This December we're excited to share holiday art shows at Due east Artistic Collective, Afru Gallery and Sidestreet Arts, besides as amazing looking openings at World Space PDX, Pushdot Studios, and Neighbors Taproom.

While its hard to trace the origins of December holiday traditions, gift giving dates back at least equally far equally the aboriginal Roman festival of Saturnalia. While consumer civilization gives us many choices of how to be part of this tradition, an art walk is a not bad opportunity to support local artists and to give a truly unique souvenir. Past spending locally you straight contribute to communities you care about, and assist go on Portland's vibrant art scene alive.

Expect forward to seeing you on Fri!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
First Friday PDX President

IN-PERSON EVENTS

Vacation Fine art MARKET | EAST Artistic COLLECTIVE

Come up warm upward at East Creative's annual Vacation Fine art Market! Featuring smashing gifts past local artists, open up studios, a special 100 works nether $100 show, live music by Community Jams, and more than.

6 PM – 9 PM @ 211 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97214

LIMINAL Thing | Earth SPACE PDX

we cordially invite you to visit this exhibition of art and witness the new work of the bone goddess on Friday, Dec 3rd, 2021.
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in addition to this new painting serial there will be a brand new live performance, curated specifically for this event.
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come and enter the space between our earth and worlds across.
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delight wear a mask and be respectful to others in the space

"Kelly Delay's perfectly composed photographs show the beauty in decay and the dignity in refuse." Tiny's Coffee

6 PM – ten PM @ 4135 SE Gladstone St Portland, OR 97202

IVAN SALCIDO | PUSHDOT STUDIO

Recuerdo: (rreh-kwehr-doh) NOUN, masculine (plural: recuerdos)

  1. Retentiveness
  2. Souvenir, memento, memorabilia
  3. Regards

Past taking a look at personal history, this exhibition touches on themes of nostalgia, connection, legacy, and remembrance. The work highlights the human experience and incorporates themes of cultural and family legacy, creative heritage, and the significant value of the contributions of immigrants to our club.

Ivan Salcido is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR. Built-in in El Paso, TX, Salcido holds an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His background is in sculpture, but he also makes paintings and installations. His latest series of artworks draws on personal experience, family unit history, and interests in collectibles (such as sports cards, photographs, and flags) for inspiration.

viii AM – 5 PM @ 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104 – in the Ford Building, enter on Sectionalization Street – Portland, OR 97202

HOLIDAY Art Sale AND Live SANTA WRESTLING | AFRU GALLERY

Famous December fine art evidence & sale!!! Give the gift of art!
Plus, Santa Wrestling Live!!! WTF?
This is a free effect. Donations welcome. Refreshments available.
live music from The Expressionless To Rights!

vii PM – Shut @ 534 SE Oak St., Portland, OR 97214

VERY MERRY CASH AND Carry | SIDESTREET ARTS

Come in for first Friday Artwalk and meet a number of different artists represented in our Very Merry Cash and Carry Show.

5 PM – 7 PM @ 140 SE 28th Ave., Portland, Or 97214

PET PORTRAITURE – HYPER-REALISTIC OIL AND WATERCOLOR BY JUSTIN WESTPHAL | NEIGHBORS TAPROOM

Justin Westphal, a local painter specializing in hyper-realistic pet and animal portraiture, exhibits a collection of oil and watercolor paintings throughout the month of December at Neighbors Taproom. Come enjoy these works up shut in person while treating yourself to a rotating selection of curated beer, wine, and plant-based coffee drinks in a canis familiaris-friendly, bright and spacious interior!

12 PM – ten PM @ 1306 Due east Burnside St, Portland OR 97214

VIRTUAL EVENTS

MING FAY SCULPTURE| BUTTERS GALLERY

Nosotros present a special online exhibition of vintage works by New York-based Ming Fay.  We have worked with Fay for well over 30 years and have presented many spectacular exhibitions.  This new show is an opportunity for collectors to come across piece of work that has never been shown in our gallery in the by.  Jeffrey Butters has personally curated this collection we are presenting–focusing on his picks of the "cream of the crop" of available Ming Fay works.

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Contact Usa

We do our best to brand the listing as complete as possible, if you lot have an consequence or correction you would like to see listed please transport show details to Info@FirstFridayPDX.org or utilise our easy online upshot submission form.

First Friday is almost hither again! We're happy to welcome ii new galleries for Nov, with smashing looking shows at The Angry Florist, and Neighbors Taproom. In that location are also some exciting new openings at Sidestreet Arts and Afru Gallery, open studios at East Creative Collective, and an odd themed show at Splendorporium.

Don't forget to permit usa know if at that place are any First Fri events nosotros've missed!

Await forward to seeing you on Friday,

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
First Fri PDX President

IN-PERSON EVENTS

ALL OF YOU FLOWERS VIEWING Fine art | THE Angry FLORIST

I've made plans for your Friday dark this week-start out by visiting The Angry Florist's Commencement Friday upshot featuring some really incredible artists. I'm spoiled in being able to view their lovely work daily amid the flowers – and on Friday the shop volition be open an extra hr for you to practice so too!

