Architecture of Dreams
Anti-Aesthetic 245 W. 8th Ave, EugeneEugene Contemporary Art is proud to present Architecture of Dreams, a group exhibition that draws on surrealism as a mode of art making in response to everyday life.
Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart
Fourteen30 Contemporary 1501 SW Market Street, PortlandAs the hard-edged forms of the glass and concrete architecture meet the natural vegetation beyond, so Bitter cherry, Bleeding heart counterposes those artists working from a logic of abstraction to those mining the variously and deeply alive.
Have You Had a Burger?
Well Well Projects 8371 N Interstate Ave #1, PortlandWhile creating pieces for this series, Hyun Jung reflected on the various mundane yet charged questions she has received throughout her years spent in the United States: Have you had a burger? Can you paint my nails? Can you help me with my math homework? Have you been to North Korea? Do you have an English name?
Tess Rubinstein | Pond Song
Stephanie Chefas Projects 305 SE 3RD AVE STE. 202, PortlandEach piece serves as a sort of sensory field note, cataloging the sights, sounds, smells, and textures of forest, beach, marsh, and pond.
Ido Radon: Mother of Pearl Gasoline Slick
Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington St., #301, PortlandAt this stage of the march one must interrupt the calculations and begin again at zero
Renee Couture and Carolyn Hopkins: Soft Ambition
Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate Ave, PortlandUsing images and ephemera, she captures the dichotomies within parenthood, including taboo emotions tempered by hope.
Resound: Angélica Maria Millán Lozano + Frankie Krupa Vahdani
Fuller Rosen Gallery 1928 NW Lovejoy St., PortlandResound features drawings, paintings, mixed-media work, and fabric pieces infused by the unique cultural hybridity of each artists’ heritage and response to contemporary socio-political events in their respective locales of Brooklyn, New York and the Skagit Valley, Washington.
Untouchable Artifacts
Five Oaks Museum 17677 NW Springville Road, PortlandEleven indigenous artists who hold intersectional identities and carry ancestral knowledge continue the tradition of storytelling.
Killer Cute | Last Truth Of The New
de boer Gallery 3311 E Pico Blvd, Los AngelesViewed with rose-tinted glasses and a lack of experience, romanticising about rural life can overlook a past where social norms were marked with aspects of colonialism, racism, and sexism.
Ryan Kitson: The Four Seasons
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, PortlandRyan Kitson’s thesis exhibition The Four Seasons examines the power of subsistence outside of market demands through cast-glass and found-object sculptures.
Ghost Rider: Performing Fugitive Indigeneity
ditch projects 303 S. 5th Avenue #165, SpringfieldWalking the land, watching for snakes in summer, watching the prints of who walked before me in the snow in winter, selecting trees to trim for fire prevention.
Fragile
Inspire Wellness 7319 N John Ave UNIT101, PortlandPlayground Gallery is pleased to present “Fragile,” a group exhibition that reveals our unstable social structure, the extreme cultural conflicts of today, and the delicacies of our mental/physical selves during the pandemic.
Joe Horner: OUTSIDE DOG
Agenda 4505 SE Belmont, Suite A, PortlandFeral: (adjective) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication. This simple definition feels especially poignant as Americans emerge from the confinement of quarantine. OUTSIDE DOG features…
Kelsey Hamilton Davis: In the House of Weird Sisters
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, PortlandKelsey Hamilton Davis’ thesis exhibition In the House of Weird Sisters queries longings for heritage narratives through environments configured with ceramics, textiles, found objects from her New England home, and organic materials.
Lonnie Holley – The Influence of Images
Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, PortlandNested shapes appear to radiate and float in the cosmos amid a softly diffused palette of grays, pinks, blues, and yellows that emphasize their transformative, mystical quality.
Dinh Q. Lê – Monuments and Memorials
Elizabeth Leach Gallery 417 NW 9th Avenue, PortlandLê’s evocative photographic artworks combine interior and exterior pictures of Cambodian sites and pair the seemingly unresolvable, competing narratives of a country’s past and present.
Nature Inside
Well Well Projects 8371 N Interstate Ave #1, PortlandShe uses whimsy and humor to reference loss, isolation, containment, and representation.
Madison Queen: The Gallery of Metamorphics
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, PortlandMadison Queen’s thesis exhibition The Gallery of Metamorphics pictures the underlying fearful, sexual, and absurd desires embedded in commercial beauty and fetish products that (re)form our conceptions of selfhood through photography.
Lyrical Coherence
Murdoch Collections 2219 NW Raleigh Street, PortlandThe exhibit will showcase the ways in which both fathers passed along their love of music’s richness to each artist.
Douglas Wiltshire: Cocooning
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, PortlandDouglas Wiltshire’s thesis exhibition, Cocooning, gleans vessels of death through jewelry, sculpture, and found objects in order to understand how spirit inhabits inert material.
