The Boathouse Microcinema is back. It is a live-work studio in the Unkles artist warehouse portfolio. It is very small.
Tonight Rose Bond https://www.rosebond.com/ and Zak Margolis https://zakmargolis.com/ show work. Included is Animate Symphonia which was scheduled for the Oregon Symphony, but canceled by COVID. "Viewer discretion is advised for a few of tonight's videos."
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. The mass of a train is several thousand times the mass of your car. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Monday, April 28, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
April 26 Nut Conversation
Nut Job opens with Morgan Ritter, Maggie Chen and Katya Kirilloff.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 2PM-5 Free
Small Talk Collective is a photography collective. Tonight they show images from their participants in a cycling projection. It is their 5th annual Light Conversation.
Photographers are Kristina Barker, Zemie Barr, Megan Bent, Amanda Brown, André Buenacosa-Brooks, Ezra Carlsen, Alice Christine Walker, Kassandra Eller, Yalda Eskandari, Marico Fayre, Jon Feinstein, Dot Glenn, Sarah Grew, Mick Hangland-Skill, Jessica Harvey, Leslie Hickey, Kristina Hruska, Stephan Jahanshahi, John Kirkley, Riley Kizziar, Liz Kuball, Jiageng Lin, Doug Lowell, Mara Magyarosi-Laytner, Landry Major, William Mark Sommer, Briar Marsh Pine, Blake Martin, Jake Nelson, Eleanor Oakes, Audra Osborne, Sue Palmer Stone, Mason Pittenger, Marc Ripper, Roo SaBell, June T Sanders, Megan Sinclair, Jennifer Timmer Trail, and James Toftness.
Bar, DJ, and photobooth for your enjoyment.
At the Small Talk Collective in the Disjecta dance studio www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 7PM-9 Free
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 2PM-5 Free
Small Talk Collective is a photography collective. Tonight they show images from their participants in a cycling projection. It is their 5th annual Light Conversation.
Photographers are Kristina Barker, Zemie Barr, Megan Bent, Amanda Brown, André Buenacosa-Brooks, Ezra Carlsen, Alice Christine Walker, Kassandra Eller, Yalda Eskandari, Marico Fayre, Jon Feinstein, Dot Glenn, Sarah Grew, Mick Hangland-Skill, Jessica Harvey, Leslie Hickey, Kristina Hruska, Stephan Jahanshahi, John Kirkley, Riley Kizziar, Liz Kuball, Jiageng Lin, Doug Lowell, Mara Magyarosi-Laytner, Landry Major, William Mark Sommer, Briar Marsh Pine, Blake Martin, Jake Nelson, Eleanor Oakes, Audra Osborne, Sue Palmer Stone, Mason Pittenger, Marc Ripper, Roo SaBell, June T Sanders, Megan Sinclair, Jennifer Timmer Trail, and James Toftness.
Bar, DJ, and photobooth for your enjoyment.
At the Small Talk Collective in the Disjecta dance studio www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 7PM-9 Free
Thursday, April 24, 2025
April 24 The Fifth Element
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana presents Quinto Elemento, the fifth element. Portland has a vibrant flamenco community and this is an example.
Flamenco Vivo is homed in New York City, they teach and tour. Patricia Guerrero chorographs the dancers to live music by Francis Gómez.
Ancient science postulated elements earth, water, air, and fire. Aristotle added ether, comprising the universe beyond earth: space. Physics has been curious about it since, now settling into the standard model of 12 particles and 5 forces. Maybe the ether is the space-time continuum, which stars as a new explanaton of gravity itself?
Of course the ether is invisible; Guerrero is interested in making the ether underlying flamenco visible to the audience in performance. It is nu flamenco beyond the traditional rules.
Quinto Elemento https://thereser.org/event/flamenco-vivo-carlota-santana-quinto-elemento/ at the Patricia Reser Center 12625 SW Crescent paid parking in the attached garage or go by TriMet MAX 7:30PM $35-55
Flamenco Vivo is homed in New York City, they teach and tour. Patricia Guerrero chorographs the dancers to live music by Francis Gómez.
Ancient science postulated elements earth, water, air, and fire. Aristotle added ether, comprising the universe beyond earth: space. Physics has been curious about it since, now settling into the standard model of 12 particles and 5 forces. Maybe the ether is the space-time continuum, which stars as a new explanaton of gravity itself?
Of course the ether is invisible; Guerrero is interested in making the ether underlying flamenco visible to the audience in performance. It is nu flamenco beyond the traditional rules.
Quinto Elemento https://thereser.org/event/flamenco-vivo-carlota-santana-quinto-elemento/ at the Patricia Reser Center 12625 SW Crescent paid parking in the attached garage or go by TriMet MAX 7:30PM $35-55
April 24 Lasting History
Last Thursday on Alberta continues with some of the remaining galleries open this evening.
Donna Guardino, who founded her namesake gallery, passed April 9. https://www.orartswatch.org/donna-guardino-gallery-owner-and-a-force-behind-the-alberta-arts-district-dies-at-age-81/.
In honor, some history. (long)
The art journey of Alberta Street is attributed to Guardino and her late husband with their gallery, designer Roslyn Hill who developed properties, and Magnus Johannesson who rented space for artist studios inexpensively in the 1990s.
