Monday, November 09, 2026
November 12 Cyberfeminism
Mindy Seu https://mindyseu.com/ is a designer, writer, and academic chronicaling cyberfeminism and select areas of Internet anthropology, including art, AI, and virtual reality.
PSU has an endowed design lecture series. With that, Seu opens the academic year series in the new Schnitzer art building.
For a preview, she has many online talks.
It is https://www.pdx.edu/art-design/events/kemeny-design-lecture-series-presents-mindy-seu in the Schnitzer Art Building, Room 112 1981 SW Broadway. 6PM Free - reservations on the link required, maybe the video will be released
Saturday, November 07, 2026
November 7 Northside Art Openings
Joe Rudko from Seattle brings Photorealism.
"Rudko’s paintings begin with fragmented pieces of found photography. Collaged snippets of flowers, skies, hands, and snapshots of friends are continued with oil pigment sticks, extending their edges so they cross over one another creating new, geometric images in the center. These works seek to merge the factual, functional purpose of photography with the more tactile, cerebral qualities of drawing and painting."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5
Level Head by Douglas Burns are children's art collaged onto the namesakes illustrations.
It is https://www.wellwellprojects.com/level-head at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Drift Slip Lapse by Russell Borne and Drew Laughery are 2d works.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gons: The Pictures, Mechanisms, and Camera Works of Doug Wing https://www.northpolestudio.org/gons-doug-wing is a show North Pole Studios. Thought Forms is https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/thought-forms-open-studio.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Anarchaic Movement: New Works in Fabric and Animation by Wilcox, Rice, and Co. It a self-describing show.
Included are forks from recent residencies.
"Anarchaic is a little neologism (Anarchic + Archaic) that has been rolling around in my head to describe the animation-embroidery work that I feel compelled to make. Anarchic, because of the unruly nature of fabric under the eye of the camera and because of the unruled nature of animation that seeks a truly collective approach to creation that circumvents certain hierarchies of production, exploring intuitive and open-ended collaborations between human, non-human, and environmental contributors. Archaic, because the handmade nature of these embroideries emphasize a slower and more intentional form of artistic labor that pushes against the sleekifying nature of modern convenience, instead reveling in the vibrant discrepancies of the human hand. Archaic, also for the fascination in earlier technologies of seeing and sensing that changed our relationship to the world around us, whether that by Muybridge’s motion photography, the panorama, celluloid film strips, advertising gimmicks, or piano rolls."
At studio Mudd Palace 1731 SE 10th upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Keith Z has photographs, Outside. They are portraits on Portland's streets of homeless individuals. It is also a book, launching tonight.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
"Rudko’s paintings begin with fragmented pieces of found photography. Collaged snippets of flowers, skies, hands, and snapshots of friends are continued with oil pigment sticks, extending their edges so they cross over one another creating new, geometric images in the center. These works seek to merge the factual, functional purpose of photography with the more tactile, cerebral qualities of drawing and painting."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5
Level Head by Douglas Burns are children's art collaged onto the namesakes illustrations.
It is https://www.wellwellprojects.com/level-head at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Drift Slip Lapse by Russell Borne and Drew Laughery are 2d works.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gons: The Pictures, Mechanisms, and Camera Works of Doug Wing https://www.northpolestudio.org/gons-doug-wing is a show North Pole Studios. Thought Forms is https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/thought-forms-open-studio.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Anarchaic Movement: New Works in Fabric and Animation by Wilcox, Rice, and Co. It a self-describing show.
Included are forks from recent residencies.
"Anarchaic is a little neologism (Anarchic + Archaic) that has been rolling around in my head to describe the animation-embroidery work that I feel compelled to make. Anarchic, because of the unruly nature of fabric under the eye of the camera and because of the unruled nature of animation that seeks a truly collective approach to creation that circumvents certain hierarchies of production, exploring intuitive and open-ended collaborations between human, non-human, and environmental contributors. Archaic, because the handmade nature of these embroideries emphasize a slower and more intentional form of artistic labor that pushes against the sleekifying nature of modern convenience, instead reveling in the vibrant discrepancies of the human hand. Archaic, also for the fascination in earlier technologies of seeing and sensing that changed our relationship to the world around us, whether that by Muybridge’s motion photography, the panorama, celluloid film strips, advertising gimmicks, or piano rolls."
At studio Mudd Palace 1731 SE 10th upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Keith Z has photographs, Outside. They are portraits on Portland's streets of homeless individuals. It is also a book, launching tonight.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, November 05, 2026
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.
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
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
Wednesday, November 04, 2026
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
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
Saturday, October 31, 2026
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
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
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
Friday, October 30, 2026
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
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
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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
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