Category Archives: Former Members

Nicholas Pimentel

Sherry Ruden

Sherry’s life began in China’s greatest cultural city – Shanghai. Surrounded by culture thousands of years old, she developed a deep appreciation for the spirit of Chinese art; a unity of painting, poetry, and calligraphy. After quitting her job as an accountant, she attended the prestigious Shanghai University of Fine Art. Traveling throughout China, her early works focused on landscapes and village studies primarily in oil. She has had multiple exhibitions at Shanghai Fine Art Museum – at the time the only gallery that exhibited works of contemporary artists.

After graduating with honors, she decided it was time for a change and moved to Seattle, Washington. For over a decade, Sherry has worked as a graphic and UX designer leaving nights and weekends open to pursue her unique artistic voice. Always active in the local art community, her personal journey has evolved from the more traditional figurative to pure abstraction.

With a deep interest in western calligraphy – based on ancient scriptures, Sherry now incorporates these traditions into her series of Chinese rice paper collages. With her Asian heritage combined with a love of cultural travel, she sees endless ideas through their native materials and languages.

Sherry seeks to communicate from within the beauty of color and form. To pursue these inspired emotions without a boundary of East and West.

 

 

Ray Schutte

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David Sokal

David Sokal is an interdisciplinary image creator working at the intersection of painting and photography and between time-based and static presentation. He teaches Digital Art, Graphic Design and Photography at South Seattle College.

JoEllen Wang

JoEllen is a conceptual artist who makes paintings, prints, and installations inspired by her everyday urban surroundings. She makes visual sniglets that combine references across different fields, from socioeconomics and ecology, to medicine and auto mechanics.

After graduating with a degree in architecture, she worked in the nonprofit sector with migrant farmworkers in North Carolina. In her roles since, as an artist and architect, she continues to be driven by social justice.

JoEllen regularly exhibits in solo and group shows in Seattle, Washington. She has work in Seattle’s Permanent Portable Works Collection and is a 2021 Shunpike Storefronts artist.

 

Artist’s Statement

Resume/CV

Sue Wren

The power of narrative, or story telling is at the foundation of much of Sue Wren’s art. A single picture creates a complex and descriptive moment in time. She enjoy crafting and documenting new forms of a visual short story.

Yael Zahavy-Mittelman

Let’s talk art… A conversation in Colors

What brings us together, and what pulls us apart? The need for stories is in our nature. It reflects our ideas, feelings, and desires.

In Yael’s artwork and art process, Yael Zahavy-Mittelman explores folk stories as a base for understanding the world around her, as well as to form her personal and social identity.

Being an abstract expressionist painter and story-teller, her artwork, at times, is described as expressions of dreams. Zahavy-Mittelman forms whole worlds on canvas, where she tells her stories. The blend of drawing and collage forms art that flows between reality and imagination. A splash of paint, water, pencil, marker, collage, as well as 3-D elements like jewelry, paper towels, beads, and clock pieces create a very rich art process. Being an artist and a story-teller has given Yael Zahavy-Mittelman the opportunity to invite the viewer to play, create a story of their own, and mostly form a connection to the art and to others.

Yael Zahavy-Mittelman has been an artist for many years. She is a member of The Women Painters of WA, a member of the Salon Collaboration Meetup group, as well as a member of The Collage Society.

She has been showing her artwork in galleries, museums and community events in Israel and New York.