Gallery 110
2010
January 7 – 30, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, January 6; 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: January 7; 6-8pm
110 S. Washington St. Main Gallery
Tori Karpenko: Permaculture Pangeality
Karpenko’s current body of work, Permaculture Pangeality, explores the dynamic between the people who occupy a place and the culture they create in response to their environs.
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the natural ecologies. Although this is a relatively new word, the correlation of how people interact intentionally with their environment in order to further their chances of survival is as old as humanity itself.
Pangeality implies the ability to see the world as one meta-culture, from which the stories of diverse civilizations are made available to inform and influence the creation of new culture. The combination of these two words together suggests that we can learn from past examples of how people lived in order to further contemplate our future.
Image above: Tori Karpenko, The Visionary and the Recipient, acrylic on board, 60x48 inches, 2009
In the former Marni Muir Space:
New Additions:
John Horton, Cass Walker, David Traylor and Sally Ketcham
Gallery 110 is pleased to present our newest additions: John Horton, Cass Walker, David Traylor and Sally Ketcham, in the adjacent gallery for the month of January. These emerging regional artists bring wonderfully diverse, though provoking work into the artistic dialog that is our artist roster.
110 S. Washington St. Loft Gallery
Li Turner: Connections to the Universe
Each work in Li Turner's new series combines printmaking and painting. These hybrids depict the unseen connection of space, time, and self — vast yet personal. She employs etchings of the solar system as a foundation upon which she layers a series of watercolors.
With this unconventional format, she connects an array of seemingly unconnected topics: a cowboy contemplating the universe, a set of tightrope walkers spanning the solar system, a cosmic traffic jam, among others.
Each piece combines the finite human condition to the infinite universe; the known to the unknown. With this new series, she challenges us to reach beyond our own personal world, to feel the oneness of ourselves in combination with the mysteries that lie far beyond us, or perhaps deep within us.
Image above: Li Turner, Galaxy Gazing, etching and ink on paper, 22 x 17 inches
Photographs of the gallery in January
Gallery 110 at 110 Third Avenue South
Inaugural Exhibition
Our inaugural exhibition will feature an introductory sampling of our artists' very best work in the limelight of Gallery 110's brand new exhibition space. Come meet the artists and celebrate together with us as we open our new space, ring in a year full of exhibitions, projects, and programs-in-the-works.
Image: Rosemary Powelson, Altering Order: Day and Night, mixed media and photographs on paper, 39 x 17 inches, 2009
Photographs of the new gallery in January
Photographs of receptions in both galleries in January
February 3 - 27, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, February 3; 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: February 4; 6-8pm
Main Gallery:
Inner Mind: Mistie Erickson, Ann Maki and Jim Matthew
Mistie Erickson, Ann Maki, and Jim Matthew grasp the elements of their art it like a torchlight to explore the hidden pathways of their minds. Along these pathways, they attempt to find the hidden gems of treasure that hide elusively in the shadows and sometimes scamper just out of reach. Along the way the unconscious and the inner eye/hand merge together to create fresh, new images. The work shifts and unfolds, revealing the inner working of the soul and the results are often unpredictable.
Image at left: Ann Maki, Every Scrap Matters, Fiber, image 20 x 21, 2008
Small Gallery:
Patrice Colvin: Journeys
When beginning a new painting, Patrice reaches into the depths of her psyche for inspiration. Each new endeavor often stems from long-suppressed inner feelings and memories. Her inner travels, when translated onto canvas, can take her on one or many twisty trails with a few bumps along the way. She often faces puzzling and dark passages that come to an abrupt end, propelling her onto a completely new course. When her journey reaches its darkest and most difficult point, she looks into her soul and tries to discover what she needs to communicate to her audience.
Image: Patrice Colvin, Long Road, 16 x 20 inches
Photographs of the gallery in February
March 4 - 27, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, March 3; 6-8pm
First Thursday Opening: March 4; 6-8pm
Foundations: Reaching Beyond the Idea of Simple Attire
Dalkin – Dillon – Maki – Perez – St. Martin – Turner – Walker
The works of artists Monika Dalkin, Sarah Dillon, Ann Maki, Maylee Noah, Elsa Perez, Natalie St. Martin, Li Turner and Cass Walker all use attire as a vehicle to carry their ideas and speak to their audience, each in a unique manner.
