Frogs and Cherubs at Chefas Projects
Jason N. Le
March 9, 2023
Laura Burke’s solo exhibition “Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow” is a feast of color and charm. Jason N. Le reviews.
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Laura Burke’s solo exhibition “Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow” is a feast of color and charm. Jason N. Le reviews.
A dual exhibition at Multnomah Arts Center employs intricate beadwork and Aztec symbolism to connect with contemporary life.
March may be starting off with some residual snow but spring is around the corner and there’s plenty of art to see in the meantime. Jason N. Le has the highlights in VizArts Monthly.
The Portland artist’s nearly half-century of work is informed by her travels and curiosity about subjects ranging from ecology to Asian art.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with singer & actor Susannah Mars, violinist Tomás Cotik, Native arts leader Lulani Arquette, sculptor Ben Buswell, and multidisciplinary artist Fuchsia Lin.
Quilter Ruth Bass is curating the show, her last local production.
“A Conversation with the World” on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene features Graham’s portraits and interviews with individuals from around the world.
At Pacific University’s gallery, an exhibition whispers its materials and speaks to the giving and taking of the land.
For roughly a century, Portland Art Museum has been one of the city’s most prominent landmarks. But how much of its history do you really know?
The chateau-style building with breathtaking views has to overcome issues with accessibility and identity. The Feb. 19 Crab Krack is an opportunity to visit.
In Portland’s Central Eastside Industrial District, a gallery features “graphic, color-drenched work by artists who have neither their fists nor their noses up in the air.”
Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, named for the artist and teacher, is a hub for students and showcase for exhibits that draw visitors from throughout the Northwest.
Don’t miss Lindsay Costello’s gathering of February’s most enticing art exhibitions and events. There’s augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.
The exhibition “RingrIngriNrinG” explores technology and the human condition. Definitive answers are not part of the exploration.
Jennifer Rabin finds more than anticipated on a visit to the exhibition “A Call for Light” at the makerspace Past Lives in industrial Southeast Portland.
“I want to paint them the way the spirits would see them,” the artist says of the 40 portraits in the show, which opens Feb. 2 in Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
“Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception” marks a new era for contemporary art at the Portland Japanese Garden as well as a requiem for its late curator, Matt Jay.
At Lan Su Garden and the Portland Chinatown Museum, tradition meets new realities and possibilities – and the challenges of a houseless crisis.
Hank Willis Thomas’s “The Embrace” in Boston is “a monument to love and joy, the twin wells of courage and perseverance.”
The quilts in Lorenz’s show “Strange Attractors” showcase nothing less than the vibrancy of the universe. Prudence Roberts reviews.
The medium is “having a moment in the arts world” due to interest in studio crafts and handmade work, sustainability, and local cultures.
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.
As Studio Abioto’s African-diaspora “Red Thread: Green Earth” closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.
January’s art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what’s on view in this month’s VizArts Monthly.
In an annual sewing challenge, members of the fiber arts group make wearable art. Themes in the Lincoln City Cultural Center exhibit include marriage, recycling, and women leaders.
From Frida Kahlo to Banksy to Arvie Smith to Elizabeth Leach’s 40 years to Michelangelo vs. the dinosaurs, a year of invigorating things to see.
Near Willamina, Joe Robinson has created a haven for ceramicists working with the wood-fired kiln. “When you stand next to a fire,” he says, “you feel like you belong.”
The trauma of invasion has a long history before Putin. Ukraine artists draw on it in remarkable ways, reaching back to the modernist movement of a century ago.
Using paper, cloth, and found materials, film director Luca DiPierro brings a beautifully haunting world of folklore and magic to life in “The Cadence.”
The gallery’s painting and photography show “Inheritance” spotlights agricultural workers in Ghana and Black farmers in America.
The combination of studios and gallery in the old Bend Iron Works is a communal space for artists to share their creative process with the public.
The exhibitions “Dakota Modern: the Art of Oscar Howe” and “Jeffrey Gibson: They Come from Fire” offer interrelated reflections on identity and the historical record. Laurel Reed Pavic reviews.
The Portland-area visual artist and children’s book author talks about her journey into the world of mouse-making and the importance of nature in her work.
Ngo, who says one of her strengths for mosaic is her tolerance for tedious work, will give a Jan. 14 presentation on what she saw in Ravenna and other mosaic centers of Italy.
The self-taught McMinnville pyrographer and etcher says creating art is integral to his life. “When it comes to doing what I’m passionate about, it’s close to meditation.”
Stage & Studio: In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with Law and Chiu about their new show with fellow artists Shu-Ju Wang and Sam Roxas-Chua at the Portland Chinatown Museum.
The weather outside may be frightful but there is plenty of art (inside!) to explore this month. Lindsay Costello rounds up December’s noteworthy offerings.
Joint shows at the Schneider, a solo show of Prest’s work and a group show curated by Prest, offer viewers a meditative moment contemplating abstraction.
The painter’s lush and surrealistic canvases are right at home in the theater space. Patrick Collier considers their colorful allure.
Review: Rawls’ screen-prints at Adams and Ollman Gallery are like a tug-of-war between dance and writing.
Victoria Anne Reis and manuel arturo abreu’s first exhibition of their year-long curatorial residency continues the work of their “homeschool” educational project.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with theater leader Josh Hecht, art school dean Jen Cole, opera singer Hannah Penn, novelist Tony Ardizzone, and film prop and effects artist Christina Kortum.
The photographs in Blue Sky’s pair of November exhibitions are profoundly different, but Shannon M. Lieberman finds common ground in the artists’ optimism.
The Beaverton arts center’s new gallery show from Studio Abioto, a family of talented Black women artists, traces a thread back to the land.
Theaters and galleries ramp up for the holidays with a stone-age musical, a new adaptation of Dickens’ classic, art sales, and a Pride Winter Ball.
The pandemic inspired five women to find a new way to “keep each other buoyed in the storm,” both financially and spiritually.
The Lane County photographer’s retrospective in Springfield surveys 60 years of work. Blake Andrews reviews the show and considers Neevel’s wide-ranging interests.
The 30-year-old event, last held in 2019, takes place on the West Valley Community Campus, an up-and-coming center for art and culture.
The weather may be gloomy but Lindsay Costello has plenty of art offerings and happenings to brighten up the shorter days.
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