Contemporary Painting

Garden of People: A Portrait of Cottage Grove, Oregon Blooms within Concourse B

25th May 2023

| Rotating Exhibits, Site-Specific Installations

Through February of 2024, located post-security within Concourse B, a wondrous, thought-provoking salon-style painting exhibition of forty-three (43) masterful portraits and landscapes populates a sizeable wall for PDX’s Rotating Art Program. Artist Uyen-Thi Nguyen created this delightfully engaging public project titled Gardens of People: A Portrait of Cottage Grove, Oregon as a way to celebrate…

Artist Shohei Takasaki Reflects on Junishi For Concourse D Mural

22nd December 2020

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The PDX Rotating Art Program is honored to present a lively large-scale mural located post-security within Concourse D to ring in the New Year. Living and working in Tokyo, Japan, artist Shohei Takasaki has energetically depicted twelve symbolic animals within his mural titled Reflection for Junishi or Juunishi—the Japanese zodiac. Takasaki’s radiant and playful combination of the…

In Oregon by Daniel Robinson Enriches PDX’s Concourse Connector

20th June 2019

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Accomplished Painter Daniel Robinson illuminates the modern American and Oregon landscape with stunning mastery, stillness, and strength. Combining classical influences from social realism with an eloquent contemporary utilization of light, shadow, and color, Robinson’s paintings are imbued with a fundamental, essential beauty. Early Light, 2016, Oil on canvas, 30 x 54 inches framed Comprised of…

Artist Samantha Wall Reconnects With Her Korean Cultural Past at PDX

27th March 2019

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The PDX Art Program is honored to present In the Wake, a spectacular ten panel site-specific installation by acclaimed Portland artist Samantha Wall, currently on view post-security overhead within Concourse D at PDX. These compelling large-scale artworks of ink on Dura-Lar are an exploration into Wall’s family identity, cultural history, and loss. The drawings are…

Renée Zangara’s State Flowers Bloom within Concourse B

10th March 2019

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In great anticipation of springtime in the Pacific Northwest, the PDX Art Program is delighted to present Portland-based painter Renée Zangara’s gorgeous new exhibition of fifty-two masterful contemporary oil paintings titled The Official State Flowers of the United States of America. Now on view post-security within Concourse B throughout February of 2020, Zangara’s painterly, diverse, and dynamic…

More Education by Jeremy Okai Davis Elevates Concourse A within PDX

10th October 2018

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More Education is a handsome and timely solo exhibition/exploration of diverse elements and ideas that have informed Portland artist Jeremy Okai Davis to be the person he is today. Davis creates paintings that are both personal and engaging through multi-layered subject matter that invites further investigation. PJ & Spree, 2016, Acrylic on panel, 12 x 10…

Technotope by Ruth Lantz debuts in PDX’s Concourse Connector

25th September 2018

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Artist Ruth Lantz explores the intersection between painting and digital language. Commingling abstraction and representation, she approaches her highly crafted paintings and prints through a series of perceptual, process driven, and painterly filtration systems. Lantz’s skillful and innovative new exhibition titled Technotope—meaning an external space that is uniform in its use values, social meanings, and technology use—is…

Luminous Nature Group Exhibition Now on View in Concourse A

15th March 2017

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Feature photograph by Annie Marie Musselman titled Rescued Coyote, 2008, Archival pigment print, 30 x 30 inches. Image courtesy of Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. LUMINOUS NATURE | CONCOURSE A MARCH 3 – AUGUST 31, 2017 A new group exhibition titled Luminous Nature, in collaboration with Charles A. Hartman Fine Art of Portland, Oregon, is…

Ellen McFadden’s Vibrant New Painting “Esquimualt-Makah” debuts in Bag Claim

3rd March 2017

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A vibrant new painting by the accomplished Portland, Oregon Fine Artist Ellen McFadden titled Esquimualt-Makah debuted on Friday, February 24th in Baggage Claim. McFadden’s striking painting will be on view through February of 2018. Born in 1928 in Portland, Ellen McFadden studied at the Portland Art Museum Art School in the late 1940s and has been…

Joseph Steininger Enlivens Concourse B with “Portland, By the Layer”

8th February 2017

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Portland, By the Layer is a dynamic new large scale painting exhibition by Seattle, Washington Artist and Innovator Joseph Steininger. This impressive and exceptionally colorful forty-four piece site-specific installation is currently on view past the security checkpoint along Concourse B of the Portland International Airport. Curated by Greta Latchford, the Port of Portland’s celebrated former…

FINDING, WHITNEY LOWE, CONCOURSE D

GARDEN OF PEOPLE: A PORTRAIT OF COTTAGE GROVE, UYEN-THI NGUYEN, CONCOURSE B

WELCOME IN, PHILIP A. ROBINSON JR., CONCOURSE B/C CONNECTOR

REFLECTION, SHOHEI TAKASAKI, CONCOURSE D

Tag: Contemporary Painting

Garden of People: A Portrait of Cottage Grove, Oregon Blooms within Concourse B

Artist Shohei Takasaki Reflects on Junishi For Concourse D Mural

Artist Samantha Wall Reconnects With Her Korean Cultural Past at PDX

Renée Zangara’s State Flowers Bloom within Concourse B

More Education by Jeremy Okai Davis Elevates Concourse A within PDX

Technotope by Ruth Lantz debuts in PDX’s Concourse Connector

Luminous Nature Group Exhibition Now on View in Concourse A

Ellen McFadden’s Vibrant New Painting “Esquimualt-Makah” debuts in Bag Claim

Joseph Steininger Enlivens Concourse B with “Portland, By the Layer”