Gallery B612 01. Grand Re-Opening

Grand Re-Opening Art Exhibition

Brooke Borcherding

Grand Re-Opening Artist Exhibition

May 18 - June 17, 2023

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On May 18th, 2023, held their frst Artist Reception. They featured twenty four artists, over ffty pieces, and fve special performing talents show. artists, art and special at this

The artists were able to attend the reception connect with the fellow community of local art collectors, and friends alike. The support was high, and the energy was surging with life as locals and neighbors were brought together event.

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seen in this please contact the Gallery B612 Team. info@GalleryB612.com (206) 476-7385 E-mail: Phone: 1915 1st Ave S Seattle, Washigton

About Gallery B612

Initially founded in mid 2020 under Prince and Fox, LLC, Gallery B612 aspires to be a gathering place for artists, dancers, fashion designers and creatives from all featured a Solo Exhibition from founder and curator, MiYoung Margolis and served as a gathering place and rehearsal space for MMDC and Dare to Dance.

walks of life. To this date, the gallery has in Gallery B612 and is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book the Seattle SODO neighborhood.

others important to provide space for artist to share their voice each other. In spend

a literary reference to Asteroid B612 in Little studio, ‘The Prince.’ Gallery B612 is our “art planet:” our gallery in the Seattle

with to

mingle people for for connection

can view and discuss the pieces as well as our modern American world, there are less and less public spaces and their free time. Here, we will hope to provide safety

We believe it’s a physical representation where community.

At Gallery as and international artists. Margolis, well as B612, monthly you can fnd original works of MiYoung juried exhibitions of work by local

Jeffrey Gallery Founder Gallery Curator and Co-Owner

Assistant Curator

Margolis

Miyoung Margolis

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Paloma Andreu received a degree in Fine Arts by the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. She often participates in young art contests and receives prizes for small format bronze sculptures and earns support from renowned bronze foundry in Guadalajara Art21 Studio. Andreu fuses different techniques of contemporary sculpture. She travels to Europe and participates in different drawing exhibitions. Currently, Andreu forms part of the private collection of the gallery and museum, Laberinto del Quinto Sol in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

Paloma Andreu

Quetzalcoatl Dragon Ancestral Knowledge (2020)

3.5 (lbs.) Bronze

28 x 13 x 13

Quetzalcoatl represented the wisdom of Toltec and Aztec cultures of Mexico. Wise men called tlamatinime in nahuatl recognized a cosmic duality, masculine and feminine in all things. They rejected human sacrifce and fower wars. This warrior god incarnated ferocious combats against other cardinal points and other elements. In this era of fre he became the protector of the Five Suns. He was also made heir to the corn that the ant delivered from the mountain of sustenance.

The sculpture exemplifes this energy in movement of life, the search for security in mature age, contact with our inner emotions and dreams from the inside out. Far beyond accepted social constrictions that lessen our individuality, we are beings in cycles in a world with chaos that struggle to perceive glimpses of harmony. Where is peace if we cannot listen to each other? Where is Quetzalcoatl in our culture?

Song for Arnica Flower (2021)

The fower songs of the Nahuatl pueblos denote profound feelings naturally. In a chaotic world the poems enhance their lives with color. These poems acknowledge their stay in this world as temporary, questioning death. They interpret happiness as ephemeral, giving importance to self-love, what torments you will free you. Flower songs resolve to expand the one and only truth on earth, prompting intuitive thinking through them to achieve happiness and joy. This poetic thinking invites us to engage in artistic expression, to comment with our hearts our own truth.

Arnica fower represents human will, the energy at our core. The female fgure stands in prayer and her song enlightens reason. With the power of words material reality can be molded. The sculpture is a hybrid of a self-portrait, with neoclassic sculpture that searches to understand natural beauty contained in xóchitl in cuicatl.

