New Portrait Hangs In The Portland Mayor's Office
June 4th, 2010
I really wish that the city I am from had a mayor that was half as cool as Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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Just installed in Adam’s office is a gigantic portrait of the Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, wearing a pair of lederhosen, standing in front of what looks like a stuffed boar. Classic.
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The painting was done by Portland artist Alexander Rokoff, whom apparently went to Brock’s home took a nice tour, snapped some photos of his belongings, then painted this masterpiece. Every detail in the portrait is connected to Brock, right down to the knife being held in the hand of the doll that is slumped on the shelf in the background (Brock’s father made knives).
I don’t know whether this is Adam’s way of showing his support for the arts in Portland or this is just his homage to Brock, but it is completely and totally awesome.
June 4th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
LB said:
Agreed. I thought Isaac was pretty funny in the video they shot: http://vimeo.com/12250207
June 7th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
sonicinema said:
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 here.