Visual Arts

Our visual arts coverage is made possible in part by support from The Ford Family Foundation’s Visual Arts Program.

Once garbage, now art: Columbia Basin Basketry Guild transforms trash into baskets for Lincoln City Cultural Center show

Guild members used dog food bags, plastic tabs, and other debris to weave vessels for the exhibit opening Friday.

Newport muralist Casey McEneny applies his talent — and paint — to Astoria Armory building

The Astoria Column, a Chinook salmon, and a pilot’s wheel are among coastal images gracing what is becoming a signature gateway to downtown Astoria.

At the table with Adelina Ruvalcaba at One Grand Gallery

The artist's show "I Am de Mis Antepasadas" celebrates heritage, memory, and cuisine through meticulously crafted food and tablewares.

Hallie Ford Museum of Art showcases Oregon’s foremost Modernist painter with ‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’

Scholar Roger Saydack has organized the exhibition of more than 40 works by the artist who helped shape America’s view of the West.

‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’: Roger Saydack’s book is a thorough and precise chronicle of the Modernist Oregon painter

The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

50 years of quilting: Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show celebrates its golden anniversary

Jean Wells started the show in 1975 with a handful of quilts hung outside her Stitchin' Post quilt shop. This year's show, July 12, is expected to draw more than 10,000 visitors.

From newsroom to canvas: Art Van Kraft shifts his stories from words to paint

The broadcast journalist and NPR news director shifted to visual stories after moving to Ashland nine years ago. This month his art is at Langford Art Gallery in Phoenix.

VizArts Monthly: This land is . . .

July may start with a holiday week but plenty of Oregon galleries and venues have new shows to consider and enjoy.

Postcards to the Future asks: ‘What would you want to share with the future about your life today?’

The Lincoln County Historical Society project, to be exhibited over the July 4 holiday in Newport, has drawn correspondence from around the world.

Grain and groove: ‘WOODCORE’ at Lake Oswego’s Artspace

The Pacific Northwest has an abundance of wood. The work in the show at the Arts Council of Lake Oswego's Artspace confirms area artists know how to coax the best out the material.

Rock & music inspired: ‘Oregon Origins Project’ at Stelo Arts

The gallery show at Stelo Arts is part of the sixth installment of the 'Oregon Origins Project'. The exhibition features works by ten artists inspired by ten geological events that shaped the Oregon landscape.

Isaka Shamsud-Din: Portland’s voice of determined joy

A pivotal figure in the city's art world, the distinguished painter and chronicler of the breadth and vigor of Black American life has died after a long battle with cancer.

Art on the Road: Is there a safe place?

As massive protests rise from L.A. to D.C., three exhibitions at the California African American Museum and the Benton Museum of Art Pomona College tackle questions of how to live with oppression, instability, and an uncertain future.

MFA:NW connects emerging artists and rural communities, this month at the Pendleton Center for the Arts

In its pilot year, a juried show of work by eight young artists explores issues of gender, sexuality, and being in the world as a physical body.

VizArts Monthly: Ethereal Summer

Is the beginning of summer the time to contemplate the nature of the universe? It certainly seems to be the focus of several June exhibitions.

Unpacking the Fairview Training Center

The multi-pronged project "Our Fairview..." is spearheaded by Bruce Burris, Jill Baker, and Paul Meuse. Art-making, workshops, research, and conversation all figure into the amorphous but ambitious undertaking.

Remembering Bob Dozono

The beloved artist, professor, and Blackfish Gallery member passed away in April. Fellow artist Rick True celebrates Dozono's artistic talent, community contributions, and generous heart.

Michelle Grabner: Elevating the familiar

In 'Underdone Potato', an expansive exhibition at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Grabner continues her meditations on craft and daily life. Ham tins, jam jars, and cereal boxes all make an appearance.

Trail’s End Art Association: In Gearhart, a fellowship of artists

The club, which offers an egalitarian welcome to artists ranging from painters to needleworkers to gourd-crafters, is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

‘Solito’ author Javier Zamora will speak Wednesday at Linfield University on migration, identity, and memory

The appearance by the poet and memoirist is part of the school's “Learning Across Boundaries” program, which also includes a literary and visual art display.

Identities and paper at The Reser

The artists in the group show 'Infinite Possibilities' use paper as a medium to explore complex ideas around family, memory, and history. The resulting works are as poignant as they are beautiful.

Peter Gallo: Divine sense and madness

The artist's West Coast debut, "Peter Gallo: Gods, Sluts & Martyrs" on view at Adams and Ollman, incorporates found materials, thickly painted impasto, and juxtaposed text to explore creativity and art's social framing.

VizArts Monthly: Exploring balance

Exhibitions on view in May tackle everything from past selves to Taiwanese snack logos. Whether you're in the mood for something contemplative, funky, or just plain mysterious - maybe all three? - VizArts Monthly has got you covered.

Every dog has its day in Jessica Poundstone’s new book, ‘Museum of Dogs’

The Portland artist and author will be at Powell’s Books on May 10, followed by visits to Cloud and Leaf in Manzanita, and A Sometimes Gallery in Portland.

Remembering veteran Portland painter William Park

The artist, who has died at 79, "loved all the ways of slathering and glopping and moving paint around on the palette and then onto painting surfaces.”

David Eckard, sculptor and performance artist, dies at 60

The multitalented, prolific Portland artist was an energetic collaborator and beloved professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Transgressors: Crossing cultural boundaries as Indigiqueer and Two Spirit artists

An exhibit, curated by Anthony Hudson and Felix Furby, explores Indigenous history, identity, and cultural revitalization through the work of nine multidisciplinary artists, including Jeffrey Gibson and Geo Soctomah Neptune.

Kristie Strasen: A world not of this world

In the studio with the textile artist as she creates "River Stories," an abstract "map" in yarn of the Columbia River, set to open in June at the Columbia Gorge Museum.

In forests, Liza Faktor finds inspiration and consolation

The photographer and curator, half a world away from her native Russia, explores a deep, ongoing relationship with wilderness.

Dinh Q. Lê at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Lê died unexpectedly at age 56 in 2024. The survey at the artist's long-time Portland gallery includes the artist's well-known photo-weavings along with sculptural and photographic work.