Artists are the shock troops of gentrification. They seek inexpensive space and tolerate diversity and adversity. Artists occupying cheap studio space in inner NW in the 1970s to 1980s brought cafes, galleries, and the big ad agency. The rail yard shown in the late 1980s movie opening credits to Drugstore Cowboy was torn up and the neighborhood became the Pearl District. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtX03U-jt7A.
Seattle had its own low rent district, Pioneer Square, with artist studios and galleries. They founded a First Thursday gallery opening evening on the first Friday of the month in 1981. Portland followed in 1986 in the Pearl District. Emerging artists, self-taught artists, and art students set up art sale stands to show and discuss their work with art enthusiasts. That was too hoy polloi for the galleries and newly occupying bars and restaurants.
So the artists selling on the street decamped to Alberta Street on the last Thursday of the month. Once a month, especially in fair weather, Alberta unfolded as a home for individual artists and performers from the Burning Man art festival.
It grew organically, eventually the City of Portland stepped in, requiring permits, it peaked, and declined.
The die was cast for gentrification of Alberta from 1997 by the design of the Oregon property tax limitation of 1997. The California property tax limitation reassesses the valuation on sale, Oregon does not, creating a property tax gentrification subsidy. https://projects.oregonlive.com/taxes/property/map.
Many galleries maintain an enduring presence and actually sell art to collectors. Some are open late tonight, some are not.
Antler+Talon has painters David Rice, Taylor White and Yelena Bryksenkova. It is also the birthday of Antler+Talon's late founder Susannah Kelly. Antler+Talon was founded in 2012, maintains a worldwide community of collectors for their prints, and represents in Miami.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Alberta Street Gallery was founded in 2004. They have paintings by Gabe Wolfe, metalwork by Thomas Hynes and a group paper show. At Alberta Street Gallery https://www.albertastreetgallery.com/ 1829 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Jill McVarish has Small World, paintings; Cheryl Quintana has extremely detailed ceramic sculptures of the heads of animals; Reed Clarke has portrait paintings. At Guardino Gallery https://guardinogallery.com/ 2939 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dannika Sullivan has portrait and still life paintings, Illuminate. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 5:30PM-8 Free
Souvenier, Flight64 may be open, Nucleus House and Nucleus may not be open - they have their own very successful opening evenings.
Donna Guardino, who founded her namesake gallery, passed April 9. https://www.orartswatch.org/donna-guardino-gallery-owner-and-a-force-behind-the-alberta-arts-district-dies-at-age-81/.
In honor, some history. (long)
The art journey of Alberta Street is attributed to Guardino and her late husband with their gallery, designer Roslyn Hill who developed properties, and Magnus Johannesson who rented space for artist studios inexpensively in the 1990s.
Artists are the shock troops of gentrification. They seek inexpensive space and tolerate diversity and adversity. Artists occupying cheap studio space in inner NW in the 1970s to 1980s brought cafes, galleries, and the big ad agency. The rail yard shown in the late 1980s movie opening credits to Drugstore Cowboy was torn up and the neighborhood became the Pearl District. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtX03U-jt7A.
Seattle had its own low rent district, Pioneer Square, with artist studios and galleries. They founded a First Thursday gallery opening evening on the first Friday of the month in 1981. Portland followed in 1986 in the Pearl District. Emerging artists, self-taught artists, and art students set up art sale stands to show and discuss their work with art enthusiasts. That was too hoy polloi for the galleries and newly occupying bars and restaurants.
So the artists selling on the street decamped to Alberta Street on the last Thursday of the month. Once a month, especially in fair weather, Alberta unfolded as a home for individual artists and performers from the Burning Man art festival.
It grew organically, eventually the City of Portland stepped in, requiring permits, it peaked, and declined.
The die was cast for gentrification of Alberta from 1997 by the design of the Oregon property tax limitation of 1997. The California property tax limitation reassesses the valuation on sale, Oregon does not, creating a property tax gentrification subsidy. https://projects.oregonlive.com/taxes/property/map.
Many galleries maintain an enduring presence and actually sell art to collectors. Some are open late tonight, some are not.
Antler+Talon has painters David Rice, Taylor White and Yelena Bryksenkova. It is also the birthday of Antler+Talon's late founder Susannah Kelly. Antler+Talon was founded in 2012, maintains a worldwide community of collectors for their prints, and represents in Miami.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Alberta Street Gallery was founded in 2004. They have paintings by Gabe Wolfe, metalwork by Thomas Hynes and a group paper show. At Alberta Street Gallery https://www.albertastreetgallery.com/ 1829 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Jill McVarish has Small World, paintings; Cheryl Quintana has extremely detailed ceramic sculptures of the heads of animals; Reed Clarke has portrait paintings. At Guardino Gallery https://guardinogallery.com/ 2939 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dannika Sullivan has portrait and still life paintings, Illuminate. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 5:30PM-8 Free
Souvenier, Flight64 may be open, Nucleus House and Nucleus may not be open - they have their own very successful opening evenings.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
April 20 The Subconscious Art of Old Portland
The Boathouse Microcinema is back. It is a live-work studio in the Unkles artist warehouse portfolio. It is very small.
