Pairings

Wayne Thiebaud & Ghia’s Le Spritz

News

Variable West Receives $20,000 Grant to Expand Editorial Apprenticeship Program

Review

The Mesmerizing Secrets of Mundane Objects: Mariel Capanna Overlook at Adams and Ollman

The Why

Tom Friedman’s 1000 Hours of Staring

Interview

For the Love of Buildings: Avantika Bawa Interviewed

News

Announcing the inaugural Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residents

Review

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Imagining Caregiving as Constant: Contact Traces at the Wattis Institute

Love Letters

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Love Letter to Patricia Hagen

Review

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Choreographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari

Review

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Disco as a Communal Site of Pleasure: Coady Brown’s nightlife paintings at Shulamit Nazarian

Interview

FROM THE ARCHIVES | The Radical Potential of Graphic Design: Jules Cordova Interviewed by Ella Ray

Review

FROM THE ARCHIVES | New Images for an Old Struggle: Jacob Lawrence at Seattle Art Museum

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An individual with voluminous black hair and a top-buttoned, collared shirt gazes into the lens, eyebrows raised, daring, against a black backdrop.

OR

Jul 31 - Jul 1

APEX: Sharita Towne & A Black Art Ecology of Portland

Portland Art Museum

A woman with long blonde hair reclines in a white chair, above a fever-purple horizon, a deep blue sky beyond and a massive, looming palm tree before.

OR

Sep 11 - Feb 25

Tiempo suspendido | Suspended Time: Myrna Báez and Norma Vila Rivero

Each portion of a grid with four quadrants is made distinct by the color of its feverish squiggles, it's geometric shadows and its interruptive lines, both fore- and backgrounded.

WA

Oct 1 - Feb 20

Molly Vaughan: Project 42

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

WA

Oct 2 - Feb 6

Diana Al-Hadid: Archive of Longings

Henry Art Gallery

On the left, a geometric bust configured using sharp edges, earth tones, and all-seeing eyes hovers. On the right, a bald man in a black suit smiles, a dove near his shoulder and flowers at his waist.

WA

Oct 2 - May 1

Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas

Henry Art Gallery

A woven wood sculpture, rising to a point, rests basket-like in a white gallery space.

CA

Oct 30 - Feb 13

If A Tree Falls: Art Of The Boundary Oak

Bedford Gallery

A colorful structure, patterned elaborately with earthy reds and flashing purples, fluorescent greens, and a number of symbols depicting scenes of action, hovers against a black background.

WA

Nov 5 - Apr 24

BAM Biennial 2021 Architecture & Urban Design

Bellevue Arts Museum

Stripes and patterns of cool, earthy greens and golds streak across the center of this segment of paper, against a white gallery wall.

OR

Nov 6 - May 8

Mesh

Portland Art Museum

WA

Nov 18 - Feb 6

Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective

Seattle Art Museum

On the left, a fake tree concealing a radio tower; on the right, two purple bowling-balls are suspended between faded white music stands.

CA

Dec 3 - Feb 5

XX @ XV: 15th Anniversary Group Show

Mercury 20 Gallery

The names "Solange Roberdeau & Jochen Holz" are printed against an irregular glass vase, set against a white wall on which blue paint is splattered and dotted.

CA

Dec 11 - Feb 6

Solange Roberdeau and Jochen Holz

JB Blunk Estate

On the right, stips of orange and yellow layer a hazy orb; on the left, geometric black and white patterns with spits of yellow and blue create a puzzle of color.

WA

Jan 3 - Mar 11

Of a Setting Sun: Anna Fidler & Katy Stone

Atop a tall and rocky cliff island, a handful of farmhouses are nestled into a grassy plateau, the ocean calm far below.

OR

Jan 6 - Feb 26

Chester Arnold – Survivors

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

A tent of packing boxes sits inside a brightly-lit room, a cat sitting beside it.

OR

Jan 6 - Jan 29

Living Room: San Francisco & Berlin

Blue Sky

Inside an open book, a drawing of a pair of scissors is nestled beneath a much larger, identical drawing. The title page, reading "LOUISE BOURGEOIS," sits beside, torn out.

OR

Jan 6 - Feb 26

(Extra)ordinary: Reimagining the Everyday

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

A medium shot of a figure's waist from the side, their skin stark against the white void of a backdrop.

OR

Jan 6 - Mar 18

Power Positions: A Dismantling of Phallacies

The Elisabeth Jones Art Center

Heaps of woven shreds of fabric, almost like piles of chain links, rest on driftwood, nestled into the sandy bank of a slow-moving river.

WA

Jan 7 - Feb 12

Great Mysterious Heart – Megan Prince

An individual walks along a fence line, beyond which mountains of sand interrupt the view of a bright blue beach.

WA

Jan 13 - Mar 17

Pained Vistas

The words "Month of Sundays" in child-like scratch hovers above a much neater font, reading "Anti-Aesthetic / ECA + Tropical Contemporary + Transponder + Oregon Community Foundation."

