Layered Landscape

ON VIEW:
January 21 - April 17, 2026

Vibrant painting of discarded objects in colorful landscape include foliage, grasses overtaking objects

Melinda Braathen, In Time, In Tempo, 2023, Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

Layered Landscape: Memory and Ecological Witness

Featured Artists: Melinda Braathen, Srijon Chowdhury, Guillermo Galindo, Heather Bird Harris, Sky Hopinka, Julia Oldham, Maia Cruz Palileo, Rebecca Padilla, and Sara Siestreem

Curated by Kathryn Hill, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia) and organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University.

Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.

Exhibition, education, and outreach programs are supported by The Ford Family Foundation, the Jackson Foundation, Elements Roofing, and the JSMA at PSU Exhibition Circle.

This exhibition is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust.

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Featured Works

video still by sky hopinka, cloudscape and sky with calligram writing overtop

Sky Hopinka, (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), He Who Wears Faces on His Ears (video still), 2025, HD video, stereo, color, 8 minutes, 46 seconds, Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles, © Sky Hopinka

multi-panel painting by Sara Seistreem, triangles, visible brush strokes, image transfer of hands

Sara Siestreem , (Hanis Coos), glass bat, 2024, Acrylic, gesso, graphite, colored pencil, logging crayon, Xerox transfer, lithograph collage on panel, 120 x 96 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, © Sara Siestreem

woven basket by sara seistreem, narrow bottom, wider top

Sara Siestreem , (Hanis Coos), joan didion is my asmr, 2024, Spruce Root (Nehalem), Indigo dye (Linnton), 7.5 x 11.25 x 11.25 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, © Sara Siestreem

installation includes a fragile net with milkweed seed pods both in the next and in a pile under the net

Rebecca Padilla, (Puerto Rican American), cradle, 2022, Puerto Rican maguey fibers, milkweed seed pods, Variable, Courtesy of the artist, © Rebecca Padilla

woven pulp baskets of different sizes and colors in a tall (10 - 11 foot) stack on a riser

Rebecca Padilla, (Puerto Rican American), How Many Make a Heap? (rocks and baskets), 2023–ongoing, Recycled paper pulp, natural and synthetic dyes, steel, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist, © Rebecca Padilla

Found clothing over a wooden axis that looks like an X shaped person. Strings form an instrument that can be played.

Guillermo Galindo, (Mexican), Effigy (Sonic Border), 2014, Immigrants' clothing, wood axis, and strings, 66 × 22 × 48 inches, Courtesy of Art Bridges, © Gullermo Galindo, Image: Brad Flowers