The Latest

Power Plants, Marcus Sendlinger 📍after / time collective gallery 🗓️ February 6-28, 2025. ✨First Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6-9 PM. Employing works on canvas and paper, Sendlinger recontextualizes materials whose intended use is in industrial production into works of art that respond to current social and cultural phenomena, in particular the complex and evolving relations between cultures and nations in the wake of the Second World War. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

Brief Encounters 📍 Carnation Contemporary 🗓️ February 1-28, 2025 Brief Encounters is an exploration of the legacy of artists using instant photography to express the queer experience. Queer people have used instant formats to protect the free expression of their intimacies, relationships, sexual liaisons, and communities; some of the risks of showing these images exist to this day. Brief Encounters functions to encourage artists to freely express aspects of queerness, resulting in diverse approaches to the instant format. Audiences will witness deeply personal glimpses into the lives of these artists as well as wild departures from what one may expect from “queer photography.” The most surprising connection that emerged through this project was how these artists take what would otherwise be waste and transform it into fully realized artwork for this exhibition. These queer artists seem to have a natural tenderness towards things which have been neglected, marginalized or thrown away. Exhibiting Artists: Ryan Rudewicz @rude.polaroids Wayne Bund @bundlandia Ian Lewandowski @ilewando Soft Butch @soft_butch Catalina Bulgach @oldassdutchess Nate Francis @natehfrancis Tom Kay @tomofportland Jamieson Edson @j_a_m_i_e_s Chris Moody @horsegurlpress José Tinoco @j0setin0c0 Shadows Gather @shadows.gather Kareem Michael Worrell @kareemworrellphoto C Meier @rispix Christian Rogers Christianmakesthings Michael Espinoza @michaelespinozaart Jackson Fader @bigbrojacks Stuart Sandford @stuartsandford Carlos Enfedaque @enfedead #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

Man on the Land, Tyler Stoll 📍Well Well Project 🗓️Feb 1-23, 2025 Stoll reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

“Sanctum” at Past Lives Gallery will be a sanctuary of art, music and creative storytelling. 🗓️FRI, FEB 7, from 6-10 pm. (Performances begin at 7 pm) We’ll recall ancient wisdom (where community was valued & a way of life, we viewed ourselves & our ecosystems as part of a web of connection, and embraced the natural cycles of life, birth, and death) expressed through modern technology, installations, & stage performances. In conjunction with @portlandwinterlightfestival ✨ Our stage will host live synth performances: Occurian (@occurian ) Modular synth w/interactive light show Infinite Fire, a creative collaboration between Kristen Curry of WhiteHeart Ritual Art & Ramon Mills of Production Unit Xero and Heterodex Records @puxflux FlightCall (Tai Woodville,@taiwoodville, Iamflightcall.com) Warm, evocative vocals, buoyed by soundscapes of sparkling synths, Flight Call’s synth pop odyssey invites the listener beyond the duality simulation of Earth into a timeless dimension of love. 1“Tidewalker” installation by Kristen Curry @whiteheartritualart 2 Flightcall, opening performance at 7 pm 3 Kristen Curry @whiteheartritualart performing her “ Do Not Forget I Belong to the Sun” performance 7:30 pm this Fri at 7:30 pm - I think the wring image got uploaded. 🙏 Also Featuring: Photobooth Live Forge Demo by Billy O Interactive Art Installations & fortune generator Makerspace tours available Past Lives Gallery features local artists/makers, as well as marginalized & incarcerated artists- our makerspace aims to be a beacon of light to those in need of a 2nd chance. #artandaboutpdx #sanctum #artopening #artgallery #firstfriday #firstfridaypdx #pastlivesgallery #pastlivesmakerspace #portlandnightlife #artinpdx #pdx #winterlightsfestival #portlandfreeevent #portlandart #artportland #liveperformance #whattodothisweekendpdx #portlandartscene #techart

Hyun-taek Cho: Vacant Room 📍Blue Sky Gallery 🗓️February 6 - March 1, 2025 ✨First Thursday Opening: February 6, 5-8 PM 🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, February 8, 3:30 PM Hundreds of abandoned homes in Cho’s hometown Naju are documented through the camera obscura technique while ruminating on the loss of their grandmother. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #photographyinstallation

