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A person in a dark purple leather jacket holds up a flat mask over their face. The mask is an extremely pixelated face with two small eye slits. Dark curly hair peeks out the sides of the maks. Behind the person, there is a row of art historical sculptures on white plinths, backlit by large windows.

CA

Mar 13 - Apr 30

We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles

Free

A still of a film by Christopher Harris. It shows a Black man’s face looking into the lens, with layers of light lines floating across the frame, and a large blown out bright spot covering the person’s left eye.

CA

Oct 14 - Mar 13

New Labor Movements

Free

A film still from Isaac Julien’s Lesson of the Hour. A Black woman and a Black man dressed in fine nineteenth century fashions sit in a high quality carriage. The woman reaches over to clasp the hand of the man, they both look out the carriage window.

CA

Oct 14 - Mar 13

Lessons of the Hour: Isaac Julien

Free

A grid of rectangular, colorful posters, each with a monochromatic illustration of a different person. Behind each portrait are two repeated columns of text. On the right, the text reads #FREETHEMALL. On the left, the text reads #FREE and the person's name, for example, #FREEYOHANNE and #FREERUBEN. Below the portraits is more text and a QR code. The text introduces the person and says that they are detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.

WA

Oct 30 - Dec 29

Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia

Free

WA

Nov 1 - Mar 7

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: Carpe Fin

Free

A box of gum floats on a bright turquoise background. The gum label reads "Yellow No. 5" in pink and yellow, fluffy, cursive font with a black outline. The background of the box is pink and green. Svelte legs in sparkly fishnet stockings and pastel yellow stilettos rest upside down on the top of the box. The torso and rest of the person's body disappear behind the box.

WA

Nov 6 - Apr 18

Yellow No. 5

Free

Exhibition flyer for "We Got Each Other's Back" at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Pink, green, and red shapes float on a yellow background. There is a pink line running down the horizontal center of the flyer with the participating artists names: Carlos Motta, Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez. The exhibition dates are in the upper right corner: November 7, 2020 - February 14, 2021.

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Nov 7 - Feb 14

We Got Each Other’s Backs

Free

A painting of orange and red flowers on a light blue background. The flowers seem to be floating through a blue sky, with silver and purple swirls and white dots weaving around them.

WA

Nov 14 - Nov 11

Art on the Mind: Ten Years of Creative Aging

Free

A jumble of digital images on a white background, including a red rose, a deer with large horns, a banana, a white person's nose, a raccoon, a wooden stool, a disposable face mask, and more. In the center there is a black and white photograph of a woman dressed in black sitting cross-legged, leaning to her left and holding a black, circular squiggle.

WA

Nov 19 - Feb 6

Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Living Lab

Free

A dreamlike illustration on paper. A blue sky with wispy white and peach clouds creates the background. A mask-like face floats on the left half of the upper edge, looking down. There is a curved row of eight sparrows flying across the sky. A full moon hangs on the right half of the upper edge. The bottom has three light grey mounds. One mound has a cartoonish face with a black bowler hat. The second mound has the face of a large cat. The third and smallest mound has a lifesaver/buoy. Between the two larger mounds, a crying person holding a tissue to their eye floats in a cloud.

WA

Dec 10 - Feb 27

In Search of Lost Time: Viola Frey, Fay Jones, and Akio Takamori

Free

Photo collage of Panteha Abareshi performing. There is a grid of nine images evenly spaced on a background with a circular gradient that transitions from red in the center, to yellow, and turquoise at the edges. Each of the images shows the performer in a different moment. They are wearing white under garments and knee pads and using two crutches. At the bottom of the image, the word PANTEHA appears in thin, black, sans serif text.

OR

Dec 17 - Feb 4

NO SANCTUARY

Free

An arm reaches out from the bottom left of the frame to touch a sandy-colored rock wall. The arm has a long sleeve white shirt, the rock wall has grooves and marks of various depths. The image is slightly blurred, indicating that it was taken while the camera-holder was in motion, as if walking.

OR

Jan 8 - Feb 21

Timelines for the Future: Christine Hope Sandoval

Free

A series of concentric, three-dimensional diamond arranged within a frame. The overlapping shapes are variously colored to create a prism or kaleidoscope effect. The colors are dark teal, butter yellow, lilac, black, orange, and mauve.

CA

Jan 9 - Mar 6

Karen Carson: Middle Ground

Free

An installation image of art in a gallery with white walls and shiny concrete floor. In the center of the room there is a mound of earth covered in patchy mosses, with two small, embracing brass figure on the top. On the walls hang three large paintings of landscapes with creatures and figures in them, all rendered with a playful and surreal style.

CA

Jan 9 - Feb 6

Kate Klingbeil: Grown Woman

Free

OR

Jan 9 - Feb 6

Billy White

Free

A photograph of a bouquet of flowers and fruit bursting out of a vase on a black velvet backdrop. The flowers and fruit are lit with differently colored lights. There are some digitally added marks and images superimposed on the photograph, such as various emojis.

OR

Jan 9 - Jan 31

What Do We Have Here?

Free

Many rough-edged, semi-transparent red rectangles layered over each other. They all have writing on them, such as "ancient" "observer" "chair" "rising sun" "ancestor," and "tongue." Over all the other words and layers, the word "MOTHER" is written twice in large scratchy black letters.

OR

Jan 12 - Feb 28

Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency 20th Anniversary Folio

Free

An abstract painting with evocative, chaotic brushstrokes. The main colors are a dark periwinkle, yellow, red-orange, lime green, black, and white.

