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Present Tense (in the South Gallery), featuring Olivia Johnson, Liz Obert and Phil Harris, the newest members of the gallery. & The Brain––Is Wider Than the Sky, (in the North Gallery) a two person show pairing Jeff Leake and Kindra Crick 📍Gallery 114 🗓️August 7 – August 30, 2025 ✨Opening Reception: First Thursday, August 7, 5 – 8pm Meet the Artists (North & South Galleries): Sunday, August 24, 12 – 2 pm   The three featured artists in Present Tense are all in some way working with ideas of time that span the temporal and the topical. Time is the overarching fabric and measure of the world we know. There are also qualities of subjective time that are peculiar to our particular moment. Both kinds of time are entwined in the work of these three makers. All three artists purposely employ time-intensive practices, all feel themselves to be contemporary voices, and all three work from a sense of history, firmly imbedded in the present. Leake’s narrative paintings draw on myth, folklore, and cultural memory, while Crick’s neuroscience-inspired nocturnal worlds delve into the biology of sleep and recollection. Together, their art creates a layered dialogue between storytelling and modern brain science, exploring how both myth and sleep influence our understanding of memory, identity, and consciousness. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx

@helenscostume opening for @eleanorrandl and @chaseallgood 💅🏼

We were delighted to attend one of The Mud Room’s “Try It” Wheel Throwing Classes, which was a fantastic experience! Dani, our instructor, provided invaluable tips throughout the class. A pottery class is a perfect activity for friends, date nights, with your child (16+ or 13+ with a guardian). You can also go solo and potentially make new friends along the way. During the class, you’ll learn how to center clay on the wheel, open and form a base, pull walls, and shape a bowl. You’ll also receive guidance on correct arm and hand positioning. After the class, you’ll have the opportunity to choose which bowl you’d like to keep and select a glaze. The Mud Room will then glaze your masterpiece for you. We’ll share more details about our experience when we go grab ours! 🏺 Upcoming Friday Night “Try It” Wheel Throwing Classes at The Mud Room @themudroompdx 🏺 ✨North studio✨ August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th September 5th, 26th ✨Southeast studio✨ August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th September 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th #artandaboutpdx #themudroompdx #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrowing

The Way Home (집으로 가는 길), Hyun Jung Jung 📍Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1, Portland ⏳Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m. 🗓️ August 2 - 31, 2025 ✨Opening reception: Saturday, August 2, 5–8 p.m. 🎟️ Free to the public In The Way Home (집으로 가는 길), Hyun Jung Jung reflects on how she is learning to embrace the grey areas of becoming an immigrant by visualizing the uncertain belongings and blurred memories. While living in America, Jung was often in denial of the interwoven self that she was becoming, because it felt like she was giving up on the Korean identity. But over time, she has learned the fluidity of how these cultures merge and coexist to inform one another in her. Living far from her motherland, Jung often ponders what Korean-ness means to her. In this search, she has been continuously revisiting her childhood moments, the years she lived in Korea. One example includes learning about her past through looking at old photographs from her childhood. Although she does not have memories from some of these early days, the images bring emotional reactions, reminding her that these moments are still at her core, grounding her. The Way Home (집으로 가는 길) is a reflection of this process: embracing her family roots and childhood in Korea and adulthood in America. Shown in various mediums, the morphing and transitioning of images and colors evoke emotions that are abstract and nostalgic, yet familiar. Although this may feel obscure and faint, Jung continues to soak them in for them to become part of her journey. The Way Home (집으로 가는 길) is funded in part by @regionalarts and the Office of Arts & Culture. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx

XO-interstitium 📍 @pwnwpdx 🗓️Friday July 25, Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27 ✨@ 7:30pm 🎟️Tickets $15-$25 *Kiddos under 18 free (accompanied by adult) 🎶DJ Dirt Dawg is doing a 30 minute DJ set during doors before the show starts, nightly. 7:00-7:30 p.m. XO-interstitium is the culminating work of a three-year collaboration between JmeJames Antonick and Patsy Morris, with music by Geovanny Vega. What began as JmeJames’ vision evolved into an equal collaboration, birthing both this evening-length performance and the formation of our collective, Trash Babe Productions. The piece explores the interstitium—the space between—of our bodies, our relationships, and shared consciousness. XO-interstitium reaches beyond the physical into the exo-interstitium: the connective tissue of all that is. Rooted in embodied healing, the work traverses stages of somatic research: in Honey Touch, we co-regulate through touch; in Lantern Consciousness, we invoke play and movement to foster neuroplasticity; in Body Veil, we uncover magick—our innate power through dance. These threads converge in XO-interstitium, a final movement in communion with shared consciousness. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #performance

