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Volume 30 July • August 2021 Number 4

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FEATURES Features Black Refractions | Frye Art Museum …Susan Noye Platt 6

Spafford & Mafford | Perry and Carlson …Chloé Dye Sherpe 8 Salty Dog Studios | Modern Glaze …Edie Everette 10 Sarah Jones | Bitters Co.

…Chloé Dye Sherpe 12 Kurt Solmssen • “Labor Day” oil on linen, 50 x 70 inches The DeConstructed Art Fair 14 Promised Gift to BIMA Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Write of Way Bainbridge Island, WA …Marylou Sanelli 15 “If I could say it in words VISUAL ART

there would be no reason to paint.” Listings Alger • Anacortes • Bainbridge Island, WA 16 – Edward Hopper Bellingham, WA 19 American painter and printmaker (1882-1967) Bremerton • Camano Island, WA 20 Edison • Edmonds, WA 21 Everett • Friday Harbor, WA 22 Front Cover: Gig Harbor • Kingston • Kirkland, WA 23 Kurt Solmssen • “Bliss House Morning” oil on linen, 70 x 68 inches La Conner • Langley, WA 24 Courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery Lopez Island, WA 25 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Bainbridge Island, WA Lynden • Mercer Island • Mount Vernon, WA 26 Ocean Shores • Port Orchard, WA 27 Kurt Solmssen: The Yellow Boat Port Townsend, WA 28 July 2-September 22 Poulsbo, WA 29 Seattle, WA The Clown in Me Loves You • Ballard • Columbia City 30 Nancy Callan & Katherine Gray • Downtown 31 July 2-September 26 • First Hill • Georgetown 32 Every Day & Special Days • International District • Pioneer Square 33 July 2-September 22 • Shoreline • University District 38 Sequim • Stanwood • Tacoma 39 Trimpin: Hear & Now

MAPS July 2-September 26 Maps Bainbridge Island, WA 16 Selections from the Mercer Island, WA 26 Permanent Art Collection Poulsbo, WA 30 July 2-September 26 Downtown Seattle, WA 31 Georgetown / Seattle, WA 32 BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 34 MUSEUM OF ART 550 Winslow Way • Bainbridge Island, WA (206) 842-4451 • Daily: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • Special Thanks Free Admission • www.biartmuseum.org Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Karen Stanton, www.biartmuseum.org Cheryl H. Hahn, Gregory Hischak, Rose McAleese, Leah Mattheis, Gwen Wilson, Art Hanlon, Michael Kaminski, Publisher Annie Grosshans, Mary Lou Sanelli, Clare McLean, David John Anderson, Hugh Hossman, Alec Clayton, Debbi Lester Sean Carman, Kathy Cain, Tom McDonald, Elizabeth Bryant, Deloris Tarzan Ament, Susan Noyes Platt, Molly Norris, Art Access • (888) 970-9991 Ron Glowen, Adriana Grant, Molly Rhodes, Lauren Gallow, [email protected] Milton Freewater, Chris Mitchell, Mitchell Weitzman, Rachella Anderson, Kim Hendrickson, Christine Waresak, Box 4163 • Seattle, WA 98194 Alan Chong Lau, Eleanor Pigman, Edie Everette, Sept./Oct. info and payment due August 10. Katie Kurtz, Chloé Dye Sherpe, Shelly Leavens, Meg McHutchison,Tammy Spears & Shauna Fraizer, Listing in Art Access is a paid service. Bill Frisell & Carole D’Inverno, Steve Freeborn & Tia Matthies, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Schack Art Center, The charge for 60 word listing per month is , , $39 or $51 with map placement, if available. Frye Art Museum, , Allied Arts of Whatcom, Cascade Art Museum, Initial map placement one-time design fee is $35. Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, Danny Lester Image(s) with the listing: $110 each. Limit 4. Debbie & Richard Vancil, Corbin & Georgie Hart (Happy Birthday!), Ryan Vancil (Happy Birthday & Anniversary!), Submission and payment are done online: Madeline & James Pratt, Cayden, & Alder www.artaccess.com/submitprintad

2 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 3 George Rodriguez installing his artist Scott Filipiak artist Christopher Sternburg-Powidzki Tininha SIlva with her artwork artist David Traylor artist Melissa Josephy artist Jesselyn Helms “El Zodíaco Familiar” exhibit Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Glasshouse Studio • Seattle, WA North wind Art holding his sculpture in her studio in her studio Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA Columbia City Gallery Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Bellingham, WA Seattle, WA

(L-R) artists Carrie Goller and Max Hayslette artist Karen Hackenberg with her paintings Tara McDermott with her artworks The Black Tones perform in artist Donald Cole with his painting Carrie Goller Gallery • Poulsbo, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Columbia City • Seattle, WA Gary Simmons: The Engine Room ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, WA

Abbie Birmingham with her prints (L-R) artists Craig Rogers and Dave Russell Jeremy G. Bell and ArtXchange artist Saya Moriyasu in her studio Gallery Onyx co-founder Earnest Thomas Columbia City Gallery • Seattle, WA Crescenda Gallery • Kingston, WA owner Cora Edmonds J. Rinehart Gallery • Seattle, WA Gallery Onyx • Seattle, WA ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA

artist Jeremy G. Bell artist Joyce Hester artist Meg Kaczyk artist Lezlie Jane with her paintings artist Shirley Sakatani with her paintings ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Northwind Art Grover Gallery in her studio Fogue Gallery • Seattle, WA Collective Visions Gallery • Bremerton, WA Port Townsend, WA Northwind Art • Port Townsend, WA

artist Lanny Bergner artist Dawn Endean with her paintings artist Troy Miles at Gallery Onyx • Seattle, WA (L-R) artist Etsuko Ichikawa Tyson Grumm with his painting Scott Milo Gallery Art• Anacortes, Access WA ©Columbia July City Gallery• August • Seattle, WA 2021 Art andAccess gallery owner ©Judith July Rinehart • AugustPatricia 2021 Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA 5 4 J.Rinehart Gallery • Seatle, WA the range of approaches seen in “Black Coachman leaping over a high bar (she Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture for Refractions:” realism in Jacob Lawrence, broke the record at five feet six and a half decades, led artists to simply look out the figurative collage by Romare Bearden, inches. The painting also subtly refers window or walk the streets for material and abstraction by Norman Lewis. His to overcoming barriers for all Blacks. for their paintings. One of my favorites Blue and Boogie, named after a famous Among other well-known artists here are is Jordan Casteel’s “Kevin the Kiteman.” jazz piece by Dizzie Gillepsie and Frank Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Many current superstars held residences Paparelli, also points to another theme Carrie Mae Weems, Barkley Hendricks at the Museum including Kehinde Wiley, that permeates the exhibition—music. and Fred Wilson. Titus Kaphar and Mickalene Thomas In the next gallery, Benny Andrews’ (All of these artists have shown at the “Composition (Study for Trash)” ). Chakaia Booker’s immerses us in a strange sight: the Statue extraordinary sculpture of rubber tires of Liberty, flaming torch aloft, crosses evokes black hair with the double take her legs sitting atop a globe held up by title “Repugnant Rapunzel (Let Down headless white man wearing only boots. Your Hair).” In a shaped gap below her, men are hauling on a load we can’t see. The fascinatingly complex Kenyan Barkley L. Hendricks • “Lawdy Mama,” 1969 One of many studies for the mural Trash, Wangechi Mutu has a small bronze oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53.75 x 36.25 inches sculpture of a “nguava,” a mythical The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Stuart Liebman, one panel of Andrews’ twelve-part iconic in memory of Joseph B. Liebman © Estate of Barkley L. creature, and a large intricate watercolor/ Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate, Jack Shainman and sardonic “Bicentennial Series” of the Gallery, New York and American Federation of Arts early 1970s, it immediately tells us of collage, “Magnificent Monkey-Ass Lies.” Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA both the radical attitudes of the artist, and Take a side trip to see her life-size the activist roots of The Studio Museum bronze sculpture, “The NewOnes, will Black Refractions Otobong Nkanga • “House Boy,” 2004 free Us: The Seated IV” at the University itself. Benny Andrews co-founded the watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper,12.375 × 9.25 inches Frye Art Museum The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martin and of on West Stevens Way Black Emergency Cultural Coalition in Rebecca Eisenberg, photo credit: Sasha Jelan

Frye Art Museum • Seattle, Washington Frye Seattle, Washington just east of 15th Avenue NE. response to the Metropolitan Museum © Otobong Nkanga., courtesy Otobong Nkanga, Lumen Travo, and American Federation of Arts exhibition “Harlem on My Mind,” of Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA African American and diaspora artists We are so fortunate to have “Black 1968 which, astoundingly, completely have come a long way since the protests “Their Own Harlems” includes heavy Refractions: Highlights from The Studio excluded Black artists. of “Harlem on My Mind.” This exhibition hitters like Lorraine O’Grady, Chris Museum in Harlem” at the Frye Art demonstrates the breadth, variety, and Ofili, Willie Cole, Betye Saar, and Faith Museum (until August 15). Delayed for a brilliance of some of those artists Ringgold. Ringgold’s early quilt, a final year by the pandemic, we can now enjoy from The Studio Museum’s collection. collaboration with her mother, celebrates this selection of world-class artworks Don’t miss it! from The Studio Museum in Harlem’s the diversity of Harlem. Dawoud Bey’s outstanding collection. Founded in small 1970s photographs of ordinary Susan Noyes Platt the watershed year of 1968 by artists, people in Harlem build on the work of Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www. activists, and philanthropists, The Studio the famous Harlem photographer James artandpoliticsnow.com and for local, Museum’s mission is to provide a place Van Der Zee (also included here), and national, and international publications. lead directly to his major works today for “artists of African descent locally, “Black Refractions” is on view Thursday (He just had a one person exhibition at nationally, and internationally.” It has through Sunday from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Henry Taylor • “how i got over,” 2011 the Whitney Museum). long been an anchor of culture of the acrylic on canvas, 56.125 × 75.5 inches until August 15 at the Frye Art Museum African diaspora, led by a succession of The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg © Henry Taylor The next gallery honors a series of Studio located at 704 Terry Avenue in Seattle, dynamic curators and directors. courtesy American Federation of Arts Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA Museum shows known as the “F” shows Washington. For more information and In the first gallery a selection of work by “Freestyle” (2001), “Frequency” (2005– to reserve a timed ticket, visit www. Not far away Elizabeth Catlett’s life size the Founders of the museum introduces 06), “Flow” (2008),” Fore” (2012–13), fryemuseum.org. mahogany Mother and Child, instills and “Fictions” (2017–18).” Their purpose immense tenderness into this familiar was to reach out to young artists of subject. In stark contrast, Melvin African and Latin American descent. The Edwards welded steel “Cotton Hangup” inclusion of diaspora artists emphasizes menacingly hangs from the ceiling nearby. the museum’s commitment to reach into The next section, “Abstraction,“ the world, even as it is embedded in highlights that the museum’s early years its own geography. Nigerian Otobong included the peak years of abstraction Nkanga’s small watercolor “House Boy” in the arts, and Black artists made it of a headless child with multiple arms their own. Such well known artists as each pursuing a mundane chore, contains the sculptor Richard Hunt, and painters a world of references. William T. Williams, Charles Alston, The last gallery “Artist in Residence,” Sam Gilliam, and Jack Whitten dazzle us features artists who have worked at the Kerry James Marshall • “Silence is Golden,” 1986 with their complexity and subtlety. Jordan Casteel • “Kevin the Kiteman,” 2016 acrylic on panel, 49 × 48 inches Studio Museum from the early 1970s up oil on canvas, 78 x 78 inches The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the Artist, “Framing Blackness,” opens with a vivid to the present, a concept pioneered by the The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase photo credit: Marc Bernier © Kerry James Marshall with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, painting by Henry Taylor of the 1948 abstract artist William T. Williams. The photo Credit: Adam Reich © Jordan Casteel and American Federation of Arts courtesy American Federation of Arts Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA Olympic gold medal high jumper Alice museum’s physical location in the heart of Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA

6 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 7 But like Spafford, Mafford focuses on each site and then had the monumental the compositions in his photographs. task of blending their two mediums to He can capture a specific moment in convey an ancient story. After taking the time while also alluding to the unknown time to identify the physical locations, outside the borders of the picture plane. Spafford then painted on the photographs, The dynamic and mysterious images a challenging task. The resulting artworks often comment on the passage of time are gestural yet removed, timeless but and nostalgia; two fascinating themes in also a moment in an ever-changing connection with mythology. landscape. One aspect that this viewer finds very fascinating is the In 2000, the two artists juxtaposition of perspective were awarded a grant from in the work. Spafford’s the Behnke Foundation compositions are composed which provided them the of minimal and direct opportunity to collaborate. shapes and lines, while The pair and their families Mafford’s photographs went on an adventure to (L-R) Michael Spafford and Spike Mafford making images on location at one of Hercules’ Temples portray a vast landscape Greece to find the sites in the Greek Peloponnesos • photo by Lisa Dutton that the viewer imagines of the labors of Hercules, extends far beyond the Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford: Collaborations 2001-2021 an ancient epic that is also frame. This tension makes one of Spafford’s main Perry and Carlson • Mount Vernon, Washington the collaborations even subjects. In essence, more dynamic, as there What does a successful collaboration Hercules must undertake is an inherent push and require? How can an epic and ancient tale twelve labors that are pull occurring throughout. be combined with a moment captured in seemingly impossible, the present? The upcoming exhibition including kidnapping In addition to the labors at Perry and Carlson in Mount Vernon Cerberus and defeating the of Hercules, the pair also addresses these questions and more. Lernaean Hydra. Finding revisited another Spafford The show provides guests with an the sites was not easy. series: “The Swimmers.” opportunity to experience a collaboration According to Mafford, the Like Hercules, Olympic by two well-known Northwest artists artists used both ancient swimmers vanquish natural working in drastically different media: and contemporary maps to elements to obtain victory Michael Spafford and Spike Mafford. identify possible locations. and then are celebrated From 2000 to 2021, these artists went on After asking a few locals, for their achievements. an adventure of collaboration. To many, they finally found the site of Photographs of water are photography and painting have almost each labor, which Mafford overlayed with black paint no attributes in common, and yet these then photographed to that must have been

artists decided to combine their talents to Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford capture the landscape as a challenging to channel on connect Spafford’s epic masterpieces with “Temptation of Odysseus” background for Spafford. the slippery surface. All Mafford’s ability to capture the moment. watercolor, archival ink jet print, 23 x 18 inches, 2021 Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford Perry & Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA Back at the studio, Spafford “Washington Labors of Hercules #6 Vertical” these artworks provide a painting the characters on archival ink jet print, oil woodblock print, unique opportunity for the Michael Spafford’s work is iconic and fundamental theme is masculinity, or the large photographs. 11.25 x 30 inches, 2011 viewer to gain insight into instantly recognizable, especially in the perhaps how our idea of masculinity has Perry & Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA various artistic practices. Northwest. Rooted in Greco-Roman influenced popular thought about war, sex, It is interesting to note that the act of There is something compelling about epics and mythology, his work utilizes and the concept of achievement through finding the locations, photographing reducing an epic to its visual, formal qualities ancient themes to comment on issues herculean effort. But Spafford describes them, and then painting over the and then placing that composition on top in our contemporary society. Often the himself first and foremost a formalist, photographs is epic. Like a work of of a photograph of the physical backdrop. meaning that the formal qualities of his performance art, the artists journeyed to This artistic test raises numerous work are his focus. Spafford achieves his

Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford at Perry Carlson • Mount Vernon, Washington Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford at Perry Carlson • Mount Vernon, questions about abstraction, realism, the aesthetic goals through line, composition, visual passage of time, and how concepts color, shape, and balance, not through the are communicated in art. It is certainly a content of his work. This is one reason collaboration that should not be missed. this collaboration is so interesting. In contrast to Spafford, Spike Mafford’s Chloé Dye Sherpe Chloé Dye Sherpe is a curator and art photography focuses on the real and professional based in Washington State. the physical. In fact, the differences between their chosen mediums are “Michael Spafford & Michael Spafford: a topic of conversation between the Collaborations 2001-2021” opens Saturday, father and son pair. The methodology August 7, 2-5 P.M. at Perry and Carlson of painting is inherently different than located at 504 South 1st Street in Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford photography. The evidence left by the Michael Spafford & Spike Mafford Mount Vernon, Washington. Visit www. “Labors of Hercules #7” artist’s hand and how each medium “Labors of Hercules #6” Type-C color print and oil paint, 30 x 30 inches, 2001 Type-C color print and oil paint, 30 x 30 inches, 2001 perryandcarlson.com for more information. Perry & Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA communicates ideas are also different. Perry & Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA

8 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 9 10 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 11 aspects of the installation feature three space, which is filled with white, flowing main themes of the artist’s body of banners. The interior space becomes a work: botanicals, the documentation white meadow moving with the wind of loss that is often seen or referenced blowing in from the outside. The scene is through memento mori imagery, and intended to be comforting and familiar, the invisible. These ideas come together like curtains on a windy summer day. to create a powerful statement about However, there is still an undercurrent climate change and how people can of loss in the work. The banners are emotionally move through the loss. suspended to occupy a liminal space in the loft. Not quite grounded, they aren’t on the same plane as the viewer. At the same time, the scene is both sad and comforting as if Jones is assisting the viewer through the process of grief. According to Jones, we can create meaning out of loss. In her statement for the show, she writes about the importance of the Skagit Valley and how Sarah Jones • “W(h)ither The Garden” (detail of installation) thread, silk banners, 84 x 36 inches each the act of traveling to such a serene and Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, WA nostalgic place helps guide the viewer through this experience. The pastoral, the W(h)ither The Garden nostalgic, the closeness of the water, all Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, Washington these factors create an atmosphere for the viewer to encounter this challenging message. The relics created by Jones are a As art venues open and restrictions are contemporary memento mori, a soothing lifted, there are many exciting art events Sarah Jones • “Baroque Tulip” mixed media and plant parts on paper, 16.5 x 11.5 inches reminder that the meadow is withering. in the area visit. If you live in Western Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, WA Wither to the garden to experience both Washington and want to take a road its beauty and its loss. This play on words trip in the beautiful The works on paper are reminiscent of early botanical drawings. An attempt to poetically summarizes the artist’s thesis summer, please consider making Skagit and bids the viewers to enter the meadow. County that destination. There are document newly discovered plants and several art events that deserve your time animals, these drawings blended scientific Chloé Dye Sherpe and attention. One such art experience observation with artistic expression. Chloé Dye Sherpe is a curator and art Sarah Jones at Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, Washington Sarah Jones at Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, is a quick drive across the river from However, Jones’ works take on a different professional based in Washington State. downtown Mount Vernon. Here you meaning. A mix of dried and pressed plant “W(h)ither The Garden” opens Saturday, find the Bitters Co. barn where Sarah specimens, cut-outs of plants in paper, July 17, from 12-3 P.M. at Bitters Jones’ installation, “W(h)ither The drawings, and pieces of tape used to Co. Barn located at 14034 Calhoun Garden” is being exhibited. The title of adhere the materials, these works take on Road in Mount Vernon, Washington. the show is inspired by an essay about a more documentational quality than some The exhibit is on view Thursday through gardening during times of war by English early botanical images. In a conversation Sarah Jones • “Anthology #1” with the artist, Jones described these as Monday from 12-4 P.M. For more author Vita Sakville-West and is meant to mixed media and plant parts on paper, 16.5 x 11.5 inches information call (360) 466-3550 or email evoke both sense of loss and hope during Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, WA archival and a way for her to detail loss. [email protected]. times of deterioration. A historic barn There is beauty in this work; the materials Bitters Co. is a design and product are dissected and then rearranged in in the pastoral Skagit Valley creates the development company based in Skagit perfect setting for Jones’ installation. various scenes and compositions. But Valley. Amy and Katie Carson are sisters there is also something uncomfortable or who founded the company to share their unsettling about how these once living appreciation of craft from around the things were plucked from the land. The world. In their words, “Located in rural viewer is reminded that these beautiful Skagit Valley the spacious, unobstructed objects are now dead. Once living and hay loft of our 1900’s barn is a welcoming flourishing, they are now used to archive space for art in its many forms; a species or type of plant. Maybe this installation, two dimensional, culinary, is a way for Jones to help the viewer musical, performance, and literary. We mourn the loss that is already occurring. call it a flex space for promotion of the arts.” And from July 17-August 14, The suspended banners are made of “W(h)ither The Garden,” an installation white silk with white botanical appliqués by artist Sarah Jones, is on display and pair nicely with the works on paper. in the loft. The installation includes This combination results in a show that

Sarah Jones • “W(h)ither The Garden” two key components: mixed media and is quite experiential and immersive. (detail of installation) plant parts on paper and silk banners Imagine walking up the stairs to a loft in Sarah Jones • “Binding The Absent Body” thread, silk banners, 84 x 36 inches each mixed media and plant parts on paper, 16.5 x 11.5 inches Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, WA that stretch from ceiling to floor. Both a barn: your vision is the first to enter the Bitters Co. • Mount Vernon, WA

12 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 13 Where I Am. Now.

Even if I consider picking dead leaves off potted succulents “gardening” these days, Write of Way I have a friend who does not. “Succulents hardly qualify,” she says. “They need no maintenance whatsoever.” To which I reply, “Exactly.” She is one of my friends, and I have a few, who has sizeable grounds and likes to tease me about calling my tiny balcony a garden. To her, a huge house and garden means she has arrived. But I am lost in all that space.