Flower Xóchitl In In Cuicatl: Songs (poetry) Which means, “The one and only truth on Earth"

Vessel Soul (2022)

The complex world live in is a

which creatively on two calendars.

we search framework for and of Nahuatl ways stay related

we live in is a challenge in to break molds, respect diversity, being ourselves. In a philosophical culture it known that a persons birthday is to specifc role society based

The calendars Tonalpohualli and Xiuhpohualli are an actual cultural heritage that reminds us of our structure to form society. They not only reveal our struggles but they also permit us to explore essence as unity. In this way our work can be done with empathy and common sense. Also, life’s journey can be understood as areas of existence that intend to envision harmony. Always coming from a dichotomy that represents: human being and destiny, body and essence, spirit and matter.

10.5 x 9 x 10.5

1.8 (lbs.) Bronze

(lbs.) x x 13 7.5 12

1 Bronze

Susan M. Bagrationoff is a professional, surrealist artist whose body of work focuses on mythology and mysterious creatures. Faeries and other folklore are most often the subjects of her creations using the beauty of nature for realistic reference. She works with multiple layers of acrylic paint in brilliant hues, often using metallic mediums to give the ‘vibe’ of her works. Her Faerie Folk Portrait paintings are always hung up in her teaching studio in Downtown Kent, Washington, observing her art students as their conjure their own works.

Susan Bagrationof

Artist Statement

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a world to of peace cannot

so much chaos, a brief trip into realm faeries brings beauty, magick into dimension. I fnd world be a magickal and mysterious place. Faeries have always held my fascination and I believe they thrive within realm. Like us, they have many faces and many cultures. I utilize my artistic talents summon these creatures so everyone can experience their beauty, magick and to inspire others to believe what they see. in

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work is conjured onto canvas using acrylic paints with multiple layers washes, often with metallic hues. Brilliant colors are used enable give off the feeling `vibe`, inspiring the viewer discover the essence beings. The texture of their skin, hair backgrounds are vital conveying the elemental qualities of each fae. am constantly discovering new ways to bring to life gaze upon us humans as we admire their portraits.

The Sea Hag (2023)

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that glistening inspired

painting depicts an has been submerged in eye gazes curiously upon by a piece of

in and on

This original acrylic ancient spirit embedded driftwood rocks sand. Her one world. This creation was driftwood located the shores near Port Orchard, Washington.

'The Sea Hag' was created with layers of modeling paste to create the intense texture of the driftwood. Pointillism was used to form the rocky sand around this mysterious being. Palette knife techniques were used carve the sea hag into the ancient wood. There are a few metallic mediums highlights to give a bit of magic to the piece.

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Michael Baran earned Bachelor Arts degree from Columbia College, Chicago, a focus Animation. From there, he traveled Auckland, New Zealand working at Toonz Animation an inbetweener episodes Timon Pumba Disney television series Tales From Crypt: Third Pig. a

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series and 1996, returned States began Humongous Entertainment in Seattle animator on Freddy Fish, Putt Putt Backyard Sports games PC. passion for and painting merged at Big Fish Games where worked as senior animator. While provided many styles animation on Mystery Case File, the Drawn adventure games, Fetch and several other fun titles for mobile. In freelance work, had the pleasure providing animation for some amazing documentary flm makers in the Seattle area.

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am an artist animator living Seattle area. When I’m not animating, try get out nature paint using oils or water colors. aspire live life completely, honestly compassionately, with healthy dose imagination tell stories through painting animation.

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I use art capture moments time, objects landscapes I once shared with those dearest to me or experienced on own in refection. I feel compelled by the need to capture those colors provided by the natural world around me. It’s the desire to freeze those feeting moment in time as light moves across a plain. When I paint outdoors, everything seem to stop for me. I try to incorporate texture, optical color effects and value while creating an image.

Artist Statement

Arthur Foss Wooden Ship (2020) 9 x 9 x 1 1 (lbs.)

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of Carkeek coastline

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member a local artist cooperative gallery where her work is displayed through both juried non-juried art exhibitions. This includes Washington Center for Performing Arts, Cliff Creek Cellars, local venues for Olympia Arts Walk. stays involved within the arts community through memberships the Olympia Art League, the International Association and artist Robertson’s private artist membership.

