'The Grinch's Revenge' Shows 'till New Year 2010!

The show-opening "Festivus Reception" is behind us, and thanks to everyone who came out to support the art and make a great party!

But the fun's not over yet..."The Grinch's Revenge" will remain throughout December for your self-gifting needs!

You can visit Elroy Artspace daily from 11-3, and by appointment at your convenience! To be sure the Artspace is open for your visit, please just drop me a line here to let me know when you'd like to stop by...

"The Grinch's Revenge" is a small-pieces show of big-quality art by 4 of PDX's exciting artists! Benjamin Burch is offering high-quality prints of 7 of his original works, all between $30-$50... Photo-illustrator Myah Bailey is offering prints of her works for $30-$35... George Perrou is offering original, framed paintings for $125-$250, and Renee Hartig is offering her beautiful originals on canvas and paper, too for $20-$190... Never a better time to own these artists' work than now!

We will collect your canned food donations under the Festivus Pole tree for the Oregon Food Bank throughout December, so please remember those in need when planning your visit to Elroy Artspace, thanks you!

...for more information, just click here

Thank you all for supporting Portland art and Portland business...and for keeping it local this year!

Cheers!

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This Friday! One Day Only! Art for only $30! "The Big 100" @ 6pm...

...Elroy Art Agency loves Portland City Art!

Support them, support Portland Artists!

And no better time than the present, to buy some presents!...

Friday December 11th 2009
Olympic Mills Gallery 107 SE Washington Portland OR
6pm -11pm
100 Artists. 20 works each. 2000 works.

ONE NIGHT ONLY. Cash/Carry

ALL WORK IS $30

Benefit for KBOO Community Radio, Oregon Food Bank and Portland City Art, arts non profit (Artists for Artists)

MORE INFO: WWW.PORTLANDCITYART.ORG

CURATED BY PORTLAND CITY ART (John Graeter, Chris Haberman) and Po Boy Art (Jason Brown/Goodfoot)

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“The Grinch’s Revenge – A Self-Gifting Event” Art Opening and Festivus Reception on December, 2009 1st Thursday at Elroy Artspace

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“The Grinch’s Revenge – A Self-Gifting Event” Art Opening and Festivus Reception on December, 2009 1st Thursday at Elroy Artspace

Elroy Artspace presents “The Grinch’s Revenge – A Self-Gifting Event” featuring the works of Portland artists Benjamin Burch, Renee Hartig, Myah Bailey and George Perrou. For sale at its “Festivus Reception” will be selections of affordable art, and food + financial donations to the Oregon Food Bank will be promoted, and Elroy Artspace will donate a portion of the nights’ proceeds to OFB.

Portland, Oregon (December 1st, 2009) – Elroy Artspace today announced the details of its upcoming “The Grinch’s Revenge” show and exhibition. The show, and it’s “Festivus Reception” held on Porland’s Pearl District ‘First Thursday’ art walk, December 3rd, will feature the artwork of four Portland artists, and serve as a donation vehicle for the Oregon Food Bank.

The show features Portland artist Benjamin Burch. Benjamin's application of skills as a fine art painter, 2D animator and illustrator traipse the line of their individual disciplines, providing for razor-sharp images of his always-fun subjects! His childhood and enduring passion for the diverse works of Charley Harper and the 'Schoolhouse Rock' animations speak to the ultimate direction of Benjamin's career in art. For The Grinch's Revenge show, he is showing a printed recent series of beautiful illustrations. Take a look at his website for more insights to his work.

Portland artist Renee Hardig uses techniques and heightened colors to represent the elements which heavily distress and degrade the Earth's topography. But oddly, her handling of these same blights provide a striking elegance and beauty to her painted landscapes. For the Festivus Reception, Renee has painted her fine art originals onto paper and smaller canvases. See more of Renee's work on her site here.

Myah Bailey is a Portland artist who portrays the world around her with a narrative we'd all love to live within! Her degreed, formal training is shared between fine art photography and telecommunications - so its no wonder that she blends photography and technology to create her impossibly-unique 'photographic illustrations'! For our show Myah has made prints of her recent series', Ecotone and Collective Nouns. See Myah's words and works here.

