Visual Art
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The Mercury’s Favorite Visual Art Shows of 2025: Calligraphy, a Lettuce Lamp, and a Salmon Cannon
New artists and art spaces made Portland feel like its old self.
New artists and art spaces made Portland feel like its old self.
Photo Essay: Eye on the Northwest Marine Art Works
Twice a year, industrial Northwest Portland's massive complex of artist workspaces welcomes the public to its open studios and art market.
Twice a year, industrial Northwest Portland's massive complex of artist workspaces welcomes the public to its open studios and art market.
Laying Down in the Portland Art Museum with Pipilotti Rist
Her installation 4th Floor to Mildness encourages super comfy social transgression and undersea daydreams.
Her installation 4th Floor to Mildness encourages super comfy social transgression and undersea daydreams.
Portland Art Museum Wants to Be Used
Once hidden galleries can now be found; Rothko Pavilion presents a new way to see what was already there.
Once hidden galleries can now be found; Rothko Pavilion presents a new way to see what was already there.
Seeing Ursula K. Le Guin’s Many Sides
Oregon Contemporary’s tribute to the novelist and multi-practice artist gets in the weeds in the best way possible.
Oregon Contemporary’s tribute to the novelist and multi-practice artist gets in the weeds in the best way possible.
From Sacred to Profane: Portland’s Best Holiday and Holidayish Events
On this list: Grinch Skate, Krampuslauf, and a longtime celebration of the Nativity as alien visitation.
On this list: Grinch Skate, Krampuslauf, and a longtime celebration of the Nativity as alien visitation.
What Wanders Through a Body?Â
A new exhibition at Portland gallery Lumber Room compiles corporeal works by Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque.
A new exhibition at Portland gallery Lumber Room compiles corporeal works by Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque.
What Wanders Through a Body?
A new exhibition at Portland gallery Lumber Room compiles corporeal works by Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque.
A new exhibition at Portland gallery Lumber Room compiles corporeal works by Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque.
A Snapshot of Portland's DIY House Show Scene
Buckman Publishing collects Choice Cuts from Corbin C's immense archive.
Buckman Publishing collects Choice Cuts from Corbin C's immense archive.
Anatomy of a Sculpture
Peek inside Portland ceramics artist Erika Rier’s world of mischievous, mythical monsters.
Peek inside Portland ceramics artist Erika Rier’s world of mischievous, mythical monsters.
Portland Art Museum's Rothko Pavilion Opens This Fall
The new addition finally links the museum's
two buildings and shifts the entrance to its center.
The new addition finally links the museum's
two buildings and shifts the entrance to its center.
Art for Art’s Sake
Our favorite Mercury covers from the past 25 years.
Our favorite Mercury covers from the past 25 years.
On the Cover: Pastel Artist Pace Taylor Paints Their Way Toward Paradise
Last Call at the Rainbow Cafe incorporates shreds of Americana into a decidedly queer aesthetic.
Last Call at the Rainbow Cafe incorporates shreds of Americana into a decidedly queer aesthetic.
Log Recognize Log: World Forestry Center Celebrates an Iconic Twin Peaks Character
A pop-up exhibit at the World Forestry Center celebrates the Log Lady, the actress who portrayed her, and the strange wisdom of wood.
A pop-up exhibit at the World Forestry Center celebrates the Log Lady, the actress who portrayed her, and the strange wisdom of wood.
Portland’s Next Top (Architectural) Model
New installation City of Possibility offers a big picture of the city's urban planning history via tiny buildings.
New installation City of Possibility offers a big picture of the city's urban planning history via tiny buildings.
What Art Goes
With Your Job?
Make art, truth, and beauty
work for you for a change.
Beatlemania Through the Eyes of a Beatle
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm provides the ultimate insider’s view of a singular cultural event.
You Can’t Capture Arlene
Schnitzer’s Vast Art Legacy
Fountain of Creativity tries to show how a growing city
and artistic scene developed and evolved.
TBA Review: If You Want Solitude, Stay Far Away From Club Alive
Kye Grant's monthly, genre-fluid event blends participatory art and dance parties.
The Mercury's Time-Based Art Festival Picks
Don't miss the dance parties, itty bitty music collages, and complete cacophonies—planning your TBA 2024 itinerary is an art form in itself.
