Sunday, September 28, 2025

September 29 Epidemic

Local filmmaker Kurtis Matthew Russell has been working on project Epidemic of Loneliness. He will show the work in progress.

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

Friday, September 26, 2025

September 26 Equinox Repose

Painter Nicole Williford has Endless Repose and Paige Wright has The Grafted Garnish Of The Equinox Baby.

At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free

September 26-28, October 3 - 4 Five Dimensions

Building 5 is a large high ceiling room in the Northwest Marine Art Works studio complex. They like installations! They are dedicating the space for a week to a multi-artist show, Dimensions, mostly flatwork, with some or all of the artists from Northwest Marine Art Works and adjacent art studios. Most of the times are mid-day, natural lighting.

Artists are Gia Whitlock, Melissa Jones, Libby Wadsworth, Paula Bullwinkel, Philip Stork, Marieke Mertz, Kiel Fletcher, Ken Overman, Quinha Faria, Lisa Cox, Lisa Laser, David Brandt, Bobby Adams, Deanna Schuerbeke, Tim Hutchings, Ellen Goldschmidt, Kathleen McFall, Megan Chin, Kate Crisanti, Hannah Kennedy, Barbara Seipp, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Mariane Zenker, Rachel Aponte, Claire Frances Spaulding, Matthew Landkammer, Indi Foerster, Karen Christie Fisher, Jessalyn Haggenjos, M. V. Moran, Tia Factor, Susan Jones, Chris Lael Larson, Nick Gundry, F. Lauren Carrera, Cynthia Heise, Elena Thomas, and Pamela Chipman.

Terrain at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th. Friday, 9/26: 2PM–5, Saturday, 9/27: 10AM–2, Sunday, 9/28: 10AM–2 PM, Friday, 10/03: 2PM–5, and a reception Saturday, 10/04: 2PM–5. Free

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

September 25 Last Thursday

Susanna Kelly was the co-principal of Antler and Talon, and left the world too early. In her memory, the gallery selects 20 new artists for an award. This is the show, The Ribbon, by invited artists and awardees: Emily Kepulis, Julia Blume, Kelly Cox, Alex Garant, Marisa DeLuca, Mark Seabrook, Nico Cathcart, Juliet Schreckinger, Charisma Panchapakesan, Sara Torgison, Shannon Taylor, Zoe Hawk, Marisa Ware, Morgan Booth, Em Randall, Roos van der Vliet, Elise Toublanc, Ferris Plock, Sophie McVicar, Bethany Krull, Cedra Wood, Virginie Gribouilli, Matt Patterson, Alessia Iannett, Scott Listfield, Loralin Toney, Deana Maloney, Nicomi Nix Turner, and Kelly Tunstall.

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


You can also see Alberta Street Gallery and wine, Blind Insect, Flight64, and Guardino. Not sure the Nucleus locations or Souvenir are open the evening of First Thursday.

Friday, September 19, 2025

September 20 Flora

Mono Space has a listening session today. Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003) was a famed Japanese ambient musician. He often mixed in nature sounds. Today is Flora 1987, a studio recording of keyboards. It was rereleased on vinyl. The room will be limited to 40 people at a time and the recording is 58 minutes. Doors 11, play 1 11:15, intermission, play 2 1:00 intermission, play 3 3:00 intermission, end.

At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 11AM-5PM Free (ring buzzer for entry)

September 20 Aquatic Life

Sasha Fishman https://sashafishman.com/, from New York City, has been artist in residence at ILY2 West. Her sculptures are themed on marine biology and sometimes involve pumps and water in the gallery. Strong vectors of her work are her own experimental materials made from the mud of hot springs, sea life, mycelium, and more.

Her show here, Shad Mode, is her readout of studying NW river life, including, salmon, sturgeon and lamprey eels.

"The show is a continuation of her interest in biomaterials, toxicology, and energy harvesting as points for critical analysis and mechanisms for sculpting. Driven by a fascination bordering on fixation with fish as both subject and object, Fishman’s practice prods the relationship between fish, their ecosystem, and their caretakers, asking the question: How do humans direct the evolution of a species, and how does a species exist beyond itself?

At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders Recommended 5PM-7 Free

September 20 Landscape

Portland painter David Corbett brings colorful geometric stripe paintings inspired by landscape.

At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-8 Free

Thursday, September 18, 2025

September 19 Bloom After Bloom

Portland artist Claire Elliott is fascinated by gardens: visiting, photographing, painting, and sculpting.

For show Afterbloom, she has paintings and a field of poppy seed pod sculptures, the afterbloom. Perhaps not intended, it is presented in a town with an addiction problem.

On Thursday, the gallery presents the film Emma (2020) at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater. It is an Austen period romantic comedy, with garden estates as set.

