Celebrating The Closing Reception of

VISION OF THE GOOD ((VOTG)) 

A CONTACT WITH VISION – Artworks by Sam Klickner

at ILY2 Too

LLoyd Center Mall

2201 Lloyd Center, Suite G113, Portland, OR

4pm:

A Nick Podgurski Workshop

Presented by NEW FIRMAMENT, VOTG and CMG:

DEVELOPING VISION 

Creative Practice, Strategy, and Working in Groups

for anyone who wishes to come into contact with the creative

no experience necessary

5:30pm:

Open Gallery Hours

8pm:

After Hours Performances

Nick Podgurski, Broken Crow, Unity Garnish, DJ Roadhog Bitch New Firmament is an aggregate for the work, music, and art of Nick Podgurski. New Firmament has hosted lectures and workshops, curated ongoing live performance series, released albums, mediated groups inspired by the work of David Bohm and J.G. Bennett, programmed a weekly playlist-by-mail, hosted online book streaming, and is interested in doing work at the intersection of humanity’s inner and outer worlds.

VOTG is a site for individual and group contact with vision presented by artist and musician Sam Klickner, graciously invited by the gallery ILY2 Too at Lloyd Center Mall, Portland, OR. The establishment is a simultaneous exhibition and real-time development space for what Klickner calls “The Klickner Bottle”— a living, creative body of work composed by themselves in constellation and dialogue with people they love. From September through December of 2023, visitors are encouraged to witness and document the site repeatedly to experience numerous slices of its continual revision. VOTG will station an ongoing events series comprising music performances, a/v installation, workshops, lectures, dance, and live streams to boost these repeated visitations. – Love Klickner Bottle

Craig Taborn Bio:

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CRAIG TABORN has been performing piano and electronic music in the jazz, improvisational, and creative music scene for over twenty five years. He has experience composing for and performing in a wide variety of situations including jazz, new music, electronic, rock, noise and avant garde contexts.

Taborn has played and recorded with many luminaries in the fields of jazz, improvised, new music and electronic music including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Lester Bowie, Dave Holland, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Evan Parker, Steve Coleman, David Torn, Chris Potter, William Parker, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori, Carl Craig, Dave Douglas, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dan Weiss, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Rudresh Manhathappa.

Taborn is currently occupied creating and performing music for solo piano performance (Shadow Plays / Avenging Angel), piano trio (Craig Taborn Trio), an electronic project (Junk Magic), the Daylight Ghosts Quartet, a piano/drums/electronics duo with Dave King (Heroic Enthusiasts) and a new trio with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith as well as piano duo collaborations with Vijay Iyer (The Transient Poems), Kris Davis (Octopus) and Cory Smythe. He is also a member of the instrumental electronic art-pop group Golden Valley is Now and performs frequently on solo electronics.

Craig lives in Brooklyn.

BRANDON LOPEZ is a NEW YORK CITY based bassist and composer who’s work is a syncretism of disparate styles and musical processes used to extend and transgress the vocabulary of the double bass.

Ryan “Ry” Albert Miller is a forward-thinking guitarist, composer, and improviser with a captivating new sound. Ryan is an active member of Portland’s thriving creative music scene; uniquely fusing through-composition with avant-garde leanings. 

https://ryanamiller.bandcamp.com/album/fate-wave

Grant Pierce is a drummer and singer/songwriter living in Portland, OR. He is a member of the free jazz squall, Halfbird, and the heavy-psych band, Young Hunter. 

https://grantpierce.bandcamp.com/