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Julie Alexander is an artist and an artists-curator working in . She has poster. Her solo exhibitions include “Native Tongue” at CoCA, exhibited in Seattle, Brooklyn, Miami, Michigan, Ohio, Paris, and Cyprus. She “Borrowed Tribe” at Gallery 4 Culture, “Tender Buttons” at ArtXchange has curated in Seattle, Brooklyn, and Miami. Julie started The Alice gallery in Gallery and “Assorted Idols” at Moses Lake . Laura’s “Urban Georgetown with Julia Freeman in 2015 and is a past member of SOIL gallery. Visionary Art” have been featured on the Seattle Channel’s “Art juliealexanderart.com Zone” and on the “Civic Square Fence” project as public art. In addition, she has appeared in several publications including the Dutch magazine “Textiel Juan Alonso-Rodríguez arrived in the United States from his native Cuba on Plus” and Seattle’s “City Arts”. Both Laura’s works and paintings are March 2, 1966, exactly one month before his tenth birthday, leaving behind currently shown at ArtXchange Gallery, located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer his immediate family. He is a self-taught artist whose transition from music Square. lauracastellanos.com to visual arts coincided with his move to Seattle in 1982. His work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Latin America and is included in Jaq Chartier’s paintings explore scientific methods through experimentation the permanent collections of the Tacoma , Portland Art Museum, with paint and process. All of her works are “tests” to discover something Museum of Northwest Art, Microsoft, Swedish & Harborview Hospitals, about materials and what they do. Inspired in part by images of DNA gel General Mills and has created public works for Century Link Field, Seattle/ electrophoresis, Chartier investigates the migration of various stains through Tacoma International Airport, King County Housing Authority, Epiphany layers of paint and acrylic gels. Her paintings have been featured in major School, Sound Transit’s Light Rail system and Chief Sealth High School exhibitions including: Genipulation: Genetic Engineering and Manipulation in commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission. His awards include a Contemporary Art, at CentrePasqueArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel Bienne, 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Neddy Fellowship, PONCHO Artist of Switzerland; Genesis - Die Kunst der Schšpfung (The Art of Creation), at the Year, two Artist Trust GAPs, a 4Culture Individual Artist Grant, a Centrum Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; Diagnose [Art]: Contemporary Art Foundation Residency and most recently, the 2016 Artspace Dejunius Reflecting Medicine, at the Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany; and Gene(sis): Hughes Award for Activism. In 2015, he completed artist residencies for the Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, which traveled from the Henry City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture and Town Hall Seattle. As of January in Seattle, to the Berkeley Art Museum, Weisman Art Museum, 2016, Juan serves as Seattle Arts Commissioner and is also member of the and Block Museum of Art. Her paintings have been featured in books and Public Art Advisory Committee for the City of Seattle. juanalonso.info publications including Molecular Aesthetics, by Peter Weibel & Ljiljana Fruk, Art+Science Now, by Stephen Wilson, and Art in the Age of Technoscience: Sean Barton: Overloaded with the volume of information and influences Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, by available at our fingertips today, and the voyeurism encouraged by this Ingeborg Reichle. Her work has been collected by Microsoft, The Allen overload, Barton focuses his recent work on the material world and his Institute, Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck), the Progressive Art Collection, immediate surroundings. Turning inwards, Barton registers and catalogs Charles Schwab, and many others. jaqbox.com objects and events in his environment—a form of visual photography based on personal observation and the spaces he inhabits. Much of his current Claire Cowie’s paintings, prints and address ambiguities in work is a response to Barton’s day-to-day working environment, a studio out perception, environmental concerns and the fragmentation of memory and of which he produces hand-painted signage. He is conscious of and draws time. She is a Full-Time Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Program on the mishaps and detritus that accumulate in this space - spills, palette at the and is represented by James Harris Gallery marks, discarded tape, cigarette butts. Both the vernacular and materials of and Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Awards include a Pollock-Krasner Grant and the sign trade inform his work. Using materials such as glass, gold leaf, paint, fellowships from Washington State Arts Commission, Artist Trust, Seattle foam, canvas, and printed material, he creates work through a process of Office of Arts and Culture and the Behnke Foundation. Cowie’s work is bricolage. He is drawn to the unpredictable outcomes that theses materials, included in the collections of Twitter, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Henry sites and histories suggest. He describes his process in terms of “catch” Art Gallery, Microsoft Corporation, Swedish Cancer Institute, Tacoma Art and “release”—the transformation of