The Latest
A couple weeks ago at Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opened and had their first show and opening reception 🎲MUD! By Dina No @dina_ceramic_soap 🎲
DREAM JUICE, a multimedia group show curated by Erika Callihan, including work from twenty-five artists exploring ideas that originated in dreams.
📍Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade
🗓️ March 7 - April 12, 2025
⏳ W-F 12-7; S 12-5
✨ Opening on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.
In the same way that dreams reveal a seemingly limitless array of
elements and themes, the scope of this surprising and playful exhibition includes: paintings,
drawings, collages, performances, photos, prints, songs, zines, videos, lamps, pillows, cookies,
cake, candy, snacks, and a semi-functional papier-mâché “dating app.”
Participating artists: Sophia Baraschia-Ehrlich, Laura Bartram, Erika Callihan, Jesse Carston, Imaginal Cells: Erin Aquarian + Nathan Hill, Sean Christensen (Phull Collums), Rachel Corry, Lindsay Costello, sd, Martha + Ním Daghlian, Kristen Diederich, Indigo Free, Kye Grant, Rainen Knecht, Eva Knowles, Josephine Lacosta, Rose Lewis, Biz Miller, Judy Myong Acupuncture, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Gili Rappaport, Dawn Riddle, Half Shadow, Anke Schüttler, Swinging, Jasmine Wood
EVENTS:
Friday, March 7th, 5-8pm -Exhibition opening event, with musical and dance performances by Half Shadow and Kye Grant, and Dorians (Dream Cookies) by Martha and Ním Daghlian
Thursday, March 13th, 5-7pm- Dream reading: read aloud group with Erika Callihan and tarot reading with Rose Lewis. Dream snacks and dream interpretation group with Josephine Lacosta
Friday 3/14 7-8pm The Comfort In by Sean Christensen: performance
Friday 3/21 6-8pm Listen In: Sound bath with Imaginal Cells (Erin Aquarian and Nathan Hil)l and ear seeds with licensed acupuncturist Judy Myong Acupuncture.
Friday 3/28 7-8pm Twin peaks episode with live score by Swinging
Thursday, 4/3, 5-7 Found Fruits Dream Drawing Group with Erika Callihan
Friday 4/11- Closing Event, TBD
✨opening event on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.
Semi-Learned Borrowings Hoffecker Mejía
📍Well Well Projects - 8371 N Interstate Ave #1
🗓️March 1-30, 2025
In Semi-Learned Borrowings Hoffecker Mejía assembles discarded elements into unified but contrasting compositions. Aspects of commercial packaging, plastic, and wood scrap, sit next to welded steel, and laser cut plexiglass. The configurations borrow and contort modernist tropes, with a head nod to lineages of Latin American abstraction. Born in Bogotá, Colombia and raised in the United States, the works are a meditation on belonging, difference, estrangement and hierarchies of representation
A ‘Semi-Learned Borrowing’ is a linguistic term for a word that is partially adapted from a classical language into a modern language. The word is changed to fit the phonology and typography of the language it is borrowed into. Semi-learned borrowings are reshaped based on sound changes in the language they are borrowed into, they are loanwords adopted from one language and used in another without translation.
Maryann Puls, A Collection
📍Laura Vincent Design & Gallery - 824 NW Davis St, Portland, OR
🗓️March 6-29, 2025
⏳Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30 pm
✨First Thursday Opening Reception, March 6, 5-8 pm
This body of work focuses on the placement of numerous and random visual components that have caught my attention and I have collected in a box, notebook or memory. Elements I feel compelled to arrange, combine and complete into a meditative form.
@mpulsartist #maryannpuls #mpulsartist #abstractart #pdxartist #acollection #mixedmedia
Holding Space, Rebecca Boraz
📍 Froelick Gallery
🗓️ March 6 - April 12, 2025
✨Opening Reception, Thursday, March 6, 5 - 8 pm
🗣️Artist Talk, Saturday, March 15, 11 am
⏳Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5:30pm
The show intricately weaves together themes of psychological presence and physical form, inviting viewers to engage with the delicate interplay of vulnerability and intimacy through her prints and porcelain pieces. Each creation captures the essence of offering a safe, non-judgmental environment for connection, while also showcasing mastery of shape, line, and contrast. The exhibition serves as a contemplative journey, encouraging reflection on the profound experience of coexistence and the quiet strength inherent in being truly present with one another.
@froelick_gallery @rebeccaboraz #froelickgallery #firstthursday #portlandartgallery #rebeccaboraz #printmaker #portlandartist
Adriana Wagner to Perform Special Pop-Up Concert at The Lobby for International Women’s Day
📍Ellen Browning Building - The Lobby - 2871 SE Division St
🗓️⏰Saturday March 8th, 12-1pm, free
Celebrate International Women’s Day with an exclusive pop-up concert featuring Composer and Trombonist Adriana Wagner at The Lobby in the Ellen Browning Building in musical conversation with The Lobby’s current exhibition ‘Breathing. Room’ featuring Ranjani Shettar’s renowned installation ‘Morning Song’.
