art, its discourses and histories
711 SE Grand Avenue, Second Floor
Portland, Oregon 97214
Saturdays 12-5 and by appointment

Contact
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Ido Radon, Director
Katherine Aungier, Associate Director
Oskar Radon, Creative Director

Advisory Council
Eleanor Ford
Sarv Iraji
Margaret Kross
Tim McCall
Lydia Rosenberg
Julia Trojanowski
Laurie White

“We are never done reading Aesthetic Theory.”

Now

Exhibition

Gareth James and David Joselit
Late Night Legal Formalities
April 18 -June 13, 2026
Opening reception 7-9:30pm
Artist talk Thursday, May 14, 2026 7pm

Press release PDF

Soon

Exhibition

Mike Jodie Derek Sidony Stephanie Taryn
July 2 - August 1, 2026
Opening reception and summer party:
First Thursday, July 2 6-8pm

A summer group show with works by Mike Bray, Jodie Cavalier, Derek Franklin, Sidony O’Neal, Stephanie Simek, and Taryn Tomasello.

Discourse

Review

Dancing for People Who Sit
Madison Brookshire Number Series
Cinema Project/ PICA TBA Festival
Ido Radon
PDF

Review

Merideth Hillbrand, F Scale North
at Escolar, Santa Rosa, CA
Daniel J Glendening
photos: Perry Doane
PDF

Review
Tasting Notes
Sol Hashemi
May 6 – July 9, 2023
Western Front
Tim McCall
PDF

Review
Plausible Data
Amber Frid-Jimenez
V XXXX – something slips, passes, is transmitted, from stage to stage
May 11- June 10, 2023
Mónica Reyes Gallery
Ido Radon
PDF

Essay
White Cube :: Black Box
14 Notes Adjacent to the Work of Sarv Iraji
Ido Radon
PDF

Essay
Never Judge a Network by its Cover
Laurie White
PDF

Journal

SOCIETY Issue 1.5
On such a winter’s day
2024
A reader. Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, Mark Fisher, Fredric Jameson, Herbert Marcuse. Design: Oskar Radon

Journal
SOCIETY Issue 1
2023
Contributors: Eleanor Ford, Sarv Iraji, Molly Erika Radon Kimball, Tim McCall, Kitt Peacock, Julia Trojanowski, Laurie White, and Ozan Yildiz.
Design: Oskar Radon

Past

Talk

Matt Ellis
A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism
Thursday June 11, 7pm

Revisiting the unfinished project of cinematic modernism in Hellworld

Matthew Ellis is incoming Assistant Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Raised in the Portland metro area, he previously taught film and media studies courses at Portland State University and has worked in the local film exhibition and music worlds since the mid-2000s. He holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Read his work online at historiesofthepresent.com.

Press release PDF

Screening

Aurora San Miguel
Juvenalia 1
Saturday, May 30, 2026 7pm

A screening, organized by Aurora San Miguel, of first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier.

Press release PDF

Artist Talk

Gareth James
Night School
Thursday, May 14, 2026
7pm
An artist’s talk set in the long night of the past twenty years..

The Car Becoming The Deer, The Cart Becoming The Horse, and The Carrot Becoming The Donkey
2025
slide projector, 80 handmade 35mm slides
15.9 x 11.5 x 14.5 inches

Cinefex 201
back cover designed with Oskar Radon
magazine in archival sleeve
2025
8 x 9 inches

Cinefex 200
back cover designed with Oskar Radon
magazine in archival sleeve
2025
8 x 9 inches

Cinefex 199
back cover designed with Oskar Radon
magazine in archival sleeve
2025
8 x 9 inches

Prompt
2015-2025
spackling paste
dimensions variable

Charles Stobbs III: Experiiment on Yourselves
2026
installation view

Prompt
2015-2025
spackling paste
dimensions variable

Exhibition

Charles Stobbs III
Experiment on Yourselves
Saturday, December 20, 2025 - January 31, 2025
7-9pm

Press release PDF

Event

Sarah Faulk
Sturtevant
Tuesday, January 13, 2025
7pm
A talk exhuming the role of language in the Sturtevant’s practice in order to map her explorations in repetition, cybernetics, and the “understructure” of art. Sarah Grace Faulk holds a BA from the University of Washington and is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of California Riverside.

Press release PDF

Event

Ellena Basada and Avery Bloch
Amateur Theater: The Threepenny Opera
January 2, 2026
6pm

Press release PDF

Comme des Garçons F/W 1983: Gloves, Skirts, Quilted Big Coats (Performance ephemera)
2018-
Merino wool, plastic vacuum sealable bag
Dimensions variable

Untitled (Figure with Backpack)
2020
Watercolor on paper
65 x 36-3/4 inches

How is Art History Made? by Seth Siegelaub
2025
Digital print
33.11 x 46.81 inches

Tools for Kogetsudai/Moon Viewing Platform
2019
Verawood, screws
7.56 x 3.5 x 11.93 in
Edition of 4

Moon High School
2025
8.5 x 11 inches, 320 pages

Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 by Michael Asher and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
2016
PUR glued book
8.5 x 0.9 x 12 inches, 229 pages
Edition of 200

It is a luxury to be understood
2022
Digital print
8.35 x 5.79 inches
edition of 200

It is a luxury to be understood (verso)
2022
Digital print
8.35 x 5.79 inches
edition of 200

Self-portrait at 31
2023
Digital print
8.35 x 5.79 inches
edition of 100

Self-portrait at 31 (verso)
2023
Digital print
8.35 x 5.79 inches
edition of 100

Exhibition

Christian Alborz Oldham
Having no talent is not enough
August 23 - November 15, 2025

Press release PDF
Checklist PDF
Review: Towards a Shifty Art

Event

Alix Vollum
The Flower Facing Away
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
7pm
A talk on Vollum's research. In person and on Zoom. Vollum has shown at Kimberly Klark, AliasBooks, and VI Dancer. She co-founded Sleepy Hollow Fine Art in Portland, Oregon.

