NW GALLERIES

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

BACKSPACE

Art of Politics 2008 .
Political Poster Launch Party: Life, Liberty and Libations. 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. Closes July 31. Map

BELLA PERLA

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

BLACKFISH GALLERY

Group show feat. Keenan Havens & Lisa Greif.
You don’t think of sea monsters and severed heads when you hear “elegant neo-Baroque semi-abstraction” but Keenan Havens’ gel pen drawings are just tight enough to change your tune. 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634. Closes Aug. 2. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Melissa Dyne.
Glass installation. 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654. 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

PDX GALLERY

If this group show is, as titled, Kinda Like a Buffet, I’m skipping lunch. While Richard Wilson’s three-panel Y.B.G. is an agreeable etude on shades of yellow and Midori Hirose’s white pyramids delight with their hidden, multicolored patterns, the remainder of the show leaves a bad aftertaste. 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes July 31. Map

PULLIAM DEFFENBAUGH GALLERY

Brian Borello.
Brian Borello’s new work might be his best ever. The artist can sometimes seem a tad woodsy in that old-school Oregon-bred way, but in the current works he zooms in on the vegetal motifs (twigs, ferns, seeds) until they become radiantly kinetic abstractions. The fact that he uses motor oil as a material gets him bonus points: Paintings such as 2081 are blacker than black and have a ravishing presence. 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665. Closes Aug. 2. Map

QUALITY PICTURES

Gerald Slota, David Isenhour and Christopher Rose celebrate city grittiness with new photographs, sculptures and impressionistic works, respectively. 916 NW Hoyt St., 227-5060. Closes Aug. 30. 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

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

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

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

SW GALLERIES

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

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING RESOURCE CENTER

CAMP.
New art installation and book release by Justin "Scrappers" Morrison. 917 SW Oak St., No. 218., 827-0249. Closes Aug. 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

MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER

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

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

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

APEX : Marc Dombrosky.
Hand-sewn paper art, located in PAM's Wintercross Foundation Gallery, 4th Floor, Center for Northwest Art. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Oct. 26. Map

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

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

PORTLAND CITY HALL

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

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

NORTH PDX GALLERIES

DISJECTA

The standout of Immaterialized, the impressive group show that inaugurates Disjecta’s new exhibition space, is an untitled sculpture of a tank, suspended upside down from the rafters. The piece, a collaboration between Portlanders Gordon Barnes and Shelby Davis, dominates the exhibition space, casting an enormous shadow on the wall, and yet this symbol of military might is upended, emasculated, made fake and absurd and powerless. It sums up the premise of the show, ably curated by Igloo Gallery co-founder Damien Gilley—riffing on a kind of sleight-of-hand, wherein things are not what they seem. Rebecca Steele’s Believe Me Don’t Believe Me appears a monolithic decorative scroll but reveals itself upon closer inspection as an intricate collage of sliced-and-diced photo prints. Gilley makes no bones about curating himself into the show, which is lucky for us: His 1+1=1 is a trompe l’oeil tour de force, made up of faux wood-patterned contact paper laid out to simulate a 3-D architectural rendering. If Gilley continues this caliber of curation, he will become a figure to contend with. 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. Closes Aug. 13. 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

NE GALLERIES

23 SANDY GALLERY

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

SE GALLERIES

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

GALLERY HOMELAND

Very loosely curated around Noam Chomsky’s ideas, Universal Grammar is an engaging if not fully cohesive group show. Members of the Thin Ice Collective contributed works such as Zefrey Throwell’s short film The Grasp, which is about new communication patterns in the wake of the cellphone. The most interesting piece is Sham Saenz’s two-panel Eden, with its alien-like figures vaulting among gray and orange architectonic forms. It looks like a group of cyborgs got lost on the way to the transhumanist convention and wound up at the Beijing Olympics. We like that. 2505 SE 11th Ave., 819-9656. Closes Aug. 8. 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

LAUNCH PAD

Rochelle Koivunen.
Rochelle Koivunen’s drawings portray a kinder, gentler post-apocalyptic world. Instead of Mad Max scavengers, Koivunen’s survivors have learned their lesson and decided to band together and respect the earth. Through the artist’s sheer conviction and narrative carry-through, she rescues this premise from preciousness, building a world where humans, animals, and indeterminate in-betweeners coexist peacefully with Gaia herself, joined together by tentacles and squishy viscera. It’s an inventive vision worth checking out. 534 SE Oak St., 971-227-0072. Closes July 27. 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

REED COLLEGE

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

SALEM ART ASSOCIATION

SAA Project Space : Transplants.
New works in mixed media and found objects by Andries Fourie, mixed media by Jonathan Bucci and mixed media by David Oudeis 600 Mission St., SE Salem., Closes Aug. 1. Map

SOUND GROUNDS

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

WORKSOUND

This up-and-coming gallery has a vibe that harkens to the early days of Gallery 500: hot bands, hip crowds and visual-arts programming that seems to be on an upward arc. The standout in the group show Likeness is Kirstie Louderbough’s 12th and Stark, a glorious multimedia mess of a piece that turns the American flag into a goopy, sticky, filthy, waxy amalgamation of honeycomblike squares embedded with litter. 820 SE Alder St., Closes July 31. Map