Epiphany Couch at the Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial

we’ve been so impressed with what our midwest nice artists have been up to this year! we’re sharing the amazing accomplishments within our community.

We’re excited to share work by Epiphany Couch @epiphany_couch_art ✨ Epiphany’s work is featured in the 2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial. Epiphany’s work was exhibited in our no place like home and midwest salon exhibitions.

“The Artists’ Biennial is a survey of works by visual and performing artists who are defining and advancing Oregon’s contemporary art landscape. Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram are the curators of the 2024 Biennial, which is focused on themes of networks, community, care, and support. Rather than a hierarchical approach to artists’ works, the curators’ goal is to present work that is timely and relevant to the communities of Oregon.” — @oregoncontemporary

“Burdened With More Beautiful Things is an installation that explores how ideas of home, survival, and exclusion are interconnected and how these themes can alter and affect our acceptance and participation in community. Through the use of archival photographs, beadwork, and text borrowed from Ponca poet Cliff Taylor, the work encourages us to uncover how the reverberating repercussions of familial secrecy and cultural disconnection can slowly be dismantled to reveal care, compassion, and community beneath.” — Epiphany Couch

Burdened With More Beautiful Things, 2024
Photoprint, glass beads, beading felt, oak gall ink, and archival pigment print on birch panel

photo credit @mariogalluccistudio (courtesy of Oregon Contemporary)