Tropical Contemporary

Tyrras Warren, June 2020
www.tyrras.com

Tyrras Warren received formal training in drawing and printmaking before exploring an expanding repertoire of media, and currently works with still and time-based/durational pieces.

Ty holds an MFA in Digital Arts and is a Senior Instructor of Art & Technology at the University of Oregon.  Ty's studio is frequently visited by several chickens, 2 cats, 2 goats, 1 large dog, and a multitude of artistic demons. Ty's work is utterly insignificant.

Princess Bouton, July 2020
https://www.princessbouton.biz

Princess Bouton is a Black Transfeminine filmmaker and performance artist based in Portland, Oregon. She’s a Portland State University film graduate, class of 2020. She has a dance background that includes modern dance, ballet, and vogue and she often incorporates movement art in her films. Her work explores topics of intersectionality, self love, and body positivity.

She extends an invitation for viewers to realize social change and black trans liberation and she unapologetically demonstrates what that freedom could look like. Princess Bouton is also a trained facilitator and activist in the Portland Kiki ballroom scene and is the princess of the kiki House Of Flora.

Irene June, September 2020

Irene June currently works out of Portland, Oregon. They received their BFA at the University of Oregon, graduating with Latin Honors Magna Cum Laude in Sculpture with a minor in Food Studies. Their work has been exhibited at the Washburn Gallery and the Laverne Krause Gallery at the University of Oregon, and the Adell McMillian Gallery at the UO’s Erb Memorial Union. They have received the Jan Zach Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture and the Carol and Terry Reinholds award for Fibers in Florence. In 2018, they were awarded the Dean’s Award for excellence in undergraduate work at the UO Spring Storm.

Eel Probably, April 2021

Eel Probably is a settler living in the colony of Portland, OR. Their recent practice has been concerned with healing creatively after going through the art school industrial complex and reimagining what it means to be creating in a society that demands productivity and profitability from any action. Eel develops work derived from a set of personal symbols (including but not limited to apples and flowers) to investigate the process of how the cultivation of meaning is both arbitrary and intentional, as well as to discover how the symbols function to give form to the space between imagination and reality.

Carina Borealis, May 2021
http://carinaborealis.com

Carina is a Portland based intergalactic-post-butoh-drag-qween-fitness-instructor. Highly conceptual, often irreverent, and always vulnerable, Carina takes audiences on journeys that question the 'whats' and 'whys' of being in a human body through narrative acts that incorporate butoh movement, body stapling, and killer lip syncs.

Alongside the Eugene based performance collective the Farce Family, they educate through production of shows pulling apart the threads of patriarchy and revealing the ooey-gooey realities of living within the gender spectrum.  For the more family friendly audiences, Carina began Portland’s premiere Drag Story Time, inspiring youth and their parental counterparts to remain true to who they are through the sharing of LGBTQIA+ picture books.

When not appearing as an intergalactic creature, Carina is Portland’s leading genderqueer fitness instructor. Learning to trust their own body through dedicated  movement practice led them to pursue their NASM Personal Training Certification, which was the gateway to later training and instruction in spin, rowing, circuit, and yoga sculpt.  Carina is a kindness enthusiast with a penchant for sass and bringing on the sweat. They strive to cultivate fitness spaces inclusive of every BODY no matter their gender identity, sexuality, color, or size.

Julia O., June 2021
https://stonedjulia.itch.io
https://coachwaters.bandcamp.com

Julia O. (AKA Coach Waters, Juno) is a communist non-binary trans woman multimedia artist that uses she/they pronouns. They’ve been drawing, painting, and 3d modeling since high school. She has been performing live noise shows since age 21 as Coach Waters, and has fronted a hardcore screamo band called Hyperreality. She explores themes of self-destruction, dysphoria, suicide ideation, addiction, and hopefulness despite it all in her art. They have always dreamed of being an inspiration to other mixed race trans/gay people from small towns.

As a part of her residency, she designed the online interactive exhibition MIND HELLSCAPE VISUALIZATION.

Oliver Myhre, August 2021

Oliver Myhre (he/they) is a queer, trans-masc, non-binary sculpture and installation artist who lives and works out of Portland, Oregon. He has recently relocated from his home state of Wisconsin to pursue an MFA in Visual Studies at PNCA. Through the experimental use of reminiscent and charged material, he grapples with themes of trans selfhood, memory, the body, and queer coding in western society. 

Pace Taylor, September 2021
www.pacetaylor.com

Pace Taylor is an artist emotionally preoccupied with Intimacy, and who we choose to share it with. Their work with soft pastel and pencil is often quiet, very queer, and externally vulnerable. Pace is based in Portland, OR. They received their BFA in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon (2015), and has shown their work at Portland galleries including at Disjecta, Wieden + Kennedy, Nationale, and Third Room Gallery.

Pace is represented by Nationale.

Remy Malik, October 2021
https://soundcloud.com/onlineyummy/
https://www.youtube.com/user/RemsteeZ

Remy Malik is a black nb mystic poet, musician, and performer from St. Louis. Their work centers around blackness, as void and culture, architecture, and liberation. They record music under the name, Yummy Online, having recently finished up their first tour. They're constantly evolving and becoming greatness. 

Francis Dot, November 2021
www.francisdot.com

Francis Dot (they/them, he/him) was born during a snowstorm in upstate New York in December of 1985. They are a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Portland, Oregon, and earned their BFA with a concentration in ceramics from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2010. Their progression as an artist has not been linear; they stopped making work entirely for many years, before restarting their studio practice in early 2019. Through a combination of assemblage sculpture, collage, drawing, and installation, Francis examines our relationships to powerful institutions and cultural hierarchies, and investigates how these relationships shape the development of our individual identities.