April 4 Northside Openings+

Today some winged feet would be useful with many happenings.


False Front continues. The Westside galleries are open 11-noon to 5 for echo openings.


For your +1, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.

At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free


For your +2, Westside, Nathan William Lambdin makes polychrome geometric wood sculptures.They are two and a half dimension intended for walls.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com


Umico Niwa https://www.umiconiwa.com brings her framed journal drawings. Her theme is her trans journey in show titled The disappearance of my testicles, and other such mysteries regarding motherhood. More including her bio is https://ily2online.com/exhibitions/umico. Good addition to the gallery.

At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-3 Free


Oregon Contemporary opens their biennial. Artists are Sahar al-Sawaf, Raphael Arar, Wayne Bund, Francesca Capone, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Kerr Cirilo, DeepTime Collective: Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer, Demian DinéYazhi’, James Enos, Tannaz Farsi, Marcelo Fontana, Ebony Frison, The Black Gallery & Don't Shoot PDX: Taishona Carpenter and Teressa Raiford, Bean Gilsdorf, Stephen Hayes, Jaleesa Johnston, Joe Kye, Ambrin Ling, Katherine Longstreth, Todd McGrain, Mako Miyamoto, Anis Mojgani, Gabby Severson, Stephen Slappe, Ash Stone, and Taravat Talepasand.

At 6, Fifty Clocks Made To Strike Together is a performance by DeepTime Collective, Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer. Followed by a talk by the curator, TK Smith. The performance requires earplugs which will be available.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free


Nationale shows Oh Deeear Mee by Amy Bay.

"Many of the paintings begin with simple flower-like shapes that gather within crowded fields. Bay draws loosely from historical decorative sources—particularly French domino papers and early English wallpapers—but treats patterns as flexible rather than fixed. The compositions move between ornamentation, landscape, and abstraction, while suggesting social arrangements that take on a sense of companionship."

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free


A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Maydays by Steve Rockoff, imaged on the streets in Dublin County, May 2024 and 2025. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free


Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour bring Born Remembering, geometric collage. They are faculty at WWU in Bellingham.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


Ben Skiba brings ceramic sculpture Notch for the Heart. It opened yesterday and may be open tonight.

At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free

April 3 Eastside Art Openings

Jason Hill and Françoise Weeks bring photographic portraists, the Living Frame. The art is in the props and backdrops. Those include artist-made picture frames held by the models, and artist-made props, both from botanical artist Françoise Weeks. https://www.francoiseweeks.com/ Art and editorial photographer Jason Hill stretches out on the art side with this project. https://jasonhillphoto.com/ One of the models is Portlnd Musicial Esperanza Spalding.

At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


New Riso shop and gallery, Riso Studio Arts, brings Kiko Bordeos https://kikobordeos.com/ and Alexis Gallo https://alexisgallo.com/ all the way from Brooklyn for show Keepsakes. They are bright abstracts.

At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free


Zhanna Tsytsyn https://www.zhannatsytsyn.com/ brings Where Roots Refuse Borders. Her work is colorful schemantic painting. Born in Siberia and growing up in Siberia and the Georgia, the republic/now country, some of her work is inspired by Siberian shamans. She now resides in Vancouver, Washington,

At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free


All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.

April 2 Westside Art Openings

Leach, Writers' Block, The Black Gallery, Laura Vincent Design, and Adams and Ollman continue.


For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. There is a talk about Mark Rothko at 10:30AM which you get tickets for as part of the free admission. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-april2026/ 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, anytime. Is the news getting you down? Try a break with Slow TV, a broad genre with many stories. https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-03-12/slow-tv-jackie-shadow-eagles-nature-livestream-big-bear


Boiler Room, Steelhead, and Just Enough is a retrospective show by the late Tom Prochaska. Recommended.

At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free


Frank Stella (1936–2024) was known for his minimalist works, and he also produced colorful maximalist paintings and even sculptures. He was a champion of artist rights represented in french law as Droit de Suite, which never caught on in US intellectual property law. He was ann avid racquet player and performed in Reuschenberg's Open Score with otehr creatives in the 1966 E.A.T. project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZFYnnnn7U. This show is of prints spanning both bodies of work.

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


Blue Sky has 50 photographers from the Critical Mass program, and one solo from it, Elliot Ross.

Dream: ... Dream: ... Another dream: … are handwritten records of 50 dreams by Linda Hutchins.

"Irregular script and scribbled redactions blur the distinction between writing and drawing, continuing the artist’s long-running investigation of the formal and metaphorical potential of line as a visual element."

There will be an artist talk Saturday May 2, 11AM

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


Fans Only shows its residents and guests.

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


Painters Joel Briggs bring In St. John’s Shadow, Natasha Ramras brings Totem 2, and Faith Emerson brings Meyer.

At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free


Jana Demartini has landscapes Dancing With Trees, Pomegranate Doyle has Circe, Circle, Circus, Justin Auld has Address Label Mandalas,

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



Gabe Fernandez has photorealistic interior and exterior landscape paintings.

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


Quiet is a show of impresionistic mixed-media encaustic landscape paintings by Erika James.

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


PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.

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

April 1 Rewind / Repeat

Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is a pioneer video artist I've mentioned. Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a nice documentary telling his story.

Paik is noted as one of the artists and creatives anticipating the Internet. Others would be Marshall McLuhan, with the Global Village, and Gene Youngblood, author of Expanded Cinema and Mass Media, the Future of Desire.

An early gallery supporter was the Carl Solway Gallery https://solwaygallery.com/ in little Cincinnati, Ohio, and big New York, New York. Both Carl Solway and Nam June Paik are deceased. There was some sort of irresolvable dispute between the estate of the gallery and the estate of the artist.

Meanwhile Korea has become an art and culture hub.

Steps in Gagosian.

Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat opens today in Seoul. Supported by the estate, it shows significant works in the artist's home town. It follows the closing of https://www.artsinohio.com/event/76721-nam-june-paik-in-cincinnati-a-history hosted by the local university.

Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2026/nam-june-paik-rewind-repeat/ (including links in Korean) at APMA Cabinet, 1/F Amorepacific Headquarters, 100 Hangang-daero, Yongsan-gu, Seoul Map 5PM-7 Free

March 23 Pray 4

Film Diary NYC is a film series of short personal documentaries happening this week. The Boathouse Microcinema is a satellite site tuning in for a fragment for free. Entitled Go to the Mountains and Pray 4. Makers are from China, France, Iran, and the United States.

At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free

March 21 Weathered Collage Listening

RSA Projects gallery opens collage work by Hannah Fischer.

At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-2 Free


Noah Greene https://noahgreene.com/ has Slow Leaver, paintings aged in weather.

At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 3PM-6 Free


The young listeners of Mono Space curate an afternoon listening session.

At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

March 16 Actual Country

Continuing their music + movies, the Boathouse brings Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew with their documentary Open Country. They are actual professors at UC Davis. Along with the showing is an actual music band Fronjentress actually playing.

At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free


Add MOSMA has a film at the Hollywood, a vintage live + animation inspired by Jules Verne.