Lauren Iida and Open Studio featured in Travel + Leisure

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 featured in The Phnom Penh Post

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…

William Hernandez | Mural at the Portland Art Museum with IDEAL PDX

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.

Lauren Iida | Citizen’s Indefinite Leave

ArtXchange Gallery presents Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, a new series of intricate paper cutaways by Lauren Iida incorporating historical scenes from the unjust incarceration of 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the USA during World War II. With the assistance from Seattle-based organization, Densho, Iida was able to dive deeper into her own family’s history and create a narrative…

Donald Cole | A Portrait of the Artist

Over sixty years of working as an artist, Donald Cole has mastered the unique ability to encompass both precision and exuberant experimentation in his work. Explore the trajectory of Cole’s career, beginning in the creative hotbed of 1970s NYC, through working and traveling abroad in the 90s, to his current life painting in the woods…