Pictures of You, a self-portrait group show guest curated by Ryan Bubnis, The Purple Door Gallery, @thepurpledoorpdx until Feb 15, 2026 —⏳Thursday-Sunday 2-8pm
What does it mean to be an artist and image-maker in a time of economic uncertainty, violence, and political chaos? 13 Portland-based painters respond in their own visual language, turning inward through the medium of painting to explore the concept of self.
Ryan Bubnis | @ryanbubnis
Jeremy Okai Davis | @jeremyokaiart
Ty Ennis | @ty_ennis
Dan Gluibizzi | @dangluibizzi
Emily Kepulis | @emilykepulis
Colete Martin | @colete.martin
V. Maldonado | @creativemultiplier
Dylan Mead | @artbydylanmead
Molly Mendoza | @mollymendoza.art
Nia Musiba | @niamusiba
Souther Salazar | @southersalazar
Nicole Williford | @nicoliferd
Emily Wise | @emily_elizabeth_wise
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Today and tomorrow are the last 2 nights to enjoy the @portlandwinterlightfestival 🌟 don’t miss this electrifying event 🌈⚡️ happening here in Portland. It’s fun for everyone - and is all ages! #PWLF #portlandwinterlightfestival
Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death and Transition — Three person exhibition featuring Shelley Chamberlin, Marne Lucas, and Dardinelle Troen
⭐️Closing this weekend on February 15, 2026.
An art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there.
The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal.
@marnelucas @aquietusendoflifedoula @shelleychamberlinart @ditroen @viemortdoula @pccparagonarts
Ryan Alexander-Tanner artist talk
📍 NW Museum of Cartoon Arts 322 NW 8th Ave in Portland
🗓️ Sun Feb 15, 2026 at 1 PM
🆓 to the public
Over the course of a 25‑year career in comics and illustration, Ryan Alexander-Tanner has built a wide‑ranging practice that spans journalism, education, biography, and collaborative nonfiction. Based in Portland, where he has spent much of his career teaching comics and illustration, he now turns toward a mid‑career retrospective that traces the evolution of
his work.
His early professional years included serving as Willamette Week’s
comics journalist and designing the now‑iconic Dave’s Killer Bread
logo. He later collaborated with Bill Ayers on To Teach during the
height of Ayers’s national political controversy, and partnered with
clinical psychologist Jessica Zucker on an expansive series of
reproductive‑health comics. His commitment to representational
nonfiction—often within an industry dominated by white creators—has shaped major projects, including his comics biography of Muhammad Ali. Additional work includes environmental justice collaborations with Dr. Leslie King and, most recently, a venture into sci‑fi and horror comics with award‑winning writer Mark Russell. @nwmoca
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Most shows opening this February run through 2/28 unless otherwise noted.
(Check the gallery's instagram/or website for hours or more information.)
RUSSO LEE GALLERY - Dirk Staschke - Magnificent Malaise & Michael Paul Miller - In Search of Cascadia. Artist Talk Feb 14, 11am-12pm
ARTSPACE AT ARTS COUNCIL OF LAKE OSWEGO - Group Show - Thinking Through Mud: Arrangements of Clay + Ikebana, Feb 20 - April 10. Opening Reception, Feb 20, 5:30-7:30pm
LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY - Alexandra Boyden - Treelines A Dialogue with Alexandra Boyden, Feb 14, 11am-12pm
WATERSTONE GALLERY - Palimpsests: Layered Surfaces, Group Invitational, through March 1. Artist Talk, Feb 15, 11am-12:30pm
BLACKFISH GALLERY - Group Show - Signs of Dissent, Ellen Goldschmidt - Pardon My Paradoxes and Don Bailey - Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, News of the Day. Workshop & John Daniel Teply Gallery Performance, Feb 13, 6pm
GALLERY 114 - Group Show - First Look: The New Artists of Gallery 114. Artist Meet and Greet & Q&A, Feb 21, 2-4pm
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART - D.E. May - Notes, Notes, Notes
J. PEPIN ART GALLERY - Alexandra Petersen - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
#portlandartscene #artandaboutpdx #pada #shows
Sharing snippets of our visit to Counterpoints, presented by Third Angle @thirdanglenewmusic featuring the solo music of Steve Reich within the immersive installations at Hopscotch @letshopscotch
In “Counterpoints” an instrumental soloists layer minimalist melodies over a pre-recorded track, creating an evolving soundscape of their own instrument.
