Gallery Talk: MFA in Craft Thesis Exhibition

Saturday, May 28, 2016, 12:00 pm

Join Karl Burkheimer, chair of the MFA in Craft program at the Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC), for a review of the nine graduates included in this years thesis exhibition. 
This event will take place offsite at:
Soltesz Fine Art
1825 NW 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97210

Ampersand Gallery Print Release with Ellen McFadden

Saturday, May 28, 2016, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Ampersand Gallery is pleased to offer a series of new screen prints by Portland artist Ellen McFadden. Join them for an opportunity to meet Ellen and help celebrate. Known best for her vibrant abstract paintings, these new works bring her original designs to a printed medium.

Artist Talk: Blake Andrews

Thursday, June 2, 2016, 5:00 pm

Join Blue Sky Gallery to hear Blake Andrews discuss his opening exhibition, Pictures of the Gone World.

Artist Talk: David Geiser

Friday, June 3, 2016, 6:30 pm

Join Butters Gallery for an artist talk with David Geiser. Celebrating a 27-year relationship of representation, Butters Gallery presents Habladors, a body of recent paintings by New York-based David Geiser. Evoking ritual and tribal sensibilities, Geiser’s storytellers evolve in the artist’s studio.

Curator Talk: REACTIVE MATTERS: Photography and Nuclear Materials

Friday, June 3, 2016, 7:00 pm

Join Newspace Center for Photography for a conversation with the curator of upcoming exhibition REACTIVE MATTERS: Photography and Nuclear Materials. The exhibition explores the ways in which nuclear energy permeates our surroundings – its presence lingering in the soil we tread, the water we consume, and the roads we often travel.

Artist Talk: Andrea Diefenbach

Saturday, June 4, 2016, 1:00 pm

Join Blue Sky Gallery to hear Andrea Diefenbach discuss her upcoming exhibition, Land ohne Eltern.

Native Fashion Now: Opening Conversation

Saturday, June 4, 2016, 2:00 pm

Join the  Portland Art Museum for a conversation on Native Fashion Now, the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion, celebrating indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to today.

Heather Watkins: Planthouse

Heather Watkins is currently exhibiting in Reservoir, a two person exhibition also featuring the work of Louise Eastman at Planthouse in New York city. The exhibition takes the idea of a deep, often unseen or unnamed source as point of departure, the exhibition includes new weavings, drawings, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramic work. A limited edition collaborative print portfolio published in an edition of 15 by the artists will accompany the exhibition.

Watkins is represented by PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

Willy Heeks: Bristol Museum

On May 26th artist Willy Heeks will open a solo exhibition at the Bristol Art Museum in Rhode Island. Bristol in Mind, will include paintings and works on paper by Heeks. There will be an opening reception on May 27th and the exhibition will remain on view through July 10, 2016.

Heeks is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery.

Art Conversations:
Exploring Portland's East Side Industrial District Art Scene & First Friday Art Walk

Saturday, June 18, 2016, 1:00 pm

Join Butters Gallery for a discussion with a group of curators, directors and gallerists representing some of the eastside’s established art venues, including Newspace Center for Photography, the Gallery at the Jupiter, Eutectic Gallery and of course, Butters Gallery.
This event marks the first in a series of art conversations on interpreting, understand and collecting presented by the members of the Portland Art Dealers Association.