December 17 Groupers

This time of year, group shows are popular.


Outlet PDX gathers many of the artists who use their Risograph printers and their art buddies. They are also activating their courtyard. The event continues Sunday, check their socials for deets.

At Outlet https://www.outletpdx.com/ 2500 NE Sandy Blvd E Saturday, September 17th from 10AM-6PM Free


Fisk gathers about 25 of their artists for a group show. Their events are always great.

At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 5PM-10 Free

December 16 Family Affair

Family Affair is the group show in honor of the reopening in a new spot and the rebranding of Chefas.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free


Manu Torres brings bright sculptures for dark season optimism, along with the current show of work designed by Javier Reyes and fabricated in Oaxaca. Bachata & cumbia ensue!

At Landdd Gallery https://www.landdd.org 714 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free

December 10 Tree Music

Lynne Woods Turner is a longtime portland minimalist painter. Vince Skelly carves wood sculptures from whole logs. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free


If you like your Winter music experimental, Elwand (Elrond and Moss Wand) Francisco Botello and Carly Barton bring it. At Leven Community Center 5431 NE 20th at Killingsworth Masks preferred 8PM $8-15

December 9 Lines Elsewhere

Elsewhere is a new show by Alfred Liuion. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


Sebo Walker and Noah Smith drop Between the Lines. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM sharp Free

December 8 Elegant Minimalism

Kristin Miller's work fits well with PDX Contemporary's zeitgeist. The canvases are light colored fabrics, come found, with microscopic Italian glass beads hand sewn thereon. It is a quiet, minimalist, aaand beautiful way to store time. Also good news, the Marie Watt neon piece from the last show was bought by PAM. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-8 Free

December 4 Snow or Shine Spellbinding

The annual open studios at NW Marine Art Works, with artists from the other associated studios is today. 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4 Free


Sarah Turner is half of the Mobile Projection Unit and is pursuing her media MFA back East. She has new video work incorporated into an online performance streaming at 8PM tonight. It recontextualizes sex cam work admixing self realization and witchy. "I’ve developed a new character, glitch_bitch, who will guide you through a seggsy meditation through spell-casting and manifestation practices. During the live stream, I want you to enter the chat, and tell glitch bitch your deepest desires. she’ll help you get there! What’s through the 😻 portal? You’ll have to tune in to find out! Must be 18 +" You can find the details on her insta and browse in. 8PM by donation

December 3 Bluegrey Moon

Blue Moon Camera presents 3 years of looking at customer images being processed and selecting what they like. It is a unique and social show. At 45th Parallel Wines - 8527 N. Lombard, Two Stroke Coffee - 8517 N. Lombard, Revolutions Book Shop - 8713 N. Lombard, St. Johns Boxing - 7441 N. Leavitt, and Leisure Public House - 8002 N. Lombard. Recommended 7PM Free


Charlie Salas-Humara opens a new show. At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Masks required 2PM-4 Free


Mujer, by Cortney Morentin is at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


Art and design duo Midgray are Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas, also featuring Pat Boas. They present A Useless Task it Seems. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8


Oregon Contemporary is having a big sale to raise funds with the help of artists. 5PM-8

December 2 Walking

Downtown Vancouver Washington has its own first Friday evening gallery openings. It is laid out at vdausa.org/first-friday. 6PM-9ish Free


Portland's distributed East side lists some of its openings tonight at the 1FPDX Facebook group. Free

December 1 Westside Art Openings

Westside art openings are reviving slightly, though others focus on Friday and Saturday openings.


Stumptown opens portrait paintings based on photographs by Nicole Williford. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free


Blackfish has Barbara Black, Barbara Coyne, and Angela Passalacqua. They have a virtual artist talk 5:30PM-6 on Facebook Live, and are open at their new location 938 NW Everett. https://www.blackfish.com/ 6PM-9 Free


Continuing last month's show until December 10, Lee Materazzi has Pushed In, photographs of collages. Jordanna Kalman has Jordanna and the Masters of Photography, photographs of collages of images by the photographer and other photographers. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7 Early Closing Free


Waterstone has a 30 year retrospective group show. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Early Closing Free


Kristiano Hargisimo has There Are No Roads Here along with the late Richard Bartow Frog Talk Seriously. There are exhibit eonversations Saturday at 11AM. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free

December 1-3 DIY Confab

PNCA holds its annual symposium open to all. It is loosely themed Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Ourselves! with a focus of hands-on interspersed with a few guest lectures. It also includes open studios in the 511 Building Saturday. DIY symposium https://pncaevents.willamette.edu/e/3171 at PNCA 511 NW Broadway, entrance on Park. Various hours. RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pnca-graduate-symposium-2022-do-it-yourself-do-it-ourselves-tickets-440007041907 Free

November 25 Exploring

Exploring the Vessel gathers functional mugs and other small ceramics from artists, mostly pretty. At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com 2728-2724 NE Alberta 11AM-5PM Free

November 24 Pilgrim Society

The Anti-Pilgrim Society meets, with live painting, prints for sale, and dialogue. Hosted by native artist April Holder.

At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM sharp Free

November 22 Think of the Day

1122 is one of Portland's galleries in a back yard, garage, or chicken coop. They are excellent curators, and their events are friendly and family friendly. "We’ll have art, collaborations, snacks, drinks, stickers, and other surprises (including a piñata from @thevenderia)" It is a Fall afternoon, rain or shine. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 11:22AM-6PM Free

November 19-20 Sun Flowers

Yukio Suzuki stepped into his journey of butoh dance in 1997. Since 2000 he has directed his own group, collaborated, and toured extensively. His movement style reminds Min Tanaka's early work. Tanaka is known for butoh training on his family farm in Japan. Suzuki has been resident here on a small neighborhood farm in St Johns. He performs tonight and tomorrow. It might be an inspiration for modern dancers looking for something completely different, his videos are online.

Yukio Suzuki http://www.suzu3.com/ and https://kingyocompany.wixsite.com/yukiosuzuki-archive/past-activites performs A Moment of Flower solo tonight. It is https://www.witd.org/witd-produced/yukioperformance at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7PM Sliding scale Cash, Check, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp


The Seattle Fall Butoh Festival is also this weekend.

November 19 Wax Pomes

Elise Wagner is a longtime Portland painter. She has made a lot of firmly abstract work, some inspired by science research. She has done a lot with encaustics, formulating media, and teaching workshops. She added a printmaking practice of colographs. In honor of relocating to Astoria, she is having one last show and studio sale in Overlook.

At Elise Wagner studio http://www.elisewagner.com 1522 N. Humboldt Noon-7PM


Rainen Knecht opens paintings accompanied by poetry from Morgan Ritter at Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early Noon-2 Free

November 12 Groups of Jewels

Wave Contemporary has the Nexus of Here with Jessi DiTillio, Claire Elliot, Tia Factor, Marcelo Fontana, Asa Mease, Midgray, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Susan Murrell, Hannah Newman, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Michael Stephen, and John Whitten.

At Wave Contemporary 730 SW10th Avenue, Suite 111 & 112 5PM-8 Free


Next door, After / Time Collective has Afterimage 01: The Third Terrain with Raphael Fan, Pamels Hadley.

At After / Time Collective 730 SW 10th Suite 110 Look for the entrance on 9th 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary has several things. At 3:30: The World is Like a Jewel in the Hand Unlearning Imperial Plunder II by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. 5: Catalog of curator Lucy Cotter's time at Oregon Contemporary and talk. 6: reception.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 3PM-7 Free


PNCA opens their MFA in Applied Craft & Design and their MFA in Visual Studies for a mid-program readout. RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-open-studios-at-pacific-northwest-college-of-art-tickets-450842711687. In the PNCA Glass Building studios 2139 N Kerby 5PM-8 Free

November 12 Broken Spectre

Richard Mosse, b.1980 https://www.richardmosse.com is an Irish artist. I came across his work through his Infra and Enclave. He, like I, was able to travel into Eastern Congo with guides. I was there in about July 1994. The Rwandan civil war, where a lot of bad things happened, was tailing, there were gunshots in the distance, some of our guards subsequently lost their lives. By 2010, the echos of the Rwandan civil war left Eastern Congo a battleground between warlords mining strategic minerals. For his Congo projects, Mosse worked with expired military photographic film Kodak Aerochrome. The film paints the dense green forests as magenta, pink, and sky blue. He exposed images of the landscape, the remnants of war, and his warrior guards. The project, began in 2010 as Infra and subsequently Enclave, a multi channel video work presented at the 2013 Venice Biennale. They were brought by the Portland Art Museum, the first US museum to show the work, in 2014.

