Mark your calendar! I’m having an exhibit of early posters and comics pages, mostly vintage prints but some originals, drawn in the 1970s and 1980s in Portland, when I was still signing my work David Celsi. Many of these have been posted on Patreon over the years, but this will be a golden opportunity to see them In Real Life, and possibly take one home!

Many of these advertise local theater productions, usually at the Storefront Theater, or band concerts, usually by the Holy Modal Rounders:

The Useless Poster from 1976 is an early conceptual art piece– a flyer advertising no event at all, which I stapled to telephone poles anyway, just for the fun of it. My reference was a silent film-era still of a starlet standing on a peacock chair, but I changed her face to that of Ann McFarlane, a girl who went to my high school. In our little world, Ann was something of a starlet herself:

The show will be at Portland’s Curb Gallery in the Pearl District, the same gallery which recently had a show of my mother’s paintings. 424 NW 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97210, for the month of November. Opening is November 7th, 2024. Not sure of the time, but it’s probably safe to come at 6. It’s two days after the election. I hope people will be in a good mood!