The show Cavity closes this afternoon. It is artists Jackie Stewart, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cody Brant, Chanel Conklin and Lena Lutz. Don't miss performances by Chanel Conklin, 3:30, followed by Negative Flower (MSHR) and The Tenses.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 3PM-6 Free
Friday, August 14, 2026
August 14 Together
Intisar Abioto is a multi-artist, force of nature, and a curator. She did a large Museum retrospective of Northwest black artists. Show America Next 250: The Art of Imagination includes J.S. Bell, Thelma Johnson Streat, Charlotte Lewis, Katherine Pennington, Adriene Cruz, Intisar Abioto, Rob Lewis, Christine Miller. Penda Diakité. Nykelle DeVivo and Seed to Quilt: Adriene Cruz, Bridgette Hickey, Déy Rivers, Ella Ray, Mia Raiah from The Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt Committee.
The show is sponsored by the 1803 Fund.
They are vague on the location on N Interstate Avenue by N Albina. There are several vacant spaces there, look for signs, or it might be outside. RSVP to https://americanext250artofimagin.rsvpify.com/ 6:30PM-8:30 Free
Teresa Christiansen Ashley Innis bring landscape paintings close shot and long shot in show Together, ...A Memoir and ...An Epilogue.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
The show is sponsored by the 1803 Fund.
They are vague on the location on N Interstate Avenue by N Albina. There are several vacant spaces there, look for signs, or it might be outside. RSVP to https://americanext250artofimagin.rsvpify.com/ 6:30PM-8:30 Free
Teresa Christiansen Ashley Innis bring landscape paintings close shot and long shot in show Together, ...A Memoir and ...An Epilogue.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, August 08, 2026
August 8 Ambient Portal of Light
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Brian Eno originated the term ambient music, now a tree with many branches. Today is perfect to settle into some listening.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-the-music-of-brian-eno at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Yumiko Yoshioka, based in Japan and Germany, performs butoh, 100 Lights of Solitude. She came from Ariadone-Carlotta Ikeda, and before Akaji Maro-Dairakudakan.
At New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=342996. 8PM $25
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Brian Eno originated the term ambient music, now a tree with many branches. Today is perfect to settle into some listening.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-the-music-of-brian-eno at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Yumiko Yoshioka, based in Japan and Germany, performs butoh, 100 Lights of Solitude. She came from Ariadone-Carlotta Ikeda, and before Akaji Maro-Dairakudakan.
At New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=342996. 8PM $25
Friday, August 07, 2026
August 7 Growth and Time
Nucleus has a 10 year aniversery show. You may recognize the artists, Aaron Nagel, Bega EV, Benjamin Björklund, Betty Jiang, Bill Barminski, Bill Mayer, Branden Milbreit, Brett Amory, Dan Boldrini, Creature Creature, Danielle Estefanara, Dusky Boy, Eileen Clavel, Elly Smallwood, El Macuina, Erik Mark Sandberg, Esao Andrews, Felicia Chiao, Heikki Leis, Janine Shiota, Janice Sung, John Brophy, Julian Callos, Kewon Falgas, Kim Byung, Kirk Demb, Kiriako Iatridis, Klaus Kraemer, Kriss Muns, Kyler Martz, Lisk Feng, Luba Laura, Lonnie Menendez & Rosa Menendez, Lou Webb James, Malcolm T. Liepke, Mari, Matt Dangler, Michael Alvarez (Talento?), Mincho Gana, Mona Walls, Morten Memborg, Motohiro Hayakawa, Muzo Ozars, Nexus Photos, Rodney Matthews, Sam Brano, Sarah Joncas, Shoko Ishida, Steve Giger, Sydneylund-Arturo, Tera Bando, Timothy Lamb, Teagan White, Wissam Shawkat, Yosuke, We are out of office, and Wee Genseman.
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, August 06, 2026
August 6 Westside Art Openings+
August is when New York is hot, and when Europeans take their long vacations. So many galleries continue shows. Leach, PDX Contemporary, Russo Lee, Adams and Ollman, Augen, Froelick, Stelo,
and Lucky Girl continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. They have good air filtering and controlled climate! https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 The Tomorrow Theater has movie Seeds of Peace, also free, at 7:30PM https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/seeds-of-peace/ It's sold out. 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
In Smoke Summer, again, due to humen created carbon emissions, who can say no to a block party? The big ad agency in their contribution to PDX Sneaker Week is doing it. They are closing the block of 13th. DJs, vendors, family-friendly. A hydrant party would be fun.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free - RSVP at https://partiful.com/e/TspZXjG67qw0MK3pTSFd
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free and artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Mark Maio https://www.markmaio.com brings Against the Grain from that series. Dawn Surratt https://dawnsurratt.com creates collages and sculptures often involving vintage materials in Real But Not True.
Christine Clark shows Shape of Wonder in the Nine Gallery.
"Shape of Wonder embraces the poetic possibilities of biomorphic form. Rather than representing nature, these sculptures inhabit its sensibility—one rooted in intuition, ambiguity, and transformation. Within this openness lies a quiet romanticism: the belief that beauty emerges not from certainty, but from mystery; not from perfection, but from the irregular and the living. These forms ask to be encountered deliberately and with humor, allowing emotion to precede judgement. Existing between geology and biology, abstraction and memory, they are less about what they are than about what they allow us to feel."The Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Laura Mora Osorio, all the way from Bogotá, has A mild Case of Several Things. It is her first international solo show. Think bright and colorful sculptures and paintings. Some have the feeling of a polychrome indoor climbing wall.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Amy Turnbull has paintings Portraits of Perception, Hannah Theiss has layered paintings Invite the Cloud, and Michael Knutson has paintings from 1974 graduate school.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Alchemy of Shape is a group show including Tom Cramer, Rachael Allen, Daniel Fagereng, Robert Bolman, Rosalena Winkler, and others.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Women: A Concept is a show by painter Kyra Watkins & photographer Jordan Souza.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Mark Dunst has paintings, Some Assembly Required. The artist statement is fun. https://lvdesignandgallery.com/exhibitions/117-mark-dunst-some-assembly-required/overview/
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Inches Above focuses on life, death and the space in between with Meg Allan, Divya Anantharaman, Dan Barry, Landis Blair, Double Parlour, Penney Bidwell, Dan Bunn, Rosśa Crean, Giulia Ferla, Paul Garcia, Sydni Indman, Wynter Jones, Aunia Kahn, LittleSwimminMachine, Jon Macnair, Karen Newman, Paine Proffitt, Marc Sirinsky, and Renée Tay. Along with Tapestry of Soul are encaustic paintings and sculpture by Sandra Alderman.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Complicated Relationships is a show by Roberta Lampert and Anne Dosskey.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network's stuff and things sale on 13th is canceled.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. They have good air filtering and controlled climate! https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 The Tomorrow Theater has movie Seeds of Peace, also free, at 7:30PM https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/seeds-of-peace/ It's sold out. 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
In Smoke Summer, again, due to humen created carbon emissions, who can say no to a block party? The big ad agency in their contribution to PDX Sneaker Week is doing it. They are closing the block of 13th. DJs, vendors, family-friendly. A hydrant party would be fun.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free - RSVP at https://partiful.com/e/TspZXjG67qw0MK3pTSFd
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free and artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Mark Maio https://www.markmaio.com brings Against the Grain from that series. Dawn Surratt https://dawnsurratt.com creates collages and sculptures often involving vintage materials in Real But Not True.
Christine Clark shows Shape of Wonder in the Nine Gallery.
"Shape of Wonder embraces the poetic possibilities of biomorphic form. Rather than representing nature, these sculptures inhabit its sensibility—one rooted in intuition, ambiguity, and transformation. Within this openness lies a quiet romanticism: the belief that beauty emerges not from certainty, but from mystery; not from perfection, but from the irregular and the living. These forms ask to be encountered deliberately and with humor, allowing emotion to precede judgement. Existing between geology and biology, abstraction and memory, they are less about what they are than about what they allow us to feel."The Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Laura Mora Osorio, all the way from Bogotá, has A mild Case of Several Things. It is her first international solo show. Think bright and colorful sculptures and paintings. Some have the feeling of a polychrome indoor climbing wall.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Amy Turnbull has paintings Portraits of Perception, Hannah Theiss has layered paintings Invite the Cloud, and Michael Knutson has paintings from 1974 graduate school.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Alchemy of Shape is a group show including Tom Cramer, Rachael Allen, Daniel Fagereng, Robert Bolman, Rosalena Winkler, and others.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Women: A Concept is a show by painter Kyra Watkins & photographer Jordan Souza.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Mark Dunst has paintings, Some Assembly Required. The artist statement is fun. https://lvdesignandgallery.com/exhibitions/117-mark-dunst-some-assembly-required/overview/
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Inches Above focuses on life, death and the space in between with Meg Allan, Divya Anantharaman, Dan Barry, Landis Blair, Double Parlour, Penney Bidwell, Dan Bunn, Rosśa Crean, Giulia Ferla, Paul Garcia, Sydni Indman, Wynter Jones, Aunia Kahn, LittleSwimminMachine, Jon Macnair, Karen Newman, Paine Proffitt, Marc Sirinsky, and Renée Tay. Along with Tapestry of Soul are encaustic paintings and sculpture by Sandra Alderman.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Complicated Relationships is a show by Roberta Lampert and Anne Dosskey.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network's stuff and things sale on 13th is canceled.
August 6 Wandering & Wondering
The Daipan Butoh Collective in Seattle present their annual outdoor, Wandering & Wondering, in the Japanese Garden in Washington Park, Seattle.
It is https://www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/events-calendar/2026/8/6/wandering-and-wondering at the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. East, Seattle. The Seattle Japanese Gardens is free on First Thursdays. Map 3:30PM-6:30 Free
It is https://www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/events-calendar/2026/8/6/wandering-and-wondering at the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. East, Seattle. The Seattle Japanese Gardens is free on First Thursdays. Map 3:30PM-6:30 Free
Tuesday, August 04, 2026
August 4 - 5 Miss Misery
Elliott Smith's song Miss Misery was used in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting and in the best original song category, performed at the 70th Academy Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGLTz_kJ0U. He passed 5 years later, age 34.
Larry Crane is a low-fi recording engineer and publisher of Tape-op originally with a DIY focus. He recorded some now famous people in his home studio. Then he busted out Jackpot Recording with his friend Elliot Smith who was a drywaller. They recorded together and Crane manages Smith's archive. So for a rare treat, 2 nights, Crane plays Smith and talks about their work together.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/the-music-of-elliot-smith-presented-by-larry-crane at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36 Sold Out
Larry Crane is a low-fi recording engineer and publisher of Tape-op originally with a DIY focus. He recorded some now famous people in his home studio. Then he busted out Jackpot Recording with his friend Elliot Smith who was a drywaller. They recorded together and Crane manages Smith's archive. So for a rare treat, 2 nights, Crane plays Smith and talks about their work together.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/the-music-of-elliot-smith-presented-by-larry-crane at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36 Sold Out
Friday, July 31, 2026
August 3 Story of Pixels
At age 15 Sadie Benning revieved the gift of a camera from her father James Benning, a noted experimental filmmaker.
With the Fisher Price PXL-2000, the Pixelvision, she made movies about her queer experience. The 1989 camera records lo-fi black and white video on audio cassettes.
Benning was acknowledged at a young age my the movie and art world. Later she founded Le Tigre.
Many artist movies are archived by the Video Data Bank. vdb.org. They are connected to SAIC and are having financial problems. Tonight the Hollywood Theater shows a program of Benning's movies. Get those videos circulating!
The program covers 1989 to 1998 with Living Inside (5 mins, 1989), If Every Girl Had a Diary (8 mins, 1990), Me and Rubyfruit (5 mins, 1990), Jollies (11 mins, 1990), A New Year (6 mins, 1990), A Place Called Lovely (14 mins, 1991), It Wasn’t Love (20 mins, 1992), Girl Power (15 mins, 1992), German Song (5 mins, 1995), The Judy Spots (5 mins, 1995), and Flat Is Beautiful (50 mins, 1998.)
