Robert Buelteman
Robert Buelteman's carefully arranged plant photographs are subjected to a panoply of techniques that produce auras and other delightful effects. More...
Hannah Epstein
Hannah Epstein wallpapers white bricks onto the wall and carpets the floor of a gallery with a fiery pattern of bubbling lava. To this ground she mounts a melange of animal and human forms to humorous and crude effect. More...
When Too Much is Not Enough
Sometimes exhibitions trip on their way to blockbuster status because they bulk up so much they dilute what might have been. More...
John Upton
At age 87, photographer John Upton receives his first solo exhibition. It's a condensed retrospective covering six decades in four series of images. His is a practiced eye for composition informed by a restless curiosity about the world around him. More...
“The Lavender Palette”
"The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State" takes a fascinating dive into an overlooked chapter of the region's art history. More...
Patrick Renner
Patrick Renner builds installations of found wood, has for years. All manner of objects and refuse find their way from the streets of Houston into bewildering, sprawling and miraculous works like "Scum Angel," "Green Thumb" and others. More...
Mural Madness
One of Portland's newest architectural landmarks started so promisingly, until its mural facade of psychedelic protozoa was added at the end, turning the whole thing into an eyesore. More...
Graphic Subversion
Mark Steven Greenfield and Mark Dean Veca approach mark making as a vehicle for reinterpreting historical and media imagery. More...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser despised straight lines and took pains to avoid them. This is very much in evidence in the prints, which are a paean to nature-worship. More...
Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada
For an exhibition that covers so much ground, “Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada” is deceptively and wonderfully modest. The video and installation address the meaning of home and interrogates place, identity and the imposition of colonialization. More...
Gregg Laananen
Gregg Laananen’s latest shimmering, pointillistic landscapes expose a possible transition between realism and formalism. More...
Net Art’s Archival Poetics
Net art relies on the computer, but evocative elements often happen through encounters between user and machine. More...
Darryl J. Curran
Darryl J. Curran has integrated and extended photography’s conceptual strategies into his work as it evolved and morphed through the art world zeitgeist for decades. This tightly organized survey rightly places Curran in the top tier of his generations photographers. More...
Naama Tsabar
In "Inversions" Naama Tsabar's geometric wall works are fashioned from thick colored felt that cascades off the wall. Completed with piano strings and floor and wall mounted speakers, these are artworks meant to be played. More...
Sophie Calle
Photographer and conceptualist Sophie Calle veils images of people, places and things behind curtains stamped with poetic musings. More...
Nicola Roos
Nicola Roos' full sized figures examine Yasuke's mythical and historical status. Yasuke was the first African to serve in Japan as a samurai. More...
Get the Most Out of a Trip to the Museum
A recent New York Times column by Harry Guinness offered a new formula for getting the most out of a visit to the museum. Margaret Hawkins gave it a try, and the experience led to her own new rules. She walks us through. More...
Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous and elegant as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control. More...
Julia Fish
In her quiet, minimalist works Julia Fish ensures that the way we experience space is changed. The light, palette and architecture of her own home provide the basis for her unique perceptions of the abstract within the representational. More...
David Eckard
There is a palpable feeling of nostalgia imbued in David Eckard''s vaguely human body parts in the process of deterioration. More...