Tonight Matt McCormick Revisits Old Portland. He is a filmmaker and lived and had his studio in the boathouse for a long time. It was a social center in the local movie community. He is now based in Spokane.
McCormick is known for quiet films and slow reveals. Tonight he brings his famous The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Vyrotonin Decision, The Deepest Hole, and other shorts from the 2004 Core Sample.
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Tonight Matt McCormick Revisits Old Portland. He is a filmmaker and lived and had his studio in the boathouse for a long time. It was a social center in the local movie community. He is now based in Spokane.
McCormick is known for quiet films and slow reveals. Tonight he brings his famous The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Vyrotonin Decision, The Deepest Hole, and other shorts from the 2004 Core Sample.
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Friday, April 18, 2025
April 18-19 Burnout
Building 5 at the NW Marine Art Works welcomes resident artists. Look at what they have done and bring your proposals to fill the large space.
Burnout is a colorful installation of tufted yarn by Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/. I first came across her work at the late Gallery Go Go child of the Jailbreak Collective. Burnout has a soundscape by Mikey Rogers.
Murray uses tufting guns, a medium I'm noticing other friends and artists I follow adopting. You can think of it as 2½D embroidery, and some apply it to 3d stuffed shapes. Acrylic yarns in bright colors are a common magnet.
The show is up a night and a day.
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Friday 5PM-8, and Saturday 12-5 Free
Burnout is a colorful installation of tufted yarn by Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/. I first came across her work at the late Gallery Go Go child of the Jailbreak Collective. Burnout has a soundscape by Mikey Rogers.
Murray uses tufting guns, a medium I'm noticing other friends and artists I follow adopting. You can think of it as 2½D embroidery, and some apply it to 3d stuffed shapes. Acrylic yarns in bright colors are a common magnet.
The show is up a night and a day.
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Friday 5PM-8, and Saturday 12-5 Free
Thursday, April 17, 2025
April 17 Glean
The modern American waste stream is epic. That cuts both ways. I remember that solid waste was the first environmental issue I became aware of and thank my parents for supporting me exploring that concern. I have a vivid memory much later of an unintended detour in the aftermath of a coup into a neighborhood in Lagos were people were hand sorting a giant heap of waste. Across the world, landfills are similarly mined by the poorest in society. There is a lot of plastic waste escaping from them, ultimately into the environment, and subsequently into our bodies too.
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art. Artist Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/ is another artist documenting waste, and in his wide shot photographs and movie Albatross. http://www.albatrossthefilm.com/
This year's GLEAN artists are Epiphany Couch, Mai Ide, Diane Jacobs, Chris Lael Larson, and Marsha Mack. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 322 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free.
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art. Artist Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/ is another artist documenting waste, and in his wide shot photographs and movie Albatross. http://www.albatrossthefilm.com/
This year's GLEAN artists are Epiphany Couch, Mai Ide, Diane Jacobs, Chris Lael Larson, and Marsha Mack. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 322 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free.
Friday, April 11, 2025
April 11 God Life Body
Peter Gallo, all the way from Vermont, brings Gods, Sluts & Martyrs. It is outsider-syle mixed media with oil paint. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free
Betsy Walton brings Wheel of Life, 12 paintings on metaphysical themes. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Clay Bodies is a ceramics show with James Alby, Savannah Baker, Miranda Karson, and Calvin Wong. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
After/Time reprises their dance performance with the current show.
Lewis & Clark opens their graduating student show by Sophie Abbassian, Stuti Behari, Knicaid H.G. DeBell, Elly Encell, Allison Gabelman, Elias Guerrero-Reach, Ella Jones, Nuria Nimue Kiesebrink-Pareick, Will Merchant, Josephine Parker, Elliot Pfieffer, Eliza Roberts, LIla Roehr, Ella Ruark, Hollis Sansing, Emilie Schaefer, Grace Schurtz-Ford, Sam Starks, Zoë Steele, Aiden Wilkson, Astea Yajoda, and Siana Sweetpea Yohai.
Betsy Walton brings Wheel of Life, 12 paintings on metaphysical themes. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Clay Bodies is a ceramics show with James Alby, Savannah Baker, Miranda Karson, and Calvin Wong. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
After/Time reprises their dance performance with the current show.
Lewis & Clark opens their graduating student show by Sophie Abbassian, Stuti Behari, Knicaid H.G. DeBell, Elly Encell, Allison Gabelman, Elias Guerrero-Reach, Ella Jones, Nuria Nimue Kiesebrink-Pareick, Will Merchant, Josephine Parker, Elliot Pfieffer, Eliza Roberts, LIla Roehr, Ella Ruark, Hollis Sansing, Emilie Schaefer, Grace Schurtz-Ford, Sam Starks, Zoë Steele, Aiden Wilkson, Astea Yajoda, and Siana Sweetpea Yohai.
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
April 10-13 Portland Butoh Festival
Butoh is a postmodern improvised dance form from Japan, and now established worldwide in niches.
Some say it is inspired by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its initial founding was not, though some later performers taped that source. Portland performer Meshi Chavez and artist Yukiyo Kawano are examples.
