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Marie Watt & James Lavadour: Forbes Magazine

Forbes lists Marie Watt and James Lavadour as artists to watch ...

Ellen George: Oregon Artswatch

Ellen George featured in "Descendent Threads" at the Portland Chinatown Museum October 4 - November 10, 2018 ...

Terry Toedtemeier: Sun, Shadows, Stone at the Tacoma Art Museum

Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier @ the Tacoma Art Museum October 20, 2018 - February 17, 2019 ...

James Lavadour: Crystal Bridges catalog "Art For a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950's to Now"

James Lavadour's painting selected for the "Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now" Catalog, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Jenene Nagy: Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Jenene Nagy “condition + practice” @ Minneapolis College of Art and Design, October 5 - November 6…

Storm Tharp: 'HOUSE MODEL' at Cooley Gallery: Case Works, Reed College

Storm Tharp exhibits at Cooley Gallery: Case Works, Reed College.

Heather Watkins: Review on Oregon Arts Ecology Project

"Waiting Room", Heather Watkins' solo exhibition reviewed for the Oregon Arts Ecology Project by Sam Hopple; "...Watkins’ embroideries are strangely soothing, poetically beautiful, and complex. They speak to how we experience the passage of time in moments of uncertainty through the tranquil and meditative act of mark making." ...

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen: Series of Saturday morning reading discussions in the gallery

We're excited to co-host a series of Saturday morning reading discussions in the gallery June 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 11:30-1pm. Discussions are open to the public.

Join us at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART:

Saturday, June 9th, 11:30am-1pm with Emily Squires
Saturday, June 16th, 11:30am-1pm with Rachel Hines
and Saturday, June 23rd, 11:30am-1pm with Ariana Jacob
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Vanessa Renwick: Releases her new film "Kesh"

"Kesh," a new short film by Vanessa Renwick featuring music composed by Ursula Le Guin and Todd Barton posted on Quietus, a British based arts website...

Vanessa Renwick: Welcome to Your Cell, Curated by Renwick

Outer Space Gallery, 3726 NE 7th Avenue, Portland OR - Saturday / Sunday, May 12, 13 + 19, 20 1:00 - 8:00pm; Special late viewing Friday May 18, 2018 from 6:00 - 10:00pm ...

Nancy Lorenz: Moon Gold at the San Diego Museum of Art

Nancy Lorenz: Moon Gold at the San Diego Museum of Art, April 27 - September 3, 2018. A solo exhibition showcasing important selections from her sketchbooks, intimately scaled studies, a series of new boxes, and a new body of large-scale work inspired by Japanese masterpieces housed in the San Diego Art Museum's own permanent collection...

Nancy Lorenz: The San Diego Union-Tribune

Nancy Lorenz's solo exhibition, Moon Gold, reviewed in The San Diego Union-Tribune ...

Justin L'Amie: Morris Graves Museum of Art, solo exhibition "The Beautiful Night"

Justin L’Amie: The Beautiful Night
April 21 to June 10
We live in a world that I am told is guided by scientific rules and principles. There are reasons why each plant grows the way it does. There are reasons that a frog doesn't give birth to a bird. There are reasons things feel different at night. I am sure there are reasons why. Traveling to new places I see that everything looks familiar, yet different. The same or similar shapes, colours and textures. Variation and combination, repetition without repeating. Rare new life. They are new flowers to me. Insects with green eyes.

Art Conversations: What It’s Like in the Studio - Tax Day Happy Hour

A conversation between artists about what it is like to be in their studios Tuesday, April 17 at 5:30 pm, RSVP required by April 10:gallery@pdxcontemporaryart.com …

Victoria Haven: Crosscut - An artistic holdout in South Lake Union’s tech landscape

Artist Victoria Haven has shown her abstract paintings, drawings and multimedia pieces in galleries from Seattle Art Museum to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But her current exhibit may be the biggest yet — at least in terms of audience. Clearly visible to anyone commuting to and from downtown via Highway 99 (as well as brave souls taking Mercer Avenue eastbound), “Banner Year” consists of regularly changing signs facing out from two windows in Haven’s fourth-floor studio in South Lake Union...

Jenene Nagy: "Morphologies" at c3: Initiative

"Morphologies" at c3: Initiative MARCH 31 - MAY 5.......................................Work from 2017 c3: Papermaking Residency artists Mary Campbell, Brenda Mallory, Benjamin Mefford and Jenene Nagy. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a primary medium to create new works that present ideas central to their art practice...

Vanessa Renwick: “Richart” at The National Gallery of Art - April 8, 2018

April 8, 2018 at 4:00 - Vanessa Renwick’s short “Richart” will be screened at The National Gallery of Art along with Bill Daniel’s “Who Is Bozo Textino?”. Both Renwick and Daniel will be in attendance with Renwick introducing her friend and collaborator Daniel...

Anne Appleby: We Sit Together the Mountain and Me at the Tacoma Art Museum

Anne Appleby’s solo exhibition, We Sit Together the Mountain and Me, at the Tacoma Art Museum, March 10 – June 3, 2018. The exhibition largely features new works inspired by the Elkhorn Mountains of Montana and trees in the Southwestern desert. The exhibition will include the multi panel oil paintings that she is renown for as well as the continuation of a new body of gouaches on paper.

Storm Tharp: PORT First Thursday Pick

Storm Tharp's solo exhibition, "Ma'at Mons", is a PORT First Thursday pick...

Justin L'Amie: A Conversation with Ashley Gifford of Art & About PDX

Ashley Gifford from Art & About PDX sits down with Justin L'Amie to talk about his current exhibition and studio practice...