On monstrous beauty: Victoria Dugger interviewed
Athens-based Victoria Dugger talks about her relationship to the grotesque and beauty as a disabled Black woman in the South.
An echo chamber called Earth: Laura Camila Medina interviewed
On the occasion of their respective solo exhibitions in Portland and Austin, Lauren Klotzman and Laura Camila Medina sat down to discuss display technologies, watermedia, and our planetary echo chamber.
Heirloomed pleasure as self-examination: Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque at lumber room in Portland, OR
An two person show explores the narrative women’s bodies hold.
Interiors and exteriors: Black life and the archive
A group exhibition in Seattle showcases the complexity and duality of identity present both in the exteriors and interiors of Black life.
Artist Questionnaire: Chloe King
We talked with Oakland-based Chloe King about friction in materials, Black and Queer visual culture, surviving cancer, and letting work become vulnerable.
Artist Questionnaire: Yuwei Tu
Yuwei Tu answers our questionnaire in conjunction with the group show Fire and Life at Charlotte Call Gallery in Los Angeles.
You are the space between: Joe Park at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR
Intricate paintings explore a world where energy and matter are porous and fluid.
Artist Questionnaire: Freddie Robins
We’re partnering with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art to profile artists in their 2025 TBA festival. Next up, Essex and London-based Freddie Robins.
Artist Questionnaire: Dao Strom
We’re partnering with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art to profile artists in their 2025 TBA festival. Next up, Portland-based Dao Strom.
Love Letter to Anthony White
It’s hard not to call Anthony White a painter. He masterfully composes opulent still life paintings of mass-produced objects and icons, evoking sensations of nostalgia and guilt.
Artist Questionnaire: Drama Tops
We’re partnering with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art to profile artists in their 2025 TBA festival. Next up, Seattle-based Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue of Drama Tops.
Artist Questionnaire: Asher Hartman
We’re partnering with PICA to profile artists in their 2025 TBA festival. First up, Los Angeles-based Asher Hartman.
Artist Q&A: Andy Cash DeLapp
Neddy Award grantee Andy Cash DeLapp answers our questionnaire about his work.
A haptic sensibility: Christopher Baliwas interviewed
Writer Mark Pieterson sat down with LA-based artist Christopher Baliwas to discuss lower frequencies, the color brown, and the latest Clipse album.
Every day altars: Andrea Castillo’s Counter Space makes the familiar sacred
Andrea Castillo’s solo exhibition Counter Space was a tender and radical tribute to the immigrant-run storefronts that shaped the artist’s upbringing in Los Angeles, while also speaking to a larger narrative of diasporic belonging, economic survival, and cultural inheritance.
The body as a place: Recent Grads at Blackfish Gallery in Portland, OR
A group exhibition with work by graduates from thirteen Oregon universities examines the connection between bodies and nature.
Food for thought: Consider the Oyster at Anthony Meier in Mill Valley, CA
A group exhibition takes inspiration from MFK Fisher’s iconic book.
Photography plus time equals something else: Sara J. Winston at Blue Sky Gallery
A photographer documents her journey with chronic illness.
Q&A with Adelina Ruvalcaba
The Portland-based artist talks about art, food, foremothers, and her recent MFA degree.
Diasporic Dreamscapes in American Gurl: home—land at The Museum of Contemporary Art
The two channel video installation American Gurl: home—land brings together women and femmes from across the African diaspora; ruminating on what form(s) dreaming might take if we were to center their perspectives.
A living narrative: Silicon Forest at Oregon State University’s PRAx
An exhibition in Corvallis, OR, acts as a living conversation between researchers, artists, and the public.
Honoring the elements: Lenworth McIntosh interviewed
Shortly after the closing of his solo show, The World Around Me and The Worlds Within at Frieze, Lenworth McIntosh sat down with writer Jordan Barrant to talk about gardening, return, Jamaica, and dusk, arguably the best time of day.
Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum
A 10,000 square foot exhibition honors the legacy of the incomparable musician.
Q&A with Viktor Kobylianski
We chatted with the Ukrainian-born, Portland-based artist around his show Hiddi at One Grand Gallery in Portland, OR.
A space for all: Just Playin’ Around at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University
A museum show offers a rare opportunity to experience joy during politically chaotic times.
An Ode to Processed Cheese
How do we wrestle with the realities of capitalist mass production in the face of potent nostalgia?
Outside In: North Pole Studio at the Outsider Art Fair
Portland’s North Pole Studio artists travel to New York City for the Outsider Art Fair highlighting artists with disabilities.
Conjuring ancestors in clay: Emily Counts interviewed by Luiza Lukova
Multimedia artist Emily Counts discusses her otherworldly sculptures.
The stories we tell: Joe Bun Keo at Specialist Gallery in Seattle
A punny exhibition examines humor’s role in processing trauma.
Attempting to achieve creative autonomy: Nia Musiba interviewed
On the heels of the closing of their second solo exhibition, and a week before embarking on a journey home to Tanzania, multihyphenate artist Nia Musiba chats with writer Ella Ray about blurring the boundaries between art and design.
Finding signals in the noise: Waste Scenes at Oregon Contemporary in Portland
An exhibition explores the results of an art residency at a waste recycling facility in Philadelphia.
