Past Events – Variable West

A black and white photograph of a contemplative man

CA

Sep 8 - Oct 22

Peter Hujar curated by Elton John

Fraenkel Gallery

Alt text: A seated figure lounges against a vibrant purple background promoting the Time-Based Art Festival.

OR

September 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - September 18, 2022 @ 10:00 pm PDT

TBA:22 Time-Based Art Festival

A painted basketball sits atop a plush neon pink pillow. The pillow rests on top of a wooden shipping crate.

OR

September 9, 2022 @ 8:00 am - December 31, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Sa’rah Melinda Sabino: Dream Girl

One Grand Gallery

A scenic horizon featuring pink and blue hues.

CA

September 9, 2022 @ 11:30 am - October 15, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PDT

NEOCLES SERAFIMIDIS: ABEYANT LANDSCAPE

Mercury 20 Gallery

Black and White Geometrically Abstract Painting

September 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - October 15, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PDT

RAYMOND L. HAYWOOD: ENVY OF DESIRE

Two Patterned textiles side-by-side

CA

September 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - October 15, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PDT

CHRISTINE MEURIS & KRISTINA NOBLEMAN: IN SYMMETRY

Mercury 20 Gallery

A Person lays face-down on stone, colorful cloth swirls around them ⁠

CA

Sep 10 - Sep 11

Ever Present: Milka Djordjevich, Victoria Fu, and Matt Rich

Getty Center

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 gallery lit with orange and blue-purple light. The far back wall has a sunset over water projected onto it. There are white pedestals holding white geometric sculptures on the left and right.

OR

Sep 10 - Nov 20

Dreams of Unknown Islands

A highly abstracted blue green and yellow canvas collaged with bingo card numbers

CA

Featured September 10, 2022 @ 8:00 am - October 12, 2022 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Grace Rosario Perkins: Hermit’s Lamp

Cushion Works

A promotional poster for the event

Sep 10 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Plantasia

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.

Sep 16 - Nov 5

Fabricave

Sep 17 - Nov 5

Ellen Garvens: Holding Unsteady

An illustration of a white flower with a bold outline ⁠

CA

Sep 17 - Sep 18

OPaf 5

OPaf

WA

Sep 17 | 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Walk the Block!

Wa Na Wari

A color study showing small square swatches of 70 different colors

CA

Sep 23 - Jan 21

Color Code

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

A person in a red tank top and white pants stads in a room of wall hung sculptural works.

CA

Sep 24 - Nov 19

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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 comic strip showing a person laying crust criss cross across a pie tin.

CA

Sep 29 | 12:00 am

Book Release: Today’s Special

Perfectly Acceptable Press

CA

Oct 1 - Dec 3

JEAN LOWE : SWANK

An abstracted patchwork painting with autumnal colors

Oct 1 - Nov 5

Uncovering Alice Rahon

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

A female presenting individual stands in front of a silver futuristic car indoors

CA

Oct 1 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

JEAN LOWE : SWANK

Christy Chan, Detail from All Is Not Lost, 2019, Digital video projection in Wassaic, NY. Funded by Empire State Arts Foundation and curated by The Wassaic Project

Oct 1 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

ALL IS NOT LOST

Selfie of Gabrielle Civil with dramatic lighting

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

Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Gabrielle Civil

An eerie film still of a White House and propped up lawn chairs

Oct 6 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Films

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

Oct 12 - Nov 27

Again and Again

OR

Oct 13 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Screening: Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy!

Portland Film Festival

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

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

A low angle photograph of a closet stuffed with coats and tops.

Oct 15 | 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Paige Valentine and Lucas Terranova: That’s A More

Collage of the featured artists and their work

Oct 20 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Judith Belzer and Kathryn Spence in Conversation

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

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

A graphic conch shell on sand meets a minimalist horizon of blue and teal

CA

Oct 22 - Nov 30

Someday Morning

Johansson Projects

A brightly painted mailbox against a green bush.

WA

Oct 26 - Dec 31

Nikita Ares and Andrew Laumann

SUN SPOT

OR

Oct 29 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Carla Rossi’s Hell House Halloween

Oregon Contemporary

clusters of pink and red round textiles on a canvas set against a white wall.

WA

Nov 1 - Dec 31

Jing Ellen Xu: Flung out of space

Das Schaufenster

A black background featuring highly abstracted neon yellow, blue, white, and purple line work in odd shapes.

CA

Nov 2 - Dec 17

Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink: Evidence of Things Unseen

Track 16

A colorful abstract painting featuring anthropomorphic forms of fish, eyes, birds, and floating faces.

CA

Nov 10 - Dec 31

Painting Out of A Corner

Transmission Gallery

Small ceramic plates featuring illustrations of eyes, wings, and phallic symbols.

OR

Nov 11 - Nov 30

Mark Mitchell

Ghost Gallery

A primarily green abstract painting reminiscent of a landscape in its branch, sky, and leaf like formations.

CA

Nov 12 - Dec 17

Annie Lapin: Contours of the Vast

Shulamit Nazarian

Nov 16 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Astria Suparak

A fist punches through an arid landscape

CA

Nov 16 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Bessma Khalaf Artist Lecture

Mills College Art Museum

A gray scale image of the side of a large building with many windows is overlaid with an image of the moon.

Dec 10 - Jan 21

SHADES OF GRAY

A close up of the hands of a person with a dark complexion wearing a bright red suit kneeling. The photo is overlaying a black and red print featuring a repeating circular pattern.

WA

Dec 21 - Jan 15

Addoley Dzegede and Lyndon Barrois Jr.: To Die For

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