October 1 Westside Art Openings

October is Portland Textile Month in galleries. It's https://textilex.org/. There is a kick off event at Skylab.


Illy2, The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Fine Art Fruit, Stelo, After / Time Gallery, Laura Vincent, Froelick, and The Writers' Block 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 all around town, ADX has collaborated with galleries and spaces for a month long ADX Fest. Many of the events are workshops. Details https://www.adxfest.com/


Chris Chandler has Expression of Structure, graphic works in the Constructivist vein. MK Guth, Elizabeth Hohimer, Ellen Lesperance, Mary Ann Peters, Vo Vo, and Anna Von Mertens have contemporary textile works.

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


Bootsy Holler has Contaminated: Invisible Fallout, photographs and mixed media themed on radioactive contamination of the Hanford Site in Washington from the Manhattan Project. https://bootsyholler.com/PORTFOLIOS/Contaminated/2

From Photolucida, Lucy Bohnsack has This Work They Call Love, https://www.lucybohnsack.art/work/this-work-they-call-love It is themed on motherhood.

In the Nine Ronna Neuenschwander brings Pandora’s Amphora. Is Amphora self-plural? These works represent things released by Pandora. Currently topical.

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


Russo Lee has a sprawling 40 year retrospective with artists James Allen, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Heather Lee Birdsong, Michael Brophy, Louis Bunce, Sean Cain, G. Lewis Clevenger, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, Laura Domela, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gabe Fernandez, Julian V.L. Gaines, Dan Gluibizzi, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, James Lee Hansen, Roll Hardy, Manuel Izquierdo, Lisa Jarrett, Jackie K. Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Willie Little, Betty Merken, Michael Paul Miller, Carl Morris, David Curt Morris, Hilda Morris, Richard Notkin, Whitney E. Nye, Stephen O’Donnell, Kim Osgood, Lucinda Parker, J.D. Perkin, Jack Portland, René Rickabaugh, Chris Russell, Michele Russo, Michael C. Spafford, Dirk Staschke, Eric Stotik, Whiting Tennis, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Samantha Yun Wall, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Ko Kirk Yamahira.

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


Kindra Crick brings Nocturnal Worlds. https://waterstonegallery.com/show/waterstone-gallery-kindra-crick-nocturnal-worlds#works "Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes." Several artists work in EEGs, such as Jane Antoni's Slumber.

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


Kanetaka Ikeda has Cosmic Trees, Stephan Soihl, In Memoriam, Paula Bullwinkel, S’wonderful S’marvelous, and Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Stanzas.

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



FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. Heaven Must Be Near is Momo Gordon and Erasto Reyes-Silva, drawing and sculpture.

At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free


Fans Only shows its residents and guests.

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


Imperfecta has paintings by Dan Gay, Signal / Noise.

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


PNCA Willamette may have visual shows tonight.

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

September 25 Fall Joy

Portland painter Shelley Turley drops a book of her works, Pocket Joy: Meditations on Friendship and Love.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free

September 24 Last Thursday on Alberta

Antler and Talon shows 20 artists in their Susannah Kelly Art Award curatorial project in show themed The Ribbon, "focused on rebirth, renewal and the circle of life." Along with several other gallery artists.

At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free


Blind Insect continues. Not sure what Flight64 is up to.

September 21 Tells All

The Boathouse Microcinema begins its Fall season with movie Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! https://vimeo.com/789495262.

It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 6:30 movie 7 Free

September 19 Wild Man Sign Post

Congress Yard is one of Portland's back yard, garage, and home galleries. They host a new project, a home for sale sign with artist content. Beth Wooten is the first artist curated by Bruce Conkle.

At Congress Yard Projects easily found. 3PM Free

September 18 Mercurial Nocturnes Disappear

Den Lam https://bydanlam.com/ brings her blobs in show Mercurial. They show along with paintings by Bobby Adams. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free


Hazel Miller has Nocturnes, animal illustrations and sculptures. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM-9 Free


Every Summer They Disappear at 4pm by Fabian Lavater https://lavaterart.com/ are schematic land and seascapes. At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free

September 13 Fine Showers

The Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamalan are performing on the Sunday Parkways route downtown. They may be performing in or near Lincoln Hall at PSU as per their socials. At https://www.portland.gov/sunday-parkways/downtown-event-2026#toc-entertainment-programming 11AM-3 Free


Kelli Rad https://bio.site/kellirad brings her portraits.

At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-5 Free

September 12 Zymoglyphic Bouyancy, Canyon Communication, Tomato Time

We don't usually list artist talks as individual events, there are many. We sometimes note them in the opening listing as a forward pointer. But since we were traveling for the opening we will note that the Zymoglyphic residency show has open hours this afternoon and a talk. The artists in cohort VI are Harper Lethin, Sakura Azzopardi, Alice Langlois, Phoebe Mol & Anthony Clementi, Kate Stock, Patty Burns, Amber Wolf, Wren Van Deusen, and Nonlocal Variable.

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison Noon-3, Talk 1 Free


All the way out on the left edge of land in Astoria, encaustic painter Elise Wagner has turned to the subject of the sea. Finding Bouyancy is the result. There will be an artist talk September 19, 2PM too.

It is https://imogengallery.com/september-2026-exhibition/elise-wagner/1 at Imogen Gallery https://imogengallery.com/ 240 11th Street, Astoria, OR 5PM-8 Free


Sometimes entropy is overcome by a concentration of people in a place and time who produce unexpectedly beautiful things or world-changing by their creative or intellectual interaction. Black Mountain College is an example I relate often. Portland 90s-00s? Laurel Canyon, on the cusp between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, was that for romances, singer songwriters, and musicians. https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/02/laurel-canyon-music-scene

Selector Nichole D'Aimato provides a peek at it.

Laurel Canyon https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-laurel-canyon-curated-by-nicole-diamato at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free


Jen Lamb https://www.unurthwonder.com/ all the way from Vancouver, WA brings Intertidal Communication. They are swirly, in form and color, ceramics inspired by landscape.

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


Brian Libby https://www.brianlibby.com/ has been Portland's architecture writer following the Randy Gragg era.

He has published a book of his selection of Portland places and stories arranged as walking tours, In Search of Portland. https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/blog/closer-look-at-%E2%80%9Cin-search-of-portland%E2%80%9D-with-brian-libby. It is a good companion to Laura O. Foster's books. The photos from the book are on the walls at a reception for Libby.

At the office of WDP Architecture https://www.weedmandesignpartners.com/ 1905 NW 23rd Place 4PM-6:30 Free


Heirloom Ceramics Studio, a shared studio like Radius, pops up with a one nighter.

At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5:30PM-9 Free


Kiel Fletcher https://www.kielfletcher.com/ presents an installation Untitled (Time). Sound and visuals combine inspired by our NW Cascades landscapes. Opening and talk today, open tomorrow and hours on the Building 5 socials, performance on the 19th at 6.

At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 6PM Free.


The annual Tomato Fest is at Wellspent Market today.