Sculpted Light ✨Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, Hap Tivey at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland, until February 28, 2026
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #ElizabethLeachGallery
Simple Knots, Jeremy Le Grand @jeremy.le.grand at @wellwellprojects, on view until March 1 , 2026
Lost Lake, Chris Lael Larson @chris_lael_larson at @carnationcontemporary, on view until. March 1, 2026✨
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #chrislaellarson
THE LATEST: JAN & FEB 2026 - everything you need to know about what’s happening in the Portland art scene to start the year, now on the blog. Sent to our subscribers on Jan 24th - sign up now (it’s free) for the newsletter 🌀
Oh, this weekend? Just lighting up our life (and my Instagram feed) at the #PDXWLF ✨💡@portlandwinterlightfestival
Tonight! Go to the @electricblocks, #portlandworldtradecenter and @thesquarepdx and more check the schedule online for this completely free citywide event ⭐️
#portlandartscene #lightfestival #fyp
Alexandra Boyden, Treelines
📍 Laura Vincent Design & Gallery
🗓️Jan 16 - Feb 28, 2026
Artist statement: I use landscapes as stepping stones towards abstraction, reflecting an emotional place. While working on "Treelines", I was reminded of a Tewa song I learned years ago.
Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky,
Your children are we, and with tired backs
We bring you the gifts that we love.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the bright light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the fringes be the falling rain,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness
That we may walk fittingly where birds sing,
That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,
Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky!
Although I have yet to create an image with red and white landscape marks, its "warp and weft", this song embodies my thinking behind "Treelines". Always interested in contrasts - seeing the warp and weft of life and of landscapes, I wanted to show the beauty in their intersections. The connections often create a sense of oneness - like fabric - an openness or brightness emerging through their woven union.
#portlandartscene #contemporarypaintings #treelines #artandaboutpdx #abstract
Palimpsests: Layered Surfaces
📍Waterstone Gallery
🗓️Feb 4- March 1, 2016
🗣️Artist Panel: Sunday February 15, 11am - 1pm
7 distinctive Oregon artists are brought together in “Palimpsests: Layered Surfaces” — James Alby, Paul Gadsden, Leonard Harmon, Yuji Hiratsuka, Marcel M. Johansen, Kanani Miyamoto, and Kyra Watkins—whose layered approaches reveal the memories, identities, and histories embedded in every surface.
Through diverse materials and processes, the show invites viewers to look deeper and discover what endures beneath the visible — revealing echoes of craft, ancestry, and beauty forged through resistance. These artists work in layers of paint, clay, wood, metal, analog photography, ballpoint pen, and memory. Drips, carvings, prints, and faces emerge and obscure, each holding a story of heritage, identity, and belonging.
James Alby
Bloodlines Deep Like Water Leonard D Harmon
Kanani Miyamoto
Foul Bite Happy Accident, Color intaglio, Yuji Hiratsuka
John 1, pen, Kyra Watkins
Wayfinders / Shapeshifters Micah Kassell
📍 Albina Press / 5012 Se Hawthorne, Portland, OR
🗓️ Now through mid February
⏳ Hours: 7am-5pm
🆓 to the public
Wayfinders / Shapeshifters is a show of paintings that reflect non-verbal communications and micro-expressions through hands, anthropomorphized machines faces of pareidolia and its effect on what we see and percieve. When we don’t trust what we see, as is often the case in these times, we tend to disassociate from all tethers to an agreed upon reality— that’s often where the cartoonish skew of my mind creeps in and takes me to a place of fantastical distortion and cartoonish fantasy
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
⭐️February First Thursday at the Pacific Northwest College of Art⭐️
Events include: ✨🧊Portland Winter Light Festival
🏺Emily Counts - Astral Bodies opening 💩Shitshow (MFA Visual Studies & Print Media programs first year show) 💡In a Different Light - O. Rae👥 The Body Collective - Pop Up 📀 Guest Curatorial Program - Inaugural Year
📍 Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 NE Broadway
🗓️ Feb 5, 2026 from⏳ 5pm - 8pm
🆓 to the public, RSVP on eventbrite encouraged