4 PM – 8 PM @ 401b NE 28th Ave Portland, OR 97232

EVERYDAY OBJECTS | NEIGHBORS TAPROOM

For me, the almost fascinating aspect of human existence lies in what we create, the EVERYDAY OBJECTS. It is these materials and structures that reveal our desires, our necessity, our creativity, and our capability. As fascinating is the tremendous diversity we so display in our date with these synthetic objects. We sometimes hold dear and comprehend our creations for decades or centuries. Or, we may fail them, unceremoniously, leaving it to the artist or curious passerby to rediscover and redefine our human relationship to these forgotten structures as they historic period, weather, or scissure. As one of these curious-blazon people, I observe myself drawn to the colors and craftsmanship, the scars and wrinkles. Although such details and long-lost whispers may go unnoticed by many, to me they exude shimmering glimpses of depth, history, and significant I can not aid but explore, photograph, and share.

"Kelly Delay's perfectly composed photographs show the beauty in decay and the nobility in decline." Tiny's Coffee

7 PM – 9 PM @ 1306 E Burnside St, Portland, OR 97214

THE ODDVILLE Bear witness | SPLENDORPORIUM

Prove u.s. what you lot perceive to exist ODD! Animals? Aliens? Monsters? Your Mom? Your Supper? A Circus?

Our featured artist is Zoe Ball.

7 PM – ix PM @ 3421 SE 21st Ave., Portland, OR 97202

DUAL DUEL: A TWO PERSON SOLO SHOW | AFRU GALLERY

On November 5th, 'Dual Duel' opens at AFRU Gallery in Portland. The show explores the concept of identity, both lost and establish. It features a myriad of works by Amy Bugbee and Amy Eir Stocky, one person reconciling two unlike identities.

Live musical performances past ZenKoal and Dyarq.

Baked appurtenances for all!!!

7 PM – Close @ 534 SE Oak St., Portland, OR 97214

FIRST FRIDAY OPEN STUDIOS | EAST Creative COLLECTIVE

Stride inside the studios of East Creative Collective and meet local artists in their natural environment.

6 PM – 9 PM @ 211 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97214

ANITA REUTHER | HA AUSTIN | SIDESTREET ARTS

Anita Reuther has a lifelong beloved of the Pacific Northwest. Her mixed media art reflects this with dreamy speckled hillsides, cloudy mountain ranges, and charming bird vignettes. Deeply textured and collaged papers form moody landscapes that the viewer can fall into.

Anita lives and works in Lake Oswego. She is a fellow member of the Watercolor Lodge of Oregon and the Three Rivers Artist Guild in Oregon Metropolis.

Sidestreet member and ceramic artist, Ha Austin, crafts what she calls "functional clay canvases". Platters, flower vases, tea cups with saucers, and sturdy java mugs are not only functional, but delightful. Each is designed with whimsical sgraffito images and colorful manus-mixed glazes before firing in a gas-kiln at a loftier temperature. Chubby piffling wrens, royal lotus blossoms, and lily pads make the each ceramic piece a functional work of art.

*artists nowadays in gallery

5 PM – 7 PM @ 140 SE 28th Ave, Portland, OR 97214

VIRTUAL EVENTS

Re: THE SOURCE | BUTTERS GALLERY

Re: The Source
The source is what we are drawing from, become inspired by, learn from, contemplate over, exploit and ignore.
The source shapes us and makes us what we are. We are that source.

Nosotros have invented many different words for that source from which nosotros originate, to which we render.
(Words turn into concepts, ideas, sciences, philosophies, religions, cults and cultures. All with the ane purpose of trying to understand and to make sense of our being in this world.)
In our creating and experiencings of art, in moments of presence, nosotros connect with the source and discover significant and purpose.
The engaging with fine art strengthens our connectivity with the source.
Nosotros draw everything from the source and we give everything back. Only this way the cycling of life continues.

The paintings of this presentation are a few samples of my lifelong and more or less successful attempts to connect and to share my findings.
Maybe the one or the other of these works speaks to you and helps you connect with your source in you in unexpected ways.
Respectfully yours,

Bernd Haussmann

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Contact United states of america

We honey to promote art events involving our participating galleries and artists, please be certain to send your news and whatsoever feedback to: press@firstfridaypdx.org

Or use our online event submission form!

Full general inquires: info@firstfridaypdx.org

Copyright © 2019 First Friday PDX, All rights reserved.

Hi Get-go,
I'm excited to share some great looking Start Friday shows this calendar month, both in-person and virtual. In addition to openings at Pushdot Studios, Splendorporium, Brassworks, and Sidestreet Arts, there is a spooky seasonal show at Afru Gallery, and a Outset Friday PDX collaborative street fair at E Creative Collective. If yous're an artist it'southward not too late to register for free!

Fall is a season of modify, and hopefully we can look forward to even more great art events coming up.

See you tomorrow!
Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
Commencement Friday PDX President

Autumn ART Smash | Eastward Artistic

Blast into Fall with East Creative Commonage and Showtime Friday PDX. This Oct, the Fall Art Blast is taking over two square blocks of the SE industrial district in celebration of art and back up of local artists. Featuring more than 20 artists and creators, the Autumn Fine art Blast will showcase some of the most exciting new art in Portland, with open studios, a street festival, live music and more.

v PM – ix PM @ 211 SE Madison St., Portland OR, 97214

WHITE LIES SHE TOLD ME – SADÉ DUBOIS | PUSHDOT STUDIO

"White Lies She Told Me is a group of small paintings that address the personal and circuitous relationship I share with my female parent. The central adult female figure in these paintings is a portrait I have painted many times throughout my career, whom I call Umnia Vera, which ways "organized religion faith", but more so symbolizes the traversing and overcoming of deep emotional trauma, pain, and adversity in my life. In a style, these paintings are self portraits."

