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Editor’s Top 3

Posted by Art & About Portland
Published April 22, 2022
by Ashley Gifford

I’ve put together a list of must-see exhibitions before the end of April (or in the next two weeks.) If you have gone to them or plan to, let me know in the comment section of this post. Read full article.

Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed

Posted by Variable West
Published April 21, 2022
by Laurel V. McLaughlin

When I saw Yuyang Zhang’s work at Fuller Rosen in Portland, I was struck by the simultaneous pairing and paring—combinations of historic propaganda posters alongside meme-like Internet visualizations and applications of razor-quick wit through collage techniques. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: In or out?

Posted by Oregon ArtsWatch
Published April 05, 2022
by Lindsay Costello

In Second Honeymoon, Dana Robinson pairs blurred compositions on dyed silk with a looping audio piece to reflect on Black middle-class life with idiosyncratic humor and organic, mutable color. Read full article.

Explore these 10 shows at Oregon museums and galleries this spring

Posted by The Oregonian
Published March 24, 2022
by Briana Miller

Dana Robinson’s new series of paintings have jaunty titles that allude to their origins: shrewd ads for hair and beauty products, Coke, and Miller beer drawn from the artist’s collection of 1970s and 1980s “Ebony” magazines. Read full article.

Evoking Empathy in the Uncanny: Olivia Faith Harwood’s “Possessions, Possessions”

Posted by Art & About Portland
Published March 03, 2022
by Hannah Krafcik

Olivia Faith Harwood’s inaugural solo show, Possessions, Possessions, features twelve paintings layered with curious details that greet visitors in swaths of swirling avocado, soft blush, lavender, and powder blue neons. Read full article.

A Sneak Peek at the Portland Gallery Shows You Can See During the 2022 Spring Season

Posted by Portland Mercury
Published February 28, 2022
by Ashley Gifford

Fuller Rosen continues to be at the forefront of showing emerging artists—regionally, nationally, and internationally. The 2022 programming begins with a solo exhibition of paintings by recent PNCA graduate Olivia Faith Harwood. Read full article.

Art Review: Olivia Faith Harwood at Fuller Rosen Gallery

Posted by Oregon ArtsWatch
Published February 21, 2022
by Luiza Lukova

In the paintings in her debut show, "Possessions, Possessions," Harwood weaves together chimerical forms, childhood memories, and mundane items pulled from everyday life to create emotionally resonant compositions. Read full article.

Artforum Critics’ Picks: Portland

Posted by Artforum International
Published February 18, 2022
by Sebastian Zinn

Olivia Faith Harwood paints in a disarmingly playful graphic style. Freighted with dense layers of symbols and patterns excerpted from tarot cards, the circus, and Halloween, the artist’s surreal tableaux play tricks on the viewer’s capacity to distinguish figure from ground. Rather than a single unified perspective, Harwood often renders a series of limited, sometimes transparent, overlapping planes, which seem to multiply like the reflections in a house of mirrors. Read full article.

Three renderings of framed pictures hover around a full-body portrait of a cat woman whose skeleton is partially exposed

Performance: Emmanuela Soria Ruiz’s ‘Private Speculations’ is a study in candor, animality, and architecture

Posted by Oregon ArtsWatch
Published December 04, 2021
by Amy Leona Havin

Soria Ruiz brings architect Eileen Gray’s "animal ballet" sketches to life in a performative exhibition at Oregon Contemporary through Dec. 5. Read full article.

Portland Winter Is Coming. Brighten Your Days With These Vibrant Visual Art Experiences

Posted by Portland Mercury
Published December 01, 2021
by Ashley Gifford

This season, many noteworthy visual art exhibitions and memorable creative maker events spotlight our dynamic art community before we embrace the end of 2021. Read full article.

YUYANG ZHANG “UMM NO”

Posted by Art & About Portland
Published June 05, 2021
by Lindsay Costello

Yuyang Zhang, a Portland-based artist from Wuhan, China, recently explained that taking oneself seriously is a central tenet of Chinese culture and politics. He opted to challenge this stereotype through a solo exhibition, umm no, on view at Fuller Rosen Gallery. Read full article.

2020-21 Make|Learn|Build Grants

Posted by Regional Arts and Culture Council
Published May 25, 2021
by RACC

Fuller Rosen Gallery awarded RACC’s Make|Learn|Build Grant for Yuyang Zhang’s solo exhibition umm no. RACC’s Make|Learn|Build Grant Program was designed to address the ways the arts community in the tri-county region needed support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: Personal reflections, collective inquiries, and space rocks

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published May 03, 2021
by Lindsay Costello

Yuyang Zhang’s solo exhibition at Fuller Rosen includes digital collages and paintings, all created during quarantine in 2020-21. Read full article.

