Astoria Art Walk November 2022
Published 9:00 am Wednesday, November 9, 2022
- “Warm Reflections,” by Brianna Horton, shown at West Coast Artisans Gallery.
ASTORIA – The November Astoria Art Walk will take place from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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Angi D Wildt Gallery, 106 10th St.
Showing landscape works inspired by the appreciation of nature by Joanne Thorpe. Many of Thorpe’s works are created from travels in and around Oregon. These also include stills, animals and urban scenes. The artist will be on-site from 4 to 7 p.m.
ARTstoria Gallery, 1168 Commercial St.
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Celebrating the fall season with a colorful display of original paintings, prints, notebooks, journals and home decor items.
Astoria Art Loft, 106 Third St.
Kimonos are said to be the most beautiful clothing in the world. Made simply from four rectangles of cloth, they feature a colorful array of patterns. Learn how to arrange the kimono, the obi and more at this gallery’s exhibit. A presentation will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Astoria Brewing Co. Taproom on 12th, 119 12th St.
Showing works by local artist Brad Reef that bridge creative mediums, inspired by local heritage, wildlife and monuments.
Astoria Studio Collective, 372 10th St.
Venture upstairs at this collective to find open studios and featured works from artists Louise Walker, Cathy Stearns and Angela Raines. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Astoria Visual Arts, 1000 Duane St.
Works from seven artists will be gathered in the basement of a historic Astoria home for “The Basement Show: Unexpected Emergence.” Art will explore the space, which was built in 1890, showcasing historic fixtures and objects through painting, sculpture, assemblage, poetry and interpretive soundscapes.
This exhibit will provide inspiration to reclaim and reinterpret spaces, and to reframe the possibilities of art. Featured artists will include Bill Atwood, Greg Carrigan, Annie Eskelin, Lucca Ettienne, Carol Scott, Kate Speranza and Carrie Mariko Williams.
Brumfield Gallery, 1033 Marine Drive
Showing winter collections by gallery artists, including new work by Duy Huynh. A solo exhibition by Ruth Hunter will also continue through Dec. 24.
Brut Wine Bar, 240 10th St.
Inspired by the natural beauty and aurora borealis of Alaska, Carrie Harper will show a collection of watercolor works, celebrating the process of crafting with water and mixing paints.
Cambium Gallery, 1030 Duane St.
In conjunction with the centennial celebration of the Great Astoria Fire, this gallery will welcome Kelly Williams in “Rising from the Ash.” This selection of work was created outdoors during a forest fire, allowing ash to crate the panel.
This ash was then fused and integrated via heat from sunlight, torch flame and antique iron. This burning, burying and excavating acts as a timeline of experience. Cambium will also welcome poi dancers at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Forsythea, 1124 Commercial St.
Featuring works that celebrate the beauty of the Northwest by photographer and educator Linda Martin.
Gallery on Pier 39, 100 39th St.
Capturing images from around the globe, this showing combines Shelley von Colditz’s love for water and abstract reflections in “Boats and Ropes,” an exhibit displaying vibrant colorful images from Astoria and Borono, Italy through photography.
Imogen Gallery, 240 11th St.
Presenting “Facing You,” an invitational exhibition that explores humanity through portraiture. The gallery will welcome back the work of artists Reed Clarke, Aaron Toledo, Amelia Santiago and Ruth Shively. New for this annual exhibition will be Denise Monaghan, Timothy Peitsch and Pippa Arend.
This collection, on view through Dec. 5, invites viewers to consider the underlying, perhaps even to see themselves through the eyes of others and consider what it means to share stories.
Labor Temple Diner & Bar, 934 Duane St.
Showing oil on canvas paintings by local landscape painter John Wesley Willis, including new works and familiar Astoria scenes.
Munktiki, 1241 Duane St.
Showing a new collection of Christmas ornaments alongside art and mugs.
Old Things and Objects, 1144 Commercial St.
Curious vintage items will be shown alongside classic Northwest maritime art, including original paintings and signed prints. Other items on display include Indigenous jewelry pieces and studio-crafted pottery.
Paul Polson Studio Gallery, 100 10th St.
Showing large and small oil paintings, ranging in style from surrealism to landscapes, as well as Polson’s continuing Strata and Pipe series.
RiverSea Gallery, 1160 Commercial St.
Paying tribute to life on the North Coast, artist Drea Rose Frost captures the sweep of the coastal landscape, the rhythm of ocean tides and the grace of birds in a lyrical painting style.
Frost will be joined by ceramic artist Randy McClelland, who fuses disciplines and techniques to craft forms with fired-on decals and narrative drawings. McClelland’s influences include coastal life, American history, Japanese mythology and Asian American culture and identity.
As a tribute to Astoria’s historic vault lights, artist and metalsmith Kate Speranza will show a collection of brooches, emulating a sidewalk vault grid. Each brooch is made from salvaged and collected materials, set in sterling silver. Speranza has also created a painting of the grid to exhibit. Gallery artists will be in-house from 5 to 8 p.m., accompanied by music from John Orr.
Upstairs Gallery, 1295 Commercial St.
Featuring Tibetan Buddhist art, including a large wooden stupa with prayer flags, a framed thangka of Milarepa and his teachers and several thangka boards by Yvonne Edwards.
Also on view will be found object sculptures by Rhonda Gewin, including a metal fly, as well as whimsical multimedia art by Patti Breidenbach.
Weird Sisters Freak Boutique, 1004 Marine Drive
Hosting “You Are Art,” a speakeasy-themed salon where guests will be challenged, sent on adventures and invited to gather with others.
West Coast Artisans Gallery, 160 10th St.
Showing in “Natural Views” will be Brianna Horton, demonstrating a love of trees and rain with a grouping of acrylic works, accompanied by canvas from Kathryn Ann Myers. A lifelong collector of stories that places tell, Myers’ eye for color and line translates the feeling of a seascape, the loom of a mountain or the ache of the desert.