In fact, it was founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, age 31 at the time, in 1959. 1959 and 1960 was a great public rebelion against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty. The protests drew one third of the entire population to the streets. With that, the generation who had never served in the armed forces, particpated in street theater and the arts. It was a movement like Paris and the US in 1968, BLM, or the Arab Spring.
In that crucible, Hijikata with collaborator Kazuo Ohno created a new dance form in opposition to Western ballet and modern dance. He gathered collaborators who formed the root of the butoh family tree. Toward the end of his life, Hijikata founded Hakutobo, an all women group.
Seattle is rich in its own butoh family tree with Joan Lagge working with Hakutobo's second unit, then training many in the West. San Francisco is also rich with Koichi Tamano, an early Hijikata collaborator. He is retired, his wife Hiroko Tamano still does workshops. They operated the famous Country Station https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/country-station-sushi-san-francisco in the Mission where anything could and did happen after hours.
Seattle has an annual butoh festival and performances throughout the year under the umbrella of Daipan Butoh https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/. NYC has a butoh festival organized by Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ who has been collaborating with neuroscientists to study the brain while performing. Portland had a butoh node and festivals with Mizu Deserto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuLsbcnbcQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxjHA5b2JA. Good for her, she closed shop and literally rode off into the sunset following love.
You find workshops in LA under Min Tanaka's student Oguri under the Body Weather Laboratory. One of my favorites, Akaji Maro with his Dairakudikan, 大駱駝艦, is active performing and with a week long workshop. There is always a new generation of performers, like Kana Kitty, self-taught, independent of the butoh family tree, https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/dancing-with-death-kana-kittys-anarchic-transcendent-butoh-dance/ and her unit Wozme, though their work is a bit pop-y to me. Several of the surviving members of Sankai Juku are active active teaching. Workshops may be found in Germany and Sweden.
Now comes the Portland Art Collective with its second annual Portland Butoh Festival.
It has 4 nights of performance and 4 days of workshops.
Performence are:
Thursday April 10th
Nicole Walters with musician Eric Jordan
Rachel Goldman
Salty Xi Jie Ng & Crystal J Sasaki with musician Brian Pfeiffer
Vanessa Skantze with musician Matt Hannfin
Friday April 11th
Minja Mertanen with musician Carl Annala
Emily Haygeman
Aida Miró video screening
Paula Helen with musician Michael Perry
Saturday April 12th
Carl Annala with musician Ice Queen
Hank Logan Peterson
Carlos Cruz - video screening
Helen Thorsen
Sunday April 13th
Ash Pillar with musician Andrew Anderson
Wicking Ground with musician Green Heron
Vicky Filippa - video screening
Amapola with musician Vanessa Skantze
Worshops are Thursday & Friday by Vanessa Skantze from Seattle, and Saturday and Sunday with Minja Mertanen https://www.minjamertanen.net/cv from Finland.
The performances are $25 per night and the workshops are $25 per day, which is inexpensive for a dance workshop.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch Tickets and schedule https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-portland-international-butoh-festival-tickets-1273197862079 Performances 7:30 each night $25
Some say it is inspired by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its initial founding was not, though some later performers taped that source. Portland performer Meshi Chavez and artist Yukiyo Kawano are examples.
In fact, it was founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, age 31 at the time, in 1959. 1959 and 1960 was a great public rebelion against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty. The protests drew one third of the entire population to the streets. With that, the generation who had never served in the armed forces, particpated in street theater and the arts. It was a movement like Paris and the US in 1968, BLM, or the Arab Spring.
In that crucible, Hijikata with collaborator Kazuo Ohno created a new dance form in opposition to Western ballet and modern dance. He gathered collaborators who formed the root of the butoh family tree. Toward the end of his life, Hijikata founded Hakutobo, an all women group.
Seattle is rich in its own butoh family tree with Joan Lagge working with Hakutobo's second unit, then training many in the West. San Francisco is also rich with Koichi Tamano, an early Hijikata collaborator. He is retired, his wife Hiroko Tamano still does workshops. They operated the famous Country Station https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/country-station-sushi-san-francisco in the Mission where anything could and did happen after hours.
Seattle has an annual butoh festival and performances throughout the year under the umbrella of Daipan Butoh https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/. NYC has a butoh festival organized by Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ who has been collaborating with neuroscientists to study the brain while performing. Portland had a butoh node and festivals with Mizu Deserto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuLsbcnbcQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxjHA5b2JA. Good for her, she closed shop and literally rode off into the sunset following love.
You find workshops in LA under Min Tanaka's student Oguri under the Body Weather Laboratory. One of my favorites, Akaji Maro with his Dairakudikan, 大駱駝艦, is active performing and with a week long workshop. There is always a new generation of performers, like Kana Kitty, self-taught, independent of the butoh family tree, https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/dancing-with-death-kana-kittys-anarchic-transcendent-butoh-dance/ and her unit Wozme, though their work is a bit pop-y to me. Several of the surviving members of Sankai Juku are active active teaching. Workshops may be found in Germany and Sweden.
Now comes the Portland Art Collective with its second annual Portland Butoh Festival.
It has 4 nights of performance and 4 days of workshops.