work which takes place between the Museum and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Reviews have appeared in moment of inspiration and the final product. Often, the act of execution Art in America, Artforum, Artweek, and Los Angeles Times. clairecowie.com alone becomes the driving force behind creating new work. Eschewing Timothy Cross is a Seattle based artist working in drawing, painting, any traditional working order, Barton creates drawings spontaneously and and video. timothycross.org initiates and executes paintings swiftly, moving quickly from one series to the next. In this method of production, his working timeline is a blurred Carole d’Inverno has had numerous solo and group shows in the United continuum. He asks the viewer to make an imaginative whole out of States and is the recipient of many awards and honors including : National disparate parts drawn from observation, the working space and process. Competition Winner “The Art of Ivy Side” solo show at PENN State Altoona, seanbarton.work PA; solo show at SUNY Rochester Monroe College, Rochester, NY; fellowships and residencies at La Playa (Summer Lake, OR), Willapa Bay Air, (Willapa, Gala Bent was born in Michigan in 1975 to a scientist and musician. Gala WA), La Playa (Summer Lake, OR), the Vermont Studio Center, (Johnson, became an artist as a way of processing the world. In her current work, she VT), the BAU Institute (Otranto, Italy), Starry Night (Truth or Consequences, has worked with both musicians and scientists, with a distinct fascination NM), and the Wassard Elia Center (Ascea, Italy). d’Inverno has an upcoming for systems, patterns and complication. Gala teaches and runs the first year solo exhibition at Black Lab Gallery in Everett, WA as well as a group show program in visual arts at Cornish College of the Arts and is represented by G. at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY. In 2017 she will be an artist in Gibson Gallery in Seattle. galabent.com residence at the Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. Her work Kelly Björk: kellybjork.com is in the public collections of Microsoft Art Collection, Kirkland, WA; Group Health Headquarters, Seattle; Swedish Hospital,Seattle; the Seattle Susanna Bluhm is an artist living in Seattle. She earned her BA in Studio University,Seattle; and in private collections across the US and . Her Art from California State University Humboldt and her MFA in Painting from work can be found at the SAM Gallery as well as studio-E in Seattle, WA. the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been an Artist-in- caroledinverno.com Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and at the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin. Her work is represented by G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle. Sue Danielson is a Western Washington native who lives and works in She was the 2014 recipient of the Neddy Artist Award in Painting. Originally Seattle. Her process-based abstractions explore the contradictions of life. from Los Angeles, Bluhm has lived in Seattle since 2006 with her wife and She is represented by Bridge Productions. suedanielson.net son. susannabluhm.com Linda Davidson has been living and working in Seattle since 1997. She is Alexi Brown-Schmidt: Born 1980. Whidbey Island, Wa. BFA Pratt Institute, NY. currently represented in Seattle by g.gibson gallery. lindadavidson.com alexibrown-schmidt.weebly.com Pat De Caro’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited throughout Lisa Buchanan: Mainly a painter for over twenty five years. As well, have the United States and Europe; in Seattle, she exhibited at the 4 Culture done installations seen in Seattle, NYC, and Brooklyn, NY. Current shows Gallery and regularly at Francine Seders Gallery until it closed. She has include Cut-Out at Gallery One Visual Arts Center, video for Take Three at been awarded artist residencies at Ateliers Hoherweg (Dusseldorf), the Northwest Film Form, and currently working on interactive installation for Ragdale Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Pilchuck School of Glass. 9e2 at the King Street Station in Seattle. lisa buchanan.com She has created commissions for the Washington State Arts Commission and the Corporate Council of the Arts. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Buddy Bunting is an artist best known for his large scale paintings of Atelierhaus Hoherweg, Galleria 10.2 and Galleria Bazart in Milan, the Missoula prisons in the American west. He studied painting at the Maryland Institute Art Museum, and The Evergreen State College. Her awards include the John College of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving an M.F.A. from and Yvonne Twining Humber Award from Artist Trust, has received grants the Boston University College of Fine Arts. His work has been shown at the from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, NYC, and the Ford Foundation, a Tacoma Art Museum, PS122 in New York, and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, purchase award from the Seattle Arts Commission, and has been a finalist VA. He has received grants regionally from Artist Trust, the Washington State for the Neddy Award. Pat also won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Painting to Arts Commission, 4Culture, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. Italy. patdecaro.com He lives and works in Seattle, Washington. buddybunting.com Tom DeGroot is a Seattle resident, bus driver and long-time student of Zen. Cuban-American Laura Castellanos moved to Seattle in 1991 where her work These works reference his lifelong interest in the effortlessly beautiful soon became part of several public collections including the Tacoma Art patterns that develop from the interaction of natural processes and our built Museum and the City of Seattle. Laura is a “Pollock-Krasner Grant” recipient, environment. tomdegroot.com and travergallery.com a “Neddy” nominee, a “GAP” recipient as well the creator of the 1993 annual American Painting Today about the artists DiPietro - Long

