Don’t try to catch the map is not the territory during the last 30 minutes of the Portland Art Museum’s hours. You need time. The inaugural exhibition—which will repeat every three years—displays work from eight Pacific Northwest artists and addresses relationships with region, climate change, and (quoting curator Grace Kook-Anderson) “a time of reckoning where we need to embrace indigenous knowledge.”
Kook-Anderson organized the exhibition and invited artists, all of whom are currently Pacific Northwest residents: Fernanda D’Agostino and Ryan Pierce are from Portland. Mary Ann Peters and Rob Rhee are from Seattle. Henry Tsang and Charlene Vickers hail from Vancouver, BC, and Annette Bellamy and Jenny Irene Miller are from the far-off reaches of Alaska.
