TBA Leftovers: Four Art Shows You Can Still Catch

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Kirsten Nicolaisen, GoLocalPDX Digital Producer

Photo Credit: MSHR (image cropped)

Portland's Time Based Art (TBA) festival is over for another year, but if you missed it, fear not: five of its visual art exhibits are still open to see through the end of September or later. The exhibits were part of the visual arts selection, As round as an apple, As deep as a cup at TBA. All the exhibits below are free.

1. MSHR - Resonant Entity Modulator

MSHR's Resonant Entity Modulator is a conglomerate of hand-built analog synthesizers and digitally fabricated hieroglyphic sculptures. Artist MSHR aims to pull elements of light, sound, and shape through the artwork's nested feedback eddies. The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) said that visitors can become a part of the modulator's feedback cycle, "steering its course through their intentional engagement and ambient presence."

Resonant Entity Modulator can be viewed at Fashion Tech, 2010 Southeast 8th Ave, Portland, daily from 12 to 6pm through September 30.

2. Emily Roysdon - Uncounted Futures

Photo Credit: Emily Roysdon (image cropped)

Uncounted Futures, created by artist Emily Roysdon is an interactive work based on questioning the concept of time. The exhibit is described by PICA as "the rhythm of a wave, a kaironic triangle, intuits another possible time. What goes unseen in time and how do we measure our own? Waves of history, what floats?"

Roysdon's Uncounted Futures can be viewed at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) 415 SW 10th Ave, Suite 300 Portland, through October 11. Tuesday through Friday 11am to 6pm and Saturdays 11am to 4pm.

3. Jennifer West - Flashlight Filmstrip Projections

Photo Credit: Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, Marc Foxx

Jennifer West's Flashlight Filmstrip Projections is a unique way of looking at filmstrips. The artwork is a dark room filled with hanging glass sheets covered in film strips. Guests are only given a flashlight to see what the filmstrips contain. The light distorts the images, changes the color of the film, and projects the images onto the surrounding walls.

"Her project presents a screen-less, communal viewing space where audiences can playfully explore the art of projection," according to PICA.

West's Flashlight Filmstrip Projections can be viewed at Fashion Tech, 2010 SE 8th Ave, Portland, daily from 12 to 6pm through September 30.

Get an inside look at the exhibition here.

4. Wynne Greenwood - Stacy

Photo Credit: Wynne Greenwood (image cropped)

Queer feminist artist Wynne Greenwood's Stacy transforms a gallery into a studio and performance space to re-engage her band, Tracy + the Plastics, in relationship to her most recent experimental video, installation, and object-based works.

Greenwood performs live as "Tracy" with two artists projected on a screen, Nikki (on keyboards) and Cola (on drums). The three women sing, banter, and chat during the performances, and all three women are actually played by Greenwood herself.

Stacy can be seen at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Blvd, Portland from 4pm to 8pm through October 19.

Read our review of Stacy here.

Banner Photo Credit: Marc Foxx