Mosse was minted at Goldsmiths, and Yale for his MFA in photography. He immediately began showing at Shainman in New York with Airside and The Fall, themed on aircraft crashes. Later he made images in Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. One project used infrared video to document refuge flows to Europe, as did Ai Weiwei in a different way.

I would call it conceptual landscape photography. It works with my theory of ingredients in contemporary art. He combines an artist statement-narrative, beauty, with difference - false color, and with the emotions of what humans have done. To be successful they have to balance. He has been criticized for the last ingredient, but I don't think he overuses or misuses it.

His latest project Broken Spectre, and the focus of his talk today, is about Amazon deforestation. 

Converge45 guests Richard Mosse for a talk this afternoon at Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium. https://www.converge45.org/events/a-talk-with-richard-mosse There is no fee to enter the museum for the talk. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 2PM Free

November 5 Scenic Slime Liquid Smolder Home Future

Graham Collins opens Scenics. He is a painter and professor all the way from New York. At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free


Fisk has a pop-up book release for Slime, by Christopher Michlig⁣.

"Slime collates a cultural history of 'slime' and 'sliminess,' with particular emphasis on precedents in pop-culture, contemporary art, ecology, science fiction, literature, critical theory, and cinema."⁣

At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 5PM-8 Free


Future Prairie is returning with a public event. They have a little thing of poetry and music. Jzl Jmz, Libretto, Machado Mijiga, Joni Whitworth, Helen Spencer-Wallace, Rich Perin, and Vandoren Wheeler perform. At the Honey Latte Cafe 1033 SE Main 7PM Free


Rosskoph and Ashlin Aronin have a sound and pictures collaboration themed on the oceans, Like Liquid, Cut Loose. Rosskopf has a bright anaglyph painting style. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  Artist talk 4:15PM Reception 5PM-8 Free


M Acuff and Carolyn Hopkins have Smolder, video, sculpture and flat, themed on the "rising anxiety surrounding the various catastrophes of the recent past and impending future." On that theme, "Masks are required for the first hour, to keep our space accessible for our whole community.⁠" At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8


Smalltalk continues their show. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary brings their next curators in residence, Home School from Portland. They have their first group show, including Jasmine Nyende, Fatima Abby Tall, collective Ibisazi Designers Nyabyo from Rwanda, Khadijat Yussuff from Pittsburg, Ansar El Muhammad Intisar Abioto from Portland, and Olivia McKayla Ross from NY,

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free

November 4 Eastside Art Openings

You can find many art shows on the Facebook 1FPDX group.


Way out in Beaverton but on the TriMet MAX, the Abioto family of 6 opens an art show. Midnite, Intisar, Dr. Wood Chopper, Ni, Amenta Yawa, and Medina Abioto span generations and present photography, film, music, dance, written/spoken word, visual and culinary arts. At the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Map 6PM-9 Free


The After / Time collective presents Afterimage 01: The Third Terrain. The rest of the show opens November 12, 5PM-8 at 730 SW 10TH Suite 110. Tonight it is at home terrain, 707 NE Broadway 5PM-8 Free


Dadu Shin RISD-minted opens a show of illustrations. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


One Grand has a large group show in collaboration with Machete Factory, tattoo artists who love gothic fonts. DJ's etc., what they do. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM->9 Free

November 3 Westside Art Openings

A Shared Horizon (Western Door) by Marie Watt opens today. She also has a large installation in the Park Blocks. Covid precautions and an RSVP by info@pdxcontemporaryart.com. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-6:30 Free


Ann Hamilton opens Sense. She is famous. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free


PNCA is back in session and open for First Thursday. Commonly Uncommon: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection, a three-part exhibition of objects and archives runs November 3 - December 10. Also opening tonight, #FF0000, by Tom Manzanarez. Later they are showing the movie Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y. Craft, Art and Design, by exhibiting artist Faythe Levine, in the PNCA Mediateque on the 1st Floor on Thursday, November 10th. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free


I’m This, I’m That by longtime gallerist Laurie Danial, and from Emma Gerigscott, For The Love Of Duck open. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis. Not sure if they are open tonight


Glory Glory by Jess Perlitz reopens Holding Contemporary for first Thursday. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 early close Free


Jordanna Kalman has Jordanna and the Masters of Photography, collages of classic photographs. Lee Materazzi has Pushed In, colorful collages on body models. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free


Mini Giri opens What Remains. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Blackfish is having a garage sale in preparation to move to a new space by World Foods.

October 28 Witch Gravy Amphigory Hob Gob Punk

Weird Portland would not be complete without a stand up paddle board parade and regatta. Witches joined by warlocks paddle the Willamette. They start at Willamette Park and end at Waterfront Park. Pacing them by bicycle would be ideal and seeing them from the Tilikum Crossing and the Hawthorne Bridge would be ideal. They are encouraging donations to SutmptownStrays. Willamette River 11AM Free


The Grass Hut comics and art store moved from Old Town to Lloyd Mall. They are having a big art show today of flat and 3D art from their network. The poster is at https://goopygravy.com/. Lloyd Mall Grass Hut Noon-7 Free


Adams and Ollman opens Amphigory by Will Rawls. There is a very eloquent description on their website about his work and this show of abstract silk screens of the alphabet. He works both coasts based out of LA. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free


Emily Counts https://emilycounts.com/ is a ceramic sculptor from Portland to Seattle. Her earlier sculptures were bright and reminsent of the post modern Memphis movement from Italy. There is a reception for the show, Field Studies, today. At www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Masks required 2PM-4 Free


Hob Gob is Joshua Abelow, Erika Eyres, Elmeater Morton, and Lina Lutz At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free


The writers, poets, and punk bands play tonight. They win the copywriting award for the month:

"Join us for an evening of improvised electronic music, intense vocals, psychedelic folk, and storytelling from horror novelists, oracles, and beings who are very temporarily visiting from other dimensions. This will be scary. This will be funny. This will be the kind of Weird and Wonderfull that makes you feel good, makes you quake with excitement at WHAT MAY HAPPEN NEXT!
You didn’t know you needed to come here. Who were you before this? Do you even REMEMBER? Be stimulated, masticated, laid bare. Get your drink on. Get lost. Get entangled. Come to Haymaker to see some of the weirdest storytellers and legends of Northwest literary and electronic music scenes.
* * * The Dead Air Fresheners are a Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, and Seattle, Washington-based experimental and post-punk musical group. They formed around 1996 “in a dilapidated beachfront mansion on the Eld Inlet in Thurston County, Washington.” They have improvised electronic atmospheres in numerous shows with readers Chuck Swaim and Jennifer Robin. Their combination of costumes, performance art, and on-stage chaos is legendary. Their 17th album, Unfriended, was released on Personal Archives in 2022.
* * * Misha Lynn Moon is a nonbinary trans femme writer and witch living in Portland, Oregon. She started writing when she was a young girl after her favorite teacher said, “I want to know what happens next in this story.” She been trying to see what happens next ever since, both in her writing and her life. Her work has appeared in the anthology 99% Chance of Magic: Stories of Strength & Hope for Transgender Kids on Heartspark Press.
* * * Death is the solo project of lead vocalist Meredith of ＭＩＮＤ ＢＥＡＭ S. ＭＩＮＤ ＢＥＡＭＳ is swirling genre-breaking heavy. ＭＩＮＤ ＢＥＡＭＳ is rising out of deconstruction. ＭＩＮＤ ＢＥＡＭＳ is post-traumatic incantations. Their power is featured on the Bats EP in 2018, and Crone in 2019.
* * * Jennifer Robin is RAW POWER. She writes about geopolitical disasters and her mother. She has toured the country with a mix of readings and music, including appearances at Bumbershoot, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, and Portland’s NOFEST. Robin is the author of Death Confetti (Feral House, 2016), Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm, 2019), and You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury (Far West, 2022). Her book of vignettes about Catholic school, French sex, selling boots to foot fetishists, and the joyless chewing of Thanksgiving turkey, DESTROY NOTHING (the most important thing) will be released by Future Tense in 2023.
* * * Lark and Raven are Skyler Reed and classically-trained violinist Tomoè Martens. Their music fuses alt-folk, Afro-Cuban, and psychedelic genres. Reed is the founder of Moved By Words (http://www.movedbywords.org). He is the host of NW Native Writers Circle, former Oregon Folklife Slam Champion, featured at the Invisible Spectrum storytelling series, appeared in Portlandia, and is published in Voicemail Poems, R.I.S.E: Survivance: Indigenous Poesis, The LBCC Journal Creative Highway, and the Poetics Corvallis anthology This Love Is Legendary. Skyler is the author of two chapbooks, And All Ampersands (2016) and Sex & Wikipedia (2017).
* * * Garrett Cook was raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts in a house half the town called haunted, and grew up obsessed with everything curious, monstrous and perverse. His work has appeared alongside Joe Lansdale in Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade, Michael Moorcock in Kizuna and Jack Ketchum in DOA III, and James Joyce in I Transgress. He is the winner of the Wonderland award for his book Time Pimp, and an Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year 7 for Beast with Two Backs. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese and Russian. Charcoal (2022) is his most recent release from Clash Books.
* * * Linda Rand is an Art Witch and Wolf Mama living in Portland, Oregon. She has been published in Entropy, Nailed Magazine, Unchaste Anthology Volume I, as well as anthologies 2020 Year of the Asterisk, Places Like Home, City of Weird, and The People’s Apocalypse, with non-fiction journal excerpts in Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy. Her artwork has been included in PDX Magazine and the book Oneira: I Dream the Self. Follow on Instagram: @birdswaybotanicals, and read her Pandemic Diaries at https://thebigsmoke.com/us/author/linda-rand/"

