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Ian Gillingham, Press & Publications Manager
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Current Exhibitions

Fazal Sheikh, Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women's Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000.

Common Ground

FEB 24 – MAY 20, 2018

Still from Hanna Piper Burns' "Your Host", 2017.

APEX: Hannah Piper Burns

FEB 24 – AUG 12, 2018

Minor White, Untitled (Dock), ca. 1939, gelatin silver print.

In the Beginning

DEC 9, 2017 – OCT 21, 2018

Beth Van Hoesen, Bobcat, 1984, color aquatint, etching, and drypoint with roulette, hand colored with watercolor on textured white wove paper.

Kingdom Animalia

DEC 2, 2017 – MAY 13, 2018

We Construct Marvels Between Monuments

We. Construct. Marvels. Between. Monuments.

NOV 17, 2017 – DEC 2018

Lily Hope, Honoring our Teachers/Lineage Robe (detail), 2017, thigh-spun merino wool, cedar bark, hand-dyed merino wool, beaver fur.

CCNA: Interwoven Radiance

NOV 10, 2017 – JUN 24, 2018

Sakazume Atsuo (Japanese, born 1941), Safari Land—Satiation, 1983, mezzotint, Portland Art Museum: The Carol and Seymour Haber Collection, © Sakazume Atsuo

Craftsmanship and Wit

NOV 4, 2017 – JUN 17, 2018

Still from Rodrigo Valenzuela, Prole, 2015, HD Video.

Rodrigo Valenzuela

OCT 21, 2017 – APR 22, 2018

Animator Chris Tootell guides Coraline through an orchard of popcorn blossoms.

Animating Life

OCT 14, 2017 – MAY 20, 2018

Childe Hassam, Afternoon Sky, Harney Desert, 1908, oil on canvas, Gift of August Berg, Henrietta E. Failing, Winslow B. Ayer, William D. Wheelwright, I.N. Fleischner, and the D.P. Thompson Estate, public domain, 08.1

Picturing Oregon

AUG 19, 2017 – AUG 2019

Upcoming Exhibitions

Stout Scarab, 1936. Photo: Peter Harholdt.

The Shape of Speed

JUN 16 – SEP 16, 2018

Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1945. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 11 7/8 in. (22.9 x 30.2 cm). © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.

Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955

JUN 16 – SEP 23, 2018

Shōkadō Shōjō, calligraphy; Tawaraya Sōtatsu, painting; Waka Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, One of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, early 17th century

Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art

OCT 13, 2018 – JAN 13, 2019

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