M.C. Escher, "Relativity," 1953

Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher & Paradox is opening tomorrow at PAM. "Printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) created visual puzzles that astonish with their mathematical rigor and their patent absurdity. This exhibition traces the development of the artist's work from his early stylized depictions of landscape and architecture to his later use of repeated geometric patterns..."

Exhibition • June 6 - September 13, 2009
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811



Louis Bunce, "Harold Street #4," 1974

Also opening at PAM tomorrow: PNCA at 100, a retrospective of the the artist-faculty, students, and alumni of PNCA, formerly the Museum Art School, since 1909. "Ranging from portraiture and regional landscapes to modernist abstraction and postpainterly idioms, the artists of the school introduced ideas from the larger world of art to Portland and made them part of the vocabulary of Northwest art."

Exhibition • June 6 - September 13, 2009
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811



Attush ceremonial robe, Ainu textile, photo courtesy of Sanae Ogawa

Parallel Worlds is opening tomorrow in the pavilion at the Japanese Garden. Held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Portland-Sapporo Sister City Association, the exhibition features traditional ceremonial robes created by Ainu artists from Hokkaido and Native American artists of the Pacific Northwest.

Exhibition • June 6 - 28, 2009
Japanese Garden • 611 SW Kingston Avenue • 503.223.1321