Intervals of Light
Corey Pressman
Corrine Woodman Gallery
October 27 – November 28, 2026
Meet the Artist: Thursday, November 19, 5:30- 7:30 PM
Waxed Pigment Workshop: November 21 & 22, 2026 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
About the Exhibition
Intervals of Light, by Portland, Oregon artist Corey Pressman is a series of works exploring gesture using paper, pigment and wax. Each work comes out of intervals of observation, where the shapes, textures, and lines of growth and of movement come forward.
Image: Denizen, No. 17 (detail)
About the Artist
Corey S. Pressman is an artist and writer whose work explores the interplay of perception, imagination, and the natural world. His visual art, grounded in contemplative abstraction, has been exhibited nationally and is held in permanent collections including Oregon Health & Science University and University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Pressman is the originator of waxed-powder painting, a technique in which dry powdered pigments are applied directly to paper and finished with beeswax-based varnishes.
His writing has appeared in Gastronomica, Orion, and the Santa Clara Review. Pressman teaches at the University of Portland. He also facilitates workshops on abstraction, perception, and creative attention at various institutions including the Esalen Institute and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.