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This summer, PWNW celebrates 25 years of avid experimentation, sublime mayhem, tender intimacy, community-building, rigorous play, and dedicated art-marking. This is the perfect occasion, thanks to the dedication and generosity of our artist and audience friends to raise money for the coming season! Please join @pwnwpdx August 1-3 for any or all of 25 hours of performances, classes, karaoke, a dance party and a closing Sunday brunch! Get tickets online now! #pdxcontemporaryart #summergroupshow #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #artgallery #travelportland #artistsupportartists #performanceart

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. ℹ️Featured work: 1. Nell Warren, 2. Marjorie Dial, 3. Marie Watt #pdxcontemporaryart #summergroupshow #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #artgallery #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Holly Osborne, Garden Party & Benny Fountain, Consolation: Paintings from The Hill 📍Froelick Gallery 🗓️ July 23 - September 13, 2025 ✨First Thursday Reception, August 7, 5-8 p.m. 🗣️Exhibition Talk, Saturday, August 9, 11 a.m. Osborne is a modern painter who responds to life by constantly painting both representational and abstract compositions. Fountain's recent paintings address his fascination with the structure of painted compositions and the elemental forms of his regional landscape. #pdxcontemporaryart #summergroupshow #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #artgallery #travelportland #artistsupportartists #contemporarypainting

Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine | Presented by Gather:Make:Shelter, SoundsTruck NW, and the Oregon Symphony 📍 PSU South Park Blocks (between SW Mill and SW Market) 🗓️ August 14, 2025 from 5-8 p.m. 🌟Free to the public This vibrant evening transforms public space into a living, breathing canvas—where wearable art, live music, and spoken word converge in a powerful celebration. Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine honors the creative voices and lived experiences of artists from Gather:Make:Shelter (GMS)—a collective of individuals experiencing houselessness and poverty—and invites the community to witness and participate in a public expression of resilience, healing, and shared imagination. At the heart of the event is a live runway presentation featuring original wearable art crafted by GMS artists. The runway will be brought to life with a mix of live and recorded music, featuring musicians from the Oregon Symphony, performing on SoundsTruck NW’s innovative mobile stage. Many pieces reflect a creative exchange between GMS artists, Oregon Symphony musicians, and the SoundsTruck NW team, with music and design thoughtfully developed in dialogue to honor and uplift each other’s work. Bring a picnic, a blanket or chairs, and join friends and neighbors for a magical summer evening under the trees. Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine is more than a performance—it is a heartbeat of shared imagination, belonging, connection, and collective joy. @gathermakeshelter @soundstruck.nw @oregonsymphony @pdxparksfoundation #GatherMakeShelter #SoundsTruckNW #OregonSymphony #ClassicalMusic #PortlandParks #MidsummerNightsDreamMachine #PDXEvents #PortlandArt #FreePDX #SouthParkBlocks #PDXArtScene #ArtHeals #PortlandThingsToDo #LiveMusic #PDXSummer #CommunityEvent

Between Line & Light: A Summer Group Exhibition by Karen Christie Fisher, F.L. Carrera & Claudia Hollister 📍The Writer’s Block, 818 NW Flanders St., Portland ⏳ Hours: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. or by appt 🗓️ August 7-September 17, 2025 ✨Opening reception: First Thursday 5-8pm 🌿Open during Art in The Pearl🌿 Saturday 8/30 + Sunday 8/31 from 10am-4pm (The Festival is FREE and requires NO TICKETS for entry) 🎟️ Free to the public Image ℹ️ 1. 🌷 Claudia Hollister 2. 🔮 Karen Christie Fisher 3. 🧮F.L. Carrera

Highlights from @seattleartmuseum Modern & Contemporary Art Collection ✨ #joanmiro #francisbacon #marktobey & #morrisgraves #lenoracarrington @nicholasgalanin @diegocibelli @jeffrune #artandaboutpnw #artandaboutsea #artandandaboutseattle #seattleartmuseum #seattleartscene