Come together in the North Park Blocks are an opportunity to come together in celebration of art, joy and community for First Thursdays with PNCA. These monthly after hour art events are a vital part of the cultural ecosystem of Portland. For decades, these monthly events have been a highlight of nightlife in the Pearl District and North Park Blocks, increasing cultural connection and retail activation downtown.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., Portland
🗓️ Feb 5 - 28
✨Opening reception First Thursday 5 - 8 PM
⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 pm
🆓 to the public
Blue Sky is pleased to announce Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade
Blue Sky 1995 - 2005: The Third Decade highlights 69 artists who exhibited at the gallery during its third decade. Visitors will experience past images from 78 of 215 exhibitions presented between 1995 and 2005 as well as recent work from the same artists. All prints (except as noted) are priced at $200 each and are on sale for a limited time. All proceeds go towards sustaining Blue Sky’s programming for the next generation.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart #bluesky50thanniversary #blueskygallerypdx
Portland Winter Light Festival this weekend! ❄️⚡️ experience lights, art and music all over the city
🗓️Feb 6-14, 2026
⚓️ Anchor Sites Open: February 6 & 7 and February 13 & 14 from 6-10 pm at Pioneer Courthouse Square, World Trade Center Plaza, and Electric Blocks.
⭐️ Additional major installation sites include PSU, Director Park, Waterfront Park, Ankeny Alley, and Old Town
Portland, OR
#portlandwinterlightfestival #portlandoregon
Dylan Hester spoke with curators Bella Feinstein and Olivia Miller about themes, artists, and the curatorial process in the exhibition Uncertainty surrounds the holding of things that was on view at After time (November 14 - December 2025).
In a world that privileges immediacy and possession, the exhibition insists on presence and contemplation—a quieting of the mind—to consider the fugitive, errant, unruly lives of things. Featuring sixteen artists from Portland, New York, Germany, Denmark, and Seattle who work with organic, reclaimed, and unruly materials.
✨Read the conversation online at www.artandaboutpdx.com
Photos courtesy of the gallery, by Aaron Wessling @aaronwessling @singlefile_studio
First Look
📍 Gallery 114 1100 NW Glisan Street
🗓️ Feb 5 - 28 ’26
✨Opening reception First Thursday, Feb 5, 5 - 8pm
🧑🏽🎨🗣️Artist Meet & Greet + Q&A Sat Feb 21st, 2 -4pm
⏳ Hours: Thur - Sun 12 - 5pm
🆓 to the public
The exhibition features gallery members Dawn-Starr
Crowther, Angela Riggs, Kimber Shiroma, Margaret Strother, and Barbara Weiss.
First Look celebrates the vitality that new members bring to a cooperative space: fresh
questions, new energies, and expanded ways of seeing. We invite viewers to spend time with
the work, to look closely, and to join us in welcoming these artists as they begin this next
chapter at Gallery 114.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
Simple Knots, Jeremy Le Grand
📍 WellWell Projects 8371 n interstate ave #1
🗓️ Feb 7- Mar 1 ’26
✨Opening reception Saturday, Feb 7, ’26
5–8 pm
⏳ Hours: Sat - Sun, 12-5 pm
🆓 to the public
These paintings are a continuation of Le Grand’s interest in digital image making’s relationship to abstract painting, with a focus on op-art and hand-woven textile patterning. The works retain a flatness specific to digital imaging, a hesitance to gesture and other vestiges of the hand, but when viewed up close, quickly reveal themselves as heavily layered paintings, their density built through a steady repetition of masking and painting, the process creating a space full of subtle frictions and vibrating lines. This process not only provides an indication of time passing, each line and layer a nod to his time spent stretching and cutting and painting and peeling, but also acts as a sort of bait, drawing the viewer in from across the room to investigate its means and methods.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
Sculpted Light ✨ 🔨Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, Hap Tivey
📍 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Portland
🗓️ January 15 - February 28, 2026
✨Opening reception First Thursday: February 5, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
⏳ Hours: Tues-Sat, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to announce Sculpted Light, a group exhibition featuring five artists, to commence the gallery’s 45th anniversary year. Inspired by Elizabeth Leach’s close ties to the Light and Space Movement of the 1970s, Sculpted Light brings together the work of Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, and Hap Tivey. Across generations and through various techniques, these artists demonstrate how light can be shaped, contained, reflected and dispersed, serving simultaneously as medium and subject.
