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Lauren Carrera: On beyond Victoriana

The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.

“The Quick” at Lumber Room

The works in Diedrick Brackens and D’Angelo Lovell Williams’ joint show explore Black identity, joy, and liberation.

Pace Taylor at Nationale

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.

April Waters’ Antarctic visions

The Salem artist’s exhibit “Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica” at the Hallie Ford Museum blends science and art in a land of extremes.

Sixty years of Judy Chicago

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.

VizArts Monthly: Here on Earth

Summer is here! Time for graduations, picnics, and quality outdoor time. Lindsay Costello rounds up June’s art offerings.

Conversations at the Ceramic Showcase

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.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 3

K.B. Dixon continues his series with five fresh photographic portraits of people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.

BANKSYLAND: Where nothing is as it seems

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.

VizArts Monthly: Collaborative justice

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.

VizArts Monthly: In or out?

April’s art offerings provide an opportunity to reflect on quotidian existence, the notion of home, and our relationship with the natural world.

Exquisite Gorge II: Felt Worlds

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.

The sensitive eye of a radical

Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.

Lee Kelly, giant of NW art, dies at 89

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.

Frida Kahlo, off the conveyer belt

The secret to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.

Art Review: Birthe Piontek at Blue Sky Gallery

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.

Art on the Road: On (un)predictability

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.

VizArts Monthly: Spring reflections

Art on view in March includes quilts, photographs, installations, paintings, and films. Lindsay Costello previews the shows that will welcome spring around Oregon.

Henk Pander: Witness to the standoff

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.

Art Review: Pat Boas at Oregon Contemporary

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.

Art Review: Olivia Faith Harwood at Fuller Rosen Gallery

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.

Art review: Juan Santiago at Gambrel Gallery

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 at Blue Sky Gallery

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.”

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