Past Events – Variable West

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

A gold, head-shaped form is painted on a peach background. The entire composition covers a braille textured surface.

CA

Jun 25 - Aug 20

Conversations in the Dark

Municipal Bonds

CA

Jun 25 - Jul 30

Anne Buckwalter: Two Story House

Two collaged figures address one another in a patterned landscape

WA

Jun 25 - Sep 18

ROMARE BEARDEN: ABSTRACTION

Frye Art Museum

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

A person with a pale complexion and feathered brown bowl cut reclines onto their right arm. They are wearing a dark brown-burgundy shirt against a black background.

CA

Jul 1 - Aug 13

Adam Stamp, Cody Critcheloe, Maria Maea, Mischa Pavlovski Andresen, Nihura Montiel & Ser Serpas: From One Fetish to Another

A highly textured gray-brown abstract form stretches from the right side to the left side of a canvas. The far left of the composition reveals a cream colored flat surface.

OR

Jul 2 - Jul 31

Unattended

Carnation Contemporary

Two figures in round, foiled suits sit at a teal park bench next to three other brightly painted wooden picnic lunch tables. Their legs stick out from beneath the foil costumes.

OR

Jul 2 - Jul 31

Seeing You/Seeing Me: Conversation

Carnation Contemporary

A baby clutching an alarm clock sits at the breast of a woman robed in blue

WA

Jul 2 - Jul 31

Reproductive Rights Now

Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery

On the left is a large,, wide, brown vessel. On the right is a geometric, abstract gray, hollow shape on paper.

OR

July 2 @ 10:00 am - July 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT

The Repository and The Queens of Rain

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

A highly abstracted pastel mountainscape

OR

July 7 @ 8:00 am - July 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Featured Artists from the PMRCAA Residency Program

Pendleton Center for the Arts

A photographic portrait of a textile sculpture of a woman, seen from the waist up. Her face is made from two collaged panels of fabric, and she is wearing a yellow shirt with a large collar. She is lit dramatically by gray-pink light and casts a cartoonish shadow behind her.

OR

July 8 @ 12:00 pm - July 30 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Bean Gilsdorf: Some Women

Nine Gallery

A woman shaded in red looks longingly upward. Overlayed white text: Madd Madder Maddalena

OR

Jul 8 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Isaac B. Yoder: Mad Madder Maddalena

after/time

A pastel, highly abstracted textile work of one figure looking down at another made up of organic shapes, flora, fauna, and organisms.

CA

Jul 9 - Aug 16

Lila de Magalhaes & Audrey Hope: Wet Wool

after hours gallery

A figure with a pale complexion stands with a mirror in front of its face and a blue patterned dress. Two pale arms reach towards the figure on either side of it, birds perched on their fingers.

OR

Jul 9 - Jul 30

Jennifer Georgescu: Mother Series

Blue Sky

A montage of two women by the same model standing against a dark background. The woman on the left looks downward and wears a shirt that blends with the background. The woman on the right looks slightly to the right and wears a light brown plaid shirt.

OR

Jul 9 - Jul 30

Kelli Connell: Double Life, 20 Years

Blue Sky

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

Bicolored graphic for the San Francisco Art Book Fair

CA

Jul 14 - Jul 17

The 2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair

SF Art Book Fair

A Cream colored square agaisnt a aqua blue background. Four hands reach in from each corner doing various tasks. Text: THE CURRENT

WA

Jul 14 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Current Conversations | In the Mix: An Artist Demonstration and Q&A

Tacoma Art Museum

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

An ethereal landscape is punctuated by a ripple

OR

July 16 @ 2:00 pm - August 27 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Marc Handelman: Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond

SE Cooper Contemporary

Pastel Banner for 'Forest for the Trees'

