An Invitation to Love: Blair Saxon-Hill’s Shrimp Head Momma
by Amy Bernstein I walk into Blair Saxon Hill’s exhibition, Shrimp Head Momma, to find an invitation placed at myfeet. I am surrounded by an […]
Hallie Ford Fellows
Charged Voids: Avantika Bawa
by Christine Weber In Charged Voids, Avantika Bawa employs the staging and support structures used in theconstruction process to consider what is already constructed in […]
rubén garcía marrufo: Being Here
by Alejandro Espinoza Galindo The works of rubén garcía marrufo are an audiovisual fabulation of the awe-inducing instant, gathering phantasmagorical narratives, silences, and rituals which […]
Patterns of Protest: Pat Boas and the Making of “Sentinels”
by Prudence Roberts The five paintings in Pat Boas’s recent installation at the Sun Valley Museum of Art are testament to her brilliance as an […]
Lynne Woods Turner: Process and Patience
by Stephanie Snyder Lynne Woods Turner’s works on paper and canvas do not ferry images in any traditional sense; rather, they reveal the odyssey of […]
Julie Green: Flown
by Sarah Sentilles How do you represent absence? How do you depict loss? For two decades, Julie Green has been painting the final meals of […]
Radical Indigenous artist Natalie Ball is unapologetically moving forward — as mother and artist.
by Jeanine Jablonski When I first came across images of Natalie Ball’s work, I was floored. Who was this amazing indigenous artist living in Oregon, […]
Through Ancestral Lands, Reading An Infected Sunset
Editor’s Note: The following essay is composed of three excerpts from an audio diary recorded by Portland- based artist and poet Demian DinéYazhi’ while driving […]
The Image Collectors
By Samantha Wall and Stephen Slappe In the midst of the vast, world-changing events of the past year, we have been reflecting on the nature […]
D. E. May and the Gift of Unknowable Intimacy
by Abigail Susik I One of the reasons for abstract art’s ascendancy over the last century is surely its simultaneous accommodation of the ego’s conflicting […]
Jess Perlitz’s Tragicomic Practice
by Bean Gilsdorf Perlitz’s grounding in sculpture underscores the spirit of these practices, explicating the real and symbolic power of objects and their potential to […]
To the Air • Paul Maziar and Cynthia Lahti
by Paul Maziar Originally published March 2020 Author’s Note: I’ve been enchanted by Cynthia Lahti’s work since the moment I first saw it—thanks to my […]
Tannaz Farsi • Linfield Gallery (2)
Tannaz Farsi, “The Points of Departure,” Installation View, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon, March 22 – April 29, 2017. Curated by Josephine Zarkovich. The Points of […]
Tannaz Farsi • Linfield Gallery (1)
Tannaz Farsi, “The Points of Departure,” Installation View, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon, March 22 – April 29, 2017. Curated by Josephine Zarkovich. The Points of […]
Ellen Lesperance, Frieze
Jennifer Kabat, “Pattern Recognition: How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting,” Frieze, August 14, 2017. “When Lesperance was young, […]
Tannaz Farsi
Tannaz Farsi. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 At PICA’s TBA Festival last year, Tannaz Farsi’s work […]
Ellen Lesperance, New York Times
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” New York Times, September 20, 2018 (Exhibition: Lily of the Art Light, Derek […]
Elizabeth Malaska
Elizabeth Malaska. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 One can’t study Elizabeth Malaska’s painting without finding […]