Hometown Expats
It's tempting to gripe about the well known pattern of artists moving into a crummy neighborhood to get cheap space; upgrading the area and making it cool; and then being priced out. DeWitt Cheng offers some upside reflections. More...
“27th Anniversary Group Exhibition”
More than celebrating this gallery's longevity, this anniversary survey summarizes its continuing commitment to painterly abstraction, as well as marking its recent relocation from the Pearl District to the east side of the river. Don't laugh--if you are a Portlander you know what we mean. More...
Holocaust Memorials of Poland Cross Political Eras
Recently in Poland, Matthew Kangas encountered a series of Holocaust memorials that over a half century reflected changes in how and to what degree history and political reflection shapes aesthetic intent. More...
“Hapsburg Splendor”
This drop dead gathering of treasures from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is an absolute visual feast and a history lesson. More...
Faheem Majeed
Ordinary particleboard serves as a central vehicle for Faheem Majeed to express personal and community histories and issues. Freely addressing topics of race and politics he conveys an uplifting feeling that resistance is anything but useless. More...
The Artist as Charity
It makes us feel very nice to see artists contributing their work for glittery charity events that support good causes, no doubt. But might there be a dark ring around such an apparently clean transaction? More...
Alice Shaw
California is known as the "golden state," which conceptualist Alice Shaw plays to the hilt in her witty send-up of wealth and celebrity. More...
Rick Oginz
Sculptor and illustrator Rick Oginz mines his imagination, his observations of current events and his personal issues before he ever puts a pen to paper or a chisel to wood, which produces works that are multi-faceted for their emotions, humor and thoughtfulness. More...
Michael Arcega
Anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner reflected on American culture from a detached viewpoint by turning our name around to become "Nacirema." Michael Arcega packs the gallery with objects from this bizarre culture to make us both laugh and squirm. More...
Jessica Hess
Paintings of urban ruins by Jessica Hess that embellish or further despoil them with graffiti are gorgeous to the eye but so dystopian. More...
Donald Lipski
Donald Lipski stretches, drapes and otherwise tortures the shape of glass bottles, fills them with Scotch and us with surprise. More...
Kim Stringfellow
Early homesteading in the desert environment of the Morongo Basin dates only from 1938. A minimal structure built on the otherwise free property was a requirement, and this is the basis for Kim Stringfellow's photo-centric narrative history. More...
Jesús Moroles: Connecting Us to the Cosmos
Jesús Moroles died recently in a tragic car accident. He will be remembered as one of his generations major public artists and an absolute magician in the use of granite, which he used to create monuments connecting the earth to the cosmos. More...
“Eye 2 Eye”
Artists of the Eye Lounge collective offer both collaborative and individual works, with the solo ventures finally winning the race. More...
Matt Clark and Jackson Echols
Combining a unique photography process developed by Jackson Echols with expressive paint handling by Matt Clark, this collaborative duo produces wildly lyrical abstractions that seethe and grow and expand to fill a picture plane. More...
Nosego
The zany visual mashups of Nosego might reflect the deep contemplation of a monk or the ravings of a cartoonish idiot. Probably both. More...
“Body Mass Index”
Four emerging Chicago artists, Abel Guzman, Mike Rubin, B. Quinn and Ross Normandin visualize the body mostly in the form of its traces that are by turns quite exquisite or downright repulsive. More...
Nathaniel Thayer Moss
Nathaniel Thayer Moss' optical geometric abstractions face a pair of large panels across from a large grid of smaller works. More...
