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IN OUR GALLERY
Artist Dorothy Remington in her studio
Unraveling and Other Arrangements
New Works by Dorothy Remington
April 3 – June 13, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Artist Presentation: 6:00 – 6:30 PM
About the Exhibition
In Unraveling and Other Arrangements, Dorothy Remington presents a meditative body of work that bridges the gap between traditional ink drawing and three-dimensional sculpture. What began as a simple exploration of line and pochoir evolved into a profound reflection on the passage of time—a "portrait of the artist at eighty."
The exhibition centers on the concept of the "cumulative line." As Remington’s ink drawings grew in complexity, they began to resemble intricate weavings that appear to be simultaneously coming together and coming apart. Moving beyond the constraints of the traditional frame, Remington has developed modular display methods that allow her drawings to take on a sculptural quality. These pieces invite a "harmony of edges," where works can be rearranged, hung, or stood independently, suggesting that despite the appearance of unraveling, every element fundamentally belongs together.
OUTSIDE STUDIO 7
Enduring Impressions:
Contemporary Woodblock Prints
Saturday, March 7th, 2026 - Monday, June 15th, 2026
Garden Hours
Location: Pavilion Gallery & Tanabe Gallery (Portland, Oregon)
This March, step into a world where nature-themed prints meet Portland Japanese Garden’s springtime vibrance in Enduring Impressions: Contemporary Woodblock Prints. Featuring the art of mokuhanga (木版画), Japanese-style woodblock printmaking, this exhibition reveals how a centuries-old tradition is experiencing a contemporary revival as artists around the world use the quiet power and unique characteristics of woodblock printmaking to create captivating works of art.
Mokuhanga has been embraced as an environmentally friendly art form that uses wood, water-based pigments, and paper made from plant fibers. The exhibition’s featured artists are among the growing international movement where meticulously crafted art prints incorporating these traditional tools and techniques are complemented by alternative printmaking technologies and strategies for contemporary expression. This exhibition marks the Garden’s first collaboration with the Honolulu Museum of Art and is co-curated by Stephen Salel, the Museum’s Curator of Japanese Art. Across the galleries at Portland Japanese Garden, Enduring Impressions presents an eclectic range of contemporary prints, alongside a behind-the-scenes look at the process, history, and future of this iconic art form.
The Pavilion Gallery
The Pavilion Gallery features the original six artists who participated in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s iteration of the exhibition in fall of 2025:
Yoonmi Nam, Korean artist and professor of printmaking at the University of Kansas
April Vollmer, New York-based printmaker and author of Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga (2015)
Kenji Takenaka, Kyoto-based printmaker and leader of the Takezasadō Printmaking Workshop
Hiroki, Setsuko, and Miho Morinoue, Hawai’i-based family of artists, running the community-focused Donkey Mill Art Center in Hōlualoa, Hawai‘i
Accompanying the original six artists is work by Portland-based illustrator and printmaker, Aya Morton, whose mokuhanga-inspired prints merge silkscreen with relief printing processes to produce beautifully rendered scenes of the Pacific Northwest.
The Calvin and Mayho Tanabe Gallery
Throughout history, the process behind the art of mokuhanga has inspired artists across cultures and eras. Complementing the contemporary woodblock prints highlighted in the Pavilion Gallery, take a glimpse at the diverse accomplishments of this printmaking tradition through the remarkable work of two pivotal artists: Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), one of Japan’s most iconic artists of the 20th century, and Portland-born Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993), a prominent American Abstract Expressionist. Though visually distinct, their prints are nonetheless linked across time and space by the meticulous craftsmanship and expert-driven processes at the heart of traditional mokuhanga.
Victoria Ward Park
Honolulu
Artist: Hiroki Morinoue
About the work;
This proposal has gone through its own journey. I was asked to be thoughtful and non-political around Victoria Ward's legacy. She was a steward of her land, held cultural traditions with pride through her land stewardship for her people, and was a close friend of Queen Lili'uokalani. She also had seven daughters.
A Hawaiian fishpond is significant; it was once vibrant and common in this area as a cultural tradition that fostered a regenerative fishing practice to feed their people for generations to come.
The large ripple in the center symbolizes Victoria Ward. The smaller ripples surrounding the center ripple symbolize her seven daughters. The ripples themselves on the water's still surface symbolize the generational and regenerative impact that Victoria Ward had. The surface stillness, creating clear, solid ripples, marks a peaceful sense of place.
The two blue rings on the outside symbolize high and low tide. The black rocks are the suggestive visual of traditional rock walls, and the pathways become currents and entryways into the fishpond.