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Celebrating our 10th Alembic Resident Artist cohort, in residence since June 2023, Performance Works NorthWest presents dance and performance by JmeJames Antonick + Patsy Morris, Katherine Longstreth, and Emma Lutz-HIggins.
Each March The Sou’wester is given over to 30+ artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a free, public exhibition of 30+ performances, installations, and studio tours.
This exhibition includes a selection of work that has never been exhibited and spans the artist’s impressive career, from 1990 to 2020.
Two new bodies of work were created meticulously with colored pencils on black paper. One series references the cosmos while the other is sourced from the digital world. Both speak to how these abstract realms are tangibly present in our everyday lives.
Employing her skills of combining color and mark-making, Hunter | depicts an emotionally charged response to the Pacific Northwest. Under surfaces that are heavily worked, there is a narrative that evokes human connection.
Work by past and current gallery staff. Many employees working in the arts are artists themselves. This exhibition spotlights PDX staff's talent, vision, and creativity—presenting the work that is made when our work at the gallery is done for the day.
Highlights the curious capacity domestic spaces have for holding the echoes of lives lived, depicted through sculptural expanded paintings with archetypal images of life cycles and renewal.
Sound and video installation illustrating narratives of an ancient past while hinting at future ways of being–a retelling championing hybridity and connectivity.
Marking a shift from abstraction to representational depiction, Ivy-Royal’s new paintings function as daily documentation, and spaces for (and of) reflection. They are visual accounts of the poetry within random, mundane, and overlooked moments - holding them as sacred.
New works on paper and large-scale installations centered on Avantika Bawa’s queries into the intersections between drawing and sculpture, minimalist traditions, and affects of space, place, and site.
A large-scale, site-specific sculptural landscape that delves into the concept of the pile as a metaphor for family.
Mending consists of two series of paintings, in which domestic spaces and “landscapes” are painted in vibrant colors and naive rendering. Throughout the work color is a driving force that claims its own confidence, allowing the otherwise hidden mundanity to perform.
New paintings and framed prints on paper, original paintings, canvas giclee reproductions, and cards on sale during First Friday in the Williams/Vancouver District.
The School of Art + Design and the College of the Arts celebrate the eleventh year of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize at Portland State University. The 2023 award winners include: Ashley Yang-Thompson (MFA candidate in Studio Practice), Ash Kukuzke (BFA candidate in Graphic Design), and Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri (BFA in Art Practice, ‘23).
In collaboration with the Watershed Print Center at PNCA is proud to present Social Production: Selections from the Watershed Print Archive, displaying print publications from 2010 to 2023.
Nagai and Wyatt's work features highly textured, abstracted landscapes where temporal forms come into and out of view, like the shape-shifting of clouds in the sky or seeing a rabbit on the moon. Both artists engage in meditative or trance-like processes of repetitive mark-making.
The exhibition title “Las Vegas Ikebana,” is derived from a concept that the artists developed in the late ’80s that drew from Hassinger’s experience working in a flower shop in Los Angeles and Nengudi’s exploration of Japanese aesthetic forms. The phrase “Las Vegas Ikebana,” was privately exchanged between Hassinger and Nengudi to describe and catalyze many of their creative expressions for years to come.
A talk with author and artist Akwaeke Emezi, multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work—rooted in Black spirit, embodiment, legacy, and memory—spans multiple genres, experiences, and geographies. Akwaeke has garnered overwhelming critical acclaim and instant New York Times bestseller status.
Playful, nostalgic, and also bittersweet paintings of everyday ephemeral happenings using a saturated, complementary color palette.
Wood’s work often employs densely packed lines and overlaying patterns that evoke a sense of vibration within an abstracted image field.
Her new work references species loneliness, while also recounting glimpses of interaction and connection with both the animate and inanimate.
A celebration of creativity, community, and the magic of light. Don't miss the opportunity to explore with us in a world that truly "Glowing Under Pressure," exploring the mysteries of the deep sea and be inspired by bioluminescent wonders.
Rudko uses found photographs collected from shops or acquired from friends and family, sometimes mixing them with his own photographs and drawings, to create photo collages and sculptures. Through chance, intuition, and resourcefulness these bits of found images come together to build intricate collages— forming networks of color, mind maps, and scattered memories.