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Eileen Boschler

Artist Statement

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encaustic artist. work is inspired nature; just beauty experience visually, but serenity, wildness, ferocity experience emotionally. Each one my pieces is unique expression of experience. tools media include my paintings are that allow express what experience visually emotionally. an

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current work infuenced by abstract artists past present. Their work has been critical discovery my own voice as artist. continue develop and refne my techniques through experimentation and instruction from artists.

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Encaustic and mixed media 4 20 20 1.5 (lbs.)

Feelings of Joy (2022)

Brooke works as a full time painter in Wallingford, Seattle. She started painting in high school in Santa Monica CA where she grew up, began plein air painting in 2009, and earned a BFA from the University of Oregon in 2010.Over the past decade as an exhibiting artist she has developed her own bold style through prolifc output and abstaining from taking any landscape workshops. in Plein in

and the and

participates in neighborhood artwalks. pandemic she has been putting a piece of artwork out on front yard for the x (lbs.)

Brooke Borcherding

Urban Hallway No. 5 (2022)

A depiction of in downtown Seattle 36 24 4 Acrylic

urban alleyways

Blooms After the Frost (2023)

Statement

As a steadfast landscape painter for the past decade I have focused on creating innovation within this traditional art form through analyzing the process of perceptual painting.I took my easel outside in 2009 to learn from observation and abstained from taking any landscape workshops to sustain my own style. A few years later I began deconstructing these more literal iterations into something still recognizable but presented in a unique way.

I now continue my painting practice both outdoors and in the studio using this language of broken color, energetic mark making and expressive dynamism that aims to highlight the beauty of everyday places. Academically speaking some people may consider landscape painting to be a thing of the past, but I fnd beauty to be a universal experience necessary to share with viewers, especially in the world we live in today. Whether it’s in rural open spaces or dense urban cities, there is always something new to be discovered in the moment as an observational painter and hopefully a wide audience can fnd something new and enjoyable to observe in my work as well.

Artist

Brian Brenno is primarily know as a glass artist, beginning with a stained glass class at Vashon Allied Arts in the late 1970s as a teenager. He received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1985. After college, he studied glass sculpting with Pino Signoretto, at the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington and glass blowing with Dick Marquis at Haystack Craft School in Deer Isle, Maine. Brian worked on Dale Chihuly’s glass blowing team for 10 years before starting a studio on Vashon Island in 1997.

Brian Brenno

Seattle (lbs.) x

Iconic image

Worlds Fair era. wood 1 14 9 x 0.5 Recycled pop

harking back to the 1962 and beer cans nailed to

Pink Elephant (2023)

(2023) Blue Moon

Artist Statement

I am primarily know as a glass artist, while not in the glass studio I have always worked on projects using recycled materials. In 2011, inspired by contemporary folk art I had seen in exhibits at the Mia Gallery in Seattle, I began a series of images made from cut up pop and beer cans, nailed to plywood. Cans provide an amazing palette to create with. I build an image from a photo, the cans are cut into mosaic pieces, then nailed piece by piece, layer by layer to create the image.

Cans allow me to create images in a kind of sculptural way, instead of a painterly way. Unlike a painter I cannot blend, tint, or change colors to create depth, light, shade or form. I like the challenge of using a can’s, color, pattern, text and surface to create depth, light, shade and form. I also use a can’s ability to take texture and lift off the surface to become 3 dimensional, helping me tell the visual story. My current series is based on historic images of disappearing Seattle Icons.

Icon Series, images and disappearing Seattle 15 9 x 0.5 1 of lost Recycled pop and beer cans nailed to wood

Henry Caserotti is an artist based in the Pacifc Northwest. He has lived and worked in many places which has given him many wonderful opportunities, including designing the cover of a Playbill for an off-Broadway production in New York City to installing a life size painted fberglass horse in the Outer Banks, NC. For the last several years he has found his inspiration in the mountains and rivers of the western United States.

