The Latest

Return Form: Studio Show 📍 412 NW Couch St. Portland OR 🗓️ ✨Opening reception: October 18th, 2025 from ⏳ 7-10pm 🎟️Free to the public The Return Form: Studio Show marks the culmination of our four-month residency, a program exploring how creative practice can live within the rhythms of daily life. For one night only, fifteen artists come together in dialogue with their own creative histories, sharing both their final works and the hours, moments, and practices that shaped them. @returnform

Warp Speed: Panel Discussion - part of the PNCA 2025 Fall Events collection 🗓️Wednesday, October 15 · 6 - 7:30pm 📍Pacific Northwest College of Art Join PNCA for a panel discussion in conjunction with Warp Speed: Contemporary Conversations in Fiber, featuring exhibiting artists Carolyn Hazel Drake, Michael Espinoza, Abbie Miller, Melissa Monroe, and Joshua Sin, with CCAC Curator Marsha Mack moderating. @abbiemilleryorke @carolynhazeldrake @melissamonroeart @michaelespinozaart @joshuasin @yaymarshamack @portlandtextilemonth @ccac_pnca Presented in conjunction with Portland’s Textile Month, Warp Speed blends historic fiber works alongside innovative use of fiber and textile-based artwork, including disparate techniques and material applications, ranging from hanging interactive sculpture to tufted furniture. Each of the five Portland-based artists follow the inquiries present in their rich practices, to colorful and textural ends. Individual artist inquiries include: matrilineal heritage, queer sexuality and community, textile history and production, wonder and play, and cultural symbol and ceremony. For the exhibition, each artist worked with CCAC curator Marsha Mack to identify a historic fiber work to serve as muse, touch point, or departure point in the development of their own works. Each artist’s work is presented in loose conversation with an object from the Museum of Craft Collection, which is now owned and restored by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, OR. In Warp Speed, craft conversations across the decades cover a vast range of creative material usage and subject matter, flattening the distance between makers while marking excellence in fiber and textile arts.

Neu Haus Press Open Studio 📍4210 SE 24th Ave. Portland OR. 97202 🗓️ ⏳ Saturday 10-25-2025 from 1-5pm 🎟️Free to the public Artist Statement / Chris Chandler My current studio practice is based on the construction and deconstruction of modular type. By using the Vandercook 232P letterpress machine, Alpha-Blox & Futura Schmuck woodcut fonts to construct shapes, letters,words & phrases then deconstructing them into the abstract by rearranging the prints, tearing and wheat pasting to create layers and movement. The simplicity of breaking the alphabet down into its most basic elements and allowing the assembly of these shapes into seemingly endless combinations appeals to my analog self. @neuhauspress @elizabethleachgallery #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #openstudio

Weaving a Living Archive: Space, Memory, Material, and Process 🗓️October 23 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm ✨Opening reception from 5 to 6:30 with light refreshments, followed by the 🗣️panel discussion from 6:30 to 7:30. public opening of the new Textile Hive space, an archive, showroom, Pnd creative research environment dedicated to global textile heritage and contemporary practice. Built around the Andrea Aranow Textile Collection, the space houses more than forty thousand artifacts gathered across decades of travel, design, and cultural exchange. Panelists: Patricia Gohier, Daniel Wallace, and Caleb Sayan. This event invites the community to explore the newly completed exhibit space, work room, and showroom through guided tours, tactile experiences, and informal conversation. Guests will have the opportunity to connect with others working across textiles, fashion, design, and material culture while learning more about Textile Hive’s vision for collaborative programming, access, and stewardship. The panel discussion explores how archives can function as living spaces for memory, material culture, and creative practice. Framed by the evolution of the Andrea Aranow Textile Collection and the newly opened Textile Hive space, the conversation brings together designers and cultural workers to reflect on how physical and conceptual space can support care, and storytelling. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandoregon #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #artistlecture #travelportland #portlandtextilemonth

Queer Liberation - OPEN CALL for LGBTQIA+ Visual Artists! Gather:Make:Shelter, in partnership with The Marie Equi Center, is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition: Queer Liberation. LGBTQIA+ artists are invited to submit 2D and 3D artworks that celebrate creativity, identity, and liberation. Submission Details: 🌈Theme: Queer Liberation 📐Max size: 48 x 48 inches (smaller works welcome!) #️⃣Max entries: 3 pieces per artist 📍Drop-off: In person at The Marie Equi Center, 4434 SE 25th Ave, Portland 🗓️Dates: November 4–7 during open hours ℹ️Please include your name, art title, and materials used ✨Exhibit Opening ✨Save the date! The exhibition opening reception will be on Sunday, November 16th at The Marie Equi Center. ⏳ Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-4pm or Friday 10am-2pm 🎟️Free to the public Questions? time@gathermakeshelter.org kellyr@marieequi.center 💜 Art by Benito El Salvador, on display at @gathermakeshelter through Nov. 1, 2025 #GatherMakeShelter #MarieEquiCenter #QueerLiberation #OpenCall #QueerArtists #PDXArtists #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene

