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White and pastel flowers with grand, droopy leaves sit in a vase before two framed photographs, the faces of whose are covered.

Birthe Piontek: Abendlied

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

he result captures the last years of her parents in their house —her childhood home– where they had lived for almost 40 years before having to move due to her mother’s battle with dementia.

In a black and white photo, one individual sits on a bench and holds another while they lean into their lap, reading a book.

Ward Shortridge: Beauty That Thrives Under the Ravages of Time

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

This retrospective exhibition, Beauty That Thrives Under the Ravages of Time, comprises work spanning a 20-year period, including the series Washington D.C. Portraits (1999-2004), Portland Portraits (2009-2014) and Portland Houses (2018-2019).

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A tent of packing boxes sits inside a brightly-lit room, a cat sitting beside it.

Living Room: San Francisco & Berlin

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Nolle works with people living on the streets to understand how their improvised dwellings are constructed.

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In the bed of a large truck, otherwise full of bananas, X-ray imaging technology reveals multiple hidden, cramped bodies stuffed beneath the other cargo, awash in the digital haze of blue.

Noelle Mason: X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

The images used in this series were collected from the Border Patrol and border-watching vigilante websites.

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On a sidewalk, before an ad in which a tuxedoed man leans on a cushion, a woman waits, holding a bouquet of flowers. Nearby, a boy leans on a pole, holding a box.

Manal Abu-Shaheen: Mapping Utopia

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Shot on location, this series began with exploring advertising and urban construction, two of the driving forces of Beirut’s economy.

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A photo collage, wherein the painted eyes and forehead of an individual are superimposed over a dated photograph of a boy wearing a collared shirt and tie, against a dreamy landscape background.

Gary Burnley: The Known World

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Burnley constructs images that layer our memory with revered representations of beauty, power, influence, identity and social status into unlikely, chance encounters with other images.

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Black-and-white photograph of individual wearing hoop earrings and a hoodie, with smoke pluming from their mouth and in front of their face.

Al J Thompson: Remnants of an Exodus

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

In turn, he finds Spring Valley fraught with insecurity and uncertainty but bound by love.

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Photograph of an old white theatre before brown green desert hills, the name neon "GEM" blank white in the daylight and "STAR WARS" fixed on the marquee.

Ingeborg Gerdes: Out West

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Her fascination with the American West began with a road trip to Nevada in 1982 and became a decade-long project, and her German upbringing allowed for a curious yet critical outsider’s outlook of America.

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Individual wearing black pants, sneakers and a jean jacket stands before three art pieces, all hung on a white wall and illuminated by lights on the ceiling. The far right piece features two bald, naked figures — one painted white, the other black — standing beside each other in tall grasses. The middle piece, a figure in all black, mid stride, is walking down a sidewalk in a neighborhood. The piece on the far left, partly cut off, a figure wearing black pants and a white shirt seems to be floating in water, alongside other objects.

Troy Mathews: Minor | Major | Sus: Feelings

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Our past, our present, and the future.

Imagining otherwise:

What would a more equitable society look like?

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Film photograph of a woman wearing a necklace and a colorful dress, sitting at a dinner table before an empty plate, with a vacant place set beside her. A warm yellow light hangs above her head. Except for display shelves, upon which sit a television, a candle, two radios and a few stacked containers, the background of the photo is mostly shadowed.

Jon Henry: Stranger Fruit

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

Stranger Fruit was created in response to the senseless murders of black men across the nation by police violence.

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Photograph of a skull, profile, with jutting teeth, against a black background. The rear portion of the skull, visibly centuries old, is in focus and reads "Negro."

Wendel White: Manifest

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

The Manifest portfolio consists of photographic representations of objects, documents, photographs, and books held in various public collections throughout the U.S.

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A boy walks up a dirt path between two buildings. He's wearing grey sweatpants and no shirt, his left arm is reaching behind his back to touch his right shoulder blade. To the boy's left, a large piece of ruched red fabric hangs off a long wooden stick and wire. The sky is blue with white clouds. The building on the left is painted yellow with a green door and shutters.

Geralyn Shukwit: O Tempo Não Para

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

For the past nine years, Brooklyn-based photographer Geralyn Shukwit has traveled the backroads of Bahia, Brazil, returning to communities year after year forming relationships with the families who reside there. O Tempo Não Para, Portuguese for “time does not stop,” is a personal documentation of those interactions and observations of Bahian life.

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A grey, hazy sky looms over a silvery ocean. In the foreground, large chunks of ice are surrounded by waters stained red with blood.

Kiliii Yuyan: Rumors of Arctic Belonging

Blue Sky 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR

"A future North awaits—not cold and unchanging, but living, dying and being reborn. Everyday memories of the Arctic will pass forward as they always have, kept by its Indigenous peoples and hidden in plain sight." —Kiliii Yuyan

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