“Black and White”—Newspace Center for Photography
Feb. 3 – 26; Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 2012, 6-9pm
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214; 503.963.1935; www.newspacephoto.org
Monday through Thursday 10am - 8pm; Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm
Our own Jack Larson has an image in this Annual Themed Exhibition at Newspace (see "Calla Lillies" at left). The show celebrates the beauty of b+w photography in all its glory, exploring the many methods and techniques available to photographers today. Newspace Executive Director Chris Bennett selected 50 images from over 400 submissions for the exhibition.

Joseph Sterling, "30 Years of Photographs" at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
Jan. 18 – Feb. 25; Opening reception Feb. 2, 5—8pm
134 NW 8th Avenue, Portland
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm; (503) 287-3886; www.hartmanfineart.net
This exhibition of more than 25 images reveals the artist's range and embraces both the famed series, "The Age of Adolescence" - a documentary masterwork exposing the life and milieu of the pre-Vietnam War era American teenager - and a variety of other imagery, including important photographs from the "Pictus Twistus" and "Bird’s Eye View" series.

The current Community Open at the Corvallis Arts Center includes photographs by six guild members—Bill Laing, Jack Larson, Phil Coleman, Rich Bergeman, John Ginn and Dave McIntire—and two former members—Nancy Hagood and Harold Wood. There's also a painting by guild member Mike Bergen. A reception and awards ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 2, from 5:30 - 7:30pm. Voting for the 'People's Choice' Award is going on now through Feb. 2. The show will be up longer than usual this year, running from Jan. 24 through March 3.

"Cranes in the Garden" by Bill Laing

Corvallis photographer Mina Carson is showing dozens of photographs of Paris at OSU's Center for the Humanities through March 23. The pictures offer the equivalent of a vivid stroll through one of the world’s greatest cities—a stroll drawn from a week when Carson limped around Paris with the help of a cane and needed something lighter than her usual digital single-lens-reflex camera. The exhibit, at 811 S.W. Jefferson, is open weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Through the sly lens of the iPhone, Carson captures details of street life, café culture, moody light, the centrality of the Seine, flamboyant architecture, ubiquitous—and often playful—sculpture, and, of course, the general air of romance.

For comments by the photographer on her work, click the 'read more' link.

"Place de Voges" by Mina Carson

PAGers Jack Larson and Ellen Hamill--"Red, The Color of Warm"
David Joyce Gallery, Lane Community College
Through March 22
Hamill and Larson are among nine artists in this exhibit, which includes a wide array of red-themed subject matter, including food, flowers and environments. The gallery, which is located in the Center for Meeting and Learning on Lane's Eugene Campus, is open Monday-Friday 8am-5pm. An artists’ reception will be held Thursday, March 1 from 4:30pm-6:00pm with hors d’oeuvres and refreshments prepared and served by the students in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management program.

"Madrone" by Jack Larson

"Daring to Look: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange in Oregon"
UofO Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, 2nd Floor
Jan. 23 – Feb. 26
1515 Agate Street, Eugene; (541) 346-3700
7 a.m.-6 p.m. seven days a week
This traveling exhibit of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission is sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center and features a remarkable collection of photos by Depression-Era documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. Cosponsored by the UO Department of Landscape Architecture, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum, the UO School of Law and the Oregon Humanities Center.

Instructions for viewing events using the Calendar

The PhotoArts Guild was originally formed by five photographers in 1988 who wanted a forum for feedback and critique to encourage their growth as image makers. It became affiliated with the Corvallis Art Center in the early 1990s and currently has 53 members. Meetings are held monthly on the third Thursday of every month (except August and December) at 7pm in the OSU Center for the Humanities on 8th and Jefferson. For information on the PAG's goals and membership, click 'more'