At Haymaker Bar 1233 N killingsworth 9PM-1130 5 of your human dollars

October 26 Aesthetic Crystal

The Creative Music Guild is in their improve festival. In it Aesthetic Stalemate, Avola/Vo, Crystal Quartez perform tonight.

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7:30PM-10 $20

October 25 The Future is Here

Yacht https://teamyacht.com/ is a famous art and music project from Portland of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L Evans. They have incorporated spiritual mysticism into their work. Artificial intelligence composition, lyrics, and design are in their recording Chain Tripping.

The Computer Accent movie documents the making of Chain Tripping. For one price, you can hear a discussion between the band and the filmmakers, see the film, then hear the band perform the recording live.

Vaccination or negative test required. Doors 6:30PM show 7 $30-35

October 23 Good Vague

Agnès Varda started as a still photographer with her first professional job at age 22. Her first film, La Pointe Courte, was finished at age 26. It is considered the first film of the French New Wave, La Nouvelle Vague.

It tells the story of a couple questioning romance set in a fishing village.

There is a Portland connection too, Portland artists Laura Glazer and Jennifer Jones papered the city with enigmatic posters “Agnès Varda Forever.” http://psusocialpractice.org/agnes-varda-forever/ Now La Pointe Courte will be presented by Fin de Cinema and the Portland woman filmmaker POWFest, at Holocene.

Musicians scoring the film live are Erika M. Anderson, Kathy Foster, and Rachel Blumberg.

These events are always beautiful. They bring together the musician, movie, and visual arts crowd for some serious listening and watching.

At Holocene 1001 SE Morrison. Proof of vaccination required. Doors 8PM $15

October 22 Dream Method Sandwich Wallflower

Ditch Projects is back from Summer break with music by Methods Body, electronics and drums. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 7PM Donations for performers encouraged


Wallflower is a show of fashion and art in the form of paintings, fiber based wall sculptures and wearable art by Anna Joyce and Holly Stalder. 6:30-9, At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 6;30PM-9 Free


Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen give a talk on their work and show Sandwiches for Every Meal. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 10:30AM Free


One Grand closes their show, Dream Girl. 5PM-10

October 15-16 Waveform Inversion Song

Control Voltage has a pre-event demo for Elektron synths all the way from Sweden. They make box synths, no physical patching, with Teenage Engineering pricing, and in black rather than white panels and knobs. They have their own samples for sale ecosystem to. They are demonstrating their Song Mode. At Control Voltage https://www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. 3PM Free


Inversion is a synth performance. Performers are Tim Held (SEA) of the Podular Modcast, Racia (SEA) of Further Records, Camino Acid (PDX) of Pyramid Xmissions, with DJ Trust Anchor, and visuals by Brother vs Robot. Inversion at Black Swan upstairs Saturday 727 SE Grand 8PM-late %10


Waveform is a synth equipment demo. So all the knob twiddlers and patch pluggers should be there! There is more on the schedule https://www.waveformpdx.com/schedule of workshops and talks. Waveform https://www.waveformpdx.com/ Sunday at the Evergreen upstairs 618 SE Alder 10AM-5PM $10

October 15 Painted Hummingbird Egg

Fisk is a design agency with a graphic bent. They guest multiartist-designer Chris Burnett from LA who has a compatible bright style in his Colibri project https://chrisbur.net/. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 5PM-10 Free


Silent films had live accompanying music. Portland's Fin de Cinema series has revived it with some choice titles. The 4th Wall cafe brings their take tonight.

Mamoru Oshii's films are art, from anime titles to live action like Avalon 2001. Angel's Egg unfolds a story almost without dialog in the ruin of a classical city. Our protagonist has almost waist-length hair that is a character in itself. Angel's Egg was drawn by noted artist Yoshitake Amano. Angel Egg, 1985, was followed by films leading to Ghost in The Shell.

Musicians Pigeon Milk provide a hypnofunk space synth score for Angel's Egg live. At 4th Wall PDX https://www.the4thwallpdx.com/ 1445 SE Hawthorne 7PM $5


Joan McGuire https://joanmcguire.com/painting/ opens Painted Drawings. She works in bright abstracts, biomorphic, and landscapes. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free The Mobile Projection Unit provides visuals and Crystal Quartez sounds at the Mt Tabor Park caldera. 8:30PM Free


There are memorials today for Julie Mancini and Dave Busacker.

October 14 Music

Free Music, The Viperman, DJ Carb play music. Not free though.

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 8PM-10 $5-15

October 8 Assembling Land Youth

Lyndon Barrois Jr teaches at CMU. He was known to noted local curator Yaelle S. Amir, nee Newspace; she curated this show. Barrois works in mixed media assemblage and collage.

At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 11AM-1 Free


Ivan McClellan is an artist and editorial photographer in Portland. https://eightsecs.com/about-us/ (expired security certificate) Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe https://www.robertsprojectsla.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe is a figure painter born in Ghana and living in Portland. They have collaborated on a joint show, Inheritance, commissioned by the Lumber Room. The Lumber Room is one of Portland's serious collectons, and their events are a social melange, recommended. At The Lumber Room http://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/quaicoe-mclellan 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  4PM-7 Free

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen open “Sandwiches for Every Meal.” Their minimal work is always thought inspiring. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM - 5 Free


1122 has Emily Pacheco’s Youth Booth, an interactive costume experience, and continues photography by Kate Malone Kimmich. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-6 Free

October 8, 9, 15, 16 Open Source

Portland Open Studios is a yearly event. Artists self-select, apply, are curated, are included in a guide and then open their studios. It is an opportunity to see what a working artist studio looks like, straightened up for guests. It is smaller than pre-Covid.

Portland Open Studios portlandopenstudios.com. Throughout town. 10AM-5 Free

October 7 Ray Vibes

Tonight's special event is the Mobile Projection Unit with Moss Wand by the river. Highly recommended. Bring a flashlight, blanket, and warmies. Leave no trace. The show will take about one hour. Mobile Projection Unit with Moss Wand at Kelly Point Park, N Kelly Point Park Rd. 8:30PM Free

October 7 Eastside Art Openings +

Portland has several poetry scenes. One is Anis Mojgani's The Piano Farm. This Oregon Poet Laureate reads his poems from the window of his apartment to a crowd in the street on blankets and lawnchairs. Poems out the Window at Sunset 3425 SE Yamhill 6:04PM Free


The usual First Friday locations are open as noted in their 1FPDX Facebook group.