Portland artist George Perrou continues to confound with his colorful Mad Man-genre portrayals of our modern worlds' landscapes and vessels. George has painted smaller interpretations of his world for the self-gifting show. See more of George's work on his site here...

In the spirit of caring, Elroy is asking that guests please bring to the show some cans of non-perishable foods...these and a portion of the nights' proceeds will be donated to the Oregon Food Bank...because no one should be hungry! (most needed: Canned meats, peanut butter, canned and boxed meals, dried/canned beans and peas, pasta/rice/cereal, canned fruits and 100% fruit juice.)

'The Grinch's Revenge : A Self-Gifting Event' and its Festivus Reception will take place this 1st Thursday, December 3rd, at Elroy Artspace from 5-9pm. Elroy Artspace is located at 1720 NW Lovejoy, at street level in the Activespace building - across from Relish and Cork, and conveniently on the trolly line...

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Kelly Neidig solo exhibition ‘Color.Field.Redux’ at Elroy Artspace in Portland, Oregon, 1st Thursday, November 2009

Kelly Neidig : Color.Field.Redux



Kelly Neidig’s main interest is color – and she fills the canvas with it using a process largely eschewing the typical tools, reaching instead for paddles and a wallpaper straight edge to create paintings that evoke a motion that pulls us into them…


And once inside, we investigate with Neidig mans’ consuming encroachment into nature through her use of light and color combinations which cull from us our own emotions and memories of un-fouled environments…


With Color.Field.Redux, Neidig abstracts these human fabrications of strip malls and box stores, housing developments and billboards, gas stations and fast food restaurants into brightly colored stripes which grant them forgiveness by the nature they’ve usurped…


In a world blanketed with man-made detritus, permeating our lives and our experience of an untarnished nature - a blurring of the line is created between the true colors
of nature and how they are seen through eyes trained to know only schemas of them...


Please enjoy an evening out enjoying Portland arts on 1st Thursday with Kelly Neidig – visit the Color.Field.Redux show opening at Elroy Artspace from 5-9pm. Elroy Artspace is located at 1720 NW Lovejoy, at street level in the Activespace building - across from Relish and Cork, and conveniently on the trolly line…

Pssst!... take a sneak-peek Kelly's new website here: www.KellyNeidigFineArt.com


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Elroy Artspace opens with Portland Open Studios 'Peep Show' this Friday!

Elroy Art Agency is proud to announce the opening of its new viewing/sales gallery!

'Elroy Artspace' will open this Friday, October 9th, with a 'Peep Show' kick-off of the Portland Open Studios extravaganza. Also showing will be works from participating artists Kelly Neidig, George Perrou, Mark Randall and Ilan Laks - whose studios are among the 100 you can visit on the 2nd and 3rd weekends of this month! Elroy believes that Portland Open Studios, celebrating its 10th Anniversary, is an integral and important part of PDX's national-class art scene, and is excited that it will be celebrating its new space with the honor of shining a light on this wonderful organization and event.

Elroy Artspace is located at 1720 NW Lovejoy, at street level in the Activespace building - across from Relish and Cork, and on the trolly line!

Please enjoy an evening of supporting Portland and our beautiful arts! And come by 17th/Lovejoy to welcome Elroy Artspace, and to get a taste of the plethora of amazing artwork represented in this months Portland Open Studios, and buy your Tourguide / tickets while you're here...

