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THE OPEN HOUSE w. @ethereal__reflections an artful evening in a #rummerhouse featuring artworks by: Christopher Belluschi Ben Latham Aremy Stewart Steph Ketty Nicole Neu Chris Cassimatis Carvers Collective Jesse Kamerzell Brittany Venner Tylor Rogers Ben Ewing Form + Function Kat + Maouche Wilma Opulence

35 Trips Around the Sun: Members’ Anniversary Show 📍Gallery 114 🗓️Dec 4–27, 2025 🌟Public birthday party, Sat, Dec 13, 1–3 p.m. Gallery 114 has been a cooperative gallery in Portland since the end of 1990. During those thirty-five eventful years this collective art space has remained a living, changing community—continually shaped by the artists who have come through its doors. Founded on the belief that creativity thrives in collaboration, it has evolved through generations of members, each bringing new perspectives, materials, and ideas. Many artists join the collective seeking the freedom to create on their own terms—to experiment, take risks, and shape their own exhibitions within a supportive environment. Change has always been part of the gallery’s rhythm. As artists move on and others arrive, the space renews itself, reflecting the shifting landscape of contemporary art and the shared drive to explore, question, and connect. Now celebrating thirty-five years, the collective honors its history while embracing transformation as its defining strength—a space that endures not by staying the same, but by continually becoming something new.

Measured, New work by Dan Gluibizzi, David Schell and Benjamin Terrell 📍 One Wall Gallery 30 East 11th Ave, Eugene 🗓️ December 5, 2025 - January 31, 2026 ⏳ Hours: Monday thru Saturday 10-7 Sunday 12-6 🎟️Free to the public Three painters explore what it means to find space between extremes, be it description and abstraction, rhythm and cadence or even knowledge versus intuitive understanding. @dangluibizzi @schell_david @benjamin_Terrell_painting #artandaboutpdx #oregonartscene

Supporting children’s art and education at the German International School for their “Light Up for the Arts” 🥨🕯️🌟 a little market with gifts and handmade works of art from students as young as 2, to 8th grade, with German and Chinese Culture in their language immersion program. We had so much fun, ate so many sugar filled snacks and savory food. Plus picked up a bunch of gifts. Anyone else think children’s art work is kinda the best?! Clearly the next generation is so talented, we love the emphasis on learning and expression through art and play that is cultivated at the school.

There are so many incredible #holidaymarkets happening now through Christmas! This one at @oldpalpdx is going to be tasty, beautiful and crafty 🍐🍐 don’t miss it — Sunday, December 14 from 10-3. 🌟 Koop Kitchen donuts will be made out front, the bar will be open with hot mulled cider, fresh shucked oysters and Alpine Cheese and Potato Soup available. 🦪🍲🍩🤤 #portlandartscene #shoplocal

Jeﬀry Mitchell, Winter Blooming 🗓️December 3 - 27, 2025 📍PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, 1881 NW Vaughn Street, Portland, OR 97209 ⏳10 am – 6 pm, Tuesday – Saturday, and by appointment 🎟️ Free and open to the public The changing of seasons brings a new feeling,. Autumn and its moribund wetness is ushered away by the bright clarity of winter. The crisp sting of cold air and the blanketing of snow draws us inward and indoors in search of warmth and comfort. This hibernation creates spaces of gathering, sharing, and contemplation as well as wonder and magic. There is great delight to be found in the bleakness of winter. The welcoming of colder seasons also brings with it an urge to decorate—adorning a tree with ornaments or making cozy a domestic space. Winter Blooming features a variety of work—drawings and prints in artist-made frames, handcrafted wooden furniture, ceramic vessels and sculpture, small porcelain and pewter figures, bronze elephants and andirons, and plaster tables. The use of diﬀerent materials is important to Mitchell, who, under his grandmother’s tutelage, learned a variety of decorative design and handicraft. His aﬀection for simple materials like pen, paper, scissors, and glue remain and he continually returns to these craft roots in his art practice.

Mutable Paintings, Jaq Chartier 📍 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland 🗓️ Dec 5, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026 ✨Opening reception First Thursday, Dec 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm ⏳ Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 🆓 to the public Mutable Paintings, is an exhibition of new work by Jaq Chartier, an extension of the artist’s Testing series. Known for her rigorous, experimental approach to materials and process, Chartier’s latest body of work builds on her decades-long investigation into the behavior of colors as they interact with light across time. Confronted with the discontinuation of a key material used in her previous works led the artist to reimagine her approach, pushing her to experiment with new processes and revisit previous self-imposed rules. The necessity of using novel materials created new possibilities for exploration, presenting the artist with the opportunity for further evolution of her practice. Mutable Paintings reflects this renewed sense of experimentation in which chance, variation, and the artist’s gestures all play an equal role in the creation of the work. Like a director setting the stage for actors, the materials in Chartier’s studio, including paint, dye, inks and stains, become characters of their own, leading to surprising and unanticipated interactions and “interesting mistakes.” The works in Mutable Paintings feature cube-like forms and shifting marks that seem to interact as though they are tiny worlds in motion. Each mark and movement is informed not only by the artist’s gesture, but also by the materials’ own unpredictable responses. This new work invites viewers to consider impermanence, adaptation, and transformation, both within the artwork and beyond. #JaqChartier #ElizabethLeachGallery #artandaboutpdx

