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Jolene Sunding
Jolene Sunding will be in attendance
 
5/11/2023
"Vessels" Jolene Sunding
Introducing -Jolene Sunding "Vessels"
Jolene Sunding   
Thursday May 11, 2023 - Sunday June 11, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  We are pleased to welcome our newest artist. Jolene Sunding to Kirkland with a Vernissage and Meet the Artist Event this month.

Jolene Sunding is a painter and former graphic designer living in the Pacific Northwest creating contemporary art and design. She works in acrylic or watercolor, painting semi-abstractly with mark making at the end using oil pastels, acrylic pens, markers, and varied implements dipped in paint.

For some time, she has been interested in ideas related to mixing abstract elements with more realistic interpretations of subjects. The common thread in her art is the acknowledgment of the range of emotions we experience as humans on a scale of joy to grief.

Her most recent works revolve around "Vessels".

"In this series of semi-abstract paintings, I wanted to explore the idea of the human experience and self, as vessels. After all, there are many similar attributes; we hold things in, we pour things out, and we are all sizes, shapes, and colors. With every brush stroke I am considering the range of emotions we humans deal with. Where do we put them and what do we do with them? My sense is that we can be open to all the possibilities and fill the cracks with healing, hope, joy and gratitude. My observations inform the subject—Layers and mark making inform the result—Intuition is the guide."

Sunding graduated from Black Hills State University in 1992 with a degree in commercial art and a minor in fine art.  In 1999 she moved to Port Townsend from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Artistic opportunities and support in Port Townsend are plentiful where she discovers new ways of expressing herself evolving all the time. This in turn pushes her forward to be more prolific, learn new techniques, and to improve with each effort. She happily takes full advantage of her creative license to work in a variety of styles. The results are a rewarding personal journey. Jolene has had paintings accepted into gallery shows since 2002.

    



Dr. Seuss
 
1/1/2020
The Art of Dr. Seuss
Washington State's Exclusive Dealer for the Art of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss    
On Going Exhibit -
By RSVP
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

            
   As the only dealer in Washington State to represent the Art of Dr. Seuss, we are pleased to offer his prints, sculpture and taxidermy 7 days a week and 12 months a year. Please keep your eyes open for Special Traveling Exhibitions that we host from time to time.

Go online to view the complete Art of Dr. Seuss Collection: https://www.authorizedgallery.com/collections

  For over 60 years, Dr. Seuss's illustrations have brought a visual realization to his
Fantastic and imaginary worlds. Explore and acquire works from Dr. Seuss's best-known children's books, as well as The Art of Dr. Seuss, a mind expanding collection based on decades of artwork, which Dr. Seuss created at night for his own personal pleasure.

  Please come out and join us for an always fun exhibit.

  And as what has become the New Normal, we must require face masks and only a maximum of eight guests in attendance at any one time. We are sanitized and have circulating air filters working hard!

  Not so bad, so come out and visit us soon!
                              



Charlie Barr
Charlie Barr will be in attendance
 
4/6/2023
Charlie Barr "Recollection"
Charlie Barr "Recollection" New Paintings
Charlie Barr   
Thursday April 6, 2023 - Sunday May 7, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
Please Join us for an exhibit of new works by a long standing member of La Petite Galerie, Charlie Barr.

Barr is a Northwest landscape artist working with a unique mixed media blend of acrylic and cement on panel.

These contemporary figurative and landscape paintings are meant to set a mood or evoke emotion and often leave the viewer with a sense of remembrance and stimulated senses.

In this year's exhibit, Barr will introduce a new works where figures become the subject matter adding a much softer and human perspective to his landscapes.  Illustrating the works as old black and white and mono color photos.

Artists are constantly searching for ways to differentiate their work. It's important to speak to an audience in an original manner to draw their attention.

Barr's work incorporates a unique blending of the traditional canvas and stretcher bar form factor with the use of cement veneer over wood. He is occasionally asked where he gets his inspiration.

"I'm inspired by my surroundings when I walk around Seattle, travel abroad and hikes through nature. The subject matter for landscapes comes from traveling and snapping photos while I'm hiking or trail running. I like to add a heightened sense of perspective by either photographing from a low angle or from a high vantage point. With my figurative paintings I take the same approach, attempting to create powerful perspective. The figures are typically in motion with significant directional lighting."

Whether landscape or figurative, Barr is drawn to more of an open layout. He likes to have his subject matter take no more than a third of the surface of the painting.

"I believe the negative or empty space of the painting isn't empty, but adds visual "weight" to the subject matter. I ensure that there are common elements that tie all of my paintings together in a consistent body of work.

With the landscape paintings my goal is to enhance the perspective and contrast of a setting in hopes of conveying the same feeling I get when outdoors in the moment.

With the figurative paintings I focus on people in action, whether they're playing instruments, riding bikes or walking down the street. The figures are meant to have a street art stencil look to tie in with the cement background."

For years Barr worked with oil on canvas. As his style evolved it became clear that fast drying acrylics were a better fit for his new paintings.

"Around the same time that I switched from oil to acrylic I had also switched from canvas to building my own boxes with a thin veneer of cement over the top and sides. The cement finish has an acrylic binding medium which gives it more strength and flexibility."

Barr says it's difficult to know which artists have helped influence his work.

"I admire Thomas Coles' dramatic nature scenes and Banksy's graffiti stencils. My goal is to create work with enhanced elements to give the viewer the same sense of wonder that they'd feel if they were there in the moment."
          



Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon
 
4/6/2023
Other Cool Work!
Other Cool Work!
Thursday April 6, 2023 - Sunday May 7, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

Every month we have a variety of new works in and up to view as you wander the gallery. Come by and see what's new.    



Dimitriy Gritsenko
Dimitriy Gritsenko will be in attendance
 
2/9/2023
Metropolis
The Last Week! Dimitriy Gritsenko
Dimitriy Gritsenko   
Thursday February 9, 2023 - Sunday April 2, 2023
6:00 -9:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
We are pleased to offer new works by New York based artist Dimitriy Gritsenko.

Born in Seattle and educated in San Francisco, Dimitriy developed his  interest in the urban landscape early in his career and has carried it  forward with these brilliant new paintings.

With these new works, Dimitriy continues to explore his interest in urban landscapes all the while abstracting them more and more. His new works are haunting images of vanishing urban landscapes, bold and strong that lead you on a journey through the vacant city.

  
                  



Jane Bronsch
 
2/8/2023
Gallery II
Gallery II - New Works
Thursday February 9, 2023 - Sunday March 26, 2023
6:00 -9:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 
Every month we receive new and interesting works in and while we can't always exhibit all of them, we try and get as many up as we can for you. Come in and see what's new.


Patricia Doherty

R. John (Bob) Ichter

Ray Pelley

E. M. Zax
 
12/15/2022
Holiday Group Exhibit
Holiday Group Exhibit
Thursday December 15, 2022 - Sunday January 8, 2024
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

          A Holiday Group Exhibit with a variety of gallery artists. Giftable to Collectible.
                    



Debbie Daniels
 
11/11/2022
Debbie Daniels
Debbie Daniels "Float and Floral" New Paintings
Debbie Daniels   
Saturday November 12 - Sunday December 11
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

   Please join us for new work by Northwest artist Debbie Daniels.

We have some new paintings just in and timing seemed aprapos with a dark winter approaching. In these new works Daniels explores beyond her typical seascapes and nautical scenes and we wanted to share these new works with you now.

As a long time Pacific Northwest islander, Debbie Daniels creates large scale oil paintings of seascape details of the natural beauty around her. Captured movement plays a vital role in her work. In capturing movement, she hopes to expose a moment in time and provide something deeply personal to the viewer. Debbie's paintings rarely have a horizon line so that the viewer is immersed in the up close details of our surroundings.

Inspired by the ocean paintings of 19th century Russian painter, Ivan Aivazovsky and modern master, Ran Ortner, Debbie will never tire of painting the sea. "There is always freshness in the undulation of the waves, the whiteness of the foam of the breaker, the curl of the crested billow, and the frolicsome pursuit of every wave by its long train of brothers." -Charles Spurgeon

Debbie works from her studio located in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
When she is not painting, Debbie enjoys golfing, riding her motorcycle, and spending time with her family.

Even though we won't be having one of our Meet the Artist events, we are open normal business hours and would happy to have you stop by anytime to enjoy these new paintings by Debbie Daniels.

      



Thom Ross
 
11/10/2022
Gallery II
Gallery II - Thom Ross "Moby-Dick" held over works
Thom Ross   
Saturday November 12 - Sunday December 11
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

   We are happy to be able to hold over several paintings by artist, writer and historian, Thom Ross as he interprets the writing of Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.

We all know the work of Thom Ross and his stories of history, especially of the Wild-West, but there is a lot more to Ross and his love of history than just cowboys.

Time and history will show that Thom Ross is one of the most important historical artists of our time and his paintings will be a reminder of that for many years to come.

For 30 year we have exhibited the works of Thom Ross and have been proud to be associated with such an important artist, historian and friend.

Over these years Ross' past exhibits have narrated stories of Jack Johnson (the boxer), World War I Flying Aces, Roy Chapman Andrews, Billy the Kid, The Little Big Horn Sculpture Event, Baseball, Fishing and many others.

In this exhibit, Ross again dazzles us with his depth of knowledge of history as he illustrates from his perspective, Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.


The total enigma which is Moby-Dick includes the man who wrote the book, how he came about writing it, what he had in mind when he started it and how it all turned out in the end.

The many authors and writings which influenced Melville's novel have included the Bible, Shakespeare, Whitman, Hawthorne, and even the actual, eye-witness account of the ramming and the sinking of the whale ship, ESSEX, by a large sperm whale in November of 1820.

The enigma is further enhanced by the total failure of the book when it was published in 1850; so disheartening was this failure that Melville never wrote another novel, spending his final years working as a customs inspector in New York City and writing poetry, prose and his final novella, Billy Budd.

With the revival and successful reconsideration of the novel in 1919 (the centennial of Melville's birth) Moby-Dick took on its own life. Philosophers and literary scholars began to probe its depths. Films like The Sea Beast (1926 with John Barrymore) and John Huston's very popular 1956 version (with Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart) and others have tried to put on film the illusive metaphorical qualities of the novel. Poets, too, have fallen under the spell of the great White Whale. And, of course, artists have found inspiration in its pages, too.

The most well-known artist to illustrate Moby-Dick might be Rockwell Kent; but artists as diverse as Frank Stella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barry Moser, Leonard Baskin and many many more have all tried to tackle Moby Dick with the same determination as Ahab, himself, had.

The final enigma is that in some ways they, too, like Ahab, were unable to pierce the profundity. The challenge is irresistible and so I, too, put down my harpoon and, picking up my paint brush, just had to have my go at the enigmatic elusiveness of the "whiteness of the whale".

Thom Ross Lamy, NM

Born in San Francisco in 1952, Thom Ross has had a lifelong interest in American History and the "folk hero" who is a product of that history and has long been the motivating force behind his work. His emphasis however is focused on the historical "folk hero" as compared to the mythical "folk hero". (An example of the historical folk hero would be Jesse James; a mythical folk hero would be Paul Bunyan; one actually existed while the other is a product of tall tales.)

His desire is to produce a work of art that requires the viewer to re-examine either what he knows about history, or what he thinks he knows about history. Ross has done paintings of Indians playing croquet; Indians playing ping pong; A camel walking through the deserts of Arizona with a human skeleton strapped to his back; An outlaw member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" gang in the quick draw stance of the gunfighter where his opponent is a skunk; General Custer standing next to his pet pelican; and each of these images is based on an actual incident! By presenting such startling images, which are based in fact, it causes a unique reaction in the viewer.

His other objective in re-working so much of our past history into his work is his deep desire to "update" with bright colors, abstract forms and a contemporary style of painting of figures and events from a dim and often misunderstood past.

Ross believes that as we re-examine and often question the historical forces which shaped the lives of the subjects he paints, their "meaning" can fluctuate, and that the subjects of his works can be brought into a contemporary setting with a vibrancy and excitement that is seldom, if ever, found in the more standard traditional style of art work that has so often been used to represent "historical" figures and events.

With his love of history comes an enjoyment in storytelling and he can easily capture and audience's attention with his passion and unique perspective.

Thom Ross exhibits in numerous galleries throughout the USA and now lectures at colleges on the Wild West where he combines a unique and passionate presentation of art and history.

      



E. M. Zax
 
11/9/2022
Backroom
Backroom Inventory on Display
Saturday November 12 - Sunday December 11
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
Through the nooks and crannies of the gallery we have additional work up that are often a preview of artists upcoming.
Come by and see what's new.
        