Born and raised in North Portland, Sadé is a cocky-taught painter who experiments primarily with acrylic and gouache. She has focused on portraiture and landscape, with an affinity for capturing Black women in their brilliance and vulnerability. Some of her portraits are sociopolitical, exploring the attitudes and experiences of African-Americans in their connectedness to nature, while others symbolize self portraits that serve as an archive of her grappling with trauma and other life circumstances.

Following the latest local, state and federal CDC guidelines, we are once again requiring masks and appointments when visiting. Thank you for your understanding.

8:xxx AM – v PM @ 2505 SE 11th Ave, Suite 104, Portland, OR 97202

THE TAROT Show | SPLENDORPORIUM

Join us Friday, Oct 1st 7-ix for the Tarot Show featuring the art and furniture of Zack Hryndej.

7 PM – 9 PM @ 3421 SE 21st Ave., Portland, OR 97202

RABUN THOMPSON | SHARON JONQUIL | SIDESTREET ARTS

Bring together our featured artist, Rabun Thompson and spotlight artist, Sharon Jonquil in the gallery for some expert-time coming together and greeting. Don't forget to visit our neighbors at Stark Street Studios.
Masks required (of course).

v PM – 7 PM @ 140 SE 28th Ave., Portland, OR 97214

PORTLAND HORROR Testify | AFRU GALLERY

half-dozen PM – 10 PM @ 534 SE Oak St. Portland, OR 97214

STREET Evidence | BRASSWORKS GALLERY

We are super excited most working with artists, Simon Griffiths, Jimmer Willmott, and Gregory Hergert at Brassworks Gallery for "Street Testify" Opening online THIS Friday, October 1st, 2021

6 PM – 10 PM @ ONLINE

We dear to promote fine art events involving our participating galleries and artists, delight be sure to send your news and any feedback to: press@firstfridaypdx.org
Or apply our online event submission course!

Full general inquires: info@firstfridaypdx.org

As we face social isolation and face financial instability, it is piece of cake to succumb to understandable feelings of blues and powerlessness. While we go on to face up and overcome these hardships, art can provide us with both a healing outlet for fears and frustrations, likewise equally a form of transcendent escape.

To help us connect despite concrete restrictions, Kickoff Friday PDX is curating a Virtual April Fine art Walk fabricated upwardly of artists, galleries, and causes that can both employ your support, and provide a welcome virtual antidote to isolation.

  • ARCHITECTONIC | EUTECTIC GALLERY
  • REDUX EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND | REDUX GALLERY
  • DAILY SOCIAL SPECIALS | SIDESTREET ARTS
  • ONLINE ARTISTS' Shop | East Creative COLLECTIVE
  • VIRTUAL Apr | BRASSWORKS GALLERY
  • "SOMEDAY THIS Volition ALL Exist GONE" ARTIST'S TALK | PUSHDOT STUDIOS

Please join us on our digital walk, and consider connecting and supporting the many astonishing artists of Portland!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
Commencement Fri PDX President

VIRTUAL EVENTS

ARCHITECTONIC | EUTECTIC GALLERY

Some might exist disheartened to remember that no i volition really enter physically to see this exhibition, but nosotros see this as a artistic challenge and exhilarating opportunity to take our testify documentation and online experience to a new level.Stay tuned to experience a new journey through our infinite –

Live, Fri, April 3, 6 p.1000.

Eutectic online shop

REDUX EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND | REDUX GALLERY

As many of you are aware, nosotros had to close our beloved boutique on March 14th for the safety of ourselves and our community.  With suddenly zero income stream, nosotros were forced to furlough our employees.

We've been a adult female owned and operated independent pocket-size business in the Central Eastside of Portland serving the arts customs since 2006.
We have operated out of the aforementioned building every bit a brick and mortar bazaar and gallery, and though we have a website, we do non currently sell online.
 Nosotros are completely reliant on pes-traffic and direct sales to tourists and locals alike.

As you tin can imagine, The interruption of our business due to Covid-19 has impacted me and the business overnight, simply besides straight affected the lives of my 3 employees, without whom Redux could not operate. Every bit we attempt to navigate a new reality of survival in our new social distanced earth, nosotros are request for your help to keep them safe and supported.
This GoFund me is an attempt to provide temporary funding for their survival during this difficult time while we wait for Grant and Federal relief.

I am reaching out to our fans to humbly ask for your support for their welfare.

We truly are so grateful for any corporeality you lot are able to commit to, it will go directly to the employees who you, our customers, accept gotten to know over the years, and who assist create and enrich the amazing feel of shopping at Redux.
Thank you lot for taking the time to read and consider where your hard-earned dollars go during this critical time.

If you are unable to donate at this fourth dimension nosotros completely understand, and hope that you will come past for a visit at some bespeak in the time to come when we reopen to the public.
We also have gift certificates available for buy on our website at www.reduxpdx.com/home if you would exist interested in investing in our future too equally enjoying redemption for your dollars spent down the road.

See you on the other side!

Sincerely,
Tamara Goldsmith,
owner, Redux Boutique and Gallery

Also, consider buying a $10 Redux souvenir menu to aid support the business concern!

DAILY SOCIAL SPECIALS | SIDESTREET ARTS

Wondering how to support local businesses and artists? Tired of looking at your walls during Social Distancing? How nigh buying some ART?

Hey, how does this even piece of work?

  • Each mean solar day we'll post an item from one of our artists on Instagram and Facebook at 10am
  • Yous tin run across sneak previews here, merely each daily item won't exist bachelor for sale until 10am
  • Click on the particular that catches your eye, then click again in the store to become more details.
  • Purchase correct here online, and we'll pack it up with freshly gloved hands
  • Pick it up from the door at Sidestreet on any Sunday between noon and 2pm (In compliance with Gov. Brown's Executive Society, art galleries may be open up by appointment only).

