Visual Arts Residents along Southeast 21st Avenue and Madison Street have their own secret garden. Local artist Samir Sankari's scrap-metal sculptures line both sides of the block, with tight weaves of wire ... More
SCRAP OF PRIDE
Local artist Samir Sankari reinvents a Portland block.
Visual Arts Residents along Southeast 21st Avenue and Madison Street have their own secret garden. Local artist Samir Sankari's scrap-metal sculptures line both sides of the block, with tight weaves of wire ... More
The Upper Glass
Bullseye's Chandelier Project doesn't belong in any ballrooms.
Visual Arts Twinkling above our heads, chandeliers fake heaven's light, illuming court affairs and ballgown dramas. They're otherworldly, a flaunt of human vanity. At least that's how they are popularly perce ... More
Portlandscape Artists
PICA's Northwest Narrative tells the thousand stories that make up the city
Visual Arts Tad Savinar's print Everything I Could Remember in Ten Minutes About Twenty-eight Years of the Portland Community, created specifically for PICA's current survey of Portland art, Northwest Narrati ... More
99.420 Percent Pure
The "illegal" cannabis art of Damian Forest Ray Thomas.
Visual Arts When the Brooklyn Museum hosted an exhibit featuring a painting of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung, some people had a problem. Mayor Giuliani even tried to have the museum's public fundin ... More
Printed Matters
A unique monthlong festival on printmaking involves everyone in Portland from City Hall to graphic novelists.
Visual Arts It took three years to come together. It's happening at 50 locations over the span of one month. Its main conference, which spans four days, features 35 speakers with attendees from 10 countries. ... More
Print Power
Master printmaker Xu Bing bridges cultural communication failures with art.
Visual Arts Next week, preeminent printmaker Xu Bing will take a break from the installing his upcoming Smithsonian exhibition to speak at Portland's Crossing Boundaries: East-West Symposium in Print Art. "Th ... More
Hidden Treasures
Robert Oshatz designs some of Portland's most intriguing buildings--if you can find them.
Visual Arts For more than a decade, Portland has been accused of passing up innovative architecture in favor of urban livability. Perhaps the larger problem, however, is more universal: Good design is readily ... More
Honest Ambition
Damali ayo is constructing a new way of thinking about race.
Visual Arts Many of Portland's young artists want to show you their traumatic experiences with fashion, their exciting times with nature or their theories on art. Not damali ayo. For the past three months, th ... More
Caught in Midstride
Nine photographers wallow in their own disjecta.
Visual Arts Disjecta membra is a Latin term for the detritus of literary creation, mainly disjointed portions or parts of poetry, but sometimes an author's quotes or rough drafts. Cut gingerbread men out of c ... More
A to the Dress
Tonight, the 4-month-old gallery, Alphabet Dress, will give you a fever.
Visual Arts Like cans in a vending machine, art fans from across the city will jam into a small Northeast home tonight for July's Alphabet Dress event. The evening should be convivial if not downright crowded ... More
Top Articles from Visual Arts
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The Century Project At Bamboo Grove
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Confronting the myth of the great American road. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalists
10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011
The Century Project At Bamboo Grove
Photographer Frank Cordelle wrestles with body acceptance. Lloyd Reynolds A Life of Forms in Art
A calligrapher’s life beyond letters. Portland Art Center, R.I.P.
The Portland Art Center closes—who is to blame?
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