Exquisite Gorge II: A Feat of Translation
Friderike Heuer
June 20, 2022
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we’ve been missing.
Ready or not, here it comes. After two years in the Covid desert, Portland’s Rose Festival roars back. Let the Bacchanalia begin.
Yes, it’s a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.
K.B. Dixon continues his series with five fresh photographic portraits of people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
Juliana Souther’s multimedia exhibit at The Arts Center conveys a sense of deep longing for connection.
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.
Blake Andrews interviews the Bend-based photographer about past and future projects and her recent Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
As the nation celebrates the art of language, K.B. Dixon photographs ten leading Oregon poets.
Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.
The secret to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.
By a popular restaurant on the way to the Oregon Coast, an open-air logging museum offers the strange and ghostly beauty of ruination. A photo essay by K.B. Dixon.
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.
Photo essay: Portland’s iconic video store and memorabilia museum has kept the film lights flickering through the pandemic.
Stage & Studio podcast: Dmae Roberts talks with the artistically versatile Abioto about Black culture and her many projects.
The industrialization of the Columbia River continues to destroy local salmon ecosystems and the livelihoods of Indigenous fishers who depend on them.
K.B. Dixon continues his photo series with portraits of ten more people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.
The images, from the collection of photographer Bill Rhoades, run from the New Deal to the present and include work by famous Oregon photographers.
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