ArtXchange Gallery presents Elevation, a solo exhibition featuring maximalist painter Chin Yuen. With vibrant colors and expressive movement, Yuen creates uplifting and dynamic compositions. Contrasting hues, shapes, and textures are layered in dense, undulating patterns, creating abstracted landscapes and sinuous forms that challenge the conventions of composition and balance. While creating these new works, Yuen immersed…
Excerpt: “Lauren Iida’s love affair with Cambodia began by accident. In 2008, the Japanese American artist was on her way to Bangkok when political unrest rerouted her flight to Phnom Penh. She immediately felt at home. Soon she began dividing her time between her hometown, Seattle, and various parts of the country — drawn in part, she…
Lauren Iida discusses her art practice and Open Studio Cambodia, the artist collective she founded in 2018, with the Phnom Penh Post. Iida says that she really loves using hand-cut paper as her primary medium because the materials are not complicated or expensive and though it can be time consuming the process itself and the…
With fellow IDEAL PDX artists, William Hernandez creates a mural reflecting on the legacy of Mexican Modernism for the Portland Art Museum’s exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism.
William Song presents a new series of resonant oil paintings that utilize color, light and depth to open multi-dimensional experiences beyond the conscious mind. Grounded in research about the capacity of visual information to effect change in the mind and body, these works aim to create energetic portals attuned to express connection, contemplation, spontaneity, and…
View Alan Lau’s painting in the current exhibition “Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection”
Learn about Friedlander’s artistic process and the the lake that inspired her new series.
View Caryn Friedlander’s new solo exhibition at ArtXchange Gallery.
ArtXchange Gallery presents Works on Paper, a group exhibition celebrating the wide-ranging possibilities of one of the world’s most accessible art materials. Featured in this exhibition is the work of gallery artists Alan Lau, Gilchun Koh, Donald Cole, Jiyoung Chung, and Elaine Hanowell, who each bring their own distinct sensibility to the idea of “work…
Thank you to writer Kiyomi Kishaba for a thoughtful review of Lauren Iida’s solo show, Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, in the Feb 2022 issue of the International Examiner. Read the full article here! “Iida’s main art form is hand-cut paper. Her previous piece Memory Net is a 30-foot long paper intricately cut to resemble a fish net that…