Painting

April 30, 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, and for Van Le and Allen Luong, it’s the perfect time to acknowledge an important moment for the Vietnamese community, and also looking forward to a brighter future.

Ralph Pugay says his paintings reveal “something catastrophic happening, but I see them as allegories for general questions about consciousness and life."

Charlene Moody is one of five artists creating work for the High Desert Museum’s exhibit “Sensing Sasquatch,” looking at Sasquatch through an Indigenous lens. Moody is working with a 9-foot-tall buffalo hide, drawing from her Warm Springs, Paiute, Miwok, Modoc and Yakama heritage.

“Waterlilies” (1914-15) by Claude Monet was covered with a varnish at some point, which makes the colors more saturated and intense than when Monet created the piece. At the Portland Art Museum, work is underway to restore the painting's raw colors.

Fiber artist Julie Beeler loves mushrooms so much that she's cataloged a rainbow of the colors they can produce as natural dyes to create the Mushroom Color Atlas.

In her intricate paintings and illustrations, Garcia summons charmed settings.

This week on "State of Wonder," we talk Sleater-Kinney and "Portlandia" with Carrie Brownstein, get a preview of the Bend Film Fest, paint some eyeballs with ocularist Fred Harwin and more.

September show at Gallery 135 tracks family memories, and the double lives led by people of color.

Muralist Hector H. Hernandez's work on the side of the Woodburn Independent newspaper building highlights the tremendous diversity and storied history of the city between Portland and Salem.

The Pacific Northwest Plein Air painting event encourages artists to immerse themselves in the natural landscape