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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
Mefore Aday opened the new THRU Gallery last March Washington-based artist Mary Aday changed her first name to represent her mission as an artist. The work she puts out reflects an unusual perspective, putting you in her shoes in a way. She sees the grotesque in reality but never without humor and innocence. She grew up …
Simplicity marks the art, music, and life of Alejandro Ceballos After meeting Alejandro Ceballos, it took months to learn that he was a painter. I think he is one of these folks living dual lives, but not in a dishonest way, just quietly, un-showing of any real stress from raising children as a starving visual …
Getting to know a friend through her art: A look at Mary Aday a.k.a Mefore Aday, THRU Gallery’s Debut Art Exhibit When Mary Aday first moved to Portland from the South in 2005, a few of her new classmates at Oregon College of Art and Craft would ask her to repeat: Bright. White. Light. In …
World Wide Wall tells the story of the Portland Mercado Mural. In the fall of 2014, two artists were chosen by Hacienda CDC to collaborate and represent Southeast Portland’s brand new mercado as a haven for Latin American culture in Portland. This original THRU documentary tells how the mural at Portland Mercado was created by artists Pablo Solares and Rachel Oleson. Nobody …
