November 6 Eastside Art Openings

Nucleus drops its 10th annual Postcard Show.

The 187 artists are: Abby Aceves, Alex Achaval, Alexia Novella, Alexis Savopoulos, Alex Kuno, Alexander Chacón, Allie Gattor, Alvaro Escobar-Fuentes, Amber Feng, Amy Earles, Amy Lewis, Ana Neves, Andrea Kang, Anna Sarvira, Anna Shevela, Andi Soto, Andrew Brandou, Andy DeLapp, Angela An, Anka Yanovna, Anna Benedict, Athena Parella, Anthony Leger, Audra Auclair, Azhimova Anastasia, Battery Full, beebot, Bird Cvlt, Brianna Miller, Bruce Parker, Bryce Wymer, Candie Bolton, Caleb Sinchok, Carmen Pizarro, Carolin Leary Prinn, Casper Manning, Célia Housset, Celine Loup, Chantal Horeis, Chizu Wada, Chris Polaczenko, Chris Topper, Clare Lewis, Cogumeli, Crimsoooo, Cris James, Casey Jex Smith, daifei, Dale Raines, Dan Tavis, Daniel Bitton, David Derflinger, Dawn Xintong Yang, Deih, Demian Anderson, Didiusz, Diego, Diigii Daguna, Draugr, Dusty Ray, Edward Cao, Ekata Mandal, Elena Pancorbo, Elisa Escalera Aguilera, Eli McMullen, Elizabeth Ranger, Ellie Kerr-Smiley, ellievsbear, Em Randall, Emilie Bach Nielsen, Emily Barrera, Endless Takeout, Eric Talbot, Evelmiina, Evon Freeman, Erika Epperly, Farel Dal, Fictograph, Forest Wolf Kell, Francesca Resta, Frank Forte, fulltimefish, Furry Little Peach, Gemma Correll, Chan, Chelsea Beck, Grace Aldrich, Graham Annable, Graham Franciose, Gretel Lusky, Grey Chen, Guno Park, Ha Seungwan, Haejin Yoo, Hannah Tjia, Hanna Jaeun, Hayden Goodman, Heather Mahler, Heather Sundquist Hall, Helice Wen, Hilary Martin, Hiroto Katsukura, Iryna Khymych, Ivyteas, James Lipnickas, Jamie Wells, Ján Bátorek, Janice Chu, Jay Pirfano Kristoffersson, JB Burke, jeluto, Jenn Woodall, Jenna Gibson, Jerome Tiunayan, Jill DeHaan, John Rego, JoJo Lee, Jonlamart, Jonathan Edwards, Joseph Turner, Joshua Barrera, JP Neang, Juan Ramón Meza Rivadeneira, JUHWA, Julia Lundman, Julia Peng, Julia Ulrich, Julian Callos, Julian Miholics, Julie Loomer, Juliet Schreckinger, Justin Hillgrove, Justine (Toh), Justyna Koziczak, K. Siegel-Leicht, Karly Jade Catto, Kay Seohyung Lee, Kazuhiro Ikeda, kEda Gomes, Leilani Bustamante, Kelly Pringle, Kelley Sutphin Kelly Yamagishi, Kerilynn Wilson, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Laughlin, Kima Lenaghan, Kolahon, Koobiie Mart, Krissta Passanante, Kristen Eisenbraun, Kyoosang Choi, Kym Lee, Land After Time, Lauren Marx, Lian Cho, Lianne Pflug, Lilblueorchid, Lily Qian, Linda J Wallis, Little Paper Forest, Lizzy Gass, Lufo, Luhan Wang, Lujan Rai Dongol, Lujann, Luke Ramsey, Luna Ana, Madi Harper, Maezanilla, Mall, Makenna Karp, Marika Paz, Margherita Morotti, Marjolaine Roller, Mark Seabrook, Max58, Max Prentis, Mathew hurtado, Matt Schu, Mayumi Inoha, McMonster, Mardeluna, Megan Regenfuss, Michael Powers Tarantelli, Michael Camarra, Michelle Hiraishi, Mike Baker, Mike Howat, Minha Lee, Miranda Tacchia, Mizna Wada, Molly Mendoza, Morten Thyholt, Nana Williams, Naoshi, Natalie Vukic, Neeraj Menon, Nicomi Nix Turner, Niky Motekallem, Niqui Toldi, Noah Norrid, Nozomi Uchida, Odelia, Oona Ode, Owlyjules, Paper Puffin, Paralilac, Pat Roison, Patrick Kochakji, Paulette Jo, Petra Frankova, Poopikat, Pony Ma, Rachel Perciphone, Rachel Power, Raid71, Rémi Jacquot, Renee Nault, Ro Fen, Robin Eisenberg, Rosemary Travale, Rozenn, Rudy Siswanto, Sarah Ruyle, Sarah Whang, Scott Mills, Sean Whelan, Sehee Byun, Sela Ellen Underwood, Selynn Lee, Sena Adjovi, Sergei Zolotov, Shanna Van Maurik, Shawn Hebrank, Shee Liu, Shoko Ishida, Sibylline Meynet, Simon J. Curd, Sofia Bonati, Song Kang, Soph Franz, Stephanie Brown, Steve Kim, Stevie Shao, Sucharita Sengupta Suri, SNYDER, Sylvia Ji, Taegan Treichel, Tassy, The Paper Ark, The Obanoth, Victoria Gedvillas, Tania Pomales, Tyler Eilbeck, V. Steiner, Vincent Fink, Vero Jaeger, Wallace May, Wambi, Wenting Li, Wynfred Schäfer, Yanoe, Yosi, Yuji Okushi, Zoe Persico, Zach Meyer, Zachary Oldenkamp, and Zack Lydon.

