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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Video Portland's Mayor Now Has a Portrait of Isaac Brock on His Wall

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:54 PM

Um, so this is weird. Or, maybe it's totally normal for Portland. I don't even know any more.

Our esteemed mayor Sam Adams was presented with this life-sized oil painting portrait of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock. Painted by local artist Alexander Rokoff, the painting is now hanging in the mayor's city hall office. I am not making any of this up.

h/t: Cary Clarke

 

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I think to top this, Sam's next move should be to commission a giant mural of Portland Cello Project, Portland Ukulele Project and March Fourth in an epic battle scene on the face of city hall.
Posted by Leviethan on June 4, 2010 at 11:05 AM · Report
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It bears mentioning that the portrait was commissioned as part of a larger series of paintings of Portland's indie musicians by Brian Wannamaker, founder of the Falcon Art Community, which is a very cool studio space with lots of great artists and musicians, like Storm Large, whose portrait is also in the series. You can see their website & more art by Alexander at www.falconartcommunity.

As much as I would like to see the aforementioned epic battle scene commissioned, and with all due respect to the Mayor.
Posted by sonicinema on June 7, 2010 at 5:28 PM · Report

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