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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
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
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
The text "Prototypes" repeated twice in black typeface, the words "What is an appropriate monument or memorial for our time and place" separating the two.

Prototypes

1010 1010 NW Flanders, Portland

What is an appropriate monument or memorial for this time and place?

Free
Near the center of a woven grey canvas, small, knitted yellow buds flower outwards to form a circle.

Heather Watkins: still—moving

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART 925 NW Flanders, Portland

Halos encircle their stilled and spinning forms, their scale slips and shifts from near and far, macro to micro.

Free
Multi-colored hexagons are scattered across a white background, tethered together with thin wire, a magenta stripped blob invading the center, like a hot air balloon grazing past clouds.

Print Wall: Jacob Hashimoto

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Jacob Hashimoto’s art practice bridges sculpture, painting, and installation through entrancing and complex installations that shift perceptions of light, space, and motion.

Free
Black-and-white photograph of individual wearing hoop earrings and a hoodie, with smoke pluming from their mouth and in front of their face.

Al J Thompson: Remnants of an Exodus

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

In turn, he finds Spring Valley fraught with insecurity and uncertainty but bound by love.

Free
A heart, decorated with numerous patterns, including checkers, stripes, and globs of color, rests on a white surface.

New Ownership at Eutectic Gallery

Eutectic Gallery 1930 NE Oregon Street, Portland

By utilizing decentralized blockchain technology, New Ownership aims to materially realize a more just and equitable financial future for artists and makers.

Free
A photo collage, wherein the painted eyes and forehead of an individual are superimposed over a dated photograph of a boy wearing a collared shirt and tie, against a dreamy landscape background.

Gary Burnley: The Known World

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

Burnley constructs images that layer our memory with revered representations of beauty, power, influence, identity and social status into unlikely, chance encounters with other images.

Free
Fragments of eyebrows, hair, nose, ear converge and overlap in the center of the image, in a vague, sharp-angled form.

But of course it’s hard to tell

Well Well Projects 8371 N Interstate Ave #1, Portland

This collective body of work was made in parallel (across a distance, without meeting) during the middle of 2021.

Free
Woman with long, wavy-brown hair is seated with crossed legs before her artwork—four different sized pieces with blocks and blobs of color leant against a white wall.

Mia Farrington | Place

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

he colors for PLACE are a reflection of my time spent in the Painted Hills region of the John Day Fossil Beds.

Free
Colored blocks of all shapes—one a keyhole, one the letter "J," one a stalagmite, one a vase—are stacked closely together and atop each other against a white background.

Nathan Paul Rice ‘Mini Parc’

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

His designs invite a playful and participatory experience that brings attention to the spaces existing between objects, their uses, and their meanings.

Free
Two hand-sculpted forms set beside each other—one is white and supports a vase, a long arm arched over the side to support it; another stands erect, a lanky spire with a wider bottom and a narrow neck.

Dawn Cerny: Pleasure Garden

SE Cooper Contemporary 6901 SE 110th AVE, Portland

A shape is flat, and a form isn’t.

Free
A sketched figure in a full, Victorian-era dress is caught in motion, their arms a soft blush, ribbons a warm pink, and long beak that of a duck.

After Boucher

Fuller Rosen Gallery 1928 NW Lovejoy St., Portland

Baroque figures, furniture and environments are infused with transgender bodies, process color palettes and mythological characters

Free
Image of two concentric, dark circles in the middle of a vast landscape with a mountain range at the horizon and the sunrise shining over the top of the mountain through the middle of the circles.

Thunderstruck 2.0: black hole sun

Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland

How does this site frame our perception of light, scale, and emptiness? Who did Holt make this work for? What is the relationship between land art and spectacle?

Free
The words "TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL" in bold, centered against a green background. Various information about the show above and below.

Time-Based Art Festival

PICA 15 NE Hancock St., PORTLAND

It is a time for us to come together in celebration of experimental works and ideas and to push the boundaries of what it means to make

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A clear box full of multi-sized cream and yellow cubes casts a long shadow against a white wall.

Gina Han: Recollection

Agenda 4505 SE Belmont, Suite A, Portland

These works are not derivative of any specific work yet their immediacy and profound release of control feel important, challenging and joyous all at once.

Free
A black object hanging against a white wall resembles undulating mountains, or waves in the ocean, with sharp peaks and smoothed valleys.

Stefanie Victor

Adams and Ollman 418 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

Small in scale, the works relate to the body and it’s trace movements, as well as domestic infrastructure and hardware, and are made from a range of materials including metal, glass, ceramic and concrete.

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