Nathan DiPietro: dipietroart.com Victoria Haven: Whether tracing the corridors of real or imagined mazes, polygonal shapes or three-dimensional forms, Victoria Haven’s practice Susan Dory is a painter born in Oklahoma City, OK, who has lived in Seattle, revolves around drawing, but is rarely confined to lines across a single plane. WA for over 25 years. Susan received her BA from Iowa State University and Often based on walks near her native Seattle, personal narratives, musical studied painting in Vienna, Austria. susandory.com and winstonwachter.com or filmic references, her works nevertheless sit squarely within the abstract Gary Faigin’s work is in many public and private collections including register. Some images suggest cinematic origins, as in her Jump Cuts series King County Portable Works, Tacoma Art Museum, and the Microsoft Art of ink on paper drawings, with titles referencing screenplay directions: “CUT Collection. He has taught at Pratt, has received a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, TO: High Angle/Car Moving Along Road”, for example—while others, such and is represented by Traver Gallery in Seattle. garyfaigin.com as the Rabbit Holes series, describe a metaphorical journey taken during Sasha Ferré’s work explores the encounter between digital space and real the labor-intensive production of the works with their masking and layering space from a human perspective. She finds inspiration in the history of of paint. Current projects and exhibitions include “Blue Sun” at the Olympic painting and the current landscape of social media. Originally from Paris, Sculpture Park Paccar Pavilion, Seattle; Victory Garden at Planthouse, NY and France, Ferré moved to the United States in 2014. She holds a BA in Art “Selections from the collection of Prints and Drawings” at The Metropolitan History from La Sorbonne University in Paris and a BFA from Cornish College Museum of Art, NY. vichaven.com of the Arts in Seattle, with an emphasis in painting. She divides her time Colleen Hayward: colleenhayward.com between Seattle and Paris and is currently working on a series of paintings, Harold Hollingsworth: b. 1965. BA Western Washington University drawings, and ceramic pieces that consider the relationships among artist, 1989. Galleria Potatohead 1990. Linda Farris 1991. Elizabeth Leach viewer, subject, and painted object. sashaferre.com Gallery 1996. Ester Claypool Gallery 1997. Zinc Contemporary 2016. Denis Fitzpatrick: denis-fitzpatrick.squarespace.com haroldhollingsworth.tumblr.com Edwin Fotheringham: Once a painter, then an illustrator, then sometimes a David Hytone: I received my BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and person pushing shapes around when not gainfully employed. UW School of Design in 1991 after studying painting and stone carving at the Osaka Art / 1986 BFA. edfotheringham.com University of Arts in Osaka, Japan. That seems like ages ago. For many years Neal Fryett received an MFA from the University of Washington in 2011 and the focus of my time and attention was on the performance of music, but that was a fellow in the Art and Law Residency Program at Fordham Law School hasn’t been the case since moving to Seattle in 2009. Did I mention I was in 2014. ​Exhibitions or performances include​:​ Glass Box, Klowden Mann​​​​, OK born in Des Moines, Iowa? Well, I was. In 1967. Since November of 2014 I have Hotel, ​, Worksound International,​ Greg Kucera and Jacob been the host of The Makers Podcast, a series of conversations with artists Lawerence Gallery. nealfryett.com and other creative types. You should check it out. davidhytone.com Ben Gannon attended Whitman College on the President’s Scholarship Barry Johnson: barryjohnson.co for Art, where he co-founded the arts periodical Quarterlife Magazine. In Claire Johnson is a Seattle painter, member of Soil Gallery since 2003 and a 2012, he returned to the and art-making after spending 2015 GAP Grant recipient. clairejohnsonart.com a few years in Chicago. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Leena Joshi is an artist and writer living in Seattle, Washington. bengannon.weebly.com leenajoshi.com Karen Ganz’s work is influenced by 1920s cartoon and comic strip Ken Kelly: Painter. Born 1955 in Arkansas. Seattle artist since 1981 characters. She works often with large canvases and collage, using ink drawings overlaid with bright colors. Her paintings and drawings invoke a Amanda Knowles earned a MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin- sense of nostalgia, humor, and concern for the predicament of the “common Madison and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has received a man.” Ganz was born in Riverside, California in 1963. She received a BA grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation as well as three GAP grants from from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and an MA (1987) and MFA Artist Trust. Knowles has taught classes and workshops, has held several (1988) from the University of Iowa. She was a member of the faculty of the artist residencies, and has been a visiting artist at universities around the UW School of Art from 1988 until 1995. kganz.com United States. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle and Guthrie T. Michael Gardiner: seattle bumbershoot poster with art chantry, 1984. nea Contemporary in New Orleans. Knowles currently teaches printmaking and grant:painting, 1989. visiting artist, central wa.univ., 1990. painted “modern drawing at North Seattle College, and is the director of the North Seattle odyssey’s” city bus, seattle, 1992. freelance illustrator, the new yorker College Art Gallery. amandaknowles.com magazine, 1993-1996. gottlieb grant:painting, 2007 Paul Komada was born in Seattle. In 2002, he completed MFA program at Emily Gherard: gherard.com the University of Pennsylvania. Between 2003-06, he worked at a Buddhist Klara Glosova is a Czech-born visual artist currently based in Seattle. She temple in Tokyo. Today, he lives and works in Pioneer Square. Paul paints is a founder of NEPO House and is always interested to see what happens geometric abstraction. However since he started knitting as an alternative when you place the inside out, invite the outside in and generally do things to painting while he had became a stay-at-home dad for his son in 2007, he backwards. Her work intertwines her personal history of political activism has incorporated knitting into the paintings. Now, he continues to combine in Eastern Europe with her experience as an artist and mother and (above knitting and painting in his studio exploring the boundary between Art and all) a curiosity and playfulness that extends to both concept and materials. Craft. He has since been extending his search of “hybrid paintings” into Klara was awarded Seattle Magazine’s 2013 Spotlight Award, Seattle Art digital media using chroma-key tool. Paul combines his photos and paintings Museum’s 2014 Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award and was nominated in the computer and produces a video of the process inquiring the meaning for 2015 Stranger Genius Award. klaraglosova.com of the Painting as an enduring art form. He has exhibited works in Seattle, as Preston Graves grew up in Tempe, AZ. BFA School of the Art Institute well as internationally in Toronto, The Hague Netherlands and Kobe Japan. In of Chicago. MFA University of Oregon. Live and work in Seattle. 2015, he was a finalist for the Neddy Award and a nominee for the Northwest prestongraves.com Contemporary Art Award and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. In 2016, Paul’s works were selected for the NW Biennial “Art Now” at Robin Green: robingreen.net Tacoma Art Museum and he is selected again as a finalist for the Neddy Cable Griffith is an artist, curator, and educator living and working in Award. Currently Paul is preparing a solo exhibition, “The Monument in Seattle, WA. He received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the Memory: Abstract Alaskan Way” at Gallery 4Culture in Seattle in June 2017. University of Washington. Griffith currently teaches at Cornish College of the paulkomada.com Arts and is represented in Seattle by G. Gibson Gallery. cablegriffith.com Terry Leness received a BA in Art History from Harvard in 1981 and began Peter Gross paints paintings in Seattle, lives with Susan, father of Curran and painting full time in 2008. Her work explores the territory of contrasting is represented by Linda Hodges. peterfgross.com bright light and shadow, and her buildings, trailers, and eccentric landscapes are alive with saturated color and hidden meaning. She currently resides in Francisco Guerrero was born in National City, CA. He received his MFA from Seattle and is represented by Linda Hodges Gallery. terryleness.com UCSD. Francisco works as an Associate Professor at Seattle University and works through all dimension. francguerrero.com Margie Livingston received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholarship in 2001, the Arts Patricia Hagen is a Seattle based artist working in painting and sculpture. Innovator Award in 2010, the Neddy Fellowship in Painting in 2010, and the Her current work is landscape based and the pieces are imaginings of a Betty Bowen Annual Memorial Award in 2006. She is represented Luis De not too distant future in which the impacts that result from the imbalance of Jesus Los Angeles and by Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle. margie.net natural forces and the man-made effects on those forces are fully realized and evident. patriciahagen.com Sara Long works and lives in Seattle, Washington. She was born and raised deep in the Redwood forest of Humboldt County. She received her BFA in Laura Hamje - Texas --> Seattle - hamje.com Painting and Drawing from the UW in 2008 and later opened Blindfold Gallery Alfred Harris: alfredharris.com with Laura Hamje and Scott Burk. She is currently working on a series of narrative self portraiture. When not working, Sara enjoys Seinfeld, magic mushrooms, and walk-talks with friends. saraannlong.com American Painting Today about the artists Lorefice - Osha

