The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to present Already Been Chewed, a solo exhibition featuring Portland based artist Wynter Jones. On view on December 6-27, the show explores memory, identity, and the lingering effects of religious and patriarchal conditioning.
Drawing from her early experiences growing up within the Mormon faith, this body of work unearths embedded memories—some tender, others painful, many absurd—that continue to revisit her internal landscape 25 years later.
Rather than presenting a linear narrative, this body of work wanders, stumbles, and circles back on itself, mimicking the nonlinear nature of memory and the way it persists or dissipates. Through drawing and painting, she attempts to shape the intangible and blurred impressions that persist long after the doctrine has been rejected and abandoned.
What emerges is more than a denunciation of patriarchy, but a complex act of witnessing. Already Been Chewed sits with the discomfort, the absurdity, and the ambiguity of what remains. It asks: What stays with us, even when we think we’ve moved on? What narratives and past beliefs do we internalize, and how do they continue to echo in our body?
This exhibition honors the residue of lived experience—the traces of a culture that shaped, constrained, and ultimately failed to define her. In holding these fragments to the light, she invites viewers to reflect on their own histories, asking how memory, shame, tenderness, and resilience coexist within us all.
The show debuts on December 6, with an opening reception from 5 to 7pm at the Imperfecta Gallery. The Gallery is located at 117 6th street in Oregon City, Oregon. Opening hours are Wednesday-Friday 11am-4pm and Saturday 11am-5pm.
More details available at: https://www.imperfecta.xyz
About the artist
Originally from Kaysville, Utah, Wynter Jones has been drawing and painting for most of her life. She holds a Masters of Education and teaches art in the Portland metro area. Wynter’s art alternates between abstraction and realism, often merging the two. She also explores a variety of 2D media, such as oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, ink and pen. Wynter is interested in merging intangible marks with representational subjects, muting edges and re-defining them. She sees her art as an act of extending minutes, recapturing the passage of time with tiny marks, simple subjects, and connective patterns.
Gallery hours: Wed-Fri 11am – 4pm; Sat 11am-5pm