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A little recap from last week ✨
🏺Jenny Rice & Dina No at Spartan
🎨 PDX Contemporary Art “From the Stacks” group show featuring represented artists
🖌️ Kristen Diederich “Special French Blue” at Fine Art Fruit
See you out & about xoxo #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #firstthursdaypdx
It’s like you know how you know, by Alyson Provax at Mint Gallery Records, April 11 from 5-7 PM.
A mix of letterpress on paper works made by the artist between 2021 and 2025, this small solo exhibition explores shape and form within text-based work and explores the inherent difficulty of communicating our interior experiences.
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Lecture with Curator Lumi Tan at PNCA Mediatheque, April 8, 6 PM.
✨ Hosted by Converge 45 and The National Museum of Women in the Arts.
This event is a great chance for art lovers, community members, and students to explore Tan’s impressive work and learn about her current projects, including a preview of the Converge 45 2026 Triennial. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with the creative community and engage with the local contemporary art scene—RSVP online to secure your spot!
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April newsletter went out yesterday 👀🌷 There’s so many incredible exhibitions to see all around #Portland this month.
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Catalyst, Kay Henning Danley
📍Gallery 114
🗓️ April 3-27, 2025
🗣️Artist Talk, April 19 at 2 PM.
Danley’s large oil paintings convey dreamlike imagery that evoke memory, imagination, and an invitation for the viewer to experience her paintings as a personal narrative. The paintings in Catalyst include a focus on the human figure in an inventive environment, as well as the equine species in their surroundings. Of primary importance is the observation of the two species and the connection of figures to each other and to their specific situation.
Danley shows her work throught the Pacific Northwest. Her work can be found in many privat4e collections throughout the U.S. and Germany. Danley’s most recent awards include first place for her painting “Veiled”, in the 2023 Artworks Northwest Biennial. Danley work has in the collection of the U.S. State Department program of art in the Embassies, most notable in the Thai Embassy. Danley is a Portland native and works out of her studio at NW Marine Artworks.
#contemporarypainting, #northwestpainters, #figurativepainters
CLIVE KNIGHTS, Incomplete Paperwork
📍 Laura Vincent Design & Gallery
🗓️ April 3 - May 17, 2025
✨First Thursday Opening Reception, April 3, 5-8pm
🗣️A Dialogue with the Artist, April 19, 11am
⏳Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30 pm
Working with commercial print media at a variety of scales, Clive Knights’ new show of mixed media collages, ‘Incomplete Paperwork’, will reinvigorate found papers into symbolic expressions that reference a more grounded existence in a shared world.
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NO/STALGIA Group Collage Show copresented by Pacific Northwest Collage Collective and Art at the Cave
🗓️ April 4-26, 2025
A group show of collage artists from around the world. The show features 144 works by 88 artists. including established international artist as well as emerging local artists, celebrating the wild generosity of the collage community. The show examines the simultaneous relationship of collage artists to history and the contemporary moment. The show features analog collage, video, assemblage and a stunning 8 foot section of Portland telephone pole full of staples and archival flyer remains.
✨First Friday Opening reception April 4, 2025, 5-9pm
✨Collage meetup hosted by the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective. Free and open to all ages. Materials provided or you may bring your own, April 5, 2025, 12-4pm
✨Collage Laboratory, meetup every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm, April 12, 2025. This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity.
✨Artists from the collage show will speak about their work, April 19, 2025, 1-2pm.
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Absorb and Release Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori
📍The Writers’ Block Art Gallery
🗓️April 3 - May 15, 2025.
✨First Thursday Opening Reception with Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori, April 3, from 5-8 PM.
🗣️Artist talks by Christa Nye & Mae Al-Jiboori + poetry readings by Merridawn Duckler & Judge Kemp April 13, from 11-2 PM.
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Kristen Diederich, Special French Blue
📍Fine Art Fruit, 925 NW 19th Ave Portland, Oregon
🗓️April 3, 2025 - May 15, 2025
✨Opening Reception Thursday, April 3 from 6-8 PM.
⏳Tuesday- Sunday 11-5pm
Diederich will be collaborating with Kate Towers and Holly Stalder on a small collection of painted clothing available for purchase for the duration of the show.
