Butters

Monday November 23

Ted Katz

Butters Ted Katz spent two months in Ireland and North Yorkshire earlier this year. When he came back to Portland, he couldn’t get the moody British landscape out of his head. It haunts his luxuriant show, Never Trust a Full Moon, in abstracted forms that play variations on the theme of land and sky bisected by the horizon line. Katz indulges himself and the viewer in the sensuality of paint-qua-paint. A glistening magenta brushstroke in the middle of Red Morning Sky rises out of the background and declares the artist’s love of painterly effects. His Another Year Gone By is a hymn to turquoise atmospherics—vaporous mists rising from the ecru fields below. Katz never met a color or texture he didn’t want to bask in, bathe in, and make sweet love to. Lucky for him, and for us. 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor., 248-9378. Show runs Nov. 5-28.

Tuesday November 24

Ted Katz

Butters Ted Katz spent two months in Ireland and North Yorkshire earlier this year. When he came back to Portland, he couldn’t get the moody British landscape out of his head. It haunts his luxuriant show, Never Trust a Full Moon, in abstracted forms that play variations on the theme of land and sky bisected by the horizon line. Katz indulges himself and the viewer in the sensuality of paint-qua-paint. A glistening magenta brushstroke in the middle of Red Morning Sky rises out of the background and declares the artist’s love of painterly effects. His Another Year Gone By is a hymn to turquoise atmospherics—vaporous mists rising from the ecru fields below. Katz never met a color or texture he didn’t want to bask in, bathe in, and make sweet love to. Lucky for him, and for us. 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor., 248-9378. Show runs Nov. 5-28.