The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Elizabeth Leach, Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Augen, and PDX Contemporary 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.
For your +3 If you are in Seattle, their first Thursday art walk is tonught too. Portland duplicated the process in 1986.
Add this afternoon, the Daipan Butoh Collective brings their annual performance to the Japanese Garden. This is the Kogut Butoh unit. The principal is Joan Laage. She famously studied with Hakutobo, the last project of the founder of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata. Hakutobo is entirely female performers. Laage is among less than a handful of early teachers in the US and she has a PhD in butoh.
Wandering and Wondering by Kogut Butoh, https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/wandering-and-wondering-seattle-japanese-garden, at Seattle Japanese Garden, 1075 E Lk Washington Blvd, Seattle 3:30PM-6 $10 garden admission
Cristina Velásquez from Columbia brings collages, Somos Animales Poéticos. She is known for slightly surreal compositions incorporating staged portraits with the inspiration of the New World's colonial history. If you are interested in that, The Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb explains a lot. Barbara Strigel has A Space becomes an Entry, collaged urban landscapes. Rae Davis has illustration-style work in the Nine.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Longtime painter and faculty at PNCA/Willamette, Lucinda Parker, has a show incpired by her 53 year marriage. She accompanies a show of late Northwest artist estates represented by the gallery, Louis Bunce, William H. Givler, Sally Haley, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, Carl Morris, and Michele Russo.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Myra Clark has Poustania, mixed media paintings. She traveled to Antarctica; now her work is focused on climate and the earth. Amy Turnbull has May All Your Little Plants Take Root and Thrive, botannically-inspired paintings. Hannah Theiss has Specimen. It is mixed media constructions of ink, glass, and wood with perhaps an association with microscope slides, and a palette similar to Jaq Chartier, whose work reminds chromatography.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Grizzly Grizzly https://www.grizzlygrizzly.com/ is an artist collective in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Which is weird, because there are no grizzly bears in Philadelphia. Oregon used to have them, but we killed the last one in 1937. They ranged all the way through California which has one on their flag. Even Mexico. https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-04-02/timeline-a-history-of-grizzly-bear-recovery-in-the-lower-48-states Our cililized neighbor to the North, Canada, has them, Alaska, and a few other Rocky spots.
Grizzly Grizzly has been running an exchange with the After | Time Collective here. Tonight is -voir | ver-, title referencing French, by unnamed artists from Grizzly Grizzly. If the gallery wants to keep the names of the artists secret, or not in plain text, that is their business.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Profusion is a show of landscapes by Angelita Surmon in paint and glass. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Graffiti As Resistance documents the murals painted on the blackboard black canvas over the downtown Portland Apple Store, and all the crowd sourced signs, in response to the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
We dont do sports art. Or pop surrealsim/lowbrow mostly. Portland is in industrial design sneaker week. From previews, the big ad agency for their sneaker week has art variations on shoes.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Bad Ideas is a fashion show in Y2K mode by Alison Pinetti and Colin Nehring. Walk at 7:30. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 5PM-9 Free
Holly Osborn is a local painter doing both abstract and landscapes. Benny Fountain is based in Spokane and does schematic landscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trembling Touch is a show of paintings by retired rugby player Maurice Aljiboori now in Portland.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Karen Christie Fisher, Claudia Hollister, and F L Carrera have a painting show, abstracts and still lifes.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guest photographers Sahar al-Sawaf, Taravat Talepasand, and Maryam Tahririha. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