The early movies of Sadie Benning https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-films-of-sadie-benning/ at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
With the Fisher Price PXL-2000, the Pixelvision, she made movies about her queer experience. The 1989 camera records lo-fi black and white video on audio cassettes.
Benning was acknowledged at a young age my the movie and art world. Later she founded Le Tigre.
Many artist movies are archived by the Video Data Bank. vdb.org. They are connected to SAIC and are having financial problems. Tonight the Hollywood Theater shows a program of Benning's movies. Get those videos circulating!
The program covers 1989 to 1998 with Living Inside (5 mins, 1989), If Every Girl Had a Diary (8 mins, 1990), Me and Rubyfruit (5 mins, 1990), Jollies (11 mins, 1990), A New Year (6 mins, 1990), A Place Called Lovely (14 mins, 1991), It Wasn’t Love (20 mins, 1992), Girl Power (15 mins, 1992), German Song (5 mins, 1995), The Judy Spots (5 mins, 1995), and Flat Is Beautiful (50 mins, 1998.)
The early movies of Sadie Benning https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-films-of-sadie-benning/ at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
August 2 Electronics in Nature
Modular on the Spot is an international network of outdoor synth concerts. Here it is sponsored by the Portland Synth Library.
This month brings Stuart Frederich-Smith, Demodex, Production Unit Xero, Matthew Rempes, Ivan Jan, and Hemadaxis.
At Cathedral Park 6PM-9 Free
This month brings Stuart Frederich-Smith, Demodex, Production Unit Xero, Matthew Rempes, Ivan Jan, and Hemadaxis.
At Cathedral Park 6PM-9 Free
August 1 Northside Art Openings+
Omari Jazz curates a listening session.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-omari-jazz-1 at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
The Emergent Field of Becoming is an installation by Jessie Rose Vala on the themes of "climate change, industry-made chemicals, mytho-historical migration narratives, and pop-esoteric imagery."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sewing Seeds is a show of mixed media worls by Alexandria Saleem, Amirra Malak, Ara Manoogian, Bint Bandora, Jenna Saadeh, ‘Rah Sabino, Rodia Banaei, Sarah Farahat, and Zeinab Saab.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary is on break until the end of August. Then opens Converge45.
Franklin Foto 5-8 celebrates their second anniversery.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-omari-jazz-1 at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
The Emergent Field of Becoming is an installation by Jessie Rose Vala on the themes of "climate change, industry-made chemicals, mytho-historical migration narratives, and pop-esoteric imagery."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sewing Seeds is a show of mixed media worls by Alexandria Saleem, Amirra Malak, Ara Manoogian, Bint Bandora, Jenna Saadeh, ‘Rah Sabino, Rodia Banaei, Sarah Farahat, and Zeinab Saab.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary is on break until the end of August. Then opens Converge45.
Franklin Foto 5-8 celebrates their second anniversery.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
July 31 Space - A Meditation
The Archive as a Mirror is a show and a library by Matthew Damato. He shows his work and a collection of printed matter by Ambulatory Archives.
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
An essential resource for Portland artists is studio space. The Unkeles family rents several buildings with the impossible beauty that the rent is stable until the artist moves.
Moviemaker David Poulshock shows documentary Space - A Meditation On The Meaning Of Art in an Unkeles building.
"It was supposed to be a simple documentary about a Portland landlord Ken Unkeles' quest to convert the run-down NW Marine Iron Works complex into a thriving art space. But when eccentric artist, Tim Stapleton who is diagnosed with ALS, moves into one of the new studios - on his own quest to paint until his dying breath - everything changes."
Space at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-a-meditation-on-the-meaning-of-art-tickets-1991575168942 7PM-10 $15
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
An essential resource for Portland artists is studio space. The Unkeles family rents several buildings with the impossible beauty that the rent is stable until the artist moves.
Moviemaker David Poulshock shows documentary Space - A Meditation On The Meaning Of Art in an Unkeles building.
"It was supposed to be a simple documentary about a Portland landlord Ken Unkeles' quest to convert the run-down NW Marine Iron Works complex into a thriving art space. But when eccentric artist, Tim Stapleton who is diagnosed with ALS, moves into one of the new studios - on his own quest to paint until his dying breath - everything changes."
Space at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-a-meditation-on-the-meaning-of-art-tickets-1991575168942 7PM-10 $15
July 31 - August 2 Salish
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival makes a home in Port Townsend. This year has performances by movers who studied with Hijikata and Ohno. Earlier in the week they had workshops.
Performers are Emiko Agatsuma, Tokyo/Nagano, Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, Chicago/Seattle/Los Angeles, Yumiko Yoshioka, Berlin, Mōe Yamamoto & Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh-Kan, Kanazawa, Akira Kasai of Tenshi-Kan, Tokyo, Joan Laage Kogut Butoh, Seattle, Mitsutake Kasai, Tokyo, and Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura, New York/Tokyo.
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival at Fort Worden Park American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St, Port Townsend. https://www.salishseabutoh.com/2026-performances Tickets https://givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026 8PM $25 each night
Performers are Emiko Agatsuma, Tokyo/Nagano, Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, Chicago/Seattle/Los Angeles, Yumiko Yoshioka, Berlin, Mōe Yamamoto & Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh-Kan, Kanazawa, Akira Kasai of Tenshi-Kan, Tokyo, Joan Laage Kogut Butoh, Seattle, Mitsutake Kasai, Tokyo, and Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura, New York/Tokyo.
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival at Fort Worden Park American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St, Port Townsend. https://www.salishseabutoh.com/2026-performances Tickets https://givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026 8PM $25 each night
Sunday, July 26, 2026
July 26 Realistic Idle Wondering
The Daipan Butoh Collective in Seattle present their annual outdoor, Wandering & Wondering, in Seattle's Kubota Gardens.
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Secure valuables in vehicles out of sight.
Daipan Butoh presents Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/ https://www.kubotagarden.org/event-details/wandering-wondering-a-butoh-performance 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map Noon-4 Free
Realistic Moment is a Summer music series. They have concerts at the Leach Botanical Garden. The gardens need money or they will close. Consider becoming a member, then visit often. This afternoon is a benefit concert.
Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Foote & Dickow, Patricia Wolf, Pete Swanson and Ilyas Ahmed, and Carly Barton perform.
Experience it on the tree bridge with blankets, chairs, a picnic.
Realistic Moment at Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4:30PM-8:30 $30 Sold Out
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery guests Elbow Room artists for a sale.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opening show 10AM-3 Free
Ceramicist Nick Norman brings work themed on automobiles, in this case rough mugs with autos as a base in show Idler.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Secure valuables in vehicles out of sight.
Daipan Butoh presents Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/ https://www.kubotagarden.org/event-details/wandering-wondering-a-butoh-performance 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map Noon-4 Free
Realistic Moment is a Summer music series. They have concerts at the Leach Botanical Garden. The gardens need money or they will close. Consider becoming a member, then visit often. This afternoon is a benefit concert.
Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Foote & Dickow, Patricia Wolf, Pete Swanson and Ilyas Ahmed, and Carly Barton perform.
Experience it on the tree bridge with blankets, chairs, a picnic.
Realistic Moment at Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4:30PM-8:30 $30 Sold Out
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery guests Elbow Room artists for a sale.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opening show 10AM-3 Free
Ceramicist Nick Norman brings work themed on automobiles, in this case rough mugs with autos as a base in show Idler.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Saturday, July 25, 2026
July 25 Machine Garden
We are amidst a great discussion of artificial intelligence in the US. The discussion has not yet deeply engaged job loss and its tax subsidies for capital spending on robots. Artists are working with AI and others reject it.
Apropos, Hannah Newman brings her installation An Optimized Garden.
"In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligences, An Optimized Garden expands the conversation into the open air. Transforming the backyard space of Gallery 1122 into a landscape teeming with digital and natural plant hybrids, the exhibition invites viewers to move through an environment where digital and organic systems collide and co-evolve.
As AI companies present AI as inevitable, the next stage of our human evolution, An Optimized Garden considers the ecological and human toll of a planet merged with AI. Throughout the exhibition, hand-built sculptures and paintings coexist with AI-generated imagery, combining natural and technological materials, including dried plant matter, silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and electronic debris. At the heart of the exhibition, an AI-generated voice narrates both the promises and the risks of AI’s entanglement with human and ecological systems.
Sprouting from the anxiety and unstable terrain of our contemporary moment, An Optimized Garden questions just what will take root from our new relationship with AI. Will the fruit of our gardens taste sweeter when everything is optimized?"
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
Apropos, Hannah Newman brings her installation An Optimized Garden.
"In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligences, An Optimized Garden expands the conversation into the open air. Transforming the backyard space of Gallery 1122 into a landscape teeming with digital and natural plant hybrids, the exhibition invites viewers to move through an environment where digital and organic systems collide and co-evolve.
As AI companies present AI as inevitable, the next stage of our human evolution, An Optimized Garden considers the ecological and human toll of a planet merged with AI. Throughout the exhibition, hand-built sculptures and paintings coexist with AI-generated imagery, combining natural and technological materials, including dried plant matter, silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and electronic debris. At the heart of the exhibition, an AI-generated voice narrates both the promises and the risks of AI’s entanglement with human and ecological systems.
Sprouting from the anxiety and unstable terrain of our contemporary moment, An Optimized Garden questions just what will take root from our new relationship with AI. Will the fruit of our gardens taste sweeter when everything is optimized?"
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, July 23, 2026
July 24 Astral Uncertainty
Jessie Weitzel Le Grand opens mixed media sculptures Astral Accessories.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, July 17, 2026
July 18 Soft Country Decay
Cori McCullough https://www.iamcorii.com/ presents Soft Decay.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Jeffrey Silverstein https://www.jeffreylewissilverstein.com/ is a NW progressive country musician. For your listening pleasure, he brings cosmic country.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-cosmic-country-curated-by-jeffrey-silverstein at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Jeffrey Silverstein https://www.jeffreylewissilverstein.com/ is a NW progressive country musician. For your listening pleasure, he brings cosmic country.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-cosmic-country-curated-by-jeffrey-silverstein at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Thursday, July 16, 2026
July 17 Cavity
Helen's Costume opens its 2026 season. Jackie Stewart, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cody Brandt, Lena Lutz, and Chanel Conklin show work.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, July 12, 2026
July 12 Nature
Public Nature is an improvised collaboration between a mover/dancer, a musician, and a word artist. Tonight Takahiro Yamamoto featuring Brandon Conway, performance, Judy Nahum, poetry, and Ari lynn, sound. It is an ongroing series by Danielle Ross https://www.daniellerossperformance.com/blog.
The performance is in a bookshop on the upper floor of a building filled with studios. Doors open at 7:30 and will absolutely close before the performance, no late arrival.
At Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 8PM $10-15
The performance is in a bookshop on the upper floor of a building filled with studios. Doors open at 7:30 and will absolutely close before the performance, no late arrival.
At Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 8PM $10-15
Saturday, July 11, 2026
July 11 Resting
Part 2 of Brianna Spencer's I'm Resting Now Before It's Too Late opens and Consuelo Wise's Boy continues in the project room.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
At Nationale
Friday, July 10, 2026
July 10 Tarot
Junko Mizuno 水野純子 http://www.mizuno-junko.com/, brings her tarot design illustrations the latest in a several year project.
It's https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/junko-mizuno at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
It's https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/junko-mizuno at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Thursday, July 09, 2026
July 9 More Westside Art Openings
Many Westside galleries are involved in the aformentioned sports+art content tonight.
I Am Plodding Through Mud is a large group ceramics show by Ahuva Sz, Alice Christine Walker, Ansley Gwin, Cassie Tompkins, Kaitlyn Carr, Elizabeth Arzani, Emily Ginsburg, Jessica Joner, Linda Wysong, Luke Armitstead, Maya Vivas, Ryan Kitson, and TarynTomasello. There are more events beyond the opening on the show website.
It is https://www.buildingfive.org/i-am-plodding-through-mud at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 6PM-9 Free
I Am Plodding Through Mud is a large group ceramics show by Ahuva Sz, Alice Christine Walker, Ansley Gwin, Cassie Tompkins, Kaitlyn Carr, Elizabeth Arzani, Emily Ginsburg, Jessica Joner, Linda Wysong, Luke Armitstead, Maya Vivas, Ryan Kitson, and TarynTomasello. There are more events beyond the opening on the show website.
