Upper: Cherry Blossom Season at Hakodate Goryokaku

Castle ruins, 2022. Photo by Hisao Asano.

Lower: Surrounding Birches, 2023. Photo by Sandra Chandler.

Shashin: Photographic Frontiers of Hokkaido

In the Pavilion Gallery, we’ve invited The North Finder. This Hokkaido-based group of photographers’ mission to “raise the image of Hokkaido through photography and help people to know Hokkaido more deeply” to share their perspective of Sapporo (capital of Hokkaido). The show exhibits the work of 23 photographers that capture the diversity of natural environments, distinctive seasons, and notable sites of Portland’s sister city from the perspective of the people who live there. Featuring a range of subjects, this exhibition shares poetic perspectives of the iconic region.

Quiet Reflections of Hokkaido Winter: Photography by Sandra Chandler

Connecting the perspective of Hokkaido with Portland is an exhibition of local artist Sandra Chandler, which is exhibited in the Jordan Schnitzer Japanese Arts Learning Center's Calvin and Mayho Tanabe Gallery. Chandler is a passionate photographer, who has been a longtime supporter and Portland Japanese Garden’s Foundation Board Chairperson. Traveling the world using her designer’s eye, Chandler’s photography explores minimalist compositions artfully captured from nature. This exhibition showcases the essence of the serene winter landscape of Japan’s northernmost island. The artwork in "Quiet Reflections" evokes minimalism and reflection through artfully composed scenes from Hokkaido’s winter season.

"Vision of Place"

The North Finder and Sandra Chandler

Pavilion Gallery and Tanabe Gallery

March 16 - June 10, 2024

Portland Japanese Garden

Pavilion Gallery, Tanabe Gallery, and the

Jordan Schnitzer Japanese Art Learning Center

611 SW Kingston Ave., Portland, OR 97205

(503) 223-1321

www.japanesegarden.org

Wednesday-Monday, 10am-4:30pm

Celebrating 65 years of the Portland and Sapporo Sister City relationship, Vision of Place welcomes the work of a local Portland photographer and Hokkaido-based photographers to showcase the beauty of Japan’s northernmost prefecture, Hokkaido.

Otis Kwame Key Quiche, “Victory Pose,”

2023, oil on canvas 72 x 72”

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, “Hall of Fame”

March 23 – April 27, 2024

Opening Reception:

Saturday, March 23, 6–8pm

Roberts Projects is pleased to present "Hall of Fame," a new series of paintings and photographs by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe celebrating the rich legacy of boxing in his homeland of Ghana. 

When embarking on this series, Quaicoe began by photographing each boxer dressed in their chosen uniform: gloves, headgear and branded athletic attire. While the artist knew many of his sitters personally, he paused for a shared moment of silence after they assumed their pose—creating space for the enigmatic expressions that emerge when revealing, rather than explaining, who we are. Quaicoe starts every painting with the subject’s eyes for this reason, expanding a meditative moment into an intimate depiction of their nuanced and steadfast countenance. Allowing the composition’s narrative to remain fluid, Quaicoe paints the background of his portraits last, using gestural strokes to distinguish his subjects’ centrality within a limitless vision of their destiny.

Roberts Projects

442 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036

(323) 549-0223

[email protected]

www.robertsprojectsla.com

Tuesday–Saturday, 11am-6pm, and by appointment

Pooja Pittie, “Only in Dark the Light,”

2024, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 54”

Pooja Pittie, “Only in Dark the Light”

March 21, 2024 - May 10, 2024

Reception: 

Thursday, March 21, 5-7pm

Pooja Pittie’s art practice has always and inextricably been interwoven with her disability and the inevitable decline of her physical powers. Her journey has evolved once again in the works for her next exhibition, "Only in Dark the Light."

During Covid she began combining knitted fragments with small drawings, a process she could comfortably work on seated in her studio after a morning of painting had sapped her energy for the day. Her manipulation of thread became more central to her work and over the past three years has begun to inform and interact with her painting and newer fiber pieces in an impactful way.

