Friday, August 28, 2026
August 28 - September 8 Holiday
Portland OR Us Now is on vacation. The art continues, but not entries here. And on vacation we will be seeing a social practice art.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
August 28 Zymoglyphic Culture
The Zymoglyphic Museum has a residency. Their residents read out their work in show Museum as Muse VI. The artists are Harper Lethin, Sakura Azzopardim, Alice Langlois, Phoebe Mol & Anthony Clementi, Kate Stock, Patty Burns, Amber Wolf, Wren Van Deusen, and Nonlocal Variable. We like the museum and the show is always fun.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
Gerald Clarke presents show Unceded Between the Lines. It is presented by Native Arts & Cultures. There are some fantastic projects coming to that building.
At the Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5:30-8 Free
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
Gerald Clarke presents show Unceded Between the Lines. It is presented by Native Arts & Cultures. There are some fantastic projects coming to that building.
At the Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5:30-8 Free
August 27-30+ Converge
Converge45 does a big show every three years. It spans many venues, and programming continues in the Fall. It's too much to detail here. So just look it up at https://www.converge45.org.
August 25 Balistics
Merideth Hillbrand opens show Balistics.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 6PM-8 Free
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, August 22, 2026
August 22 Summer Breeze
SeasideFM - City Pop Songs is a local DJ specializing in Japanese City Pop and light Jazz. City Pop シティ ポップ is a highly produced Japanese easy listening Yacht Rock-like genre of the 1970s-1980s, the boom era. The production costs with live sweetening musicians in the time create a mine for samples today. SeasideFM brings their City Pop vinyl for a listening session today.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-city-pop-curated-by-seaside-fm at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-city-pop-curated-by-seaside-fm at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Saturday, August 15, 2026
August 16 Quadrophenia
Modular On The Spot brings a mid-month four channel performance to their modular synthesizer electronic music series. Lewis Guignard,Zachary Egge, Amoja, Vyger, CRBN and Francisco Botello perform.
Pier Park 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Pier Park 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Friday, August 14, 2026
August 15 Radiance
The show Cavity closes this afternoon. It is artists Jackie Stewart, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cody Brant, Chanel Conklin and Lena Lutz. Don't miss performances by Chanel Conklin, 3:30, followed by Negative Flower (MSHR) and The Tenses, whose members are in the visual art show.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 3PM-6 Free
Portland musician Laura Viers performs free in tiny Music Millennium at 5.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 3PM-6 Free
Portland musician Laura Viers performs free in tiny Music Millennium at 5.
August 14 Together
Intisar Abioto is a multi-artist, force of nature, and a curator. She did a large Museum retrospective of Northwest black artists. Show America Next 250: The Art of Imagination includes J.S. Bell, Thelma Johnson Streat, Charlotte Lewis, Katherine Pennington, Adriene Cruz, Intisar Abioto, Rob Lewis, Christine Miller. Penda Diakité. Nykelle DeVivo and Seed to Quilt: Adriene Cruz, Bridgette Hickey, Déy Rivers, Ella Ray, Mia Raiah from The Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt Committee.
The works are printed on vinyl attached to scaffolding. For the opening there will be food DJs, poetry and more.
The show is sponsored by the 1803 Fund. Keep and eye on their and Abioto's socials for subsequent events.
It is in a vacant fenced lot at N Interstate Avenue by N Albina. They said it will be up for a month, and it is visiable outside the fence. RSVP to https://americanext250artofimagin.rsvpify.com/ 6:30PM-8:30 Free
Teresa Christiansen and Ashley Innis bring landscape images derived from photos, close shot and long shot, in show Together, ...A Memoir and ...An Epilogue.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
The works are printed on vinyl attached to scaffolding. For the opening there will be food DJs, poetry and more.
The show is sponsored by the 1803 Fund. Keep and eye on their and Abioto's socials for subsequent events.
It is in a vacant fenced lot at N Interstate Avenue by N Albina. They said it will be up for a month, and it is visiable outside the fence. RSVP to https://americanext250artofimagin.rsvpify.com/ 6:30PM-8:30 Free
Teresa Christiansen and Ashley Innis bring landscape images derived from photos, close shot and long shot, in show Together, ...A Memoir and ...An Epilogue.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, August 08, 2026
August 8 Ambient Portal of Light
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Brian Eno originated the term ambient music, now a tree with many branches. Today is perfect to settle into some listening.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-the-music-of-brian-eno at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Yumiko Yoshioka, based in Japan and Germany, performs butoh, 100 Lights of Solitude. She came from Ariadone-Carlotta Ikeda, and before Akaji Maro-Dairakudakan.
At New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=342996. 8PM $25
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Brian Eno originated the term ambient music, now a tree with many branches. Today is perfect to settle into some listening.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-the-music-of-brian-eno at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Yumiko Yoshioka, based in Japan and Germany, performs butoh, 100 Lights of Solitude. She came from Ariadone-Carlotta Ikeda, and before Akaji Maro-Dairakudakan.
At New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=342996. 8PM $25
Friday, August 07, 2026
August 7 Growth and Time
Nucleus has a 10 year aniversery show. You may recognize the artists, Aaron Nagel, Bega EV, Benjamin Björklund, Betty Jiang, Bill Barminski, Bill Mayer, Branden Milbreit, Brett Amory, Dan Boldrini, Creature Creature, Danielle Estefanara, Dusky Boy, Eileen Clavel, Elly Smallwood, El Macuina, Erik Mark Sandberg, Esao Andrews, Felicia Chiao, Heikki Leis, Janine Shiota, Janice Sung, John Brophy, Julian Callos, Kewon Falgas, Kim Byung, Kirk Demb, Kiriako Iatridis, Klaus Kraemer, Kriss Muns, Kyler Martz, Lisk Feng, Luba Laura, Lonnie Menendez & Rosa Menendez, Lou Webb James, Malcolm T. Liepke, Mari, Matt Dangler, Michael Alvarez (Talento?), Mincho Gana, Mona Walls, Morten Memborg, Motohiro Hayakawa, Muzo Ozars, Nexus Photos, Rodney Matthews, Sam Brano, Sarah Joncas, Shoko Ishida, Steve Giger, Sydneylund-Arturo, Tera Bando, Timothy Lamb, Teagan White, Wissam Shawkat, Yosuke, We are out of office, and Wee Genseman.
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
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