Autumn Breon Maroon Portals
August 8 - October 4, 2026

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.

The exhibition is grounded in the foundation of Breon's artistic praxis: the Combahee River Collective's assertion that “If Black women were free, everyone would be free.” Her multidisciplinary practice expands the mythology of Esoterica, a speculative planet powered by care and abundant creativity, while exploring spatiotemporal glitches that disrupt linear history and expose overlooked pathways to freedom. Throughout the exhibition, care functions as infrastructure, refusal is a creative technology, and portals emerge through acts of adornment, memory, participation, and collective imagination.

Visits to The BLACK Gallery powered by DSPDX can be made by emailing info@theblackgallerypdx.com Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 5pm. Group and class visits are encouraged.

Photo credit: Ceraun the DivaNun

The Care Machine | Photo Credit: Elon Schoenholz

Quiet Adjustments & Loud Refusals | Photo Credit: Studio of Autumn Breon 

Head to Freedom | Photo Credit: Studio of Autumn Breon