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TM Volume 29 August • September • October 2020 Number 4 www.ArtAccess.com Whether open or closed… ART ACCESS THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART CONTENTS Volume 29 Number 4 FEATURES Features Conversations Between Collections …Chloé Dye Sherpe 6 George Rodriguez at Foster/White Gallery …Rose McAleese 8 Gudrun Sjödén at National Nordic Museum …Edie Everette 10 Ekphrastic Writing…Janée J. Baugher 12 Poetic Collaboration …Alan Chong Lau & John Levy 13 Mark Brody • “Parachute Selfie” VISUAL ART smalti glass and stained glass mosaic Listings Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA Alger, WA 14 Anacortes, WA 14 “Social change can be seen as a mosaic, Bainbridge Island, WA 14 taking that which is broken Bellingham, WA 17 and creating something new.” Camano Island, WA 17 Edison, WA 18 –Terry Tempest Williams American writer, educator, and activist Edmonds • Everett, WA 19 Friday Harbor, WA 19 Gig Harbor, WA 20 Front Cover: Kirkland, WA 20 Lynn Adamo • “Activate The Midline” La Conner, WA 21 handformed tinted mortar and mesh substrate, smalti, marble, slate, salvaged rusted object, 16 x 13 inches Langley, WA 21 Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA Mercer Island, WA 22 Mount Vernon, WA 23 Ocean Shores, WA 23 PROUDLY SUPPORTING Kim Kopp and Jim Kraft Port Orchard, WA 23 “. in conversation” Port Townsend, WA 23 THE CONTEMPORARY ART September 3-27 Poulsbo, WA 24 Seattle, WA AND ARTISTSS OF THE “Tradition, Transgression, • Ballard 25 Transformation: • Columbia City 25 PUGET SOUND REGION. • Downtown 26 Contemporary Mosaic Art • Georgetown 26 from the Pacific Northwest” • Pioneer Square 27 October 1-November 1 • University District 31 Spring Exhibitions extended Art Talk via Zoom, TBD Tacoma, WA 31 through September 27: Online Gallery 31 MAPS NORTHWIND ARTS CENTER Maps Bainbridge Island, WA 16 FIBER 2020 701 Water Street • Port Townsend, WA Mercer Island, WA 22 (360) 379-1086 • Fri-Sun: 12-5 P.M. or Poulsbo, WA 24 by appointment • [email protected] Peregrine O’Gormley: Downtown Seattle, WA 26 www.northwindarts.org Old Tree Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 28 Publisher Special Thanks Debbi Lester Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, FREE ADMISSION Anna Teiche: Fragments Cheryl H. 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Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, Submission and payment are done online: Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil, Ryan Vancil (Happy Anniversary), Corbin & Georgie Hart, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Madeline & James Pratt, Cayden & Alder THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EXHIBITION SPONSORS: 2 © August • September • October 2020 © August • September • October 2020 3 artist Dana Roberts in her studio a message from artist Emily Counts artist Warren Dykeman Renee Jameson with her art artist Hib Sabin with his sculptures WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA National Nordic Museum installing her art with his painting Island Gallery Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA Seattle, Washington studio e • Seattle, WA studio e • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island, WA artist Laura Van Horne by her work (L-R) artists Jacqui Beck and Eliaichi Kimaro artist Che Lopez with his art Meg Hartwell with her artworks Mural by APEX and NEONSKI (pictured) in conjunction Gray sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Columbia City Gallery • Seattle, WA Kirkland Art Center Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA with American Graffiti: from the Streets to Canvas Schack Art Center • Everett, WA artist Lauren Iida with her artworks artist Becky Street with her monoprints artist Chankrim Mil with his artworks artist Tyson Grumm with his artworks artist Sharon Carr with her painting ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts Mercer Island, WA artist Rachel Maxi with her sculpture and paintings artist Vivian Chesterley installing her paintings Christine Gedye by her paintings artist Craig Rogers with his paintings artist Dan Spence in his studio i.e. • Edison, WA Gallery at Grace • Bainbridge Island, WA Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Crescenda Gallery • Kingston, WA Verksted Gallery • Poulsbo, WA artist Toni Santos in her studio artist Dotti Burton with her painting artist Anne Siems with her art (L-R) poet Greg Nelson and artist Scott Gibson (L-R) Ginny Clarke of Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA Dotti Burton Studio • Camano Island, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA gave a talk about their collaboration and Suzanne Zahr of Suzanne Zahr Art + Architecture Fogue Studios & Gallery • Seattle, WA Mercer Island, WA 4 © August • September • October 2020 © August • September • October 2020 5 is an excellent example of Gilkey’s style: The “Conversations Between Collections: a grey sky allows filtered, Skagit Valley The Smithsonian American Art Museum light to shine down onto a windswept and the Whatcom Museum” exhibition field. I would encourage everyone to is a unique opportunity to compare watch Chaloupka’s virtual tour of the and reflect on the relationship between exhibition so that you can see a close- regional and national artworks while up of the painting, which provides a seeing them in person. Since visitors close-up of thickly applied paint, which can not do that at this time, the was Gilkey’s signature technique. The virtual tour also includes two additional highlights: Victoria Adams’ “High Falls” and Paul Horiuchi’s “Rocks and Shadows.” On the second floor of the Lightcatcher building guests can view the exhibition “People of the Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, “State Names,” 2000, oil, collage, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 72 inches Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Ann Dugan Sea and Cedar” which includes and museum purchase © 2000, Jaune Quick-toSee Smith the other two artworks on loan Whatcom Museum • Bellingham, WA from the Smithsonian, both by Conversations Between Collections: Indigenous artists. This exhibition The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whatcom Museum is ongoing and features art and Jasper Francis Cropsey, The Coast of Genoa, 1854, oil on canvas, artifacts from the museum’s 48.25 x 72.5 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Aileen B. Train, Helen B. Spaulding, and Julia B. Key In January 2020, the Whatcom Museum Names” from 2000, and Jasper Francis collection that illustrate the historic Whatcom Museum • Bellingham, WA and contemporary perspectives of announced that they are participating Cropsey’s painting from 1854, “The Whatcom Museum offers two virtual Northwest Coast people. Fritz Scholder in an exciting new partnership with the Coast of Genoa.” These loans are on tours by the art curator so that they can and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s paintings Smithsonian American Art Museum. display with artworks and objects from see the photographs of the exhibition are on display alongside bentwood boxes, This five-year collaboration allows the the Museum’s permanent collection in and close-up images of some of the Whatcom Museum • Bellingham, Washington carvings, woven blankets, and Lummi Whatcom Museum, one of five museums two galleries through January 3, 2021. artworks that are included. In addition, in the West selected for the partnership, language interactives. The exhibition poses the question, the museum has a digital to borrow artworks from one of the “What is American art, and what does version of their Story Dome. largest collections of American art in the it look like?” When discussing the Since the exhibition is about world. Not only does this relationship importance of the loans, Curator of Art a sense of place, guests are bring artworks to communities that Amy Chaloupka states, “Presenting invited to share a story, poem, were previously not available to them, these special masterworks in dialogue or song about their sense but it also gives educators and curators with work by American artists form our of place based on prompts the opportunity to facilitate dialogues collection allows the Whatcom Museum provided by the museum. Since between artworks from different regions, to tell a truly expansive and complex everyone’s routines have been time periods, and styles in exhibitions. The story about what American art can look disrupted, it may be consoling first exhibition is titled “Conversations like.” The portion of the exhibition in to reflect on our favorite places Between Collections: The Smithsonian the larger Lightcatcher