Colton Rothwell: Pearl Road 📍Blue Sky Gallery 🗓️ February 6 - March 1, 2025 ✨First Thursday Opening: February 6, 5-8 PM 🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, February 8 from 2 PM Torn between conforming to traditional masculine ideals or forging his own identity, Rothwell grapples with the American West myth in this photographic series. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #contemporaryphotography #americanwest

Mark Dunst, Wandering 📍Laura Vincent Design & Gallery 🗓️February 6 - March 1, 2025 ✨Opening Reception, February 6, 5-8 PM. 🗣️A Dialogue with the Artist, February 22, 11-12 PM. New abstract paintings that “ embrace uncertainty and remain open to the unknown.” Inspired from wandering around the studio. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx @markdustart @lvdesignandgallery #markdunstart #abstract #paintings #pdxart #lvdesignandgallery #contemporaryart #artgallery

On Being a Porous Boundary 📍 Hoffman Art Gallery 🗓️ February 18, 2025 Boundaries are necessary and real: strong and protective, hard-edged and cutting, blurry and binding; breachable, fallible; soft, malleable, and breathing; a conduit. To be a porous boundary means that we exist as all of these things, always individually, and often inextricably linked to each other. In her essay Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water, Astrida Neimanis posits that “As watery, we experience ourselves less as isolated entities, and more as oceanic eddies: I am a singular, dynamic whorl dissolving in a complex, fluid circulation.” There is pleasure and joy in porosity, in connection; there can be deep discomfort when we lose sight of ourselves, of each other, or when there is a loss so great that grief obliterates (or, perhaps, vastly expands) our boundaries; and there is generative possibility in separation, in the common human experience of loneliness. What does care look like in the context of this viscous porosity? How do we care for ourselves, for those in our immediate orbit, for strangers? How and when might we choose to hold strangers closely? What amount of fierceness or tenderness is necessary? What seeps through? On Being a Porous Boundary features immersive paintings, bodily ceramic sculpture, and monumental paper sculpture by Catherine Fairbanks, and intimate poetry by Catherine Barnett, which has been hand-drawn for the exhibition by Nuria Kiesebrink-Pareick. The exhibition also includes a reading room with a selection of books and resources—curated by Lewis & Clark faculty and staff Daena Goldsmith, Alexis Rehrmann, Kabir Heimsath, Reiko Hillyer, Erica Jensen, and Mary Szybist—that relate to boundaries as seen through the lenses of Narrative Medicine, Anthropology, History, Art, and Literature. The space is intended for classes and the public to gather, ponder, and converse. @a_bprojects @faircatherine @nicoleseisler @lclarkart #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

Portals: A pop-up art show featuring the paintings of Eleanore Bernadas. Portals at 📍Corner Gallery on 🗓️Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5-10 PM. Bernadas explores “light alongside themes of transition, impermanence, and isolation.” Music, drinks, and snacks will be available at the event, sponsored @yovubeer #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

For the Love of Trees, Nancy Floyd at 📍Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, until 🗓️June 21, 2025. 🗣️Gallery Talk, February 11, 12:30 PM, Study Gallery and Print Study Center. 🫸🫷Conversation with Julia Dolan, Minor White Senior Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum, Thursday, Feb 13, 7:30 PM, Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University College of Law. In 2022, Floyd was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to embark on a multi-year project exploring the unique bond that Oregonians have with the forest and trees, including those who study trees, those who protect trees, those who make a living off trees, and those who see trees as part of their daily life. In the process, she has interviewed key stakeholders in the timber and forestry business; followed workers into the forest as they cut or studied trees; visited mills and shadowed those who work there; and accompanied workers at tree farms as they planted and nurtured trees. The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past two years. #artandaboutpdx #fortheloveoftrees #nancyfloyd #nancyfloydphotography #andrewsforest #oregonartscene #hjandrewsexperimentalforest #artscience #oregon #pacificnorthwest #forest #ecology #trees #contemporaryart #oregonartist #bendoregonartist #centraloregonartist

