Waterstone Gallery

OPENING TONIGHT 5-8pm for First Thursday, October 1!

Join us for Nocturnal Worlds, Kindra Crick’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia.

Sleep and memory have fascinated Crick for more than a decade. In February 2024, she began sleeping with a portable EEG to track her brainwaves while keeping a sleep diary documenting dreams, ruminations, and the daily variables that shape each night. She also worked with researchers studying circadian rhythms and the claustrum, a brain region thought to play a key role in synchronizing slow-wave activity.

Crick transforms over a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. Rhythmic wave patterns evoke deep sleep, while vivid colors and imagery give form to dreams. Moths swarm across the work as a metaphor for the restless thoughts of insomnia. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes.

Kindra Crick Art

° Waterstone Gallery
124 NW 9th Ave, PDX

First Thursday Opening Reception
Thursday, October 1, 5-8pm

Artist Talk
Sunday, October 18, 11am

On view until November 1, 2026

Excited to see you there!

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Portland Art Dealers Assoc.
First Thursday Portland



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‘Into that World Inverted’ Mixed media on panel, 30” x 24”

Nocturnal Worlds opens tomorrow and ready for you to add your dreams to the 'Dream Anthology.'

This weekend is the perfect time to take in James Page’s OUROBOROS at Waterstone Gallery before it closes on Sunday, September 27th.

If you wish to learn more about the work we have included a link to the artist talk below.

📸 Exhibition shot by Aaron Wessling

Waterstone Gallery is thrilled to present Nocturnal Worlds, Kindra Crick’s first solo exhibition at the gallery this October.

Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms over a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. Rhythmic wave patterns evoke deep sleep, while vivid colors and imagery give form to dreams. Moths swarm across the work as a metaphor for the restless thoughts of insomnia. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes.

September 30 – November 1, 2026
📍 Waterstone Gallery
124 NW 9th Ave, PDX

First Thursday Opening Reception
Thursday, October 1, 5–8pm

Artist Talk
Sunday, October 18, 11am

We’d love to see you there!

What goes into a James Page photographic collage?
See a bit of the process below.

You are invited to join us Thursday, September 10th from 5- 8pm for a wonderful event on 9th in The Pearl District.