It is https://www.buildingfive.org/i-am-plodding-through-mud at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, July 04, 2026
July 5 Mystic Anchor Gestures
Modular On The Spot brings July. Musicians are DSP Mystic, Empty Gestures, Trust Anchor, Wired Habitat, Limanjaya, and Clayton Davis.
Pier Park 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Pier Park 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
July 4 Northside Art Openings+
For your +1. Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist many readers know. His latest book is On Censorship. After 250 years, yes, we have it here. We also have corruption here, it's not just for "African dictators."
He is famous for many works, including an early social practice work Fairytale in 2007. Between 2008 and 2011, and continuing, he made art about deaths in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. About 5000 students perished because of corrupt "tofu construction" - public schools built at minimum cost for maximum profit.
The number of deaths and names were deemed a state secret. The artist's sin was going door to door to gather the names from families, almost all single children, and writing them down. The power of names in China is a cultural thing, the gravity of which is not understood in the West.
As a result, in 2011 he was disappeared for 81 days.
I am a student of democracy and have worked professionally in the field. I have studied the Chinese Democracy Movement. A great documentary is Gate of Heavenly Peace. I believe the Chinese government should have set up a student and young persons National People's Congress and started a transition to democracy in towns and cities. That would have been a great cultural learning experience and could have avoided much corruption. After a time, democracy could evolve to provinces and the central government. The fact that the central government right here is intent on ending democracy in our 250th year is very disturbing.
This weekend Ai Weiwei is reenacting the disapprearing time sampled into a 24 hour performance, Sewing a Button, in Manchester UK. Much of it is online.
Ai Weiwei and collaborators perform Sewing a Button online. Free
Oregon Contemporary closes their biennial.
Might as Well Well is a group show including new members.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Dana Lynn Louis' Gather Make Shelter project brings Aileen McPherson, Fahd Sadiq, Fawn, Gloria Rodriguez, Mia Winters, Marzipan Lee, and Zenyatta. The project has similarities to San Francisco's Hospitality House.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
He is famous for many works, including an early social practice work Fairytale in 2007. Between 2008 and 2011, and continuing, he made art about deaths in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. About 5000 students perished because of corrupt "tofu construction" - public schools built at minimum cost for maximum profit.
The number of deaths and names were deemed a state secret. The artist's sin was going door to door to gather the names from families, almost all single children, and writing them down. The power of names in China is a cultural thing, the gravity of which is not understood in the West.
As a result, in 2011 he was disappeared for 81 days.
I am a student of democracy and have worked professionally in the field. I have studied the Chinese Democracy Movement. A great documentary is Gate of Heavenly Peace. I believe the Chinese government should have set up a student and young persons National People's Congress and started a transition to democracy in towns and cities. That would have been a great cultural learning experience and could have avoided much corruption. After a time, democracy could evolve to provinces and the central government. The fact that the central government right here is intent on ending democracy in our 250th year is very disturbing.
This weekend Ai Weiwei is reenacting the disapprearing time sampled into a 24 hour performance, Sewing a Button, in Manchester UK. Much of it is online.
Ai Weiwei and collaborators perform Sewing a Button online. Free
Oregon Contemporary closes their biennial.
Might as Well Well is a group show including new members.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Dana Lynn Louis' Gather Make Shelter project brings Aileen McPherson, Fahd Sadiq, Fawn, Gloria Rodriguez, Mia Winters, Marzipan Lee, and Zenyatta. The project has similarities to San Francisco's Hospitality House.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, July 03, 2026
July 3 Eastside Art Openings
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
July 2 Westside Art Openings+
The Black Gallery, Imperfecta, and Lucky Girl continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ 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
Mixed Flock: 30 Years is a large retrospective group show by Patrick Abbey, Alma Allen, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Marjorie Dial, Amjad Faur, Bean Finneran, Jacques Flechemuller, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Elizabeth Knight, Justin L'Amie, James Lavadour, Terran Last Gun, Nathan William Lambdin, Nancy Lorenz, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Jeffry Mitchell, Megan Murphy, Jenene Nagy, Ido Radon, Georgina Reskala, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Susan Seubert, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Gus Van Sant, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, and Yamamoto Masao. How many do you recognize?
"Mixed Flock comes from the idea of different species of birds gathering together for a variety of reasons including safety, cooperation, and community. In talking with wildlife scientist Derek Craighead about mixed flocks, Craighead suggested humans underestimate the sociability of animals, that wild animals will gather to be social, for fun, and for company. That’s worthwhile!
For thirty years, PDX artist’s have been a wonderful mixed flock with each artist having their own way of seeing the world and approaching their art-making.
Now is an important time to highlight and strengthen mixed flocks. Our country is a mixed flock, the “melting pot”, where diverse peoples, cultures, and ways exist together and we are better for it. This show is a celebration of the gallery’s many and varied artists, supporters, and collectors who make up our flock."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-7
Blue Sky has their 5th decade retrospective.
The Nine Gallery has Jerry Mayer's sculptures.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Collage artist Arless Day shows along with a Summer group show of gallery artists.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Merridawn Duckler shows books and clothes. She has been a champion of a book art with her own gallery several years ago. Book arts are strong in Portland, but less so with the colsure of OCAC. Libby Wadsworth brings Intimate Strangers, botanicals shot with artificial light with text added. Anastasiya Gutnik has Spectral Ascent, sculptures and mixed media.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Jay Backstrand, Michael Brophy, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gregory Grenon, Roll Hardy, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Fay Jones, Mel Katz, Michihiro Kosuge, Elizabeth Malaska, Michael Paul Miller, Geoffrey Pagen, Lucinda Parker, René Rickabaugh, Anne Siems, Eric Stotik, Akio Takamori, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Samantha Yun Wall are all part of a group show.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
After | Time has a group show Reveal-Reveal, Porland and LA artists in collaboration with LA gallery Allied Special Projects. The artists are Amelie Laurice, Benjamin Latham, Chris Horner, Cindy Craig, Colin Roberts, Marcus Sendlinger, Maria Jean, Mary Lai, and Todd Molinari.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Woven is a group show of textile art.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ 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
Mixed Flock: 30 Years is a large retrospective group show by Patrick Abbey, Alma Allen, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Marjorie Dial, Amjad Faur, Bean Finneran, Jacques Flechemuller, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Elizabeth Knight, Justin L'Amie, James Lavadour, Terran Last Gun, Nathan William Lambdin, Nancy Lorenz, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Jeffry Mitchell, Megan Murphy, Jenene Nagy, Ido Radon, Georgina Reskala, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Susan Seubert, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Gus Van Sant, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, and Yamamoto Masao. How many do you recognize?
"Mixed Flock comes from the idea of different species of birds gathering together for a variety of reasons including safety, cooperation, and community. In talking with wildlife scientist Derek Craighead about mixed flocks, Craighead suggested humans underestimate the sociability of animals, that wild animals will gather to be social, for fun, and for company. That’s worthwhile!
For thirty years, PDX artist’s have been a wonderful mixed flock with each artist having their own way of seeing the world and approaching their art-making.
Now is an important time to highlight and strengthen mixed flocks. Our country is a mixed flock, the “melting pot”, where diverse peoples, cultures, and ways exist together and we are better for it. This show is a celebration of the gallery’s many and varied artists, supporters, and collectors who make up our flock."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-7
Blue Sky has their 5th decade retrospective.
The Nine Gallery has Jerry Mayer's sculptures.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Collage artist Arless Day shows along with a Summer group show of gallery artists.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Merridawn Duckler shows books and clothes. She has been a champion of a book art with her own gallery several years ago. Book arts are strong in Portland, but less so with the colsure of OCAC. Libby Wadsworth brings Intimate Strangers, botanicals shot with artificial light with text added. Anastasiya Gutnik has Spectral Ascent, sculptures and mixed media.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Jay Backstrand, Michael Brophy, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gregory Grenon, Roll Hardy, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Fay Jones, Mel Katz, Michihiro Kosuge, Elizabeth Malaska, Michael Paul Miller, Geoffrey Pagen, Lucinda Parker, René Rickabaugh, Anne Siems, Eric Stotik, Akio Takamori, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Samantha Yun Wall are all part of a group show.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
After | Time has a group show Reveal-Reveal, Porland and LA artists in collaboration with LA gallery Allied Special Projects. The artists are Amelie Laurice, Benjamin Latham, Chris Horner, Cindy Craig, Colin Roberts, Marcus Sendlinger, Maria Jean, Mary Lai, and Todd Molinari.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Woven is a group show of textile art.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
July 2 Society
Society has a Summer Group Show with Mike Bray, Jodie Cavalier, Derek Franklin, Sidony O’Neal, Stephanie Simek, and Taryn Tomasello. Why they cross scheduled against Westside first Thursday openings is a mystery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 6PM-8 Free
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 6PM-8 Free
July 1 - 31 Sporty
Portland art galleries sometimes have a month theme. This month, and some of last month, is large spectator sports. The annual economic throughput of sports in the US is about a trillion. Arts are about 1.2 trillion, but visual arts are only about 12 billion. So if you like, you can find the visual arts shows themed on sports in galleries, which includes https://portlandartsweek.com/. Most are free.
Friday, June 26, 2026
June 26 Think Ahead
Thinking Ahead, Throw It All Away are ceramic sculptured by Calvin Wong. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
June 25 Street Rock
Brad Mildrexler is a ceramic artist making rock-like sculptures. In the Garden is his show at a flower shop in association with Adams and Ollman Gallery. At Colibri 1927 NW Kearney 4PM-7 Free
Last Thursday on Alberta has galleries open, including Antler & Talon. The street will be closed.
Last Thursday on Alberta has galleries open, including Antler & Talon. The street will be closed.
Friday, June 19, 2026
June 21 Crater Free
The Portland Art Museum has a free day today, free for all. They have them monthly first Thursdays too.
It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/miller-family-community-free-day-june2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-5 Free
Not art, it's sound art, ambient music particularly. Musicians Dashka Sounds, Feverkin, Naia Spiral, Mars FM, Seraphim Lily, Ross Hoyt, Earthware, Jodhi Mather Pike, and Elizabeth Byrd perform.
In the volcano's crater, Mt Tabor 7PM Free
It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/miller-family-community-free-day-june2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-5 Free
Not art, it's sound art, ambient music particularly. Musicians Dashka Sounds, Feverkin, Naia Spiral, Mars FM, Seraphim Lily, Ross Hoyt, Earthware, Jodhi Mather Pike, and Elizabeth Byrd perform.
In the volcano's crater, Mt Tabor 7PM Free
June 20 The River Runs Through It
Backyard gallery 1122 Outside begins their season.
Writer and artist Jason Wallace Triefenbach, collagist Francis Dot, and filmmaker Adrianna Jasso present Ecstatic Agendas.
Included is Barbarous Tongues: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica, and performance Helios, themed on solar rituals, appropos the Solstace. Dot brings movie Missing Everglades of the West. That has to do with the damming and undamming of the Klamath River, https://www.americanrivers.org/river/klamath-river/. Included in the show are ritual and mystical mixed media objects. They have made a seasonal drink too.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-11 Free
The Portland Synth Library, birthed by Felicia Ledesma in her Multiplex Gallery, nurtured and developed by a village, is now fully adult. With the demise of the Lloyd Center, it's getting its own grown-up apartment. To celebrate it is having a rooftop party with you. In keeping with our river theme, the rooftop and the library overlook the Willamette. Their building is by the East Burnside skate park.
Opening celebration for the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events 123 NE 3rd Ave, Suite 012. 6PM-9 Tickets required - they are on the link. $5-10
Writer and artist Jason Wallace Triefenbach, collagist Francis Dot, and filmmaker Adrianna Jasso present Ecstatic Agendas.