Kristen Diederich (b.1994) is an American painter based in Portland, Oregon. After completing a degree in literature at Portland State University, Diederich’s characteristic abstract painting style emerged during periods of time spent in coastal Maine, Oregon and Europe. She expresses her empathy for the natural world using varied textures, bold compositions and evocative palettes. Diederich’s paintings greet you chiefly as abstractions –– but you may come to know them as abstract landscapes imbued with real and imaginary symbols that form their visual language, a language of repetition and cinematic depth of field. She has exhibited across Oregon, Maine and Los Angeles, during Frieze week with Lobster Club gallery, a solo show last November at Chefas Projects and an upcoming show at Carver Hill Gallery in May. Diederich will be collaborating with Kate Towers and Holly Stalder on a small collection of painted clothing available for purchase for the duration of the show.
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Signal Fire, Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth explores the ruminations of nuclear fallout, tectonic catastrophes, the decline of civilization, AI rebellion, pandemics, the climate crisis, and the fascist broligarchal coup of 2025.
📍Well Well Projects - 8371 N Interstate Ave #1
🗓️April 5 - 27, 2025
⏳Saturday-Sunday, 12-5pm
In a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse, where tech billionaires are investing in bunkers and human shock collars to escape the end, we invite you to consider an alternative: investing into the wellbeing of your community for survival. Get in, loser—we’re building a bunker, and you’re invited!
Sabina Haque, The New Abnormal 2.0.
📍Waterstone Gallery - 124 NW 9th Ave.
🗓️April 2 – 27, 2025
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm, Sun 11-4pm
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✨First Thursday - April 3, 5-8pm
🗣️Artist Talk - Sunday April 13, 11am
In this new series, Haque examines the global environmental emergency by contrasting the 2022 floods in Pakistan, which affected her family, with the Pacific Northwest wildfires near her current home. Weaving together photo-collage, painting, and video projections, Haque highlights the survival, beauty and hope amidst the devastation of climate disasters. Haque calls on viewers to consider our interdependence with our environment and to imagine new systems to address our current crisis.
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Homemades a new exhibition featuring work by ceramic artist Jamin London Tinsel.
📍North View Gallery 12000 SW 49th Avenue, Portland, Oregon
🗓️April 5 - May 1, 2025
Hours: M-F, 8 am-4pm
✨Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5, 2-5pm
🗣️Artist Talk on Thursday, May 1, 12-1Pm
“Homemades” is a term that some, including Tinsel’s Italian grandmother, use to describe handmade pasta. In this exhibition, Tinsel investigates the making of home, examining influences from the homes in which she grew up and inviting viewers to consider the ways their own experiences of home have shaped their identities. What does it mean to make a home? How are concepts of home shaped by families of origin? In what ways do the things we learn in our childhood homes inform our building of new homes as adults?
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Blue Sky is pleased to announce 2024 Critical Mass Exhibition: “#influenced” by Laura Beth Reese
✨First Thursday Opening: Apr 3, 5 - 9 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Apr 5, 3:30 PM
Laura Beth Reese’s “#influenced” explores the intersection of social media, celebrity culture, and consumerism by focusing on public figures like Paris Hilton and Kylie Jenner. Using handmade props and ready-made products, Reese created carefully constructed scenes that mirror the virtual world of social media. The resulting work reflects how pop cultural influences shape and distort our perceptions of fame, identity, and reality.
Laura Beth Reese (American, b. 1987, she/her) is an artist and pop culture connoisseur. She uses photography as a tool to explore her obsessions – from her ex-boyfriends to her biological mother to reality television. Her work has been exhibited nationally—most recently at Abakus Projects, the Photographic Resource Center, and the Pen + Brush Gallery. She is a 2025 recipient of the Grant for Creative Individuals from Mass Cultural Council and has been published in Boston Art Review, Paper Safe, and online at Cosmo.com and The Huffington Post, among others.
Reese was born in Iowa and raised on the east coast of the United States. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA from Muhlenberg College. She resides in Boston where she has taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and currently works as a Studio Manager and Part-Time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Tha Crossroads” by Nykelle DeVivo
📍Blue Sky Gallery - 122 NW 8th Ave
✨First Thursday Opening: Apr 3, 5 - 9 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Apr 5, 2 PM
🗓️Apr 4 - 26, 2025
⏳Hours: Wed - Sat, 12 - 5 PM
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Nykelle DeVivo’s project Tha Crossroads merges spirituality, Black queer identity, and Afrofuturism. Drawing from their upbringing and the connection with mother’s Guru Haidakhan Babaji, DeVivo illuminates the spaces between life, death, and rebirth, capturing moments of spiritual transition.
Nykelle DeVivo (American, b. 1996, they/them) is a Portland based visual artist working with light through various mediums to navigate the crossroads between the physical world and that of their ancestors. They studied theory & photography at the San Francisco Art Institute before becoming an inaugural Google Image Equity Fellow, internationally exhibiting their work and having their photographs acquired by permanent museum collections nationwide. Nykelle is currently working on publishing their first monograph with For The Birds Trapped In Airports while pursuing a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California San Diego, where they expect to graduate in Spring 2025.
