Visual Arts When Elizabeth Leach talks, people listen. But when she walks--with her entire operation across Burnside and into the Pearl--people really listen. After 23 years as the reigning queen of Portland's "b ...   More

Visual Arts Stephanie Snyder's ambitions are big. When she took over as director of Reed College's Cooley Gallery in April 2003, she set her sights on nothing short of an infusion of pizzazz. For Snyder, taking R ...   More

Visual Arts Beware if you have a sensitive gag reflex: Lisa Elorriaga Czysz's cloying paintings of angels and fairies at Alysia Duckler skirt dangerously close to Lawrence Gallery-level hokum, especially the gian ...   More

Visual Arts James Boulton won't stand still. I meet him at his studio at Northwest 14th Avenue and Pettygrove Street, but he wants to head downtown and swill Syrah on top of Big Pink, so we do--and then, scarcely ...   More

Visual Arts Eva Lake was a "white-trash country girl from southern Oregon" until she moved to London in the late '70s to design record sleeves. Drawn into the vortex of the city's punk scene, she partied with the ...   More

Visual Arts At 23, Justin Oswald is a bit like the young Henry VIII: auburn-haired, robust, eclectically artistic and, it is rumored, rich. "He's an heir to the Hellmann's mayonnaise fortune," an informant told m ...   More

Visual Arts Nic Walker doesn't look like the monster that art critics, this one included, have made him out to be. Pensively twirling locks of black hair, the 25-year-old artist projects a sensitivity that belies ...   More

Visual Arts The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art will close its gallery space in late January and temporarily suspend its visual arts exhibitions. In addition, the position of visual-arts curator, held ...   More

Visual Arts Katherine Treffinger waves at me from across the room, and I saunter over to begin our customary cat-and-mouse game. "I love the new work," I tell her, pointing at her enigmatic and lusciously tex ...   More

Visual Arts The 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts Enteractive Language Festival ends a banner season for the arts in Portland, yet it also serves as the climax. The Enteractive Fest makes up for what the Biennial lac ...   More