Included is Barbarous Tongues: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica, and performance Helios, themed on solar rituals, appropos the Solstace. Dot brings movie Missing Everglades of the West. That has to do with the damming and undamming of the Klamath River, https://www.americanrivers.org/river/klamath-river/. Included in the show are ritual and mystical mixed media objects. They have made a seasonal drink too.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-11 Free
The Portland Synth Library, birthed by Felicia Ledesma in her Multiplex Gallery, nurtured and developed by a village, is now fully adult. With the demise of the Lloyd Center, it's getting its own grown-up apartment. To celebrate it is having a rooftop party with you. In keeping with our river theme, the rooftop and the library overlook the Willamette. Their building is by the East Burnside skate park.
Opening celebration for the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events 123 NE 3rd Ave, Suite 012. 6PM-9 Tickets required - they are on the link. $5-10
June 19 Uncertain Certainties
Certainties and Other Almosts are mixed-media paintings by Emily Kepulis. The website has an eloquent discussion.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, June 18, 2026
June 18 Resident Wall
If you are up in Seattle, Xispa opens. Their focus is technolgy-based art. They are a residency, lab, and exhibition space. Their first resident is Portland's Samantha Wall. More: https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/curator-lele-barnett-launches-xispa-a-new-arts-innovation-lab/. It's Xispa https://xispa.org in MadArt Studio, 325 Westlake Ave N, Seattle 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, June 13, 2026
June 13 Draw __
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Today they have a participatory drawing event. Is the big ad agency entry space climate controlled? Likley.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 1PM-4 Free
Producers The___Show drop another. More social than art. From experience not in a bad way.
Artists include Alex Vinton, Alexis "Bosco" Picard, Allison MacMillan, Amanda Mackenzie-Noice, Brandon Mulligan, Brennan Johnson, Buck Chapman, Cal Srere, Christina Sande, Chloe Findtner, Chris Lael Larson, Cilesse Anderson, Cody Browning, Dakoda Hughes, David Emmite, David Stein, Dean Coward, Devun Scott, Dylan Hayes, Emma Travitz, Ethan Laarman-Hughes, Finn Donnelly, Forest Bailey, Freya Kargard, Grace Dunbar, Haley McCarter, Jake Stoumbos, Jamie Phillips, Jason Sturgill, Joe Blount, John Fish, Josh Minnich, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Laura Burns, Michelle Leman, Miranda Field-Martin, Morgan Exene, Nate Corrado, Nick Koza, Nick Raz, Nishat Akhtar, Olivia Harwood, Owen Paznokas, Peter Patrick Denton, Roland Hill, Rory Greiling, Spencer Crimin, Spencer Winans, Taka Moriki, Zab Shavrick, Zach Keimig, and Zoe Naimo.
Upstairs at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 1PM-4 Free
Producers The___Show drop another. More social than art. From experience not in a bad way.
Artists include Alex Vinton, Alexis "Bosco" Picard, Allison MacMillan, Amanda Mackenzie-Noice, Brandon Mulligan, Brennan Johnson, Buck Chapman, Cal Srere, Christina Sande, Chloe Findtner, Chris Lael Larson, Cilesse Anderson, Cody Browning, Dakoda Hughes, David Emmite, David Stein, Dean Coward, Devun Scott, Dylan Hayes, Emma Travitz, Ethan Laarman-Hughes, Finn Donnelly, Forest Bailey, Freya Kargard, Grace Dunbar, Haley McCarter, Jake Stoumbos, Jamie Phillips, Jason Sturgill, Joe Blount, John Fish, Josh Minnich, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Laura Burns, Michelle Leman, Miranda Field-Martin, Morgan Exene, Nate Corrado, Nick Koza, Nick Raz, Nishat Akhtar, Olivia Harwood, Owen Paznokas, Peter Patrick Denton, Roland Hill, Rory Greiling, Spencer Crimin, Spencer Winans, Taka Moriki, Zab Shavrick, Zach Keimig, and Zoe Naimo.
Upstairs at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, June 11, 2026
June 11 Intensity, Intellect, and Ears
It is hard to say which aspect of the story of Ana Mendieta, the sadness, the outrage, or the beauty, predominates.
Mendieta arrived in the US from Cuba at age 12 as a refugee. In art school she established themes of the female body, nature, land, spiritualism, and ritual. That period, second-wave feminism, influenced a generation. She moved to New york after her MFA at about age 30. It would be about that age 30 before her parents would be able to leave Cuba and join her in the US.
Much of her work used her own body as a medium in a large number of short films and performances. At age 36, she married minimalist artist Carl Andre. Nine months later, she "accidentally" fell to her death from the window of Andre's apartment.
Her death roiled the New York art world and fueled the Guerilla Girls movement.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987) directed by Nereyda Garcia - Ferraz, Kate Horsfield and Branda Miller shows tonight. It traces her work and includes interviews with the artist. A good starting point for Mendieta is https://www.anamendietaartist.com curated by her close sister.
It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/fuegodetierra at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 6:30PM Free
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
As part of that program, Matthew Ellis, historiesofthepresent.com, presents a talk, A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism. Ellis moves to the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to teach in the Fall.
A Zoom link is available by emailing the gallery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
Recording engineer Tucker Martine grew up in Nashville and established a recording studio in his living room in Seattle. He started in the low-fi style popular at the time. Moving to Portland, he established another home studio, then busted out with purpose-built studios. Now Flora Recording and Playback https://www.florarecording.com is well established. He has ears. In the recording and music world, that is shorthand for highly trained ears and the knowledge to make a recording that translates across playback environments. Tonight he hosts a listening session on a Devon Turnbull OJAS playback system. This program has a focus on field recording elements, an adjacent interest of Martine.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/selections-no-7-presented-by-tucker-martine at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36
Mendieta arrived in the US from Cuba at age 12 as a refugee. In art school she established themes of the female body, nature, land, spiritualism, and ritual. That period, second-wave feminism, influenced a generation. She moved to New york after her MFA at about age 30. It would be about that age 30 before her parents would be able to leave Cuba and join her in the US.
Much of her work used her own body as a medium in a large number of short films and performances. At age 36, she married minimalist artist Carl Andre. Nine months later, she "accidentally" fell to her death from the window of Andre's apartment.
Her death roiled the New York art world and fueled the Guerilla Girls movement.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987) directed by Nereyda Garcia - Ferraz, Kate Horsfield and Branda Miller shows tonight. It traces her work and includes interviews with the artist. A good starting point for Mendieta is https://www.anamendietaartist.com curated by her close sister.
It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/fuegodetierra at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 6:30PM Free
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
As part of that program, Matthew Ellis, historiesofthepresent.com, presents a talk, A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism. Ellis moves to the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to teach in the Fall.
A Zoom link is available by emailing the gallery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
Recording engineer Tucker Martine grew up in Nashville and established a recording studio in his living room in Seattle. He started in the low-fi style popular at the time. Moving to Portland, he established another home studio, then busted out with purpose-built studios. Now Flora Recording and Playback https://www.florarecording.com is well established. He has ears. In the recording and music world, that is shorthand for highly trained ears and the knowledge to make a recording that translates across playback environments. Tonight he hosts a listening session on a Devon Turnbull OJAS playback system. This program has a focus on field recording elements, an adjacent interest of Martine.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/selections-no-7-presented-by-tucker-martine at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
June 10 Boy
In the project room Nationale opens b o y by Consuelo Wise. It's https://www.nationale.us/consuelo-wise-b-o-y-2026
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 7PM-9 Free
At Nationale
Monday, June 08, 2026
June 8 Mixed Connections
Jesse Malmed https://jessemalmed.net/, formerly Poetland, now living in the Midwest, brings shorts followed by karaoke.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Saturday, June 06, 2026
June 7 Weird Things for Imaginary People
Modular on the Spot is an international movement of outdoor modular synth performances. The Portland instance is organized by the Portland Synth Library.
This evening Nolan Ashley, Weird Things for Imaginary People, Blippoo Boys, Quemal, Musique Mystique, and Casual Decay perform.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
This evening Nolan Ashley, Weird Things for Imaginary People, Blippoo Boys, Quemal, Musique Mystique, and Casual Decay perform.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
June 7 Coasting
Nucleus has assumed the Portland crown of mass individual multiple shows.
It began in Portland in 2001 with Charm Bracelet, organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. It continued with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in a variety of spaces, including the Pioneer Place Mall, home to the ill-fated WeWork.
Tonight it is the 11th Aniversary Salut!, original art on drink coasters. Mass multiple shows are the zeitgeit for today, individual artworks, small, easy to move, and not necessary to have expensive framing.
Each artwork is $80. Cash/card and carry. A line will form, pre-the doors. They estimate the line will be down by 2:30 or 3. All sales final.
The 283 artists, each contributing several individual works for a total of more than 1000 are drawn from the global Nucleus stable: A.C. Esguerra, A.M.Sartor, Aaron Piland, Aaron Robert Baker, Adam Stoner, Adriana Lozano, Alex Cabal, Alex Gold, Alina Chau, Allie Yacina, Allison May Kiphuth, Alvaro Escobar-Fuentes, Amber Aki Huang, Amber Feng, Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Andrea Kang, Andrea Lauren, Andrea Sipl, Andrés Guzmán, Andrew Brandou, Andrew Ghrist, Angela Ramones, Anuj Shrestha, Ariel Lee, Art of Yayu, ArtCyll, Athena Parella, Authan Chen, Aya K, Bags43, Bao Pham, Ben McEntee, Benz and Chang, Beverly Arce, Bird Cvlt, Blake Jones, brayniac, Brian Holderman, Brian Serway, Brianna Miller, Brooks Shane Salzwedel, Bryce Wymer, Burrito Breath, Caleb Sinchok, Camila Rosa, Candie Bolton, Carolina Lebar, Cassandra Kim, Chad Keith, Chelsea Beck, Chelsea Blecha, Christian Leon Guerrero, Christina Hu, Chrystal Sea, Claire Merchlinsky, Cleonique Hilsaca, Cody Jimenez, Cris James, Cristina Bencina, Crystal Dawn Chaffee, D. Jeffrey, Dan McCarthy, Dani Pendergast, Danni Shinya Luo, David DePasquale, Denis Dalesio, Diego Penuela, Dustin Myers, Dusty Ray, Dylan Jones, Edlyn Capulong, Edward Cao, Elesq, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Em Randall, Emil Konishi, Erick Martinez Art, Erika Kosmatka, Erikas Chesonis, Felicia Chiao, Floriane Marchix, Frank Gonzales, Fred Lynch, fulltimefish, Gabby Zapata, Gemma Correll, Gina M. Contreras, Grace Poole, Graham Franciose, Gretchen Lewis, Grey Chen, Guno Park, Gustavo Rimada, Hannah Bess Ross, Hannah Tjia, Heather Lee Birdsong, Helen Mask, Helice Wen, Hermann Mejia, Hollie Mengert, Hom Sweet Hom, ileanadraws, ipaintbirbs, Iryna Khymych, Isa Beniston, Jack T. Cole, Jackie Brown, Jaclyn Alderete, James Lipnickas, James Thistlethwaite, Jamie Wells, Jamiel Law, Janice Chu, Jeannie L Paske, Jeff McMillan, Jen Tong, Jenia Chernysh, Jenna Gibson, Jennifer Xiao, Jess Phoenix, Jessica Hess, Jiayue Li, Jill DeHaan, JObe, Joe, Joe Vaux, John Rego, JP Neang, Julia Lundman, Julia Peng, Julian Callos, Julie Hang, Juliet Schreckinger, Juliette Toma, Juno Valentine, Justine Prebich, Kamryn Tulare, Karen Kuo, Karly Jade Catto, kAt Philbin, KATBING, Katie Mai, Kelley Sutphin, Kelli Flitton, Kelly Louise Judd, Kelly Yamagishi, Kelsey Buzzell, Kenard Pak, Kerilynn Wilson, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Gribbin, Kim Slate, Kim Thai Nguyen, Kit Curry, Kodi Bujard, Krissta Passanante, Krista Perry, Kristen Eisenbraun, Kristen Solecki, Kristin Bell, Kyle Fewell, Lana Crooks, Laura Catherwood, Lea Barozzi, Leah Artwick, Lemonikate, Lena Fridman, Leo Matsuda, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Lianne Pflug, Lily Qian, Lily Seika Jones, Lisa Congdon, Lizzy Gass, Madeline Brice, Maggie Chiang, Mariel Rodriguez, Marika Paz, Marisa Aragón Ware, Marisa Avila Sayler, Mark Hoffmann, Marlowe (Odd Rabbits), Maryanna Pecayo Hollomon, Matt Midgley, Matt Schu, Matthew Aceves, Matthew Crumpton, Maya Ruiz, McMonster, Meadow & Fawn, megguran, Melissa Lakey, Melly Trochez, Michael Camarra, Michael Marsicano, Michael Powers Tarantelli, Michael York Gilreath, MightySHORT, Mike Howat, Miranda Tacchia, Mitch Miller, Molly Mendoza, Momo Gordon, Mónico Chávez, Monique Aimee, Nadia Rausa, NAKI, Nana Williams, Naoshi, Nasir Young, Nat Erickson, Nathan Mckee, Nia Musiba, Nicole Xu, Nicomi Nix Turner, Niemo, Nikolas Ilic, Niky Motekallem, Nozomi Uchida, Orlie K., Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patara, Patrick Mathews, Po Yan Leung, Preemoreno, Quathryn, Rachel Silva, Raf Spielman, Rain Szeto, Raymond Argumedo, Rowan Kingsbury, Ryan Harris, Sally Deng, Sam Guay, Samantha Mash, Scion Illustration, Scott Mills, Sean Chao, Sean Keeton, Sean Mahan, Shannon Knight, Shawn Hebrank, Shelly Swann / Fairywulf, ShinYeon Moon, Shoko Ishida, skullbashhero, Sophia Kiuchi, Sophie Margolin, Spectral Gardens, Stephanie Buer, Steve Martinez, Stevie Lewis, Stevie Shao, Sylvia Ji, Tara Booth, Taryn Knight, Tegan Bellitta, thanksxu, Tiffany Wei, Tim Furey, tintist, TMRWLND, Tora Kozic, Trashkitty, Tyler Bingham, Valeriya Volkova, Veronica Steiner, Victor Bizar Gómez, Victoria Gedvillas, Victoria Orolfo, Victoria V Nunley, Vin Ganapathy, Vivian Le, VR Rivera, Xavier Ortiz, Xiao Hua Yang, Yakapin Studio, Yohey Horishita, Zachary Oldenkamp, and Zoe Persico.
