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The recent arrival to the North Coast has her first Oregon show, “Ode to Mother Nature,” at the gallery through Dec. 31.
“Take Me to the Water,” on display through Jan. 12, includes panels on Oregonians Louis Southworth and Alvin McCleary.
From pastel drawings to ceramics to metal crafts, artsy options are plentiful in wine country.
December’s picks highlight cycles of change in everything from the natural world to drag festival fashion. Also featured this month are holiday market options – gifting is cyclical too!
The Portland photographer’s vibrant portraits of Oregon Black “superheroes” fill two galleries at Salem’s Bush Barn Art Center and Bush Barn Museum and a third at Portland Center Stage.
The premise of the new exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, began formulating in curator Melissa F. Feldman’s mind after the New Yorker moved to the Seattle area
Progressive art studios offer space and support for artists to create and thrive. Navigating the art world’s power dynamics requires attention and care.
The exhibition “Before my Very Eyes” features both large- and small-scale abstract compositions. Danial’s deft handling of paint highlights her commitment to form and an artistic process that unfolds at its own speed.
Parsons, known and admired for her collage work and her long teaching career at The Museum Art School, was active as an artist well into the 21st century.
Murals by professor Tim Timmerman and stained glass by Bryant Stanton add color to the graceful space, where an open house on Thursday will welcome visitors.
Work by 14 artists sparks conversation on the human connection to water flowing through every aspect of our lives.
The show, running through Nov. 22, is a tribute to the power of ink on paper and how that power has functioned as a political tool — and still can.
While November’s dark and cold may discourage leaving the house, there are plenty of art exhibits to entice you out and about.
In the final of three stories examining the Supreme Court’s decision on Andy Warhol’s use of previous material, David Slader talks with Portland art figures about the myth of the original.
The Halloween group show is a gallery tradition. It fits given that the gallery takes its name from a now-closed neighborhood costume shop. The fourth annual exhibition features suspended gloves, helmets, and witches.
The exhibition “Kintsugi: the Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru” features the Japanese approach to repair in which breaks or imperfections are highlighted rather than hidden. The artist emphasizes the healing capacities of the practice.
Mike Vos discusses the journeys and breakthroughs leading to his new photography book, “Somewhere in Another Place.”
With hundreds of photographs and video shots taken over years, a former software engineer found his inner artist.
PICA’s TBA Festival wrapped in September but an exhibition in the Cooley Memorial Art Gallery and a vitrine installation in the library are on view through December. Hannah Krafcik considers the work of Sarah Gilbert, and Pato Hebert, and Jess Perlitz.
Marne Lucas is an artist and end-of-life doula. In her ongoing ‘Bardo Project’ she collaborates with artists facing life-limiting illnesses. In 2015, photographer Chris Brunkhart was her first collaborator.
Housed in an old schoolhouse containing looms, a library, a gallery, and gift shop, the center is one of 10 working fiber arts museums in the United States.
The developer, philanthropist, and art collector, already an investor in the arts at Northwest public universities, discusses the need to support arts education in Oregon’s primary and secondary public schools.
Salem artist Randall Tosh’s dreamlike photographs, springing from a memorable boyhood encounter in the woods, pierce the veil between the known and the unknown.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of animator & filmmaker Rose Bond, painter Chris Russell, composer Judy A. Rose, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop founder Craig Florence, and writer & editor Rachel King.
Time, talent, and a fertile soil for nourishing creativity: At Yamhill County’s A to Z Wineworks, artists in residence help produce the wine as they create their art.
Portland-based artist Wendy Red Star wins a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship; In commemoration of October 7th, poet Mimi German will read poems to mourn lives lost; Mona Huneidi’s installation at PCC honors the war’s missing journalists.
There are many ways to mark and reflect upon the passage of time. This month’s picks for VizArts Monthly capture the phenomenon in everything from fashion to clay to obsolete technology.
For two weekends, more than 60 wine country artists will open their work spaces to visitors for the 30th annual Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County.
The late Oregon artist’s work is on view at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene this fall as well as at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Nothing comes from nothing; a historical look at the art of the “steal”: The court’s Warhol decision and the myth of the original.
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.
A summer project adds seven works of art to a downtown alley between Davis and Evans streets.
Online bidding starts Monday for work by two dozen artists, including a Lee Kersh ukulele, culminating in a Sept. 28 event in Newport.
The 26-by-62-foot work along U.S. 101 brings to 10 the murals designed to bring artwork to life in rural locations around the state.
The author, musician, actor, as well as artist, has been sketching since he was inspired by “Terry and the Pirates” as a child.
The Supreme Court’s Andy Warhol decision and the myth of the original. Part 1: The new law of creation.
Staged as part of the return of PICA’s Time-Based Art festival, Whitehead’s impressive opera explores embodied and emotional experiences around incarceration.
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
The gallery, in an industrial park, is a sprawling nexus of beautiful, high-end art, savvy entrepreneurship, state-of-the-art technology, and light industry.
Summer is going out with a confusing bang: The last two weeks of August were cool and rainy but September is starting with a heat wave! Fortunately the gallery scene is heating up, too.
An adjacent restaurant fire Aug. 5 poured smoke and soot into the blue-chip gallery, coating everything. Now restorers are beginning to clean 1,500 artworks, and the gallery hopes to reopen in December or January.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
A job layoff inspired the Albany man to get back to photography. He found a subject in his daughter’s childhood.
“Never an Even Folding” features twelve paintings that confirm the painter’s deep knowledge of her medium and engagement with the Modernist tradition.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.
The artist’s second solo show at One Grand Gallery, “Unseasonably Warm,” features an identifiable lexicon of shapes. The story that unfolds in the works manages to be both intensely personal and universal.
Despite July’s theme of slowing down, I still feel like it came and went so fast! Even so, my efforts did yield some results: I started noticing small details of my everyday life. One of those previously overlooked details was the vibrant
August shows also include a family of ceramicists at Linfield University and stories from the forest at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s cultural center.
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Belluschi found a mentor in Anderson, an acclaimed artist who divides her time between Carrara, Italy, and Nehalem on the Oregon Coast. The two are among more than a dozen artists participating in the July 20 tour.
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