The delightful vagueness of the term abstract means that it is a perfect binder for many of October's art offerings. Also this month, Portland Open Studios celebrates its 25th anniversary and the Sitka Art International celebrates its 29th year.

What began as a way for student athletes to de-stress has grown to serve people dealing with trying situations, from caregivers to the seriously ill.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with visual artist Marie Watt, classical percussionist Niel DePonte, dancer & choreographer Oluyinka Akinjiola, poet & storyteller Brian S. Ellis, and actor & Portland Revels leader Lauren Bloom Hanover.

The Portland artist and co-founder of the Antler & Talon galleries was a rising star in the arts community. She will be remembered for her unflagging support for artists, her local community, and the environment.

A ramble through public art spaces and a new exhibit at Salem's Bush Barn Art Center that Pitt calls her last public show reveals the heart and spirit of a remarkable and beloved artist.

The center, with The Refindery shop and Repair Cafe, has a mission of helping people “step away from the garbage.”

Wolf takes on animals, art history, and textures of all types in eleven new paintings. Shannon M. Lieberman unpacks the many art historical references and visual intrigue.

The multi-screen installation documentary focuses on the life of Frederick Douglass. Julien's project embodies the notion that there is always more than one version to any story.

The “Ambassador's Portal” by Ken McCall replaces a beloved sculpture as the city expands its public art offerings with plans for five more new pieces and an arts garden.

The show, in the McMinnville gallery through Oct. 6, features work by artists from Outside the Frame, a nonprofit that mentors unhoused youth.

Tickets for opening night Oct. 20 go on sale Monday and are expected to sell out fast, say organizers of the event held at the High Desert Museum.

The exhibition includes collage-based works from 44 artists from over the last 60 years. The works confirm the generative capacity and flexibility of collage as an artistic practice.

From Portland's museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.

From the annual Art Harvest Studio Tour to metal and fiber arts exhibits, a double handful of autumn gallery and studio shows to catch in Yamhill wine country.

The Portland biennial's point of depARTure: In a world of multiple crises, political art is having its day again.

The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.

The biennial features the work of local, national, and international artists at venues across the city. The opening festivities August 24-27 included performances, events, parties, and openings galore. Georgina Ruff reviews.

The 27th annual Art in the Pearl festival highlights Portland's Labor Day Weekend. Plus, art around Oregon in Astoria, Eugene, and The Dalles.

Converge 45 brings a suite of compelling shows to Portland-area art spaces and there is plenty to see around the state as well. Jason N. Le has the intel on September's art events.

The McMinnville plumber taught himself to paint by watching YouTube tutorials during the pandemic. This fall, he's teaching classes at Back Door Studio.

The Toledo Art Walk over Labor Day weekend epitomizes the city’s arts-centric focus, built largely on the legacy of painter Michael Gibbons.

The Portland artist's stack of birds in The Reser's plaza brings something special to the Converge 45 biennial: a touch of joy.

The Portland Art Museum's redesigned, glass-ensconced addition, due to open in summer 2025, will make viewing easier and could be a boon to an ailing downtown.

At Russo Lee Gallery, an Indigenous artist's images suggest a "green colonialism" in which extraction of minerals for new technology once again overrides tribal rights.

Using body casts, human hair, and melted aluminum, new work by Kate Simmons at Clackamas Community College's Alexander Gallery explores ideas about body image and decay.

Thanks to the efforts of local artists, the popular annual festival will welcome art lovers once again.

In partnership with CONVERGE 45, The Reser presents art with pointed questions and an international outlook by Jorge Tacla, Karl LeClair, Malia Jensen and Miroslav Lovric.

A Multnomah Arts Center exhibit of work by Black Northwest artists delves into the past to create a celebration of Black creativity in the present.

August's selections of art exhibitions and events highlight artists sharing their vision of the world with viewers. The results cover everything from beach debris to John Travolta.

Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase's 129-year history.