🪈 Sarah Tiedemann performs Vermont Counterpoint on flute.
🎷 William Pyle performs New York Counterpoint on soprano saxophone.
🎸Daniel Reyes Llinás performs Electric Counterpoint on guitar.
🎻Valdine Ritchie Mishkin performs Cello Counterpoint on cello.
Sculpted Light ✨Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, Hap Tivey at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland, until February 28, 2026
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #ElizabethLeachGallery
Simple Knots, Jeremy Le Grand @jeremy.le.grand at @wellwellprojects, on view until March 1 , 2026
Lost Lake, Chris Lael Larson @chris_lael_larson at @carnationcontemporary, on view until. March 1, 2026✨
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #chrislaellarson
THE LATEST: JAN & FEB 2026 - everything you need to know about what’s happening in the Portland art scene to start the year, now on the blog. Sent to our subscribers on Jan 24th - sign up now (it’s free) for the newsletter 🌀
Oh, this weekend? Just lighting up our life (and my Instagram feed) at the #PDXWLF ✨💡@portlandwinterlightfestival
Tonight! Go to the @electricblocks, #portlandworldtradecenter and @thesquarepdx and more check the schedule online for this completely free citywide event ⭐️
#portlandartscene #lightfestival #fyp
Alexandra Boyden, Treelines
📍 Laura Vincent Design & Gallery
🗓️Jan 16 - Feb 28, 2026
Artist statement: I use landscapes as stepping stones towards abstraction, reflecting an emotional place. While working on "Treelines", I was reminded of a Tewa song I learned years ago.
Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky,
Your children are we, and with tired backs
We bring you the gifts that we love.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the bright light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the fringes be the falling rain,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness
That we may walk fittingly where birds sing,
That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,
Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky!
Although I have yet to create an image with red and white landscape marks, its "warp and weft", this song embodies my thinking behind "Treelines". Always interested in contrasts - seeing the warp and weft of life and of landscapes, I wanted to show the beauty in their intersections. The connections often create a sense of oneness - like fabric - an openness or brightness emerging through their woven union.
#portlandartscene #contemporarypaintings #treelines #artandaboutpdx #abstract
Palimpsests: Layered Surfaces
📍Waterstone Gallery
🗓️Feb 4- March 1, 2016
🗣️Artist Panel: Sunday February 15, 11am - 1pm
7 distinctive Oregon artists are brought together in “Palimpsests: Layered Surfaces” — James Alby, Paul Gadsden, Leonard Harmon, Yuji Hiratsuka, Marcel M. Johansen, Kanani Miyamoto, and Kyra Watkins—whose layered approaches reveal the memories, identities, and histories embedded in every surface.
Through diverse materials and processes, the show invites viewers to look deeper and discover what endures beneath the visible — revealing echoes of craft, ancestry, and beauty forged through resistance. These artists work in layers of paint, clay, wood, metal, analog photography, ballpoint pen, and memory. Drips, carvings, prints, and faces emerge and obscure, each holding a story of heritage, identity, and belonging.