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Erik Railton
🗓️On view April 2nd - July 1st, 2025
✨Reception Date: Friday, April 4th
Stumptown Coffee Roasters Belmont - 3356 Belmont Street
Friday, April 4th
⏳7am-5pm
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Artist Bio:
Erik Railton is a painter based in Portland, Oregon, whose work is rooted in the exploration of symbols, lines, and color. Through his artistic practice, Railton investigates the complexities of abstract expression, utilizing a variety of techniques and mediums to create thought-provoking and visually stimulating pieces. Drawing inspiration from both his surroundings and personal experiences, he skillfully balances elements of chaos and order within his compositions. With an acute attention to detail and a keen understanding of color theory, Railton’s paintings invite viewers to interpret and engage with their own emotional and intellectual responses. Through his use of abstract painting, Railton invites audiences to contemplate the realm of the unknown and embrace its infinite possibilities. @erikrailton
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Gather:Make:Shelter & Mullowney Printing Co. Present:
Impressions From The Collective
✨Opening Receptions✨
Sunday, April 6 at SATOR, 1-3pm
Friday, April 11 at Gather:Make:Shelter, 5:30-7:30pm
📍SATOR, 1607 SE 3rd Ave, Portland OR
📍Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery - 1335 NW Kearney St. Portland OR
🗓️April 6 - June 1, 2025
⏳Hours at both galleries Saturdays 12-4pm
Gather:Make:Shelter has partnered with Mullowney Printing Co. over the course of a year-long intensive collaboration to offer a series of in-depth printmaking workshops to 11 GMS project participants. Our artists have explored multiple printmaking techniques under the mentorship of master printers Paul Mullowney and Kathy Kuehn.
IMPRESSIONS FROM THE COLLECTIVE will be an expansive show taking place across two distinct locations, showcasing the culmination of this collaborative partnership, featuring print portfolios encased in one-of-a-kind handcrafted archival boxes. Be sure to stop by both locations to fully appreciate this remarkable work throughout April and May.
Featured artists: Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, & Violet. @gathermakeshelter @mullowneyprinting @sator @regionalarts @warholfoundation @fordfamilyfound
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jeff, ahuva s. zaslavsky
📍after/time collective - 735 SW 9th #110
🗓️April 4-27, 2025
✨Opening Reception: First Friday, April 4, 2025 6-9 pm
📌Schedule of events:
Leviathan - a dance performance: Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7 pm
Washed Ashore: A Cento Poetry Workshop led by Ash Good: Sunday, April 13, 2-4 pm
🎭Poetry Reading: Sunday, April 13, 4-5 pm
🗣️Artist Talk hosted by V Maldonado: Saturday, April 19, 6-8 pm
✏️Life Drawing: Sunday, April 27, 1-4pm
a solo exhibition by artist ahuva s. zaslavsky. This multimedia exhibition delves into the eternal tide between creation and collapse, where the forces of nature and human ambition intertwine. Drawing upon the mythology of the golem and the leviathan, zaslavsky explores the remnants of past structures and the emergence of new forms.
What remains after collapse? The fragmented works serve as both elegy and prophecy, mapping the spaces between decay and regeneration. Repurposing artworks into new forms is an act of continuous creation—one that acknowledges destruction not as an end, but as a vital part of the creative process. Just as ruins provide the foundation for new structures, past works become raw material for new works, carrying their histories across mediums.
In jeff, zaslavsky engages in an ongoing dialogue between past and present, presence and absence. Each layer, fragment, and reassembled element carries traces of its former self, yet emerges anew. In this way, repurposing is not just an act of preservation, but of possibility.
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Soliloquy fine arts presents INTERTWINED, an exhibition of original art and poetry exploring the relationships we have with the greater world and each other.
📍Soliloquy fine arts - 2232 SE Clinton Street
✨First Friday, April 4 from 6-8 p.m.
🗓️April 4 - May 16, 2025
⏳Hours: Thursday, Friday 2-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Featuring a collaboration between groups of West Coast artists and writers and including video installations in the garage annex, this is our contribution to EKPHRAESTIVAL 2025, a celebration of word & image in honor of April’s National #Poetry Month.
Soliloquy will be hosting 4 evenings of poetry readings throughout April and May, with the schedule of individual readers available at soliloquyfinearts.com.
👀Stay tuned @soliloquyfinearts + @ekphraestivalpdx.
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