The group exhibit “Biomass,” in a Pearl District warehouse space, reunites a contemporary art community after a lengthy pause.

The collaboratively curated group exhibition "Notes for Tomorrow" tackles complex issues and presents a "network of overlapping solutions." The art, as well as its curatorial framing, is dense but ultimately rewarding.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with All Classical's Suzanne Nance, poet Carlos Reyes, playwright Andrea Stolowitz, visual artist James Minden, and flautist Amelia Lukas.

Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum's assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an "evening" with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.

Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander (and Dalí) at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

At Hallie Ford Museum, the Tom Prochaska retrospective "Music for Ghosts" and a revival of works by the late Jim Hibbard traverse the thin line between traditional and contemporary.

Among participants in the self-guided tour is painter Pam Greene, who tries to capture on canvas the “overwhelmingly wonderful” moments of living on the coast.

The veteran Portland artist's July show at NINE Gallery springs from her own breast cancer and the pioneering treatment she chose to defeat it.

Summer is here! Jason N. Le's round-up of July shows features group shows, retrospectives, and solo exhibitions inspired by everything from the otherworldly to the intimately personal.

Artists respond to violence against women, the pandemic, climate change, and other threats to Indigenous communities in a powerful exhibit at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures.

“Out There Jazz Suite” transmutes Hillsboro sculptures into a recording, a multimedia concert, and a community collaboration.

In “Pacific Waters” at the Corvallis Arts Center, students composed works for strings to go with Mary Frisbee Johnson’s water sketches.

The Salem Art Association opens the Waldo Bogle Gallery in the Bush House and unveils the two latest paintings in Jeremy Okai Davis's portrait series. The house's original owner and namesake would not be pleased.

K.B. Dixon's culltural-portrait series continues with illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt, artist Dan Gluibizzi, writers Cecily Wong and Aaron Galbreath, and Oregon Ballet Theatre's Dani Rowe.

With his own small gallery in a shed, a show at Elizabeth Leach, and a key role in the Converge 45 biennial, the artist juggles “three ways I get to make magic out of dust.”

Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.

The weekend event also includes free, self-guided tours of the work of 70 artists in 28 locations along the Central Oregon Coast.

Remembering an artistic life well and truly lived: The Northwest artist died in October of 2022; his memorial service is June 11 at the World Forestry Center.

June's art offerings explore the phenomena of memory in a variety of media including paint, performance, and piñata paper.

Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.

For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center's fresh start.

A neighborhood print studio highlights the social aspect of printmaking and provides members 24-hour access to a variety of presses, some more than 100 years old.

The retrospective "Bonnie Lucas 1978-2023" is the first show in ILY2's new Pearl gallery space. Hannah Krafcik considers the coded meanings of the bejeweled and bedecked compositions.

Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.

After a tumultuous few years, a recent self-curated show in her new home gave this venerable, multitalented artist a sense of agency and renewal.

Leslie Peterson Sapp's vivid collage-paintings reflecting the moods of Film Noir echo a long creative history of borrowing and revising in music and art.

Since 1986, the all-volunteer gallery has worked to exchange ideas and opportunities for artists in all mediums and cultures.

The possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence dominate headlines. Hito Steyerl's 2019 work, now on view at PAM, probes AI's capacities in art and narrative.

Warmer weather is here - at least for now! Celebrate by heading out to take in some art at any of these enticing offerings.

Christine Bourdette and Michael Boonstra's exhibition, on view through May 10th, features works inspired by the landscape and natural processes.

Nestled beside Forest Park, the former Salvation Army White Shield Center is set to become a whole new cultural campus, devoted to classes, lectures and artist residencies.

Two Southern Oregon painters with distinctively indefinable styles find rejuvenation and inspiration in a post-pandemic respite.

The Native American painter and mixed media artist, who draws inspiration from his father and uncle, has a show opening Friday in the Newport Visual Arts Center.

