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A section of an ink and color painting depicts a cat, seated on a windowsill, overlooking rice fields, as well as a small grouping of tan-roofed houses. A blue towel is draped over the edge of the windowsill, beside a blue bowl. Flowers attached in a row to a piece of parchment on the ground is partly out of frame.

Rhapsody In Blue And Red: Ukiyo-E Prints of the Utagawa School

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

Art History Professor Akiko Walley and Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa team-taught an Utagawa School course, in which students studied this vibrant artistic tradition and learned about exhibition planning in order to contribute to this installation, which features more than 30 loans from Lee and Mary Jean Michels along with prints from the museum’s permanent collection.

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screenprint of a pink/shadowed figure is set against a navy blue backdrop depicting of an ancient aztec figure, including a head with a headdress, and other indiscernible images in a collage. The figure in the forefront dons a cowboy hat, has a hoe braced on its left shoulder and an assault rifle slung over its right.

Entre mundos (Between Worlds)

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

Artists in the exhibition work with memory, material, and various printing techniques to communicate a sense of place, the experience of working as a migrant farmworker, and profound connections between culture, consciousness, and economies of power.

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A UV print on retroreflective vinyl contains a grid of headshots of numerous individuals, all of the same size but each using a different, faded neon background color. Subjects are mostly dressed in dresses, tuxedos, suits, etc., with some facing the camera, some shot in profile, some looking into the lens, some not.

Look. Listen. Learn. Act.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

Listen. Learn. Act. incorporates different bodies of work across multiple platforms, focusing on Blackness, Black experience and dismantling racism.

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Abstract oil painting on canvas, featuring a woman with black hair and dark, earthy skin reclined, her lips pursed, eyes closed and limbs folded over each other. A grey sky is interrupted by a wavy-lined green cloud, as well as other abstract shapes.

A Woman’s Worth

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

Paintings and prints from the JSMA's permanent collection explore archetypal ideals of feminine virtues, the objectification of the female form and woman as model and muse.

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self-portrait of a University of Oregon basketball player set against a dynamic, pastel background, wearing a black, short-sleeved jersey with a yellow "20" across the front and the text "Oregon" above the number, black shorts, as well as earrings and a necklace. Her arms are extended, and she smiles at the viewer with a basketball in her right hand. Her hair is brown and long.

Art of the Athlete: Hall of Fame

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

For the past 8 years, the Art of the Athlete (AofA) program has been an education program for UO student-athletes as part of the museum’s broad outreach program which engages diverse student groups from across campus. AofA workshops are designed for students to experiment with a variety of media including sculpture, photography, collage/mixed media, oils, watercolors and acrylics.

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A collagraph print in mood tones of black, grey, and white. The print depicts a person with pitch black skin, no facial features besides who bright white eyes, and white scales covering their upper body, arms, and the top of their head. A necklace hands down their shoulders, and a large, circular pendant with a person, maybe some saint, hangs in the middle of their back. The figure carries a small, scaly animal, which rests its head on the figure's shoulder. The background is textured grey.

Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to host Nkame, a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). During her short but fertile career, she produced an extraordinary body of work central to the history of contemporary printmaking in Cuba and abroad.

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Photograph of a figure that seems to be a rock, which is aglow with a multitude of colors, primarily red, yellow, blue, purple, set against a uniform dark background.

Unquiet Objects

Disjecta Contemporary Art Center 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland

UNQUIET OBJECTS foregrounds the naturalized but uneasy separation of cultural objects from human life and social reality.

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crude sketch of a rural scene made combining soot and saliva on found paper—features the facade of a farmhouse, a shed, a white barn, a windmill, a fence. The ground is a light shade of grey; the sky, the naked, off-white of the paper.

Dear John

Adams and Ollman 418 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

Creating sophisticated drawings, books, and sculptures from humble materials such as discarded envelopes, matchboxes, twine, and soot, Castle produced a complex body of work

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A square, black and white photograph of a boy's face with another square of red centered over it, all atop an aluminum screen painted red, against a red background.