Moments from our visit to the @fryeartmuseum ➡️ on view at the time: Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular 🩻🪵🪜🪑🚨 (closed Sept 28) Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled 🦉🌊🏡🪟💨 (closed Oct 5) It’s always a good time to visit tbh! #artandaboutseattle #seattleartscene #fryeartmuseum #hughhayden #jamiewyeth

Frank S. Matsura: Portraits From the Borderland 📍 Japanese American Museum of Oregon, 411 NW Flanders St., Portland 🗓️ Sept 27, 2025 - Feb 8, 2026 ⏳ Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm 🎟️Free to the public Features photographs recovered from the studio of Washington-based Japanese photographer Frank Sakae Matsura (1873-1913), alongside period-specific regalia from Indigenous communities of the Columbia River Plateau. A resident of Okanogan County in the early 1900s, Matsura became a popular portrait photographer for families in the area and managed to create some of the most visually potent and nuanced images of Indigenous peoples from the era. A photographer by training, he arrived in newly incorporated Okanogan County, Washington, from Japan in 1903. He set up shop in this remote area of a state that had been admitted to the Union only 14 years earlier. Initially answering an ad for a cook’s assistant at the Elliot hotel in Conconully, he opened his photography studio there. Charming and popular, Matsura soon found himself in the role of trusted community photographer. He documented many families, celebrations, and regional events of note, often collaborating with his subjects to infuse his portraiture with a sense of humor and warmth. He later moved into the town of Okanogan, with a storefront on 1st Avenue. Among his documentation of local life, his photographs of Columbia River Plateau Tribal community members stand out and are the focus of Portraits from the Borderland. In these images, Matsura did not present his Indigenous neighbors as a vanishing race the way his contemporaries often did. Instead, they appear as modern people, adapting to the times. This exhibition is organized by the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and was curated by Michael Holloman (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) and Anne-Claire Mitchell. Image: Frank Sakae Matsura, Wapato Smithins Family (Detail), c. 1903-1913. Courtesy the Okanogan County Historical Society/Dean Davis Photography. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #FrankMatsura #Okanogan @jamopdx

Our monthly art newsletter hits your inbox the first Wednesday of the month, just in time for First Thursday! It’s your go-to guide for planning all the cool openings and shows happening this month. Plus, we’re always on the lookout for the latest news in the visual arts scene in Portland that you might not find elsewhere, or have to piece together. We’re all about keeping you in the loop! ➡️➡️➡️Are you subscribed? It’s free to sign up: ) 🌐artandaboutpdx.com/newsletter + 🔗 in profile

Elegy, Stepehen Hayes 📍Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland ⏳Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 🗓️ October 15 - November 29, 2025 ✨Opening reception,Frist Thursdsay: November 6, 2025 🎟️ Free to the public 🗣️ A public conversation between Stephen Hayes and David Naimon, award-winning author and host of the literary podcast Between the Covers, is scheduled for Saturday November 1st at 11 AM. For this solo exhibition, his 24th with the gallery, Hayes presents two distinct but related bodies of work: Elegy and Wild Beauty: Remembered. The works in this exhibition mark a change in emphasis for the esteemed Portland based artist. Hayes has established his reputation in the region as a maker of exquisite images focused on the landscape of the Northwest. Over the past ten years Hayes has systematically, and with consciousness, brought his attention to the political content inherent in landscape imagery. In 2018, Hayes was named a John S. Guggenheim Fellow in Visual Art on the strength of his ongoing body of work, entitled In the Hour Before, addressing gun violence in America. The landscape images in those paintings remain beautiful to contemplate, even as the dark content surrounding the impetus to make them haunts each one. With Elegy, Hayes asks us to bring our attention to the immediate and historic tragedy of war. In this case, it is the war in Gaza. These twelve, large, non-image-based paintings form a cycle that repeats ad infinitum and are arranged as either single panels or diptych pairings; an arrangement that will change three times over the run of the exhibition. The consequence of repeated re-pairing provokes an unsettling sense of impermanence and dislocation. In all of his paintings, color is paramount, and certainly in these works, as it is color that is asked to convey the soul of each artwork. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #StephenHayes #ElizabethLeachGallery

