Well Well Well…Look who’s showing together
📍Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1, Portland
⏳Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m.
🗓️ July 5-July 26, 2025
💫Closing Reception 5:00–9:00 pm on Saturday, July 26, 2025 with event 🪐Cosmic Bingo: 6:30 pm
🎟️ Free to the public
This summer, Well Well Projects presents our member exhibition: a gathering of artists who, despite working across different mediums, themes, and sensibilities, share a bond of being in this thing together. It’s not a manifesto, a movement, or even a neat conversation. It’s a group show.
But not just any group show. This one is a bit like opening the group chat in physical form: everyone brings something different, there are pleasant surprises, and somehow it all comes together.
The title, Well Well Well…, is part greeting, part side-eye, part existential pause. It’s what you say when you’re surprised, curious, maybe a little impressed.
This exhibition marks another chapter in the ongoing project of being artists in public, together, and on our own terms.
Participating Artists:
Andrea Alonge, Erik Geschke, Hyun Jung Jung, Colin Kippen, Jeremy Le Grand, Ondrea Bell Levey, Pete Hoffecker Mejia, Anthony Roberto, Claire Frances Spaulding, Katherine Spinella, Tyler Stoll, Jessie Rose Vala, Kelda Van Patten, John Whitten
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Summer Group Show
📍PDX Contemporary Art, 1881 NW Vaughn St., Portland
⏳Hours: Tues-Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
🗓️ Date: July 2 - August 23, 2025
✨Opening reception: August 2, 2025 from 3 - 5 p.m.
🎟️ Free to the public!
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART annual summer group show 🌼 (this exhibition always has new discoveries for collectors!)
Featuring work by represented and invited artists: Christian Abusaid, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Heloise De Mil, Marjorie Dial, Bean Finneran, Ellen George, Johannes Girardoni, Shanti Grandhi, Victoria Haven, Justin L’Amie, Yamamoto Masao, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Jeffry Mitchell, Jenene Nagy, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Susan Seubert, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, and Marie Watt.
Featured work: 1. Storm Tharp, 2. Ellen George, 3. Adam Sorensen, 4. Jenene Nagy
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What is your Ancestral Performance Art? 📕 Book Launch 📕
📍Bishop & Wilde Books, 2601 NW Thurman St, 97210
✨Opening reception: July 1st ONLY, 7-9pm ✨
🎟️Free to the public
In celebration of our new book Ancestral Performance Art, Impeller Press is bringing PO$TER CHYLDE and their ancestral drag burlesque to Portland’s Bishop & Wilde Books.
In this nothing-but-ordinary book launch, author Alissa Schwartz guides us in an interactive reading and performance that includes an ancestral drag piece by her persona PO$TER CHYLDE, engaging in accessible ritual to connect with our ancestors, and discussing how we each can remember, reimagine, and speculate about our ancestors in service to social transformation.
The practice of Ancestral Performance Art utilizes familial and ancestral history for the purpose of communal thriving and liberation. It is the examination of family stories told and retold, and the surfacing of ones never recounted.
In Ancestral Performance Art, Schwartz shares the intimate work of witnessing and holding space with a dying parent; uncovering and re-interpreting racist and separatist practices within her white Jewish family; and the twinning and untwinning and twinning again she experiences with her mother, all in the service of equitable culture-building. @patrickbarber @alissaorgperformanceart @continuumcultureandarts
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The vibes are immaculate at @hideandseekgallery 🌟 thank you @benskiba for having us over.
Featured show: Leave the Porchlight
Work by @vessel.garden @libbyrosa @nicknow99
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Check out the details in Jinie Park’s “Exotic Animal” and Pat Boas’ “Scripts.” 🎨
Both exhibitions are on view through July 12, 2025. But why wait? 👀 Stop by the gallery today to see them in person—we’re open until 5:30 pm!
Art & About x ELG Collab 💙💚💛🩷
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Last weekend to see @triciafrenchart “earth and her stories” a collection of original works and prints. pop up gallery in NW at the Slabtown Square building 2070 NW Quimby St Suite #163
Find her work on the ground floor on the backside of the building facing NW 20th Ave on Saturday & Sunday 12-5 pm!
