The vital art of reflecting on disease
May 29, 2023
Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.
Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.
Along the San Fernando Valley’s “Mural Mile,” art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place’s people and cultures.
In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.
Art and politics square off in a pair of print shows from the Los Angeles County Art Museum and a trip through the city’s sprawling streets.
A grand Southern California camellia garden is built on stock bought dirt cheap from Japanese American farmers during World War II. The whole story is rarely told.
The Portland-raised tycoon’s eye for art and acquisition helped build a highly personal collection in Southern California.
At Lan Su Garden and the Portland Chinatown Museum, tradition meets new realities and possibilities – and the challenges of a houseless crisis.
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.
Harley Gaber’s photomontages and foreboding echoes of history at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
An exhibit of the Japanese American artist’s sculptures is strategically placed amid the garden. Do they fit into this reflective space? Decisively, yes.
A deep visit with the expanded garden and with the Japan Institute’s first artist in residence, Japanese glass artist Rui Sasaki.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
The Portland artist’s new show at Gallery 114 has roots in family history, the Rosenberg spy trial, and the excesses of the 1950s McCarthy era.
For Maryhill Museum’s Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
Sitting in on one of Erik Sandgren’s painting-from-nature group adventures in Depoe Bay. A photo essay by Friderike Heuer.
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
In her section of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.
A trip into the toxic center of the Northwest’s nuclear legacy, and to the museum that tells part of its story, reveals still-potent fissures over power, safety, and rights.
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
At the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, the artist’s seven “Story Circles” tell a tale of past and present culture from ground level.
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River art project.
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River craft art project.
A Brazilian artist’s overlapping visions of the natural and unnatural reflect the realities of the battles over Roe v. Wade and the future of liberal democracy.
From its Walters Arts Center to its Civic Center, a surprise Lee Kelly sculpture and more, Portland’s booming western neighbor offers a surprise for the eyes.
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
In “Celilo, Never Silenced,” the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton’s new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
Anthony Davis’s shattering work at Portland Opera opens deep and disturbing questions about race and policing in the United States.
On a path from Germany to Southern Oregon, sculptor Christian Burchard goes with the grain as he collects, cuts, turns, and dreams the surprises in the wood.
Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.
The industrialization of the Columbia River continues to destroy local salmon ecosystems and the livelihoods of Indigenous fishers who depend on them.
Linfield Gallery opens a window on the remarkable life and work of an Oregon artist who traveled the world restlessly and created beautiful, disquieting art.
A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.
The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum’s second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
A lush retelling of a Nancy Mitford novel, a winner from New Zealand about the travails of three Maori cousins.
In a time of cultural and climate meltdown, are literary artists predicting the history of what’s to come?
Amid a pandemic and racial reckoning, Friderike Heuer’s photo montages set sail against melancholy.
Friderike Heuer’s montage series based on George Tooker’s art raises timely questions of who lives or dies.
Not “outside”: Portland Art and Learning Studio artists create an exhilarating exhibit at Gallery 114.
A gathering of Native American activists and a documentary film join the battle against climate threats.
Photographer Gillian Laub’s probing of the persistence of racial attitudes is visual activism at its best.
Finding the warp and weft of things in Amanda Triplett’s studio and a trip to the Portland Art Museum.
A showcase of student dancers highlights the talent and promise of a new generation.
A visit to see Dorothy Goode’s joyful, merging, overlapping, playful paintings.
At the Museum of the Oregon Territory, a “gutsy art of overcoming” creates an art show and an auction.
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