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Molotkov Co-founders & editors of Inflectionist Review Opener with local poets: Nancy Cook Jim Dott Anne Splane Phillips Florence Sage, MC Friday, Nov 8 Doors at 7 p.m. Opener 7:30 p.m. Inflectionism 8:45 p.m. $8 @ KALA everything everything everything Inflectionism is an artistic movement that was started in 2010 by three Portland poets a love triangle, a buddy comedy, a road movie who sought a more organic approach that respected both poet and reader, both words and Sunday, November 3 @ KALA interpretation. As a creative philosophy, Inflectionism seeks ULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE, EVERYTHING mixed-racewriter, performer, mixed media artist, multi-disciplinary story telling, teaching theatrical to build upon what has come EVERYTHING EVERYTHING comes to the KALA M and lighting designer. Her work has been shown at technique to students, using memory as the jumping before and gently bend it to stage this November. After a successful workshop Odyssey Idea Gallery, On the Boards, Northwest Film off point, to create creative non-fiction. reflect what has and has not performance during the Heineken City Arts Fest Forum, Century Ballroom, Seattle Repertory’s Leo K KALA welcomes audience to experience innova- changed about the world and 2012 (under the working title Storytelling in the Fur- Theater, and Bumbershoot Music Festival. As a Light- tive theater from our north I5 urban neighbors. Come our methods of expressing it. The Inflectionist Review is a niture Store) its creators are taking their show on the ing Designer and Technical Director, she has worked enjoy an herbal cocktail by Love Warrior Medicine and road. The project combines spoken word, music, and for Salt Horse, the Cherdonna and Lou Show, the Pat small press publishing stark and a one-hour story-telling trip, with music and pictures! distinctive contemporary poetry visual art in the form of a vintage Kodak slideshow to Graney Company, and LINGO dancetheater. that fosters dialog between create an immersive audience experience like none Andrews is a writer and performer. His storytell- Sunday, November 3. Doors Open 7pm. the reader and writer, between other. ing work has appeared in the City Arts Festival, the words and their meanings, Performance at 7:30. It’s the story of two roommates, Wesley K. An- Solo Performance Festival, 12 Minutes Max at On the between ambiguity and concept. drews and ilvs strauss (pronounced “Elvis”), whose Boards, and the “Radio Heads” Festival in Edison, NJ. Tickets are $12 in advance, available at Each issue gathers established shared passion for the same seductress threatens to He is the Producer of Verbalists, a storytelling com- Imogen and RiverSea Gallery, and emerging voices together toward the shared aim of unique ruin their friendship and both their lives. And that’s all pany in Seattle, and recorded his first album-length $15 at the door. expression that resonates be- we’re saying! spoken word show at Empty Sea Studio in 2012. yond the author’s world, beyond Seattle-based artists Andrews and Strauss share a Strauss and Andrews, in addition to writing and Listen to ilvs and Andrew on KMUN Radio’s the page, and speaks to the diverse background in performance. Strauss is queer, performing also offer workshops in collaborative Friday Magazine, November 1. universality of human language and experience. 3 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com KALA@HIPFiSHmonthlypresents Borrowed Images LAYER CAKE: Leigh Oviatt • Photgraphy LIKE LIKE: Jeremy Okai Davis • Paintings 2nd Saturday Art Walk • Oct 12, 5 – 9pm KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria • 503.338.4878. THIS MONTH KALA@hipfishmonthly adds music publication, American Songwriter, to pixels to indicate that population’s two new artists to the layout, aptly titling of late penning Americana duo The Civil lack of public recognition, while the show Borrowed Images, in a continuum Wars. Art writer A.L. Adams (art colum- light-skinned subjects were given from September’s collage show. nist for the Mercury and former editor for Elizabethan neck- Portland Monthly Magazine) recently writes Kurtiss Lofstrom’s thrift store painting/ ruffs for a sinister Leigh Oviatt: photo image on canvas 16 x 20 on Davis’ show: torn paper mastery, in addition to his hint at a system of shade-stratified reconstructed croquet sculpture remain; Jeremy Okai Davis’ Like Like is titled The images in “Like” along with Sid Delcuca’s absurdist/humorist after the banal post-modern act of thumbs- status. Davis’s 2013 tend to taper into vintage magazine pieces. upping a digital image on a social media paintings again drips toward their site—and maybe that’s all there is to it? If borrow imagery base, both as an hom- LAYERCAKE: The photography of Leigh age to Warhol’s works, that’s what you see, the artist won’t argue. from 70’s and 80’s Oviatt searches for faces peeking out of the and as a concession “My choosing of what to paint does come retro and celebrity, to the medium of confusion of the peeling layers of post- from my liking of these images,” Davis now with primarily paint—as Keith Haring ers on utility poles. Creating a collage of advocated, “letting... explains of the photos he’s painted from white subjects, board weathered papers and poster images, with materials have a kind friends’ Facebooks and Instagrams. of power for them- an “up-close”enough to make you want to game poses, and uneasy self-help-book selves.” Daub pointil- touch – her two year project traversing the Davis’s frankly hipsterish subjects mug lism is also a favorite streets of Portland culminates in a series a range of expressions and gestures with titles. Not what they for Davis, forcing the photographic works printed on canvas. obvious awareness of the camera, but they seem, these pieces viewer’s eye to make shrug off prior generations’ “smile and say have been Davis’s way the final assembly of A new comer to the Astoria artist scene, only-nearly-smooth cheese” poses. This generation of image- of processing a surreal forms. Oviatt remarks she has a penchant for crafters clearly prefers to be caught in an personal experience, street photography, “shooting from the act, rather than frozen from some flattering when his stay in a hotel hip,” especially in travel to other places. angle. This evolution fascinates Davis, both coincided with another She is currently ensconced in the HOLGA Jeremey Okai Davis, 2013, acrylic on canvas because people in motion are so graphical- guest’s murder. camera and practicing the art of film de- ly dynamic, and because the habit of acting velopment at LightBox Gallery in Astoria. rather than posing has become a hallmark Davis’s body of work viewed as a whole Layercake came about from a class project of our visual times and virtual selves. invites an important question: where does through Portland’s New Space Center, he see himself—among White hipsters, or Davis’s 2009 Shits ‘n’ Giggles show and in which the subject of photographing Black history? “I don’t,” he admits. Where 2010 works had a similar tone to Like Like, was to incorporate language/letters as many portraitists use their paintings of featuring mostly young, boldly-dressed- imagery.