After moving to Idaho in 2013, and doing a fair amount of hiking and rafting, he soon began thinking about how he could capture in paint the rugged and vast terrain he was quickly becoming enamored of. Over time Caserotti developed a process using the same elements that had created the geography itself, water, wind and gravity, to create work with great depth of detail without losing a sense of immediacy.

Henry Caserotti

Devil’s Creek (2021)

Along

Artist Statement

“Vertical Landscapes” is an ongoing series of paintings created to capture the grandeur of the mountainous western United States. These pieces are of grand scenery in more out of the way places presented in an intimate way. This could be during a storm fast approaching over a high mountain pass, gently falling rain in the high desert or the warmth of a sunny afternoon when the aroma of pine sap and dry grass begins to fll the air. With infuences as diverse as the later work of John Singer Sargent, ancient Chinese landscape painters and with an ever adapting artistic process, “Vertical Landscapes” have several distinctive aspects that defne the work.

By using a vertical composition the height of the mountains and depths of the canyons are better accentuated. It also allows me to create a sense of intimacy by guiding the eye of the viewer and focusing on particular features. This intimacy is reinforced in the larger pieces, that reach up to seven feet tall, and are the shape and size of a door inviting the viewer in. The human scale of the larger pieces along with the vertiginous perspective creates a visceral response and the great amount of detail in the work allows the eye of the viewer to reside in and explore

I hope that viewers fnd my landscapes interesting and appealing, but I do not consider them simply beautiful or decorative. Our world is undergoing unfathomable change. Ideologies based in a sense of manifest destiny or of humans being the most or only important life on this planet have proved disastrous. These works are an invitation to refect on the wonder of the world around us and take the time to reevaluate our relationship to our only home, Earth.

Kaylyn Chileen

Kaylyn

Artist Statement

1800s for their beautiful detail and renderings of material, like fabric, jewelry, fur, and embroidery. While these portraits from the past aren’t

exactly exciting to the modern public, I decided to take and show what I fnd fascinating about them and combine that with my cartoon style. I colors. My toony portraits often have a slight narrative element to them, but cannot exist in an animated world.

often depict soft cartoon fgures posed in visually delicious and vivid

7 5 1 0.5

7 5

1 (lbs.) x x

Dusky (2020)

Divina Clark is an emerging, multi-media artist with an excitement and a determination to succeed in the creative industry. The artworks she creates are inspired by her love of nature; the beauty of the Pacifc Northwest where she resides in Washington State, the vast ocean surrounding the Hawaiian islands where she was born on the Island of Oah’u; and, her love of wildlife animals. Clark’s artworks are either representational, abstract, or a twist of both.

Divina graduated with a Master in Teaching degree in K-12 Visual Arts, taught art fve years both in private and public education, and she is working towards a goal of owning an art studio and academy.

Divina Clark

oil on

Neon forescent acrylic, spray paint, and paint canvas 2.5 (lbs.) 24 x 12 x 1.5

Spirit Horse (2023)

Artist Statement

Spirit Horse is part of a horse series I am creating. I was inspired to paint Spirit Horse to experiment with how two different painting media (forescent acrylic paints and oil paints) may fuse to refect the neon effects of light. The forescent acrylic paints were applied frst as the under-painting layer. The oil paints were applied as the fnal layer of the painting which brought the colors of the painting throughout a bit more of a three-dimensional look. Painting the refection of light with different color hues to create the color white is not an easy task. Amazingly, the end result turned out better than expected especially when black lighting is shined upon the painting.

Kevin Ducoing lives in West Seattle. He has lived in the Seattle area since 1982 when his family left California and put down roots in the Pacifc Northwest. Kevin immediately felt the draw of PNW aesthetic; damp, but clean and crisp, most times a bit more monochromatic than many places. His desire is to express this duality, or blending, with the feeling that we are the ghost story, the local lore, and that the landscape has its own stories about us.

Kevin Ducoing

unique the surrounding setting. Houses experiencing

Neighborhood interacting with woods creates its own countless variations in sunrises, sunsets, moonrises, and middays. Acrylic canvas 40 20 5 (lbs.)

