50+ Portland First Thursday Art Openings & Events: Pearl, Old Town, China Town, NW, SW
August 4, 2011 — PDXPIPELINE
Portland’s monthly First Thursday event is tonight! The weather should be perfect and thousands of people will be out and enjoying the art and events. There are over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings this month, with most openings taking place in the Pearl district and Old Town/China Town.
We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway). 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: 2011 Portland August Events
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
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Related Portland Events & Info From Pipeline:
- August 4: Portland First Thursday: Daniel Johnston Art Show @ Wieden + Kennedy & FREE Concert
- August 4: Rock/Paper/PDX Opening @ Portland Center For Performing Arts | First Thursday
- August 4: Crafty Wonderland Pop-Up Shop @ Museum of Modern Craft | FREE, Locally Made Crafts
- August 4-6: Dom Irrera @ Helium Comedy Club | Dr. Katz, The Big Lebowski, Offsides
- August 4: Top Down Rooftop Cinema @ Hotel DeLuxe's Roof | Viva Las Vegas, Drinks, Food
- August 4: The Thrill of the Climb @ Pittock Mansion | Historic Mt. Hood Climbing Photos, Video
- August 4: Studio 69 w/ Reporter, Ancient Heat @ Holocene | Disco, Sexy Jams (Win Tickets)
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MANY Portland First Thursday Art Events
This Month at Sequential Art Gallery
“Ocean” by Liz Conley
In August, San Fransiscan Liz Conley will be returning to Portland to present her show “Ocean” at Sequential Art Gallery. Conley’s work is strongly influenced by water, the darker aspects of fairy tales, and the gray areas that can be found between the black and white. “Ocean” is a print-based visual retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Of the exhibit, Conley says, “[the show examines] the dark path that even the most well intentioned of us can turn down all too easily.” The story will also be printed in Couscous Collective’s upcoming anthology “Ocean”.
Formerly a Portland native, Liz Conley moved to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art University, graduating with a degree in Fine Art Printmaking. She assisted the prestigious Arion Press in the production of Don Quioxte and I Love My Love, has been published in The Grove Review, and her bookarts work is currently represented by 23 Sandy Gallery here in Portland. She makes comics with her friends at the San Francisco-based Couscous Collective, with whom she self-publishes her work
Sequential Art Gallery + Studio is located in Old Town Chinatown at the Everett Station Lofts, 328 NW Broadway #113. Open for regular gallery hours Thursdays (3pm-7pm) and Saturdays (11am-5pm) or by appointment. The gallery showcases local artists who explore the concept of sequential art, which is loosely defined as using consecutive images to tell a story. Curated by Kaebel JK Hashitani and Merrick Monroe. More information is available at www.sequentialartgallery.com
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Everett Station Lofts | 625 NW Everett & 328 NW Broadway
- 113. SEQUENTIAL ART: “Ocean” by Liz Conley
- 117. NISUS: “Land Girls”by Rebecca Shelly
- 106. PORTAL: “Bridging Art and Science” - Numberism art by Sienna Morris
- 108. MoHDI Quantum paintings and drawings by Justin Auld
- BREEZE BLOCK: “Flora & Fascia ” by Jeff Proctor
Also should be open tonight
101. SALOME | 102. TRIBUTE | 103. MODEST | 104. WERKS | 105. PONY CLUB |109. STYLOID PROCESS 110. DARRAS|115. ERRATA | 116. TYSON SPACE
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Old Town Chinatown
- P:EAR – TRIM/VOJDANI [338 NW 6th Ave]: Summer Student Show featuring, William Madden, Pusher, and MM
- ROCKSBOX @937 [937 NW Glisan] “Stuck” Performance by Jennifer Locke & Lucas Murgida, 7-9pm
- FLOATING WORLD [20 NW 5th Ave]: World Painted Goteblud/Wuvable Oaf event with Ed Luce
- GRASS HUT [20 NW 5th Ave]: “Not Here To Make Friends.” by Michelle Valigura
- BUTTERS [520 NW Davis]: “Full Circle” by Ming Fay; “A Decade in Painting” by Elise Wagner; 23rd Anniversary Group Show
- GRASSY KNOLL [123 NW 2nd, 2F]: “A Mind’s Eye” by Nicole Linde
- HELLION [19 NW 5th]: “Machine Fossil” by Hr-Fm; New works by Angel Davis; “Amalgamate” book signing by Blaine Fontana
- COMPOUND [105 NW 5th]; “Stories They Told Us” by Stacey Rozich, Amalgamation Group Show.
Also should be open tonight
SHAFFER FINE ART | BACKSPACE | 24HR CHURCH OF ELVIS
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Other Northwest Openings
- CANNIBALS [518 NW 21st]: “Circuitry of Beauty” featuring Danny Locke
- CHAMBERS [916 NW Flanders]: “Girih Extended” by Joe Bartholomew
- ELROY ARTSPACE @ The ORIGINAL [300 SW 6th Ave]: “Mods and Gods”, a group Tiki exhibition
- LAURA RUSSO [805 NW 21st]:”Stencils and Graphics – New Work” by Margot Voorhies Thompson
- BENJAMIN BENJAMIN [1720 NW Lovejoy]: “American Graffitti: This is an Art Gallery” group show
- AUGEN NW [716 NW Davis ] “Drape” by Eva Lake; “Tsunami” by Jim Neidhardt; “Code Matrix” by Mark Wilson; Contemporary Master Prints.
- GALLERY 114 [1100 NW Glisan]: “Viscosity” photographic images by Jon Gottshall
- BLUE SKY [122 NW 8th Ave]; photography by Paul D’Amato and Bill McCullough
- BLACKFISH [420 NW 9th Ave] work by Lynda Ater and Tori Bryer
Also should be open tonight
OBA! | BEPPU WIARDU | | BULLSEYE | ELIZABETH LEACH | FROELICK | PDX CONTEMPORARY | PRESENTspace
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Southwest Openings
STUMPTOWN COFFEE | PSU – MK GALLERY| AUGEN SW
