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

Ten Parts New work by Benjamin Terrell 📍 Heiken Gallery at Word Virus Books 203 SW 9th Portland Oregon 97205 🗓️ Jan 8- Feb 28, 2026 ✨Opening reception First Thursday 5-8 ⏳ Hours: Everyday 11-6 🆓 to the public Eugene painter Benjamin Terrell’s new work stops short of description in favor of exploring a nameless vista, a forgotten and familiar place with intuitive views. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene

Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths 📍 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, 1855 SW Broadway 🗓️ January 20 to April 25, 2026 ✨Opening reception Thursday, January 29, 5 - 7pm ⏳ Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. & Thurs 11 a.m. -7 p.m. 🆓 to the public Featured Artists: Michael Boonstra, Enrique Chagoya, Epiphany Couch, Karen Hampton, Colin Ives, Brenda Mallory, Nathalie Miebach, Tatiana Parcero, Rick Silva, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Clarissa Tossin For millennia, maps have been essential tools for understanding and navigating the world. They help us define boundaries, reveal relationships, and envision possibilities. Through their creation and use, they transform space into place, shaping political, cultural, and social understandings of the world around us. This exhibition brings together the work of twelve artists who reinterpret and expand mapping practices to explore questions of place, identity, and power. Through diverse media and distinct approaches, they use the language of mapmaking to uncover personal histories, unearth collective narratives, and address pressing social and environmental concerns. Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths is curated by Alexandra Terry, Head of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Contemporary Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This exhibition is supported by the Ford Family Foundation, the Jackson Foundation, the Richard and Helen Phillips Charitable Fund, and the JSMA Exhibition Circle. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart

Color Coded, A Juried Exhibition 📍 Gallery 114 🗓️January 8 – 31, 2026 ✨Meet and Greet with the exhibiting artists on Saturday, January 18, 12-2 pm Color is central to artistic expression, yet its possibilities are endless. In Color Coded, we asked artists to consider how color operates as a code, one that viewers can unlock and respond to in their own way. Whether symbolic, emotional, structural, or conceptual, color can transform perception and meaning in unexpected ways. This juried exhibition showcases works that thoughtfully engage with color as a primary element. A Juror’s Award will be presented to the artwork that demonstrates both exceptional quality and a strong connection to the theme. #artandaboutpdx #gallery114 #portlandartscene

Give a Girl a Dog/ Elizabeth Knight 📍 PDX Contemporary Art/ 1881 NW Vaughn St 🗓️ Until Jan 31st ⏳ Hours: Tues- Sat 10am - 6pm 🆓 to the public “These pieces are stitched over copies of old photographs. I’m not exactly sure what compelled me to start doing these: a desire to interact with images of women and dogs who are long dead, a strong need to give these long dead “friends” dimension and color, lift them off the flat surface onto the jewel like surface that emerges when stitching small pieces, the acknowledgement of the ageless connection between women, girls and dogs. I can feel the connection between the sitters. This is a portrait of me, and it cannot be complete without my dog by my side. Some are famous. most are not. Here is Jane Goodall who “scandalously” named the dog as her favorite animal, a young Queen Elizabeth with the ubiquitous corgi, a goofy unknown and her delightful companion.” #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

Drift Fence, Wes Mills 📍 PDX Contemporary Art/ 1881 NW Vaughn St 🗓️ Until Jan 31st ⏳ Hours: Tues- Sat 10am - 6pm 🆓 to the public “The group of paintings titled, “Drift Fence” comes from seeing a fence line running through the landscape and how it reflects a linear aspect of the landscape itself. Also, in some ways, I would say the pieces are inspired by seeing how these short fence lines create drifts in the snow. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart

Community > Competition 🫶🏼 We are working with non other the @padaoregon to show their members shows! ✨PDX CONTEMPORARY ART - Wes Mills, Drift Fence & Elizabeth Knight, Give a Girl a Dog - Jan 31 ✨WATERSTONE GALLERY, Group Show, Of Earth and Sky - Feb 1. ✨THE BLACK GALLERY, Group Show, If We Could Talk - Feb 16 ✨J. PEPIN ART GALLERY, Winter Group Show - Jan 31 ✨LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, Alexandra Boyden, Treelines - Feb 28 ✨BLACKFISH GALLERY Group Show, Layered Perceptions | Paula Bullwinkle & Libby Wadsworth, New Members Show | Carol Benson, Peregrinations - Jan 31 ✨GALLERY 114, Group Show - Color Coded through Jan 31 ✨RUSSO LEE GALLERY, Michele Russo, Works From The Estate - Jan 31 #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene

FIGURE | GROUND 📍 Gallery X at ADX, 417 SE 11th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97214 🗓️ Feb 6-28, 2026 ✨Opening reception First Friday, 5-9pm ⏳ Hours: 2/6 5-9pm, Gallery hours with the artist include 2/7 3-7pm, 2/13 3-7pm, 2/14 3-7pm, 2/28 3-7pm 🆓 to the public "Through this series, I’ve been looking at the frayed edges of our perception, our distance and connection—the vulnerability and beauty of being an individual in the world and the vulnerability of being together. I’ve seen reflections of me—and of all of us—that came into focus within each painting. It is an exploration. A challenge. A raw familiarity with what it might mean to be a person. I hope you see something familiar in this work too." Dan Gay (dang) is a veteran of the Portland creative community whose recent work includes two stop-motion feature films. His sculptural work has ranged from monumental to minuscule, appearing in installations, advertisements, museums and festivals. His ongoing series of improvisational portrait painting remains central to his personal studio work. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene @theartofdang @adxportland #theartofdang

Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition 📍 Alberta Street Gallery, 1829 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR 🗓️ Jan 29 - Feb 23, 2026 ✨Opening reception Thursday, January 29, 6-9pm ⏳ Hours: Monday-Sunday, 11am-7pm 🆓 to the public Fifteen Portland collage artists bear witness to cultural upheaval, dreaming into reassembly. These analog paper artists take what remains and imagine what’s next. ✂️ Curated by Kellette Elliott and Kirk Read. Artists: Kyle Anderson, Cathy Aster, Kellette Elliott, Templeton Elliott, Torea Frey, MJ Connors Davison, Pamela Kieffer, Clive Knights, Angela Morrow, Jane Pellicciotto, Katie Price, Kirk Read, Kevin Sampsell, Cherie Savoie Tintary, Justin Tuttle. Paper collage has a long history of being an accessible tool of agitprop, observation and self-soothing. The form is enjoying a worldwide renaissance thanks to a hunger for expression rooted in physical materials and face to face interactions. These Portland artists push the boundaries of the form as they address the chaos of the moment in a variety of ways. @pnwcollagecollective @albertastreetgallery @anotherkirkread @kelletteworks @mostly_collage @knightsclive @kevinsampsell, @blixie_b @kitschy_collagist @mjmixedmediaart @tuttle.design unzyptcollage @toreajade @cathyaster @anderson_design_studio @jane_pellicciotto @purposehandmade #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene

Ten Parts New work by Benjamin Terrell 📍 Heiken Gallery at Word Virus Books 203 SW 9th Portland Oregon 97205 🗓️ Jan 8- Feb 28, 2026 ✨Opening reception First Thursday 5-8 ⏳ Hours: Everyday 11-6 🆓 to the public Eugene painter Benjamin Terrell’s new work stops short of description in favor of exploring a nameless vista, a forgotten and familiar place with intuitive views. #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene

Still thinking about Laura Camila Medina installation that was at Nationale from October- December 2025 ✨🦜🦋🏺🕊️💜🎀 #portlandartscene #artandaboutpdx #installation

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