Upcoming Events – Variable West

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

OR

Jul 31 - Jul 1

APEX: Sharita Towne & A Black Art Ecology of Portland

Portland Art Museum

A hazy, monochrome industrial wasteland—reduced to squared shapes and emptied colors.

WA

Jan 22 - Sep 4

Departures and Divisions: Variation in American Styles, 1900 – 1950

Tacoma Art Museum

The work "Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod), 2018" is a colorful graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper piece which recalls childhood craft projects.

WA

Feb 2 - Jul 24

Recent Acquisitions: Jeffry Mitchell

Frye Art Museum

Against an digitalized gallery-space background, five color/text blocks are stacked, reading things like "Open Black," "Finger Wave Specialist," etc.

WA

Feb 4 - Jul 17

Lauren Halsey

Seattle Art Museum

Oil painting of a woman standing in pasture with two cows

WA

Mar 12 - Sep 11

More Than Human: Exploring Seattle’s Changing Landscape

Frye Art Museum

A close-up photograph of two people painting a wall. Behind them, bright light shines through a small window.

CA

Apr 1 - Sep 9

Studio Tutto: Seed Spires

Theodore Payne Gallery

To and from a wall of paintings, miniature figures wander, kneel, lay, gaze.

WA

Apr 2 - Feb 5

Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT

Henry Art Gallery

Rusted chains droop into the frame and hover above the ground.

WA

Apr 2 - Sep 4

ektor garcia: matéria prima

Henry Art Gallery

A Native American man's image is repeated three time in front of a quilt-like geometric pattern and an astrological background.

Apr 6 - Aug 28

Wendy Red Star: American Progress

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

The words "Where The Waters Come Together" in all white are centered left against a blue background.

OR

Apr 22 - Jun 30

Where the Waters Come Together

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Split into five panels, this advertisement shows the five session dates accompanied by five famous historical photographs from Louis Daguerre's The Artist’s Studio to Muybridge's Horses.

CA

May 5 @ 7:00 pm - June 30 @ 8:30 pm PDT

A History of Photography salon-style lecture series at The Image Flow

The Image Flow

A blue fabric tent is supported by four statues, each of different, regal figures.

CA

May 8 - Nov 17

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

BAMPFA

A textile-based pink patchwork artwork, text: 'We're all Gonna Die' in all caps.

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Joey Veltkamp: SPIRIT!

Bellevue Arts Museum

A multimedia installation by Patte Loper. Space motifs in a blue-lite room with 3 components

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Patte Loper: Laboratory for Other Worlds

Bellevue Arts Museum

Zig zagging lines of blue and grey create the illusion of motion, movement, confusion.

CA

May 21 - Aug 20

A Sieve for Infinity

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A graphite sketch on found paper by Rober Gober, a foot is shown upside down with the words, "Human Garbage" in all caps shaded upside-down.

CA

May 22 - Aug 28

A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II

Hammer Museum

A large abstract panel with geometrical, neon green, blue, and pink designs. Repeated patterns of thin neon circles appear in large and small iterations.

WA

May 23 @ 8:00 am - July 2 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Molly Vaughan: Safety in Numbers

MadArt

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

OR

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

Storm Tharp: In This Garden

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

Silver sculpted trees stand in a gallery

CA

May 28 - Jul 30

Josh Callaghan: Family Tree

Night Gallery

A black and white image in which black lines regress and blur to gray from left to right.

CA

Jun 2 - Aug 13

Liz Deschenes: Works 1997 – 2022

Fraenkel Gallery

Geometric black and orange intricate, abstracted line work against a white background.

CA

Jun 3 - Jul 23

Yulia Pinkusevich: Very Yellow-White Flash

Chris Kerr

Poster for 'Salon Delicatessen' featuring two dolls on a tiered upholstered cake stand.

WA

Jun 3 - Aug 31

Orly Anan: Salon Delicatessen

Museum of Museums

Poster for 'Hollaback to the Future' in white text against a black background

WA

Jun 3 - Aug 31

Hollaback to the Future

Museum of Museums

Glass scaffolds on a pedestal

June 3 @ 5:00 pm - July 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Avantika Bawa: 3/2

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

OR

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.

OR

Jun 4 - Dec 31

Shades of Light⁠

Portland Art Museum

A painted red geometric pattern

OR

Jun 4 - Aug 7

Molly Alloy and Arielle Zamora: Held Tight⁠

Fuller Rosen Gallery

WA

Jun 10 - Jun 29

Neptune Frost

The yellow cracked text, BORDERxER in all caps sits in front of a black and white illustrated cheetah looking forward

OR

Jun 11 - Sep 10

Patricia Vázquez Gómez: BorderXers

Anita Building

A photograph of what seems to be decorated plain cookies in a bag

WA

Jun 12 - Jul 23

a fairy show II

Veronica

A silkscreen print with a black background and Indigenous-inspired design.

WA

Jun 15 - Dec 11

Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers

Seattle Art Museum

WA

Jun 16 - Jul 9

Simone Bailey, Chase Keetley, Lauren Williams, and Berlynn Bea

Wa Na Wari

An abstracted flower-like image with black and white tones

CA

Jun 17 - Jul 23

SARA LISCH: THE MIND GARDEN

Three men cry out in angst in a black and white photograph.

WA

Jun 25 - Oct 9

Jeremy Shaw: Liminals

Frye Art Museum

"Collective Arising" Promotional information sits against a blurry black-and-white background.

CA

Jun 25 - Nov 27

Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists

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.

OR

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Bananas

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

OR

Jun 25 - Jul 23

Ricardo Nagaoka: at last, I see you

Melanie Flood Projects

The Bed You Made, oil on panel painting of an unmade bed by Julianna Paradisi.

OR

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

Home

Playground Gallery

An Artist kneels above a chalk portrait

OR

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

La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival

Tualatin Valley Creates

"Lenticular Clouds" by Craig Calderwood- a reclining figure against a background of gold wears a blue shirt patterned with amphoras. A mirror reveals their backside.

CA

Jul 16 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Craig Calderwood Artist-Led Tour

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

OR

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

LRVS Lecture Series: Aki Onda

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

A green upholstered fainting couch sits stoically against a stone wall. A line art Art Nouveau border surrounds the piece of furniture.

CA

Aug 6 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Fainting Couch: A Contact Improv Dance Performance

Poster for 'Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things⁠' featuring a monochromatic drawing of a Classical sculpture wearing a theatrical mask.

WA

Aug 12 - Aug 12

Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things

The Factory

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