Fine art gallery exhibiting paintings, prints, photography and sculpture
HART JAMES - Poems of the Earth
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GREGG LAANANEN - Fire in the Moon
October 1 - 31, 2026
Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, October 1, 6-8 PM
Pacific Northwest artist Hart James channels elemental forces into bold abstractions. The artist explores the inherent connection between the individual and their natural environment. Her compositions rendered in oil and charcoal, evoke the movement of water, the whisper of air, and the enduring weight of stone. With a deep knowledge of the Northwest Mystics, she paints in an abstract manner to carry this tradition forward to the present. James’s work speaks of the energy of nature—every painting is an attempt to reunite with an existence symbiotic with the natural world.
Gregg Laananen is a self-taught artist living and working in the Skagit Valley. His artwork is informed by observations made from nature, automatic drawing, the role of chance and intuition, material investigation, as well as the interplay of different kinds of abstraction. Alternating between painting in the studio and out of doors, Gregg Laananen breathes life and color into the Pacific Northwest landscape with his visceral interpretations of water falls, forests, and isolated elements of nature. Plants, flowers and flumes are rendered with visceral, highly textured paint application in a style that values simplicity and immediacy. The artist also creates enchanting floral still life scenes. Lannanen’s surroundings and their emotional effect on him determine his approach, which can be described as neo-expressionist.
Upcoming Exhibition
LINDA JO NAZARENUS - Distant Visions
November 5 - 28, 2026
Artist Reception: First Thursday, November 5, 6-8 PM
Linda Jo Nazarenus creates richly detailed paintings of expansive landscapes and the wildlife that inhabits them. Influenced by the Northern European masters of the Renaissance, she builds her images through layers of thin oil glazes, rendering fur, stone, foliage, and atmospheric light with remarkable precision. Drawing on the landscapes of Sweden and the American Southwest, her work expresses both reverence for nature and a fascination with its mystery.
In Distant Visions, animals and landscapes are interwoven with human symbols of longing, memory, belief, and our desire to reach beyond the known. The Very Large Array’s dishes turn toward outer space; an obelisk marks the Trinity Site; a solitary church, a sacred tree near Pueblo ruins, a keepsake of a lost loved one, and Seattle’s Space Needle become charged with personal and mystical associations. Juxtaposed with animals and the natural world, these familiar objects and places take on an uncanny, otherworldly presence.
Nazarenus gives her animals an unusual sense of awareness, making them seem as conscious of the viewer as they are of their own precarious existence. Her landscapes similarly resist being merely scenic, becoming spaces of uncertainty, contemplation, and wonder.
Previous Exhibition
DAPHNE MINKOFF
Edges of Unmaking
September 3 - 26, 2026
Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, September 3, 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: Daphne Minkoff in Conversation with Amanda Knowles,
Saturday, September 19 at 2 pm
Collage with Daphne Minkoff: Friday, September 25,
5:30 - 8:00 PM at Harris Harvey Gallery
In Edges of Unmaking, Daphne Minkoff explores the ways memory accumulates within the built environment. Her mixed-media paintings examine urban landscapes in transition, tracing what remains after places begin to disappear. Drawing inspiration from boarded-up houses, aging storefronts, overlooked structures, and abandoned automobiles, the work reflects on the transformation of place and the quiet histories embedded within it. Many of the buildings depicted have already vanished, replaced by contemporary mixed-use developments and condominiums. Their absence raises broader questions about memory, identity, and what is lost when familiar spaces quietly disappear from the urban fabric.
Seattle Art Fair 2026
Lumen Field Event Center July 23-26
Join us at Booth #B11