Slip Condition, Lily Clark 📍 Antica Terra, 5100 SE Rice Lane, Amity, OR 97101 🗓️ July 12 to August 31, 2025 ⏳ Hours: By Appointment 🪶Free to the public Antica Terra and Martã are present Slip Condition, a site-specific installation of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Lily Clark. A collaborative presentation co-hosted by the Southern Californiã art gallery and Maggie Harrison’s otherworldly winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the exhibition explores the nature of fluid phenomena and its relationship to material surfaces that dissolve the boundary between the natural and the human-made, creating spaces where water can exist in and explore its own archetypal forms. Named for a boundary state in fluid dynamics where liquid glides along a surface with minimal resistance, Slip Condition examines water at the edge of control—caught between its natural behaviors and engineered containment. As such, Clark’s works exist in cleaved focus, drawing on German researcher Theodor Schwenk’s distinction between water’s essential being and its measurable, manipulated form. Clark works fluidly across this spectrum of material origin, alternately drawing directly from unaltered geological forms as well as the engineered, occasionally blending both. Within this purposefully muddy intersection, the artist transforms the Anthropocene into a geologicallayer: manmade substances redefine natural interactions as surface conditions, altering adhesion and movement while allowing water to slip, resist, or cling in unexpected yet tantalizingly familiar ways. A bird bath, an homage and reference to the numerous bird houses that the former landowners hid and left amongst the trees, fills until it can bear no more, tipping—by a hand or its own weight—to empty. With steadfast attention to fluid dynamics and their most nuanced sensitivities, Clark achieves a material symbiosis that simultaneously marries and divorces our understanding of the properties of matter and, by extension, the physical universe. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #lilyclark #anticaterra #martalosangeles

COLLECTIVE VISIONS, @gallery114 Summer Members Exhibit 🗓️July 3 - August 2, 2025 ⏳Open Thursday - Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. Annual exhibition of our members creative work. Collective Visions offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide array of contemporary artistic expressions by our member artists. Immerse yourself in the collective energy and discover how each artists’ voice contributes to a larger, shared creative narrative. Members 🧑🏻‍🎨👩🏻‍🎨👨🏼‍🎨 Zac Banik • David Cohen • Morgan Curtis • Kay Danley Dianne Jean Erickson • Sally Finch • Jeffrey Fuchs • Jon Gottshall Phil Harris • Nancy Helmsworth • Olivia Johnson • Jeff Leake Liz Obert • Michael Spence • Elena Thomas Featured artworks: 1. Zac Banik, Picture Perfect Mixed media | 2. Sally Finch, Weather Study 15, India Pen and ink on paper | 3. Jon Gottshall, Bonneville Dam with Smoke from Eagle Creek Fire Photograph Founded in 1990 as an artist’s collective, Gallery 114 celebrates its strength and resilience as a gallery that provides opportunities for artists to exhibit with complete artistic freedom. It inspires its members to push their limits and take their ideas to unexpected and challenging places. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Threads of Identity: Narratives in Cultural and Personal Expression‍ アイデンティティの糸:文化と自己表現の物語 📍 Oranj Studio 🗓️ Extended till end of August ✨ Closing reception on Sunday, August 17 This group exhibition unites the evocative works of Ariko Inaoka and Mai Ide, two artists whose practices unravel and reframe the multi-faceted narratives of identity, heritage, and societal expectations. mai ide’s multidisciplinary approach reflects her experiences as a Japanese-American immigrant, mother, and artist. Utilizing salvaged fabrics and sashiko stitching, her work expresses the tension between vulnerability and resilience within a constrained and volatile society. Ariko Inaoka’s photography, including her renowned series on Icelandic twins, delves into themes of connection, individuality, and the interplay of cultural and personal identity. Together, their art forms a compelling dialogue on cultural and personal intersections, creating a space for introspection, connection, and empowerment.This exhibition invites viewers to engage with layered narratives that traverse past and present, tradition and reinvention. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Profusion, Angelita Surmon 📍Waterstone Gallery, 124 NW 9th Ave., Portland ⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sun 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 🗓️ August 6 – 31, 2025 ✨Opening reception – Thursday, August 7, 5–8 p.m. 🥂Art, Music and Bubbly – Saturday, August 9, 3–5:30 p.m. 🗣️Artist Talk – Sunday, August 17, 11 a.m. 🎟️ Free to the public A collection of acrylic paintings and kiln-formed glass by Angelita Surmon. Surmon’s work is informed by the landscape observed up close. In her careful observations, she discovers a richness in the variety of texture, color, light, and line. The intricacies and shifting seasonal palette of the natural world offer a constant source of discovery. She equates this abundance with the elegant complexity of brocade fabrics. In contrast to a current cultural focus on scarcity, Surmon finds infinite inspiration in nature’s profusion. #angelitasurmon#waterstonegallery #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pearldistrictgallery #padaoregon #exhibition #kilnformedglass #soloshow #contemporaryartist #modernart #natureartist #landscapeartist#pnwartist #pdxartscene #pdxartevents #pearldistrictportland #pearldistrictartwalk #pnwpainter

