Several galleries are tagging on the World Cup with sports-themed shows.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
