SAMĀ, a world premiere experience by Guest Creative Director Fahad Siadat presented by Third Angle at A-WOL Dance Collective on 🗓️March 14 and 15 at 7:30 PM. 🎟️ Get your tickets 🎟️ @thirdanglenewmusic
A spiritual journey through sound, light, and dance. ✨
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Survival and Intimations of Immortality
The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana 📍The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education @ojmche until 🗓️May 25, 2025.
The powerful exhibition of 16 paintings, five multi-media sculptures, 18 photographs, three documentary films, 21 family photographs and videos, and poems displays the artistic expressions of three members – three generations – of the Cahana family. Each featured artist – Alice, Ronnie, and Kitra – takes their own artistic and expressive path to provide a through-line to preserve the culture, identity, and memories.
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undone: Brian Cypher & Damien Hoar de Galvan
📍studio e, until 🗓️February 22, 2025.
Two-person show featuring collage and geometric abstraction. “Cypher deconstructs old work shirts, unfolding and laying flat the essence of labor. Hoar de Galvin cuts, paints, and puzzles together blocks of wood.”
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Let ’Er Rip exhibit celebrates collage & community
✨A unique disability-arts collaboration is on show at 811 Stark through June 2025.
🫗Curated by by Torea Frey and featuring new work from a dozen regional artists, marries disability aesthetics with mixed-media experimentation in the name of social connection.
The exhibition is the culmination of a conversation that started in 2023, when Alicia Delashmutt happened on a small show of collage and reached out to two of its artists, Frey and Sumeet Singh. “I have an unusual question for you. Nothing weird!” it began. “My daughter, Neva, experiences disability, and one of her favorite things in the world is to tear paper; books, magazines, any paper she can get her hands on.” Neva’s efforts had left the family with gallons of ripped paper—precious material for collage artists. Would there be room to collaborate and make new work with it?
Frey, who lives with chronic health challenges, was keen to connect and orchestrated an exhibit of new work made with this paper to highlight the link between community, collaboration, and collage’s creative potential. Each artist received a packet of Neva’s torn paper to use as their primary material, interpreting the fodder through their own lens. The result is an interesting cross-section of contemporary collage, with contributions from a diverse array of emerging and established artists.
🎨 ✂️Participating artists: Hope Amico, Cheryl Chudyk, Torea Frey, Clive Knights, Andrea Lewicki, Katie Price & Ash Iubatti, Lara Rouse, Kevin Sampsell, Neva Delashmutt Sincick, Sumeet Singh, Cherie Savoie Tintary, Greg Traw, Kathryn Kramer Waters, Paul Kramer Waters.
Images: 1. Untitled, Greg Traw; 2. Field Trip, Cheryl Chudyk; 3. Inch by Inch, Torea Frey; 4. Caught in Quiet Friendship, Kathryn Kramer Waters; 5. Installation
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The Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE) is proud to present the 2025 Portland Jewish Film Festival! @ojmche
Join either or both in-person and virtual screenings of six full-length films that explore the complexity, history, and joy of Jewish life. Following some screenings there will be a talk back session with authors, filmmakers, scholars, and artists that explores the themes and context of the films.
🗓️Films will be shown February 12 through February 23 at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, PAM Center for an Untold Tomorrow and online.
🎟️Passes and tickets can be purchased online!
📌To view schedule go to portlandjewishfilmfest.eventive.org/welcome
✨OJMCHE members can receive a membership discount for both passes and individual tickets.
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A Fountain of Creativity, at The Schnitzer Collection, until April 15, 2025.
A range of bold, evocative, and influential works created by Pacific Northwest artists from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation — many on public display for the first time.
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A Stone in a Field, Works from the Miller Meigs Collection at @lumberroompdx
🗓️ March 22, 2025
A meditation on the margins of minimalism. Appointment only, to schedule a visit email info@lumberroom.com.
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NEW ALTERNATIVE ART SPACE - Old Fashioned Garage Gallery @oldfashionedgaragegallery
First show is “MUD!”, by Dina No
🗓️ February 22 - April 20, 2025.
✨Opening reception on Saturday, February 22, 2-5 PM.
Expect ceramics that are informed by “Korean craft, architecture, memes, and doodles.”
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A beautiful Thursday evening to see local art. 📸 #artandaboutpdx #firstthursdaypdx #contemporarypainting
HER FORMATION
📍 Arts Council of Lake Oswego/Artspace
🗓️ February 21-April 11, 2025
✨Opening reception Friday, February 21st from 5-7 PM.
Marjan Anvari, Kirsten Bauer, Francesca Capone, Sally Jablonsky, Emily Katz, Frankie Krupa-Vahdani, Zhang Mao, Heather Watkins, and Amanda Wojick are featured in this group show. While they all have different practices, approaches, and cultural traditions that influence them, a consistent thread throughout is that they “offer visions of survival and even imaginative possibility in times of upheaval.”
🔸Featured work by Amanda Wojick
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For Your Eyes Only
📍Purple Door Gallery
February 14 - March 16, 2025.
✨Opening reception Friday, February 14, 5-8 PM.
A unique vision and self-expression can shine. This show celebrates all genders, races, body types, ages, and experiences through images that capture the beauty, vulnerability, and empowerment of creating and sharing a sext.
