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Apr 01 - Apr 26 2025 - 9 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Remains, a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Kristin Osterberg in the Main Gallery. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, April 1, and runs through April 26, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3 from 5 to 8 pm. A cracked amphora, a delicate kylix, the curve of an ancient urn, busts of those long-gone—artifacts that once held water, wine, daily life, human likenesses. They now hold time itself. In Remains, Kristin Osterberg reimagines classical relics not as static museum pieces but as living echoes—familiar and distant, personal and universal. Like the faded snapshots of family life from her earlier exhibition, these oils and acrylics invite her audience to project their histories onto the surfaces of antiquity. For Osterberg, the past, imperfect and enduring, still lingers in our present. Kristin Osterberg lives and works outside New York City. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has shown in and around the New York area. She has had solo shows at The Painting Center in NYC as well as a solo show in 2024 at Pinkwater Gallery in Kingston, New York. For more information on the artist, visit: www.kristinosterbergstudio.com and @kristinosterberg.

Apr 01 - Apr 26 2025 - 9 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Playground featuring paintings by Portland-based artist Kim Smith Claudel in the Project Room. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, April 1, and runs through April 26, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3 from 5 to 8 pm. The playground is a stage for imaginative theories. With endless freedom inside its boundary, it is both hyperreal and simultaneously detached from the real world. For Smith Claudel, painting abstraction is her playground—a space of not only invention and discovery but also risk and failure. These paintings, omnivorous with media and indifferent to craft, bring urgency and purpose amid a dance of action and reaction. Layers are masked and covered, scraped and excavated through a collaborative game that is invented as it goes. These paintings are about play within the ground—the space in which figures can fit and drift, float and fall—held weightless by the impossible gravity within a painting. Soft gradients like desert sunsets are cut with harsh lines, blurring our perception of figure and ground, near and far, beginning and end. Stenciled remnants hide and reveal awkward colors that are at times earthly, and at other times garish. Like play structures, these collaged constructions question pragmatic function. A bar to climb and swing, a mound to meander, a beam to teeter—the playgrounds are spaces to get lost in thought and play amid their provisional stability, knowing we could lose our footing at any moment—though we may fall softly on the sand. Kim Smith Claudel is an interdisciplinary artist working in both painting and mixed media installation. She was a visual resident at the Boston Center for the Arts, a research artist at the MIT Media Lab, and recently an artist in residence at Building 5 at Northwest Marine Art Works (Portland, OR). Currently, she is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery and the artist collective, WAVE Contemporary. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent solo exhibitions include KyotoBA (Kyoto, Japan), Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), and Mt Hood Community College (Gresham, OR). She lives and works in Portland, OR. For more information on the artist, visit: www.kimsmithclaudel.com and @kimsmithstudio.

Apr 01 - Apr 26 2025 - 9 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Intercellular Imaginings featuring works by artist Rebecca Stevens in the Main Gallery. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, April 1, and runs through April 26, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3 from 5 to 8 pm. Rebecca Stevens’s work draws its energy from the organic forms found across scientific disciplines, with a particular focus on anatomy and botany. “I find so much beauty in the basic shapes and forms we all share, and the patterns in nature are a great source of inspiration for me,” the artist explains. Her compositions vibrate with a spirit of reverence and celebration. Plant cells, human anatomy, and a variety of other organic forms, filled as they are with patterns and motion, pull the viewer into their realm. Layer upon layer of color and motif swirl and rotate over the surface of the works, inviting the viewer to enter this simultaneously other-worldly and utterly ingrained visual experience. Rebecca Stevens received her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, and her BFA in painting from Miami University. For more information on the artist, visit www.rebeccastevensart.com and @rebeccastevensart