Artforum Critics’ Picks: Portland

Posted by Artforum International
Published March 12, 2021
by Amelia Rina

“Fire, never a gentle teacher”; “the economy will be perfect when all our workers have died”; “NO SWERFS NO TERFS THANKS”; “USA = no. 1!”; “What does your solidarity look like?” Phrases such as these, interspersed with various kinds of imagery, are emblazoned across bedsheet-size banners that hang from ceiling of this gallery. Throughout this exhibition, Portland-based artist Vo Vo seeks to maintain the vocabulary and spirit of resistance in the wake of 2020’s endless crises and chaos. Read full article.

Like Their Art, Artist Vo Vo’s Workspace Is Informed by Their Life Experiences and Anarchist Philosophy

Posted by Willamette Week
Published February 24, 2021
by Shannon Gormley

After working four months with a tapestry company to create a textile for an upcoming show, Vo Vo ran into a problem: The company refused to print the design. Read full article.

Bodily limitations recast: Panteha Abareshi and Kayley Berezney

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published January 22, 2021
by Lindsay Costello

I haven’t left home in a bit, and when I do, it’s like the moment after seeing a matinee: I emerge from the dark theater of my apartment, walk outside, and everything becomes big and bright. Fuller Rosen Gallery is no different. Read full article.

Art shows a bit more intense and cerebral this winter in Portland

Posted by The Oregonian
Published January 12, 2021
by Briana Miller

Emerging out of 2020, galleries and art institutions are showing new and invigorating work by new and interesting artists. Some shows continue the hard conversations churned up in 2020; others offer well-earned distraction. In general, shows this season feel a little more intense, a little more cerebral than they have in the past. Maybe our attention spans are stretching after a year of social distancing. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: New year, new art

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published January 03, 2021
by Lindsay Costello

The two-person exhibition NO SANCTUARY, by Panteha Abareshi and Kayley Berezney, is rooted in the artists’ health and bodily experiences. Abareshi explores the realities of chronic pain via video and performance, while Berezney thinks about body-as-objective-material through sculpture and painting, zooming in on moments of the body at rest as inspiration. Read full article.

Fertility figures get an update

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published December 01, 2020
by Ashley Gifford

The slate grey of the concrete floor offsets the deep scarlet red of three anthropomorphized strawberry figures, voluptuous and feminine, covered in electric yellow, lilac, and coral strawberry seeds. The figures coalesce into a pyramid shape. This ceramic wall sculpture, Strawbaes, faces the gallery entrance of Fuller Rosen when you walk into Grace Stott’s show, “Ambrosia.” Read full article.

KBOO Art Focus: Amanda Clem Interviews Fuller Rosen Gallery’s Bri Rosen and EM Fuller

Posted by KBOO Art Focus
Published November 10, 2020
by Amanda Clem

Amanda Clem interviews EM Fuller and Bri Rosen, directors of Fuller Rosen Gallery. Listen as we talk about what it's like to run a gallery —not to mention move physical locations—during the pandemic. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: Connection amid isolation

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published November 02, 2020
by Lindsay Costello

Julia Cameron, author of the quintessential creative recovery book The Artist’s Way, prescribed a steady diet of “artist dates”—time set aside to nurture one’s inner creative by “filling the well” with new stimuli for inspiration. This month, art institutions in Portland and beyond offer up virtual and in-person opportunities to fill your visual well. Read full article.

Devin Harclerode and Laura Camila Medina: Loopholes

Posted by this is tomorrow
Published September 16, 2020
by Laurel McLaughlin

Areas of ambiguity and endless possibilities are the grounds from which the two-person exhibition featuring the work of Devin Harclerode and Laura Camila Medina springs. Visible through the front windows of Fuller Rosen Gallery in Northwest Portland, Harclerode’s ‘Beat Curtains’ (all works 2020), featuring resin and epoxy dyed beads that dissipate down their strands into snippets of hair, hint at the hybrid nostalgic-mythic-atemporal worlds that await visitors. Read full article.

Meet Ophir El-Boher, Upcycled Fashion Designer, Artist & Scholar

Posted by Dismantle Magazine
Published May 11, 2020
by Sara Tatyana Bernstein and Elise Chatelain

In honor of the new decade and working towards a world we want to see, we’ve created a series focused on upcycled fashion: offering our readers interviews, essays, and features that emphasize what it is, why people do it, how they use it to make a living and to implement fashion-centered politics; and especially, how it’s only one part of a solution for making fashion more sustainable. Read full article.

