Julie Green: The Last Supper
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA800 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of US Death Row Inmates
Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves
Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CATikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves presents works by thirty Bay Area–based contemporary artists reflecting on the Jewish concept of tikkun (Hebrew for “to repair”).
Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT
Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle, WAHuanca’s installations encompass painting, sculpture, and live performance, and are characteristically created for, and integrated with, the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented.
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CADrawing from years of material research, Lin has created a new body of work that is grounded in the uncanny sense of isolation yet collective experience that has marked our lives during these pandemic years.
Joey Veltkamp: SPIRIT!
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WAVeltkamp’s work is heavily influenced by the sublime natural beauty of the Puget Sound and the quirky places and people who, like the artist himself, joyfully call this region home.
Patte Loper: Laboratory for Other Worlds
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WALaboratory for Other Worlds is a multimedia landscape that uses animation, sound, and everyday objects to create a hand-woven, immersive environment.
Shades of Light
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue, Porland, ORShades of Light brings together ceramics, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection.
Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers
Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WADelight in the bold graphics and striking colors of Northwest Native silkscreen prints with this installation of contemporary works by Indigenous women. his installation brings to light the unique contributions of several women artists whose imagery divulges personal experiences, complex mythologies, and unfettered expression, pushing styles and subjects into new directions that continue to inspire a new generation of Native artists.
Blue is Our Color
Hedreen Gallery 901 12th Avenue, FINR 202, Seattle, WAThese symbols are put in dialogue with contemporary large-scale fabric collages, eye-catching abstractions, and cyanotype photographs of the 2020 demonstrations against police brutality. As a visual thread, blue (and by extension, ideas of Blackness and African-ness) is shown to hold much more than stagnant history and simplistic ideas of identity.
Jeremy Shaw: Liminals
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WABorn in Vancouver and now based in Berlin, Jeremy Shaw explores altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that attempt to capture transcendental experience. The artist draws on and often combines the strategies of documentary filmmaking, music video, conceptual art, and scientific research to create a space of ambiguity in which disparate belief systems and histories are thrown into interpretive limbo.
Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists
Museum of Sonoma County 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CACollective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists features art by contemporary Black artists who have participated in interdisciplinary collectives. Collectives have served both the revolutionary and creative practices of Black, queer, and femme people across the diaspora. The artworks in Collective Arising—which includes textile, sculpture, glass, print, painting, photography, video, and installation—speak to this dual purpose at the core of the formation of artist collectives.
One Day Neon Art Immersive With Roxy Rose
Museum of Neon Art 216 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CAExperience the entire process of bending neon, from glass to glow! Each student will head home with their own handmade experimental work. Get into the soft flame of the ribbon fire to make your own neon gesture.
fore x four
Lumber Room 419 Northwest 9th Ave., Portland, ORAs a collection, the 16 works illustrate a complex mapping of generations of artists who each offer unique approaches to the sentiments of guardianship, responsibility, caretaking, guidance, and love.
by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CABest known as a core member of Fluxus, the avant-garde art group founded in 1962, Alison Knowles has created groundbreaking experiments that have influenced contemporary art and artists for over fifty years. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS ON THE CLASSICAL FORMS
Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WAChina’s rich legacies in art, language, and culture are conceptualized by the artists in Beyond the Mountain: Contemporary Chinese Artists on the Classical Forms
everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle, WAThis exhibition of moving image installations, drawn from the Henry collection, spans a wide range of style and conceptual approaches.
At the Table
Armory Center for the Arts 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CAAt the Table is a group exhibition that explores our intimate and communal relationships with food and investigates the many ways these connections were severed or challenged during the 2020-21 lockdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through artworks, documentary photography, recorded narratives, and ephemera, this exhibition creates space for reflection on the role food plays in our lives as individuals and in our communities and traces the effects of the pandemic on the ways we interact with and consume food.
