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Karin Clarke is James Kroner’s gallerist and one of his students. A show of Kroner’s recent paintings marks the 20th anniversary of Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene.
Lindsay Costello highlights February’s not-to-be-missed art offerings. Possibilities include visual explorations of identity construction, the potentials of cast-off materials, and imagined worlds.
What’s behind a major Portland gallery’s decision to pull out of Cascade AIDS Project’s charity auction.
The images, from the collection of photographer Bill Rhoades, run from the New Deal to the present and include work by famous Oregon photographers.
The artist’s assemblages are products of conscientious sustainability and a longing for a less cluttered and misused world, and express a vague hope for a better outcome.
Boosters envision the town of 2,300 becoming the “arts center of the Central Oregon Coast.”
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
A fresh exhibit of the late Oregon artist’s multifaceted work suggests the many masks and guises that create identity.
A new all-Latinx comic anthology is the latest from the award-winning Portland independent comics publisher P&M Press.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
New year, new art! Lindsay Costello has the scoop on January’s art offerings.
The group exhibition in Stelo’s new space on the Park Blocks features works created during two years of the organization’s papermaking and letterpress residencies.
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Artist cooperative Physical Education’s DIY exhibition weaves the history of their collaboration into personal gift shop memorabilia.
“Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris 1889-1900” highlights the early careers of four artists.
Any member of the Maude Kerns Art Center can exhibit at the annual “Art for All Seasons” event. Ester Barkai explores this democratic approach to showing art.
Immersive Van Gogh exhibits are all the rage in 2021. What do they offer viewers?
Art exhibitions, gallery shows, and other not-to-miss art events in December.
“OFFAL,” Simone Fischer’s exhibition at Astoria Visual Arts, offers a meditation on consumption and industrial farming.
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