Brad Mildrexler is a ceramic artist making rock-like sculptures. In the Garden is his show at a flower shop in association with Adams and Ollman Gallery. At Colibri 1927 NW Kearney 4PM-7 Free
Last Thursday on Alberta has galleries open, including Antler & Talon. The street will be closed.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026
June 21 Crater Free
The Portland Art Museum has a free day today, free for all. They have them monthly first Thursdays too.
It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/miller-family-community-free-day-june2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-5 Free
Not art, it's sound art, ambient music particularly. Musicians Dashka Sounds, Feverkin, Naia Spiral, Mars FM, Seraphim Lily, Ross Hoyt, Earthware, Jodhi Mather Pike, and Elizabeth Byrd perform.
In the volcano's crater, Mt Tabor 7PM Free
It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/miller-family-community-free-day-june2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-5 Free
Not art, it's sound art, ambient music particularly. Musicians Dashka Sounds, Feverkin, Naia Spiral, Mars FM, Seraphim Lily, Ross Hoyt, Earthware, Jodhi Mather Pike, and Elizabeth Byrd perform.
In the volcano's crater, Mt Tabor 7PM Free
June 20 The River Runs Through It
Backyard gallery 1122 Outside begins their season.
Writer and artist Jason Wallace Triefenbach, collagist Francis Dot, and filmmaker Adrianna Jasso present Ecstatic Agendas.
Included is Barbarous Tongues: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica, and performance Helios, themed on solar rituals, appropos the Solstace. Dot brings movie Missing Everglades of the West. That has to do with the damming and undamming of the Klamath River, https://www.americanrivers.org/river/klamath-river/. Included in the show are ritual and mystical mixed media objects. They have made a seasonal drink too.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-11 Free
The Portland Synth Library, birthed by Felicia Ledesma in her Multiplex Gallery, nurtured and developed by a village, is now fully adult. With the demise of the Lloyd Center, it's getting its own grown-up apartment. To celebrate it is having a rooftop party with you. In keeping with our river theme, the rooftop and the library overlook the Willamette. Their building is by the East Burnside skate park.
Opening celebration for the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events 123 NE 3rd Ave, Suite 012. 6PM-9 Tickets required - they are on the link. $5-10
Writer and artist Jason Wallace Triefenbach, collagist Francis Dot, and filmmaker Adrianna Jasso present Ecstatic Agendas.
Included is Barbarous Tongues: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica, and performance Helios, themed on solar rituals, appropos the Solstace. Dot brings movie Missing Everglades of the West. That has to do with the damming and undamming of the Klamath River, https://www.americanrivers.org/river/klamath-river/. Included in the show are ritual and mystical mixed media objects. They have made a seasonal drink too.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-11 Free
The Portland Synth Library, birthed by Felicia Ledesma in her Multiplex Gallery, nurtured and developed by a village, is now fully adult. With the demise of the Lloyd Center, it's getting its own grown-up apartment. To celebrate it is having a rooftop party with you. In keeping with our river theme, the rooftop and the library overlook the Willamette. Their building is by the East Burnside skate park.
Opening celebration for the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events 123 NE 3rd Ave, Suite 012. 6PM-9 Tickets required - they are on the link. $5-10
June 19 Uncertain Certainties
Certainties and Other Almosts are mixed-media paintings by Emily Kepulis. The website has an eloquent discussion.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, June 18, 2026
June 18 Resident Wall
If you are up in Seattle, Xispa opens. Their focus is technolgy-based art. They are a residency, lab, and exhibition space. Their first resident is Portland's Samantha Wall. More: https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/curator-lele-barnett-launches-xispa-a-new-arts-innovation-lab/. It's Xispa https://xispa.org in MadArt Studio, 325 Westlake Ave N, Seattle 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, June 13, 2026
June 13 Draw __
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Today they have a participatory drawing event. Is the big ad agency entry space climate controlled? Likley.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 1PM-4 Free
Producers The___Show drop another. More social than art. From experience not in a bad way.
Artists include Alex Vinton, Alexis "Bosco" Picard, Allison MacMillan, Amanda Mackenzie-Noice, Brandon Mulligan, Brennan Johnson, Buck Chapman, Cal Srere, Christina Sande, Chloe Findtner, Chris Lael Larson, Cilesse Anderson, Cody Browning, Dakoda Hughes, David Emmite, David Stein, Dean Coward, Devun Scott, Dylan Hayes, Emma Travitz, Ethan Laarman-Hughes, Finn Donnelly, Forest Bailey, Freya Kargard, Grace Dunbar, Haley McCarter, Jake Stoumbos, Jamie Phillips, Jason Sturgill, Joe Blount, John Fish, Josh Minnich, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Laura Burns, Michelle Leman, Miranda Field-Martin, Morgan Exene, Nate Corrado, Nick Koza, Nick Raz, Nishat Akhtar, Olivia Harwood, Owen Paznokas, Peter Patrick Denton, Roland Hill, Rory Greiling, Spencer Crimin, Spencer Winans, Taka Moriki, Zab Shavrick, Zach Keimig, and Zoe Naimo.
