August 5 Westside Art Openings

We thought being vaccinated everything would be back to normal in person. But some galleries are still virtual or require masks.


Blue Sky has a survey of the Ingeborg Gerdes. She was a German American photographer making landscape and streetscape work in the Western US. 

Enfant Terrible Bill Will is back in the Nine space, aways recommended.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 6PM-8 Free


The Stumptown Fellowship is back with paintings by Michelle Ramin in her series Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. It's oils, loosely themed on the trauma of our BLM realizations, climate, and pandemic. I predict as we process our reckoning, an accompanying exploration of our experience with first arrivers will emerge.

At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free

Monuments and Memorials by Dinh Q. Lê opens tonight at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê's approach of weaving two photographs never tires. This show mixes samples of Cambodia. It is visually pleasing, but heavy matters hide in it. Lonnie Holley has The Influence of Images there too. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map As far as we can tell, they are doing a YouTube opening only at 6.

Galleries often observe the dog days of August and mount group shows. It is unknown which are open tonight. PDX Contemporary has Walking, Augen has a group show and Froelick has a group show.