50+ Portland First Thursday Art Events | September 2010
September 1, 2010 — PDXPIPELINE
Portland's monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow. Time is certainly flying by right now with the end of all our great summer events. There are over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings this month.
We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway) & Rich Vail Mackin. They compile an email called the "[h]IT LIST" of events every month. You can join it by emailing them @ sequentialart @ gmail dot com. We have reproduced much of it below with permission.
Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS
Are you on the Twitter? Follow @FirstThursday or the #firstthursday hashtag to see what people are posting about it. You can also follow Sequential art on twitter: @sequentialart
Related Weekend Events & Info From Pipeline:
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- Thursday: Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert With Portland Youth Philharmonic & Oregon Ballet | Free
- Todd Glass @ Helium Comedy Club This Weekend + Win Tickets
This Month at Sequential Art Gallery:
PORTLAND'S BEST OUTSIDER HAUNTS, by SHINICHI MORIYAMA
and SEQUENTIAL ART GALLERY'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY
To help us celebrate our fifth year of showcasing local artists, Sequential Art Gallery again features the work of Shinichi Moriyama. His new work, Portland's Best Outsider Haunts, takes us on a tour of unpopulated and perhaps even unknown locations. His painting search for the beauty in the decrepitude, reassuring us that our imperfect world is only temporary in the large scheme of things. Portland's Best Outsider Haunts opens First Thursday, September 2nd from 6-10pm, and runs through September 25th.
Sequential Art Gallery + Studio is located in Old Town Chinatown at the Everett Station Lofts, 328 NW Broadway #113. Open for regular gallery hours and gaming every Saturday (11am-5pm) or by appointment. The gallery showcases local artists who explore the concept of sequential art, which is loosely defined as using consecutive images to tell a story. Curated by Kaebel JK Hashitani and Merrick Monroe.
Watch LIVE at ustream.tv/channel/sequential-art-gallery-studio
ART EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED!
KATAMARI @ Floating World Comics: [by Jason Levian] I'm very excited to announce the details of our First Thursday art show coming up September 2nd of this year. The show is called KATAMARI and it's based around my favorite video game, Katamari Damacy. My friends and I lovingly refer to it as the “Zen” video game even though the intense gameplay would often accelerate our heart rates to dangerous levels. The creator, Keita Takahashi, once stated that he created the game to bring about world peace. If everyone played the game no one would want to fight wars anymore. We have Katamari and Noby Noby Boy inspired artwork from over 30 artists and illustrators. There will be a mix of original pieces and also archival prints of the digital submissions. This benefit show is a not-for-profit fundraiser. 100% of the proceeds will go to JOIN – a local nonprofit organization that works to “connect the street to a home”. The prints will be available for sale on 1st Thursday. The original art will be sold on eBay during the last month of September as part of the fundraiser. (Side Note from PDXP: Pipeline will have a few (4 or 5) T-shirts at Floating World starting tomorrow. So get one while you are down there!)
THE NEW BROW OF PORTLAND @ PCPA: [by Chris Haberman] NEW BROW is a new defining term (from Europe of course) to define art of the “outsider” or “low brow” nature, for the next generation. These terms, outsider and low brow, are a bit demeaning in juxtaposition to the gallery world, and the “fine art” made in these areas today, especially in Portland, in comic realms, poster art, tattooing, paintings, and fine art, are very much a skilled effort, or a NEW BROW approach to art, versus the Old World definition of “Outsider” – art made by the insane. Although, still within the realm of “edgy”, pop-art defines our world, and these are some of Portland's best, and definitely my favorites of our city.
