JAMES MINDEN's work is being featured now in a group show in New York City at the Muriel Guepin Gallery. Abstract Mania includes works by 6 other gallery artists and continues through September 1st, 2018. The gallery's new location is at 158 Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. The Guepin Gallery also featured MINDEN's work, along with other artists' works, at the Seattle Art Fair from August 2–5, 2018.

Congratulations to JIM RISWOLD who is having a summer-long exhibition of his work at Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem. The exhibition, titled Jim Riswold: Undignified, opens on June 2 and continues through August 26th, with monthly gallery talks on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. (June 12, July 10 and August 14). The museum is located at 700 State Street in Salem; hours are 10–5 Tuesday–Saturday and 1–5 Sunday. For more information, go to museum-art@willamette.edu.

Augen joined other PADA galleries again this year at Portland's PRIDE DAY parade on June 17, 2018. A good time was had by all as participants carried posters identifying famous queer artists. Many thanks to Pamela Morris, for organizing and coordinating everything again, and to all the other participants who came and marched and supported the community! (Click HERE to see more images.)

JAMES MINDEN participated in the Portland Winter Light Festival on Friday, February 2, 2018 from 6–10 pm. Viewers were invited to join him outside and inside Studio #7 at 211 SE Madison (East Creative) for this initial showing of his largest-ever hologram hybrid painting; it was visible on the exterior of the 2nd Avenue side of the building, just north of Madison Street. Inside the studio, MINDEN showed pieces that demonstrate the progression of processes over the last six years that led up to the current work.

TALMADGE DOYLE had a solo exhibition in Salem in October and November, 2017 at the Governor's Office as part of Art at the Governor's Office (State Capitol Building, 900 Court Street NE, 160).

MARK ANDRES curated an invitational drawing exhibition at Gallery 114 in Portland, showing in November, 2017 (from Oct. 31-December 2).  The exhibition of works by 25 artists includes Augen’s MORGAN WALKER, PAMELA GREEN and KAREN ESLER and others such as Joseph Mann, Lucinda Parker, Tom Prochaska, Gabriel Liston, Jason Berger, Ken Kewley and Romare Bearden.  

MARK ANDRES ’s feature length film THREE DAYS DROWNING was awarded best animated feature at the Maverick Movie Awards and also received a second award in Special Achievement award because “art must always be unafraid.”  THREE DAYS DROWNING was also an official selection at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase in Los Angels,  the Northwest Film Festival (Portland) and Local Sightings Film Festival (Seattle).  ANDRES' film, POMPEII, OREGON won a silver award for best animation at the International Independent Film Awards and is an official selection for the Los Angeles Film Awards. (Drawings from POMPEII, OREGON will be exhibited in November, 2017 at Augen.)

TALLMADGE DOYLE had an exhibition titled Pollination at OSU's Gallery 440 in Corvallis from June 26 through September 6, 2017. This series of hand-pulled prints originates from her studies of the nature and science of pollinators, their migrations and pollination-reliant plant families.

From June 2–July 8, 2017 DOYLE's work was included in an exhibiton, Around Oregon Annual, at The Art Center in Corvallis, Oregon. And DOYLE's work was included in two May–June exhibitions in Roseburg, Oregon: in a regional juried exhibition, Artworks NW, at the Umpqua Arts Association's Hallie Ford Gallery and in a national juried exhibition, Printmaking Now, at the Association's Corridor Gallery. Both galleries are located at 1624 W. Harvard Avenue in Roseburg.

Augen joined other PADA galleries in participating in Portland's PRIDE DAY parade on June 18, 2017. Art patron Glenda Goldwater's image adorned T-shirts, Glenda herself rode in the honor car, and a good time was had by all. Thanks to Pamela Morris, for organizing and coordinating everything, and to all the other participants who came and marched and supported the community! (Click HERE to see more images.)