🌀SPECTRA🌀 📍Arts Council of Lake Oswego 🗓️ August 1– October 17, 2025 ✨opening reception Friday, August 1, 2025, from 5:30-7:30pm. With live musical performance & handmade instrument demonstration from featured artist, Stephen Cohen of 3 Hand Stephen. Many exhibiting artists will be present and light refreshments will be served! SPECTRA, an ambitious group exhibition at Artspace, featuring more than 40 artists whose works were selected from an open-call process. Drawing from the plural of ‘spectrum’, SPECTRA presents works that convey a continuum of color, light, sound, identity, and thought—works that speak to phenomena, both visible and invisible. This exhibition promises an almost dizzying level of color-saturation, uncontained vibrancy, and sensory immersion. SPECTRA generously, and rather unpredictably, spans complexities that exist between binaries, and thereby is ripe with inclusion and possibility. SPECTRA offers a kaleidoscopic view of our region’s contemporary art and its power to reflect, refract, and expand our perception of the world we share. Exhibiting artists include Amy Wike, Anne Greenwood, Anne Mavor, Areem Rose, Arianna Gazca, Arlene Carvey-Kacik, Barb Burwell, Billy Criswell, Carole A. Daley, Cedar Lee, Charmaine Shively, Chase Voorhees, Christopher Baird, Corey Pressman, Cori McCullough, Daria Loi, David Corbett, Dianne Jean Erickson, Eric Gibbons, Eryn Tomlinson, Jenna Philpott, Julia Stoops, Laura Paulini, Lisa Rose Musselwhite, Lynn Everett Read, Lynne M. Taylor, MacRae Wylde, Marne Lucas, Matthew Abadi, Michael Al-Jiboori, Mona Monroe, Ochen Kaylan, Pamela Fedderson, Pearlyn Tan, Rieko Warrens, Robert Sumner, Ruth Meijer, Sara Dykstra, Sara Swink, SORA Shodo, Stephen Cohen, Steve Eichenberger, Susana Santarone Sandmann, Teresa Christiansen and Zemula Barr. ℹ️ Image information: David Corbett, "Building Arts", 2025, acrylic on wood Dianne Erickson, "Construct #43", 2025, cardboard & acrylic Michael Al-Jiboori, "void", 2024, digital painting Sara Swink, "Seduction", 2024, ceramic Steve Eichenberger, "Undulator", 2023, wire, paint, proprietary "skin" #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation 📍Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, 1855 SW Broadway ⏳Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. & Thurs 11 a.m. -7 p.m. 🗓️ August 26-December 6, 2025 🎟️ Free to the public Based in Portland, Marie Watt (b. 1967) is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist whose work draws upon personal experience, indigenous traditions, protofeminism, mythology, and art history. This exhibition showcases over 60 prints, sculptures, and textiles that highlight the artist’s career from 1996 to the present, as well as her deep connections to her roots as a member of the Seneca Nation (Turtle Clan) and her German-Scot ancestry. The exhibition was organized by University Galleries, University of San Diego, and curated by John Murphy, PhD, Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, and former Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints at the University of San Diego. @marie_watt_studio, @psu_museum_of_art #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Present Tense (in the South Gallery), featuring Olivia Johnson, Liz Obert and Phil Harris, the newest members of the gallery. & The Brain––Is Wider Than the Sky, (in the North Gallery) a two person show pairing Jeff Leake and Kindra Crick 📍Gallery 114 🗓️August 7 – August 30, 2025 ✨Opening Reception: First Thursday, August 7, 5 – 8pm Meet the Artists (North & South Galleries): Sunday, August 24, 12 – 2 pm   The three featured artists in Present Tense are all in some way working with ideas of time that span the temporal and the topical. Time is the overarching fabric and measure of the world we know. There are also qualities of subjective time that are peculiar to our particular moment. Both kinds of time are entwined in the work of these three makers. All three artists purposely employ time-intensive practices, all feel themselves to be contemporary voices, and all three work from a sense of history, firmly imbedded in the present. Leake’s narrative paintings draw on myth, folklore, and cultural memory, while Crick’s neuroscience-inspired nocturnal worlds delve into the biology of sleep and recollection. Together, their art creates a layered dialogue between storytelling and modern brain science, exploring how both myth and sleep influence our understanding of memory, identity, and consciousness. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx

@helenscostume opening for @eleanorrandl and @chaseallgood 💅🏼

We were delighted to attend one of The Mud Room’s “Try It” Wheel Throwing Classes, which was a fantastic experience! Dani, our instructor, provided invaluable tips throughout the class. A pottery class is a perfect activity for friends, date nights, with your child (16+ or 13+ with a guardian). You can also go solo and potentially make new friends along the way. During the class, you’ll learn how to center clay on the wheel, open and form a base, pull walls, and shape a bowl. You’ll also receive guidance on correct arm and hand positioning. After the class, you’ll have the opportunity to choose which bowl you’d like to keep and select a glaze. The Mud Room will then glaze your masterpiece for you. We’ll share more details about our experience when we go grab ours! 🏺 Upcoming Friday Night “Try It” Wheel Throwing Classes at The Mud Room @themudroompdx 🏺 ✨North studio✨ August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th September 5th, 26th ✨Southeast studio✨ August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th September 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th #artandaboutpdx #themudroompdx #ceramics #pottery #wheelthrowing