Thom Ross
Thom Ross will be in attendance
 
8/28/2022
Moby-Dick
Thom Ross "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" A Special Two Month Exhibit
Thom Ross   
Saturday September 3, 2022 - Sunday November 6, 2022
5:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

       Please Join us for an exciting two month exhibit of Paintings by artist, writer and historian, Thom Ross as he interprets the writing of Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.

We all know the work of Thom Ross and his stories of history, especially of the Wild-West, but there is a lot more to Ross and his love of history than just cowboys.

Time and history will show that Thom Ross is one of the most important historical artists of our time and his paintings will be a reminder of that for many years to come.

For 30 year we have exhibited the works of Thom Ross and have been proud to be associated with such an important artist, historian and friend.

Over these years Ross' past exhibits have narrated stories of Jack Johnson (the boxer), World War I Flying Aces, Roy Chapman Andrews, Billy the Kid, The Little Big Horn Sculpture Event, Baseball, Fishing and many others.

In this exhibit, Ross again dazzles us with his depth of knowledge of history as he illustrates from his perspective, Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick

The total enigma which is Moby-Dick includes the man who wrote the book, how he came about writing it, what he had in mind when he started it and how it all turned out in the end.

The many authors and writings which influenced Melville's novel have included the Bible, Shakespeare, Whitman, Hawthorne, and even the actual, eye-witness account of the ramming and the sinking of the whale ship, ESSEX, by a large sperm whale in November of 1820.

The enigma is further enhanced by the total failure of the book when it was published in 1850; so disheartening was this failure that Melville never wrote another novel, spending his final years working as a customs inspector in New York City and writing poetry, prose and his final novella, Billy Budd.

With the revival and successful reconsideration of the novel in 1919 (the centennial of Melville's birth) Moby-Dick took on its own life. Philosophers and literary scholars began to probe its depths. Films like The Sea Beast (1926 with John Barrymore) and John Huston's very popular 1956 version (with Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart) and others have tried to put on film the illusive metaphorical qualities of the novel. Poets, too, have fallen under the spell of the great White Whale. And, of course, artists have found inspiration in its pages, too.

The most well-known artist to illustrate Moby-Dick might be Rockwell Kent; but artists as diverse as Frank Stella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barry Moser, Leonard Baskin and many many more have all tried to tackle Moby Dick with the same determination as Ahab, himself, had.

The final enigma is that in some ways they, too, like Ahab, were unable to pierce the profundity. The challenge is irresistible and so I, too, put down my harpoon and, picking up my paint brush, just had to have my go at the enigmatic elusiveness of the "whiteness of the whale".

Thom Ross - Lamy, NM


Born in San Francisco in 1952, Thom Ross has had a lifelong interest in American History and the "folk hero" who is a product of that history and has long been the motivating force behind his work. His emphasis however is focused on the historical "folk hero" as compared to the mythical "folk hero". (An example of the historical folk hero would be Jesse James; a mythical folk hero would be Paul Bunyan; one actually existed while the other is a product of tall tales.)

His desire is to produce a work of art that requires the viewer to re-examine either what he knows about history, or what he thinks he knows about history. Ross has done paintings of Indians playing croquet; Indians playing ping pong; A camel walking through the deserts of Arizona with a human skeleton strapped to his back; An outlaw member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" gang in the quick draw stance of the gunfighter where his opponent is a skunk; General Custer standing next to his pet pelican; and each of these images is based on an actual incident! By presenting such startling images, which are based in fact, it causes a unique reaction in the viewer.

His other objective in re-working so much of our past history into his work is his deep desire to "update" with bright colors, abstract forms and a contemporary style of painting of figures and events from a dim and often misunderstood past.

Ross believes that as we re-examine and often question the historical forces which shaped the lives of the subjects he paints, their "meaning" can fluctuate, and that the subjects of his works can be brought into a contemporary setting with a vibrancy and excitement that is seldom, if ever, found in the more standard traditional style of art work that has so often been used to represent "historical" figures and events.

With his love of history comes an enjoyment in storytelling and he can easily capture and audience's attention with his passion and unique perspective.

Thom Ross exhibits in numerous galleries throughout the USA and now lectures at colleges on the Wild West where he combines a unique and passionate presentation of art and history.

              



Dr. Seuss
 
8/13/2022
The Art of Dr. Seuss "The Concept Drawings"
The Concept Drawings - The Art of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss    
Saturday August 13, 2022 - Sunday August 28, 2022
5:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      

It is nearly impossible to imagine a world without Dr. Seuss's characters. They have been woven into the fabric of popular culture for over three quarters of a century. However, there was a time when they only existed in the far reaches of one man's mind...

These concept drawings transport us to the moment of creation and allow us to peer over Dr. Seuss's shoulder as they come to life.

This is a Special and very Limited traveling exhibit: August 13th - August 28th Only. All works will be available for order, even some very select Sold Out editions saved for this Exhibit.

Preview and Exhibition Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 13, 2022

5:00pm -8:00pm

              



Mark Skullerud
Mark Skullerud will be in attendance
 
7/8/2022
Mark Skullerud
"Quarter to Three" The Night Paintings by Mark Skullerud
Mark Skullerud   
Saturday June 9, 2022 - Sunday August 7, 2022
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

   We are pleased to exhibit new paintings by Northwest painter, Mark Skullerud as our first in person "Meet the Artist" Vernissage since the Pandemic started. Its been a long two years!  

While the Pandemic has created its challenges for the gallery, it hasn't been all bad, but we have missed the opening parties with time to interact with collectors and artists as we have done for 37 years. It has been a long time since our artists and staff have felt comfortable enough to have a public opening, so we hope you will join us in welcoming back a gallery Vernissage tradition.

Our opening reception this month will be timed with a downtown Kirkland event  called "Kirkland Uncorked", so the afternoon and evening will be crowded in the Marina District. Make your dinner reservations now and come see us for a glass of wine and meet the artist!

From the lights and sounds to the mysterious feel, the night has a special type of magic to it. Skullerud's newest works in "Quarter to Three - The Night Paintings by Mark Skullerud" feature the beautiful essence of this time of day and depict it in a variety of scenes ranging froms quiet cityscapes to fairy wonderlands.

Even if you're more of a morning person than a night owl, you'll be able to appreciate the touch of enchantment these paintings bring.

"In my most recent work, I have adopted nightscapes as a theme, one that has been at the back of my mind since I started painting professionally 44 years ago.

Part of being a curious painter is a love of mystery, and nighttime offers a most mysterious environment thanks to our limited daylight vision.

Stargazers know we need up to half an hour outside for daylight eyes to adjust to the darkness. Even then, our eyes don't see detail in shade or shadows, or vivid colors under the fullest of moons. To our eyes, opaque night shadows carry a weight and substance missing from daytime shadows lit by a bright sky. Add to these the dazzling brilliance of manmade lights of all colors on a black field, often with water reflections and you have a recipe for paintings that evoke a Mystery".  Mark Skullerud


      



Brad Caplis
 
6/8/2022
"Excursions" Brad Caplis
Brad Caplis "Excursions" New Works
Brad Caplis   
June 8, 2022 - July 4, 2022
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  
Please join us in June for new works by one of the gallery's favorite NW artists, Brad Caplis.

Caplis was busy during the Pandemic with a variety of small playful and whimsical pet oriented works which were all sold as they were completed during the past year.

His larger new works revolve around the adventure of weekend Excursions with the family pet and new found locations.
  

A native of Michigan and graduate of the University of Virginia, Caplis now resides in the Pacific Northwest.

He has explored a variety of landscapes across the country with a playful eye, yet still has fond remembrance of growing up in Michigan and his new home in the Northwest.

  

Growing up in rural Michigan, he was always in or around the woods where he dreamt of spotting flying saucers in a patch of sky just above the pine trees, or stumbling upon a clearing to witness some kind of bucolic supernatural ceremony. He never did witness such events however, but was always on the lookout for the extraordinary in nature.

    

As he began painting, images began to surface that best represented these more mystical yearnings. Before adolescence He was often sick with flu and high fevers which invariably let to hallucinations, some of which were terrifying and quite bizarre. There were times when he would lash out at them or run around the house in hopes of escaping. His mother would let him stay in his brother's room during these episodes as it seem to make him feel safer.

    

In his brother's room, along with all the cool stuff an older brother has, was a vintage 1940's radio. As he lay in bed in a delusional state, he would watch the radio rise up or grow and become speaking. It's voice (he assumed it was God's voice) would announce all kinds of catastrophe and miracles alike. Sometimes a crackling panicked voice like that of an on the street reporter and other times a booming great almighty voice from above, the radio belted out cryptic messages and spectacular occurrences. It was entirely hypnotic and at the time, he believed to be the most important discovery of his young life.

    

Age, maturity and better health eased the delusions transforming many of these images of the past into whimsical and playful paintings as seen in "Excursions".

  

  
    



Pat Tolle
 
6/6/2022
Pat Tolle - New Directions
Pat Tolle - Held Over Works
Pat Tolle   
June 8, 2022 - July 4, 2022
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

Every once in a while we have room in our La Petite Galerie to hold over a few works from the previous month's exhibit.

Please come by and enjoy a few of the held over works by Pat Tolle

"New Directions" by Pat Tolle are recent works created during the Pandemic and ready for a debut exhibition.

"In the last two years I challenged myself to learn a new medium and notice what inspires and brings happiness. I had time now.

Acrylics, mixed media, collage, line work, experimentation without expectation, and play entered my domain. My paintings led to an even more personal work. There's purpose in uninhibited daily practice.

I have always been a storyteller, but my stories became more mysterious. The design leads the eye. Differences are treasured.

The paint and finishes are layered for multiple viewings. The details don't have to be filled in by me.

I hope with the scope of these paintings done over the last couple of
years, you will see the enjoyment and peace I have found." Pat Tolle
  



Pat Tolle

Pat Tolle
 
5/10/2022
"New Directions" Pat Tolle
Pat Tolle "New Directions"
Pat Tolle   
Saturday May 13 (No Reception Planned) - Sunday June 5
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
Please join us for new paintings by one of our longest standing artists in the gallery.

"New Directions" by Pat Tolle are recent works created during the Pandemic and ready for a debut exhibition.

"In the last two years I challenged myself to learn a new medium and notice what inspires and brings happiness. I had time now.

Acrylics, mixed media, collage, line work, experimentation without expectation, and play entered my domain. My paintings led to an even more personal work. There's purpose in uninhibited daily practice.

I have always been a storyteller, but my stories became more mysterious. The design leads the eye. Differences are treasured.

The paint and finishes are layered for multiple viewings. The details don't have to be filled in by me.

I hope with the scope of these paintings done over the last couple of
years, you will see the enjoyment and peace I have found."
Pat Tolle


        



Jaime Ellsworth
 
5/9/2022
Jaime Ellsworth - Held Over Works
Jaime Ellsworth - Held Over Works
Jaime Ellsworth   
Monday May 9, 2022 - Sunday June 5
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  We are happy to hold over a few of Ellsworth's works for an additional month.

It was in 2018 when we last exhibited the paintings by one of our favorites, Jaime Ellsworth from Friday Harbor, WA. Our scheduled 2020 and 2021 exhibits were cancelled and finally with the Pandemic seemingly calming down, we have rescheduled for April 2022. Jaime unfortunately will be absent from this event, so we have no reception planned this year and will look forward to having her happy face here again in the future.  

Please come out and enjoy Ellsworth's newest paintings of her favorite subject matter, Dogs, Horses and Bears.
    



Jaime Ellsworth
 
3/29/2022
Jaime Ellsworth
Jaime Ellsworth "New Works"
Jaime Ellsworth   
Saturday April 2, 2022 - Sunday May 8, 2022
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      
While the Pandemic is still affecting our exhibit schedule, we are close to be being back on track, albeit not with all artists in attendance.

It was in 2018 when we last exhibited the paintings by one of our favorites, Jaime Ellsworth from Friday Harbor, WA. Our scheduled 2020 and 2021 exhibits were cancelled and finally with the Pandemic seemingly calming down, we have rescheduled for April 2022. Jaime unfortunately will be absent from this event, so we have no reception planned this year and will look forward to having her happy face here again in the future.  

Please come out and enjoy Ellsworth's newest paintings of her favorite subject matter, Dogs, Horses and Bears.

            



Dimitriy Gritsenko
 
3/11/2022
Supporting Ukraine
Dimitriy Gritsenko - A brief exhibit of New Works in Support of Ukraine
Dimitriy Gritsenko   
Friday March 11 - Sunday March 27
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
One of our favorite artists is a young man with a tremendous talent for painting, figures, cityscapes and landscapes in a loose, yet powerful style. Such a natural talent
Dimitriy Gritsenko is Ukrainian and while living here, he still has friends and extended family members located in the war torn country currently under siege.

With a few weeks of available time before Jaime Ellsworth comes up, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share these new works by Gritsenko.
Any sales resulting from these works will be shared in part with his friends and family in still living in Ukraine, so it a good time to support a local artist and humanitarian cause.
        



Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon
 
1/19/2022
New Works
New Works by Four and a few other Favorites
Wednesday January 21 - Sunday March 27
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

       New works often arrive into the gallery slowly, but this month there are several new arrivals that deserve to be seen along with a few of our older favorites.
              



Jin Chen
 
11/10/2021
Jin Chen
Jin Chen "Pop Op"
November 10, 2021 - December 12, 2021
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

         

We are proud to exhibit the Op Art paintings by Beijing artist Jin Chen.

  

With a studio in Shanghai and Beijing, Jin Chen divides his time between both the fine art world and the graphic design arena where he has worked in the field of advertising, design, media and PR.

  

Born in 1974, Jin Chen has been painting since childhood and holds a degree in Decorative Arts, graduating from Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing, China.

  

Using his talent as a fine artist he has spent most of his adult life painting and working in the design field.  Some of his design applications and keen graphic techniques have influenced his painting style to get to where he is today as a fine artist creating interesting Geometric Abstracts.

  

His Pop-Op images are reminiscent of Pop Art and Optical Art masters from Lichtenstein and Warhol to Vasarely and Frank Stella with his work falling uniquely into Geometric Abstraction.

  

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1950's after a brief introduction in Great Britain. Pop art presented a challenge to the traditions of fine art by including imagery from the popular culture such as advertising and news.  American advertising had adopted many elements and characteristics of modern art and functioned at a very sophisticated level.

  

Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping and often making the view a bit queasy.

  

The viewer's eye can be tricked or confused by the visual vibration created by the movement generated of juxtaposing complimentary colors and curvilinear lines and diminishing shapes until the mind catches up and then at the blink of an eye, you are caught off guard yet again.

  

Jin Chen has been able to assimilate his design fundamentals and graphic background into a fun and exploratory direction that is very unique and contemporarily popular with an entirely new generation of collectors.

                  



Robert Minuzzo

Kim Walker
 
10/6/2021
River Rock and Desert Bloom
"River Rock and Desert Bloom" Robert Minuzzo and Kim Walker
October 6, 2021 - November 7, 2021
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

       

We are pleased to offer the paintings by California painter Robert Minuzzo and Arizona painter Kim Walker as they offer you a glimpse into their artistic worlds and passions of fly fishing holes and desert flora.

  

The works included in this exhibit by Minuzzo are renditions of Rocks from the rivers he has visited to fish. An active fly fisherman, he was always captivated with the stunning natural graphics of the rocks which are magnified under water. They provide perfect models for his shimmering abstractions on canvas.

  

Walker's paintings are intended to be a reflection of the beauty and the comfort of the gifts found in nature and especially of those found in the desert.   Her feeling is that connections to nature are indispensable to all people.  Her artwork takes her on a spiritual journey as she seeks and collect natural elements, which she then incorporates into her mixed-media compositions.  Most works of art are done on either domestic or exotic woods from all parts of the world.  Walker treasures both the symbolic and the tangible connections of using these woods as the foundation of her paintings.  

              



Dr. Seuss
 
8/6/2021
The Art of Dr. Seuss
The Art of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss    
Friday August 6, 2021 - Sunday September 6, 2021
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Friday
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

        
For over 60 years, Dr. Seuss's illustrations have brought a visual realization to his fantastic and imaginary worlds.

As Washington's only authorized dealer for the Art of Dr. Seuss we are pleased to always offer the work in the gallery 12 months a year.

Explore and acquire works from Dr. Seuss's best-known children's books, as well as the Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, a mind expanding collection based on decades of artwork, created at night for his own personal pleasure.
  



Bob Allan
 
7/2/2021
Robert Allan
Robert Allan "Organized Abstraction"
Bob Allan   
Friday July 2, 2021 - Sunday August 1, 2021
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

            

Join us in revisiting some of our favorite artist's work for the month of July.

Bob Allan has been with us through two locations and continues to be a favorite by many and are happy to reintroduce him back to Kirkland.

Still living in Nebraska, Allan manages his between his art, writing books and a happy retirement.

Allan's work exudes physicality. He alternatively excavates and constructs forms to create a complex topography across the surfaces of his works that effectively project light and shadow. His confident and of the surprising combinations of various material, textures, patterns, shapes and colors are reflective of his own fascination multi-layered biography.

    

According to Allan, creativity is like a puzzle, the solutions to which fall secondary to the means to get there. In his own words, "The act of creativity is much more important than the finished work" This drives him to believe that many of his paintings are never finished, but rather simply await another design intervention or until the definitive finished point of being purchased by a collector to adorn their wall.

                      



Debbie Daniels

Debbie Daniels
 
7/1/2021
Debbie Daniels
Debbie Daniels "Of the Sea" Extended
Debbie Daniels   
Friday July 2, 2021 - Sunday August 1, 2021
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

        
Please join us in welcoming our newest artist, Debbie Daniels.

Ms. Daniels will be our first new artist exhibiting new works since the Pandemic slowed everyone down last March and with a hint of life getting back to normal, we are pleased to bring Kirkland these beautiful works in "Of the Sea".

Debbie Daniels creates large scale oil paintings of seascape details of the natural beauty around her. Captured movement plays a vital role in her work. In capturing movement, she hopes to expose a moment in time and provide something deeply personal to the viewer. Debbie's paintings rarely have a horizon line so that the viewer is immersed in the up close details of our surroundings.

Even though we won't be having one of our Meet the Artist events, we are open normal business hours and would happy to have you stop by anytime to enjoy these new paintings by Debbie Daniels.




                



Lori-ann Latremouille

Svetlana Shalygina
 
3/10/2021
Latremouille and Shalygina
Revisiting Latremouille and Shalygina
March 10, 2021 - May 2, 2021
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
  With the pandemic causing considerable disruption to how we are able to operate our business this year, nothing of the past seems sacred other than our love of art and our interest in sharing our artist's work. It will be great to again have patrons coming in!

  With our "Meet the Artist" series of the past 30 years being curtailed in March 2020 we find it difficult to effectively offer new artists or even new work by our artists who are still able to produce work without in person openings. As the pandemic lessens and vaccinations become more available we will for now be revisiting works by our artists that rest in our inventory until we feel that patrons will again venture back in to support our artists comfortably.

  March 10 - May 2 we will be exhibiting works by Lori-ann Latremouille and Svetlana Shalygina. While the similarities of the two are limited to them being female and the fact  that both have been well collected artists of ours for years (Lori-ann since 1985) we have hung a nice looking exhibit to revisit previously exhibited works. We have also hung salon style our previous exhibit, The Color of Money in the back which was a very fun exhibit albeit, seen by only a few.

  Kirkland is active, so don't be shy...we are masked up, sanitized, air purified and ready to welcome you in anytime. We don't ever have a problem with occupancy numbers, so come by and let's welcome in Spring and a better year together!


  

        



Steve Kaufman
 
3/8/2021
The Color of Money - A Group Exhibit
The Color of Money - A Group Exhibit -Extended
March 10, 2021 - June 6, 2021
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

        Please join us as we extend a group exhibit of artists that use of Money as subject matter.                  



Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon
 
1/23/2021
The Color of Money - A Group Exhibit
The Color of Money - A Group Exhibit
Saturday January 23 - Sunday March 7
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

         Please join us for a group exhibit of artists that use of Money as subject matter.
                  



Brad Caplis

Mark Skullerud
 
11/13/2020
Hallmark Realty Annex
Join us for Wine Walk - December 17 - Welcome to the Neighborhood
November 13, 2020 - To be announced
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      

On occasion we will relocate an exhibit to our friends at Hallmark Realty to extend the viewing cycle of some of our wonderful artists. Feel free to drop in and take a look or buy a new home, Hallmark is located just across the street from us.

            



Dr. Seuss
 
10/8/2020
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss "NEW RELEASE" at pre-publication pricing. Click here and then on the link following.
Dr. Seuss    
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    


Click here to see the newest Secret Art Release: https://www.drseussart.com/new-release?ref=gunnarnordstromd

Thank you to those of you that watched the Pre-Release video on Thursday with Bob Chase. If you missed it, you can still revisit the video and order a print at the pre-release price. It is going to a great selling print and you have until October 18th to order.

Our YouTube event last Spring with "Soar to High Heights" by Dr. Seuss was the most successful release of The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection in its history and our Zoom events have been awesome! This video is informative and interesting as well.

Whether a Dr. Seuss fan at this time or not, we are very pleased to give you early access to the new Secret Art release from The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection. We have been waiting a year for this new Secret Art release and I assure you it will be spectacular and well worth you taking time to participate in this early, pre-release opportunity. It doesn't cost anything to watch!

The pre-release price will only be good until October 18th, so if it is appealing to you, don't hesitate to order it online from my link.  

As always, we appreciate your business and your time to explore new works with us.


Enjoy and thanks again for supporting the Art of Dr. Seuss!

            



Doug Martindale

Doug Martindale
 
9/14/2020
Doug Martindale
Doug Martindale - "New Pastels and Prints"
Doug Martindale   
Monday September 14 - Wednesday November 11
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      
Please join us for an Extended Exhibition of works by Doug Martindale as we navigate around  circumstances beyond our control.

While life in the Northwest and across the Nation currently isn't what we are used to, we clearly are learning as we go.  We hope that by extending our exhibit with Doug Martindale for two months will allow our loyal collectors and new ones to visit over a longer period of time and for our small business to continue by being as flexible as possible.

We are happy to work by appointment anytime and can limit the number of people in the gallery easily upon your visit if you are at all concerned. Face masks are required.

Please make an effort to come out to see these beautiful pastels. Martindale has put a substantial amount of effort into their creation and framing presentation and you won't be disappointed.

Doug Martindale was born and raised in Spokane, WA.  After deciding to pursue art as his life-long career, Martindale moved to Seattle, WA and was accepted into Cornish College of the Arts, a highly regarded private arts college in 1981.  There he studied closely with numerous talented instructors, focusing mainly on illustration.  Here, he learned the importance of attention to fine detail in his work.


Martindale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Cornish in 1986.   He began producing artwork and successfully selling it upon graduation from art school, but it was in the early 90's that his craft really clicked for him.  He was on an art walk in Seattle, when he happened upon a show featuring the work of Susan Bennerstrom, an accomplished northwest pastel artist.  He was so inspired that he took an intensive workshop in soft chalk pastel painting from Bennerstrom.  He was hooked with the pure, intense color and richness of the medium.  Having always been an enthusiast of landscape paintings, he used this as his means of subject matter with which to pursue his newly found love for pastels as his primary medium for his art.


It is in his pastel paintings that Martindale feels he has really found his true niche in his method of artistic expression.  His idealistic interpretation of the landscapes he paints transcends the viewer into a timeless, perfect space.  One can clearly see the incredible attention to detail in his work.  The rich, bold color variations and dramatic compositions continue to be alive, sumptuous and compelling.  Doug's amazing body of work over the years has been purchased by numerous private and public collectors, including the Microsoft Corporation, Nordstrom department stores, Chateau Ste. Michelle wineries, and the Radisson hotel chain.  His work at one point was also featured in a segment of "Entertainment Tonight".

Doug Martindale continues to portray the gift of nature to all in his collection of engaging imagery.  He has gone on to build an impressive portfolio of his original pastel paintings and limited edition giclees and lithographs, for which there seems to be an ever growing demand.

After selling his work in numerous art galleries while living in Seattle, WA and Palm Springs, CA for over a couple of decades, Doug has relocated to his hometown of Spokane, WA, where he now resides.   If not busy working in his art studio, he can be found delivering new works of art to the Spokane Art Museum, (The MAC) or instructing classes at the Spokane Art School.                



Brad Caplis

Mark Skullerud
 
7/11/2020
Welcome to the Neighborhood
New Exhibit - “Welcome to the Neighborhood “ Bradley Caplis and Mark Skullerud
Saturday July 11, 2020 - Wednesday September 9, 2020
No Reception Planned
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

             

Please join us for our first exhibit back since February and the lingering Covid-19 restrictions.

  

  

We offer you a New and Timely exhibit in our Kirkland La Petite Galerie with "Welcome to the Neighborhood" as we seek the New Normal.

  

  

Bradley Caplis and Mark Skullerud, both are proficient painters of landscapes and architectural elements embark on a journey in a quest for the New Normal as they traverse neighborhoods across the Puget Sound and beyond in search of community and safe harbors during this very peculiar time in our history with "Welcome to the Neighborhood".

  

  

Under the current restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have obviously opted out of offering an Artist's Reception and have gone to an extended show length of two months to allow guests to comfortably come and visit at their leisure.

  

  

We have taken steps to make you safe and the wearing of face coverings are required as is the occupancy level of the gallery where we will allow 4 guests in at a time.