Portland's Favorite Experimental, Time Based Art Festival Bounces Back
On the TBA 2024 schedule: weird music, Black horror, and an opera about the prime meridian.
Portland Drag Clown Carla Rossi Climbed Jeffery Gibson's Installation at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Artist Jeffery Gibson invited Carla Rossi to climb his installation on the US pavilion.
Father Fannie's Funhouse Is Constantly Changing
The latest ILY2 Too Lloyd Mall resident curates artworks and workshops focused on community and Black joy.
Do You Remember Content? The Hotel Room Takeover Art Installation Event Returns
Artists at this unique Portland showcase include eco-friendlies Making Earth Cool and local music supporters Friends of Noise.
At Portland Fall Art Shows: Flemish Snack Bags, Sculptures of Daily Detritus, and Other Wonders
Find a visual feast at Portland art galleries like SE Cooper Contemporary and Japanese American Museum of Oregon.
Find a visual feast at Portland art galleries like SE Cooper Contemporary and Japanese American Museum of Oregon.
David Byrne Takes Over Tomorrow Theater's Opening Weekend
A look inside the renovated former adult movie house that Portland Art Museum turned into a 250-seat movie and performance venue.
An LA Comics Fest Comes to Create Permanent Damage in Portland
Floating World hosts the grimy indie comics fair in Lloyd Center's old Ulta Beauty salon.
Crafting Pinocchio Spotlights the Stop-Motion Animation That Made the Movie Come Alive
Portland Art Museum presents an up-close view of Guillermo del Toro's unique vision and ShadowMachine's masterful craft.
Q&A With PICA's Outgoing and Incoming Executive Directors
After 20 years, Victoria Frey passes the torch to Reuben Roqueñi —who has been involved with PICA for over a decade.
Meet the Mercury's Cover Artist of the Week: Femke Hiemstra
Flora, fauna, surrealist fables... and other examples of Hiemstra's Neo Fabulism.
Making Earth Cool: Partying to Save the Planet
On First Thursday, the art collective kicks off a two-month residency at Parallax Art Center.
This Week’s Mercury Cover Artist: Sam Geballe’s Beautiful Darkness
Body dysphoria is only part of this remarkable photography exhibit running through this Saturday, April 1, at Blue Sky Gallery.
ILY2 (or I Love You Too) Takes Root
Portland's newest contemporary art venue previously existed as an emotional-support hotline and a pop-up "glamshot" photo studio at the Lloyd Center.
Mercury Cover Artist of the Week: Justin “Scrappers” Morrison’s Sincere Celebrations
Making earnest art about how strange and beautiful it is to be alive right now.
Hot Take at Portland State: Looms Are Computers
At Weaving Data, nine artists explore the shared history of textiles and tech.
The Future Past: Artists in Conversation
New exhibits at the Portland Art Museum showcase the conversation between Dakota modernist Oscar Howe's work and contemporary Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson.
Two Portland Galleries Make Their Move
Both Blackfish Gallery and Chefas Projects are expanding, showing off the local arts community's resilient side.
The Fluorescent and Ungovernable Ocean of Like Liquid, Cut Loose
Paper-focused visual artist Morgan Rosskopf and electronic musician Ashlin Aronin transport Well Well Projects to a chaotic blacklight grotto.
Photographer Luke Misclevitz's Wild Time Capsules
Misclevitz chronicles Portland’s underground—it's music, fashion, and nightlife.
Humaira Abid Confronts the World
Meet the Mercury Cover Artist of the Week!
Meet the Mercury's Cover Artist of the Week!
Witchcraft, death, and tigers with visible skeletons... it's all part of this week's Mercury cover artist Mx. Morgan Robles' fearless divination.
TBA Review: They Can Never Burn the Stars Is TBA at Its Best
Standing in certain locations turned viewers’ bodies into conduits for deep vibrating bass lines.
Portland Art Galleries, a Reintroduction
Fall visual art shows, and the galleries that love them.
Fall visual art shows, and the galleries that love them.
This Week's Mercury Cover: Steven Miller’s Spiritual Skinny Dipping
An Interview with the Photographer About His Collection of Underwater Nudes, Subsumed
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