EVA LAKE is participating in two group exhibitions that start in December, 2016. The first is Ten Shades of White at Frosch and Portmann in New York City. The other is Contemporary Prints from Crow's Shadow at Oregon College of Art and Craft running from December 2, 2016 to January 25, 2017. LAKE's piece "Sky Over Casino" was selected as the press image for the exhibtion.

ROYAL NEBEKER: DREAMS AND ALLUSIONS is a summer-long exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, OR. Exhibition dates are June 4 to August 28. See the exhibition-related events that start on June 3 at: www.willamette.edu/arts/hmfa/exhibitions/library/2016-17/royal_nebeker.html

Congratulations to MARK ANDRES whose latest film, Dracula, won "Best Animated Film" at the 2016 Independent Filmakers Showcase in Los Angeles. This is the third time Andres has won in this category at IFS. For more info, see ifsfilm.com. Dracula will be screened locally on August 29 at 7pm at the Hollywood Theater on 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., and on September 17 at 10am at the Living Room Theater, 341 SW 10th. See Drawings from Dracula in Augen Gallery's September 2016 exhibition as well as ANDRES' exhibition of recent paintings, Loomings, in August 2016. For a Dracula trailer, see:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=54mM5traUbY

RITA ROBILLARD's painting Cottonwoods of the Palouse was recently acquired by Washiingtonn State University and is included in their current exhibition titled From the Collection: New Acquisitions. The exhibition runs through July 1, 2016.

TRUDE PARKINSON has an exhibition this summer in San Francisco at the Don Soker Gallery. The show opens on July 9, 2016 with a reception from 4–6pm and runs through August 20, 2016.

WENDY FRANKLUND MILLER recently had work included in an exhibition in Olympia, Washington titled Highlights of the Washington State Art Collection. The exhibition ran from January 8 through February 29, 2016 at the Washington Center for Performing Arts. For more information, see: janaehuber@arts.wa.gov

Works by MATT COSBY and CYNTHIA MOSSER (and 7 other artists) were included in a group exhibition titled Transference: A Watercolor Monotype Project With the Patternists, running from March 3 to April 6, 2016 at Portland State University's Autzen Gallery. The exhibition was sponsored by Mahaffey Fine Art in conjunction with the SGCI Conference (FLUX) at the end of March.

The Age of Collage Vol. 2: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, includes works by EVA LAKE and more than 70 other collage artists ranging "from established names including John Baldessari and Richard Prince to up-and-coming talents..." The 320-page volume is published by Gestalten in Germany and due for release in February, 2016. Editors are Dennis Busch and Robert Klanten. (LAKE will have a solo exhibition of recent collage works at Augen Gallery in May, 2016.)

MATT COSBY and CYNTHIA MOSSER were two of eight mid-career artists featured in a Portland Community College Sylvania exhibition titled The Pull of Repetition. The exhibition ran from January 14 to February 13, 2016 at the North View Gallery at PCC's Sylvania Campus, 12000 SW 49th Ave., CT 214 Building, Portland, OR 97219.

JEF GUNN and TRUDE PARKINSON were two of the seven featured artists in an exhibition at Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art in Portland (2219 NW Raleigh) from January 20 to February 27, 2016. The exhibition was titled Visions and Revisions: A Five Year Conversation. On Saturdays from 4–6 pm during this exhibition, the artists hosted public "Conversations with the Artists" with a different topic each week.

JAMES MINDEN's work was part of a group exhibition called Chromatic Momentum in New York City at the Muriel Grépin Gallery showing thru March 5, 2016. The gallery is located at 83 Orchard Street, NY, NY, 347-244-1052.

RITA ROBILLARD's "Space Dance" was one of 57 prints selected (from 1100 works acquired since 2009) by the Portland Art Museum for an exhibition titled Now on View - Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings. The show ran at PAM from August 8 thru December 13, 2015.

TRUDE PARKINSON's "Emanation" was included in an exhibition titled Mix It Up - Mixed Media in Santa Cruz, CA that runs from August 22 thru September 13, 2015. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Borsuk.

