Past Events – Variable West

In front of a fenced park, a group of six are arranged before the camera—three of them kneeling, two of them standing, shirtless, facing away, and one at the top of the triangle, straight-faced.

CA

Apr 16 - Jun 18

All of Us All of Us

Berkeley Art Center

Split into three panels from left to right: A woman with a pale complexion with dark, reflective sunglasses on, two palm trees reflected in a bright blue swimming pool, a cream white car with it's sun roof down.

April 16 @ 10:00 am - May 7 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Ryan Jones: Fragments

Caldwell Snyder Gallery

OR

Apr 19 - Jun 4

Amanda Wojick – Small Shields and Other Shapes

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

OR

Apr 19 - Jun 4

Barbara Sternberger – Emanating

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

A black and white photo of two cars parked in front of an old bus, a sign above all of them reading "C.C.A.C. Gallery"

CA

Apr 27 | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The Last Wednesday Night

Oliver Art Center Tecoah Bruce Gallery

A light wooden box sits in the middle of a small, white-walled room. The box is full of grey gravel, with white, geometric ceramic fountains sitting on the surface. Larger grey and white striped rocks sit on the white sculptures and on the gravel. In the room’s back corner, a mound of brown soil sprouts various plants including tall branches with yellow blooms. A clump of green moss extends on the ground in front of the box.

CA

Apr 28 - Jun 11

Lily Clark and Analuisa Corrigan: House and Garden

Stroll Garden

An animal with gaping, empty eye sockets and long white hair rests its head on a blanket.

OR

Apr 28 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Liz Magor: I Have Wasted My Life

University of Oregon, Department of ARt

A series of walls made of stacked, irregularly-shaped rocks each have a circle cut into their center, allowing you to see through three walls.

WA

Apr 29 - Apr 30

Nancy Holt Book Launch +Symposium at WWU

A projection of an asian-influenced city scape at night lit up by neon signage hangs in a gallery space.

CA

Apr 30 - May 22

APICC presents Grow Our Souls

SOMArts

A banner ad, reading "New Year in the Park" against an all yellow background with symbols representing Cambodia, Lao, Thai, and Burmese buildings.

Apr 30 | 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

New Year in the Park

A person wearing silver makeup wearing a bell jar-shaped helmet with a circle cut out for their face stands in front of a black wall, arm gesturing out and mouth slightly open. A radio frequency line cuts across the image.

CA

Apr 30 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Hello World

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

A simplified rocketship hovers over color fields of green and pink.

CA

May 1 - Jun 18

Mihail: Rocketships

Municipal Bonds

Kelly Falzone Inouye sitting on a stool in front of two of her paintings. One is of Michael Jackson in the Thriller music video, and the other is of Madonna in her Like a Virgin video.

CA

May 4 - Jun 4

Kelly Falzone Inouye: MTV Generation

marrow gallery

A child, dressed in a colorful dress before party decorations—whose face is half painted as a skull—looks past the viewer with glazed-over eyes.

WA

May 5 - Jun 3

Jake Prendez & Nepantla: The Space Inbetween

ArtsWest

A Dutch landscape is superimposed onto a patchwork-like color block design. A windmill and houses sit in the foreground, rainbow swaths of color sit in the background.

WA

May 5 - Jun 25

Philip Tice and Polly Purvis: Traditions Upended

Two images side-by-side; on the left, a person wearing a green top smiles; on the right, two eyes and a pair of lips are superimposed over an outline of a face.

CA

May 5 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Nicole R. Fleetwood – Art, Abolition & Black Feminist Activism – Lecture & Reception

Mills College Art Museum

The word, DADDY in a furry light pink font, is superimposed on a background of television static.

OR

May 6 - May 29

Jenn Sova: DADDY

after/time

A grid of pastel abstracted paintings

OR

May 6 - Jun 11

Judy Wise & Wataru Sugiyama

Thin strings of dark blue and black found fabric is tied together in a grid of 4x5 squares.

CA

May 6 - Jun 11

Kathleen King: An Event in the Form of Questions

Mercury 20 Gallery

A crowd of migrant workers depicted in soft warm tones of watercolor, walk and gather against a forested background above a running river.

CA

May 6 - Jun 11

Jill McLennan: Migration Altered

Mercury 20 Gallery

On a concrete floor: Steel wine barrel hoops are placed above a panel split into four quadrants. The quadrants are painted with abstract black and grey spirals, orange lines, and geometric gold and grey elements.

CA

May 6 - Jun 11

Charlie Milgrim: Plane Shapes

Mercury 20 Gallery

A person strikes a pose for the camera, wearing uncountable patterns, a whole arm of watches, and body paint.

OR

May 6 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Elissa Auther: Queer Maximalism

University of Oregon, Department of ARt

A yellow Toyota truck with its bed piled high and stickers around big black letters on its truck bed drives down an empty street.

CA

May 7 - Jun 1

Hely Omar Gonzalez

Praz Delavallade

On a wavy rectangular object that morphs in and out of view, splotches of light green bleed against a darker green background.

CA

May 7 - Jun 15

Mid trip

Winston's

The words "a line and a long gaze" meander across a hazy pink/purple background. Artist names are listed on the side.