Upstairs at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 1PM-4 Free
Producers The___Show drop another. More social than art. From experience not in a bad way.
Artists include Alex Vinton, Alexis "Bosco" Picard, Allison MacMillan, Amanda Mackenzie-Noice, Brandon Mulligan, Brennan Johnson, Buck Chapman, Cal Srere, Christina Sande, Chloe Findtner, Chris Lael Larson, Cilesse Anderson, Cody Browning, Dakoda Hughes, David Emmite, David Stein, Dean Coward, Devun Scott, Dylan Hayes, Emma Travitz, Ethan Laarman-Hughes, Finn Donnelly, Forest Bailey, Freya Kargard, Grace Dunbar, Haley McCarter, Jake Stoumbos, Jamie Phillips, Jason Sturgill, Joe Blount, John Fish, Josh Minnich, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Laura Burns, Michelle Leman, Miranda Field-Martin, Morgan Exene, Nate Corrado, Nick Koza, Nick Raz, Nishat Akhtar, Olivia Harwood, Owen Paznokas, Peter Patrick Denton, Roland Hill, Rory Greiling, Spencer Crimin, Spencer Winans, Taka Moriki, Zab Shavrick, Zach Keimig, and Zoe Naimo.
Upstairs at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, June 11, 2026
June 11 Intensity, Intellect, and Ears
It is hard to say which aspect of the story of Ana Mendieta, the sadness, the outrage, or the beauty, predominates.
Mendieta arrived in the US from Cuba at age 12 as a refugee. In art school she established themes of the female body, nature, land, spiritualism, and ritual. That period, second-wave feminism, influenced a generation. She moved to New york after her MFA at about age 30. It would be about that age 30 before her parents would be able to leave Cuba and join her in the US.
Much of her work used her own body as a medium in a large number of short films and performances. At age 36, she married minimalist artist Carl Andre. Nine months later, she "accidentally" fell to her death from the window of Andre's apartment.
Her death roiled the New York art world and fueled the Guerilla Girls movement.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987) directed by Nereyda Garcia - Ferraz, Kate Horsfield and Branda Miller shows tonight. It traces her work and includes interviews with the artist. A good starting point for Mendieta is https://www.anamendietaartist.com curated by her close sister.
It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/fuegodetierra at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 6:30PM Free
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
As part of that program, Matthew Ellis, historiesofthepresent.com, presents a talk, A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism. Ellis moves to the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to teach in the Fall.
A Zoom link is available by emailing the gallery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
Recording engineer Tucker Martine grew up in Nashville and established a recording studio in his living room in Seattle. He started in the low-fi style popular at the time. Moving to Portland, he established another home studio, then busted out with purpose-built studios. Now Flora Recording and Playback https://www.florarecording.com is well established. He has ears. In the recording and music world, that is shorthand for highly trained ears and the knowledge to make a recording that translates across playback environments. Tonight he hosts a listening session on a Devon Turnbull OJAS playback system. This program has a focus on field recording elements, an adjacent interest of Martine.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/selections-no-7-presented-by-tucker-martine at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36
Mendieta arrived in the US from Cuba at age 12 as a refugee. In art school she established themes of the female body, nature, land, spiritualism, and ritual. That period, second-wave feminism, influenced a generation. She moved to New york after her MFA at about age 30. It would be about that age 30 before her parents would be able to leave Cuba and join her in the US.
Much of her work used her own body as a medium in a large number of short films and performances. At age 36, she married minimalist artist Carl Andre. Nine months later, she "accidentally" fell to her death from the window of Andre's apartment.
Her death roiled the New York art world and fueled the Guerilla Girls movement.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987) directed by Nereyda Garcia - Ferraz, Kate Horsfield and Branda Miller shows tonight. It traces her work and includes interviews with the artist. A good starting point for Mendieta is https://www.anamendietaartist.com curated by her close sister.
It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/fuegodetierra at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 6:30PM Free
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
As part of that program, Matthew Ellis, historiesofthepresent.com, presents a talk, A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism. Ellis moves to the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to teach in the Fall.
A Zoom link is available by emailing the gallery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
Recording engineer Tucker Martine grew up in Nashville and established a recording studio in his living room in Seattle. He started in the low-fi style popular at the time. Moving to Portland, he established another home studio, then busted out with purpose-built studios. Now Flora Recording and Playback https://www.florarecording.com is well established. He has ears. In the recording and music world, that is shorthand for highly trained ears and the knowledge to make a recording that translates across playback environments. Tonight he hosts a listening session on a Devon Turnbull OJAS playback system. This program has a focus on field recording elements, an adjacent interest of Martine.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/selections-no-7-presented-by-tucker-martine at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
June 10 Boy
In the project room Nationale opens b o y by Consuelo Wise. It's https://www.nationale.us/consuelo-wise-b-o-y-2026
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 7PM-9 Free
At Nationale
Monday, June 08, 2026
June 8 Mixed Connections
Jesse Malmed https://jessemalmed.net/, formerly Poetland, now living in the Midwest, brings shorts followed by karaoke.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
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