The postcards are 5"x7" first come first served. Artist links are on the show website.

It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/p11 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


The rest of the First Friday gallery openings are listed on the socials.

November 6 A Meditation on Sinofuturism

I have an interest in anthropology. I have been influenced by noted anthropologist friends. Then I used those tools in my work. One was the founder of anticipatory anthropology. It contributes to designing futures. Academically that takes the form of research and writing. It is complemented by movies. We need some utopian futures to balance dystopian. An example of an achievable utopia is the Solarpunks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwpFMOXi2E Another is the novel Ecotopia, 1975.


Chess Club resumes events in its new space.

Tonight they show movie, Geomancer (2017) 48 minutes, by Lawrence Lek. Lek is a multiartist and active in the Sinofuturism movement.

The film is relevant to the current world.

"Geomancer is a computer-generated animation about the creative awakening of artificial intelligence. Set in Singapore on the eve of the island nation’s centennial in 2065, the film tells the story of an environmental satellite that wishes to become an artist. Geomancer imagines the crisis that might happen when the world has become a techno-industrial complex run by a posthuman intelligence, and creative originality is no longer considered that special.

'Is irrationality the main characteristic of consciousness?' asks the film’s eponymous narrator, proposing art as the last refuge of humanity in an otherwise automated world where an artificial intelligence dedicated to copying and studying massive amounts of data has appropriated every human trait that can be used to produce profit. The film uses ‘art’ to symbolize humanity's appreciation for creative thought and beauty, asking what will happen when an emotionally aware AI gains the power of self-expression, and creative genius is no longer the domain of humanity.

Rendered within a video game engine and featuring a neural network-generated dream sequence and synthesized vocal soundtrack composed by the artist, Geomancer explores the implications of post-human consciousness."

It is now clear this is likely far before 2065.

At Chess Club https://www.chessclub.art 1111 SW Washington 7PM Free Sold Out

November 5 Westside Art Openings+

The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Froelick, Stelo, and Laura Vincent 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 way up on Alberta, Michael Espinoza has Sex with Ghosts. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


Fisk W+K is seeking part time staff.


