Past
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Kris Hargis
There Are No Roads Here 29 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 After moving to an off the grid location artist, Kris Hargis, returns to Froelick Gallery with a new collection of reflective self-portraits and soft, still-life floral bouquets. Read more -
Rick Bartow
Frog Talk Seriously 29 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Magpies, crows, owls, sparrows, and hawks play center stage here along with appearances by coyote, bull, deer and of course, a frog! We are presenting choice works that have never been exhibited, some that have great exhibition histories outside of the region, and several transformation self portraits. The show includes... Read more -
Laurie Danial
I'm This, I'm That 11 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 UNSCRIPTED AND PROCESS-DRIVEN is how I describe my practice. Even as a kid, embracing uncertainty and tapping into stream of consciousness was my preferred means to uncovering a narrative that was previously unknown to me. Content in my case, emerges from the act of making and not the other way... Read more -
Emma Gerigscott
For The Love of Duck 11 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 FOR THE LOVE OF DUCK is a cry for when nothing else seems to fit. It is both truly for the love of animals and yet a sigh of exasperation. In a world of chaos I am seeking earnestness. My work examines diffidence through narrative. I paint stories that are... Read more -
Benny Fountain
Landscapes: Palouse and Provence 31 Aug - 8 Oct 2022 Froelick Gallery is honored to host a solo exhibition of new paintings by Benny Fountain “Landscapes: Palouse and Provence,” on view September 1 through October 8, 2022. The gallery will celebrate the exhibition opening with a public reception during the Pearl District Neighborhood’s First Thursday neighborhood gallery walk on Thursday,... Read more -
V. Maldonado
Un Rinconcito En El Cielo 12 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 Mexican born artist, V. Maldonado returns to Froelick Gallery with a new exhibition of their immense acrylic on canvas paintings titled, Un Rinconcito En El Cielo. Ranging from small works on paper to monumental sized paintings, this collection is a study of what makes up their Mexican family’s, slice of... Read more -
Ritsuko Ozeki
Awai 12 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 'Awai' Person to person, object to object, time to time. An ancient word meaning 'betweenness,' or the relationship between things. An ambiguous boundry where two worlds are overlapping. It also means a space of chaos created by the melting together of the inside and outside, and a sense of vague... Read more -
Gwen Davidson
Alignment 1 Jun - 9 Jul 2022 Alignment, a sense of order, and understanding the cycle were sacred in that prehistoric time. What was built then still inspires a sense of wonder with such a direct connection between this earth, its seasons, and the sustaining sun. 'I come from a long line of farmers, and farmers have... Read more -
Yoshihiro Kitai
Ambivalence 1 Jun - 9 Jul 2022 Ambivalence is Yoshihiro Kitai’s fourth solo exhibition with Froelick Gallery and includes nine works on paper and canvas. The paintings flow with colorful Gansai pigment dots, and reflective gold leaf clouds are layered on top of Kitai’s signature textured gessoed patterns. This exhibition draws upon Kitai's ongoing observations of American... Read more -
Spring Group Exhibition
12 Apr - 28 May 2022 Read more -
Tom Prochaska
So You Say 2 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 Tom Prochaska’s latest exhibition, So You Say, sees the longtime Portland artist entering his 77th year with this series of sublimely powerful semiabstract paintings. These works are, foremost, exercises in composition-finding, in which Prochaska moves color around on his surfaces, chasing a pleasing arrangement of elements. From a dense snowfall... Read more -
Barry Pelzner
Still Life 1 - 26 Feb 2022 'After about ten years exploring non-representational imagery, I’ve returned recently to making drawings from direct observation of recognizable subjects. These drawings bear absolutely no conceptual freight. I’m just drawn to the mysterious beauty of everyday objects, and I never tire of the simple magic of three-dimensional space unfolding on a... Read more -
WORKS on PAPER
A Group Exhibition 1 Feb - 9 Apr 2022 Read more -
Rick Bartow
The Bear's Song 1 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Rick Bartow (1946 - 2016) - a lifelong Oregonian, a Vietnam Veteran, and an enrolled member of the Mad River Band of Wiyot Indians - continues to garner recognition as a leading voice in contemporary Native American art. His work is held in over 100 public collections and has... Read more -
Gail Tremblay
