Fine art gallery exhibiting paintings, prints, photography and sculpture

Wendy Thon - Silence & Song

March 7 - 30, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, March 7, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, March 9, 2-4 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 16, 2 PM

Silence & Song, by Seattle-based artist Wendy Thon is a new collection of acrylic paintings, which springs from the Japanese concept of Forest Bathing; a practice of mindful time spent in nature paying attention to the sights, sounds, smells of nature as a peaceful antidote to the stress of modern life and inspiration for forest stewardship. 

Thon’s work expands these ideas through a broad spectrum of intimate encounters, taking the viewer on a journey from the Hoh rainforest to stands of cedars in Seattle parks; Hawaiian beaches to red rock deserts; backyard gardens to deep dives in small ponds. The work is personal yet universal, charged with emotional energy through her varied palette and the combination of the real and the imagined.


Upcoming Exhibition

Gary Faigin - Smoke and Mirrors

April 4 - 27, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, April 4, 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 13, 1 PM

In Smoke and Mirrors, Pacific Northwest artist Gary Faigin, continues his series of allegorical paintings using trains as the central character.  At times sinister, heroic, or completely incongruous, Faigin’s trains dominate their surroundings, whether it be urban, pastoral, or the High Arctic.  Steam engines puff across the frozen ocean or fragile ice bridges, inescapably reminding us of the role of industrial civilization in the increasing threat to such landscapes.  A black engine racing like the Batmobile emerges from a tunnel, it’s energy and drama tempered by the ominous red smoke belching from its stack.  An approaching train catches a lone figure in its beam, while strange skyscrapers of the future loom in the distance. 

Faigin’s paintings use the seduction of chiaroscuro and heightened color to engage us in his troubling narratives; beauty coexisting with the mechanical beast calling out a unwelcome future. 

 

Previous Exhibition

Daphne Minkoff - Façades

February 1 - March 2, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, February 1, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, February 3, 2-4 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 24, 2 PM

In the exhibition Façades, Daphne Minkoff explores unconventional beauty in her mixed media paintings of vacant houses and buildings in the ever-changing landscape of Seattle. Many of the boarded-up structures the artist has captured have since been demolished and replaced by sleek, multi-use facilities and condominiums, all in the pursuit of urban density. This transformation raises questions about whether what is being lost surpasses what is being built.

The artist shares, “I reflect on the duality of the meaning ‘Façade,’ as both the front of a building but also as something false or superficial. The idea that a home or structure is fleeting, and merely provides the illusion of safety and protection, is something I think about a lot - all things in life are in a constant state of flux-there are only moments of stability.” In her paintings, Minkoff examines an awareness of what it means to wait, to confront change, and perhaps even a tangible sense of hope for what changes may bring once the waiting is over.