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New year, new month, and Portland First Thursday and First Friday art events are right around the corner. there is a good one at Launch Pad on Friday night with Pipeline friend Chris Haberman.

Related: 2011 Portland January Events

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From website:
First Friday @ Launch Pad Gallery
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Painted Interpretations of Modern Icons
by Chris Haberman + Scott Chase
January 7th – 29th, 2011

Opening First Friday, January 7th, 2011
6pm-12am | featuring
DJ DEENA B & a special live music by COUNT KELLAM
534 SE Oak Street, Portland, OR 97214 – 971.227.0072
launchpadgallery.org

Chris Haberman Bio | Scott Chase Bio

"I met Scott earlier this year when he moved into our building. He was a big, friendly, kinda hairy guy hailing from a place I mock on a regular basis: The Couv (Vancouver, Washington). We talked and laughed and drank and became friends, although he was from Vantucky. Then he lost his laboring warehouse job. We became better friends and his sharp tongue and obvious intellect and charisma won me over…

This series is based upon Scott's choice of characters, and his development as a new artist. I am proud to have been his mentor in this self-discovery and I am always amazed at his commitment and courage to try this out so quickly. He doesn't use a grid to make the characters, everything is done by hand from a photograph. Our responses to these photos were not shared with each other until this show. This is our examination of icons that reflect the bright and shadowy parts of life — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."

Chris Haberman
December, 2010
"Through out history people are remembered for their actions and recognized by their portraits. When I started this series I tried to divide figures past and present into categories (Good/Bad/Ugly) but found many of the icons I had chosen fit more than one of these groups. This evolved into me finding figures whose actions fit all three categories. With the subjects selected Chris and I painted portraits of each icon though our different and unique artistic filters. Our goal is to invoke the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in each figure though these portraits.

I chose to paint with Chris Haberman for my first show because he is a good friend, a mentor and a great artist. His style is unique and creates a colorful contrast to my style while still capturing the depth of our subjects though a single portrait."

Scott Chase
December, 2010

Featured Icons

CHARLES BUKOWSKI, FIDEL CASTRO, MICHAEL JACKSON, ELVIS PRESLEY, GRIGORI RASPUTIN, AUDREY HEPBURN, DR. JOHN MCLOUGHLIN, CRAZY HORSE, VINCENT VAN GOGH, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, MARK TWAIN, ALICE COOPER, EVEL KNIEVAL, CHE GUEVERA, LADY GAGA, JAMES BROWN, G.G. ALLIN, DOC HOLIDAY, MIKE TYSON, WILLIE NELSON, JOHNNY CASH, TIGER WOODS ,NOTORIOUS B.I.G., MARILYN MONROE, FRIDA KAHLO, BETTY PAGE, CHARLIE PARKER, HUNTER S. THOMPSON, HARRY HOUDINI, JESUS CHRIST, BABE RUTH

Selected Pieces

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Bukowski by Chris Haberman	Bukowski by Scott Chase	Mike Tyson	Mike Tyson by Chris Haberman
Mike Tyson by Scott Chase	Tom Waits	Tom Waits by Chris Haberman	Tom Waits by Scott Chase