For your +1, Tomoya Matsuzaki debuts in the US. https://adamsandollman.com/Tomoya-Matsuzaki
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free
For your plus 2, the Lumber Room is on break from art shows. They are doing an event honoring their interior redesigner, Osmose. Where I End…You Begin — Osmose: A Survey of Design (2007–2026) surveys interiors and built environments by designer Andee Hess and studio, Osmose.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/ 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 5PM-8 Free
Pepper Pepper is a Portland multiartist, including organizing drag caberets with PICA. Listening Exercises are a series of drawings inspired by their performances.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Claire Elliott brings Tending to Wild, inspired by plants and gardening.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kim Smith Claudel https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/gloves, an artist working in 2 & 3D, brings Yard Work, which "examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one's landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired."
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues its Amy Ruhl and North Pole Studios/Elbow Room Converge45 shows through Sunday.
Franklin Foto has the latest review of Portland protests by photographer Ryan Dundon. It's https://www.truthinphotography.org/protest-city-2026.html They publish limited edition phtoto books.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Friday, October 02, 2026
October 2 Eastside Art Openings
First Friday gallery openings are listed on the socials.
Gina Matarazzo https://www.ginamatarazzo.com/ has all the cute plant and animal illustrations.
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/gina-matarazzo-solo at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Gina Matarazzo https://www.ginamatarazzo.com/ has all the cute plant and animal illustrations.
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/gina-matarazzo-solo at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Thursday, October 01, 2026
October 2 - 4 Moving Movies
Most people in the world dance. Dance is a many branch tree. One branch is modern and contemorary dance performed on stage. The Portland Dance Film Festival is the movie version. Dance is documented straight through by rules. Much more engaging, the Portland Dance Film Festival wants stories told with dance allbeit abstract. I have seen several years of what they do and recommend it. It would be good for dance students. The Portland Dance Film Festival https://portlanddancefilmfest.com at The Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division 7PM each day, add 4PM Sunday for a talk. $15
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
October 1 Westside Art Openings
October is Portland Textile Month in galleries. It's https://textilex.org/. There is a kick off event at Skylab.
Illy2, The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Fine Art Fruit, Stelo, After / Time Gallery, Laura Vincent, Froelick, and The Writers' Block continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. You can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
For your +3 all around town, ADX has collaborated with galleries and spaces for a month long ADX Fest. Many of the events are workshops. Details https://www.adxfest.com/
Chris Chandler has Expression of Structure, graphic works in the Constructivist vein. MK Guth, Elizabeth Hohimer, Ellen Lesperance, Mary Ann Peters, Vo Vo, and Anna Von Mertens have contemporary textile works.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Bootsy Holler has Contaminated: Invisible Fallout, photographs and mixed media themed on radioactive contamination of the Hanford Site in Washington from the Manhattan Project. https://bootsyholler.com/PORTFOLIOS/Contaminated/2
From Photolucida, Lucy Bohnsack has This Work They Call Love, https://www.lucybohnsack.art/work/this-work-they-call-love It is themed on motherhood.
In the Nine Ronna Neuenschwander brings Pandora’s Amphora. Is Amphora self-plural? These works represent things released by Pandora. Currently topical.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Russo Lee has a sprawling 40 year retrospective with artists James Allen, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Heather Lee Birdsong, Michael Brophy, Louis Bunce, Sean Cain, G. Lewis Clevenger, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, Laura Domela, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gabe Fernandez, Julian V.L. Gaines, Dan Gluibizzi, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, James Lee Hansen, Roll Hardy, Manuel Izquierdo, Lisa Jarrett, Jackie K. Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Willie Little, Betty Merken, Michael Paul Miller, Carl Morris, David Curt Morris, Hilda Morris, Richard Notkin, Whitney E. Nye, Stephen O’Donnell, Kim Osgood, Lucinda Parker, J.D. Perkin, Jack Portland, René Rickabaugh, Chris Russell, Michele Russo, Michael C. Spafford, Dirk Staschke, Eric Stotik, Whiting Tennis, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Samantha Yun Wall, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Ko Kirk Yamahira.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Kindra Crick brings Nocturnal Worlds. https://waterstonegallery.com/show/waterstone-gallery-kindra-crick-nocturnal-worlds#works "Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes." Several artists work in EEGs, such as Jane Antoni's Slumber.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Kanetaka Ikeda has Cosmic Trees, Stephan Soihl, In Memoriam, Paula Bullwinkel, S’wonderful S’marvelous, and Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Stanzas.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. Heaven Must Be Near is Momo Gordon and Erasto Reyes-Silva, drawing and sculpture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Heather Harlow https://heatherharlow.com/art/ has colorful abstracts in complex Venn diagram form. At 734 NW 14th 5PM-8 Free
Eva Lake brings collage, We Had Faces.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Imperfecta has paintings by Dan Gay, Signal / Noise.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette may have visual shows tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network has all their stuff and things sale on 13th.