  

  

Should you ever want a serious private preview, it takes nothing more than a request and we are happy to lock the doors, put up an "Occupancy Full" sign, offer you a glass of wine or a cocktail and 30 minutes of time to pick your favorite painting.

  

  

By the opening day, July 11th, we will also be offering a YouTube video with artist interviews and a selection of the artwork available. Please check out our YouTube Channel:

  

  

I believe you will enjoy this exhibit and its sense of calmness and Deja vu that is so necessary and refreshing during all the turmoil surrounding us today. Please come out and support our artists and our business.

                          



Mark Gatewood
 
6/7/2020
Temporary Group Exhibit
Group Exhibit until we resume our Schedule
June 7, 2020 - July 8, 2020
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    

Welcome back!

As we look back over the past 3 months of a historic worldwide pandemic and disturbing violence across America that has crippled small and large businesses alike we are thankful for being healthy, safe from damage, still able to be in business and that we followed the rules of those wiser than us and can hopefully look forward to the new normal.

We still need to do business and we welcome you back into our gallery with a few adjustments for that new normal. To view our "New" normal, please click here:

Until we resume our exhibition schedule, we are pleased to offer you some great works in a diverse exhibition of a few gallery artists.










          



Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon

Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon

Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon
 
4/4/2020
New Work Just In - The Brothers Bisaillon
New Works Just In - Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon - We are Temporarily Closed - Please Call for Assistance - 425.283.0461
Jeffrey and Michael Bisaillon   
By Appointment
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    space Jbis Art is the vision of Jeffrey Bisaillon and his brother Michael  Bisaillon. The brothers were born in upstate New York and have lived in  various locations such as San Diego, Austin, Raleigh and Jacksonville,  FL. They are currently based back in their hometown in New York.

The brothers have been producing art for over 20 years in many genres.  Jeffrey has always connected with the abstract and has been painting  abstracts for many years. Michael has always connected with symbology  and thematic elements in pop art. In 2010 Jeffrey started his "Modern  Simplicity Series" which was a total deviation from everything he had  done previously. He set out to develop a series that was extremely  modern and that he believed was the perfect fusion of art and design.  From that series came the "Modern Visage Series" which utilized the idea  of the cut out or cut through 3D space of the "Modern Simplicity"  combined with homage to iconic people or brands that we all admire and  hold deeply. As the brothers worked together on the "Modern Visage  Series" ideas began to emerge involving Jeffrey's love of the Abstract  and his keen eye towards modern art and design and Michael's love of  symbology and the digital art process. Every idea and style of art the  brothers have a passion for would come to fruition and pave the way for  the creation of the "the POP Collection"

As new technologies emerge and become available artists must utilize  them while at the same time respecting the artistic methods of the past.  The brothers created a process where acrylic painting on both canvas  and hard panel is combined with mixed media, digital photography,  graphic design and digital design. Paint must still be flung through the  air and drip down the panel and canvas while at the same time  incorporating the digital aspects of the artistic form for "the POP  Collection" to come together as a whole. This philosophy is the  cornerstone of the Bisaillon Brothers artistic endeavors.

"the POP Collection" acts as an intermediary between iconic imagery and  culture as the "Modern Visage Series" does but goes back to their roots  with the abstract and thematic elements. The digital age is upon us and  our art will then reflect this, "the POP Collection" has arrived!

It was 1996 and shortly after the brothers moved into a house in Austin  Texas Jeffrey said to Michael "The walls in this house are bare, we  should make some art to hang" the rest is history still being made...          



Dimitriy Gritsenko
Dimitriy Gritsenko will be in attendance
 
2/8/2020
Dimitriy Gritsenko - New Works
Dimitriy Gritsenko "Urban Dialogue"
Dimitriy Gritsenko   
Saturday February 8th - Sunday March 8th
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    

The Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, in our new location in Kirkland are pleased to offer the newest works by Dimitriy Gristsenko in his first exhibit with us.

  

Dimitriy Gritsenko is a  talented, up and coming artist who was born in Seattle and grew up in Everett, the home town of one of Washington's most famous artists, Chuck Close.

  

After finishing public school, Dimitriy moved to San Francisco to study at the well-known Art Academy University of San Francisco.

  

It was in San Francisco that he developed his interest in the medium of oil and painting on canvas and linen. While he loves to paint the beauty of God's creation and his genres vary, he is currently focusing on the subject matter on cityscapes. San Francisco was a fantastic location to embrace his interest in cityscapes and the 24/7 life that keeps that city so electric. Seattle now provides a great backdrop for his newest works.

  

Working with a variety of tools to apply the paint, Dimitriy paints with passion, energy and confidence easily visible in his work and all the while finding the gritty life of the city as the perfect subject.

  


A local Seattle favorite subject is Pike Place Market with its often wet and reflective pavement, neon lights burning through the mist and bustling shoppers hustling to avoid the rain that embraces the Seattle lifestyle and upbeat culture.

          



Gallery Event Photos

Gallery Event Photos
 
11/24/2019
La Petite Galerie
Open For Business June 7, 2020
Gallery Event Photos   
Back Open - June 7, 2020 -
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

                    


Open as of Sunday June 7, 2020


Thankful to still be in Business!

As we look back over the past 3 months of a historic worldwide pandemic and disturbing violence across America that has crippled small and large businesses alike we are thankful for being healthy, safe from damage, still able to be in business and that we followed the rules of those wiser than us and can hopefully look forward to the new normal.

We still need to do business and we welcome you back into our gallery with a few adjustments for that new normal.

For a review of our "New" Normal Adjustments, please click here:  

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After 11 fantastic years at the Bellevue Collection we have moved 4 miles up the road to a comfortable and familiar location in the heart of downtown Kirkland in the Marina District.

We have landed in an intimate and cozy retail space on Kirkland Avenue where tree lined streets, busy sidewalks and unique shops meet the sunset on the shores of Lake Washington.

It has been 11 years since we left Kirkland where time slows down, sunsets fall beautifully to the west and conversations last longer than the passing hellos of a busy Bellevue culture.

Kirkland has always been a great place to live, but honestly its a difficult business location for lots of reasons. Leaving Kirkland 11 years ago after 18 years as a looming recession was rearing its ugly head we needed to explore a more business friendly environment to survive what was expected to be a long and challenging recession.

We survived and flourished albeit at a cost and it is now time to slow down and move back "home". Small business isn't easy and the requirements of success often come with an inequity of balance and we are looking to be back in balance again. Work and play are important and neither should be challenged by the other.

Come by our La Petite Galerie, say hello, watch a sunset and view some great art!


  
                                        



Dr. Seuss
 
11/23/2019
The Art of Dr. Seuss
The Cat Behind The Hat - Thru February 2, 2020
Dr. Seuss    
Saturday November 23, 2019 - Sunday February 2, 2020
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  
We are pleased to host a fantastic traveling exhibit of The Art of Dr. Seuss.

This Exhibit, "The Cat Behind the Hat" includes some of the best works we have had the opportunity to share with collectors and are excited to be able to offer them for a two month exhibit thru February 2, 2020.

Included in this exhibit, there are many of the Secret Art and Archived works, Bronze and Illustrations chronicling the evolution of the cat from illustrations to the Midnight / Secret Art that the good Dr. painted in his free time.

Special to this Exhibit are 16 - yes, sixteen works exhibited that are currently Sold Out and not available outside of this traveling exhibit.

This is truly and opportunity for those Seuss collectors (or New Collectors) to acquire a print that they might have missed or have been unable to find. We even have the very rare and desirable print "The Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks".

Come out as see this exhibit in person and enjoy the magical life of The Art of Dr. Seuss!
    



Lawrence McLaughlin

Svetlana Shalygina
 
11/9/2019
Open in Kirkland
Opening our Kirkland location - "la Petite Galerie" with Svetlana Shalygina and Lawrence McLaughlin
Saturday November 9th - Wednesday November 20th
No Reception
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    We have finally completed the move from Bellevue to Kirkland and our new home at "la Petite Galerie".

After 11 years away from Kirkland, we are happy to be back and settling in to our new and very small space, but I believe you will find it cozy and inviting nestled in the Marina District on Kirkland Avenue with a tree lined street, and westerly sunsets over the lake. Good things continue to come in small packages!
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We are pleased to open for a short period with the works by a gallery favorite, Svetlana Shalygina. We always enjoy exhibiting Shalygina's work and pairing her with International sculptor, Larry McLaughlin.

The foundation of Svetlana's unique style is the poetry and beauty she treasured as a child, and the love she still feels for her Homeland. The core of her creative expression is both personal and nostalgic—to the point she was originally reluctant to share her vision openly with others. Her maturing style has been strongly influenced by her love of nature and her interest in human behavior and emotion. Several years ago, Svetlana's intriguing and sophisticated body of work was discovered by an accomplished fellow artist and art collector who encouraged her to expand her palette and unveil her creative vision to the world.

McLaughlin's sculpture, prints and paintings have been featured in solo and group shows in France, Germany, London, Switzerland and in North American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bellevue / Kirkland, Portland, Denver, Phoenix and others. His sculpture is noted for its fluid motion and humorous and dynamic configurations. McLaughlin sculpts in concrete, bronze, aluminum and glass.  

Come by and see us and our new location and keep your eyes open for our two day Open House and Special Traveling Exhibit of "The Cat Behind the Hat" and the Art of Dr. Seuss November 23rd and 24th.


        



Bruno Bruni
 
9/11/2019
Moving to Kirkland
Moving to Kirkland Sale - Gallery Owned Inventory
Wednesday September 11, 2019 - Saturday October 26, 2019
6:00-8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

            
We are moving to Kirkland on November 2, 2019. To help facilitate the move to a smaller space, we are selling some gallery owned inventory at GREAT PRICES to free up storage.
There won't be any posted sale prices, so you need to come in to take advantage of this opportunity.
                        



Dimitriy Gritsenko
Dimitriy Gritsenko will be in attendance

Shelley Stroeve
Shelley Stroeve will be in attendance
 
8/14/2019
No Ryhme or Reason - Group Exhibit
Group Exhibit - Caplis, Chen, Gritshenko, Latremouille, Stroeve
Wednesday August 14 - Saturday September 7
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      I don't really remember why they call it the Dog Days of Summer, but in the past, August has consistently been a slow month, so we have tried to have fun with it from our "Who let the Dogs Out" exhibits of the past to a variety of other August and Summer inspired themes.

This year with "No Rhyme or Reason" we would like to include in a group exhibit, two new artists to the gallery, Dimitriy Gritshenko and Shelley Stroevie and share a couple of works by them to get your approval for future exhibits as well as a few new and past works by Brad Caplis, Jin Chen and Lori-ann Latremouille.


Shelley Stroeve isn't a new artist by any means, but still is an emerging artist and has sold a lot of work in the Northwest and across Washington State. Her abstract images have a very general appeal to a large section of the population.

Through exploration of texture, depth and color, Shelley creates art that is at once transcendental and yet almost tangible. Her work encourages revolutionary thinking, contemplation of humanity and realization of how connections both physical and spiritual manifest our identity.

Her ingenuity is inspired by the fluidity of the Post-Impressionist Romanticism Movement, the dream like quality of Surrealism and all music that evokes passion and intense emotion, resulting in a diverse visual cadence that ranges from the subtle nuances of Fredrick Chopin to the intensity of Disturbs rendition of The Sound of Silence.

Shelley works with a wide variety of textual mediums and different types of paints including; oil, acrylic and watercolor dyes on canvas or artist panel with a scale ranging from 8 'x 8" to 6' x 4'. Many of her pieces are covered in epoxy resin.

Shelley studied Art History at the University of Washington, volunteered as an art docent for the Issaquah School District, raised two beautiful children and currently resides in Issaquah with her life partner Eric Lennier. Shelley lives a multifaceted life with exuberant passion for health and her family that spans five generations. She is an adventurer who has traveled to many interesting places including Brazil, Argentina and Turkey. She loves the water and is an avid wake surfer who enjoys the irony of being a young grandmother who is still carded on occasion.

Most days you can find Shelley doing what she loves, flinging paint, at her spacious art studio where she and Eric have designed a dust free clean room for resin application.

Dimitriy Gritsenko was born in Seattle and grew up in Everett, the home town of one of Washington's most famous artists, Chuck Close.  

After finishing public school, Dimitriy moved to San Francisco to study at the well-known Art Academy University of San Francisco.

It was in San Francisco that he developed his interest in the medium of oil and painting on canvas and linen. While he loves to paint the beauty of God's creation and his genres vary, he is currently focusing on the subject matter on cityscapes. San Francisco was a fantastic location to embrace his interest in cityscapes and the 24/7 life that keeps that city so electric. Seattle now provides a great backdrop for his newest works.

Working with a variety of tools to apply the paint, Dimitriy paints with passion, energy and confidence easily visible in his work and all the while finding the gritty life of the city as the perfect subject.