Neighborhood No. 4 (2022)

Artist Statement

Our our are we of a interaction with trees and forests runs deep in existence. Where pleased to experience two or three generations of people, tree easily experiences fve, ten or more generations people.

My work imagines our most obvious legacy: our homes, our neighborhoods, our towns...experienced from the forest’s point of view. Are we just part of the background noise? Are we seen as an invasion or threat? In this collection, our presence is imagined as feeting shapes in a dream or a ghost story.

Windfall and The Cabins in the Wood (2022)

Wanderlust No.3 (2023)

The timeline of

a cabin in the 4

woods: its fragility, and tenacity.

Acrylic canvas 28 24 (lbs.)

Complexity around adventuring one’s own: lonesome, daunting, and beauty in solitude.

Acrylic on canvas 3 30 20

on (lbs.) x

Rachael Fasano (she/her) is a Seattle-based multi-sensory artist primarily working with sound and visual arts. Her artistry centers around communal creativity and explores the interactive natures of perception and narrative. She is fond of utilizing abstraction and obscurity as a means of unearthing truth.

As a composer, Fasano has a special interest in creating more accessible repertoire for the performer and audience member impacted by chronic and acute conditions, and she is continuously excited by the way that experimentation allows us to fnd pockets of connection and healing. Rachael holds a BA in Music Composition and Research alongside a minor in 2D Studio Arts from Seattle Pacifc University.

Rachael Fasano

YOU (Part I)

Oil and gesso panel on wood

Artist Statement

with Performing others and trust. Making space for art, but it requires because it is designed collaborating with; it places emphasis being human: listening.

others

an immense amount of mutual respect empowers creative agency and allows for more cohesive requires all parties. I chose title this project “YOU” to and uplift the ideas of the person (s) you are what I believe to be a crucial part of

intentionality from to honor on

This variation asks the performers to react to two separate but related paintings that serve as graphic scores. It is highly improvisatory in nature, including the creation of the paintings themselves. The subject matter is abstract and nonrepresentational, which encourages musical responses based on gesture of line, form, shape, and the interaction of color. I also chose to utilize bitonality as a musical limitation to mirror the visual complementary color scheme. These are also elements that cater to the concepts of listening and making room for others.

x 23 36 x 1.5

Oil and gesso panel 5 (lbs.) on wood

GirlSpit completed formal training in various mediums: Acrylic painting at age 7. Watercolors by age 10. Illustration and Graphic Design at a technical institute by age 16. Finally settling on the style of Stencil Art. Stencil Art is versatile medium, requiring: Advanced Drawing, Precision, Cutting, Controlled Spray Paint Techniques. GirlSpit never lets a Computer: Generate an image. Generate the layers. Cut A Stencil Every piece is created by hand.

Girlspit

Hand Cut paper knife

with X-Acto

(2022) Holiday Market

Artist Statement

I created the (Spit) and the sexism within Graffti Girl. the juxtaposition

by hand. This is The stencil is used to create piece of art.

of the stereotype is created

name GirlSpit combining identity a fctitious NYC Artist Graffti Culture—combating Male Dominance with addition of the of sweetness, Girl. Against the severity of an action, Spit. Every by a unique take on the and street art genre. Generally, in stencil art, the stencil a new piece of art with spray-paint. In this case, the stencil IS the piece of

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Alexander Hollman brought up Cape Town, South Africa, came graduate studies late 1980s. lived Seattle since 2001. most childhood, Hollman drew detail kind of world things wanted to be surrounded by: machines, inventions, houses, planes, boats. his

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Although teachers specialists suggested Hollman attends a arts high school think a career architecture design, instead chose study language and drew less as he grew older. pressures of graduate school and a sensational exhibition of watercolors by Sargent and others at Boston Museum of Fine Arts the early 1990s inspired Hollman to take up watercolor painting and revive drawing. Hollman has not stopped since. The pandemic markedly intensifed output, making drawing and painting a daily practice.

Alexander Hollman

Watercolor with gouache 3.5 (lbs.)