#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInMusic #Trombone #LiveMusic #PopupConcert #TheLobbyGallery #ArtAndMusic #PDXEvents #MusicMeetsArt #CelebrateWomen
Intact, MF
📍Waterstone Gallery from
🗓️March 5-30, 2025
⏳Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm, Sun 11-4pm
This March, Waterstone Gallery is thrilled to welcome new member MF with their first solo show. MF’s new collection of colorful and dreamy collaged photographs, Intact, celebrates water, analogue art, and a happy accident. Last March, while on a road trip in the Pacific Northwest, they dropped a roll of 35mm film into the river when they were reloading along its edge. After retrieving the film, MF continued to shoot the roll with their point-and-shoot plastic camera. The resulting atmospheric waterscapes, all with surprising streaks of electric blue, have been precisely hand cut and woven into dynamic patterns. MF is inspired by the themes of deconstruction and reconstruction inherent to the medium of collage, the cycles of nature, and the phases of self-expression, and we hope you will recognize some of your own patterns in their complex and beautiful work.
#waterstonegallery
Lost Landscapes by Debra Achen & Charlotta María Hauksdóttir
📍Blue Sky
🗓️ March 6-29, 2025
First Thursday Opening: Mar 6 , 5 - 8 PM
In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Mar 6, 3 PM
Debra Achen and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir’s upcoming exhibition “Lost Landscapes” addresses climate change and environmental degradation. Through manipulated prints, both artists highlight the tension between nature’s beauty and environmental threats. Their work symbolizes humans’ connection and impact on nature through collaging, layering, and mark making. By doing so Achen and Hauksdóttir aim to inspire action and encourage stewardship to heal the planet.
#artandaboutpdx #BlueSkyGalleryPDX #Photography #DebraAchen #CharlottaMaríaHauksdóttir #LostLandscapes
Girls Just Wanna Lay The Smackdown, Zeinab Saab
📍Nine Gallery
🗓️ March 6-30
✨First Thursday Opening, March 6 from 5-8 pm
Girls Just Wanna Lay the Smackdown discusses themes of nostalgia, gender roles, distorted memories and reality through the lens of professional wrestling from the late 90’s to early 00’s. What girl doesn’t want to have an extensive gel pen collection and give a Stone Cold Stunner to their sibling? Girls Just Wanna Lay the Smackdown pulls together a collection of works of gel pen tapestries on paper and woven silk screened prints to form a body of work that explores the nuances of girlhood. Like wrestling, girlhood is not a one size fits all idea or experience- it too contains moments of rage, disappointment, joy, tenderness and intimacy, heartbreak, and a wide variety of color and tapestry.
Silkscreen prints show moments within this era that played on the boundaries of sexuality, gender, patriarchy, and in some instances race and class, were either pushed or reinforced. Wrestling symbolizes just how much of gender is a performance on a grander scale, or in this case, in a squared circle. This notion that boys and girls have to behave and/or dress a certain way in order to be perceived as socially acceptable goes completely out the window within this sport. Wrestling culture reveres men who are over the top and/or flamboyant (i.e. Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Seth Rollins, etc) and women are far from delicate and demure (i.e. Chyna, Lita, Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, etc.), and goes to show how these binaries are nothing more than constructs that are in many ways determined by location. The tapestry inspired imagery symbolizes the distorted reality that is reflected back to us as a society - that this notion of gender and the roles we’ve constructed are its own kayfabe - a teetering between what and when the performance and reality begin and end. @zeinab.saab @ninegallerypdx
Fragile Beauty, Susan Seubert
📍PDX Contemporary Art
🗓️March 5-29
The show features both small ambrotypes and large-scale pigment prints of icebergs taken by Seubert over her many years as a photographer for the National Geographic Expeditions Program. Icebergs, the offspring of glaciers and ice sheets are a testament to not only the beauty of our planet, but also of how rapidly our global climate is changing.
The pigment prints highlight the intensity of the mostly monochromatic icebergs against the unexpectedly bright colors of the water and skies. The ambrotypes are a wet-collodion negative on glass that, when viewed with a dark background, appears as a positive image. They were most popular in the mid-1850s to mid-1860s. The black and white tones reduce the icebergs to shapes and compositions, removing the nuance of color. The small size compels the viewer to come close to the work to examine the details of the ice and to appreciate the fragile beauty of this planet we call home.
