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Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residency

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

Love Letters

Love Letter to Yukiyo Kawano

Review

Lessons from the Forest: Arboreal at / Gallery

Interview

On Power, Art(s) Labor, and Resting in the Grass: Eden V. Evans and Brian Gillis Interviewed

Love Letters

Love Letter to Patty Gone

Review

Imagining Caregiving as Constant: Contact Traces at the Wattis Institute

Love Letters

Love Letter to Torbjørn Rødland

Review

Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Choreographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari

Interview

Chasing Ephemerality, Cheating Precarity: On Publishing During a Pandemic: Sarah Chieko Bonnickson and Gordon Fung Interviewed

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Photo

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

A figure wearing a white shirt, blue patterned tie, and white hat cranes toward the sun. Two figures beyond them and before a tree stare forward.

WA

Jul 30 - Nov 28

The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

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

Colored blocks of all shapes—one a keyhole, one the letter "J," one a stalagmite, one a vase—are stacked closely together and atop each other against a white background.

OR

Sep 4 - Nov 2

Nathan Paul Rice ‘Mini Parc’

Stephanie Chefas Projects

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

Blue-tinted monochrome photograph of a woman's face with overlaid primary colored rectangles arranged in a grid

CA

Sep 9 - Oct 23

Carrie Mae Weems: Witness

Fraenkel Gallery

Before three intersecting yellow lines, the words "Bodies of Discovery" are typed in bold, blue text.

WA

Sep 11 - Nov 1

Bodies of Discovery – Naomi Fisher: Thermodynamic Flower

Henry Art Gallery

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

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 - Nov 6

Mya Kerner: These Whispers, These Tellings

CA

Sep 18 - Nov 6

Amoako Boafo | SINGULARITY DUALITY: ME CAN MAKE WE

Roberts Projects

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

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

In the corner of a bedroom, writing in Spanish (e.g. "Murio Buenachon," "Cola Monga") sprawls the wall above a headboard, and around a hat, a bag, and a blue shirt hanging on hooks in the wall.

WA

Oct 9 - Nov 20

manuel arturo abreu: Salomon

Veronica

The text "Ceramics: Mingei to Modern" hovers above four photos of ceramic artworks, three of which are generally spherical and another upright and cylindrical. In the bottom left of the advertisement, the address and contact information for the event are included in small print.

CA

Oct 9 - Nov 28

Ceramics: Mingei to Modern

JB Blunk Estate

A curvy, ruby red vase takes on distorted and jumbled, caricature-esc features of a devil, including horns and a cartoony grin.

OR

Oct 13 - Nov 15

tierra de GIGANTES | Iván Carmona

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OPENING SOON

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A figure lies on their side, a cream colored sheet draped over their midsection, their hand on their knee and their white beard out of focus and half out of frame.

CA

Oct 22 - Nov 27

Chris Komater: Allegory of Inclination

Mercury 20 Gallery

Paint drips sideways and upside down in these dizzying layers of color, pattern, direction and emotion.

CA

Oct 22 - Nov 27

Raymond L. Haywood: Love Letters and Love Notes

Mercury 20 Gallery

Just behind an infinitely diverse grid of color, a topography materializes, organize textures othered by a digital haze.

CA

Oct 23 - Nov 24

WHERE WE ARE

Hosfelt Gallery

On the left, wide, blocky brushstrokes and splatters hint at the form of fruit. On the right, a green orb hangs from brown straps against a felt wall.

OR

Nov 1 - Nov 13

To Have A Friend Takes Time

after/time

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

Nov 11 - Jan 9

The Longest Leg

Laurel McLaughlin

CLOSING SOON

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In a brilliant display of cosmologies, color, flora, and element, this landscape work blends saturated and undulating movement with a sense of metaphysical wonder.

Aug 29 - Oct 23

Christine Nguyen

AMcE Creative Arts

Three square blocks are lined up in a row, each with a smoothed hole in the center that decrease in size with each cube, all against a hazy white background.

CA

Sep 3 - Oct 23

Wind Over Water

Chris Kerr

In a gallery space, against a white wall, to the left, multiple pieces of paper are organized on the wall; to the right, a large piece, covered in paint, spray paint, and other materials hangs.

OR

Sep 3 - Oct 30

THE GLITTER ANTHOL-OH-GEEZE: Mia Winters & Mars Alien

Gather:Make:Shelter

A sketched figure in a full, Victorian-era dress is caught in motion, their arms a soft blush, ribbons a warm pink, and long beak that of a duck.

OR

Sep 11 - Oct 24

Molly Jae Vaughan: After Boucher

Fuller Rosen Gallery

A clear box full of multi-sized cream and yellow cubes casts a long shadow against a white wall.

OR

Sep 18 - Oct 24

Gina Han: Recollection

Agenda

Like the undulating interior of a beehive, this piece combines hundreds of small cylinders of wood to form a porous, contorting wall.

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 30

Yvonne Mouser: The Shape of Time

Municipal Bonds

With wide brush strokes, a white coat is adorned with colorful paint, just behind which a Black face with short hair watches expressionless, arms crossed, with figures shuffling past in the background.

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 30

Coady Brown: Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars

Shulamit Nazarian

A black object hanging against a white wall resembles undulating mountains, or waves in the ocean, with sharp peaks and smoothed valleys.

OR

Sep 18 - Oct 30

Stefanie Victor

Adams and Ollman

Yellow citrus dangles in the foreground, dripping with tantalizing flavor, green leaves of trees and a blue sky beyond it.

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 23

Awol Erizku: Scorched Earth

Night Gallery

A box of tampons, condoms, birth control; a vibrator; a dildo; a pregnancy test—all spread on a table before a figure, with medium-length black hair and hoop earrings, painted in portraiture. Behind them, a sign hangs on their wall, "Don't Yuck Someone Else's Yum."

CA

Sep 18 - Oct 23

Susan Chen: I Am Not a Virus

Night Gallery

Three images—one tapestry depicting multiple smoothed river rocks, and a liquidy, tentacle like goop; one tangled net, hanging against a white wall; one small, chess-piece-like blue object, knit against a white fabric.

Oct 1 - Oct 24

I <3 Real Life | Portland Textile Month

TextileX

Brush strokes of varying width, direction, and color scribble across the canvas in a flurry of blues, greens, yellows, and blacks.

CA

Oct 2 - Oct 30

‘Lost / Found’ by Maja Dlugolecki at Glass Rice

Glass Rice

Hanging on a white wall, wide, decisive, and airy brushstrokes remember a huddle of trees beyond a dirt road and beneath a misty, yawning sky.

OR

Oct 7 - Oct 30

Stephen Hayes – Re:place

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Streaks of light and color blur behind blue and green and yellow lines, diagonal, directional, and bold.

OR

Oct 7 - Oct 30

Gregg Renfrow – Apprehension of Beauty

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

In the bed of a large truck, otherwise full of bananas, X-ray imaging technology reveals multiple hidden, cramped bodies stuffed beneath the other cargo, awash in the digital haze of blue.

OR

Oct 7 - Oct 30

Noelle Mason: X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility

Blue Sky

On a sidewalk, before an ad in which a tuxedoed man leans on a cushion, a woman waits, holding a bouquet of flowers. Nearby, a boy leans on a pole, holding a box.

OR

Oct 7 - Oct 30

Manal Abu-Shaheen: Mapping Utopia

Blue Sky

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