Leah Gerrard • wire sculpture “Like plants,” I say, “we tend to gravitate toward people who don’t give us a hard time.” Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA She frowns, but her eyes smile. She came by to drive me, along with three others, up to Skagit Valley. Just the thought of traveling to farm country cancels every guilty thought I have about playing hooky on a Art enthusiasts and collectors are weekday. Sometimes I wonder how such guilt is even possible. invited to view all Seattle Deconstructed I love the idea of walking without a mask through fields far from anyone, not to mention Art Fair exhibitions online at www. how five of us will fit into a Mazda. “You’re riding shotgun,” she says, and off we go. seattledeconstructedartfair.com and in person at individual gallery locations. No sooner are we on the freeway when one of us lights up a little, as she put it, “non- Check out the consolidated calendar of habit-forming inducement.” activities—featuring in person exhibition “But you smoke that stuff every day,” I say. Seattle DeConstructed Art Fair Seattle DeConstructed Erica Rosenfeld • “Rainbow Cloud II” 2019, blown and carved glass openings, artist meet & greets, and other 11.5 x 19.5 x 5 inches “Your point being?” Vetri / Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA events throughout the whole month. Viewers are invited to use “No point.” Back by popular demand, the the website portal to see the “It’s not like I’m addicted.” Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair online map of participating Fortunately, we all laugh. None of us really wants to be reminded of ourselves, we simply returns this summer! In August, galleries, explore venue want to be ourselves. We are middle-aged women and thank goodness we have middle- come celebrate the resilience of websites, plan visits, and aged acceptance of our vices. learn more about this visual with over 40 Of which there are a few. galleries, non-profit organizations vibrant arts community. Farmland, now on both sides of the freeway, makes me remember a time, early into my and art institutions participating marriage, when I planted a container of Night Blooming Jasmine against my husband’s in this month-long event. advice. I thought that if I placed it close enough to the house it would absorb the reflected Chau Huynh heat and eventually trellis over the doorway. “There are pictures,” I said, handing him a Through the collaborative efforts ink drawing paper collage magazine. “Look.” He thumbed through the pages, shaking his head. of the gallery community, the on canvas, 25 x 24 inches Columbia City Gallery • Seattle, WA The next day I bought what he called my “potted pipe dream.” It lasted right up till our Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair first freeze. Undaunted, I bought more and more plants, more and more seeds. I scattered aims to raise awareness of the Though COVID them everywhere because this is how I like to spread seeds, a little recklessly. existing vibrant arts and culture available restrictions may be in the area, celebrate the re-opening and I think of that haphazard garden often. Really, the memory of living in that house is lifted, individual art nothing without that garden. recovery of our neighborhoods, and venues might still invigorate the cultural capital of our have requirements I recall something else my husband said, how some women are turned on by strong abs, city in this important time. Participants for wearing masks others by wealth and power, and others by seeds sold in small packets. It will never be even remotely possible that I don’t remember him saying that. include members of the Seattle Art Dealers and may still have Association: Davidson Galleries, Foster/ other protocols in I suppose I thought of my garden in the same way I thought of my marriage at the time: White Gallery, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, place. Visitors are in its possibility, I’d find protection. That garden was a metaphor for a lot of of my hopes, Greg Kucera Gallery, Traver Gallery, asked to respect discoveries, and disappointments. But I hardly saw it like that. I was still so blasé about Harris/Harvey Gallery, Gallery IMA, these requirements what nature has to teach us. and Linda Hodges Gallery, along with as we all work to One last thought: Gardening taught me a lot about possibilities. J. Rinehart Gallery, Zinc Contemporary, get our community Possibilities. Gray Sky Gallery, Columbia City Gallery, fully vaccinated. Wa Na Wari, Method Gallery, Roq La Claudia Fitch • “Shell” There it is again. That word. porcelain with underglaze Rue, i.e. gallery, Smith & Vallee Gallery, 17 x 9.75 x 3 inches And why, in La Conner, I buy a succulent called Moon Glow. The sign says the plant is and many more. Greg Kucera Gallery well-suited for small spaces in that it likes to spread out but is not aggressive. Seattle, WA I read that sign again. The Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair is made possible through I had been swept back in time for the last forty minutes. I thought the best choice would the support of the Seattle Art be to choose the present. Where I am. Now. Dealers Association. Mary Lou Sanelli Mary Lou Sanelli, author, speaker, and master dance teacher, published her first novel, The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs, in 2019. Her newest collection of essays, Every Little Thing, has been nominated for a Northwest Book Award and is Jazz Brown • “Chess Set” installation to be released in September. This column is an excerpt from this collection. For more acrylic on paper on panel, 10 x 8 inches each J. Rinehart Gallery • Seattle, WA information about her and her work, visit www.marylousanelli.com.

14 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 15 BAINBRIDGE ISLAND shows her flameworked glass sculpture. of over forty paintings, prints, and drawing WASHINGTON Cynthia Toops displays her micromosaic studies, from the mid-1980s through 2021 ALGER polymer clay jewelry. Reception: Friday borrowed from collectors, the artist, and August 7, 6-8 P.M. August 6-August 29. Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle as well BELL CUSTOM STUDIO Check www.bacart.org for information as several works promised to BIMA’s

3339 Butler Creek Road (Alger adjacent about Art Talks for these exhibitions! Permanent Art Collection. Solmssen is best to Sedro Wooley) • (360) 333-5126 • known as a plein air painter, capturing life by appointment • bellcustomstudio@ in rural Vaughn, Washington. He paints yahoo.com • www.createartwithmechel.com from his waterfront home, on a remote part Bell Custom Studio offers a wide of Puget Sound, as well as surrounding range of services to make your artistic areas. July 2-September 22. vision a reality. Call today for a free consultation. On-site equipment rental for printing, cutting, sawing, welding, and more. Custom commissions are also available. B.C.S. is happy to announce Erin Haldane • “Self Portrait #2, A Study of Art” its newest additions: laser cut wooden oil on wood, 23.5 inches diameter DIY kits and acrylic painting classes. Bainbridge Arts & Crafts • Bainbridge Island, WA For more information go to www. BAINBRIDGE ARTS & CRAFTS Eileen Sorg • “The Fruits of Your Labor” createartwithmechel.com. Winslow Way East • (206) 842-3132 colored pencil over watercolor, • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 11 limited edition print, 12 x 14 inches ANACORTES Bainbridge Island Studio Tour • Bainbridge Island, WA A.M.-5 P.M. • [email protected] • SCOTT MILO GALLERY www.bacart.org BAINBRIDGE ISLAND 420 Commercial Avenue • (360) 293- Over, Under, & Through STUDIO TOUR 6938 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. Three Artists, Three Perspectives (206) 842-0504 • Summer Tour 2021: and by appointment • gallery@ Featuring Erin Haldane (oil on wood), August 13, 14, & 15 • Fri & Sat: 10 A.M.- Nancy Callan and Katherine Gray • “Dreamer” 6 P.M., Sunday 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • info@ blown and sculpted glass with enamels, 13 x 13 x 8 inches scottmilo.com • www.scottmilo.com Susan Walker (oil on canvas), and Judith Courtesy of the Artists, photo credit: Russell Johnson Signature Members Zugish (woven willow). Artist Reception: bistudiotour.com • www.bistudiotour.com Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA of the Northwest Pastel Society Summer Tour 2021: Friday, July 2, 6-8 P.M. July 2-August 1. The Clown in Me Loves You Featuring the 10th show with Signature August 13, 14, & 15 Nancy Callan (Seattle) and Katherine Members of the Northwest Pastel Society. Fri & Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. Gray () present the results of Over 200 pieces were submitted and 50 Sunday 10 A.M.-5 P.M. a four-year-long collaboration in glass. were selected for the August Show. Juror, Join the sunny art scene on Bainbridge They explore our collective experiences Anne Schreivogl, of Anacortes is giving Island, with a self-guided tour of five with—and reactions to—clowns. Whether the awards. Also showing are live edge beautiful island studios, and hand-crafted found in childhood memories, in circuses custom wood bowls with turquoise inlays artwork from regional artists. Meet the and parades, among those we love, or in by Ron Radtke. Gallery is open until 8 artists and shop locally. You will find our political worlds, clowns seem to be P.M. on Friday, July 2. July 2-August 2. jewelry, paintings, pottery, garden art, everywhere. The artists use old Venetian The gallery welcomes back Plein Air sculpture, photography, glass art, mixed glassblowing techniques to mine complex Washington Artists for their 6th year. The media, and more. Bring a friend. You’re social commentaries. It may seem like juried membership show features about sure to find some gems! light-hearted fun, but multiple layers of ART VISUAL 70 Alger Island, Washington • Anacortes • Bainbridge “Little Gems” from the group. This feelings and realities emerge. Paint-by- small works show is always a favorite. Keke Cribbs • “Celestina” number portraits exude three-dimensional, Award winning, California artist, Kathleen detail, vitreous enamels, reverse painting on mosaic glass fragile glass tears. Sad, solo clowns tease Bainbridge Arts & Crafts • Bainbridge Island, WA Dunphy is granting the awards for the out our sympathy as well as affection. show. Gallery is open until 8 P.M. on Keke Cribbs presents her vitreous Surely some jest, while others smile wryly. Friday, August 6. August 6-August 28. enamels, reverse painted mosaic glass “The Clown in Me Loves You,” is a hot- with mixed media. Janis Miltenberger sculpted fusion of kitsch and catharsis. Is it a tunnel of love, or a house of horrors – or some of both? July 2-September 26. BAINBRIDGEEricksen Ave. NE ISLAND Ferncliff Ave. Three Tree Lane NE Every Day & Special Days SR 305 Wyatt Way Kurt Solmssen • “Summer Bonfire” This new rotation from the Cynthia oil on linen, 50 x 70 inches 2 The BPA Sears Artist’s Books Collection takes Theatre Bainbridge promisted gift to BIMA Island KiDiMu New Brooklyn Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA

Madison Ave. N. Historical City Hall Museum you on a journey from daily delights BAINBRIDGE ISLAND and mundane activities to once-in-a- 7 5 8THE 4 3 Madison Ave. N. Winslow Way East MUSEUM OF ART lifetime events. Time is marked through Olympic Drive SE

