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…
The PDX Art Program is honored to debut a new exhibition from World of Speed aptly titled Racing in the Rose City on view in Portland International Airport’s Rental Car Lobby through January 2020. This fascinating and educational exhibit celebrates vintage motorsports in the Portland Oregon region featuring race cars such as the 1964 Vollstedt Bryant Heating/Cooling,…
Artist Rachel Denny’s highly crafted installations and sculpture portray life-size explorations of the wild, seductive beauty found in the natural world and the imprint that human intervention has made on Earth’s flora and fauna. She produces colorful, animated work in a wide variety of media, including fiber, ceramic, and resin. Denny utilizes time-honed sculpture techniques…
The PDX Art Program is honored to debut ten masterly charcoal drawings from the series A Storm Blown From Paradise by Vancouver BC based artist Amory Abbott. These superb works are on view pre-security through November 2019 in the International Arrivals area of North Baggage Claim. Spanish Point, 2018 | Charcoal on Stonehenge 250 gsm | 26…
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…
James Allen is a Portland Oregon based visual artist that produces wonderfully unique “Book Excavation” sculptures. Allen painstakingly transforms vintage books into sculptures brimming with carefully chosen words, phrases and images. Twenty-three of Allen’s exquisite Book Excavations are currently on view post-security in Concourse A through the PDX Art Program. This outstanding exhibition, appropriately titled…
An extremely intricate and impressive eight foot tall LEGO sculpture of Oregon’s iconic Multnomah Falls is now on view pre-security in PDX Baggage Claim (located next to Travel Oregon) through July of 2019. The sculpture was designed and built by Portland based LEGO artist Erik Mattson in 225 hours over the course of one year with…
The Port of Portland’s Permanent Art Collection greatly contributes to the pleasing ambiance of PDX. In two and three-dimensional form, the Port’s collection captures the collective memory and history of our region. Artists’ impressions and skilled craft convey the values and spirit of the Pacific Northwest to visitors and locals alike. The permanent art collection…
The PDX Art Program is honored to present a spectacular selection of ten large scale photographs by renowned international contemporary artist Kevin Cooley. Located pre-security in the International Arrivals area of North Baggage Claim, Cooley’s series titled Nachtfluge (German for night flight) depicts long exposure photography of the light trails made by commercial aircraft in the dark skies of nighttime. Cooley’s exhibition will be…
Laura Hughes, a dynamic Visual Artist currently based in Portland, Oregon, produces compelling site-specific art installations investigating how light, form and space surround and shape one another in our collective perception. Directly responding to the given features of architectural space, Hughes manipulates reflective materials and artificial or natural light to navigate dimensional relationships, intersecting planes, and shifting visibility relative to surface, space…
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