The Way Home (집으로 가는 길), Hyun Jung Jung 📍Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1, Portland ⏳Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m. 🗓️ August 2 - 31, 2025 ✨Opening reception: Saturday, August 2, 5–8 p.m. 🎟️ Free to the public In The Way Home (집으로 가는 길), Hyun Jung Jung reflects on how she is learning to embrace the grey areas of becoming an immigrant by visualizing the uncertain belongings and blurred memories. While living in America, Jung was often in denial of the interwoven self that she was becoming, because it felt like she was giving up on the Korean identity. But over time, she has learned the fluidity of how these cultures merge and coexist to inform one another in her. Living far from her motherland, Jung often ponders what Korean-ness means to her. In this search, she has been continuously revisiting her childhood moments, the years she lived in Korea. One example includes learning about her past through looking at old photographs from her childhood. Although she does not have memories from some of these early days, the images bring emotional reactions, reminding her that these moments are still at her core, grounding her. The Way Home (집으로 가는 길) is a reflection of this process: embracing her family roots and childhood in Korea and adulthood in America. Shown in various mediums, the morphing and transitioning of images and colors evoke emotions that are abstract and nostalgic, yet familiar. Although this may feel obscure and faint, Jung continues to soak them in for them to become part of her journey. The Way Home (집으로 가는 길) is funded in part by @regionalarts and the Office of Arts & Culture. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx

XO-interstitium 📍 @pwnwpdx 🗓️Friday July 25, Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27 ✨@ 7:30pm 🎟️Tickets $15-$25 *Kiddos under 18 free (accompanied by adult) 🎶DJ Dirt Dawg is doing a 30 minute DJ set during doors before the show starts, nightly. 7:00-7:30 p.m. XO-interstitium is the culminating work of a three-year collaboration between JmeJames Antonick and Patsy Morris, with music by Geovanny Vega. What began as JmeJames’ vision evolved into an equal collaboration, birthing both this evening-length performance and the formation of our collective, Trash Babe Productions. The piece explores the interstitium—the space between—of our bodies, our relationships, and shared consciousness. XO-interstitium reaches beyond the physical into the exo-interstitium: the connective tissue of all that is. Rooted in embodied healing, the work traverses stages of somatic research: in Honey Touch, we co-regulate through touch; in Lantern Consciousness, we invoke play and movement to foster neuroplasticity; in Body Veil, we uncover magick—our innate power through dance. These threads converge in XO-interstitium, a final movement in communion with shared consciousness. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #performance

Slip Condition, Lily Clark 📍 Antica Terra, 5100 SE Rice Lane, Amity, OR 97101 🗓️ July 12 to August 31, 2025 ⏳ Hours: By Appointment 🪶Free to the public Antica Terra and Martã are present Slip Condition, a site-specific installation of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Lily Clark. A collaborative presentation co-hosted by the Southern Californiã art gallery and Maggie Harrison’s otherworldly winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the exhibition explores the nature of fluid phenomena and its relationship to material surfaces that dissolve the boundary between the natural and the human-made, creating spaces where water can exist in and explore its own archetypal forms. Named for a boundary state in fluid dynamics where liquid glides along a surface with minimal resistance, Slip Condition examines water at the edge of control—caught between its natural behaviors and engineered containment. As such, Clark’s works exist in cleaved focus, drawing on German researcher Theodor Schwenk’s distinction between water’s essential being and its measurable, manipulated form. Clark works fluidly across this spectrum of material origin, alternately drawing directly from unaltered geological forms as well as the engineered, occasionally blending both. Within this purposefully muddy intersection, the artist transforms the Anthropocene into a geologicallayer: manmade substances redefine natural interactions as surface conditions, altering adhesion and movement while allowing water to slip, resist, or cling in unexpected yet tantalizingly familiar ways. A bird bath, an homage and reference to the numerous bird houses that the former landowners hid and left amongst the trees, fills until it can bear no more, tipping—by a hand or its own weight—to empty. With steadfast attention to fluid dynamics and their most nuanced sensitivities, Clark achieves a material symbiosis that simultaneously marries and divorces our understanding of the properties of matter and, by extension, the physical universe. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #lilyclark #anticaterra #martalosangeles