Madison Ave. N. 1 i 6 1. Bainbridge Arts & Crafts 550 Winslow Way • (206) 842-4451 • Open postcards or weather observations, 2. BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) Ferry to Seattle holding ceremonies, or simply surviving 3. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Daily: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • Free Admission • 4. Bergh Images Gallery i www.biartmuseum.org a pandemic. July 2-September 22. 5. Blackbird Bakery WA 6. Jeffrey Moose Gallery Ferry Kurt Solmssen: The Yellow Boat Trimpin: Hear & Now 7. Roby King Gallery 8. Amy Roberts Sculpture (2nd Floor) N A major retrospective of work by Kurt Trimpin (Seattle) is an acclaimed artist, i Information Bainbridge Island MapBainbridge Solmssen, “The Yellow Boat” is comprised composer, and musician. He collaborated

16 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 17 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art… band, Pearl Django, is also a fine painter, with student artists from Path With Art in has been showing with Jeffrey Moose Seattle to create this large-scale kinetic since 2006. After moving from Tacoma VISUAL ART sound sculpture. The work is installed on to Lompoc, California in 2017, he began an antique, hand-pulled wagon originally to paint local farmland, using a gentle built by Trimpin’s father in Germany. touch, compliments, and deft mark- “Hear & Now” blends sculpture, poetry, making in a pleasing impressionist style. electronic composition, and performance Through July. with the aim to “unpack” the human The Gallery is proud to announce an experiences encompassed in homelessness. exhibition of paintings by indigenous In Trimpin’s words, the piece is “a artists from Yuendemu, in Australia’s Luke J. Tornatzky • “Inside” Central Desert, in August and September. oil on panel, 24 x 33 inches metaphor for being in constant transition.” Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Bellingham, Washington Traditional ground paintings by these Permanent Art Collection Selections Northwest Waters BIMA features a diverse array from artists, known as Warlukurlangu (Home of 2021 Regional waters interpreted the Fire Dreaming) made history in Paris, the Collection. This summer’s rotation by six artists. Oils by accomplished Beverly Davis • “Raven” 1989. Reception: Friday, August 6, 6-8 acrylic on canvas, 16 x 10 inches includes artworks by Larry “Ulaaq” Diane Whatcom Art Market • Bellingham, WA P.M. August 6-September 25. Impressionistic style artists: Ahvakana, Max Grover, Art Hansen, Ainsworth, Jane Wallis, Robin Weiss. Clayton James, Tom Jay, Heidi Lee, WHATCOM ART MARKET AMY ROBERTS SCULPTURE Luke J. Tornatzky’s oil’s share a boater’s 1103 - 11th Street • (360) 738-8564 Paul Marioni, Alison (Bremner) Marks, 278 Winslow Way East, Suite 200 • (206) perspective. Bronze sea life wall mounted and Marika Swan. • Tues-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • www. 317-4350 • Thurs-Sun: 1-5 P.M. and by sculpture by David Eisenhour and Brooke whatcomartmarket.org • www.. appointment • [email protected] Borcherding’s colorful deconstructed facebook.com/WhatcomArtMarket • www.amyrobertsart.com style acrylic paintings. August 6-29. Celebrating 11 years! Whatcom Art Amy Roberts Sculpture is an art BELLINGHAM Market includes 45 local artists from gallery located in downtown Winslow Whatcom and Skagit Counties with an (upstairs in Winslow Mall) that eclectic mix of fine art paintings, mixed showcases Amy Roberts’ contemporary media, whimsy, objets d’art, wearable art sculpture combining glass and mixed knits, soft sculpture, stunning photography, media, with a concern for light. Summer handcrafted wood carvings, jewelry, etched exhibitions present the most current & art glass, wood cuts, etchings, and much sculptures, along with a window more! Fairhaven 4th Friday Art Walks gallery of representative works. Please 5-8 P.M. monthly except December, once call to visit the gallery by request. the pandemic subsides.

Andrew Bergh • “Rainier At Dusk” Jane H. Hovde • “Dog Days” fine art photographic print pen and ink on paper, 19 x 26 inches Bergh Images Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery • Bellingham, WA BERGH IMAGES GALLERY FOURTH CORNER 400 Winslow Way East, Suite 115 • (206) FRAMES & GALLERY 451-4849 • Tues-Fri: 10 A.M.-5:30 311 W Holly Street • (360) 734-1340 • P.M., Sat-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • andy@ Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • framr4u@ berghimages.com • www.berghimages.com aol.com • www.fourthcornerframes.com Fine art photographer Andrew Bergh Mid-Summer Modern James Williamson • “U.S.S. Constitution” watercolor, 18 x 24 inches exhibits his evocative images on different Pamela Wachtler • “Island Garden” The sun is shining on Bellingham’s Whatcom Art Market • Bellingham, WA oil on canvas panel, 18 x 24 inches mediums including metal/canvas/fine art Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA amazing artist community of the mid acrylic prints, matted prints, and custom- twentieth century at FCF’s July/Aug WHATCOM MUSEUM framed black and white prints. Whether ROBY KING GALLERY Gallery exhibit! Now is the time to enjoy Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora Street • it is one of his travel, landscape, nature, 176 Winslow Way East • (206) 842-2063 and perhaps acquire an original painting, Thurs-Sun: 12-5 P.M. • (360) 778-8930 urban, or black and white images, they are • Weds-Sat: 12-5 P.M., Sun: 12-4 P.M. • watercolor, or linocut by such noted artists • [email protected] • www. striking for their perspective and detail. [email protected] • www. Jane H. Hovde, Frank G. Craig, Louise whatcommuseum.org The gallery is just minutes away from the robykinggallery.com Peterson, Dorothy Allyn Deets, and Lois Lightcatcher building: Bainbridge Island ferry terminal. Landscape Art Zimmerman. Through August 14. El Zodiaco Familiar Featuring impressions of the Northwest Ceramic artist and sculptor George JEFFREY MOOSE GALLERY landscape by five Northwest artists. Rodriguez embarks on a collaborative 181 Winslow Way E, Suite F • (360) Pamela Wachtler’s intimate oil paintings, iteration of the Chinese Zodiac reimagined 598-4479 • Tues-Fri: 10 A.M.-5:30 Jeff Weekley’s vast skies in oil, Bill as analogous creatures of Mexican origin, P.M., Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. • jmoose@ Baran-Mickle’s conceptual mixed metal bridging cultures and creating new jeffreymoosegallery.com • www. reliefs of human interaction with the narratives. Working with 13 Mexican and List your art exhibit jeffreymoosegallery.com landscape and colorful acrylic paintings Chicanx/Chicane artists of various artistic in Art Access Painter and musician Neil Andersson by Lisa Snow Lady. From the estate of disciplines, each sculpture is as distinct as $39 per month shows new landscapes of Washington William F. Reese (1938-2010), en plein its maker. Through October 24. and California. Andersson, known for his air oils and etchings. July 2-31.

18 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 19 Whatcom Museum… “Painting is my way of sharing what grips EDISON my soul. Life and movement, surround me Fluid Formations: The Legacy VISUAL ART of Glass in the Pacific Northwest in my world, I can hardly consume what I see. I can only express the emotion I feel. Celebrating a rich legacy unique to I paint people and places in rich vivid our region, “Fluid Formations” features colors to reach the heart of the viewer.” the art of fifty-seven contemporary artists working in glass. Drawing from the CAMANO ISLAND Museum’s collection, loans from artists, and in partnership with , the exhibition celebrates a rich legacy of innovation and a striking range of processes and ideas. Through October 10. Edison • Edmonds, Washington BREMERTON Sheila Klein • “Othernation” Sara Jacobson • “Balance” printed cotton and chorisera, 38 x 51 inches ink, acrylic on panel, 49 x 37 inches i.e. gallery • Edison, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA i.e. gallery Sara Jacobson | Brian O’Neill 5800 Cains Court • (360) 488-3458 • Fri- Sara Jacobson brings a comprehensive Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by appointment perspective with her new works in Ink, • [email protected] • www. acrylic, wood, and ceramics. Brian Susan Cohen Thompson • “Birds with a View” ieedison.com O’Neill is exhibiting his sculpture in clay ceramic bowl, 2 x 6.5 inches diameter Flags and Monuments Thompson Art Studio • Camano Island, WA with hand-sculpted and intricate glazes. Award-winning Northwest artist Meet & Greet: Friday, August 2, 3-5 THOMPSON ART STUDIO Sheila Klein remakes the images of P.M. July 2-August 1. 2188 Lowell Point Road • (425) Mimi Cernyar-Fox • “Winter Sea II” flags and monuments with crocheting, In the Flex Gallery: acrylic, oil on canvas, 42 x 56 inches 750-4994 • open most weekends by

Bremerton • Camano Island, Washington stitchery, and weaving. This body of Collective Visions Gallery • Bremerton, WA Khara LeDonne’s first exhibit of oil appointment • [email protected] • work was completed over the past 4 landscapes. July 2-August 1. COLLECTIVE VISIONS GALLERY www.thompsonartstudio.com years as Klein softens and feminizes our 331 Pacific Avenue • (360) 377-8327 • Weds- Susan Cohen Thompson’s garden- symbols to create a textile world. Opening Sat: 11 A.M.-4 P.M. • artgallery331@gmail. side studio is open to vaccinated guests Reception: Saturday, July 3, 2-4 P.M. com • www.collectivevisionsgallery.com most weekends this summer. Call on July 2-August 1. The Inner Side Of Things your way to Matzke Gallery. In August, Mimi Cerynyar Fox and Thompson Studio displays her oil Ken Van der Does present artworks of paintings, prints, and ceramics. She expressionism. First Friday Opening: states, “I am working on a ceramic bowl

VISUAL ART August 6, 5-8 P.M. Gallery Talk: Saturday, exhibition for later this year. If you August 14, 2-4 P.M. August 4-29. are interested in receiving an invitation, Mimi Cernyar Fox exhibits paintings, please email [email protected] to sign drawings and assemblages inspired by up for my occasional newsletter.” personal experiences out at sea working with the commercial fishermen. Her MATZKE FINE ART GALLERY Raven Skyriver • “Steamer” 2 and 3 dimensional “Tide Keepers” AND SCULPTURE PARK free hand sculpted and cut glass, 12 x 13 x 10 inches assemblage clocks are restored antiques 2345 Blanche Way • (360) 387-2759 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA with driftwood and found carved wood • Fri, Sat, & Sun: 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Fragile weekdays by appointment • matzke@ birds. They are a response to the serious Robin Green • “Offering” A survey of our natural surroundings decline in marine birds. camano.net • www.matzkefineart.com glazed ceramics and plants, 6 x 5 x 4 inches through the works of glass. Featuring: Pilchuck Glass School Art Show i.e. gallery • Edison, WA Dan Friday, Raven Skyriver, Rik Allen, Featuring twenty artists from the Plant Ghosts : a tale of love and grief Shelley Muzylowski Allen, Kelly O’Dell, Pilchuck Glass School and four Northwest Northwest artist Robin Green has Sam McMillen, Steve Klein, Jen Fuller, painters: Anne Martin McCool, developed a body of work from the Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, and Jason Kathleen Secrest, Marjorie Thompson, plants she gathers on her daily walks Johnsen. Meet & Greet: Saturday, and Lori Vanderhorst. Opens July 17 and celebrates the graceful way that August 7, 12-3 P.M. August 6-29. and continues through summer. leaves and fruits arrange themselves in EDMONDS her ceramics and paintings. Opening Reception: Saturday, August 7, 2-4 P.M. August 6-29. 190 Sunset Ave S. Ste. E • Thurs-Sun: 12-5 P.M. • [email protected] • SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY www.cascadiaartmuseum.org 5742 Gilkey Avenue • (360) 766-6230 • Origins: Northwest Abstract Art, Fri-Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Mon-Thurs: by 1920-1960 Ken Van der Does • “The Bridge” oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches appointment • gallery@smithandvallee. The first exhibition to focus on the Collective Visions Gallery • Bremerton, WA com • www.smithandvalleegallery.com roots of abstract and non-objective art in Ken Van der Does says of his art, the Northwest. Through October 10.

