Stephen Slappe, from "Shelter in Place"

NAAU presents the next installation of Couture: Stephen Slappe's Shelter in Place, a 3-channel video installation that is "the culmination of five years of research... Freely combining fiction and nonfiction, this three-channel video installation focuses on two teenagers in West Virginia in the mid-1980s. The characters exist in a media environment that imposes and magnifies their worst fears. Yet even in such a hopeless world, they discover a miraculous way to share subcultural influences. While referencing a specific time and place, Shelter in Place presents a thematically timeless allegory of connectivity and cultural exchange."

Opening reception • 6-9pm • May 1
New American Art Union • 922 SE Ankeny • 503.231.8294



Grier Edmundson, "Untitled (study of stairs 4 times)"

Grier Edmundson presents Tomorrow you will not recognize us at Fourteen30. Edmundson's oil paintings "examine society through the reconstruction of appropriated images, subtly teasing out new questions and perceptions of old ideas and classic problems inherent in our own human centeredness."

Opening reception • 6-9pm • May 1
Fourteen30 • 1430 SE 3rd • 503.236.1430




Nemo presents Beneath the Surface: Flora, Fantasy, and Fable in Surface Design, curated by Pattern People. Featuring artists from U.S, Japan, Finland, Germany, Sweden, and the U.K, Beneath the Surface "highlights the work of influential, contemporary surface designers through the mediums of wallpaper, prints, and 3-dimensional objects."

Opening reception • 6-10pm • May 1
Nemo • 1875 SE Belmont • 503.872.9631



Jim Kazanjian, "Untitled (Module)"

Jim Kazanjian presents Aberrations at 23 Sandy. Kazanjian builds digital assemblages with found photographs, using up to 35 photos as elements for a single image.

Opening reception • 6-9pm • May 1
23 Sandy Gallery • 623 NE 23rd • 503.927.4409




PSU's MK Gallery presents Happy Days Forever by Steve Baggs. His work explores the ways that media and government leaders construct cultural narratives, merging nationalistic propaganda, contemporary politics, world history and comparative religions.

Artist reception • 6-9pm • May 2
MK Gallery • 2000 SW 5th Avenue • Art Building, 2nd floor rm 210




PSU's Autzen Gallery presents Vanishing Varieties by Rebecca Shelly. Starting with her father's gardening journals, Shelly sought out the vegetables varietals that he recorded over the years and discovered that many are no longer available. Shelly created a series of paintings based on these disappearing vegetables, and will be giving away starts at the exhibition.

Artist reception • 6-9pm • May 2
Autzen Gallery • 724 SW Harrison Street • Neuberger Hall, 2nd Floor, rm 205