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‘The Full and the Fleeting’ Opens Nightingale Gallery鈥檚 2025鈥�26 Season

鈥淭he Full and the Fleeting鈥� Opens Nightingale Gallery鈥檚 2025鈥�26 Season

LA GRANDE, Ore. 鈥� 91传媒鈥檚 Nightingale Gallery opens its 2025鈥�26 exhibition season with 鈥淭he Full and the Fleeting,鈥� a solo exhibition by Portland artist Elizabeth Arzani. The show explores how language shapes experience and memory, asking what it means to live with鈥攐r hold close鈥攑articular words.

The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Friday, October 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Arzani鈥檚 work investigates language as a shifting, paradoxical medium. In 鈥淭he Full and the Fleeting,鈥� she pairs printmaking and ceramics with text and ephemera to create installations guided by the homonyms 鈥渨hole鈥� and 鈥渉ole.鈥� These simple variations in spelling suggest contradictions that echo throughout her practice. Moving between two and three dimensions, Arzani鈥檚 works transform paper and clay into meditations on absence, presence, and the spaces language creates鈥攚hether as an entry point, an exit, or a place to sit with a question.

鈥淓lizabeth鈥檚 installation invites us to consider the words we live alongside and the layered connections between language, imagery, and form,鈥� said Cory Peeke, director of the Nightingale Gallery.

An interdisciplinary artist and educator, Arzani lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She has exhibited nationally at institutions such as the University of North Carolina, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and the Seattle Art Fair, as well as internationally in Luxembourg and Australia. She is a member of the Portland-based artist collective Carnation Contemporary. Arzani earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and her BFA in Painting and Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Arzani will present a public artist talk on her studio practice and the conceptual framework behind the exhibit. The talk will take place on Wednesday, October 1, at 6 p.m. in Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall.

鈥淭he Full and the Fleeting鈥� will be on view through Friday, October 31. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, follow the Nightingale Gallery on Facebook and Instagram.

To request images of artwork for publication, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Gallery Director Cory Peeke at cpeeke@eou.edu.