A local Seattle favorite subject is Pike Place Market with its often wet and reflective pavement, neon lights burning through the mist and bustling shoppers hustling to avoid the rain that embraces the Seattle lifestyle and upbeat culture.

                



Pat Tolle
 
8/12/2019
French Impressions
Pat Tolle "French Impressions" Held Over
Pat Tolle   
Wednesday July 10, 2019 - Saturday August 10, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    We are pleased to hold over "French Impressions" by Pat Tolle.

Tolle has been a regular gallery participant since her first exhibit with us 26 years ago in 1993 with "Cool Pools" and continues to be one of our more popular artists.

We have followed Tolle and her impressionist paintings from interiors and still life's to aerial views of landscape patterns across the globe. With her new exhibit, "French Impressions" Tolle takes us on a familiar journey of landscapes, but this time to the countryside of France.  

These new works represent a consistent direction her art has taken since the aerial views of landscapes now bringing the viewer to more of an eye level perspective with a true, French Impression.


"French Impressions, is a journey through Bordeaux on brown rivers, vineyards with chateaus and scenic old cities along with iconic Paris.  

Oil painting has been my medium since the 1970s.

Told to work in my own style after art school, I've had studios in California, Hawaii and Washington while using traditional methods to paint with medium in a lean to thick pigment ratio.

Color gives me visual pleasure as combinations charge the challenge of the pictorial composition.

My work is done mostly in series and informed by my environment: "women with cars" from Kauai days of co-running a repair garage; pools and reflections of swimmers from memory; landscapes from travels around PNW, including helicopters over the Palouse and Skagit tulip fields, as well as sketching trips throughout the Americas and Europe.

Paintings are based on my physical and personal reality but are not photo-realistic. They share common painterly brushstroke/marks which I compare to visual songs I am singing while witnessing life around me. My goal is a marriage of recognizable actuality to abstract wonder."   Pat Tolle

Tolle's paintings are in public and private collections and she has exhibited in several states, including California, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado and New York.
        



Mark Skullerud
 
7/8/2019
Port of Call
Mark Skullerud "Port of Call" Held over Works
Mark Skullerud   
Wednesday July 10, 2019 - Saturday August 10, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

        

We are pleased to again offer new paintings by a gallery favorite, Mark Skullerud.

Skullerud's stylized impressionist landscapes are loosely based on real things in real locations in the Puget Sound area. They are emotional portraits of a time of day, a weather pattern, or a season that have a familiar feel of the region. He wants viewers to know the beauty that's visible every day, and to recognize the fleeting and subtle light that is gives the region its character and identity.

The geography of Seattle and the Puget Sound is all about hills, valleys, rivers, waterways. Add to that the historic architecture of the city and you have collection of interesting subject matter. He paints the immensity, distance and space of the region's topography, as well as its light, textures and flavor of Seattle's history.

He sees mountains and urban hills as a performance stage for lighting. They are sculptural like muscles, 3D forms that serve to show off the cloud shadows and sun, the filtered light that changes from moment to moment with the seasons.  

Though the town is rapidly growing and cranes are omni present, much of it, especially the hills, remain recognizable.

Born and raised in Seattle, hiking the trails and mountains that ring us on both sides and influence his artwork to this day. His earliest art training was in junior high school when his parents hired a girl down the block to instruct me in painting and drawing. He also spent many an afternoon with his art teacher pedaling a clunky one-speed bike up and down the hills of Seattle to do plein aire paintings.

His first job as a professional artist began in 1978 as an architectural illustrator for Walter Dorwin Teague, a national industrial design firm. Four years later he opened the Skullerud Studio. Since that time he has moved through several periods, painting science fiction, surrealism, impressionism and abstraction.

During these phases, the Northwest landscape never left his consciousness. Its restrained colors, atmospheric light and emotional power find expression in his paintings. Add to that the delight of loosely controlled paint, and something gets loose on the canvas.
                  



Brad Caplis
 
6/10/2019
"Visitors" Held Over Works by Brad Caplis
Brad Caplis "Visitors" Held Over Works
Brad Caplis   
Wednesday June 12, 2019 - Saturday July 6, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  
Even with many sales for Bradley Caplis' exhibit "Visitors" there are still several very nice works available and we are pleased to be able to offer them to you for another month in our Mall Window Gallery.
If you missed this exhibit, it one of the best showings that we have had with Bradley and all of his works this year are great.

A lot can be said about an individual who embraces the challenge of being  an artist turned gallery owner, turned artist again. The world of art  is fickle, subjective and rarely synchronized with business acumen, but  when an artist temps fate and immerses themselves into the business of  art, combining their creativity and collecting all the knowledge  necessary to run a small business successfully when they decide to exit,  they do it with a clarity not realized before. They are not only a  better artist at understanding the collector or the pedestrian public,  but also better at the business of art. Shannon Rasor and Bradley Caplis  have done just that and success abounds.  

  

  

Caplis,  a native of Michigan uses remembrances of his childhood as a source of  inspiration for his paintings. Growing up in rural Michigan, he was  always in or around the woods. There he dreamed of spotting flying  saucers in a patch of sky just above the pine trees, or stumbling upon a  clearing to witness some kind of bucolic supernatural ceremony. He  never did witness such events however, but was always on the lookout for  the extraordinary in nature.


  

  

As  his paintings continued, images began to surface that best represented  these more mystical yearnings. Before adolescence He was often sick with  flu and high fevers which invariably let to hallucinations, some of  which were terrifying and quite bizarre. There were times when he would  lash out at them or run around the house in hopes of escaping. His  mother would let him stay in his brother's room during these episodes.  It seemed to make him feel safer.


  

  

In  his brother's room, along with all the cool stuff an older brother has,  was a vintage 1940's radio. As he lay in bed in a delusional state, he  would watch the radio rise up or grow and become speaking. It's voice  (he assumed it was God's voice) would announce all kinds of catastrophe  and miracles alike. Sometimes a crackling panicked voice like that of an  on the street reporter and other times a booming great almighty voice  from above, the radio belted out cryptic messages and spectacular  occurrences. It was entirely hypnotic and at the time, he believed to be  the most important discovery of his young life.


  

  

Age,  maturity and better health eased the delusions and his education at the  University of Virginia transformed many of these images of the past  into whimsical and playful paintings of landscapes, seascapes and  timeless memorabilia.


  

  Brad Caplis currently resides with his wife in the Pacific Northwest where he continues to pursue his painting.      



Brad Caplis
Brad Caplis will be in attendance
 
5/8/2019
Visitors
Bradley Caplis "Visitors"
Brad Caplis   
Wednesday May 8, 2019 - Saturday June 8, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    

We are pleased to exhibit in a one two punch, former art gallery owners Shannon Rasor in April (April 10 - May 4) and husband Bradley Caplis in May (May 8 - June 8).

  

  

Brad Caplis (May 8 - June 8) has been a regular and very well liked gallery exhibitor since 2003. This past month was the first solo exhibit by his wife and business partner Shannon Rasor. Her work was on exhibit April 10th thru May 4th with a few works held over (should there be any left) into May.

  

  

A lot can be said about an individual who embraces the challenge of being an artist turned gallery owner, turned artist again. The world of art is fickle, subjective and rarely synchronized with business acumen, but when an artist temps fate and immerses themselves into the business of art, combining their creativity and collecting all the knowledge necessary to run a small business successfully when they decide to exit, they do it with a clarity not realized before. They are not only a better artist at understanding the collector or the pedestrian public, but also better at the business of art. Shannon Rasor and Bradley Caplis have done just that and success abounds. We look forward to two consecutive months as we exhibit each of them individually.

  

  

Caplis, a native of Michigan uses remembrances of his childhood as a source of inspiration for his paintings. Growing up in rural Michigan, he was always in or around the woods. There he dreamed of spotting flying saucers in a patch of sky just above the pine trees, or stumbling upon a clearing to witness some kind of bucolic supernatural ceremony. He never did witness such events however, but was always on the lookout for the extraordinary in nature.

  

  

As his paintings continued, images began to surface that best represented these more mystical yearnings. Before adolescence He was often sick with flu and high fevers which invariably let to hallucinations, some of which were terrifying and quite bizarre. There were times when he would lash out at them or run around the house in hopes of escaping. His mother would let him stay in his brother's room during these episodes. It seemed to make him feel safer.

  

  

In his brother's room, along with all the cool stuff an older brother has, was a vintage 1940's radio. As he lay in bed in a delusional state, he would watch the radio rise up or grow and become speaking. It's voice (he assumed it was God's voice) would announce all kinds of catastrophe and miracles alike. Sometimes a crackling panicked voice like that of an on the street reporter and other times a booming great almighty voice from above, the radio belted out cryptic messages and spectacular occurrences. I was entirely hypnotic and at the time, he believed to be the most important discovery of his young life.

  

  

Age, maturity and better health eased the delusions and his education at the University of Virginia transformed many of these images of the past into whimsical and playful paintings of landscapes, seascapes and timeless memorabilia.

  

  

Brad Caplis currently resides with his wife in the Pacific Northwest where he continues to pursue his painting.

          



Shannon Rasor
Shannon Rasor will be in attendance
 
5/5/2019
Shannon Rasor
Shannon Rasor "Surfacing" Held Over Works
Shannon Rasor   
Wednesday May 8, 2019 - Saturday June 8, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
We are pleased to be able to hold over several of Shannon Rasor's works from her exhibit in April.
Since May brings us her husband and long time gallery exhibitor, Brad Caplis, you can combine your trips into see both of their works.
Please come out and support this team of both fine painters and long time friends.
  
        



Shannon Rasor
Shannon Rasor will be in attendance
 
4/10/2019
"Surfacing"
"Surfacing" Shannon Rasor - New Works
Shannon Rasor   
Wednesday - April 10, 2019 - Saturday - May 4, 2019
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    

We are pleased to exhibit with a one two punch, former art gallery owners Shannon Rasor in April (April 10 - May 4) and husband Brad Caplis in May (May 8 - June 8).

  

While Brad Caplis (May 8 - June 8) has been a regular and very well liked gallery exhibitor since 2003 with us, this is the first solo exhibit by his wife and business partner Shannon Rasor. Her work will be on exhibit thru May 4th with a few works held over (should there be any left) into May.

  

A lot can be said about an individual who embraces the challenge of being an artist turned gallery owner, turned artist again. The world of art is fickle, subjective and rarely synchronized with business acumen, but when an artist temps fate and immerses themselves into the business of art, combining their creativity and collecting all the knowledge necessary to run a small business successfully when they decide to exit, they do it with a clarity not realized before. They are not only a better artist at understanding the collector or the pedestrian public, but also better at the business of art. Shannon Rasor and Brad Caplis have done just that and success abounds. We look forward to two consecutive months as we exhibit each of them individually.

  

Having exhibited Caplis' work for 16 years and always having Rasor present, the creativity, awareness and maturity of both partner's works are evidence of great past experiences as collectors embrace their works.

  

Rasor brings a contrast of content to Caplis' work with delicate and meditative abstracts, yet the same harmony of pleasant and reflective qualities are synonymous in their works.

  

Rasor's paintings are adventures. Somewhere between abstraction and depiction, her work is her own language. It is a language of appreciation and wonder for the adventure of existence. Fluid and light, her paintings bring the calmness and clarity that she expresses in her personality daily.

  

"In the adventure, I combine the parallel worlds of nature and emotions. They storm or flow depending upon my state of mind, memories, and the willingness of my hand. My work is about constant change and renewal. It is an attempt to convey an idea of a beauty, untamed, and beyond my understanding. The minerals and earth from which paint is derived are revived on canvas to reform their own essence. The process of making the painting is where the true journey lies. Abstraction keeps the secret". Shannon Rasor

  

Shannon Rasor has been a working artist for over twenty years where her experience includes in the studio creating her fine art and in the public where decorative paintings and murals flourish. You can see her work featured on billboards, buses and various venues in the Puget Sound area.

        



Alex Achaval

Brooke Westlund
 
4/8/2019
"Spectrum"
Held Over - "Spectrum" Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval
Held Over - Saturday - May 4, 2019
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    We are pleased to hold over several works by  Seattle artists and friends, Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval, titled  "Spectrum"

Westlund has been a regular gallery exhibitor for many  years with her Urban Seattle Scenes comprised of abstract paintings and  her city photography and we are pleased to offer for the first time,  the Mixed Media portrait works by Alex Achaval.

Brooke Westlund  and Alex Achaval are both unique and lucky in the fact that both of them  have art studios in Seattle near each other.

Their styles and  approaches are quite opposite but when exhibited together they flow and  contrast beautifully. This will be the 3rd major duo exhibit the two  have participated in together.

Westlund will be exhibiting her  latest abstract paintings. They are a fine balance of chaos vs.  simplicity, harsh vs. soft, and a bit ethereal.