James Alby
Bloodlines Deep Like Water Leonard D Harmon
Kanani Miyamoto
Foul Bite Happy Accident, Color intaglio, Yuji Hiratsuka
John 1, pen, Kyra Watkins
Wayfinders / Shapeshifters Micah Kassell
📍 Albina Press / 5012 Se Hawthorne, Portland, OR
🗓️ Now through mid February
⏳ Hours: 7am-5pm
🆓 to the public
Wayfinders / Shapeshifters is a show of paintings that reflect non-verbal communications and micro-expressions through hands, anthropomorphized machines faces of pareidolia and its effect on what we see and percieve. When we don’t trust what we see, as is often the case in these times, we tend to disassociate from all tethers to an agreed upon reality— that’s often where the cartoonish skew of my mind creeps in and takes me to a place of fantastical distortion and cartoonish fantasy
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⭐️February First Thursday at the Pacific Northwest College of Art⭐️
Events include: ✨🧊Portland Winter Light Festival
🏺Emily Counts - Astral Bodies opening 💩Shitshow (MFA Visual Studies & Print Media programs first year show) 💡In a Different Light - O. Rae👥 The Body Collective - Pop Up 📀 Guest Curatorial Program - Inaugural Year
📍 Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 NE Broadway
🗓️ Feb 5, 2026 from⏳ 5pm - 8pm
🆓 to the public, RSVP on eventbrite encouraged
Come together in the North Park Blocks are an opportunity to come together in celebration of art, joy and community for First Thursdays with PNCA. These monthly after hour art events are a vital part of the cultural ecosystem of Portland. For decades, these monthly events have been a highlight of nightlife in the Pearl District and North Park Blocks, increasing cultural connection and retail activation downtown.
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Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., Portland
🗓️ Feb 5 - 28
✨Opening reception First Thursday 5 - 8 PM
⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 pm
🆓 to the public
Blue Sky is pleased to announce Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade
Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade highlights 69 artists who exhibited at the gallery during its third decade. Visitors will experience past images from 78 of 215 exhibitions presented between 1995 and 2005 as well as recent work from the same artists. All prints (except as noted) are priced at $200 each and are on sale for a limited time. All proceeds go towards sustaining Blue Sky’s programming for the next generation.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart #bluesky50thanniversary #blueskygallerypdx
Portland Winter Light Festival this weekend! ❄️⚡️ experience lights, art and music all over the city
🗓️Feb 6-14, 2026
⚓️ Anchor Sites Open: February 6 & 7 and February 13 & 14 from 6-10 pm at Pioneer Courthouse Square, World Trade Center Plaza, and Electric Blocks.
⭐️ Additional major installation sites include PSU, Director Park, Waterfront Park, Ankeny Alley, and Old Town
Portland, OR
#portlandwinterlightfestival #portlandoregon
Dylan Hester spoke with curators Bella Feinstein and Olivia Miller about themes, artists, and the curatorial process in the exhibition Uncertainty surrounds the holding of things that was on view at After time (November 14 - December 2025).
In a world that privileges immediacy and possession, the exhibition insists on presence and contemplation—a quieting of the mind—to consider the fugitive, errant, unruly lives of things. Featuring sixteen artists from Portland, New York, Germany, Denmark, and Seattle who work with organic, reclaimed, and unruly materials.
✨Read the conversation online at www.artandaboutpdx.com
Photos courtesy of the gallery, by Aaron Wessling @aaronwessling @singlefile_studio
First Look
📍 Gallery 114 1100 NW Glisan Street
🗓️ Feb 5 - 28 ’26
✨Opening reception First Thursday, Feb 5, 5 - 8pm
🧑🏽🎨🗣️Artist Meet & Greet + Q&A Sat Feb 21st, 2 -4pm
⏳ Hours: Thur - Sun 12 - 5pm
🆓 to the public
The exhibition features gallery members Dawn-Starr
Crowther, Angela Riggs, Kimber Shiroma, Margaret Strother, and Barbara Weiss.
First Look celebrates the vitality that new members bring to a cooperative space: fresh
questions, new energies, and expanded ways of seeing. We invite viewers to spend time with
the work, to look closely, and to join us in welcoming these artists as they begin this next
chapter at Gallery 114.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
