LE OUI POP-UP

On view December 21, 2022–January 22, 2023

Nationale is pleased to present a pop-up exhibition in the Project Room from our offshoot project, Le Oui, including a new print edition from gallery artist Pace Taylor. Taylor’s 2022 pastel work Lava Lamp Love Light has been translated into a beautiful five color silkscreen print for Le Oui’s thirteenth release. In the spirit of community and to thank Portlanders for their support these past fourteen years, this limited edition of 500 will be offered to in-person visitors only during the winter pop-up at Nationale, with a release on the Le Oui website after the show closes. 10% of proceeds from the sales of this print will be donated to p:ear, a nonprofit that builds positive relationships with homeless youth through education, art, recreation, and job training to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives.

Le Oui was started after the 2016 elections. We release limited edition silkscreen prints in close collaboration with established and emerging artists, with a portion of our proceeds going directly to organizations fighting for social justice and equality. Participating artists choose the organization they want to donate to through sales of their prints. Le Oui’s inaugural print, Onward (by gallery artist Carson Ellis), has helped us raise over $30,000 for the ACLU over the years.

PACE TAYLOR (leoui--013)

Pace Taylor lives and works in Portland, OR. They received their BFA in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon (2015) and have since shown their work regionally, including at Nationale, Upfor, and Oregon Contemporary (formally Disjecta), and in Los Angeles at La Loma Projects. Pace Taylor is represented by Nationale.

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CARSON ELLIS (leoui--001/007/008)
Carson Ellis is an illustrator, author, and artist living just outside of Portland, OR. She has illustrated numerous books, including The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart and The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket. Throughout the past decade, she has exhibited original artwork in Portland at PDX Contemporary Art, Basil Hallward Gallery, Motel, and Nationale, where she is represented.

ROCKI SWIDERSKI (leoui--002) SOLD OUT
Originally from Long Beach, CA, Rocki Swiderski lives in Tucson, AZ. Their work primarily takes form in paint and deals with the complex stories of American symbol and myth. Swiderski received an apprenticeship at Portland’s Columbia FiberArts Guild in 2014, and a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015. Their work has been shown in Portland, OR, at Nationale, Williamson | Knight, Eutectic Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft; at MOCA Tucson; and internationally at David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen, Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm, and Agnes B’s Gallerie du Jour in Paris.

NATHAN PRESTON (leoui--003)
Nathan Preston is a Portland based artist and illustrator originally from Anchorage, AK. Aſter many years working professionally as a designer, digital compositor and image retoucher, he began drawing and painting in his spare time in an effort to counteract the negative psychic effects of working for Fortune 500 capitalists and their associated global retailers.

LINDSEY CUENCA WALKER (leoui--004)
Lindsey Cuenca Walker is a Filipina American artist from Southern California, currently working and living in Portland OR. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of painting and printmaking, however, a lover of many mediums, she also works in publications, textiles, and functional wood and ceramic object-making.

BRANDON VOSIKA (leoui--005)
Brandon Vosika lives in a haunted apartment building in Seattle, WA, where he works on acrylic paintings, small sculptures, book making, illustrations with watercolor, and the pursuit of a career in mystery and ghost stories.

EMMA KOHLMANN (leoui--006) SOLD OUT
Originally from New York and now based in Western Massachusetts, Emma Kohlmann holds a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at V1 Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark), Galerie Kornfeld (Berlin, Germany), KIT Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (New York, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson, AZ), Basilica Soundscape 2017 (Hudson, NY), Nationale (Portland, OR), and Miami Art Basel among others. She has self published dozens of zines and been commissioned to make the ticket edition on the occasion of the 2017 NYABF opening preview, as well as various works for City Lights and the music labels Wharf Cat Records, Hardware Records, Feeding Tube Records, and Katorga Records. She is represented by V1 Gallery in Copenhagen.

NATHAN PAUL RICE (leoui--009)

Nathan Paul Rice was born and raised in San Francisco. He graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 2003 with a BA in fine art and sociology, and received an MFA in Applied Craſt + Design from PNCA/ OCAC in 2018. His drawings, objects, and installations explore the space between art and design, play and peril, & humor and sadness.

LILIAN MARTINEZ (leoui--010)

Lilian Martinez (b. 1986, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Yucca Valley, CA. She earned a BFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of BFGF, an art brand inspired by comfort, beauty and humor that offers accessible and functional art objects for the home and body. Martinez has exhibited her work throughout Los Angeles, most recently with ltd los angeles, Ochi Projects, Carlos Queso Gallery, and Wayside Gallery, and in Tokyo at Commune Gallery.

MICHELLE BLADE (leoui--011) SOLD OUT

Michelle Blade is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Center for Contemporary Arts-Santa Fe, Jack Hanley Gallery-SF, Nationale, and Western Exhibitions. She holds a BA from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

YUSUKE NAGAOKA (leoui--012)

Yusuke Nagaoka is an artist, based in Taipei, Taiwan & Tokyo, Japan. His art is inspired by insights from modern archeology and local culture, and his main forms of expression are drawing, risograph, silk screen printing, and publication. This print was released in collaboration with tone poem.

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For more info about Le Oui, please visit www.leoui.us