Everett A. Beidler is an American artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. His work is included in private collections across the United States, the permanent collection of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and on public display at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers in Cairo, Illinois, which is the first public commission of his career. Images and reviews of Everett’s work have been featured in publications such as Sculpture Magazine, The Daily Constitutional, The Oregonian, and the Willamette Week.  His exhibition record includes group exhibitions at the Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, New Jersey), and the Nu-Art Series Gallery (St. Louis, Missouri). As well as solo exhibitions at Gallery II (Washington State University), the Autzen Gallery (Portland State University), and Gallery 500 (Portland, Oregon). Presently Everett is working on a series of works that incorporate video, installation, sculpture, and performance in his studio in Southwest Portland.

Check out photos from this year’s event!

JUNE 26, 2010
3pm-7pm

All ages!!

The 1st Annual Cancer Schmancer PDX is a fund raiser benefiting breast cancer survivor, Jayne Hollenbeck, with generous support from the good folks at Portland City Art (PCA) and The Blenderhead Project. Tickets are $10 per person or $20 for the whole family! All proceeds directly benefit Cancer Schmancer PDX.

Festivities will include live music with 3 Leg Torso, Lisa and Her Kin and Tater & Craig- – – Wow!

Showing on the PCA gallery walls inside Olympic Mills, “NW Art HerStory” will feature some of the Pacific Northwest’s most brilliant female artists!

Filling in the space around the gallery you will find craft tables for kids of all ages and have an opportunity to indulge yourself in a massage in the north gallery.

There will also be cool door prizes and a FANTASTIC silent auction, full of great surprises for everyone!

Might get hungry? Look for the amazing selection of savory pies from Meat a la Mode, or find something sweet from Portland’s own Voodoo Doughnut.

Log onto www.cancerschmancer.org to find out more!

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-4pm

The Trusses Gallery at Pioneer Place Mall is proud to present the work of three phenomenally endowed urban landscape artists. Each with their own convincing aesthetic perspective, these artists bring a stunning centripetal force to the PDX Bridge Festival gallery tour.

Christopher Mooney is well known for his photo-realistic oil paintings of Portland bridges, train yards, buildings, blue collar workers and alley ways. They are so stunningly real, that many artists have to get within inches to believe their eyes. However, you might not want to get that close to Micah Krock’s right off the bat.

Have you ever shaken a blanket at the beach, and as it waves and ripples, you close your eyes from the sand? You might have that same reaction upon seeing Micah’s paintings. Micah takes a Ralph Steadman approach to urban landscape painting, by twisting, turning and leaning a swimming landscape of bridges, buildings and streets of Portland, to the point of making any viewer feel off balance. But, get grounded, because you have some serious pondering left to do.

Brin Levinson is Portland’s most sought after urban dream-scape artist, who can invoke feelings, memories or deja vu trances with each painting that floats out of his studio. As you first glance at his painting of the Morrison bridge, the sepia tone eeriness is unwittingly familiar to a foggy, late Autumn night. But wait… there are no people, no signs of civilization, the concrete is cracked and there is a 6-story elephant peacefully drinking water from under the trusses. The elephant looks so at ease and at home, you’re wondering what the heck the bridge is doing there. Well, because, we have a celebration to do!

Trusses Gallery @ Pioneer Galleries
Pioneer Place Mall
700 SW 5th Ave.
3rd Floor
Enter @ J.Crew

Image courtesy of Chris Mooney

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-4pm

The walls of the Arches Gallery are beckoning for a massive 8′ by 8′ wheat paste of a collage Bridge-scape, a 5 foot photo of Portland’s own gorgeous night-time skyline and and a site-specific interactive installation. The goal is to transform the  the Arches gallery walls into a multi-faceted collage of bridge and city scape interpretations, which will hug, inspire and propel the performances and engagements it surrounds on the gallery floor. Anyone for a hands-on learning session about how to build a DIY website while being hypnotized by a trio of belly dancers?

Thank you to the artists:

Aaron Rogosin
Tuna Poanessa
Andy Kennedy
Lawrence Johnson
Don Klover
Michael Shay
Carlie Grob
Dan Evans

Arches Gallery @ Pioneer Galleries
Pioneer Place Mall
700 SW 5th Ave.
3rd floor
Enter @ j.crew and head to the top floor

Installation and Photo courtesy of Tuna Poanessa