@SidestreetArtsPDX on Instagram

Sidestreet Arts on Facebook

Support featured artists from March 29th – April 4th!

ONLINE ARTISTS' Store | EAST CREATIVE Commonage

We are and then happy for all the interest and support. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing COVID-19 outcome Due east Artistic is closed to public viewing for the firsthand time to come. We are looking forward to hopefully reopening and sharing our art presently! In the meantime you can the piece of work of and support some our astonishing artists hither at new online gallery and shop.

Online gallery and artists' shop

VIRTUAL APRIL | BRASSWORKS GALLERY

Missed any of our Kickoff Fri shows? So check out the Brassworks Gallery Online Shop and choose from our archive of artwork. Give us a call if you'd like to schedule a viewing of our current exhibition.

Brassworks Gallery Online Shop

"Anytime THIS WILL ALL Be GONE" ARTIST'S TALK | PUSHDOT STUDIOS

This exhibition was scheduled to run from February 7th – March 27th at Pushdot Studio and was unfortunately cut brusque due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I will be selling all of the prints from this exhibition at a discounted charge per unit. Follow the link at the top or lesser of this page and experience free to email me at deadcitiesphoto@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to brand a buy. I can ship prints as well.

I also have work for auction at a disbelieve from by exhibitions non listed on this site and tin can send those images by request. Feel gratis to scan my Instagram for photos of the prints from this current series and my past piece of work.

Delight take care of yourselves and each other. Stay condom and stay healthy.

-Mike Vos

Online drove at Pushdot Studios

Deadcitiesphoto.com

Information technology's an exciting month for Get-go Friday! In the superlative of the summertime art flavour, First Fri is been busy growing and spreading new leaves. In addition to highlighting some amazing August art openings, the newsletter this month volition be showcasing some of the new directions First Friday is moving.

  • New openings at Redux, Eutectic, AFRU, and Portland Craft Bar
  • 45+ new artists at the First Friday Summer Art Party
  • Call for artists!
  • Welcoming new galleries to the art walk: Manifestation / Henderson Hackerspace
  • New blog by Victoria on the history of First Fri

Await forward to seeing yous tomorrow!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
Get-go Fri PDX President

UPCOMING SHOWS

Get-go Fri Summertime Fine art Political party | East Creative COLLECTIVE

A collaboration betwixt Offset Fri PDX and the East Artistic Collective, join the states for the first of First Fri PDX's summertime Art Parties. Featuring the work of more than 45 local artists and vendors, the Summer Art Party takes place beneath the columns of the Hawthorne bridge, and features live music and performances.

half-dozen pm – ix pm @ 211 SE Madison St.

Peel DEEP Group SHOW | REDUX GALLERY

Pare DEEP Group Evidence featuring nine amazing local tattoo artists. Celebrating the contemporary artistry of some of Portland'south finest tattoo artists, we are stoked to bring you a show demonstrating Portland's continued knack for smashing conventions and elevating tattoo artistry to extraordinary heights.

6 pm – 9 pm @3022 E. Burnside St.

MAKING Space | YUNOMIS & MORE | EUTECTIC GALLERY

Jubilant the latest work from master potters, Josh DeWeese, Linda Sikora in Making Space, along with local legend Stephen Mickey with Yunomis & More in The Back Room. Bring together united states of america, along with Josh and Stephen.

vi pm – 9 pm @ 1930 NE Oregon St.

Dement | AFRU GALLERY

To bewilder is to cause defoliation; this serial investigates boundaries and the disorientation of interstitial spaces. The show explores what happens inbetween, where the unexpected emerges.

Dement too implies being wilder – embracing nature in an attempt to navigate existence.
Anne Bujold combines metalsmithing and blacksmithing techniques with culling materials such as felt, ribbon, and plastics. In her sculpture, animals are agents examining the spaces between definitions, that fertile footing where new forms sally.

Previously based in Portland, Oregon, she operated Riveted Rabbit Studio, a custom metal fabrication business.

www.annebujold.com

6 pm – 12 am @534 SE Oak St.

Next GEN PDX | PORTLAND CRAFT BAR

It'southward Summer Fine art Party fourth dimension!! Come one, come all and join us for Starting time Fri at Portland Arts and crafts Bar*! For First Fri August, nosotros're jubilant our youth artists with an amazing art show for a good cause- all sales benefit Portland Homeless Family unit Solutions. The art show is the culmination of a week-long fine arts summertime camp at PCB, where 10% of all tuition also benefits PHFS.

Come up someday between 6pm and 9pm to scan in the PCB studio and through the Due east Creative edifice. Stay for refreshments and visit the other open fine art studios in our building, savour live music, check out local makers, and have role in some fun art projects!

6 pm – ix pm @ 211 SE Madison St., Studio #3

NEW TO Start Friday

OPEN STUDIO | MANIFESTATION/H.H

Most Hedron Hackerspace:

We're an inclusive bunch of hackers and artists, sharing space and equipment. h.h exists to foster community and inventiveness, with the accessibility of some mod tools such as 3D printers, a laser cutter, welders, etc.. We're a do-ocracy where members and volunteers are encouraged to put forth their energy where they see fit.

Open studio for the First Fri Fine art Walk. Come up see what we've been working on at this commonage creative space!

six pm – 9 pm @ 2020 SE Bush-league St.