The 11th Aniversary of Salut! https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/salut-11-coaster-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
It began in Portland in 2001 with Charm Bracelet, organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. It continued with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in a variety of spaces, including the Pioneer Place Mall, home to the ill-fated WeWork.
Tonight it is the 11th Aniversary Salut!, original art on drink coasters. Mass multiple shows are the zeitgeit for today, individual artworks, small, easy to move, and not necessary to have expensive framing.
Each artwork is $80. Cash/card and carry. A line will form, pre-the doors. They estimate the line will be down by 2:30 or 3. All sales final.
The 283 artists, each contributing several individual works for a total of more than 1000 are drawn from the global Nucleus stable: A.C. Esguerra, A.M.Sartor, Aaron Piland, Aaron Robert Baker, Adam Stoner, Adriana Lozano, Alex Cabal, Alex Gold, Alina Chau, Allie Yacina, Allison May Kiphuth, Alvaro Escobar-Fuentes, Amber Aki Huang, Amber Feng, Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Andrea Kang, Andrea Lauren, Andrea Sipl, Andrés Guzmán, Andrew Brandou, Andrew Ghrist, Angela Ramones, Anuj Shrestha, Ariel Lee, Art of Yayu, ArtCyll, Athena Parella, Authan Chen, Aya K, Bags43, Bao Pham, Ben McEntee, Benz and Chang, Beverly Arce, Bird Cvlt, Blake Jones, brayniac, Brian Holderman, Brian Serway, Brianna Miller, Brooks Shane Salzwedel, Bryce Wymer, Burrito Breath, Caleb Sinchok, Camila Rosa, Candie Bolton, Carolina Lebar, Cassandra Kim, Chad Keith, Chelsea Beck, Chelsea Blecha, Christian Leon Guerrero, Christina Hu, Chrystal Sea, Claire Merchlinsky, Cleonique Hilsaca, Cody Jimenez, Cris James, Cristina Bencina, Crystal Dawn Chaffee, D. Jeffrey, Dan McCarthy, Dani Pendergast, Danni Shinya Luo, David DePasquale, Denis Dalesio, Diego Penuela, Dustin Myers, Dusty Ray, Dylan Jones, Edlyn Capulong, Edward Cao, Elesq, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Em Randall, Emil Konishi, Erick Martinez Art, Erika Kosmatka, Erikas Chesonis, Felicia Chiao, Floriane Marchix, Frank Gonzales, Fred Lynch, fulltimefish, Gabby Zapata, Gemma Correll, Gina M. Contreras, Grace Poole, Graham Franciose, Gretchen Lewis, Grey Chen, Guno Park, Gustavo Rimada, Hannah Bess Ross, Hannah Tjia, Heather Lee Birdsong, Helen Mask, Helice Wen, Hermann Mejia, Hollie Mengert, Hom Sweet Hom, ileanadraws, ipaintbirbs, Iryna Khymych, Isa Beniston, Jack T. Cole, Jackie Brown, Jaclyn Alderete, James Lipnickas, James Thistlethwaite, Jamie Wells, Jamiel Law, Janice Chu, Jeannie L Paske, Jeff McMillan, Jen Tong, Jenia Chernysh, Jenna Gibson, Jennifer Xiao, Jess Phoenix, Jessica Hess, Jiayue Li, Jill DeHaan, JObe, Joe, Joe Vaux, John Rego, JP Neang, Julia Lundman, Julia Peng, Julian Callos, Julie Hang, Juliet Schreckinger, Juliette Toma, Juno Valentine, Justine Prebich, Kamryn Tulare, Karen Kuo, Karly Jade Catto, kAt Philbin, KATBING, Katie Mai, Kelley Sutphin, Kelli Flitton, Kelly Louise Judd, Kelly Yamagishi, Kelsey Buzzell, Kenard Pak, Kerilynn Wilson, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Gribbin, Kim Slate, Kim Thai Nguyen, Kit Curry, Kodi Bujard, Krissta Passanante, Krista Perry, Kristen Eisenbraun, Kristen Solecki, Kristin Bell, Kyle Fewell, Lana Crooks, Laura Catherwood, Lea Barozzi, Leah Artwick, Lemonikate, Lena Fridman, Leo Matsuda, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Lianne Pflug, Lily Qian, Lily Seika Jones, Lisa Congdon, Lizzy Gass, Madeline Brice, Maggie Chiang, Mariel Rodriguez, Marika Paz, Marisa Aragón Ware, Marisa Avila Sayler, Mark Hoffmann, Marlowe (Odd Rabbits), Maryanna Pecayo Hollomon, Matt Midgley, Matt Schu, Matthew Aceves, Matthew Crumpton, Maya Ruiz, McMonster, Meadow & Fawn, megguran, Melissa Lakey, Melly Trochez, Michael Camarra, Michael Marsicano, Michael Powers Tarantelli, Michael York Gilreath, MightySHORT, Mike Howat, Miranda Tacchia, Mitch Miller, Molly Mendoza, Momo Gordon, Mónico Chávez, Monique Aimee, Nadia Rausa, NAKI, Nana Williams, Naoshi, Nasir Young, Nat Erickson, Nathan Mckee, Nia Musiba, Nicole Xu, Nicomi Nix Turner, Niemo, Nikolas Ilic, Niky Motekallem, Nozomi Uchida, Orlie K., Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patara, Patrick Mathews, Po Yan Leung, Preemoreno, Quathryn, Rachel Silva, Raf Spielman, Rain Szeto, Raymond Argumedo, Rowan Kingsbury, Ryan Harris, Sally Deng, Sam Guay, Samantha Mash, Scion Illustration, Scott Mills, Sean Chao, Sean Keeton, Sean Mahan, Shannon Knight, Shawn Hebrank, Shelly Swann / Fairywulf, ShinYeon Moon, Shoko Ishida, skullbashhero, Sophia Kiuchi, Sophie Margolin, Spectral Gardens, Stephanie Buer, Steve Martinez, Stevie Lewis, Stevie Shao, Sylvia Ji, Tara Booth, Taryn Knight, Tegan Bellitta, thanksxu, Tiffany Wei, Tim Furey, tintist, TMRWLND, Tora Kozic, Trashkitty, Tyler Bingham, Valeriya Volkova, Veronica Steiner, Victor Bizar Gómez, Victoria Gedvillas, Victoria Orolfo, Victoria V Nunley, Vin Ganapathy, Vivian Le, VR Rivera, Xavier Ortiz, Xiao Hua Yang, Yakapin Studio, Yohey Horishita, Zachary Oldenkamp, and Zoe Persico.
The 11th Aniversary of Salut! https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/salut-11-coaster-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
June 6 Dolphins and Movies
The movie, poetry, and music worlds are too big for me to list. Just occasionally. A local movie project fundraiser includes some interesting artists.
The project is The Impeccable Art of Never-Ending Wellness.
Sage Fisher as A Niad combines harp, electronics, field recordings and voice. Sarah Sarah Turner Turner is nee one half of the Mobile Projection Project. She premieres video Angel Ware.exe Wet Content, continuing her Lilly-dolphin theme onto angels. That is showing at the Marfa Open at Venice Biennale too. Modern dancer Laura Cannon and Prolab Dance move with video accompaniment in piece Cloud Time.
Production designer Erin Esilka, and the director of the project seeking fundings this benefits, Devin Jane Febbroriello, have interactive art installations on their wellness theme.
Art party at Desert Island Studios 1316 SE 12th 7PM-10 $15
The project is The Impeccable Art of Never-Ending Wellness.
Sage Fisher as A Niad combines harp, electronics, field recordings and voice. Sarah Sarah Turner Turner is nee one half of the Mobile Projection Project. She premieres video Angel Ware.exe Wet Content, continuing her Lilly-dolphin theme onto angels. That is showing at the Marfa Open at Venice Biennale too. Modern dancer Laura Cannon and Prolab Dance move with video accompaniment in piece Cloud Time.
Production designer Erin Esilka, and the director of the project seeking fundings this benefits, Devin Jane Febbroriello, have interactive art installations on their wellness theme.
Art party at Desert Island Studios 1316 SE 12th 7PM-10 $15
June 6 Northside Art Openings+
Oregon Contemporary and False Front continue.
For your +1 Portland Contemporary Art continues its Saturday openings. Ellen George opens small minimal works Seeds Petals Stones.
"The shapes are familiar, but resist categorization—things we collect, hold in reverence, and know well that have quiet, hidden power, like seeds, petals, and stones."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +2 RSA Projects celebrates one year with a group show.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-6 Free
For your +3 Inner Portland is not the only place for art galleries. Toolbox Gallery is a gallery focused on artist tradespeople and art about tradespeople, very WPA. Take The Sky Home With You is a show by plumber Blue Crow Vargas. At Toolbox Art https://www.toolboxart.org/ 2029 SE Jefferson St Milwaukie, OR Noon-4 Free
For your +4 many Westside galleries have their Saturday echo openings.
For your +5, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Full Disclosure is a show by PSU photography students at Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Terrior is a show by Torey Akers, all the way from Brooklyn, and Jaydra Johnson from Portland.
They "interrogate desire in material terms, using want, rather than need, to unearth the buried histories of non-normative intimacy. Their work reinterprets classic expressions of longing such as the nude, Victorian lover’s eyes, and stained glass."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Between Times and Between Us is a group show by Davis Bashungwa, Nan Curtis, Jess Farrell, Joyln Fry, Diane Jacobs, Carter Kawena Kohler, Marne Lucas, Casper Mayberry, Trude Parkinson, and Gabby Serverson. It is curated by Georgina Ruff, who has a discussion with the artists June 28, 2PM-4.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Passenger Seat Records.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-passenger-seat-records at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
For your +1 Portland Contemporary Art continues its Saturday openings. Ellen George opens small minimal works Seeds Petals Stones.