Longtime illustrator Arnold Pander has a new body of work Anthesis, watercolor illustration of flowers. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free

October 6 Westside Art Openings

Westside art openings are reviving with parallel Saturday openings.


Yolanda del Amo all the way from NYC has Archipelago, pairwise portraits of distance and ennui. Julie Mihaly has Now, covid-era empty monochrome landscapes. Incarnations, Life in Cloth is a group show at Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free




Froelich continues Benny Fountain and Landscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Blackfish has a show of new coop member artists. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free


In the Zone, Serena Barton are wax mediym abstracts and Jo Grisham shows too. At 114 Gallery www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free


Waterstone has Wild Abandoned, impressionist landscaped by Shannon Carlson. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Leach is mid-cycle, but were open last First Thursday, so they may be again with Mathew Picton and Jeremy Okai Davis.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7 Early Closing Free

October 5 Pray

Computer Age Recordings, all the way from NYC, Terror Apart, Ceremonial Abyss, and Cosmic Surveillance perfrom at Portland's covert temple of experimental music.

It is live aand in person or on Twitch/xchurch. Live, masks encouraged. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-10 $15

October 1 Invisible Lines Flash

Along These Lines is an exhibition Julia Bradshaw, Ron Linn, and John Whitten. Their photography, painting, and drawing are themed on landscape.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Carnation Contemporary has Raphael Arar and Renee Couture with Invisible Labor, 2d and 3d. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Marico Fayre and Hunter Sunrise are creative partners and partners too. Fayre's photos Ourselves, a Resurrection document their projects and are a book And Then the Flash. Both drop tonight.

At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary continues Willie Little, In My Own Little Corner and People Will Go Take Their Bags and Their Wheelchairs and Go Shopping featuring Doug Wing and Elmeater Mortonby Elmeater Morton and Doug Wing. They close tomorrow. Demian DinéYazhí has a courtyard installation We Don’t Want a President.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free

September 24 Fox Spirits

Performances and films by Midori Hirose, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Julie Perini, Allie Hankins, and Eva Knowles are tonight. At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 7PM Free

September 24 Xenocore and Soft-tribalism

Holding is doing something unusual hosting a design show. It is complicated to explain, probably better to read about it on their site and socials. Maybe something something https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-trends/fashion-cores-staples-trends-cottagecore-normcore-gorpcore-edited-trendalytics-337148/. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

September 17 Sand Mile Letters

The earth is made of rock. The rock is made of elements birthed by the Big Bang a long time ago. Each element is different but the same elemental particles. But they have different weight and color. And for a long time, the weather powered by the sun has been breaking down the rock. Big pieces break, then smaller, then they wash down the streams, rounding. They break into sand, then further into the tiny particles making clay.

Kate Malone Kimmich photographs the beach. The sand sifts by weight arranged by water in different colors. She captures the patterns along with other beach elements.

Her show is Tidal Breaths: Wakonda Beach in Winter.

It is an endless story captured by a poem in the Tang Dynasty:

A wave of sand comes
Another pulls it back
One cycle dies
Another is born
Mutually stirring each other
Endlessly
It can teach the mountain and seas
To eventually be one

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free


It is a bit far out for art geographically; the photography show by Larry Cwik, The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico, is in far Multnomah Village. He works in large prints of images gathered throughout Mexico. The opening this afternoon is quite the sprawling event. There is a new short film by Cwik, screened, a book released, for signing, and poetry read by Walt Curtis. Curtis remains active with https://kboo.fm/program/talking-earth, a poetry podcast over 45 years. The PCC North View Gallery is in that area, so you could link trips.

At Multnomah Arts Center www.multnomahartscenter.org 7688 SW Capitol Highway 1PM-3 Free


Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart, Then soon you’l gain this noble art, is a group show by Alex Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Katherine Bernhardt, Joy Feasley, Raque Ford, Peter Gallo, Jesse Harrod, Abe Lampert, Maia Ruth Lee, Mirco Marchelli, Ryan McLaughlin, Molly Metz, Jeffry Mitchell, Erin Jane Nelson, Borna Sammak, Patricia Treib with fraktur by Unknown Artist, Christian Bamberger, "Flying Angel" Artist, and "School of Weiss" Artist. It is an opportunity to see the gallery interests.

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free

September 17 - 18 All the Zines are Belong to You

Portland is a paper-based town, maybe it's all the trees? We once had a huge paper-making factory in Oregon City marooned on a rock in the middle of the falls. There is still one in Washougal but no one likes the smell today.

Portland embraced the zine zeitgeist, DIY and open source, in the 1980s and 1990s. They were distributed from niches in book stores and music stores. They were passed by hand, friend to friend. The 1998 IPRC helped makers, rebirthed antique printing, and collected a zine library. Reading Frenzy was a zine Mecca.

As a result, zines never died in Portland. One of their continuous reanimators is the Portland Zine Symposium, since 2001. It is this weekend at PSU. The format is tables of zines with the actual maker. There is a different mix of zine creators each day.

Outlet PDX is a shop-gallery preserving a new antique printer, the mighty Risograph from Japan. It is an all in one master maker and offset printer with ink cartridges of many colors. Like multi-color woodblock printing, paper can be sent through with different image layers of different color. Outlet is helmed by illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt. Saturday Outlet hosts a post Symposium meetup in their studio.

Pre-pandemic, both were creative community hive nodes, so check them now to see what's up. Many Portland art events are mask-y, so bring one.

Portland Zine Symposium https://www.portlandzinesymposium.org/ at Portland State University Smith Ballroom 1825 SW Broadway Saturday and Sunday 11AM-5 Free

Zine social at Outlet https://www.outletpdx.com/ 2500 NE Sandy Blvd E Saturday, September 17th from 6PM-9 Free, Registration Required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zine-social-pzs-2022-afterparty-tickets-418382351877.

September 11 Knob Spot

Modular on the Spot resumes sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knob twisters include RHA Laws, James Staub, Kenny’s Login, Woke-Ass Messiah, Life Agent, Max Myriad, and Robert Downey Dangerfield.

At Rocky Butte Park, 6PM Free

September 10 - 11 At Last!

Portland's Deaf film Festival is Saturday and Sunday. It includes Portland's first annual art and craft show by deaf artists and makers on Sunday. There is also an evening social at another location. Saturday films from Noon to 2:30 are family-friendly. Sunday films are all documentaries. There are many breaks for socializing.

Here is the full rundown:

Saturday 12PM-8PM 12pm-1PM Festival Opening and Family Friendly Films 12-12:30 Intersectional Souls Project (30:00) 12:30-12:35 Mouth Language Device (4:57) 12:36-12:37 Solir The Alien (10:00) 12:38-12:48 The Gingerbread Witch (10:00) 12:49-1:06 Dimensions (17:00)

1:15-2:25 Changer A Handtelling (70:00)

2:45-3:30PM ADULT FILMS - SHORTS USA

2:45-2:50 A New man (music video) (4:45) 2:50-2:56 So It Goes (5:55) 2:57-3:03 REAL (5:00) 3:03-3:13 The Participant (9:35) 3:14-3:16 Bent (1:23) 3:16-3:31 Hamburger Airplane (16:09)

3:40-4:30pm ADULT SHORTS CONT’D

3:40-3: The Word Factory (18:00) 3:45-4:00 Elevated (15:00) 4:02-4:15 The Last Words (12:00)

4:45-5:10PM Adult Films - Asia

4:45-5:10 Let The Chips Fall (23:00)

5:30-6:55PM Adult Films- Shorts Europe and Eastern Europe

5:30-5:37 Scotland Forgive Me (6:14) 5:37-5:43 Assassin (5:05) 5:45-5:52 Duplicitous (5:32) 5:53-5:57 Breaking Point (4:01)

6:15-6:20 Guilty Conscience (4:28) 6:20-6:26 Faith (6:20) 6:27-7PM House (30:00)

Sunday 12pm-8pm

Documentaries

12PM- 12:40PM With Capital D (37:20)

1PM-2:20PM Glittering Hands (80:00)

2:40-3:15PM Deaf Kilmarnock (34:18)

3:25-4:35PM The Time is Right for Us (70:00)

5PM-5:20 Between Two Worlds (17:53) 5:20-5:26 Mister Michel (16:00)

5:45-7:45 Tazza Superstar (116mins)

Artists and makers include:

Cymaspace, Brad James Thornberry, painting; Fred Gravatt, painting; Aimee, painting; Thorne Davis tarot card reading; Lesli Holderby, crafts; Kali Doubletree, painting; Hannah Wheatcroft, paintings; Lennox Zer Art, painting, Heather Anderson, crafts, and with information, Open Hand Health and Bridges Oregon.

