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December 21, 2015
AYUMI TAKAHASHI
January 7 through 29
Monday through Friday: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Reception: January 7, 6:00 to 9:00pm
Duplex Gallery, 219 N.W. Couch Street, Portland
View “I, You, Me,” a collection of portrait paintings and drawings by Portland
artist Ayumi Takahashi, whose works are influenced by ancient Chinese paintings
as well as Japanese woodcut prints, fashion, and textile design. For more
information, call (503) 206-5089 or visit <www.duplexgallery.com>.
(Photo/Duplex Gallery)
Mark your calendar!
The Year of the Monkey
begins February 8, 2016.
Display advertising space reservations for
our special Year of the Monkey issue are due
Monday, January 18 at 5:00pm.
The Asian Reporter’s Lunar New Year
special issue will be published on
Monday, February 1, 2016.
ONGOING EVENTS
“Paradox of Place:
Contemporary Korean Art”
Yoshi Kitai
Through Dec 26, 10am-6pm (Tue-Fri),
9am-3pm (Sat), Oranj Studio (0726 SW Gaines
St, Portland). View “Junction (Con) Junction:
Transition,” an exhibit featuring works by artist
Yoshi Kitai. For info, call (503) 719-5338 or visit
<www.oranjstudio.com>.
Ruri
Through Dec 28 (Mon-Sat), 10am-5:30pm,
Attic Gallery Downtown (206 SW First Ave,
Portland). View “Aspire,” an exhibit featuring
clay sculpture by artist Ruri, who finds inspira-
tion in nature and relationships. The name of
Ruri’s anagama is “FuuKooGama,” which
means “wind and light kiln” in Japanese. For
info, call (503) 228-7830 or visit <www.
atticgallery.com>.
Postwar Japanese prints
Through Jan 3, 11am-8pm (Wed),
11am-5pm (Thu-Sun), University of Oregon
(UO), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (1430
Johnson Lane, Eugene, Ore.). View “Expanding
Frontiers: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth
Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints,” a
display of more than 110 modern and
contemporary Japanese prints. The exhibit
explores contemporary printmaking techniques
— aquatint, etching, intaglio, lithography,
mezzotint, silkscreen, stencils, and woodblock
printing — and more. For info, call (541)
346-3027 or visit <jsma.uoregon.edu>.
(503) 877-5162
UPCOMING EVENTS
White Lotus Japanese Club
Dec 22, 4-5pm, Troutdale Library (2451 SW
Cherry Park Rd, Troutdale, Ore.). Teens in
grades six through 12 who are fans of anime,
manga, or Japanese culture are invited to join a
gathering of the White Lotus Japanese Club.
The event includes watching movies, drawing,
reading, socializing, and more. For info, call
(503) 988-5355 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Andaz
Dec 26, 9pm-2am, Analog Café and Theater
(720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland). Join the
party at Andaz and enjoy the latest electronic
dance music of the South Asian diaspora. Hosts
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid provide the
bhangra, Bollywood, Punjabi, and Desi beats.
Andaz is for persons age 21 and older. For info,
call (503) 281-3918 or visit <www.anjaliandthe
kid.com>.
“Counter-Couture”
Jinie Park
Through Jan 10 (Tue-Sun), 11am-6pm,
Bellevue Arts Museum (510 Bellevue Way NE,
Bellevue, Wash.). View “Counter-Couture:
Fashioning Identity in the American Counter-
culture,” an exhibit that captures the energy
and character of the 1960s and ’70s through the
era’s handmade fashion and style. The display
includes more than 100 works, including
clothing, jewelry, accessories, and ephemera of
American makers who crafted the very reality
they craved, on the margin of society but yet at
the center of epochal change. Artists featured in
the show include Kaisik Wong, K. Lee Manuel,
Alex & Lee, and others. For info, call (425)
519-0770 or visit <www.bellevuearts.org>.
Jan 7-30 (Tue-Sat), 10:30am-5:30pm,
Elizabeth Leach Gallery (417 NW Ninth Ave,
Portland). View ethereal paintings on canvas by
artist Jinie Park, thinly layered abstractions
that investigate and engage the history of, and
conventions around, painting. For info, call
(503) 224-0521 or visit <www.elizabeth
leach.com>.
“Winter Group”
Blue Tide Satellite & Internet
Through Mar 13, 10am-5pm (Wed),
10am-9pm (Thu), 10am-5pm (Fri-Sun), Seattle
Asian Art Museum, Tateuchi Galleries (1400 E
Prospect St, in Volunteer Park, Seattle). View
“Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art,”
an exhibit featuring Korean contemporary art,
including mixed-media installation, video art,
and photography. For info, call (206) 654-3100
or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>.
Through Jan 30 (Tue-Sat), 11am-6pm,
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art (134 NW Eighth
Ave, Portland). View “Winter Group,” a group
exhibit featuring paintings and photographs.
The display includes works by Issei Suda, Holly
Andres, Jessica Curtaz, and others. For info,
call (503) 287-3886 or visit <www.hartman
fineart.net>.
Disgraced
Jan 8-31, Bagley Wright Theatre (155
Mercer St, Seattle). Watch Disgraced, a play
about American-born, Muslim-raised Amir
Kapoor, a successful mergers and acquisitions
attorney who is living the American Dream —
an upper eastside apartment, Italian suits, and
the promise of becoming partner. But when he
and his wife Emily, a Caucasian artist
influenced by Islamic imagery, throw a dinner
party for their friends and colleagues, the
conversation steers into more complicated
territory and difficult truths are revealed which
threaten to shatter Amir’s carefully constructed
life. For info, showtimes, or to buy tickets, call
(206) 443-2222 or visit <www.seattlerep.org>.
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