CA

Jan 14 - Mar 19

Carlos Villa: Infinite Self

Free

An installation view of a darkly lit gallery. The image is bisected by a wall on the left painted brick red with a glass aquarium inlayed half way up from the floor. The aquarium has sand, rocks, aquarium plants, and two clay vessels suspended in the center like giant round eyes. In the background, another water tank stands on a plinth in a room lit with blue and green lights. This water tank holds a tall, red clay amphora.

CA

Jan 16 - Mar 6

Cammie Staros: What Will Have Being

Free

Lilac text on white paper in two swooping formations. Text is all caps, sans serif and reads "it's just so hard to know what to do" with text printed over itself to create image.

OR

Jan 16 - Feb 21

Alyson Provax: Old Long Since

Free

Black ink on white paper in an abstract design. The image is symmetrical, each side a mirror image of the other, and appears to be made by placing ink on paper and then folding the paper to create the design.

CA

Jan 16 - Mar 6

ASSEMBLED: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood

Free

Black text on a white background reads "hard & SOFT." The word "hard" is in fluffy, cloudy, doughy letters with a highly contrasted black shadow. The ampersand is in a simple sans serif font. The word "SOFT" is all capitalized and in a bubble sans serif font that has cracks and lines.

OR

Jan 24 - Mar 21

hard & SOFT

Free

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A color photograph of a black and white printed image crumpled and crushed so the original image is entirely destroyed, except in the center where an open mouth is mostly visible. The ink on the paper has worn off at the edges of the creases, leaving stark white lines.

CA

Jan 21 - Feb 27

Christian Marclay

Free

A realistic painting of a man with a shaved head and glasses sitting in a restaurant. He's sitting on a wall of upholstered benches that are black with red stripes staggered along the top of the backrest. The tables are small with a red tabletop. The man looks to the side with a calm expression. The lower half of the wall behind him is red, the top half is beige. There is a mirror on the wall to the right of the painting reflecting the street scene outside.

CA

Jan 23 - Mar 26

Jiab Prachakul: 14 Years

Free

A large, craggy-edged and shiny black rock surrounded by bright yellow archway with a reflective pink background.

OR

Jan 23 - Feb 7

Pangea: Hannah Newman

Free

A scene filmed from a flying drone looking down on a large US flag design made out of brown soil. The flag consists of a large rectangle of soil in the upper left corner and seven long stripes of soil mimicking the flag's stripes. Under the soil are irregular stripes of light and dark blue. In the lower right corner of the image a person is dancing. The body's shadow extends diagonally toward the upper right corner. The person's arms are raised.

WA

Jan 28 - Feb 23

Ariel René Jackson: Descendance

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A sculpture hanging from an angled white ceiling. The object appears to be made of a molded plastic, with diagonal rows of convex domes. The surface has been spray painted with yellow, pink, and green stripes. A wire mesh rectangle peaks out from behind the plastic surface. Both are attached to the ceiling with a thin, green-ish material that resembles the stem of a plant.

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Dec 1 - Jan 29

Domestic Landscaps: Zemula Barr, Bethany Hays, Colin Kippen, Rachael Zur

Free

A diptych of rectangular, portrait orientation paintings. Each painting is a features a loose grid, with some of the grid's cells either cut out of the canvas leaving a void or layered over other cells. The individual cells are painted with a combination of gestural, grasslike lines, grids and checkerboards in various colors, and photographs collaged on a black paint background.

OR

Dec 1 - Jan 30

Modou Dieng: A Postcolonial Landscape

Free

Numerous variously shaped plates hung in a loose cluster on a white wall. Each plate is decorated with a different scene, primarily in one color, such as cobalt blue, orange, turquoise, vermillion, gray, and purple. The scenes reference 18th century illustration style.

OR

Dec 5 - Jan 31

Julie Green: Fashion Plate

Free

A detail of a larger artwork filled with three-dimensional layers of intricately detailed paper cut outs made to look like different varieties of coral. The individual paper corals range in color from white to pale blues, purples, yellows, greens, and reds.

WA

Dec 11 - Jan 30

Process: Catherine Howe, Andrew Casto, Rogan Brown, Shahla Friberg

Free

A close-up photograph of a small rectangular box with two eye wholes. The exterior of the box is painted with swaths of green, brown, blue, grey, and yellow paint. The inside of the box, visible through the holes has a small video screen. The moment caught in this photograph shows a person in all black bending over with arms outstretched, as though bowing.

WA

Jan 7 - Jan 30

Like Apples and Knives: Estefania Velez Rodriguez & Michael Siporin Levine

Free

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A room with brown walls and grey cement floors filled with headless female mannequins wearing various outfits for a range of seasons. The colors are primarily black and white, with a few yellow, brown, grey, and red garments.

Love Letter to Andrea Zittel

On finding comfort in simplicity.

by Bethy Squires January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

A person in a black sweatshirt, black pants, and a beige bucket hat stands near the top run of a ladder in a cluster of tall, thin, rough-barked coniferous trees. The person holds an IV bag full of a clear liquid.

Know Thyself, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fordism: Jeamin Cha at Kadist San Francisco

An exhibition stalled by the global pandemic examines mental heath under late capitalism.

by Emma Drew January 14, 2021January 14, 2021

A black and white photograph of Laetitia Sonami crouching, viewed from above and at an angle so Sonami's body fills the space from the upper left and bottom right corners. Sonami holds her left hand over her face, wearing a glove with electronic circuits and wires extending past the wrist like mechanical tendons. Her dark hair is messy and pulled back.

Love Letter to Laetitia Sonami

Sparkling aural textures tangle with a narrative of tragedies and triumphs.

by Zeny May Recidoro January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

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