Shattering Images 1 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 We are pleased to present Gail Tremblay's latest exhibition entitled Shattering Images. Instructed in ash splint and sweetgrass weaving techniques by her Mi'kmaq and Onondaga aunts, for nearly 40 years, Tremblay has woven baskets using repurposed lengths of ethnographic and Hollywood film through which she comments on the cinematic representation... Read more -
Kay WalkingStick
Painting as Memory 7 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Froelick Gallery is very pleased to present our second solo exhibition with Kay WalkingStick - Painting as Memory . A celebrated artist and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, WalkingStick has exhibited extensively over the course of her career and is represented in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan... Read more -
Joe Feddersen
Inhabited Landscapes 1 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Joe Feddersen's new Froelick Gallery exhibition, titled Inhabited Landscapes, is inspired, in part, by drives around the Colville Reservation with the artist’s nonagenarian father - who recently remarked that there didn’t seem to be as many animals around as there used to be. The imagery in this show is the younger Feddersen’s response to that observation. Adorning layered, multi-technique print works and the curved walls of glass basket forms, he shows us the presence of much wildlife surrounding them; the rich variety of animals, birds, fish and insects that share the ecosystem of the Upper Columbia Plateau region. Elk and bee, bighorn sheep, spider, salmon, turkey vulture, coyote, porcupine, rattlesnake and grasshopper overlay and conjoin with one another in thickly-outlined forms, interacting in a bustling, interconnected world. Horses are heavily represented - large numbers roam wild in the region and are considered, for all their iconic beauty, a problematic non-native species that can consume much grazing land, tipping a delicate ecological balance.
Also present are a variety of human forms, as well indicators of conveniences and travails of contemporary life, such as vehicles, hydroelectric towers, radiation signs, and a COVID-19 molecule which appears in a number of works. Transparent layered ink rolls emulate the eerie haze of smoke from wildfires which devastated parts of the Reservation in the fall of 2020, also suggested by flame-colored glass. Read more -
Summer Group Exhibit
14 Jul - 27 Aug 2021 We are pleased to announce the opening of our annual Summer Group Exhibit. A forum for Froelick Gallery artists to present selections of developing bodies of work from their studios as well as entries from ongoing series and notable pieces from their personal archives. Much color is present in this... Read more -
Terrell James
Between Land and Water 1 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Please join us for a live broadcast conversation with Terrell James on Thursday, June 3 at 5:30pm via Facebook and YouTube . Call the gallery for a viewing appointment, and artwork availability. View the exhibition here . Read more -
Sarah Horowitz
BLUE 30 Mar - 29 May 2021 Please join us for a live broadcast conversation with Sarah Horowitz on Thursday, April 1 at 5:30pm via Facebook and YouTube , and get in touch to make a masked, socially distant viewing appointment, and for collecting opportunities. Read more -
Benny Fountain
Rest 30 Mar - 29 May 2021 Please join us for a live broadcast conversation with Benny Fountain on Thursday, April 1 at 5:30pm via Facebook and YouTube , and get in touch to make a masked, socially distant viewing appointment, and for collecting opportunities. Read more -
Holly Osborne
Rare Nature 2 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Froelick Gallery is pleased to present Rare Nature, our first solo exhibition with Portland-based artist Holly Osborne. Her works exude a strong sense of place, whether she paints grand views of nature or quiet corners of a yard or abstraction-laced amalgams of remembered outdoor scenes. Masterful use of color transports... Read more -
Emma Gerigscott
Duck Duck Dog 2 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Please join us for a live broadcast conversation with Emma Gerigscott on Thursday, February 4 at 5:30pm via Facebook and YouTube , and get in touch to make a masked, socially distant viewing appointment, and for collecting opportunities. Visit the exhibition view here , Read more -
Jake Scharbach
Collision Repair 1 Dec 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 Collision Repair, our second solo exhibition with Jake Scharbach , sees the New York-based painter continuing - with pointed critique as well as reverence for materials and surfaces - to mine images from the long-dominant Western art historical canon. He creates strange and compelling portraits mashed-up from features seemingly sliced... Read more -
25th Anniversary Group Exhibit
