Ruth Ross: Red Scare, Ripped Threads
Friderike Heuer
July 31, 2022
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.
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.
The Oregon Symphony’s Zach Galatis and friends raise the roof in the kickoff show of this summer’s Concerts in the Barn.
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
K.B. Dixon’s series of portraits continues with the Oregon Symphony’s Scott Showalter, Renegade Opera’s Madeline Ross, theater leader Michael Mendelson, poet Genevieve DeGuzman, and roots music legend Lloyd Jones.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
On a warm day in Beaverton, all sorts of dancers stepped out to perform on the Tiny Stage – and the effect was big. A photo essay by Joe Cantrell.
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.
The 2022 Waterfront Blues Festival goes out with a fireworks bang on the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell catches the action on the festival’s fourth and final day.
On Sunday at the Waterfront Blues Festival, Mysti Krewe’s bones rattle, Taj Mahal headlines, LaRhonda Steele soars, and much more. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures the spirit of it all.
As the music plays on the second day of Portland’s big blues bash on the waterfront, the feet start moving to the beat – and photographer Joe Cantrell captures the action.
The Waterfront Blues Festival, back full force after Covid slowdowns, brings back the beat through the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell snaps highlights from Day One.
Multi-disciplinary ‘Glass Stories’ project leads the Portland jazz musician to other times, places, and art forms.
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.
Multimedia exhibition captures stories of survivors who fled war, persecution, and genocide to rebuild their lives in Oregon.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
“One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular”: At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.
K.B. Dixon begins a new series with photographic portraits of eleven people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
Blake Andrews interviews Shawn Records about photography, Joseph Campbell, becoming an adult, and his new book “Hero.”
Double-exposure photographs by Mike Vos, Dinh Q. Lê and Gary Burnley speak to our polarized times.
On Street Photography Day, Portland photographer K.B. Dixon celebrates the art of capturing the moment.
A Lincoln City exhibit calls attention to “living laboratories” set aside for conservation and research.
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
In his continuing series of portraits of Oregon artists, photographer K.B. Dixon profiles 11 outstanding writers.
After COVID and wildfires, Yaacov Bergman felt compelled to recognize the pain, as well as the courage.
As the world begins to waken, K.B. Dixon and his camera rediscover the pleasures of an arts & crafts fair.
The story of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams and Portland photographer Stu Levy.
From the symphony to baroque to jazz to Celtic to opera to a legendary luthier, an Oregon all-star team.
Blake Andrews reviews Christopher Rauschenberg’s “India Pushtogethers” exhibit on view at Nine Gallery.
Laurel Reed Pavic reviews “Ansel Adams in Our Time” on view at the Portland Art Museum.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
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