‘Tis the season for Oregon Ballet Theater’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 🩰🎄🌟 Can’t think of a better way to start off holiday season festivities! @oregon.ballet.theatre at the one and only @kellerauditorium #thenutcracker #nightattheballet

Where we went on First Thursday this month @augengallery @hibiki.miyazaki @davidjoelkitcher @elizabethleachgallery @jaqchartier @lvdesignandgallery @scottgellatly @thewritersblock.studio @palafoxartpdx #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #closelooking

Domestic Topographies, Colin Kippen 📍 Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1 🗓️ January 3 - February 1, 2026 ✨Opening reception First Saturday Dec 6 from 5-8pm ⏳ Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m. 🆓 to the public Colin Kippen presents new sculptural work for his first solo exhibition as a member of Well Well Projects. His brightly painted castings of everyday textures (like the embroidered stitching on a mattress or the quilted pattern of an oven mitt) emit an ethereal glow that beckons a closer look. Kippen is interested in the relationship the body has to everyday things we interact with. He is drawn to objects that envelope, protect, or support the body in the elapsed time of daily activities like relaxing, sharing a meal with family, cooking, or sleeping. Each sculpture memorializes these daily routines, presenting the viewer with a brightly colored facsimile of textures and forms.

Already Been Chewed, Wynter Jones 📍 Imperfecta, 117 6th street, Oregon City OR 97045 🗓️ Dec 6-27, 2025 ✨Opening reception Dec 6-27 5-7 pm ⏳ Hours: Wed-Friday, 11am-4pm and Saturday, 11am-5pm 🆓 to the public Drawing from her early experiences growing up within the Mormon faith, this body of work unearths embedded memories—some tender, others painful, many absurd—that continue to revisit her internal landscape 25 years later. Rather than presenting a linear narrative, this body of work wanders, stumbles, and circles back on itself, mimicking the nonlinear nature of memory and the way it persists or dissipates. Through drawing and painting, she attempts to shape the intangible and blurred impressions that persist long after the doctrine has been rejected and abandoned. What emerges is more than a denunciation of patriarchy, but a complex act of witnessing. Already Been Chewed sits with the discomfort, the absurdity, and the ambiguity of what remains. It asks: What stays with us, even when we think we’ve moved on? What narratives and past beliefs do we internalize, and how do they continue to echo in our body? @imperfectaxyz @wynterjonesart #imperfectaxyz #darialoicurator #portlandartist

Rest is Smoke, Munro Galloway 📍 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland 🗓️ Dec 4, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026 ✨Opening reception Thursday, Dec 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm ⏳ Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 🆓 to the public Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Rest is Smoke, an exhibition of new paintings by Munro Galloway. The new paintings by Galloway contain layered references to art history, personal memories, and the dramatic, shifting landscape and climate of America’s West Coast. The exhibition’s title is derived from a sentence Galloway observed inscribed in Andrea Mantegna’s sixteenth-century painting of Saint Sebastian, in Venice, Italy: “Nothing is stable except the divine, the rest is smoke.” Having returned to Los Angeles after a year living in Europe, Galloway found himself newly attuned to the climatic conditions of Southern California: heat, wind, rain, and smoke. These natural phenomena find their way into Galloway’s paintings, in which he reproduces cloud and smoke effects, creating lightness and density, and finding temperature differences in value and color. #Munro Galloway #ElizabethLeachGallery

Blue Sky 1985 - 1995: The Second Decade 📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave. 🗓️ Dec 4, 2025 - Jan 3, 2026 ✨Opening reception: First Thursday Dec 4 from 5-8 p.m. ⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m. 🆓 to the public The second 50th anniversary exhibition highlights a selection of artists who exhibited at the gallery during its formative second decade. Visitors will experience past images from 64 of the 209 exhibitions presented between 1985 and 1995 as well as recent work from the same artists. Guests are encouraged to “dress the decade” during the First Thursday opening for a chance to win door prizes. All prints (except as noted) are priced at $200 each and are on sale for a limited time. All proceeds go towards sustaining Blue Sky’s programming for the next generation. #artandaboutpdx #blueskygallerypdx #bluesky50thanniversary