Blue Sky has two 2025 En Foco Fellowship awardee shows. Yukai Chen https://yukai-chen.com, brings The Factory of Desire. They are theatrical self protraits on queer identity in the context of a conservative rural upbringing in China.

Ashley Peña has Ebb and Flow on the African diaspora, and American native peoples, in the contect of her Dominican-American identity.

Maria Inocencio is at the Nine Gallery.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free


Lucinda Parker has a 60 year painting retrospective, Déjà Vu All Over Again. Sean Cain has Mysterious Barricades, photorealistic paintings.

At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free


Robert Gamblin, painter, was inspired by allergies and irritaition from the solvent carrier of oil paints. So he started his own paint manufacturing, with more human solvents, Gamblin Colors https://gamblincolors.com/gamblin/. He shows with Waterstone. Meditations on a Coastal Landscape are his abstract colorist paintings.

At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Angennette Escobar has Quiet Migratons, paintings inspired by maps of air migration by birds and butterflies. Monica Mitchell has mixed media still lifes and drawings, Quiet Migratons. Allison Hmura has illustrations on the theme of human anatomy and landscape, Places Between Us. Carlos Molina has mixed media-collage, Places Between Us. Benjamin Mefford has Expectant, sculptures.

All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free



Charlene Liu https://www.charleneliu.com/ has poppy prints, I hope I Still Feel This Way Tomorrow. Nicola López https://www.nicolalopez.com has Unearthed, images inspired by urban planning and architecture.

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


After | Time has Networks, selected artists from past shows, Alyson Provax, Cassandra Liuzzo, Chris Horner, Donna Avedisian, Karah Lain, Laznes Binch, and Pete Fleming.

After | Time ends its cycle with this show into December. Current co-principal Maria Jean will continue as the Maria Jean Gallery. https://www.mariajeangallery.com/

It's https://www.aftertimegallery.com/networks at After/Time Gallery https://www.aftertimegallery.com/ 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free


Sally Cleveland has paintings A Yellow Tree, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits.

At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free


Personal Space(s) is a show of paintings on that theme by Liz Borowski and Elizabeth Webber. At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free 5-8


Fans Only has Picking up Phonelines, photography, FF0000 an exhibition on red, Sensorial Play mixed media installation, and Face to Face, paintings.

At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free


The Contrast Gallery shares The Horizon Enterprise Building with The Downbeat and a black creative business incubator. They bring Nykelle DeVivo, Manu Torres, Rob Lewis, Shade Pratt, David Stuckey, Tron 444, and Beloved Ulinwa in show PR∑´senT!SM: The Future is Now.

"Exploring the collision of ancestry, nostalgia, technology, and imagined futures through the artists shaping what comes next."

At the Contrast Gallery 433 NW 4th 6PM-9 Free


Ordinary Magic, is Diane Archer https://www.imperfecta.gallery/ordinary-magic-nov-2026, Davis Wohlford from the North Pole Studio has The Island of Misfit Toys https://www.imperfecta.gallery/the-island-of-misfit-toys-nov-2026. They have a holliday craft decorations show Rockin' Around, for " Christmas? Hanukkah? Kwanzaa? Yule? Bodhi Day? Shōgatsu? You got it! Krampus? Joulupukki? Saint Nicholas? Tió de Nadal? La Befana? [and] Jólasveinar."

At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free


PNCA Willamette has a faculty and alumni show Rehersals for a Better World. Sadly they did not publish the list in text form. There are several student shows in their galleries and a wheatpaste show of 100 illustration works across Broadawy on the vacant Boxer Building catacorner SE from the main building.

At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free

November 1 Interspecies Washington Channel

Mississippi Records and The Oregon Department of Kick Ass present an evening of Interspecies Communication with Jim Nollman and Rankin Renwick.

Portland independent movie maker Rankin Renwick https://www.odoka.org/about has turned her lens on regional landscape, neighborhood history, folk art, politics, more. That includes wildlife. Her latest interest is interspecies communication.

