Last Thursday Art Opening @ The Goodfoot | Feat. Heide Davis, Mary Undercoffer-Gallop, Olivia Bailey, Tyler Corbett

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Last Thursday Art Opening w/ Heide Davis, Mary Undercoffer-Gallop, Olivia Bailey, Tyler Corbett
September 25, 2025
5pm – 2am | Free | 21+
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The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97214

The Goodfoot will have an art opening last Thursday Sept 25th, the show will be up until Oct 26th. This months feature artists are Heide Davis, Mary Undercoffer-Gallop, Olivia Bailey,Tyler Corbett. Along with music selected by DJ Welly Well. 

Heide Davis
is a painter living in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Houston, Texas, she attended Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, before developing a career as a specialty finisher and muralist. While her career informs her use of materials and encourages experimentation in mixed media, here she is painting in oil on canvas or board to create abstract landscapes and figurative work. “My interest lies in figures, usually women, living in environments that help tell their story. I love a good facial expression and hope the viewer will wonder about her. She is vulnerable and powerful with unapologetic sexuality. Old photographs and provocative pinups are my favorite inspiration. My figurative oil paintings are currently painterly and expressive though I also have a colorblocked series.
When I’m not painting people I enjoy experimenting with abstract landscapes.”

Mary Undercoffer-Gallop
“I have been living in and making art in the Portland area for over 20 years. I like to paint landscapes, cityscapes, scenes and portraits. The contrast of light and dark, contrasting colors and reflective light are common in my work. Sunsets and dramatic skies show landscape and scenery in the way that I like to paint them. I first knew that I wanted to be a painter as a teen when I visited a Monet exhibition at the national gallery. I really admire Impressionism and Expressionism and I favor narrative styles. I am inspired by other artists including my art mentor Glen Larsen. Other themes and inspirations in my work come from the people in my life and the beauty of the natural world. For this show, I chose to expand on “Windows” as a theme. Whether looking inward or outward, over time, we are always looking from one space to another space. I wanted to feature some people from my life in interior spaces. I also have some pieces that are looking outward into a landscape. “

Olivia Bailey
is a Portland-based, multidisciplinary artist with a focus on digital art. Largely self-taught, she draws on her technical skills as a web designer to create works that are cheerfully twisted and decadently macabre. Chaotic, original, and unpredictable, her art casts light onto the dark recesses of the psyche. Sometimes it’s with a soft and flattering bulb that brings out the humor in foibles. Others, it’s a harsh fluorescent one that leaves no place to hide. You can find her work in Memory Den in southeast Portland.

Tyler Corbett
This body of work was made during a turbulent period of my life. It represents a time I spent moving from city to city, spanning the entire country. Without the luxuries of studio space, I adapted my process to life on the move. I scaled down so far as to only create pieces that could fit inside of sketchbooks and manilla folders. Initially, I considered these drawings as templates to be scaled up into larger works. The more I worked on these ideas and drawings, the more I saw them as modular pieces to work with. My sketches became collage elements, and I further rendered these composites with charcoal, pastels, and paint. The work also reflects the emotional dualities of this period. Feelings of freedom, the strange joy of the unfamiliar are intertwined with the loneliness of isolation and the fear of uncertainty. Even though I depict dark and ominous manifestations of hardship and alienation, I still want to welcome the viewer in by creating rich, fully realized, and classically beautiful worlds for these ideas to inhabit. These worlds are uncomfortable, yet lovely.