20 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 21 Cascadia Art Museum… African Twilight GIG HARBOR

Some of the earliest works are Trailblazing adventurers, Carol VISUAL ART EBBTIDE GALLERY Louise Crow and Raymond Jonson’s Beckwith and Angela Fisher, record a 7809 Pioneer Way • (253) 851-5293 • pointilist paintings followed by Peter disappearing culture of Africa before its Daily 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • billwachtler1@ Camfferman’s rare color abstractions too late. Fifteen years of pioneering gmail.com • www.ebbtideart.com from the1920s created after his studies work brings us the dazzling diversity of The gallery represents local artists with the synchromist painter Stanton African ceremonies and rituals of birth, featuring a variety of painting styles, as MacDonald-Wright. death, courtship, healing, leadership, and well as ceramics, glass art, photography, Painted With Light: more. Through September 13. woodworking, and jewelry. A gallery Northwest Pictorialist Photography, artist is always in the gallery to help you 1910-1930 find something special for your home or Gig Harbor • Kingston Kirkland, Washington This exhibit features rare photographs Leanna Leitzke • “Kulbi” office. Stop by and enjoy seeing beautiful, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches created by some of the masters of Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA creative items of original local art. pictorialism in the Northwest. This Leanna Leitzke has painted all of her movement resulted in photography being KINGSTON life. Her mother supported her artistic ideas accepted as an art form through the use CRESCENDA GALLERY and introduced her to French impressionists of artistic darkroom techniques that were 9321 NE Highway 104 • First Sundays and Italian masters. This self-taught artist compatible with the work of painters through October: 1-5 P.M. or by paints her everyday impressions. She and printmakers. Through October 10. appointment • info@crescendagallery. enjoys discovering different techniques EVERETT com • www.crescendagallery.com and is excited by not knowing how a Billy Mark • “Pink Pew” Face to Face painting will turn out. This is why her SCHACK ART CENTER wood and bronze, 36 x 96 inches San Juan Islands Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA It is time we see each other “face to approach to creating artwork takes on

Everett • Friday Harbor, Washington Everett • Friday Harbor, 2921 Hoyt Avenue • (425) 259-5050 many eclectic styles. July 8-August 1. Pink Pew face.” This collective exhibit illuminates • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. expression and representing faces of any Detroit conceptual artist, Billy Mark • [email protected] • www.schack.org type, including people, animals, buildings, intends his work to provoke contemplation Main Gallery: and everything in between. Enjoy an of racism in America. Create your own 22nd Biennial Juried Show afternoon reconnecting with each other private moments. Through September 13. This biennial collection of Northwest face to face with great art, beverages, artists features a variety of mediums to snacks, and live music with the Michael produce an eclectic and visually stimulating Martinez Trio. Reception: Sunday, July show. Through July 24. 4, 1-5 P.M. Through August 23. Alfred Currier: Impasto

VISUAL ART More information and art viewing, Exhibit features Alfred Currier, a visit www.crescendagallery.com. Northwest impasto and landscape artist, who paints original oils in his studio KIRKLAND in Anacortes and abroad. August 5-September 11. Piyush Arora • “Rainbow Waves” FRIDAY HARBOR resin and mixed media, 20 x 16 inches Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA Piyush Arora presents acrylic pour and resin-based paintings inspired by the themes of ocean, waves, and water. John Jaime Ellsworth • “Fetch” oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches Cannon presents a series of country and WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA city images, day and night that express a WATERWORKS GALLERY sense of place and the emotion of light.

315 Argyle Avenue, P.O. Box 28 • (360) Lois Haskell • “Snow Geese at Conway” August 5-September 5. oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches 378-3060 • Tues-Sat: 10:30 A.M.-6 Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA P.M. • [email protected] • www.WaterWorksGallery.com PARKLANE GALLERY Menagerie 130 Park Lane • (425) 827-1462 • Barbara Duzan and Jamie Ellsworth Thurs-Sun: 11 A.M.-7 P.M. • [email protected] • www. Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher • “Turkana Girl, Kenya” and bring animals to life with style and photography, 21 x 14 inches whimsy thorough oil painting and bronze. parklanegallery.org San Juan Islands Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA Duzan captures the beauty and quirks Lois Haskell presents a show of SAN JUAN ISLANDS of flora and fauna in bronze or beads. landscapes inspired by the misty beauty MUSEUM OF ART Ellsworth paints animals using simple of the Northwest. Pieces depict scenes 540 Spring Street • (360) 370-5050 •Thurs- forms and a palette of bold colors in oil and that bring a sense of calm and respect for Mon: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • [email protected] mixed media. Reception: Friday, July 23, the natural wonders around us. Haskell Sobia Shuaib • “Charlie the Cockatiel” uses soft grays and misty blues with an acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches • www.sjima.org 4-7 P.M. July 23-August 21. Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA occasional jolt of color to draw the viewer into the landscape and inspire a sense of Lisa Marie Kostal presents images of http://www.artaccess.com peace. July 8-August 1. sublime skies and maritime waterways on

22 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 23 Parklane Gallery… A Walk Around Langley

the West Coast. Sobia Shuaib presents Featuring oil and watercolor paintings VISUAL ART her “Beautiful Creatures” collection of by James Tennison. The picturesque classically modern paintings that capture town of Langley on Whidbey Island, the body and essence of various creatures. with its galleries, shops, and restaurants August 5-September 5. in a garden-like setting, is the subject of Tennison’s new exhibition. His detailed LA CONNER observation of the town’s architecture, environs, and wild life are depicted beautifully in this remarkable artist’s paintings. August 4-30.

Pete Jordan • “Wetlands” Lopez Island, Washington oil, 24 x 30 inches LOPEZ ISLAND Museo • Langley, WA

August features beloved Whidbey Jean Behnke • “Nurse Log” Dan Friday • “Schaenewx (Salmon)” bronze • 35 x 39 x 8 inches glass, 9 x 32 x 6 inches Island artists Pete Jordan and Jeff Day. Tideland Press • Lopez Island, WA Museum of Northwest Art • La Conner, WA Jordan presents his gorgeous paintings of MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART the local landscape, and Day features his TIDELAND PRESS 121 South First Street • (360) 466-4446 new work of bronze sculptures in organic (360) 468-3893 • Saturdays by appointment • visit museum website for hours • forms. Join Museo for Langley’s Art • [email protected] • www. [email protected] • www. Walk, August 7, 5-7 P.M. August 7-29. jeancbehnke.com La Conner • Langley, Washington La Conner • Langley, monamuseum.org Jean Behnke’s print studio is open Dan Friday: Future Relics most Saturdays beginning in August by A Coast Salish Native from the appointment. Behnke’s bronze and print Swinomish and Lummi Nation, Dan work is included at Gail Severn Gallery, Friday, researches Coast Salish artifacts, in Ketchum, Idaho as part of the Sun to create a series of projects in glass Valley Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary documenting his family’s and the Coast exhibition, “Inspiration Realized,” curated Jean Behnke • “Thing of Things” by Jim Romberg, Sun Valley Center for the Salish people’s history. Along with bronze • 40 x 20 x 20 inches Friday’s work, “Future Relics” showcases Tideland Press • Lopez Island, WA Arts’ Director of Ceramics (1973-1986).

ART VISUAL the vibrant works of Coast Salish artists Teresa Saia • “Spring’s Awakening” dry pigment pastel, 20 x 32 inches working today. Visit www.monamuseum. Rob Schouten Gallery • Langley, WA org. July 3-September 26. ROB SCHOUTEN GALLERY LANGLEY & SCULPTURE GARDEN 101 Anthes Avenue • (360) 222-3070 • Mon-Fri: 11A.M.-5 P.M., Sat & Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • info@robschoutengallery. com • www. robschoutengallery.com Expressions of Light Presenting pastel and oil paintings by Teresa Saia. Known for her bright palette, Saia presents her landscapes bathed in an abundance of vibrant light and color. Working in a loose, sketching style, she captures dramatic light as it penetrates the land and reflects off the water at dusk or in the early dawn. July 1-August 2.

Michael Dickter • “Floratone 2” oil, 12 x 12 inches Museo • Langley, WA MUSEO 215 First Street, Langley • (360) 221-7737 • Weds-Sat & Mon: 11-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M., closed Tuesday • museo@ whidbey.com • www.museogallery.net In July, Michael Dickter presents a new exploration of floral paintings, as well as his continued study of birds. C.A. Pierce shows her harmonious abstracted landscapes. Also, Museo presents local artist’s Aiden Rayner’s recycled metal Art James Tennison • “Village Church” sculptures. Join Museo for Langley’s oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches Walk, July 3, 5-7 P.M. July 3-August 1. Rob Schouten Gallery • Langley, WA

