At Melanie Flood Projects, I Won’t Last A Day Without You, curated by Yaelle S. Amir, the exhibition’s prints are displayed in several series along the walls, framed works overlapping with vinyl prints to create fluid horizontal movement. The framed prints do not have glass separating them from the viewer, creating intimacy and highlighting the dot matrix texture of each work.
Read MoreAt Nationale, Anya Roberts-Toney’s Summer’s Eve imagines a matriarchal realm with an edge. The artist’s series of twelve oil and acrylic paintings are shaped by visions of euphoric women amongst flora, but hint at the complexities inherent to such a space.
Read MoreJoseph Rodriguez’s forms integrate into the spaces around them; causing the disruption that only a careful blending of street art and installation smarts can achieve.
Read MoreA review of "Artifacts of Affection" by Rachael Zur at Gallery 114, up through August 2020 by Ashley Gifford
Read MoreWe need real systemic change in how our society operates in terms of race.
We need an end to police brutality, specifically to all Black cis and transgender.
We need police reform and defunding of police departments in Oregon & nationwide.
Read MoreAs our town continues to remain on pause, with art happenings postponed indefinitely, Luiza Lukova interviews Holly Osborne from the comfort of their respective homes, touching on inspirations, emotions, and experiences.
Read MoreDavey Barnwell works primarily in painting and illustration. She boldly uses color in her visual language, which is often rooted in memory and her abstracted forms and shape serve as a way to understand her own surroundings.
Read MoreWe met in her studio at Yale Union in SE Portland to talk about poetry, grief, and narrative a few weeks ago, before Portland closed for business under our current health crisis.
Read MoreAn interview with Kalaija Mallery, the director of Third Room, an artist-run alternative art space that’s been operating since 2017. We highlight this space and the concepts that helped frame its existence, and where it’s going moving forward.
Read MoreTextiles often provide a sense of comfort: a handmade blanket, the curtains in our bedroom, tablecloths on our kitchen tables, all fiber-based objects that remind us of, and are quite literally made from, the feelings of home.
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