CA

May 14 - Jun 2

The Cold Read: A Line And A Long Gaze

Phase Gallery

CA

May 14 - Jun 18

Jesse Mockrin: Reliquary

Night Gallery

A purple poster promoting the show "HARD WOOD"; a still-life painting of assorted objects sits front and center.

May 19 | 12:00 am

Lionel Vance: HARD WOOD

A person with curly grey hair, wearing a floral scarf, stands before a black poster, mid-stride.

OR

May 19 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Lewis Watts: Faces and Places in the Diaspora

University of Oregon, Department of ARt

A green door, two palm trees, a red hand waving, and a blue pitcher pouring strands of pink something are all stitched together into a scene on a tapestry.

OR

May 21 - Jun 25

Padma Rajendran: Unfamiliar Thresholds

SE Cooper Contemporary

A large swath of denim fabric is decorated with fabric sewn elements of a large yellow circle, orange and green grids, a red hand reaching towards a green door, and gold and silver jugs accompanied by palm trees.

OR

May 21 @ 1:00 pm - June 25 @ 4:00 pm PDT

Padma Rajendran: Unfamiliar Thresholds

SE Cooper Contemporary

An icy Icelandic landscape featuring mountains and water.

OR

May 21 @ 5:00 pm - June 25 @ 4:00 pm PDT

Svalbard: Photographs by Ian van Coller

A Still from "This Meeting is Being Recorded," A woman sits in the dark, one leg tucked beneath her on her chair, the other outstretched. Her arms hug her as her gaze glances upwards.

CA

May 22 - Jun 19

Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded

Hammer Museum

A gradient blue green and pink painting on loose canvas. An abstracted body appears laying down on its back in the gradient on the far right.

May 24 @ 11:00 am - June 11 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Epilogue: 2022 Portland State University MFA/BFA Showcase

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Bright blue color on a bumpy and tubular sculpture is covered in white, snow-like glaze with colored tubes jutting out.

OR

May 26 @ 12:00 pm - June 12 @ 4:00 pm PDT

2022 PNCA MFA Thesis Exhibition

Hannah Bakken

A poster with a red background and pink and white text advertising the 2022 PNCA MFA exhibition on May 26th through June 12th.

OR

May 26 @ 5:00 pm - June 12 @ 4:00 pm PDT

Pacific Northwest College of Art 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

A view of a white-walled gallery space with light wood floors and a vaulted ceiling. A ceramic piece rests on the floor and a Painting leans against the wall. A doorway in the background leads to more artworks in a different room.

WA

May 28 - Jun 26

2022 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

Henry Art Gallery

A pink flyer with illegible purple text lays on a concrete background. The flyer has been burned and its ashes are falling onto the concrete. In the middle of the image, small white letters over a black bar read, “I’m here to dance on the ashes of Art.”

CA

Jun 2 - Jun 17

Kimi Hanauer: if we choose to reclaim ourselves from the ashes

UCLA Department of Art

A rainbow banner spreads out against layered newspaper.

WA

Jun 3 - Jun 26

Common Threads: Dreaming of Home with Queer Youth and Elders

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bright, golden light shines through a window into a dark room where a person is caught in mid-movement. Their arm reaches toward the window, their body gracefully on one knee.

CA

Jun 3 - Jun 18

KNEES, SCHOOLS, URGES

Pieter Performance Space

Two individuals are tangled, together, on a bed of newspapers. One sits upright; the other is curled around their body, in their lap.

WA

Jun 3 - Jun 4

Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters: Long Playing

Base: Experimental Arts + Space

OR

Jun 3 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Misha Davydov: Sooner or Later

after/time

WA

Jun 4 - Jun 5

Tacoma Spring Fest

Urban Craft Uprising

Next to loose abstract sketches, the exhibition title 'enchiridion' with supporting information is placed.

OR

Jun 4 | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

ENCHIRIDION: aisle, spline, resort

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

On the right panel, a rodent-like animal holds a glowing pink orb. The right panel shows a mountain top overlayed with pink and blue flare lighting.

OR

June 4 @ 12:00 pm - June 26 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Maria Lux & Kyle Peets: As Above, So Below

Carnation Contemporary

An abstracted linear metal sculpture sits against a wintery landscape.

OR

Jun 4 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Lee Kelly: Yucatán Revisited Exhibition Opening

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

A highly abstracted painting with black line work running through a cream background. Muted green brushstrokes, red and blue textured elements, and spiral of dark blue are sprinkled across the canvas.

CA

Jun 4 | 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Opening Reception: What If This?

Gallery 60SIX

Against a white background, a mobile with ovular shapes colored red, white blue and pink hangs. Accompanying text lists the event title, date, and time.

OR

Jun 4 | 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Ditch Projects 14- Year Anniversary Benefit Auction

ditch projects

A photographer apparently in their studio looks through the viewfinder of their camera while seated. The camera lens is pointed towards the viewer and the photographer's face is obscured by their camera.

WA

Jun 17 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Monsen Photography Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Henry Art Gallery

Poster for event set against a green marbled background

Jun 18 | 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm

Joy for Juneteenth

OR

Jun 23 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Artist Reception: Dyani White Hawk (in-person and virtual)

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts

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