Fine art Web log

THROUGH THE EYES OF ANNIE MEYER: GENTRIFICATION AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE CENTRAL EASTSIDE ART SCENE| VICTORIA GLANOWSKI

Recently, I interviewed Annie Meyer who is one of the leading figures in the Portland art scene. Long story short, Meyer came to Portland in the 1980'due south while driving up from California and oddly enough her car broke downwardly in Portland. In 1995, she opened up her art gallery on Clinton Street and in 2010 opened up a successful art gallery in the Pearl Commune before endmost information technology in 2018. In 2004, Meyer received a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to create a map of First Fri Art Walk. Meyer is one of the few people that has witnessed the changes in the Portland art culture over the years.

Read the full web log postal service here!

Phone call FOR ARTISTS

FIRST FRIDAY IS LOOKING FOR ARTISTS

The First Friday Summer Art Party takes place from July to September forth SE Madison, between 2nd and tertiary Ave, outside the East Creative building. Open to all local artists and performers, the street exhibition provides visitors and patrons access to contained Portland artists interested in showcasing their artistic output.

Participation in the First Friday Art Party is gratuitous, however artists are required to register and submit samples of their piece of work.

How to Apply

Step one: Use our online form to submit 3 images of your art, a description or video of your performance or music, and any other data that will help us understand your work.

Step 2: Wait for a conformation email from the First Fri team.

Step three: Arrive with enough time to ready and exist ready to go past 6:00 PM on Offset Friday!

OTHER Prove OPENINGS AND ART EVENTS

  • 3 – 8 pm: GALLERY CLOSING PARTY @ Gyre-Upward PHOTO STUDIO + GALLERY
  • vi – viii pm: SHE WAS/IS @ WOLFF GALLERY
  • half-dozen – eight pm: POLLUTION OF Dark @ PUSHDOT STUDIO
  • vi – 9 pm: SHYAMA HELIN@ANNIE MEYER GALLERY / STUDIO 2507
  • 6 – 9 pm: THE UNSEEN @ TABORSPACE
  • 6 – ix pm: LARA ROUSE @ JAILBREAK STUDIOS
  • 6 – 9 pm: CLOSER TO Home @ SIDESTREET ARTS
  • 6 – 10 pm: GRITTY IN THE Metropolis @ BRASSWORKS GALLERY
  • vii – 9 pm: SPELLBOUND @ SPLENDORPORIUM

Contact U.s.

We love to promote art events involving our participating galleries and artists, please be certain to send your news and whatsoever feedback to: printing@firstfridaypdx.org

Or apply our online event submission form!

General inquires: info@firstfridaypdx.org

Copyright © 2019 Get-go Friday PDX, All rights reserved.

** September but:  the Curious Carnival! A traveling circus of all things anarchic, strange, wonderful, and mischievous. Including a special curated fine art bear witness of the unusual, and guests The Hill Beast of Oregon, 20 Three Suns, Lucky Locks, and more!**

A collaboration between First Friday PDX and the East Creative Commonage, join u.s. for a special end of summer Showtime Friday Art Party.

Featuring the work of more than 35 local artists and vendors, the Summer Art Party takes identify beneath the columns of the Hawthorne bridge, and features live music, performances, nutrient, and drink.


For the newsletter this month we are emphasizing shows that inspire us to action, recognize beauty, and explore the ways in which both intertwine with our sense of personal identity.

While we are confronted daily by events that demand our attention, for most of u.s. simply occasionally exercise troublesome currents inspire us to take action. In many ways, the events that do then move us ultimately reveal every bit much about united states as they do virtually the situations themselves.

Although all injustices carry their own unmistakable urgency, it is only by examining our internal bureau that we remain capable of simultaneously seeing the dazzler in the earth, and besides embracing the impetus for change. The world is already perfect, just we are a part of the world, as so too is our passion and fierceness.

Brand sure to visit the First Friday PDX website for a full listing of art events and openings.

Run into you tomorrow!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
Beginning Friday PDX Director

UPCOMING SHOWS

Continued TO THE WILD | Loftier Low ART SPACE

Join Wildlands Network and Endangered Species Coalition in Portland to gloat the opening of our PNW wildlife photography exhibition, Continued to the Wild. The exhibit showcases photos of diverse and threatened wild animals, captured past professional photographers in the region. Experience incredible art, listen to presentations from conservationists and artists, and learn how you can protect the region's wild animals and wild spaces. We co-organized this show to illuminate the PNW's incredible wild animals, and raise awareness about the mounting loss species to environmental threats. The theme of the show is CONNECTIVITY (linking fragmented habitat to restore ecosystems and help wildlife thrive). We're united in our efforts to reconnect, restore, and rewild the Pacific states. Free ADMISSION.

vi pm – 9 pm @ 1402 3rd Ave, Suite 1019

TIANANMEN Square Earlier SUNRISE: GERHARD WITTENBERG | PUSHDOT STUDIOS

Pushdot Studio is pleased to nowadays "Tiananmen Square Earlier Sunrise. Loftier Resolution Satellite Photographs" by Gerhard Wittenberg. This is the 2nd solo exhibition past Wittenberg at Pushdot studio.
"The photographs presented in this show were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request submitted past Gerhard to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Section of Defence. The works shown are pocket-size details of the actual satellite photographs." They are representative of his efforts exploring problems involving surveillance, patriotism, political propaganda, manipulation of masses, etc. The show includes a very large wall- mounted photograph, 12 anxiety by 10 feet and four additional photographs fifty ten 40 inches, face mounted on plexiglass.

vi pm – viii pm @ 2505 SE 11 thursday Avenue, Suite 104 – in the Ford Edifice, enter on Division Street

INTO THE WOODS | SIDESTREET ARTS

On the six-twelvemonth anniversary of her inflow in Portland, Sidestreet member artist Michele Sabatier'due south prove of new encaustic landscape paintings will be in the Characteristic Gallery in June. Paired with turned wood objects by Northwest master craftsman Kevin Poest, and found-wood assemblages past Minal Mistry on the pedestals, this show is a honey letter to the exquisite native woods of the Pacific Northwest.

