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JANUARY 2023
phantom burned @ Kirkland Arts Center
KOH Atelier Student chosen for Solo Show
Check out Gage KOH Atelier Student Heather Ormsbees’s upcoming solo show at the Kirkland Arts Center. Heather is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the outskirts of Seattle, WA. Her work is a glimpse into a physical and emotional journey which gesture you to come closer to her fire. A trained fire thrower, adrenaline junkie, and lover of the macabre, the painting series, phantom burned, illustrated various haunted figures playing with one of the most feared and fond of elements of the natural world.
EXHIBITION DATES:
January 13 – February 18, 2023
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 13th, 6 - 8 PM
See more of Heather's work
DECEMBER 2022
Equinox VERY Open House
Art party hosted by Equinox Studios
The biggets party of the year! See art ~ buy art ~ make art. Support local artists and check out what our Georgetown Atelier students from the Modern Color, Flack Core Drawing, and Imaginitive Realism Ateliers have been up to!
Event Details:
Saturday, December 10th
3 - 9 PM: Artist Open Studios
After Dusk: Bonfire + Shenanigans Aplenty
6555 5th Ave S Seattle WA 98108
Learn More!
OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2022
Ashwini Sadekar – A World of Color
Solo Show hosted by the Seward Park Audobon Center
"With brilliant colors artistically applied, the paintings created by Ashwini Sadekar celebrate the splendor of the natural world. Her paintings are influenced by her colorfully rich and diverse cultural heritage that are the art, architecture, dance, music, and language of West-Central India.
Now Ashwini's mastery of the visual spectrum of light dances on the walls of our Garry Oak Gallery just in time to counter-balance our pivot into the faint light of fall. Visit our gallery, October through year's end, and witness her play on color and shape, up close and in-person." – Seward Park Audobon Center
ARTIST'S RECEPTION:
Sunday October 16th, 1 - 3 PM
Seward Park
See more of Ashwini's work
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2022
Christine Gedye – Flow States
Solo Show at Fountainhead Gallery
Check out Gage alum Christine Gedye’s upcoming solo show at Fountainhead Gallery. In Flow States, Gedye explores the Pacific Northwest's lakes, beaches and rivers, and illuminates the creative processes that fuel her artistic practice. Her contemporary landscapes are painted in oil over vintage collaged papers; they are rich with nuanced texture, subtle layers and atmospheric light.
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Mark your calendar for the Opening Reception on Saturday, October 1st, 5 - 7 pm. The show runs September 29 – October 29. Gallery is located on Queen Anne, and will be open seven days a week beginning in October.
Gedye began her art training at Gage in 2001; she continues to take classes and workshops with us and has supported the school as a board member since 2017. “I started at Gage as a complete novice and was immediately hooked on where good instruction could take me. There is no substitute for learning the fundamentals from such committed instructors in a truly supportive community. I owe my career to the teaching artists at Gage.” She has been showing at Fountainhead Gallery since 2007. Learn more about Gedye on her website.
EXHIBITION DATES:
September 29 – October 29
Opening Reception:
Saturday October 1st, 5 - 7 PM
See more of Christine's work
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2022
BIMA Spotlight – Juried Exhibition
Call for Artists
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art invites Puget Sound area artists to apply for the Museum’s first-ever juried group exhibition BIMA Spotlight. Submissions will be accepted September 1 through October 15, 2022. The exhibition opens on Friday, June 30, 2023, runs into September 2023 and is a cornerstone of BIMA’s 10th Anniversary celebrations.
EXHIBITION DATES:
Friday, June 30, 2023, runs into September 2023
Submission Dates:
September 1 – October 15, 2022
APPLY HERE
AUGUST – SEPTEMPER 2022
Beyond Description
at Figure Ground Gallery
The exhibition presents 18 painters in dialogue with the visible world, seeking to translate felt perception into paint. For them, meaning is located in the form itself, derived and generated in the relationships between the artist, the motif, and the painting.