Michael Lorefice: Originally from Upstate New York, I graduated a long Juried Exhibition-in-Print, No. 68. His work was reviewed in the New time ago with a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.F.A. from the York Times, in 2007, and Art in America in 2003 and 1999. Miller’s awards Memphis College of Art. My current work continues to explore the space include a Seattle Arts Commission award in 1991. In 1992 and 1993 he won between representational and abstract painting, incorporating still life residencies at the MacDowell Colony. In 1995 Miller was awarded a grant and photographic processes. This confluence between art and science by Artist Trust and a visiting Assistant Professor position at the University continues to fascinate me, with the overlap between the real and implied, of Oregon. In 2000 Miller was awarded a Juror’s award by the Bellevue Art the natural and the fabricated. There is an element of mystery that surrounds Museum. In 2001 Miller was awarded the “Neddy Fellowship in Painting” the photographic image and its subsequent offspring; it is entrenched by the Behnke Foundation. In 2006 he won a Seattle Arts Commission in the history of painting and has been a constant companion since its Public Purchase Award and in 2012 and 2015, and he was awarded Gallery inception. I’ve exhibited my paintings, drawings, and videos in solo and 4Culture exhibitions in 1993 and 2013. Miller’s work is included these group shows in and galleries across the United States including: collections: ArtColl Trust, Microsoft Collection, Safeco Collection, Seattle Second Story Contemporary and the Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Bill and Tennessee; John F. Peto Studio Museum in Island Heights, New Jersey; Ruth True, and the University of Iowa. whitelead.com/markmiller Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; Interstitial Theatre; The Wright Philip Miner: philipminer.com or season.cz Exhibition Space; Kirkland Arts Center; Pratt Fine Art Center; Ouch My Eye; South Seattle Community College, in Seattle, to name a few. In addition to Jeffry Mitchell was born in Seattle. He received his MFA in printmaking at the being a past featured artist in New American Paintings, I’ve been an artist- Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. For more than twenty- in-resident at Arquetopia, Oaxaca, Mexico; the Saltonstall Foundation in five years Mitchell has produced idiosyncratic sculptures, drawings, and Ithaca, New York and the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In prints. His oeuvre seamlessly combines high and low references that span recent years I’ve been heavily influenced by traditional and contemporary religion, sex, nature, fine art, and folk and decorative arts traditions. Mitchell Mesoamerican art, and I’ve made six trips to Mexico in the past eight years has been nominated for numerous national awards and was a recipient of to independently study and work in the country. I also find that my teaching a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2009. Mitchell’s work can be found in has strongly influenced the work that I make – I’m a Senior Lecturer and numerous private and public collections including the , Adjunct Professor at Digipen Institute of Technology, teaching art history Philadelphia Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), and the and drawing to B.F.A. students in game design and animation. In addition to Portland Art Museum. this, I have taught studio art classes in drawing and painting at the Memphis Ryan Molenkamp is an artist from Washington State. His subject matter is College of Art and at Seattle-area art centers, including Gage Academy of largely informed by his interest in landscape, geology, and development. Art; Kirkland Arts Center; and Pratt Fine Art Center. Instagram: #lofi_lorfi Molenkamp earned a BFA from Western Washington University and has michaellorefice.com exhibited in the Seattle area at Linda Hodges Gallery, The Whatcom Museum, Ray Mack (b. 1985) grew up weird in the small town of Ellensburg, Gallery4Culture, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Vermillion and Kirkland Arts Washington. She received her BA in Studio Arts from Bard College and Center and SOIL. He has also exhibited at Chucifritos Gallery (New York, her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2012. Mack’s NY), Collar Works Gallery (Troy, NY), and will be showing at Duplex Gallery work combines a childish sense of humor and style with the oil painting in Portland, OR in 2016. Molenkamp was awarded a residency at Jentel in technique, compositional eye, and art historical references of a well trained 2012 and has had artwork and writing published in Art Ltd. Magazine, Seattle and highly skilled artist. Using what she calls a “shoplifting mentality toward Magazine, and City Arts Magazine. In January 2015, after 13 years of of making,” her paintings riff off works by well known dudes, using humor to working at The Frye Art Museum, Molenkamp quit his day job to focus on his insert her own perspective into a male-dominated view of the art historical art career full time. He resides in Seattle with his wife. ryanmolenkamp.com canon. Integrating recognizable historical elements, these paintings Abraham Murley was born in Victoria British Columbia and lives in Seattle. transform the source material from well understood cultural documents to He received his BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, and his MFA ambiguous markers of a contemporary moment. The material is the past but in painting and drawing from the University of Washington. He has recently the product is the present. Her work has been exhibited and published both had solo exhibitions at Winchester Galleries in Victoria, Skagit Valley College internationally and nationally. whoisraymack.com Art Gallery, and