Shows, Exhibitions, Workshops & Publications
A Rewilded Mind: An Evidence-Informed Guide to Reclaiming Your Wild Imagination
I am proud to announce the free release of my new workbook commissioned by Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination.
This workbook helps readers escape distractions and reconnect with their creative vitality. In a world dominated by noise, consumerism, and productivity culture, imagination often feels dulled or lost. A Rewilded Mind offers pathways back.
Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and ecology, it combines reflective exercises, strategies, and prompts to rewild the mind. Author Corey S. Pressman, a visual artist, poet, and health educator, invites readers to break free from rigid thinking, embrace uncertainty, and cultivate a vibrant mindset.
Rewilding the mind restores creative autonomy, builds resilience, and deepens connection to self and the world. Perfect for artists, thinkers, and anyone seeking to reawaken their creative core, this workbook is an invitation to reclaim untamed potential and live more imaginatively.
Erotica: An Exhibition to Arouse
Come see my piece Linger, No. 3 featured at the Erotica: An Exhibition to Arouse at Salem on the Edge. Linger, No. 3 is the first figurative work that I have exhibited. I will be there for the opening reception on Friday February 7th, from 5-8pm. See you there!
Waxed Powder Painting Workshop
The innovative waxed powder painting process involves the direct application of powdered pigment to paper or panel supports, before finishing the work with various wax media. This workshop will cover the mixing, handling, and application of powder pigment, the benefits of various paper types, stencil cutting, and the manufacture of and application strategies for wax media.
The Art of Being Well
This article explores the profound role of art as a central human act, drawing connections between J.R.R. Tolkien’s concept of humans as divine “sub-creators” and modern insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. It argues that creativity is both an ancient and vital aspect of our humanity, one that fosters emotional well-being, cognitive engagement, and connection to beauty and awe.
Waxed Powder Painting Workshop
The innovative waxed powder painting process involves the direct application of powdered pigment to paper or panel supports, before finishing the work with various wax media. This workshop will cover the mixing, handling, and application of powder pigment, the benefits of various paper types, stencil cutting, and the manufacture of and application strategies for wax media.
Open Studio
Join me at my studio for demonstrations of the waxed powder painting process as well as a selection of works at open studio prices. See you next year!
Caverna Clara
Solo Exhibition at Blackfish Gallery
The works in Caverna Clara bring a kaleidoscopic shadow play to light. These artworks use the same stuff of earthen caves—mineral pigments and clay—to realize the colored walls of our own spiritual openings. Perched above the threshold of awareness, the primal ground of our experience can be encountered directly. Here, in this bright cave, is the source of all you call real.
Waxed Powder Painting Workshop
The innovative waxed powder painting process involves the direct application of powdered pigment to paper or panel supports, before finishing the work with various wax media. This workshop will cover the mixing, handling, and application of powder pigment, the benefits of various paper types, stencil cutting, and the manufacture of and application strategies for wax media.
Return, Return
Solo Exhibition at Blackfish Gallery
The works in Return, Return offer a meditation on this round adventure. Along the way we realize near things in new places. This is how we know that what we really seek is—according to the law of return—return.
Waxed Powder Painting Workshop
The innovative waxed powder painting process involves the direct application of powdered pigment to paper or panel supports, before finishing the work with various wax media. This workshop will cover the mixing, handling, and application of powder pigment, the benefits of various paper types, stencil cutting, and the manufacture of and application strategies for wax media.
An Evening with Pattiann Rogers, Robert Michael Pyle, and University of Portland Scholars
On February 20, 2024, I had the honor of conducting an on-line panel for my hero, Pattiann Rogers along with writer Robert Michael Pyle and colleagues from University of Portland. We had a wide-ranging discussion about flickering, creativity, poetry, and nature.
29th Annual Sitka Art Invitational Exhibit
The Art Invitational Exhibit + Sale brings together nearly 100 nature-inspired Northwest artists. This year's exhibit will be showcasing 300 pieces of art including sculpture, paintings, ceramics, fiber art, photography, drawings, prints and more. Art sales are split 50/50 between the artist and Sitka's nonprofit program costs to host the show.
Beacon Creek Sculptures
Group show at The Verdancy Project
The boundaries between ourselves and the world are fictional. These are necessary fictions; they create the conditions for love and transcendence—the push and pull for reunion. Sometimes these boundaries become soft and porous.
The Future is Fungi: The Rise and Rhizomes of Mushroom Culture
On July 11, 2023 Orion Magazine and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination joined forces to probe these mycological mysteries with biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake, scholar and naturalist Kaitlin Smith, best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer and author and lecturer Corey Pressman. Together they discussed the fascinating and sometimes contradictory ways in which mushrooms are shaping our cultures and our world.
D U S K
Solo Exhibition at Blackfish Gallery
Each dusk is defined by the slow loss of light, the circadian return of darkness. And in the gloaming is a world apart. The creatures of the twilight occupy a separate ecology in the rising dim: ocelots, foxes, and fireflies awaken to the sweet air of vespertine jasmine. Fruit bats finding cactus flowers, barn owls gleaning lost mice: they only know dusk.