Art Elements Gallery

ART Elements was founded in 2010 by Loni Parrish, in a mid-century building on First Street that she and I restored together — my full disclosure, since I helped manage and operate this gallery until 2016.

Prior to opening the gallery Loni had just curated the permanent and rotating art collections at The Allison Inn & Spa for her family, and a year later, she invited a number of those same artists to join the new gallery. Many are still represented today.

Sixty-plus Oregon artists are now on the roster, every one hand-selected, every one having lived and worked in this state. Here you can find painting, ceramics, sculptures, blown and fused glass, woodwork, handcrafted jewelry, large-scale outdoor sculpture, weaving, basketry, and assemblage. What unites it isn’t style, it’s Oregon. Traditional landscapes hang near contemporary abstraction, and the through-line is the place itself.

The space is roughly 3,000 square feet across two floors, and it’s dense. Give yourself real time. The entire front of the gallery goes to the featured artist and rotates frequently, with the back rotating too, which means the room looks different every visit and there are artist talks to go with it.

Beyond the gallery, ART Elements consults on art purchasing for residential and commercial spaces at any budget, and will mock up a digital preview if you send a photo of your room. Their artists’ work also appears in tasting rooms across the valley, including Penner-Ash, Bella Vida, and many more.

One line from the gallery sums up the surprise people have walking in: visitors expect small and quaint, and leave comparing it to what they’ve seen in New York or Chicago.