A Gallery in Seattle, and shown his work in group exhibitions Molly Magai: I make paintings of landscapes dominated by cities, roads, at Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle and Plank Gallery and Pierre’s Lagoon in industry, and the living things that inhabit them. While depicting the strange Georgetown. abrahammurley.com beauty of the industrial landscape, I consider how the structures we create Brian Murphy: paintbrianmurphy.com affect ourselves as well as the natural world. The paintings depicting scenes from the road are based on photographs that I take from a moving vehicle. Tuan Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Rockledge, Florida. Handicapped by the car’s movement, the camera creates inadvertent He received his BFA in Painting at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and effects, such as unexpected colors, halos, and blurs. These effects give his MFA in Painting at the University of Washington, Seattle. His artwork has the paintings a sense of speed and unreality. Molly Magai’s paintings have been exhibited nationally in venues in Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, been featured in at venues including studio e, Linda Hodges Gallery, and WA; and St. Louis, MO. Nguyen lives and works in Seattle. doglegnexus.com Gallery 110 in Seattle, Centennial Center Gallery in Kent; Denise Bilbro Fine Sarah Norsworthy is an artist from Anchorage, Alaska currently living in Art and ABC No Rio in New York City; Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Seattle, Washington. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth Massachusetts; the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, Vermont; College in 2002, and earned her MFA in painting and drawing at the and Collar Works Gallery in Troy, New York. She received a BA in painting and University of Washington last spring. Previous to her return to Seattle for drawing from Bennington College and attended the State University of New graduate school she taught art to adults with developmental disabilities in York’s Studio Program at Empire State College in New York City. She has been Fayetteville, Arkansas. She is a painter who also often works with an artist in residence at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts in Leavenworth, and other materials to create clothing, assemblage, and built environments. Washington and a juror for the Kent Summer Art Exhibit. mollymagai.com sarah-norsworthy-ppxe.squarespace.com Marisa Manso: marisamanso.com Nicholas Nyland lives and works in Tacoma, WA. His work regularly Sherry Markovitz: Born in in Chicago to a a traditional Jewish family. I had references historical or craft sources to produce images or objects that tend a somewhat independent and visionary mother who gave the three of us to defy easy categorization and run at the margins of sculpture where is music lessons, hebrew school (upper and lower) and summer camps that overlaps with abstract painting. His artwork has been included in exhibitions were both physically and culturally oriented. I found the Art Institute on my throughout the region including the Tacoma Art Museum, Bellevue Art own. My father had a business of his own and went along with my mother Museum, and the , Seattle. A 2012 Solo exhibition at Prole and when he didn’t go along my mother fought hard for us. I came to Seattle Drift, Seattle was reviewed in Art in America magazine. Recent public in 1971 and attended the U of W for an MFA in printmaking. I met and married projects include temporary works for the Olympic Sculpture Park and ALL the sculptor, Peter Millett in 1980. We had a son, Jacob in 1988. We are a RISE, Seattle. Nyland received an Artist Trust Fellowship in 2008 and was a productive family and Jacob has become an artist as well. I exhibit with Greg finalist for the 2013 Contemporary Northwest Art Award.nicholasnyland.net Kucera Gallery and have shown nationally and internationally. Helen O’Toole was born in the west of Ireland. Her work is represented by Rachel Maxi: I have been working as an artist in Seattle for 25 years. I am Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland. She lives in Seattle and is currently Professor mostly known for urban landscape imagery, paintings of Dumpsters and of Art and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Program at the University of mundane scenes rendered realistically. But that has been changing as I Washington. helenotoole.com have recently shifted to abstraction. After surviving a serious accident a Matthew Offenbacher seeks constructive, positive positions at often difficult year ago, I realized it was time to make changes and start exercising my intersections of individuals, communities and institutions. His work has brain differently. I’m excited about this new direction, and exploring a new been called “freakishly egoless”, vulnerable, funny and queer. Offenbacher language to express what I love. rachelmaxi.com grew up in Portland, Oregon and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Mark Takamichi Miller is based in Seattle, Washington. Solo exhibitions helloari.com/~matt include 21 solo shows across the country including gallery shows in Shaw Osha: Painting: impulse, stickiness, squinting, movement, Chelsea (NY,NY) and Chinatown (LA). He was included in New American distance, stickiness; then what? It makes me want to cry and keep going. Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, No. 67, and New American Paintings, shawosha.com American Painting Today about the artists Ottersen - Ziegler

