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Ralph Pugay: ShangriLIEF
November 8—December 20, 2025
Ralph Pugay (b. 1983, Cavite, Philippines; lives and works in Portland, OR) returns to Adams and Ollman with ShangriLIEF, an immersive drawing installation that transforms the gallery walls into a constellation of imagined makeshift temples. Painted directly onto the walls, large-scale backdrops evoke fractured utopias—part memory, part myth—while layered networks of drawings on paper affixed to the walls pulse with tender absurdity. Pugay's practice—rooted in culturally hybridized, queer, and internet-native perspectives—collapses popular phenomena, historical trauma, and mundane observation into nonlinear fables.