About
I am deeply committed to bringing the mystical elements of our lived, human experience to light, and to making and sharing artworks that create opportunities to feel beauty, harmony, joy, and love — for myself and for my audience.
Using materials such as plaster, papers, cold wax, and paint on cradled wood panels, canvas, and paper, I build up the surfaces of my work slowly and with a meditative process informed by my training as a Reiki master and practitioner. Inspired by the natural world and by my own intuitive imagination, I pour, sand, scrape and smooth, adding and subtracting layers of materials, to create the rich and textured surfaces that are present in all of my work.
I am especially inspired by sunrises and sunsets, and my work frequently features abstract references to horizon lines.
Since 2013, the work of Portland artist Candace Primack has been collected in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America by private and corporate clients, and is featured in movies and television, commercial advertising, and music videos. Trained in communications and journalism, and with a Masters in Theology from an affiliate of the University of British Columbia, Primack has studied art-making techniques with a variety of working-artist teachers, and through independent learning opportunities.
Résumé
Juried Shows and Invitationals
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2024
Solo Exhibition, Caplan Art Designs, Portland, Oregon, 2024
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2023
Solo Exhibition, Caplan Art Designs, Portland, Oregon, 2022
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2022
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2021
Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2021
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2021
Portland Open Studios, Participating Artist, Portland, Oregon, 2020
Solo Exhibition, Caplan Art Designs, Portland, Oregon, 2019
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2019
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2019
Winter National Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC, New York, 2018
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2018
Recycled Rain Project Featured Artist, Portland, Oregon, 2017
IN YOUR DREAMS National Exhibition, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, California, 2016
Portland Open Studios, Participating Artist, Portland, Oregon, 2016
Loydcrest Estate Project, Trip Haenisch with Saatchi Art, Beverly Hills, California, 2016
Art Expo, NYC, New York, 2016
Street of Dreams (commission), Lake Oswego, Oregon, 2015
Portland Art Museum, Rental Sales Gallery Artist Member Show, Portland, Oregon, 2015
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, June, 2015
Agora Gallery’s Chelsea International Fine Art Competition & Exhibition, NYC, New York, 2015
Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC, New York, 2015
Art-Competition.net & Gallery25N.com, “Pure Abstractions”, NYC, New York, 2015
Orange Country Creatives “Simplicity”, Laguna Beach, California, 2014
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2014
Four Points Contemporary, 2nd Bi-Annual Competition, (online), 2014
The Infinity Gallery, The Red Show, (online), 2014
The Artist Table Online Annex Gallery, Abstraction: Not What Everyone Sees, (online), 2013
Melrose Lightspace, The Instagram Show, Los Angeles, California, 2013
Black Box Gallery, (online), 2013
California Open, Tag Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2013
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013
The Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, 2013
Architectural Heritage Society, Portland, Oregon, 2013
REPRESENTION
Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon