Review

We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery

Review

Who Do I Think I Am? Lynn Hershman Leeson at Altman Siegel

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Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass

Review

Support, Opportunity, and Liberation: Month of Sundays at Eugene Contemporary Art

Interview

Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed

Essays

Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once

Pairings

Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino

The Why

Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation

Sponsored Connections

Sponsored Connection | Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon at Portland Art Museum Reviewed

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Sponsored Connection | Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick at lumber room Reviewed

Review

Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles

Essays

Chromophilia

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ON VIEW

The work "Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod), 2018" is a colorful graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper piece which recalls childhood craft projects.

WA

Feb 2 - Jul 24

Recent Acquisitions: Jeffry Mitchell

Frye Art Museum

Against an digitalized gallery-space background, five color/text blocks are stacked, reading things like "Open Black," "Finger Wave Specialist," etc.

WA

Feb 4 - Jul 17

Lauren Halsey

Seattle Art Museum

A close-up photograph of two people painting a wall. Behind them, bright light shines through a small window.

CA

Apr 1 - Sep 9

Studio Tutto: Seed Spires

Theodore Payne Gallery

To and from a wall of paintings, miniature figures wander, kneel, lay, gaze.

WA

Apr 2 - Feb 5

Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT

Henry Art Gallery

Rusted chains droop into the frame and hover above the ground.

WA

Apr 2 - Sep 4

ektor garcia: matéria prima

Henry Art Gallery

A Native American man's image is repeated three time in front of a quilt-like geometric pattern and an astrological background.

Apr 6 - Aug 28

Wendy Red Star: American Progress

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

The words "Where The Waters Come Together" in all white are centered left against a blue background.

OR

Apr 22 - Jun 30

Where the Waters Come Together

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

A blue fabric tent is supported by four statues, each of different, regal figures.

CA

May 8 - Nov 17

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

BAMPFA

A textile-based pink patchwork artwork, text: 'We're all Gonna Die' in all caps.

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Joey Veltkamp: SPIRIT!

Bellevue Arts Museum

Zig zagging lines of blue and grey create the illusion of motion, movement, confusion.

CA

May 21 - Aug 20

A Sieve for Infinity

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A large abstract panel with geometrical, neon green, blue, and pink designs. Repeated patterns of thin neon circles appear in large and small iterations.

WA

May 23 @ 8:00 am - July 2 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Molly Vaughan: Safety in Numbers

MadArt

Highly abstracted image of broad, effusive strokes of dark green, black, and blue against a pink and blue background.

OR

May 24 @ 10:00 am - June 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Storm Tharp: In This Garden

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

Silver sculpted trees stand in a gallery

CA

May 28 - Jul 30

Josh Callaghan: Family Tree

Night Gallery

Poster for 'Salon Delicatessen' featuring two dolls on a tiered upholstered cake stand.

WA

Jun 3 - Aug 31

Orly Anan: Salon Delicatessen

Museum of Museums

Poster for 'Hollaback to the Future' in white text against a black background

WA

Jun 3 - Aug 31

Hollaback to the Future

Museum of Museums

Glass scaffolds on a pedestal

June 3 @ 5:00 pm - July 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Avantika Bawa: 3/2

Black and white collagraph monoprint on paper, image/sheet.

OR

Jun 4 - Dec 31

Shades of Light⁠

Portland Art Museum

A painted red geometric pattern

OR

Jun 4 - Aug 7

Molly Alloy and Arielle Zamora: Held Tight⁠

Fuller Rosen Gallery

On a gray canvas, a series of thin black strips in four rows are outlines by an even thiner white line. At the bottom of the canvas a paralellogram-like shape is bisected in pale pink and green.

OR

June 4 @ 6:00 pm - August 4 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Held Tight

Fuller Rosen Gallery

The yellow cracked text, BORDERxER in all caps sits in front of a black and white illustrated cheetah looking forward

OR

Jun 11 - Sep 10

Patricia Vázquez Gómez: BorderXers

Anita Building

A photograph of what seems to be decorated plain cookies in a bag

WA

Jun 12 - Jul 23

a fairy show II

Veronica

WA

Jun 16 - Jul 9

Simone Bailey, Chase Keetley, Lauren Williams, and Berlynn Bea

Wa Na Wari

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OPENING SOON

A multimedia installation by Patte Loper. Space motifs in a blue-lite room with 3 components

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Patte Loper: Laboratory for Other Worlds

Bellevue Arts Museum

A graphite sketch on found paper by Rober Gober, a foot is shown upside down with the words, "Human Garbage" in all caps shaded upside-down.

CA

May 22 - Aug 28

A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II

Hammer Museum

A black and white image in which black lines regress and blur to gray from left to right.

CA

Jun 2 - Aug 13

Liz Deschenes: Works 1997 – 2022

Fraenkel Gallery

Black and White photograph including seated individual posing for photo in suit jacket but no pants

OR

Jun 4 - Jul 2

Luis Manuel Diaz: El Césped del Otro Lado (The Grass on the Other Side)

A silkscreen print with a black background and Indigenous-inspired design.

WA

Jun 15 - Dec 11

Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers

Seattle Art Museum

An abstracted flower-like image with black and white tones

CA

Jun 17 - Jul 23

SARA LISCH: THE MIND GARDEN

Three men cry out in angst in a black and white photograph.

WA

Jun 25 - Oct 9

Jeremy Shaw: Liminals

Frye Art Museum

"Collective Arising" Promotional information sits against a blurry black-and-white background.

CA

Jun 25 - Nov 27

Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists

An acrylic painting by Ralph Pugay of angels and tropical birds foregrounding a pair of shining gates. Heaven in Paradise, 16 x 20 inches, acrylic on panel.

OR

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Bananas

Archival inkjet print, "Choke (Benardo & Will)"- two men wrestle on the floor, one is in a chokehold.

OR

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Ricardo Nagaoka: at last, I see you

Melanie Flood Projects

A highly textured gray-brown abstract form stretches from the right side to the left side of a canvas. The far left of the composition reveals a cream colored flat surface.

OR

July 2 @ 12:00 pm - July 31 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Unattended

Carnation Contemporary

Two figures in round, foiled suits sit at a teal park bench next to three other brightly painted wooden picnic lunch tables. Their legs stick out from beneath the foil costumes.

OR

July 2 @ 12:00 pm - July 31 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Seeing You/Seeing Me: Conversation

Carnation Contemporary

A photographic portrait of a textile sculpture of a woman, seen from the waist up. Her face is made from two collaged panels of fabric, and she is wearing a yellow shirt with a large collar. She is lit dramatically by gray-pink light and casts a cartoonish shadow behind her.

OR

July 8 @ 12:00 pm - July 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Bean Gilsdorf: Some Women

Nine Gallery

The Bed You Made, oil on panel painting of an unmade bed by Julianna Paradisi.

OR

July 9 @ 1:00 pm - July 17 @ 5:30 pm PDT

Home

Playground Gallery

An Artist kneels above a chalk portrait

OR

July 16 @ 10:00 am - July 17 @ 6:00 pm PDT

La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival

Tualatin Valley Creates

Poster for 'Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things⁠' featuring a monochromatic drawing of a Classical sculpture wearing a theatrical mask.

WA

Aug 12 - Aug 12

Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things

The Factory

CLOSING SOON

WA

Jun 10 - Jun 29

Neptune Frost

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