Alex Achval is  new to our gallery and we are excited to be exhibiting his newest works  incorporating his signature style of found objects and loose pieces into  his work.

His latest collection features more depth and concept behind the art, giving the viewer an interesting story line to analyze.

"My  work can be described in many different categories but I would simply  define it as contemporary portraiture. An added uncharacteristic element  or found object can also be seen throughout my work such as the  "paintbrush girl" series where I take classic wooden brushes and apply  them onto the canvas or wood panel before I begin.

This series of  3d painting was adapted after seeing an old truck that someone had  painted to blend in with the wall behind it in the Ballard neighborhood  of Seattle. I like to incorporate these objects into my work to  represent the obstacles we have to overcome in life. You have to either  paint over it like it was never there or embrace it. Not to mention it  challenges me, it works well and it's fun! You can see me at goodwill or  Value Village with my hands full of the weirdest combination of  objects."

"I try to develop forms that do not follow logical  criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal  parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. I  believe that is what art is all about. Your own associations. "I simply  love to paint and create something that will live forever, and that  something is usually pretty bizarre."          



Alex Achaval
Alex Achaval will be in attendance

Brooke Westlund
Brooke Westlund will be in attendance
 
2/13/2019
Spectrum
"Spectrum" Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval
Wednesday February 20, 2019 - Saturday April 6, 2019
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
Seattle's Snowmageddon causes our February Exhibit with Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval to be pushed back a week to Wednesday the 20th, but the good news is we will extend their exhibit thru April 6th.

It takes bodies, collectors and friends to make any exhibit successful, but we couldn't ask anyone to come out in this crazy weather, so we have postponed and prolonged the exhibit "Spectrum".

All work will be up in the gallery by February 13th for your early preview.

Please keep in mind that you can preview "Spectrum" here at www.gunnarnordstrom.com and pre-sales are always appreciated.

The Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting the works by Seattle artists and friends, Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval, titled "Spectrum"

Westlund has been a regular gallery exhibitor for many years with her Urban Seattle Scenes comprised of abstract paintings and her city photography and we are pleased to offer for the first time, the Mixed Media portrait works by Alex Achaval.

Brooke Westlund and Alex Achaval are both unique and lucky in the fact that both of them have art studios in Seattle near each other.

Their styles and approaches are quite opposite but when exhibited together they flow and contrast beautifully. This will be the 3rd major duo exhibit the two have participated in together.

Westlund will be exhibiting her latest abstract paintings. They are a fine balance of chaos vs. simplicity, harsh vs. soft, and a bit ethereal.

Alex Achval is new to our gallery and we are excited to be exhibiting his newest works incorporating his signature style of found objects and loose pieces into his work.

His latest collection features more depth and concept behind the art, giving the viewer an interesting story line to analyze.

"My work can be described in many different categories but I would simply define it as contemporary portraiture. An added uncharacteristic element or found object can also be seen throughout my work such as the "paintbrush girl" series where I take classic wooden brushes and apply them onto the canvas or wood panel before I begin.

This series of 3d painting was adapted after seeing an old truck that someone had painted to blend in with the wall behind it in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. I like to incorporate these objects into my work to represent the obstacles we have to overcome in life. You have to either paint over it like it was never there or embrace it. Not to mention it challenges me, it works well and it's fun! You can see me at goodwill or Value Village with my hands full of the weirdest combination of objects."

"I try to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. I believe that is what art is all about. Your own associations. "I simply love to paint and create something that will live forever, and that something is usually pretty bizarre."



          



Svetlana Shalygina
 
2/12/2019
Svetlana Shalygina
Svetlana Shalygina - New Works
Svetlana Shalygina   
February 13, 2019 - April 6, 2019
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  New works by Svetlana Shalygina are just in and will be available in the Front Window Gallery.      



Lori-ann Latremouille

Thom Ross

Kim Walker
 
11/14/2018
Never too late!
Never Too Late! Thom Ross, Lori-ann Latremouille and Kim Walker
Wednesday November 14 - Saturday December 8
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

Join us for select works by Thom Ross, Lori-ann Latremouille and Kim Walker.    



Kim Walker
 
10/10/2018
Kim Walker
Kim Walker "Revisited"
Kim Walker   
Wednesday October 10th - Saturday November 10th
6:00-8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 
http://www.icontact-archive.com/db36zz6M67Qt0mz1a2l3NgGxMFlIFvod?w=4

      

We wanted to take the time to review some of our inventory works by one of our favorite artists, Kim Walker.

A lot of times good works get stuck in storage after being exhibited only a month and deserve to be revisited from time to time.  Walker's works are definitely worth being seen again.

Kim Walker in her own words:

When you look at my artwork, please realize you are looking at not only paint but also actual botanic elements from nature.

The process of painting and connections to nature are both great passions in my life. Painting allows me the quiet and thoughtful internal dialogue that refreshes my spirit. My compositions are intended to be a reverent reflection of the beauty, inspiration, and meaningful lessons found in the gifts of nature. I believe connections to nature are indispensable to all people.

I have learned that even if your day allows only brief moments to take in the wonder of the intricate beauty of a flower petal or leaf or to simply experience a view into nature from your window, it has the potential to touch our lives in a profound and heartening way. This belief resulted many years ago in the inclusion of botanical elements into my mixed media compositions. My art making takes me on a spiritual journey as I seek and collect natural elements, which I then press and later incorporate into my paintings and 3-d art. I trust my art to show great reverence to nature while providing viewers a personal connection to the natural world in a unique and unexpected realm. Also, because I am greatly inspired by the insights and wisdom of life's experiences, along with many metaphoric lessons found in nature, poetry is an integral part of my art. I feel that my paintings and my poetry go hand-in-hand and complement each other. Therefore, each painting includes one of my original poems that I hand-write on the back of each composition.

My art is represented by various galleries and also shown in numerous juried art competitions and invitational installations. It is part of private, corporate, and municipal collections in the United States and abroad and for this I am grateful. Most importantly, however, it is extraordinary to wake each day knowing I will spend time in my studio creating art. It brings great joy into my life as well as a treasured peacefulness. I once read in a book by Rebecca Wells, "use everything in your life to create your art". This intention is at the heart of my paintings and my poetry. Thank you for taking the time to view my art and to feel the connections to nature.
            



Lori-ann Latremouille
 
10/8/2018
Lori-ann Latremouille
Held over works by Lori-ann Latremouille
Lori-ann Latremouille   
Wednesday October 10th - Saturday November 10th
6:00-8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  

We are  pleased to hold over our September exhibit of the newest works by Canadian artist, Lori-ann Latremouille.

  

In this year's exhibit, "Magnolia", Latremouille says, "I have always loved the stark beauty of Magnolia trees and bushes in spring. The glorious buds sitting perched on the leafless dark branches like small pink and white birds waiting to bloom and fly. So stunning and surreal to me invoking these images."

  

Since the 1980's Latremouille has been creating her visual puzzels of humans, animals and vegatation intertwined on paper with charcoal and pastels. In 2010 she started painting with acrylics on wood panel. She was drawn to the natural wood grain texture and the layering effects the paint allows.

  

Latremouille was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is clearly influenced by the lush and synergistic ecosystems of the West Coast. This is evident in her work, where human figures, animals, sea creatures, birds, flora and fauna all intertwine. She begins each piece by doodling and sketching. The lines gradually develop into more complex shapes and forms. Positive and negative spaces shift back and forth, like in a jigsaw puzzle. The images spontaneously evolve. Velvety blacks and pure colours provide sensual tonal gradations that give the work an evocative strength and intensity. Her unique blending of emotionally charged blocks of color with brilliantly contrasting black and white hues is striking and at times psychedelic.

  

She is also a singer songwriter and has published 3 CDʼs of her own music. Poetry is where her songwriting began, and she is now incorporating her lyrics and poetry into her paintings.

  Over the past 35 years her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Canada, she has also exhibited in Europe. Her work hangs in many prominent private and public collections. Lori-ann Latremouille's unique striking artwork has made a lasting mark in the art world and will no doubt continue to draw acclaim and recognition.    



Lori-ann Latremouille
Lori-ann Latremouille will be in attendance
 
9/12/2018
Magnolia
Lori-ann Latremouille "Magnolia"
Lori-ann Latremouille   
September 12, 2018 - October 6, 2018
6:00 - 6:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  
We are very pleased to again offer the newest works by renowned Canadian artist, Lori-ann Latremouille.

This year's exhibit, "Magnolia", Latremouille says, "I have always loved the stark beauty of Magnolia trees and bushes in spring. The glorious buds sitting perched on the leafless dark branches like small pink and white birds waiting to bloom and fly. So stunning and surreal to me invoking these images."        



Mike Smith
 
9/9/2018
Held over works
Held over works in Gallery II and the Front Window Gallery
Wednesday September 12 - Saturday October 6
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

     Don't miss some of our previously exhibited works in Gallery II and the Front window.
          



Charlie Barr

Jaime Ellsworth

Andre Schirmer

Svetlana Shalygina

Mike Smith
 
8/8/2018
Regroup
"Regroup" Past works by Barr, Ellsworth, Schirmer, Shalygina and Smith
Wednesday August 8th - Saturday September 8th
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      
We are pleased to offer previously exhibited works by 5 artists that we continue to strive to support.
Charlie Barr, Jaime Ellsworth, Andre Schirmer, Svetlana Shalygina and Mike Smith.

Not  everyone can get into the gallery during any given month and a lot of  good works get missed, so we like to "Regroup" works from during the year  that you might have missed or would like to revisit.

              



Jaime Ellsworth
 
7/11/2018
Jaime Ellsworth
Jaime Ellsworth - New Works on Canvas
Jaime Ellsworth   
Jaime Ellsworth - Wednesday July 11th - Saturday August 4th
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

   The Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery is pleased to offer the newest works by Jaime Ellsworth.

Ellsworth is a Washington State artist living in the peaceful island community of Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands.

Included in E. Ashley Rooney's book, "100 artists of the Northwest" she is not only a painter, but also active raising rescued horses and dogs which represent the bulk of her artistic subject matter.

Her Passion and commitment to her animals is translated beautifully onto her canvases in a variety of styles ranging from expressionism to illustrative narratives.    

Simple forms are consistent in all of Ellsworth's artwork where she enjoys working in series offering relationships, discovery and contrasts while creating visual situations from everyday experiences and observations.

"Although I begin with a clear idea of what I am trying to achieve the paintings actually emerge from what I already know and what I learn along the way.  Each new series directs the path I take and the journey is welcomed." - Jaime Ellsworth

Her paintings are built of many thin layers of oil or acrylic starting with a limited palette of bold colors on large canvases or wood panels.  Subsequent layers allow the under paint to peek through and transparent glazes give the final surface a subtle tint.

With each work, Ellsworth invites the viewer to first look at the simplicity of the image and then beyond, opening the door to the imagination.
  
      



Charlie Barr
 
7/9/2018
Travels
Charlie Barr - Held over works
Charlie Barr   
Wednesday July 11th - Saturday August 4th
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

           Charlie Barr is a Northwest landscape artist working with a unique mixed media blend of acrylic and cement on panel.

These contemporary landscape paintings are meant to set a mood or evoke emotion and often leave the viewer with a sense of remembrance and stimulated senses.

In this year's exhibit, Barr will introduce a few works where figures become the subject matter adding a much softer and human perspective to his landscapes.

Artists are constantly searching for ways to differentiate their work. It's important to speak to an audience in an original manner to draw their attention.

Barr's work incorporates a unique blending of the traditional canvas and stretcher bar form factor with the use of cement veneer over wood. He is occasionally asked where he gets his inspiration.

"I'm inspired by my surroundings when I walk around Seattle, travel abroad and hikes through nature. The subject matter for landscapes comes from traveling and snapping photos while I'm hiking or trail running. I like to add a heightened sense of perspective by either photographing from a low angle or from a high vantage point. With my figurative paintings I take the same approach, attempting to create powerful perspective. The figures are typically in motion with significant directional lighting."

Whether landscape or figurative, Barr is drawn to more of an open layout. He likes to have his subject matter take no more than a third of the surface of the painting.

"I believe the negative or empty space of the painting isn't empty, but adds visual "weight" to the subject matter. I ensure that there are common elements that tie all of my paintings together in a consistent body of work.

With the landscape paintings my goal is to enhance the perspective and contrast of a setting in hopes of conveying the same feeling I get when outdoors in the moment.

With the figurative paintings I focus on people in action, whether they're playing instruments, riding bikes or walking down the street. The figures are meant to have a street art stencil look to tie in with the cement background."


For years Barr worked with oil on canvas. As his style evolved it became clear that fast drying acrylics were a better fit for his new paintings.

