eMusic Wire - Alone and Counting | Art installation by Jennifer Gillia Cutshall

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PORTLAND, Ore. - eMusicWire -- The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to present Alone and Counting, featuring Jennifer Gillia Cutshall. On view February 5-28 2026, this installation explores the degradation of personal, social and natural ecosystems in the name of convenience – and the turmoil that it generates.

"I am honored to create this installation in Imperfecta's new space!" shares Cutshall, "It is an exciting time for the Portland art scene because founder/curator Daria Loi brings an expansive vision and is a much-needed force of hope."

With Alone and Counting, Cutshall asks us to consider the increased control that technologies exert onto our collective and individual psyche and how precariously dependent we have become. She explains, "technology has heightened and reinforced a strange toxic vigilance (quantification and measuring of vapid things like counting likes and followers)," steering us into isolation and creating opportunities for a surveillance society.

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Ironically, the same technology that was designed to connect us is the same that is dividing us – degrading human connection and entire ecosystems. "The time spent on screens far exceeds the time spent with face-to-face interactions or moments immersed in nature," explains Jennifer G. Cutshall, "what would it be like if we traded half of our screen time for activities geared toward protecting the environment?"

In Alone and Counting, Cutshall's sculptural vignettes narrate this perilous story through gathered objects and materials altered with open flames, describing our bleak and burnt realities. A lone bride stands among a cemetery of stumps (ghosts of the flame – tree skeletons) that hang in the balance. "She stands as a matriarch (mother earth) and a symbolic figure betrayed…" shares Cutshall, "Will this marriage and devotion to technology lead to our ultimate demise or will it just leave us more alone and counting?"

Cutshall engages with installations to gestate and realize ideas and spaces, open to possibilities and adaptations. Installation art occupies an important and primal aspect of her practice. As an artist and a curator, her conversations with space inform her installation work and create opportunities to entwine concerns with visions – anchoring her inner ruminations while holding infinite opportunities for expansion, growth, and engagement.

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Alone and Counting offers a wondrous opportunity to glean Cutshall's process and experience her longing for a reality where social and natural ecosystems are rediscovered.

The show debuts on February 5, with an Opening Reception from 5 to 8pm.

About Jennifer Gillia Cutshall

Portland-based Jennifer Gillia Cutshall is an artist with over 200 murals and public art projects under her belt and has curated 153 international exhibitions to date.

About Imperfecta Art & Design Gallery

imperfecta is an art & design gallery focused on elevating the work and voices of women artists and minority creatives. http://www.imperfecta.xyz