Last Thursday Art Show Opening @ The Goodfoot | Feat. Anna Magruder, Josh Burd, Kathleen Powers & Suzanne Bladey

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Last Thursday Art Show Opening
June 26, 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 June 26th. The show will be up until July 24th. This month’s featured artists are Anna Magruder, Josh Burd, Kathleen Powers and Suzanne Bladey. Along with music selected by DJ Kaeli Hertz.

Anna Magruder
is a Portland, Oregon painter. Her favorite subjects are people and animals and whatever lies between. Drifting between realism and surrealism, she loves recreating vintage America, re-imagining the lives and stories of characters on canvas or just exploring the emotional color of faces. In 2012 Anna was a featured artist on Oregon Art Beat — OPB’s Emmy Award-winning statewide arts series. She is a recipient of a 2014 RACC grant for her “Oregon’s Painted History” series, and in 2015 she was honored with a three-month artist residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. Her art appears in numerous publications and private collections. In 2012 I was a featured artist on Oregon Art Beat — OPB’s Emmy Award-winning statewide arts series. I am a recipient of a 2014 RACC grant for my “Oregon’s Painted History” series, and in 2015 I was honored with a three-month artist residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. My art appears in numerous publications and private collections. “I love to paint people, animals and whatever lies between using oils and/or acrylics. My art is inspired by past eras. A love of vintage things was instilled in me at an early age while exploring local antique shops and flea markets with my family and grandparents. My love of vintage treasure hunts and the thrill of the “find” has carried over into my artwork. As I explore the magic and beauty of scenes from past lives — historic or recent — the addition of imaginative or unexpected elements creates a narrative that emerges on my canvas. My attraction to faces, people and the stories behind them is a consistent theme in my art. My focus on facial features is a way of working through a deficiency in my own ability to recognize faces (prosopagnosia) by exploring what makes each person unique.”

Josh Burd
As this exploration continues, a language has evolved. One mark dictates the next mark and a “call and response” begins. The rules are eventually established and the play begins and continues pushing against its own defined parameters. Joshua Burd, aka Burdxturd is an a tattoo artist and fine artist here in the lovely Portland, Oregon. He has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. At 22 he went to art school and got his degree in illustration, failed miserably at that, and throughout the years have done art shows at bars, cafes and independent galleries around Portland. At 30 he began his career as a tattoo artist. A career that gave him what he wanted: to draw everyday and make art for people of all backgrounds, shapes and sizes. These pieces are basically a history of where I started and where I am today. He focus’s on cat tattoos, adventure time, and everything in between.

Kathleen Powers
I am inspired to paint and write fables about animals like common opossums, birds, and rodents because they are usually thought of as pests – or often, not even thought of at all. Yet, they live with us as vital parts of our shared ecosystem – as intelligent, highly adaptable survivors and protective parents to their young. I do not think they get the credit or spotlight they deserve.

Suzanne Bladey
Michigan born moved to Portland in the spring of 2018 Received a BFAE from Kendall College of Art and Design in 2008, then taught art, sewing and fiber arts for a decade.. Previously working as a costume designer for local production groups since 1998. Currently works full time managing a custom canvas production shop with a focus on pattern drafting and volunteering on local theater products with the Star Society. Started painting as a regular practice three years ago, wanting to focus on a use of color she turned away from her normally highly symbolic illustrative work and turned to the rhythmic patterns presented in nature.
The act of painting is highly relaxing and is a great way to escape the stresses of daily life. Her work is commonly referenced with having a folk art look but she considered herself an impressionistic artist when it comes to her landscapes. Trying to capture the impressions of the places that surround the beautiful PNW. Most of the landscape scenes are impressions of areas directly surrounding her home in Washington county. This area has beautiful sprawling views of farm lands that are currently under development and will be replaced with over 1100 not affordable housing. Using what she can find for reclaimed materials and still wanting to create beautiful and enjoyable art, she hopes that she draws some level of awareness to the need of conservation when it comes to our farmlands and natural areas. Making frames out of reclaimed and found materials she hopes to elevate the painting and provide the final owner with a finished and unique piece of art. She has a few painting tropes that she commonly uses, such as drunk robots, motorcycles in the garden and skulls and foliage/ mushrooms. These tropes each have meaning to her but also provide an easy answer to the artist block which is “what should I paint” Developing themes are cats in kitchens and plants as painting for the non plant people. When the tropes don’t work to answer the question “what should I paint” then she uses an object painting prop and develops a dreamscape around it. These paintings are less common because they are usually