VizArts Monthly: Paying attention
Jason N. Le
January 31, 2024
Commitment to New Year’s Resolutions may be waning but February’s art offerings remind us of the benefits of thoughtful attention and contemplation.
Commitment to New Year’s Resolutions may be waning but February’s art offerings remind us of the benefits of thoughtful attention and contemplation.
The delightful vagueness of the term abstract means that it is a perfect binder for many of October’s art offerings. Also this month, Portland Open Studios celebrates its 25th anniversary and the Sitka Art International celebrates its 29th year.
June’s art offerings explore the phenomena of memory in a variety of media including paint, performance, and piñata paper.
January’s art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what’s on view in this month’s VizArts Monthly.
Joint shows at the Schneider, a solo show of Prest’s work and a group show curated by Prest, offer viewers a meditative moment contemplating abstraction.
Lindsay Costello has the scoop on July’s art offerings in Portland and around the state.
April’s art offerings provide an opportunity to reflect on quotidian existence, the notion of home, and our relationship with the natural world.
Lindsay Costello highlights February’s not-to-be-missed art offerings. Possibilities include visual explorations of identity construction, the potentials of cast-off materials, and imagined worlds.
Art exhibitions, gallery shows, and other not-to-miss art events in December.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
Patrick Collier explores Bruce Burris’s multi-layered collages, on view at the Schneider Museum of Art.
Lindsay Costello’s monthly roundup of shows and events in October.
August’s offerings draw inspiration from diverse areas of lived experience, a refreshing respite from the slow dog days of summer.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
Art Beyond, organized by the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, invites viewers to venture out of the gallery and into the beyond.
July’s art offerings provide plenty of opportunities to beat the heat and see art in alternative spaces.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering Beverly Cleary, Larry McMurtry, and composer Stephen Scott; revolutions & the way things change.
The first words of the wall text for Ryan Kitson’s exhibit, “Suds Ur Duds/Fermentation Elastic”—at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, through Saturday—ask the audience to take in the show before reading the didactics. The same placard has a numbered
We’re looking a great month for painting, collage, and regional artists! Unexpected juxtapositions abound, whether it’s the group show of keepsakes at Adams and Ollman or Jayna Conkey’s photographs of vandalized library books. The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards are relaunched as a
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