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An individual with voluminous black hair and a top-buttoned, collared shirt gazes into the lens, eyebrows raised, daring, against a black backdrop.

Jul 31 - Jul 1

APEX: Sharita Towne & A Black Art Ecology of Portland

Portland Art Museum

Apr 22 - Jun 30

Where the Waters Come Together

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

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

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

Storm Tharp: In This Garden

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

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

Jun 4 - Jul 2

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

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

Jun 4 - Dec 31

Shades of Light⁠

Portland Art Museum

Jun 4 - Aug 7

Molly Alloy and Arielle Zamora: 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

Jun 11 - Sep 10

Patricia Vázquez Gómez: BorderXers

Anita Building

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.

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Bananas

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

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Ricardo Nagaoka: at last, I see you

Melanie Flood Projects

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.

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.

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

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Playground Gallery

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

La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival

Tualatin Valley Creates

The Artist Aki Onda stands stoically, looking forward towards the camera with a graphic sweatshirt

Jul 26 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

LRVS Lecture Series: Aki Onda

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

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New voices on West Coast art: exhibition reviews, artist interviews, and more

We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery
by Jaushua Rombaoa
June 23, 2022
Religious images question the multifaceted nature of human lives.
Who Do I Think I Am? Lynn Hershman Leeson at Altman Siegel
by Max Blue
June 7, 2022
A multi-media artist on the West Coast gets up close and personal with their viewers, unsettling the notion of a fixed identity.
Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass
by Jeff Alessandrelli
May 31, 2022
A painter meditates on the impending and preventable horror of environmental destruction.
Support, Opportunity, and Liberation: Month of Sundays at Eugene Contemporary Art
by Chelsea Couch
May 26, 2022
An ambitious group exhibition steps in to show the world that liberation requires both trouble and quietude.
Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed
by Kathy Battista
May 19, 2022
Class, tradition, gender roles, race, and celebrity take center stage in Marika Thunder's exhibition at de boer gallery in Los Angeles
Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once
by May Maylisa Cat
May 17, 2022
May Maylisa Cat considers how Asian people and cultures have been continuously erased from film and TV.
Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino
by Renée Reizman
May 12, 2022
What do blockbuster immersive art exhibits and junk food have in common?
Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation
by Douglas Weissman
May 10, 2022
A writer discusses how an unlikely combination of punctuation changed his writing forever.
Sponsored Connection | Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon at Portland Art Museum Reviewed
by Ruby Joy White
May 5, 2022
Portland artist Christine Miller turns historical racist imagery into tools for Black liberation and love.
Sponsored Connection | Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick at lumber room Reviewed
by Ella Ray
May 5, 2022
Two artists collaborate to explore kinship, multigenerational learning, and community.
Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles
by Gabrielle Lawrence
May 3, 2022
A daring but imperfect exhibition challenges notions of racism and colorism.
Chromophilia
by Daniela Molnar
April 28, 2022
Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Resident Daniela Molnar examines the human relationship with color.
Raúl Guerrero & Mexican food in the United States
by Gerry Peña-Martinez
April 26, 2022
Raúl Guerrero's paintings of food celebrate the Mexican-American experience.
Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed
by Laurel V. McLaughlin
April 21, 2022
Yuyang Zhang's paintings and digital collages offer cultural commentary through memes, Chinese-American culture, and dark humor.
Love Letter to Julie Green
by Erin Bodfish
April 19, 2022
An Oregon-based educator and artist inspires her students to find beauty in everything.
Nasim Hantezadeh and summer stone fruit
by Emma Robitaille
April 14, 2022
An LA-based artist's biomorphic works on paper evoke the vocabulary of food.
Introducing Amelia Ketzel, our spring quarter Editorial Apprentice
by Variable West
April 13, 2022
We are thrilled to announce that Amelia Ketzel is joining Variable West as the spring 2022 Editorial Apprentice.
Love Letter to Kenjiro Nomura
by Peter Tracy
April 12, 2022
A Seattle-based painter captures 1930s Seattle, Japanese Internment, grief, loss, and recovery—all with his brush.
Srijon Chowdhury’s “Groundhog Day” at SE Cooper Contemporary
by Hannah Krafcik
April 7, 2022
A Portland-based painter conjures the otherworldly to meditate on the shrouded interiority of his subjects.
Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed
by May Maylisa Cat
April 6, 2022
Through scientific discovery and mysticism, Emily Endo explores the possibility of glass.