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Night Creatures

Julia Alora & Forest Salazar

​September 24 – October 26 | 11am-7pm

Engaging in Halloween hijinks, Alberta Street Gallery members Forest Salazar and Julia Alora share some of their haunting art this month. Approaching the subject matter playfully, they've created a tableau of treats and tricks to tantalize passersby.

Julia's metal sculptures depict creepy crawlers and freaky fliers, gleefully demonstrating her admiration of animals -- even the ones that give people goosebumps. A libra and a lifelong lover of the spooky season, Julia scripts to share the beauty of steel, spiders, and scary critters.

Forest's paintings take you into the heart of the hunt for candy. Accompanied by a series of skulls in homage to the Mexican tradition of honoring the dead, Forest brings you a body of work that focuses on the three most important parts of Halloween: candy, costumes, and celebrating life.

Together their work rings in the autumn with a plomp, gracing the front windows with a tribute to nostalgic Octobers, fearful fun, and the taste of too many sweets on your tongue.

Despite the scary art this month, Alberta Street Gallery is a friendly and vibrant cooperative gallery of 30 local artists in the heart of the Alberta Arts District in Northeast Portland.

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Skeletons Out of the Closet

September 24 – October 26 | 11am-7pm

The annual Spooky Art Show returns to Lavaun's Community Gallery for its third year, this time as "Skeleton's Out of the Closet." Curated from an open call for submissions, this show features art that is spooky, scary, strange, and out of the ordinary. Alberta Street Gallery member Julia Alora, a lifetime lover of Halloween, has hand-picked this year's collection of frights and delights from more than 10 local artists.

Come in for a thrill and a chill, find a new piece to haunt your home, and enjoy beautiful works of art perfect for those who are strange and unusual.
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Alberta Street Gallery is a friendly and vibrant cooperative gallery of 30 local artists in the heart of the Alberta Arts District in Northeast Portland.

What makes art spooky? Art that focuses on fears, phobias, or disgusting themes. Settings or characters or creatures that are dark, born from night, or upsetting to see. Images that capture the fun and nostalgia of playing in a scary space through a safe lens, reminiscent of horror movies and Halloween past.

In addition to our members' art, we mount monthly shows that begin on the "Last Thursday" of every month. Our front windows feature new work by two of our members artists, and we curate group shows in Lavaun's Community Gallery, a special exhibition space inside the gallery named for and made possible by gallery member Lavaun Benavidez Heaster, a legally blind collage artist who died in 2020.

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