Art review: Yoshi Kitai’s “Ambivalence”
Laurel Reed Pavic
June 15, 2022
The artist continues his “Conflux” series with his signature Gansai dots and gilded clouds in this June show at Froelick Gallery.
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The artist continues his “Conflux” series with his signature Gansai dots and gilded clouds in this June show at Froelick Gallery.
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River art project.
The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.
The pieces from the museum’s Rasmussen Collection of Native American Art, taken from their Alaska homes in the 1930s, are given back.
The works in Diedrick Brackens and D’Angelo Lovell Williams’ joint show explore Black identity, joy, and liberation.
The immersive video and sound installation explores mountain tops from a rotating vantage point at varying speeds.
Taylor’s show “Breathe when you need to” opens June 10th and explores the concept of masking through portraits. Hannah Krafcik visited the artist in their studio to learn more about the works’ multilayered inspiration.
The Salem artist’s exhibit “Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica” at the Hallie Ford Museum blends science and art in a land of extremes.
All of the works in the mini retrospective “Judy Chicago, Turning Inward” now open at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education come from the collections of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
Summer is here! Time for graduations, picnics, and quality outdoor time. Lindsay Costello rounds up June’s art offerings.
The Oregon Potters Association held its first in-person Ceramic Showcase in two years in May at the Portland Convention Center. Maguelonne Ival attended and interviewed fellow ceramicists about art, value, and prestige.
Jenn Sova’s exhibit probes the failed hopes and expectations of fatherhood by juxtaposing remnants, personal effects, and organic materials.
The best part of “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” is in the museum’s Schnitzer Sculpture Court, before you enter the exhibition.
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.
As the nation celebrates the art of language, K.B. Dixon photographs ten leading Oregon poets.
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.
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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.
Piontek’s photographs explore the intricacies of family, love, and inevitable loss. The title of the exhibition, “Abendlied,” means lullaby or evening song in German, capturing the intimacy of the series.
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.
The Portland artist’s paintings, at the Salem museum through March 26, tackle American history, culture, and racial injustice.
The group exhibition features quilts from the Springfield History Museum in conversation with quilt-inspired works by contemporary artists.
“Rosalie Knox: Conversation with the Last Unicorn” features abstract compositions inspired by the club scene and the unexpected medium of nail polish.
Art on view in March includes quilts, photographs, installations, paintings, and films. Lindsay Costello previews the shows that will welcome spring around Oregon.
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A suite of fiery paintings at the Oregon Jewish Museum goes face to face with the cultural clashes between police and protesters in downtown Portland.
Pat Boas’ abstract wallpaper and painting installation for the “Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017-2019” exhibition at Oregon Contemporary captures Patrick Collier’s attention.
Stage & Studio podcast: Dmae Roberts talks with the artistically versatile Abioto about Black culture and her many projects.
In the paintings in her debut show, “Possessions, Possessions,” Harwood weaves together chimerical forms, childhood memories, and mundane items pulled from everyday life to create emotionally resonant compositions.
Two potters have turned an abandoned middle school into a center for art classes serving adults and Reedsport School District students.
The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.
71 porcelain princesses grace Juan Santiago’s exhibition “No Mirrors in this House” at Gambrel Gallery in Ashland. Though cast from a single mold, each figure’s appearance varies due to the mold’s inevitable degradation.
Ward Shortridge had a knack for capturing people authentically and generously. His photographs on view at Blue Sky Gallery showcase his ability to “see right into people’s hearts.”
Linfield Gallery opens a window on the remarkable life and work of an Oregon artist who traveled the world restlessly and created beautiful, disquieting art.
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