Love In Print returns to Bite Studio! This show celebrates love, printmaking, and P:ear. Thirty-Six local artists and printmakers will be showing love-themed artwork. Forty percent of proceeds benefit P:ear. P:ear is a Portland non-profit group that creatively mentors homeless and transitional youth.

Participating Artists:
Smitty Amabilis, D. Noelani Bangs, Carol [...]

Don Bailey
Everyone’s a Winner: Exploring Icons
February 6 – March 4

Don Bailey is known for his complex, richly colorful compositions. An enrolled member of the Hupa tribe, Bailey was raised on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in  California . He teaches fine arts and art history at the  Chemawa   Indian   School in Salem ,  [...]

Kirsten Francis, Annie Meyer & Bill Schlegel: Prints
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5th, 5 – 8 pm
Show runs Feb. 3rd – 27th, 2010
Kirsten Francis draws on images from mythology and fairytales and combines them with personal experience to create masterful reduction woodblock prints with a rich, graphic narrative. Annie Meyer’s painterly monoprints of minimal landscapes exude, [...]

Join Portland artist Brent Pruitt at Studio 2507 for his debut show, Felt Up, featuring queer, erotic, tomfoolery.
First Friday Reception: Friday, February 5, 6-9 pm. Wine & Food will be served.
For more information, visit Brent Pruitt’s website.
February 1-28, 2010
Studio 2507
2507 SE Clinton
6-9 pm, Fridays
12-3 pm, Saturdays

Jess Hirsch
Pattern and Place
Gouache & Graphite on Paper
Tilde will host a 1st Friday Reception for the Portland artist Jess Hirsch from 6pm-9pm, Friday, February 5th. Pattern and Place is a study of heritage and tradition. For this show, the artist focused on the implication of emblems as the signs and symbols that represent a nation, [...]

Buddha in a Fur Coat
Paintings by Meg Ferguson Kaczyk
Showing at Artemis Café, Portland
www.megfergusongallery.com

The way the dog trots out the front door
every morning
without a hat or umbrella,
without any money
or the keys to her doghouse
never fails to fill the saucer of my heart
with milky admiration.
Excerpted from “Dharma” by Billy Collins
Buddha in a Fur Coat [...]

Marlene Gabel
My Feet on the Ground
cary doucette
re(f)use

January 2 – 31, 2010
Artists Reception: Sunday, January 3, 2 – 4 pm
(due to the holiday there will be no first friday reception)
12×16 gallery
8235 se 13th ave. no. 5
portland, or 97202
503.432.3513
thursday – sunday 12 – 6 pm
www.12×16gallery.com
email: 12×16gallery@gmail.com

Studio 2507 January Exhibition
Reception: Jan 8th 6-9pm
Studio Hours Fridays: 6-9 pm

Art Scout Bridget Larrabee presents: Louis Delegato
Louis Delegato is a painter and a sculptor working mostly with steel and glass. His abstract sculptures are dark, powerful and large in scale.
Join us for the reception on Friday January 8th from 6-9 [...]