Misérables

[SOLD OUT] Broadway Rose, Tigard’s accomplished but modestly funded summer musical theater company takes on Claude-Michel Schönberg’s record-smashing musical and delivers the sort of unforgettable evening of theater we’re lucky to experience once a season. Douglas Webster (Jean Valjean) sings with tremendous strength and passion; Leif Norby brings a tragic empathy to the role of Javert, saving the totalitarian policeman from being just a stern voice in a succession of ridiculous hats; the ensemble numbers are sharply directed and deeply affecting; and Darius Pierce and Lori Paschall as the ghoulish Mr. and Mrs. Thénardier are grossly hilarious. BEN WATERHOUSE. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard., 620-5262. 8 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes July 20. $20-$30. Map

21A

Arts Equity's Portland Premiere is a meaningless one-man trifle by Minnesota playwright Kevin Kling about a few very strange moments aboard the bus that runs between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The driver and all of the passengers—an off-kilter old woman carrying a load of cat food from Trader Joe’s, a drunken bum wearing an empty case of Bridgeport IPA for a helmet, and an overzealous advocate for public transportation, among others—are played with moderate success by Joey LeBard. With the strained accents and self-consciously goofy sensibility, 21A resembles an episode of “Guy Noir: Private Eye” written the morning after Garrison Keillor’s latest bachelor party—weird and menacing, but still a feel-good piece in the end. Like the passengers on the stationary bus, you’ll probably wonder when the damn thing is going to go somewhere. It never does. BEN WATERHOUSE. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 360-695-3770. 8 pm Fridays-Saturday, 2 pm Sundays. Closes July 26. $17-$20, sliding scale Thursdays and Sundays. Map

The Three Musketeers

Lakewood finishes off its season with an Oregon premiere of Ken Ludwig's adaptation of the Dumas novel. Don Alder directs. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego., 635-3901. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7 pm Sundays. Closes August 24. $26-$28. Map

See How They Run

Clackamas Repertory Theatre starts its summer season with Philip King's classic British farce involving a vicar's wife, a cockney maid, a lance-corporal and a bishop. Clackamas Community College—Osterman Theater Clackamas Community College—Osterman Theater, 19600 South Molalla Ave., 657-6958. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays. Closes July 27. $11.50-$21.50. Map

Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka

A musical adaptation of Dahl's creepy-wonderful children's novel, performed by both adult and child casts as part of New Moon Productions' summer musical theater workshop. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheatre, 400 SW Kingston Ave., newmoonproductions.org. Adult cast: 6:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, July 16-27. Child cast: 10 am and noon Saturdays and Sundays, July 19-27. Free. Map

Annie Warbucks

John Monteverde directs this Christmasy sequel to Annie, starring Hayley Rousselle. World Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon St., tinpanalleypdx.com. 8 pm July 18, 23-24, Aug. 1, 6 and 8-9; 7 pm July 27; 2 pm July 20, 27, Aug 2-3 and 9. $10-$20. Map

Troilus & Cressida

No one ever performs this problematic tragedy/romcom set during the Trojan War, because audiences don't know what to make of a raucous and bawdy story of death and heartbreak. We can only assume Grant Turner and Northwest Classical Theatre Company are determined to finish Shakespeare's complete canon. More power to them. Take this opportunity to see the play other Portland theaters won't touch for decades. It won't cost you a cent. Woodlawn Park, Northeast 13th Avenue and Dekum Street., 3 pm Saturdays and Sundays, July 19-Aug. 10. Free. Map

JAW 2008: Week 2

Portland Center Stage's 10th annual playwrights festival continues. On Saturday the fun kicks off at 9:30 am with a writing workshop with 2004 JAW alumnus Carlos Murillo, followed at 11:30 pm by a theater fair on Northwest Davis Street at which Portland companies will promote their seasons and some of our most interesting artists will perform site-specific work in and around the armory. Constance Congdon hosts a playwriting workshop at 1 pm. The readings of this year's workshop plays begin at 2 pm with Storm Large's Crazy Enough, followed at 4 pm by Colin Denby Swanson's A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits and, at 8 pm, Constance Congdon's Paradise Street. Sunday begins with a directing workshop with Jason Neulander, founder of Salvage Vanguard Theater, at 9:30 am. This year's Playwright's Slam, a sneak peek at new plays being performed around Portland in the next year, begins at 12:30 pm. The readings begin at 2 pm with a reprise of Crazy Enough, followed at 4 pm by Sally Oswald's Pony and at 8 pm by Carson Kreizer's Enchantment. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 9:30 am-10 pm Friday-Saturday, July 19-20. Free. Map

Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

LaurelThirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan St., 232-1504. All ages. Map

Eli Reischman (5:30 pm); Jean Ronne (9:30 am)

  London Grill, 309 SW Broadway., 228-2000. All ages. Map

Stripparaoke: KJ Pinky

Devils Point, 5305 SE Foster Road., 774-4513. Map

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (7 pm); Jeff & Vida (5 pm)

[EX-BEATLE] Continuing an enormously successful career borne wholly upon timing and affability, the former Richard Starkey has spent the past few decades bringing a, heh, All-Starr band to casinos across the country. There'll be "Yellow Submarine," to be sure, but the actual highlights should involve his rather more talented tour mates; the 10th revue features Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Colin (Men At Work) Hay, Hamish (Average White Band) Stuart and Gary ("Dreamweaver") Stuart. Starr is actually an appealing host, and his place in history is assured, but, as ever, he gets by with a little help from…you get the point. JAY HORTON. 7 pm. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., 669-8610. $42 advance, $44 day of show. All ages. Map

DJ Gregarious

Matador, 1967 W Burnside St., 222-5822. Map

Fetish Night

9:30 pm. Berbati's Pan, 231 SW Ankeny St., 248-4579. $7. All ages. Map

Lightning Swords of Death, Valdur, Gigan, DJ Nate C

9 pm. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. Map

Cree Rider, Max Eaton

Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. Map

Sexy Pants, Oliver, What Remains, Automatic Wing Project

Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. Map

Earlimart, Sabertooth, The Parson Red Heads

[SMITH INDIE] Earlimart has drawn enough comparisons to Elliott Smith to fill a swimming pool. Sure, the Los Angeles-based band is fronted by Aaron Espinoza (one of Smith’s BFFs, for real), whose soft, trickling, Smithesque croon leads its songs. But bandmate Arianna Murray is the band's quiet all-star: The small-framed pianist has a deep voice that lies somewhere between sexy and sweet, and her clever piano riffs bust Earlimart's songs—found most recently on this year's Hymn and Her—from understated acoustic pieces into full-blown, catchy indie pop. WHITNEY HAWKE. 9 pm. Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. $12. 21+. Map

Irish Sessions (6 pm)

Kells Irish Pub, 112 SW 2nd Ave., 227-4057. Map

Mya Elaine, Bird Mancini (9 pm); Aguamiel (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. Map

Childlike Empress, Kate's Mirror, Booze Howl, Paper Uppercuts

Satyricon, 125 NW 6th Ave., 231-1606. Map

Wyclef Jean, Kardinal Offishall

[HIP-HOP] Wyclef Jean is an oddity in hip-hop. Since his early dirty Jersey days in the Fugees ended in 1997, he's been able to experiment with the hip-hop formula, blending genres (often wielding an electric guitar) and collaborating (with everyone from Willie Nelson to Santana) without losing credibility within the industry—or, more importantly, from Dave Chappelle. Ten years after his 1997 solo debut, Carnival, Clef returns to the style (and the title) of that classic on his newest, Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant, hand-picking top guests and producers while incorporating world-music influences. It's a relevant, entirely modern album. JIM SANDBERG. 8 pm. Roseland, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929 (Grill), 224-2038 (Theater). $25. All ages. Map

Northwest String Summit: Yonder Mountain String Band, Super Jam with Danny Barnes, Bill Frisell and Danny Barnes, Hickster feat. "Burle," 2008 Contest Winners (starts at 11 am)

[A-PICKIN’ AND A-SINGIN’] See Friday listing. 11 am. Horning's Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Road., 647-2920. $140 advance (weekend pass w/camping), $155 day of show. All ages. Map

Songwriter Showcase

White Eagle, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. Map

Jam Session w/ Beaver Boogie Band (7 pm)

M & M Lounge, 137 N Main St., 665-2626. Map

Sunny Cohen Duo (12:30 pm)

  Proper Eats, 8638 N Lombard St., 445-2007. Map

Paper Brain, The Ascetic Junkies, Young Lost Ones, Polar State

Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. Map

Irish Circle feat. Hanz Araki & Cary Novotny

Biddy McGraw's, 6000 NE Glisan St., 233-1178. Map

Sinferno Cabaret, Gooferman

Dante's, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. $7 in advance, $8 at door. Map