of Froelick Gallery Artists 1 Dec 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 In recognition of Froelick Gallery's 25th Anniversary, we are highlighting paintings, prints, photography, glass, ceramic and found film sculpture - both revelations from the archives and fresh work from the studio - by our gallery artists. Thank you to the incredible artists, collectors, supporters, curators, staff members past and present,... Read more -
Kris Hargis
Outer Hebo 14 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 We are pleased to exhibit Outer Hebo, Kris Hargis 's latest body of work. Often created in a state of ruminative isolation, heightened over these past months, his self-portraits and fading floral still life drawings- in chalk pastel, graphite, watercolor, charcoal, conte crayon- are the result of deep looking and... Read more -
Rick Bartow
Crow's Instructions 14 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 Froelick Gallery is proud to present an enlightening look into Rick Bartow's (Wiyot, 1946-2016) archive. Titled Crow’s Instructions- after a minimal 2007 monotype of black silhouetted corvid forms with human legs surrounded by cryptic letters, numbers and other markings- t his collection calls attention to some of Bartow’s most-venerated imagery:... Read more -
V. Maldonado
After the End of the World 1 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember. It was my first language before I could speak. I learned how to draw from observation and from my imagination. I learned that I could draw portraits of my abusers and tormentors and that they would stop. That I could draw... Read more -
Jim Denomie
Toppled Monuments 5 - 29 Aug 2020 We welcome renowned Minnesota-based painter Jim Denomie (Ojibwe) to Froelick Gallery for his first solo exhibition with us. The works in Toppled Monuments were all begun early in 2020, prior to the outbreak of the global pandemic, then put aside at that time of uncertainty and distraction. He returned to... Read more -
Willie Little
The Shacks My Daddy Built 5 - 29 Aug 2020 Willie Little's series of ceramic shacks, created during a 2019 residency at Portland's Ash Street Project, is based on his parents' tobacco barns and grocery store (which doubled as an illegal after-hours liquor house) in North Carolina. The multimedia artist's first foray into this medium, his slab-built structures are glazed... Read more -
Laurie Danial
Navigating in Place 1 Jul - 1 Aug 2020 Laurie Danial’s abstract paintings in Navigating in Place are imbued with a kinetic energy and a dazzling panoply of brushwork styles suggesting mysterious places as viewed through slices of architectural structures, layers of screening grids, hued mists, and rippling, half-penetrable water surfaces, in color palettes that range from subdued to... Read more -
Kay WalkingStick
In the Rockies 14 Apr - 27 Jun 2020 In The Rockies presents Kay WalkingStick's fascination with the geography and history of the Western United States - the enormous region known as the Rocky Mountains. The exhibition comprises twelve paintings on panel and paper, and four rare prints created at Crow's Shadow. We are featuring several sites and events... Read more -
Dirk Bach
Recent Work 14 Apr - 27 Jun 2020 Froelick Gallery is pleased to premiere the work of accomplished artist and art historian Dirk Bach, who is showing in Portland for the first time. Active for over sixty years, Bach has exhibited his work nationally while also maintaining an art historical practice and teaching career. The exhibition on view,... Read more -
Tom Prochaska
Shuffle 3 Mar - 11 Apr 2020 Read more -
Yoshihiro Kitai
Conflux 3 Mar - 11 Apr 2020 March 2020 Yoshihiro Kitai Conflux Read more -
Winter Group Exhibition
of Froelick Gallery Artists 4 - 29 Feb 2020 Froelick Gallery's annual Winter Group Exhibit presents fresh and selected works from our represented artists, highlighting the breadth of media and depth of content they engage with. Distinct veins of portraiture and abstraction run through this exhibition. Among those included are Emma Gerigscott's intertwining, Fauvist-inspired paintings of horses and dogs,... Read more -
Joe Feddersen
Echo 1 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Froelick Gallery is pleased to present our latest exhibition with Joe Feddersen , a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Okanagan, Lakes), featuring recent monoprints, works on paper, and blown glass vessels. Feddersen's imagery draws on traditional petroglyph forms to call attention to both ancient and contemporary... Read more -
V. Maldonado "Excerpts from a Book I'll Never Write" at the Schneider Museum of Art
24 Oct - 14 Dec 2019 V. Maldonado's exhibition of new paintings, Excerpts from a Book I'll Never Write is on view at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR through December 14. Maldonado writes: I've been drawing as long as I can remember. It was my first language before I could... Read more -
Takahiko Hayashi