Some recent exhibitions we’ve seen! Did you go to any of these shows? Let us know in the comments⬇️ ⛓️ @peggy__wendy + @marieljoan at @adamsandollman 🐛 @justinl.amie at @pdxcontemporaryart 🎠 @rachwark at @fineartfruit 🎨 @davidcorbtt at @frontfalse 🦪 @sarasiestreem at @elizabethleachgallery #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #gallerygirl

An evening of sound art with four solo practitioners 🗓️Sunday Oct 12 2025 📍Wyrd Hut, 4704 SE 65th Ave, Portland 🎟️$10 / notaflof / all ages Steve Jansen, from Arizona Luna Galassini, from New Mexico Patrick Barber, from Portland Caspar Sonnet, from Portland @patrickbarber @casparsonnet @statesstages @lunagalassini @wyrdhut #soundart #northwestnoise #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandoregon #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #music #artistsupportartist

Visiting Artist Lecture: Isabelle Albuquerque 🗓️Monday, October 13 from 6 - 7:30pm 📍Pacific Northwest College of Art 🎟️Free & Open to the Public! Pacific Northwest College of Art, in partnership with lumber room, welcome’s Isabelle Albuquerque for an artist talk on her work and practice. Isabelle Albuquerque’s psychologically charged work mines structures of power, desire, and transmutation through the body. She employs both human and robotic processes and uses materials such as cast bronze, hair, rubber and melting wax to encode precise moments or performances in time. The resulting works become a cross-temporal conversation that centers the experiences of women and subverts art historical constructs through new modes of multiplicity and agency. In her most recent series Orgy For Ten People In One Body, Albuquerque translates her own body through varied forms and materials to create ten headless human scaled figures in multivalent states of embodiment, ecstasy and transformation. And her current series Alien Spring moves from the her own body into cross species biophilic hybrid forms born out of environmental catastrophe and mutated into new life. Albuquerque lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the performance duo Hecuba, and has performed at SFMOMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Hammer Museum. Recent sculptural exhibitions include Post Human, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, Orgy for 10 People in One Body, Jeffrey Deitch, New York; BodyLand, Max Hetzler, Berlin; and Sextet, Nicodim, Los Angeles. Albuquerque’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Flash Art, Artforum and The New York Times. Her latest book Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, Pacific) is a 450 page monograph about the series that includes conversations with the artists Miranda July and Arthur Jafa. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandoregon #thewanderingwomb #isabellealbuquerque

When you submit ✨you help us continue doing what we do best — highlighting exhibitions and art focused events in #portland and the surrounding regional cities in one platform.✨ Since 2014 𝒜𝓇𝓉 & 𝒜𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 has documented and shared art exhibitions and events in Portland, the greater Pacific Northwest, and beyond. We found our beginning sharing our art experiences. Through our practice and interaction within our community, we’ve become known as 🎯the go-to resource🎯for artists and art lovers — aka you! If you enjoy our presence on social, the monthly newsletter etc. 𝓅𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒿𝑜𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒫𝒶𝓉𝓇𝑒𝑜𝓃. 💚 www.patreon.com/artandaboutpdx Xoxo

Visiting Artist Lecture: Laura Camila Medina 📍Pacific Northwest College of Art - In the first-floor Mediatheque 🗓️⏳Thursday, October 10 from 6 - 7:30pm In person - free and open to the public - RSVP encouraged on PNCA’s eventbrite PNCA welcomes Laura Camila Medina for a lecture on her art and practice. “My practice honors dreaming and imagination as crucial components of remembering and survival. Transnationality has informed the process of intuitive collage through which I create analogies of memory composition and identity construction. Compelled by new media explorations, I have developed a unique method that transforms painting, sculpture, and video collage into 3D rendered landscapes that permeate the boundaries between the handmade and the digitally created. My work imagines a possible world through bio-mythographical symbols, images from Colombian and US pop culture, and non-linear animation to actualize the “internal landscape”; a site where memories are in a state of constant reconstruction. This process has become a powerful tool for me to bridge the gap between geographical distance and emotional closeness, fostering a sense of belonging and continuity amidst displacement. Currently, my research threads together evolutions in Andean miniature practices, scale theory in relation to distance and memory, and magical realism as an approach to auto-ethnography. Envisioning the future of my practice, I seek to continuously build an archive that addresses the complexities and fallacies of cultural and national identity, “the American Dream”, gender, familial history, and personal/collective memory.” —Laura Camila Medina #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandoregon #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #artistlecture #travelportland #artistsupportartist #lauracamilamedina

