Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick, defaced with graffiti and maintained by small, faceless, lumpen workers, are absurd and sad and strangely beautiful. More...
Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko integrates collage and geometric abstraction in an intricate mélange of the quotidian and inspired imagination. More...
Anna Kunz
Anna Kunz’s “Color Cast” is a gallery-sized abstract painting full of transparent layering and vibrant hues. She immerses us as participants in rather than observers of formalism. More...
Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination. More...
Eduardo Carrillo/“The Feminine Sublime”/Ana Serrano
Three diverse exhibitions connected by their "Testament of the Spirit" are led by Eduardo Carrillo's exceptional "Chicano History" painting and a selection of intimate self-portraits. More...
Art and Apocalypse
Images of annihilation have take on fresh urgency during the past year. Richard Speer calls our attention to a pair of exhibitions that suggest a silver lining that are not mere exercises in denial. More...
Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host of studio salons. She wrote with insight, chutzpah and a first person voice that inhabited some of history's most interesting and idiosyncratic artists. More...
Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster. More...
FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration. More...
Kate Gilmore
It takes a while to grasp what we are looking at. As Kate Gilmore's "Morning Rage" becomes clear we share the catharsis. More...
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body)”
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body),” celebrates the life and work of the late Ana Mendieta. Over 30 years after her untimely death she still inspires artists who use their own bodies in ways deeply indebted to their precursor. More...
Devorah Sperber
Familiar art historical icons are reconstructed by Devorah Sperber using spools of thread that are viewed through an ocular sphere. More...
The Power of Mark Making
Recent exhibitions by Robin Mitchell and Robert Walker demonstrated the continued viability of obsessive mark making. The accumulated effect of such accumulations transfers a heightened state of consciousness from artist to viewer. More...
Natalie Arnoldi
The ominous interior spaces painted by Natalie Arnoldi are that way for a reason. They are relics of history’s most brutal episode. More...
Liz Tran
With its high-keyed chromaticism and circus-tent iconography, Liz Tran’s “Elation Station” is a carnivalesque retinal pleasure with a minimum of referential distraction. More...
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones paintings of standing, featureless figures posing in landscapes and interiors are all about color and implicit drama. More...
Kim Schoenstadt
Particularly now, the values that a government building's architecture embodies are up for grabs. Kim Schoenstadt offers a cool but sharp eye in her abstract mash-ups of civic houses of power; not just Amerian, either. More...