There is also importance in connection. The new paintings represent threads that connect — slubby, uneven rows of stitched and broken lines, distorted, unraveled but ultimately connected and COMPLETE.

McCormick Gallery

835 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60607

(312) 226-6800

[email protected]

thomasmccormick.com

instagram.com/mccormickgallery

Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturdays by appointment

Michael Koehle, “Glory Over Sea Ranch II,” 2023,

pigment print on laser cut paper on panel, 24 x 33”

Michael Koehle, “meteors”

March 23 - April 27, 2024

Reception for the Artist:

Saturday, March 23, 4-6pm

The work of Michael Kohle encourages engagement with our senses…our sense of color and form  as well as an intense interest in touching and caressing the surface.

What’s really of interest in this work is Koehle’s approach from a scientific vantage point. He is bringing an exacting engineer’s attitude to a field where the joy lies in that place between the zero and the one. In straddling this space we find ourselves in that sweet spot where the loveliness of art is enhanced by the rigors of science.

“The word meteor conjures images of global catastrophe on the order of world-ending extinction events. But in fact, meteorologists use the term to apply to a wide array of natural phenomena—clouds, fog, rainbows, halos, glories, smoke, and smog. Suspensions of water, light, and dust.

“In rejecting the conceit of meteors as singular agents of calamity, this work seeks to recognize everyday meteors, so omnipresent we mostly don't notice. Above us, massive accumulations of water vapor play out in endless spectacle, terrifyingly majestic and completely ephemeral, perpetually coming into being and breaking apart as ordinary miracles of impermanence so commonplace— just there, in the sky—we all too frequently forget to look up.”

— Michael Koehle

 Jack Fischer Gallery

1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA 94107

(415) 725-0308

[email protected]

jackfischergallery.com

Wednesday-Saturday, 11:30am-5:30pm, and by appointment

Andrea Bergen, “The Good, The Bad, and The Buccee’s,”

2023, hand cut paper and gel medium on wood

panel with UV Topcoat, 44 x 48 x 1 3/4”

Andrea Bergen, “The Last Pit Stop”

March 21 - May 4, 2024

Opening Reception:

Saturday, March 23, 1-4pm

Artist's Talk: Saturday, April 20, 2pm

“My current body of work is an outlet for my anxiety regarding climate change and my own culpability as a consumer. These pieces, hand cut paper collages and papier-maché sculptures, imagine the future after the demise of humanity. The wildlife have adapted to the trash and junk food we have left behind and frolic in the remnants of society. The centerpiece collage "The Good, The Bad, and The Buccees," made from hundreds of pieces of hand cut paper, is a western pastiche along the abandoned Route 66. The scene combines recognizable capitalist landmarks and products with the animals enjoying their newfound freedom.”

— Andrea Bergen

Transmission Gallery

770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612

(510) 835-2626 

[email protected]

thetransmissiongallery.com

Thursday-Saturday, 12-5pm; and by appointment

Susan Spector, "Regatta," monoprint, 29 x 22"

Susan Spector, “Sensu Lato”

Contemporary Relief Printing and Monoprinting

April 11 - May 3, 2024

Artist Reception:

Saturday, April 13, 4-7pm

Susan Spector is a contemporary painter living and working in Los Angeles, California. Spector expressed current social, cultural, and feminist issues with paints, spray paint and relief printmaking. She has exhibited in California and New York City and has had three solo shows in Los Angeles, CA. Susan Spector is the President of San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, an online art gallery platform; and Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art founded in 1976.

Gallery 612

612 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401

(424) 744-8064

[email protected]

www.gallery612.com

Thursday, 1-7pm; Friday,Saturday, 1-9pm

Susan Spector, "Rumination,"

acrylic on ram board, 46 x 65"

Susan Spector, "Duo"

Extended to March 27, 2024

March is Women's History Month, dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the contributions of women throughout history. Please join artist Susan Spector at Taylor Fine Art where they will be showcasing more than 20 figure paintings honoring the feminine.

