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A Special #TBA Edition newsletter went out the other day ๐Ÿ’š (are you subscribed?!) See you at the last few performances Portland!
@john.vitale.art at @chefasprojects ~ at the #openingreception A selection of abstract paintings in saturated hues, including some not so sneaky bright neons. On view till Sept 20. ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists
CURIOBLOOM by Matthew Bennett Laurents @mattbennettlaurents ๐Ÿ“Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave #3, Portland @carnationcontemporary โณHours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ September 6 — 28, 2025 ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free to the public Curiobloom is comprised of new porcelain vessels created through an ongoing ceramics practice rooted in hand-building and intuition. Each piece is made using the coil method, a technique that allows for subtle irregularities and gradual shifts in form and scale. Over time, these differences have become a point of fascination for me—how, within a shared process that begins from the same place, each vessel develops a distinct personality while remaining unified in essence. My intention is for these works to exist without expectation, asking nothing from the viewer beyond their presence. Together, they reflect my ongoing interest in how handmade objects evolve through process, and how individuality can emerge naturally when each piece is approached on its own terms. Matthew Bennett Laurents graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Studio Art from Lewis & Clark College. Drawing on histories of craft and ritual, his work explores the potential of objects as vessels for spiritual and emotional energy. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
As Above, So Below, Anna Buckner & Meredith Morrison @anna.buckner @meredith.morrison ๐Ÿ“Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1, Portland @wellwellprojects โณHours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ September 6 - 28, 2025 ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free to the public As Above, So Below brings together works from artists Anna Buckner and Meredith Morrison that trace the subtle but persistent ways meaning takes form—through marks, gestures, and systems. These notations, whether intentional or intuitive, function as records of thought, movement, and memory. They ask what it means to map an experience, to nurture something fleeting, or to give shape to what resists formal language. The title borrows from an ancient Hermetic phrase, suggesting a mirroring between the macro and the micro, the structural and the intimate. This mirroring is neither symmetrical nor complete. Instead, what’s charted are the slippages; The points where logic breaks down, where systems fail to contain emotion, and where abstraction begins to feel personal. Here, vulnerability becomes a form of authorship, and the most fragile marks can hold enormous weight. Across materials and mediums, notation becomes a method—sometimes precise, sometimes improvised—for symphonizing presence, absence, and transition. Patterns emerge and dissolve. Lines falter and symbols repeat without resolving to cultivate meaning that circulates rather than settles. Through suggestion rather than explanation, the works resist closure. Operating at the edge of legibility, where only traces of proximity reveal themselves and fragments hold more than they explain, these textures of emotion invite layered possibilities of meaning. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery
Day 8 (Sept 11) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival. Number Series, Madison Brookshire, co-presented with @cinema_project #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival #film #cinema #color
Everything you need to know about the Portland art scene this September in our โœจMust-Seeโœจ art Newsletter. Including @picapdx #timebasedart #festival @p_n_c_a @ccac_pnca Fall Events, recent articles and collaborations. And of course, and what we’re looking at and what’s on our radar. xoxo Not subscribed? Our monthly email is free to sign up! ๐Ÿ”—artandaboutpdx.com/newsletter. Our newsletter will help you stay in the know slash be the cool artsy friend that knows what’s happening. Let us know in the comments what exhibitions you already saw or want to see in #Portland, throughout #Oregon or #Seattle this month! Also feel free to send news /questions / comments / gossip / collaboration requests to us at hello@artandaboutpdx.com ๐Ÿ’Œ#artandaboutpdx #criticspick #artblog #portlandartscene
Revisiting our archive today ~ and was reminded of Asher Hartman’s mini series/live-in art project of The Dope Elf at YU in 2019. Presented in 3 parts this performance transformed the gallery space into an interactive set that blurred the lines of the audience and actors. Blending modern life in a dystopian folkloric approach while combining elements fairytales — wolves, trolls, magicians…to be honest we think about this performance quite often and seeing Blessed with a Switch at TBA brought it back to the front of our mind.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Peggy Chiang โœจpresented in partnership with Adams and Ollman ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Friday, September 12 at 6 PM ๐Ÿ“ PNCA Mediatheque - in person Peggy Chiang makes images and objects that scratch the laminate of representation. She works by abstracting conventions around value, labor, and material memory. Recent solo exhibitions include barn burner at Adams and Ollman, Portland; Wasted at Laurel Gitlen, New York; Fiend at hatred2, Brooklyn; and spleen and ideal at Prairie, Chicago. She is a 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellow and received an MFA from Rutgers University. Chiang is a Professor of Sculpture at the City College of New York, CUNY and lives in Brookly
Bookends ๐Ÿ–๏ธ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿชจ ๐Ÿ“ PDX Contemporary Art ๐Ÿ—“๏ธSeptember 10 - October 4, 2025 โœจOpening reception, Saturday, September 13 from 3-5 pm (RSVP encouraged) Participating artists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Iván Carmona, Jodie Cavalier, Nan Curtis, Marjorie Dial, Jess Perlitz, and Joshua West Smith each created a set of bookends reflecting their practice, point of view, and use of materials. Books continue to be treasured for the knowledge they contain and as objects themselves. September seems like a perfect time to add bookends to your collection. Our exhibition Bookends, is group show featuring conceptual and functional bookends ready to hold your favorite books. Each bookend is made from a variety of mediums—ceramic, steel, wood, and concrete, as well as more unconventional materials like crayons and beans. The works reference steadiness, the weight of loss, the closeness of friendship, landmark events, and things that hold.
