March 22 – April 7, 2024 Outer Voice: Trajectories ✴ 

March 28 – April 27, 2025 

Julia Calabrese
Roland Dahwen
Marcus Fischer
Bridgette Hickey 
Leslie Hickey 
KT Kusmaul
Sarah Rushford
Ash Stone 

Curated by Libby Werbel

Oregon Contemporary 
8371 N. Interstate Ave. Portland, OR 97217 
Gallery Hours Friday-Sunday 12-5pm 
(and by appointment, email outervoice1@gmail.com) 
oregoncontemporary.org and outervoicpdx.org

Reception: Saturday April 5, 2025, 5pm – 8pm
Performances at 6pm by Marcus Fischer and at 7pm “Mass Movement, an overture” by KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance
Performance and Discussion: Saturday April 19, 2025, 6pm “Mass Movement, an overture” by KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance, video works, readings, and discussion with Outer Voice and curator Libby Werbel.

An exhibition by the 2024/2025 cohort of the time-based art alliance Outer Voice exploring notions of human connection and belonging. 

The exhibition is funded by The Precipice Fund, the Regional Arts and Cultural Council, Oregon Contemporary, and Outer Voice. 

Image: Astronaut Charles Duke's photograph of his family portrait, which he left on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. 

Press Release
Outer Voice: Trajectories ✴ will present recent works from the 2024/25 Outer Voice cohort of Portland artists Julia Calabrese, Roland Dahwen, Marcus Fischer, Bridgette Hickey, Leslie Hickey, KT Kusmaul, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Curated by Libby Werbel.

Outer Voice: Trajectories ✴ showcases eight artists each charting distinct pathways, finding a shared axis point within time-based art. Over the course of a month the exhibition will include a performance program, a night of film screenings, and a discussion between the curator and participating artists. 

Outer Voice is a time-based arts alliance started in 2023 and co-directed by Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. The mission is to provide space, community, support, and opportunity to local time-based artists. Outer Voice aims to foster relationships based on a grounded, informed, and supportive critical dialogue. During their time with Outer Voice, artists are encouraged to practice, exhibit, celebrate, and program together; sharing resources, forming artistic and personal bonds, and linking with a broader network of artists, art organizations, and community members. 

Outer Voice: Trajectories ✴ explores systems of knowledge, world-building, language, and humor through the distinct yet interconnected practices of its artists. 

Further tying the work together is its necessity to elapse over time, consider time, or that through the work, time can be perceived differently. 

Outer Voice welcomes guest curator Libby Werbel to explore the themes listed above as a collaborator in planning, discussion, and writing about the literal and figurative trajectories in the exhibition.