Taylor Fine Art

6039 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232

(424) 253-4242

[email protected]

taylorfineart.art/

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm

Suhas Bhujbal, "Market #27," oil on canvas, 24 x 30" framed

Suhas Bhujbal, "Root and Grow"

March 20 - May 2, 2024

Opening Reception:

Wednesday, March 20, 5:30-7:30pm

As an immigrant, Suhas Bhujbal finds that he, like all immigrants, left something behind in his native country. For Bhujbal, it was shopping trips with his mother. Bhujbal delighted in the colors and energy of the crowded markets, which ultimately inspired his "Market" series. Now, Bhujbal pulls inspiration not only from his native India, but also from his many travels and life in the Bay Area. Each painting contains an array of figures, patterns, and colors, revealing a melting pot of cultures.

Bhujbal also relates his experience as an immigrant to the natural world. Similar to how a plant’s survival depends on nourishment from the soil, water, and weather, Bhujbal’s survival depended upon acceptance by his new community. He considers himself lucky to be thriving in a multiracial, multiethnic community in the Bay Area, many of whom share his experience. Through his "Plant" series, Bhujbal celebrates community and connection.

Andrea Schwartz Gallery

545 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

(415) 495-2090

[email protected]

asgallery.com

instagram.com/andreaschwartzgallery

facebook.com/andreaschwartzgallery

Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday by appt.

Janice Biala, “White Venice,” 1982, oil on canvas, 64 x 51”

Janice Biala (1903-2000)

March, 2024

Janice Biala will be a featured artist in Addison Rowe Gallery's upcoming summer exhibition.

Many of her paintings were interiors and street scenes of Paris, views of Venice, and the eastern seaboard of the United States. Biala’s unique contribution to the rise of modernism was celebrated throughout her lifetime from New York City to Paris.  

Upon her death in 2000, her obituary appeared in The New York Times written by Roberta Smith. According to Smith, “[her art] spanned two art capitals and several generations […] belonging to a trans-Atlantic tradition that included French painters like Matisse, Bonnard and Marquet, as well as Milton Avery and Edward Hopper.” (janicebiala.org)

Addison Rowe Gallery

229 E. Marcy Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

(505) 982-1533

[email protected]

addisonrowe.art

By appointment only

Andrey Guaianá Zignatto, "Mestiçagem #1"

Andrey Guaianá Zignatto, “Vermelho Como a Brasa (Vermillion Like Embers)”

Alejandra Phelps, “Cross-Border Women”

Continuing from March 3, 2024

Andrey Guaianá Zignnatto is the heir of indigenous grandparents from the villages of Inhampuambaçu, who were silenced by the colonial city of São Paulo of Piratininga; a place historically dominated by brick and concrete houses and buildings, and today occupies almost the entire territory in the megalopolis. The self-taught artist, visual arts professor, social activist, and descendant of the Tupinaky’ia and Gûarini peoples, worked as a mason’s assistant from age 10 to 14 years old. These ancestral affective memories are the basis for the conceptual development and methods used in his artistic production.

Alexandra Phelts: "My creative execution is based on my interest in recording the desires and daily experiences of women living in Tijuana. Theirs is a border city next to the United States that is characterized by its contradictions: it is considered the busiest border in Mexico, the city has been classified as one of the most violent cities in the world, and living in Tijuana means living with San Diego, a city that has been considered the best in the United States.

Museum of Latin American Art

628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802

(562) 437-1689

[email protected]

www.molaa.org/

Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm

Gayle Martin, "Head in the Clouds -- New Moon Overlook"

"Dreams and Imagining"

A Women Painters West Exhibition

Through May 4, 2024

Lois Lambert Gallery

Bergamot Station Arts Center

2525 Michigan Ave E3, Santa Monica, CA 90404

(310) 829-6990

[email protected]

www.loislambertgallery.com

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm

Women Painters West

Membership Chairs: Carol Kay, [email protected] or Rhonda Burton, [email protected].

For application forms and more information about WPW, please visit: www.womenpainterswest.org

CONTACT INFORMATION:

231 Cedar Heights Dr.

Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

(213) 482-4724