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In monochromatic, soft pink hues, curtains that drape over a corner window haunt the background of this extremely faded and washed photograph.

Architecture of Dreams

Anti-Aesthetic 245 W. 8th Ave, Eugene

Eugene Contemporary Art is proud to present Architecture of Dreams, a group exhibition that draws on surrealism as a mode of art making in response to everyday life.

Free
Beside a blue chair, a small table holds two books, stacked atop each other—the title of the book on top is "Confessions Jessica Jackson Hutchins"—and a small pink sculpture, which bulges and reaches and points, with limbs of two dimensional shape and curve.

Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart

Fourteen30 Contemporary 1501 SW Market Street, Portland

As the hard-edged forms of the glass and concrete architecture meet the natural vegetation beyond, so Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart counterposes those artists working from a logic of abstraction to those mining the variously and deeply alive.

Free
A person paints the words "Have you had a burger?" on top of a large ad, which features a photo of a burger. The photo is black and white and seems to be at night.

Have You Had a Burger?

Well Well Projects 8371 N Interstate Ave #1, Portland

While creating pieces for this series, Hyun Jung reflected on the various mundane yet charged questions she has received throughout her years spent in the United States: Have you had a burger? Can you paint my nails? Can you help me with my math homework? Have you been to North Korea? Do you have an English name? 

Free
White and blue plants bud out of black soil, stark and clear against a flat void, a cocked orange moon hands just beyond.

Tess Rubinstein | Pond Song

Stephanie Chefas Projects 305 SE 3RD AVE STE. 202, Portland

Each piece serves as a sort of sensory field note, cataloging the sights, sounds, smells, and textures of forest, beach, marsh, and pond.

Free
A tapestry of fabric, patched together, includes the belt loop from denim pants, black and white checkered fabric—is torn, or maybe burned, with gaping holes in the center.

Resound: Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Frankie Krupa Vahdani

Fuller Rosen Gallery 1928 NW Lovejoy St., Portland

Resound features drawings, paintings, mixed-media work, and fabric pieces infused by the unique cultural hybridity of each artists’ heritage and response to contemporary socio-political events in their respective locales of Brooklyn, New York and the Skagit Valley, Washington.

Free
Antebellum shirts with beaded seams and ironed collars of numerous colors float ominously along the wall of a gallery space hallway at torso height.

Untouchable Artifacts

Five Oaks Museum 17677 NW Springville Road, Portland

Eleven indigenous artists who hold intersectional identities and carry ancestral knowledge continue the tradition of storytelling.

Free
A lone pine stretches out of the ground and toward a hazy grey sky. On the ground beside it, bright green saplings pepper the grass.

Killer Cute | Last Truth Of The New

de boer Gallery 3311 E Pico Blvd, Los Angeles

Viewed with rose-tinted glasses and a lack of experience, romanticising about rural life can overlook a past where social norms were marked with aspects of colonialism, racism, and sexism.

Free
A red backpack leans against a white wall, the head and two legs of a deer strapped onto its exterior with yellow straps. Pepper spray dangles from a key ring.

Ryan Kitson: The Four Seasons

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland

Ryan Kitson’s thesis exhibition The Four Seasons examines the power of subsistence outside of market demands through cast-glass and found-object sculptures.

Free
An abstract paintings colors range from deep red and white to pink to black. The text "Land Back" is scratched into the surface.

Ghost Rider: Performing Fugitive Indigeneity

ditch projects 303 S. 5th Avenue #165, Springfield

Walking the land, watching for snakes in summer, watching the prints of who walked before me in the snow in winter, selecting trees to trim for fire prevention.

Free
A largely faded black poster, advertising an art show titled "Fragile, Presented to you by Playground Gallery - on Show 7/31 and 8/1 from 1pm to 8pm." Also listed are featured artists, events, an address, and a list of those involved behind the scenes.

Fragile

Inspire Wellness 7319 N John Ave UNIT101, Portland

Playground Gallery is pleased to present “Fragile,” a group exhibition that reveals our unstable social structure, the extreme cultural conflicts of today, and the delicacies of our mental/physical selves during the pandemic.

Free
A square painting, dominated by the converging white lines of shattered glass, hangs above a wooden chair and a white surfboard, leaning against the wall on its side.

Joe Horner: OUTSIDE DOG

Agenda 4505 SE Belmont, Suite A, Portland

Feral: (adjective) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication. This simple definition feels especially poignant as Americans emerge from the confinement of quarantine. OUTSIDE DOG features minimalist works that explore feral American themes. Along with skateboarding, the objects included in this exhibition reference rural values, youth, music, biker, and car cultures.…

Continue reading ➞ Joe Horner: OUTSIDE DOG

Free
A globby, sculpted figure sits atop a wooden box and the fabric draped over part of it. Painted white and teal-blue, what could be wings or fins or flippers wave playfully.

Kelsey Hamilton Davis: In the House of Weird Sisters

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland

Kelsey Hamilton Davis’ thesis exhibition In the House of Weird Sisters queries longings for heritage narratives through environments configured with ceramics, textiles, found objects from her New England home, and organic materials.

Free
Silhouettes of faces overlap and echo and inhale luminescent smoke, in this hazy, ghoulish half-way of an image. Caught in between materialization, chain-link fence , chains and searchlights disappear behind shadows of mouths open, waiting to speak.

Lonnie Holley – The Influence of Images

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Nested shapes appear to radiate and float in the cosmos amid a softly diffused palette of grays, pinks, blues, and yellows that emphasize their transformative, mystical quality.

Free
A photograph of a metal bed frame with a straw pillow, situated before an open temple door, is distorted by countless, missing sections removed from it, like missing puzzle pieces or an image half-loaded.

Dinh Q. Lê – Monuments and Memorials

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Lê’s evocative photographic artworks combine interior and exterior pictures of Cambodian sites and pair the seemingly unresolvable, competing narratives of a country’s past and present.

Free
A collage piece appears first to be a photograph of a houseplant sitting in a pot with a fabric backdrop, some of its leaves taped to that backdrop. Instead, some portions are replaced with drawings on portions of paper, painting, sketches, a work finished and unfinished.

Nature Inside

Well Well Projects 8371 N Interstate Ave #1, Portland

She uses whimsy and humor to reference loss, isolation, containment, and representation. 

Free
Bloodied teeth, tape, and either plastic or glass rest on satin red fabric. The flash from a camera creates shimmers in the fabric and the front few teeth.

Madison Queen: The Gallery of Metamorphics

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland

Madison Queen’s thesis exhibition The Gallery of Metamorphics pictures the underlying fearful, sexual, and absurd desires embedded in commercial beauty and fetish products that (re)form our conceptions of selfhood through photography.

Free
To the left, an aerial image of round, porous objects arranged against a black background. To the right, a computer-generated image of bulbous shapes expanding away from the words "Lyrical Coherence."

Lyrical Coherence

Murdoch Collections 2219 NW Raleigh Street, Portland

The exhibit will showcase the ways in which both fathers passed along their love of music’s richness to each artist.

Free
Animal hair and shards of glass are fixed onto a wide bracelet, which sits on white textured fabric.

Douglas Wiltshire: Cocooning

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland

Douglas Wiltshire’s thesis exhibition, Cocooning, gleans vessels of death through jewelry, sculpture, and found objects in order to understand how spirit inhabits inert material.

Free
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