COMPANY, an exhibition of new paintings by artist Storm Tharp 📍 @pdxcontemporaryart 🗓️ Feb 5- March 1, 2025 ⏳ Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-5 pm Guided by an undeniable affection for the history of portraiture and a loving indulgence in color, Tharp’s suite of paintings amplify aspects of his signature style of figurative abstraction and feature a cast of characters that murmur together in warm orange, hot coral, salmon, and persimmon and lay lush against lavender, mulberry, deep purple and grey. The singular figures in COMPANY hinge and lean against their achromatic backdrops. Devoid of context, their gestures and expressions are at once staged and vulnerable, spot-lit and intimate. Together, the ensemble seems to explore that space where theatricality and honesty overlap and where abstraction and representation exist simultaneously, collapsed together in the gestural brushwork on the surface of a collared shirt, the unexpected hue of a shadowed neck, or the blushing swirl that becomes the face of a peony. In these works, Tharp has assembled a gathering of what he most loves from art history, fashion, performance and the world of color. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #stormtharp #pdxcontemporaryart

Winter Group Exhibition 📍Froelick Gallery 714 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR 🗓️02/04/2025 - 03/01/2025 ⏳Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 5:30 pm ✨Opening Reception on Thursday, February 6th from 5 to 8 pm First group exhibition of 2025 @froelick_gallery , featuring new works from artists Orlando Almanza, Gwen Davidson, V. Maldonado, Benny Fountain, Emma Gerigscott, Terrell James, Kevin Kadar, Rebecca Boraz and more. #froelickgallery #froelickartgallery #portlandartgallery #portlandartist #firstthursday #groupexhibition #portlandartwalk #portlandpearldistrict

Unconventional Wisdom: The Work of North Pole Studio 📍Waterstone @waterstonegallery 🗓️February 5-March 2 ⏳Hours: Wed-Sat 11-5:30pm, Sun 11-4pm This February, Waterstone is pleased to presents, their annual invitational exhibition. This year’s group show is a collection of works by Adam Richards, Adolph Bastendorff, Davis Wohlford, Deanna Wiessenhaus, Doug Wing, James Enos, Nathan Ueno, and Tyla Parson of North Pole Studio. Watersone is thrilled to feature this Portland-based nonprofit progressive arts studio empowering artists with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities to lead self-determined lives and careers. For this exhibition, North Pole Artists used paint, marker, colored pencil, paper, photographs, wood, felt, paper mache, and more to make bright and playful depictions of the world both within and around us. Through imaginative and referential creations, the artists show viewers what is personally meaningful to them. From herds of animals, purple and yellow local buildings, repeated symbols, sculptural cameras, and other treasures, Unconventional Wisdom teaches us about the vibrancy of our interconnectedness. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #waterstonegallery #northpolestudios #pada

Tender to the Touch, A solo exhibition by Kim Smith Claudel 📍Mt Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery / 2600 SE Stark St. / Gresham, OR 🗓️February 3 - 27, 2025 ⏳Hours: Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm; by appt on Friday and Saturday Tender to the Touch suggests a time of softening, a time to be tender and also a time of feeling tender—sore, sensitive, bruised; and yet, still strong and resilient. This exhibition is a collection of recent works: tenuous sculptures on the verge of collapse, large ethereal paintings stretched bare on the walls like skins, compositions arranged with both intention and provisionality. Intersections between painting, sculpture, and installation create spaces of slowing, of noticing, and revelation. With objects and arrangements from a playful and open practice—one rooted in intuition and ritual—this show reveals an intimate glimpse into the creative process, one in which art can distill and reflect that which is outside of ourselves, that which connects us and also escapes our limits of language. These are constellations that embrace change—change as the thing we measure with time—confronting the natural tendency toward entropy, as we attempt to create order from spiraling disarray. By letting go of the need for the preciousness of the lasting art object, the work celebrates the fleeting, ephemeral moments that balance in fragile equilibrium. @kimsmithstudio #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

The premiere of In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, a new work by Linda Austin Dance @lin.da.aus.tin 🗓️ February 6-7 📍Portland Institute for Contemporary Art @picapdx