Performence are:
Thursday April 10th
Nicole Walters with musician Eric Jordan
Rachel Goldman
Salty Xi Jie Ng & Crystal J Sasaki with musician Brian Pfeiffer
Vanessa Skantze with musician Matt Hannfin
Friday April 11th
Minja Mertanen with musician Carl Annala
Emily Haygeman
Aida Miró video screening
Paula Helen with musician Michael Perry
Saturday April 12th
Carl Annala with musician Ice Queen
Hank Logan Peterson
Carlos Cruz - video screening
Helen Thorsen
Sunday April 13th
Ash Pillar with musician Andrew Anderson
Wicking Ground with musician Green Heron
Vicky Filippa - video screening
Amapola with musician Vanessa Skantze
Worshops are Thursday & Friday by Vanessa Skantze from Seattle, and Saturday and Sunday with Minja Mertanen https://www.minjamertanen.net/cv from Finland.
The performances are $25 per night and the workshops are $25 per day, which is inexpensive for a dance workshop.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch Tickets and schedule https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-portland-international-butoh-festival-tickets-1273197862079 Performances 7:30 each night $25
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
April 10 Ode to the Ecobaroque
We don't review every college gallery show and the greater the distance the lower the probability.
Bruce Conkle https://bruceconkle.com/ is a long time Portland artist in installation, sculpture, and 2d work. His work has a sense of wry humor. He is artist in residence at the Clark College Archer Gallery and the work has a reception today.
"Bruce Conkle declares an affinity for mysterious natural phenomenon such as snow, fire, rainbows, crystals, volcanos, tree burls, and meteorites. He examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment, including deforestation, climate change, and extinction. Conkle's work often deals with man's place within nature, and frequently examines what he calls the "misfit quotient" at the crossroads."
The opening reception is today and there are workshops and a talk over a month you can find on the gallery website.
At Archer Gallery www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/archer/index.php, Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA Noon-4 Free
Bruce Conkle https://bruceconkle.com/ is a long time Portland artist in installation, sculpture, and 2d work. His work has a sense of wry humor. He is artist in residence at the Clark College Archer Gallery and the work has a reception today.
"Bruce Conkle declares an affinity for mysterious natural phenomenon such as snow, fire, rainbows, crystals, volcanos, tree burls, and meteorites. He examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment, including deforestation, climate change, and extinction. Conkle's work often deals with man's place within nature, and frequently examines what he calls the "misfit quotient" at the crossroads."
The opening reception is today and there are workshops and a talk over a month you can find on the gallery website.
At Archer Gallery www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/archer/index.php, Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA Noon-4 Free
April 10 Meet Arab Grandma
The big ad agency has an art event tonight, Why Haven’t You Called, Habibi? in the frame of meet Arab Grandma.
Since humans emerged in Africa, we have been moving around the world. A illuminating account is by Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines, his last book. It has a brief segment too, set in Arab North Africa.
There is a great struggle between modernism and traditionalism in the world. Traditionalism is immediate family first, then extended family, then tribe, often nation does not register at all. Less focus on amusing ourselves to death and material consumption. Modernism is the opposite. Margaret Mead said she did not mourn the passing of the nuclear family because the nuclear family required everyone to like each other. Of course each approach has its extremes, and the ideas can be combined. An ad agency has a self interest in exploring how to communicate in every country to sell sugar water and shoes, so like ethnographers, they have the resources and mission to study culture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Since humans emerged in Africa, we have been moving around the world. A illuminating account is by Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines, his last book. It has a brief segment too, set in Arab North Africa.
There is a great struggle between modernism and traditionalism in the world. Traditionalism is immediate family first, then extended family, then tribe, often nation does not register at all. Less focus on amusing ourselves to death and material consumption. Modernism is the opposite. Margaret Mead said she did not mourn the passing of the nuclear family because the nuclear family required everyone to like each other. Of course each approach has its extremes, and the ideas can be combined. An ad agency has a self interest in exploring how to communicate in every country to sell sugar water and shoes, so like ethnographers, they have the resources and mission to study culture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, April 06, 2025
April 6 & April 11 Homeless Prints
Gather Make Shelter https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/ is a homeless and poor persons art project by Dana Lynn Louis founded in 2017.
Another similar long-running project is Hospitality House founded in San Francisco in 1967. One homeless research project is the podcast interview series the Outsiders https://www.knkx.org/podcast/outsiders. Recorded in 2019 and 2020 it seems quaint today. It was before COVID, before BLM, and before fentanyl. If you look at the history of the Opium Wars, China may see fentanyl and precursers as payback. The episode Inside Outsiders encapsulates the series, it's a good start point for listening. Gather Make Shelter runs parallel to P:ear Mentor https://www.pearmentor.org/ doing art and job training for homeless youth in Portland since 2002.
Impressions from the Collective is a show by Gather Make Shelter artists Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, and Violet. The artists worked with Mullowney Printing printmakers over a year to develop their art and learn printmaking. The prints are on display at Sator Projects Sunday April 6 and at the Gather Make Shelter space in NW on April 11.