Clement Valla: Scanners
bitforms gallery SF 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CAClement Valla collects environmental data through an intricate process of photography and three-dimensional scanning. His highly specific procedures convert natural objects into data systems. Through the artist’s work with diverse software he explores issues of mediated and computer vision in respect to the natural world. Scanners presents Valla’s exploration of the technical aspects of picture-making.
Sarah German: Sunset Abstractions
Pendleton Center for the Arts 214 N Main St, Pendleton, ORThe Lorenzen Gallery is a space where emerging artists can gain experience in the practical aspects of having an exhibit.
Enrique Chagoya: Solo Exhibition
Pendleton Center for the Arts 214 N Main St, Pendleton, ORThrough Oct. 6 view a solo exhibition of Chagoya’s works on paper at the Pendleton Center for the Arts
Cannupa Hanska Luger + Marie Watt: GATHER
Stelo 412 NW 8th Ave, Portland, ORPart of the core residency at Stelo Arts, GATHER features the multi-year collaboration of two Indigenous artists, Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt.
Composed Surfaces
Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland, CAComposed Surfaces is an exhibition of paintings by Alexandra Bowes, Vicky Colombet, Tyler Cross, Sally Egbert, Prajakti Jayavant, and Javier Manrique.
Alison Stigora: SALVAGE
MadArt 325 Westlake Ave N, #101, Seattle, WASeattle-based artist Alison Stigora draws inspiration from nature to create her exhibition SALVAGE at MadArt Studio. In this two-part, monumental sculptural installation of reclaimed driftwood, light and sound compositions, Stigora invites viewers to engage their senses and take a moment of reflection.
CAIRNATOPIA
1709 SE 3rd Ave, Portland OR 97214 1709 SE 3rd Ave, Portland, OregonIn CAIRNATOPIA, artist Nan Curtis presents a distinctive cache of found objects and constructed forms. This new body of work showcases various mediums, including; kiln-formed glass, construction flags, and springs from an old mattress. Intensely personal possessions, a handmade indigo-dyed and woven rug, diaries, childhood dolls, boxes of ashes from deceased pets, and the urn of the artist's father coalesce, carefully and precariously, arranged in piles, stacks – cairns.
Market at the Park
Olympic Sculpture Park 2901 WESTERN AVENUE, Seattle, WAEnjoy open air park dining by MARKET, located in the Olympic Sculpture Park
Warren Pope: HOMECOMING
Kittredge Gallery 3211 N 15th St, Tacoma, WAAn artist's journey from Kittredge Hall to the present
The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU 1855 SW BroadwayPortland,Featuring works in mediums ranging from drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and ceramics by 37 artists
You Must Be Held
Specialist 300 South Washington Street, Seattle, WAIn You Must be Held, Freeman quietly, and often unexpectedly, invents rituals that begin to mobilize this rage through acts of self-reflection and care.
“This Time…” A WaterShed Graphic Novel Series Exhibition by Melanie Stevens
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland, ORPacific Northwest College of Art 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97209 Nelson Cauduro Collections Study…
All in the Delivery : Patrick Collier at Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis
Truckenbrod Gallery Corvallis, ORIn his latest exhibition “All in the Delivery,” Collier uses corrugated boxes and packaging materials from shipments as the foundation for the seven sculptures in the show, ranging in size from tabletop deconstructed pieces to free-standing monoliths.
2021 En Foco Fellowship Exhibition: Nene Sin Patria (Our mother’s hands became our homes) by Amarise Carreras
Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, ORAs a photo-based performance artist, in her work, Amarise Carreras highlights a collection of spiritually revential images
Fox gloves: Midori Hirose & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
Helen's Costume 7706 SE Yamhill Street, Portland, ORHelen's Costume is pleased to present Foxgloves, a two-person art exhibition with a new series of sculptures by Midori Hirose and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson's energetic drawings on paper.