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

September 19-21 Movies of Movement

One of Portland's annual (modern) dance film festivals is back. It has three nights of programs explained on their website. The work originates in 14 countries.

Dance is a tough art form. It requires continuous training, a good floor, and a room that is not too cold or hot, no matter what the weather outside. It is real time, rarely stored, and dependent on audience support. It is not a Marvel film in the age of infinite reproduction.

The films are not documentation of a stage performance, they are a story told in dance. The works are each about 3 to 15 minutes in length.

You can see the https://portlanddancefilmfest.com/ at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 7PM $15 each night

September 19-21 Body Weather

If you are in LA, Body Weather Laboratory unfolds a new work. They are the Los Angeles instance of butoh modern dance which originated in Japan.

Oguri, the principal, trained with Min Tanaka. Tanaka is a dancer, film actor, and is famous for his training and performance on an active farm in Japan, the Body Weather Laboratory. Tanaka is also famous for his collaborations with Cecil Taylor and his connection with the downtown New York contemporary art world.

Oguri came to Los Angles and with his partner Roxanne Steinberg, established Body Weather Laboratory East. Steinberg is related to Portland's Body Vox.

Movers are Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Mao, and Andres Corchero. They collaborate with Alex Cline (percussion), Jie Ma (pipa), and Aaron Shaw. (saxophone, flute).

Body Weather Laboratory https://www.bodyweather.org/ performs at Electric Lodge 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flower-of-the-season-2025-sky-its-celestial-bodies-in-the-mouth-tickets-1557836042539?aff=oddtdtcreator Friday and Saturday 8PM, Sunday 3 $20

Sunday, September 14, 2025

September 15 Animation

Annimators Zoë Blickenstaff, Sarah Franklin, Ava Stapleton, and Dalena Le Truong bring their wares.

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

Saturday, September 13, 2025

September 13 Polyphemus Bookends Apotropaic Commonplace Burner

Justin L’Amie presents illustrations Dismal Nitch Polyphemus Moth. Bookends is a show by Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Iván Carmona, Jodie Cavalier, Nan Curtis, Marjorie Dial, Jess Perlitz, and Joshua West Smith who have made sculptural bookends.

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


Peggy Chiang brings Barn Burner and Mariel Capanna brings Commonplace.

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 3PM-5 Free


The Cooley Gallery at Reed College guests textile artist Freddie Robins with installations, Apotropaic. https://www.reed.edu/cooley/exhibitions/robins-apotropaic.html The wood behind the arrow would be an artist talk Tuesday, September 30 in the Reed College Chapel, Eliot Hall. You can see it today too.

At Reed College's Cooley Gallery in the Library Building. Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock. Noon-5 Free

Friday, September 12, 2025

September 12 Outsider Naturalists

Nucleus brings a two person show of illustration work by Teagan White and Nicole Duennebier.

Illustration is a popular vector is Portland art, maybe we have nature's inspiration, long rainy hours and the patiencce for it. Nucleus wins a copywriting award for this desciption.

""Teagan White is an artist and outsider naturalist whose work arises from direct experience with natural phenomena and dedicated communication with the land. Through careful observation and poetic allegory, their paintings explore regional ecological issues such as drought, wildfire, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity loss, as well as the universal spiritual and psychosomatic burden of our acquiescence to a necrotic, extractivist civilization.

Bleak only at surface level, their work is saturated with the conviction that other, stranger, and more beautiful ways of engaging with the world are not only possible but limitless, and that solutions won’t be found through exclusionary conservation, technocratic fantasies, or neocolonial exploitation, but through a return to devoted kinship with all beings.""

Nicole Duennebier hails all the way from Boston and is inspired by her time in Maine and its relationship with the sea.

Https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/teagan-tba-2-person-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


One Grand has joined PADA, is doing out-of-town art shows, and has opened a second room upstairs. They are doing a mix of long shows and pop ups. Downstairs a group show for and by Jobs With Justice ends today. Upstairs Amanda Designco has bags.

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

Sunday, September 07, 2025

September 7 Fall Boat House

The Boathouse Microcinema opens its Fall with an international traveling program from Hong Kong and the UK. Moviemakers are Angela Su, Choi Sai Ho, Ellen Pau, Heather Phillipson, Jake Elwes, Joseph Chen, Lawrence Lek, Linda Lai, Marianna Simnett, and Rachel Maclean. The program was curated by Isaac Leung, Jamie Wyld, and Moritz Cheung.

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

September 7 ¡Flamenco!

This afternoon and early evening is the 10th Feria de Portland. It is a free celebration of flamenco and the Spanish culture surrounding it. It is a good introduction if you are considering taking lessons in flamenco dance.

It will be at Green Anchors in St Johns.

The event encompasses food carts, a bar, photobooth, children's crafts, art, flamenco clothing and a busy main stage for performances. Children are welcome.

