Arvie Smith makes large scale phantasmagoric oil paintings that reference everything from American racial stereotypes, contemporary politics, historical events, to narrative and art-historical tropes.

Ann Gale is an artist and educator widely revered among painters but less recognized commercially. For years she has mentored a new generation of painters at the University of Washington while keeping a rigorous studio practice making highly observed perception-based oil paintings.

Artist Evan Hudson uses the "aesthetically familiar" material plasticine, or modeling clay, to construct naïve looking scenes that pack a sinister punch.

Anya Roberts-Toney is a painter of still lives, apparitions, feminine mystique, and cultural contradictions.

Portland artist Howard Fonda might best be descirbed as a painter-philosopher who uses his painting practice to contemplate themes of love, death, existence, and humanity.

Portland artist David Schell makes paintings that utilize simple color and abstract forms to convey a discrete affect in each piece.

Jazz Brown is an artist working in geometric abstraction but with a softer, more painterly bent than typical.

Nadia Waheed makes narrative paintings rich with color, metaphor, and iconography.

David Joel Kitcher uses intuitive mark making to construct abstract paintings, watching them unfold with each decision he makes.

Philippe Hyojung Kim makes paintings and paint-made objects that get to the heart of paint-as-material, that gooey viscous stuff with which we make paintings.

Ilana Zweschi makes process-based paintings that seek to disarm documents of propaganda and harmful pronouncements.

An interview with painter Mary Weisenburger

Rithika Pandey's surreal, dream-like paintings make heavy use of pattern and saturated, fauvist interiors.

Kendrick Corp makes paintings that expose the inherent contradictions of American masculinity.

Chicago artist Jean Alexander Frater makes paintings about paintings that deal in simple forms, restraint, and judiciousness.

This week's artist makes a wide range of work outside the traditional gallery setting and goes by the moniker Buffalo.

Kansas City artist Bobby Haulotte is an imminent painter of our times, addressing certain hallmarks of this decade like screens, saturation, obfuscation, artifice, split attention, and anxiety.

After spending 12 years as a freelance graphic designer, Wokeface began making art for herself and displaying it on the streets of Portland. Her paintings are beacons of joy in these dark times with her remarkably simple symbol of a serene looking smiley face with a wide open third eye.