Well Well

Now’s your chance to see 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙢 by Kelda Van Patten

It’s the last weekend to take in all the curious moments of this exhibition. Equal parts material exploration and glamorous critique, spend time with the details 12-5PM Saturday and Sunday.

This exhibition was funded in part by

𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙢
Kelda Van Patten
May 2-31

Join us for the Opening Reception on May 2 from 5-8PM! This month features new work by Kelda Van Patten - pop by on Saturdays or Sundays from 12-5PM.

𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙢:
Biomorphic watercolor shapes restlessly loop and collapse across sheets of roughly cut paper, while gestural black lines race through, suggesting mouths, limbs, and faces without ever settling into them. Fragments of identity surface, provoke, and dissolve. Outdated magazine pages are cut, torn, and reassembled. Irreverent still lifes and performative self-portraits punctuate the exhibition: an obscured face dissolving into purple light, a worn tube of concealer, an estrogen patch, a gold heart necklace, a duct tape figure with unblinking googly eyes, and the gaze multiplied and made absurd. Kelda Van Patten finds strength in the precarious and imperfect: tape seams catch the light, folds of soft pink fabric conceal and expose, and a red pipe cleaner quietly resists a smile.

Kelda Van Patten is a Portland, Oregon–based artist who creates disorienting pictorial spaces through still life, collage, drawing, animation, and photography, blurring reality and artifice. She holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and an MAT from Lewis & Clark College. She has received grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and completed residencies at Kala Institute, Jentel, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology; her work is held in the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation and in multiple private collections.

Most Nearly Perfect Ham is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Don’t miss the last three days of 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂
✨Open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 12-5PM
✨Gallery Talk: Sunday 3-4PM

𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂
Garth Amundson
Pierre Gour


Working independently and together for over four decades, Amundson and Gour merge distinct studio practices into a shared interdisciplinary language. Gour’s research in painting and drawing and Amundson’s focus on photography converge through physical and digital manipulation, producing works that question how memory is recorded and how identities are made visible or erased. Their collaborative project included in the exhibition draws from nearly forty years of vernacular photography, snapshots of everyday life that both conceal and reveal complex personal and cultural histories. These images are bound into cyclical forms that function as calendars, memorials, and devotional objects, referencing Victorian collage and early photographic traditions while emphasizing self as subject.

At a moment when human rights and visibility are increasingly challenged on a global scale, Born Remembering insists on the urgency of making the invisible visible. The exhibition positions memory not as a static archive, but as an active, resistant process, one that continually reshapes how lives are seen, remembered, and understood.

✨OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS✨

Well Well is currently accepting applications for 3 new members.

Priority will be given to applicants who are ready to have a solo show, group show, or curate an exhibition in our gallery during Fall 2026.

DEADLINE: April 26

We are excited to invite applications for new members to join Well Well Projects, an artist-member collective gallery located in Portland, Oregon.

We review applications on a rolling basis and are always on the lookout for artists who bring fresh perspectives, positive energy, and a collaborative spirit.

Our upcoming exhibition cycle renews in July 2026 and runs through December 2027.

We are seeking artists who are:
- Enthusiastic about being part of a collective and contributing to a vibrant artistic community.

- Able to share their skills and collaborate with other artists, offering good energy and a helping hand.

- Unique in their creative approach, as we strive to avoid overlapping aesthetics within our membership.

- Ideally located in or around Portland, but we are open to other areas if the fit is right.

We accept artists working in all mediums and genres. Collaborative artist groups are encouraged to apply and may split a membership.

Interested in learning more? Check out the link in our profile! You can also learn more about current members and benefits on our website 💫

What could be better having an extra day to pop into Well Well? For all of April, our gallery will be open on Fridays from 12-5!

On view now is 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂 - a collaborative exhibition showcasing work by Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour.

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂 examines memory as an embodied and cumulative force, one that shapes identity, place, and visibility across time. Bringing together collaborative and individual works by Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour, the exhibition explores how personal and collective histories are constructed, preserved, and contested. Addressing themes of loss, q***r identity, and social memory, the artist’s work with found, archival, and personal imagery, employing collage, photo-scanning, and installation to sort, sew, and suture fragments of lived experience into new visual narratives.