24 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 25 LYNDEN in fiber weaving influences her work in “Save the Date” for Skagit Artists Opening: Saturday, August 7, 2-5 P.M. its complexity. Folded and layered paper Northwest Art Beat Studio featuring Through August. VISUAL ART Ocean Shores • Port Orchard, Washington Orchard, • Port VISUAL Shores ART Ocean enhanced with encaustic and gilding is 25 amazing artists in 15 Skagit County OCEAN SHORES then composed into complex purposeful Studios. Have a fun art-filled day touring sculptural patterns. the great Skagit Valley. Visit www. nwartbeat.com for artists information and studio locations. Want to be a sponsor of this great event? Contact [email protected]. Skagit Artists is a dynamic group of artists who share a passion for art, connecting the community to visual arts, Gregory Kammer education, and more. “Mount Baker, from Marrowstone Island 2020” oil on heavy paper, 26.125 x 34.125 inches Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Roy Lowry • “Clamming Sunset” JANSEN ART CENTER watercolor, 22 x 30 inches Gallery of Ocean Shores • Ocean Shores, WA 321 Front Street • (360) 354-3600 • Thurs- Sat: 12-4:30 P.M. • info@jansenartcenter. GALLERY OF OCEAN SHORES org • www. jansenartcenter.org 849 Point Brown Avenue • (360) 289-0734 • The Jansen Art Center hosts quarterly Noble Golden • “Gemini” Daily: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • nbaguild@gmail. paper, encaustic, gold leaf, 41 x 31 inches com • www.thegalleryofoceanshores.com exhibits on a seasonal rotation. Summer Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts • Mercer Island, WA exhibits feature paintings by Gregory Original works by 30 local artists Kammer, a collaborative exhibit of MOUNT VERNON in a wide range of media: photography, “Kumihimo Wishes” by Seiko Purdue, BITTERS CO William Slater • “Post Pond Study” painting, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, the Bellingham Modern Quilt Guild, 14034 Calhoun Road • (360) 466-3550 oil on canvas, 46 x 66 inches woodworking, basketry, blown glass, Perry and Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA and the Summer Juried Exhibit with • Thurs-Mon: 12-4 P.M. • studio@ fused glass. Large selection of gift cards. work from 46 artists. Summer exhibits bittersco.com • www.bittersco.com PERRY AND CARLSON Classes both online and in-person for run through August 26. Submissions for W(h)ither The Garden 504 South 1st Street • (360) 899-5032 painting, sculpting, ceramics, and fused the Fall Juried Exhibit due August 9. Presenting an installation by artist • Weds-Mon: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. and by glass. Contact Gallery for details. Fall exhibits open September 2. Sarah Jones, evokes the pastoral and Appointment • info@perryandcarlson. Make a trip to the beach! nostalgic, and foretells of loss, specifically com • www.perryandcarlson.com MERCER ISLAND PORT ORCHARD of plant species, due to climate change. Cabin Rain Revisited Lynden • Mercer Island • Mount Vernon, Washington • Mercer Island Mount Vernon, Lynden W(h)ither addressing the idea of loss of A Skagit Valley painter, William Slater place and of deterioration. The installation (1939-2007), began his career in New York takes the form of a florilegium, a collection with friends Tom Robbins, Jasper Johns, of botanical imagery. Reception: Saturday, and Mark Rothko. “Catching gestures of July 17, 12-3 P.M., at the Bitters Co. Barn. birds in flight on the broad strokes of a gust of wind…his brushstrokes were hot like SKAGIT ARTISTS coal and alive, jumping off the canvas.”— check hours and dates on Theodora Jonsson. Opening: Saturday, website • www.skagitartists.com • July 3, 2-5 P.M. Through July. [email protected] VISUAL ART Northwest Art Beat Studio Tour Sat & Sun, July 17-18, 10 A.M.-6 P.M.

MERCER78th Ave SE ISLAND Chris Baumgartner • “Golden Mist 5” 2 PORT ORCHARD mixed media, 32 x 32 inches

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SE 27th St 77th Ave SE Collection • (206) 232-4456 • Tues-Sat: 78th Ave SE archival ink jet print and acrylic paint, 17 x 22 inches 76th Ave SE July 16 & 17, 10 A.M.-6 P.M. 11 A.M.-6 P.M. and by appointment 1 Perry and Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA SE 28th St Don’t miss the Artisan & Vintage Fair! • [email protected] • www. Collaborations 2001-2021 Island CrestIsland Way Featuring local art and artisans, handmade

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Mercer Island Map Island Mercer New works by Chris Baumgartner unique works based on themes of heroic Amy Burnett at the Sidney Art Gallery and Noble Golden. Baumgartner N endeavor from “The Labors of Hercules”. July 17, all in conjunction with the introduces a new direction in her work SE 32nd St The two have pursued an unusual beautiful antique Chris Craft boats at the of complex patterns and shimmers 1. Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts interplay of mediums, and Spike’s literal Marina for the Chris Craft Rendezvous. of gold blending elegance into the 2. Mercer Island Gallery, Community & Event Center 3. MIVAL Gallery backgrounds add a depth and context Spend a day on the bay, visit art galleries, meditative abstracts. Noble’s background 4. Suzanne Zahr Art + Architecture to his father’s abstract, essential forms. antique & vintage shops, eat great food, and

26 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 27 Port Orchard Bay Association… Susan Hazard Studio and Gallery 2021 Artist Showcase Northwind Art’s School features contemporary paintings by Susan Twenty-one regional artists, featuring In person and online classes (painting,

enjoy many fun summer events including VISUAL ART Saturday Farmers Market with live music, Hazard, plus gourd art and recycled contemporary painting, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, textiles) go to Thursday’s Concerts on the Bay, 2nd & material weavings and constructs by Sylvia photography, ceramics, pastels, sculpture. www.NorthwindArt.org. 4th Thursday car cruises, the Saint’s Car White. Floral abstracts and impressionistic Grover and Best Galleries. Through POULSBO Club Cruz, community theatre, and Labor garden paintings in palette knife technique September 26. Day Weekend activities. Information: in oils are showing in July and August. ww.pobsa.com or Facebook.com/POBSA. Sylvia White’s colorful recycled materials weavings and containers, plus gourd art are intriguing, based in practicality, yet charmingly whimsical. Poulsbo JEFFERSON MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY 540 Water Street • (360) 385-1003 • Fri-Sun: 11 A.M.-4 P.M. • shelly@ jchsmuseum.com • www.jchsmuseum.org

Carrie Goller • “Malcolm” Mark O’Donnell • “Seed” encaustic, 40 x 40 inches acrylic on panel, 8 x 8 inches Carrie Goller Gallery • Poulsbo, WA Northwind Art Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA CARRIE GOLLER GALLERY If I Had Wings 18801 Front Street • (360) 779-2388 Amy Burnett • “Fly Away” Birds as metaphor express what it means acrylic, 40 x 30 inches • (360) 779-2388 • Daily: 12-5 P.M. Sidney Art Gallery & Museum • Port Orchard, WA to be human. 2D & 3D artists Robin & • [email protected] • www. John Gumaelius, Marie Hassett, Stephen SIDNEY ART GALLERY & MUSEUM carriegollergallery.com O’Donnell, Margaret Van Patten, Chris VISUAL ART Port Townsend, Washington Port Townsend, ART VISUAL 202 Sidney Avenue • (360) 876-3693 • By Local and regional artists are featured Appointment • [email protected] • Maynard, Margaret Woodcock, Bethany including world-renowned modernist/ www.sidneymuseumandarts.com Rowland, Martha Pfanschmidt, and R. landscape painter Max Hayslette, Isolation Artist Behind Glass Keaney Rathbun. July 1-August 29. contemporary classicist Gabr iel Fred Videon • “Abstract Thoughts (Quadrants)” Artist Amy Burnett presents 24 dramatic acrylic and pencil on canvas, 10 x 11.25 inches Lipper, neo-expressionist Cory Bennett pieces encompass the artist’s feelings of Northwind Art Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA Anderson, multimedia artist Carrie isolation caused by COVID-restriction NORTHWIND ART Goller, and many others. Here you will demands. All one person, each piece BEST GALLERY find a wide variety of subjects, small to shows the artist’s expressions while 701 Water Street • (360) 379-1086 • large scale, in various media, from oil trapped in walk-by display windows. Thurs-Mon: 12-5 P.M. or by appointment to encaustic. All featured in online store Visit with the artist on Saturday, July • [email protected] • www. (shipping world-wide available) or visit 10 and July 17, 10 A.M.-4 P.M. Percent northwindart.org Carrie Goller Gallery in person in the of proceeds benefit the scholarship fund. Lost Words heart of charming marine village, historic Through August. Juried Exhibit of Art and Poetry downtown Poulsbo (aka Little Norway). PORT TOWNSEND Visual artists and poets respond to language, its mutability and how it guides us, especially when words are lost. Jurors Leah Gerrard and Carmen Germain. Through July 25. Max Grover • “Mountain Balls” oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches Northwind Art Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA NORTHWIND ART GROVER GALLERY 236 Taylor Street • (360) 344-4479 • Thurs- Mon: 12-5 P.M. • communications@ northwindart.org • www.northwindart.org HISTORIC DOWNTOWN Agun, Bryant, Edwards, Ferrara, POULSBO’S ARTS DISTRICT Glisic, Goodman, Hester, Kaczyk, SECOND SATURDAY ART WALK Kopp, Luttrell, Mawhinney, Miller, Art Galleries open daily and every 2nd Offut, Reichner, Reutlinger, Romberg, Saturday until 8 P.M. year-round, for Art Susan Hazard • “Floribunda: Love Is In The Air” Shokoladov, Simonelli, Sterling, Tilley, Walks! Come Gallery hop, shop, wine, (detail), oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches Walker. Through July 25. Susan Hazard Fine Art • Port Townsend, WA and dine in charming historic downtown Max Grover Presents SUSAN HAZARD FINE ART Poulsbo’s Arts District on beautiful Joyce Hester • “Follow Me to the Sea” Artist and founder Max Grover curates 60 Vancouver Lane • (805) 618-0354 • Liberty Bay. You’ll find create-it- oil, 8 x 8 inches an exhibit of emerging artists from Fri-Sun:11 A.M.-5 P.M. • mz.hazard@ Northwind Art Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA yourself studios, museums, a community Northwind Art. August 5-September 26. gmail.com • www.susanhazard.com theater, and the SEA Discovery Center. 28 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 29 Poulsbo Second Saturday Art Walk… critical theory, natural history, music, Juried Exhibit: Shifting Tides James Martin, Jack Dopler, Harry working over 40 years. Thunder and Jurors for the exhibition are June Bonath, Art Hanson, and more.

Come mingle with artists, eat great food, VISUAL ART and enjoy. For information, visit www. Lightning Press, is a low toxicity studio Sekiguchi (artist/curator), Asia Tail (artist/ Through July 31. Join Gallery Mack HistoricDowntownPoulsbo.com and with workshops in collagraph, digital curator), and Inye Wokoma (artist). August virtually or in person. Masks are required. www.FindPoulsbo.com. chin collé and polyester litho. For current 11-September 19. exhibitions and activities, see Planet Art VERKSTED GALLERY Blog: https://www.planetart.space/ Follow • Downtown Seattle • 18937 Front Street • (360) 697-4470 • on Twitter @odaraia. Open Daily: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • [email protected] • www. verkstedgallery.com This 34-year-old co-op art gallery Seattle: has a lot to offer, with fine hand-crafted art from local artists. Look for beautiful pottery, stunning photography, mixed media jewelry, watercolors, and more.

