July 25 Machine Garden

We are amidst a great discussion of artificial intelligence in the US. The discussion has not yet deeply engaged job loss and its tax subsidies for capital spending on robots. Artists are working with AI and others reject it.

Apropos, Hannah Newman brings her installation An Optimized Garden.

"In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligences, An Optimized Garden expands the conversation into the open air. Transforming the backyard space of Gallery 1122 into a landscape teeming with digital and natural plant hybrids, the exhibition invites viewers to move through an environment where digital and organic systems collide and co-evolve.

As AI companies present AI as inevitable, the next stage of our human evolution, An Optimized Garden considers the ecological and human toll of a planet merged with AI. Throughout the exhibition, hand-built sculptures and paintings coexist with AI-generated imagery, combining natural and technological materials, including dried plant matter, silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and electronic debris. At the heart of the exhibition, an AI-generated voice narrates both the promises and the risks of AI’s entanglement with human and ecological systems.

Sprouting from the anxiety and unstable terrain of our contemporary moment, An Optimized Garden questions just what will take root from our new relationship with AI. Will the fruit of our gardens taste sweeter when everything is optimized?"

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free

July 24 Astral Uncertainty

Jessie Weitzel Le Grand opens mixed media sculptures Astral Accessories.

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

July 18 Soft Country Decay

Cori McCullough https://www.iamcorii.com/ presents Soft Decay.

At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free


Jeffrey Silverstein https://www.jeffreylewissilverstein.com/ is a NW progressive country musician. For your listening pleasure, he brings cosmic country.

That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-cosmic-country-curated-by-jeffrey-silverstein at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

July 17 Cavity

Helen's Costume opens its 2026 season. Jackie Stewart, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cody Brandt, Lena Lutz, and Chanel Conklin show work.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free

July 12 Nature

Public Nature is an improvised collaboration between a mover/dancer, a musician, and a word artist. Tonight Takahiro Yamamoto featuring Brandon Conway, performance, Judy Nahum, poetry, and Ari lynn, sound. It is an ongroing series by Danielle Ross https://www.daniellerossperformance.com/blog.

The performance is in a bookshop on the upper floor of a building filled with studios. Doors open at 7:30 and will absolutely close before the performance, no late arrival.

At Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 8PM $10-15

July 11 Resting

Part 2 of Brianna Spencer's I'm Resting Now Before It's Too Late opens and Consuelo Wise's Boy continues in the project room.

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free

July 10 Tarot

Junko Mizuno 水野純子 http://www.mizuno-junko.com/, brings her tarot design illustrations the latest in a several year project.

It's https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/junko-mizuno at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free