Gather Make Shelter prints. https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/news/qgq4jh7rh8oiv2l34mmnyw4fthhye9
On April 6 at Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 1PM-3 Free
On April 11 Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery https://www.gathermakeshelter.org 1335 NW Kearney 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Another similar long-running project is Hospitality House founded in San Francisco in 1967. One homeless research project is the podcast interview series the Outsiders https://www.knkx.org/podcast/outsiders. Recorded in 2019 and 2020 it seems quaint today. It was before COVID, before BLM, and before fentanyl. If you look at the history of the Opium Wars, China may see fentanyl and precursers as payback. The episode Inside Outsiders encapsulates the series, it's a good start point for listening. Gather Make Shelter runs parallel to P:ear Mentor https://www.pearmentor.org/ doing art and job training for homeless youth in Portland since 2002.
Impressions from the Collective is a show by Gather Make Shelter artists Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, and Violet. The artists worked with Mullowney Printing printmakers over a year to develop their art and learn printmaking. The prints are on display at Sator Projects Sunday April 6 and at the Gather Make Shelter space in NW on April 11.
Gather Make Shelter prints. https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/news/qgq4jh7rh8oiv2l34mmnyw4fthhye9
On April 6 at Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 1PM-3 Free
On April 11 Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery https://www.gathermakeshelter.org 1335 NW Kearney 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Saturday, April 05, 2025
April 5 Northside Art Openings+
Amanda Wojick, professor at UO, brings sculptures, Higashiyama Spring. The work of canvas, maple, paper, and paint was developed at her residency in a 200 year old house in Kyoto. Briar Marsh Pine brings Rare Earth. "Rare Earth explores the material consequences of our digital age. The term ‘rare earth’ refers to the mineral elements used to make electronics, magnets, and US military weapons systems. This project investigates the extraction of rare earth material from Mountain Pass Mine, the only rare earth mine in the United States."
At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Synth Library is a beautiful example of DIY hospitality open to all. They have found a nice home in the Lloyd Center Creative Mall. They have an open house today. Synth Library open house at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. RSVP required at https://withfriends.co/event/23016204/synth_library_open_house. 2PM-5 Free, donations accepted
Anya Roberts-Toney has The Echoing Green, impressionistic landscapeish printings. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
Jamin London Tinsel https://www.jaminlondontinsel.com/ has ceramic sculpture Homemades. It is more personal than the domestic projects of, for instance. Andrea Zittel. There is a better explanation at https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2025/03/28/jamin-london-tinsel-homemades/. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 2PM-5 Free, parking on weekends at PCC is Free
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Our Streets by Sai Stone. It images the Black Lives Matter movement in Portland. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Davor Gromilović, Heartslob, and Taegan Treichel bring varied work
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/3-person at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth bring Signal Fire. It is inspired by progressive survivalist bunkers. Of course the oligarchs are building bunkers. In an article on them, the question of guards and servants was raised. A security consultant for one of the projects commented "I'm not worried about an army at the gate, I'm worried about a starving mother and baby at the gate." Then there is the case of the tomb of Ghenghis Kahn. The story is that the people that built the tomb were executed, and the people who executed them were executed. So the tomb has never been found. Strange days.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain bring Bodies in Blotter. It is all explained at https://carnationcontemporary.com/Bodies-in-Blotter-Megita-Denton-Sarah-Pagliaro-and-Jeremy-Rotsztain.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is a performance residency. Tonight, Trajectories includes performances by Marcus Fischer and KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance at 6PM and 7. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Free
Oregon Contemporary has Ben Buswell with This Land. "This Land presents new work by Ben Buswell which continues his inquiry into place and self, in part, as a response to the notions of both American Manifest Destiny and Exceptionalism. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an expansive floor piece, a mirrored landscape that despite its reflective surface disallows the viewer to catch sight of their own image. As in the artist’s past work, reflection, or more specifically, the denial of reflection, creates a metaphorical space questioning the relationship between location and how one sees oneself." Timely.
In the Special Art on Loan Gallery are Reggie Burrows Hodges, Kieth Haring, Manoucher Yektai, and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Erin Espelie all the way from UC Boulder, where she teaches, has curated a collection of movies by Anna Kipervaser, Kamila Kuc, Madison McClintock, Emma Piper-Burket, Stacey Steers, and her own on a theme of From the Sweat of the Spider. Recommended.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. They are encouraging creative clothing. I think it sold out. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
If you are down in LA, Suzanne Ciani performs live in Doug Aitkin's Lightscape. https://www.lightscapeart.org/events/lightscape-activation-by-doug-aitken-workshop-kcrw-suzanne-ciani at the Marciano Art Foundation 2PM sold out
At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Synth Library is a beautiful example of DIY hospitality open to all. They have found a nice home in the Lloyd Center Creative Mall. They have an open house today. Synth Library open house at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. RSVP required at https://withfriends.co/event/23016204/synth_library_open_house. 2PM-5 Free, donations accepted
Anya Roberts-Toney has The Echoing Green, impressionistic landscapeish printings. At Nationale
Jamin London Tinsel https://www.jaminlondontinsel.com/ has ceramic sculpture Homemades. It is more personal than the domestic projects of, for instance. Andrea Zittel. There is a better explanation at https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2025/03/28/jamin-london-tinsel-homemades/. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 2PM-5 Free, parking on weekends at PCC is Free
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Our Streets by Sai Stone. It images the Black Lives Matter movement in Portland. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Davor Gromilović, Heartslob, and Taegan Treichel bring varied work
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/3-person at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth bring Signal Fire. It is inspired by progressive survivalist bunkers. Of course the oligarchs are building bunkers. In an article on them, the question of guards and servants was raised. A security consultant for one of the projects commented "I'm not worried about an army at the gate, I'm worried about a starving mother and baby at the gate." Then there is the case of the tomb of Ghenghis Kahn. The story is that the people that built the tomb were executed, and the people who executed them were executed. So the tomb has never been found. Strange days.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain bring Bodies in Blotter. It is all explained at https://carnationcontemporary.com/Bodies-in-Blotter-Megita-Denton-Sarah-Pagliaro-and-Jeremy-Rotsztain.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is a performance residency. Tonight, Trajectories includes performances by Marcus Fischer and KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance at 6PM and 7. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Free
Oregon Contemporary has Ben Buswell with This Land. "This Land presents new work by Ben Buswell which continues his inquiry into place and self, in part, as a response to the notions of both American Manifest Destiny and Exceptionalism. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an expansive floor piece, a mirrored landscape that despite its reflective surface disallows the viewer to catch sight of their own image. As in the artist’s past work, reflection, or more specifically, the denial of reflection, creates a metaphorical space questioning the relationship between location and how one sees oneself." Timely.
