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This June, Blackfish Gallery is pleased to present the collaborative two-person exhibition I Am, by artists Eddie Reed a...
06/17/2026

This June, Blackfish Gallery is pleased to present the collaborative two-person exhibition I Am, by artists Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori.

For this exhibition Mae Al-Jiboori writes:

… drawn to the human condition and thought-provoking art that forces its viewer to feel a sense of vulnerability. My work explores how closeness can both ground and unravel us — revealing the state of constant negotiation between connection and loss. It is less about depicting figures and more about revealing the inner pulse of being — the sensation of living within conflict, desire, and the endless attempt to reach toward another.

Two halves touching
Acrylic, oil pastel on wood
24”x24”
2026
maurice.aljiboori



Eddie Reed’s work moves through the tension of what it means to exist within, and question, American identity. Through c...
06/16/2026

Eddie Reed’s work moves through the tension of what it means to exist within, and question, American identity. Through color-saturated painting, social realist narrative, and sacred symbolism, these pieces open space to reflect on how beauty, race, power, and perception are constructed and contested.

“Piece of A Man” and “Ode to the 6888” hold collective histories, asking what is remembered, what is fragmented, and what is reclaimed. They don’t offer easy answers, they ask you to stay with the questions.

On view now at Blackfish Gallery as part of BLACK MATTER.

Images:
Piece of A Man
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board
30 x 24in

Ode to the 6888
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board
30x24in

Coming Friday June 19th at Blackfish join us for a Juneteenth Salon Discussion, 5pm.Celebrating and engaging with the ar...
06/15/2026

Coming Friday June 19th at Blackfish join us for a Juneteenth Salon Discussion, 5pm.
Celebrating and engaging with the artists participating in the 8th reiteration of BLACK MATTER curated by Tammy Jo Wilson.

And stay tuned for the Juneteenth Post-Panel Party 5 - 9 pm Studio 516 (516 NW 14th Ave., Portland, OR) live music by Machado and catering. Come see works from 26 black artists in the BLACK MATTER Salon Exhibition!


Blackfish Gallery is honored to present BLACK MATTER, now in its eighth iteration, which has growninto more than an exhi...
06/12/2026

Blackfish Gallery is honored to present BLACK MATTER, now in its eighth iteration, which has grown
into more than an exhibition; it’s a sustained act of community-building among Black artists in Oregon. Showing now through the end of June at Blackfish Gallery, 938 NW Everett Street, Portland OR 97209. Gallery hours Weds. - Sun. 11 -5.

Pictured is work by artist Nia Musiba
Mumbeza
14.8 x 11.7 inches (framed)
2026
Acrylic gouache on paper

Blackfish Gallery is pleased to present new work by Mae Al-Jiboori in a collaborative two-person exhibition with Eddie R...
06/11/2026

Blackfish Gallery is pleased to present new work by Mae Al-Jiboori in a collaborative two-person exhibition with Eddie Reed titled I Am.

Al-Jiboori’s new figurative paintings explore how closeness can both ground and unravel simultaneously to reveal a state of constant negotiation between connection and loss. The viewer experiences the evidence of this negotiation, of this flux through Al-Jiboori’s continuous painterly seeking; his working and reworking of his imagery until reaching an unsettled state of possible acceptance and connection.

Soft Collisions
Acrylic on wood panel
39”x28”
2026
maurice.aljiboori



Blackfish Gallery artist Eddie Reed is featured in BLACK MATTER now on view. This exhibition centers Black artists acros...
06/10/2026

Blackfish Gallery artist Eddie Reed is featured in BLACK MATTER now on view. This exhibition centers Black artists across Oregon, creating a space for work that resists expectation and insists on self-definition.

Through color, layering, and charged abstraction, Eddie’s paintings move through the contradictions of American life, where beauty, race, power, and perception continuously overlap and unravel. Drawing from social realist storytelling and symbolic language, the work invites viewers into a deeper kind of engagement: one grounded in attention, reflection, and a willingness to sit with complexity.

Come see these works in person!

Images:
Eddie Reed
Gang Violence
30x24in
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board

Eddie Reed
Hello Stranger
40x36x2in
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board

BLACK MATTER affirms the idea that Black artists contain multitudes. Here, the work is allowed to breathe freely.Works o...
06/07/2026

BLACK MATTER affirms the idea that Black artists contain multitudes. Here, the work is allowed to breathe freely.

Works on paper by artist, Nia Musiba.

BLACK MATTER, invitational group show, runs through June 2026 at Blackfish Gallery, 938 NW Everett Street
Portland OR 97209, Weds.- Sun. 11 -5PM.

Blackfish Gallery is honored to present BLACK MATTER, now in its eighth iteration, which has grown into more than an exh...
06/05/2026

Blackfish Gallery is honored to present BLACK MATTER, now in its eighth iteration, which has grown into more than an exhibition; it’s a sustained act of community-building among Black artists in Oregon. Included in this exhibition is artist Philip A. Robinson Jr.

Robinson's practice examines structure as a living system — how materials carry memory, how patterns encode history, and how built environments shape identity. Working across wood and steel, Robinson constructs layered compositions that move between natural growth and industrial fabrication.

Image #1 Title: Respiration
Image #2 Title: Phenomenal



Black Matter Exhibition at Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the creator of the graphic nov...
06/05/2026

Black Matter Exhibition at
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the creator of the graphic novel series, WaterShed, and the founder and director of black whole Press, a printmaking studio that hosts free workshops and provides resources, funding and residency programming for artists from marginalized communities.
Stevens investigates narrative as a site of reflection or reinforcement of societal power structures and over-determined norms, specifically the manner in which stories (both real and fictional) supposedly centering people of the African diaspora have a long history of appropriation and erasure.
Image:
Charlotte Rising
Linocut print 30 x 23 inches framed


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