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Monsoon 💧Eleanor Randl, Chase Allgood 📍 Helen’s Costume Fine Art 🗓️July 25 - August 22, 2025 ✨Opening Reception Friday, July 25, from 5-8 p.m. ⏳Open viewing hours: Saturdays 1-4pm starting July 26th. Monsoon. Enveloped in Summer. Your aged local nail salon or foot spa features faded backlit stock images outside, an ocher veil. Helen’s Costume is proud to present elegant sculpture by Eleanor Randl alongside the lyrical photography of Chase Allgood in Monsoon. Works that celebrate the perishable domestic and the fresh breath of retail. We are trying something different this time and having our opening reception on a Friday evening instead of a Saturday afternoon. Everyone is welcome.

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Portal Glyph 📍 Russo Lee Gallery 🗓️ July 3—August 2, 2025 This latest body of work presents a vibrant and daringly hopeful vision of alternate realities rooted in ancestral memory and earth’s material traces. Comprising nine new paintings and two monoprint series created during her 2024 residency at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Farrell-Smith fuses abstraction with petroglyphic imagery and rare earth symbolism. Using found stencils from the Umatilla Reservation and naming each work after periodic elements, she conjures portals that challenge colonial temporality and invite viewers into multitemporal landscapes shaped by copper, color, and form. Her work blurs the boundary between past and future, suggesting not extraction or finality, but reverence, reciprocity, and radical imagining. With mountain contours, Pyramid Lake glyphs, and cosmic ibex forms emerging from dusky blues and shimmering metals, Farrell-Smith asks us to see, listen, and step into these energetic openings—to wonder, with the land, where they might take us. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #kailafarrellsmith

RDP presents a Billboard Project, Ana Lía Orézzoli and Sarah Meadows 🗓️ Until August 24, 2025 ✨Stay tuned for a closing party in August! ⏱️Hours: 24 hours a day (illuminated at night). 🎟️ Free to the public Rubus Discolor Project is pleased to announce its 🌟 first billboard installation 🌟 at the Northwest corner of🚏 N. Rosa Parks Way and N. Interstate Avenue. 🚏The billboards feature the work of two photographers, Ana Lía Orézzoli and Sarah Meadows. 🎠Ana Lía Orézzoli’s image “Tocache” (on the left) is paired with Sarah Meadows’ “Night Tulips 001” (on the right). 🌷🌙 “Tocache” @analiapop I took this photograph in 2014, during my first and only visit to Tocache, a small town in the Peruvian forest. It was very early in the morning, and in the darkness of the palm fields, a horse appeared, lit by the headlights of a car. The scene felt hypnotic—like an apparition. At the time, I was going through a period of personal uncertainty, I was about to leave my home to move to a different country. This unexpected encounter felt like a revelation but in that moment, all I could do was hold on to it. “Night Tulips 001” @smeadowsmeadows I get spring fever; the flowers make me cry. I like them best at night, groping in the dark with a blinding flash. When the photograph is taken I can’t see what’s happening—it’s both too dark and too bright. The night air can’t be preserved, but something visual is frozen in time. #artandaboutpdx #rubusdiscolorproject #billboard #contemporaryphotography #photography #portlandartscene