#susanseubertphotography #contemporaryphoyography #ambrotypephotography #unesco
ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) by Patricia Vázquez Gómez
A multichannel video and sound installation at 📍Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Annex, 15 NE Hancock St from 🗓️March 13 – May 31.
✨Opening Reception: Saturday, March 22, from 12-4 PM.
🎬Runtime: Timed Entry. This piece will run in 45-minute increments and start at the top of each hour. (free).
⏳Hours: Thursdays 5-8 PM, Fridays 12-6 PM, Saturdays 12-4 PM.
Fresh Connections: Joshua Sin
📍Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU - 1855 SW Broadway
📌🗓️Thursday, March 6, 2025 from 12 - 1 pm
🔗RSVP: bit.ly/freshconnections-joshuasin
JSMA at PSU invites you to the Winter 2025 Fresh Connections gallery discussion with exhibiting artist Joshua Sin, featured in the museum’s current exhibition, Just Playin’ Around. Led and moderated by PSU students and faculty, the Fresh Connections program series spotlights community voices in dialogue with leading contemporary visual artists. This ongoing series seeks to engage our university community, inspire transdisciplinary connections through art, and empower students to play a critical role in shaping the future of intellectual and creative discourse at PSU. All Fresh Connections events are free and open to the public.@psu_museum_of_art @joshuasin
Please contact jsma@pdx.edu or (503) 725-6238 for inquiries regarding physical access and/or accommodations.
Image Caption: Joshua Sin, [left to right] Innocence Spirit, Imagination Spirit, and Pleasure Spirit (detail), 2024, featured in Just Playin’ Around, on view January 21 – April 26, 2025, Image: Mario Gallucci, Courtesy of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University (Portland, Oregon).
AFTER IMAGE 003
curated by Luiza Lukova
📍 @aftertimecollective
🗓️March 6-30, 2025
✨Opening Reception: First Thursday, March 6, 2025 6-9 pm
The third iteration of its annual group exhibition that questions the status and future of the image in the fine arts. Featuring 21 local and national artists each responding through their respective studio practices the state of the question regarding the image, its traces, its inherent non-neutrality, its topography, its relation to space and its possibilities in a mediatized world awash with claims to the concept of the image.
Andrea Bagdon
Megan Bainbridge
Brooks Cashbaugh
A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield
Carolyn Hazel Drake
Bryce H. Frimming
Häsler Gómez
Thomas Huston
Viktor Kobylianski
ESO MALFOR
Isaac McKenna
Ruth Meijer
S. Proski
Sydney Milan Roberts
Jacob Romero
John Walker
Nicole Williford
Ahnika Wood + Karina Rovira
Wang Yiming
Yuyang Zhang
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx
DARCI PHENIX, Sable
📍Laura Vincent Design & Gallery - 824 NW Davis St, Portland, OR
🗓️March 6, 2025
⏳Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5:30 pm
✨First Thursday Opening Reception and Album Release Party for Sable, March 6, 5-8 pm
“Sable,” a collection of songs and textiles by Portland, OR based artist, Darci Phenix, explores how memories and dreams shape our immediate reality. With the support of a RACC grant and the freedom of self-release (after 7 years on NY-based Team Love Records), Phenix is combining her two favorite mediums.
Multimedia artist, Darci Phenix, performs 3 songs off her new record and shares their textile counterparts. Come see this live performance, which includes a string trio.
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx @darciphenix #darciphenix #sable #textiles #textilesculpture
Catalyst, a solo exhibition featuring paintings by gallery member Kay Henning Danley @kaydanleyartist
📍Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland Oregon (Downstairs)
🗓️April 3- April 27
⏳Hours: Thursday-Sunday 12-5
🗣️Artist talk on Saturday, 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 @nwmarineartworks
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #contemporarypainting #northwestpainters #figurativepainters
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey 1995 - 2023
📍 @elizabethleachgallery
🗓️March 5 - April 26, 2025
✨First Thursday: March 6, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
an exhibition celebrating the life and work of Dinh Q. Lê (1968 - 2024). This is the gallery’s first exhibition of Lê’s work since his untimely passing in April of 2024. Spanning the artist’s three-decade career, this exhibition brings together several bodies of his work and features photographs, photo-weavings, and sculpture made between 1995 and 2023.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery first presented Lê’s work in 1998 and was an important platform for some of his most experimental exhibitions. At a remove from the critical audience of New York, these exhibitions were meditations on a life lived between East and West, Buddhism, and war, with photography as a medium. With his singular voice and incisive vision, Lê developed an artistic practice concerned with the mutability and insolvability of self-identity, memory, and the historical record.
This exhibition features several of Lê’s signature photo-weavings from multiple discrete bodies of work, including an example from his infamous From Vietnam to Hollywood series (2003 - 2005). These distinctive works are known for the juxtaposition of conflicting images and ideas, and are made with traditional Vietnamese mat weaving techniques that the artist learned as a child.
