Absorb and Release Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori
📍The Writers’ Block Art Gallery
🗓️April 3 - May 15, 2025.
✨First Thursday Opening Reception with Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori, April 3, from 5-8 PM.
🗣️Artist talks by Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori + poetry readings by Merridawn Duckler & Judge Kemp April 13, from 11-2 PM.
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Kristen Diederich, Special French Blue
📍Fine Art Fruit, 925 NW 19th Ave Portland, Oregon
🗓️April 3, 2025 - May 15, 2025
✨Opening Reception Thursday, April 3 from 6-8 PM.
⏳Tuesday- Sunday 11-5pm
Diederich will be collaborating with Kate Towers and Holly Stalder on a small collection of painted clothing available for purchase for the duration of the show.
Kristen Diederich (b.1994) is an American painter based in Portland, Oregon. After completing a degree in literature at Portland State University, Diederich’s characteristic abstract painting style emerged during periods of time spent in coastal Maine, Oregon and Europe. She expresses her empathy for the natural world using varied textures, bold compositions and evocative palettes. Diederich’s paintings greet you chiefly as abstractions –– but you may come to know them as abstract landscapes imbued with real and imaginary symbols that form their visual language, a language of repetition and cinematic depth of field. She has exhibited across Oregon, Maine and Los Angeles, during Frieze week with Lobster Club gallery, a solo show last November at Chefas Projects and an upcoming show at Carver Hill Gallery in May. Diederich will be collaborating with Kate Towers and Holly Stalder on a small collection of painted clothing available for purchase for the duration of the show.
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Signal Fire, Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth explores the ruminations of nuclear fallout, tectonic catastrophes, the decline of civilization, AI rebellion, pandemics, the climate crisis, and the fascist broligarchal coup of 2025.
📍Well Well Projects - 8371 N Interstate Ave #1
🗓️April 5 - 27, 2025
⏳Saturday-Sunday, 12-5pm
In a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse, where tech billionaires are investing in bunkers and human shock collars to escape the end, we invite you to consider an alternative: investing into the wellbeing of your community for survival. Get in, loser—we’re building a bunker, and you’re invited!
Sabina Haque, The New Abnormal 2.0.
📍Waterstone Gallery - 124 NW 9th Ave.
🗓️April 2 – 27, 2025
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm, Sun 11-4pm
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✨First Thursday - April 3, 5-8pm
🗣️Artist Talk - Sunday April 13, 11am
In this new series, Haque examines the global environmental emergency by contrasting the 2022 floods in Pakistan, which affected her family, with the Pacific Northwest wildfires near her current home. Weaving together photo-collage, painting, and video projections, Haque highlights the survival, beauty and hope amidst the devastation of climate disasters. Haque calls on viewers to consider our interdependence with our environment and to imagine new systems to address our current crisis.
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Homemades a new exhibition featuring work by ceramic artist Jamin London Tinsel.
📍North View Gallery 12000 SW 49th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
🗓️April 5 - May 1, 2025
Hours: M-F, 8 am-4pm
✨Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5, 2-5pm
🗣️Artist Talk on Thursday, May 1, 12-1Pm
“Homemades” is a term that some, including Tinsel’s Italian grandmother, use to describe handmade pasta. In this exhibition, Tinsel investigates the making of home, examining influences from the homes in which she grew up and inviting viewers to consider the ways their own experiences of home have shaped their identities. What does it mean to make a home? How are concepts of home shaped by families of origin? In what ways do the things we learn in our childhood homes inform our building of new homes as adults?
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Blue Sky is pleased to announce 2024 Critical Mass Exhibition: “#influenced” by Laura Beth Reese
✨First Thursday Opening: Apr 3, 5 - 9 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Apr 5, 3:30 PM
Laura Beth Reese’s “#influenced” explores the intersection of social media, celebrity culture, and consumerism by focusing on public figures like Paris Hilton and Kylie Jenner. Using handmade props and ready-made products, Reese created carefully constructed scenes that mirror the virtual world of social media. The resulting work reflects how pop cultural influences shape and distort our perceptions of fame, identity, and reality.
Laura Beth Reese (American, b. 1987, she/her) is an artist and pop culture connoisseur. She uses photography as a tool to explore her obsessions – from her ex-boyfriends to her biological mother to reality television. Her work has been exhibited nationally—most recently at Abakus Projects, the Photographic Resource Center, and the Pen + Brush Gallery. She is a 2025 recipient of the Grant for Creative Individuals from Mass Cultural Council and has been published in Boston Art Review, Paper Safe, and online at Cosmo.com and The Huffington Post, among others.