Marco Maggi: Tiny Tyrannies
Hosfelt Gallery 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CAMaggi's shapes suggest meaning — alphabets of unknown languages, computer circuitry, Google Earth imaging of vaguely familiar cities — but no matter how much you puzzle over them, the forms are ultimately inexplicable.
jaamil olawale kosoko: Syllabus for Black Love/ the hold
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture 511 NW Broadway, Portland, ORThe Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA is pleased to announce the hold, an installation by jaamil olawale kosoko exhibited in partnership with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) as part of their twentieth annual Time-Based Art Festival, happening September 8–18, 2022.
Carbon
The Vestibule 5919 15th Ave NW, Seattle, WABurning and screaming, trees, regenerating mushrooms, plastic and concrete recycled into sneering skulls and melting…
Peter Hujar curated by Elton John
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CAA fifty-photograph survey of Hujar’s celebrated career.
NEOCLES SERAFIMIDIS: ABEYANT LANDSCAPE
Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th Street, Oakland, CAIn late 2021, Neo Serafimidis began a photographic exploration in response to the perception of nature and reality into which we would emerge after COVID. As it turned out, the pandemic was not over; re-emergence in any sense was suspended. Our relationship to this new world is vague and as variable and mutable as the virus itself.
ODYSSEY: Solange Roberdeau, Sarah Koik, Danielle Dimston
Municipal Bonds 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CAThis trio show presents drawings on paper and ceramic sculptures in a narrative informed in part by themes from Homer's epic poem.
Alexis Smith: The American Way
MCASD 700 Prospect St., La Jolla, CASmith’s collages combine found texts, images, and objects to underscore and exaggerate how we are shaped by the media and culture that surround us.
Measuring Consciousness
CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions 1401 16th St, San Francisco, CACULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to announce Measuring Consciousness, a solo exhibition of batik painting, ceramic and stone sculptures by the artist Zhivago Duncan.
Tom Hausken
Hanson Howard Gallery 89 Oak Street, Ashland, ORTom Hausken solo exhibition at the Hanson Howard Gallery
Fabricave
Creativity Explored 3245 16th Street, San Francisco, CAIn the studios and from home, CE artists interested in needle crafts have expanded their horizons by experimenting with technique, scale, and materials to consider their practice from the perspective of sculpture.
Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception
Portland Japanese Garden 611 SW Kingston Avenue, Portland, ORIn Kenji Ide’s installation, A Poem of Perception, the Kanagawa-based artist has created a constellation of found objects and small-scale sculptures that encourage viewers to heighten their sensitivity to their own experience of time, place, and imagination.
Closing Reception: Laura Berger ‘Chrysalis’
Stephanie Chefas Projects 305 SE 3RD AVE STE. 202, Portland, ORJoin us for a closing reception on the last day of Laura Berger's exhibit as we say goodbye to Stephanie Chefas Projects' first location in Southeast Portland and welcome the transition to a larger space this Fall.
HALIMAW: Rialin José with Online Performance by Xuvenir
onlineMata Art Gallery Presents HALIMAW A solo exhibition of visual artworks by Rialin José opening…
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Gabrielle Civil
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland, ORGabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI.
Joan Didion: What She Means
Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CAOpening less than a year after her death at age 87, and planned since 2019, Joan Didion: What She Means follows a meandering chronology that grapples with the simultaneously personal and distant evolution of Didion’s voice as a writer and pioneer of the “New Journalism.”
Jeffrey Gibson: They Come From Fire
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue, Porland, ORAn immersive, site-responsive installation by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire will transform the exterior windows on the facade of the museum’s main building as well as its two-story interior Schnitzer Sculpture Court.
DIE D.E.I.: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion
online"DIE D.E.I: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion" is the sequel to "MATCHING MINORITIES//DOUBTFUL DOUBLES: A conversation on institutionalized racism, tokenism, microaggressions, and inclusion vs. optics in the art world,” a session organized in 2020 by Stop DiscriminAsian members Jen Delos Reyes and Astria Suparak.
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Jeanne Medina Le
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland, ORThe Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies welcomes visiting artist Jeanne Medina Le for a lecture on her work and practice.