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CURRENT EXHIBITION, MARCH 2026
Nye - Struggle

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Christa Nye
When Words Are Not Enough

Christa Nye’s  work explores the space between memory, emotion, and abstraction. While her early paintings were rooted in observation, her practice has shifted toward an inward focus, allowing intuition to guide the process. She paints without direct reference, responding instead to music as it unfolds, letting sound influence color, rhythm, and form, shaping each composition as an emotional experience rather than a depiction of the physical world. Through this approach, she seeks to give structure to intangible moments—fragments of thought, memory, and feeling—and to create paintings that reflect a deeper, more personal understanding of reality.


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Nye - Struggle
Nye - Blue to Gold
Nye - Longing and Limit
Nye - Scheherazade 1
Nye - Scheherazade 2
Promises Promises

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Eddie Reed
When Words Are Not Enough

My paintings do not offer easy conclusions; they pose questions. Through social realist storytelling, energetic action painting, and contemporary symbolism, I create visual narratives meant to ignite dialogue. These works confront societal norms, examine power structures, explore environmental concerns, and give voice to the struggles of marginalized communities.


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Promises Promises
Ride The Falling Flowers
America’s Golden Age
Ophelia
Redemption Song
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Philip Stork
Abstract Journeys

Philip Stork uses pastels and pencil to create art focused on abstract landscapes and color fields. Pastels afford him the ability to create subtle color hues without the constraints of rendering identifiable figures and shapes. The addition of lines to the image provides a scaffold and a counterpoint for these elements. Often these compound images evoke space and time, hence the title of his show “Abstract Journeys”. Although these works are generated from his imagination, they are greatly influenced by the colors, landscapes, and cityscapes he has encountered while traveling. 


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Hibiscus
Intertidal
Low Tide
Self protection

JAMES HIBBARD GALLERY

Mae Al-Jiboori

Presence Under Pressure  brings together a series of paintings that examine what it means to remain visible, embodied, and emotionally present in conditions of strain. Rather than offering resolution, the works insist on endurance: presence not as clarity or strength, but as the act of continuing to exist, to be seen, and to occupy space under persistent force.


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Self protection
To change is to continue
Easing from afar
Open water
Lovers against the rocks
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BLACKFISH GALLERY

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Portland OR 97209
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