6 pm – ix pm @ 140 SE 28th Ave.

THE UN-PC LGBTQ IA+ SHOW | AFRU

A Grouping Prove of Fabulously Talented Artists to boot off Pride Month in Manner!

" I was inspired to involve my community in an audio piece that I will utilize to start the 9 Pm entertainment 60 minutes. I have gotten a great deal of positive response from the community. People are sending in short Audio clips about their reasons and feelings surrounding the terms they identity with. Why they similar one term over some other……..etc. I am getting a lot of positive feedback and believe that there will be a practiced turnout by those who fabricated submissions who desire to hear their contribution alongside the recordings of others. I am getting a lot of assist organizing this and have a articulate vision about how I will connect the audio to AFRU'southward mission statement, and opening remarks, and how I will residual heavy moments in the audio with comic moments past myself and the two queens that are joining me. I feel really good most what's happening and am sure that involvement is gathering. Pride events lack cogitating events that make queer voices heard and express our history and struggle. I am feeling overwhelming support for what I am doing."

This special show is recommended every bit an eighteen+ years of age show.

live performances by
Svetlana Trantastic, Betty Poops, Valerie Devilles, and Special DJ prepare by PINEAPPLE!!! ♥

6 pm – 12 am @ 534 SE Oak St

WELCOMING KBOO TO Beginning Fri

KBOO JOINS Kickoff Friday | KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO STUDIOS

Offset Friday and Open Studio tomorrow night May tertiary from half-dozen-ix pm. Come by for a glass of wine and chocolate and peruse the art! I'm working on a torso of Willamette Valley monotypes for an upcoming bear witness at Laura Vincent Gallery in July.

half-dozen pm – 9 pm @ 20 SE eighth Ave.

Web log

ARTS AND EMOTION: RETHINKING ROTHKO| VICTORIA GLANOWSKI

"This higher plane is the communication of emotion, that invoke the experiences of grief, ecstasy and destiny. Rothko famously wrote that "The people who weep before my pictures, are having the aforementioned religious experiences I had when painting them."Read the full web log post hither!

Read the full blog mail here!

OTHER Bear witness OPENINGS AND ART EVENTS

  • half dozen – viii pm: FIRST FRIDAY AT WOLFF: SELF-PORTRAIT PARTY! @ WOLFF GALLERY
  • 6 – 8 pm: ZODIAC @ SPLENDORPORIUM
  • 6 – 9 pm: THE SHAPE OF Fourth dimension AND NECESSITIES @ EUTECTIC GALLERY
  • 6 – ix pm: BOTANICAL BEAUTIES @ Eastward Artistic COLLECTIVE
  • vi – 9 pm: WOMEN ICONS | REDUX GALLERY
  • 6 – 9 pm: OPEN STUDIOS | ANNIE MEYER GALLERY
  • 6:thirty – 9 pm: KARUNA TURNS 4! @ KARUNA CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING
  • 6 – 10 pm: THE One thousand CONCOURSE: LENOR BINGHAM @ UNIONKNOTT GALLERY
  • 6 – 9 pm: SHELBI SCHROEDER @ JAILBREAK STUDIOS

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Ane of the few constants in the universe is modify, and in both exuberant physicality and  metaphor, May is a month that often embodies it in its most welcome form. Hither are a few shows this month that illustrate the growth and blooming of Spring.

As well don't forget to visit the First Friday PDX website for a full list of art events and openings.

Encounter y'all tonight!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein
First Fri PDX Director

UPCOMING SHOWS

REBIRTH, REJUVENATION, AND REVOLUTION | Eastward Artistic COLLECTIVE

"Ranging from an aboriginal rite of spring, to a celebration of religious transformation, to a call for workers rights and immigration reform, the beginning of May has a persistent association with change.

While the context and nature of this transformation is subject to its own transitional nature, at that place is also a common thread. Whether a reflection of natural miracle, our own personal and spiritual narratives, or even social revolution, change is constant, and despite what is left behind, it is a cause for celebration. Even when the tremulous gulf of such growth comes as out of both gentle rains, and rushing torrents of upheaval.Rebirth,

Rejuvenation, and Revolution asks us to consider the mutual spirit and nature of this menstruum. Do we see it equally a new beginning or a the turning of a bicycle? Is each new leaf a sutured healing or a shinning resurrection? Or perhaps such attempts at continuity are all simply fictions in the confront of entropic metamorphose…"

6 pm – 9 pm @ 211 SE Madison St.


ALL THINGS BOTANICAL OPENING RECEPTION | SIDESTREET ARTS

Come for the art and munchies… We'll pour you lot a glass of vino (if y'all're of age) while you lot await at the art on our walls. Artists volition be lurking to discuss their artworks.

vi pm – nine pm @ 140 SE 28th Ave.

