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A black and white monotype print of a tree trunk cross section, with a long, translucent yellow oval covering the right half

This IS Kalapuyan Land

Five Oaks Museum 17677 NW Springville Road, Portland

What happens when a museum known for pioneer history turns over curatorial authority to a young Indigenous artist and writer? For Five Oaks Museum, the result is a bold, self-critical exhibition about the Tualatin Valley’s first people.

$5
A painting of a layered, chaotic, almost surreal scene with many horizons and Black and white people depicted at varying depths and angles. In the upper left corner, a white woman holds a swaddled Black baby and a Black man on her right holds out several dollar bills. In the bottom center, a Black man in a collarless shirt leans back on the ground next to a white man in a red gingham shirt and straw hat, holding a fish on a line. Bisecting the image, a red-haired white person hangs upside down on a cross.

Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue, Porland

As he transformed familiar images to forge new, unexplored social meanings and implications, Colescott became a pioneer in the reemergence of figuration in the 1970s and in the strategies of appropriation in the 1980s.

$10
Installation view of Finding Our Way at Lumber Room, a bright room with white walls, wood floors, exposed wood ceiling. In the center of the image, three framed works, a decorative bottle, and small object are arranged on a shelf. To the right, a stack of whitewashed wood lean against the wall.

Finding Our Way

Lumber Room 419 Northwest 9th Ave., Portland

Over the past 10 years the lumber room has placed itself as a meeting ground between exhibition space and private residence, with a goal of creating access and community around a shared interest in the arts.

Free
Two black and white photographs of rocky ground. The photograph on the left shows a rock in the center of the frame, while in the photograph on the right, the rock is missing but we see a perfect void of where it once was.

Common Ground

Anti-Aesthetic 245 W. 8th Ave, Eugene

As a way of getting to ecology through art, Common Ground is a space for exchanges focused on the natural world and environments of different kinds.

Free
In the left half of the image, a sculpture by Sharif Farrag sits on a tall white plinth. To the right, a small landscape painting by Lois Dodd hangs on the wall.

Lois Dodd & Sharif Farrag

Adams and Ollman 418 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce an intergenerational pairing of two solo exhibitions: a selection of paintings from 1986 to 2017 by Lois Dodd (b. 1927) on view alongside new ceramic sculptures by Sharif Farrag (b. 1993). This marks Farrag’s first exhibition at the gallery as well as the first significant presentation of Dodd’s work on the West Coast.

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A man riding a blue Citi Bike painted in a folk art, expressionist style. He wears a brown hat, tan coat, brown pants, white shirt and black boots. A purple crescent moon with a yellow eye hangs in the sky, there is a palm tree on the horizon.

Jordan Sullivan: At the Corner of Heartbreak & Avalanche

Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books 2916 NE Alberta Street, Suite B, Portland

Sullivan's work presents a psychological no man’s land—a place for the displaced. It’s a stage for a disoriented cast of misfits, expatriates, mercenaries, refugees, boxers, alcoholics, drifters, artists and strippers. Each of these characters, real and imagined, seem to be surviving, as if in limbo, within indeterminate and abstracted territories.

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A screenshot of Untitled (Saturday, October 16, 1993) shows a weathered newspaper clipping of a figure dressed in a white shirt with red tie standing before microphones. Arms reach out from the left side of the shot with tape recorders and additional microphones preparing to record the speaker’s voice.

Rami George: and one day will tell you so many stories

Paragon Arts Gallery 815 N Killingsworth St., Portland

"and one day will tell you so many stories" is the first solo presentation of Rami George on the West Coast and particularly Portland, Oregon—a place the artist once knew as home.

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An oval with angular edges made up of many, multi-colored squares. Each shape has at least one inner square of a different color. There is a line down the center of the piece interrupted with a square that contains increasingly smaller squares and a circle filled with many other circles in the center.

Mark Smith: Phalanxes

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Mark R. Smith's new intricately collaged paintings convey contemporary and historical narratives through an abstract visual language. Dome, diamond, circle and starburst shapes emerge from linear woven strips that were cut, mitered, and reconfigured into interlocking patterns that transmit an exquisite, symbiotic beauty.

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A cavernous room rendered in high contrast digital graphics. There are DNA helixes spaced throughout the room, and brightly colored lines across the floor and ceiling.

Liquid Dungeon Byproduct

Holding Contemporary 916 NW Flanders Street, Portland

Welcome to the Dungeon. You have been here since the 5th grade, though in dreams you glimpsed it long before. Through your symbiosis with the dungeon we glean Liquid Dungeon Byproduct. It flows over you and through you.

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Two photographs hanging side by side. The left image shows three roses, two with red buds, the third extending out of the frame, all sitting on top of pink tulle. The right image has the same tulle and more roses, with a man's face in the bottom left corner. His dark brown eyes look intensely into the camera.

Pacifico Silano: I Won’t Last A Day Without You

Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington St., #301, Portland

In I Won’t Last A Day Without You, Pacifico Silano presents new work from his ongoing series of photo collages that draw from gay erotica magazines published after the Stonewall riots (1969) and through the height of the AIDS epidemic (late 1980s).

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Exhibition poster for GLEAN 2020 featuring five details images of works by the participating artists.

GLEAN

Disjecta 8371 North Interstate Avenue, Portland

GLEAN is a juried art program that taps into the creativity of artists to inspire people to think about their consumption habits, the waste they generate, and the resources they throw away.

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A photograph in a lilac frame hanging on a white wall. The photograph is of a poster of Miss Piggy looking glamorous with a tiara and her blonde hair styled in romantic waves. The poster is in a thin metallic frame with two highlights from the camera's flash. The framed posted hangs on a wall, with a heart-shaped light switch to its left.

Melanie Flood: Notions

Fourteen30 Contemporary 1501 SW Market Street, Portland

A solo exhibition of photographs by Melanie Flood.

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An AIM Help Tutorial chat dialogue open on the screen of an early 2000s iMac desktop computer. User COOLKID2005 says: "Should I apologize to you or warn you? If the answer lies in my 6th grade aim messages, I'll let you know."

see also: variable performances of a well-designed site index

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland

While site searches have the ability to provide a one-stop-shop for research, (see also:) seeks to call-out the homogeneity within these databases, further examining the variable performances within new media art as well the user’s performance in the digital realm and act of passively clicking on link after link after link.

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A pepper red ceramic sculpture of three female figures lounging in different positions. Each body is red with yellow, blue, green, and orange speckles and has forest green hair.

Grace Stott: Ambrosia

Fuller Rosen Gallery 1928 NW Lovejoy St., Portland

Glossy ceramic figures transformed into strawberries, bananas, and apples serve as the anthropomorphized inhabitants of Stott’s feminine fantasy; a surreal millennial world where every woman is a Venus that emanates abundance, luxuriance, and joy.

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Exhibition flyer that reads "Networks of (be)longing"

Networks of (Be)longing

Center for Contemporary Art & Culture 511 NW Broadway, Portland

Networks of (Be)longing queries the relational traces structuring and embedded within artistic networks. The installations, publication, sculptures and videos of Canaries collective, Rami George, Tabitha Nikolai, and Mengda Zhang disclose structures of care, communality, labor-relations, and familial ties bound by tensions and desires.

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