First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Adams & Ollman continues.
For your +1 Daniellea Gatt is a Stumptown employee and new recipient of the Stumptown art fellowship. The show is True Happiness Will Find You in the End energetic gestural abstracts. 5PM
For your +2 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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The big ad agency brings show and nonprofit fundraiser, PDX Loves LA, for the LA fires. Proceeds will be distributed to nonprofits. 100 artists exposed 100 images and they are printed in editions of 5 for sale at $100 each.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Mary Luzycki https://www.marygluczycki.com/ is a photographer and stylist. Her photography stands on its own and fits well with the shop.
At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-7
Stelo has a participatory story making project for a week in collaboration with P:ear. That takes place their normal hours and tonight. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org/ 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-7 Free
Lost Landscapes is a show of manipulated and collaged landscape photographs by Debra Achen and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir.
Zeinab Saab has Girls Just Wanna Lay the Smackdown, screen prints. The narrative is documented on the Nine website, https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery. In the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
After Image 003 is a large group show curated by Luiza Lukova. Artists include Andrea Bagdon, Megan Bainbridge, Brooks Cashbaugh, A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Bryce H. Frimming, Häsler Gómez, Thomas Huston, Viktor Kobylianski, Eso Malfor, Isaac McKenna, Ruth Meijer, S. Proski, Sydney Milan Roberts, Jacob Romero, John Walker, Nicole Williford, Ahnika Wood + Karina Rovira, Wang Yiming, and Yuyang Zhang
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
René Rickabaugh has schematic still lifes of flora and fauna, Mementos. Chris Russell has landscape and interior paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
George Johanson who passed in 2022 has a show of saturated color paintings City Rhythms / The Art of City Life.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Adventures in Abstraction are paintings by Carol Benson. Forms Open or Dense - Spaces Variable is by Stephan Soihl. Cosmic Leaves - Miniatures and Giants is by Kanetaka Ikeda. Longtime Portland artist Michael Knutson continues a retrospective.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Rebecca Boraz, new artist to the gallery, has flat schematic paintings and ceramic works. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Don Gray, Nanette Wallace, and Liz Borowski have monotypes. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Intact is a show by MF of collaged photographs. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
