412 SW 10th Ave
Portland, OR 97205
Opening Reception on July 1st from 6-10pm

PO BOY ART GALLERY and FRAMING
A brand new hot spot in the First Friday SE Portland Area

Start Time:
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 5:00pm
End Time:
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 9:00am
Location:
Po’ Boy Art Gallery & Framing - 1421 SE Stark

Description

Our grand opening show is 88 strong.
presented by Jason Brown (Po’ Boy Art / Framing) and Chris Haberman (Chris Haberman Presents)

88 ideas, done on 8×8 panels.
There will be 80+ artists.
Opens July 2. from 5-10.
Everything in the show is framed
Everything in the show will be $50.
This is a cash and carry show. Pull it right off the wall and take it home that night.

Mike Kabler on The Programme

As many of you know, I have just completed my first year at PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art). Next thing you know they will send a man to the moon!
It’s been a long, exhausting year but I’m eager to share with you my latest ideas about art.
I have a fun concept for a show. I will be presenting 20 new works. The pieces will start at $5. with each piece increasing in price by $5. increments. $5., $10., $15., $20, etc. with the most expensive piece in the show at $100. It’s a great opportunity for me to work out some new ideas for my September show at Someone Gallery (more on that later) and for y’all to pick up some awesome, inexpensive Mona Superhero originals!
Please join me at my favorite coffee shop Wired (2190 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97210) on Friday, June 4th 5-8pm. I look forward to seeing you!
I would also like to invite you to a unique art show and fundraising event to benefit
The ReBuilding Center. The event will feature a one of a kind piece by legendary
NW woodcarver LeRoy Setziol. In honor of this piece, 100 local artists (including yours truly) will be turning ReBuilding Center doors into works of art that will be auctioned at the event. Save the date and tell your friends! Saturday, June 19th 6-10pm at The Bison Building (419 NE Tenth Ave., Portland, OR 97232).
There will be local, organic food from Abby’s Table, live music, raffles, ReFind furniture, silent auction and other random entertainment. Hope to see you there!

Also this month:
There will be an opening reception for the Hey Girl at The Parlor Gallery on Saturday, February 6th from 7-11. 717 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, NJ, 07712. (732) 869-0606. http://www.parlor-gallery.com Come experience the beauty and power of the Fairer Sex as portrayed by these amazing artists: Jason Kronenwald, Mona Superhero, Alison Brady, Pete Pederson, Ray Sell, Shawn Bishop -Leo, Kevin Peterson, Charmaine Olivia, Lisa Alisa, Maiko Sembokuya, Jeff Schaller, Billy Chuck, Porkchop and Charlie Owens.
As goddesses, seductresses, saints, sinners, and muses, the female has been a recurring subject in art for millennia. All of the artists in our new show create women in different media, ranging from tape to collage to paint to even bubblegum!

“YOU’LL NEVER DJ IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!”

I can tell you the EXACT moment I fell in love with Mona Superhero. It was when she passed out bottles of bubble blowers (y’know, those little plastic bottles of soap that kids blow bubbles with) to the customers sitting around the rack at the Magic Gardens, then she went on stage and struck a pose from Botechelli’s, VENUS RISING and just stood there motionless while all these guys blew bubbles at her. I couldn’t tell you the name of the aria she was playing, but I do know art when I see it and this was sheer fucking genius; brilliant! At that moment I converted to being a huge Mona fan (and this is coming from someone who used to check the schedule and avoid going in the club when she worked because of her annoying attitude) and have followed her career ever since. So when I heard she was having her “DJ Debut” at Berbatis on Saturday I had to go check this out.

That being said, I was absolutely dreading the thought of being “The Weirdo Old Guy” at a dance club (hey, let’s see how cool YOU are at 47). I mean, even after taking away the icky-ness factor of being 47 and hanging around a bunch of club kids, the fact remains that I just don’t cotton to that techno stuff. But at the same time I knew that if I didn’t go I’d never forgive myself, so I took the MAX downtown knowing it was going to take a lot of alcohol to handle this scene and I didn’t need to be driving.

I got to the club before they opened and hung out for a while at the bar waiting for Mona to show up, but when 10:00 rolled around she still wasn’t there and some guy was setting up his sound check in the DJ booth. I asked the bartender if tonight was the night for Mona to DJ and she said, “Mona’s next door.” I didn’t understand and said, “Next door, but this is Berbati’s, isn’t it?” She said, “Next door, Mona’s not in the club, she’s DJ’ing the restaurant.” “THE WHAT?”, was all I could say. Sure enough, I go through the bar and tucked away in the front of the restaurant was Miss Mona (”Dressed in the height of fashion, O’ my brothers”) and concentrating feverishly on her laptop. The music started and almost instantly a bunch of lame-o’s with faux hawks and cheap cans of beer lined up to make requests, but Mona just shook her head and mouthed the words, “I don’t do requests”, and kept on dancin’ while keeping one eye on her computer screen.

Mona seemed to be having a lot of fun, and the people there were drinking their drinks and having a good time. I snapped a couple of pictures and said my goodbyes and left not knowing whether I’d ever see Mo’ again (we don’t exactly travel in the same circles). On the long, cold walk to the MAX line I thought about this town, this Portland, and how it attracts creative types of every stripe. This town, with its old brick and fucking endless rain, its dirty river and its ugly bridges. This town, built as it is on top of 150-years of shit and fornication. I thought about Portland, and I thought about Mona. Marcus Aurelius wrote, “If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything - as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.” And I think that’s a fitting metaphor for Mona; she was cool back then, she’s cool now, and may it always be thus.

Support local artists—shop for holiday gifts at PNCA’s annual Holiday Art Sale, starting at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 10 in the Swigert Commons. All proceeds benefit PNCA artists.

Featuring one-of-a-kind artwork, crafts, clothing and more, the sale is a great opportunity to get quality gifts, handmade by Pacific Northwest College of Art students. From fine art prints, paintings, and sculpture to hand-crafted adornments, the sale transforms the College’s Commons into a showcase of outstanding holiday gifts.

Holiday Art Sale
11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, December 10–11;
11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday, December 12
PNCA Main Campus Building
Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.

BIG 100 ART SHOW

Friday, December 11th, 6pm-11pm. ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!
100 artists, twenty 8? by 8? pieces each, everything $30.

Olympic Mills Commerce Center Gallery (107 SE Washington).

Benefit for Oregon Public Radio and KBOO Community Radio.  Presented by Portland City Art and PoBoy Art.  Sponsored by BEAM Development.

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