"The shapes are familiar, but resist categorization—things we collect, hold in reverence, and know well that have quiet, hidden power, like seeds, petals, and stones."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +2 RSA Projects celebrates one year with a group show.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-6 Free
For your +3 Inner Portland is not the only place for art galleries. Toolbox Gallery is a gallery focused on artist tradespeople and art about tradespeople, very WPA. Take The Sky Home With You is a show by plumber Blue Crow Vargas. At Toolbox Art https://www.toolboxart.org/ 2029 SE Jefferson St Milwaukie, OR Noon-4 Free
For your +4 many Westside galleries have their Saturday echo openings.
For your +5, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Full Disclosure is a show by PSU photography students at Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Terrior is a show by Torey Akers, all the way from Brooklyn, and Jaydra Johnson from Portland.
They "interrogate desire in material terms, using want, rather than need, to unearth the buried histories of non-normative intimacy. Their work reinterprets classic expressions of longing such as the nude, Victorian lover’s eyes, and stained glass."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Between Times and Between Us is a group show by Davis Bashungwa, Nan Curtis, Jess Farrell, Joyln Fry, Diane Jacobs, Carter Kawena Kohler, Marne Lucas, Casper Mayberry, Trude Parkinson, and Gabby Serverson. It is curated by Georgina Ruff, who has a discussion with the artists June 28, 2PM-4.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Passenger Seat Records.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-passenger-seat-records at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Friday, June 05, 2026
June 5 Purple Trans Ellipses Light
Ellipses is an evolving group show by Colleen Billing, Faith Icecold, Zora Moniz, Joan Nelson, Kate Newby, Ido Radon, and Karolina Szwed. It is a collaboration with Romance Gallery in Pittsburgh.
"Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation."
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
The Reser Performing Arts Center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Congruencies | Trans:form(ed) is a visual arts show situating the trans experience in the larger context of change. The link has a much more eloquent explanation. Artists are Jasper Bolen, LB Buchan, B Gunn, Tabitha Nikolai, Daren Todd, Celvie Schultz, and Alanna Zheng. The link has all the events around the show for its run. For the opening, there is an open mic performance at 6:30
Https://thereser.org/gallery/congruencies-transformed/ at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton "go by train" Map 6PM-9 Free
Light, Wonder, & Design is a talk about light as a medium in art and space. Speakers are John Junior Kim https://johnjuniorkim.com/, artist working with light, Alex Hughes of design-craft store Shop Storied Obkects, and Juliyen Davis, curator and writer. Laura Hughes, now UO would be a nice addition.
At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM Free
Purple Door opens Muscle Beach by Anna Rogers. They are painted woodcuts on the theme of Southern California beach culture. Pattern and Place by Mandy Arroyo continues.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a book drop. Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
"Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation."
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
The Reser Performing Arts Center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Congruencies | Trans:form(ed) is a visual arts show situating the trans experience in the larger context of change. The link has a much more eloquent explanation. Artists are Jasper Bolen, LB Buchan, B Gunn, Tabitha Nikolai, Daren Todd, Celvie Schultz, and Alanna Zheng. The link has all the events around the show for its run. For the opening, there is an open mic performance at 6:30
Https://thereser.org/gallery/congruencies-transformed/ at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton "go by train" Map 6PM-9 Free
Light, Wonder, & Design is a talk about light as a medium in art and space. Speakers are John Junior Kim https://johnjuniorkim.com/, artist working with light, Alex Hughes of design-craft store Shop Storied Obkects, and Juliyen Davis, curator and writer. Laura Hughes, now UO would be a nice addition.
At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM Free
Purple Door opens Muscle Beach by Anna Rogers. They are painted woodcuts on the theme of Southern California beach culture. Pattern and Place by Mandy Arroyo continues.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a book drop. Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
June 4 Westside Art Openings+
Several galleries are tagging on the World Cup with sports-themed shows.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ 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
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ 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
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
June 4 - 7 Assembly Required
Assembly is the annual event in the Portland community of the Social Practice Art program at PSU. The artists are Lou Blumberg, Simeen Anjum, Clara Harlow, Nina Vichayapai, Adela Cardona Puerta, Gwen Hoeffgen, Dom Toliver, Sarah Luu, Peery Sloan, Sarah Blesener, Haruka Ostley, Rose Lewis, Alex Deets, Midori Yamanaka, Laura Glazer, Dr. Kiara Hill, and Lisa Jarrett. You can find all the events at https://psusocialpractice.org/assemblyconference/ Free
Monday, June 01, 2026
June 1 - August 31 Get Bikey
Not art but a beautiful Portland phenomenon. Bike summer begins.
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Friday, May 29, 2026
May 30 Still Life Inferno Film Perceptions
Still, Life is a group show of still life images, the sale of which benefits the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Thursday, May 28, 2026
May 30 - 31 Works
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons. They rent space for artist studios. They parlayed the family business into buying warehouses. In the 1990s warehouses were plentiful and inexpensive. But city regulation, and the lust by tech for warehouse offices, ended that. The Unkles family maintains the tradition, only raising the rent when the studio changes artist.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
May 28 Forest is Alive, Magic is Afoot
Field Studies (Symbiosis) by Fernanda D’Agostino, Lisa DeGrace, and Laura Kathrein opens today. Field Studies is an immersive multiscreen installation interpreting research on plant consciousness in forests through art.
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, May 23, 2026
May 24 Outer Minimal
Terry Riley was born in 1935. He is famous for In C, 1964, a landmark in minimalism. I had that in vinyl when I had vinyl. Continuing his musical evolution, he studied classical Indian music with Pandit Pran Nath, 1918-1996. In Portland, Michael Sterling, Lewis & Clark instructor, studied with Terry Riley and guested performances and workshops by Riley here. That included at the humble Portland Parks and Rec Community Music Center in SE Portland in 2003. https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/16/their-masters-voice-the-impact-of-pandit-pran-nath-on-western-minimalists-by-peter-lavezzoli-arthur-2006/#more-20434
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
May 23 Ambient Nature
Mono Space has its free, come and go listening session. This afternoon Batom brings world ambient.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
May 20 Glean
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.
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, May 16, 2026
May 17 Radiance
Laraaji, accompanied by Arji OceAnanda, performs this evening with projection mapping.
Day of Radiance https://www.ambient.church/events/recLcjWpB3MRzjzXYat the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7:15PM door, show 8 $40-65
Day of Radiance https://www.ambient.church/events/recLcjWpB3MRzjzXYat the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7:15PM door, show 8 $40-65
May 16 Brotherhood Haunt Today
Mono Space has its free, come and go listening session. This afternoon Backyardmango, Sergio Lopez, brings selections from a lifelong collection of Mexican music.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-backyardmango. Noon-5 Free
The Merkaba Brotherhood is a local duo focusing electrionic and acoustic improv on ambient for their ticketed evening event.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/album-listening-session-presented-by-merkaba-brotherhood at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
Jesse Kamerzell brings Between Today and Tomorrow, schematic landscape paintings of buildings with no windows from a dream recurring since childhood.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
Laura Jean Foster https://laurajeanfoster.com gives You’re Better as a Haunt.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-backyardmango. Noon-5 Free
The Merkaba Brotherhood is a local duo focusing electrionic and acoustic improv on ambient for their ticketed evening event.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/album-listening-session-presented-by-merkaba-brotherhood at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
Jesse Kamerzell brings Between Today and Tomorrow, schematic landscape paintings of buildings with no windows from a dream recurring since childhood.
At Nationale
Laura Jean Foster https://laurajeanfoster.com gives You’re Better as a Haunt.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, May 15, 2026
May 16-17 Rare Plant Research+
Rare Plant Research is a plant nursery which sells rare plants on the Internet. They are open just one weekend a year to the public for plant sales. They are open this weekend. It really is a special place. You can visit Rare Plant Research www.rareplantresearch.com
11900 S Criteser Rd, Oregon City. Do not park on Criteser road, park in their field. 11PM-4 Free
The keep Oregon wierd spirit is alive at the McMinnville UFO Festival Thursday - Saturday. Saturday is the parade and the city is filled with free performances. It is great for all ages. More https://ufofest.com.
11900 S Criteser Rd, Oregon City. Do not park on Criteser road, park in their field. 11PM-4 Free
The keep Oregon wierd spirit is alive at the McMinnville UFO Festival Thursday - Saturday. Saturday is the parade and the city is filled with free performances. It is great for all ages. More https://ufofest.com.
May 15 For your Friday
The Menucha Art Center https://www.menucha.org/ in Corbett has artist retreats and workshops. Some of the artists who have participated over the years show work.
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Godeleine de Rosamel brings Late Bloomers, ceramics.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Lukas Kubeja has Diaries, paintings and drawings based on photographs. It occupies downstairs and upstairs.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Godeleine de Rosamel brings Late Bloomers, ceramics.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Lukas Kubeja has Diaries, paintings and drawings based on photographs. It occupies downstairs and upstairs.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
May 14 Society Failure Thesis
Todd Molinari brings show Failure Studies.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
The PSU MFA thesis show occupies the PSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Afterparty at Fans-Only. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
The PSU MFA thesis show occupies the PSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Afterparty at Fans-Only. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
Society likes a good talk. For this, the artist Gareth James conferences in. You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
May 13-16 Butoh Here Now
Butoh is a contemporay dance form birthed in Japan in 1959. Some know it, to others it is liminal from media blips. Ultimately is an improvised somatic performance, liminal in that respect. It is a beautiful and challenging niche in culture. Butoh has NW concentrations in Seattle, BC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder, Chicago, New York, Mexico, more. That includes Portland organized by Carl Annala.
If you like, the movie Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis gives a history.
Portland's most famous butoh performer, Mizu, has ridden off into the sunset with her love. With that, Portland has a continuing butoh festival and workshops throughout the year.
This year visiting artists are Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Julie Becton Gillum, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Iván Espinosa and Co, Ash Pillar, Arlo King, Amapola, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Olga Kravtsova, Monel Chang, and Didi (Freddi) Wyss.
For movers, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Julie Becton Gillum and Joan Laage/Kogut teach workshops. The workshops are a bargain.
Last year, the festival was graciously hosted by Portland Art Collective. Now it occupies the New Expressive Works studio.
The Northwest Butoh Festival in Portland. https://northwestbutohfestival.crd.co/ https://newexpressiveworks.org/nwbutohfestival2026 at New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont.
Workshops Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 6PM-10, 10AM-2, and 10AM-2 respectively. Prices in links.
Performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 8PM Indiviual tickets $25, $20, senior/artist/student $15. All performance ticket $60.
If you like, the movie Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis gives a history.
Portland's most famous butoh performer, Mizu, has ridden off into the sunset with her love. With that, Portland has a continuing butoh festival and workshops throughout the year.
This year visiting artists are Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Julie Becton Gillum, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Iván Espinosa and Co, Ash Pillar, Arlo King, Amapola, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Olga Kravtsova, Monel Chang, and Didi (Freddi) Wyss.
For movers, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Julie Becton Gillum and Joan Laage/Kogut teach workshops. The workshops are a bargain.
Last year, the festival was graciously hosted by Portland Art Collective. Now it occupies the New Expressive Works studio.
The Northwest Butoh Festival in Portland. https://northwestbutohfestival.crd.co/ https://newexpressiveworks.org/nwbutohfestival2026 at New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont.
Workshops Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 6PM-10, 10AM-2, and 10AM-2 respectively. Prices in links.
Performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 8PM Indiviual tickets $25, $20, senior/artist/student $15. All performance ticket $60.
May 13 Praise Science
Laurie Anderson is a great American story teller from the downtown tribe. She was in the Giorno poetry scene. In the early 1980s she got a deal with Warner to release album-length art projects. Big Science was the first in 1982. You can hear it this evening in a listening session on vinyl.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/big-science-presented-by-laura-cannon at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
The South Sound Experimental Film Festival are kindred to Portland filmmaking in Tacoma. We send things there ane they send to us. Tonigh they send Blue Jaye Corvidae-Schulte, Avian de Keizer, Miglė Križinauskaitė, Sitong Lu, Caroline Tuohey, Michael McCurdy, and Nikita Baranov with program Praise Kink.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/big-science-presented-by-laura-cannon at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
The South Sound Experimental Film Festival are kindred to Portland filmmaking in Tacoma. We send things there ane they send to us. Tonigh they send Blue Jaye Corvidae-Schulte, Avian de Keizer, Miglė Križinauskaitė, Sitong Lu, Caroline Tuohey, Michael McCurdy, and Nikita Baranov with program Praise Kink.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Saturday, May 09, 2026
May 17 Ending Once Portlander Thrives
Laurie Anderson continues to perform. She is known for her writing and spoken word performances, singing, and electronic instruments. Miranda July is a performer familiar to many. I promoted her to PICA, successfully. Marina Abramović, with a work in Venice, now is known for psychological and physical risks in performance. The three, Anderson, Abramović, and July have a show together in Copenhagen now. https://www.nbt.dk/en/shows/in-the-presence-of-others/
The show ends May 17.
