Forthcoming
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Kay WalkingStick
Painting as Memory 1 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Read more -
Joe Feddersen
Inhabited Landscapes 1 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Read more -
Stephen O'Donnell
13 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Read more -
Michael Schultheis
13 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Read more -
Rick Bartow
1 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Read more -
Gail Tremblay
1 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Read more
Past
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Gabriel Liston
Old Water 1 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Please join us for a live broadcast conversation with Gabriel Liston 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 -
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 -
Katherine Ace
Hamster Island 1 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 This series of work tells stories. They invite your stories too. We, humans, are creative storytellers. I tell my stories in a visual language. I value creativity, curiosity, and humor; and all three come out in my work. The stories are all about a simple shift in one’s attitude, opening... 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 -
Matthew Dennison
The Parsed Thread 1 Jul - 1 Aug 2020 Portland-based painter Matthew Dennison’s latest exhibition of paintings, The Parsed Thread, is a collection of over 40 portraits of wildlife. These animals and birds, largely native to the Northwest, many endangered or threatened, are each rendered with dignity and personality- taken collectively, they form an interwoven view of the artist’s... 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 -
Nat Meade
Sheesh 1 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Froelick Gallery is pleased to welcome Brooklyn-based artist Nat Meade back for Sheesh, his latest exhibition of paintings on small-scale hemp canvas and panel-mounted paper surfaces. Meade's work of recent years has depicted the faces of men in highly affected adornments of nostalgic masculinity- thick beards, tinted sunglasses, glowing cigarettes.... 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 -
Michael Schultheis
All Our Infinite Senses In The Cycloids of Ceva 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 -
Whitney Lowe
Turbidity and the Peristaltic 3 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Exhibition Tour and Discussion with the artist Saturday, September 14, 11am 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 -
Susan Seubert
A Typology of Lament 16 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 First Thursday Reception, May 2nd, 5-8 pm Exhibition tour and discussion with Susan Seubert, Saturday, April 27, 11am 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 -
Katherine Ace at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital
Moments of Transformation 7 Feb 2019 - 22 Feb 2020 Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital's Cancer Healing Center features a solo exhibit of Katherine Ace's paintings, 'Moments Of Transformation,' on view thru Autumn 2019. The 11 large-scale paintings each hold powerful insights and stories of transformation and healing, many are inspired by Grimm's tales. Ace is the Center's 2019 Artist in... 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 -
Michael Schultheis: Venn Pirouettes
at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Washington State University, Pullman, WA 15 Jan - 29 Jun 2019 Artist and Washington State University alumnus Michael Schultheis finds dynamic synergies in the languages of math and art. An economist and mathematician, with experience in the academic and corporate worlds, Schultheis employs analytical formulae within his luminous paintings. While the equations themselves offer a form of mathematical purity, Schultheis' art... 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 -
Gabriel Liston
Above and Below the Flood 28 Aug - 29 Sep 2018 Gabriel Liston returns to Froelick Gallery with his latest body of work, Above and Below the Flood. An artistic meditation on how the land and various populations near the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers at Portland's North edge have been shaped by millennia of flooding- both expected seasonal... 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 -
Matthew Dennison
Democracy 1 May - 2 Jun 2018 Matthew Dennison’s eccentric, poignant paintings draw upon his deep ecological and political concerns. He depicts oblivious humans in the company of wise-looking animals, placeless urban scenes and serene but threatened natural places. A portion of this exhibition includes a selection from 365 small paintings on vintage book covers that he... Read more -
Katherine Ace
Face to Face 3 - 28 Apr 2018 Katherine Ace’s latest series of paintings, Face to Face, is a collection of portraits of women in defiance of the dominant politics of today and of the idealization of the female figure throughout the history of painting. Ace’s women are emboldened, not diminished, imbued with strength, resilience, humor, and a... Read more -
Saimayu Akesuk
Prints and Drawings from Dorset Fine Arts 3 - 28 Apr 2018 Saimaiyu Akesuk’s solid, stylized drawings and prints depict the animals and birds that share her portion of the world, in Kinngait/Cape Dorset. Feathers and fur are expanses for exploration of pattern and markmaking. These images provide some insight into traditional and contemporary life in the Arctic, the place these creatures... 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.
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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 -
Nat Meade
All Arounders 31 Oct - 2 Dec 2017 Brooklyn-based painter and Pratt Institute faculty member Nat Meade paints formally exploratory portraits that dissect current and traditional masculine tropes and affectations. His latest show at Froelick Gallery, All Arounders, suggests in its title a luckless amateur baseball team or a weekend-warrior motorcycle gang. Meade's carved-block men sport stalactite-like beards,... Read more
