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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Feb 8th, 2008
Michael T. Hensley’s “Loss/Control” show at Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW 2nd, Portland OR) was a great place to start Portland’s First Thursday this month. Chromatically you had your choice of vibrant blue or cream&rust. Both worked wonderfully for me.
The cream and rust were more numerous and had some beautiful isolated interesting intimate [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Jan 22nd, 2008
Hap Tivey gave an artist lecture this past Friday at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR). Hap talked about each piece of his “Sands of the Ganges” show. “Sands of the Ganges” is based on a Sanskrit metaphor for infinity.
Hap gave an energetic uplifting lecture. His work focuses on the beauty [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jan 4th, 2008
The new year starts off some interesting work. This month I was mostly drawn to works with color and abstraction.
Joe Macca’s “slowblivion” is showing at PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders, Portland OR). On the left is “Instrumental” which can be purchased as a group or individually. This is work that [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Dec 7th, 2007
Many of Portland’s art bloggers this week are at the Miami Art Fair. PORT is covering the fair and the various Portland artists there.
A couple of the Portland galleries were closed as the gallerists are at Miami, but there is some great shows to see this month.
It was a nice evening to walk around. [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Oct 6th, 2007
First Thursday started at Tom Cramer’s show at Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). You have to see this show out. My favorites were “Moon Lake” and “Aviary” and “Power Plant”. Works like “Moon Lake” and “Golden Dawn” have these wonderful undulations coupled with interesting finer textures and patterns [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, my art updates on Oct 3rd, 2007
I’m have a new 40″x30″ photograph that is part of the “Be Blue (Sky)” group show at Mark Woolley’s new downtown gallery (817 SW 2nd Ave, Portland OR) . This should be fun, I hope to see you there! Here are a couple of tips: First *wear blue clothing* to the opening (seriously, have fun). [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Sep 7th, 2007
First Thursday for me started on 9th street. A show worth checking out and surprising scarce of people (OK I was very early) is at Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR). Quality Pictures has the work of Jen DeNike. Jen’s work is entitled “Don’t Tread On Me”. Images are part [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Aug 4th, 2007
Butter Gallery celebrated it’s 12th anniversary with a special Anniversary group show Saturday August 4th 2–5p. They had a wide variety of artist in the show including: Carolyn Cole, Debra VanTuinen, Dorothy Goode, Jeffrey Butters, Ted Katz, Ming Fay,David Geiser, Sonia Kasparian,…
Below is David Geiser’s “Gold Cenote”, I liked this one quite a bit. [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, my art updates on Aug 4th, 2007
This was a busy 1st Thursday for me, I wanted to see various openings and also attend my two openings this month at Mark Woolley Gallery and Pushdot Studio, but more on those shows at the end of this all.
My first stop of the night was at Elizabeth Leach (417 N.W. 9th Avenue, [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, my art updates on Jul 28th, 2007
After reviewing my portfolio, Mark Woolley asked me to be part of his August “Dig It” group show. I’m thrilled! A very cool bonus is the music of DJ King Fader (of Dahlia) at the opening. Dahlia is definitely a Portland fave of mine.
Mark Woolley Gallery “Dig It” group show opens: [...]