Caryn Aasness is an MFA candidate in Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program and has a BFA in Fiber From California State University Long Beach. They want to invite you into their brain. In it we explore mental illness, and the folk art of coping mechanisms. We investigate queerness and how it forms […]
Christina Kemp is a Portland based mixed media artist. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Arizona State University in 2017 and a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2011. Central to her work is the contrast in speed between the profit-driven productivity and instantaneousness of our society with the slow deliberateness […]
Cristina Niculescu is a visual artist, immigrant, veteran, divorcée, writer, educator, and marvel-maker. Born in 1981 in Romania, she immigrated to the US at the age of ten. Her multi-culturally informed work seeks points of social tension and connection through artful objects, photography, video and interactive installations. She designs props and participatory experiences for the […]
Lynn Yarne is an artist and educator from Portland, Oregon. She works within animation and collage to address generational narratives & histories. She is curious about community, participatory works, magic, and rejuvenation. She currently makes art projects for and about the public education system. Lynn holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design […]
Curtis Reid Henderson is a multimedia sculptor, printmaker, and potter based in St. Johns, Portland Oregon. His work, rooted in the use of found, salvaged, and recycled materials, reflects upon and adds commentary to the lack of transparency in consumer manufacturing; without readily available replacement parts & schematics, goods and machinery around us are abandoned […]
May Maylisa Cat is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans video, paintings, glass, and live performances. She grew up in Chicago and graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY. Her work plays a critical role on the dominant discourses towards the community, the fantasy of the cultural “Other,” and how […]
Leilah Talukder explores the role that objects and wearables have in forming human experience, interaction, and desire from a historical, cultural, and personal point of view. Talukder utilizes textiles, wearables, and sculpture to investigate the power dynamics of labor in our globalized world, and the fashion industry. There are value judgments imposed on the aesthetics […]
In their artistic practice, Anderson both investigates and celebrates the mundanity and absurdity of ordinary objects, creating works that blur the line between functional and nonfunctional. Through sculpture, video, and performance, they experiment with materials and objects, often using time consuming processes, which allows more time to become familiar with and form a relationship to […]
I create virtual environments where objects, characters, and narratives emerge: 3D models become sculptures and paintings that in turn, become film props and sets. This cross-disciplinary practice centers on experimental filmmaking with a focus on the dualistic relationship between science and spirituality. More specifically, I investigate the human anxieties that stem from environmental and political turmoil […]
There are complex and in-between spaces that we all inhabit. Borderlands, fringes, times of transition and disputed territories – these liminal states are as much physical as they are mental and metaphorical. As gorgeously intricate living beings, we have a pragmatic tendency to use whatever tools are at hand to make the messy world fit […]