Bulk Tanker Pomone (2021)

Though I draw a lot in ink and have also worked on etching and engraving, what chiefy interests me now is plein air painting in watercolor and gouache. For the last three years I have been exploring Seattle’s

waterfront, parks, and urban areas by bike, so water, sky, trees, and boats are frequent other Pacifc Northwest locations any chance I get and also when travelling in Europe and Central America.

subjects in my work. I also paint landscape in

My style is typically representational but I

aim for looseness and simplifcation of detail, using gestural strokes. I am increasingly drawn towards the abstract. I typically make a very rapid ink sketch in a sketchbook to determine composition, relative size of elements, and darkest areas. I then begin painting on a separate piece of paper, usually wet-in-wet, without any

Chinese-style brushes.

Watercolor with gouache x 11 11 3.5 (lbs.)

Western Dawn (2022)

Artist Statement

in and to He was

Michael Hovey’s Hovey sculpture, Scottsdale, Arizona, Springs, California, Seattle

in his In has and his he in and and currently

Since frst solo exhibition 1998, work been exhibited galleries institutions throughout Western States. addition studying painting, includes furniture design build repertoire. represented by galleries in Palm before relocating to where lives and works.

Michael Hovey

Statement

I am motivated by form and shape, whether in two dimensions or three. I am painting in the trompe l'oeil and magic realism genres, which permits

me to model form and texture in new and compelling compositions and occasionally fool the eye. I try to achieve a dynamic surface with movement and vitality by juxtaposing emotional or irrational elements against logical, orderly elements. I hope to present to the viewer a place between illusion and reality with wit and craft.

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Oil on canvas 0.3 14 11 2

1 (lbs.) x x

Oil on canvas 29 18 2

Undertones (2022)

Small Infnity (2022)

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Artist Statement

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Iraha has fne degree, emphasis drawing painting, has exhibited art widely. Ever more adventurous, has branched out include commercial art venues well. Besides creating personal art, he has contributed illustrations to national magazines and publications in past. One newer creations is surreal digital media cartoon, “Nine Bits,” which is serialized in online format. His art is eclectic and ethereal, but integrity never fails in both creation and outcome of the pieces.

Yukio Kevin Iraha

Ascent (2023)

(Life 1)

Born Japan but grew up United States, Yukio Kevin Iraha’s goal life always been be creative. there are cultural infuences from both East West, root art stems from story telling. stories are derived from memories, cultural anecdotes, history, or folk tales. in A

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Ascent (Life 3) (2023)

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nature

is about nature. express its constant contrasting life: calm waters versus resilient river currents. vastness plains deserts minuscule details found forests. transition between cold warm weather. puddle of somewhere ditch versus the ocean’s endless seascape, the volumes of cotton-like clouds, the eternal blue sky. unique interpretation of the beautiful cycle of surprises found the expressions of new environment.

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Michele Knox

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Michele Knox multifaceted woman, who has pursued two great passions throughout life: science art. While came to her later her life, she imbues it with her creativity unique point view. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky while she didn’t pursue in her younger years, she always remembered an art class in middle school that made her feel spark of something special. In her 30s, she moved to Las Vegas and pursued career in radiology, specializing in CT and MRI imaging. While she loved her work, Michele always felt a pull towards art and respected knowledge and creativity required in scientifc felds.

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As American artist living stunning Olympia, Washington, am constantly natural surrounds me. passion lies in creating large, textured abstract capture essence spontaneity transformation. Through layered painting process, passion within guide me, resulting in paintings that evoke emotion human connection. as I The

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process is unpredictable often surprising, never know what will emerge from my initial thoughts movement color. paint, brush, and fow speak leading me on journey of creation. My ultimate goal is to connect with my audience on a deep and personal level, even if only for a feeting moment. strive to a sense of soul each viewer, allowing them to feel and experience something profound my art.

the essence

My art is innate, emerging from within and refecting the unique aspects of who I am. Through my paintings, I hope to share this with the world, a lasting impact and impression.

