Friderike Heuer

Friderike Heuer is a photographer and photomontage artist. Trained as an experimental psychologist at the New School for Social Research, she taught at Lewis & Clark College until she retired to pursue art full time. Her cultural blog www.heuermontage.com explores art and politics on a daily basis through photography and commentary. She has exhibited most recently at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Camerawork Gallery, on issues concerning migrants and refugees. She frequently volunteers as a photographer for small, local arts non-profits. For more information, visit www.friderikeheuer.online.

Phantasmagoria: On the collision of art and politics

December 17, 2024Friderike Heuer

As we enter a new era of deep cultural divide, old ideas of male dominance are on the rise, echoing ideas in traditional art. New art overlaid on the old can tell a more equitable social story.

Art on the Road: On the Oregon coast, a crossover of art and nature

September 23, 2024Friderike Heuer

A "PaintOut" tradition with friends, begun by artist Nelson Sandgren in 1978 and carried forward by his son Erik, gets a lively retrospective at Oregon State University's Giustina Gallery.

‘Tree People’: The life and lore of the forest

July 19, 2024Friderike Heuer

Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland's World Forestry Center.

Between Two Worlds: Leonora Carrington and David Seymour (Chim) at the Oregon Jewish Museum

July 6, 2024Friderike Heuer

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.

Art as Witness: Quilting a slave’s story

June 15, 2024Friderike Heuer

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.

Spread Peace: Yoko Ono’s installation at Portland Japanese Garden

June 7, 2024Friderike Heuer

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.

Art on the Road: Sculptures with stories

May 4, 2024Friderike Heuer

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.

Art on the Road: ‘Imagined Fronts – The Great War and Global Media’ at LACMA

April 13, 2024Friderike Heuer

"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.

Stitching stories: What to do with the past?

March 12, 2024Friderike Heuer

At Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Ruth Ross and other artists stitch and weave tales that open up many questions.

Songs from the Congo

February 13, 2024Friderike Heuer

Looking at "Black Artists of Oregon" and "Africa Fashion" at the Portland Art Museum.

Talent, emerging: New artists at The Reser

January 12, 2024Friderike Heuer

A new exhibit at the Beaverton art center showcases a variety of rising artists displaying fresh work that engages in many kinds of conversations.

Christopher Pothier: In the eye of the beholder

December 31, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Judy Margles: Farewell to a Founder

December 4, 2023Friderike Heuer

Margles, the longtime executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, retires after 24 years of inspired leadership.

Surrealism and Subversion at The Getty

November 24, 2023Friderike Heuer

Art on the Road: In Los Angeles, links to past and present, peace and war in the art of William Blake and Arthur Tress

Art on the Road: At the Museum of Latin American Art

November 9, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Art on the Road: Made in L.A. 2023

October 21, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

From ordinary to extraordinary: Takahiro Iwasaki’s push on perspective

October 4, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Resilient, flexible, forgiving: The gifts of Lillian Pitt

September 29, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Endless Pigeons: Malia Jensen at The Reser

August 25, 2023Friderike Heuer

The Portland artist's stack of birds in The Reser's plaza brings something special to the Converge 45 biennial: a touch of joy.

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith’s Ghosts in the Machine

August 21, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Taking stock of the body

August 14, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship

August 7, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

At the Jewish Museum, the humanity of the moment

July 12, 2023Friderike Heuer

Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander (and Dalí) at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

Laura Ross-Paul: Breasts and beyond

July 2, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

A Call for a Commons in the Gorge

June 19, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.

‘We all really are the same Stardust’

June 13, 2023Friderike Heuer

Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.

The vital art of reflecting on disease

May 29, 2023Friderike Heuer

Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.

Art on the Road: Come for the murals. Stay for the mothers.

April 18, 2023Friderike Heuer

Along the San Fernando Valley's "Mural Mile," art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place's people and cultures.

Art on the Road: Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems at the Getty

April 13, 2023Friderike Heuer

In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.

Art on the Road: History captured in LACMA prints

April 4, 2023Friderike Heuer

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.