Upcoming Events – Variable West

Nearly one hundred ceramic plates hanging on a white wall, each with a unique illustration of Death Row Inmate's last meals in blue.

WA

Sep 4 - Sep 25

Julie Green: The Last Supper

Terri Friedman, You don’t get to know, 2021. Pink Textile collage work.

CA

Feb 17 - Jan 8

Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves

Contemporary Jewish Museum

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

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

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

OR

Jun 4 - Dec 31

Shades of Light⁠

Portland Art Museum

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 24 - Oct 7

Blue is Our Color

Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University

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

A blonde woman in a cowboy hat sits at a table bending neon. Overlay text" Neon Immersive Class with Roxy Rose

CA

Jul 10 - Sep 25

One Day Neon Art Immersive With Roxy Rose

Museum of Neon Art

fore x four written our in white within a white wheel against a cobalt blue background

OR

Jul 16 - Sep 24

fore x four

Lumber Room

CA

Jul 20 - Feb 12

by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)

BAMPFA

Naked bodies lay stacked on top of one another in an arid, picturesque landscape

WA

Jul 22 - Dec 22

BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS ON THE CLASSICAL FORMS

Seattle Art Museum

Still from Kaari Upson's 'Split Eye'- a close-up green eye is bisected by a black thread

WA

July 23, 2022 @ 10:00 am - January 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm PDT

everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

Henry Art Gallery

A person with a beard and light complexion and long hair stads holding a small painting of a watermelon. They are standing next to a fruit stand which has been converted to sell art work instead of fruit.

CA

July 29 @ 8:00 am - December 4 @ 5:00 pm PDT

At the Table

Armory Center for the Arts

CA

Aug 6 - Oct 22

Clement Valla: Scanners

bitforms gallery SF

An ombre layering of rhombi

OR

August 8 @ 8:00 am - October 6 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Sarah German: Sunset Abstractions

Pendleton Center for the Arts

A Work on paper by the artist Enrique Chagoya; huddled figures float top a sea leading to a tree spewing geometric shapes. The phrase, "The thinly thingness of things" rises above the scene against a cyan background in all caps and a western font.

OR

August 8 @ 8:00 am - October 6 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Enrique Chagoya: Solo Exhibition

Pendleton Center for the Arts

Two figures handle cloth outdoors near a small waterfall

OR

Aug 13 - Nov 27

Cannupa Hanska Luger + Marie Watt: GATHER

A topographical image with blue shadowing and off-white highlights⁠

CA

Aug 13 - Oct 8

Composed Surfaces

A metal structure encloses a structure made of wood piled high to the ceiling of a sparse white room.

WA

Featured August 16 @ 12:00 pm - November 23 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Alison Stigora: SALVAGE

MadArt

Four similarly geometric objects sit equally spaced apart on a semicircular white table.

August 20 @ 12:00 pm - October 22 @ 5:00 pm PDT

CAIRNATOPIA

SATOR projects

Olympic Sculpture Park Aerial view

WA

August 26 @ 8:00 am - September 25 @ 2:00 pm PDT

Market at the Park

Olympic Sculpture Park

A papery white flower lays against a flat black background

Aug 29 - Oct 15

Warren Pope: HOMECOMING

university of Puget Sound

Ceramic ornamental pedestal holding ceramic fruits

August 30 @ 11:00 am - December 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

WA

Sep 1 - Oct 22

You Must Be Held

Specialist

OR

Featured September 1 @ 5:00 pm - October 17 @ 8:00 pm PDT

“This Time…” A WaterShed Graphic Novel Series Exhibition by Melanie Stevens

maximiliano

Inside of two cardboard boxes is a reflective bacground. A small rectangular box is in front of the background.

OR

September 2 @ 12:00 pm - September 25 @ 4:00 pm PDT

All in the Delivery : Patrick Collier at Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis

Truckenbrod Gallery

A contemporary still life against a striking red background

OR

Sep 3 - Oct 1

2021 En Foco Fellowship Exhibition: Nene Sin Patria (Our mother’s hands became our homes) by Amarise Carreras

A sketch drawing of a loose hooded figure

OR

September 3 @ 1:00 pm - October 1 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Fox gloves: Midori Hirose & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson

Helen's Costume

Geographic-inspired black and white graphic

CA

Sep 6 - Oct 15

Marco Maggi: Tiny Tyrannies

Hosfelt Gallery

A figure facing away from the camera is draped in fabric with the right hand above their head, fingers spread apart. They are surrounded by orange and pink colored lighting.

OR

September 6 @ 10:00 am - October 14 @ 4:00 pm PDT

jaamil olawale kosoko: Syllabus for Black Love/ the hold

Hannah Bakken

A hole containing a mystery element is shown partially dug in an arid landscape

WA

Sep 8 - Oct 15

Carbon

A black and white photograph of a contemplative man

CA

Sep 8 - Oct 22

Peter Hujar curated by Elton John

Fraenkel Gallery

A scenic horizon featuring pink and blue hues.

CA

September 9 @ 11:30 am - October 15 @ 5:00 pm PDT

NEOCLES SERAFIMIDIS: ABEYANT LANDSCAPE

Mercury 20 Gallery

A diptych featuring a simplified geometric mountains cape with red splatters

CA

Sep 10 - Oct 29

ODYSSEY: Solange Roberdeau, Sarah Koik, Danielle Dimston

Municipal Bonds

A photograph of a blue director's chair with the name 'Alexis Smith' embroidered in yellow cursive

CA

Sep 15 - Jan 29

Alexis Smith: The American Way

MCASD

A crackled ghost-like figure comprised of neutral colors emerges on a canvas

CA

Sep 15 - Oct 29

Measuring Consciousness

CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions

Abstracted block painting with orange and gray rectangles

OR

Sep 16 - Oct 22

Tom Hausken

Untitled by Tranesha Smith-Kilgore, 2022, mixed media sculpture, 41 x 22 x 18 inches - A hanging multimedia sculpture made of ribbon, yarn, and bits of fabric tied together with found objects and beads.

CA

Sep 16 - Nov 5

Fabricave

Creativity Explored

OR

September 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am - February 20, 2023 @ 4:30 pm PDT

Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception

Portland Japanese Garden

A pastel abstracted image of two hands holding a round object and a horizontal feminine face.

OR

Sep 24 | 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Closing Reception: Laura Berger ‘Chrysalis’

Stephanie Chefas Projects

A demon like figure with horns and wings is centered in black and white.

Oct 1 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

HALIMAW: Rialin José with Online Performance by Xuvenir

Mata Art Gallery

Selfie of Gabrielle Civil with dramatic lighting

OR

Oct 5 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Gabrielle Civil

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

Black and white photograph of Joan Didion hiding her face in a black turtleneck (Brigitte Lacombe, 'Joan Didion,' New York, 1996, 1996)

CA

Oct 11 - Jan 22

Joan Didion: What She Means

OR

Oct 15 - Feb 25

Jeffrey Gibson: They Come From Fire

Portland Art Museum

Oct 15 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

DIE D.E.I.: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion

Stop DiscriminAsian

OR

Oct 21 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Jeanne Medina Le

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

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