Thursday, March 03, 2022

March 3 Westside Art Openings

We are not quite out of the woods yet on Covid, this is more what's up for a private visit throughout the month. Blue Sky and Nine move their opening to Saturday. No idea of percolations at the Everett Station Lofts.


Henk Pender is one of our late career painters. That means he has seen a lot, including wars. You can see some at a large show at the Oregon Jewish Museum. Henk Pender: Eyewhitness to History www.ojmche.org/events/henk-pander-the-artist-as-eyewitness-to-history/ at the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis $8


Holding's gallery now has the daughter of Don't Shoot Portland. Some of those archives are in the gallery for your review as Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience. It is under the umbrella of University of Oregon Center for Art Research program Habits of Denial. By appointment. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders Free


PDX Contemporary has new work by gallery artists They have two locations now. Artists include Nick Blosser, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Jeffry Mitchell, Joe Rudko, and Adam Sorensen. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map and 1825 B NW Vaughn Map Free


Sabina Haque is an activist artist who has been researching Portland communities and their history, wherever it may lead. (Un) Belonging admixes large drawings of people and their homeland-borders. Here the border of India-Pakistan and Mexico-US are explored in the abstract. There will be an artist talk March 13 at 2. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Tom Prochaska is another late career painter and instructor from PNCA. He is known for his rough impressionistic figures. Froelick also has a group show of some of their backstock on paper. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free


AO has a group show, The Gound, with Edgar Arceneaux, Taylor Davis, Luc Fuller, Jay Heikes, Nick Herman, Adam Horovitz, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Pierre Leguillon, Ari Marcopoulos, Dianna Molzan, Todd Norsten, Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill, Alex Slade, Oliver Strand, Ricky Swallow, Lesley Vance, Emmett Wilkins, and Keith Wilkins. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th early close 5PM-7:30 Free


Time In-Between: Temporal Matter(s) is the first-year readout of MFA students at PNCA. They have online reservations for the opening. Not sure how by appointment works. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-7 Free


Blackfish has Alice Christine Walker with Unfinished Business: An Exploration of Grief, staged photos themed on her father's passing. They are doing their opening live and on Facebook Live. At Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th. 5PM-8 Free


Leach is doing opening on Facebook Live as they have been doing in the pandemic. Christine Bourdette has Mantle/Dismantle themed on geology. Works on paper from Julia Mangold are also up. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Free