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🌕Artist Talk🌕 @springbreak.jake ✨Friday, June 27, 2025 at 6 PM at📍 @thepurpledoorpdx in conjunction with his solo show 🍃NIGHT LIFE 🍃 🗓️ On view until 07/21/2025
⏳ Gallery Hours: Wed, Thurs: 2pm - 6pm | Friday, Sat: 2pm - 8pm | Sunday: 2pm - 6pm
🎟️Free to the public
Spring Break Jake (b. 1989, Jacob Jerome Kenobi)
Spring Break Jake is a self-taught painter & mixed media artist born & raised in Minneapolis, MN, currently based in Bend, OR. His work has been shown throughout the West Coast, including solo shows in Bend, Portland, & Encinitas, group shows in Bend, San Francisco, & Los Angeles, and juried art fairs in Seattle, San Francisco, & LA.
He was selected as one of the first Artists-in-Residence with Scalehouse Arts in Bend and has participated in speaking engagements such as a panel discussion on the impact of art on health & well-being at the Reno Tahoe International Art Show, guest speaking at Oregon State University, and leading an art workshop in collaboration with the High Desert Museum. Jake’s work has also been featured in print publications such as Vanity Fair UK, British GQ, House & Garden, and Create! Magazine.
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✨Artists you should know✨Chiura Obata
Years Active : 1899–1975
As a teenager Obata trained in Western and Japanese art. When he was 17, he moved to US and started working as a illustrator for newspapers. He studied art in Seattle and later in Paris before settling in San Francisco. He is most known for landscape watercolors of California; many of them of the Sierras and Yosemite.
He was a key artist in introducing and sharing Japanese techniques and applications in contemporary art with his peers and students. Obata’s approach and style are associated with the artist movement known as the “California Watercolor School” which was initially a regional art movement that began in the 1930’s, that emphasized depictions of nature and every day life, often using bold and vivid colors.
Featured works:
🔥 Setting Sun of Sacramento Valley, 1922
🪨 El Capitan, 1930
🌄 Evening Glow at Mono Lake, from Mono Mills, 1930
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@lydiarosenberg__ at @societysocietysociety ✨grand opening✨ on June 7, 2025.
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Highlights from a recent visit to @petergronquist studio 🌲✨🪨🌲 Thanks for having us over! A beautiful evening of art and conversation. 🪐
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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, A Place I Call Home
📍Russo Lee Gallery
🗓️June 5 – 28, 2025
an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, marking the artist’s first solo show in Portland, Oregon.
Quaicoe delves deeply into themes of empowerment, intimacy, and identity, set against the vibrant backdrop of Portland, Oregon, where he lives and works. Through luminous and emotive portraiture, Quaicoe invites viewers into the personal worlds of his subjects—friends and collaborators—capturing the warmth of their connections and the character of their shared home state.
This new body of work includes large-scale paintings and smaller still lifes, unified by a vivid color palette inspired by Oregon’s diverse natural environment, as well as charcoal drawings that not only reflect each subject’s individuality but also reveal Quaicoe’s own perspective and personal bond with them.
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The Abstract Now is a group exhibition featuring nine contemporary artists who explore abstraction in their own ways.
📍studio e gallery
🗓️June 14 – July 26, 2025.
✨ Opening events on Saturday, June 14, 2025✨
🎤 Poetry reading with Jeanne Heuving & Barry Schwabsky at 4 p.m.
🧑🏻🎨 Artist reception from 5-7 p.m
To kick off the summer, studio e is thrilled to partner with Scott Malbaurn of the Schneider Museum of Art to present The Abstract Now, a group exhibition of nine contemporary artists dealing with abstraction in their own ways.