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Artist Statement

Above It (2023)

up Southern California, loved to draw art and communications in college. An early in my to a career in advertising and design. My father was a and back in the day had a drafting table at home

Janice Lyons grew entire childhood, and ultimately studied fne infuence in my life led me design engineer for the space industry, that he worked on.

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drafting at college, took class table, she fell love with graphic I have worked as graphic designer last 35+ years, partially then for last 30 years Thurston County, WA. I co-owned graphic studio Lacey Tumwater the sense of design I developed over the years defnitely infuences painting today.

Janice Lyons

The Bookmark (2023)

Mixed Media 3.5 (lbs.)

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painted ‘The Bookmark’ after visit from a good friend who helping with refugee effort Cyprus. During her rotation there she traveled surrounding countries along way bought a beautiful handcrafted bookmark gave it to as a gift. This painting was her, her great capacity for empathy, her dedication to helping others.

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Growing on Long Island development created by bulldozing farmland had been plowed into scrub pine, wild juniper grassland, Tom’s idea nature was squirrel jay on the telephone wire, the horseshoe crab on the jetty, the salty waves breaking near the boardwalk Jones Beach. He developed a reverence a respect for the nature world during these years away from the malls and turnpikes of his youth. He spent many hours sketching the forest near Mt while beginning his art studies at the University of Arizona. Tom completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Since moving to Seattle, Tom has continued drawing and painting.

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has also worked as an actor flmmaker. short flms have won several awards received distribution deals. feature screenplays have won multiple competitions received live readings festivals. also comic strip, Good Golly Miss Magda, published as regular feature 90s zine, Sacred City, published Phil Rose Seattle.

Tom McIntire

Artist Statement

With a and I

and I and and

backgrounds in flm painting, overlay characters, locations vibrant color in serious absurd narratives. manipulate place, time repetition present flmic in single frame.

to a journey

This work stone paper mounted onto a sturdy cradled wood panel. Six stone paper panels brought to mind flm frames as I was building composition, rushing moving images from all angles to single, shared surface.

utilizes 12 x x 1

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Mixed media on wood panel 2 (lbs.) 12

Beach 38: Montgomery Olivier Heath Cliffed (2022)

the a of the

Jamie Stevens Seattle based artist who began her artistic career Louisville, Kentucky where attended University Louisville focusing on studio art. During this time, she frequently showed at Tim Faulkner Art Gallery could be seen murals around town. She relocated Seattle area late 2019.

is in she and painting in to

Jamie Stevens

Tea In The Morning

Artist Statement

I’m an encaustic artist. work inspired by nature; not just the beauty experience visually, but the serenity, wildness, ferocity I experience emotionally. Each one my pieces is a unique expression of that experience. The tools I use media I include in my paintings are those that allow me express what I experience visually and emotionally.

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Growing up on Long Island in a development created by bulldozing farmland that had been plowed into scrub pine, wild juniper and grassland, Tom’s idea of nature was the squirrel and the jay on the telephone wire, the horseshoe crab on the jetty, and the salty waves breaking near the boardwalk of Jones Beach. He developed a reverence a respect for the nature world during these years away from the malls and turnpikes of his youth. He spent many hours sketching the forest near Mt Lemmon while beginning his art studies at the University of Arizona. Tom completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Since moving to Seattle, Tom has continued drawing and

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Von Dickens Abero Ulsa frst-generation immigrant Philippines. He graduated triple bachelor’s degree American Studies, History, English from University Hawaii at Manoa 2016. Last spring, he completed his juris doctorate from University of Wisconsin Law School. Having lived in Honolulu, Hawaii since 2009, Ulsa discovered his passion decolonization indigenous knowledges. He is a descendant of the Isnag tribe of the North Philippines who are known for headhunting traditions evading Spanish intervention during the Spanish conquest of the country.

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academic background, embeds decolonial narratives works to encourage viewers to “indigenize” – reconnect with ancestral knowledge centered on cultural authenticity, environmentalism, identity reclamation. currently based Milwaukee, working as an eviction defense staff attorney Legal Aid Society Milwaukee.