"Around the same time that I switched from oil to acrylic I had also switched from canvas to building my own boxes with a thin veneer of cement over the top and sides. The cement finish has an acrylic binding medium which gives it more strength and flexibility."

Barr says it's difficult to know which artists have helped influence his work.

"I admire Thomas Coles' dramatic nature scenes and Banksy's graffiti stencils. My goal is to create work with enhanced elements to give the viewer the same sense of wonder that they'd feel if they were there in the moment."
                      



Mark Skullerud
 
7/8/2018
Mark Skullerud
Mark Skullerud - Held over works
Mark Skullerud   
Wednesday July 11, 2018 - Saturday August 4, 2018
6:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

          

We are pleased to hold over some of the new works by Northwest artist, Mark Skullerud for the month of May as we exhibit "Seattle Re-Cline".

  

This year Skullerud brings us new, sharp and crisp, stylized paintings of some of Seattle's known and lesser known urban scenes.

Skullerud's new and mature urban landscapes draw heavily upon his power as a trained illustrator while balancing his interest in abstraction. We can see where cubism makes a subtle appearance as a tool to establish his version of the overall concept that could be termed as "objective correlative"  

With a Cubist style and evocative colors, Skullerud depicts our contemporary and pedestrian lives with bridges, boats, parks, buildings and urban streets. He doesn't romanticize the subject, but rather breaks it down to an objective correlative that allows the expression of an emotion to be translated through events, objects and color palette depicted. The visual narrative of his paintings are really very well done.

  

On the flip side, Skullerud has additional works that fall far more closely in line with abstraction. Using a method he describes as un-directed drawing, he creates unexpected compositions that rely on our innate tendency to find order in chaos. As with his more representational work, each piece begins with a graphite composition leading to one or more small color studies and finishing with an oil painting.

He wants viewers to know the beauty that's visible every day, and to recognize the fleeting and subtle light that is gives the region its character and identity.

The geography of Seattle and the Puget Sound are all about hills, valleys, rivers and waterways. He sees mountains and urban hills as a performance stage for lighting. They are sculptural like muscles, 3D forms that serve to show off the cloud shadows and sun, the filtered light that changes from moment to moment with the seasons. They are, from a distance, textural. As cloud shadows slip up and over peaks, the textures take on new vibrancy or subtlety that shows in the small color changes washed and rewashed by distance and atmosphere. He sees a never ending movie that makes this part of the world a place worth living in.

As with our past exhibits with Skullerud, the selection of artwork is diverse and there is really something for everyone. Small acrylic studies on canvas and the original concept drawings done in graphite are also available as support works to the larger completed paintings.

                    



Markus Pierson
 
6/12/2018
Markus Pierson
Markus Pierson - Prints - Gallery II
Markus Pierson   
Wednesday April 11, 2018 - Saturday July 7, 2018
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

      We are pleased to offer a variety of prints by Midwest artist Markus Pierson.
Pierson created his iconic brand and painting style, "The Coyote Series" back in 1986 after he heard the Joni  Mitchell song, "Coyote." He loved it,  played it often and memorized  the words. The focus of the song, a guy referred  to as "Coyote," is a  reckless, footloose Casanova type fellow – Pierson aspired  to be the  carefree romancer described in those lyrics. Then he did something  he'd  never done before or since: Markus made a drawing of a song. Since then he has created  and sold over 1000 paintings, 200 sculpture & print editions, and  created a body of found object sculptures.

"There's no doubt in my mind  that my success has more to do with  luck than talent, more to do with  stubbornness than vision, more to do  with ignorance than insight, but the fact  remains that I pursued my  dream and attained it against staggering odds. I say  this now to anyone  who will listen: even if I had failed, it would have been  worth it.  Better to face a brutal truth than to grow old wondering what might   have been." Markus Pierson
              



Jaime Ellsworth
 
4/10/2018
Group Exhibit
Gallery II - Group Exhibit
Wednesday April 11, 2018 - Saturday May 5, 2018
6:00-8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

                During the year we offer on average a 30 day exhibition for our represented artists and as you might understand, it is difficult to sell all of their work during those short periods of exposure. So once a year we revisit some of these works from storage and offer them again in a group exhibit.                                  



Dan Larsen
 
3/10/2018
Organic Divide
Gallery II - Dan Larsen
Dan Larsen   
Larsen Exhibit: Wed. - March 14, 2018 - Sat. April 7, 2018
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

Dan Larsen's work continues to amaze the viewer and we have held over a few paintings in our Gallery II space for an additional month.

An Abstract Expressionist, his "Organic" images of the past took us to microscopic views of factious stone slabs and other of the earth's interesting elements. He also took us to the far reaches of the Solar system where in "Solar Exposure" he explored the universe and its infinite energy and limitless horizon.  

Bright and bold, yet delicate in detail those works were large and powerful examples of Larsen's masterful hand.

This year with "Organic Divide, Larsen continues to explore the relationship between artist and nature by pushing the serendipitous outcomes and patterns of nature with abstract expressionism calculated by the artist to create an ergonomic bond unusual in many of his past works.

It wasn't too long ago that Larsen embarked on the pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago where he walked in solitude for 500 miles on a path that dates back to the middle ages. He took this route as a spiritual path and encountered a spiritual awareness different than he perceived it would be. Always inquisitive and receptive to the multitudes of the unknowns around him in life, he gained a greater understanding and self awareness of life's harmony with man and nature.

This exhibit "Organic Divide" captures some of that harmony in these new works and is reflected in the bisection of the artist's natural awareness and his perception of the Chinese concept of 'Li '
                          



Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss
 
11/8/2017
The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection
The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection
Dr. Seuss    
Wednesday November 8, 2017 - Saturday January 6, 2018
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    
Please Join us for and interesting and playful exhibit of the works of Dr. Seuss.

His artistic vision emerged as the golden thread that linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children's books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters, and humor.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, began his career as a little-known editorial cartoonist in the 1920s.  His intriguing perspective and fresh concepts ignited his career, and his work evolved quickly to deft illustrations, modeled sculpture, and sophisticated oil paintings of elaborate imagination.  His artistic vision emerged as the golden thread that linked every facet of his varied career, and his artwork became the platform from which he delivered forty-four children's books, more than 400 World War II political cartoons, hundreds of advertisements, and countless editorials filled with wonderfully inventive animals, characters, and humor.

Geisel single-handedly forged a new genre of art that falls somewhere between the surrealist movement of the early 20th century and the inspired nonsense of a child's classroom doodles.  The Art of Dr. Seuss project offers a rare glimpse into the artistic life of this celebrated American icon and chronicles almost seven decades of work that, in every respect is uniquely, stylistically, and endearingly Seussia.

Like Norman Rockwell, Dr. Seuss created every rough sketch, preliminary drawing, final line drawing, and finished work for each page of every project he illustrated.

Despite the technical and budgetary limitations of color printing during the early and mid-twentieth century, Dr. Seuss was meticulous about color selection. He created specially numbered color charts and intricate color callouts to precisely accomplish his vision for each book. Saturated reds and blues, for example, were carefully chosen for The Cat in the Hat to attract and maintain the visual attention of a six-year-old audience.

Even before Dr. Seuss's book career took off, sharp draftsman skills were evident in his editorial works, advertisements, and cartoons. His ability to move a storyline ahead via illustrations filled with tension, movement, and color became a hallmark of his children's literature, and the surreal images that unfolded over six decades became the catalyst for a humorous and inspired learning experience.

            



Lori-ann Latremouille
 
11/6/2017
Lori-ann Latremouille
Lori-ann Latremouille
Lori-ann Latremouille   
Wednesday November 8, 2017 - Saturday December, 9 2017
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

    We are pleased to hold over selected works by Lori-ann Latremouille for an additional month.

Our relationship with this talented artist, singer, songwritier and poet goes back to the mid 1980's when we first began selling her interesting charcoal and pastels on paper from our office/showroom on Lake Bellevue. Since then we have had enjoyed a variety of exhibits and sales from our Kirkland location and now for the third time we are pleased to exhibit her newest works in our Bellevue Gallery.

This year's exhibit, "Man in the Landscape" she  explores the idea of human beings completely integrating with natural forms like trees or large stones. The figures are not just entwined with these forms but are a part of them. For example a human tree or a boulder head.  

Latremouille was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is clearly influenced by the lush and synergistic ecosystems of the West Coast. This is evident in her work, where human figures, animals, sea creatures, birds, flora and fauna all intertwine.

She begins each piece by doodling and sketching. The lines gradually develop into more complex shapes and forms. Positive and negative spaces shift back and forth, like in a jigsaw puzzle. The images spontaneously evolve. Velvety blacks and pure colours provide sensual tonal gradations that give the work an evocative strength and intensity.


Her unique blending of emotionally charged blocks of color with brilliantly contrasting black and white hues is striking and at times psychedelic.

Since the 1980's, Latermouille has been using charcoal and pure pigment pastels on paper as her signature medium. In 2010 she started painting with acrylics on wood panel. She was drawn to the natural wood grain texture and the layering effects the paint allows and her new work reflects this new addition.

Latremouille has just begun to incorporate the lyrics to her songs and poetry in this recent series of paintings. She has done this by writing the lyrics to her songs on the transparent embroidered material of the dresses the figures are wearing.

"As an artist I am always revealing aspects of myself both in visual art and music. "Poet's Dress" expresses the sense of exposure I feel at times. As I have been told on many occasions;I wear my heart on my sleeve."

As a singer songwriter, Latremouille has published 3 CDʼs of her own music. Poetry is where her songwriting began, and she is now incorporating her lyrics and poetry into her paintings.

Over the past 20 years her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Canada, she has also exhibited in Europe.

Lori-ann Latremouille's unique striking artwork has made a lasting mark in the art world and will no doubt continue to draw acclaim and recognition.

Her work hangs in many prominent private and public collections.
        



Carrie Vielle
 
10/8/2017
Carrie Vielle
Carrie Vielle "In Harmony with Solitude" Held Over Works
Carrie Vielle   
Wednesday October 10, 2017 - Saturday November 4, 2017
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

  We are pleased to hold over the newest and very personal works by Washington State University Associate Professor Carrie Vielle.

Slowing down. Shutting out. Taking moments for oneself, by oneself, and welcoming silence. These are all phenomena that are new to the life of Carrie Vielle.

Italians call it "dolce far niente": The sheer enjoyment of idleness. She came to understand that taking time to be still is not indulgent, but necessary for physical and emotional well-being.

For most of Vielle's adult life, she has lived acutely and inescapably 'present.' She defined her success through a state of being highly active in as much as she could, over-achieving, and constantly contributing.

" I lost my balance, and the lack of harmony in my life was not sustainable." Vielle explains.
"Over the last year, I've learned that managing success must include moments of restorative detachment. Slowly but surely, I am learning to give myself permission to allow these pauses. By incorporating silence and solitude in my life, I am slowing finding my balance."

Vielle's new collection of figural works explores these restorative moments.

"I hope these images of stillness, vulnerability, strength, and solitude inspire you to slow down, shut out, and take moments for yourself." Carrie Vielle
    



Jaime Ellsworth
 
10/7/2017
Jaime Ellsworth
Jaime Ellsworth - Held over works
Jaime Ellsworth   
Wedmesday September 13, 2017 - Saturday October 7, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

            We are happy to hold over some of the remaining works by Jaime Ellsworth and visible in our mall window gallery.

Ellsworth is a Washington State artist living in the peaceful island community of Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands.

Included in E. Ashley Rooney's book, "100 artists of the Northwest" she is not only a painter, but also active raising rescued horses and dogs which represent the bulk of her artistic subject matter.

This year we get a "Dog and Pony Show" which fits all the imagery she loves.

Her Passion and commitment to her animals is translated beautifully onto her canvases in a variety of styles ranging from expressionism to illustrative narratives.    

Simple forms are consistent in all of Ellsworth's artwork where she enjoys working in series offering relationships, discovery and contrasts while creating visual situations from everyday experiences and observations.

"Although I begin with a clear idea of what I am trying to achieve the paintings actually emerge from what I already know and what I learn along the way.  Each new series directs the path I take and the journey is welcomed." - Jaime Ellsworth

Her paintings are built of many thin layers of oil starting with a limited palette of bold colors on large canvases or wood panels.  Subsequent layers allow the under paint to peek through and transparent glazes give the final surface a subtle tint.

With each work, Ellsworth invites the viewer to first look at the simplicity of the image and then beyond, opening the door to the imagination.

                        



Carrie Vielle

Carrie Vielle
 
9/13/2017
Carrie Vielle
Carrie Vielle "In Harmony with Solitude"
Carrie Vielle   
September 13, 2017 - October 7, 2017
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

The Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery is pleased to offer the newest and very personal works by Washington State University Associate Professor Carrie Vielle.