SURVIVAL AND INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY (PRESS RELEASE) Survival and Intimations of Immortality The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana 🗓️January 26 – May 25, 2025 📍 @ojmche Talents are passed down from generation to generation. But are memories? The Cahana family provides a very strong argument for the transmission of both talent and memory via DNA. The powerful exhibition of 16 paintings, five multi-media sculptures, 18 photographs, three documentary films, 21 family photographs and videos, and poems displays the artistic expressions of three members – three generations – of the Cahana family: the grandmother who survived the Holocaust; her eldest son who is a poet and survived a brain-stem stroke; and her eldest granddaughter who is a photographer and filmmaker and documents her father’s recovery and whose use of visual metaphor echoes her grandmother’s. Each featured artist – Alice, Ronnie, and Kitra – takes their own artistic and expressive path to provide a through-line to preserving the culture, identity, and memories that are their own, those of their shared family, and those of the Jewish people.

In Light, In!” by Ken Paul Rosenthal 📍 @blueskygallerypdx 🗓️Jan 9 - Feb 1, 2025 ⌛️Hours Wed - Sat, 12 - 5 PM In Light, In! is a visual essay by Ken Paul Rosenthal that explores society’s struggles with emotional distress, using revised clips from 1950s social hygiene films paired with original compositions by cellist Zoe Keating. Rosenthal aims to foster intimacy with the living world and alleviate suffering through beauty and compassion. With a focus on the tactile nature of cinema, the project challenges notions of authenticity and our perception of reality in an ever-changing media world. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #BlueSkyGalleryPDX #KenPaulRosenthal #InLightIn

“Our Town After Dark” by Ford Gilbreath 📍 @blueskygallerypdx 🗓️Jan 9 - Feb 1, 2025 ⌛️Hours Wed - Sat, 12 - 5 PM “Our Town After Dark” is a photographic series started after Ford Gilbreath and his partner moved to a rural town of eastern Washington in 2018, where the night sky and local surroundings sparked his exploration. The town at night is characterized by a mix of artificial and natural light, with elements of both community warmth and infrastructure decay. Through his lens, Gilbreath captures the contrast between isolation and togetherness, evoking reflections on small-town life. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx #BlueSkyGalleryPDX #FordGilbreath #OurTownAfterDark

Nate Orton, King Tide in Empty Spaces 🗓️January 2-30, 2025 📍after/time @aftertimecollective Discrete images, flanerie, giving form to poetic engagement with the lived environment are among the many factors that go into Orton’s practice. In this his first solo exhibition at after / time, he presents a new body of work in the form of casein on panel paintings, a wall mural and books that reveal aspects of our present. Dean Kissick, in the recent issue of Harper’s entitled, “The Painted Protest” points out that much of contemporary art is dedicated to a studied avoidance of the present in favor of the past or future. Orton’s body of work, reflecting the aspirations of after / time’s curatorial approach, stays firmly grounded in the present, negotiating all the resonances and symbol-formations while actively revaluing the past as one way of getting perspective on possible future trajectories for art and what it has to say. We are thrilled to support and exhibit this prolific local artist and enable him to share his vision. Featuring a new body of work in the form of paintings, books and a large wall mural, local artist, writer and publisher Nate Orton’s practice spans a broad and deep reservoir of modalities that are by turns poetic and whimsical and yet are grounded in the present and the quotidian. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx

Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward, Epiphany Couch 🗓️January 4—26, 2025 📍Carnation Contemporary When our ancestors call to us, how do we respond? This question lies at the heart of Epiphany Couch’s installation, Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward. Originally presented by Dreaming in Public at the Seattle Art Fair, this expanded iteration pays tribute to Couch’s grandmother and great-grandfather, honoring the enduring legacy of generational knowledge. Modeled after her grandmother’s kitchen—a sacred space where stories, food, and wisdom were shared—Couch invites us to a place that acknowledges the anger and loss woven into family histories while transforming these emotions into pathways for healing. Through family photographs, intricate beadwork, and sculptural objects, she builds bridges across generations, delving into the complexities of heritage, identity, and familial relationships. #artandaboutpdx #artgallery #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #pdx #pnw #whattodothisweekendpdx