It’s all about art
The Hoffman Center for the Arts has gathered three Pacific Northwest artists whose work explores ideas of home, landscape and memory through ceramics, photography and sculpture for its August show, opening this Saturday, Aug. 1.
The exhibition features new work by Portland ceramic sculptor and educator Jamin London Tinsel, photographer Mike Vos and multidisciplinary artist JD Perkin. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet all three artists during an opening reception from 3 to 5 pm on Saturday.
Tinsel’s exhibition, “Home/Practice” uses clay forms inspired by everyday domestic objects including tables, towels, ladders, nests and architectural fragments to examine the relationship between home and identity. Rather than simply recreating familiar objects, the sculptures consider the ways living spaces become portraits of the people who inhabit them. A high school art educator, Tinsel was named the 2025 Oregon Art Educator of the Year and has completed artist residencies across the United States and Europe. Her work has been exhibited at the Maryhill Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University and galleries in Portland, Philadelphia, New York and Berlin.
Vos presents “On the Brink of a Strange World,” a collection of large-format 4x5 film photographs made over several years while traveling throughout the United States and Canada. Created entirely in camera without digital manipulation, the landscapes deliberately contain no human figures, encouraging viewers to form their own relationship with places that feel both familiar and mysterious. Vos, whose work advocates for the preservation of wild spaces, has received support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Ford Family Foundation, the Puffin Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission. His photographs are included in permanent collections in Portland and Iceland, and he recently helped develop a photography education program that reached thousands of rural Oregon students through the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
The third exhibition, “Remnant Bloom” features carved wood sculptures by Perkin. Working across sculpture, painting, installation and performance since the early 1980s, he draws on his background in cultural anthropology to imagine an archaeologist exploring an abandoned landscape. The resulting sculptures resemble artifacts assembled from bones, tools and weathered mechanical fragments, inviting viewers to invent their own stories about the civilization that left them behind.
The exhibition runs through Aug. 29 at Hoffman Center for the Arts, located at 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita. Gallery hours are noon to 5 pm Thursday through Sunday, except the last Sunday of each month. For more information, go to hoffmanarts.org.