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,
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.