At the Holiday Inn 8439 NE Columbia Holiday Inn Noon-7 Free

Saturday night from 8pm to close we are collaborating with POP for a special night of social at HI-TOP, located on 5015 NE Fremont Free

September 10 - October 15 Cairn Nan Interviews

Nan Curtis https://www.nancurtis.com/ is one of Portland's arch conceptualists. After her MFA she taught at PNCA influencing a generation. She has a show, Cairnapopia, at Sator Projects now. As part if the show Curtis talks 2PM over coffee and donuts with some Portland guests. Guests are 9/10 - Grace Kook-Anderson, 9/17 - Kristan Kennedy, 9/24 - Mack McFarland, 10/1 - Ashley Gifford, 10/8 - Tiff Harker, and 10/15 - MK Guth.

At Sator Prokects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. Open Thursday - Sunday 12PM-5 Free

September 10 Unknown Riff

Dreams of Unknown Islands by Sasha Wortzel opens in the Cooley. At noon, the artist speaks in the Reed Chapel, thence there is a reception in the gallery 1PM-3. Her films show at the Hollywood Theater Sunday at 2. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free


Tanner Lind Riff has a show and there is a reception for it this afternoon. At www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 4PM-6 Free

September 9 Robin Faun Dream

The intrepid Jennifer Robin is a longtime Portland writer via New York. Sean Croghan is a longtime Portland musician and painter. Croghan accompanies Robin reading from her latest book, You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury. She is a fierce observer of people from her travels and a good spoken word reader, you can find many videos of her online. I'm really looking forward to the musical collaboration, perhaps akin to the famous Steve Fisk work with Steven Jesse Bernstein. Bernstein is more a poet and much darker than Robin. But music and spoken word collaborations are always welcome. The bookstore has revved up its readings in its small space with limited seating. Recommended.

At Mother Foucault https://www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com/ 523 SE Morrison 7PM, doors 6


Miranda Zimmerman is Faunwood. It is kawaii illustration of flora and fauna. She has her own direct channels, and illustrations exclusinve to Nucleus. The Nucleus show includes mostly 3D. Her show there opens today. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


Sa’rah Melinda Sabino opens Dream Girl, graphic work themed on her heritage. At One Grand 1001 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

September 7 Delicious Psychedelic Landscapes

Oregon is on the front edge of plants as an aid for professional psychiatric treatment. If you can't wait, Adam Sorensen is well known for his psychedelic landscapes. He opens a new show of them, Water Color, with a reception today.

"Drawing from a wealth of influences, including references to the Hudson River School painters of the American West, the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich, animation aesthetics, and the ukiyo-e traditions of Japanese woodcuts, Adam Sorensen’s paintings are deeply tied to the reality of the landscape, but are imbued with enough imagination to make them otherworldly.

Mottled prismatic skies, misty waterfalls, and chromatic vistas mingle with emptiness and desolation. These uninhibited landscapes allude to places that have come before us or to those that will come after us. The paintings become a lens in which to view our ever changing, yet continuously sublime natural world."

Sara Krajewski, the Portland Art Museum contemporary curator will interview Sorenson at 6.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5:30PM - 7 Free Masks and RSVP required info@pdxcontemporaryart.com

September 3 Smart Nirvana Paradise

Well Well Projects has Smart Objects and Flattened Images. It is "51 predominately lens-based artists from different parts of the country, who all, in varying degrees, reflect on the overlapping of the artificial and the real within this hyper-digital age. These works either create a sense of confusion as they move from one reality or plane to another and/or bring to mind the fading distinction between our physical and corporeal experiences and our digital, cerebral ones." So bring your magic glasses! ⁠

Artists are: Jen Bacon, Kris Blackmore, Heather Boyd, Tyler Brumfield, Thomas Bugarin, Lesley Bunch, Sarah Cabbell, Teresa Christiansen, Brita d'Agostino, Myra Day, Brian Doody, Travis Flack, Pete Fleming, Melanie Flood, Kristina Gerig, Cynthia Greig, Tom Grill, Ash Hagerstrand, Megan Hansen, Tarja Harney, Robert Harrington, Stephanie Hatch, Ben Herbert, Justine Highsmith, Rebecca Horne, Melinda Hurst Frye, Colin Kippen, Jacob Lahah, Yi Hsuan Lai, Christopher Larson, Haley Lauw, Amanda Lee, James Long, Lisa Maione, Philippe Mazaud, Forrest McGarvey, Harold McNaron, Muscle Memory, Michael Meyer, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Todd Molinari, Clare Parry, Kim Smith Claudel, William Mark Sommer, Dain Susman, Jennifer Trail, Danielle Troy, Kelda Van Patten, Jose Velazco, Marilyn Waligore, Chloe Wilwerding, and Yuyang Zhang.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Carnation Contemporary has Jeremy Le Grand and Matt Bennett Laurents with Nirvanamatopoeia. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Strange Paradise Gallery continues its group show Collective Rage themed on the SCOTUS Roe v Wade nullification. It is a benefit art sale for abortion funds too!

At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary opens by Elmeater Morton and Doug Wing. Willie Little continues.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
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September 3 Foxes Have Two Front Gloves

Foxgloves is new work by Midori Hirose and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Many people know Hirose's work, so we are interested in the paring. Strongly Recommended.


At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today 2PM-5 Free

September 3 Pearl

Pearl galleries are open, and there is a show of independent artists in tents for the weekend Pearl Art Festival.


The continuing show to see is at Stello Arts. Gather has Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger as part of their residency program. The show is up until November 25 and strongly recommended. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th Avenue 2PM-5


Blue Sky has made a curatorial relationship with EnFoco in New York. They find and launch emerging POC artists. They do a show a year for Blue Sky. Nene Sin Patria (Our mother's hands became our homes) is by Amarise Carreras and Nā́rī - Threads of Identity is by Spandita Malik. The artists speak today between noon and 3. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free



Pamela Green has Observation and Reflection, finely detailed landscape and tree drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 1:30PM-4 Free

September 2 Eastside Art Openings +

All of the usual FB 1FPDX spots will be happening.


ADX is back, tonight with a skate deck art show. Artist reception from 4PM-5:30, IGTV from 6PM-7, live music from 7PM-8:30ish Free


Nia Musiba's graphic paintings have their closing show tonight with a zine. At One Garnd Gallery 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free


Way out North, there is a Glass Blower open house. It's at The Pickle Factory 866 N Columbia, entrance off Albina into the fenced lot. 7PM-9 Free

September 1 Westside Art Openings +

Westside art openings are reviving slightly, though others focus on Friday and Saturday openings.


Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com/ opens The opens Age of Kali, Age of Belief. They are detailed mixed media works remixing "historical, religious, and spiritual symbology intertwined with newspaper headlines." This follows his human-built city pattern work. I'm an fan of his early work including the candy sprinkles and mud crack works. His subsequent city works offer more touchpoints. He has engaged Leach and the noted Carl Solway Gallery.

Jeremy Okai Davis http://work.jeremyokaidavis.com/ presents A Good Sport, acrylic portraits of black Americans in sports and academia, in a watercolor style. He was featured by Stumptown: http://stumptowncreative.com/episode-27-jeremy-okai-davis. His representational work reaches many touchpoints in culture.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7 Early Closing Free


Benny Fountain has drawings - Landscapes: Palouse and Provence. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Don Bailey and Sue Tower have paintings, with Stephan Soihl, kinetic sculptures. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free


The map is not the territory: The man is not the face are portraits by Mark Danley. At 114 Gallery www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free


Waterstone has Provocation/Amendment by Micah Kassell. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Early Closing Free

August 27 Chrysalis

Laura Berger has Chrysalis, impressionist schematic figure paintings.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free

August 25 Second Last Thursday

Many of the actual art galleries will be open tonight on Alberta. Free

August 20 - September 25 Sound aux Art?