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #DinhQLe
FLOOR is a PWNW Alembic Co-production @pwnwpdx
📍Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR
🗓️March 21-23rd, 2025
⏳Friday and Saturday 7pm, doors open at 6:30. Sunday 2pm, doors open at 1:30pm.
🎟️To learn more and purchase tickets visit
emmalutzhiggins.com/floor or https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pwnw
Choreographed by Emma Lutz-Higgins, FLOOR is a dance work that looks at desire. How close can we get to having everything we want? Something changes and suddenly we are thrown into unfamiliar terrain, mucking through together but unsure if by the end we will know who we are to each other. The space is decorated and narrated by dancers Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, and John Niekrasz. As they move in playful and profound ways trying to locate what they want most there is a sense that time is running out. Who will be left on the dance floor? Who will find what they are looking for?
@emma.me.this @alliehankins @johnniekrasz @emulyjones
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #performance #dance
FILE NOT FOUND: New work by Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani opens March 1st at Carnation Contemporary.
Carnation Contemporary presents new paintings, print media,and sculptures by Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani. Their collaborative exhibit, File Not Found, delves into themes of absence, missing links, deleted files, and off-line presence. Drawing inspiration from the language and infrastructure of technology, Faria and Arzani explore what happens when connections are interrupted or lost. Their work proposes a new lexicon for relationships, memory, and networks of care, where gaps in information hold space for transformation and new ways of relating.
Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize
📍Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU - 1855 SW Broadway
🗓️On view February 25–April 26, 2025
✨Reception: Thursday, February 27, 5–7 PM
📩RSVP: bit.ly/arleneschnitzervisualartsprize24
⏳Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat: 11 AM–5 PM; Thurs: 11 AM–7 PM
🆓 and open to the public
The Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design and the College of the Arts celebrate the twelfth year of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize at Portland State University. A jury composed of Schnitzer School faculty and representative professionals from the art and design community reviewed 55 applications from art and design students, both undergraduate and graduate, to award three prizes. The 2024 award winners include: Olivia DelGandio (MFA in Contemporary Art Practice: Social Practice ‘24), HD Garner (BFA in Art Practice, Comic Studies Certificate, ‘24), and Michelle Jackson (BFA candidate in Art Practice, ‘25).
“My late mother, Arlene Schnitzer, and her husband, Harold, loved art! They showed me that living with art adds so much to our lives,” said Jordan Schnitzer, President of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation. “She would get so excited coming to Portland State to meet the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize winners and see these young creative minds expressing their thoughts, opinions, and dreams in various mediums. I know she would join me in congratulating Olivia DelGandio, HD Garner, and Michelle Jackson as the 2024 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients. Also, I thank the committee that did the tough job of choosing these winners. I know that they feel, as I do, that everyone who submitted art is an art winner!”
ℹ️Image Credit: Olivia DelGandio, In Our Hands (objects), 2024, nine color posters, 24 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx @psu_museum_of_art @psu_artanddesign @psu_arts @schnitzerfoundation @crampycupcakesart @liv__bliss
FIRST IMPRESSIONS an Exhibition of Monotypes
✨First Thursday Opening Reception with Don Gray, Nanette Wallace & Liz Borowski 🗓️March 6th ⏳5-8pm
📍The Writers’ Block, 818 NW Flanders St.
Join @writersblockpdx as we kick-off our 2025 series of First Thursday exhibitions with a show of monotypes, guest curated by Liz Borowski. Enjoy an evening of art, community and refreshments.
📌Don Gray is a lifelong painter and professional artist. Inspiration came from looking at what was at hand: the beautiful landscape outside his door; the people and things that made up everyday life. Over time his creative directions have expanded, but the sources remain the same. @dongrayart
📌Nanette Wallace’s gestural artwork is created as an emotional response to the world around her, with an especially deep connection to water, nature, and the play of light.@nanettewallace
📌Liz Borowski creative process is akin to a magical practice as she lets the work flow through her. The alchemy of mark-making generates a search for meaning, a tool for learning, and a way to find her place in the world. She values color, curiosity and collaboration, and enjoys sharing her process with others.
Open Gallery Hours will be held from 11am-2 pm on the following days:
Monday, March 10th: Don Gray
Wednesday, March 12th: Liz Borowski
Friday, March 14th: Liz Borowski
Monday, March 17th: Don Gray
Wednesday, March 19th: Nanette Wallace
Friday, March 21st: Liz Borowski
🎨1. Water Moon by Liz Borowski, 2. Earthen Voice #2 by Don Gray, 3. Emille by Nanette Wallace
#artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #thewritersblock #thewritersblockpdx