Vibes in the Lines 16 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 Read more -
"Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain"
Rick Bartow touring retrospective, Missoula Art Museum, Montana 4 Oct 2019 - 15 Feb 2020 Conceived and organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, in cooperation with Froelick Gallery, this retrospective exhibition represents nearly forty years of work. Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features over 100 sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints dating back to 1979 that... Read more -
Rick Bartow
Bestiary 3 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Read more -
Gwen Davidson
Monoliths 16 Jul - 29 Aug 2019 First Thursday Reception, August 1st, 5-8 pm Exhibition tour and discussion with Gwen Davidson (and Benny Fountain), Saturday, Aug 3rd, 11am. 'Oregon coast monoliths preserve the wildness of the place; their immensity makes the efforts of mankind seem small. Their great age proves strength and endurance, and their... Read more -
Benny Fountain
windowroom 16 Jul - 29 Aug 2019 First Thursday Reception, August 1st, 5-8 pm Exhibition tour and discussion with Benny Fountain (and Gwen Davidson), Saturday, Aug 3rd, 11am. never a root without a tree never a tree without a bird never a bird without a song never a song without a sky never a sky... Read more -
Willie Little
And Miles to Go Before We Sleep 4 Jun - 13 Jul 2019 First Thursday Reception, June 6th, 5-8 pm Exhibition tour and discussion with Willie Little and author Lois Leveen, Saturday, June 15th, 11am Read more -
Summer Group Exhibit
of Froelick Gallery Artists 4 Jun - 13 Jul 2019 Read more -
Stephen O'Donnell
Objectified 16 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 First Thursday Reception, May 2nd, 5-8 pm Exhibition tour and discussion with Stephen O'Donnell, Saturday, May 11, 11am Read more -
Joe Feddersen
"Echo" at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 6 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Center for Contemporary Art & Culture presents an important solo exhibition of work by celebrated artist Joe Feddersen. The exhibition, Echo, debuts a new series of extra large scale prints Feddersen produced during his residency with PNCA’s Watershed Center. This exhibition also features... Read more -
Jake Scharbach
Hand to Hand 5 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 First Thursday Reception, March 7, 5-8 pm 'I believe our intensely capitalistic techno-industrial civilization is poised on the brink of the greatest collapse in human history. As an artist I am questioning our cultural conditioning by looking at historical remains, Greek and Roman being the most relevant, as they... Read more -
Sarah Horowitz
Surface Tension 5 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 First Thursday Reception, March 7, 5-8 pm For her exhibition, Sarah Horowitz is inspired by webs of branches and undulating surfaces of nets, working with large sheets of paper & dyes for drawings, and huge plywood surfaces to carve for new woodcuts. Read more -
Terrell James
Fable 22 Jan - 2 Mar 2019 'Throughout my studio work, I think about memory and place, and about landscape as a point of departure. The imagery is often abstracted from particular places, or objects, without actually describing or illustrating them. I am trying to paint, draw, and sculpt the essence of my experience, to share it,... Read more -
Ritsuko Ozeki
A 20-Year Survey 22 Jan - 2 Mar 2019 FEBRUARY 16, 2019 11AM Drop by the gallery and meet Ritusko Ozeki, visiting from Japan, and Froelick Gallery owner Charles Froelick who has worked with and exhibited the works of several Japanese artists, including Ritsuko Ozeki. Charles will discuss the nuances of Ritsuko's printmaking and painting as seen at... Read more -
Winter Group Exhibit
of Froelick Gallery Artists 4 Dec 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 A show of new and selected works by Froelick Gallery artists highlighting their breadth of media and depth of content. Read more -
Victor Maldonado
Liberation Stories 30 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 Victor Maldonado returns to Froelick Gallery with a new exhibition of their monumental acrylic on canvas paintings titled Liberation Stories. This body of work is a stirring response by the Mexican-born American artist to the policies and rhetoric of our political era. Painted in dynamic, linear strokes that have a... Read more -
Emma Gerigscott
St(r)ay 30 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 This exhibition of work from recent Oregon College of Art and Craft MFA graduate Emma Gerigscott features her latest work from this summer. She's continued her thesis work by pushing the dog imagery, unfolding a narrative that is somehow about pioneers, Eastern Orthodox icons, and freedom. Read more -
Laurie Danial
