Gallery 110’s mission is to provide dynamic opportunities to established and emerging professional artists in an environment that encourages creative expression, experimentation, and collaboration. As a nonprofit organization, the gallery fosters artistic and professional connections between its associated artists and the arts community at large through creative dialogue, the presentation of challenging and enriching curated exhibitions, public opportunities, and collaborative projects.
The East Gallery will showcase a selection of works from Gallery 110’s talented roster of new and returning artists. This traditional exhibition——in contrast to the salon-style art market of donations in the West Gallery——will feature a diverse array of paintings, sculpture, archival pigment prints, and mixed media works, all under 24 inches wide.
This exhibition offers a wonderful opportunity to explore the artistic diversity within the gallery’s community, with a focus on smaller-scale works that make perfect additions to any collection or gift list. From vibrant paintings to unusual sculptures and striking prints, this exhibition highlights the exceptional talent of Gallery 110’s artists and offers visitors a chance to purchase affordable, one-of-a-kind pieces. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or a first-time buyer, the Member Exhibition is an opportunity to discover new favorites and acquire unique, meaningful works of art for the holiday season.
Affordable Art for a Good Cause: Support Emerging BIPOC Artists at Gallery 110
This December 5-28, celebrate the diverse talents of our member community this holiday season and shop hundreds of affordable, one-of-a-kind works at our nonprofit artist collective in Pioneer Square.
After the overwhelming success of last year’s inaugural Holiday Art Sale, Gallery 110 is thrilled to bring back this unique opportunity to support our Emerging Artist Program while finding exceptional, affordable art for your home or gift list.
Holiday Art Market: Back By Popular Demand
This salon-style sale in the West Gallery offers a rare chance to acquire quality art at prices that won’t break the bank. Featuring hundreds of donated works—many from the private collection of Gallery 110’s long-time curator—this second annual event offers a huge variety of paintings, prints, photography, and more. Plus, you can take your art home right off the wall, making it a fun and fast way to shop for the holidays!
Whether you’re a seasoned collector or a first-time buyer, there’s something for everyone, including small works perfect for holiday gifts and larger pieces to add to your personal collection. With all sales benefiting the Emerging Artist Program (EAP), your shopping empowers us to continue offering free gallery memberships and professional development for underrepresented artists. Since 2018, we have provided free memberships through EAP—because while talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.
Shards, Segments and Ruminations: Mixed Media, Assemblages, Drawings and Paintings from an Unquiet Mind
Packing materials, old game pieces, toys and other finds from local beaches and second use shops populate Sally Ketcham’s paintings, drawings and collages. The integration of landscape and still life elements, objects and typography into paint and textured surfaces on canvas, board and paper, attempt a balance of accident and intention.
The tension between control and chaos reference, for the artist, her personal musings on angst involving climate and militarism playing out in the waters of local seas.
The work of Jonathan Menashy and Saundra Fleming begs the question, “what are the various ways of communicating through the human psyche; what does this act entail?” Human beings exist within various states of consciousness and in fact Saundra Fleming has said that her ideal way to “see” a painting is to slowly fall asleep in front of it.
Both Menashy and Fleming engineer a kind of psychological and moral reckoning that is to come. Phantasmagorical, these paintings move from psychological state into metaphysical crises. An elegance with Menashy and a certain lumpiness with Fleming, the sculpting of paint is extraordinary to consider when comparing the two artists.
The sleepwalk metaphor, as used to describe this upcoming show, can be used to guide one through the paintings. When is a person, asleep, morally, existentially, artistically? What does it mean to be fully aware or awake? And how do we describe what we are awakened to?
These works stretch profoundly to create pictures from the complexities of war to psychological disintegration, and paradoxically, transcend the horror of both through the love and articulation of being a painter. Or, perhaps they are simply redefining what transcendence may be.
Sleepwalkers is guaranteed to be a philosophical experience. And the artists, from the United Kingdom and Seattle, Washington thrive on the complexity of the world.
Nena Howell’s Light in Flight is a vibrant collection of contemporary figurative oil paintings celebrates themes of spirit, laughter, and wellness.
“As I work with each piece, I’m looking for feelings of abundance, movement, and respect—that respect I feel around the themes of connection to humanity, nature, and stewardship,” says Howell. “For this series I was drawn to coppers—colors of cedars and grasses intermixed with loose figurative movement lines and solid abstract Tlingit forms and figures. These colors and forms can be found in our indigenous Tlingit peoples clothing, regalia and household carvings.”
To complement this exhibition, we invite you to join us for the Indigenous Wings Celebration on Saturday, November 16, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST. This special event, hosted by Howell, will be a gathering for the Indigenous community and allies to connect, share stories, and celebrate cultural wellness through our arts in community.
Event Details
Refreshments: Enjoy delicious treats and non-alcoholic beverages as we come together to uplift one another.
Open to All: The Indigenous Wings Celebration is open to everyone, with a suggested $10 donation to support Gallery 110, a non-profit arts gallery that has been serving the community since 2002.
Attendees are encouraged to wear their tribal regalia, adornments, face paint, and/or wings to enhance the celebratory atmosphere!
Gallery 110 presents a new exhibition from mixed media artist Marcus Lelle that uses both photography and audio recordings to define a specific moment and place in time. Through the fusion of sight and sound, this exhibition aims to encapsulate the essence of fleeting moments. Each striking pin-hole photograph printed on metal serves as a visual window into a singular moment, while the accompanying recordings provide a soundtrack that enhances the narrative. By capturing the interplay between visual and auditory stimuli, A Moment in Time transcends traditional boundaries of perception, offering a multisensory exploration of memory, emotion, and the human experience.