Day 4 (Sept 7) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival. ๐ป๐‘œ๐“‡๐’พ๐“๐‘œ๐“ƒ, ๐ŸŒ… Performed by Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins. With composer Luke Wyland, visual artist Jess Perlitz, lighting designers Al Knight Blaine and James Mapes, costume designer/visual artist Kim Smith Claudel, and dramaturg Kate Bredeson. Directed by Tahni Holt. Choreographed in collaboration with Emma Lutz-Higgins. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival
Day 3 (Sept 6) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival. Inebria Me, San Cha @__san_cha__ ๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿ”ฅ co-presented with @boomartspdx #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival
Day 3 (Sept 6) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival. Dads, Drama Tops @drama_tops_official ๐ŸŽˆ co-presented with @pwnwpdx #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival
Day 2 (Sept 5) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival. ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’†๐’… ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘บ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’„๐’‰, Asher Hartman @chickentasteslikewood and Jasmine Orpilla @jasminemediumrare ๐ŸŒ€โœจ co-presented with @pamuseum_ #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival
Day 1 (Sept 4) of @picapdx #timebasedart festival ๐ŸŽถ Omni Rail by Angelo Scott and collaborators at @p_n_c_a 511 Building #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #tba #tba25 #timebasedartfestival
In the lull between Summer and Fall, the Time-Based Art Festival takes place. The annual event is known for presenting visually stimulating performances, videos, talks, workshops, and exhibitions across the city. Artists from up and down the West Coast, including Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles, will be highlighted, making this year a regional spectacle. This year, the iconic Portland festival will be spread across 10 days, Sept 4-14, so you have plenty of time to attend one, some, or all the programming. Go with friends, make it a romantic or platonic date, or even bring your kids this year, since some showtimes have been pushed up; you don’t even need to call the babysitter. Or go alone, but do go to something! You don’t want to be the person who didn’t go this year or doesn’t know firsthand the magic that is TBA. Not to mention the after-hour hangs that commence once the show ends, allowing you to discuss what you just saw, thoughts and feelings, etc, etc, etc. Even if you can’t linger after a show, make sure to plan to attend the after-hours Dirty Thirty Closing party (yes, PICA is growing up like the rest of us & celebrating turning 30 this year.) We’re excited to collaborate with PICA to share what’s happening throughout the festival, so keep an eye out for what’s to come and what we’re seeing!
A beautiful evening visiting, Slip Condition a site-specific installation by Los Angeles–based artist Lily Clark @lilyyill, presented in collaboration with Marta Los Angeles @marta.losangeles staged across the oak woodlands of Anticaโ€ฏTerra in Amity, Oregon. A variety of sculptures that utilized rocks, water, and magnetic forces that initiated movement and explored themes of containment, motion, and energy. Glasses of wine poured by @antica_terra only helped us linger in effortless contemplation as we watched the sunset and threw gifted seed balls with wildflowers into the wind, dispersing on the grounds. Plus, a fun ride up and back on ATV golf carts through the vineyards. Thank you Rachel and Antica Terra team for inviting us and hosting magical experience. โœจ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿชจ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿท๐Ÿ‡๐ŸŒ… #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #sitespecific #sitespecificinstallation #lilyclark #waterart #sculpture #martalosangeles #anticaterra
dance apron, Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos) ๐Ÿ“Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland โณHours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ September 4 - October 11, 2025 โœจOpening reception: September 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free to the public dance apron, is Sara Siestreem’s (Hanis Coos) second solo exhibition at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Featuring sculpture, installation works, and Siestreem’s most ambitiously scaled paintings to date, dance apron represents a continuation and evolution of the artist’s multifaceted practice. In dance apron, Siestreem examines themes of land, culture, and identity, combining traditional forms and media with contemporary art practices. The exhibition underscores Siestreem’s commitment to ecological and social justice, Indigenous feminism and survivance, and the continued expansion of her visual language, making hers a leading voice in contemporary art on this land mass. Siestreem’s multidisciplinary practice is rooted in ecological and social justice, and her works draw inspiration from the land, the fight for women’s rights, and her Indigenous heritage. Her visual language is grounded in patterns drawn from the Coos weaving tradition and a specific color palette, which Siestreem calls her “first language.” As such, these new works carry intentional and layered meanings, infusing each work with both personal and collective resonance. ๐Ÿ”ป image featured: crazy quilt, 2016-2025, acrylic, graphite, color pencil, Xerox transfer on panel boards, 60 x 84” #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland SaraSiestreem #HanisCoos #ElizabethLeachGallery