Over 30 artists and reasonable prices. Washington: Art Stall Gallery • Pike Place Market / Seattle, WA SEATTLE Alice Dubiel • “Carkeek Park: Oil Train 2021” ART STALL GALLERY watercolor on paper, 4 x 6 inches GALLERY ONYX • Ballard • Planet Art • Seattle, WA 97 Pike Street • (206) 623-7538 • July: Pacific Place, 600 Pine Street, Suite 345 PLANET ART Thurs-Sat: 10 A.M.-4 P.M. • August: Thurs- On the anniversary of the historic 2020 • (206) 722-0489 • Thurs-Sun: 12-6 P.M. 2811 NW 93rd Street • (206) 782-7455 Sun: 10 A.M.-4 P.M. • artstallgallery@ civil rights/#BLM protests and the 156th • [email protected] • • classes, studio, and by appointment / yahoo.com www.artstallgallery.com anniversary of Juneteenth June 19, 1865, www.onyxarts.org in isolation • [email protected] • Art Stall Gallery Celebrates its 56 Planet Art studio supports efforts to Pacific Northwest local artists of African www.planetart.us Years at Pike Place Market! Staying strong Downtown redress the impact of systemic and descent, both emerging and experienced Planet Art is the studio of Alice Dubiel, throughout the pandemic, Art Stall artists historic racism by nurturing creative and fine art painters and photographers. This visual artist and educator, interested in have been using their time to create new and intellectual environments for BIPOC art is a collective of talented visual artists that vibrant artwork! Here you will always find workers and legislating reparations for exhibit in a rotation every two months in all original artwork and beautiful postcards POULSBO stolen land and wealth. the gallery, located in Pacific Place Mall by local Northwest artists. Visit Art Stall on the 3rd floor. Presently showcasing, NE Iverson Street Gallery at Pike Place Market: Seattle’s 6 34 artists and 60+ artworks on display. own since 1907. Fine art for your Life! Come visit for an experience! Art Stall Gallery helps celebrate the saving of Pike Place Market and the PATRICIA ROVZAR GALLERY formation of “Friends of the Market” in 1111 First Avenue • (206) 223-0273 • Tues- 1964! Art Stall Gallery founders helped to Bjemeland Pl. NE Jenson Way NE Jenson Way 5 NE 3rd Avenue Sat: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • mail@rovzargallery. 7 Moe Street NE create the artwork and campaign images for com • www.rovzargallery.com VISUAL ART Seattle, Washington: Ballard • Columbia City • Columbia Ballard Seattle, ART VISUAL Washington: “Keep the Market” in 1971. Visit the Art Vibrations Stall Gallery today and support the talented Joyce Gehl presents a collection professional artists of this historic gallery! of new work in photography and resin All new original art by Northwest artists. that conveys Gehl’s appreciation for the DOWNTOWN • SEATTLE Public Way 10 N Downtown Seattle Map Alice Dubiel • “Nachotta: Two Crows” 2 watercolor on paper, 6 x 4 inches FOURTH AVENUE First Thursday THIRD AVENUE FRONT STREET NE Planet Art • Seattle, WA Gallery Art Walk LENORA STREET 9 Mack SECOND AVENUE (Self-Guided Tour)

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ART ACCESS' Y PR Patricia Rovzar Gallery… • Georgetown • Future The Second Wave Featuring art by Molly Magai, Tessa Claire Putney presents new work natural world. For Gehl, there is a living EQUINOX STUDIOS VISUAL ART O’Brien, Emil Robinson, Gail Spaien, in large-scale studio portraits, layering vibration in all things and the vibrations 6555 - 5th Avenue South • hours vary and Jay Stern. August 7-September 4. hand-drawn maps, and still-life imagery that are received from nature can be for each artist • sam@equinoxstudios. that document the creative process. transformational. Artist Meet & Greet: org • www.equinoxstudios.org • International District • Through July 31. Saturday, July 10, 12-2 P.M. July1-28. Equinox Studios has breathed new life Phantom Memory New Territory into almost 100,000 sq. ft. of industrial Amanda Hood plumbs the depths In August, encaustic painter Alicia space, making it the largest arts venue in of powerful life memories, in a series of Tormey exhibits a body of work Seattle and home to over 125 artists and new paintings and installations which pushing the boundaries of the encaustic artisans in metalworking, woodworking, invite the viewer into a personal, sublime, medium into abstraction with fields ceramics, painting, photography, design, emotional landscape. August 4-28. Seattle, of color seamlessly melding into dance, music, video, sculpture, and Straight lines by Girlspit atmospheric landscapers. Artist Meet much more. Check website and make A collection of hand cut stencils & Greet: Saturday, August 7, 12-2 appointments for viewing. P.M. August 7-25. showcasing the growth of the City of Seattle FOGUE STUDIOS AND GALLERY from 1894-2017, including other maps • First Hill • of the Pacific Northwest.August 4-28. Washington: 5519 Airport Way South • Thurs-Sun: Mance Engine • ““X’s and O’s” FRYE ART MUSEUM 12-5 P.M. • [email protected] • cast plastic, foam, silicone, dimensions vary 704 Terry Avenue • (206) 622-9250 • www.fougestudios.com BONFIRE Gallery • International District/Seattle, WA Thurs-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • info@ Local Seattle Area Artists BONFIRE GALLERY fryemuseum.org • www.fryemuseum.org Over the age of 50 603 S. Main Street • (206) 790-1073 • Black Refractions: Fogue members meet like minded Thurs-Sat: 1-5 P.M. • bill@thisisbonfire. Highlights from The Studio Museum travelers that enrich their lives and offer com • www.thisisbonfire.com Washington: First Hill • Georgetown Washington: With works in a variety of mediums vital connections to their peers and BONFIRE Gallery in the historic by nearly eighty artists dating from the community. Empowering their voice Panama Hotel reopens August 4 with International District • Pioneer Square 1920s to the present, Black Refractions: and having a venue for emerging, Mance Engine’s “Gift of Distraction,” Highlights from The Studio Museum established, and re-emerging older a collection of curiosities, assemblages, in Harlem presents close to a century of professional artists, fostering a and collages with nods to food, Seattle, creative achievements by artists of African supportive and enriching culturally- death, politics, art history, mythology, descent. Through August 15. diverse artist community. nostalgia, and sex. August 4-September 25. Human Nature, Animal Culture C.T. Chew’s “Non Sequitur Scarves Selections from the Frye Art Museum STUDIO E and Miracles” opens October 6. For more Seoul Kim • “Slavery” Collection focuses on portrayals of 609 South Brandon Street • Thurs, Fri information, visit www.thisisbonfire.com color etching with chine-colle and hand-coloring domesticated animals from the Frye Art & Sat: 1-6 P.M. • info@studioegallery. 35.5 x 23.5 inches Davidson Galleries • Seattle, WA Museum’s collection as a way to examine org • www. studioegallery.net • Pioneer Square • how human-animal relations have shifted Time Will no Longer Tell DAVIDSON GALLERIES ARTXCHANGE GALLERY 313 Occidental Avenue South • (206) over time, and to reflect upon the role art Warren Dykeman creates humorous, 512 First Avenue South • (206) 624-1324 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-5:30 P.M. VISUAL ART plays in mediating our relationships with fascinating, and familiar allegories of 839-0377 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-5:30 by appointment • info@davidsongalleries. animals more broadly. Through August 21. today’s world. Through July 17. P.M. • [email protected] • www. com • www.davidsongalleries.com artxchange.org Contemporary artist Seoul Kim’s ArtXchange Gallery showcases (formerly known as Sohee Kim) colored contemporary art with a global perspective etchings feature compelling imagery of and art from around the world reflecting the objects with which humans fill their the diversity of influences shaping the lives and the objectification of humans Seattle community and contemporary as they go about their lives. View global culture. Through rotating bi- online at davidsongalleries.com. August- monthly exhibits, the gallery showcases September. works including the Latin-American abstractions of Fulgencio Lazo, the FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY contemporary portraits of Jeremy G. Bell, 220 Third Ave. S., #100 • (206) 622-2833 and the iconic lighted fish sculptures of • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • Seattle@ Elaine Hanowell. fosterwhite.com • www.fosterwhite.com Grow/Re-grow ‘57 BISCAYNE Robert Marchessault’s exquisitely 110 Cherry Street Suite 200 • by painted trees turned represent adaptation appointment • http://57biscayne.com in the face of struggle, growth amid CORE GALLERY challenge, and longevity against all odds. 117 Prefontaine Place South • (206) The trees he has painted for this exhibit 467-4444 • Weds-Sat: 12-6 P.M. • info@ are striking reminders of the perseverance coregallery.org • www.coregallery.org • not only of the living things which he so Video of shows are on the CORE website. poetically renders, but our own. July 1-24. Seattle, Washington: GeorgetownSeattle, Map Washington:

32 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 33 Foster/White Gallery… • [email protected] Inspired by the flora and fauna • www.glasshouse-studio.com PIONEER SQUARE • SEATTLE Glasshouse Studio is Seattle’s oldest 14 surrounding him and taking his cues from movement in the natural world, glassblowing studio showcasing a Will Robinson imbues his enduring wide range of glass and custom lights et with an emphasis on Northwest artists. 1 e stone sculptures with the patterns of life. Elements of dance, wind, water, fire, and Providing the unique chance to watch the glassblowing process from start to finish. Cherry Str reet flight, gracefully emerge in stone forms that seem to float with a grace that defies 2nd James St N the weight of the medium. August 5-21. Yesler Way Av Pr e Ext First A efontaine 6 S 4

venue 10 12 S. Washington Street 2nd A 3rd A 4th A 5th A 6th A venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. Laura Van Horne • “Geodes” 5 mixed media and resin on panel, 36 x 48 inches S. Main Street Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA 3 GRAY SKY GALLERY 9 David Haughton 8 7 11 “View from the Spit XVII (just after dawn)” 320 - 1st Avenue South • (206) 913-3242 • acrylic on multimedia artboard, 22 x 30 inches Thurs-Sat: 12-4 P.M. • Info@grayskygallery. Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA S. Jackson Street com • www.grayskygallery.com 13 GALLERY 110 re·u·nite King Street Occidental A 110 Third Avenue South • (206) 624- Gray Sky Gallery, a contemporary Seattle, Washington: Pioneer Square Map Station 9336 • Thurs-Sat: 12-5 P.M. • director@ art gallery in Pioneer Square, celebrates S.King Street gallery110.com • www.gallery110.com individual life and the mysteries beyond Director’s Choice with the group show “re·u·nite.” Inspired 2 Director Kevin Marshall with be by its literal meaning and the abstract offering a rotating exhibition of works venue S. condition of deconstruction, this diverse CenturyLink by Gallery 110 Artists. Come build your group of Seattle artists exhibits work Field collection! Through July. reflective of their interpretations of one Art Walk Island Paintings IV of the most important words of our time. Self-Guided Tour David A. Haughton exhibit his highly collected and multilayered landscapes that First Thursday CenturyLink Field are stained and scumbled, glazed and lifted, 6-8 P.M. Event Center and highlighted with sgraffito and impasto. S. Royal Brougham Way Celebrate the magic of the islands of the Pacific Northwest coast!Through August. Safeco Field GLASSHOUSE STUDIO 311 Occidental S. • (206) 682-9939 Edgar Martinez Drive S. • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 11 A.M. -4 P.M., First Thursday: 10 A.M.-8 P.M.