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Waste Scenes, Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales
📍Oregon Contemporary until 🗓️March 9, 2025.
Wall drawings, a print series, and a two-channel video installation that features the “collected objects, footage, and audio files from trash piles” during their time at the Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR), curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin.
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Derek Franklin, Between the Time of the Dog and the Wolf
📍Elizabeth Leach Gallery
🗓️February 6 - March 1, 2025.
✨First Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5:30-7 PM.
The exhibition title references the French concept of “entre chien et loup”, which is when the darkest point of twilight makes it difficult to see or discern what is real. Viewers will see this inspiration throughout this new series of paintings that are an exploration of how everyday objects become part of daily rituals in our lives.
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Everyday Alchemy
📍Elizabeth Leach Gallery
🗓️ February 6 - March 1, 2025.
✨First Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5:30-7 PM.
A group exhibition draws inspiration from our daily lives; cardboard boxes, mud, clothing, and more. Featuring artworks by Hunter Braithwaite, Bonnie Bronson, Ann Hamilton, Malia Jensen, Isaac Layman, Jess Perlitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark R. Smith, and Donald Sultan.
📌Featured image Mark R. Smith, Labor Cosmos, 2024.
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PALENTINE POP-UP AT OLD PAL KITCHEN + MARKET at Old Pal @oldpalpdx 🗓️Saturday, February 8, 2025, 11-3 PM.
💞A perfect spot to gather your Valentine’s celebration needs. Specialty celebration goods by Hazel Cox, Seeds and sprouts from Orange Pippins, small sculptures by Emily Bixler, and Away Days Brewing Co will be offering tastings.🍻
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Power Plants, Marcus Sendlinger
📍after / time collective gallery
🗓️ February 6-28, 2025.
✨First Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6-9 PM.
Employing works on canvas and paper, Sendlinger recontextualizes materials whose intended use is in industrial production into works of art that respond to current social and cultural phenomena, in particular the complex and evolving relations between cultures and nations in the wake of the Second World War.
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Brief Encounters
📍 Carnation Contemporary
🗓️ February 1-28, 2025
Brief Encounters is an exploration of the legacy of artists using instant photography to express the queer experience. Queer people have used instant formats to protect the free expression of their intimacies, relationships, sexual liaisons, and communities; some of the risks of showing these images exist to this day. Brief Encounters functions to encourage artists to freely express aspects of queerness, resulting in diverse approaches to the instant format. Audiences will witness deeply personal glimpses into the lives of these artists as well as wild departures from what one may expect from “queer photography.” The most surprising connection that emerged through this project was how these artists take what would otherwise be waste and transform it into fully realized artwork for this exhibition. These queer artists seem to have a natural tenderness towards things which have been neglected, marginalized or thrown away. Exhibiting Artists:
Ryan Rudewicz @rude.polaroids
Wayne Bund @bundlandia
Ian Lewandowski @ilewando
Soft Butch @soft_butch
Catalina Bulgach @oldassdutchess
Nate Francis @natehfrancis
Tom Kay @tomofportland
Jamieson Edson @j_a_m_i_e_s
Chris Moody @horsegurlpress
José Tinoco @j0setin0c0
Shadows Gather @shadows.gather
Kareem Michael Worrell @kareemworrellphoto
C Meier @rispix
Christian Rogers Christianmakesthings
Michael Espinoza @michaelespinozaart
Jackson Fader @bigbrojacks
Stuart Sandford @stuartsandford
Carlos Enfedaque @enfedead
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Man on the Land, Tyler Stoll
📍Well Well Project
🗓️Feb 1-23, 2025
Stoll reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease.
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“Sanctum” at Past Lives Gallery will be a sanctuary of art, music and creative storytelling.
🗓️FRI, FEB 7, from 6-10 pm. (Performances begin at 7 pm)
We’ll recall ancient wisdom (where community was valued & a way of life, we viewed ourselves & our ecosystems as part of a web of connection, and embraced the natural cycles of life, birth, and death) expressed through modern technology, installations, & stage performances. In conjunction with @portlandwinterlightfestival ✨
Our stage will host live synth performances:
Occurian (@occurian ) Modular synth w/interactive light show
Infinite Fire, a creative collaboration between Kristen Curry of WhiteHeart Ritual Art & Ramon Mills of Production Unit Xero and Heterodex Records @puxflux
FlightCall (Tai Woodville,@taiwoodville, Iamflightcall.com) Warm, evocative vocals, buoyed by soundscapes of sparkling synths, Flight Call’s synth pop odyssey invites the listener beyond the duality simulation of Earth into a timeless dimension of love.
1“Tidewalker” installation by Kristen Curry @whiteheartritualart
2 Flightcall, opening performance at 7 pm
3 Kristen Curry @whiteheartritualart performing her “ Do Not Forget I Belong to the Sun” performance 7:30 pm this Fri at 7:30 pm - I think the wring image got uploaded. 🙏
Also Featuring:
Photobooth
Live Forge Demo by Billy O
Interactive Art Installations & fortune generator
Makerspace tours available
Past Lives Gallery features local artists/makers, as well as marginalized & incarcerated artists- our makerspace aims to be a beacon of light to those in need of a 2nd chance.
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