Clothing is as old as history itself. It has been used for such basic necessities as warmth and protection, as well as to define social standing and class difference. It can be used for adornment and frivolity as well as domination and control. It can convey humor, sexual energy and power.
The artists use the garment as a metaphor for their creative ideas, a means for dialogue, and a challenge to accepted ideas about clothing and its function.
Images:
Upper Right: Monika Dalkin, Five Day Work Week, ceramic, aprox. 12 x 24 x 2 inches.
Upper Left: Ann Maki, Party Laces, mixed media, 24 x 30 inches overall.
Lower Right: Elsa Perez, Order and Chaos/ Bracelet A, stainless steel, plexi, vinyl and paper.
Lower Left: Sarah Dillon, Westover Drive, oil, nails and nautical charts on panel.
Photographs of the gallery in March
April 1 - 24, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, March 31, 6-8pm
First Thursday Opening: April 1, 6-8pm
Main Gallery: Literary
Shalini Bhat, Jennifer Caine, Julie Cattin, Monika Dalkin, Sarah Dillon, Becky Frehse, Joshua Goode, Joan Kimura, Lindsay McCulloch, Stephanie Wilken, Bartek Walicki, Cass Walker
They say a picture is worth 1000 words. Artists and writers have long been related, each inspiring the other to think creatively and trigger awareness and analysis of their subjects. At times, text is illustrated with creative imagery, designed to help heighten an experience of the words or drive imaginative pictorial movies in our heads. Sometimes visual response drives contemplation, and text exists only to assist in our understanding, like a road sign telling our imagination where to go with the image. Maybe the text itself is really only a design element; a pattern or texture or focal point.
Some artists question the very essence of what defines a book. Is it just a physical enclosure of precious text, an exterior surface in which the text is presented, secondary to the rich literature it houses - or - is it truly the focus of our attention and contemplation? Are the words meant to be read? This exhibition explores the intellectual connection between words and visual experience.
Small Gallery: Sally Ketcham, Homescapes/Townscapes
Sally Ketcham's mixed media and collage works combine her painting and photography with diagrams, maps, signage and other graphic elements found at the edges of outer suburbia. Architectural elements clash with the natural environment while ambiguous spatial relationships reflect shifting grounds and unsettled times. Tape and paper debris create line work and mood. Paint and palettes form an antidote to this slightly dystopian imagery, suggesting a collective energy that has the potential to transform an unsustainable model into its opposite.
Photographs of the gallery in April
May 6 - 29, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, May 5; 6-8pm
First Thursday Opening: May 6; 6-8pm
From Within: Joan Kimura & Cass Walker
Cass Walker: A normal American child of divorce, brother, and painter, Bret Hart suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1993 at the age of 27. This work by his sister, Cass Walker, documents their family's gradual redefinition of a new norm, one achieved and sustained with quiet heroism and daily effort.
Joan Kimura’s art is her journal. It expresses her feelings and experiences, past and present. Kimura does not preconceive. She adds and deletes elements and uses media as needed. At the end of the day she questions herself: “Did I learn? Is there energy in my marks? Should I keep the work or should be it be discarded?”
Image right: Cass Walker, Bret and Vicky, 4.5'X6', Inkjet on canvas, 2002
Image left: Joan Kimura, #8, acrylic, 2009
Photographs of the gallery in May
June 3 - 26, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, June 2; 6-8pm
First Thursday Opening: June 3; 6-8pm
NEW MEMBERS: NEW WORK
New perspectives and ideas abound.
Welcome Jan Cook, Meredith Essex, Becky Frehse, David Jayne, Robert Horton, Gary Oliveira, Claire Renaut, Nancee Rostad, Ray Schutte, Sonya Stockton, and Sue Wren to Gallery 110.
Image: Nancee Rostad, Arabesque, pigment ink on archival paper, 24"x32" matted/framed, edition 1/15
Photographs of the gallery in June
June 30 - July 3, 2010
PULP
Preview Art Party and Sale: Wednesday, June 30 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Entertainment and Sale: July 1 6-8pm
From paper fashion gowns and hats worn by artists to food, raffle, and performance art, as well as one-of-a-kind works on paper by gallery artists, this is the place to be. Artwork on paper, framed or unframed, can be purchased at steal-of-a-deal prices at Gallery 110's annual fundraiser. Proceeds from this event enable us to continue presenting high quality and challenging exhibitions all through the year. Come meet the artists, support the gallery, and enjoy the liveliest night of art-viewing in Seattle!
