From May 31 to June 16, 2024, X Gallery will host a show of work by the artist Carola Penn (1945–2019) ― please join us for the opening reception on Friday, May 31 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Caretaking for Black Arts Legacies Panel Discussion at the Portland Art Museum.

Join this discussion about artists archives on Saturday, October 14, 2023 hosted by Artists’ Legacy Foundation.

The 2023 OCAC Alumni Biennial will be held at X Gallery this October. Save October 7 from 6–9 pm for the opening.

Registration is now open for the 2023 Archiving for Visual Artists: Career Documentation and Legacy Considerations workshop to be held August 30-November 8. Registration closes July 31.

Many of you have expressed an interest in selling your artwork with us. We heard you, and we are excited to announce an important addition to our company.

There are many ways to value artwork—sentimental, aesthetic, cultural, historic, and financial—and we often have clients ask about when or why they should have artwork appraised.

Join Us for the Opening Reception November 4

Registration is now open for Archiving for Visual Artists: Career Documentation and Legacy Considerations. Our 6 session course offers guidelines, best practices, and discussion about artwork inventory and storage, studio workflow, legacy goals and planning.

Zachary Hull, President of X Gallery Art, will offer a presentation titled “Managing Your Artwork: Organization, Documentation & Building Your Legacy” on June 16, 2022 as part of the Salem Art Association Spring Artist Lecture Series.

X Gallery is hosting an exhibition highlighting the varied interests of collector Tim Kerr, Friday, June 17.

On Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 representatives from X Gallery will offer a presentation about our experience working with artists’ archives at the Northwest Archivists Conference.

The Hoffman Center for the Arts is hosting an April 2022 exhibit of early Oregon artists in celebration of the 2nd edition of Oregon Painters: Landscape to Modernism, 1859–1959 by Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit.

This recently received NEH grant will assist Willamette University in cataloguing a significant regional ceramics collection.

Oregon’s cultural ecosystem is smaller, more grassroots, and generally more accessible than the art world writ large, but we all might benefit from hearing about how the large markets and auctions work in this series from Stephen Dubner and Freakonomics Radio.

Visual artists often ask the question of how to pay for X Gallery storage or consulting services as part of supporting their art making practice. In this post, we offer eight possible supplementary funding sources.

Are you ready to organize your studio and get a handle on your inventory of work? Perhaps you have identified a need for an accessible way to view, share and track your art—now what?

X Gallery Art is a relatively new company but in three years the collections have grown substantially. Aside from having to be very efficient in storing objects in the vault we found that X Gallery had outgrown our original custom software. So, we set out to find a collection management system that would support our needs.

X Gallery has completed the first of a two-step expansion, adding 2500 square feet of flexible space outside our secure storage vault.

We hear the word “archive” used in a variety of ways, and sometimes it’s confusing to know exactly what is intended by the term. Is creating an archive the same as visiting an archive? What does it mean to archive data as opposed to archive your artwork?