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Aubrienne Bergeron is a Portland-based artist working across mediums with a focus on watercolor. Her practice has long explored landscapes through light, color, and atmosphere, creating dreamlike spaces that feel both intimate and otherworldly. Recently, her work has begun to shift toward more personal symbolism, exploring themes of memory, ghosts, and ritual.
Much of Bergeron’s work is created on a smaller scale across a range of materials including paper, wood panel, and raw canvas. She works in a fluid, intuitive style that allows paint and ink to ebb and flow. While guided by controlled brushwork, the process also responds to the movement and behavior of the materials themselves.
Bergeron often approaches art as a kind of charm or talisman—an object imbued with intention, memory, and quiet magic. Like a crystal placed on a windowsill, a grandmother’s rosary carried during travel, a love note hidden inside a book, or a necklace set with a birthstone, her paintings operate as personal symbols meant to hold meaning and presence.
Her current body of work reflects her daughter’s fascination with planets and celestial objects, intertwined with their shared timeline together. Expanding on this theme, Bergeron frequently returns to recurring images drawn from dreams and memory, including the moon, fire, heritage, and the feminine experience.
Featured Artwork at Bushwick Gallery
Title: Peony in Ink I
Year of Creation: 2026
Medium: Mixed media, paper on wood panel
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in
Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
Location: Portland, OR
Price: $620
Description
Peony in Ink I draws from Bergeron’s memories of her grandmother and the quiet rituals of spring. Peonies were always present in her grandmother’s home, often arranged in simple glass vases that filled the room with softness and color.
Years later, when Bergeron moved into her current home, a single peony plant appeared unexpectedly among newer plantings in the garden. The moment felt like a small synchronicity, a quiet reminder of her grandmother’s presence. This painting serves as a gesture of acknowledgement, a way of returning that memory through image.
The composition begins with watercolor and black ink applied fluidly to paper. The shapes move freely across the surface, creating forms that feel both botanical and dreamlike. Acrylic paint is then layered behind the paper as the background before the work is mounted onto wood panel.
Through this layered process, Bergeron creates images that feel suspended between memory and symbol. Peony in Ink I functions as both a floral study and a personal charm, an object that carries intention, memory, and emotional resonance.
Title: Peony in Ink II
Year of Creation: 2026
Medium: Mixed media, paper on wood panel
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in
Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
Location: Portland, OR
Price: $620
Description
Peony in Ink II continues Bergeron’s exploration of personal symbolism through botanical imagery. Like its companion piece, the work is rooted in memory and the quiet emotional presence of family history.
Beginning with fluid watercolor and black ink on paper, the forms are allowed to emerge organically through gesture and movement. The delicate washes of color create a sense of dream space, where botanical shapes dissolve into abstraction.
The paper is later mounted onto a wood panel and paired with an acrylic background that adds depth and structure to the composition. This layering technique reflects Bergeron’s interest in transparency, materiality, and subtle color shifts.
These works mark the beginning of a new collection in Bergeron’s practice, one that moves away from atmospheric landscape painting toward more personal and symbolic imagery. In this evolving body of work, recurring motifs drawn from dreams, family memories, and the natural world begin to appear as quiet visual talismans.
Bio
Aubrienne Bergeron is a Portland, Oregon–based artist working primarily in watercolor, acrylic, and ink. Her work explores landscapes, dream spaces, and personal symbolism through a fluid and intuitive painting style.
With a background in design and a former focus in lingerie design, Bergeron draws inspiration from delicate materials, soft color washes, and the layered emotional language of the feminine experience. Her work is also deeply shaped by her proximity to the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest, as well as by dreams, memory, and personal symbolism.
Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions and has been sold through platforms including Artsy and 1stDibs. Bergeron’s paintings are held in collections internationally, including in New York, Berlin, Barcelona, Philadelphia, and San Diego. She is currently developing new bodies of work exploring celestial imagery, shared timelines, and the concept of art as a protective charm.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Soft Shadows
Theme: Where light meets quiet transformation. This exhibition explores the subtle tension between illumination and restraint, examining moments where growth and clarity unfold without spectacle.
Media: Painting, sculpture, photography, installation
Exhibition Dates: March 19 to March 26, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6 PM to 8 PM