“I wanted to focus on moments that the audience could share for a minute or a lifetime—sounds and stills that would not otherwise be recorded and lost to time,” says Lelle. “This has been an exercise in finding beauty and getting lost in the everyday—an exercise in reflection and mindfulness.”
Marcus Lelle is a local photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Everett, Washington. After studying photography at Montana State University, he moved back to Seattle and began his career at a local portrait studio. During his studies, he realized that photography is a two-dimensional art form with little to no physical interaction for the audience. In painting, sculpture, and other art forms that are three dimensional, the artist and the spectators have something that they can feel or walk around. His goal as a photographer is to bring some of that physical dimension to the camera and prints.
Join us at Gallery 110 in October to experience how sculptor Gregory Pierce explores our connection to landscapes that are embedded with cultural and material history.
Pierce’s unique process fuses together collected rock material with found and fabricated objects into distinctive and powerfully raw configurations. Instead of portraying traditional vistas, he condenses personal viewpoints, memories, and traces of human detritus into layered abstracted forms that are often strangely suggestive and vaguely familiar to the viewer.
In this exhibition, Greg has scaled down the size of his work, encouraging viewers to engage with it more intimately. Some works create links between gifts from nature and fabricated materials refined for industrial purposes. Other pieces display a lyrical elegance in the arrangement of shape, texture, and color that plays off of the raw qualities that emerge through the chaotic transformative process of melting, cutting, and configuring rock, glass, and clay materials into form.
As a whole, these works invite viewers to contemplate how the hidden histories embedded in the rock and soil layers beneath our feet impacts our realities on the surface of this rocky planet.
Gregory V. Pierce is a studio artist/educator living in Kennewick, Washington. After completing his B.F.A. at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and his M.F.A. at San Diego State University, he has worked in various artist residencies and studios across the country before happily settling on the West Coast. His work can be found in many private and public collections across the country.
Roseth invites viewers into an imaginary landscape teeming with lakeside creatures—lovingly rendered Canada geese, coots, ducks, crows, and herons. The birds navigate a surreal environment, partially veiled by a web or netting that represents a translucent separation between the waking world of everyday experience and the always present invisible world that humans sometime sense but have difficulty accessing.It’s an old idea that in Western tradition goes back to Plato, and which has many non-Western versions.
Roseth is particularly inspired by a Haida version described by the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst in The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii (Univ of WA Press, 1991). According to Bringhurst, the Haida people live “in intimate familiarity with that membrane… that stretches skin-tight and resonant over everything in the world,” through which animals freely pass back and forth but humans need animal or spirit escorts. The Haida vision is of a beautiful, wild natural world dominated by non-human creatures with great spiritual power.
Roseth has undertaken to paint the lakeside birds stepping over and through the veil that separates the natural and spiritual worlds. “Most of the veil imagery in these works is a traditional American quilt pattern, ‘Storm at Sea,’ a pattern I used in my years as a quilter,” says Roseth. “It lacks the austere power of Haida imagery but has a movement and beauty of its own and helps place the paintings squarely in my own cultural tradition.”
This dynamic display reflects Gallery 110’s commitment to fostering creative expression, experimentation, and collaboration among both its established and emerging artist members. Explore this engaging public showcase any time in the Phyllis Lamphere Gallery on Level 2 of the Convention Center’s Arch Building, where rotating exhibitions are booked approximately two years in advance, following a screening process with the SCC’s Art Advisors.
Gallery 110 has offered a platform for innovative contemporary art for over two decades, and has been a nonprofit organization since 2010. Since 2018, we have provided free memberships through our Emerging Artist Program because while talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. Tax-deductible donations may be made to support emerging artists here.
Opening: 1st Thursday Art Walk, September 5, 5-8pm Reception: Saturday, September 7th, 2-5pm
Gallery 110 presents Echoes of Yesterday, a vibrant exhibition capturing the essence of dreams and memories through mesmerizing, luminous artworks on glass by mixed media artist Sanjida Mity.
Her work often features human figures and faces against surreal backdrops. Working on the distinctive media of glass, Mity merges the colors and rhythms of life into a harmonious symphony of “beaming yellows, oranges, and rusts of hope; the tranquil beauty of coexistence between humans and nature in white, green, and blue; and the bravery and spirit of life in red.” These elements combine to form a bright and dreamy concoction that flows like the ragas of classical music, with patterns, lines, and shapes moving in a rhythmic dance across the glass surface.
For Mity, the blueprint for a rewarding and fulfilling life lies in the quotidian minutiae, the spirituality of a humble mind, and the innocence that comes from authenticity and connection with one’s roots. Born in Bangladesh, her art is deeply inspired by her South East Asian heritage, reflecting the earthiness, spirituality, Sufism, and celebration of nature that are central to Bangladeshi culture.
A testament to optimism, her art captures the grandeur in the ordinary, the warmth and shelter provided by Mother Nature, and the tenderness of the human heart. Echoes of Yesterday embodies the unstoppable human spirit and the harmonious living of communities, bringing to life the beauty and resilience of her homeland.
Sanjida Mity is an acclaimed artist whose work reflects her deep connection with her cultural roots and passion for exploring the beauty and harmony of life through art. Born in Bangladesh and currently a resident of Washington, USA, her unique glass paintings have been exhibited in galleries and art shows in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as in Washington, Oregon, and California in the USA.
