Alexander Art Gallery
The Alexander Gallery gives students and the community a chance to experience contemporary works made by emerging and established regional artists. The 900-square-foot space is located in the Niemeyer Center on the Oregon City campus and features two rotating exhibits each term. Artists explore a variety of disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, digital media and installation. Each spring, the gallery showcases works made by CCC students in its annual Student Art Show.
During the school year, the Alexander Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. During the summer, the gallery is open Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission is free. For further information please contact Kate Simmons at 503-594-3032 or kates@clackamas.edu.
Current Exhibition
'When the World Looks Away'
Sam Marroquin
Jan. 5–Jan. 30, 2026
The Alexander Gallery is pleased to present When the World Looks Away, a solo exhibition of work by Sam Marroquin. This exhibition runs January 5 through January 30, 2026. A reception will be held Wednesday, January 14th from noon to 1pm and Sam will speak about her work at 12:30pm. Please join us in celebrating this work!
When the World Looks Away is a mixed media exhibition combining drawing and painting that calls attention to recent events of suffering experienced by the Palestinian people. In this showcase of over one-hundred pieces, Marroquin utilizes techniques of bind contour drawing, acrylic color application and the introduction of handwritten text to create compositions that highlight the atrocities of war and illuminate humanity.
Marroquin comes to art-making with a digital design background. Working from sourced images, she presents ideas of pain and suffering through an illustrative and graphic storytelling lens. She received a Master of Arts Degree from Eastern Washington University and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. Her work has been supported by numerous organizations including but not limited to The Oregon Media Group, Artist Trust, Excel Foundation, and Oregon Arts Watch.
For further information about this exhibition, contact Kate Simmons at 503-594-3032 or
kates@clackamas.edu. The Alexander Gallery is located in the Niemeyer Center at Clackamas
Community College. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. with the exception
of campus holidays. Admission is free.
Past Exhibitions
- "Living Remnants" by Jim Spillman, June 25, 2025
- "Connectivity" by Joe Blatt, Nov. 10, 2025
- Student Art Show, May 13, 2025
- "Sequentially" by Terry Blas, March 31, 2025
- "Natural Retreat" by Holly Osborne, March 9, 2025
- "Kinematics" by Rob McKirdie, Feb. 3, 2025
- Faculty Art Show, Sept. 24, 2024
- Student Art Show, May 16, 2024
- "Modern Artifacts: Ceramics and Other Obsessions" by Kim Murton, April 1, 2024
- "Every Treetop Deserves a Cloud" by Horatio Law, Feb. 12, 2024
- Erik Geschke's Selected Works, Jan. 8, 2024
- "menagerie" by Rachel Kalman and Grace Weston, Nov. 6, 2023
- "Paintings from the perspective of dog poet Pepper Meadows", Sept. 18, 2023
- "Landscapes and Surfaces," Aug. 7, 2023
- Student Art Show, May 11, 2023
- "they would prefer to be a cloud, fastened to the rock" by Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos), April 3, 2023
- "Desert Waterlines" by Clairissa Stephens, Feb. 13, 2023
- "The Ordeal" by Henk Pander, Jan. 3, 2023
- "Cosmic Tree" by Kanetaka Ikeda, Sept. 19, 2022
- Student Art Show, May 11, 2022
Past Exhibitions and Artist Talks Alexander Gallery Floor Plan
Other galleries
As the center for cultural arts in Clackamas County, CCC wants you to experience art in a number of locations and on every campus. The Pauling Gallery on the Oregon City campus hosts experimental, student and community art shows, while the Harmony and Wilsonville campus galleries host quarterly exhibitions for a variety of artists.
Wilsonville Campus
No exhibitions are on display at this time.
Harmony Campus
No exhibitions are on display at this time.
Oregon City Campus
PAULING GALLERY
No exhibitions are on display at this time.