Portland First Thursday: Daniel Johnston Art Show @ Wieden + Kennedy & FREE Live Music Performance
August 2, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEPortland’s August First Thursday art events are right around the corner. One to definitely check out is art from musical legend Daniel Johnston’s new graphic novel–Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness. The show is at Wieden Kennedy in the Pearl. Also, Daniel Johnston will be playing a free concert (open to the public) there on August 25th! What?! That’s going to be nuts.
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Update: Daniel Johnston Free Portland Concert @ Wieden+Kennedy This Thursday
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From press release:
Daniel Johnston First Thursday Opening
Thursday, August 4
5-9 p.m. | FREE | All Ages
W+K Gallery
224 NW 13th Avenue
The Daniel Johnston Art Show, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness kicks off with a First Thursday opening event on Thursday, August 4, from 5-9pm, and culminates in a special live performance at the agency by Daniel himself on August 25.
Daniel Johnston, singer, songwriter, musician and artist, has spent the last 30 or so years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. He has long contemplated the battle between good and evil that rages in both his head and the world around him, but until now he hasn't focused it through the lens of his first true passion-comic books.
The show will feature work from Daniel's Daniel Johnston's first ever, long-awaited, soon-to-be-released comic graphic novel, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness, as well as selections of his most popular previous work.
To check out Daniel performing a couple of songs at W+K last year, click here.