Reese was born in Iowa and raised on the east coast of the United States. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA from Muhlenberg College. She resides in Boston where she has taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and currently works as a Studio Manager and Part-Time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Tha Crossroads” by Nykelle DeVivo
📍Blue Sky Gallery - 122 NW 8th Ave
✨First Thursday Opening: Apr 3, 5 - 9 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Apr 5, 2 PM
🗓️Apr 4 - 26, 2025
⏳Hours: Wed - Sat, 12 - 5 PM
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Nykelle DeVivo’s project Tha Crossroads merges spirituality, Black queer identity, and Afrofuturism. Drawing from their upbringing and the connection with mother’s Guru Haidakhan Babaji, DeVivo illuminates the spaces between life, death, and rebirth, capturing moments of spiritual transition.
Nykelle DeVivo (American, b. 1996, they/them) is a Portland based visual artist working with light through various mediums to navigate the crossroads between the physical world and that of their ancestors. They studied theory & photography at the San Francisco Art Institute before becoming an inaugural Google Image Equity Fellow, internationally exhibiting their work and having their photographs acquired by permanent museum collections nationwide. Nykelle is currently working on publishing their first monograph with For The Birds Trapped In Airports while pursuing a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California San Diego, where they expect to graduate in Spring 2025.
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Erik Railton
🗓️On view April 2nd - July 1st, 2025
✨Reception Date: Friday, April 4th
Stumptown Coffee Roasters Belmont - 3356 Belmont Street
Friday, April 4th
⏳7am-5pm
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Artist Bio:
Erik Railton is a painter based in Portland, Oregon, whose work is rooted in the exploration of symbols, lines, and color. Through his artistic practice, Railton investigates the complexities of abstract expression, utilizing a variety of techniques and mediums to create thought-provoking and visually stimulating pieces. Drawing inspiration from both his surroundings and personal experiences, he skillfully balances elements of chaos and order within his compositions. With an acute attention to detail and a keen understanding of color theory, Railton’s paintings invite viewers to interpret and engage with their own emotional and intellectual responses. Through his use of abstract painting, Railton invites audiences to contemplate the realm of the unknown and embrace its infinite possibilities. @erikrailton
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Gather:Make:Shelter & Mullowney Printing Co. Present:
Impressions From The Collective
✨Opening Receptions✨
Sunday, April 6 at SATOR, 1-3pm
Friday, April 11 at Gather:Make:Shelter, 5:30-7:30pm
📍SATOR, 1607 SE 3rd Ave, Portland OR
📍Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery - 1335 NW Kearney St. Portland OR
🗓️April 6 - June 1, 2025
⏳Hours at both galleries Saturdays 12-4pm
Gather:Make:Shelter has partnered with Mullowney Printing Co. over the course of a year-long intensive collaboration to offer a series of in-depth printmaking workshops to 11 GMS project participants. Our artists have explored multiple printmaking techniques under the mentorship of master printers Paul Mullowney and Kathy Kuehn.
IMPRESSIONS FROM THE COLLECTIVE will be an expansive show taking place across two distinct locations, showcasing the culmination of this collaborative partnership, featuring print portfolios encased in one-of-a-kind handcrafted archival boxes. Be sure to stop by both locations to fully appreciate this remarkable work throughout April and May.
Featured artists: Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, & Violet. @gathermakeshelter @mullowneyprinting @sator @regionalarts @warholfoundation @fordfamilyfound
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jeff, ahuva s. zaslavsky
📍after/time collective - 735 SW 9th #110
🗓️April 4-27, 2025
✨Opening Reception: First Friday, April 4, 2025 6-9 pm
📌Schedule of events:
Leviathan - a dance performance: Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7 pm
Washed Ashore: A Cento Poetry Workshop led by Ash Good: Sunday, April 13, 2-4 pm
🎭Poetry Reading: Sunday, April 13, 4-5 pm
🗣️Artist Talk hosted by V Maldonado: Saturday, April 19, 6-8 pm
✏️Life Drawing: Sunday, April 27, 1-4pm
a solo exhibition by artist ahuva s. zaslavsky. This multimedia exhibition delves into the eternal tide between creation and collapse, where the forces of nature and human ambition intertwine. Drawing upon the mythology of the golem and the leviathan, zaslavsky explores the remnants of past structures and the emergence of new forms.
What remains after collapse? The fragmented works serve as both elegy and prophecy, mapping the spaces between decay and regeneration. Repurposing artworks into new forms is an act of continuous creation—one that acknowledges destruction not as an end, but as a vital part of the creative process. Just as ruins provide the foundation for new structures, past works become raw material for new works, carrying their histories across mediums.
