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

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

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

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 BUILDING

Parking-space installation by Susan Schnell.
Marylhurst University art student transforms the Installation Space into a parking lot filled with handmade bicycle forms and racks. 1120 SW 5th Ave., 823-5111. Closes July 11. 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

SHAFFER FINE ART GALLERY

Yuroz and Hessam Abrishami.
Yuroz works in everything from oils to ceramics and bronze. Hessam Abrishami sticks to oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel and bronze. 308 SW 1st Ave., Suite 158., Closes July 2. 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

GUMBO GIFTS & GALLERY

First Annual Plastic Rose Festival.
Leave No Plastic Behind and Trillium Charter School present art projects. 3636-B N Mississippi Ave., Closes July 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

UMPQUA BANK

Joseph Conroy's airbrushed canvas paintings.
Canvas paintings celebrating the "Oregon Native." NE 15th Ave. and Weidler St., Closes July 9. 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

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

REED COLLEGE

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