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...
“Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy”
Ragnar Kjartansson's recent durational performance "Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy" posted 30 women throughout San Francisco's Women's Building, each performing familiar songs with casually misogynistic lyrics. More...
Etsuko Ichikawa and Peter Olson
Etsuko Ichikawa’s serene works and Peter Olson’s brash ones, divergent as they are, show both artists are alchemists of a sort. 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...
Portland Evolves from Figure to Field
Visiting from Seattle, Matthew Kangas explores the unique virtues of Portland's current scene, starting with its one but singular major art museum, the popular Pearl District galleries, and the upstart Northeast district across the river. More...
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work. More...