Christine Miller and Brittany Vega: American Hex Reviewed By Amelia Rina

Posted by BOMB Magazine
Published March 11, 2020
by Amelia Rina

In the exhibition American Hex at Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland-based artists Christine Miller and Brittany Vega illustrate these complex and often deadly tendencies through transformed found objects. Read full article.

The 29 Can’t-Miss Portland Art Events This Spring

Posted by Willamette Week
Published February 19, 2020
by WW Staff

Fuller Rosen has become one of the best places to see emerging local artists. Read full article.

KBOO Art Focus: Amanda Clem Interviews Christine Miller and Brittany Vega

Posted by KBOO Art Focus
Published February 18, 2020
by Amanda Clem

Amanda Clem interviews artists Christine Miller and Brittany Vega about their work in Fuller Rosen Gallery's American Hex exhibition, on view through March 14. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: Art worth braving the rain to see

Posted by Oregon Arts Watch
Published February 04, 2020
by Martha Daghlian

Christine Miller and Brittany Vega come together in their show, American Hex, to explore the problems and revelations contained within their own eccentric personal collections. Read full article.

Shining a Light on Portland’s Art Scene: 10 Exciting Venues in the Rose City

Posted by Hyperallergic
Published October 22, 2019
by Raechel Herron Root

This compilation of venues ranges from stalwart museums to emerging artists’ collectives, offering a cross-section of the spaces defining art in Portland now. Read full article.

The Five Visual Arts Shows We’re Most Excited to See This Fall

Posted by Willamette Week
Published September 04, 2019
by Shannon Gormley

B. G-Osborne's A Thousand Cuts depicts pop culture's pervasive misrepresentation of transgender people to dizzying effect. Read full article.

VizArts Monthly: Flatness, roundness, and everything between and beyond

Posted by Oregon Artswatch
Published August 01, 2019
by Ním Wunnan

Brandi Kruse’s exhibition is preoccupied with imagined spaces, physical absence, and a unique observation: very few things are actually, truly, flat. Read full article.

Top Things to Do This Weekend: July 18–21

Posted by Portland Monthly
Published July 17, 2019
by Rebecca Jacobson, Brendan Nagle, and Conner Reed

The Portland-based visual artist brings a new solo show about dimension—temporal, personal, and visual—to Southeast Division’s Fuller Rosen Gallery. Read full article.

Profiles in Queer Excellence and Resilience

Posted by Portland Mercury
Published June 06, 2019
by Andrew Jankowski

In their efforts to change the commercial gallery model, BriAnna Rosen (she/her) and E.M. Fuller (she/her) treat artists the way they want to be treated: with a love of art that’s matched by their love for one another. Read full article.

2018-19 RACC Project Grants (Cycle 3)

Posted by Regional Arts & Culture Council
Published June 05, 2019
by RACC

RACC’s Project Grant Program provides financial support to individual artists and not-for-profit organizations in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, for project based arts programming. Read full article.

Time>Space>Place

Posted by PortlandArt.net
Published May 17, 2019
by Jeff Jahn

This promising group exhibition called Time>Space>Place features some of my favorite new talents like Tabitha Nikolai and Wiley so I suspect the company they keep will be worth checking out. Read full article.

RU Residency 2019 NYC Artist

Posted by ResidencyUnlimited.org
Published April 05, 2019
by Residency Unlimited

Angélica Maria Millán Lozano (@antagoniista) is an artist from Bogotá, Colombia currently based in Brooklyn, New York and will be a RU resident for the next 3 months. Read full article.

Spring Cleaning Cluster Reviews

Posted by PortlandArt.net
Published April 04, 2019
by Jeff Jahn

One of the most promising young artists at work in Portland is Kayla Wiley, whose recent solo show Ego Placebo at Fuller Rosen was one of the most adventurous debuts we have seen in a while. Read full article.

Five of Portland’s Best Visual Arts Shows to See This Spring

Posted by Willamette Week
Published February 26, 2019
by WW Staff

Last year, Killjoy Collective quietly ceased operations after two years of bold, intriguing programming. Thankfully, two of the collective's founders, EM Fuller and BriAnna Rosen, are already back with a new gallery. Read full article.

Unraveling family history

Posted by Oregon ArtsWatch
Published November 29, 2018
by Lusi Lukova

Treguas or “Truces” is an exhibition of firsts. It is Angélica Maria Millán Lozano’s first solo show and the the first show presented at the new Fuller Rosen Gallery located in the Ford Building. Read full article.

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