ARTISTS:
Colleen RJC Bratton (Seattle, WA)
Von Coffin (Seattle, WA)
Rebekah Goldstein (San Francisco, CA)
Ken Kelly (Seattle, WA)
Marc Mitchell (Fayetteville, AR)
Mel Prest (San Fancisco CA)
Petra Sairanen (Portland, OR)
Mark Sengbusch (Brooklyn, NY)
Jason Stopa (Brooklyn, NY)
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #seattleartsource #seattleartscene #contemporaryart #seaart #artinseattle #seattle #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #seattleartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelseattle #abstract #artistsupportartists
NIGHT LIFE by Spring Break Jake
📍 The Purple Door Gallery, 3557 SE Division Street, Portland OR
🗓️ 06/13/2025 - 07/21/2025
✨Opening reception: Friday, June 13, 2025, 5pm - 9pm
⏳ Hours: Wed, Thurs: 2pm - 6pm | Friday, Sat: 2pm - 8pm | Sunday: 2pm - 6pm
🎟️Free to the public
All-new body of work from local Oregon artist Spring Break Jake titled NIGHT LIFE. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception on June 13th from 5-9pm at the gallery.
The exhibition probes the dynamic between slumber and mental health, articulating how sleep, or the lack thereof, shapes our lens of the world around us and in us. Jake’s mixed media paintings take a bird’s eye view of the halcyon atmosphere in a deathly still bedroom while conveying the opposing reality happening in one’s restless mind; the outer world still, the inner world in turmoil. This collection taps into the isolation & peaceful chaos of insomnia from a healthy distance in order to put haunting memories on display in a new light. With the ultimate aim of solidarity, NIGHT LIFE allows the border between loneliness & connection to dissolve in the face of vulnerability.
Each painting allows the darkness of the palette, the surreal, domestic imagery, and the decaying effect of the texture to illustrate sleep’s impact on our mental health & the sense of despair found amidst a restless night. But as with all his work, Jake’s pieces contain elements of hope through healing. NIGHT LIFE acknowledges that no matter what we’ve been (or are currently going) through, everything is temporary and it is always possible to find our way back to paradise.
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Alembic Cohort #11—Sophia Tweed Ahmad, Kye Grant, and Kai Hynes.
📍Performance Works NorthWest
🗓️June 26-28, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. & June 29, Sunday at 2 p.m. *June 26 is a ticketed dress rehearsal/preview
Purchase tickets @pwnwpdx
Tuning fragmented identities through sound rituals and dreamscapes; making way for the place inside the place inside the place; a blind worm stirring in the deep earth—each work builds its own world
PWNW’s Alembic Residency: Three local artists are awarded 150 hours of studio time, an artist fee, and a production of new or in-progress work on shared program at the conclusion their residency.
Images: 1. Sophia Tweed Ahmad and Ashi Dancler | photo by Mackenzie Steele, 2. Kai Hynes | photo by Jordan DeLawder, 3. Kye Grant
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A moment please for @__san_cha__ at @picapdx art gala last night ✨ We are so lucky to have an art organization like PICA that is committed to showcasing and supporting incredible artists and their talent in our city! ✨ Were you at Obsidian last night??
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Mariette Pathy Allen 🗣️ In-Person Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7 at 3:30 PM @blueskygallerypdx 🎟️ Free to the public
Showcasing a series of intimate portraits of the transgender and gender-expansive communities taken by Allen, an artist, author, and activist. These photographs are increasingly important as we continue to see political threats to gender diversity and serve as a “both powerful art and vital historical record, capturing love and resilience across generations.”
#artandaboutpdx #blueskygallerypdx #mariettepathyallen #breakingboundaries50yearsofimages
Jesse Egner 🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Saturday, June 7, 2 PM
@blueskygallerypdx 🎟️ Free to the public
Working with everyday objects and considering humor while tackling themes like body shaming and marginalization, Egner invites viewers to moments he “co-creates with his collaborators that blur fantasy and reality. Subverting conventional norms and empowering queer dynamism.”
Our ✨Must-see✨ art exhibitions in Portland Newsletter went out yesterday! Everything you need to know about Portland art this June🍃
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Let us know in the comments what exhibitions you saw or want to see about in #Portland #Seattle this month! ✴️ #artandaboutpdx
