Last Night's PORTRAITS show at Worksound was yet another boisterous event (with scenesters and some major patrons) at the altspace ensconced in one of the eastside's oldest and funkiest buildings. A fitting tribute to late photography curator Terry Toedtemeier no traces of cultural doom were to be found here and like many group shows it was a major social event. Also, like most Worksound events it was spilling out into the streets. Sure, commercial galleries have taken their lumps with the crummy economy but Portland has actually been gaining more alternative spaces like Worksound. Here are some PORTraits from the event:


Once an art dealer, always an art dealer... here the not quite retired gallerist Mark Woolley (and curator of PORTRAITS) closes the deal on a purchase by Linfield curator Cris Moss


Jim Lommason


Bruce Conkle upstages late model Volvo "Holga" in red color war


Ruth Ann Brown


First rule of portraiture, get at least one person to face the camera


Christopher Rauschenberg


Worksound's Modou Dieng


Here's a video of the mahem, note this was not even close to being the most crowded show weve seen at Worksound




Dahl et al.


the talented Mr. Stephen Scott Smith




Sam and Eugenia Pardue


Conversationalists


Damien Gilley


Micah Malone


If you are really good you end up working when everyone else is having fun


The talented photographer Holly Andres