In jeff, zaslavsky engages in an ongoing dialogue between past and present, presence and absence. Each layer, fragment, and reassembled element carries traces of its former self, yet emerges anew. In this way, repurposing is not just an act of preservation, but of possibility.
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Soliloquy fine arts presents INTERTWINED, an exhibition of original art and poetry exploring the relationships we have with the greater world and each other.
📍Soliloquy fine arts - 2232 SE Clinton Street
✨First Friday, April 4 from 6-8 p.m.
🗓️April 4 - May 16, 2025
⏳Hours: Thursday, Friday 2-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Featuring a collaboration between groups of West Coast artists and writers and including video installations in the garage annex, this is our contribution to EKPHRAESTIVAL 2025, a celebration of word & image in honor of April’s National #Poetry Month.
Soliloquy will be hosting 4 evenings of poetry readings throughout April and May, with the schedule of individual readers available at soliloquyfinearts.com.
👀Stay tuned @soliloquyfinearts + @ekphraestivalpdx.
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Bodies in Blotter
📍Carnation Contemporary - 8371 N Interstate Ave #3
🗓️April 5-27, 2025
⏳Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment
A multimedia and multi-sensory exhibition featuring works by Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain. This reconception of the Carnation space invites respite via all the senses, an installation in which the body is supported, celebrated, and simultaneously dissolved into another, softer, world.
Drawing on both the visual elements and context of the works, the artists hope that viewers will drop in to the environment and give permission for the colors, textures, scents, and sounds to alter their reality, if only for a little while. By invoking the psychological freedom of a hallucinogenic trip, Bodies in Blotter holds space for mesmerizing visuals, sensory stimulation, and the imagination of alternate realities.
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Join curator Ori Z Soltes, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana for a conversation about Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana moderated by Rachel Stern.
📍Oregon Jewish Museum - 724 NW Davis St
⏳Thursday, March 27; 4:30pm-6pm
🎫Admission fee
This unique and powerful exhibition explores the role of art and creativity, bringing the past into the present by focusing on three generations of artists from the same family. The artists and curatorial team will share their insights about the work in the exhibition, how the show was made and the impact its had, and share more insight into the remarkable life and work of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana.
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TRIBUTARY II: Flow from Humanity
31 Artists and 35 original works that carve rivers. The sheerness, luminosity, and the life force of water is carved into the backdrop of this collection. Additionally, this theme revealed a surprising degree of darkness, echoing the depth in bodies of water and perhaps symbolizing dark shadows and hidden things (in the unsaid and the shadows).
📍Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, 1513 SE 42nd, Portland, OR 97215
🗓️March 29th-April 30th
⏳Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 11-5
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Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue @adamsandollman
Katherine Bradford, Gina Fischli, Alfred Jensen, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu, Ian Miyamura, Marlon Mullen, Ralph Pugay, Bill Traylor
ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) by Patricia Vázquez Gómez
✨Opening Reception today! Saturday, March 22, from 12-4 PM. ✨
📍Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Annex, 15 NE Hancock St
🗓️March 13 – May 31.
🎬Runtime: Timed Entry. This piece will run in 45-minute increments and start at the top of each hour. (free).
⏳Hours: Thursdays 5-8 PM, Fridays 12-6 PM, Saturdays 12-4 PM.
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Breathing. Room @thelobbyatellenbrowning featuring:
Jeff Elrod, Naotaka Hiro, Kwangho Lee, Kwon Young-Woo, Ranjani Shettar, Tsai Yun-Ju.
⏳Tues-Sat, 10 AM – 2PM or by appointment
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A Stone in a Field 🪨🌾 Works from the Miller Meigs Collection at lumber room @lumberroompdx
Will be ruminating on all these #minimalist works for a bit…A beautiful collection of works on view - heavy hitters like #yvesklein #yayoikusama #louisbourgeois #donaldjudd alongside equally formidable names such as #sarahbraman #lyndabenglis #dorothearockburne #agnesmartin
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“wanna go look at art?”
#firstthursdaypdx highlights and Southeast Portland gallery opening
🇻🇳 @elizabethleachgallery Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey 1995 - 2023
🏁 @ninegallerypdx Girls Just Wanna Lay The Smackdown, Zeinab Saab @zeinab.saab
🪵 @blueskygallerypdx Lost Landscapes by Debra Achen & Charlotta María Hauksdóttir
🦋@secoopercontemporary Donald Morgan: Tomorrow was Yesterday @donaldlloydmorgan
