Opening Night, October 7, 2021
On View, October 7 - November 15, 2021

PGE Gallery at The Armory, Portland Center Stage
Photos Courtesy of Mario Gallucci

Funded in part by the Oregon Arts Commission

Hard Feelings was born out of the artist’s concern with the lack of physical and intimate human connection onset by pandemic procedures. The works in the exhibition speak to the potentiality of healing and transformation that could take place when present with a friend, gazing softly at flowers, and crafting atmospheric and dream-like experiences. Painted with a variety of colors, textures, and viscosities Sáenz expresses to viewers that we are complex nuanced beings, navigating different color fields and temporal states.