You Are The Space Between, Joe Park 📍Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland ⏳Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 🗓️ July 17 - August 30, 2025 ✨Opening reception: July 16, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 pm 🎟️ Free to the public You Are The Space Between by Joe Park incorporates art historical references and invites viewers to complete the imagery Park alludes to through his mark-making process. These paintings bring together several aspects of Park’s previous work, including explorations of representation and abstraction and multidimensional perspectives, using a process-based application of paint to describe the spaces between matter that we don’t see. In these works, Park depicts particles tracing arcs through space, colliding, and eventually coming together to form wavy grids that create a figuration of the space between objects and people. In exploring this inter-object space, Park creates a liminal reality that simultaneously obscures and defines images, allowing them to appear and then fade depending on how the viewer looks at the painting. Without a single focal point, the images, or non-images, in each painting resolve depending on how the viewer focuses on the work, creating a sort of “myopic impressionism” of non-immediate imagery. Park’s abstract paintings are known for their color and surface, made of thousands of layered, painted lines that vibrate and expand, recalling natural phenomena. Park often references historical movements in his work, ranging from the Op Art of Bridget Riley, the Northwest mysticism of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves to the transcendental art-making ethos of Agnes Martin. Joe Park draws inspiration from the history of art and often references historical movements or specific artists working in painting, photography and sculpture. Park creates prismatic portraits, figures and still life’s in addition to abstract works known for their color and surface. Park received his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA) and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA). #ElizabethLeachGallery #JoePark #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #painting

Cor-Ten Revisited, Lee Kelly 📍Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland ⏳Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 🗓️ July 17 - August 30, 2025 ✨Opening reception: July 16, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 pm 🎟️ Free to the public Cor-Ten Revisited brings together a selection of sculptures by Kelly made of Cor-Ten steel, which is known for its distinctive, weathered finish. Throughout his career and across several bodies of work, Kelly frequently returned to Cor-Ten steel as a medium. The exhibition includes freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures made between 1977 and 2021, giving an overview of Kelly’s exploration of geometric shapes and formal imagery. The exhibition includes sculptures from several of Kelly’s series, many of which reflect the influence of the artist’s travels on his work. Two Haida sculptures reference the artwork of the Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia, wall-mounted Kyoto sculptures are inspired by a visit to Japanese temples and kanji characters, and Goddess Revisited and Unicycle Variation reflect architectural elements seen in India and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Also on view are studies for large scale public sculptures, collages on gold leaf grounds which give insight into Kelly’s process and visual language, and Memory IX, from Kelly’s Memory series of monumental sculptures made once every ten years as a reflection of the preceding decade. Lee Kelly (1932-2022) is one of the most revered artists in the Pacific Northwest, best known for his monumental public sculptures throughout Oregon and the surrounding region. Born in 1932 in McCall, Idaho, Lee Kelly graduated from the Museum Art School at the Portland Art Museum (now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art, PNCA) in 1959. Kelly’s long, prestigious career and prolific nature have resulted in a significant body of work which can be seen in public and private collections throughout the country. #ElizabethLeachGallery #LeeKelly #artandaboutpdx #sculpture

