First Thursday August
It’s going to be a busy First Thursday. Here are a few shows that are likely to be highlights.
Posted by: Aaron Scott and Anne Adams on Aug 05, 2009 at 04:00AM
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What are you doing First Thursday? Some suggestions:
First up, two shows about touring. At Compound Gallery (107 NW 5th), is Survival Drive, a photo and drawing show with work by artist, Rei (Reijiro Mochizuki), and photographer Hooky (Souichiro Fukuda), who chronicle Japan via a 131 day, 34,033km journey in the tradition of wandering great ukiyo-e artist Hokusai Katsushika, some 200 years gone.
And at Fontanelle Gallery, The Art of Touring is a group exhibition featuring photography by Alissa Anderson (Vetiver), Hannah Mae Blair, Sharon Cheslow, Mia Clarke (Electrelane), Jem Cohen, Erika Spring Forster (Au Revoir Simone), Rebecca Gates, Emma Gaze (Electrelane), Megan Holmes, Andy Moor (The Ex), Tara Jane Oneil, Jean Smith (Mecca Normal) and more.
I am very much interested in seeing Jordan Tull’s installation, Reflexion, at Tractor. (Photo by Dan Mclaughlin.)
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery (417 NW 9th), Malia Jensen’s show of new sculpture and works on paper, Knee High to a Worm.
Night Poems, an installation by Aidan Koch and Paul Wagenblast at Pony Club Gallery (625 Everett #105) intrigues me.
And finally, before it comes down on August 8, please see Brennan Conaway’s In Joyful anticipation of Catastrophic Ruin- The First Colony at the PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders) Window Project (window on NW 9th at Flanders). Inside, find an exhibition of works by the late photographer, Terry Toedtemeier, entitled, Trees.
I am going to the Thick as Thieves show at Urban Studio. Starts at 8 o’clock. Look them up on myspace, facebook or youtube. Very unique sounds and that is a good thing.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the tip. I like how the location on their FB page says, “Hollywood a la the Pacific Northwest.” Do you think they mean “via” as in we’re in Hollywood now, but were in NW? Or do you think they mean the Hollywood of the Pacific Northwest?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thick-as-Thieves/94852807396
L