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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Dec 5th, 2008
I’m back in Portland for a bit, so I managed to check out the 1st Thursday openings. At the new gallery Chambers Gallery @ 916 (916 Flanders, Portland OR) is Allen Maertz’s Photography. Some good work with a particular view point. I also like this new space in a nice central location. More good photography [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Oct 15th, 2008
I’m catching up on getting back from three weeks in NYC. This past Saturday, I managed to visit some of the shows that are up in Portland. Here is a quick survey. Jen DeNike’s Flag Girls video installation can be seen at Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR). She has a new spin on [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Sep 6th, 2008
We’ll start off this month with a bit of abstraction and then work our way into a variety of appropriations and repurposing. Also I’ve decided to post even more photos that aren’t in this main posting go to the very bottom and click read more to see those. On with it… Michael Knutson‘s paintings are [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Aug 14th, 2008
Last fall I just missed the three-person show at Hasted/Hunt (NYC) that Gerald Slota was in. Missed it by a week. Slota’s new show at Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) was a chance for us to see some of his work. Gerald Slota photographs look like constructed images from many sources. The are [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Art Car on Aug 9th, 2008
After seeing a variety of gallery shows this past 1st Thurs, we came back and found that the art car had a gift! MANY THANKS! Yes, 3D glasses with a wonderful note written on them that said: “Look at your car through these” They had a great effect, so we took this combined portrait: 3D [...]
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 over [...]
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 on May 2nd, 2008
There were many shows to look at this First Thursday and it was a wonderful warm evening to walk around Portland. Amanda Wojick had several sculptures and other works on display at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR). I particularly like the sculpture “Among” which was a connected stack of polystyrene. “Among” can [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Apr 3rd, 2008
I don’t have time to write much tonight, so just some quick notes. At Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) I liked the work by Bryan Schellinger in the back room. This is a preview of new work debuting at NEXT in Chicago (Apr 25-28). Next is an invitational exhibition of emerging art at [...]
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 details. [...]