AuxArt, helmed by Phillip Krohn of Bear Deluxe fame, and PNCA sound professor Seth Nehil is back with a public sculpture sound installation. Sometimes it just runs for free on its days and hours. There are other times with liee musicians which are ticketed events. Their website explains it all. Go by train!

AuxArt https://www.auxart.net/totheriver at the Zeidel Yards Saturday and Sunday 3PM-7 Free - $25

August 19 Zymoglyphic Muse(um)

The Zymoglyphic Museum is a Portland treasure of small museums. They are also among treasures of artist residencies. Resident artists Sam David, Eileen McGarvey, Nicole Quarles, Pamela Hadley and Terra Fenderson present their projects in show Muse II.

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free

August 14 Mod Spot

Modular on the Spot resumes sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knobies include Casual Decay, https://tinyurl.com/CasualDecay; Musique Mystique, https://tinyurl.com/MusiqueMystique; Sean Hølt, https://tinyurl.com/SeanHolt; Molly Miner, https://tinyurl.com/MollyMiner; Station, https://tinyurl.com/Staysh; and Francisco Botello, https://tinyurl.com/FranciscoBotello.

At Rocky Butte Park, 6PM Free

August 13 Witch Robot Pickle

Control Voltage celebrates 10 years of musical waves with a performance by Synth Witch and Brother vs Robot. At Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 3PM-6 Free


The Pickle Factory is a multi-space with artists and makers. Today they put some of their artwork up to see. At the Pickle Factory 900 N Columbia Blvd. Noon-6 Free

August 12 Illustrating

Felicia Chiao has Solo, illistrations. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free

August 6 Saturday

I don't play with dark and I am not interested in dark. I never had a goth stage. I've experienced enough dark in real life. None the less, the dark kids Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven play their dark way tonight. The show is Devouring: a Night Carnival of Hunger. You can look up the details on their socials. SE 2nd and Madison. 8PM $20


The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.

Oregon Contempraray has two shows, Willie Little and group show Motherhood.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free



Where the Future Can Meet is a show by Marcelo Fontana + Katherine Spinella, www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



There is so much I want to tell you is a show by Alyson Provax. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

August 5 Push Street Flamenco Seen

Wahington Park's lonely stage by the Rose Garden springs back to life for several days. Tonight Flamenco launches it. Espacio Flamenco has curated Fiesta Flamenca. Bring a picnic! At the Washington Park Amphitheater 6PM-8 Free


Pushdot Studio is a calibrated printing studio for photographers. They have a 20 year retrospective tonight. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free


Eastside first Friday has a street fair around 2nd and Madison. The scattered events are listed on the 1FPDX Facebook.


UO architecture students decamp in Portland for a show Seen/Scene of their speculative works with social justice in mind. Talk at 6. At 3450 N Williams Ave Ste 101, 6PM-midnight Free

August 4 Westside Art Openings

Bill Will, usually seen at the Nine Gallery, has a show of coin-operated sculptures, Arcade. Along with Under the Flag, US flag-theme paintings by Julian V.L. Gaines. Recommended. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5:30PM-7 Free


Blackfish Gallery has a Land Art show, en gallery, and on land by the Columbia Slough. The work is by Blackfish artist coop members and local tribe artists.

The "Sight Land," outdoor installations may be seen by buses running from the gallery August 13th, 20th, and 27th at 10AM, 11:30, 1:30PM & 3. There are events throughout the month on the Blackfish website.

At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9h 6PM-9 Free


Ruth Ross has Red Scare, a personal meditation on her family in the McCarthy era. Along with mixed media wall pieces I made Harpies Furies Mercies by Diane Kendall. At coop Gallery 114 https://www.gallery114pdx.com/current-exhibition.html 6PM-9 Free


Lori Rhodes has The Greater Good, schematic abstracts. Annie Meyer has landscape monotypes. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


Dualities are minimalist mixed material sculptures by Stephen Adams and Robert Elon. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free


The Tuck Lung space in old town is a temporary gallery. They have a print show themed on Comfort Food to benefit Blanchet House. You can see the works online too. https://www.bhontheledge.com/gallery-show-2022 Ar 140 NW 4th 5PM-8 Free


The Leach Gallery continues their current show. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free


V Moldanado has large abstract expressionist paintings and Ritzuko Ozeki has prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free

July 30 Marine Mermaid Gold Zappa

The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.

Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM--8 Free


Una the Mermaid presents the Portlandia Mermaid Parade. It starts at Noon at Poet's Beach and travels along the waterfront to the Japanese memporial in Waterfront Park. Mermaids are very intelligent and they like to be close to the water, especially on heated days! Family friendly. Mermaid Parade https://www.portlandiamermaidparade.com/ Noon Free


Holding Contemporary closes Fool’s Gold Jodie Cavalier. It is their first post-Covid reception. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free


Almost 45 years ago, Portlander Ike Willis performed with the Frank Zappa band. Zappa was known for his expermiental rock compositions with a Dada irreverence and absurdity in lyrics. Zappa's music and videos are easily found for an idea. The Stinkfoot Orchestra, with Ike Willis, a fifteen-piece rock orchestra, perfoms a collection of Zappa tunes tonight. At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta Review their Covid policy pre-live ticketing Doors 8, show 9 $25

July 28 Last Thursday Art Openings sans Festival

Tonight the Last Thursday street festival closure is postponed because of heat.

That will return August 25 and September 29.

However many of the galleries will be open.

July 28 - August 6 Glass Shadows

Dance is like a sail boat. It is moved by muscles and momentum, like the wind moves sails. The boat's keel is like the root of the stage for feet. But what if you could fly? That is the motovation and magic of aerial dance.

Aerial dance came to Portland when the Oregon Ballet commissioned Robert Davidson to make a work on Portland dancers. It was a lyrical performance.

Davidson was a longtime student of the seminal Joan Skinner at the Universiy of Washington in Seattle. That OBT cohort birthed many projects and performances, and some of those dancers continue to collaborate with Body Vox.

I'm not a dancer but I have many friends who are. After one performance I asked my friend how they could perch 50 feet in the air on a ring, and not zone out in pleasure and simply fall off. They said the pain of the stainless steel ring supporting their body focused things.

Several aerial dance performers located to Portland since and have started their own companies. One is A-WOL Dance, aerial without limits. They have done a good job building a community, http://www.awoldance.org

They bring their annual performance in the trees at night to the Mary Young Park in West Linn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaUB7fupfw It is A-WOL Glass Shadows https://www.eventbrite.com/o/a-wol-dance-collective-268371542 at Mary Young Park 7:30PM $70

July 23-24 Whose Xhurch? Our Xhurch!

The Xhurch is back though it never left in spirit. To celebrate 12 years of bringing experiental music and art, they welcome voyagers back for music, art and poetry. The poster at xchurch.net lists the artists each afternoon to evening. In the age of Omichron, it streams too at Twitch.tv/Xhurch. Strongly recommended.

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 4PM-10

July 23 Painting Bright Summer

Painter Lindsey Cuenca Walker https://lindseycuencawalker.com/Late-Bloomer has bulbous bright canvases edging between abstaact and impressionistic. She is PNCA BFA minted in 2017. Painter Laura Berger https://www.lauraberger.com/, from Chicago has flat schematic portraits.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free

July 18 Ear Musics

The Lumber Room art gallery continues guestsing Laraaji to Portland. This one is more performance of music. 6PM park by Cherry Sprout Produce. Free.

July 17 Musics to Your Bodies

The Lumber Room art gallery guests Laraaji to Portland for a sound and laughter healing. It is 2PM at Peninsula Park. Eyemasks suggested. Free

July 16 Contours Fore Curly Hot Metal Bingo

Marc Handelman https://www.marchandelman.com/ all the way from Brooklyn brings show Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond to Portland. The show is paintings and video animations.

