Blue Sky Gallery presents Bryon Wolfe, AKA the man who took one photograph a day of random beautiful things for an entire year.
The fine folks at Floating World Comics have taken on the very admirable task of making slideshows interesting, as they have put together hundreds of found photographs, which they will loop all evening.
At PDX Contemporary, local artist and PSU Professor Harrell Fletcher curates a group exhibition of drawings, photographs, and video addressing the very timely theme of art as a retreat from the physical world, aptly titled Songs from the Treetops.
For those out to impress a date with your knowledge of serious art, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery offers Threads, an exhibition of new work by Libby Wadsworth. Wadsworth combines realistic imagery and dissected text onto canvases of various sizes to examine the relationship between perception and meaning in time. Nothing says “frivolous one-night stand” like an examination of perception and meaning in time. Seriously.
Fontanelle Gallery presents Big Beautiful Color, an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture by Portland artist Mark Warren Jacques. The website promises a large-scale interactive teepee, psychedelic music, and multi-colored streamers. Jacques had me at large-scale interactive teepee.
And finally, for all those who long for landscape painting but can’t bring themselves to simply ignore this historical week in Oregon’s history, the Blackfish Gallery offers Oregon Seen, a visual arts celebration of the Oregon Sesquicentennial offering landscape paintings from throughout the state’s history.
And if none of this sounds interesting, there’s always the free booze.
– Matthew Vollono
Name goes on the top, Matthew. Where it says “POSTED BY”. This isn’t rocket science.
Cat, stop hating on the poor unpaid whelp. Two informative posts, refreshingly free of pointless youtubes posted “just cuz.” And an actual mention of galleries/First Thursday in Blogtown!
Enjoy your next 4 months, intern. Drink all the free Stumptown they provide.
Intern complies with reasonable requests, does good work, gets love from all (even A cat). Just look at Sarah’s intern-period if you don’t believe me.