November is still prime art show month.
Illy2, The Black Gallery, Elizabeth Leach, and After | Time Collective continue.
The Portland Art Museum is suspending their free first Thursdays. That supports their free ticketed reopening November 20-23. Go online and get free tickets for that!
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
The En Foco Fellowship has been operating for 50 years from the Bronx https://enfoco.org/. In its partnership with Blue Sky it expands Portland's curatorial horizon. From El Foco, Andrew Kung https://www.apkung.com/ recontextualizes the Hudson River School. The images Asian American men in a pastoral setting parallel in concept to Justine Kurland's Girl Pictures. China had a dispora as mercantilism rose, resulting in men leaving their families and working in anything but partoral settings in the US. That story is also told by the Kam Wah Chung general stone, now musum in John Day. Oji Haynes https://www.ojihaynes.com/ makes muxed media alterations over narrative portraits and places.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Gwen Davidson has Shorelines, coastal landscapes. It accompanies a retrospective show for the gallery. Charles Froelick Gallery and PDX Contemporary Gallery ecolved from the William Jamison gallery, a Pearl District Pioneer and the first Portland Gallery with a New york City branch. Remembering Jamison/Thomas Gallery is a group show from Jamison artists. There is a gallery talk about it Saturday at 2.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Lisa Jarrett has Nightlughts, 2D work on the theme of Black hair and identity. Willie Little recontextualizes childhood memories of Pactolus Township, North Carolina, an exurb of Greenville, with In My Own Little Chair.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Xavier Kelley has Running Through the Field. Kelley moved from Seattle to Portland and paints outsider portraits sometimes with sports themes in a Basquiat style.
At IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 5PM-9 Free
The big ad agency has clades of employees; it's agood idea. The Native clade guests local creators and a market to acknowledge Native American Heritage Month. They should connect to the current show at One Grand and the many Native nodes in our region.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Justin Auld has Quantum Movement, Priscilla Carrasco has Working Women of Peru, Stephan Soihl has Landscapes and Pendulums - Then and Now, Aaron Johanson has Choreography of the Unextraordinary, and Dede Lucia has Playa.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Ashley Sophia Clark https://www.ashleysophiaclark.com/ makes surreal narrative images based on photography in her series Energetic Fields. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-7 Free
Tiffany Noelle Palafox has abstract paintings with drawing elements, occasionally text. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Mark Andres has colorist landscapes in show Portland and Astoria New Paintings.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Ruth Armitage has Between Certainties, abstract paintings.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows its residents. This month there are works from PSU and the Parenthesis Project entitled Our Mother the Mountain by students at the Northwest Academy. 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
Scott Gellatly has abstract landscapes. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