Pirate Radio

Kelly's Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. Map

Spoonshine (6 pm)

LaurelThirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan St., 232-1504. Map

Dean Officer

Sellwood Public House, 8132 SE 13th Ave., 736-0182. Map

Reign Supreme, Colin of Arabia, Letdown

Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. Map

BOAT, Dirty Mittens, The Winebirds

[MOTOWN-TINGED INDIE-POP] See album review of Dirty Mittens' Pinky Swear on LocalCut. 9 pm. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. $6. 21+. Map

Ron Steen Jam w/ Tony Pacini & Dave Captein

  Clyde's Prime Rib, 5474 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-9200. Map

The Copyrights, The Anxieties, DJ Razor Riggs

Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., 796-9364. Map

Starantula, Uphorbia, Tuff 'Mo, Interstices

Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. Map

Florene, MOM

9 pm. Valentine's, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. Map

The Study, Gregory Miles Harris, Alex Arrowsmith, Random Thoughts

Mount Tabor Legacy, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-0450. All ages. Map

Shift, Illustrations, Horse Eats Horse, Small White Rowes, Andy Thompson, The Diggers (7 pm)

Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. Map

DJs Ninjah, Sputnik

  Tube, 18 NW 3rd Ave., 241-8823. Map

Portland International Piano Festival

For four days, piano fans can indulge in an feast of some of the world’s greatest keyboard masters, but this year’s PIP dramatically—and commendably—stretches the boundaries far beyond the typical 19th century recital fare. The hottest name this year is Simone Dinnerstein, the one-time Juilliard dropout and competition bust who last year came out of nowhere with a self-produced, privately financed recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations that vaulted her to international acclaim. Her admirably wide-ranging Portland debut includes music from four centuries: one of Bach’s fetching French suites; Philip Lasser’s 2001 Variations on a Bach Chorale; Webern’s concentrated 1936 Variations; Beethoven's last piano sonata and the highlight—Aaron Copland’s revolutionary 1930 Piano Variations, which shocked and stimulated American music like few other single works. The best known pianist this year, Frederic Chiu, will play the most traditional menu—Chopin Etudes, a little Debussy and Ravel, some Prokofiev and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5—while the least-known, Marino Formenti, brings the most fascinating program: a tour of European musical history viewed through the peculiar lens of composer Gyorgy Kurtag, comprising five dozen (!) short works by the contemporary Hungarian master and his predecessors from medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut to Scarlatti and Bach to Beethoven, Chopin and Mussorgsky to 20th century modernists Boulez, Stockhausen and Ligeti. The most compelling concert of this altogether exceptional festival looks to be the barrier-busting duo of Anthony de Mare (a terrific performer of West Coast 20th century music) and Steven Mayer, who’ll play yet another unbelievably eclectic program: compositions pigeonholed as jazz by Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Art Tatum and the great Harlem stride pianists James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, plus contemporary “classical” music of the same period by George Antheil (his whirlwind 1922 “Airplane” and 1923 “Jazz” sonatas), Arnold Schoenberg, the great iconoclast Conlon Nancarrow, and several works by the living master Frederic Rzewski. BRETT CAMPBELL. World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road., 228-1388. de Mare & Mayer: 7:30 pm, Thursday, July 17. Formenti, 7:30 pm Friday, July 18. Dinnerstein, 7:30 pm Saturday, July 19. Chiu, 7:30 pm Sunday July 20. $13-$32. Map

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Ken Shores' works.
Art or craft? Ceramics or high-art sculpture? Who knows and who cares when you’re veteran envelope-pusher Ken Shores. Generations: Ken Shores is a retrospective of the artist’s 50-year career. With his unique iconography, culled from studies undertaken and influences absorbed in Asia and South America, Shores’ life’s work is overdue for this in-depth treatment. 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654. Closes July 23. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Klaus Moje retrospective.
German-born glass maestro Klaus Moje has a major retrospective at the Portland Art Museum, showcasing the artist’s 30-year career combining influences from his European roots and his many years in Australia, leading what is arguably the world’s premier glass studio. Moje is a kiln-former; he fuses glass into intricately patterned works that can be intimate in scale, but can also fill a 24-foot wall. Says exhibit curator Bruce Guenther: “He creates objects that have reference to tradition but explode and reorient into an experience that’s purely optical.” Moje will go down in history as one of the greats of his medium, and this show will go down as a watershed moment. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 7. Map

