April Arts: Works of the mysterious Banksy coming to Portland

Published 12:00 am Monday, April 4, 2022

The Tribune will highlight some gallery openings and other arts happenings in the first edition of each month, coinciding with First Thursday (April 7). Galleries have reopened, but they may have limited hours and/or online presentations and visitor restrictions. Please check individual websites for info.

• Reminders: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education at 724 N.W. Davis St. features “To Bear Witness — Extraordinary Lives” through May 15. It’s a multimedia exhibition focused on the lives of 14 refugees who rebuilt their lives in Oregon.

For more: http://www.ojmche.org. …

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University presents “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults,” through April 30. It’s a collaboration between photographer Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre.

For more: http://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art. …

The Portland Art Museum’s exhibit “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” shows through June 5. It’s from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection.

For more: http://www.portlandartmuseum.org.

• The “Banksyland” exhibit of art by the mysterious Banksy, which opens April 15, will be at The Factor Building, 226 S.E. Madison St.

There’ll be about 100 authenticated works in the installation; it’s an unauthorized exhibit, and it’s being organized through experiential art collective One Thousand Ways. Works include “Love is in the Air,” “Smiling Copper,” “Happy Choppers,” “Girl with Balloon,” as well as paintings and editions from Banksy’s “Gross Domestic Product” and “Walled Off Hotel” exhibitions, salvaged steel/concrete works and never-before-seen installations.

For tickets and more: http://www.banksyland.com.

• Waterstone Gallery, 124 N.W. Ninth Ave., features paintings from new member Susan Harrington, who makes art about the relationship between humanity and the environment with “Our House on Fire,” through May 1.

For more: http://www.waterstonegallery.com.

• At Adams and Ollman, 418 N.W. Eighth Ave., there’ll be new solo exhibitions, through May 7, from Portland native Rose Dickson (“Night Vision”) and painter Ryan McLaughlin (“Calcium Hat”). McLaughlin depicts fragmented words and crumbled pictograms hovering against dusty visual fields that fuse interpretations of still-life, landscape and abstraction. Dickson employs a system of archetypal forms, and engages in a speculative alchemy using a range of paint, cast metal, wax and ceramic.

For more: http://www.adamsandollman.com.

• Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 N.W. Ninth Ave., presents shows by painter Barbara Sternberger and sculptor Amanda Wojick, April 14-May 28.

For more: http://www.elizabethleach.com.

• PDX Contemporary has a new address: 1825 B N.W. Vaughn St. It was previously located in the Pearl District for 25 years. The first exhibit will be “Calling Invisible Doctors,” an exhibition of new work by James Lavadour, tentatively set to open April 15.

For more: http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com.

• Reminder: Portland Art Museum, 1219 S.W. Park Ave., offers free admission for kids 17 and under, http://www.portlandartmuseum.org.

• For information on galleries: First Thursday, firstthursdayportland.com; Portland Art Dealers Association, http://www.padaoregon.org.

— Jason Vondersmith