Pink Elephant Saturday Night
Feb 2nd, 2009 by Brad
The 4th Annual PINK ELEPHANT was last night. Many Many thanks to TJ Norris for making this all happen. It was a very fun event and good to spend some time catching up with some friends and meet some new ones. For the read from the man himself, read TJ’s blog posting.
There were 60 artists who each had a piece of work up for the past
month in the hallway at Milepost 5.
Pink Elephant Milepost 5 hallway
After wine, talk, and the refresh that the keg the exchange started. Alicia Rose, the MC for the event called up each artist to pick numbers to see what work they would take home.
Alicia Rose with mic
Since I managed to drive through the snow storm on the first delivery day I was early in the drawing. I was happy to get Bean Gildorf‘s work. Below is a diptych of Bean with ert art. It’s now hanging at our house. I really love it. THANKS!
Bean Gilsdorf Untitled
Also nice to meet her husband Dan Gilsdorf as well. Beyond their personal work they have done some great collaborations as well. I enjoyed the Portland Modern Window Project as well as one at The Affair in the Gallery 500 room.
Here’s TJ with the work he took home.
TJ Norris
David Corbett drew the number for my Bonne Terre. I remember enjoying David’s work in Portland Modern a couple of years ago. Very interesting work.
I also got a chance to catch up with Sally Finch and Calvin Ross Carl who both had shows in December. I have some images from that 1st Thursday here.
Liz Obert mentioned she has an upcoming show at Pushdot this summer. Keep a lookout for that show. Richard Schemmerer says he has a photo of me at some 1st Thursday show, I’ll have to find it sometime.
Here are a variety of images from the show…
…never look down. 🙂
