Credit: Christian Abusaid Flower, 2025 textile pigment on raw linen edition 2/2 27 ½” x 27 ½” (28 ½” x 28 ½” framed)

Christian Abusaid | Art for a new consciousness

Northwest

When

June 19–28, 2025

Days vary, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Free

Where

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART

1881 NW Vaughn St
Portland, OR 97209

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is excited to present Christian Abusaid’s first solo exhibition in the United States: Art for a new consciousness.

A Colombian artist based in Bogotá, Christian Abusaid creates tactile, geometric works with textile pigments, layering them into thick, geological surfaces on raw linen. The works in Art for a new consciousness come from the belief that everything is interwoven into a universal tapestry—a “pattern in the heavens”—that unites all existence, and to live harmoniously, we must align ourselves with sacred proportions, the universal blueprint of beauty and balance. When we as humans live through sacred geometry, we connect in the language of love and light.

Featured in the exhibition is a body of work inspired by the sacred mountain of Chiribiquete which is nestled deep in the heart of the Colombian Amazon. Here, amid the lush greenery and unique species of multiple ecosystems, reside more than 70,000 rock paintings from ancient cultures. Painted on the vertical rock faces are enormous murals of the region’s people, flora, and fauna—providing a vivid pictorial history of culture and ancestral experiences. Abusaid pulls repeating patterns and motifs from these pictographs to make his compositions, transforming these important cultural symbols into contemporary textile works.

Featured Christian Abusaid’s exhibition is a body of work inspired by the sacred mountain of Chiribiquete which is nestled deep in the heart of the Colombian Amazon. Here, amid the lush greenery and unique species of multiple ecosystems, reside more than 70,000 rock paintings from ancient cultures. Painted on the vertical rock faces are enormous murals of the region’s people, flora, and fauna—providing a vivid pictorial history of culture and ancestral experiences. Abusaid pulls repeating patterns and motifs from these pictographs to make his compositions, transforming these important cultural symbols into contemporary textile works.