First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon. Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Illy2, Stelo, The Black Gallery, Elizabeth Leach, Froelick & Adams and Ollman continue.
For your +1 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 +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Michelle Dunn Marsh brings a group show of her personal collection of 30 years in show Seeing Being Seen. She has a fascinating story found on the Blue Sky website.
Eleanor Segel brings textile pieces, Explorations, to the Nine inside Blue Sky. At the Nine Gallery https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Ka’ila Farrell-Smith has a show, Glyph bright spray paintings using stencils. Long time Portland artist Sherrie Wolf has a show of still lifes entitled Abstraction.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
PDX Contemporary opens their Summer group show with Christian Abusaid, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Heloise De Mil, Marjorie Dial, Bean Finneran, Ellen George, Johannes Girardoni, Shanti Grandhi, Victoria Haven, Justin L'Amie, Yamamoto Masao, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Jeffry Mitchell, Jenene Nagy, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Susan Seubert, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, and Marie Watt.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-7 Free
Augen brings a large group show from their collection by Josef Albers, Jennifer Bartlett, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Caio Fonseca, Jane Hammond, David Hockney, Richard Hull, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Jeff Koons, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, Mark Andres, Bill Brewer, Sharon Bronzan, Sally Cleveland, Arless Day, George Johanson, Royal Nebekerm David Schell, Naomi Shigeta, Morgan Walker and Thomas Wood.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Portland Arts Collective has paintings by Renée Zangara https://reneezangara.net/, Gardener's Palette. People may recognizer her work from the Biomass show. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Dylan Hester all the way from St Paul presents I Can Hear These Sounds Just As Closely As You Can. According to their website: “Unique in their artistic vision and impulse, Dylan Hester’s practice presents an ongoing evolution of forms that paradoxically play within and dance around strict limits and open-ended aleatory perspectives that arise as the work overlaps, folds and creates conditions for mutual immersions and chaotic complexities. Being and doing what is possible continues to be key for Dylan and their practice.” Definitely not a copywriting award candidate. At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Blackfish has a large show by recent art school graduates, as is their custom. Much of the work is online now on their website.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Ros Vila splits time between Portland and Barcelona. She works with paint, photography, and mixed media. This show, El Retorn, is primarily minimalist ceramics.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Lisa Ellis https://www.lisamarieellis.com/ brings show Unexpected Focus, landscape paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
RAAC hosts Friends of Noise presenting band Charliehorse PDX/NYC. Friends of Noise is an all ages presenter. "Charliehorse is a noise, folk, pop band from Portland, based in New York City, dedicated to making music for sad teen girls. Using improvisation, cups and knives, synths, and anything else they can find in their basement, Charliehorse hopes to express some of the weird stuff they can’t really describe with words but know exists." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9BkZBeWsE. Latecomer after Seattle's Vera Project, Friends of Noise https://friendsofnoise.org/ in the parking lot by RAAC https://racc.org/ 411 NW Park Ave #101 6PM Free