REED COLLEGE

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-1112. Douglas F. Cooley Gallery. Closes July 20. Map

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Melissa Dyne.
Glass installation. 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654. Closes Aug. 10. Map

BULLSEYE GALLERY

Clifford Rainey.
Conceptual artist Clifford Rainey fills the cavernlike upstairs gallery at Bullseye with a moody, meditative retrospective that tackles themes such as globalization, aging, cancer and censorship. It’s not all so serious, however. Rainey shows his playful side in Art Committee No. 2, which consists of 12 glass penises mounted on the wall like trophies, and Odalisque, a hilarious nod to Ingres’ famous painting, complete with brocade and peacock feather.  300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222., 227-0222. Closes August 16. Map

QUINTANA GALLERIES

Glass Art of Native America.
Quintana’s Glass Art of Native America features the work of contemporary Native American artists (including local treasure Lillian Pitt) translating time-honored traditions into the glass medium. 120 NW 9th Ave., 223-1729. Closes July 31. Map

MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER

Sue Allen.
Wild + Tame screenprints. 7688 SW Capitol Highway., 823-2787. Closes July 23. Map

CHARLES A. HARTMAN

We can't top the press release: "Erotic self-portraits document artist's obsessive daydreams." 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886. 11 am-6 pm Tuesday-Saturday. Map

FIFTY24PDX

Seven exhibition: Corey Arnold, Ryan Bubnis, E*Rock, Caleb Freese, Justin Gorman, Jason Greene, Sara Padgett and Ryan Jacob Smith.
Works from of the some of PDX's best up-and-comers, featuring "photography, painting, illustration, design and video installations." 23 NW 5th Ave., 548-4835. Closes July 31. Map

THE KINGSTAD CENTER

Icons & Iconoclasts.
Regional artists take on musical icons. The group includes surrealist Stuart Ellis, satirical symbolist Jacquelyn Bond, expressionist character studies by Michael Orwick and Celeste Bergin, digital surrealism by Tom Repasky, and iconic photography by Allan Bruce Zee, among other works. 15450 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton., 626-6338. Closes Sept. 5. Map

QUALITY PICTURES CONTEMPORARY ART

Holly Andres.
Well known for her creepy family tableaux of waxen WASPs staring vacantly into televisions and turkey dinners, photographer Holly Andres debuts a new body of work called Sparrow Lane. The series riffs on Andres’ childhood fascination with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys mysteries, and it showcases her gift for staging complex, preternaturally lit vignettes that invite the viewer in, even as they retain a sense of enigma. 916 NW Hoyt St., 227-5060. Closes Aug. 2. Map

WINTERCROSS FOUNDATION GALLERY, 4TH FLOOR, CENTER FOR NORTHWEST ART

APEX : Marc Dombrosky.
Hand-sewn paper art. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Closes Oct. 26. Map

Esque Studio.
New glass works. 1028 SE Water Ave., 542-5000. Closes Aug. 2. Map

WORLD FORESTRY CENTER

Adam Bacher and Oregon-based Itafari Foundation.
Photography exhibit, Rwanda—Return to Peace. Artist reception Thursday, June 19, from 5:30-8 pm. 4033 SW Canyon Road., Closes Sept. 1. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Every Picture Tells a Story.
Persian narrative paintings. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes July 27. Map

INTERSTATE FIREHOUSE CULTURAL CENTER

F.X. Rosica.
Rosica presents a solo exhibit of prints and paintings titled Still Lives: A Community In Motion. 5340 N Interstate Ave., Closes July 26. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Contemporary Northwest Art Awards with Dan Attoe, Cat Clifford, Jeffry Mitchell, Whiting Tennis, Marie Watt.
The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards is a tight survey of mostly thirtysomething regional artists of a certain persuasion: self-aware, unconcerned with beauty, and studiously unstudied. The big $10,000 prizewinner Whiting Tennis contributes paintings of dingy suburban homes, along with an effective sculpture called Boogeyman, while Dan Attoe scores big with a towering neon paean to stripper culture. Jeffry Mitchell’s kitschy cabinet distills the soul of a generation overflowing with nostalgia, but Cat Clifford is nowhere nearly as effective with her sophomoric, one-note video installations. Lone Oregonian Marie Watt owns the front gallery with her soaring, circling fabric extravaganzas. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 14. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Ed Ruscha.
Features new works in a three-part wall motif. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 21. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

