Opening Reception: 08.03.2023 6:30-9:30 PM

Hours: Tues & Thurs 6-8 pm; Sat & Sun 12-4 pm

We are thrilled to announce the opening of "home as a hole" – an exhibition featuring collaborative artworks by two artists, Ash Stone and tom manzanarez. Through introspection of their upbringings, they revisit the personal challenges of growing up queer in working-class populations while reckoning with their racial identities. The exhibition explores themes such as outsiderness, assimilation, feeling inadequacies from being mixed race, and the complexities of navigating childhood with inequitable resources. These artists share the intersections of their identity and their stories as a way to celebrate and reflect on resilience, love, and self-discovery through decolonizing notions of sexuality, gender, and heritage.

Open Gallery Hours to be posted soon. Additional programming, including an artist talk, will be announced shortly.

Work by Ash Stone @yourfavoriteashole
and tom manzanarez @tommanzanarez

tom manzanarez (they/them) is a queer gender nonconforming artist focused on utilizing the body as a vessel for exploring eroticism, critique, and reflexivity. Their transdisciplinary work has been exhibited at after/time, Frontier Space, Archie Bray Foundation, and the LGBT Center Gallery of Missoula, MT, as well as being published in Numero Magazine. They received their MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, where they were the Community Fellow and the Digital Archivist Fellow, and their BFA from University of Montana. They currently work between Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA.

Ash Stone (she/they) is a queer mixed-latinx interdisciplinary artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her work–driven by activism, collaboration, humor, and accessibility–has been exhibited across Portland, OR, and Denton, TX. She received her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art where she received the Laura Russo Memorial Scholarship, and her BFA from University of North Texas. She is also a founding member of Take Care Collective, a Texas-based artist initiative focused on mental health awareness, promoting self care, and supporting fellow women artists.

(This exhibition was generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) and Prosper Portland.)