Creatio, a solo exhibition and installation created by Portland artist Wendy Given. Given produces vivid photography, sculpture, and drawings rooted in her interest in natural philosophy, folklore, myth and magic. Her work honors a fundamental awareness that we are all, and always will be, dependent on the natural world. The power and mystery of nature pervades her work.

Creatio explores multicultural creation mythology from constellations in the night sky, to the division of night and day, to forbidden fruits, to a skull made of ice. In this show Given reflects on modern culture’s mode of assimilating and processing myth.

Wendy Given is a Portland, Oregon based artist who holds a MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA and a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, GA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Claw, Shine, Gloam and Vesper at Whitespace in Atlanta, GA; Death Caps and Dark Wood at Wieden+Kennedy Gallery in Portland, OR; Sanctified: Spirituality In Contemporary Art at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, CA; GeoGráfica at Fototropía in Guatemala City, Guatemala; 31 Women in Art Photography, curated by Jon Feinstein and Natalia Sacasa, at New York City’s Humble Arts Foundation. Given’s photography is featured in The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2. Her work is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA and Kasher | Potamkin in NYC.