"Not typically the type to check out gallery shows? Consider stretching your self-image this week. Lumber room will exhibit organic works by Louise Bourgeois (of gigantic spider sculpture fame), and Emily Counts' gleaming ceramic moth flutters into the city. Plus, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art will open their first post-Time-Based Art Festival show, and it looks like a banger. But if somehow none of that has enticed you, no worries-you've still got plant-inspired ambient, mushroom identification, and Ron Funches' chops to look forward to."
"Emily Counts' ceramic style is always a little otherworldly, reflecting on nature and the fragility of life through surreal sculptural busts and curious wall pieces lit from within. In her last show at Oregon Contemporary, Sea of Vapors, Counts cast her gaze toward growth, decomposition, aging, and transformation, telling a story of seafaring travelers through imagery of wilting flowers and rotting fruit. Expect more of that ultra-sensory exploration this time, but with glittery spiderwebs and opalescent moths."
Lumber Room presents organic works by Louise Bourgeois while Emily Counts brings gleaming ceramic moths and luminescent sculptural pieces to Portland. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art opens its first post-Time-Based Art Festival exhibition. Nationale features Laura Camila Medina's Ceremony for the Winged in a pastel-hued project room described as a "whimsical cave." Emily Counts' ceramics explore nature, fragility, growth, decomposition, aging, and transformation through surreal busts and lit wall pieces. Moon Glyph Records founder Steve Rosborough performs as Omni Gardens, offering plant-inspired ambient music. Additional offerings include mushroom identification programming and a comedy appearance by Ron Funches.
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