The Portland painter, 70, leaves a legacy of vibrant work ranging from fairy tales to feminism to the grand, unsolvable mysteries of life.

Along the San Fernando Valley's "Mural Mile," art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place's people and cultures.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits of Oregon cultural leaders with parks activist Randy Gragg, playwright Lava Alapai, mixed-media artist Erik Geschke, writer Erica Berry, and choreographer/dancer Samuel Hobbs.

In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.

In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.

For 73 years, the gallery and studio space has offered amateurs and professionals a place to show their work and to share skills and support.

The Portland photographer's images and stories about survivors of genocidal wars open at U.N. headquarters in New York. Plus: Brenda Mallory at the Heard, Cynthia Lahti at the movies.

The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.

Art and politics square off in a pair of print shows from the Los Angeles County Art Museum and a trip through the city's sprawling streets.

April pushes us further into spring and there's plenty of art to see all over the state. VizArts Monthly has recommendations for everything from paintings to recycled fabrics to suspended plant matter.

The Portland-raised tycoon's eye for art and acquisition helped build a highly personal collection in Southern California.

Laura Burke's solo exhibition "Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow" is a feast of color and charm. Jason N. Le reviews.

A dual exhibition at Multnomah Arts Center employs intricate beadwork and Aztec symbolism to connect with contemporary life.

March may be starting off with some residual snow but spring is around the corner and there's plenty of art to see in the meantime. Jason N. Le has the highlights in VizArts Monthly.

The Portland artist’s nearly half-century of work is informed by her travels and curiosity about subjects ranging from ecology to Asian art.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with singer & actor Susannah Mars, violinist Tomás Cotik, Native arts leader Lulani Arquette, sculptor Ben Buswell, and multidisciplinary artist Fuchsia Lin.

Quilter Ruth Bass is curating the show, her last local production.

"A Conversation with the World" on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene features Graham's portraits and interviews with individuals from around the world.

At Pacific University's gallery, an exhibition whispers its materials and speaks to the giving and taking of the land.

For roughly a century, Portland Art Museum has been one of the city's most prominent landmarks. But how much of its history do you really know?

The chateau-style building with breathtaking views has to overcome issues with accessibility and identity. The Feb. 19 Crab Krack is an opportunity to visit.

In Portland's Central Eastside Industrial District, a gallery features "graphic, color-drenched work by artists who have neither their fists nor their noses up in the air."

Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, named for the artist and teacher, is a hub for students and showcase for exhibits that draw visitors from throughout the Northwest.

Don't miss Lindsay Costello's gathering of February's most enticing art exhibitions and events. There's augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.

The exhibition "RingrIngriNrinG" explores technology and the human condition. Definitive answers are not part of the exploration.

Jennifer Rabin finds more than anticipated on a visit to the exhibition "A Call for Light" at the makerspace Past Lives in industrial Southeast Portland.

“I want to paint them the way the spirits would see them,” the artist says of the 40 portraits in the show, which opens Feb. 2 in Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.

“Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception” marks a new era for contemporary art at the Portland Japanese Garden as well as a requiem for its late curator, Matt Jay.

At Lan Su Garden and the Portland Chinatown Museum, tradition meets new realities and possibilities – and the challenges of a houseless crisis.

Hank Willis Thomas's "The Embrace" in Boston is "a monument to love and joy, the twin wells of courage and perseverance."

The quilts in Lorenz's show "Strange Attractors" showcase nothing less than the vibrancy of the universe. Prudence Roberts reviews.

The medium is “having a moment in the arts world” due to interest in studio crafts and handmade work, sustainability, and local cultures.

The Portland artist's newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.

Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.

As Studio Abioto's African-diaspora "Red Thread: Green Earth" closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.

January's art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what's on view in this month's VizArts Monthly.

In an annual sewing challenge, members of the fiber arts group make wearable art. Themes in the Lincoln City Cultural Center exhibit include marriage, recycling, and women leaders.