2025. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
RE|FRACT|URE
at Replicant Beer and Wine in Portland, Oregon, USA
25 July-1 September 2025
“RE|FRACT|URE” is a show about breaking things apart and seeing what happens when you try to put them back together. Artists Justin Tuttle and Katie Price are both working with materials and ideas that don’t always behave, that resist easy categories. Whether through collage or speculative drawing, they are drawn to the cracks, the moments where things come undone just enough to make space for something new.
In collage, images get cut up, rearranged, and layered into new contexts. It’s a way of making sense or sometimes just making space for ideas and identities that don’t always fit neatly. There’s a freedom in the fracture, a chance to reimagine how pieces might belong to each other.
14″x11″; watercolor on paper with vintage magazine and book collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
In speculative architecture, fracture becomes part of the design. Borders are reimagined, drawings ripple, and structures start to feel more like questions than answers. Disrupted geometries, layered sound waves, and impossible machines suggest machines that speak. These imagined spaces don’t try to solve anything; instead, they suggest other ways of sensing and speaking through form. The artists are both working from personal places: from memory, imagination, and lived experience. They are trying to trace what happens when those things bump up against materials, stories, and structures. In both practices, refracturing allows for a return not to what was, but to what could be. Refracture isn’t really about breaking or fixing. It’s more about staying in that messy middle space, where things get interesting.
(text adapted from material provided by the artists)
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