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The BSR Weekly Arts and Culture Roundup, July 4-10, 2024
Posted by The Broad Street ReviewPublished July 03, 2024
by Kyle V. Hiller
It’s Fourth of July, which means that there’s probably a good chance you might be taking it easy this holiday weekend. If so, consider these upcoming events happening around the city to draw you outside of the house without demanding too much of your energy and (mostly) keeping you cool indoors. Exhibits from Black Moth Gallery, Cherry Street Pier, Fuller Rosen Gallery, and Da Vinci Art Alliance bring us more than just narratives around independence but self-discovery and cultural exploration. A First Friday mixer mixes it up with a local Philly saxophonist, and interactive summer concerts across the river in New Jersey keep the music pumping throughout July. Read full article.
Image Courtesy Laura Camila Medina © 2024
‘Great change is possible’: female artists grapple with social and political upheaval
Posted by The GuardianPublished April 22, 2024
by David Smith
A new group exhibition brings together the work of 28 artists from America and beyond who use their work to cover how difficult times have inspired them. In her ongoing series Project 42, launched in 2012, Molly Vaughan and her team create garments that commemorate the lives of murdered transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. Vaughan uses Google Earth takes screen shots of locations where the murders took place, then manipulates the digital images to create abstract patterns, printing them on fabric to make into clothing that can be worn by a collaborator during an “activation”. Read full article.
Image Courtesy Molly Jae Vaughan © 2024
Vo Vo Selected as Participating Artist in 2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial
Posted by Oregon ContemporaryPublished April 15, 2024
by Oregon Contemporary
The Artists’ Biennial is a survey of works by visual and performing artists who are defining and advancing Oregon’s contemporary art landscape. Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram are the curators of the 2024 Biennial, which is focused on themes of networks, community, care, and support. Rather than a hierarchical approach to artists' works, the curators' goal is to present work that is timely and relevant to the communities of Oregon. Learn more.
Image Courtesy Oregon Contemporary © 2024
Does Portland Need a Soho House? (Does It Even Want One?)
Posted by The New York TimesPublished March 14, 2024
by Callie Holtermann
The building displays work by more than 60 artists, including Salomée Souag, who is creating a pastel mural for the building’s second floor, and Yuyang Zhang, whose collages mix graphics from Chinese propaganda posters with screenshots of Tinder notifications. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Yuyang Zhang © 2024
The BSR Weekly Arts and Culture Roundup, February 29 - March 6, 2024
Posted by Broad Street ReviewPublished February 28, 2024
by Kyle V. Hiller
Coming up this week, a few new exhibitions open up at local galleries. Vox Populi opens four new exhibitions that open up unique experiences found in daily life; Fuller Rosen Gallery offers a glimpse at life from a first generation American born of Iranian and Polish immigrants; and InLiquid Gallery investigates a new world. Then, go outside of the gallery and into the Writers Room at Drexel, where an evening of writing arrives in the spirit of Leap Day. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Frankie Krupa Vahdani © 2024
Award-winning artist Olivia Harwood BFA’21 strives to empower herself and others in her work
Posted by Willamette UniversityPublished September 20, 2023
by Linda Lenhoff
By being true to herself, Olivia Harwood BFA’21 has reached an enviable level of success only a couple of years after graduating from PNCA. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Olivia Faith Harwood © 2023
The gallery shows we are most excited about this fall
Posted by The Philadelphia InquirerPublished September 13, 2023
by Rosa Cartagena
The Philadelphia gallery scene is brimming with fresh energy this season. Three contemporary shows bring new perspectives that will amuse, challenge, confuse, and delight. Philadelphia mainstay Anne Minich shares enigmatic reflections of a decades-long relationship with her bald silhouette. Local curator Chelsey Luster paints love letters through layered portraits and altars to dear friends. From Oregon, Yuyang Zhang brings his cheeky yet hauntingly incisive commentary on authoritarianism and U.S.-China relations using Taylor Swift lyrics. Sign up for free to read full article.
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Photo Courtesy Yuyang Zhang © 2023
VizArts Monthly: Giving nature a voice
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished August 03, 2022
by Lindsay Costello
Yuyang Zhang is a true inspiration. Amid a grueling, 20-month O-1B visa petition application process, the Chinese-born artist (who has lived in the United States for the last decade) channeled his anxiety into mixed-media digital collages and photographic diptychs with a careful, delicate grace and subtle sense of humor. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Yuyang Zhang © 2022
An Invitation Into Intimacy
Posted by Variable WestPublished July 26, 2022
by Luiza Lukova
The works of Vo Vo toggle a multi-disciplinary field; the pieces breathe as weavings, narrative, collage and as script. Whereas a purely linear approach to the implementation of text into a visual art work can fall flat, reduced to its defining limits, I propose the function of text as pure catharsis. What might happen if artists were to also work fervently against the established structures of definition? Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
The Power of Latina Artists Taking Agency Over Their Stories
Posted by LATINAPublished July 18, 2022
by Kiara Cristina Ventura
The artists’ gaze powerfully influences an audience’s experience of their work. When men are the predominant mouthpiece for femininity in art, society’s view of women could become distorted. Alternatively, when women portray other women, they reflect a more multidimensional narrative of themselves to the world. Today, countless women are pioneering a movement to take agency over their artistic stories. They are capturing the complexities behind the female figure and revolutionizing concepts of modern femininity. These five young, powerful, Latina artists are paving the way for this initiative. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
VizArts Monthly: Photographs in new light
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished July 05, 2022
by Lindsay Costello
Molly Alloy and Arielle Zamora’s dual exhibition is also Fuller Rosen’s last—they’re hitting the road to reopen in Philadelphia. (We’ll miss their thoughtful offerings to the Portland art ecosystem!) In Held Tight, Alloy and Zamora take radically different approaches to form; Zamora is exacting and intricate in her painted responses to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, while Alloy’s driftwood and leather sculptures are inherently naturalistic and contemplative of “collective queer immortality.” Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
Editor’s Top 3
Posted by Art & About PortlandPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed
Posted by Variable WestPublished 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.
Yuyang Zhang, “plz do not comment, violators will be prosecuted,” 2021, acrylic, ink on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.
Image courtesy of Yuyang Zhang © 2022
VizArts Monthly: In or out?
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished 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.
Dana Robinson, What Comes After at The Wassaic Project, 2022, image courtesy of Dana Robinson © 2022
Explore these 10 shows at Oregon museums and galleries this spring
Posted by The OregonianPublished 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.
Dana Robinson, Come on Home to Miller, 2021, dye on georgette silk, 44 x 43 inches Photo Courtesy Dana Robinson © 2022
Evoking Empathy in the Uncanny: Olivia Faith Harwood’s “Possessions, Possessions”
Posted by Art & About PortlandPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
A Sneak Peek at the Portland Gallery Shows You Can See During the 2022 Spring Season
Posted by Portland MercuryPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
Art Review: Olivia Faith Harwood at Fuller Rosen Gallery
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
Artforum Critics’ Picks: Portland
Posted by Artforum InternationalPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2022
Performance: Emmanuela Soria Ruiz’s ‘Private Speculations’ is a study in candor, animality, and architecture
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished 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.
Emmanuela Soria Ruiz with performers Jessi Ali Lin and Julia Gladstone, “Private Speculations,” 2019. Performance, dimensions variable. Photo Courtesy Emmanuela Soria Ruiz © 2019
Portland Winter Is Coming. Brighten Your Days With These Vibrant Visual Art Experiences
Posted by Portland MercuryPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
YUYANG ZHANG “UMM NO”
Posted by Art & About PortlandPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
2020-21 Make|Learn|Build Grants
Posted by Regional Arts and Culture CouncilPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
VizArts Monthly: Personal reflections, collective inquiries, and space rocks
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
Artforum Critics’ Picks: Portland
Posted by Artforum InternationalPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
Like Their Art, Artist Vo Vo’s Workspace Is Informed by Their Life Experiences and Anarchist Philosophy
Posted by Willamette WeekPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Christine Dong © 2021
Bodily limitations recast: Panteha Abareshi and Kayley Berezney
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
Art shows a bit more intense and cerebral this winter in Portland
Posted by The OregonianPublished 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.
Image Courtesy Vo Vo © 2021
VizArts Monthly: New year, new art
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2021
Fertility figures get an update
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
KBOO Art Focus: Amanda Clem Interviews Fuller Rosen Gallery’s Bri Rosen and EM Fuller
Posted by KBOO Art FocusPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
VizArts Monthly: Connection amid isolation
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Grace Stott © 2020
Devin Harclerode and Laura Camila Medina: Loopholes
Posted by this is tomorrowPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
Meet Ophir El-Boher, Upcycled Fashion Designer, Artist & Scholar
Posted by Dismantle MagazinePublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
Christine Miller and Brittany Vega: American Hex Reviewed By Amelia Rina
Posted by BOMB MagazinePublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
The 29 Can’t-Miss Portland Art Events This Spring
Posted by Willamette WeekPublished February 19, 2020
by WW Staff
Fuller Rosen has become one of the best places to see emerging local artists. Read full article.
Photo Courtesy Laura Camila Medina and Devin Harclerode © 2019
KBOO Art Focus: Amanda Clem Interviews Christine Miller and Brittany Vega
Posted by KBOO Art FocusPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Mario Gallucci © 2020
VizArts Monthly: Art worth braving the rain to see
Posted by Oregon Arts WatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Brittany Vega © 2020
Shining a Light on Portland’s Art Scene: 10 Exciting Venues in the Rose City
Posted by HyperallergicPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Ryan Patrick Krueger © 2019
The Five Visual Arts Shows We’re Most Excited to See This Fall
Posted by Willamette WeekPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy B. G-Osborne © 2018
VizArts Monthly: Flatness, roundness, and everything between and beyond
Posted by Oregon ArtswatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Fuller Rosen Gallery © 2019
Top Things to Do This Weekend: July 18–21
Posted by Portland MonthlyPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Fuller Rosen Gallery © 2019
Profiles in Queer Excellence and Resilience
Posted by Portland MercuryPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Aaron Lee Photography © 2019
2018-19 RACC Project Grants (Cycle 3)
Posted by Regional Arts & Culture CouncilPublished 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.
Photos Courtesy B.G-Osborne © 2019
Time>Space>Place
Posted by PortlandArt.netPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Ryan Patrick Krueger © 2019
RU Residency 2019 NYC Artist
Posted by ResidencyUnlimited.orgPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Angélica Maria Millán Lozano © 2018
Spring Cleaning Cluster Reviews
Posted by PortlandArt.netPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Ryan Patrick Krueger © 2019
Five of Portland’s Best Visual Arts Shows to See This Spring
Posted by Willamette WeekPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Ryan Patrick Krueger © 2019
Unraveling family history
Posted by Oregon ArtsWatchPublished 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.
Photo Courtesy Ryan Patrick Krueger © 2018