Jake Scharbach

Jim Adams Berbati’s Pan, 248-4579 Through Sept 30 Using graphite, Jim Adams delicately articulates a collection of surrealist caricatures on paper, which resemble super bizarre storybook images. Grotesquely manipulated figures and animals are frozen in mysterious interaction, and their setting is riddled with monumental vegetables, teapots, architecture, mountains, and other random objects. Swaths of thread-like […]

Chavez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story Blue Sky Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt, 225-0210 Basil Hallward Gallery 1002 W Burnside, 228-4651 Through Sept 1 In 1948, 20-year-old Don Normark trekked to the top of an LA hillside to get a better view of the skyline. In addition to urban grandeur, he discovered a small neighborhood […]

Dissections Laura Fritz Nil Contemporary, 221-3182 Through June 30 Armed with a painting degree from Drake University, Laura Fritz moved to Portland six years ago to unleash her creations. In her latest work, Dissections, on view at Nil Contemporary Art, Fritz bridges the gap between art and science. She approaches her sculptures as an impartial […]

Portland Independent Salon Bollenbach Art Lab 630 SE 3rd 998-0422 Through June 30 If you have to cancel dinner with your mom, leave your girlfriend, or sneak out of grandma’s basement sometime this month, mosey on down to the Bollenbach Art Lab. I know it’s a little hard to find, but you can dodge trains, […]