In the Special Art on Loan Gallery are Reggie Burrows Hodges, Kieth Haring, Manoucher Yektai, and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Erin Espelie all the way from UC Boulder, where she teaches, has curated a collection of movies by Anna Kipervaser, Kamila Kuc, Madison McClintock, Emma Piper-Burket, Stacey Steers, and her own on a theme of From the Sweat of the Spider. Recommended.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. They are encouraging creative clothing. I think it sold out. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
If you are down in LA, Suzanne Ciani performs live in Doug Aitkin's Lightscape. https://www.lightscapeart.org/events/lightscape-activation-by-doug-aitken-workshop-kcrw-suzanne-ciani at the Marciano Art Foundation 2PM sold out
Friday, April 04, 2025
April 4 Eastside Art Openings+
For your +1, After/Time has their opening tonight of Jeff by Ahuva S. Zaslavsky. It is video having to do with the sea, a golum, and a laviathan.
Later in the month are Leviathan, a dance performance, Friday, April 11 7PM, Washed Ashore, a Cento poetry workshop led by Ash Good, Sunday, April 13 2PM-4, a poetry reading, Sunday, April 13 4PM-5, an artist talk hosted by V Maldonado, Saturday, April 19 6PM-8, and life drawing, Sunday, April 27 1PM-4.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
For your +2 The Reser center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Tonight they open two shows.
Infinite Possibilities is a show by Mika Aono, Isami Ching, Yoonhee Choi, Menka Desai-Crawford, Sabina Haque, Yuji Hiratsuka, Sandra Honda, Helen Liu, Tien-chu Loh, Kanani Miyamoto, and Satoko Motouji. More at https://thereser.org/gallery/infinite-possibilities/
(UN) Belonging by Sabina Haque https://thereser.org/event/infinite-possibilities-opening-reception-un-belonging-live-performance/ is a performance by Sitara Razaqi Lones and Jordan Isadore within a projection installation.
There are events throughout the month at the link above.
Infinite Possibilities at the Patricia Reser Center Gallery. 12625 SE Crescent Street, Beaverton. See the parking suggestions on their website or go by train on the TriMet MAX. 6PM Free
Nucleus has a big mushroom show, Cluster 3. By Andrea Guzzetta, Bill Mayer, Bird Cvlt, Briana Hertzog, Candie Bolton, Cheyenne Barton, Deb JJ Lee, Dusty Ray, Gina Matarazzo, Kimera Wachna, Maggie Chiang, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, N.C. Winters, Paper Puffin, Stevie Shao, and Taryn Knight.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/cluster-3 at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Later in the month are Leviathan, a dance performance, Friday, April 11 7PM, Washed Ashore, a Cento poetry workshop led by Ash Good, Sunday, April 13 2PM-4, a poetry reading, Sunday, April 13 4PM-5, an artist talk hosted by V Maldonado, Saturday, April 19 6PM-8, and life drawing, Sunday, April 27 1PM-4.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
For your +2 The Reser center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Tonight they open two shows.
Infinite Possibilities is a show by Mika Aono, Isami Ching, Yoonhee Choi, Menka Desai-Crawford, Sabina Haque, Yuji Hiratsuka, Sandra Honda, Helen Liu, Tien-chu Loh, Kanani Miyamoto, and Satoko Motouji. More at https://thereser.org/gallery/infinite-possibilities/
(UN) Belonging by Sabina Haque https://thereser.org/event/infinite-possibilities-opening-reception-un-belonging-live-performance/ is a performance by Sitara Razaqi Lones and Jordan Isadore within a projection installation.
There are events throughout the month at the link above.