San Juan Island field recordist Jim Nollman has recorded whales and other animals, and played guitar for them, recording their reaction. https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/jim-nollman-interspecies-communication. He has many collaborations with west coast artists and with John Lilly.

They are collaborating tonight on a show of shorts on the theme of interspecies communication with whales and dolphins.

Renwick and Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick, himself famous for features and The Subconscious Art of Graffitti Removal with Miranda July, pursued a rock band van tour strategy of self-distribution visiting college towns for showings in their early careers. They disributed other's work on VHS at the time, such as the now ultra-rare Kings of the Sky by Deborah Strattman. Kings of the Sky is a guerilla documentary made about the tightrope walking culture of the Uyghers in Xinjiang Province, China. What the Chinese government did in Tibet was just starting for Kings of the Sky. July was pursuing her own Big Miss Moviola self-distribution project inspired by zine culture in the same era.

Renwick showed often at McCormick's longtime Boathouse Studio, part of the Unkles family art studio project. With McCormick now teaching in Spokane, The Boathouse Microcinema, under new management, also have a program tonight.

Interspecies Communication https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/interspecies-communication-with-jim-nollman-and-rankin-renwick/ at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7PM $15 (it is likely to sell out)


Róge Stack shows their movie Washington.

"This is the sad tale of the township of Washington, nestled in the uttermost reaches of the northwest of the US of A. Two young Americans had planned to travel there for an evening of light music, but that was where the trouble already began. For what they had failed to realize was that the 6th of July was not much unlike the 4th of July after all…"

It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/nov-1-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM, movie 8 Free


The Synth Library continues the momentum of Modular on the Spot for the rainy season in their new space under the bridge by the river. Today is an open source open mic-like concert in their continuing Open Channels program.

Musicians of any experience level sign up for 15 minute sets.

At the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events 123 NE 3rd Ave, Suite 012. Travel by 2nd, pass the Burnside Skate Park and enter from the building parking lot on 2nd. Doors 3, music 3:30-6 Free

October 31 Listening

For your listening pleasure, today's selections are Fabiano Do Nascimiento, Vila, Bjork, Homogenic, Ambre Ciel, Still, There is the Sea, Dadawah, Peace and Love, Antenna, Camino Del Sol, and Asha Puthli, The Devil Is Loose.

Gallery Hours https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-presented-by-mono-space at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-4 (early close) Free


The Synth Library has https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events/halloweenopenhouse26 including kid-friendly early. Free

October 30 Old Home

Ashley Anson has illustrations Home Sweet Home.

It is a five day show https://onegrandgallery.com/Ashley-Anson at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM-9 Free


Nathan McKey has a show on old Portland. At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free

October 29 Women and Electronic Music

The Synth Library, Sunnyside Community Center, and NW Documentary present movie Sisters with Transisters (2020) 86 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRGFLPjhQgI. It is a rare opportunity to see the movie in a social situation. Tickets https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/organizations/nw-documentary. At former church Sunnyside Community Center 3520 SE Yamhill Doors 6:30 $10

October 28 Flood

We are selective in listing talks. Photographer, curator, and gallerist Melanie Flood https://www.melanieflood.com/ discusses her work. At at the monthly PAM Photo Council talk today. It is https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/photography-councils-lunchtime-talk-melanie-flood/ in the Portland Art Museum Masonic Temple, 4th floor Park-side meeting room https://portlandartmuseum.org 1119 SW Park Noon Free

October 26 Boathouse Instructions for the Lifeboats

Denver moviemaker Adán De La Garza brings shorts on "the dire circumstances of late capitalism, the relationship between political and emotional stagnation, catharsis and protest, sonic warfare, and emerging futures brought about by climate change."