Everett Station Lofts (and neighbors)
- 117. NISUS – “Either Side” by Norton Young
- 113. SEQUENTIAL ART – “Portland's Best Outsider Haunts” by Shinichi Moriyama, and Sequential Art's 5th Anniversary
- 111. HALF/DOZEN – Lisa Kowalski
- 110. SEA CHANGE – “you call that a crown?” group show by Vancouver Island-based artists Marlene Bouchard, Marlaina Büch, Ross Angus Macaulay, and Novembird
- 106. PORTAL – part Art Nouveau/part steampunk work by Schel Harris
- 105. PONY CLUB - “Satan is Real – Images from the Age of Hysteria”
- 104. EYEFUL – “Evidence” group show of glass artists: Banjo, Tristan, Buck, Darby, Nate Dizz, Lacy, Brian P, Chakra, Eusheen, and Chaz
- 102. TRIBUTE GALLERY - “Trans-IT-ion” group show, curated by Jason Brown
- ANKA GALLERY - “Entangled” group show; project curated by Bonnie Meltzer, installation curated by Anna Solcaniova King, work by Bonnie Meltzer, Ken Hochfeld, Andrea Benson and Todd Griffith
101. SALOME – 103. MODEST – 107. GARBAGEMAN ASTRONAUT – 108. DARRAS – 109. DOPPLER – 114. TRACTOR – 115. ERRATA – 116. TYSON SPACE – A MOOD CHANGE – OGLE
Old Town Chinatown
- BUTTERS GALLERY – Introductory Exhibit feat. Bill Gingles (LA), Alicia LaChance (MO), and Adam Shaw (CA)
- COMPOUND GALLERY – “Idealistically Hypocritical”, a mashup of art work by Ryuichi Ogino and over 20 artists
- FLOATING WORLD – “KATAMARI”, a group show fundraiser for Join PDX
- Addition From Pipeline: First Thursday With 12+ Portland Old Town Residents @ Macdonald Center and Residence
Also (implied to be) open on First Thursday:
GRASS HUT – NRFCU – 24 HOUR CHURCH OF ELVIS – CANAL ROAD – BERBATI'S – FORTUNATO ARTWORKS- MORGAN COLE PASINSKI -Â GALLERY RENE – HECKLEWOOD – BACKSPACE – GRASSY KNOLL GALLERY – UPPER PLAYGROUND – SHAFFER FINE ART GALLERY
Other NW Galleries
- AUGEN NW – New work by Dharma Strasser Maccoll
- BLUE SKY – “Wisconsin Tavern League” by Carl Corey; and “Them” by Danny Treacy
- BLACKFISH- New work by Christoper Shotola-Hardt; and “Dream Sense” by Judith Wyss
- BULLSEYE GALLERY – “Invisible Cities” group show
- CHAMBERS @916 – “Cloud” by Arcy Douglass
- ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY - “This Train is Bound for Glory”, photographs by Justine Kurland
- FROELICK GALLERY – “Five from Brooklyn”; organized by Nat Meade
- LAURA RUSSO – Recent work by Michael Brophy and Eric Stotik
- LITTLE GREEN GROCER – work by Abraham Wylie
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT - “Collateral Matters”, selections by Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt; “Dropping the Urn” by Ai Weiwei
- PDX CONTEMPORARY ART – “New Westerns” by Adam Sorensen
- OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM – “Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century” by Andy Warhol
- PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART – “Decoy” by Damian Gilley, and “Sorted Books” by Nina Katchadourian
Also (for all I know will be) open First Thursday:
Art in SW
- AUGEN SW – Master Prints by Frankenthaler, Lewitt, Miro, Motherwell, Stella and others
- PORTLAND CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS – “The New Brow of Portland”, 50 artists of the scene; curated by Chris Haberman
- PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY – “alteración”, a collaborative experiential installation of light by Laura Di Trapani, Susan Harlan, Rachel Hibbard, and Jeff Schnabel
- TENDER LOVING EMPIRE – “Things that don't belong to me”, stuffed art by Kelly Rundle
- SLINDE & NELSON LAW FIRM – “Justice For All” by Chris Haberman
- PORTLAND CHIROPRACTIC – New art exhibit and free chair massages
FLORA – RADISH UNDERGROUND – STUMPTOWN COFFEE -ATTIC GALLERY – READING FRENZY
September 2, 2010 at 1:48 pm
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