Fine art gallery exhibiting paintings, prints, photography and sculpture
Kent Lovelace - Luminous
June 5 - 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5, 6 - 8 PM
Nationally recognized Pacific Northwest artist Kent Lovelace (1953 – 2017) created masterful oil paintings, lithographs and watercolors during his life long career. From 2001 until his death in 2017, Lovelace painted with oil on copper plates. This technique dates back to the 15th century and has been practiced by artists such as Rembrandt and Goya. Lovelace’s masterful approach to painting is exemplified through his melding of rich color with the tone and luster of the copper medium, creating warm, airy, and romantic atmospheres that revere the natural world. Based on Whidbey Island, Lovelace depicted local landscapes and European vistas, from cultivated countryside to secluded wilderness, wielding the reflective qualities of copper to create luminous scenes. The exhibition, Luminous, features a robust selection of Lovelace's oil on copper works as well as a few examples of his oil on canvas paintings.
Lovelace expressed, “I find myself drawn to land that has been cultivated continuously for thousands of year, where people seem to live in harmony with nature away from the intrusions of modern technologies.”
Upcoming Exhibitions
NAHOM GHIRMAY - Home Again
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JOHN LYSAK - As Time Slows
July 3 - August 2, 2025
Artists' Reception: First Thursday, July 3, 6-8 PM
Nahom Ghirmay is Seattle-based artist, who was born in Asmara, Eritrea in 1993. His work in the exhibition, Home Again, is rooted in the emotional landscapes of identity, memory, and the longing for belonging, often reflecting on the immigrant experience, and the search for home. Ghirmay’s tender portraits and narrative paintings evoke mood through facial expression, gesture, and his unique painterly style. Through his paintings, the artist explores displacement through imagined sanctuaries where the inner child seeks refuge and the notion of home evolves.
As Time Slows in an exhibition of new work by Olympia-based artist John Lysak. Lysak’s soft, dreamy ink & watercolor, and acrylic paintings are saturated with pigments and reveal strong emotional undercurrents. His practice is marked by a gestural, process-driven approach that embraces spontaneity and experimentation. Drawing on motifs from nature—animals, landscapes, and florals—Lysak constructs layered, atmospheric compositions where saturated pigments and diffused contours evoke memory, mood, and the subconscious. Nocturnal scenes of moonlit skies hovering amongst darkened forests awaken deeper emotions and curiosities. Lysak’s use of melancholic palettes and fluid mark-making invites the viewer into a meditative visual terrain that is both intimate and expansive.
Previous Exhibition
Emily Wood - Time and Place
May 1 - 31, 2025
Artist’s Reception: Thursday, May 1, 6 - 8 PM
The exhibition Time and Place, is a collection of new oil paintings by Tacoma-based artist Emily Wood. Renowned for her unique use of color, Wood, skillfully transitions from soft tonal ranges to vibrant shades, capturing the essence of the diverse landscapes that define Pacific Northwest region and beyond. Wood’s colorist explorations span from the serene fields, lakes, mountains, and roads of Washington and Montana, to the vibrant terrain of distant lands abroad.
Wood brings these scenes to life through a range of brush techniques and curiously considered compositions. Her oil paintings are defined by a rich, saturated palette, simplified shapes, and deep, enduring shadows that enhance the emotional depth of each piece.