Rose Lewis has a collection of paintings up at @thefreshpot on Hawthorne - art + matcha + books = best trifecta 🖼️🍵📚 Think the show is closing today, but if you’re around pop in. There’s a freshness and bright energy in this work that depicts quiet moments in front of homes, and then figurative work from performances at shows. This one with the glass frame stopped us before we took a sip of our drink! #artandaboutpdx #localartscene #artincafes

Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death and Transition — Three person exhibition featuring Shelley Chamberlin, Marne Lucas, and Dardinelle Troen 🗓️December 4, 2025 — February 15, 2026. ✨Opening event on Thursday, December 4th, 2025 from 5-8p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm. 📌All events are free and open to the public. An art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there. The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal. 1. Celestial Navigator (Shroud), Marne Lucas, 2025, Archival pigment print, Royal silk chiffon banner, plexiglass rod. 2. Grief Body 2, Shelley Chamberlin, 2024, India Ink on Paper 3. Time is a game played beautifully by children. – Heraclitus, Dardinelle Troen, 2025 Archival digital photo on walnut, deer jawbone, zinc filigree @marnelucas @aquietusendoflifedoula @shelleychamberlinart @ditroen @viemortdoula @pccparagonarts

Outer Voice PLUS ONES 📍Dekum St Theater 814 NE Dekum Street Portland, OR 🗓️ Dec 7, 2025 ⏳ at 6pm 🎟️Free to the public An exciting evening of live and screened time-based art by Outer Voice PLUS special guests! ✨ The program will consist of a variety of short contemporary art works in video, music, audio, dance, performance art, and more.❕ Featuring: Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, ariella tai, Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and special guests! @seahorsesunited @amgartworks @apricotfool @emmgemmzz @queenofcalcium @ariellatai @rolanddahwen @sarahrushfordart @yourfavoriteashhole @dekumstreettheater

Cori McCullough @iamcorii at Mudd Palace 🌟 Cori’s work is energetic, surreal-abstract representations investigating movement and color 🍬 + We love little pop up exhibitions - artist shows in artist studios spaces - or adjacently similar etc etc! There is something special about seeing emerging artists’ artwork outside of traditional white box gallery spaces. Not only is it vital to the local art ecosystem to just have these spaces, full stop. But it can also be great practice for future possibilities of showing an presenting work. To check out the show, DM Cori. #artandaboutpdx #artistrunspace #contemporarypainting

Antler & Talon Holiday Party 🎉🎈 📍 Antler & Talon, 2714 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211 ✨🗓️ Opening Friday, December 19, 2025 ⏳ 5-8pm⏳ ⏳ Hours: Friday Saturday 2-6 pm, Sunday 11am-3 pm 🆓 to the public Antler & Talon Galleries @antlerpdx is having party as they close out 2025! Debuting two new exhibitions with a DJ, drinks, and live flash tattoos by Jennifer Parks and Meg Adamson. Exhibitions: We will be showcasing new large works by David Rice, Emily Kepulis, Casey Weldon, April Coppini and Jennifer Parks as well as our latest installation, Just Like Honey, by the following artists: Chris Austin, Juri Umagami, Daren Todd, Alex Garant, Anna Rogers, Maryann Held, Michelle Mitchell, Logan Britt, Alex Stone, Morgan Bak, Cole Lyons, Lori Damiano, Mandy Arroyo, Hickory Mertsching, Kirsten Bauer, Em Randall, Sierra Moon, Mercedes Tabish, Samantha Hensel, Nathan McKee, Amy Spassov, Jeremy Nichols, Wylee Risso, Rachel Murray, Stevie Shao, Neil Perry, Graham Franciose, Jade Sturms, Nathan Paul Rice, Rachel Warkentin, Lena Fridman, Marjorie Snyder. Flash Tattoos: Jennifer Parks and Meg Adamson of Reliquary Tattoos will be offering flash throughout the evening. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene

Art in Vancouver, BC recap 💫 Shout out to @vancouverartblog for all the recommendations during our visit! 🤝🏼 This is *the* resource to follow for arts coverage in their beautiful city, check them out and give them a follow. 📌Art Spaces highlighted @catriona.jeffries @cagvancouver @vanartgallery @belkinartgallery @polygongallery

Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective Book Reading and Signing 📍Oregon Jewish Museum,724 NW Davis St., Portland 🗓️ Sunday, Dec 14 from 12-1:30pm ⏳ Hours: Wed-Sun 11-4pm 🆓 to the public Join @ojmche for a book reading and signing event with the Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective! Members of the Collective will read stories from the newly published The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones and Powerful Prophetesses. The Jewish Women’s Storytelling Collective is a group of ordained Maggidah (Jewish storytellers) who came together to offer Jewish stories from a uniquely female perspective and to make those stories accessible to modern audiences. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #ojmche