August 4 – September 30, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4th 5-9 PM and Thursday, September 1st 5-9 PM
Figure Ground Gallery
122 South Jackson Street, Suite 250
Seattle, WA 98104
JULY 2022
Magrath Sculpture Atelier and Practicum Exhibition
at Figure Ground Gallery
Figure Ground Gallery will be hosting a pop-up show by the Magrath Atelier at the end of the month. See the work produced in this intensive sculpture program!
Saturday, July 30th 6-8 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Figure Ground Gallery
122 South Jackson Street, Suite 250
Seattle, WA 98104
JUNE 2022
Emergence at Antonio Salon
by Rachel Solimeno
'Emergence’ is a body of work that investigates the ways we are emerging from obscurity and choose to show our multiple selves. Paintings fracture and merge portraits with memories of the past. The feminine form evolves from the male gaze drawing on personal history and narratives based on Rachel’s glossy grandmother in the 1960s and time spent at home with the plants.
Opening Reception: June 10 @ 7 PM
Antonio Salon, Seattle, WA
MAY 2022
Artist Talk
Grace Flott in conversation with Scott Méxcal
Learn about Flott's inspiration for her solo exhibition Exposure Therapy, on view at Figure Ground Gallery May 5–30th. In conversation with Méxcal, Flott shares her influences and links her work into larger social narratives around the gaze, identity performance, disability/disfigurement, and art as healing.
12:30–1:30 PM PST on Saturday, May 21st.
Free with registration. Register for the in-person event HERE. Stream online HERE.
12:30–1:30 PM PST on Saturday, May 21st.
Free with registration. Register for the in-person event HERE. Stream online HERE.
APRIL 2022
The Spring Garden at Antonio Salon
by Ashwini Sadekar
"The Spring Garden at Antonio" - A dream project where you will experience Ashwini's geometry of nature in a playful color choreography in the elegant Antonio Salon! See and purchase artwork from the show HERE. This is a fundraiser art event: 20% of the proceeds from the show will go to Pike Market Food Bank.
April 4 – May 30, 2022
Opening Reception: May 13 @ 7 PM
Antonio Salon, Seattle, WA
MARCH 2022
Exposure Therapy, a solo exhibition
by Grace Athena Flott
"This work is an exploration of my personal identity within larger narratives of voyeurism and performance. The paintings are acts of vulnerability, for me and for the subjects... Exposure - a leaving open without defense - as part of an intentional performance can create the potential for healing... Ultimately I hope to extend dignity to my subjects by returning their agency and autonomy. Such agency does not disallow the pleasure we may take in looking. Rather, some subjects might revel in it."
May 5 through May 30, 2022
Figure Ground Gallery
Seattle, WA
Image: Grace Flott - Resting Place, Oil on panel, 12x12 in.
MARCH 2022
Join us at the 2022 Gage Spring Art Auction & Gala!
The Gage Academy of Art Board of Trustees and Staff welcomes you to join us at the 2022 Spring Art Auction & Gala. An immersive in-person and online experience, expect to be transported into a world of beautiful bubbles, captivating visuals, and art that will take you out of your bubble and into an event that you won't forget. The event features an online & in-person auction of artworks and experiences by local artists and community members.
Date: April 23rd
Location: Fremont Studios
GET TICKETS
OCTOBER 2021
Join Willow Heath for a free & SPOOKY Art-to-go!
Draw and paint a beautiful plump autumn pumpkin with watercolor artist, storyteller, and illustrator Willow Heath. Learn about Willow's upcoming cookbook featuring 80 cozy soup recipes and over 30 full color food illustrations, and hear the amazing story of how author Caroline Wright and artist Willow Heath came to create two books together. Willow will also share Caroline's delicious Jamaican Pumpkin and Red Pea soup recipe.
Date: October 29th
Time: 12 -1:30p
REGISTER FREE
OCTOBER 2021
Join Jamie Rawding for her October Exhibition "RECONSTRUCTION"
RECONSTRUCTION will feature at least 20 works by Rawding including oil paintings as well as digital photo encaustic portraits. This is a series of partial-body portraits of women whose breast reconstruction after surgery for cancer included chest tattoos. The tattoos are like a balm, a comfort in that they promote healing. Learn more about Jamie and the exhibition HERE!
Image: Jamie Rawding - Kim E., Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.