Department of Prints and Drawings.
30th anniversary celebration. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Oct. 5. Map

23 SANDY GALLERY

Palimpsest: Photographs of Environmental Ice Installations.
New photographs by Nicole Dextras 623 NE 23rd Ave., 927-4409. Closes Aug. 2. Map

BUSH BARN ART CENTER

Green: Inside / Out.
New "green" works by KC Hancock, Michael Boonstra, Tatyana Drofyak, Sven Humphrey, Robyn Voshardt, Alexandra Opie, Paula Rebsom and Maina Tres. Opening reception 5-7 pm Friday, July 11. 600 Mission St., Salem., 581-2228. Closes Aug. 10. Map

BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM

Faithful Friends: Bush Family Pets in Stories and Photographs.
Photographs of the many pets kept by the A.N. (not G.W.) Bush family. 600 Mission St., Salem., 581-2228. Closes Aug. 3. Map

3D CENTER OF ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Window Shopping.
New exhibit of Anaglyph portraits by George King. Opening reception from 6-9 pm Thursday, July 3. 1928 NW Lovejoy St., 227-6667. Closes Sept. 6. Map

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING RESOURCE CENTER

CAMP.
New art installation and book release by Justin "Scrappers" Morrison. 917 SW Oak St., #218., 827-0249. Closes Aug. 31. Map

OREGON HISTORY MUSEUM

Michael Curry.
Puppetry: An Out of Body Experience, features Oregon native Curry's puppetry works from The Lion King and Cirque du Soleil. 1200 SW Park Ave., Closes Oct. 19. Map

SEQUENTIAL ART GALLERY + STUDIO

Jim Valentino.
The First 500 Years: A look at the 30-year-plus career of Jim Valentino, co-founder of Image Comics. 328 NW Broadway, #113., 916-9293. Closes Aug. 2. Map

GLENN & VIOLA WALTERS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER

Theresa Andreas O'Leary, Christine Pendergrass and Eve Kenyon.
New works in paintings and ceramic sculpture 527 East Main St., Hillsboro., 615-3485. Closes July 30. Map

GOODFOOT

Jacob Wooton, Keith Rosson, Larry Cyr.
New works in paintings, sculptures and stencil art. 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. Closes July 28. Map

VORPAL SPACE

Masks Unmasked.
Wuon Gean Ho with new works in prints Northwest Broadway & Flanders Street., 577-0530. Closes July 29. Map

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE CENTER

"Angels in the Architecture": 3rd Annual Architectural Heritage Center photo contest.
Submissions accepted through Aug. 16. Entry and rules at visitahc.org or prophotosupply.com. 701 SE Grand Ave., 231-7264. Closes Aug. 16. Map

GRASS HUT CORP.

T'N'T: Tigerlily and Tim Biskup.
New works in paints and drawings by the father/daughter duo. 811 E Burnside St., 445-9924. Closes July 31. Map

IGLOO

"We Are All Wrong and It's All Right" exhibit.
New works in scrap materials by Gordon Barnes and Mandee Schroer 325 NW 6th Ave., #102., 724-7300. Closes July 26. Map

SOUND GROUNDS

Unconscious Mind.
New works in nude photography from Daniel Howlett. 3711 SE Belmont St., 234-0915. Closes July 31. Map

PDX GALLERY

Group show; new works by Scott Wayne Indiana and others. 333 SW Harrison St., 802-1041. Closes July 31. Map

THE 100TH MONKEY

Nationality.
New works by Jessica Breedlove, Laura Campos, Don Fox, Mina Bella Kreiter, Joy Leising, Troy John McCray, Nathan Orton, Beth Ann Short, Maureen Sunderland, Chris Tardi, Lesli Tardi and Anna Todaro. 110 SE 16th Ave., 232-3457. Closes July 27. Map

PORTLAND CITY HALL

Northwest Down Syndrome Association's "All Born 'In'".
Cross-disability exhibition. 1221 SW 4th Ave., 823-4000. Closes July 31. Map

BELLA PERLA

Mitchell Freifeld.
New works. 327 NW 9th Ave., 222-1862. Map

BOHEMIA GALLERY

Kevin Christman.
New works in mixed-media paintings and sculptures 222 A St., Ashland., 541-488-5227. Closes July 31. Map