NIGHT LIFE by Spring Break Jake 📍 The Purple Door Gallery, 3557 SE Division Street, Portland OR 🗓️ Until 07/21/2025 ⏳ Hours: Wed, Thurs: 2pm - 6pm | Friday, Sat: 2pm - 8pm | Sunday: 2pm - 6pm 🎟️Free to the public All-new body of work from local Oregon artist Spring Break Jake titled NIGHT LIFE. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception on June 13th from 5-9pm at the gallery. The exhibition probes the dynamic between slumber and mental health, articulating how sleep, or the lack thereof, shapes our lens of the world around us and in us. Jake’s mixed media paintings take a bird’s eye view of the halcyon atmosphere in a deathly still bedroom while conveying the opposing reality happening in one’s restless mind; the outer world still, the inner world in turmoil. This collection taps into the isolation & peaceful chaos of insomnia from a healthy distance in order to put haunting memories on display in a new light. With the ultimate aim of solidarity, NIGHT LIFE allows the border between loneliness & connection to dissolve in the face of vulnerability. Each painting allows the darkness of the palette, the surreal, domestic imagery, and the decaying effect of the texture to illustrate sleep’s impact on our mental health & the sense of despair found amidst a restless night. But as with all his work, Jake’s pieces contain elements of hope through healing. NIGHT LIFE acknowledges that no matter what we’ve been (or are currently going) through, everything is temporary and it is always possible to find our way back to paradise. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, curated by Michelle Dunn Marsh 📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., Portland ⏳Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m. 🗓️ July 5 - August 2, 2025 🎟️ Free to the public In the exhibition, Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, curator and publisher Michelle Dunn Marsh breathes new life into her text-based memoir of the same name. Her professional journey through the arts is punctuated by iconic photographs—gifted to Dunn Marsh from projects, obtained through trade, or purchased in support of non-profit arts organisations—by some of American photography’s master practitioners. The selection of photographs included represent four generations of diverse imagemakers, and a breadth of photographic construction and printing. The exhibition features photographs by Robert Adams, Endia Beal, Paul Berger, Elinor Carucci, Catherine Chalmers, Adrain Chesser, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Jeff Dunas, Larry Fink, Marina Font, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Isaac Layman, Eirik Johnson and Daniel Carillo, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim Marshall, Graham Nash, Sylvia Plachy, Eugene Richards, Meghann Riepenhoff, Charlie Rubin, Stephen Shore, Jonathan David Smyth, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Carrie Mae Weems, Alice Wheeler, Will Wilson, and others. From the book and exhibition Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography. Featured image: Meghann Riepenhoff Chronograph #07 (9.22.16–10.7.16). Double-sided dynamic cyanotype, each side 7 ⅜ x 9 5/16 in. Unique. © and courtesy Meghann Riepenhoff #artandaboutpdx #michelledunnmarsh #blueskygallerypdx #photography #seebeingseen

What we went to this past Saturday! (as mentioned in our July newsletter) 🖼️🖼️ Blonde on Blonde: Margaux Ogden and Tess Bilhartz at SE Cooper Contemporary 🔥“Who by Fire,” by Ray Anthony Barrett at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) 🪉Performance by Mary Lattimore at the lumber room in conjunction with their current exhibition Chorus. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #portlandoregon #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #travelportland #artnewsletter #artreel #tessbilhartz #margauxogden #rayanthonybarrett #marylattimore

Our ✨Must-see✨ art exhibitions in Portland Newsletter went out yesterday! Everything you need to know about Portland art this July 🧨 Always free to subscribe 🔗artandaboutpdx.com/newsletter Let us know in the comments what exhibitions you saw or want to see about in #Portland #Seattle this month! #artandaboutpdx

El Retorn, Ros Vila 📍The Writer’s Block, 818 NW Flanders St., Portland ⏳ Hours: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. or by appt 🗓️ July, 3rd - 15th, 2025 🎟️ Free to the public Ros Vila is a Catalan visual and multidisciplinary artist who lives between Portland and Barcelona. Since moving abroad in 1999, her work continually revisits the concept of “home” represented in painting, fine art photography, and mixed media. In “El Retorn” Ros presents a retrospective of works from different periods and mediums, while highlighting her more recent focus on ceramics, primarily working with porcelain and experimenting with horsehair raku techniques. Her artistic career is a continuous work in progress, always evolving and exploring new forms of expression. In her porcelain sculptures she draws inspiration from artists like Richard Serra, for the way his sculptures defy gravity, and Noguchi, for his forms. Always seeking new media and forms of expression, Ros finds a common thread in the idea of Return. Living between two cities enriches her perspective and her work. “El Retorn” features the recurring theme of home -its absence, presence, memories and longings. About Ros Vila studied fashion design and marketing in Barcelona, and graduated from Dawson College, Montreal, DEC, with a major in Professional Photography. Her artistic career began to take shape while living in Mexico, where she discovered new photographic techniques and her passion for art. Throughout her career, she has exhibited work in galleries spanning multiple countries. #thewritersblock #northparkblocks #rosvila #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists #ceramics