Curator

Ryan Bubnis is a painter, illustrator, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. His work is inspired by DIY culture, art history, and folk traditions. Known for his vibrant colors, shapes, textures, and cartoon-like imagery, Bubnis' paintings emphasize the importance of slow observation. Through whimsical celebrations of the mundane, he reveals deeper connections to presence, vulnerability, and the shared human experience.

As an illustrator, Bubnis has collaborated with a wide range of clients, brands, and agencies both large and small. Some of his notable clients include adidas, Disney/Pixar, Foundation Skateboards, Stance Socks, Starbucks, Warby Parker, and Yahoo.

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a long-time faculty member in the illustration department.

Nia Musiba (the most popular “girl” in Portland) is a deeply thoughtful d-list celebrity, artist, and best friend. Her work is about hands and feet and love and flowers and sunshine and joy and the things that make us feel human. nia views her practice as a way to challenge the historically flattened, hyper-sexualized, and/or brutalized depictions of Black bodies within art and media.

Emily Wise (born 1988, Baltimore, MD) received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, where she currently lives and works. Exploring themes related to femininity, intimacy, and the mysteries of the natural world, her paintings have been featured in national publications such as Juxtapoz and Artsy. She has exhibited across Portland, LA and NYC with Chefas Projects and DTLA based gallery Simard Bilodeau Contemporary.

Represented by Russo Lee Gallery

Dan Gluibizzi lives and works in Portland. After many years in New York City and Los Angeles, he and his family moved to Portland fifteen years ago. 

Raised in Pennsylvania, Dan grew up surrounded by art and music before earning his BFA and MFA. Along the way, he has worked in museums and galleries while steadily exhibiting his own work. His paintings and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, and Juxtapoz. Recent exhibitions have taken place in LA, NYC, Seattle, Portland and Tokyo. Dan is a 2025 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

Emily Kepulis is a mixed media visual artist and muralist living in Portland, OR.
Her paintings explore themes like home and selfhood, specifically how they are shaped by memory and experiences, always malleable, nonlinear, and ultimately based on perspective. She acknowledges home as a physical place as well as a place within the body and a locus of perception while referencing family photos, artwork from her lineage, her own past paintings, and anonymous found photos. With no painting being fully planned out, trust and transformation are important parts of the process and the final images. She is interested in how we are shaped by that which surrounds us, our perceptions of ourselves, and our attachment to the self in relation to the whole: what humanness means personally, socially, ancestrally, and spiritually.

Dylan Mead is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and designer. Their work explores existential feelings of worth and place through bold and colorful self portraits and expressive landscapes, bending reality in shape and form. Working across mediums, from paper to wood sculpture, canvas, pastel, acrylics, aerosol or airbrush, even in designed fliers or websites, anything to extend a work beyond its confines. Currently based in Portland, Or.

Represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Jeremy Okai Davis (b. Charlotte, NC) received a BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, NC. Davis relocated to Portland, OR in 2007 where he has continued his studio practice in addition to working as a graphic designer and illustrator. His work has been shown nationally at the Studio Museum of Harlem (New York, NY), THIS Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Wa Na Wari (Seattle, WA) and The Rotating Art Program at Portland International Airport (Portland, OR). Davis's work resides in the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon's permanent collection. Elizabeth Leach Gallery began representing Jeremy Okai Davis in 2019. 

Molly Mendoza is an award winning artist living in Portland, Oregon. Through their work they explore the complex emotions of interpersonal relationships and self-love with a focus on layered visual storytelling, mark-making, and color. Molly is known for their work in both comics and picture books having worked on publications such as Skip, Jovita Wore Pants, Life is Beautiful, Stray, and more. They write stories, they paint murals, they teach students, and they draw.