The Back of Beyond 2 - 27 Oct 2018 First Thursday Reception: October 4, 5 - 8pm Exhibition tour and discussion with the artist: Saturday, October 13, 11am My approach is intuitive, chaotic, and circuitous. Rarely do I begin a painting with a preliminary plan or tactic. Having said that, I have a lot of ideas and because I... Read more -
Sarah Horowitz
Wildflowers 2 - 27 Oct 2018 First Thursday Reception: October 4, 5 - 8pm This exhibition will feature a selection of hand-colored flower etchings by Sarah Horowitz from her 2016 handbound book, Wildflowers , Wildflowers is a collection of plants native to Chelan County in central Washington State. Guidance in choosing flowers iconic to this area... Read more -
Kevin Kadar
Desire and Dread Revisited 28 Aug - 29 Sep 2018 Froelick Gallery is pleased to present our twelfth solo exhibition with Portland-based painter Kevin Kadar. The works in Desire and Dread Revisited (a nod to a similarly-titled show from 1991) can be seen to describe a journey through an allegorical contemporary landscape. Initially appearing as scenes of plains and plateaus... Read more -
Stefan Ways
Just a Playground (Broadway Window) 28 Aug - 29 Sep 2018 One year ago, fire erupted at Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge because of a teen playing with fireworks, ultimately destroying 48,000 acres of protected land. Ash fell from the sky in Portland as people somberly walked around as if walking through cremated ashes of a loved one, because... Read more -
Willie Little
Kinfolks, Nodder Doll/Living Doll 17 Jul - 25 Aug 2018 First Thursday Reception with the artist
August 2, 5-8pm
Exhibition tour & discussion with the artist
Saturday, August 11, 2pm
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Kris Hargis
A Michigan Winter 17 Jul - 25 Aug 2018 First Thursday Reception with the artist
August 2, 5-8pm
Exhibition tour & discussion with the artist
Saturday, August 11, 2pm
‘A Michigan Winter’ represents the process of trying to understand a grief and how it can morph into some of your own, for the same, yet different reasons. These works are about holding space and light, compassion, love, frustration, vulnerability, and also self care. Making these drawings has helped me to understand better and gives me hope to continue on down this path by shedding light on the unknown.
Kris Hargis, 2018 Read more -
Summer Group Exhibition
5 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Welcoming summertime with recent works by Froelick Gallery artists. First Thursday Receptions: June 7 and July 5, 5-8pm Read more -
Barry Pelzner
(Ir)regular 1 May - 2 Jun 2018 'These paintings are the result of my ongoing interest in infinitely repeating two-dimensional patterns. The paintings are at once utterly abstract and utterly concrete. Abstract in that they allude to, without stipulating them, the rules that generate the patterns they contain. Concrete in that the paintings are about nothing whatever... Read more -
Tom Prochaska
The Boxer 27 Feb - 31 Mar 2018 Exhibition Tour with Tom Prochaska Saturday, March 10 at 11am Read more -
Gail Tremblay
Re-Imagining Film Images of American Indians 27 Feb - 31 Mar 2018 Special Reception with Gail Tremblay Wednesday, February 28th 5:00 - 7:00pm Gail will speak about the film choices, weaving the baskets, and titling her works at 6:30pm on Wednesday evening. Read more -
Untitled
Live Datamoshing 1 - 24 Feb 2018 This work utilizes a technique known at datamoshing. The visual effects are the result of systematically deleting information from the encoded data stream. By destroying aspects of the video you end up revealing others.
Smile.
You're on camera. Read more -
Welcoming Willie Little
16 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 Please join us for an exhibition tour and discussion with Willie Little at Froelick Gallery on Saturday, Februrary 3rd at 11am. Froelick Gallery is pleased to welcome Willie Little for his first exhibition with us. An artist and storyteller originally from rural North Carolina, he draws upon his early experiences... Read more -
Rick Bartow
Regarding Rascals 16 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 This exhibition of works on paper represents many of the themes that Rick Bartow (1946 - 2016) returned to over the scope of his career, from his earliest serious artmaking to the twilight of his prolific final months. Art- historical and literary references, sharp-eyed ravens, wild-looking dogs, coyotes, self-portraits and... Read more -
Micah Hearn
The Other Shoe Drops 5 Dec 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Froelick Gallery presents our second solo exhibition for Portland-based painter Micah Hearn, The Other Shoe Drops. Coyly playful, unsparingly autobiographical, his active canvases evidence an impulsive, dynamic brushstroke laid over the imposed compositional order of a patchwork-like grid- a reference to his grandmother’s quiltmaking. His chromatically dazzling works are based... Read more