Pictures tell the Story: Political Cartooning in Portland 📍Pacific Northwest College of Art 🗓️⏳Thursday, October 9 from 6 - 8:30pm 📓Agenda📓 Political Comic Fair, 6- 7 PM Panel Discussion + Talk, 7 - 8:30 PM (Free & open to the public, livestreamed on PNCA's Youtube) Part of the PNCA 2025 Fall Events collection - PNCA Design and Illustration @pncadesign is hosting Portland Design History for Pictures Tell the Story: Political Cartooning in Portland For over a century, cartoonists in Portland have illustrated characters that drove the mythology of the Pacific Northwest, offered biting commentary to the powers that be and gave a framework for regional and national issues. This event will feature a talk by Portland Design History founder, Melissa Delzio who will cover work from the mainstream Oregonian cartoonists to the rise of the “alties” of independent media. A discussion to follow with prominent local comic artists and writers: Shay Mirk, Jonathan Hill and David Walker who carry the torch of this work. Meet local heroes, mingle with other comic artists, and browse/buy some of the work by panelists, and other local artists and publishers. View contemporary work from Floating World Comics, Always Here Books, Shay Mirk, David Walker, Jonathan Hill, Barry Deutsch & Becky Hawkins, Rupert Kinnard, David Celsi and NWMOCA (Portland's new museum of cartooning). View historic works by Art Bimrose, Murray Wade, and browse many other curated artifacts gathered for research. Brought to you by @portlanddesignhistory Design History, PNCA Design, @aigaportland. + @adobe for sponsoring. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxartgalleries #politicalcartoon #travelportland #PortlandDesignHistory

Warp Speed: Carolyn Hazel Drake Public Lecture 🗓️⏳Tuesday, October 7 from 6 - 7pm 📍Pacific Northwest College of Art, In the first-floor Mediatheque 511 NW Broadway, Portland @ccac_pnca @p_n_c_a FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RSVP online at -PNCA @eventbrite Livestream available day of on PNCA’s Youtube The Center for Contemporary Art and Culture at the Pacific Northwest College of Art is proud to welcome Carolyn Hazel Drake for a lecture on her art and practice and her work in Warp Speed: Contemporary Conversations in Fiber. Carolyn Hazel Drake is an artist and arts educator based in Portland, OR, and Phoenix, AZ. Her work integrates textiles, ceramics, and domestic readymades assembled or layered through traditional craft techniques and collage. These objects and installations create a gentle dissonance between the sacred and the mundane, leaning into the analog world as a tangible means of processing ephemeral but very real experiences of temporality and loss. The work engages viewers in dialogue with death, the sacred, and the resonance of ordinary objects as symbols and bearers of memory.

Explore Portland’s art scene with us… @artandaboutpdx 📸🌲🎨

SEATTLE ART HAPPENINGS whether you need a road trip up or you’re already there, these are the shows that were keeping an eye on in Emerald City. 📌Gillian Theobald, Fold & Folding at studio e, until Oct 11 @studioegallery @gillian_theobald 📌Good Form, Dirk Staschke, Ryan Kelly, and Sonja Peterson at AMcE Creative Arts, until Oct 26. @amce.creative.arts @dirk_staschke @ryanwilsonkelly @sonjapeterson1792 📌Vijay Masharani, The Cure at Veronica, until Nov 8. @superbestveronicafriends @vijay.masharani 📌Whiting Tennis, Refuge at Greg Kucera, until Nov 1. @gregkuceragallery @whitingtennis 📌Jeffrey Mitchell, 50 posters in Manila envelopes ⁣✿⁣ at Jodi Co. First Thursday Art Walk, Oct 2, 4-7 p.m. & Oct 3, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. @jodico_creative @jeffrymitchell #artandaboutsea #artandaboutseattle #artandaboutpnw #seattleart

011668, First Church of Toyota 📍Virtua Gallery 🗓️Oct 3 & 4, 12-7 p.m., Oct 5, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 011668 is an American interdisciplinary artist exploring spirituality, mythology, and cosmogony through the digital age. Acknowledging industrial forces as our modern pantheon, 011668 unravels a contemporary creation myth while fusing elements of butoh dance, tokusatsu, and film noir. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #llyodcenter #virtuagallery

Visual Fields, Heather Watkins 📍PDX Contemporary Art, 1881 NW Vaughn St., Portland ⏳Hours: Tues-Sat 10 a.m. -6 p.m. 🗓️ October 8 - November 1 ✨Opening reception: Saturday, October 11, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 🎟️ Free to the public A solo exhibition by Heather Watkins featuring new photogravures and collographs. #pdxcontemporaryart #heatherwatkins #heatherwatkinsstudio @heatherwatkinsstudio