Oregon Contemporary is open when exhibitions are on view from Friday to Sunday, noon to 5 pm. Additionally, we are open on First Saturdays, when our hours are extended until 8 pm. Find details for upcoming First Saturdays below and check back regularly as more details are released.

December First Saturday

Join us Saturday, December 7, from 12-8 PM for a curated sale of art for purchase by Oregon College of Art and Craft’s Alumni!

Oregon Contemporary is excited to be the venue for this winter's Art of Craft Holiday Market. We are looking forward to a wonderful reunion and celebration of a long-held OCAC tradition. 

Gallery 1

Emily Counts: Sea of Vapors is on view. Sea of Vapors invites you in, drawing you to the circle of figures gathering and unifying their shared energy, and to the realm of the Wizard Queen. Dreamy, trippy characters bring joy and offer a wink and nod to the magic and symbols throughout Emily Counts’s created world.

Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA, and currently resides and works in Tacoma, WA. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited nationally at prominent institutions such as Oregon Contemporary, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Torrance Art Museum in California. In Washington, her work has been shown at the Bellevue Arts Museum and the Museum of Museums. A BFA graduate from California College of the Arts, Counts has received several prestigious grants, including those from Artist Trust, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and The Ford Family Foundation. Her residency experience includes programs at Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Plane Space in New York, and the Varda Artists Residency in Sausalito, CA. She is currently represented by studio e gallery in Washington and Nationale in Oregon.

Gallery 2

Please note: Sondra Perry: Black Girl as a Landscape will be temporarily closed on December 7 for the duration of the event. The exhibition will reopen Sunday, December 8 and will be on view until December 15.

Sondra Perry: Black Girl as a Landscape is on view. Perry’s videos and performances foreground the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential. At once abstract and representational, Black Girl as a Landscape articulates Perry’s interest in the possibility of abstraction as a way of creating dimensionality that connects individual bodies to larger visual and environmental ecologies.

Studios
Exhibition openings at Carnation Contemporary, Well Well, and more. Special art on loan in Studio 2. 

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