OR

Jan 15 - Feb 27

Month of Sundays

Tropical Contemporary

A pyramid of colorful basketballs towers over a tree, laid gently over a blotchy, dream-like, earth-brown, sky-blue background.

CA

Jan 22 - Mar 13

PERSONAL TO POLITICAL: CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF THE PAULSON FONTAINE PRESS

Mills College Art Museum

Toothbrushes, hair clips and various tangled objects are caught up in a mess of hair, braid, and cornrow.

CA

Jan 22 - Mar 13

UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN LABOR OF WOMEN

Mills College Art Museum

A cupid, winged and bow-bearing, hovers beside the letters "I" "C" and "A," fixed on the wall with arrows.

CA

Jan 22 - Apr 16

Chris Martin: Ancient as Time

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco

A figure with their brunette hair in a bun, wearing an open-backed dress, faces away from the viewer, their head slightly tilted.

CA

Jan 27 - Feb 19

Red Boys and Green Girls

Hosfelt Gallery

An individual details the ear of a lifesize pencil sketch of a figure in a mugshot.

CA

Feb 9 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Artist Talk with Lava Thomas – Mills College Art Museum

Mills College Art Museum

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OPENING SOON

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Atop a tall and rocky cliff island, a handful of farmhouses are nestled into a grassy plateau, the ocean calm far below.

OR

Jan 6 - Feb 26

Chester Arnold – Survivors

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

A hand suspends a clamp mid-frame, in which three widdled-down pencils are smushed together.

OR

Jan 7 - Feb 26

Excuse Me: a Structural Device for Visual Communication

Scalehouse Gallery

Two planetary orbs hover in a haze, one before the other, with a something void between them.

CA

Jan 8 - Feb 26

High Plains

Johansson Projects

In three panels, geometric prisms confuse shape, shadow, dimension and the natural world, combining panels of muted rainbow patterns, submarine flora and weird, otherworldly naturescapes.

CA

January 8 @ 10:00 am - February 18 @ 5:00 pm PST

“Outside the open window” Exhibition at Andra Norris Gallery

April Dawn Parker

A hovering hand holds a string, with a wide grip, that connects fragments of two eyes, a piece of face, against green.

CA

Jan 14 - Apr 30

Image Gardeners

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

An individual in a red jumpsuit points a gun at the camera lens, tilts it sideways, against a green background.

CA

Jan 14 - Apr 30

seen only, heard only through someone else’s description

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

An arm extends through a white screen within an irregular rectangular-ish shape. What could be a hand or a hunk of meat levitates.

CA

Jan 15 - Feb 26

Hayal Pozanti: Lingering

Jessica Silverman Gallery

Vertical lines create an illusion of depth, where shades of black and grey layer shadows that converge in one bold strip of rose fire red.

CA

Jan 15 - Feb 26

Julian Hoeber: Relief from Pictures

Jessica Silverman Gallery

A collage of 5 pieces of art form a pentagon, centered against an orange background. At the top, the words "After the Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds."

WA

Jan 22 - Mar 19

After the Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds

Mini Mart City Park

Something like teeth, or cartoon fingers, or rolling hills, or knobby, softened bulbs protrude from a white wall—one marble, the other red and yellow spotted.

CA

Feb 2 - Mar 5

Stephanie Robison, Close Contact

marrow gallery

: A figure takes a selfie before Niagara Falls, while various others blur in and out of frame. Behind them, the world is fuzzy with spray.

CA

Feb 3 - Mar 26

Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures

Fraenkel Gallery

CLOSING SOON

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A figure draped in elaborate jewelry, face paint and patterned dress, with hair braided upward and outward, sits, hands crossed, before a teal backdrop—all royally framed against a white wall.

CA

Nov 18 - Jan 29

Martine Gutierrez: Half-Breed

Fraenkel Gallery

A square of dark purple is set against a white gallery wall—on it, the stems of flowers wane in warm pinks and buds and petals of creamy white and red pop.

OR

Nov 21 - Jan 30

Coalesce

Stelo

Transposed over a photograph of the rear of an individual's head, who is onlooking a piece of art, the title of the show swims by, "dawn chorus_iii: the fruit they don't have here"

CA

Dec 3 - Jan 29

dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here | 破曉歌聲 iii: 這裏沒有的水果 | coro_del_alba iii: la fruta que no tienen aquí

Chinese Culture Center

Against a white wall, wispy knit pieces hang from a single point and swell toward their centers, where threads come together in thinly woven pattern.

CA

Dec 4 - Jan 29

Michelle Yi Martin: In Medias Res

Municipal Bonds

Mellow, ambiguous shapes huggle together in this static, abstract painting, whose irregular waves bleed off the canvas.

CA

Dec 11 - Jan 30

Cody Hudson: Daydreaming and Near-Death Experience

Left Field Gallery

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