It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/oct-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 6:30 movie 7 Free

October 24 Speaking of Golden Palaces

In the last years of his life, Saddam Husein built 80 to 100 palaces. https://failedarchitecture.com/architecture-after-excess-the-palaces-of-saddams-baghdad/ Portland has been a supporter of Irish photographer Richard Mosse. Mosse studied with Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson spoke in Portland a Ripe Family Dinner about studying at that selfsame university and then undertook unusual, almost social practice art, work. I'm a fan of many of his students, and comments are scattered in this blog about that. I speak sometimes of an Arbus gaze. I think there is a Crewdson gaze. Each branched out. Mosse photographed a few of Saddam's Palaces. After Iraq, he traveled in rebel territory in Eastern Congo to make The Enclave. The conflict there, continuing to this day, broke out as a result of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, little connection by the central government in the far West to the far East, and the warlord-natural resource extraction economy. I've been in that area with gunshots, thankfully in the distance. The Enclave was shown at the 2013 Venice Biellialle. It traveled to the Portland Art Museum. Another folly of kings is in Gbadolite, Northern Congo, near the seasonal Mobayi - Mbongo ferry. It is home to the ruins of King Mobutu's jungle palace. Mossee was later selected as curator for Converge 45 and spoke about his Amazon project, Broken Spectre, and exploration of migration. Ai Weiwei has worked on that topic as well. Here is Mosse's experience with Saddam's palaces. https://www.bldgblog.com/2009/05/saddams-palaces-an-interview-with-richard-mosse/ We can only imagine a cheescake restaurant designed by Saddam.

October 24 Windows on the World

PNCA Willamette opens their MFA studios for an early and mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!

They request you get free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-studios-at-the-glass-building-tickets-1998554404022

Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free

October 24 Archiving the Past for the Future

The Black Gallery has collaborated on a photo show under their Liberated Archives for Black Lives Program. Taishona Carpenter, joins her photographs with samples from Brian Lanker, working in the 1980s, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.

You can find more on the Black Gallery socials. There is an archiving workshop at the Oregon Historical Society 10AM https://www.ohs.org/events/portland-in-black.cfm. The show opening is https://www.eventbrite.com/e/liberated-archives-for-black-lives-at-the-low-end-tickets-2003175172866 at The Low End 670 N Russell 5PM-7 Free

October 24 - 26 E.A.T.

Media, electronics, and software galleries and workspaces are popping up in many places. Xispa Innovation Lab https://xispa.art/ is one founded February in Seattle. Portland's Samantha Yun Wall is in residence with them. CETI, nee at PSU, https://ceti.institute runs parallel, more on the maker side than the exhibition side.

This weekend Xispa is the prime mover of https://artandtechsymposium.com/ along with nee Cornish. 9e26 https://artandtechsymposium.com/program-2026/#tab-conversations is part of the program inspired by Rauschenberg's 1966 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering Experiments in Art and Technology - E.A.T. https://www.experimentsinartandtechnology.org in the New York Lexington Avenue Armory.

You can find all about the event at https://artandtechsymposium.com at the Cornish 9th Ave Gallery, 2014 9th Ave Seattle, and Xispa 325 Westlake Avenue N.

October 23 Skate Gardens Under the Overpass

Kristen Diederich brings Outside Nature and Beyond the Garden Room. Outside Nature is her abstract exprssionist garden landscape painting. Beyond the Garden Room is a show she has curated of adjacent artists Kayla Marie Carlson, Kaitlyn Carr, Indigo Free, C. Meier, Quinha Mukai Faria, Holly Osborne, and Emily Wise.

They are https://www.stephaniechefas.com/kristen-diederich-outside-nature and https://www.stephaniechefas.com/beyond-the-garden-room at Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free


Printmakers Cassie Ferguson and Charlie Cohan are Lost Bearings Press (LBP) and BurnPrint Studio (BPS) respectively. They have been collaborating since 2017. Ferguson has an ongoing series of prints illustrating DIY skateparks, and Cohan, series on local bridges. Their collaborations feature skate parks under bridges. This show, Under the Overpass is an example. The show has opportunities for community printmaking you can see on the show link.

It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/undertheoverpass at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free