Cassie Ferguson
8/18/25 – 12/12/25, 1st & 2nd Floor Galleries, Science & Engineering Building (VSCI)
Skateboarding has been a major part of my life for over twenty years. It’s where I first learned how to quiet the mind, not by slowing down, but through focusing solely on the motion or the act. The rhythm, repetition, and connection to the ground help me enter a state of mind that removes all of the excess, anchoring me fully in the physical and the ‘now’.
This series of copper-plate photogravure etchings highlights just that, being engrossed in the moment while also engraving and archiving the place into my memory. Each piece begins with film photography, documenting and paying homage to the places that have allowed such tranquility. Using traditional printmaking methods and materials, I reproduced those fleeting moments into something tangible and enduring.
These works, printed on Eastern Paper with hand-torn edges, are then mounted on black paper to create a layered, portal-like effect that invites the viewers inward. These works are both a personal archive and a meditation process. I hope they offer viewers a quiet entry into the places that have shaped me. Enter the Void is about finding clarity through motion and paying tribute to the spaces that make that clarity possible.
Cassie Ferguson is a Portland-based printmaker and film photographer. She specializes in a variety of print and photo processes including photogravure etching, silver-gelatin printing, stone lithography, and screenprinting. Cassie holds a B.S. in Honors Biology with a Minor in Art from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and an MFA in Print Media from Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. She is the founder of ‘Lost Bearings Press’, where she operates as a collaborative printer and works with fellow artists to produce and publish editions from her home studio. In addition to her art practice, she is employed as a lead printer at Mullowney Printing Company, Portland, OR.