Michael Ottersen: I was born in Massapequa, Long Island in 1956, and spent Ann Leda Shapiro: Artist/Acupuncturist - East Coast/ West Coast - City/ most of my youth in Norwalk, Connecticut. I went to college in Philadelphia, Country annledashapiro.com at Tyler School of Art and was able to spend 3 semesters in Rome in Tyler’s William Erickson Shields was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire. He now overseas program. I lived and worked in New York City from 1980 to 1992 lives in Seattle, Washington. williameshields.com and worked in magazine production and design, for publications such as Artforum, Art News, and Metropolis, while maintaining a studio and art Jennifer Beedon Snow: Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Beedon Snow holds a career and beginning an exhibition history. In 1992 I moved to New Mexico BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work can be found in many and supported myself through book design work and illustration, and still public and private collections, including the City of Seattle and the 4Culture pursued a fine art career. In 1997, I relocated to Seattle, Washington and Harborview Medical Center collection. lindahodgesgallery.com began teaching at various schools and colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Whiting Tennis was born in Hampton, Virginia, the second son of an I am represented in Seattle by Season gallery. michaelottersen.com and Episcopalian Minister, raised in Buffalo, and attended high school and season.cz college in Seattle (BFA, UW). In 1990, at the age of 30 he moved to New York Doug Parry was born on September 24, 1964 in Auburn, Washington. In City to pursue a career in painting, and remained there until 2004, when he 1988 he received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington. returned to the Northwest, where he presently lives, plays music and makes Between the years of 1988 and 1997, he enjoyed success as a young artist art. He is currently represented by Derek Eller, NY and Greg Kucera, Seattle. in Seattle and exhibited at: The University of Washington; The Bellevue Art Gillian Theobald: gilliantheobald.net Museum; The Seattle Art Museum; The Center of Contemporary Art; Linda Farris Gallery; and Linda Cannon Gallery. In 1997, Parry moved to Brooklyn, Kate Thompson: Always painted. Also like to make little machines. And New York where, in 2000, he received his MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. science. Like science. katethompson.com Since then he has exhibited in: Seattle; New York (including New York City, Kimberly Trowbridge was born in Everett, WA in 1979. She is a two-time Brooklyn, and Roxbury); Chicago; Vancouver Canada, The Armory Show NYC Neddy Award Finalist (2016, 2014). She is the Director of the Trowbridge (at the original Lexington Avenue Armory location for the 100th Anniversary Atelier of Contemporary Painting through Gage Academy of Art. She leads Exhibition) and Art/Basel Miami Beach. He has been awarded grants from: plein-air painting tours in Spain and Portugal. She will have a major painting Pratt Institute (NY); The Joan Mitchell Foundation (NY); and Artists’ Trust exhibition in the summer of 2017, in Twisp, WA. Trowbridge is also a member of Seattle. He was also the Resident Curator at: the Historic Cedar Tavern of the band My Future Self. She loves painting in the countryside and the Gallery (NY), Bandoleone Restaurant (Seattle) and is the founder of V.A.G. sound of wind and birdsong. kimberlytrowbridge.com (Visual Art Gallery) at its first location, at Bar Sputnik (Brooklyn). Parry Catherine Uehara: ccuehara.blogspot.com taught Life Painting at: Hofstra University (Hempstead, L.I., NY); College of Saint Elizabeth (Morristown, NJ); and Pratt Institute (Brooklyn). He Claude Utley: 1955 Born in Seattle, Washington. 1955-1969 Lives in Seattle currently teaches painting at DigiPen Institute of Technology (Redmond, ( with a half year in Florence, Italy, at age 2). Father, Windsor Utley, was WA). His private and public collections include placements in homes and an active Artist/Musician in the N.W. 1969 Moves to Salt Spring Island, businesses in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, B.C.,Canada. 1972 Begins first oil painting. 1977-78 Lives in the Skeena Valley Chicago, New York, London, Russia and Rome. Doug Parry is a sought after and Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) of northern British Columbia. portrait artist commissioned by noteworthy businesspersons, doctors, 1978 Moves to Victoria, B.C., Canada. 1978-80, 83-84, Attends the Victoria writers, actors and musicians internationally. His work has been seen on College of Art. Instructors include artists Jack Wise, Jim Gordaneer and Bill television, in film, on album covers, t-shirts, and posters since 1983. Porteous. 