Von Dickens Ulsa

Artist Statement

With a background in history and academic research, my process begins with an intensive subject study and a careful analysis of its narrative historiography. I always think about what the stories my art strives to communicate and how these stories create a deeper and more intellectual connection with the viewers. I believe that the consumption of art is three-fold: the artist to the art, the art to the audience, and the audience with the artist. Most overlooked is the relationship of the audience with the artist.

My works serve as a bridge to communicate the ideas my works symbolize, seeking to help my audience realize something they themselves already know. The colors, fgures, and size of my works seek to communicate a collective message that I hope my audience can connect with. My works present them with something familiar, but that initial reaction will be twisted as they observe further, with the hopes that they unlock the messages behind what they see and confront the narratives they thought they understood.

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Waimanalo (2023)

Palehua (2022)

Derek Winslow is a queer multidisciplinary artist in Seattle, Washington. As a self-taught artist, they have been making art for over two decades, from squiggles with crayons to large colorful acrylic abstracts. Winslow’s work takes root in the range of their queer experience imploring viewers to navigate through all the pieces and witness how they all ft together. Their art speaks to the joy, discomfort, and compartmentalization encompassing their journey to fnd happiness and safety.

Derek Winslow

I’ve always struggled to express my nuanced feelings about my queerness. I didn’t feel safe or comfortable sharing these feelings while growing up. Finally, I found a way to express it through my abstract acrylic color block pieces. The bold colors represent these intense emotions; joy, pain, safety, and discomfort. The solid blockwork of my art illustrates the rigidity with which queer people navigate their lives to fnd happiness and safety.

Painted with acrylic paint, jaded is inspired by the defnition of the word: fatigued, overworked, tired. This piece is a spiral of blue and purple in carefully placed triangles. While looking at this piece, there is a sense of confusion mixed in with the exhaustion from its namesake. My feelings inspired me while painting this as I was in chaos and weariness while searching for an identity.

“it’s on the horizon” is an acrylic painting inspired by hope. The blues feel serene. The intense red and orange are happiness, love, passion, and frustration. The colors bring a duality to this piece of bright and dark. I was a feeling of searching for better times to come. inspired by

Artist Statement

Acrylic on Canvas 3 (lbs.) 24 x 24 x 1.5

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Jaded (2021)

it’s on the horizon (2023)

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“i couldn’t fnd you” on wood representing my diffculty fnding my inner child. Bold red, and orange fnd themselves lost in blues and purples. red, yellow, and orange represent pieces my inner child, shattered. blues and purples convey distress, and shame. How do you connect the shattered pieces of your inner child amidst these intense feelings?

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lost at the crossroads (2023)

the only way through (2023)

i couldn’t fnd you (2023)

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Chandra Wu

Artist Statement

My perspective as an earth scientist informs my view of the world and inspires a lot of my structures and layers. I employ my geology and physics background to construct landscape-like quilts that balance the meditative rhythms of traditional quilt making with the abstract fuidity of the Pacifc Northwest landscape. I learned to sew and quilt from both my mother and my grandmothers — I feel more connected with them as domestic engineers when I sew. The natural beauty and the modern industrial life along the Washington and British Colombian coastlines infuence my work in improvisational patchwork and rhythmic stitch patterns. I like including weathered, found and reusable textiles, especially denim jeans. I enjoy the intersection of industrially produced materials and worn shapes with natural ones.

(2023) Pacifc Rim

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If you travel the straits and bays around the Sound, you observe the boundary between human landscapes and natural ones. The monster that breaks through the veil between the pristine beauty of the Salish Seas and one of the most powerful port systems in the world can be viewed in many different ways. In one way it can be the great unknown: swallowing the engines of progress, or an invasive body that disrupts the dynamics of the food web. Improvisationally pieced commercial cotton, machine quilted with hand faced binding.

Gallery B612

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created Exhibition

and Prince Fox, LLC. This artist was for Gallery B612’s Grand Re-Opening Artist for the days of May 18th through June 17th of 2023.

Designed by Aleen Caeli

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