Illy2, The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Fine Art Fruit, Stelo, After / Time Gallery, Laura Vincent, Froelick, and The Writers' Block continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. You can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
For your +3 all around town, ADX has collaborated with galleries and spaces for a month long ADX Fest. Many of the events are workshops. Details https://www.adxfest.com/
Chris Chandler has Expression of Structure, graphic works in the Constructivist vein. MK Guth, Elizabeth Hohimer, Ellen Lesperance, Mary Ann Peters, Vo Vo, and Anna Von Mertens have contemporary textile works.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Bootsy Holler has Contaminated: Invisible Fallout, photographs and mixed media themed on radioactive contamination of the Hanford Site in Washington from the Manhattan Project. https://bootsyholler.com/PORTFOLIOS/Contaminated/2
From Photolucida, Lucy Bohnsack has This Work They Call Love, https://www.lucybohnsack.art/work/this-work-they-call-love It is themed on motherhood.
In the Nine Ronna Neuenschwander brings Pandora’s Amphora. Is Amphora self-plural? These works represent things released by Pandora. Currently topical.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Russo Lee has a sprawling 40 year retrospective with artists James Allen, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Heather Lee Birdsong, Michael Brophy, Louis Bunce, Sean Cain, G. Lewis Clevenger, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, Laura Domela, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gabe Fernandez, Julian V.L. Gaines, Dan Gluibizzi, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, James Lee Hansen, Roll Hardy, Manuel Izquierdo, Lisa Jarrett, Jackie K. Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Willie Little, Betty Merken, Michael Paul Miller, Carl Morris, David Curt Morris, Hilda Morris, Richard Notkin, Whitney E. Nye, Stephen O’Donnell, Kim Osgood, Lucinda Parker, J.D. Perkin, Jack Portland, René Rickabaugh, Chris Russell, Michele Russo, Michael C. Spafford, Dirk Staschke, Eric Stotik, Whiting Tennis, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Samantha Yun Wall, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Ko Kirk Yamahira.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Kindra Crick brings Nocturnal Worlds. https://waterstonegallery.com/show/waterstone-gallery-kindra-crick-nocturnal-worlds#works "Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes." Several artists work in EEGs, such as Jane Antoni's Slumber.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Kanetaka Ikeda has Cosmic Trees, Stephan Soihl, In Memoriam, Paula Bullwinkel, S’wonderful S’marvelous, and Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Stanzas.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. Heaven Must Be Near is Momo Gordon and Erasto Reyes-Silva, drawing and sculpture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Heather Harlow https://heatherharlow.com/art/ has colorful abstracts in complex Venn diagram form. At 734 NW 14th 5PM-8 Free
Eva Lake brings collage, We Had Faces.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Imperfecta has paintings by Dan Gay, Signal / Noise.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette may have visual shows tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network has all their stuff and things sale on 13th.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
September 25 Fall Joy
Portland painter Shelley Turley drops a book of her works, Pocket Joy: Meditations on Friendship and Love.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free
September 24 Last Thursday on Alberta
Antler and Talon shows 20 artists in their Susannah Kelly Art Award curatorial project in show themed The Ribbon, "focused on rebirth, renewal and the circle of life." Along with several other gallery artists.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Blind Insect continues. Not sure what Flight64 is up to.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Blind Insect continues. Not sure what Flight64 is up to.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
September 21 Tells All
The Boathouse Microcinema begins its Fall season with movie Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! https://vimeo.com/789495262.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 6:30 movie 7 Free
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 6:30 movie 7 Free
Saturday, September 19, 2026
September 19 Wild Man Sign Post
Congress Yard is one of Portland's back yard, garage, and home galleries. They host a new project, a home for sale sign with artist content. Beth Wooten is the first artist curated by Bruce Conkle.
At Congress Yard Projects easily found. 3PM Free
At Congress Yard Projects easily found. 3PM Free
Friday, September 18, 2026
September 18 Mercurial Nocturnes Disappear
Den Lam https://bydanlam.com/ brings her blobs in show Mercurial. They show along with paintings by Bobby Adams. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Hazel Miller has Nocturnes, animal illustrations and sculptures. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM-9 Free
Every Summer They Disappear at 4pm by Fabian Lavater https://lavaterart.com/ are schematic land and seascapes. At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Hazel Miller has Nocturnes, animal illustrations and sculptures. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM-9 Free
Every Summer They Disappear at 4pm by Fabian Lavater https://lavaterart.com/ are schematic land and seascapes. At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
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