LEAVES OF RESISTANCE | Whorl-Upward Photo STUDIO + GALLERY

Cloak-and-dagger Gild of Book Artists
Opening Champagne Reception
Dawn Banker, Anita Bigelow, Marian Christensen, Mary Elliott, Ellen Fortin, Joely Helgesen, Judilee Fitzhugh, Deanna Lautenbach, Megan Leftwich, Ilsa Perse, Kathy Karbo, Kathy Kuehn, Bernie Smith, Gay Walker, Marilyn Zornad

5 pm – 9 pm @ 1715 SE Spokane St.

THE ART4LIFE SHOWS | SPLENDORPORIUM

Join united states for the opening of our annual kids show!

6 pm – 8 pm @ 3421 SE 21st Avenue

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ARTS IMPACT ON POLITICS AND Social club| VICTORIA GLANOWSKI

"When was the concluding time a piece of art moved you lot? Was it a film, a painting or a street performer? Art in many ways can enrich the human experience and initiate alter in society. These types of changes can exist used to ameliorate society by not answering questions, merely by asking questions.  "

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In celebration of art openings tomorrow that focus on line, the subject of this months newsletter is delineations, subjects that marker or deliquesce separations, or those that challenge the very concept itself…

As a visual separator, line is one of the primal elements of art, even so the process of delineation is too one of the central means through through which we conceptualize, and make sense of a chaotic globe.

While we oft take for granted the conceptual borders we apply to create classifications, reality is more subtle; boundaries betwixt phenomenon rarely fit then neatly into the spaces we assign them. While lines may create a useful shorthand, they are not inherent to a world that ofttimes prefers shine blending.

Indeed, there is a danger of bias and preconception when we overly rely on such tools. Still, line tin can also be used every bit a compositional element, rather than solely every bit a unit of measurement of division. The novel use is visually arresting, and too conceptually intriguing; it recast the tools of separation into the building blocks of new meaning and harmony.

Some First Friday openings to check out:

  • A solo show past Tenya Rodriguez at Jailbeak Studios
  • Delinations at Redux Bazaar and Gallery
  • BrassWorks Gallery presents Steve Rutherford with The Fine art of Subtraction
  • Michal Fargo's In the Dorsum Room at Eutectic Gallery
  • Shrines and Alters at Splendorporium

Cheque out the Offset Friday PDX website for a full listing of show openings this month.

Look forrad to seeing you tomorrow!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein

Starting time Friday PDX Manager

UPCOMING OPENINGS

TENYA RODRIGUEZ | JAILBREAK STUDIOS

Tenya Rodriguez'south Bio:

markings made from meditations. movements measured in slowness. lines that force a monkey mind, my monkey mind to exist present with and for every gesture. slow art and tedious looking when the globe feels disconnected and oft times besides much. the idea behind my art is to come to the paper each morning with a simple ballpoint pen and create the aforementioned meditative movement again and once more. the lines layer up, overlap, connect, and nowadays themselves equally abstracts with their own witting form. they are daily reminders that much can exist created and achieved in one sitting of fifteen minute slowness.

6 pm – 9 pm @ 910 SE Taylor St.

Depiction | REDUX

Redux is pleased to present a group show featuring five Portland artists and their astonishing mastery of line-piece of work and illustration. Featured artists include Megan Eckman, Marika Paz, Isaac Fletcher-Weiss, Kirsten Moore and Helen Mask-Greer.

This show explores the diverseness of methods artists utilise in defining infinite, carving out edges, and focusing on an object. "Delineation" describes the action of portraying something precisely. Some illustrate and define an object in its buildup of line, dots or shadow; others reveal the object through the suggestion of negative space. Sometimes emphasis is placed on something past drawing the viewer in with a minor focal bespeak of color within a sea of grayscale. Other times special consideration is paid to an environment of color, containing an object defined by black and white. In this show nosotros have asked artists to illustrate how they tell their own stories through a personal approach to illustrative line-making.

6 pm – ix pm @ 811 E Burnside St, # 116

THE ART OF SUBTRACTION | BRASSWORKS GALLERY

The Art Of Subtraction, Steve Rutherfords starting time solo prove – where he brings us into the work of his magical photography, that pulls you lot into each epitome allowing your heed to wander and escape and experience the beauty.

6 pm – 10 pm @ 1127 SE 10th Ave

IN THE Back ROOM | EUTECTIC GALLERY

Nosotros've been very lucky to larn a diverse collection of works from Israel-born Berlin-based artist Michal Fargo. These works challenge notions of what ceramic art looks like, with their mysterious material origins. See the incredible detail upwards close, at this calendar month'due south opening celebration.

6 pm – 9 pm @ 1930 NE Oregon St.

SHRINES AND ALTARS | SPLENDORPORIUM

Join u.s. for the opening of our Shrines and Altars show featuring artist Leslee Lukosh. There will exist shrines, altars, paintings, sculptures, wearable art, fine art lamps and jewelry from a vast assortment of local Portland artists. Also – our kids gallery is full of wondrous beauty. Show runs 4/5 til 4/26.

vii pm – 9 pm @ 3421 SE 21st Ave

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THE Cynical SIDE OF Fine art CENSORSHIP | VICTORIA GLANOWSKI

"In 2011, Facebook closed the account of Frédéric Durand without warning after he posted an image of Gustave Courbet's Fifty'Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World). For those not familiar with the painting, it showed a woman's genitals…"

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OTHER SHOW OPENINGS AND ART EVENTS

