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