You're invited! George Perrou show at EASTside Albina Press - October '09

Please enjoy SE Portland's own 'Mod-Culture' artist George Perrou as October's featured artist at the art-gallery-disguised-as-an-awesome-coffee-shop: The EAST side Albina Press is at 5012 SE Hawthorne... George Perrou Mod-Culture art: Drawn to those shapes and colors as envisioned by Calder, Miro and Kandinsky, George Perrou has created his own style by imagining the everyday things he sees instead into his own colorful versions of reality...a style that can be best described as Mod-Culture! His work is both a unique narrative of colorful landscapes and structures, and made with a technique equally as unique - which will not be easily copied... George was a featured artist this season on OPB's Oregon Art Beat! (watch Video here) And visit George in the upcoming Portland Open Studios tour, 2nd and 3rd weekends in October... Tourguides available here! Please see more of George's original art, reproductions and 'Case Study' aluminum art panels here! George is represented by Elroy Art Agency (www.ElroyArt.com). Elroy Art Agency is a management consulting firm specializing in the career development of visual artists. The agency’s raison d'être is increasing the exposure and sales of our clients’ artworks and the galleries whom partner with Elroy to showcase it. For Media inquiries, additional information regarding Elroy Art Agency, Perrou artwork sales and leasing, or the Albina Press show, please contact: Elroy Art Agency, www.ElroyArt.com, info@ElroyArt.com ###

4/15/09

4th Annual ‘AC/VC’ Arts Extravaganza on Aug. 15th Featuring 36 Visual Artists and Bands

AudioCinema presents AC/VC ’09 – a yearly arts event featuring an eclectic grouping of Portland artists working in diverse media. 36 artists and bands will perform and show in a 10,000 square foot warehouse performance space which allows for installation, performance, and wall-mounted art to function harmoniously in a single exhibition.

Portland, Oregon (July 30, 2009) - AudioCinema today announced the details of its upcoming 4^th Annual AC/VC (AudioCinema Visual Collective) show and exhibition. AV/VC ’09 will be a multi-media art experience featuring the paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, as well as live music and readings of Portland artists. AC/VC ’09 features 20 visual artists and 16 live bands, and is open to the public.

A working artist himself, AudioCinema’s founder Ilan Laks is the event curator, and has once again scheduled to fill the 10,000 square foot warehouse performance space with the creativity of AudioCinema’s art-career tenants and some invited artists. “This is the first AC/VC since our size-doubling expansion,” says Laks, “and we now have hundreds of talented artists and musicians creating in this building daily.” AC/VC is the event which brings it all out of the studios and into the performance hall to share with fans, friends and the public.

AC/VC ’09 is on Saturday, August 15^th, from 6pm to 2am (all-ages are welcomed until 11pm). The visual art show will hang through Aug. 23^rd. The address is: 226 SE Madison, Portland, 97217 (under the Hawthorne Bridge). The performance hall is made up of gallery walls and lighting, and three separate performance stages and sound systems.

Visual artists include: Candace Gossen (paintings), Dustin Zemel (video), Evertt Beidler (sculpture), Ilan Laks (paintings, photos), Cat Coats (paintings), Marian Slakie (paintings), Jacob Perkins (video), Mike Albano (paintings), Heidi Wirz (paintings), Jennifer Sims (fashion), George Perrou (paintings), Michelle Thompson (photography) - Musical artists include: Strangeletter (Lush electronic/ live rock), Casper Maccabee (storytelling rock ensemble), Jacob Perkins (singer/songwriter), Search Party (pop trio), Defeating the Purpose (experimental), Hotter than a Crotch (party band), Drunken Prayer (troubadour, gypsy, blues), Noise (Ambient, electronic soundscapes), Battle Axe Massacre (Metal), Doonevetter (Bluegrass), The WokenBokes (Rock-n-Roll), Julius (Singer/songwriter)

About AudioCinema:

AudioCinema (Portland, Oregon) founded in 2005, is a multi-use art and music production facility that houses and works with some of Portland’s finest artists. Services offered to Portland’s culture-creating community include an in-house recording studio, video production/editing, photography, hourly and monthly rehearsal studios, art studios, creative offices, performance stage, event space and more.

Contact:

Ilan Laks, Owner and Creative Director

AudioCinema

www.AudioCinema.org

(503) 467-4554

About Elroy Art Agency

Elroy Art Agency (Portland, Oregon) founded in 2008, is a boutique agency specializing in the career development of visual artists. The agency’s raison d'être is increasing the exposure and sales of our clients’ artworks and of the venues whom partner with Elroy to showcase it.

Contact:

Joe Staskerz, Agent and Founder

Elroy Art Agency

http://www.ElroyArt.com

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