50+ Portland First Thursday Events

August 5, 2010 — PDXPIPELINE

First Thursday @ Everett Station Lofts, Portland, OregonPortland's monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow. Time is certainly flying by right now with all the 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:

This Month at Sequential Art Gallery:
Sequential Art Gallery is excited to again present local artist Katy Ellis O'Brien in her second solo exhibition with the space. “The Kilkenny Cats” is a story in pictures involving cartoon cats, boy scout camp, folk music and whiskey. Through a series of narrative paintings, the viewer's imagination is invited to explore the sometimes silly, sometimes sad story of the tumultuous relationship between a pair of musicians. The show opens First Thursday, August 5, and runs every Saturday through August.

Katy Ellis O'Brien grew up drawing cartoon animals in Forest Grove, Oregon. Wielding a degree in sequential art from The Evergreen State College, she now resides in Northeast Portland. In addition to being a painter and cartoonist, she's an editor for the Stumptown Underground zine collective, and she teaches children's workshops at Cosmic Monkey Comics.

Kaebel is a slacker…watch him LIVE at ustream.tv/channel/sequential-art-gallery-studio

ART EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED!

“We Agree: A Crisis in Common” at SEA Change Gallery | Justseeds and Taring Padi
On display will be two large blockprints, one made by the Portland-based members of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative, and the other by members of Taring Padi, an artist cooperative from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The two prints, each measuring three feet by nine feet, are bold, graphic depictions of the impact of the natural gas industry and its satellites on the landscape and peoples of both sides of the Pacific. The prints were designed and printed collaboratively, with the help of generous funding from RACC and Work for Art. Other artworks by Justseeds and Taring Padi will also be on display.

This is not only set to be a great show for the show's sake, but it's also the the third to the last show at this amazing space- where the curators not only show art, but they host a number of community events and have free produce Mondays. Make sure you say your goodbyes- even if you need to say hello first!

“The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis” at the Portland Art Museum. You probably don't want to read the whole book in the museum, but worth seeing the originals in person. Rather than me babble on and on, read what our friends at the Portland Mercury had to say.

Everett Station Lofts (and neighbors)

  • 117. TRIBUTE GALLERY - “Dominion” Featuring Ajna Lichau
  • 115. ERRATA- Animal theme group show curated by J Swofford, featuring 11 artists from 3 continents.
  • 113. SEQUENTIAL ART – “The Kilkenny Cats” by Katy Ellis O'Brien
  • 110. SEA CHANGE – “We Agree: A Crisis in Common” Justseeds and Taring Padi
  • 111. HALF/DOZEN – Fliperama Rhapsody, pinball themed art by Artur Silva
  • ANKA GALLERY – “Praxis” group show curated by Anna Solcaniova King, work by Chad Glass, Nancy Elizabeth Comstock, and Kathleen Marie Quigley
  • 101.SALOME – photographic genius of Nancy Neil

Also (likely to be) open on First Thursday:
103.MODEST- 104. EYEFUL – 107. GARBAGEMAN ASTRONAUT- 108. DARRAS – 109. DOPPLER – 114. TRACTOR – 116. TYSON SPACE – A MOOD CHANGE – OGLE

Old Town Chinatown

  • BUTTERS GALLERY - Anniversary Group Show
  • GRASS HUT- “Bad Strength”, work by Tim & Tigerlily Biskup and Theo Ellsworth
  • SHAFFER FINE ART GALLERY - work by Michael Flohr

Also (implied to be) open on First Thursday:
FLOATING WORLD – COMPOUND GALLERY – NRFCU – 24 HOUR CHURCH OF ELVIS  – CANAL ROAD – BERBATI'S – FORTUNATO ARTWORKS- MORGAN COLE PASINSKI -  GALLERY RENE – HECKLEWOOD – BACKSPACE – GRASSY KNOLL GALLERY – UPPER PLAYGROUND

Other NW Galleries

  • AUGEN NW - Prints by Jim Dine, work by Hibiki Miyazaki
  • BLUE SKY – Photography by Jim Vecchi, Antonio Martinez, and Lori Waselchuk
  • BLACKFISH -Gallery 110 at Blackfish, (Blackfish at Gallery 110 in Seattle); work by Ellen Goldschmidt and Judith Wyss
  • BULLSEYE GALLERY – “Invisible Cities” group show
  • CHAMBERS @916 – New Installations by Jerry Wingren & Ethan Jackson
  • ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY - “In Touch” by Judy Cooke; “Gather and Wait”, Sculpture by Cris Bruch
  • ELROY GALLERIES- “Atomic Tiki”, a group exhibition of 'Tiki Style' fine art.
  • FROELICK GALLERY -  “Patterns and Memories” by Charles Dazler Knuff – “Neptune's Picnic” by Katherine Ace
  • LAURA RUSSO – Paintings by Jackie K. Johnson; “Faces” – New Paintings by Sherrie Wolf
  • LITTLE GREEN GROCER – work by Abraham Wylie
  • KALISTA SALON -Audio Art by: Mikey Masonic, Visual Art by: Cat Coats
  • MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT -  “Land Art” by David Shaner; “Dropping the Urn” by Ai Weiwei
  • PDX CONTEMPORARY ART -  “Relative Picnic” group show; Summer group show.
  • OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM – “Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century” by Andy Warhol
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART - M5 group show, curated by Jeff Jahn
  • QUINTANA GALLERIES -  Pawn Jewelry Trunk Show

Also (for all I know will be) open First Thursday:
3D CENTER  -  POWELL'S -  CAPLAN ART DESIGNS – CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT - Ã‚  VINO PARADISO -  PULLIAM DEFFENBAUGH – BEPPU WIARDA

Art in SW

  • STUMPTOWN COFFEE- “Cold as the Stars” by Jaik Faulk
  • ATTIC GALLERY- Paintings by Arne Westerman
  • AUGEN GALLERY – Group Show: Contemporary Master Prints, with work by Dine, Frankenthaler, Motherwell and others
  • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - International Women Artists' Exhibition and Conference
  • READING FRENZY – “Small Things Can Make You Feel Smaller” – collages by Mark Searcy

Also (a little bird tells me are) open on First Thursday:
FLORA – RADISH UNDERGROUND – TENDER LOVING EMPIRE -

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