On the Main Stage
1:30pm Espacio Flamenco - Emerging Artists
2:30pm Semilla Flamenca - Dance from Redmond, WA
3:30pm Espacio Flamenco Edad de Oro - dance from the Golden Age of Flamenco
4:30pm NW Flamenco Showcase w/ Andrea la Canela, Sophia Solano, Pamela Infante, Lourdes Rodriguez, & Flamenco Idaho
5:30pm Espacio Flamenco - Bailaoras
6:30pm Espacio Flamenco Company - feat. Juan Murube (Sevilla, Spain)
*Live sevillanas & rumbas @ 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, & 5pm

Workshops
1:15pm Sevillanas for Feria w/ Brenna
1:30pm Flamenco kids dance class w/ Paulina (Semilla Flamenca)
2:30pm Palmas (flamenco clapping) w/ Christina Lorentz
4:30pm Cante (flamenco singing) w/ Juan Murube
6:00pm Rumba dance demonstration w/ Elena Villa

On the Tabalo Stage
2:30pm Portland Flamenco Guitar Showcase
3:30pm Solo Flamenco Guitar w/ Derek Brown
5:30pm Flamenco w/ Mark Ferguson

Feria de Portland by Espacio Flamenco https://www.espacioflamencopdx.com/events-1/feria-de-portland at Green Anchors, 8940 N Bradford, Map  1PM-8 Free

Saturday, September 06, 2025

September 6 Northside Art Openings

Souvenir opens Trifles by Heather Goodwind. At Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 2PM-5 Free


As Above, So Below is a show by Anna Buckner & Meredith Morrison. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


Matthew Bennett Laurents brings Curiobloom, ceramic vaises. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free


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

September 6 The Rose

Hi Books is one of Portland's unique small shops for art books and periodicals. Justine Kurland is a noted photographer who curated a show by women collage artists, The Rose, for the Lumber Room. https://portlandorusnow.blogspot.com/2023/07/july-29-30-lumber-rose.html. The Rose has a catalog, The Rose: A Circular Genealogy of Collage. Kurland visits to launch it and sign copies today. It is a limited edition of 1000.

I discovered Kurland's work through Linda Ferris' Contemporary Art Project and have followed her work since, She studied with Gregory Crewdson and was part of the Another Girl, Another Planet show. She has documented Oregon communes, and collaborated in short book, Old Joy, with Jon Raymond.

At Hi Books https://www.hibookspdx.com/ 1211 SW Broadway 2PM-4 Free

Friday, September 05, 2025

September 5 Eastside Art Openings+

For your +1 After | Time does Thursday openings and Saturday events. They have their opening on the Westside Friday. The Hours is a show by Sierra Faust.

At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free


CENTRL Office hosts an art show by a University of Mississippi painting faculty member and an artist from Tunsia, reminiscent of the urban art at Backspace.

CENTRL is part of Portland's startup scene. This show is the project of and marketing vehicle for self-funded startup RevArt from 2020, based in Virginia. I have two friends over the years who have done gallery support software, but I have no idea of what that space looks like today. The show has been up, tonight is the reception. Free food and drink tho. And the crypto bros are having a party at Wonderlove if that's your thing. At 1355 NW Everett 5PM-8 Free


Fajar Allanda and Tetsunori Tawaraya have a show at Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 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, September 04, 2025

September 4 Westside Art Openings+

The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.


Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Augen, Froelick, PDX Contemporary and The Black Gallery continue.


For your +1 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 +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.


Osamu James Nakagawa brings Kai: 廻 Following the Cycle of Life, 27 years photographs of their family. Nadia Sablin brings Years Like Water, a record or growing up in a small remote village in Russia in simpler times.

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


Dance Apron is a new show by Sara Siestreem.

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


Ko Kirk Yamahira brings textile work and Gina Wilson brings sculpture and painting.

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


The late painting professor, Paul Missal, of PNCA, has a retrospective. Complete. Empty. are geommetric paintings by Robert Shepard. Anastasiya Gutnik’s has a sculptural installation The Listening Grove. Add Synthetic Accretion by Noah Alexander Isaac Stein.

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


The Hours is a show by Sierra Faust.

At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free


Andrea lopez adds drawing elements to abstract paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Eyes and Ears: Barn Radio, Werk-in-Progress, is a DJ show poster exhibition by Cole Mitchell Johnson of FISK Gallery. The big ad agency has been exploring live DJ proadcasts mid day lately.

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


Laura Ross Paul, longtime figurative painter with gallery representation, brings a series Golden. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 5PM-9 Free


Fans Only shows its residents. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free


Ajua: Iconos de Nuestra Gente is mural work by Oliver Casillas inspired by the family photography of Inés Magaña.

At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-8 Free


PNCA Willamette has many visual shows and performances tonight.

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