Event

Joel Sutherland
I am Sitting in a RT60=0.161V/A
Thursday, October 23, 7pm
A talk concerning the doubling of artificial reverberation with an interest in the history of audio delay/reverberation/echo devices in recording technology. Sutherland is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. On Zoom and in person.

Press release PDF

People of the Uncaring World—GL
2025
Lamp, found lenses, wire
12 x 6 x 7 in.

Lamp Store
2023
custom plastic straw, glass jar, water, spotlight, cardboard box, latex paint, glue
22 x 20 x 12 in.

Guys, Do we need as much money as we have?-GL
2023
Lamp, artificial lettuce
11 x 12 x 12 in.

THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW NO PLACE FOR AN ARGUMENT...it can't be simply a place for an argument: (Some Senses of the Commonplace, Robert Creeley at New College of California, February 21, 1991: an edited transcription)
2025
miniature furniture, lamp parts, glass, wax, aluminum tomato can.
14 x 6 x 6 in.
Made in collaboration with Davant Dodson-Rosenberg.

I thought you were somebody (La Bamba, 1987)
2023
Polymer clay lamp parts, ceramic vase, paint, powdered pigment
17 x 11 ½ x 11 in.

All to myself is what you are!— GL
2023
lamp, packing tape, found objects
17 ½ x 16 x 14 ½ in.

List of suspects-DR
2023
archives box, lamp parts, wood
12 ½ x 16 x 13 in.

Complete Subject Lamp #4
2023
decorative light, paper pulp, latex paint
From an edition of 6 unique lamps.
Approx. 8 x 5 x 3 in.

Complete Subject Lamp #6
2023
decorative light, paper pulp, latex paint
From an edition of 6 unique lamps.
Approx. 8 x 5 x 3 in.

CarefulHomonymsIndexCosmicKnowingOfReluctantYearning.
2023
Fabric, wire, metal, lamp parts, gouache paint.
65 x 22 x 17 in.

Let's get together when the reign ends-GL
2023
Lamp parts, wire, aluminum can, wood, cardboard, paint, beads
66 x 16 x 8 in.

Light from beyond.
2023
Paper, wood, lamp parts, chain, paint, printed pdf of “Light from beyond”, Patience Worth (1923).
66 ½ x 30 x 19 in.

“Let me light the lamp before the holy image, my dear.”–FD
2023
Wood, plaster, lamp parts, wire, graphite, denim pant leg, paint
121 x 27 x 45 in. (variable)

“Let me light the lamp before the holy image, my dear.”–FD (detail)
2023
Wood, plaster, lamp parts, wire, graphite, denim pant leg, paint
121 x 27 x 45 in. (variable)

He's good when he wants to be–GL
2023
Lamp parts, stone fruit pits from Laura Bernstein, plastic bag, chain
12 x 9 x 8 in. (Chain approximately 70 inches long)

Lamp to go
2025
light, plastic cup, various objects

Nightlight (ibuprofen), 1+2+3+4
2023
ibuprofen bottle, nightlight
edition of 6
smallest: 3 ½ x 1 ½ x 1 ½ in.
largest: 5 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.
Edition of 6 (#1/6)

society ceiling fixture night light 1-12
2025
LED night light, inkjet print on laid paper
1.5 x 1.5 x 2 in.

“the spirit of the lady again flickered up as the flame within the socket of the lamp” Helene Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1990).
2023
Lamp, Stencil set, hook, paint
42 x 31½ x 16 in.

Issues and names issues and names –GL
2023
plastic bags, lamp parts, found object
15 x 20 x 5 in.

Of course I have no reason to write to you again, again–GL
2025
lampshade and found office lamp
16 x 13 x 10.5 in.

Beacon
2023
Lamp parts, sawdust, paint, glue, flagpole mount
100 x 26 x 4 in.

Beacon (detail)
2023
Lamp parts, sawdust, paint, glue, flagpole mount
100 x 26 x 4 in.

He always said you were gonna be somebody, somebody (La Bamba, 1987)
2025
Polyester fabric, wire, lamp parts, brass, steel door latch.
10 x 16 ½ x 10 in.

Drupe 1
2023
fabric, wire, lamp parts
18 ½ x 9 ½ x 9 in.

Drupe 2
2023
fabric, wire, lamp parts
18 ½ x 9 ½ x 9 in.

Lydia Rosenberg
Lamp Store, Grand Reopening
installation view

Exhibition

Lydia Rosenberg
Lamp Store, Grand Reopening
June 7 - August 2, 2025
Reception 5-7PM June 7

Press release PDF
Opening up the lampstore and closing down the lampstore PDF
Art Viewer

Event

Lydia Rosenberg
Artist Talk: Opening and closing procedures for lamp store
July 15, 2025
Talk at 7pm. Doors at 6:30pm for viewing.
Rosenberg joins us remotely.

Event

Watch Party
Red May: De-reification and Art Now
May 30, 2025 6pm

In-person happy hour watch party at 6pm for the Red May event De-reification and Art Now: Jaleh Mansoor with Matt Browning, Anita Chari, and Minh Nguyen (mod). The actual Red May event is scheduled during working hours at 2PM the previous Tuesday, so we’ll rewatch a YouTube of it at a temporal as well as spatial remove. Jaleh’s new book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction will be released by Duke on May 20.

PDF of first introduction