artist gallery
drop in and view artwork Tuesday through Friday after 2:00
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featured artist
nOV 22, 2023 - jan 20, 2024
MARC STERLING
PHOTOGRAPHY
ARTIST RECEPTION No Artist Reception scheduled |
Through photography, I seek to discover the beauty in a landscape or subject, and to reveal its life and story. I search for nature’s paintings and try to capture how the light graces it, how the world surrounds it and its soul.
I find that a good image provides a window to a world away and can capture for all time, its experience, awe and wonder. I’m inspired mostly by painters who paint landscapes and common subjects, and who reveal the mood, emotion and essence of the moment. When developing an image, I search it to discover its story. I work with it to allow what lies within, the community of living that exists there, its textures and touch and mood, to be revealed. My images tend to be peaceful – and hopefully, reveal a world of wonder and beauty. |
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featured artist
oCT 6 - nOV 22
THE WIRE LADY - ELIZABETH BERRIEN
THE WIRE ZOO
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Elizabeth Berrien is a world renowned wire sculptor. Her strikingly innovative wire sculpture helped launch wire sculpture as a dynamic art form, the ideal feature for spaces enhanced by substance, yet not overwhelmed by volume. The artist enjoys collaboration with architects and design teams to create award winning installations and projects. Each Berrien wire sculpture begins with the joining of two strands of wire. Then another, and another, until hundreds or even thousands of wires are involved.
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featured artist
aug 18 THRU sept 29
tom fath
ARTIST RECEPTION Friday, Aug 18th 5:30pm-9:00pm |
Tom Fath’s work includes ribbon installations on wood found in old barns and paintings on canvas. The images he employs arrive totemic, two dimensional interpretations of urban culture and natural themes. Pieces of a puzzle that when finished, makes statements about our culture and nature. His narrative registers the relevance and the power of redemption and reclamation, as a universal emotional need for our times. The simplicity and symbolism of these images communicate the forces of destruction and resilience, the duality of the human experience and the constant putting pieces of life together everyday. Invoking both the Japanese kintsugi and wabi-sabi concepts, the damage and repair, the beauty and decay, the acceptance of flaws and the non-attachment to perfecting experience, are manifested in all his works.
Kenyon College BA Pratt Institute MS Thank you to all who stopped in |
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featured artist
june 1 THRU August 4
carole landisman
FOLDING IN
ARTIST RECEPTION Saturday, June 10th 5:00pm-7:00pm |
My artwork examines distortions of perception due to the limits of our physicality, our personal biases, and changes in perspective (both concrete and metaphorical). The multi-chrome pigments cause these works to change their appearance as the viewer moves past or sees them under different illumination over the course of the day. These changes speak to the malleability of our perception and it’s sensitivity to context and time.
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featured artist
MAR 31 THRU MAY 25
JOHANNA PORTER
Transitory Nature
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One of my earliest ecstatic memories as a child is sitting alone in a sea grape tree. I held the branches, listening and observing, and suddenly became one with the tree: the warm breeze in my face, the slight vibration of leaves, a nearby mockingbird singing its endless song. My artwork is a manifestation of experiences discovered during deep immersion in nature. The repository of color, form, pattern, texture and quality of light are imprinted upon my subconscious and translate into subtle layers of meaning- emotions driving the artistic journey forward. My world view is one that respects organic processes, intuition and collaboration, celebration of diversity and holistic connections. My art holds a mirror to those values.
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featured artist
feB 10 THRU March 30
JIMMY ULVENES & Abby wolf
Places to Go, Places to See
ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, February 17th 5:30pm-8:30pm |
JIMMY ULVENES
Jimmy is a local artist who has shown his work throughout the Puget Sound for over 20 years. He is known for his landscape and seascape paintings, where he typically places the viewer right in the middle of the scene. “Amidst all of our strife and fear, especially in the last few years, Nature continues to do what she does. Leaves fall, flowers bloom, and the tide comes in and out. I find a great deal of comfort and reassurance from that. “ ABBY WOLF
I’m a seventeen year old artist who lives in Olympia. I’m taking art classes at Avanti High School and am currently doing an apprenticeship with Jimmy Ulvenes. My work always centers around people’s perception of each other. Most of the time this manifests as the way I see myself and how I imagine others see me. Two of the pieces in this show are of myself, but even the ones that aren’t are inspired by how I view the world and situations I’m in. |
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featured artist
dEC 10 THRu FEB 1
CELERY JONES
i like it
ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, January 13, 2023 5:30pm-8:30pm Thank you to all who stopped in |
I'm interested in just about everything. Fascinated by life itself, I like to learn about my environment and dig meeting people and learning their stories. Chances are good I'll like what they like, too. Raised in Appalachia, then moving from Kentucky to rural Wales, on to London, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and now Olympia, I had the opportunity to try all sorts of cultures and geographies. Across the board, I like it! Hence the collection presented here. It may seem all over the map, but that's how I operate: trying different styles and techniques depending on which way the wind blows.
