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Entering into the abstract: “I found myself wanting to slide through an imagined gap between several layers as if a door was left ajar. ‘Explore,’ it tempted.”
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River craft art project.
K.B. Dixon continues his series with five fresh photographic portraits of people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell’Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.
The unauthorized exhibition debuts in Portland and is slated for a multi-city run. Banksy’s relationship to the art is as murky as the role of the show’s organizers.
May’s art offerings tackle everything from hopscotch to plant-made music to Antarctica. Lindsay Costello has the scoop on what to see this month.
The Portland artist is donating 100 percent of the proceeds from pieces sold — more than $60,000 so far — to GlobalGiving’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
The paintings in “Emanating” are evocative and lush. They may or may not include representations of Swedish Fish, airplanes, and the hand of God.
Juliana Souther’s multimedia exhibit at The Arts Center conveys a sense of deep longing for connection.
Blake Andrews interviews the Bend-based photographer about past and future projects and her recent Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
April’s art offerings provide an opportunity to reflect on quotidian existence, the notion of home, and our relationship with the natural world.
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.
A longtime shaper of the Oregon art scene, Kelly was known for his large-scale stainless steel and Cor-Ten sculptures, which combined abstract and geometric elements.
In “Celilo, Never Silenced,” the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton’s new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
The Hillsboro-based writer talks about her work, her love of Sylvia Plath, and Indigenizing the tarot deck.
The secret to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
Lloyd and Myrtle Hoffman, who offered classes and opened their home to friends and strangers, left as their legacy a gathering place for art lovers.
