Illy2, Industry One, Fine Art Fruit, Augen, Froelick, and Adams and Ollman continue.
Artist and PNCA faculty member Tom Prochaska, 1945-2026, has passed. https://hfma.willamette.edu/exhibitions/library/2022-23/tom-prochaska.html
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. There is programming all day in collaboration of the Cascade Festival of African Films which begins tomorrow in full. Https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-feb2026/ 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
The Lobby at the Ellen Browning was the showplace for a private collection of note. They are homeless now with their residency at a condo building expired. This month they are making use of the Writers' Block creative offices. It's up for 3 months with artists Brandon Ballengée, Deborah Roberts, Frica Baumm, Joe Brainard, Leonardo Drew, Lonnie Holley, Matt Connors, Ranjani Shettar, Robert Indiana, Ronny Quevedo, and Vik Muniz.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. The bring show Exhaust, with Nishat Akhtar https://nishatakhtar.com/ and Bráulio Amado https://badbadbadbad.com/.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
A Sense of Place is a show of 17 artists. The list is in the link.
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
Terri Warpinski has Death|s|trip. The Berlin Wall divided the city 1961 to 1989. It was a brutal border https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/ and there are many documentaries. The artist contextualizes current Berlin landscapes with the stories of those killed at the Wall.
Éléonore Simon has Valparaíso, urban landscapes.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
For Artists of Color is a local show https://theblackgallerypdx.com/for-artists-of-color with a reception tonight.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Portland Arts Collective brings Word, a show by 30 artists of art on the theme of words.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Christa Nye and Eddie Reed have paintings When Words Are Not Enough. Philip Stork has Abstract Journeys, works on paper. Mae Al-Jiboori has Presence Under Pressure, abstract figure paintings.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Laura Vincent Design has a group show with Alexandra Boyden, Jen Crowe, Mark Dunst, Scott Gellatly, Marilyn Joyce, Clive Knights, Scotty Peek, Erika Warhus, and Kirk Weller.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Forgetting and Remembering are landscape paintings by Heather Lee Birdsong inspired by "grief, memory, climate anxiety, and displacement." Michael Dailey (1938–2009) has a survey of abstracts. He taught for many years in the University of Washington art department.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Beneath the Bark is Kevin Jesequel's hollow wood vessels. https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kevin-jesequel/
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
