Already Been Chewed

When

Dec. 6–27, 2025

Days vary, Times vary

Free

Where

imperfecta gallery

117 6th St
Oregon City, OR 97045

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to present “Already Been Chewed,” a solo exhibition featuring Portland-based artist Wynter Jones. The show explores memory, identity, and the lingering effects of religious and patriarchal conditioning.

Drawing from her early experiences growing up within the Mormon faith, this body of work unearths embedded memories — some tender, others painful, many absurd — that continue to revisit her internal landscape 25 years later. Rather than presenting a linear narrative, this body of work wanders, stumbles, and circles back on itself, mimicking the nonlinear nature of memory and the way it persists or dissipates. Through drawing and painting, she attempts to shape the intangible and blurred impressions that persist long after the doctrine has been rejected and abandoned. What emerges is more than a denunciation of patriarchy, but a complex act of witnessing. Already Been Chewed sits with the discomfort, the absurdity, and the ambiguity of what remains. It asks: What stays with you, even when you think you’ve moved on? What narratives and past beliefs are internalized, and how do they continue to echo in the body?

This exhibition honors the residue of lived experience — the traces of a culture that shaped, constrained, and ultimately failed to define her. In holding these fragments to the light, she invites viewers to reflect on their own histories, asking how memory, shame, tenderness, and resilience coexist within everyone.

Opening Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. December 6

More details at: https://www.imperfecta.xyz/already-been-chewed