Alanna Risse

The Launch Pad Gallery is having a pot luck for the opening of the group show “Family.” For this special occassion, I’ve made my famous white trash sushi. If you come early, you might get a chance to sample some. I’ll be there with my sushi at 6pm. Choices are Bologna with Miracle Whip or Peanut Butter and Grape Jelly.

I’ll be showing this piece:

Alanna RIsse
“Doesn’t Fall Far”
24″ x 24″
Encaustic on wood panel
2009

Launch Pad Gallery
534 SE Oak
Portland, OR

Katie Simpson Spain at the Tyson Gallery
katiespain.wordpress.com/
The entire installation was made out of plastic shopping bags. Very very cool.

Gala Bent at Half/Dozen
Beautiful watercolor drawings
More photos on Half/Dozen’s Flickr account.

Close up:

Linda Hutchins
Pulliam Gallery
Very intricate, fine line drawings on paper. Like ripples on a pond.

And a lovely, simple sewn sculpture out of a kind of tulle fabric

Patrick Abbey at PDX Contemporary Art
Photo of a sort of found object drawing. In the photo you see a hand scrunching a roll of paper towels made to look like an owl.

Eyeful gallery staged an epic battle between heaven and hell.

Honorable mention were some great painting of Star Wars action figures in compromising poses at Tribute Gallery by Seth A. Leamer. I was having so much fun looking at them, I forgot to take photos.