MARK WOOLLEY GALLERY

Tamara English and Phyllis Trowbridge.
There is beauty in the manicured English garden but also in the untamed weed patch, as Tamara English demonstrates in Imaginal/Manifest. The paintings celebrate overabundant vegetation via pentimento effects, chalky outlines and flat, encausticlike surfaces with deep berry reds and hunter greens. Works like Here in the Betwixt feature wallpaperlike strips that walk the line between still life and decorative art. While the body of work feels one-note, the imagery is ripely seductive. 817 SW 2nd Ave., 224-5475. Closes Aug. 2. Map

REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL (RACC)

Falling Light .
Live installation by Portland artist Scott Sonniksen. 108 NW 9th Ave., Suite 300., 823-5111. Closes July 25. Map

AUGEN GALLERY DOWNTOWN

Kinga Czerska, John Dempcy.
Augen has a yummy treat for fans of abstract painting: Kinga Czerska at the gallery’s DeSoto location and John Dempcy at the downtown location. Czerska sees the world in puzzlelike slices, as if all optical input has been flattened into abstract planes of arcing, rhythmic color. Dempcy is a master of process, dripping paints of differing viscosities onto clay board and allowing them to seep, weep and congeal into compositions that enrapture the eye and drain the vocabulary of sufficient adjectives—gorgeous, sumptuous, voluptuary—and send you hunting for your thesaurus. Augen Downtown, 817 SW 2nd Ave., 224-8182. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. 817 SW 2nd Ave., 224-8182. Closes July 26. Map

BUTTERS

Sonia Kasparian.
Sonia Kasparian has long used porch screens as an element in her haunting paintings and multimedia works. Now she repurposes those screens, using them as the basis for dramatic abstract wall hangings like Double Mothra and Rodan, which resplend with neo-Baroque luxuriance. Sculptures such as Loving Cup and For John combine animal bones and antlers with candelabra, velvet and painstaking metalwork. The show shows Kasparian in fine form, leading us into realms where joie de vivre and memento mori jockey for position. 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor., 248-9378. Closes Aug. 2. Map

ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY

Jaq Chartier, Melody Owen.
They may be pseudo-scientific, but Jaq Chartier’s paintings are the real deal. Chartier, a Seattle artist and founder of the Acqua Miami art fair, excels at saturated abstract paintings that reference stains used in biological experiments. They sear into the retina like sunspots. Also appearing at Liz Leach is Melody Owen, erstwhile Biennial darling known for her igloo installations and paper crowns. Owen’s work in this show is based on recent travels to Iceland, Paris and Quebec. 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521. Closes Aug. 2. Map

FROELICK

Bo Joseph.
New York City-based Bo Joseph makes his West Coast debut with twisty, organic sculptures and multimedia drawings that have a neo-primitivist feel. The work feels derivative except for Eating the Organ of Appetite and Homemade Ritual, Homemade Religion, both of which contrast visceral and mechanical motifs in delicious cobalt blue atop orange-creamsicle vanilla. Victor Maldonado’s works have a pop flair that promises but never quite delivers the goods. 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142. Map

NEW AMERICAN ART UNION

Jacqueline Ehlis.
Jacqueline Ehlis’ first show in three years is called Serenade, and child, does it ever sing. Elegant, witty, understated yet overachieving, Ehlis’ minimalist etudes are not to be missed. Full review in next week’s WW. 922 SE Ankeny St., Closes Aug. 10. Map

OGLE GALLERY

Ogle is looking more like a European boutique gallery every day, as evidenced by Two Belgians in Portland, a somber yet sexy outing by sculptor Gilles Neuray and photographer Tom Schutyser. Neuray’s works look like giant fish bones in a sinuous S-curve—think Donatello’s David meets fileted sea bass. Schutyser’s photos of Iran hang from the ceiling in gray metal frames, while in collaborative works the photos and sculptures coexist seamlessly. 310 NW Broadway., 227-4333. Closes Aug. 30. Map

Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is famous for writing Artemis Fowl, a series about a 12-year-old criminal mastermind that has taken fantasy lovers by storm. Colfer’s series does not have the same earth-shattering fan following as Harry Potter, but Artemis Fowl is a big deal. And, after a string of sold-out performances at London’s West End, Colfer is bringing his one-man live comedy show, Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence, on tour to the United States. Colfer’s performance at the Bagdad Theater will be followed by a book signing. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 3 pm. $5. Map