The artist statement takes on some big questions along the lines of Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier, mutated since beyond recognition in the social media world.

'Nature has long been a political and ideological medium in the construction of identity: of who and what belongs, what is native or invasive, and who and what is deemed natural or deviant in the violent grammar and hierarchies of social and political life. Since the early 2000’s, Handelman’s practice has explored the entanglements of politics and nature in the vestiges of the dissolved genre of American Landscape. Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond continues to examine these themes during a period in which language, imagery, and tropes of ecological thinking are increasingly appropriated and warped by white nationalists, alt-right ecology, and eco-fascism. Within them are proposals of ethno-states, visions of biological “stewardship” of racial purity, the naturalization of heteronormativity, and the weaponized rhetoric against immigrants, foreigners, and racial others.

In 2020, a propaganda print from a white supremacist hate group was posted in Handelman’s neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This 5”X4'' print contained an appropriation of an 1855 romantic survey expedition landscape painting by John Mix Stanley captioned by the phrase from the U.S. constitution: “TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.” These prints were part of a broader national propaganda campaign by the same organization drawing on the ideology of Manifest Destiny. They include a poster mapping the Louisiana Purchase, the re-annexation of Texas, and the Pacific Northwest among the expanded territories of the U.S., stamped with the phrase “NOT STOLEN, CONQUERED.”'

I read the artist as an historical anthropologist with a refined graphic art sensibility. It will be interesting to see how miscible those ingredients are in the work.

At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 2PM-5 Free


Fore x four is a dual to the previous show, The Quick by Brackens and Williams, at the Lumber Room. It is abstractly themed on the image of the strength of a table supported by four legs.

This group show is drawn from the Miller Meigs collection including Etel Adnan, Leonor Antunes, Christo, Nona Faustine, Lonnie Holley, Roni Horn, Luchita Hurtado, Simone Leigh, Dave McKenzie, Ana Mendieta, K.R.M. Mooney, Frida Orupabo, Gordon Parks, Deborah Roberts, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Traylor. Wow.

Tonight the gallery brings Laraaji, an ambient musician from Philadelphia in the sound healing vein for a live performance. See tomorrow for a master class with Laraaji. Strongly recommended.

At The Lumber Room http://www.lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/fore-x-four 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  Masks required 5PM-7 Free

Christian Rogers and Shohei Takasaki bring paintings Curly Hair / Hot Metal. They are bright in a good way. There is a more eloquent explanation of the show and the artists on the Nationale website. Curly Hair / Hot Metal https://www.nationale.us/christian-rogers-shohei-takasaki-2022 at www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free Masks required 5PM-7 Free



Artists are, always be selling, and galleries too. So why not make it fun? Well Well Projects hosts an artist talk by Andrea Alonge on her current show Ain’t No Dark ‘Til Something Shines. There will be much socializing, and there will be bingo! The prizes are artworks by Ben Buswell, Jeremy Le Grand, Hyun Jung Jung, Sarah Mirk, Nathanael Moss, Alyson Provax, Harper Quinn, Anthony Roberto, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Kelda Van Patten, John Whitten and more. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map  5PM starts, 5:30 artist talk, 6:30-9 bingo-pay to play, otherwise Free

July 16 Dig It

The Kam Wah Chung General Store and museum is unique in the world. Learn and visit.

The University of Southern Oregon has an archeology department. They are exploring the John Day and Canyonville area for artifacts of the Chinese community of the 1800s. https://news.sou.edu/2020/04/soula-wins-oregon-heritage-excellence-award-chinese-immigrant-research/

This afternoon they invite you to see and learn about the dig. Here is more information on today's program https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/public-archaeological-dig-slated-for-july-16-at-kam-wah-chung/article_04f09fd6-f7fe-11ec-bbcd-4743ff680920.html

Reservations to tour the General Store are extremely limited, so get yours ASAP if they are available.

At the Kam Wah Chung State Historical site https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=5 100 Ing-Hay Way, John Day, OR Free

July 15 Slow Moving Mangrove

The Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/ continues the fine tradition of galleries in homes and visiting artist residencies in Portland. In this case, the resident artist is Rujuta Rao https://www.rujutarao.com/ with Rhizophora. It is a social practice piece with a complicated narrative about mangrove trees which are cool. You can visit the opening tonight, masked, and find out more. At the Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/, address and social practice appointments for Dispersal in their Tumblr 6PM-8 Free


Slow Moving Disasters are collages of found and weathered metal by Emily Pratt https://www.emilyjpratt.com/. They are themed in an abstract way on our natural man-made disaters. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free

July 10 - August 29 CETI - The Search for Creative Life

PNCA's Make+Think+Code moved over to PSU in CETI. Their Enchanted Technology Summer Festival 2022 is now.

The festival is arranged by institutes: Enchanted Objects, July 18 - 29; Interactive Murals, physical and digital, August 1 - 12; Augmented/XR Storytelling, August 11 - 19; and Interactive Installations August 17 - 23. There are also opportunities in Machine Learning/AI, for art, sound, visuals, and pattern recognition; Interactive Data Visualisations and Stories; Generative Design; and Emerging Technology and Society: Implications and Futures.

You can grok it at https://ceti.institute/

July 9 Westside Art Openings+

Chris Lael Larson is a multiartist: painter, photographer, sculptor, interventionist and musician. In painting, he works abstracts in bright primary colors. I met him at this year's Sou'wester art residency. He is doing a pop up today and dropping a new music recording.

Second light drop https://www.chrislaellarson.com/second-light-album-release-art-show at Half Court Studio 2500 NE Sandy Blvd. Suite F 3PM-7 Free


Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has Bean Gilsdorf https://www.beangilsdorf.com/ with Some Women, Baconesque deconstructed photocollage portraits.

Double Life, 20 Years, by Kelli Connell is a deep fake play in a conceptualist vein. One model has been composited into staged domestic scenes.

Jennifer Georgesc has the Mother Series, an exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Georgescu


At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free

July 7 - August 18 Every Corner is Alive

PNCA-Willamette has several programs producing graduates. One is their Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies. They have the following events and many of their viewing spaces are open.

The artists are Stashia Cabral, Élan Chardin, Laura Jean Foster, Amy Gibson, Ondrea Levey, Kelly Marshall, Lynn Ruth Stephens, Devon Pardue, Jenny Wilde, and Ahuva S. Zaslavsky get solo shows changing every week over the period.

July 3–9th in PNCA’s CCAC: Half Life, Kelly Marshall Reception: Thursday, July 7th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: Friday, July 8th, 2:00 PM

July 13–19th in PNCA’s CCAC: Under The Net, Amy Gibson Reception: Thursday, July 14th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 15th, 2:00 PM

July 23–29th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Gallery 157, and CCAC: Sangre de Fresa, Ondrea Levey roams a Golem, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky Reception: Thursday, July 28th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 29th, 2:00 PM

August 2–8th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: This Room Has to do with the Measurement of Time, Élan Chardin tear down., Laura Jean Foster The Brevity within Temporal Asymmetry, Devon Pardue Reception: Thursday, August 4th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: August 5th, 1:00 PM

August 12–18th in PNCA’s Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: CONSPIRATIONS, lynn ruth stephens A Patch in the Fabric of Knowing, Jenny Wilde Licking Toads and Puking Diamonds: A Fairy Tale, Discomposed, Stashia Cabral Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defenses: Friday, August 12th, 1:00 PM

It's all free!

July 7 Pioneer Square Seattle First Thursday

First Thursday of the month evening gallery opernings started in Seattle and spread to Portland where it died. Waterstone is doing it. Blackfish appears to have shifted to virtual with their recent art school grads show.

Complementing the Pioneer Square gallery openings tonight, the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, a fancier and more vibrant version of the Portland Everett lofts hosts a performance.

DAIPANbutoh dancers Sheri Brown, Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Kaoru Okumura, and Robyn Bjornson; musicians Scott Adams, Ken Jacobson, Kai Strandskov, Julie Baldridge, and Demetri Albright; and live visual artists Barry Connolly and Noa Piper, perform an improvisational relay score celebrating the return of live arts and summer! Stay for as long or as little as you deem fit as you stroll through the re-awakened original First Thursday Art Walk of Pioneer Square.

At Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts 115 Prefontaine Pl. S, Seattle. 6PM-8 Free

July 2 Echo Sky

If you are up in Seattle you can see a free performance. Joan Laage/Kogut, Katrina Wolfe, Michael Shannon, David Stanford & Joey Largent perform butoh, a unique modern dance form from Japan. From NW 20, enter the park, walk across the bridge and down to the beach. At Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+Beach,+Shoreline,+WA+98177/@47.7702956,-122.5118816,16z, Seattle. 2PM Free

June 26 Velvet Goldmine

Todd Haynes' first film in film school was Superstar. It tells the sad story of musican Karen Carpenter starving herself to death with stop action BarbieTM dolls. He has gone far beyond over years. Velvet Goldmine is his exploration of a character similar to musician David Bowie. It is fun and has a fun soundtrack. It screens tonight with a Q&A by the director.

Velvet Goldmine (35mm) https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/18435/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM unfortunately Sold Out

June 25 Flamenco+Ukraine

It is weird and sad that war continues to be a thing. We have so many areas of social evolution as a species to devote psychic and material energy to. Climate and equality are top of mind.

So it is offensive, unnecessary, and sad we have a war in Ukraine.

Portland performers family for a benefit to relieve the impact of destruction.

The World is with Ukraine: An International Show of Support brings performers to make donations to the Ukrainian.Foundation you can look up.

Performers are Kevin Burke, Irish fiddler; Inna Kovtun, Kyiv folk music; Espacio Flamenco, O.B. Addy, Obo's legacy - Ghanian Music; Michelle Alany and the Mystics; Andrea Algieri, singer/songwriter from Italy; Jet Black Pearl, Dutch accordion; Andre Temkin, from Chervona; and Darka Dusty & the Borshch Beatniks.

At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta Review their Covid policy pre-live ticketing 7PM $20 livestream, $30 on up live

June 25 Bananas Are Potassium

Portland has a rich history of very good galleries in garages, Car Hole, Appendix, Cherry & Lucic, and more. They are like New York City's appartment galleries. Helen's Costume, and SE Cooper are today.

Helen's Costume opens Bananas with Ralph Pugay, Rainen Knecht, Keith Boadwee, Shelley Turley, and Dan Attoe. The curator-principal has a good network and the shows and openings are intimate and recommended.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today 2PM-5 Free

June 25-August 31+ Afro Futurism

Afro Futurism evolved by independent vectors before it was studied and named. There are two shows in Seattle in that world.

Sun Ra is an epic Afro Futurist, his stage performance costumes, band living situation, and his beautiful film, Space Is the Place, in 1972, capture it. It was real for him. There is a new installation at the Met, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Afro Futurism is found across art, music, literature, movies, architecture, fashion, and more. It is great for children to young adults, and adult interests.

A recent example is the film Black Panther. The costume designer for that, Ruth E Carter https://www.ruthecarter.com/, has a show of her work at the Muuseum of Pop Culture. It runs until at least December 31, there is not yet a firm end date.

The Museum of Museums has Hollaback to the Future: Afrofuturist Dimensions, a group show of 20 artists. It runs to August 31.

At the Museum of Pop Culture of the late Paul Allen https://www.mopop.org/ 325 5th Avenue N Seattle. $18.50-$33

At the Museum of Museums https://www.museumofmuseums.com/ Tickets https://www.strangertickets.com/110788380/mom-tickets 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle. $10-20

June 24 Invisible Moon

Emily Jung Miller Has 1000 Moons, mixed media sculptures, and Sandra Honda, Mei-Ling Lee, & Jefferson Goolsby have Invisibilia made from personal historical materials.

This new venue is right on the TriMet MAX train line.

Two artists https://thereser.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/upcoming_exhibit_17x11_R2.pdf at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Map 6PM-8 Free

June 18 Perform Rain People

Lonnie Holley and Adee Roberson make a show closing day performance. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  Masks required 2PM Free

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⁠Betsy Walton has flat style paintings opening, and in their second gallery, painter Lindsey Cuenca Walker. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free


People is a show of paintings and drawings by Zachary Schomburg. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free

June 10 Masks are for Breathing

Pace Taylor https://www.pacetaylor.com/ is a digital illustrator represented by Nationale. The show has a much more articulate explanation than I can paraphrase. These works are saturated pastels. Breathe When You Need To https://www.nationale.us/pace-taylor-breathe-when-you-need-to-2022 at www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free

June 6 Place-based

Francis Alÿs francisalys.com is Belgian architect turned artist operating in Mexico City.

"Alÿs travels the world to shoot his films, using his camera as a way to observe, investigate, and document human behaviour to understand the culture and patterns by which people live. Alÿs’ often merges the poetic with the political and is known for his performative actions, installations, video works, paintings, and drawings that focus on issues ranging from the politics of borders to traditional children’s games. Walking, as a political act is an essential aspect of Alÿs’ works, as are the concise gestures or banal actions that can be read as signs of global, political conditions or geopolitical processes. Francis Alÿs is currently representing Belgium at the 59th Venice Biennale."

Zena Zezza brings some of his films to Portland.

It is in a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. Opening 5PM-8 Free

June 5 Traveling Tuvan Vampires

Soriah is a Portland Tuvan throat singer. Tonight he accompanies vampires in the flesh. Early start segues to Sinferno, dancers with actual fire.

"The Vampires are taking over Dante's! For one night only, experience a grand revival of the Théâtre des Vampires from Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire -- itself an homage to infamous Parisian horror cabaret The Grand Guignol. Indulge in a mind-bending spectacle of blood, sex, fire, and ritual -- an exotic blend of cirque and soul, showcasing the hypnotic shamanic vocals of Soriah, a veteran of Anne Rice's New Orleans Vampire Ball. Come witness the dark and decadent underworld where nightmares become dreams and vampires rule!"

Meow! www.ticketweb.com/event/the-traveling-vampire-show-followed-dantes-tickets/12040185 at Dantes. 7PM $25

June 4 Above Below Earth Sea Orion

The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.

Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, continues. Pattern/Parameter by Peter Gronquist, Daniel Peabody and Joan Truckenbrod closes.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free



As Above, So Below by Maria Lux and Kyle Adam Kalev Peets is at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



// This little spot of Earth \\ //\\ that with the Sea //\\// Embraced is \\ by Jessie Rose Vala is at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Orion by Doug Lowell is at the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

June 4 Westside Art Openings+

For your +one, Sidony O'Neal is a minimalist conceptual sculptor, performer, and writer. She had a solo show at Fourteen30, a solo show Portland's Pataphysical Society, a solo show at at Seattle’s artist-run Veronica, and a group show at the Sculpture Center in NY. Now she has a new solo show, Enchiridion: Aisle, Spline, Resort. It opens today at noon to 4, then it's open regular hours. Masks required. At 15 NE Hancock Free


Several of the NW galleries are experimenting with Saturday, in their regular hours. New shows are below, A&O is worth a visit for their continuing show.


George Johanson has Animalia - An Homage to Our Fellow Endangered Passengers, Linocuts & Drawings and Riffs on Chauvet Cave (circa 35,000 BC), monotypes At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 1:30PM-4 Free


The late sculptor Lee Kelly has show Yucatán Revisited. He visited there many times. These are his last sculptures and drawings. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 10:30AM-5PM Free


El Césped del Otro Lado (The Grass on The Other Side) by Luis Manuel Diaz explores the experiences of early generation immigrants to the US.

Naturalists the Long Now by Ian van Coller was imaged traveling with climate scientists gathering ancient ice samples for study.

Christine Clark has Pendulant at the Nine Gallery.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free


Fuller Rosen is relocating to Philly with this last show in Portland. Arielle Zamora has geometric paintings built in a complex series of layers. Molly Alloy makes sculptures incorporating natural material like driftwood and leather. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free


For Ruth Armitage has nine abstract paintings, along with the fork of nine artists who inspired her, with their works hung adjacent. Those are Skip Lawrence, Katherine Chang-Liu, Carla O’Connor, Donna Zagotta, Sara Swink, Randall David Tipton, Judy Morris, Linda Rothchild-Ollis, and James Kirk. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 1PM-4 Free