Justin L’Amie | Dismal Nitch Polyphemus Moth ๐Ÿ“ PDX Contemporary Art ๐Ÿ—“๏ธSeptember 10 - October 4, 2025 โœจOpening reception, Saturday, September 13 from 3-5 pm (RSVP encouraged) The works in this exhibition are inspired by a gift to the artist of a Polyphemus moth. The moth was found at the Dismal Nitch rest area, a cove in Washington along the lower Columbia River and notable as the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s last campsite before sighting the Pacific Ocean. Over the next couple years, L’Amie made many drawings of the moth and credits these drawings in helping him find excitement, meaning, and inspiration from the natural world. Also during this time, he began falling more in love with different kinds of art and artists: Japanese prints, Morris Graves, Odilon Redon, naturalist drawings, folk art, early manuscripts, and codices. These artistic influences have shaped L’Amie’s practice through the years as he renders flowers, moths, birds, insects, and creatures of all kinds into his compositions with a dexterous hand and gentle sensibility. The works are a reflection of his fascination and adoration with the natural world, capturing its tender resilience in both beauty and darkness. ๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿฆ‹Moon Moth ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ„‍๐ŸŸซThe Snake of Warm Welcome ๐Ÿชถ๐ŸƒBramble Bird ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธAll #watercolor and gouache on paper and made in 2025 #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists #justinlamie #pdxcontemporaryart
Cascades, Chris Lael Larson ๐Ÿ“The Purple Door Gallery 3557 SE Division Street, Portland OR 97202 ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ September 6 – October 12, 2025 โœจ Opening reception: Friday, September 6, 6:00 PM โณ Hours: Sun / Wed / Thur: 2-6 pm. Fri / Sat: 2-8 pm Free to the public “Cascades” at Purple Door Gallery: A Vibrant, Immersive Collision of Nature and Art — Step into a surreal forest ๐ŸŒณ of paint, ๐ŸŽจ light,๐Ÿ’ก and found materials in this solo exhibition. Purple Door Gallery invites you into a vivid, surreal, and deeply sensory world with “Cascades,” an experimental new solo show by Chris Lael Larson, on view from September 6 through October 12. Cascades isn’t your typical landscape show — it’s a ritualistic, shape-shifting exploration of the Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast, where boundaries between photography, sculpture, and painting are constantly blurred, broken, and rebuilt. Each piece invites the viewer to get lost in a layered terrain of color, texture, shadow, and light, where the natural world is reimagined through studio experimentation and gestural expressionism. Cascades is designed to be more than an exhibition — it’s an invitation to pause, wander, and get immersed. Each work asks viewers to look closely, to lose their bearings, and to consider how we experience the world around us. With its unusual materials, dreamlike compositions, and recursive structure, the show reflects the messy, layered brilliance of the natural world itself. #artandaboutpdx #chrislaellarson #thepurpledoorpdx
THE NO VACANCY WINDOW GALLERY ๐ŸชŸ ๐Ÿ“Old Town PDX ๐Ÿ—“๏ธSEPT 4 - DEC 1 The No Vacancy Window Gallery has transformed Portland’s historic Old Town Chinatown neighborhood into a vibrant, accessible, and free open-air art gallery featuring local Portland artists. Seventeen boarded-up storefronts have been converted into dynamic exhibition venues, creating a continuous art corridor that begins at the iconic White Stag building and guides visitors throughout Old Town’s culturally rich streetscape. The No Vacancy Window Gallery is a collaboration between the Old Town Community Association, elle Gallery, and Field States. Together, we are creating a bold new model for culture-driven streetscapes, proving that art accessibility and economic development can work hand in hand to create lasting positive change in Portland. Curator Lauren Lesueur is a multi-media Artist and Founder of ODE Artist Wellness Initiative, elle Gallery and Portland Tastemakers Market. elle Gallery hosts a collective of local Artists work, monthly solo exhibitions and events that foster togetherness. No Vacancy Window Gallery Artists Franz ‘N Family Footwear Tylor Rogers Jasper York Mark Anthony Brown Jr. Ruby Webb Adia Marie Gibbs Shadrach Subah See King Anthony Roberto Julie Lai amen, amen. Studio Wesley James Ryan Swedenborg Katharine T. Jacobs Lauren Lesueur Anastasio Wrobel Kim Smith Claudel #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists #ellegallery