‘Tree People’: The life and lore of the forest
July 19, 2024
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Exhibits of a major Surrealist artist getting her due and a photographer known for his images of children amid war give rise to a host of cultural connections.
In the exhibition “Ms. Molly’s Voice” at the Columbia Gorge Museum, a collection of family quilts reveals beauty, pain, remembrance, and secret signs along the Underground Railroad.
For four days, the Portland garden joins others around the world in the artist and peace activist’s almost 30-year project of creating and adorning Wish Trees in pursuit of peace.
As a Vancouver show tells multiple tales, an inspiring exhibit at California’s Huntington Library concentrates on a single artist: the chronicler of Black life Sargent Claude Johnson.
“We might not be interested in war, but war will be interested in us”: An expansive Los Angeles exhibit on propaganda and art during World War I has parallels to the war-torn world of today.
At Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Ruth Ross and other artists stitch and weave tales that open up many questions.
Looking at “Black Artists of Oregon” and “Africa Fashion” at the Portland Art Museum.
A new exhibit at the Beaverton art center showcases a variety of rising artists displaying fresh work that engages in many kinds of conversations.
In a show of paintings at the Columbia Gorge Museum, the artist reveals a Realism beyond reality – and a gnarly Medusa-like image blowing in the wind.
Margles, the longtime executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, retires after 24 years of inspired leadership.
Art on the Road: In Los Angeles, links to past and present, peace and war in the art of William Blake and Arthur Tress
In a Southern California museum dedicated to the work of Latin American artists, a trio of exhibitions offer food for thought and a feast for the eyes.
A bold exhibition at the Hammer Museum reveals the City of Angels from street level, basking in the textures of the city’s past and its roiling, often overlooked contemporary realities.
A new exhibit by the Portland Japanese Garden’s artist-in-residence looks with fresh eyes on the cultural meanings of Kyoto’s Rashomon Gate.
A ramble through public art spaces and a new exhibit at Salem’s Bush Barn Art Center that Pitt calls her last public show reveals the heart and spirit of a remarkable and beloved artist.
The Portland artist’s stack of birds in The Reser’s plaza brings something special to the Converge 45 biennial: a touch of joy.
At Russo Lee Gallery, an Indigenous artist’s images suggest a “green colonialism” in which extraction of minerals for new technology once again overrides tribal rights.
Using body casts, human hair, and melted aluminum, new work by Kate Simmons at Clackamas Community College’s Alexander Gallery explores ideas about body image and decay.
In partnership with CONVERGE 45, The Reser presents art with pointed questions and an international outlook by Jorge Tacla, Karl LeClair, Malia Jensen and Miroslav Lovric.
Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander (and Dalí) at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
The veteran Portland artist’s July show at NINE Gallery springs from her own breast cancer and the pioneering treatment she chose to defeat it.
New leadership and a show of diverse work by women artists in the Gorge suggest a transformation of ideas at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.
Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
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.
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