UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2023
Ibrahima Thiam, Mame Ndeuk Daour Mbaye, 2020, photography. Collection of the artist.
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Notes for Tomorrow
June 24-August 20 Notes for Tomorrow features artworks from around the world, brought together to reflect on a new global reality ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the ever-present backdrop of the crisis, Independent Curators International (ICI) turned to 30 curators from 25 countries to question and reassess values and relevance in contemporary culture, and to share an artwork they believe is vital to be seen today. Many of the artworks in Notes for Tomorrow address spirituality as a grounding mechanism, sharing ways to make sense of the world when so much is in doubt. Some engage specific mythology, while others reveal political structures that may or may not still be standing. The formation of monuments is questioned, and their removal is all but certain. The exhibition addresses art’s potential in the construction of collective memory in a global era. In this cultural moment of transition, each work is a source of inspiration from the recent past and a guiding perspective for the future. |
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Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
August 24-October 14 All around the world power is shifting. It is, we are told, becoming less top-down and more shared, open, and participatory. Art is at the vanguard of this and other changes that propose redefinitions of our societies at every level, but also of experiments that trend toward greater global citizenship and an increasingly participatory culture. Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship is an exhibition designed to promote increased citizenship, a term used not to denote privileged political status but to propose a more inclusive category of belonging in the world. Opening in venues across the Portland metro area, this exhibit features 50+ artists across 15+ local venues. Parallax Art Center has been selected for the portion of the show titled Assembly, which will geographically center artwork in the Pearl. Along with Stelo Arts and PNCA, Parallax Art Center will host Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Adriene Cruz, Patrick Hamilton, Lisa Jarret, Nicola Lopez, Brian Maguire, Jeremy Okai Davis, Anastasia Samoylova, Sara Siestreem and Judith Wyss. |
“Claire De Lune 2023 Editorial”, by Yun Qu of Videmus Omnia | Photographer: Bochun Cheng
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CLOTH, Construct, CULTURE: fashion builds a story
October 24-January 24,2024 "CLOTH, Construct, CULTURE: fashion builds a story”, curated by Rhonda P. Hill, highlights work from ten international designers concerned with deeper issues about the world we live in expressed through a framework of storytelling. These fashion designers consciously define their work as art, constructing unique installations in cloth that tell a story. Nonconforming and experimental, they have created an innovative body of work that has timeless appeal, substance, is culturally savvy while sending a strong message through their designs, often reaching viewers otherwise not engaged in our aesthetic discourse. This new generation of designers is not about ‘cut and sew and sell’. Their work is about concept, meaning, and why it matters to create. They present their collections through a framework of storytelling on world issues with a defiant and passionate resolve to protect earth’s resources; in an age of divisive politics and multiculturalism, to celebrate cultural and individual identity; to raise concern for technology and the loss of real-time human connection; and to recognize untold history while calling attention to the unfairness of marginalization. This framework of storytelling manifests through their design. |
Val Britton, Ammonite, 2022
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GLEAN
February 2024 A joint program with Recology, an employee-owned company that manages a variety of resource recovery facilities, Metro, the regional government that manages the Portland metropolitan area’s garbage and recycling system, and Crackedpots, an environmental arts organization, is in its 11th year of supporting an artist in residence program at the North Portland Metro Transfer station. Each year, five artists are juried in to spend six months gleaning their art “ingredients” from the city’s refuse. The culmination of six months of hard work is celebrated in an exhibition. In the past GLEAN has experienced challenges finding exhibition space suitable for this largely sculptural show, and as a non-profit themselves, they have a very limited budget to work with. Parallax Art Center has signed a multi-year contract offering exhibition space and professional curatorial and exhibition support, at a deeply discounted rate. Having a professional gallery that offers clean white walls, proper lighting and a gallery docent helping guide viewers six days a week has proven to elevate the art experience, both for the artists as well as the public who visit. We recorded record numbers, both for the GLEAN, compared to past years at different venues and for Parallax compared to past exhibitions and are excited to make this an annual partnership. |