  • 5 – 10 pm: Quadraphotique @ Curl-Upwardly Photograph Studio + Gallery (1715 SE Spokane St.)
  • vi – 8 pm: Riding the Storm Out – A Blizzard of Ravens; Adam Bacher @ Pushdot Studio (2505 SE 11th Ave #104)
  • vi – eight pm: Rumors past Small-scale Talk @ Wolff Gallery (2804 SE Ankeny St.)
  • half-dozen – nine PM: Opening Reception: Mini Giri/Charles GluskoterPublic @ Sidestreet Arts (140 SE 28th Ave)
  • 6 – 9 pm: Offset Friday April @ Annie Meyer Gallery/Studio 2507 (2507 SE Clinton St)
  • six – ix pm: Fabled First Friday and Open Studios @ East Creative Commonage (211 SE Madison St
  • 6 – ix pm: First Friday Artist Reception @ Bite Studio (2000 SE seventh Ave.)
  • half-dozen pm – 12 am: The Third Annual Kids Show @ AFRU Gallery (534 SE Oak St.)

Visit the Commencement Fri PDX website for more info and the Kickoff Friday map!

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While there are possibly space elements which characterize art, none looms so big in pure expressive ability as colour. In either exuberant overabundance, or in limited dramatic palates, color, more than course, line, or space is the essence of feeling. Much like feeling itself all the same, color is as well a matter that does not exist independent of its bailiwick but rather alters its.

In this respect color is not unlike collage. Through the repurposing of existing images, collage permits the creation of new subjects and meaning. The previously banal or beneficial can take on urgent potency with new context.

Like an alchemist, this amending is the essential power of fine art. In doing and so the artist can recast the mundane to the sublime, ugliness into dazzler…and also the reverse. In deciding if such such feats of transmutation are truly possible however, information technology as well a ability which the viewer shares.

In the spirit of these thoughts, here are some colorful subjects for you to consider this Kickoff Friday:

  • Rainbows and pottery at Spectrum and Carson Culp at Eutectic Gallery
  • Stephanie Chefas Projects welcomes Yellena Jame's colorful creations in Immerse
  • Mixed media and collage past Israel Hughes at Curlicue-Up Photo Studio + Gallery
  • Sidestreet Arts presents new collage and mixed media works in All Mixed Upwards
  • The Night Gallery at Splendorporium
  • A Spring Fling at Due east Creative Collective
  • A new web log mail service past Victoria Glanowski on Tetrachromacy

Look forward to seeing you this evening!

Noah Alexander Isaac Stein

First Friday PDX Director

UPCOMING OPENINGS

SPECTRUM AND CARSON CULP | EUTECTIC GALLERY

Escape the dreary Northwest gray and immerse yourself in the center-popping, candy colored rainbow of Spectrum. Blair Clemo will join us for the opening celebration, along with our Back Room creative person, Carson Culp. Carson recently returned from a residency in Japan post-obit an apprenticeship at Leach Pottery.

6 pm – pm @ 1930 NE Oregon St

IMMERSE | STEPHANIE CHEFAS PROJECTS

This March, Stephanie Chefas Projects is delighted to nowadays Immerse, the latest exhibition of work from Portland-based creative person Yellena James. Prepare to take a deep plunge into the world of James' cosmos, where ethereal forms overlap amidst a limitless surface area. Rendered in vibrant color, organic elements thrive within fully conceived ecosystems, as the collective event substantially swallows the viewer whole.

seven pm – ten pm @ 305 SE tertiary Ave, Ste 202

ISRAEL HUGHES | ROLL-UP PHOTO STUDIO + GALLERY

Painter, collage artist and native Oregonian, Israel Hughes presents new mixed media works that celebrate layers, lines and edges. His intuitive process and improvisatory style are informed by visual poetry, New York Dada and a storied history as a theater managing director and blues musician.

5 pm – nine pm @ 1715 SE Spokane St, Portland

ALL MIXED UP | SIDESTREET ARTS

Nosotros're "All Mixed Upwardly" for the month of March … with collage & mixed media works. Our First Fri Opening offers up fun chat, delicious reception munchies and adult beverages. If yous like to mingle with artists and art lovers, yous'll non want to miss this! (Please be 21 years of age to consume the booze).

6 pm – 9 pm @ 140 SE 28th Ave

THE NIGHT GALLERY | SPLENDORPORIUM

Bring together us for the Dark Gallery Show. Featuring artists Jason Stewart and Troy Hileman. Also, Ophelia Darkly will be hither reading her haunted doll Tarot. This is going to exist a nighttime, creepy, wonderful evening.

7 pm – nine pm @ 3421 SE 21st Ave

Bound FLING | EAST CREATIVE Collective

Bound Fling Art and Arts and crafts is happening at East Creative in conjunction with Showtime Friday. Frida's Den will be filled with amazing colorful art and crafts in improver to our fabulous First Fri open studio result. Come on downwards and see what all the fuss is near. Makers, shakers and artists grow! Plenty of complimentary parking as always. Free Kombucha also.

6 pm – 9 pm @ 211 SE Madison St.

MARCH OPENING | ANNIE MEYER GALLERY

We are excited to welcome the Annie Meyer Gallery to the Due east Side. Come up check out the new location on SE Clinton this Friday!

6 pm – 9 pm @ 2507 SE Clinton St.

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HOW MANY GREENS DO Yous Run into? | VICTORIA GLANOWSKI

"What if I told you that there is this really cool mutation existing in today's world called tetrachromacy. What is tetrachromacy? Tetrachromacy is "The status of possessing four independent channels for conveying color data or possessing 4 types of cone prison cell in the eye." Basically, a person has an extra cone that allows them to see the differences in colors that appear identical to others…"

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