October Arts: See shows by Amjad Faur, Sabina Haque, Sean Healy and Shane McAdams, historic art by Leonard Baskin

Published 12:15 am Sunday, October 1, 2023

The Tribune will highlight some gallery openings and other arts happenings each month, coinciding with First Thursday (Oct. 5). Galleries may have limited hours and/or online presentations and visitor restrictions. Please check individual websites for info.

Reminder

Pittock Mansion, 3229 N.W. Pittock Dr., is hosting a new exhibition of landscape paintings and rare ephemera from an award-winning early Oregon artist. “Eliza Barchus: A Woman of Resilience” is on display through Feb. 11, 2024, and it showcases 65 landscape paintings of the likes of Mount Hood, Mount Rainier and Crater Lake, and personal ephemera, including her chair, paintbrushes from her studio, awards, family albums and suitcase.

More: pittockmansion.org.

Amjad Faur

Amjad Faur’s new photographs are featured in “A Spell for Letting Go” at PDX Contemporary, 1825 N.W. Vaughn St., Oct. 4-28. “In an age of digital manipulation and snapshot aesthetics, Amjad Faur’s images speak of patience and precise staging,” publicity says. Faur uses large-format camera and elaborately constructed sets.

More: pdxcontemporaryart.com.

Sabina Haque

Waterstone Gallery, 124 N.W. Ninth Ave., presents “The New Abnormal,” a painting installation reflecting the climate places where artist Sabina Haque calls home — Oregon and Pakistan. Her artwork references the 2020 fires in Detroit and Otis in Oregon and the catastrophic floods of 2022 in Pakistan. It shows Oct. 4-29.

More: waterstonegallery.com.

Come one, come all

The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 N.W. Broadway, has given a special shoutout to art fans to visit its gallery as well as surrounding North Park Blocks galleries, 5 p.m. First Thursday, Oct. 5. (And, it’s forecasted to be nice weather.)

“First Thursdays are a vital part of the cultural ecosystem of Portland,” a news release states. “With the aim of revitalizing turnout and public engagement for the First Thursday Art Walks, PNCA is accelerating dynamic collaborations with our neighbors on the North Park Blocks through expanded programming including exhibitions, music, performances, artist-led special events and more.”

More: pnca.edu.

New paintings

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 N.W. Ninth Ave., shows works by Sean Healy (“Lifer,” works on paper and sculpture about ego and doubt) and Shane McAdams (“The Teckivy Nazdack,” paintings of dreamlike landscapes), Oct. 5-28.

More: elizabethleach.com.

Arnold Pander

The Portland artist Arnold Pander is showing his new works in oil, watercolor and pen and ink, “MonArchy,” at Ale O’Boutique, 902 S.W. Morrison St., No. 108, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. First Thursday, Oct. 5. There’ll be a live art performance at 6 p.m. The work focuses on figurative art and 20th century British punk rock and its influence on fashion from the 1970s on.

More: arnoldpander.com.

‘The Great Birdman’

The late prolific multimedia artist Leonard Baskin’s exhibit of more than 70 works from the collection of Judith Baskin and Warren Ginsberg is on display at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, 724 N.W. Davis St. “Always a representational artist, Baskin’s images in every media confirm his deep engagement with the natural world of birds, animals, insects and plants. However, it is commitment to the human figure and its fate in a world of turmoil and suffering that is preeminent in his work,” publicity says. The works show Oct. 8-Jan. 21.

More: ojmche.org.

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For information on galleries: Portland Art Dealers Association, padaoregon.org.