The preview reception and party, Wednesday, June 30; 6-8pm, is your chance to get first dibs on the work - sales straight off the wall! The First Thursday Art Walk, July 1, 6-8pm, is your second opportunity to support the gallery and take advantage of the great deals. There will be a small works wall for small prices (under $110) as well as larger works starting at $110. The sale will continue through Saturday, July 3. Join the art party!
Photo credit: Nancee Rostad. Pictured, Monika from the Ice Queens in her fabulous all-paper dress. For more information about the Ice Queens see their facebook page Don't miss them at our Artwalk event!
Created for the 2010 Fremont Solstice Parade, the Ice Queens are continuing their "spectacle fashion" confections. This year's costumes can best be described as a fantasy interpretation of a period gowns and head dresses, seemingly designed with fanciful wrought iron armature. These larger than life costumes are constructed from reed, papier mache with elements of paper couture - using primarily environmentally friendly and biodegradable materials. The ice queens will grace the streets once again with energy, charm, and power.
Photographs of the gallery during PULP
July 7 - 31, 2010
FOOD FOR THE SOUL
Julie Cattin, Jan Cook, Monika Dalkin, Sarah Dillon, Mistie Erickson, Meredith Essex, Becky Frehse, David Haughton, Sally Ketcham, Ann Maki, Gordon Nealy, Maylee Noah, Gary Oliveira, Claire Renaut, Nancee Rostad, Ray Schutte, Jason Sobottka, Sonya Stockton, Cass Walker, Stephanie Wilken, Sue Wren
Art is food for the soul.
It is broad and diverse.
It can advocate social activism, be conceptual, or incorporate performance.
It can show feeling, tell stores, and share experiences.
This exhibition will explore images that incorporate symbols or symbolic language that feeds our restorative processes: sustaining, growing, or repairing our well being and furnishing the energy to spark brain activity to keep the brain muscle alert.
Image: Ann Maki,Trium, Fiber, 22 x 18 inches, 2010
Photographs of the gallery in July
August 5 28, 2010
Gallery Exchange: Blackfish Upstream
Preview Reception: Wednesday, August 4; 6-8pm
First Thursday Opening: August 5; 6-8pm
During the month of August, Gallery 110 is pleased to host an exhibition of work from the
Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Concurrently, Blackfish Gallery will be presenting work by Gallery 110 Artists in Portland.
The Exchange
"It’s a great opportunity to share our artists’ works with new audiences, and for each gallery to put something new and unexpected before their regular patrons" says Blackfish director Gina Carrington. "And each gallery is perfectly sited – Blackfish in Portland’s vibrant Pearl District, and 110 at the heart of the arts district in Pioneer Square. This exchange opens up great opportunities for each."
About Blackfish Gallery
Blackfish Gallery was born in 1979, mid-wifed by a group of Portland art professors interested in supporting each other professionally, and in exhibiting their work outside the usual constraints of a commercial art gallery. Since that time, Blackfish has become one of the most enduring artist-owned galleries in the United States. Over 150 prominent Oregon and Washington artists have been represented over the years. Blackfish currently represents 31 artists; three are founding members and have been with the gallery from the beginning. In addition to nurturing their individual aesthetic visions and managing their own careers, the artists are equal partners in the business of running the gallery.
Participating Blackfish Artists: Barbara Black, Carol Benson, Kirk Botero, Mario Caoile, Yoonhee Choi, Jana Demartini, Ellen Goldschmidt, Jim Neidhardt, Angela Passalacqua, Sandy Roumagoux, Eric Rue, Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Charles Siegfried, Stephan Soihl, Kentree Speirs, Melinda Thorsnes, Steve Tilden and Sue Tower.
