Fall of Freedom returns for its second year — expanding the national call to creative resistance. FoF is an open instigation to artists, venues and institutions across all disciplines to put your work in the world on October 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, countering fascist repression and censorship with joyful communities of defiant creativity. Art matters. Courage is contagious. Take part!
Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Autumn Breon has announced her first solo exhibition in Portland, Maroon Portals at The BLACK Gallery. Maroon Portals brings together sculpture, textile, paintings, and participatory works that imagine freedom as a practice of invention. Rooted in histories of Black self-determination and speculative world-building, the exhibition invites viewers to move through portals where past, present, and future collapse into one another, revealing new possibilities for liberation.
Installation view of Maroon Portals by Autumn Breon at The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland
The Care Machine, 2023, Loud Refusals, 2025, Quiet Adjustments, 2023, Have You Adorned Yourself Today?, 2023, Choose Your Protective Style, 2023, Cosmic Clapbacks, 2025
Installation view of Maroon Portals by Autumn Breon at The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland
Head to Freedom, I Moved Myself, Together Free, 2026
52” x 37”
Woven cotton, cubic zirconia earrings, rhinestones
Just the Facts, 2024
5.5” x 6.5” x 3.5”
Vinyl on wood