May 9 Ghostly Delight
Ghostly International is this afternoon's selector for social listening.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-featuring-ghostly-international at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Lindsay Kretchun brings Objects of Delight, painting, textiles, and sculpture.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 3PM-6 Free
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-featuring-ghostly-international at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Lindsay Kretchun brings Objects of Delight, painting, textiles, and sculpture.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 3PM-6 Free
Friday, May 08, 2026
May 8 Somewhere Soft and Quiet
Miranda Zimmerman, Faunwood https://www.faunwood.com/, is a schooled scientific illustrator in Eugene. But the training does not get in the way of her art. Her work is very inexpensive and comes in multiples, pins, and books which she will sign at 6.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/faunwood-solo http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/faunwood-solo http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, May 06, 2026
May 7 Westside Art Openings+
Writers' Block, and Adams and Ollman continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ 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 Venice. The Venice Biennale is open.
Notable is Florentina Holzinger, representing Austria with an installation and performance. She has been performing intense opera-like events in Europe you can find.
The Russian Pavilion is a problem. Russia was not invited in 2024 after invading Ukraine. They are back in 2026, but their show is press only. Nonetheless people are not happy about Russia and their pavilion is attracting artist protests, including Pussy Riot. The Pussy Riot story is worth looking up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxl52-1LW_k
Mark R Smith https://markrsmithstudio.com/ brings Desert or Ocean, inspired by habitation, climate change and migration. Derek Franklin https://www.derekfranklin.net/ brings Poet's Lips, abstract paintings in light hues and sculptures with inspiration from Kierkegaard.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Contrast Gallery shares The Horizon Enterprise Building with The Downbeat and a black creative business incubator. They bring Based, a large group show including Abigail Fraser, Abigail Tjaden, Apoorva Bhandari, Chelsea J. Ferguson, Cheng Lee, Christian Orellana Bauer, Cody Austin, Daniel Soriano-Valencia, Deangelo Raines, Eric Wixon, Jasper York, Jeffrey Tan, Kayla Rojas, Korina Keaton, Kyle Thompson, Mae Al-Jiboori, Melissa Alvarez Baliton, Naomi Likayi, Nova Warren, Olivia Sanchez, Stephanie Pozuelos, Tylor Rogers, Victoria Chavez, Wura Ogunsanya, Yathzi Turcot, Yuyang Zhang, and Zachary Del Carpine.
RSVP required at https://partiful.com/e/m2yGtKCtPPtN5BRFtJY4.
At the Contrast Gallery 433 NW 4th 6:30PM-9 Free
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Soft Connections is the new show of painting, drawing, and ceramics by Kentaro Okawara, Nia Misiba, and Marsha Mack.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has its second unplanned retrospective exhibit. This one is from painter Kevin Kadar (1955-2025). The show New Landscapes and Seascapes includes work inspired by his visit to the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Unfortunately it is not safe to travel there today due to the Azawad independence movement, Islamic rebels, Russian corruption, a military coup, and the exit of the French and the US. The attraction of Mali to conflict is gold, diamonds, as well as aliminum and iron ore.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
No Unsacred Places is a show of colorist landscape oils by Jef Gunn.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has its fourth 50th anniversary exhibition spanning October 2005 and October 2015. New work from select artists is paired with work of the time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests with a focus on PSU students.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Jim Lommasson continues his What I Carry project, an anthropology study of what travelers, migrants, and displaced individuals carry with them. This one is with local homeless individuals. It is presented alongside work of the Street Roots photography club.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Mashiko Ceramics and Arts Association from Japan has sent works paired with local artists with families from the greater Pacific basin in show Many Bridges. Gallery 2 is a show by member artists Kanetaka Ikeda and Ruri.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Michael Spafford (1935-2022) has a retrospective of paintings, The Origin. Edge of Beauty and Survival are paintings by Margot Voorhies Thompson.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Resilience Is Our Nature are oil paintings by Susan Harrington. The landscapes and botanicals are inspired by climate change.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
From Turab to Noor is a show by 10 local muslum women.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Frol-ic-some is group show, along with Kelli Cooper in show From the Dark Side of Whimsy. At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
James Florschutz has Sounds of Memory and Robin Kerr has With the Windows Wide Open.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html .
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ 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 Venice. The Venice Biennale is open.
Notable is Florentina Holzinger, representing Austria with an installation and performance. She has been performing intense opera-like events in Europe you can find.
The Russian Pavilion is a problem. Russia was not invited in 2024 after invading Ukraine. They are back in 2026, but their show is press only. Nonetheless people are not happy about Russia and their pavilion is attracting artist protests, including Pussy Riot. The Pussy Riot story is worth looking up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxl52-1LW_k
Mark R Smith https://markrsmithstudio.com/ brings Desert or Ocean, inspired by habitation, climate change and migration. Derek Franklin https://www.derekfranklin.net/ brings Poet's Lips, abstract paintings in light hues and sculptures with inspiration from Kierkegaard.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Contrast Gallery shares The Horizon Enterprise Building with The Downbeat and a black creative business incubator. They bring Based, a large group show including Abigail Fraser, Abigail Tjaden, Apoorva Bhandari, Chelsea J. Ferguson, Cheng Lee, Christian Orellana Bauer, Cody Austin, Daniel Soriano-Valencia, Deangelo Raines, Eric Wixon, Jasper York, Jeffrey Tan, Kayla Rojas, Korina Keaton, Kyle Thompson, Mae Al-Jiboori, Melissa Alvarez Baliton, Naomi Likayi, Nova Warren, Olivia Sanchez, Stephanie Pozuelos, Tylor Rogers, Victoria Chavez, Wura Ogunsanya, Yathzi Turcot, Yuyang Zhang, and Zachary Del Carpine.
RSVP required at https://partiful.com/e/m2yGtKCtPPtN5BRFtJY4.
At the Contrast Gallery 433 NW 4th 6:30PM-9 Free
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Soft Connections is the new show of painting, drawing, and ceramics by Kentaro Okawara, Nia Misiba, and Marsha Mack.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has its second unplanned retrospective exhibit. This one is from painter Kevin Kadar (1955-2025). The show New Landscapes and Seascapes includes work inspired by his visit to the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Unfortunately it is not safe to travel there today due to the Azawad independence movement, Islamic rebels, Russian corruption, a military coup, and the exit of the French and the US. The attraction of Mali to conflict is gold, diamonds, as well as aliminum and iron ore.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
No Unsacred Places is a show of colorist landscape oils by Jef Gunn.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has its fourth 50th anniversary exhibition spanning October 2005 and October 2015. New work from select artists is paired with work of the time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests with a focus on PSU students.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Jim Lommasson continues his What I Carry project, an anthropology study of what travelers, migrants, and displaced individuals carry with them. This one is with local homeless individuals. It is presented alongside work of the Street Roots photography club.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Mashiko Ceramics and Arts Association from Japan has sent works paired with local artists with families from the greater Pacific basin in show Many Bridges. Gallery 2 is a show by member artists Kanetaka Ikeda and Ruri.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Michael Spafford (1935-2022) has a retrospective of paintings, The Origin. Edge of Beauty and Survival are paintings by Margot Voorhies Thompson.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Resilience Is Our Nature are oil paintings by Susan Harrington. The landscapes and botanicals are inspired by climate change.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
From Turab to Noor is a show by 10 local muslum women.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Frol-ic-some is group show, along with Kelli Cooper in show From the Dark Side of Whimsy. At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
James Florschutz has Sounds of Memory and Robin Kerr has With the Windows Wide Open.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html .
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Saturday, May 02, 2026
May 2 Northside Art Openings+
Oregon Contemporary and False Front continue.
Usually in our listings we issue forward pointers for future associated events with the first or main event. So day of may not be relisted. Rare exceptions.
For your +1 Linda Hutchins speaks and previews a short film about her dream project.
She keeps a pad and writing implement bedside. Awaking from a dream, without opening eyes, she writes her dream. The show is a collection of 50 of those dream notes.
At The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Open 10:30AM, talk 11-noon, open until 5 Free
For your +2, Westside, Jenene Nagy brings her elegant minimal work.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +3, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Blue Moon Camera staff bring a show of their work. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Most Nearly Perfect Ham by Kelda Van Patten https://keldavanpatten.com/ is a show of collage.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Allan Pichardo and Alyssa Pichardo beam down Soul of the Hyperreal, a surreal video game.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Anaya.
In "Arrivals, Anaya will explore the music of Asian and Asian-American artists, bands, and producers. Spanning many genres, including jazz, lofi, soul, hip-hop, and r&b - with some side trips related to Anaya’s heritage and upbringing."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-adrian-anaya at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Usually in our listings we issue forward pointers for future associated events with the first or main event. So day of may not be relisted. Rare exceptions.
For your +1 Linda Hutchins speaks and previews a short film about her dream project.
She keeps a pad and writing implement bedside. Awaking from a dream, without opening eyes, she writes her dream. The show is a collection of 50 of those dream notes.
At The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Open 10:30AM, talk 11-noon, open until 5 Free
For your +2, Westside, Jenene Nagy brings her elegant minimal work.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +3, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Blue Moon Camera staff bring a show of their work. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Most Nearly Perfect Ham by Kelda Van Patten https://keldavanpatten.com/ is a show of collage.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Allan Pichardo and Alyssa Pichardo beam down Soul of the Hyperreal, a surreal video game.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Anaya.
In "Arrivals, Anaya will explore the music of Asian and Asian-American artists, bands, and producers. Spanning many genres, including jazz, lofi, soul, hip-hop, and r&b - with some side trips related to Anaya’s heritage and upbringing."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-adrian-anaya at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Thursday, April 30, 2026
May 1 First Initial
In unusual opening schedule Ryan McLaughlin brings paintings Saentis Bindle II and Nao Kikuchi brings sculptures Spur.
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
Zachary Rau and Chris Sazaki bring PDX<>LAX.
Opening at the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Initial is a Portland arts writing project. Issue 2 drops tonight. Issue 2 writers are Joy Ulienne Alice, Gus Cannon, Martha Daghlian, Justin Duyao, Leslie Hickey, Midori Hirose, Jaydra Johnson, Brandi Kruse, Bennett Reeves, Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Ben Skiba, and Samantha Yun Wall.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
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
Zachary Rau and Chris Sazaki bring PDX<>LAX.
Opening at the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Initial is a Portland arts writing project. Issue 2 drops tonight. Issue 2 writers are Joy Ulienne Alice, Gus Cannon, Martha Daghlian, Justin Duyao, Leslie Hickey, Midori Hirose, Jaydra Johnson, Brandi Kruse, Bennett Reeves, Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Ben Skiba, and Samantha Yun Wall.
At Nationale
Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
April 29 Music from India
Lewis and Clark College has a classical Indian music program. They have an end of semester class performance tonight. Https://college.lclark.edu/fine-arts/calendar/event/370291-indian-music-ensemble-performance in Evans Auditorium at Lewis and Clark College 615 S Palatine Hill Road Map 7PM Free
Friday, April 24, 2026
April 26 Rain Sun Flower Shrine
Lowell pairs artists Shino Takeda and Mohamed Omar for show Rain Sun Flower.
The aesthetic language of Japanese ceramics is deep and wide. I think it would take a lifetime to begin to understand. Growing up, artist Takeda http://shinotakeda.com/home was dipped in it by collector parents. Now in Brooklyn, she brings her response by juxtaposing color in organic patterns on small handbuilts.
I am not sure if Portlander Mohamed Omar was part of Project Grow. But his story is related.
Project Grow was created by artist Natasha Wheat. I would say it was partially inspired by the philosophy of R D Laing.
