Coast artist Dana LaMair discusses the science and art of botanical illustration
Lori Tobias
November 1, 2022
The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
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The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
The Portland art scene has, understandably, changed since the gallery’s opening in 1981. Laurel Reed Pavic sits down with Elizabeth Leach to get her perspective on the last 40 years.
Henk Pander and Noel Thomas are among the 20 artists celebrating ships, which “speak to an earlier time and a slower pace of travel,” the curator says.
More than 100 pieces from the George and Colleen Hoyt collection show that Native art is both contemporary and as much about beauty as utility.
The artist’s fall show “SENSITIVE CONTENT” explores censorship, art history, and societal collapse in full-gallery installation of interrelated mediums.
In its 25 years Donna Guardino’s Alberta Arts District gallery, now in the midst of its annual Day of the Dead show, has helped spur a renaissance in a once moribund part of the city.
A well-loved painter, printmaker and teacher whose career spanned more than 70 years, Johanson kept creating art deep into his 90s.
Harley Gaber’s photomontages and foreboding echoes of history at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
A show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center focuses on Mexican artisans, many in trades on the cusp of vanishing.
October means falling leaves and the return of Portland TextileX Month. Lindsay Costello’s VizArts Monthly has October’s art to see and events to attend.
A health scare got art collector Duane Snider thinking about where his art would go after he died. The process continues – with helping hands.
The self-guided tour over two weekends includes 49 painters, sculptors, book and jewelry makers, ceramacists, and fabric artists, among others.
About half of the 61 banners hanging from Newport lampposts – and to be auctioned in November – sport blue and yellow colors.
The show, now open at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, presents food-related works from Schnitzer’s impressive collection. The result is a sumptuous feast (for the eyes).
Southworth is the namesake of Waldport’s newly announced park. Pete Helzer’s life-sized bronze portrait will celebrate and pay tribute to Southworth and his remarkable life story.
“In My Own Little Corner” immerses viewers in an autobiographical exploration of past and present. Jennifer Rabin reviews.
Evan Baden’s photobook publishing venture is a passion project two years in the making. Blake Andrews visits Baden in his Corvallis garage, the home of Push Pull Editions, to discuss process and motivation.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with musicians Marv and Rindy Ross, artist David Eckard, actor Maureen Porter, and writer Todd Schultz.
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is the marquee event in the September art scene, but there are plenty of other offerings from watercolors to pen-and-ink drawings to multimedia cairns.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
The Portland photographer says she is interested in the “lived history of Black place,” the legacy of Black artists in Oregon who came before.
In her new show, “There is so much I want to tell you,” the artist builds upon her previous explorations with letterpress and hidden text with gossamer layers. The effect is anything but insubstantial.
A co-founder of Ori Gallery, Vivas has stepped away from arts administration and organizing in order to focus on their studio practice. Vivas discusses their art and “finding the playground at the end of the world” with Hannah Krafcik.
Coming months also see the return of the Walnut City Music Festival and Art Harvest Studio Tours, as well as Gallery Theater’s season and a Scottish festival.
In this two-part exhibition, curator Merridawn Duckler seeks to tackle the complicated legacy of the historical Land Art movement and consider how artists engage with land in the Pacific Northwest in the 21st century.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
The group of sculptures at PICA resists easy categorization but Hannah Krafcik finds multiple points of entry to consider.
The dual exhibition “Curly Hair/Hot Metal” juxtaposes Takasaki’s bold, gestural abstractions with Rogers’ figure-inclusive collages.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
August is for art and there’s plenty to see! Lindsay Costello rounds up the month’s offerings in galleries and alternative venues.
Street art abounds on the city’s walls – sometimes sanctioned, sometimes not. Is it time for Portland to join the “Free Walls” movement?
Berry says his work, part of the “Animals in Nature” show at the Newport museum, aims to raise awareness of climate degradation and loss of species.
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.
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.
For Maryhill Museum’s Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
The Scottish painter created images from the Middle East, traveling “at a time when things looked very different,” the exhibition curator says.
“Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon showcases a suite of hybrid prints and paintings. The exhibition is equally an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the artist’s remarkable career.
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
The Beaverton arts center’s exhibitions “Invisibilia” and “1,000 Moons” explore Asian heritage and the legacy of Japanese American incarceration camps.
A new book of collages, “I Made an Accident,” celebrates the Portland novelist and memoirist’s creative second act.
The Newport artist (and former mayor) finds her new show’s inspiration along the tidal flats of Yaquina Bay Road.
“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: the Exhibition” is currently on view in 28 cities around the globe, including Portland. What’s the draw and rationale?
In her section of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Curated by Yaelle S. Amir, the photographs in the artist’s debut exhibition explore masculinity, domestic space, and Asian identity.
Lindsay Costello has the scoop on July’s art offerings in Portland and around the state.
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
At the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, the artist’s seven “Story Circles” tell a tale of past and present culture from ground level.
Yamamoto’s quietly stunning work of dance at the Portland Art Museum begs to be widely seen.
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