Exceeding the camera’s limits: Rite This Instant at Solas Gallery reviewed
In Rite: This Instant, a modest group show dedicated to Polaroids at Seattle’s Solas Gallery, C. Meier, Annie Reierson, and Jack Johnston explore the artistic potential of the once ubiquitous instant photographic process in diverse ways.
John Waters is the worst: how his humor shows us our own absurdity at Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco
The “Sultan of Sleaze” takes viewers on a journey of laughs and life lessons.
This Clay Too: a gesture of collective care in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
Featuring ceramic work made by community members and artists in the Tenderloin, This Clay Too altogether propose alternative visions of the future, where art and art-making retain their revolutionary, world-building potential.
Manifest Destiny and rewriting the history of powerful men: Out of Site at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, an exhibition questions the history of powerful men erasing atrocities.
Waves of meaning: Turning the Page at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco
A photography exhibition both spatial and haptic marks the end of an era in San Francisco.
The city is a prism: Mark Ruwedel’s images of Los Angeles
Exploring the natural landscapes of an urban empire.
“Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions” at KADIST, San Francisco
How have art and community changed since the Covid-19 pandemic? Writer Melika Sebihi reviews “Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions” at KADIST San Francisco
And the days are not full enough: Donavon Smallwood Interviewed
Writer Thomas Dunn catches up with photographer Donavon Smallwood to discuss his experiences growing up in New York City as a photographer and how the artist balances the troubled history of Seneca Village with his deep love for Central Park.
The space we occupy: Lee Materazzi at Quint Gallery
What is accident versus intent? Artist Lee Materazzi’s exuberant creative practice sprawls across the gallery walls in her new exhibition ¢a$h&¢arry at Quint Gallery, reviewed by Luiza Lukova.
West Coast artists in Foreigners Everywhere: Dispatch from the Venice Biennale 2024
Five West Coast artists stand out in the overwhelming 331 artists from 90 countries of the 60th Venice Biennale.
Performative space: MK Guth Interviewed
On the heels of MK Guth’s latest exhibition, Danica Sachs chats with the artist about her new object-based works and how they figure into a larger performance practice.
A story out of order: Rose Marie Cromwell Interviewed
Rose Marie Cromwell sat down with writer Sam Hiura to discuss the process of transforming her photobook into an exhibition at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco.
What cannot be destroyed: JJJJJerome Ellis interviewed
On the heels of JJJJJerome Ellis’ hybrid-performance Aster of Ceremonies, at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, writer Kaya Noteboom sits down with Ellis to discuss finding home in writing fragments, the illusions of permanence, and living with unanswerable questions.
Taking The Mundu from Kerala to Los Angeles: Devi Seetharam Interviewed
How does cultural identity express itself in a garment? Devi Seetharam reorients the gendered gaze in paintings depicting South Asian men.
More than a portrait: Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe interviewed
Representation still matters. Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe reclaims the historic Black experience with contemporary portraits.
Love Letter to La Chica Boom
Don’t be scared. If you have difficulties reading Xandra Ibarra’s work, and subsequently, shy away from engaging with it—it’s okay, she wants to be incoherent.
I (Don’t) Want to Believe: Trevor Paglen at Altman Siegel
What is real? Max Blue explores the role of belief and evidence in photography
Ghost in the screen: General Magic at the Fulcrum Press in Los Angeles
Hannah Sage Kay reviews “General Magic” at the Fulcrum Press in Los Angeles, searching for the ghost in the apparatus behind photography
Biennial as an Act of Love: the seventh Oregon Artists’ Biennial
Oregon Contemporary takes the notion of care and applies it to the biennial model
The emancipatory potential of photography: Eileen Cowin and Jonesy at California Museum of Photography reviewed
Kristina Newhouse reviews Eileen Cowin and Jonesy’s Telling Them Apart, finding that collaborative exhibition is fruitful ground for exploring and refusing gendered role play.
Love Letter to Etel Adnan
Lebanese artist Etel Adnan details the Mount Tamalpais’ shifting moods and feelings. Adnan’s assorted portraits record a loved one over decades; she bears witness.
Storytelling and the Photobook: Vasantha Yogananthan Interviewed
Photobooks provide a collaborative and hand’s on way for viewers to experience photographic work
New horizons in landscape photography: Forecast at SF Camerawork
This year’s annual juried photography exhibition activates landscape in new and nuanced ways.
Hidden bodies, hoards of feeling: Math Bass at lumber room
An exhibition of objects challenges our understanding of our bodies.
The Weight of lightness: Jenene Nagy at Helzer Gallery
Jenene Nagy’s exhibition, The Weight, is a welcome dialogue of artistic concept inextricably connected to a profound commitment to artistic making.
Love Letter to Maria Maea
Maria Maea uses palm fronds to create sculptures and installations, weaving them together into something new.
How to say friendship: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi at Cooley Gallery
An exhibition documents the world-building collaboration of two artists across the country and over fifty years.
Self-actualizing in the stone: Joan Nelson’s New Works at Adams and Ollman
Kaya Noteboom on Joan Nelson’s New Works at Adams and Ollman.
Photography as a site of safety: Thalía Gochez interviewed
Thalía Gochez on image making as a site of safety, desirability, and the transition from fashion to fine arts photography.
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