WA

Jul 21 - Jul 24

Forest For The Trees + XO Seattle

railspur

punchy orange, blue, and black design featuring warm, rounded forms

OR

July 23 @ 1:00 pm - August 20 @ 6:00 pm PDT

Lindsey Cuenca Walker: Versions

Stephanie Chefas Projects

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)

An Abstracted green and blue nature scene, "The Weeping Place" by Randall David Tipton ⁠

OR

Jul 29 - Sep 10

Randall David Tipton & John and Robin Gumaelius

Textile collage in a neutral palette by Virsik Leah

CA

July 29 @ 12:00 pm - September 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

LEAH VIRSIK: COMMON THREAD

Mercury 20 Gallery

A close-up image of multi-colored feather bundles

CA

July 29 @ 12:00 pm - September 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

JESSICA CADKIN: PLUME

Mercury 20 Gallery

An abstracted image of 16 pixels wide by 9 pixels high

CA

July 29 @ 12:00 pm - September 3 @ 5:00 pm PDT

CHRIS KOMATER: 16:9

Mercury 20 Gallery

A green tinted grainy image of a car's dashboard and tree

OR

Aug 1 - Aug 31

Julia Oldham: The Birth of the Hyperforest

Truckenbrod Gallery

water media drawing of an abstracted figure floating with yellow and orange marks and shapes

OR

Aug 2 - Aug 8

Élan Chardin: This Room has to do with the Measurement of Time

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)

Delicately drawn graphite grid with individually painted squares of varying shades of blue gansai tambi paint.

OR

Featured August 3 @ 10:00 am - August 27 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Easy Breezy

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

A black and white image of a woman with a cigarette and windswept hair

WA

August 4 @ 6:00 pm - September 17 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Sarah Sarchin: Ringer

Veronica

Aug 5 - Aug 26

Works by Nathan Lam

NIAD Art Center

Two people stand in an empty room bathed in blue light, their back turned. Text: MOUTHBRAIN

CA

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

Barnett Cohen: MOUTHBRAIN

Institue of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

A collage featuring a blue sky and an apple notification

OR

Aug 6 - Aug 27

Yuyang Zhang: stupid little life

Blue Sky

“‘Dutt’ (horseback) and Jamaire, (St. Martin Parish)”, 2015. A black trail rider sitting on a white horse while another trail rider stands in front of the horse. They are surrounded by branches and leaves.

OR

Featured Aug 6 - Aug 27

Jeremiah Ariaz: Louisiana Trail Riders

Blue Sky

A highly abstracted, geometric composition features textured rectangular elements of orange, pink, and deep blue.

OR

August 6 @ 12:00 pm - August 28 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Where The Future Can Meet

Carnation Contemporary

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

Two dark complexioned men sit in front of a green screen of a background showing an ominous orange sky. The one on the left is wearing a white cowboy hat, a black vest, and jeans, while the one on the right wears a yellow cap, black shirt, and jeans.

CA

Aug 6 | 6:30 pm

DAVINCI’S FILMS OF HOLLYWOOD

THE VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA

An orange, apocalyptic style landscape with rainbows overarching. Text: Rainbows to the Anthropocene.

WA

Aug 12 - Sep 18

Rainbows to the Anthropocene

Lakewold Gardens

A collage featuring a photo of a rose juxtaposed with an image of a wet windshield

OR

Aug 25 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Artist Talk: Yuyang Zhang

Blue Sky

A black and white surrealist pattern on paper featuring natural motifs

CA

August 27 @ 1:00 pm - September 3 @ 7:00 pm PDT

Night Vision

A multi-colored wired sculpture with organic material

Aug 27 | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

SONGscape at Mission Synths with Matt Robidoux

Creativity Explored

A baroque porcelain statue comprised of two seated figurines and a woman crouched on a bedecked dining table.

Sep 7 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Art of Food | Artist Talk and Opening Reception

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

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

OR

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

TBA:22 Time-Based Art Festival

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 promotional poster for the event

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

Plantasia

Artma Pop-Up

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

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