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SEPTEMBER 4–28 • MAIN GALLERY
Caverna Clara
Corey S. Pressman
Corey S. Pressman — Caverna Clara No. 3, 2024, Waxed powder painting on antique washi paper, 50" x 36"
The mind’s bright cave is ablur with shifting colors and forms, calls and responses, wanderings and dissolutions. The works in Clara Caverna bring this kaleidoscopic shadow play to light. Perched above the threshold of awareness, the primal ground of our experience can be encountered directly. Here, in the cave, is the source of all you call real.
Clara Caverna features waxed powder paintings — works made with natural powdered pigments applied to washi paper and varnished with beeswax. The exhibition also includes ceramic sculptures shaped from regional clays.
Palimpsets
Lauren Carrera
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Lauren Carrera— Time Is A River Without Banks (Ode to Chagall), Oil, Cold Wax, Canvas, 48”x72”
Following a three-year hiatus, interdisciplinary artist Carrera returns to Blackfish Gallery to debut On Floating Bodies, a collection of paintings in oil and cold wax that further her examination of the interplay between science, art, and the environment.
Carrera was the recipient of grants from the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts in support of The Carrera Expedition in 2022 at the Newport Visual Arts Center.
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GALLERY 2
Zai Yiqie Zhijian: In-Between
Limei Lai
Limei Lai — Zai Yiqie Zhijian, Mixed Media Installation
This work starts from the installation day and finishes on the closing day. It combines fabric, metal, paint, writing, and performative movement to form a mixed media installation.
Limei Lai is an installation artist who combines interactive visual art, writing, and performative movement into exhibition space to express her reflection in life between two cultures. Her practice is based on women's life experience, intergenerational communication, and cultural conflict. She strives to build an experience for herself and her audience to reflect, question, critique, and celebrate life.
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JAMES HIBBARD GALLERY
Tracing Resonance
Anastasiya Gutnik
Anastasiya Gutnik — Tracing Resonance, No. 1
In Tracing Resonance, artist Anastasiya Gutnik explores the ripples that resonate within and between ourselves and our environment. Her inspiration was drawn directly from a La Wayaka Current artist residency in the Atacama Desert—the driest place on earth. The video, photography, and mixed media on exhibit celebrate the resiliency of the people, plants, and animals that derive life, beauty, and vitality from
his seemingly barren biome.
Corey S. Pressman
Lauren Carrera
Blackfishers Doing Cool Stuff
See what Blackfish Artists are involved with outside the gallery this month.