Paul Lee: Tambourine Heart

Adams and Ollman 418 NW 8th Avenue, Portland

Characterized by a palpable presence of the hand, the artist’s ongoing formal experimentation and investigation of materiality returns to the same functional objects rendered into reliquary.

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In a flurry of motion and surrealist animation, this painting captures multiple dizzying happenings at once—potatoes tumbling out of a cardboard box, pink-colored wine spilling out of a broken bottle, a snake wrapping itself around a tree branch, a pitchfork impaling a cake, a wig, a shoe, balloons, so on.

Ryan Pierce: Awake Under Vines

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

Pierce continues to illuminate relationships between the human and natural world through dynamic dreamlike imagery infused with moral complexity and wonderment. 

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Overlayed floral shapes, colored using rich, earthly reds, browns, yellows, and pinks, blurring the line between two- and three-dimensional.

Charlene Liu: Lattice

Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, Portland

The exhibition reveals the artist's complementary approaches between the mindful deliberations of printmaking techniques and the observational immediacy of line seen in her plein air style paintings. 

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Stark, geometric painting using rich, earthy colors and lines that divide interrupt, follow and work alongside each other. With no concentric focal point, the eye wanders from one puzzle piece to the next, each color its own world, shape and feeling entirely.

New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee

Stephanie Chefas Projects 305 SE 3RD AVE STE. 202, Portland

New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee is the result of the asynchronous exploration they shared in a year otherwise defined by insularity and isolation.

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Shot over the shoulders of two individuals holding paint brushes above Japanese characters on paper. Below and atop the image, text reads: "CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH EXHIBITION GARRICK IMATANI: MONOLOGUE."

Garrick Imatani: Monologues

Eugene Contemporary Art Gallery 245 W 8th Ave, Eugene

Imatani seeks to diffuse the notion of an intangible “essence” of a culture—inviting instead a de-centralized, intricate and multifaceted reading of cultural properties beyond one’s own.

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Poster for "NUESTRO CAMINO EXHIBITION," with the dates, address and other misc. information running along the bottom against a hot pink background. A large, white cowboy hat dominates the foreground, with a hazy gold backdrop, a view of a vintage car through a window, and glimmering text hovering behind and above.

Nuestro Camino

Old Town Gallery 140 NW 4th Ave, Portland

Natalia has put together a very unique and talented artist group to create a very memorable gallery experience.

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Colorful collage made of cut paper, using curved lines and circular, two-dimensional, geometric shapes to invigorate a stripped, layered, cacophonous sense of motion and sound. Bright yellows, cool blacks, and subtle accents of red and blue enwrap this piece in boldness and warmth.

Along These Lines

Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta St, Portland

Each featured artist brings their unique perspective to the history of the line and, along these lines, adds to it. 

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Grid of two-dimensional images on paper, using primarily earthy red and black—a bottle of lotion, a sun with a face and closed eyes, the words "LUZY VERDAD," a one-story house, etc—hanging on a white wall.

pt. 2 Gallery: April Group Exhibition

pt.2 Gallery 1523b Webster St., Oakland

April 10 - April 30, 2021 Appointment only 1523b Webster St. Oakland, CA 94612 info@part2gallery.com

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Ceramic sculpture of plants in a vase, some cartoonish, some metallic and modernist, others vibrant and colorful, delicately detailed, disproportionate, impressionistic, playful—all in an earthy clay vase.

Emily Counts: Souvenir

Nationale 15 SE 22nd Ave, Portland

A generous, dynamic, and tender collection of new sculptures, in which the past and future coalesce into a visual language that is both familiar and utterly new. 

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Photo of a gallery space with multiple large sculpture pieces taking up the center of the room, each composed of ornate, multi-patterned fabrics fixed onto a frame or skeleton in large wheel-shaped sections, which are stacked on top of each other. In the rear, two framed pieces hang on the wall.

A Presentation by Baseera Khan

Converge 45 PO Box 28209, Portland

Their work sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture to map geographies of the future.

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