Love Letters

Love Letter to Tee Corinne

Review

The Politics of Nature: Ansel Adams In Our Time at Portland Art Museum

Review

The Boundless Light of Black Children: Barbara Earl Thomas’s “Geographies of Innocence” at Seattle Art Museum

Interview

Giving Form to the Human Condition: Alex Anderson Interviewed

Interview

Power Exhibited Through Sexualized Desire: Julie Henson Interviewed

Interview

Make Your Work the Knife and the Healing Balm: Yétúndé Olagbaju Interviewed

Review

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

Review

For the Love of Friends: Jonathan Berger at Adams and Ollman

News

Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residency

Interview

The Care We Want—Designing a Better World for People With Disabilities: Emily Barker Interviewed

Love Letters

Love Letter to Yukiyo Kawano

Love Letters

Love Letter to Patty Gone

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Seven black and white images hand on the blue walls of a narrowing gallery space, each equally sized with one in the far, center wall. All seem to be portraits of renaissance-era figures.

CA

Jul 1 - Dec 1

Looking Back: 10 Years of Pier 24 Photography

Pier 24 Photography

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

Close up of the evocative face of sculpture, formed using a soft black material, and accented with found materials, such as a green floral mask, the mouthpiece cut out, and eyes in the shape of hearts, bedazzled around the edges.

WA

Sep 1 - Dec 31

Vanessa German: W E

Wa Na Wari

The text, "The Missing Circle, El Circulo que faltaba" is centered left against a photograph of a sprawling desert and a small cemetery in the bottom left of the frame.

CA

Sep 8 - Jan 8

The Missing Circle, curated by Magalí Arriola

Kadist

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

Figures bleed in and out of the foreground, most gazing off somewhere, with mountain, cloud, sun, water, structure, and path all blended and pinkish, the ground blood red.

CA

Sep 14 - Dec 4

Maia Cruz Palileo: Long Kwento

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

An image, incredibly close, of an eye—the surface of the image smudged and blurred by fingerprints.

CA

Sep 18 - Dec 12

TABITHA SOREN: SURFACE TENSION

Mills College Art Museum

An individual in a puffy jacket, carrying a bag, is dwarfed by decrepid high-rise buildings, yawning, weed-ridden streets, and an apocalyptic, clouded sky.

OR

Sep 24 - Jan 16

THE ART OF THE NEWS: COMICS JOURNALISM

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

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

The words "A Shrine for a Shrine" are painted onto the bottom of a canvas, which combines dizzying patterns of multi-colored paint, multiple glued materials, such as beads and tin foil, as well as a photo of the back of a car, the window of which reads "In Memory Of Robert LaVoy Finicum."

Oct 5 - Dec 9

Bruce Burris: A Shrine for a Shrine

Schneider Museum of Art

The words, "In Crystalized time," in translucent text, hovers before a blurred, ice blue background.

WA

Oct 8 - Dec 27

In Crystalized Time

Museum of Museums

Inside a larger circle, a donut shaped circle is fixed within a triangle.

WA

Oct 8 - Dec 7

The Word of The Future

Museum of Museums

Superimposed over the inside crease of a book, the words "play" and "prey" are separated by a crucifix against the outline of a church window.

CA

Oct 9 - Dec 4

PLAY†PREY: A Gospel

A creature with red skin and a black nose holds a mirror before itself—beyond the mirror, an image of an individual with bronze gold hair and pink skin hands beside a mask of a face, a ski mask, and another work of art.

Oct 15 - Dec 11

Chris Fallon: Irresistible Deception

CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions

In a gallery space with white walls and natural wooden pillars, a woven spider net of black yarn stands erect, leant against a blue asteroid—on a rear wall, red yarn is splattered against the wall like a gaping mouth.

OR

Oct 16 - Jan 16

Michelle Segre: Transmitters & Receivers

Lumber Room

In the style of a glossy graphic novel, a Greek-looking figure just out of frame holds flowers in its mouth. Carved into the print, elongated cursive letters dominate the foreground.

OR

Oct 23 - Dec 19

Flower Eaters

Eugene Contemporary Art

Fingers interlock, grips slip and arms stretch out toward each other, as figures are torn apart, brought together—all at once.

OR

Oct 29 - Jan 3

Katarina Zdjelar: Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive

Something like miniature striped couch cushions are smushed together in a pile, fused into one round-edged form by mud or clay.

OR

Oct 30 - Dec 5

Fawn Krieger: Rebus Principle

SE Cooper Contemporary

Five pink books are neatly stacked atop each other, the words "5000 Pages On Love" in white on their spines, and the subtitles "people + beings," "memories," "places," "music + books + art," and "food + drinks + indulgence" are typed below.

OR

Nov 4 - Dec 31

MK Guth: Touching Matter

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Faded rectangular blotches, arranged in an uneven grid on top of a window pane, blur otherwise arbitrary boundaries of color.

OR

Nov 4 - Dec 31

Jinie Park: Windows

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

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OPENING SOON

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Photograph of a green metal desk underneath which a monitor is playing a video of a hand raising and lowering the hem of a skirt up and down a leg.

OR

Featured Nov 11 - Jan 9

The Longest Leg

Laurel McLaughlin

Two figures lying on the floor are tangled, limbs intertwined, and knit together using a number of soft textured and multi-patterned fabrics.

CA

Nov 13 - Jan 8

Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Celaje

Shulamit Nazarian

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

The words "NEGRO, BORN IN AFRICA" is branded across a blue-washed close-up negative of a skull, along with other text, i.e. "GRABBO."

OR

Dec 4 - Dec 19

nat turner project ASYLUM TOO

Nat Turner Project

CLOSING SOON

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In this lightly geometric landscape, the bare trunks of trees stand sparse against a cream-grey sky, beyond a sharp-edged pile of boulders that dominate the foreground.

WA

Sep 18 - Dec 21

Mya Kerner: These Whispers, These Tellings

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