# Event Details

- **Event Name**: You Should Have Gotten Here Sooner, Art Show by Kirk Read
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm – Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Collage artist and writer Kirk Read presents 30 recent analog collages which explore the twin heads of urban nostalgia: perpetual disintegration and resuscitation. The central series uses telephone pole scraps and won a Bronze award from Contemporary Collage Magazine. The work is a meditation on moving to Portland during the pandemic from San Francisco where he worked as a street and shelter nurse. Other works on view use vintage schematic and children’s books to assemble dreamlike southern gothic narratives. Read is the author of the memoir “How I Learned to Snap” and coloeads the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective.Sunday June 1 5-9pmOpening receptionMusic by DJ Papa WarriorSunday June 8 2025 3-6pmFree collage meetup with the Pacific Northwest Collage CollectiveSaturday June 14 2025 4pmReading by Collage Artists Who Writehosted by Kirk ReadWith Ashley Yang-Thompson Clive Knights Hope Amico Kate Garklavs Kevin Sampsell Monster TruqRead writes: “In every city I’ve ever lived I’ve encountered the repeated lament from predecessor citizens that The Golden Era Of That City Had Passed. For this series I harvested four-inch layers of telephone pole posters removing all of the staples and sorting the pieces into color groups. I gathered paper during and after the pandemic. The posters had survived Portland rain and occasional fires set to remove them. Working with this paper was like being a gardener embracing the fungal ecosystems in the paper. Layers of in-person events reassured me that the cultural health of Portland was just fine. The Portland metal scene survived the Get The Hell Away From Me era of Covid regulations. I excavated evidence of subcultures that exist outside the vast digital tarpit: porch sales and basement shows lost and found animals burgeoning cults of wellness. This series freed me to explore abstraction color and composition in ways that surprised me. I am grateful for nostalgia when it confirms that it’s actually disintegration and renunciation that’s beautiful. It’s not about bands playing their most recognizable records in their entirety. We are not preserved in amber we are decaying in front of each other.”Web including page about show: https://linktr.ee/kirkreadInstagram: @Anotherkirkread
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/you-should-have-gotten-here-sooner-art-show-by-kirk-read/80002061953008
- **Event Categories**: art, health-wellness, crafts, literary-art, meetups, music, entertainment, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Replicant Beer & Wine PDX
- **lat**: 45.5267087
- **long**: -122.5906726
- **full address**: Replicant Beer & Wine PDX, 7033 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97213, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Pacific Northwest Collage Collective (https://allevents.in/org/pacific-northwest-collage-collective/25507480)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Replicant Beer & Wine PDX, 7033 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97213, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Pacific Northwest Collage Collective
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, health-wellness, crafts, literary-art, meetups, music, entertainment, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about You Should Have Gotten Here Sooner, Art Show by Kirk Read ?
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