Shows, Exhibitions, Workshops & Publications
"Savage" Published, Named Kay Snow Runner-Up
My story "Savage" appears in Timberline Review no. 15 and was named Runner-Up for the Kay Snow Award in Non-Fiction, given annually by Willamette Writers.
Imagination, Mycelium, and the Mysteries We Share
Corey S. Pressman joins a conversation with Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith in the latest issue of Orion Magazine to explore the cultural surge of mushrooms—from science to story, from soil to symbol. Together, they trace how fungi are reshaping not only ecosystems but also our collective imagination.
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.
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.
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.
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.