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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. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx @megitadentonart @anthem_and_object @threevertices @carnationcontemporary
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. #ojmche #curatortalk #artandaboutpdx
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 #artandaboutpdx #artopeinginportland #hawthorne
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. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx
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 #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx
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 #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #lumberroompdx
“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
Catalyst, by Kay Henning Danley @kaydanleyartist 📍Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland Oregon (Downstairs) 🗓️April 3-27, 2025 ⏳Hours: Thursday-Sunday 12-5 🗣️Artist talk on Saturday, April 19 at 2 pm. Danley’s large oil paintings convey dreamlike imagery that evoke memory, imagination, and an invitation for the viewer to experience her paintings as a personal narrative. The paintings in Catalyst include a focus on the human figure in an inventive environment, as well as the equine species in their surroundings. Of primary importance is the observation of the two species and the connection of figures to each other and to their specific situation. Danley shows her work throught the Pacific Northwest. Her work can be found in many privat4e collections throughout the U.S. and Germany. Danley’s most recent awards include first place for her painting “Veiled”, in the 2023 Artworks Northwest Biennial. Danley work has in the collection of the U.S. State Department program of art in the Embassies, most notable in the Thai Embassy. Danley is a Portland native and works out of her studio at NW Marine Artworks @nwmarineartworks #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #contemporarypainting #northwestpainters #figurativepainters
@secoopercontemporary Donald Morgan: Tomorrow was Yesterday 🦋 #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx
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A couple weeks ago at Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opened and had their first show and opening reception 🎲MUD! By Dina No @dina_ceramic_soap 🎲
DREAM JUICE, a multimedia group show curated by Erika Callihan, including work from twenty-five artists exploring ideas that originated in dreams. 📍Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade 🗓️ March 7 - April 12, 2025 ⏳ W-F 12-7; S 12-5 ✨ Opening on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm. In the same way that dreams reveal a seemingly limitless array of elements and themes, the scope of this surprising and playful exhibition includes: paintings, drawings, collages, performances, photos, prints, songs, zines, videos, lamps, pillows, cookies, cake, candy, snacks, and a semi-functional papier-mâché “dating app.” Participating artists: Sophia Baraschia-Ehrlich, Laura Bartram, Erika Callihan, Jesse Carston, Imaginal Cells: Erin Aquarian + Nathan Hill, Sean Christensen (Phull Collums), Rachel Corry, Lindsay Costello, sd, Martha + Ním Daghlian, Kristen Diederich, Indigo Free, Kye Grant, Rainen Knecht, Eva Knowles, Josephine Lacosta, Rose Lewis, Biz Miller, Judy Myong Acupuncture, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Gili Rappaport, Dawn Riddle, Half Shadow, Anke Schüttler, Swinging, Jasmine Wood EVENTS: Friday, March 7th, 5-8pm -Exhibition opening event, with musical and dance performances by Half Shadow and Kye Grant, and Dorians (Dream Cookies) by Martha and Ním Daghlian Thursday, March 13th, 5-7pm- Dream reading: read aloud group with Erika Callihan and tarot reading with Rose Lewis. Dream snacks and dream interpretation group with Josephine Lacosta Friday 3/14 7-8pm The Comfort In by Sean Christensen: performance Friday 3/21 6-8pm Listen In: Sound bath with Imaginal Cells (Erin Aquarian and Nathan Hil)l and ear seeds with licensed acupuncturist Judy Myong Acupuncture. Friday 3/28 7-8pm Twin peaks episode with live score by Swinging Thursday, 4/3, 5-7 Found Fruits Dream Drawing Group with Erika Callihan Friday 4/11- Closing Event, TBD ✨opening event on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.
Semi-Learned Borrowings Hoffecker Mejía 📍Well Well Projects - 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 🗓️March 1-30, 2025 In Semi-Learned Borrowings Hoffecker Mejía assembles discarded elements into unified but contrasting compositions. Aspects of commercial packaging, plastic, and wood scrap, sit next to welded steel, and laser cut plexiglass. The configurations borrow and contort modernist tropes, with a head nod to lineages of Latin American abstraction. Born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in the United States, the works are a meditation on belonging, difference, estrangement and hierarchies of representation A ‘Semi-Learned Borrowing’ is a linguistic term for a word that is partially adapted from a classical language into a modern language. The word is changed to fit the phonology and typography of the language it is borrowed into. Semi-learned borrowings are reshaped based on sound changes in the language they are borrowed into, they are loanwords adopted from one language and used in another without translation.