Infinite Possibilities at the Patricia Reser Center Gallery. 12625 SE Crescent Street, Beaverton. See the parking suggestions on their website or go by train on the TriMet MAX. 6PM Free
Nucleus has a big mushroom show, Cluster 3. By Andrea Guzzetta, Bill Mayer, Bird Cvlt, Briana Hertzog, Candie Bolton, Cheyenne Barton, Deb JJ Lee, Dusty Ray, Gina Matarazzo, Kimera Wachna, Maggie Chiang, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, N.C. Winters, Paper Puffin, Stevie Shao, and Taryn Knight.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/cluster-3 at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Thursday, April 03, 2025
April 3 Westside Art Openings+
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Froelick, Ily2, and Leach continue.
For your +1 Lewis and Clark College has a 16 speaker performance venue, Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest, in a forest on campus. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Drumer John Niekrasz performs their composition Civilipoli for percussion and 16 channels. It reminds Stockhausen's Kontakte.
Civilipoli at EAR Forest space at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5:30PM-6:30 Free
For your +2 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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
+5 Painter Aldo Valdez opens Transfigurations. He started his career in LA and is now based in Portland. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Kristen Diederich has energetic colorful paintings Special French Blue. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8
Nykelle DeVivo brings Tha Crossroads, photos with manipulated highlights. The artist statement is a fantastic read. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/nykelle-devivo
The Critical Mass curatorial project brings Laura Beth Reese with #influenced. She prints 2d cutouts of influencers, arranges them in a still life tableau, glams and accessorizes them, then photoraphs that in a collage-like treatment.
Nines LeBrie Rich https://www.lebrie.com/ brings 2- and 3-D sculptures, Crackers (& Cookies) - they are brand snacks and their packaging magnified into quilted, embroidered and felted objects. https://lebrie-rich.square.site/ Giant snacks in the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
The Edge of Eden are paintings in a new direction by G. Lewis Clevenger. He previously did geometric abstracts, these are landscapes in a variety of styles.
Stephen O’Donnell brings 95 / 25: A Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition. A self-taught painter he brings luminous realist approach to a range of subjects: portraits, still-life, and wildlife.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland brings landscape printings.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Philip Stork has pastel and pencil drawings, Connections. Hannah Theiss has mixed media collages, Qualia. Noah Alexander Isaac Stein has abstract paintins with a fire theme in Luminous Fire from a Broken Machine. In collaboration with 2025 Ekphraestival, Blackfish artists have reimagined book covers from existing books.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
2025 Ekphraestival is an art project combining poetry and visual art. Intertwined are the resulting collaborations between poets and visual artists. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has The New Abnormal 2.0, collage, painting, and video themed on climate disaster. www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Love is the Power is a show of dense graphic patterns in the Tom Cramer style by Saleam. The artist moved here from Atlanta. He would easily fit in with Fisk and is bringing his murals here too.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Clive Knights has abstracts combining color with slashes of black in show Incomplete Paperwork. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Arts Collective has a group show of nude figures by Tom Hardy, Laura Ross-Paul, Arnold Pander, Stephanie Joy, S. Dyer, Max Lobato, and Bear. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Froelick, Ily2, and Leach continue.
For your +1 Lewis and Clark College has a 16 speaker performance venue, Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest, in a forest on campus. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Drumer John Niekrasz performs their composition Civilipoli for percussion and 16 channels. It reminds Stockhausen's Kontakte.
Civilipoli at EAR Forest space at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5:30PM-6:30 Free
For your +2 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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
+5 Painter Aldo Valdez opens Transfigurations. He started his career in LA and is now based in Portland. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Kristen Diederich has energetic colorful paintings Special French Blue. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8
Nykelle DeVivo brings Tha Crossroads, photos with manipulated highlights. The artist statement is a fantastic read. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/nykelle-devivo
The Critical Mass curatorial project brings Laura Beth Reese with #influenced. She prints 2d cutouts of influencers, arranges them in a still life tableau, glams and accessorizes them, then photoraphs that in a collage-like treatment.
Nines LeBrie Rich https://www.lebrie.com/ brings 2- and 3-D sculptures, Crackers (& Cookies) - they are brand snacks and their packaging magnified into quilted, embroidered and felted objects. https://lebrie-rich.square.site/ Giant snacks in the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
The Edge of Eden are paintings in a new direction by G. Lewis Clevenger. He previously did geometric abstracts, these are landscapes in a variety of styles.
Stephen O’Donnell brings 95 / 25: A Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition. A self-taught painter he brings luminous realist approach to a range of subjects: portraits, still-life, and wildlife.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland brings landscape printings.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Philip Stork has pastel and pencil drawings, Connections. Hannah Theiss has mixed media collages, Qualia. Noah Alexander Isaac Stein has abstract paintins with a fire theme in Luminous Fire from a Broken Machine. In collaboration with 2025 Ekphraestival, Blackfish artists have reimagined book covers from existing books.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
2025 Ekphraestival is an art project combining poetry and visual art. Intertwined are the resulting collaborations between poets and visual artists. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has The New Abnormal 2.0, collage, painting, and video themed on climate disaster. www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Love is the Power is a show of dense graphic patterns in the Tom Cramer style by Saleam. The artist moved here from Atlanta. He would easily fit in with Fisk and is bringing his murals here too.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Clive Knights has abstracts combining color with slashes of black in show Incomplete Paperwork. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Arts Collective has a group show of nude figures by Tom Hardy, Laura Ross-Paul, Arnold Pander, Stephanie Joy, S. Dyer, Max Lobato, and Bear. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
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