APEX: Sharita Towne & A Black Art Ecology of Portland
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue, Porland, ORAPEX series is a culmination of this work that takes her to the most recent projects reflected in the city of Portland now.
Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue, Porland, ORSyrup on Watermelon visually points to layers of marginalization of African American people. Taking the painful associations connected to innocuous objects like watermelons tainted through America’s racist history and furthering the abject consumption of syrup through the Aunt Jemima character, Miller points to our culture’s deeply subtle but indoctrinated identity ingrained with race, commodity, and commerce.
Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick
Lumber Room 419 Northwest 9th Ave., Portland, ORThe work of Brackens and Lovell Williams (in distanced conversation with a variety of Black makers of disparate origins, including farmers, writers, and caregivers), centers notions of collaboration and community at the heart of Black makership.
Amanda Wojick – Small Shields and Other Shapes
Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, ORElizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Amanda Wojick’s Small Shields and Other Shapes featuring dynamic color…
Barbara Sternberger – Emanating
Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, ORElizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Barbara Sternberger.…
Where the Waters Come Together
Center for Native Arts and Cultures 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, ORNative artists across the country have been responding to social and environmental issues that affect them and their communities.
Jenn Sova: DADDY
after/time 707 NE Broadway Suite 205, Portland, ORWho is a Daddy? What even is a Daddy?
Sova is reckoning with someone she never knew. Through the reordering of materials- cinder blocks, media, stains, and light- she is contracting a new histories of DADDIES.
Lewis Watts: Faces and Places in the Diaspora
University of Oregon 1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, ORHis research and artwork centers around the “cultural landscape” primarily in communities in the African Diaspora in different parts of the world.