GEORGE JOHANSON 's painting "Carrying The Boat" graced the cover of The Southern Review - Summer 2015, one of the nation's leading literary journals, a quarterly published at Louisiana State University. Eight other JOHANSON images illustrated the content of this issue, which focused on the effects of the tropical storm Katrina on New Orleans ten years ago - "The bright beachscapes of GEORGE JOHANSON, a Portland, Oregon-based artist, bring color and community to the pages of the issue." See more online at thesouthernreview/org/issues/latest.

KAREN ESLER’S paintings were included in the recent Pacific Northwest Annual exhibition at the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union Art Gallery in Eugene, OR. One of her paintings, Hurricane 2, was selected for purchase for the university's permanent collection. 

Congratulations to MARK ANDRES whose filmThe Somnambulists, which premiered at Augen Gallery last May, won the award for Best Animated Film at the 2015 Independent Filmakers Showcase in Los Angeles. ANDRES accepted the award in Los Angeles at the IFS Film Festival Red Carpet Event on May 22. For more info, see ifsfilm.com.

TRUDE PARKINSON had an exhibition at the Helzer Gallery at the Rock Creek campus of Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon from March 31 to April 30, 2015.

Congratulations to ROGER KUKES, whose two paintings included in an exhibition titled Representing the West at Sangre di Cristo Art Center in Pueblo, Colorado were selected as "Best In Show."

From June 2014 to January 4, 2015, JAMES MINDEN's work was included in a group exhibition at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) titled Mind to Hand: An exhibition of work by ten artists who explore the collision of art and science. (1945 SE Water Avenue, Portland, OR, Tuesday – Sunday, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm.)

MINDEN had a solo exhibition in the summer of 2014 at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia (4182 Forsyth Road, 10–5, Tuesday–Saturday; 1–5 Sunday). The museum purchased two of MINDEN's light drawings for their permanent collection. For more information about this exhibition visit the Museum's website.

MINDEN had an spring exhibition of his holograms titled Toward the Light in New York City at the Muriel Guépin Gallery (83 Orchard St., NY, NY 10002) from April 18 to June 1, 2014 .

JAMES FLORSCHUTZ's work was included in an exhibit at Caldera Arts in Portland (224 NW 13th Avenue) from Sept. 4 to October 29, 2014. The exhibition is artwork produced by resident artists sponsored by the Caldera Ford Foundation.

SARA SIESTREEM's prints was included in a major exhibition at the Eitlejorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 30, 2014 to February 8, 2015. The exhibition showcases 80 prints published at Crow's Shadow and includes a catalogue.

Prints by YUJI HIRATSUKA was honored with a solo exhibition as the 2013 Grand Prize recipient in the Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Art Exhibition juried by Susan Tallman, Editor in Chief at Art in Print magazine. The exhibition took place at William Patterson University from November 3 to December 12, 2014.

GARY GROVES' work was included in the International Print Center, New York gallery exhibition that starts October 25, 2014 and includes work by 50 artists selected from over 4000 prints by juror Nicola Lopez. The exhibition is titled New Prints 2014/Autumn.

Royal Nebeker passed away suddenly September 6, 2014 due to injuries sustained in a fall.

Royal's work was recently exhibited this summer in a career retrospective of his paintings at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon that will travel to other venues over the next few years. Royal has been represented by Augen Gallery since 1983. He was the first local painter the gallery began to exhibit after expanding beyond exclusively exhibiting prints.

Royal recently served on the Oregon Arts Commission and had a long career as a professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria.  He will be missed by a multitude of people in the Northwest art community. See the Daily Astorian for more.

YUJI HIRATSUKA had an exhibition of his work titled Works on Paper: Prints, Drawings and Book Arts from September 5 to October 11, 2014 at the Benton County Historical Museum in Philomath, Oregon.

Artworks by YUJI HIRATSUKA, GEORGE JOHANSON, HIBIKI MIYAZAKI and MORGAN WALKER were included in Tacoma Art Museum's (Tacoma, WA) group show titled Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest. The exhibition runs from June 7 through November 9, 2014.