Maryann Puls, A Collection 📍Laura Vincent Design & Gallery - 824 NW Davis St, Portland, OR 🗓️March 6-29, 2025 ⏳Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30 pm ✨First Thursday Opening Reception, March 6, 5-8 pm This body of work focuses on the placement of numerous and random visual components that have caught my attention and I have collected in a box, notebook or memory. Elements I feel compelled to arrange, combine and complete into a meditative form. @mpulsartist #maryannpuls #mpulsartist #abstractart #pdxartist #acollection #mixedmedia
Holding Space, Rebecca Boraz 📍 Froelick Gallery 🗓️ March 6 - April 12, 2025 ✨Opening Reception, Thursday, March 6, 5 - 8 pm 🗣️Artist Talk, Saturday, March 15, 11 am ⏳Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5:30pm The show intricately weaves together themes of psychological presence and physical form, inviting viewers to engage with the delicate interplay of vulnerability and intimacy through her prints and porcelain pieces. Each creation captures the essence of offering a safe, non-judgmental environment for connection, while also showcasing mastery of shape, line, and contrast. The exhibition serves as a contemplative journey, encouraging reflection on the profound experience of coexistence and the quiet strength inherent in being truly present with one another. @froelick_gallery @rebeccaboraz #froelickgallery #firstthursday #portlandartgallery #rebeccaboraz #printmaker #portlandartist
Adriana Wagner to Perform Special Pop-Up Concert at The Lobby for International Women’s Day 📍Ellen Browning Building - The Lobby - 2871 SE Division St 🗓️⏰Saturday March 8th, 12-1pm, free Celebrate International Women’s Day with an exclusive pop-up concert featuring Composer and Trombonist Adriana Wagner at The Lobby in the Ellen Browning Building in musical conversation with The Lobby’s current exhibition ‘Breathing. Room’ featuring Ranjani Shettar’s renowned installation ‘Morning Song’. #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInMusic #Trombone #LiveMusic #PopupConcert #TheLobbyGallery #ArtAndMusic #PDXEvents #MusicMeetsArt #CelebrateWomen
Intact, MF 📍Waterstone Gallery from 🗓️March 5-30, 2025 ⏳Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm, Sun 11-4pm This March, Waterstone Gallery is thrilled to welcome new member MF with their first solo show. MF’s new collection of colorful and dreamy collaged photographs, Intact, celebrates water, analogue art, and a happy accident. Last March, while on a road trip in the Pacific Northwest, they dropped a roll of 35mm film into the river when they were reloading along its edge. After retrieving the film, MF continued to shoot the roll with their point-and-shoot plastic camera. The resulting atmospheric waterscapes, all with surprising streaks of electric blue, have been precisely hand cut and woven into dynamic patterns. MF is inspired by the themes of deconstruction and reconstruction inherent to the medium of collage, the cycles of nature, and the phases of self-expression, and we hope you will recognize some of your own patterns in their complex and beautiful work. #waterstonegallery
Lost Landscapes by Debra Achen & Charlotta María Hauksdóttir 📍Blue Sky 🗓️ March 6-29, 2025 First Thursday Opening: Mar 6 , 5 - 8 PM In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Mar 6, 3 PM Debra Achen and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir’s upcoming exhibition “Lost Landscapes” addresses climate change and environmental degradation. Through manipulated prints, both artists highlight the tension between nature’s beauty and environmental threats. Their work symbolizes humans’ connection and impact on nature through collaging, layering, and mark making. By doing so Achen and Hauksdóttir aim to inspire action and encourage stewardship to heal the planet. #artandaboutpdx #BlueSkyGalleryPDX #Photography #DebraAchen #CharlottaMaríaHauksdóttir #LostLandscapes