1978-88 Lives and works in Victoria B.C. 1988 Returns to Seattle. His work is represented by Republic Worldwide (New York City) and by 1988-Present, Lives and works in Seattle. utleygallery.com NeoImages Gallery (Santa Barbara, CA). Mr. Parry currently resides in Auburn, Joey Veltkamp is a queer folk artist based out of Seattle who makes soft Washington. dougparry.neoimages.net paintings (flags, blankets, banners) which are meant to provide comfort to Forrest Perrine (me!) is an artist who saw Dolly Parton when she the marginalized. His work has been shown at the Frye Art Museum, Tacoma came to town in September and had full-body chills for three straight Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Greg Kucera Gallery, SOIL Gallery, and others. hours. He also runs the new outdoor “gallery” series Outer Space Seattle Art Museum recently acquired his quilt, GLACIER. He is overly fond of (outerspacegallery.tumblr.com). forrestperrine.com and @forrrrrest rainbows and bourbon. joeyveltkamp.com Mary Ann Peters: maryann-peters.com Margaret Watson: I have been painting paintings for the last 15 years after working in printmaking and fiber arts. I have a studio in Building C in Ballard Trung Pham was born in Vietnam. His family immigrated to the United States and representation with Gallery I/M/A in Pioneer Square. My work translates in 1990. He received his MFA in drawing and painting at the Pratt Institute in the traditional deep space of landscape into abstracted, formal relationships. New York, NY. He received his MDiv and STL in Theological Aesthetics from I am interested in how simple constructs evoke space allowing materials to the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. Pham’s immigrant experience guide my process. mwatsonstudio.com and spiritual devotion have profoundly influenced his artistic practice. His figurative sculptures capture the grace and complexity of the human Brad Winchester: Process and phenomenology emphasizes the equal experience and his paintings explore spirituality in a series of vividly colored importance of actualization and conceptualization in my work. Self- and densely painted organic shapes. Pham was a resident artist at Fuller created systems of understanding and discovery churn thoughts of labor, Institute and Grunewald Guild and is currently an Assistant Professor at painting, craft and ritualism. Brad Winchester lives and works in Seattle, WA. Seattle University. trung-pham.com bradwinchester.com Philippe Pirrip is a recent graduate of MFA program in Painting and Drawing Robert Yoder is an artist living in Seattle Washington. His paintings and at Central Washington University. After receiving his BFA from Austin Peay collages have been shown across the country and internationally and are State University in 2012, Philippe has continuously exhibited his work in in numerous private and public collections including Boeing, Microsoft, many regional and national juried shows. He experiments with various Neiman Marcus, Twitter and the Seattle Art Museum. His work is included in materials and mediums, in response to his immediate surroundings to create the book-arts collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the poured paint-made objects that exist in the space between painting and New York City Library System. Robert has received many awards including sculpture. His work references gender identity, sexuality, and language, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant. His work is represented by Frosch & while refraining from traditional figurative representation. He explains Portmann in New York and Zurich, and Platform Gallery in Seattle. In 2010 his artistic approach as “a visual play of identities,“ and, “a resistance to Robert opened the gallery, SEASON (season.cz) to promote local artists to conform to literal figurations of what is and what has been depicted as the world and introduce international artists to Seattle. SEASON produces at being queer. Working closely with members of his community, Philippe least four shows a year and participates in art fairs. robertyoder.net has also actively participated in and organized numerous community Claude Zervas is a multi-disciplinary artist currently living in Seattle. engagement projects, such as Ellensburg Community Radio, Artober claudezervas.com Nashville, Handmade & Bound, Art ConFab, PechaKucha, etc. His drag persona/spirit animal, Gymora Bitchaven, has been featured near alleyway Ellen Ziegler’s work investigates the psychological and physical world dumpsters of Ellensburg, WA, and Nashville, TN. For more information, through drawing. She is also an award-winning maker of artist’s books, in please visit his web blog at philippepirrip.com or follow him on Instagram collections nationwide. Ziegler was featured Out of Sight 2016 during the @philippepirrip. philippepirrip.com Seattle Art Fair; at 9e2:art/science/technology, 2016; at the 2011 Paper Biennale in Sofia, Bulgaria; and in One and Other, curated by Antony Gormley, John Radtke graduated from Cornish with a focus on sculpture in 2013, he London. Awards: 2015 Artist Trust Fellowship in Visual Arts, Foundation for continues to manically obcess over and anxiously avoid art. johnradtke.com Contemporary Art Travel Grant, Rome Fellowship from the Civita Institute, Andrew Rubinstein: Grew up in Milwaukee Wisconsin, received MFA 1996 Artist Trust Fellowship in Design, Artist Trust GAP Grants, 4Culture Individual from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Live on the east side with a Artists Grants. Recent curatorial projects include Synaptic Lexicon at 9e2, lot of kids a lot of animals and a beautiful wife. andrewrubinstein.com King Street Station, October 2016. Ziegler is a member of SOIL Gallery in Seattle. Her books are represented by Vamp and Tramp, Birmingham, and Peter Scherrer: B. 1983 Bellingham, WA. Currently residing in Bellingham, WA. 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland. She has been a graphic designer since 1977. BFA 2005 California College of Arts, San Francisco. Painting since 1992. Also ellenziegler.com enjoys fishing, roadtrips, frogs, his kid, family.thepeterscherrer.com