About this Event
The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to present Alone and Counting, featuring Portland-based artist Jennifer Gillia Cutshall. On view February 5-28 2026, this art installation critically explores the rapid degradation of personal, social and natural ecosystems in the name of convenience – and the turmoil that such a degradation generates. The show debuts on February 5, with an Opening Reception from 5 to 8pm -- during which we will also celebrate Imperfecta's new location in the Pearl District. The artist will also give an talk on February 14 at 11.30am.
With Alone and Counting, Cutshall asks us to consider not only the increased control that technologies exert onto our collective and individual psyche, but also how precariously dependent we all have become. Ironically, the same technology that was designed to connect us is the same that is dividing us – degrading human connection and entire ecosystems.
In Alone and Counting, Cutshall’s sculptural-builds are vignettes narrating this perilous story through gathered and gleaned objects as well as materials that she alters using open flames, hence describing our bleak and increasingly burnt realities. In such settings, a lone bride stands among a cemetery of stumps (ghosts of the flame – tree skeletons) that hang in the balance.
Alone and Counting offers a unique and wondrous opportunity to not only glean Cutshall’s process but also to be touched by her longing for new realities, where social and natural ecosystems are rediscovered and re-embraced.
About Jennifer Gillia Cutshall
Jennifer Gillia Cutshall is an artist and curator in Portland, Oregon. Her work is collected worldwide and she has designed and painted over 200 murals and public art projects. She also has curated 153 international exhibitions to date.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
imperfecta gallery, 809 Northwest Flanders Street, Portland, United States
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