Death and the First of Spring Sitting at a family dining table on this first day of Spring, 2018, with the nourishing Tucson sun at my back, recalling the December night when THRU Media opened and shuttered its doors to the public for the last time, a belated post is published at THRU, and so ends my […]
Category: Visual
Heidi Schwegler displayed a collection of found objects and photography prints for a show at THRU Gallery in July, calling the show SATISFACTUAL. The reception included a 36-minute sound loop from Derek Monypeny revolving around a brief cut from a televised performance of “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.” Also on loop was Heidi’s “Grayout” video, showing a mirrored dog, […]
Keylay Tukor’s June Exhibit Puts to Rest a Long Project Visual artist Kyle Tucker took a flight from Las Vegas last June with 777 Drawings safely packed inside a small piece of luggage. It is both the title of his show and the actual number of sketches remaining up to that point, from a prolific period of work […]
777 Drawings to show at THRU Gallery this June. Nearly two years ago, I was taking an aimless late summer evening walk through downtown Portland. I lived in Goose Hollow and I took frequent walks into the heart of the city. The excitement to build THRU as a magazine enabled me to spend entire days […]
Alejandro Ceballos’ colorful abstractions enlivened THRU Gallery last April Just one week before the next art opening was supposed to take place, for the gallery that we had just inaugurated only three weeks prior, and we had nobody booked. A chance run-in with Alejandro Ceballos provided the perfect solution to ground us for another month. He […]