It was Portland's most beautiful Social Practice artwork. I put Project Grow in the branch of 'socially conscious social practice art.' I would like to see more.
Art is a language of individuals, always evolving and branching. We give bundles of branches names by convenience and habit. One branch is outsider art. It has a longer history in Europe; in the US it came into the gallery system as a reaction of the excesses of 1980s New York.
Project Grow ran alongside Oakland's Creative Growth and similar. Today Portland has Elbow Room, North Pole Studio, PHAME, cotravelers J Pepin, and more projects that never went to art school.
Omar brings paintings from his work at Elbow Room https://www.elbowroompdx.org/. He is a musician too, with tapes available at the gallery.
Add, Hospitality House in SF has an overlapping community of artists. Portland participates with similar projects P:ear and Dana Lynn Louis' Gather:Make:Shelter.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Shrine 13 is a Portland creative releasing project in film, print, and with events. It is Jessica Daugherty and Brad Hamers. One project is archiving the life work of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer, life partner artists in New York.
They show some tonight in program The Galatea Effect, Or How to Live Forever: The Films, and Love, of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer. It is eloquently explained on their link.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
The aesthetic language of Japanese ceramics is deep and wide. I think it would take a lifetime to begin to understand. Growing up, artist Takeda http://shinotakeda.com/home was dipped in it by collector parents. Now in Brooklyn, she brings her response by juxtaposing color in organic patterns on small handbuilts.
I am not sure if Portlander Mohamed Omar was part of Project Grow. But his story is related.
Project Grow was created by artist Natasha Wheat. I would say it was partially inspired by the philosophy of R D Laing.
It was Portland's most beautiful Social Practice artwork. I put Project Grow in the branch of 'socially conscious social practice art.' I would like to see more.
Art is a language of individuals, always evolving and branching. We give bundles of branches names by convenience and habit. One branch is outsider art. It has a longer history in Europe; in the US it came into the gallery system as a reaction of the excesses of 1980s New York.
Project Grow ran alongside Oakland's Creative Growth and similar. Today Portland has Elbow Room, North Pole Studio, PHAME, cotravelers J Pepin, and more projects that never went to art school.
Omar brings paintings from his work at Elbow Room https://www.elbowroompdx.org/. He is a musician too, with tapes available at the gallery.
Add, Hospitality House in SF has an overlapping community of artists. Portland participates with similar projects P:ear and Dana Lynn Louis' Gather:Make:Shelter.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Shrine 13 is a Portland creative releasing project in film, print, and with events. It is Jessica Daugherty and Brad Hamers. One project is archiving the life work of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer, life partner artists in New York.
They show some tonight in program The Galatea Effect, Or How to Live Forever: The Films, and Love, of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer. It is eloquently explained on their link.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
April 25 Intimate Music Self
Kimberly Gronquist forms Intimate Monads, organic ceramic sculptures.
They win the copywriting award for the month. "A word like monad risks sounding grandiose until you stand in front of one of Gronquist’s sculptures and feel the term settle. Borrowed from Leibnizian symbolic logic, it names the smallest indivisible unit of being, a self-contained world. In this way Gronquist’s works conduct a small cosmos pressed into clay. Each object existing solitary, self-possessed, while simultaneously conversing quietly across the gallery, forming a loose ecology of presences.
Originating in touch the clay bears evidence of fingers, gravity, pressure, and air forming a material history of the gestures that shaped it. These deliberate and discovered arrangements that seem grown rather than constructed. The process reveals almost like a form of thinking, or an embodied cognition in which ideas are not depicted but coaxed out of matter.
The shifting scale and intimacy of the sculptures keep them close to the body. Each one holds a small interior drama of time: a vessel formed slowly through attention, then fixed by fire. Psychologist Laura L. Carstensen’s notion of “time horizons”—the way human perception of time shapes our priorities, hovers in the background. These ceramics feel oddly liberated from time even as they record it.
Gronquist describes the work as an investigation into the porous boundary between inner consciousness and the world that forms it. The idea sounds philosophical, but the sculptures communicate it plainly. Their surfaces look weathered by encounter. They materially imply that identity like clay is made through the contact of touch, environment, attention, and relationships.
There is also a quiet defiance running through the exhibition. The work honors sovereign interiority over the social demand to appear legible or productive. They embrace beauty, excess, and vulnerability with a seriousness, as Gronquist leans into those qualities despite the history of them being dismissed as indulgent. What could be read as softness becomes strength; what looks fragile reveals a stubborn independence to exist among the chaos.
One line lingers as a fitting epigraph for the show: “We are two abysses—a well staring up at the sky.” The phrase captures the mood of these objects. Each sculpture seems to look inward and outward at once, holding a private depth while opening toward something larger, formed, sustained, and continually remade through our encounters with the world and with one another."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary, with family-friendly openings, https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-4 Free
Patricia Wolf is an accomplished musician, promoter, patch developer and composer. Her branch is electronic field recording ambient. She has hosted showings at Mono Space of movie Hrafnamynd https://vimeo.com/828149745, an abstract documentary she scored.
This afternoon she is the selector for a listening session.
"Maurice Ravel to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hildegard Westerkamp to Roméo Poirier, Mel Bonis to Elizabeth Maconchy."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-patricia-wolf at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
How am I not myself? is a curated selection of 30 self portraits.
At Well on Earth 115 NE Lawrence Ste 111 5PM-9 Free
Volunteer-operated Kalakendra presents classical Indian music concerts. It is a pleasure to experience them. Tonight Ganesh-Kumaresh plays carnatic violin with Patri Satish Kumar, mridangam, and Trichy Krishnaswamy, ghatam, in an instrumental program.
At the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $35, youth age 3-12 $15, students with ID $20
They win the copywriting award for the month. "A word like monad risks sounding grandiose until you stand in front of one of Gronquist’s sculptures and feel the term settle. Borrowed from Leibnizian symbolic logic, it names the smallest indivisible unit of being, a self-contained world. In this way Gronquist’s works conduct a small cosmos pressed into clay. Each object existing solitary, self-possessed, while simultaneously conversing quietly across the gallery, forming a loose ecology of presences.
Originating in touch the clay bears evidence of fingers, gravity, pressure, and air forming a material history of the gestures that shaped it. These deliberate and discovered arrangements that seem grown rather than constructed. The process reveals almost like a form of thinking, or an embodied cognition in which ideas are not depicted but coaxed out of matter.
The shifting scale and intimacy of the sculptures keep them close to the body. Each one holds a small interior drama of time: a vessel formed slowly through attention, then fixed by fire. Psychologist Laura L. Carstensen’s notion of “time horizons”—the way human perception of time shapes our priorities, hovers in the background. These ceramics feel oddly liberated from time even as they record it.
Gronquist describes the work as an investigation into the porous boundary between inner consciousness and the world that forms it. The idea sounds philosophical, but the sculptures communicate it plainly. Their surfaces look weathered by encounter. They materially imply that identity like clay is made through the contact of touch, environment, attention, and relationships.
There is also a quiet defiance running through the exhibition. The work honors sovereign interiority over the social demand to appear legible or productive. They embrace beauty, excess, and vulnerability with a seriousness, as Gronquist leans into those qualities despite the history of them being dismissed as indulgent. What could be read as softness becomes strength; what looks fragile reveals a stubborn independence to exist among the chaos.
One line lingers as a fitting epigraph for the show: “We are two abysses—a well staring up at the sky.” The phrase captures the mood of these objects. Each sculpture seems to look inward and outward at once, holding a private depth while opening toward something larger, formed, sustained, and continually remade through our encounters with the world and with one another."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary, with family-friendly openings, https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-4 Free
Patricia Wolf is an accomplished musician, promoter, patch developer and composer. Her branch is electronic field recording ambient. She has hosted showings at Mono Space of movie Hrafnamynd https://vimeo.com/828149745, an abstract documentary she scored.
This afternoon she is the selector for a listening session.
"Maurice Ravel to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hildegard Westerkamp to Roméo Poirier, Mel Bonis to Elizabeth Maconchy."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-patricia-wolf at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
How am I not myself? is a curated selection of 30 self portraits.
At Well on Earth 115 NE Lawrence Ste 111 5PM-9 Free
Volunteer-operated Kalakendra presents classical Indian music concerts. It is a pleasure to experience them. Tonight Ganesh-Kumaresh plays carnatic violin with Patri Satish Kumar, mridangam, and Trichy Krishnaswamy, ghatam, in an instrumental program.
At the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $35, youth age 3-12 $15, students with ID $20
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
April 24 Poem Gamelan
The Indonesian archipelago is larger than the US West to East and about 3/4 extent South to North. It is 4th in world population after the US, ethnically diverse. Diverse in music, too. One branch is gamelan music. That has more branches.
The gamelan is a collection of percussion instruments up to about 50 instrument types. They range from small instruments with the ring of bells to large gongs with a shimmer sustain, drums, and add strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNxGnQ1Wns
Today, with an afternoon free you can hear the Lewis and Clark College gamelan class readout, free. The L&C art department thesis show is up in the Hoffman too.
Javanese Gamelan Ensemble https://www.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/388092-javanese-gamelan-ensemble in Evans Music Center’s World Music Room (room 036) 2PM Free
The sea of poetry readings ebbs and flows. I'm not that deep in that world, but Im sensing it flowing. One itinerant project is Poems at Sunset out a Window. They received an opportunity to expand and tonight do Poems out of a Print Shop. At the IPRC 318 SE Main. Readings 7:25PM, 7:45, 8:10 Free
The gamelan is a collection of percussion instruments up to about 50 instrument types. They range from small instruments with the ring of bells to large gongs with a shimmer sustain, drums, and add strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNxGnQ1Wns
Today, with an afternoon free you can hear the Lewis and Clark College gamelan class readout, free. The L&C art department thesis show is up in the Hoffman too.
Javanese Gamelan Ensemble https://www.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/388092-javanese-gamelan-ensemble in Evans Music Center’s World Music Room (room 036) 2PM Free
The sea of poetry readings ebbs and flows. I'm not that deep in that world, but Im sensing it flowing. One itinerant project is Poems at Sunset out a Window. They received an opportunity to expand and tonight do Poems out of a Print Shop. At the IPRC 318 SE Main. Readings 7:25PM, 7:45, 8:10 Free
Saturday, April 18, 2026
April 18 Fuck Thesis Moss Formailities
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
"2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Late Night Legal Formalities, originally produced for the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York. LNLF was devised by James as a way of negotiating Dee’s request for him to join her commercial gallery. Prior to his first exhibition, Dee agreed to hire an art historian or critic to attend every exhibition during 2005 and to write an essay, for a fee of $1 a word, over which the gallery would have no editorial control, and which James would subsequently present in the September exhibition of the following year as his first exhibition. David Joselit lobbed a strikingly candid response back to James who incorporated it into the work on view."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
The thesis show season commences.
PNCA Visual Studies and Print Media launch theirs tonight. Two locations.
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has several audiences. They are a member of PADA. They have also opened their attic to events. Tonight is the Fuck ICE show benefitting the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The upstairs shows are very popular social art, DJ, and beer events.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Noa Ver, one half of electronic duo Sea Moss, curates an afternoon listening session. Sea Moss is an aggressive sound electronic duo, the opposite of Moss Wand.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
"2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Late Night Legal Formalities, originally produced for the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York. LNLF was devised by James as a way of negotiating Dee’s request for him to join her commercial gallery. Prior to his first exhibition, Dee agreed to hire an art historian or critic to attend every exhibition during 2005 and to write an essay, for a fee of $1 a word, over which the gallery would have no editorial control, and which James would subsequently present in the September exhibition of the following year as his first exhibition. David Joselit lobbed a strikingly candid response back to James who incorporated it into the work on view."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
The thesis show season commences.
PNCA Visual Studies and Print Media launch theirs tonight. Two locations.
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has several audiences. They are a member of PADA. They have also opened their attic to events. Tonight is the Fuck ICE show benefitting the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The upstairs shows are very popular social art, DJ, and beer events.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Noa Ver, one half of electronic duo Sea Moss, curates an afternoon listening session. Sea Moss is an aggressive sound electronic duo, the opposite of Moss Wand.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
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