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.

Frank Kowing: Breathing the high-altitude ether of discovery

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.

Honor the Past, Respect the Present: On the Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Columbia River Gorge

A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.

Exquisite Gorge II: It begins with sheep

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.

Raise a Voice: Art as Social Praxis

An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.

Film Fables and Fairytales

Morocco's "The Unknown Saint" and South Korea's "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" spin beauty from fable.

World Film: Satire and Drama

A lush retelling of a Nancy Mitford novel, a winner from New Zealand about the travails of three Maori cousins.

Intersections: Telling future tales

In a time of cultural and climate meltdown, are literary artists predicting the history of what's to come?

Fraying Around the Edges

Amid a pandemic and racial reckoning, Friderike Heuer's photo montages set sail against melancholy.

Fluchtgedanken: Thoughts of Escape

Friderike Heuer's montage series based on George Tooker's art raises timely questions of who lives or dies.

At Albertina Kerr, art of ebullience

Not "outside": Portland Art and Learning Studio artists create an exhilarating exhibit at Gallery 114.

Land and Water: By Necessity

A gathering of Native American activists and a documentary film join the battle against climate threats.

Southern Rites at the Jewish Museum

Photographer Gillian Laub's probing of the persistence of racial attitudes is visual activism at its best.

Our place in the fabric of the world

Finding the warp and weft of things in Amanda Triplett's studio and a trip to the Portland Art Museum.

Photo First: Hope and joy

A showcase of student dancers highlights the talent and promise of a new generation.

‘Nothing at all of this is fixed’

A visit to see Dorothy Goode's joyful, merging, overlapping, playful paintings.

New art territory in Oregon City

At the Museum of the Oregon Territory, a "gutsy art of overcoming" creates an art show and an auction.

The new history: Dreams Deferred

As the U.S. cracks down on "Dreamers," the Oregon Historical Society digs deep into the stories of new Americans.

Art on the Road: Kollwitz in L.A.

An expansive exhibit at the Getty gets to the grit of the great German modernist's life and work.

A soldier’s journey

Charles Burt charts a course from the rigors of military life to the rigors of an art academy.

Art on the Road: Transparency in Tacoma

An LGBTQ+ glass art exhibition at the Museum of Glass is a celebration, a memorial, and an unveiling.

The Inside Show

A collaboration of artists and inmates gives lively, often funny voice to the view from inside the walls.

Happy birthday, Street Roots

The weekly paper and its vendor-poets celebrate 20 years as beacons of advocacy for the city's homeless.

Art on the Road: Whitney Biennial

The power of codes in the art of black women: an adventurous show talks smartly with art on the streets.

Art on the Road: Hudson Yards

An architectural enclave for the uber-wealthy rises in Manhattan, with a hollow folly in the middle.

Exquisite Gorge 11: It’s a print!

It all came together under the sun: Maryhill Museum's audacious, 66-foot long print went to press via steam roller.

Exquisite Gorge 10: The Truth-Teller

As Columbia Gorge print day approaches, artist and veteran Drew Cameron talks about art and war.

Exquisite Gorge 8 & 9: The Map Makers

As the print date for Maryhill Museum's Columbia River project approaches, its artists think about the mix of maps and territory.

Exquisite Gorge 7: The Explorer

Printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson follows Lewis & Clark's westward path to make her mark on theColumbia River project.

Exquisite Gorge 6: The Guardian

Grand Ronde tribes' Greg Archuleta links past and future in Maryhill's Columbia Gorge print project.

Exquisite Gorge 5: The Alchemist

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER “Alchemy – noun : a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.” (Merriam-Webster)  * THE ENGLISH WORD ALCHEMY has its historical…