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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 6th, 2008
I started off June First Thursday at Eric Franklin’s show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 4th, 2008
Eric Franklin with have an First Thursday opening this week
at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands over [...]
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 Other Openings on Dec 8th, 2007
Jenene Nagy’s work “Slope” was one of the first works I saw at the Open Studios opening at the Troy Laundry building this weekend. 20+ artists are having open studios. I always like going into studios to see finished work and work in progress and partial ideas. It is also a great time [...]
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 Other Openings on Nov 11th, 2007
Boxlift Buildings Open Studios show is this weekend at 333 NE Hancock Street is open Saturday November 10 4-10PM and Sunday November 11 12-5 PM. In addition to the open studios the hallways are filled with works to form a group exhibition that was curated by Mark Woolley of Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW [...]