past exhibits:

openings are on the 1st thursday of every month from 6pm - 10pm

december 1st, 05
sky & boat

Local fashion entreprenuers sky & boat, deck the space with brows of folly, or something.
november 3rd, 05
Underfaces
new paintings by jan dworkin

The face is my excuse to play with colors and shapes. It's basic form distracts my conscious mind while my brush makes marks on canvas or paper. I try to catch an essence, reveal what the Buddhists call "the face behind the face" or "the face before you were born." A spirit that exists outside of consensus reality, outside of space and time...
october 3rd, 05
Dayan Morgan-Sylvaen
Broken People
The images in this show explore the things we keep hidden, those parts of ourselves that are vulnerable, the parts that make us feel shame. The parts that once confronted leave us stronger, whole...

september 1st,05
daniyel hicks
a series of photos celebrating portland

also a celebration of pepper gallery's new home.
august 4th,05
Brandon Buerkle
silkscreens and collages

Brandon Buerkle's Christ-centered Quaker background influences this series of pieces about small things we can do on a day-to-day basis to make the world a better place.

Unique mixtures of collage and acrylic, as well as screen prints on canvas, portray the contemporary liberal activist values we've come to expect of the young left, backed by the Biblical mandates typically ignored by the Christian right.
june 2nd / july 7th
Artists of Kentucky
An eclectic group show featuring
artists from the Bluegrass state
show opens:
thursday, july 7th, 6-10pm
gallery is open then and on saturdays, 11am-5pm
and by appointment
may 5th 05
Everybody's got one
by kaebel hashitani
op-ed illustrations,
a look at the process of op-education
april 7th 05
Message in a Bottle
a prticipatory installation
by Daniyel Hicks
communicate from afar, randomly, anonymously or not.
Leave a message in a bottle that will be distributed throughout portland.
march 3rd 05
what we see and what we get
a group photography show featuring:
Chase Allgood, Chris Bennet, Daniyel Hicks,
Brodie Large, Federico Nessi, Michael Pacheco,
David Rue, Michael Showell, Barry Winfield and Frances Woodell
february 3rd 05 rachel mendez
Pepper Gallery presents the darkly quaint cartoons of Rachel Mendez. Straddling the
barbed-wire fence between cartoons and painting, Mendez drags the one art
form into the other. Characters like a dog reading her palm while her city burns come to life in these encaustic paintings. Disturbing images of a woman's body as a piggy bank,
being threatened by a hammer, and placid faces against apocalyptic
backdrops populate these works.
december 2nd 04 daniyel hicks
a menagerie of mixed media art cards that dictate from a point in my fine arts and graphic arts career. delicate and unusual, these cards have been printed, handcrafted, adhered and persuaded onto quality, acid-free paper, and contain resonant images that have percolated through my sketchbooks and graphic process to re-present themselves here: tangible evidence of a process in motion.
november 4th Harvest Henderson
Graphically, lyrically and poetically inspired mixed media meditations.
october 7th adam graves
These oil paintings are a mixture of landscape-inspired works, as well as improvised images that borrow from the landscape. Particular attention was paid to creating spaces but also allowing the paint to exist as itself on the surface of the canvas.
september 2nd brenna zedan
There is something intriguing about boxes.
Empty, they wait to be completed by just the right thing to hold.
Once there is something inside, Pandora's curiosity begins itching at the brain.
august 5th barry winfield
the puzzle - 2004  Papa Bear Films. Super 8, Written, directed, scored and produced by Barry Winfield
july 1st ilima considine - false memory kiss

to play on the easy manipulation of people's emotions/emotional memories, pepper gallery will be transformed into a gigantic love letter. And then the viewers will also be invited to participate in the creation of false emotional memories. I will pose for Polaroid pictures kissing anyone/everyone who will participate
june 3rd amy carleton

paintings and pillows
discussing horizon via graphically simplified seascapes
gorgeous, intimate pieces with meditative qualities.
different kinds of comfort for your head
may 6th claudia porter

very large acrylic paintings;
conversations including
but not limited to
process, urban insights,
and graphic impressions
april 04 tom mc

large acrylic
urban and spiritual
voodoo abstractions
dj odiferous
march 04 dave rue

large paintings
exploration of composition, color,
texture and form,
suggestions of the human figure
music and portraiture
feb 04 pete goselin

time based photo installation
recent photography
5 spatulas studio
dj odiferous