Shows, Exhibitions, Workshops & Publications
A Thousand Flames
My first book of poems will be published by Verdant Publishing this November.
From the publisher:
Corey Pressman writes, paints, and teaches, and all three inform A Thousand Flames, his debut collection. These are poems of secular devotion: a bird feeder named as the axis mundi, a god of the bees, an eschatology built from cattails and slow shade. Across twelve sections the book moves between a hilltop in the fog, a Neolithic town where weaving is the prayer, and desire lines crossing a map, holding each one long enough for the ordinary to turn strange.
"Corey Pressman is a magical human - magical art, magical writing. His finely made poems are bells of vision and clarity to help us 'stay the same changing.'"
—Naomi Shihab Nye
Book Launch
Saturday, November 7, 2026, 6:00 PM 7:00 PM at Up Up Books
If you're considering coming, feel free to RSVP here. Also, you can preorder the book today!
Intervals of Light
Intervals of Light
an Exhibition at The Art Center in Corvallis
This and that, here and there, in and out, and you and I: every apparent opposition indicates a continuum, a passing back and forth. Each bright between is a passage, an interval of light that is the true substance of our lives.
Book Launch
Come help us celebrate the launch of my first book of poetry! A Thousand Flames is being published by Verdant Publishing. This launch event will feature poetry reading, book signing, and general chatting.
Workshop: Waxed Powder Painting
This 2-day workshop offers an immersive introduction to Waxed Powder Painting, a medium combining powdered pigments and beeswax on paper. Participants move through a creative arc that begins with sharpening perception to develop abstraction and leads into full expression using the medium.
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.
Waxed Powder Painting and the Alphabet of Everything
This workshop offers an immersive introduction to Waxed Powder Painting, a luminous medium combining powdered pigments and beeswax on paper. Participants move through a creative arc that begins with sharpening perception and developing abstraction and leads into full waxed-powder expression.
The Alphabet of Everything
In this two-day workshop, participants will be introduced to The Alphabet of Everything, a process-based approach to abstraction rooted in sensory encounters with the natural world. Designed to unlock creative pathways across disciplines, the Alphabet of Everything method supports the emergence of abstract works in any medium, including visual art, writing, movement, and sound
The Alphabet of Everything: Art, Attention, and the Ineffable
This workshop at the historic Esalen Institute is an invitation into the space beyond language. Guided by The Alphabet of Everything, an approach to abstraction that requires deep attention, we will explore how every mark, shape, and gesture can be seen as part of a shared, primordial visual language, a living alphabet sourced from cracks in pavement, lichen on stone, diagrams, dreams, bones, shadows, and myth.
Anaphora: New & Selected Works
In rhetoric, anaphora refers to the repetition of words or phrases as a structure of meaning.
Aletheia
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral will present Aletheia, a solo exhibition by Portland artist and scholar Corey S. Pressman, on view from January 30 through April 27, 2026. A public Artist Reception will be held on Sunday, February 8 at 11:30 AM.