Past Exhibitions

September 13 - October 28, 2009

Pat Boas — Record Record
Overview of the artist's New York Times based work and new What Our Homes Can Tell Us series.

May 28 - June 21, 2009

2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
BFA candidates display works in The Art Gym.

April 6 - May 14, 2009

SRO Video: Guys Doing Guy Things
Film and video installations by Oregon artists Mike Bray, Dan Gilsdorf, Mack McFarland and Stephen Slappe. The exhibition features work that goes beyond single channel video – it is video that combines projected images, installation and sculpture. You explore on your feet, rather than view from a seat.

February 23 - March 25, 2009

Wolves and Urchins
Hayley Barker, Anne Mathern and Wendy Given
Three artists based in Oregon and Washington use painting, photography, sculpture and video to explore our real and imagined relationship with nature.

Gallery 2: Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas
Warlord Sun King: The Genesis of Eco-Baroque
The Gallery 2 installation addresses "mankind's consumption of energy, resources and attempts to simulate the actions of the sun," and includes a tanning bed chandelier with crystals, moss, gold leaf and plants.

January 6 - February 11, 2009

Susie J. Lee: Shadow Playing
Susie J. Lee's Shadow Playing explores ideas of what parts of the self women keep or leave behind as they move from adolescence to adulthood.

November 3 - December 7, 2008

Homage
Sherrie Wolf, Brad Adkins, Christopher Rauschenberg, Michelle Ross
Studies, copies and re-enactments of the work of other artists.

September 8 - October 22, 2008

Christine Bourdette
The show includes more than 50 sculptures and six drawings from 1987 to the present and is the most comprehensive exhibition of Bourdette's work to date.

May 29 - June 22, 2008

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
BFA candidates display works in The Art Gym.

April 14 - May 14, 2008

Sitelines
Painting and sculpture by Stephanie Robison and Jenene Nagy.

Gallery 2: Jesse Hayward – WHY AND THE WHY NOT
Both exhibitions, Sitelines and WHY AND THE WHY NOT, involve interactions between and among artists, and with the gallery space and architecture.

February 25 – April 2, 2008

Women's Work:
Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections
of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
Collectively, the 56 prints that comprise Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation testify to the innovative breadth and variety of printmaking approaches taken by women since the early 1970s.

January 14 – February 13, 2008

Carl Morris: Figure, Word & Light
Guest Curator Prudence Roberts examines the work painter Morris made partly in response to the second World War.

Gallery 2: Leonard Ruder: Evidence of a Life's Work
The show includes Ruder's early focus on abstracted architectural and landscape motifs, tracks the work as the artist quickly moved to non-objective abstraction, and demonstrates the artist's formal prowess and constant experimentation. Guest Curator: Silas Cook.

November 5 – December 9, 2007

Hidden Stories: Trude Parkinson and David Airhart
The Art Gym exhibition Hidden Stories includes more than 20 paintings by David Airhart and five installations of paintings and watercolors by Trude Parkinson.

September 10 - October 24, 2007

Field Notes: Photographs by Dianne Kornberg, 1992-2007
A retrospective exhibition for one of the Pacific Northwest's most accomplished photographers, Field Notes comprises nearly 100 of Dianne Kornberg's photographs and is the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date.

May 31 – June 17, 2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
BFA candidates display works in The Art Gym.

April 10 – May 16, 2007

Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions, 1986-2006
Ken Butler: Hybrid Instruments will include 60 of the artist’s infinitely inventive and witty "hybrid instruments" – film reel and tennis racket guitars, cowboy boot violins, axe cellos, Styrofoam packaging pianos. The artist will also perform at each venue, and participating museums will have the option to offer workshops for college students, adults and children.

February 26 – March 28

Dana Lynn Louis: Installation
Dana Lynn Louis will fill The Art Gym with her delicate sculptures and drawings. Lynn Louis works both as a studio artist, creating delicate sculpture, drawings and prints, and as a public artist. The public may be familiar with Suspended Migration, a four-story installation at Portland's City Hall, the Essence of Nature at the Oregon Convention Center, or her public artwork the Color of Breath, at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, Washington.

January 8 – February 14, 2007

Main space:
Patrick Stearns: Portland Under Construction
Since the early 1990s Patrick Stearns has been photographing construction projects in Portland. His first large project documented the construction of the West Side Max light rail tunnel through Portland's West Hills. For the past two years, the artist has followed the building of the aerial tram from the South Waterfront district to Oregon Health Sciences University.

Gallery 2:
Portland Envisioned, Graphs & Charts
Architects, engineers and planners draw, map and graph their ideas in order to explore solutions for complex problems and communicate with each other, their clients and the public. The Art Gym will present a selection of those visual materials for recent projects in Portland.

October 29 – December 10, 2006

Michael Knutson: Paintings and Drawings, 1981 - 2006
The exhibition will present an overview of work by Oregon artist Michael Knutson. It will include approximately 40 abstract paintings and 16 drawings produced from the early 1980s to 2006. Many of Knutson's paintings are very large, which led to the decision to present the exhibition at two locations – Marylhurst University and Lewis & Clark College.

September 5 – October 15, 2006

Joseph Schneider: Lawnmower Lady and the Whisper of Truth
Joseph Schneider will present a selection of sculpture and paintings in The Art Gym. The artist recently moved to Oregon. He received a prestigious Creative Capital grant for his work on The Doll Cathedral, which is currently under construction in the artist's studio in the Columbia River Gorge.

May 25 - June 18, 2006

BFA Thesis Exhibition 2006
BFA candidates display works in The Art Gym.

March 7 - May 3, 2006

Between Clouds of Memory
Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey
Between Clouds of Memory: Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey is the first in-depth analysis of Takamori's ceramic and graphic art work created between 1976 and the present.

November 8 - December 11, 2005

drawing(s)
An exhibition that fills the gallery with approximately 200 works by more than 40 artists. Most of these artists have presented their work in The Art Gym before; several are showing in the space for the first time.

September 6 - October 23, 2005

Mike Rathbun: N45°23.871' W122°38.864'
Diane Jacobs: Cross Hairs
Mike Rathbun and Diane Jacobs worked all summer to build site-specific, labor-intensive installations in The Art Gym’s main space and Gallery 2, respectively.