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At first glance, a guard tower, onto which is pasted images of a woman sitting beneath prison bars, a bird caught in barbed wire—when you lean in closer, you notice this tower is made up, in part, of books leaned together.

Breathe

Baibridge Island Museum of Art 550 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island

Breathe expanded into a broad acknowledgement of, and response to, these national and global realities.

Free
Acrylic, handwritten iterations of the letter "S" and "Z" meander from a white panel on the ground up onto a white wall, some in broken into parts, others in thick, globby lines.

The Inconstant World

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles

With the body, language, and the experience of time as points of departure, the exhibition engages the limitations of representation and images as sites of interpretation.

Free
Before red, white, and blue polling booths, images of Peanuts characters are superimposed to appear life-sized. Charlie Brown holds an apple on a stick, while Lucy van Pelt bobs for hers in a bucket of water.

Paul Pescador: PSA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles

They represent a collage of dialogue with different stakeholders, as well as the artist’s own experience of moving through the world as a fellow member of the public.

Free
A portion of a sheet of music, the title reading "Princes and Powers (After Baldwin). In between the top two clefs, lyrics reading "speech in the afternoon, dealing with the relation between ... today can be summed up thus, said Cesaire: that" is spaced out, to match the rhythm of the written music.

Charles Gaines: New Work

SFMOMA 151 3rd Street, San Francisco

The conceptual artist’s new works emerge from research into the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which decreed that Black people were not U.S. citizens and therefore could not sue for their right to freedom.

$25
A close up photograph of a multi colored woven object. Equally sized strips of shiny, colorful plastic create a grid of squares that glisten in the light. Each strip appears to be from plastic packaging materials, with colors ranging from yellow to blue and turquoise.

Carol Anne McChrystal: Entropical Latitudes

Mata Art Gallery Online Platform, Los Angeles

Informed by life in diaspora, these sculptures are influenced by time spent in familial homelands studying ancestral handicrafts, and in witnessing how these cultural practices are threatened by globalized industry. Referencing emergency shelters and home wares, each of the works play on the tension created when a functional object becomes functionless.

Free
A cabinet contains a few small items: the heads and arms of tiny figures, a painting of a black woman in a blue dress, a white car that reads "race, kind, sort."

Lisa Myers Bulmash: Holding Patterns

Wa Na Wari 911 24th Ave, Seattle

I may be stuck in this holding pattern with the pandemic, the racist fallout from the last four years, and my rage at feeling so vulnerable as a Black woman.

Free
In a flurry of motion and surrealist animation, this painting captures multiple dizzying happenings at once—potatoes tumbling out of a cardboard box, pink-colored wine spilling out of a broken bottle, a snake wrapping itself around a tree branch, a pitchfork impaling a cake, a wig, a shoe, balloons, so on.

Ryan Pierce: Awake Under Vines

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Pierce continues to illuminate relationships between the human and natural world through dynamic dreamlike imagery infused with moral complexity and wonderment. 

Free
Overlayed floral shapes, colored using rich, earthly reds, browns, yellows, and pinks, blurring the line between two- and three-dimensional.

Charlene Liu: Lattice

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

The exhibition reveals the artist's complementary approaches between the mindful deliberations of printmaking techniques and the observational immediacy of line seen in her plein air style paintings. 

Free
A sculpture piecing together layers of fabric and yarn in an oval shape, growing darker nearer the center where lies a resin cast flower, evoking the sensation of an ovular, tectonic inside.

Colleen RJC Bratton: Endometrial Atmosphere

SOIL 112 3rd Ave S, Seattle

There are so many factors that have to come together to support delicate life. I’ve changed countless ways in which I navigate this life and my body in order to bear a child.

Free
Photorealistic painting of a man crouched on a lawn his arms draped over two children's shoulders. Behind them, a tree, a small car, a parking lot.

Elisheva Biernoff: Starting from Wrong

Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco

A mysterious Polaroid verges on jarring abstraction in Instant, 2021, as dark grey patches of “damaged” emulsion appear to rend a light-dappled oceanscape.

Free
Collage of various posters, clippings, images—jumbled together and divided into three distinct side-by-side panels, each saturated a different color: red, green and blue, from left to right.

Gary Simmons: The Engine Room

Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle

His work is occupied by the unfixed nature of a past that remains open to the vagaries of memory, and its role in the construction of the character of contemporary America.

Free
Edo-period style head of a Japanese man, his eyes fixed somewhere out of frame. Harsh and decisive strokes of spray paint pop off of pencil sketches in shiny blacks, ruby reds and subtle naked accents.

Gajin Fujita: Drawings

L.A. Louver 45 North Venice Boulevard, Venice

Fujita’s unique practice brings together wildly diverse styles, cultures, and time periods in riotous compositions that proudly affirm the artist’s own Los Angeles roots.

Free
Three abutting, rectangular-ish shapes painted in soft and subtle shades of earthy brown bring skin, intimacy, and identity together in a play of tension—in this work, closeness is more a distance.

Mia Farrington: Adaptations

Upfor Gallery Portland

For this series, my subject is why we, as women, are often required to adapt who we are in order to feel safe, be seen, be loved, find achievement.

Free
In an intimate photo of a work on white paper, streaks of black and blue race across the page in feverish movement,.

sidony o’neal: AuguRing

Veronica 2915 Rainier Avenue South, Suite 12b, Seattle

What can the drama of low dimensional objects/relations reveal about n-dimensional objects/relations?

Free
A tall, triangular nose is the only other feature that transforms an otherwise blobby oval into a face, whose three differently-colored pairs of eyes evoke different expressions—some peering, others glancing, others staring.

Cécilia Andrews: Indivisible Particles

Municipal Bonds 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco

Teeming with abstract portraits—extolling the gaze, lauding the hand—Andrews' works on paper are articulated by collage.

Free
Ceramic sculpture of plants in a vase, some cartoonish, some metallic and modernist, others vibrant and colorful, delicately detailed, disproportionate, impressionistic, playful—all in an earthy clay vase.

Emily Counts: Souvenir

Nationale 15 SE 22nd Ave, Portland

A generous, dynamic, and tender collection of new sculptures, in which the past and future coalesce into a visual language that is both familiar and utterly new. 

Free

Dawn Cerny: Weeping Willow Folding Chair

Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington St., #301, Portland

Dawn’s sculptures occupy this zone between psychic and material needs with a forthrightness, both charismatic and awkward.

Free
Photorealistic, bright painting of a man's chest—he wears a camouflage shirt, buttoned to the neck, and holds a pink flower just before him.

Brad Phillips: Grandpa Goes to Hollywood

de boer Gallery 3311 E Pico Blvd, Los Angeles

Phillips’ combination of the reality of a life lived intersecting with an artist’s imagination creates a potent dialog about the current state of culture.

Free
An object floats before a vapid white background, colored red, white, and blue, the irregular shape which seems to be cut from cloth evokes vague images of the American West, staking flags in hard soil, stitching together uniforms.

Teresa Baker : Pulling Up the Prairie

de boer Gallery 3311 E Pico Blvd, Los Angeles

Baker’s hand-stitched patterning, painting, beading, and soldering create a recognizable style in rhythm with the artwork’s overall asymmetrical shape.

Free
This blurred photograph softens the edges of the flowers in the foreground, blending the scene into an ambivalent background, creating a simultaneously frenzied and meditative space for motion, direction, and contemplation.

Deb Achak: My Eyes Need Beauty

Winston Wächter Fine Art 203 Dexter Ave N, Seattle

I found strength and optimism through the healing power of flowers, vivid color, and meditative movement.

Free
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