Image: Kirk Botero, Tangerine, 2010, Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Photographs of Blackfish at Gallery 110 in August
Photographs of Gallery 110's exhibition at Blackfish in August
September 2-25, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, September 1; 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: Thursday, September 2; 6-8pm
Main Gallery:
I Know You, I Don't Know You: Constructing Recognition
Monika Dalkin, Amy Oates, Natalie St. Martin, Molly Magai
Recognition is the act of identifying someone as having been encountered before - literally "to know again." We all capture, organize and recall specific details of the people in our lives, but our methods of doing so vary, and our emotions and senses further synthesize this information into a new reality, a personal experience of knowing.
Through paintings, prints, fiber arts and sculpture, Gallery 110 artists Monika Dalkin and Amy Oates, joined by guest artists Natalie St. Martin and Molly Magai explore this recognition experience. As they play with notions of being known/unknown, the artists document connections, examine likeness and archetype, and search for the familiar in the unfamiliar.
Image Left: Natalie St. Martin, My Seattle Map, Mixed media on paper, 45 x 45 inches.
Image Right: Monika Dalkin, The Middle Stage, Mixed media sculpture (ceramic, cloth, plastic beads, and metal), 55 x 18 x 12 inches.
Small Gallery: Amy Oates — Ode to Urban Sprawl
Any given crowd will likely never be observed in the same location and spatial relation a second time. Individuals are mobile and transitory, and at the moment of "The Crowd, " people are nameless and faceless set against an unmoving space. Yet the city – that static dot on the map &ndash is built by, altered, and sustained by anonymous persons, fleeting moments, rubbed shoulders, blocked views, stuffy spaces, converging paths, and diverging destinations. Amy Oates explores her intrigue with the common crowd by questioning the effects of time, movement, space, transience, and permanence in cities.
Image: Amy Oates, Ode to Urban Sprawl 1, Mixed media: oil, charcoal, collage on paper, 15 x 44 inches.
Photographs of Gallery 110 in September
October 7-30, 2010
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: Thursday, October 7; 6-8pm
Exhibition Exchange: Gallery 110 Hosts Gallery 114
The Exchange:
This year, Gallery 110 has actively pursued opportunities to bring gallery artists to other communities and new audiences while also bringing those new communities and audiences back to Seattle. For a taste of something new in Seattle, Gallery 110 is pleased to present a group exhibition by Gallery 114 artists in Portland, Oregon, this October.
Featured Artists: Jeff Leake, Carson Legree, F.X. Rosica, Gillian Holbrook, Jennifer Combe, Joan McGuire, Jon Gottshall, Linda Tross, Mary Jane Girsch, Richard Cork, David Schell, Bill Ward, and Leslie Peterson
About Gallery 114: Founded in 1990 as an artist collective, Gallery 114 prides itself on allowing its artists absolute artistic freedom. The current 14 members work in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, collage, and printmaking.
Gallery 114 is located at 1100 Northwest Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97209. Phone 503.243.3356
Image: Joan McGuire Painted Drawing #2 acrylic on canvas 60 X 48 inches, 2009
Photographs of Gallery 110 in October
November 4-27, 2010
Exhibition Exchange: Gallery 110 at Gallery 114 in Portland
FOOD FOR THE SOUL
Art is food for the soul. It is broad and diverse. It can advocate social activism, be conceptual and incorporate performance. It can show feeling, tell stores and share experiences. This exhibition will explore images that incorporate symbols or symbolic language that feeds our restorative processes: sustaining, growing, or repairing our well being, and furnishing the energy to spark brain activity to keep the brain muscle alert.
The exhibition will feature the works of Julie Cattin, Jan Cook, Monika Dalkin, Sarah Dillon, Mistie Erickson, Meredith Essex, Becky Frehse, David Haughton, Sally Ketcham, Ann Maki, Gordon Nealy, Maylee Noah, Gary Oliveira, Claire Renaut, Nancee Rostad, Ray Schutte, Jason Sobottka, Sonya Stockton, Cass Walker, Stephanie Wilken, and Sue Wren
This year Gallery 110 has actively pursued opportunities to bring gallery artists to other communities and new audiences while also bringing those communities and audiences to Seattle. For a taste of something new in Portland, Oregon this November, stop by Gallery 114 to view works by Gallery 110 artists. Gallery 114 is located at 1100 Northwest Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97209. Phone: 503.243.3356
Image: Ann Maki, Trium, Fiber, 22 x 18 inches, 2010
November 4-27, 2010
Preview Reception: Wednesday, November 3; 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: Thursday, November 4; 6-8pm
Main Gallery:
bowl of water
Susan Gans: images
Kim Schnuelle: words
David Traylor: objects
Stu Witmer: sounds
bowl of water is a collaborative installation based on a simple metaphor: an entire world can exist in a bowl of water – from the contents contained within to the reflections of the outside world on the water’s surface. This idea launched a broad exploration of landscape and place through sculpture, photo-based imagery, verse and sound. It has been a search to find ways to portray and construct real and imaginary places but also to create narratives about those places.
