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ASTORIA — Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk — a
monthly opportunity to check out art and mingle with artists
and art-lovers while savoring refreshments and the vibrant
downtown nightlife — takes place 5 to 8 p.m. May 12.
(Some locations open and close earlier and later.)
1. Astoria Art Loft
106 Third St.
There’s fun and variety at the Astoria
Art Loft in May! Artwork in various
media by emergent artists as well as
professional artists: realism, impres-
sionism, abstract in two and three
dimensions. Meet the artists, watch
them work and enjoy refreshments.
Remember, we’re the early birds: 1 to
4 p.m. to allow time for dinner before
viewing the other galleries.
2. McVarish Gallery
160 10th St.
McVarish Gallery presents “Astir,” a
collection of works on paper by Lisa
Kaser, a Portland-based artist work-
ing with watercolor, print and collage
to depict whimsical characters and
stories that live in a world all their
own. With titles like “Rule Breaker on
Shirtless Friday” and “Jumping Area
Outside City Limits,” this show will
make you smile.
3. Swakane Winery
240 10th St.
Check out our new wine tasting room,
sample a taste of Swakane and enjoy
local art by Blaine Verely.
4. Smoked Bones BB
and Sid Deluca. We encourage playing
with your food, yourself and others
(consensually, of course).
5. AVA Pop-Up Space
80 11th St. (above Coldwater
Skate & Surf Shop)
Presenting artist Eryn Tomlinson, a
graduate of Rhode Island School of
Design. Tomlinson began painting as
a figurative painter, but after taking
a class on meditation and Buddhism,
she switched to abstraction and
was able to approach painting as
meditation. Gaining inspiration from
the detail and intricacies of Tibetan
and Buddhist art, she started making
Mandalas, first in pencil, then filling
all the separate shapes with color.
CAROL SMITH PHOTO
A panorama of Saddle Mountain, taken by photographer Carol Smith, on view at Tempo Gallery
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6. Imogen Gallery
240 11th St.
Presenting the powerful work of April
Coppini, bringing a sublime collection
of gorgeous charcoal drawings. Cop-
pini depicts the beauty of creatures
large and small, bravely bringing her
own experience of life and death,
“sometimes excruciating and inde-
scribable and sometimes soft, tender
— almost magical. Death, after all,
is just the other side of birth and is so
much like one.”
77 11th St.
Food Fetish art show — food-related
art installments curated by Joi Smith
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A work of abstract art by Eryn
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A cast clay hanging by JeanneDana at Luminari Arts
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“Fox Teeth”
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“Hub,” a watercolor by Lisa
Kaser, on display at McVarish
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