Working independently and together for over four decades, Amundson and Gour merge distinct studio practices into a shared interdisciplinary language. Gour’s research in painting and drawing and Amundson’s focus on photography converge through physical and digital manipulation, producing works that question how memory is recorded and how identities are made visible or erased. Their collaborative project included in the exhibition draws from nearly forty years of vernacular photography, snapshots of everyday life that both conceal and reveal complex personal and cultural histories. These images are bound into cyclical forms that function as calendars, memorials, and devotional objects, referencing Victorian collage and early photographic traditions while emphasizing self as subject.

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂
April 4 - 26th
Friday, Saturday, and Sundays 12-5PM
Gallery Talk: 4/26, 3-4PM

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This April, Well Well presents 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂 - a group exhibition featuring the collaborative and individual artworks of Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour.

Join us for the Opening Reception on April 4th: 5-8PM

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂
On View: 4/4 - 26
Reception: 4/4 5-8PM
Garth Amundson
Pierre Gour

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂 considers memory as an embodied condition, something inherited, accumulated, and continuously reshaped. Through individual and collaborative practices, Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour’s exhibition traces how personal and collective histories inform identity, place, and visibility. Drawing on archival, vernacular, and lived experience, the works reveal remembrance as an active process of construction, resistance, and survival, insisting on the necessity of making the unseen visible in a time of political and social erasure.

Garth Amundson holds an MFA from Syracuse University, New York, and Pierre Gour holds an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Both are faculty in the Department of Art at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including in South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and throughout North America. Amundson and Gour have participated in numerous residency programs, including Sculpture Space (New York), Čimelice Castle (Czech Republic), Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), the Bellagio Rockefeller Center (Italy), a Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico, and most recently Studio Faire in Nérac, France.

Image 1: Not The Whole Picture: Green (Trees), Color prints and thread, 68” Diameter, 2025

Image 2: Tête à Tết (Picking Coconuts), Mixed media on canvas, 55” Diameter, 2024

𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔
Sculpture by LB Buchan
Perfume by Erin Hiser
Drawing by Bear Medina .bear

𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔 explores themes of amalgamation, hybridity, evolution, and adaptation. As Medina explores genetic mutation in a series of “Hopeful Monsters,” Buchan sculpts organic hybrids of mammal, bird, plant, and insect. Completing each collection of trios is a distinct perfume by Hiser drawing elements from accompanying artworks - angelica, artichoke, chrysanthemum, goldenrod (to name a few).

𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔 collaborates through deviations and material curiosities. The elegance of these adaptations is seen and scented throughout the exhibition.

Join us for the last weekend of the show from 12-5PM on Saturday and Sunday!

Image 2: LB Buchan | 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 2025; maple, 5.5” x 6” x 6”
Image 3: Bear Medina | 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 4 2022; charcoal and carbon pencil on paper, 33.75” x 26”

There’s still time to see our March exhibition: 𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔

This is a collaborative exhibition that features the creative musings of LB Buchan, Erin Hiser, and Bear Medina. It explores themes of amalgamation, hybridity, evolution, and adaptation. These themes are present in each of their works separately, though this exhibit is its own synthesis between their bodies of work.

Spend some time at Well Well on Saturdays and Sundays (12-5PM) this month to see the synchronous threads between Buchan’s sculptures, Hiser’s perfumed scents, and Medina’s drawings.

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While you’re in the neighborhood be sure to pop by and

Spend time with us this weekend to enjoy an exhibition sure to activate your senses! Open Saturdays and Sundays from 12-5PM, a visit to Well Well is exactly what your March needs.

𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔
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This exhibition explores themes of amalgamation, hybridity, evolution, and adaptation. Artists LB Buchan, Erin Hiser, and Bear Medina explore themes parallels of their artworks with “collections.” These trios interspersed throughout the gallery communicate through sight and scent to activate memory, environment, and curiosity.

On View: March 7-29th