Paul Horiuchi • “Perception In Time” 1. ‘57 Biscayne 8. Gray Sky Gallery casein & collage on canvas, 41.5 x 52.75 inches 2. ArtXchange Gallery 9. Christian Grevstad Gallery Space Christian Grevstad Gallery Space • Seattle, WA 3. BONFIRE Gallery 10. Lynn Hanson Gallery CHRISTIAN GREVSTAD 4. Core Gallery 11. J. Rinehart Gallery GALLERY SPACE 5. Foster/White Gallery 12. Shift Gallery 312 Occidental Avenue South • (206) 6. Gallery 4Culture 13. Stonington Gallery 938-4360 • Mon-Fri: by appointment only • [email protected] • www. 7. Glasshouse Studio 14. Women Painters of WA Artist Premium Online Profile grevstad.com is now FREE and includes: Continuing exhibits include works by Northwest Master and legendary 20th • Artist Directory Images ART ACCESS © 2021 Century painter, , plus • Listing in Artist Directory Reproduction of map without the permission from Art Access is strictly prohibited. glass and metal sculptures by Joseph • Multiple Photo Albums McDonnell. Other items in the gallery include pieces by Don Charles, Jay www.artaccess.com Steensma, Leo Adams, , http://www.artaccess.com and .

34 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 35 humans to one of the greatest creations in the universe: the earth. August 5-28.

Florilegium Krista Schoening’s exhibit includes botanical drawings and paintings paying homage to the dual meaning of the word, pairing images with text. August 5-28.

Nina O’Neil • “Opa’s Village” oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches Lynn Hanson Gallery • Seattle, WA

LYNN HANSON GALLERY Kara Mia Fenoglietto • “Floral Pills,” mixed media Susanna Bluhm • “The Spot in Ferguson where Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA 312 South Washington Street • (206) Michael Brown Lived and was Murdered by Police, 960-2118 • Fri-Sat: 11 A.M.-4 P.M. • and Where I Met John (Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars” Ballad of the Dolls Stephanie Krimmel • “Daily Art Habit” [email protected] • www. oil and acrylic on canvas, 94 x 72 inches Hand-sewn garments surface suppressed mixed media, 40 x 60 inches J. Rinehart Gallery • Seattle, WA lynnhansongallery.com emotions in Kara Mia Fenoglietto’s Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Origin Story J. RINEHART GALLERY artworks by using vintage decorative Three Years Plus Nina Enter into the imagination of 319 - 3rd Avenue South • (206) 467- fabrics. Exposing the emotions some of Stephanie Krimmel’s show explores O’Neil remembering her childhood. Many 4508 • Weds-Sat: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by their creators suppressed. July 1-31. concepts of time and growth—offering of these fanciful oil paintings are images appointment • judith@jrinehartgallery. an intimate look into the evolution of her of quaint villages and farms in Germany com • www.jrinehartgallery.com daily art practice over the last three years. and farm animals. These works are painted The Monkey-rope August 5-28. in both representational and abstract style “The Monkey-rope” is a continuation which is O’Neil’s signature. July 2-31. of Susanna Bluhm’s semi-abstract landscape-based paintings from her Red Country series, in which she depicts her experiences meeting people and finding common ground in “red” states during the previous presidential administration. “To me, experiencing landscape, and painting, are both acts of love.” July 3-August 7. Presenting Jazz Brown and Melana Bontrager’s work in a duo exhibition Colleen Maloney • “Goat” gouache, 10 x 8 inches of geometric abstract paintings rooted in Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA cosmic and natural landscape providing the Oh My Gouache viewer with a new perspective on the world Colleen Maloney’s show recaptures Hib Sabin • “Masked Journey Between Worlds” around us. August 14-September 11. polychromed juniper wood, metal stand, 15 x 18 x 6 inches Eric Day Chamberlain • “Blue Striped Bowl” the straightforward solutions of her early Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches artistic explorations—cropped imagery Lynn Hanson Gallery • Seattle, WA SHIFT GALLERY and limited palettes. July 1-31. STONINGTON GALLERY Eric Day Chamberlain has had 312 South Washington Street • Fri-Sat: 125 South Jackson Street • (206) 405- an interest in painting objects from his 12-5 P.M., and by appointment • info@ 4040 • Weds-Sat: 11A.M.-3 P.M. • memory, often skewing the perspective shiftgallery.org • www.shiftgallery.org [email protected] • www. with an imagined arrangement. Over time Second Nature stoningtongallery.com he started to incorporate objects from Amanda C. Sweet’s exhibit explores Light & Dark his studio into paintings. While there are creative mindfulness and additive/reductive Stonington Gallery is proud to differences between the two, both are spray and mark-making techniques with present “Light & Dark” by Hib Sabin. similar in showing his interest in objects abstract paintings embodying the dynamic Featuring a sub-show called “A Pelvis and vessels and the surrounding space. energy spontaneously converging at the Bone Reimagined” where Sabin has August 6-28. shore. July 1-31. taken a quotidian object that most would ’ have passed by without notice—a simple sun-bleached bone—and infused it with meaning and spirit. On display are his drawings (23), his carvings (10), and a Ken Barnes • “Dark,” marble, 46 x 12 inches plethora of bronze sculptures. Come See! FREE Artist Premium Online Profile Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA • Artist Directory Images List your art exhibit Sea Change List your art show in Art Access. • Listing in Artist Directory in Art Access Ken Barnes and Anne Marie 60 words for $39 per month. • Multiple Photo Albums $39 per month Nequette’s exhibition celebrates the beauty and mourn the damage caused by

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SEQUIM VISUAL • Standwood ART • Tacoma, Sequim Washington ceramics from Aaron Murray and 2-D TACOMA wall art from multi-media artist Robert ROCK HALLOW FARM Williamson. Through July 23. 505 E. Silberhorn • (360) 460-6563 • Intimate Historicities September 4 & 5, Sat & Sun: 10 A.M.- Presenting works by seven ceramic 5 P.M. • [email protected] • artists who investigate their varied www.RockHollowArts.com historicities through intimate tactility and ARTjam 2021 a deep-seated “consciousness,” rather September 4 & 5 than explicit or rhetorical “commentary.” Saturday & Sunday, 10 A.M.-5 P.M. Juliana Wisdom, Gustavo Martinez, An intimate gathering of creativity...a re/on Nguyen, Adrian Gomez, S.Lantz, sharing of ideas...community interaction Robin Green, and Sonja Peterson. and fun! Rock Hollow Farm hosts August 7-October 31. thirteen visual artists working in paint, Thomas Stream • “Tanager” original gouache on paper, 22.5 x 15 inches wood, pastel, metals, and clay. Musical Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA • University District • artists perform on the Apple Tree Stage. lapidary artist: Sherris Cottier Shank (Michigan) In August, showing Thomas Stream’s Take a breath, refresh your soul! Come Designer & Manufacturer: LeRoy Jewelers see ARTjam! natural citrine, 14K yellow gold hand-carved briolette new original gouache paintings on paper: with custom cast mounting Shoreline • University District “Tanager,” “Golden Eagle,” “Bewick’s STANWOOD The Art Stop & LeRoy Jewelers • Tacoma, WA Wren,” “Hoot Owl,” “Hummingbird,” THE ART STOP & LEROY JEWELERS “N. Lynx,” “Red Cap,” “Tricolored Heron,” 940 Broadway • (253) 274-1630 • Please “Geese,” and “Wood Fox.” The vibrancy Gary Simmons • “B Sides” Call to Confirm! • Thurs-Sat: 9:30 A.M.- in his work represent his love and respect chalk paint, cold wax and oil on canvas Henry Art Gallery • University District/Seattle, WA 5:30 P.M. • [email protected] • www. for his Sun’aq Aleut heritage. Come ArtStopTacoma.com marvel at his pointillism and symbols in HENRY ART GALLERY The Art Stop features fine, hand- each of his pieces. August 5-28. 15th Avenue NE & NE 41st Street • (206)

Washington: made American craft in a variety of 543-2280 • Sat-Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • media, including sterling silver jewelry WOMEN PAINTERS OF WASHINGTON www.henryart.org and ceramics. The gallery shares space Columbia Tower, 701 - 5th Avenue, Gary Simmons The art of ’ work with LeRoy Jewelers, designers and Suite 310 • www.womenpainters.com explores racial, social, and cultural manufacturers of fine custom jewelry politics, interrogating the ways in which Seattle, since 1941. we attempt to reconstruct the past via personal and collective memory. The exhibition features the artist’s characteristic “erasure” paintings, a GUILDED GALLERY suite of new paintings, and a large- 8702-271st Street NW • (360) 629- scale interactive space functioning as a 2787 • Weds-Sat: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • public stage with live-streamed music [email protected] • www. performances. Through July. stanwoodcamanoart.com Everlasting Stranger Visit downtown Stanwood’s Guilded

VISUAL ART Will Rawls draws from his interests Gallery featuring one-of-a-kind fine art in stop-motion animation and the paintings, photography, ceramics, basketry, relationship between language and dance and sculpture by local professional artists. to grapple with the conditions of living Plan to see the “Celebrate Summer” amid crisis. Working with a group regional juried art shows. Through of performers, Rawls creates a stop- ZINC CONTEMPORARY stoneware vases: Reid Ozaki motion studio where time and movement wrapped stones: Marcia Mahaffey 119 Prefontaine Place South • (206) 617- The Art Stop & LeRoy Jewelers • Tacoma, WA 5775 • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • www. slow, interrogating tropes of linear zinccontemporary.com narrative, character, and apparatuses of visual capture. July-August. • Shoreline • JACK STRAW MODERN GLAZE NEW MEDIA GALLERY 14800 Westminsterway North • (206) 4261 Roosevelt Way NE • (206) Artist Premium Online Profile 949-4007 • Fri & Sat: 12-5 P.M. and by 634-0919 • by appointment only— is now FREE and includes: appointment • contact@modernglaze. Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • jsp@ List your art exhibit com • www.modernglaze.com jackstraw.org • www.jackstraw.org • Artist Directory Images in Art Access Salty Dog at Modern Glaze, Karmic II • Listing in Artist Directory $39 per month Modern Salty Glaze This multimedia installation by May • Multiple Photo Albums Salty Dog artists head north to Maylisa Cat examines Thai ghosts Modern Glaze in Shoreline from in media and themes of karma and www.artaccess.com Ballard. Work from ceramic masters, reincarnation through experimental

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