COLLECTIVE VISIONS, @gallery114 Summer Members Exhibit 🗓️July 3 - August 2, 2025 ⏳Open Thursday - Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. Annual exhibition of our members creative work. Collective Visions offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide array of contemporary artistic expressions by our member artists. Immerse yourself in the collective energy and discover how each artists’ voice contributes to a larger, shared creative narrative. Members 🧑🏻‍🎨👩🏻‍🎨👨🏼‍🎨 Zac Banik • David Cohen • Morgan Curtis • Kay Danley Dianne Jean Erickson • Sally Finch • Jeffrey Fuchs • Jon Gottshall Phil Harris • Nancy Helmsworth • Olivia Johnson • Jeff Leake Liz Obert • Michael Spence • Elena Thomas Featured artworks: 1. Zac Banik, Picture Perfect Mixed media | 2. Sally Finch, Weather Study 15, India Pen and ink on paper | 3. Jon Gottshall, Bonneville Dam with Smoke from Eagle Creek Fire Photograph Founded in 1990 as an artist’s collective, Gallery 114 celebrates its strength and resilience as a gallery that provides opportunities for artists to exhibit with complete artistic freedom. It inspires its members to push their limits and take their ideas to unexpected and challenging places. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Threads of Identity: Narratives in Cultural and Personal Expression‍ アイデンティティの糸:文化と自己表現の物語 📍 Oranj Studio 🗓️ Extended till end of August ✨ Closing reception on Sunday, August 17 This group exhibition unites the evocative works of Ariko Inaoka and Mai Ide, two artists whose practices unravel and reframe the multi-faceted narratives of identity, heritage, and societal expectations. mai ide’s multidisciplinary approach reflects her experiences as a Japanese-American immigrant, mother, and artist. Utilizing salvaged fabrics and sashiko stitching, her work expresses the tension between vulnerability and resilience within a constrained and volatile society. Ariko Inaoka’s photography, including her renowned series on Icelandic twins, delves into themes of connection, individuality, and the interplay of cultural and personal identity. Together, their art forms a compelling dialogue on cultural and personal intersections, creating a space for introspection, connection, and empowerment.This exhibition invites viewers to engage with layered narratives that traverse past and present, tradition and reinvention. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartists

Profusion, Angelita Surmon 📍Waterstone Gallery, 124 NW 9th Ave., Portland ⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sun 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 🗓️ August 6 – 31, 2025 ✨Opening reception – Thursday, August 7, 5–8 p.m. 🥂Art, Music and Bubbly – Saturday, August 9, 3–5:30 p.m. 🗣️Artist Talk – Sunday, August 17, 11 a.m. 🎟️ Free to the public A collection of acrylic paintings and kiln-formed glass by Angelita Surmon. Surmon’s work is informed by the landscape observed up close. In her careful observations, she discovers a richness in the variety of texture, color, light, and line. The intricacies and shifting seasonal palette of the natural world offer a constant source of discovery. She equates this abundance with the elegant complexity of brocade fabrics. In contrast to a current cultural focus on scarcity, Surmon finds infinite inspiration in nature’s profusion. #angelitasurmon#waterstonegallery #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pearldistrictgallery #padaoregon #exhibition #kilnformedglass #soloshow #contemporaryartist #modernart #natureartist #landscapeartist#pnwartist #pdxartscene #pdxartevents #pearldistrictportland #pearldistrictartwalk #pnwpainter

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Monsoon 💧Eleanor Randl, Chase Allgood 📍 Helen’s Costume Fine Art 🗓️July 25 - August 22, 2025 ✨Opening Reception Friday, July 25, from 5-8 p.m. ⏳Open viewing hours: Saturdays 1-4pm starting July 26th. Monsoon. Enveloped in Summer. Your aged local nail salon or foot spa features faded backlit stock images outside, an ocher veil. Helen’s Costume is proud to present elegant sculpture by Eleanor Randl alongside the lyrical photography of Chase Allgood in Monsoon. Works that celebrate the perishable domestic and the fresh breath of retail. We are trying something different this time and having our opening reception on a Friday evening instead of a Saturday afternoon. Everyone is welcome.

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Portal Glyph 📍 Russo Lee Gallery 🗓️ July 3—August 2, 2025 This latest body of work presents a vibrant and daringly hopeful vision of alternate realities rooted in ancestral memory and earth’s material traces. Comprising nine new paintings and two monoprint series created during her 2024 residency at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Farrell-Smith fuses abstraction with petroglyphic imagery and rare earth symbolism. Using found stencils from the Umatilla Reservation and naming each work after periodic elements, she conjures portals that challenge colonial temporality and invite viewers into multitemporal landscapes shaped by copper, color, and form. Her work blurs the boundary between past and future, suggesting not extraction or finality, but reverence, reciprocity, and radical imagining. With mountain contours, Pyramid Lake glyphs, and cosmic ibex forms emerging from dusky blues and shimmering metals, Farrell-Smith asks us to see, listen, and step into these energetic openings—to wonder, with the land, where they might take us. #artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland#pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #kailafarrellsmith