March 2 Westside Art Openings

Portland needs more competitively curated art awards with cash money and collecting. We need awards for artists who can sell nationally and internationally. Not sure if this is that, but it is a welcome award for PSU student artists. Johanna Houska, Shelbie Loomis, and Nia Musiba are awarded the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize and are shown in the PSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum until March 29. 5PM-7 Free.


Whitney Nye is a painter and collage sampler working large in abstract regular patterns. She opens her show, Ramble, made across the US in Covid residencies. Accomanied by Belle Époque by Stephen O’Donnell, finely detailed photorealistic paintings involving animals in a subtily ironic context. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5:30PM-7 Early Close Free


Dinh Q. Lê has Cambodia Reamker. He was in the first PICA visual artist show and is world respected. He does a form of sampling, weaving strips of two images. physically. He samples heavy stuff. Recommended. Local Mark Smith has Stress Formations. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Early Close Free


Christine Clark is well known for her minimal metal sculpture. For this show, Rendering Form, she branches into glass pebbles with the same sensibility. She is at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.

Sam Geballe has experimental self portraits in Self-Untitled. Frank Frances brings Remember the South, sampling the Southeastern US into a visual narrative.

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



Takahiko Hayashi has quiet Japanese abstracts. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis Early Close 5PM-8 Free


Blackfish has a massive show of many of their artists. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 6PM-9 Free


MarchFourth is a band, sometimes marching, laying down a funk groove, accompanied by gogo dancers of a sort, some on stilts. https://www.youtube.com/@MarchFourthBand for a look and listen. They have been around long enough, about 20 years, to gather a cult following. They have made artifacts of that journey too. Some are on sale at an art show tonight. At the Murdoch Collections 2219 NW Raleigh 5:30PM-8:30 Free


Barbara Mason and Tony Furtado have Whales in the Room, 2d and 3d meditations on the environment and wildlife. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th Free


India Lovejoy closes Dark Center. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th Avenue 6-8pm.


Adams and Ollman continues.