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Color Coded

Juried Group Show
At Gallery 114

January 2nd – 31st, 2026

Opening Reception
January 8th, 5pm – 8pm

About the Exhibition:
Color is central to artistic expression, yet its possibilities are endless. In Color Coded, we asked artists to consider how color operates as a code – one that viewers can unlock and respond to in their own way. Whether symbolic, emotional, structural, or conceptual, color can transform perception and meaning. This juried exhibition showcases works that thoughtfully engage with color as a primary element.

Gallery114 welcomes these artists: Carson Abbert, Eliot Allen, Tamara English, Karen Christie Fisher, Mary Beth Giraci, Jeffrey Gould, Pilar Hanson, Ochen Kaylan, Heidi Keith, Andrea Kelsey, Junkyu Lee, Steven Miller, Kim Nickens, Ian Nickols, Aimee O’Will, Natalie Obermaier, Chris Polich, James Robertson, Robert Shepard, Ellen Stern, Philip Stork, Jack Straton, Carolyn Sweeney, Amy Turnbull, Nancy Watterson Scharf.

Location:
Gallery 114
1100 NW Glisan Street, Portland, OR. 97209
gallery114.com – 503-243-3356

Gallery Hours:
12-5 Thursday – Sunday

click here for more info -link: https://www.gallery114.com/color-coded

The Inward Music

At Caplan Art Designs

March 5 – 28, 2026
Opening reception March 5, 6 – 8 pm

About the work:
“The paintings invite us to fully experience the day-to-day, minute-to-minute joys and challenges of our strengths and limitations, our capacity to love even in the face of adversity, our life’s mission and deepest karma, with an awareness so intense, we come to literally embody our dearest-held aspirations and values.To concentrate such a caliber of profundity within the construct of an oil painting, even a highly symbolic one, is a remarkable feat. Certainly, a casual viewer would not have to grasp these works’ conceptual frameworks in their entirety to appreciate their complex compositions, vivid color, and luscious surfaces as pure objets d’art. But closer consideration yields exponential rewards when the paintings in question are teaching tools for accessing the bounties we dually contain and manifest.”

– Richard Speer

Location:
Caplan Art Designs
1323 NW 16th Avenue #1001
NOTE: ENTRANCE to the gallery is on NW Pettygrove between 16th & 17th Avenues
Click here for more info – here is the link to use: https://caplanartdesigns.com/artists/english/

Third Coast Biennial

At K Space Contemporary
Corpus Christi, Texas
August 1st – September 25th, 2025

About the exhibition:

The Third Coast Biennial is a national juried exhibition of innovative contemporary art, which began in 2007.

The 2025 Juror is Leandra Urrutia, an object maker and storyteller based in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her studio work illustrates struggles between body and mind from a woman-centered standpoint as one experiences injustice, injury, aging, fate, and fortitude.

She writes the following about the Third Coast Biennial: “As a juror, approaching a call without a defined theme can feel daunting, akin to facing a blank canvas or a lump of clay at the start of a new studio project. However, I was delighted by the range of talent and ideas presented for this Biennial. With so many entries, the main challenge was identifying strong individual works that could coalesce into a harmonious exhibition. As I reviewed the art, certain pieces immediately caught my attention, and I began noticing patterns connecting them in various ways…”

Past Jurors include internationally renowned artists Sharon Kopriva and Trenton Doyle Hancock, San Antonio Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art Suzanne Weaver, and independent curator, Rigoberto Luna.

To see the exhibition online, click here

623 North Chaparral St.
Corpus Christi Tx, 78401
361-887-6834

Gallery Hours:
Wed. – Sat. 11 am – 5 pm
Sun. 12 pm – 4 pm

For more info about K Space Contemporary, click here

The Art of Hope/The Hope of Art Exhibition

July 11 – July 26, 2025

Camas Gallery at Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR

From the curators: “Art is the highest form of hope,” is a line first expressed by the German painter Gerhard Richter in 1982.

Difficult times come to us all at some point in our lives. Art helps us to overcome obstacles, offers us solace and can bring joy back into our lives. It can have a transformative effect on our mental health and well being. This show is about transcending the darkness and struggles we may be feeling and lightening our emotional burdens.

The Bush Barn Art Center & Annex
600 Mission St. SE, Salem, OR 97302

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Botanical Muses

5 Women Exhibition

Caplan Art Designs

1323 NW 16th Ave, Suite 1001

Portland, Oregon 97209

June 5 – July 31, 2025

From gallery director Amy Caplan:

“One concept in reference to Botanical Muses, is the Greek Muses as they relate to the natural world. A botanical muse could be seen as a Muse associated with the study of plants and botany.”

The artists are: April Coppini, Alexys Henry, Katherine Mead, Molly Mattson Stephan and Tamara English”

Gallery website: https://caplanartdesigns.com/artists/english/

Kaleidoscope

TRYST International Art Fair in cooperation with the Torrance Art Museum and the city of Torrance.

Location: Del Amo Crossing
21535 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503

July 11th to 13th, 2025

VIP Opening: Friday, July 11 – 4-6pm
Saturday, July 12 – 12-6pm
Sunday, July 13 -12-6pm

What is TRYST:

TRYST is an international art fair for artist-run-spaces and collectives as well as an international gathering to address the needs and future of global exchange for artist-run spaces, collectives and organizations, run through the Torrance Art Museum (TAM) and the City of Torrance. This will be the third edition of TRYST.

With the need for opportunities and artistic exchange worldwide between grass-roots artist organizations, this fair aims to facilitate the exposure of international artists to new Los Angeles audiences, and to network with each other, to engage and to provoke further international exchanges and interaction between participants.

My work will be exhibited through Women Painters West, an organization located in Southern California championing artists who are women.

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The Heart Is A Garden

Exhibition at the Clymer Museum in Ellensburg, Washington

April 4th – May 31st, 2025

Opening Reception: April 4th, 2025, 5 – 7:30 pm
Artist Talk: April 5th, 11 am

About the Exhibition:

My work explores themes of awakening to the presence of the divine and reenchantment in everyday life, and investigating the role of daily spiritual practice in well being. The oil paintings reveal inner worlds as verdant spaces in which the garden becomes a metaphor for a flourishing internal world, where one may discover the buoyancy and resilience that arises through connecting with what has sacred meaning. Themes found in the literary genre of Magic Realism also fuel my investigation in the studio. Magic Realism, which blends the magical with rational elements to create a broader understanding of reality and what’s possible beyond the physical world, serves as a vehicle to cultivate a sense of upliftment and hope in the midst of challenging times.

It has been well documented that we live in an era of an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages. Public health advisories have been issued regarding the current epidemic of the diseases of despair, such as addiction, depression, and suicide. My research on the topic of what supports mental and emotional health led me to the work of clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Miller, who has been investigating the role of spirituality in psychology through the lens of science for over thirty years. Using MRI scans in her recent studies, Miller discovered that individuals with consistent spiritual practices as part of their life have brains that are structurally more resilient to the development of depression. Being spiritually engaged, her studies have found, cultivates well being and thus protects one against the diseases of despair. My own experience with such practices has corroborated these findings.

Funded in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission

Location:

Clymer Museum
416 N. Pearl Street
Ellensburg, WA 98926
509-962-6416

Clymer Museum Hours:
Wednesday thru Friday 11:00 – 4:00
Saturday 12:00 – 2:00

clymermuseum.org

Nature Patterns

Two Person Exhibition Featuring the work of Tamara English and Kim Cridler

Location: Archer Gallery at Clark College in Vancouver, WA
January 6 – March 24, 2025

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025, 11am- 3pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 30th, 10-11am
Zoom link: https://clark-edu.zoom.us/j/89227798779
Closing Reception: Saturday, March 22nd, 12 – 2pm

About the Exhibition:
Archer Gallery is excited to present Nature Patterns, by Tamara English and Kim Cridler. The work in this exhibit highlights the symbolic, spiritual, and psychological power of nature. The forms used in these oil paintings and metal sculptures speak to, and are inspired by, nature’s awe-inspiring beauty. In a time when climate change is at the forefront of public and political discourse, this exhibit presents an alternative, parallel relationship with the Environment and how we navigate internally in the midst of challenging times. Cridler’s work highlights the importance of materials, and how the ideal of beauty in nature and craft are important. English’s oil paintings reveal inner worlds as verdant spaces in which the garden becomes a metaphor for a flourishing internal world, where one may discover the buoyancy and resilience that is cultivated when one is spiritually engaged. While Tamara English and Kim Cridler live hundreds of miles apart and each have unique art practices, both artists utilize the visual vocabulary of the natural world with reverence to point to the potential for change as a central part of the human experience.

Location:
Archer Gallery, Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
info@archergallery.space
(360) 992 2246

Archer Gallery Hours: Monday- Saturday 11am-5 pm

The gallery will be closed Jan 20th and Feb 17th.
For details and event info, please visit www.archergallery.space

Exhibition at Caplan Art Designs in Portland in June

Exhibition at Caplan Art Designs in Portland in June

June 6th – July 15, 2024

First Thursday Opening Reception: 6-8 pm, June 6th, 2024 – Caplan Art Designs, Portland, OR

My recent work explores awakening to the divine presence in life, the buoyancy and resilience that arises through connecting with what has sacred meaning, and the role of daily spiritual practice in mental and emotional well being. The oil paintings reveal inner worlds as vibrant landscapes, exploring how our inner realms are like gardens that can be rejuvenated and enriched when we are spiritually engaged. My recent paintings align with the literary genre of Magical Realism, blending the magical with rational elements to create an atmosphere that serves as a vehicle to cultivate a sense of wonder and upliftment.

Artists have long been considered to be chroniclers making work that reflects what is happening in our world, revealing the problems of our time. Yet these days, what many people are seeking is solace and hope in the midst of a litany of challenges. Each painting is like a portal inviting contemplation; a world to enter into to find support, to find connection with the numinous.

Location:
Caplan Art Designs
1323 NW 16th Avenue #1001
NOTE: ENTRANCE to the gallery is on NW Pettygrove between 16th & 17th Avenues

Spirit Embodied: Tamara English’s Verdancy Within

Essay by art critic Richard Speer

The imagery in Tamara English’s new series, Verdancy Within, is lushly botanical: blanketflower and ninebark, jasmine and mock orange, calla lily and sage twisting, branching, reaching, subtly stylized from northern Indian and Middle Eastern tiles and textiles or wholly abstracted from the artist’s fertile imagination. The soil from which the vegetation springs appears to be visible too, and beneath it, rendered in outline as though transparent, the vines and leaves soon to sprout; but appearances alone rarely tell the full story, and English sees far more than what the eye can physically apprehend. Beyond the literal, she sees the potential energy held in store by the vegetation in the paintings’ lower quadrant, which to her represents “the imaginal, idea, or intention, rooted in the Divine Mother, rising from the Ground of Being through the causal and subtle fields.” It is a vision of heightened awareness verging into magical realism, suggesting a wondrous presence in the process of unfolding.