Art review: Gabe Fernandez’ ‘Liminal Space’
K.B. Dixon
April 6, 2024
The Portland painter’s show at Russo Lee Gallery focuses on “the complex strangeness of quiet spaces” in the urban landscape.
The Portland painter’s show at Russo Lee Gallery focuses on “the complex strangeness of quiet spaces” in the urban landscape.
What would happen if we turned grandiosity into a joke? Building big, artist Erik Geschke sculpts himself into the possibilities.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with All Classical’s Suzanne Nance, poet Carlos Reyes, playwright Andrea Stolowitz, visual artist James Minden, and flautist Amelia Lukas.
The veteran Portland artist’s July show at NINE Gallery springs from her own breast cancer and the pioneering treatment she chose to defeat it.
After a tumultuous few years, a recent self-curated show in her new home gave this venerable, multitalented artist a sense of agency and renewal.
Leslie Peterson Sapp’s vivid collage-paintings reflecting the moods of Film Noir echo a long creative history of borrowing and revising in music and art.
The Portland photographer’s images and stories about survivors of genocidal wars open at U.N. headquarters in New York. Plus: Brenda Mallory at the Heard, Cynthia Lahti at the movies.
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
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.
Grenon’s paintings on glass conveyed folk-art vigor and psychological vitality: a stark gaze back at the viewer’s gaze.
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
The Portland painter’s historical revisions at Froelick Gallery upend the view of gender in Western art. Also at Froelick: Michael Schultheis’s explosions of paint.
“A sewing bee that can help mend our society”: Textile artist Bonnie Meltzer and a lot of helpers transform a giant parachute into a symbol of hope at the Jewish Museum.
Ten portraits in black and white by K.B. Dixon of Oregon artists making their mark on the world.
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