ROYAL NEBEKER's traveling exhibition titled Royal Nebeker: An Artist's Journey including about 30 of his paintings was in Oregon at the Schneider Museum of Art on the Southern Oregon University campus in Ashland from June 20 to September 14, 2014. Regular museum hours are 10–4 Tuesday through Saturday. For more information about this exhibition, see John Seed's review of its first solo showing in 2013 at The Brigham Young University Museum of Art in Provo, Utah (June 5 – September 14, 2013), "Life is but a dream..." The Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/royal-nebeker_b_3611890.html.

A selection of ROYAL NEBEKER's prints were exhibited from May 5 - 28 at Oregon State University's Fairbanks Gallery (Fairbanks Hall, 220 SW 26th St.) in Corvallis, Oregon.

Paintings by LEONARD RUDER (1917-2010) were exhibited at Portland International Airport
in the "B" concourse from May 1 to November 1, 2014.

TALMADGE DOYLE's prints were included in the Pacific Northwest Annual exhibition at the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union Art Gallery in Eugene, OR from May 2–30. One of her new prints, Cascade III, was selected for a purchase award for their permanent collection. Gallery hours are 8am–10pm Monday through Saturday.

HIBIKI MIYAZAKI had a solo exhibition titled Hibiki Miyazaki: 14 Years of Printmaking, in the Governor's Office at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem from April 24 – June 26, 2014. The exhibition was on the 2nd Floor of the Capitol building, 900 Court Street NE, Salem, OR.

JAMES MINDEN had a solo exhibition titled Light Drawings at the Washington County Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon from January 15 to April 6, 2014.

Congratulations to BILL BREWER, SALLY CLEVELAND, TRISH GRANTHAM, YUJI HIRATSUKA, GEORGE JOHANSON, JAMES MINDEN and HIBIKI MIYAZAKI who were selected as featured artists in 100 Artists of the Northwest, recently published by Schiffer and edited by E. Ashley Rooney. The book is available on Amazon.com or through the publisher.

JAMES FLORSCHUTZ was awarded a Ford Foundation Golden Spot Award grant for a two-week sculpture residency at Caldera (near Sisters, OR) in April, 2014.

FLORSCHUTZ had a solo exhibition of his larger sculptural works at Wyden and Kennedy's Portland gallery in July of 2013. In October, 2012 his work was included in a group exhibition called Still at Archer Gallery at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.

SARA SIESTREEM had a solo exhibition of her paintings at the Missoula Art Museum in Missoula, Montana from September 6, 2013 to January 26, 2014. The exhibition was titled Sara Siestreem: Ballast and included over 20 paintings. The exhibition was in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery at the museum, a gallery dedicated to honoring the creative cultural contributions of American Indian people to contemporary art.

YUJI HIRATSUKA had an exhibition at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, Oregon from August 28-Septemer 21, 2013.

MARK ANDRES's film, The Immortal Head, was awarded BEST ANIMATION at the 16th Annual Independent Filmmaker's Showcase film festival in Los Angeles, CA. Film screenings were held from March 27 - April 8, 2013 in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. For more info, see ifsfilm.com.

JEF GUNN's encaustic work was included in an exhibition titled Waxing Poetic: Five Oregon Artists Working With Encaustics at OSU's Memorial Union Concourse Gallery in Corvallis, OR. from March 11 to May 8, 2013. The exhibition was curated by Shelly Jordon and Nicole Hernandez.

The Book of Sand, published by Nawakum Press in California, is a beautiful artbook with a short story by Jorge Luis Borges and etchings by THOMAS WOOD. The book is available at www.nawakumpress.com.

TALLMADGE DOYLE's work was included in the 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition from March 9 - April 19, 2013 at the Hartman Gallery at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The exhibition was juried by Stephan Goddard, senior curator at the University of Kansas' Kress Foundation.