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Kim Smith Claudel: Yard Work
October 3 - November 1, 2026
Opening reception: Saturday October 3rd, 5 to 8 PM
Hours: Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment
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Special hours today, Friday 10/16, 11-5pm Open this weekend Sat/Sun 12-5pm Yard Work Carnation Contemporary In Yard Work, the yard is both symbol and physical source material, juxtaposing the enclosure of nature and its display with the control of the body. In this exhibition, temporary sculptures of raw clay, harvested from the artist’s yard, will soon return to the earth. A series of botanical drawings are made with the artist’s menstrual blood. And a site-specific installation displays a collection of yard work specimens: a small patch of grass unnaturally maintained, nail enamel coating unfired pinch pots, plant clippings caught in resin. Yard Work examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one’s landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired. taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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Open This Weekend: Yard Work Kim Smith Claudel @kimsmithstudio 🗓️ October 03 — November 01, 2026 🕒 Hours: Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment EXHIBITION In Smith Claudel's third solo exhibition with Carnation Contemporary, the yard is both symbol and physical source material, juxtaposing the enclosure of nature and its display with the control of the body. In this exhibition, temporary sculptures of raw clay, harvested from the artist’s yard, will soon return to the earth. A series of botanical drawings are made with the artist's menstrual blood. And a site-specific installation displays a collection of yard work specimens: a small patch of grass unnaturally maintained, nail enamel coating unfired pinch pots, plant clippings caught in resin. Yard Work examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one's landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired. ARTIST Kim Smith Claudel is an artist and visual designer based in Portland, Oregon. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Smith Claudel creates work that exists in deliberate flux. Her process-driven approach embraces the ephemeral, the decaying, and the mundane, building visual systems that resist completion. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition (End Cycle) at The Vestibule in Seattle. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Arts Center (Corvallis, OR) The Painting Center (NYC), Mt. Hood Community College (OR), and KyotoBA (Japan). Recent residencies include Building 5 in Portland and the Boston Center for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She received an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a Learning Innovation Fellow. She is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery and WAVE artist collective. taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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OPENING SATURDAY!!! Yard Work Kim Smith Claudel @kimsmithstudio Opening Saturday, October 03, 5–8 PM Artist Talk Sunday, November 01 🗓️ October 03 — November 01, 2026 🕒 Hours: Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment EXHIBITION In Smith Claudel's third solo exhibition with Carnation Contemporary, the yard is both symbol and physical source material, juxtaposing the enclosure of nature and its display with the control of the body. In this exhibition, temporary sculptures of raw clay, harvested from the artist’s yard, will soon return to the earth. A series of botanical drawings are made with the artist's menstrual blood. And a site-specific installation displays a collection of yard work specimens: a small patch of grass unnaturally maintained, nail enamel coating unfired pinch pots, plant clippings caught in resin. Yard Work examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one's landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired. ARTIST Kim Smith Claudel is an artist and visual designer based in Portland, Oregon. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Smith Claudel creates work that exists in deliberate flux. Her process-driven approach embraces the ephemeral, the decaying, and the mundane, building visual systems that resist completion. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition (End Cycle) at The Vestibule in Seattle. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Arts Center (Corvallis, OR) The Painting Center (NYC), Mt. Hood Community College (OR), and KyotoBA (Japan). Recent residencies include Building 5 in Portland and the Boston Center for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She received an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a Learning Innovation Fellow. She is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery and WAVE artist collective. by @carnationcontemporary
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It’s the very last weekend to catch @threevertices “My Eyes Glaze Over”! Carnation will be open from 12 to 5 PM this Saturday and Sunday. Please join us for a closing reception on Sunday from 3 to 5 PM & an artist talk at 3:30. My Eyes Glaze Over Coined by physicist/futurist Herman Kahn, “My eyes glaze over” describes an instinctive response to feeling overwhelmed about the future. In his upcoming solo show at Carnation Contemporary, Jeremy Rotsztain continues his explorations of abstraction using new technologies, creating lenticular images that represent various states of drifting attention, disengaged staring, and zoning out. The works in “My Eyes Glaze Over” can be approached like analog screens; screens that invite a range of states from meditative to spaced out to overwhelmed. These works were composed with an all-over technique commonly found in Abstract Expressionist painting. Jeremy expands all-overness into three dimensions, crafting computer algorithms to fill the 3D volume of his screens and drawing others by hand. These gestural marks are both a vehicle for moving color through space and for guiding viewers’ drifting gazes through those spaces. Biography Jeremy Rotsztain (b. Toronto, Canada) explores contemporary abstraction using code and computer graphics. His work manifests as augmented & virtual reality experiences, lenticular images and 3D animations. His projects often engage with the physical environments that they’re presented in, playing with history, experience of space and color. His work is typically slow in nature, visceral and involves collaborations with electronic musicians. Jeremy’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Geneva International Film Festival and MUTEK. He lives in Portland, Oregon. #jeremyrotsztain #myeyesglazeover #contemporaryart taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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COMING IN OCTOBER Yard Work Kim Smith Claudel @kimsmithstudio Opening Saturday, October 03, 5–8 PM 🗓️ October 03 — November 01, 2026 🕒 Hours: Sat–Sun, 12–5 PM & by appointment EXHIBITION In Smith Claudel's third solo exhibition with Carnation Contemporary, the yard is both symbol and physical source material, juxtaposing the enclosure of nature and its display with the control of the body. In this exhibition, temporary sculptures of raw clay, harvested from the artist’s yard, will soon return to the earth. A series of botanical drawings are made with the artist's menstrual blood. And a site-specific installation displays a collection of yard work specimens: a small patch of grass unnaturally maintained, nail enamel coating unfired pinch pots, plant clippings caught in resin. Yard Work examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one's landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired. ARTIST Kim Smith Claudel is an artist and visual designer based in Portland, Oregon. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Smith Claudel creates work that exists in deliberate flux. Her process-driven approach embraces the ephemeral, the decaying, and the mundane, building visual systems that resist completion. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition (End Cycle) at The Vestibule in Seattle. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Arts Center (Corvallis, OR) The Painting Center (NYC), Mt. Hood Community College (OR), and KyotoBA (Japan). Recent residencies include Building 5 in Portland and the Boston Center for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She received an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a Learning Innovation Fellow. She is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery and WAVE artist collective. taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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These are the 4 titular works from “My Eyes Glaze Over”. Lots of new things going on here–most notably a deeper and more intentional exploration of gradients and of shifting contrasts between foreground and background colors. Looking at the first two works (this is only visibile in person), the two middle sections are intentionally made out of focus, creating a visual dissonance that never resolves. Their colors also subtly shift as you move in front of the work. The title of the show is a nod to Peter Rehberg, the experimental musician and co-founder of MEGO records (now @editionsmego), who passed unexpectedly back in 2021. “My Eyes Glaze Over” is an expansion of the acronym MEGO: a phrase attributed to US physicist Herman Kahn referring to an instinctive human response to gazing into the future. The term was also adopted by hacker culture as a strategy for using complicated technical language to overwhelm one’s listener/audience into acceptance. After seeing Rehberg perform live on a G3 PowerBook laptop (under the moniker of Pita) some 25 years ago, I was inspired to pick up programming with the dream of making visceral computer music. Things didn’t go exactly as planned but I’m still grateful for that early inspiration. These four works are dedicated to him. Funny thing: the last time I saw Pita perform was in April 2019 just next door to Carnation–at Disjecta (now Oregon Contemporary)-at a show organized by the good folks from @variformgallery. “My Eyes Glaze Over” is up until September 27th–with gallery hours on Saturday and Sundays from 12 to 5. #digitalabstract #lenticular #parallax #myeyesglazeover #peterrehberg taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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Open this weekend: 𝗠𝘆 𝗘𝘆𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 Jeremy Rotsztain (@threevertices) Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm Coined by physicist/futurist Herman Kahn, "My eyes glaze over" describes an instinctive response to feeling overwhelmed about the future. In his upcoming solo show at Carnation Contemporary, Jeremy Rotsztain continues his explorations of abstraction using new technologies, creating lenticular images that represent various states of drifting attention, disengaged staring, and zoning out. The works in "My Eyes Glaze Over" can be approached like analog screens; screens that invite a range of states from meditative to spaced out to overwhelmed. These works were composed with an all-over technique commonly found in Abstract Expressionist painting. Jeremy expands all-overness into three dimensions, crafting computer algorithms to fill the 3D volume of his screens and drawing others by hand. These gestural marks are both a vehicle for moving color through space and for guiding viewers’ drifting gazes through those spaces. Biography Jeremy Rotsztain (b. Toronto, Canada) explores contemporary abstraction using code and computer graphics. His work manifests as augmented & virtual reality experiences, lenticular images and 3D animations. His projects often engage with the physical environments that they're presented in, playing with history, experience of space and color. His work is typically slow in nature, visceral and involves collaborations with electronic musicians. Jeremy's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Geneva International Film Festival and MUTEK. He lives in Portland, Oregon. #carnationcontemporary #contemporaryart #jeremyrotsztain taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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"My Eyes Glaze Over" Jeremy Rotsztain (@threevertices) September 5 to 27, 2026 Opening Reception: September 5, 5 to 8 pm Closing Reception: September 27, 2 to 5 pm Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12 to 5 pm and by appointment Coined by physicist/futurist Herman Kahn, "My eyes glaze over" describes an instinctive response to feeling overwhelmed about the future. In his upcoming solo show at Carnation Contemporary, Jeremy Rotsztain continues his explorations of abstraction using new technologies, creating lenticular images that represent various states of drifting attention, disengaged staring, and zoning out. The works in "My Eyes Glaze Over" can be approached like analog screens; screens that invite a range of states from meditative to spaced out to overwhelmed. These works were composed with an all-over technique commonly found in Abstract Expressionist painting. Jeremy expands all-overness into three dimensions, crafting computer algorithms to fill the 3D volume of his screens and drawing others by hand. These gestural marks are both a vehicle for moving color through space and for guiding viewers’ drifting gazes through those spaces. Biography Jeremy Rotsztain (b. Toronto, Canada) explores contemporary abstraction using code and computer graphics. His work manifests as augmented & virtual reality experiences, lenticular images and 3D animations. His projects often engage with the physical environments that they're presented in, playing with history, experience of space and color. His work is typically slow in nature, visceral and involves collaborations with electronic musicians. Jeremy's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Geneva International Film Festival and MUTEK. He lives in Portland, Oregon. by @carnationcontemporary
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In 2026, we received a RACC Portland Projects grant to support us with photo documentation of our exhibitions, a membership scholarship, and other operational costs. Thank you @regionalarts for your continued support ❤️ This project is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Office of Arts & Culture. Photos by @mariogalluccistudio @connerenloe and @aaronwessling by @carnationcontemporary
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Final weekend! This Saturday, August 29, we’ll be open 6–9 PM, alongside @oregoncontemporary and @wellwellprojects as Converge 45 kicks off its opening weekend. Come make an evening of it and visit all three spaces. Saturday, August 29 · 6–9 PM Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland Sewing Seeds, curated by Sarah Farahat (@ankh.inkh.studios) + Alexandria Saleem (@zandi_i_i) A group exhibition of nine SWANA Artists of Portland working with indigenous plants that investigate memory, migration, land, and grief. Rooted in decolonial research practices, Sewing Seeds positions the artist’s body as a living archive of ancestral relationships documented through sense, intuition, memory, and grief. Over the course of two years, a collective textile installation by nine SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) artists emerged. Their work explores ancestral relationships to seed, land, memory, migration, and displacement. Through contemporary and traditional textile practices, the work traces the dissonance of generational uprooting and the impossibility of return under ongoing imperial conditions. Many of the woven pieces contain seeds and plantcestors— living relatives and ancestral collaborators carrying the memory of land and people across generations. Both prayer and offering, the work is intended to outlive its makers. As an archive and seed bank, the work insists that cultural inheritance is not only remembered—it is cultivated. In resisting cultural erasure, Sewing Seeds dreams into SWANA futures rooted in borderless kinship and collective nourishment. #CarnationContemporary #Converge45 #PortlandArt #PDXArt by @carnationcontemporary
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“Sewing Seeds,” at @carnationcontemporary curated by Sarah Farahat (@ankh.inkh.studios) and Alexandria Saleem (@zandi_i_i) explores memory, migration, and grief through embroidery, weaving, altars, plant-based dyes, small ceramic boxes, and more. August Saturdays/Sundays only from 12-5pm plus extended closing hours Saturday, 8/29, 5-8pm alongside @oregoncontemporary Converge 45’s opening reception. Featuring: Alexandria Saleem @zandi_i_i Amirra Malak @artwithamirra Ara Manoogian @grapefruit.peels Bint Bandora @bint.bandora Jenna Saadeh janoonajojo Sarah Sabino @sneakhersole Rodia Banaei @studio.rodi Sarah Farahat @ankh.inkh.studios Zeinab Saab @zeinab.saab taken in Oregon Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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Come see 𝓢𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 during open gallery hours! Saturdays + Sundays 12-5pm through end of August @carnationcontemporary A group exhibition of nine SWANA Artists exploring memory, migration, land, seed and grief. Both prayer and offering, the work is intended to outlive its makers. As an archive and seed bank, the work insists that cultural inheritance is not only remembered—it is cultivated. In resisting cultural erasure, 𝓢𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 dreams into SWANA futures rooted in borderless kinship and collective nourishment. Endless gratitude to the @fordfamilyfound for supporting the creation and exhibition of this work, it would not have been possible without the grant received to produce this collective work Featuring: Alexandria Saleem @zandi_i_i Amirra Malak @artwithamirra Ara Manoogian @grapefruit.peels Bint Bandora @bint.bandora Jenna Saadeh janoonajojo Sarah Sabino @sneakhersole Rodia Banaei @studio.rodi Sarah Farahat @ankh.inkh.studios Zeinab Saab @zeinab.saab taken in Carnation Contemporary by @carnationcontemporary
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