*Held at the Nucleus House Gallery Location: 1137 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
December 5 - 28, 2025
Beachghost
Melbourne based artist Jack Howl makes art under the name beachghost. Working with traditional medium jack explores intersections between pop culture and mythology. Bright pastel colors mix with dark inks to twist and distort nostalgic childhood memories of popular media and folklore.
Creature Creature
CREATURE CREATURE is an artist duo based in Melbourne, Australia, comprising of Chanel Tang and Ambrose Rehorek. They have a collaborative art practice that spans across exhibiting art, murals, street art, design, and illustration. Their combined style is a convergence of Asian aesthetics and iconography with a Western perspective, resulting in works brimming with contrast and fluidity. The work embodies the concept of duality and the sum of a whole, emphasising messages of togetherness, states of balance, yin and yang. Through their partnership, they aim to preserve diversity and create expressions that are complex, layered, and interconnected, celebrating the beauty of unity.
Daniele Castellano
Daniele Castellano was born in Rimini in 1989. His inclination for drawing emerged in childhood and developed further during adolescence, when he began exploring other possible worlds through fantasy and science fiction. After earning his scientific high school diploma, he moved to Milan to attend the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in Painting.
The experience he gained at the academy allowed him to better define his interests. He realized that his strongest inspirations still lay in the illustrated books he read and admired as a child. In wonder, adventure, and the discovery of nature and the cosmos. He then decided to enroll at ISIA Urbino to study Illustration. It was in Urbino that he met Marco Bassi and Bruno Zocca, with whom—after moving to Bologna following graduation—he founded Ufficio Misteri, a collective dedicated to investigating the occult and the paranormal through graphite drawing.
Show Title: Earthbound Dracology
These five dragons do not fly.
All bear wings, yet all remain pressed to the ground: rooted, folded, listening to the
slow breath of matter. What emerges through the paintings is a Dracology of earth
— a mythology born from touch, smell, humidity, sediment, and the dense tactility
of guache and pastel.
Each dragon arises from a different state of matter:
- the Mother, dissolving into soil and moss
- the Father, born of bitumen, sulphur, and broken stone
- the Keeper, curled on the seafloor around shells of hidden light
- the Son, blossoming from gas and residue into blue fire
- the Elder, resting between autumn trees, a guardian of memory and peace
Together, they form a cycle of origins, erosions, preservations, combustions, and
returns.
They are spirits of a world before symbols—creatures halfway between geology and
biography, where the strata of earth mirror the strata of the self.
