Rebecca Reeve
Rebecca Reeve takes to the woods with powdered pigments to spray-paint ferns, logs, stones, and twigs in a spectrum of vivid colors. She then hangs Venetian blinds from supports hidden just outside her camera’s viewfinder. More...
That Minimalist Wall
There is the idea being discussed of turning Trump’s Great Wall into a monument to folly, greed and stupidity. Screw the wall, save the prototypes. More...
Trenton Doyle Hancock
There are multiple ways to experience Trenton Doyle Hancock's “An Ingenue’s Hues.” There is the rich visual imagery. And there is the existential, pseudo-biblical drawings from Chapter 1 of “The Moundverse.” More...
Viola Frey
The plates and massive figures included in this small selection of Viola Frey's ceramics capture her eye for human foibles. More...
Judithe Hernández
Among the founding members of Los Four, Judith Hernandez has, until now, been the most under the public's radar. Her bold use of color and disciplined drafting skills imbued with political themes makes for a highly accessible viewing experience. More...
Timothy Harding
Holding strong to a minimalist abstract aesthetic, Timothy Harding heads in a new direction imbued with waveforms, arcs and curved lines. More...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan's sprawling installations can seem to grow like weeds taking over large gallery spaces. But it is her use of materials that steals the show. Rich as they appear at a distance, get close to register the Styrene index cards, straws and other common consumer items attached together by the thousands. More...
Laura Davis and Dan Devening
Laura Davis and Dan Devening seem to come from very different aesthetic camps. Devening is a cool formalist, while Davis culls from the sentimentality of mementos and found objects. But looks can be deceiving. More...
Mokha Laget
Mocha Laget’s paintings combine flat, geometric, colorful shapes with the illusion of depth, toggling from singular to multiple shapes and back. More...
Black and Blue
David S. Rubin finds new and unexpected insights to the art of Alexander Calder and Betye Saar in their recent exhibitions. More...
Rick Bartow
A startling and magical aura fills Rick Bartow's work, concocting a blend of mainstream American sensibility with a shamanistic spirituality. More...
Alfredo Arreguín
“Life Patterns” is partly a pun on Alfredo Arreguint’s signature undergirding of lines added beneath and over images. It also makes clear how Arrequín’s choices of what to paint have been connected to his personal life. More...
“Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art”
The contrast between soaring, expansive gesture and empty space in "Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art" sets up a dynamic between form and absence that is central to Japanese taste. More...
Diego Pérez
Playing with myriad intersections between cultures, historical periods, and methods of communication, Diego Pérez' works thrust us into a tenuous threshold between the familiar and the strange More...
Loring Taoka
Loring Taoka pins his acrylic paintings on Plexiglas to a support that makes it feel like they are floating in space. More...
Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson knows what to do with all manner of fabric, glitter, plastic jewels and faux flowers, the masses of colors and patterns functioning as to both lure us in and partially disguise the content to be found within them. More...
Art and Houseplants
Richard Speer visits some Portland businesses that take their art seriously, not just using it for ambience, but with real curatorial intent and with artists sporting solid art world resumés. More...
Ray Brown
Ray Brown here exhibits works from the 1960s that, in hindsight, were adventurous and experimental for their time for their deft interweaving of figurative and abstract elements within a single painting. More...
Theodora Varnay Jones
Drawing on Plato's ancient idealism, Theodora Varnay Jones deploys her layered work in the service of art and philosophy. More...
