Feast your eyes on our new series of studio visits with Oregon artists.

Brought to you with generous funding from PICA and Ford Family Foundation.

Epiphany Couch (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work explores generational knowledge, storytelling, and our relationships with the natural and spiritual worlds. Working across photography, beadwork, weaving, and collage, she reinterprets traditional forms to create images, installations, and sculptural works that engage ancestral knowledge and invite new ways of understanding. Her practice is rooted in unconventional collaboration—across time, between generations, and with the natural world—recognizing these relationships as vital to sustaining memory, culture, and identity.

Couch’s work transforms personal and collective histories into heirloom-like objects that hold space for reflection, care, and healing. Drawing from family stories, archival research, her own dreams, and her childhood in caləłali (Tacoma, Washington), she creates work that is both intimate and expansive, blurring the line between artifact and art.

As a spuyaləpabš (Puyallup), Yakama, and Scandinavian/mixed European artist, Couch centers cultural knowledge and community connection in both her process and presentation.

Vo Vo (they/them) explores support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and disabled communities. They are the editor of an internationally renowned publication, a speaker, educator, a curator, an artist, and a musician who has exhibited and toured in Australia, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Croatia, Mexico, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Vietnam, Sweden, Malaysia, and the United States. In their transdisciplinary art, they work in textiles, embroidery, audio, video, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, challenge histories and realities of imperialism, white supremacy, and colonization.

Yuyang Zhang (b. 1993, China, he/him) is a Wuhan-born, Portland-based artist whose studio practice reflects lived queer diasporic experience through the lens of ridiculous pop culture ephemera in the style of campy melodrama.

Stay tuned for more!

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