Landscapes can take on many different attributes. They can be private or public, real or imaginary, safe or dangerous, understandable or ambiguous, viewed from the outside or experienced from within, with or without boundaries. This piece focuses on a collective experience, memory and emotional response to only twelve real and imaginary places.
Image: Bittersweet, a collaboration featuring David Traylor, (ceramic bowls, 21 inches in diameter x 6 inches) and Susan Gans, (archival photomontage, 17 x 22 inches)
Small Gallery:
Gordon Nealy: A Consortium of Tangibles
Gordon Nealy presents a demonstration of objective geometry in colored form. The nature of this exhibition is an agreement of three-dimensional forms: an association or a partnership of objects. The pieces exist apart from us – they are the stimulus. Physically, they are a demonstration of how forms result from the accretion of simple elements such as planes. The surface is formed by colors that are non-arbitrary and limited. Thematically, these works take character from two-dimensional art. They appear as design extruded into the third dimension. The quality of the bodies in their rigid and flexible postures is explored.
Nealy wants the viewer to experience the artwork in its strong tangible existence – to relate to the thing itself. Very often viewers will begin their examination of an individual art piece by trying to resolve how it was made – a sort of physical deconstruction approach. Hopefully through this exploration they will see the harmony and relational strength within this group of 3 dimensional bodies. They will be privy to this partnership of form. They will begin to understand that form is created, assembled, rearranged, or reconfigured according to principles.
Image: Gordon Nealy, Box, Acrylic Plastic, 9 x 12 x 9 inches
Photographs of Gallery 110 in November
December 2-30, 2010
Preview Sale and Holiday Party: Wednesday, December 1; 6-8pm
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: December 2; 6-8pm
Main Gallery:
Small Works: Gallery 110 Artists
In honor of the holiday shopping season, Gallery 110 artists present a group exhibition of works no larger than 16 x 16 inches available for sale right off the wall. Greeting cards and printed images will also be available during this special sale.
Image: Meredith Essex, Spirits, oil on panel, 15 x 12 inches.
Small Gallery – Becky Frehse: Learning to Read Music
Rhythmic patterns, colorful textures, and themes that dissolve and re-emerge are just a few of the concepts that visual artists share with musicians and composers. Learning to Read Music is an exhibition of paintings and assemblage compositions that borrow from western classical music ideas to form a repertoire of visual notations and comparable musical parts. The whimsy of the title of the show serves to offset the pretension often perceived in art based on music. To Becky’s artist’s eye musical notation seems like a code that is only partially understood and yet can be seen as beautiful and mysterious in the abstract. The reverential approach musicians take toward musical instruments is severely challenged by the sight of destroyed instruments, yet here they are transformed into objects of unexpected beauty, as though they had found new life after death
Learning to Read Music is highly influenced by the fact that the artist has been married to the classical composer Gregory Youtz for twenty-three years. In previous work by Becky, collage layers often contained fragments of Youtz’ scores and other references to music or sounds in general. While listening to fits and starts of Youtz’ musical phrases on a muted, electronic keyboard, Becky seized upon the notion of interpreting notes and rhythms into her own visual equivalents. While most of Learning to Read Music was in progress, Youtz was composing a percussion concerto for the Tacoma Symphony which contains a profusion of dynamic beats and rhythms accompanied by orchestral segues to the next movements.
Becky borrows musical ideas from other composers with images and color schemes reminiscent of dissonant works by Schoenberg or the shimmering piano sonatas of the likes of Scriabin. Stravinsky may be invoked by a violin with orange strings on a box. And perhaps Corigliano or Crumb is present in the encrusted ornamentation of the blue cello Playing By Heart.
Image: Becky Frehse, Cold Snap, mixed media with violin and case, 32 x 19 1/2 inches
Photographs of Gallery 110 in December