For the last 10 years I've made paintings, created murals, and developed creative outlets for television, film, and print. I deliver whatever the script calls for. It may be a velvet painting of a barbarian, a traditional victorian portrait, or even an abstract piece meant to convey a particular emotion based on color and mark-making. I've been fortunate to develop skill in various styles, and I don't limit myself to one look. Why? Life is short- may as well do what I like. |
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featured artist
SEPT 19 THRu NOV 14
DAVID NOAH GILES
abstract & landscapes
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My painting is rooted in my early life experience, amidst the sights and sounds of New York city where I absorbed the loud rhythmic symphony of the subway, the constant construction and destruction of buildings. Moving through diverse crowds that interplay global cultures also had a profound effect. The exciting sounds of Jazz, Rock and Latin music permeated my being. To this day I carry these influences within me and express them in my art.
My Non-figurative paintings employ a methodology that is determined by past breakthroughs, discoveries and successes. I have developed my own lexicon of calligraphy, broken geometric forms, spatial relationships as well as line and color. During the past several years I have added paper collage. I cut angular and organic forms from various kinds of fine art paper to interrupt my painterly approach and change the rhythmic structure. This adds additional elements to the surface giving it texture, depth and pattern. My method is to selectively hide and reveal areas of collage to incorporate them into the total fabric of the composition. My process is a continuum that allows room for growth. I aspire to continue to create new works of subtlety, beauty and power.
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featured artists
July 20 THRu sept 14
judith rayl |
the bridge |
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Judith is driven by the creative expression of well-being through art.
She is an emerging photographer who discovered her artistic identity at age 50. Her photographs are naturally abstract images found at the confluence of the built world and our environment. Through her intuitive single-capture photographic process, Judith documents the transformative capabilities of the natural world.
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COLLEEN MONETTE |
FOUNDation |
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“Human flourishing is the epic marker on your work, investing in the ups and downs.”-Royal Alley-Barnes, CoCA Seattle
I am a salvage artist. My style of collage and assemblage, my aesthetic, is much like a historian or archaeologist, to preserve what I unearth. There’s a deep connection I feel to the past, the beauty and the decay. Bits of ephemera, some centuries apart, are combined through folding, tearing, layering and peeling back, exposing an identity lost and creating a new history. Found materials are moved around like puzzle pieces looking to fit. The Japanese word, mottainai, meaning ‘too good to waste,’ was used to describe boro fabric: textiles that have been mended and patched over and over. This resonates with me, so every scrap of antique paper, vintage fabric or rusted bit is saved until it finds a home in my art. I also feel the importance of using the original materials, not copies, to lend authenticity to myself and the voice and life of the original owner. Colleen is a Seattle-based artist working with found and salvaged vintage and antique materials for assemblage and collage art as well as encaustic painting. Her work has been published in art books/magazines and she has shown throughout the Northwest, France and Scotland. In 2018 Colleen was accepted into a two week residency at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. She balances her work between her home studio and her studio at Fogue Studios and Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood, where she also teaches encaustic painting. |
A JOINT ARTISTs RECEPTION wAS held saturday, AUG 20, 2022 |
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featured artist
mAY 1 THRu jULY 18
nancy romanovsky
woods & water
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The Woods & Water show presents landscapes of the Western States: forests, trees that form them, and rivers that feed them. It features scenes at Nancy’s tree farm here, in western Washington, as well as the terrains she hiked through in Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon. In addition to larger pieces painted in studio, the show includes smaller studies and plein-air works.
Nancy Romanovsky is an award-winning American landscape artist. Her paintings are held in private, nonprofit, and corporate collections in the USA, Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Italy, and Russia. Nancy began oil painting at an early age and later studied art at Arizona State University, the Scottsdale Artists’ School, and privately with several American artists. In 2012, Nancy left her career in marketing to pursue painting fulltime. Her oil landscapes have rapidly become popular due to their unique style. Honest and non-pretentious, they expose the beauty of nature through a combination of light and shadow, with serendipitous plays of color.
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featured artist
mAR. 7, THRU aPR. 30, 2022
NASRIN TABATABAIE
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After migrating to America and living in a different environment ...
she was inspired by her new place of residence; being in nature, she started painting with a new abstract style and color combinations. Nasrin Tabatabaie's passion for art and painting began as a teenager, but it wasn't until 2010 that she became a professional painter and
continued her real style. In 2019, she became interested in making decorative and resin paintings. She began exploring a combination of modern and rural subjects through texture and color, creating works that tell a different story to each viewer.
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featured artist
ongoing
Kelly rigg
Olympia blacksmith Kelly Rigg hand-forges metal art and sculpture, plus functional items such as gates, rails and garden hardware.
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featured artist
jan. 4, THRU feb. 15, 2021
jan carlton
A View From Olympia
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"Color helps to express light...
not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that is in the artist's brain." -- Henri Matisse Jan Carlton favors a loose impressionistic style, focusing on vibrant colors and the effects of light. Her subjects are mostly landscapes and still-life's.
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featured artist
NOV. 1, THRU DEC. 10, 2021
katherine ransom
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We belong to the elements...
earth grounds and holds us, water provides and heals us, air revives and sustains us and fire fuels and humbles us. Katherine creates expressionist works of art, primarily using oils and mixed media. Her concentration on earth, air, water and fire are informed by her lifelong passion for nature.
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