Blackfish Gallery

Blackfish Gallery artist Eddie Reed is featured in BLACK MATTER now on view. This exhibition centers Black artists across Oregon, creating a space for work that resists expectation and insists on self-definition.

Through color, layering, and charged abstraction, Eddie’s paintings move through the contradictions of American life, where beauty, race, power, and perception continuously overlap and unravel. Drawing from social realist storytelling and symbolic language, the work invites viewers into a deeper kind of engagement: one grounded in attention, reflection, and a willingness to sit with complexity.

Come see these works in person!

Images:
Eddie Reed
Gang Violence
30x24in
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board

Eddie Reed
Hello Stranger
40x36x2in
Acrylic mixed medium on wood board

BLACK MATTER affirms the idea that Black artists contain multitudes. Here, the work is allowed to breathe freely.

Works on paper by artist, Nia Musiba.

BLACK MATTER, invitational group show, runs through June 2026 at Blackfish Gallery, 938 NW Everett Street
Portland OR 97209, Weds.- Sun. 11 -5PM.