*Held at the NEW Nucleus House Gallery Location:
1137 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
Deth Sun
California
I'm an artist currently living in a small seaside town in Northern California. Originally I'm from down south in San Diego, but I moved up to Bay Area where I studied for two years at San Francisco State University, and then transferred to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where I received my BFA in 2002 in Painting and Drawing.
I'm also a zine maker. My first one was when I was 17, and I've tried to make one each year since. Most of them are collections of my drawings for each year, but I also venture in documenting and history zines. These days I plan my vacations around possible zine fairs to table at.
My work is informed by my interest in nature, exploring, and wordless storytelling. If there was a way of describing my work it'd be a suggestive narrative with romantic/depressive images.
Shintaro Kago
Japan
Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist that has been working in the field since 1988. He describes himself as kisou mangaka (“bizarre manga artist”), and his work usually features strong satirical overtones as well as themes of grotesque, experimental, and the bizarre. He has published numerous comics and stories in his career, notable among them Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis published in the magazine Weekly Young Jump. In 2014 he also designed the cover for Flying Lotus's album You're Dead!, as well as producing illustrations for each of the songs.
*Held at Nucleus House Gallery Location:
1137 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
Artists:
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Lihao Lu
Australia
Lihao is a Chinese Australian artist based in Sydney. His work is inspired by Chinese culture, human emotion, music and nature. Ink is his choice of medium, subtle colour on the smooth paper surface compliments his idea of balance.
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Kevin Sabo
Virginia
Kevin Sabo is a painter (b. 1992) in Virginia Beach, VA (USA) and currently based in Richmond, VA (USA). He trained and studied art throughout his youth and graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University in 2015. His paintings are typically multi-media - acrylic, ink, spray, collage work that is largely based around the figure, often playing with character and fashion. Themes of queer identity, satire, existential revelations can be spotted throughout his expressive work. Sabo describes his paintings as large sketches, as they are never pre-determined ahead of the end result.
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Betty Jiang
California
Betty works full-time in both the animation and video game industry. On her down time, you can find her chilling with her bunnies and drinking matcha smoothies.
Cat Rabbit is a textile artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Using felt, recycled and vintage fabrics, Cat hand stitches plush sculptural works of her imagined characters and the worlds they might live in. Her work translates to many formats — from children’s books to large scale felt installations to magazine editorials — always with the aim of bringing softness and warmth to the viewer.
Kira Imai is an illustrator residing in Tokyo.
Imai is known for her collection of works: "Himeki Hime", "Moon Girl", "Girl's Country" from Studio Parabolica, and a maiden bookshelf series "Schoolgirl" from Ritsutosha. Kira also works with textiles such as Lolita fashion brands and miscellaneous goods.
Nucleus will have exclusive limited edition prints on display and for sale at the gallery and at nucleusportland.com
Adrian Contreras
California
*Held at the NEW Nucleus House Gallery Location:
1137 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
Sasaku Kusuriyubi
Japan
Sasaku Kusuriyubi is a painter living in Japan. They draw landscapes of the heart and animism as motifs.
Felicia Chiao
California
Felicia Chiao is a San Francisco based industrial designer and illustrator who enjoys making work traditionally on brown toned paper with a mix of markers and other mediums. She enjoys finding details and delight in the mundane as well as conveying the subtler emotions in life that sometimes don't have words.
Kristin Kwan
Nebraska
Kristin Kwan is an artist who makes illustrative paintings and drawings. She uses elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of life, death, and rebirth.
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