-VOIR | VER-

Erin Bodfish, Kaitlyn Carr, Orquidia Violeta, Todd Molinari, Tristan Perrotti

Runs / May 2 – June 1, 2025

Reception / Friday, May 2, 6-9 PM

Hours: Sat-Sun from 2-6 PM

An Exhibition Exchange Between Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA) and after / time (Portland, OR)

Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to present -VOIR | VER-, an exhibition featuring five artists from after / time, an artist-run collective based in Portland, Oregon. This show marks the first phase of an exchange between two like-minded spaces—Grizzly Grizzly and after / time— at opposite ends of the United States yet both dedicated to artist-led experimentation, collaboration, and dialogue across distance.

Originally conceived around the acts "to see" and "to watch," the theme of observation in -VOIR | VER- has evolved into a conversation about perception through the body, memory, and material. The work in this show explores how we come to know the world—and ourselves—not just by seeing, but by sensing, feeling, and remaking.

Erin Bodfish’s encaustic paintings explore how grief, love, and memory reside in the body. The textured surfaces of her paintings—flesh-like and raw—invite viewers to encounter emotion as something tangible. Kaitlyn Carr’s suspended sculpture of wax paper and string hover like delicate thresholds between presence and absence, using light and shadow to distort what is visible. Her ephemeral forms speak to the fragility of perception.

Orquidia Violeta’s salvaged textile works transform discarded fabric into intimate, wearable objects that hold histories of migration, labor, and care. Her practice grounds itself in the power of touch and craft traditions as a means of personal and cultural storytelling. Todd Molinari’s single-channel video embraces ambiguity, open-endedness, and material excess to resist neat conclusions. His work probes the messiness of thought and artmaking itself. Tristan Perrotti’s immersive painting installation swirls with motion and emotion, depicting figures engulfed in both internal and environmental turbulence, stretched across space like a visual storm.

Together, these artists blur the line between interior and exterior experience—between what is seen and what is felt. -VOIR | VER- invites viewers to consider not only how we look (see?), but how we live through our materials, our bodies, and the questions that refuse resolution.

This exchange continues in August 2025, when the members of Grizzly Grizzly will exhibit their work at after / time in Portland, Oregon.

Artist Bios

Erin Bodfish is a painter, florist, and writer based in Central Oregon whose work explores grief, memory, and the presence of the body through material and emotive landscapes. Influenced by the deconstruction of traditional painting, she uses the body as a tool in her practice. Bodfish holds an MFA in Visual Studies and an MA in Critical Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and teaches Art History and painting in Central Oregon.

Kaitlyn Carr is a process-based artist working with printmaking, textiles, and large-scale installations to explore repetition, labor, and endurance. She earned her BFA at Oregon State University and has exhibited across the West Coast, including the Portland Biennial and Tryst Alternative Art Fair. Her projects often merge performance and public art, engaging in obsessive, site-specific acts of making.

Orquidia Violeta is a salvage textile artist based in Oregon whose work draws from a rich tradition of handcraft to tell colorful stories of migration, identity, and resilience. A former refugee, Violeta uses embroidery, weaving, eco-dyeing, and fiber collage to create tactile, narrative-driven works. Her pieces are held in collections including Multnomah County Public Art and Seattle City Light.

Todd Molinari is a multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, Oregon, working across painting, video, sculpture, and performance to explore the complexities of material, process, and failure. He has exhibited internationally in Berlin, Reykjavik, Nantes, and across the U.S. Molinari holds an MFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and continues to curate exhibitions and community programming.

Tristan Perrotti is a Portland-based painter whose expressionist works combine surreal and classical influences to map internal emotional landscapes onto large, immersive canvases. His paintings explore the relationship between the body and emotion, emphasizing movement, color, and energy. Guided by both historical and contemporary references, Perrotti seeks to create a visceral, vibrant experience.