Tuesday, September 29, 2026

October 1 Westside Art Openings

October is Portland Textile Month in galleries. It's https://textilex.org/. There is a kick off event at Skylab.


Illy2, The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Fine Art Fruit, Stelo, After / Time Gallery, Laura Vincent, Froelick, and The Writers' Block continue.


For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. 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 all around town, ADX has collaborated with galleries and spaces for a month long ADX Fest. Many of the events are workshops. Details https://www.adxfest.com/


Chris Chandler has Expression of Structure, graphic works in the Constructivist vein. MK Guth, Elizabeth Hohimer, Ellen Lesperance, Mary Ann Peters, Vo Vo, and Anna Von Mertens have contemporary textile works.

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


Bootsy Holler has Contaminated: Invisible Fallout, photographs and mixed media themed on radioactive contamination of the Hanford Site in Washington from the Manhattan Project. https://bootsyholler.com/PORTFOLIOS/Contaminated/2

From Photolucida, Lucy Bohnsack has This Work They Call Love, https://www.lucybohnsack.art/work/this-work-they-call-love It is themed on motherhood.

In the Nine Ronna Neuenschwander brings Pandora’s Amphora. Is Amphora self-plural? These works represent things released by Pandora. Currently topical.

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


Russo Lee has a sprawling 40 year retrospective with artists James Allen, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Heather Lee Birdsong, Michael Brophy, Louis Bunce, Sean Cain, G. Lewis Clevenger, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, Laura Domela, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gabe Fernandez, Julian V.L. Gaines, Dan Gluibizzi, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, James Lee Hansen, Roll Hardy, Manuel Izquierdo, Lisa Jarrett, Jackie K. Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Willie Little, Betty Merken, Michael Paul Miller, Carl Morris, David Curt Morris, Hilda Morris, Richard Notkin, Whitney E. Nye, Stephen O’Donnell, Kim Osgood, Lucinda Parker, J.D. Perkin, Jack Portland, René Rickabaugh, Chris Russell, Michele Russo, Michael C. Spafford, Dirk Staschke, Eric Stotik, Whiting Tennis, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Samantha Yun Wall, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Ko Kirk Yamahira.

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


Kindra Crick brings Nocturnal Worlds. https://waterstonegallery.com/show/waterstone-gallery-kindra-crick-nocturnal-worlds#works "Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes." Several artists work in EEGs, such as Jane Antoni's Slumber.

At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Kanetaka Ikeda has Cosmic Trees, Stephan Soihl, In Memoriam, Paula Bullwinkel, S’wonderful S’marvelous, and Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Stanzas.

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



FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. Heaven Must Be Near is Momo Gordon and Erasto Reyes-Silva, drawing and sculpture.

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


Fans Only shows its residents and guests.

At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free


Imperfecta has paintings by Dan Gay, Signal / Noise.

At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free


PNCA Willamette may have visual shows tonight.

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