Blackfish Gallery
420 NW Ninth Ave
PortlandOR97209
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Description
Established in 1979, this artist-owned gallery is committed to bringing the Portland area fresh art that reaches the culturally diverse. Local artists' works are displayed at the gallery, including such innovative contemporary work as the incredibly vivid watercolor paintings by Barbara Black and colored lithographs by Jana Demartini. Special exhibits are held year-round, and patrons can call...
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The gallery participates in the monthly cultural festivities known as First Thursdays.
Editorial Reviews
Artist-owned since 1979, the Blackfish is a large space featuring contemporary images. Since this gallery is a cooperative, it doesn't have the same constraints as a commercial art gallery and thus can present more cutting-edge and thought-provoking work.
A place where starving artists feed the imaginations of the art-starved.:
In Short
A cornerstone of the Pearl District, this cooperative art gallery has managed to keep its doors open in the increasingly gentrified Portland art world. Around for more than a...
A cornerstone of the Pearl District, this cooperative art gallery has managed to keep its doors open in the increasingly gentrified Portland art world. Around for more than a...
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Established in 1978, this artist-owned gallery is committed to bringing the Portland area fresh art that reaches the culturally diverse. Local artists' works are displayed at the gallery, including such innovative contemporary work as the incredibly vivid watercolor paintings by Barbara Black and colored lithographs by Jana Demartini. Special exhibits are held year-round, and patrons can call...
