Lisa Mcshane “Fluid Reflection” October 1-31, 2021
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TM Lisa McShane • “Ocean,” oil on linen on wood panel, 48 x 40 inches Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, Washington Lisa McShane “Fluid Reflection” October 1-31, 2021 Volume 30 September • October 2021 Number 5 www.ArtAccess.com ART ACCESS THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART Volume 30 Number 5 CONTENTS Features FEATURES Fulgencio Lazo | ArtXchange Gallery …Susan Noye Platt 6 Dan Friday, Preston Singletary, & Raven Skyriver Stonington Gallery …Chloé Dye Sherpe 8 “2 Gather” | studio e …Edie Everette 10 Kurt Solmssen | Bainbridge Island Museum of Art …Tom McDonald 12 VISUAL ART Lisa McShane • “Samish: Therese’s Beach” Listings oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches Anacortes • Bainbridge Island, WA 15 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Bellingham • Camano Island, WA 18 Edison, WA 19 “Artists see what others only catch a glimpse of.” Edmonds • Everett • Friday Harbor, WA 20 Gig Harbor, WA 21 – Leonardo da Vinci Kingston • Kirkland, WA 22 Italian painter, sculptor, architect (1452-1519) La Conner • Lake Forest, WA 23 Langley, WA 24 Front Cover: Lynden • Mercer Island, WA 25 Mount Vernon, WA 26 Lisa McShane • “Ocean” oil on linen on wood panel, 48 x 40 inches Ocean Shores • Olympia, WA 27 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Port Orchard • Port Townsend, WA 28 Poulsbo, WA 29 Melissa Broersma | Pieter VanZanden Seattle, WA • Ballard • Columbia City • Downtown 30 September 3-26, 2021 • First Hill • Georgetown 32 Meet & Greet: • International District • Pioneer Square 33 Saturday, September 4, 3-5 P.M. • Shoreline • University District 38 • • • Sequim • Stanwood • Tacoma 39 Lisa McShane MAPS Maps “Fluid Reflection” Bainbridge Island, WA 15 October 1-31, 2021 Mercer Island, WA 26 Poulsbo, WA 29 Meet & Greet: Downtown Seattle, WA 30 Saturday, October 2, 3-5 P.M. 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They seem In addition to his artwork, he also has to each be trapped in a separate sphere. been a prime activist in our Seattle Their movement is arrested, although the community. He helped to create wheels and hats at the bottom suggest Casa Latina, that excellent worker’s leftovers from a carnival. organization; he initiated Day of the Dead festivals at the Seattle Art Museum and elsewhere. In addition Lazo curates shows of other Latinx artists, opens his studio space to community celebrations and brings Oaxacan artists to Seattle. Lazo co-founded the annual Oaxacan celebration Guelaguetza as well as International Children’s Day. Even in our present challenging times, Fulgencio Lazo continues to believe in the possibilities for change through Fulgencio Lazo • “Fiesta de los Niños” (Children’s Party) art. He says, “My world, like all of acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 inches ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA humanity’s, has been upended by the global pandemic, humanitarian crises Estrellas del Norte al Sur (Stars from North to the South) exacerbated by climate change, and Fulgencio Lazo at ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, Washington massive movements for racial and social justice. This trifecta requires “To be a painter is to have a that we transform ourselves and our responsibility to others. Our work must institutions. As an artist I must visually have a purpose. It must give life and hope.” show what transformation looks like.” ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, Washington —Fulgencio Lazo Fulgencio Lazo • “La Sombra de los Niños” Susan Noyes Platt (Shadow of Children) In the Seattle art community, Fulgencio acrylic on canvas, 59 x 31 inches Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www. Lazo stands out for both his dazzling ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA artandpoliticsnow.com and for local, paintings and his commitment to national, and international publications. “La Sombra de los Niños” (Shadow of community. Based in both Oaxaca, Children), has a lonely leafless tree at its Fulgencio Lazo’s exhibit “Estrellas del Mexico, where he was born, and Seattle, center. One child appears behind it, but Norte al Sur” is on view through where he came to study art as a young the composition is dominated by repeated September 25, Tuesday to Saturday man, he connects the two regions in circular forms that look like curled up from 11 A.M. to 5:30 P.M., at ArtXchange many different ways. birds. Are these birds suggesting the Gallery, located at 512 First Avenue Fulgencio Lazo’s new exhibition ghosts of children who have died trying South in Seattle, Washington. ArtXchange at ArtXchange Gallery, “Estrellas del Fulgencio Lazo • “Equilibrio Infantil” Gallery is planning two community events: (Childhood Balance) to cross the border? The center of the Norte al Sur” (Stars from North to the acrylic on wood, 34 x 23 x 3 in inches composition is dominated by blues, while “Indigenous Connections” on Friday, South), sings from the walls. His layered ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA the top and bottom are orange, as though September 10, from 5 to 7 P.M.—a multi- imagery builds from geometric shapes Within his paintings and sculptures, the glow of Mexico is a memory. disciplinary evening of poetry and music and lush color that gradually emerge as he also embeds the social issues facing exploring the themes of Fulgencio Lazo’s The exhibition also features several specific references. Fulgencio combines Mexicans today. In this exhibition, he solo exhibition. Then, an afternoon with striking sculptures suggesting the