Slowing down.  Shutting out.  Taking moments for oneself, by oneself, and welcoming silence.  These are all phenomena that are new to the life of Carrie Vielle.

Italians call it "dolce far niente": The sheer enjoyment of idleness.  She came to understand that taking time to be still is not indulgent, but necessary for physical and emotional well-being.

For most of Vielle's adult life, she has lived acutely and inescapably 'present.'  She defined her success through a state of being highly active in as much as she could, over-achieving, and constantly contributing.

" I lost my balance, and the lack of harmony in my life was not sustainable." Vielle explains.

"Over the last year, I've learned that managing success must include moments of restorative detachment.  Slowly but surely, I am learning to give myself permission to allow these pauses.  By incorporating silence and solitude in my life, I am slowing finding my balance."

Vielle's new collection of figural works explores these restorative moments.
"I hope these images of stillness, vulnerability, strength, and solitude inspire you to slow down, shut out, and take moments for yourself."  Carrie Vielle              



Kim Starr
 
9/9/2017
Kim Starr
Kim Starr- Held over Works
Kim Starr   
Wednesday September 13, 2017 - Saturday October 7, 2017
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

        The Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery is pleased to offer the newest works by Washington State native and well respected Hawaiian artist, Kim Starr.

This new exhibit, "A Personal Reflection" is a collection of new and past paintings and drawings that have never been exhibited before and showcase the high level of expertise that Kim Starr possesses. These are jewels on canvas spanning still life's and the romantic impressionism that she is so well known for.

Kim Starr, a native of the northwest with a natural artistic ability pursued and excelled in a career in professional illustration and advertising in her years after college.

In 1981 she and husband moved to the island of Hawaii. For five of the nine years they lived on the island of Hawaii and resided in Holualoa on the west (or Kona) side of the island. It was in April 1984 that Holualoa became the first location for Kim Starr Gallery showcasing her romantic impressionism exclusively. In January 1997 Kim and her husband opened a second Kim Starr Gallery in Hanapepe, a small historic town on the south-west corner of the island of Kauai.

The Hilton Hotels, Sheraton Hotels, The Villas at Mauna Kea, Punahou Cliffs, Commodore Club, Honolulu, are a few of the larger projects that Starr has been commissioned for featured paintings. Mr. Ian Snowden, fine art appraiser, commissioned Kim Starr to create a painting with a celebrated piece of silver from the Snowden Collection. This painting was completed and featured a "Silver Flask" from George Bernard Shaw to Howard French, New York. The painting is now in the Snowden Collection
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Starr's most recently commissioned work is a pair of large oil paintings on canvas which hang in the entry of the newly remodeled Sheraton Waikiki Resort Hotel lobby.
Kim Starr is one of the preeminent painters of Romantic Impressionism bordering Realism. Her meticulous attention to the figure, combined with the artistic sensitivity of earlier masters, results in contemporary works of unparalleled beauty. Critics have said that her work elicits an immediate emotional response. Viewers are drawn into the image and surrounded by its elegance. It is obvious that they are in the presence of a modern master.

In the last 35 years, Kim Starr has created classic paintings and works on paper for corporate and private collections and her extraordinary art hangs in public spaces, world-class resorts and homes throughout the world. The success of her exhibits has been overwhelming.

While much of her life as a painter has been in Hawaii, today Kim continues to create jewel-like masterpieces in a small community in northwestern Washington State, and collectors everywhere continue to seek out and acquire her works.
                  



Thom Ross

Thom Ross
 
7/11/2017
My Last Coversation with Albert Ball
Thom 'von' Ross "My last conversation with Albert Ball"
Thom Ross   
Wednesday July 12, 2017 - Saturday August 5, 2017
Wednesday July 12th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

           We are pleased to again offer the new and inspiring works by the celebrated artist, Thom Ross. This new Exhibit explores exactly what Ross loves. History, the little known or vividly portrayed stories that he finds so fascinating. His in depth and exhausting challenge of research with an outcome painted playfully and in a style enjoyed by even those not interested in the subject matter, yet they stand back to imagine the story and enjoy the momentary ride into an unknown event in history all the while hopefully sparking a new found appreciation for the story and the art.
"My Last Conversation with Albert Ball" revolves around the Flying Aces of WWI and their stories. Some known, some unknown, but nonetheless important and historical.

                        



Gina Holt

Debbie Tomassi
 
6/12/2017
Debbie Tomassi and Gina Holt
Held Over! Front Window Gallery - Debbie Tomassi and Gina Holt
Wednesday June 14, 2017 - Saturday July 8, 2017
6:00 - 8:00
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

             We are happy to have the room to hold over a variety of works from both Debbie Tomassi and Gina Holt in our Front Window Gallery.

It has been a number of years since we have exhibited the playful and whimsical works by the busy and nationally recognized humorous writer, Debbie Tomassi, so it is with great pleasure that we again have the opportunity to share here newest works with our collectors.

For many years Tomassi was a regular contributor of paintings to the gallery, especially around Valentine's Day with her heart felt and romantic look at the world through the eyes of a humorous writer and hopeless romantic.

With this new exhibit, "The Friendship Garden" Debbie Tomassi collaborates with her good friend and well-known ceramic artist, Gina Holt as they combine skills and artistic direction in a variety of works. These works will be both individual and collaborative works based on the floral garden.

Debbie Tomassi

Debbie Tomassi is a painter, writer, illustrator and surface designer. She is an artist with a tireless imagination who creates in nearly every medium there is.

Her career began at American Greetings as a humorous writer and illustrator where she spent more than 25 years not only writing and illustrating thousands of greeting cards but she also had the pleasure of designing in many other products in the social expression and gift industry.

Debbie has established an enviable track record of sales, as well as a noteworthy clientele that includes Design Design, Inc., Smilebox, Ronnie Sellers Publishing, Leap Year Publishing, Little Brown Publishing, Madison Park Greetings, Microsoft, NobleWorks, and American Greetings / Recycled Paper Greetings, Current, and Gina B.

In 2010, Debbie was awarded the highly prestigious Reuben Award for the Greeting Card Category by the National Cartoonists Society in New York City at their Annual Banquet. She is nominated again this year.

Her colorful and witty collections, adapt well to all types of products, from stationery and greeting cards, to gifts and novelty items, as well as home decor. Debbie creates art that will bring a touch of whimsy and style to the market place.

Her latest venture features her designs printed on linen tea towels, canvas pillows, and silk scarves.

She lives and works out of her home studio in a beautifully forested area of Seattle with her husband, cat, and assorted woodland creatures. She is inspired by nature, her love of gardening and the colorful world around her.

Gina Holt

Originally from New York, Gina Holt currently resides in the Pacific Northwest where she works from her home studio.

Born in 1959, Gina says that she inherited her creativity from her father, a dancer, and her mother, an artist. As a child she loved to spend her spare time drawing, painting and making up imaginary characters for the stories she illustrated.

Gina received a BA in art from the University of Oregon, where she focused on printmaking, illustration and painting. After graduating, she augmented her creative abilities by taking classes in ceramic hand-building at Pottery Northwest.

She has since experienced an unending joy of working with clay, as this medium allows her to transform the 2-D media she is so familiar with into virtual 3-D canvases that simultaneously employ her drawing, sculpting and painting skills.

Gina's most recent works are colorful, botanical - inspired sculptures that can either stand alone or hang on the wall. Inspirations for these life-like creations begin with her study of intricate nature photos and live plants from the garden. Gina's eye-catching works emerge as she molds complexity, light and shadow into the clay. The addition of multiple layers of combined glazes and textures enhance and complete each unique work of art. Gina then signs, numbers, and writes on the back of each botanical piece a sentimental meaning that primarily derives from Victorian era- floral dictionaries, making each and every sculpture a thoughtful experience.

Gina began selling her works in 1991 through gift galleries and juried shows and now exhibits in fine art  galleries.

Her devoted groupies know very well that her works in clay started as floral-themed mirrors and architectural-style clocks. A number of her followers are thrilled to have more than a handful of these collectible items gracing the walls of their homes.

There is an optimism and delightful cheerfulness to Gina's work and her art has gained attention across the United States.
  
                          



Mark Skullerud
 
5/9/2017
Mark Skullerud
Mark Skullerud - Held Over Works in the Window Gallery
Mark Skullerud   
- Last Chance to view: Saturday June 10, 2017
6:00 -8:00 pm
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

          We are happy to hold over in our Window Gallery some of the newest works by Northwest painter, Mark Skullerud. This year  Skullerud brings us new, sharp and crisp, stylized paintings of some of  Seattle's known and lesser known urban scenes.

Skullerud's new  and mature urban landscapes draw heavily upon his power as a trained  illustrator while balancing his interest in abstraction. We can see  where cubism makes a subtle appearance as a tool to establish his  version of the overall concept that could be termed  as "objective  correlative".

With a Cubist style and evocative colors,  Skullerud depicts our contemporary and pedestrian lives with bridges,  boats, parks, buildings and urban streets. He doesn't romanticize the  subject but rather breaks it down to an objective correlative that  allows  the expression of an emotion to be translated through the events,  objects and color palette depicted. The visual narrative of his  paintings are really very well done.

On the flip side, Skullerud  has additional works that fall far more closely inline with traditional Impressionism. landscapes based on real things in real  locations in the Puget Sound area.  They are emotional portraits of a  time of day, a weather pattern or a season that have a familiar feel of  the region. Again, it could be somewhat object correlative as seen in  his more urban images.

He wants viewers to know the beauty  that's visible every day, and to recognize the fleeting and subtle light  that is gives the region its character and identity.

The  geography of Seattle and the Puget Sound are all about hills, valleys,  rivers and waterways.   He sees mountains and hills as a performance  stage for lighting.  They are sculptural like muscles, 3D forms that  serve to show off the cloud shadows and sun, the filtered light that  changes from moment to moment with the seasons.  They are, from a  distance, textural.  As cloud shadows slip up and over peaks, the  textures take on new vibrancy or subtlety that shows in the small color  changes washed and rewashed by distance and atmosphere.  He sees a never  ending movie that makes this part of the world a place worth living in.

As  with our past exhibits with Skullerud, the selection of artwork is  diverse and there is really something for everyone. Small acrylic  studies on canvas and the original concept drawings done in graphite are  also available as support works to the larger completed paintings. You  might think about collecting a trio to complete a concept.
                        



Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell will be in attendance
 
4/28/2017
The Cartoon Characters of Ron Campbell
3 Days Only! The Beatle's "Yellow Submarine and Other Cartoon Favorites" A Pop Up Exhibit
Ron Campbell   
Friday April 28, 2017 - Sunday April 30, 2017
4:00 - 8:00 Friday
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.
 

     Watch Margaret Larson of King 5's New Day NW interview with Ron Campbell
Click the Link below
  

http://www.king5.com/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/the-creative-mind-behind-yellow-submarine-the-jetsons-flintstones-and-other-classics/434572053

  In 1964 the Beatles invaded the United States, performing for 73 million people on the Ed Sullivan Show and dominating the US pop charts for years.  Now over five decades later, the Fab Four continue to be the most celebrated musical group in Rock history. And Beatlemania is alive and well….just last year, the Beatles released a live CD of their Hollywood Bowl concerts and director Ron Howard premiered a documentary on the Fab Four's touring years!

Ron Campbell, director of the 1960's Saturday Morning Beatles Cartoon series and animator of the Beatles film Yellow Submarine will make a rare personal appearance at the

Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery
800 Bellevue Way NE, Ste. 111
Bellevue, WA,
Friday, April 28th through Sunday, April 30th.  

Ron will showcase his original Beatles cartoon paintings created specially for the show and create new Beatles pop art paintings at the exhibit.  Ron will also feature other artwork based on his 50-year career in cartoons including Scooby Doo, Rugrats, Smurfs, Flintstones, Jetsons and more. The exhibit is free and all works are available for purchase.

THE LEGENDARY ANIMATOR/DIRECTOR WILL BE EXHIBITING HIS BEATLES CARTOON ART AS WELL AS PAINTING NEW WORKS DURING HIS APPEARANCE.

Campbell will also be exhibiting artwork featuring other beloved cartoon characters that encompass his 50-year career in Children's Television such as Scooby Doo, the Smurfs, Rugrats, Winnie the Pooh, Flintstones, Jetsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & more.
ALL WORKS ARE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE.

Friday, April 28th – 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 29th – 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 30th – 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Come by and meet Ron Campbell and add a fun new work of art to your collection!
          



Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell will be in attendance
 
4/26/2017
Ron Campbell Interview
Ron Campbell interview: http://www.king5.com/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/the-creative-mind-behind-yellow-submarine-the-jetsons-flintstones-and-other-classics/434572053
Ron Campbell   
Friday April 28, 2017 - Sunday April 30, 2017
4:00 - 8:00 Friday
To view more artwork from the exhibition, click on image.