My work is a process of discovery, becoming an ecology of improvisational marks that embody the wisdom and wonder of uncertainty, failure, and getting lost. I paint what is unknown to me. I paint, not to elevate myself, but to surpass my self-importance.

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Now represented by LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY

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W hat I Don’t Know

“I have to remind myself that I don’t need to know where this painting will end up—only that it's trying to answer a question I don’t know how to ask. As I’m working, I strive (clumsily) to invite a state of not knowing—as frustrating and debilitating as it can be much of the time—because that’s why I paint, why most of us paint, I gather, to better understand what we don’t know. Or maybe, more accurately, that we don’t know…”

“That’s what I’m interested in, the space in between the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.” –Julie Mehretu

EXHIBITIONS

2024

March,Unexpected Solitude, LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, Portland, OR
Featured in Saatchi Art’s “24 Artists to collect in 2024”

2023

Solo, Beyond the Now, Galley 114. Portland, OR
Group, Artworks Northwest Biennial, Umqua Valley Arts, Curated by Arvie Smith, Roseburg, OR
Solo, Small Works, Cellar Z, Portland, OR
Group, Winter Exhibition, Jen Tough Gallery and Artist Alliance, Artsy
Group, The Space Between, Artist Alliance, Artsy, Curated by Michael Shemchuck

2022

Group show, METAXIS, E. Serreau Studio/Gallery, Portland, OR. MORE INFO
Solo show, The Joinery at St. Johns, Portland, OR
Solo show, The Joinery, Downtown Portland, OR
The Sound of Forgetting, Exhibbit, Virtual Exhibition
Group show, A Thousand Words, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR
Solo show, Ongoing Renewal, Nest, Portland, OR
The Gaze Behind Closed Eyes. Exhibbit, Virtual Exhibition

Art Folio 2021 available on Amazon.

Art Folio 2020 is available for purchase.

“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” -Robert Henri

MARK DUNST

MARK DUNST