Alone and Counting — Art Installation

Northwest

When

Feb. 5–28, 2026

Days vary, Times vary

Free

Where

imperfecta gallery

809 NW Flanders St
Portland, OR 97209

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to present Alone and Counting, featuring Portland-based artist Jennifer Gillia Cutshall. On view February 5-28, 2026, this art installation critically explores the rapid degradation of personal, social and natural ecosystems in the name of convenience, and the turmoil that such a degradation generates. The show debuts on February 5, with an Opening Reception from 5 to 8 p.m., during which there will also be a celebration of Imperfecta’s new location in the Pearl District. Opening Reception Feb. 5, 5-8 p.m., and the artist will also give a talk on February 14 at 11.30 a.m.

With Alone and Counting, Cutshall asks us to consider not only the increased control that technologies exert on the collective and individual psyche, but also the precarious dependence people have become. Ironically, the same technology designed to connect is the one that divides, degrading human connection and entire ecosystems.

In Alone and Counting, Cutshall’s sculptural builds are vignettes narrating this perilous story through gathered and gleaned objects and materials she alters with open flames, thereby describing bleak, increasingly burnt realities. In such settings, a lone bride stands among a cemetery of stumps (ghosts of the flame–tree skeletons) that hang in the balance.

Alone and Counting offers a unique and wondrous opportunity to not only glean Cutshall’s process but also to be touched by her longing for new realities, where social and natural ecosystems are rediscovered and re-embraced.

About Jennifer Gillia Cutshall

Jennifer Gillia Cutshall is an artist and curator in Portland, Oregon. Her work is collected worldwide, and she has designed and painted over 200 murals and public art projects. She has also curated 153 international exhibitions to date.

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