FILE NOT FOUND: New work by Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani

North Portland

When

Mar. 1–30, 2025

Saturday and Sunday, Times vary

Free

Where

Carnation Contemporary

8371 N Interstate Ave #3
Portland, OR 97217

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Carnation Contemporary presents new paintings, print media and sculptures by Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani. Their collaborative exhibit, File Not Found, delves into themes of absence, missing links, deleted files, and offline presence. Drawing inspiration from the language and infrastructure of technology, Faria and Arzani explore what happens when connections are interrupted or lost. Their work proposes a new lexicon for relationships, memory, and networks of care, where gaps in information hold space for transformation and new ways of relating.

Quinha Faria (b. 1988, Campinas, Brazil) is an artist whose practice examines systems of support and the perceptions of care work. Informed by over a decade of experience as a Registered Nurse, Faria works across painting, sculpture, and textile installation to explore the tension between repair and alteration. During her off hours as an ER nurse, she apprenticed with a master tailor to learn pattern-making at Baldwin’s, a beloved shop on Philadelphia's Fabric Row. Faria uses found material, twine, and wool to examine how value is constructed and reassigned when the often-overlooked structures of support are revealed as integral to the image or object. Faria is in her last year at Bard MFA. 

Elizabeth Arzani : (b. 1988, Charlotte, NC) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Portland, Oregon. Her work as a collector of sorts assembles printmaking and ceramics with language and collected ephemera. Guided by paradoxes and the homonyms whole and hole, fragments emphasize absence as presence, locating the unknown with site specificity. Arzani has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has been granted residencies at Kulturschapp; Walferdange, Luxembourg and New Harmony Clay Project; New Harmony, IN. Arzani holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA in Painting and Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.