{"id":15430,"global_id":"portlandartmuseum.org?id=15430","global_id_lineage":["portlandartmuseum.org?id=15430"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2025-10-02 15:03:47","date_utc":"2025-10-02 22:03:47","modified":"2025-10-02 15:03:48","modified_utc":"2025-10-02 22:03:48","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/abstraction-since-mark-rothko\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/15430","title":"Abstraction Since Mark Rothko","description":"<p>A companion to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/the-art-of-mark-rothko\/\">The Art of Mark Rothko<\/a><\/em>, this exhibition presents the vitality of abstract painting in American art from Rothko\u2019s time to the present. Rothko created abstract paintings with rich colors that filled the canvas from edge to edge. His example inspired other painters to focus exclusively on color, form, and surface in their works and avoid any representational depictions. Artists like Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Jules Olitski found a great variety of expression in this process of underscoring the foundational elements of their paintings. This approach wasn\u2019t limited to painting. Artists like Aaron Siskind in photography and Gertrud and Otto Natzlers in ceramics concentrated on the unique qualities of their materials to further explore the possibilities of abstraction in different artistic disciplines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet by the 1970s, some artists, including feminist artists Valerie Jaudon and Arlene Slavin, considered this strict attention to form too limiting. They began to challenge this orthodoxy by connecting their artworks to everyday patterns and decorations. Over recent decades, a diversity of artists, like Kikuo Saito, Reginald Sylvester II, and Kay WalkingStick, all shown here, have used abstraction to refer to the world and their experiences beyond the frame of the canvas, further expanding the possibilities for abstract art to connect with meaning and self-narrative.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"abstraction-since-mark-rothko","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-scaled.jpg","id":15243,"extension":"jpg","width":2560,"height":2427,"filesize":1028396,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":700,"height":664,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":65333,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-700x664.jpg"},"large":{"width":1308,"height":1240,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":237734,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-1308x1240.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":11277,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-270x270.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":728,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":77001,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-768x728.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":1456,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":336843,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-1536x1456.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"width":2048,"height":1942,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":633698,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-2048x1942.jpg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":25964,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-375x500.jpg"},"medium-large":{"width":900,"height":853,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":108345,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-900x853.jpg"},"card":{"width":904,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":68881,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-904x565.jpg"},"post":{"width":975,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":66567,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-975x500.jpg"},"hero":{"width":1894,"height":1080,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":312174,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera-1894x1080.jpg"}},"original_image":"Kikuo-Saito-Kitchen-Opera.jpg"},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2025-11-20 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"20","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-11-20 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"11","day":"20","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2025-11-20 08:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"20","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-11-21 07:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"11","day":"21","hour":"07","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":true,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"<p>The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. 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This lot accepts credit card or the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/reef-mobile-parking-made-easy\/id1502843483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trimet.org\/#\/planner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trimet.org\/bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bus map and schedule<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trimet.org\/max\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MAX Light Rail map and schedule<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portlandstreetcar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portland Streetcar map and schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Transportation assistance is available through TriMet\u2019s network of fully <a href=\"https:\/\/trimet.org\/access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accessible bus and MAX lines<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/trimet.org\/lift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LIFT service<\/a>, which is available for trips where a disability prevents the use of bus or MAX.<\/p>","slug":"portland-art-museum","address":"1219 SW Park Ave","city":"Portland","province":"OR","state":"OR","zip":"97205","phone":"(503) 226-2811","stateprovince":"OR","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Portland Art Museum","description":"&lt;p&gt;The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. 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