Mary Josephson and Gregory Grenon
To outward appearances the artist couple Gregory Grenon and Mary Josephson shared similar styles of eccentric figuration. But while Grenon portrayed a version of the feminine mystique, Josephson pays homage to classical models. More...
Julia Maiuri, "Mindscreen"
"Mindscreen" refers to a film practice that depicts what a character in thinking about. In her small paintings, which draw on or reflect film stills, Julia Maiuri mirrors this to deliberate about dreams and the unconscious. More...
William Hernandez: I Wish I Could
The double aesthetic identity between William Hernandez's easel and mural painting is central to "I Wish I Could." Figures look away from one another, emphasizing isolation even in the presence of others. More...
McKay Otto, “Vanishing Vibrations”
McKay Otto's signature ethereal gridded paintings are paired with wall mounted light box assemblages centered on single words that reflect Otto's essential question: "Do we ever reach the unreachable ever ... ?" More...
Found Object Facsimile
Daniel McClain, Claudia Tarantino and Bill Abright employ illusionism to powerful effects all adept at tricking the brain. More...
Rick Silva, “PEAKING”
“PEAKING” is a site-specific installation by sound and video artist Rick Silva that questions how human beings impact nature, done with a lyricism and sense of enigma that merges high romanticism with futurism. More...
Pancho Jiménez
The ceramic sculptures of Pancho Jiménez continue the Bay Area tradition of ceramic satire, but in a subtler vein. These pseudo-artifacts feature cute mass-market imagery jumbled together as if engulfed in fire, flood, earthquake, or lava flow. More...
Liss LaFleur, “The Queer Birth Project”
Interdisciplinary artist Liss LaFleur serves as curator with renowned sociologist Katherine Sobering for the inaugural exhibition of “The Queer Birth Project,” which seeks to include queer women and the idea of gender nonconforming bodies in the conversation about motherhood. More...
Christina Quarles, Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James
To decipher Christina Quarles figurative images one must change focal points and piece things together. Christopher Paul Jordan paints delicately on old window and door screens salvaged from historically black neighborhoods in Tacoma, Washington. Arnaldo James’ vivid color photography is presented on large, slick digital screens. More...
Jovencio de la Paz
Fiber artist Jovencio de la Paz gets between the hand and the machine to explore Nils Aall Baricelli's math and Symbiogenesis. More...
Paul Wonner, “Landscape of Objects, 1966-2001”
Works here by Paul Wonner from the 1970s onward depict sunny, artifact-strewn gardens redolent of the good life. The drama of his compositions lies in the light that casts sharp shadows; and the tabletops seen at abnormally steep angles More...
Barbara Kruger, “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.”
The power of her use of language, and more specifically text, has given Berbara Kruger’s work a nearly unsurpassable omnipresence in the art world and beyond. Thus current survey drives the point, and demand a lot of processing on our part. More...
Robert Colescott: Humor is the Bait
“If you decide to laugh, don’t forget the humor is the bait, and once you’ve bitten, you may have to do some serious chewing. The tears may come later.”
— Robert Colescott More...
2020: Three Artists
Carrie Zeller, Jorge Dubin and Tom Lamb display their distinct creative and healing responses to the travails of life during the Covid pandemic. More...
Digital Combines, Group Exhibition
Robert Rauschenberg's invention of the combine 70 years ago informs and is updated by these "Digital Combines." Each work is paired with a digital counterpoint and QR code mounted alongside the image, allow us to access text, video, audio, or commentary expanding on the art that appears in the gallery. More...
Lothar Schmitz and Ephraim Puusemp
Lothar Schmitz's new installation, "Artificia," treats the gallery as a discovery museum, connecting nature and technology through the use of video monitors and projections in a variety of formats and scales. Complementing this, Ephraim Puusemp presents images of galaxies and nebulae that are not exactly what they appear to be. More...
Henk Pander, “Artist as Eyewitness”
Henk Pander’s paintings never shy from the enduring theme of man’s inhumanity to man. This small grouping of four paintings tell the story of Portland’s 2020 street confrontation between far right Proud Boys and Antifa activists. More...
