
When downtown’s Portlandia sculpture was commissioned by the city in 1985, she was originally intended to be a reproducible symbol of Portland, like a West Coast Statue of Liberty. That didn’t happen: Artist Raymond Kaskey maintained exclusive rights to his sculpture. But now, with the new group show Her Own Wings: Femme Representations of Our City, By Female-Identified Portland Artists, Land Gallery hosts a vision of what might have been. “Her Own Wings brings together local female-identified artists and illustrators to try again,” reads the show’s wall text. The result is a massive show that reworks the iconography of Portlandia through prints by Nishat Akhtar, Cate Andrews, Lisa Congdon, Marlowe Dobbe, Aimee Flom, Sarah Hayes, Meg Hunt, Jax Ko, Elsa Lang, Molly Mendoza, Nyssa Oru, Ona Pitschka, Lena Podesta, Chelsea Stephen, Adrienne Vita, Maggie Wauklyn, and Subin Yang.