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Jonathan Canady
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Visual Artist - Portland, OR - https://jonathancanady.com/
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Jonathan Canady @jonathancanady.bsky.social · 22d
“Nascence” (2026) - it’s been a while since I posted a recent drawing. This is one of my favorites. Wax oil pastel and pencil on paper - 11 x 8.5” #art #drawing
An abstract drawing of a human figure with skull-like face, dismembered organs, and hands.
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A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
September 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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“Nascence” (2026) - it’s been a while since I posted a recent drawing. This is one of my favorites. Wax oil pastel and pencil on paper - 11 x 8.5” #art #drawing
An abstract drawing of a human figure with skull-like face, dismembered organs, and hands.
September 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
August 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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“Water Wings” is my drawing for the theme of #chaos in this week’s #blueskyartshow. This was part of a series based on illustrations in a U.S. Army survival manual. In 2023 the series was published as a book in collaboration with my friend Marc Fischer: halfletterpress.com/survival-suc...
Four abstract human figures are overlapping into one mass.
August 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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August 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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“Explorer” (2026) Wax oil pastel and pencil on paper - 11 x 8.5” - My take on #growing for the #blueskyartshow
July 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Some #quiet photos of the soon to be demolished Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, OR for #theblueskyartshow
July 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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David Wojnarowicz : Untitled, 1984

Sculpture
Bone Skull, papier-maché, barbed wire, battery, watch, and rusty nails
9-13/16 × 5-7/8 × 13-3/8 in, 3.7 lb
25 × 15 × 34 cm, 1.7 kg

©Estate of David Wojnarowicz
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Further description in the alt text 👇
The multitalent visual artist, musician, photographer, writer, filmmaker, and activist David Wojnarowicz came to prominence in the early 1980s with his searing comments on queerness, conservative politics, disenfranchisement, and the status quo. Steeped in the punk and graffiti scene of New York’s East Village, Wojnarowicz made stencils, paintings, and sculptures in this period, many of them incorporating scavenged materials and elements from his developing visual iconography, such as clocks, maps, and US currency. The artist saw these as symbols of a regulated and corrupt mainstream that devalued those on the margins of society. A painted pig skull wrapped in segments from a map, it incorporates further references to the degraded industrialized society that the artist so vilified in the form of a timepiece in place of an eye and a globe of $100 bills gripped in the animal’s jaws. Wojnarowicz made a number of these assemblages in the mid- to late-1980s, all incorporating the same set of visual symbols. In this skull, pierced with rusted nails and wrapped in barbed wire, forcing it to forever hold a ball of money, one can read a critique of the capitalist interests and corrupt government politics that presided over the administration of then-President Reagan. Wojnarowicz’s lover, the famed photographer Peter Hujar, captured the artist holding a skull from this series in a Civilian Warfare ad. The exhibition helped to launch Wojnarowicz’s career, as it did for many artists of the New York underground. While Wojnarowicz’s art took on an increasingly political valence, he also fought against censorship of his work, winning a lawsuit against the American Family Association. Wojnarowicz himself would die of AIDS in 1992 at the age of 37. The disease remains a global health issue today. In 2019, nearly 40 million people worldwide were reported to be living with HIV/AIDS and around 700,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses.
July 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Have a Divine Fourth!
July 4, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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“They Were Afraid of Me” (2022) for the #blueskyartshow theme of #curve. This was part of my artists’ book “Year Zero” that used post-apocalypse movies as source material.
A semi-abstract drawn figure in a gas mask holds a torch.
June 20, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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My drawing based on Winslow Homer’s “The Veteran in a New Field” covering the theme of #sharp for #blueskyartshow - This was part of my artists’ book “Amerika” from 2025.
Abstract ink drawing of a human figure with a scythe and the word “Amerika”.
June 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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My drawing “Living Arms” (2026) for the #BlueSkyArtShow - This week’s theme is #Growth (hee hee)
May 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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My #tall collaboration with my partner Suzie AR from 2013 - for the exhibition “All Along the Watchtower” (Group), Pterodactyl, Philadelphia and now #blueskyartshow - I don’t think we had an official title for this, but it is our defaced version of the Frank L. Rizzo Monument.
May 23, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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“To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.”

-Jean Tinguely BOTD
May 22, 2023 at 6:08 PM
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1976, Chris Carter of TG is permitted to stand where he's standing. Looks like it may be near the band's Death Factory studio in Hackney, East London
May 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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"People seem to think I'm just working with funny noises, that it isn't quite serious or something. I think a lot of people have a sort of block about electronic music, they think it must sound frightening and oppressive."

-Delia Derbyshire #BOTD
May 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Here’s an older artwork of mine. “Sequelae 7” (2013) for the #BlueSkyArtShow - I’d call it #odd - India ink and watercolor on paper 10 x 8”.
April 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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“Memory in Future Tense” (2026) for the #BlueSkyArtShow - reaching towards the #Edge (as usual) - wax oil pastel and pencil on paper - 11 x 8.5”
A drawing of an abstract figure with two heads connected to a hollow middle and four limbs reaching towards the corners.
April 18, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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“The Best Offense” (2026) - my favorite #new drawing for the #BlueSkyArtShow - 11 x 8.5” - wax oil pastel and pencil on paper
Drawing of an abstract human figure with half it’s body made of tentacles.
April 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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#WyrdWednesday ....a Nico puzzle answered, the title of the album 'The Marble Index' originates from a Wordsworth poem.
April 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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“Thoughtless” (2026) wax oil pastel and pencil on paper - 11 x 8.5” #openings for the #BlueSkyArtShow
Drawing of an abstract figure with no head and holes in the chest and groin.
April 4, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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In 2014 Inventory Press invited me to make a Public Collectors book. This was before my self-publishing rampage hit full force. The result was this beautiful 224 page tome that is long out of print. I have some final copies they gave me to sell, available for $25: halfletterpress.com/public-colle...
The cover of the book Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more. Sample spreads of a scrapbook that started out as a baby book and the continued to include current events in the 1960s. Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more. A section on CB Radio QSL postcards from: Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more. A section of the book showing 1980s San Francisco street flyers from the collection of Stephen Perkins. From the book: Public Collectors By: Marc Fischer with contributions by Angelo, Stephen Perkins, Leah DeVun, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Smith, and Kaitlin Kostus. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. Design by Project Projects. New York: Inventory Press, 2014 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 6 3/4 in × 9 in Cover: full color with foil stamping Binding: perfect bound Process: offset Color: full color Edition Size: 1250 ISBN: 978-1-941753-02-6 Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer (also of Temporary Services and Half Letter Press), and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture—the kind that most museums won’t exhibit—to ‘open’ their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections—some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication—interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value. Among the subjects documented and written about in this heavily illustrated and beautifully produced book: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.
April 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Thank you to everyone who attended my “Carry On” exhibition, and specifically to Doug Burns from Souvenir Arts for making it all possible. Over $550 has been donated to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition from proceeds. #art #pdx
An art exhibition visitor looks at drawings.
March 30, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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“The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly,

every minute of the day until one dies,

is the worst part of oneself.”

― Patrick McGoohan #BOTD
March 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Hervé Télémaque, No Title (The Ugly American), 1962/64
www.moma.org/collection/w...
Painting with various dispersed elements, including stylized figures of Toussaint Louverture and Fidel Castro, and figures with word balloons including the title phrasings
March 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM