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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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october art plans, sorted 🍂 swipe for what’s still on, then grab the full issue at artandaboutpdx.com ✨

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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.

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Be sure to save the date, November 22nd, for the third annual PADA Pop Up show featuring 18 local galleries including J. Pepin Art Gallery!

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@carnationcontemporary
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🌿 Opening this Saturday, Oct 3 5-8pm

Yard Work
Oct 3 - Nov 1
@carnationcontemporary
8371 N Interstate Ave
Sat / Sun 12-5pm, and by appt

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Hi loves! Processing Community Day is happening October 3 at PNCA. If you're into creative coding or curious about learning, come hang out and see what people are making.

I'll be giving a brief talk about my work, and I'm looking forward to checking out what everyone else has been working on. Would love to see you there!

October 3, 1pm at Pacific Northwest College of Art

RSVP with the QR code above 🧡

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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

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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

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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

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Join us for the Opening Reception of 𝓢𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼, A group exhibition of nine SWANA Artists exploring memory, migration, land, seed and grief

Thursday, August 6, 6–9 PM @carnationcontemporary

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

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Sewing Seeds, curated by Sarah Farahat +Alexandria Saleem
📍 Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave #3, Portland
🗓️ August 1-30, 2026
✨Opening reception August 6, 6-9 p.m., Artist Talk: 7:30-8:30pm
⏳ Hours: Saturday-Sunday 12-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public

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.

#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart

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I am so happy to share that I’ve joined @carnationcontemporary as a new member.

I’ve been wanting to showcase my visual art in a gallery setting. I’ve been wanting to be a part of a collective focusing on art and community. I love that Carnation is a few blocks from my home, next to OX, and that I get to sustain creative expression for others in Kenton.

I can’t wait to show you my new work with my first Carnation exhibition in February 2027.

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Really happy to share that I’ve joined @carnationcontemporary as a new member. 🌸

Over the past year I’ve been rebuilding my studio practice, finding my footing back in Portland, and meeting some incredibly kind and talented people. I’m excited to be part of such a brilliant group of artists.

Looking forward to sharing new work in my first Carnation exhibition next May. I ❤️ art

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