The exhibition emphasizes the sculptural nature of light-based practices, presenting illumination-activated works for which light defines forms and shapes perceptions. Whether through fluorescent tubes, photographic processes, or experimental constructions, each artist engages light as a physical and conceptual medium.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #ElizabethLeachGallery
AMPKWA: munk łush nsayka shawash tilixam is an art exhibition honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.
📍 Gretchen Schuette Gallery 4000 Lancaster Dr NE Salem Oregon
🗓️ Jan 14 - Feb 6, 2026
✨ Reception: Wednesday, January 28 | 12–2 PM
⏳ The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 9 AM–4 PM, and Friday, 10 AM–3 PM, for those who would like to view the exhibit outside of the reception.
AMPKWA; munk lush nsayka shawash tilixam (Ampkwa: Healing Our Indigenous Relatives)
This powerful photography exhibit by Amanda Freeman, artist, advocate, and founder of Ampkwa Advocacy, brings awareness to the crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) through imagery that is both beautiful and confronting.
The event begins at 12 PM with an opening drumming ceremony outside the Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, followed by an artist talk at 12:30 PM in the auditorium.
Amanda will share the context behind the work, how this exhibit came to be, and the responsibility that comes with documenting MMIP. Following that, the family of Wesley Jones will speak about their father and the ongoing effort to bring him home.
#mmip #ampkwaadvocacy #oregonartscene
Songs for the Synthetic Dawn, Hannah Newman
📍 Mount Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery
🗓️ February 2 - 26, 2026
✨Opening reception Thursday, February 6, 11:30am - 1:30pm
⏳ Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm
🆓 to the public
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart
At the Portland Fine Print Fair @portlandartmuseum this past weekend 📄 ⭐️
Highlights include
@aspinwalleditions @crows_shadow @mullowneyprinting @egenolfgalleryjapaneseprints and more
#portlandartscene #printmaking #fineprint
AMPKWA: munk łush nsayka shawash tilixam is an art exhibition honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.
📍 Gretchen Schuette Gallery 4000 Lancaster Dr NE Salem Oregon
🗓️ Jan 14 - Feb 6, 2026
✨ Reception: Wednesday, January 28 | 12–2 PM
⏳ The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 9 AM–4 PM, and Friday, 10 AM–3 PM, for those who would like to view the exhibit outside of the reception.
AMPKWA; munk lush nsayka shawash tilixam (Ampkwa: Healing Our Indigenous Relatives)
This powerful photography exhibit by Amanda Freeman, artist, advocate, and founder of Ampkwa Advocacy, brings awareness to the crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) through imagery that is both beautiful and confronting.
The event begins at 12 PM with an opening drumming ceremony outside the Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, followed by an artist talk at 12:30 PM in the auditorium.
Amanda will share the context behind the work, how this exhibit came to be, and the responsibility that comes with documenting MMIP. Following that, the family of Wesley Jones will speak about their father and the ongoing effort to bring him home.
#mmip #ampkwaadvocacy
LOST LAKE By Chris Lael Larson
📍 Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave #3, Portland
🗓️ February 7 – March 1, 2026
✨Opening reception Opening Saturday, Month 7, 5–8 PM
⏳ Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Lost Lake brings together photography, painting, and sculpture to explore and reimagine the landscape surrounding Lost Lake in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest. The work emerges from a cyclical process that moves between time spent in the field and time in the studio, ultimately resolving into photographic and sculptural pieces.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene
