ArtX Contemporary

✨🎨 Art & Culture Week: Cultural Connections Happy Hour 🥂✨
Join us at the gallery this Friday (September 13) 4-6pm for a happy hour with poetry and music!

Artist and writer Alan Lau will perform original poetry accompanied by jazz saxophonist Bob Antolin. Then enjoy an intimate performance on Lute & Guitar by renowned musician August Denhard.

We are proud to be participating in the inaugural Art & Culture Week, an event-driven celebration of Seattle’s visual arts, performing arts, and cultural communities! Learn about other events happening around the city:

View the full event info on our website:
https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-cultural-connections-happy-hour

"Imagining" by Joan Wortis
Monotype collage on panel (framed)
29.5 x 22.5 in

In her work, Vashon artist Joan Wortis draws inspiration from found materials, finding beauty in the elegant lines of calligraphy from antique books or the unique texture of textile remnants. With a keen eye for design and a playful spirit, Wortis transforms these 'found forms' into visual artworks, exploring how different qualities of line become imbued with meaning.

View more of Wortis's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/joan-wortis

You can find Juan Alonso Studio's work and support ARTE NOIR in their upcoming auction! Click the link below

Want to bid on the work I donated to the ARTE NOIR fundraising auction? Follow this link: https://event.auctria.com/87dffa80-a732-4f8d-88c7-b359301c6435/a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa5?2bd25550ec3411e98fdeb3a273cf08d8%2FselectedItem=71c9818f-5684-42f7-a7a0-1a9facd5093d

Make sure you see June Sekiguchi's work during the Art Walk in "CLUSTER: From Stockholm to Seattle" at Stephanie Hargrave Studio!

✨ Opening First Thursday, Sept.5, 5-8pm
🎨 Open Studio and Artist Talk Second Saturday, September 14, Noon-4pm
📍 Address: Stephanie Hargrave Studio, 306 S. Washington St, #104, Seattle 98101

Opening Thursday! Chris Maynard Solo Exhibition - https://mailchi.mp/08419bb22cea/upcoming-events-jeremy-g-bell-17877994

✨ September 5th, 5-8pm ✨ Join us Thursday evening for the opening of Chris Maynard's solo exhibition "From Flight to Form: Hand-Carved Feathers"! The artist will present an informal artist talk to walk guests through the exhibition at 6 PM.

Maynard celebrates the patterns and colors of birds’ feathers by hand-carving and assembling them into detailed sculptures. In this exhibition, Maynard debuts a new large-scale installation alongside framed pieces, inviting viewers to appreciate the intricacies of the natural world.

🖼 Artwork Details:
Chickadee Pickup Sticks" by Chris Maynard ()
Hand-cut Crowned Crane secondary wing feathers
23 x 23 in

📍 Learn more about the exhibition on our website https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-chris-maynard-from-flight-to-form-hand-carved-feathers

🖼 "Sargasso Sea" by Caryn Friedlander
Oil on canvas (triptych)
72 x 90 inches

🖌 "I find it mysterious and wonderful that a single line can be filled with so much emotive potential," says Bellingham artist Caryn Friedlander. Friedlander applies oil paint in thin layers, building up color, structure, and texture to find direction as each painting develops. She uses small brushes to build a painting from a multitude of brushstrokes, which slows her work so she has time to observe a painting’s development.

🎨 Born in New York City, Friedlander earned her MA in Japanese art history (University of Washington, 1987), and an MFA in painting and drawing (University of Washington, 1991). Along with her studio work, Friedlander taught drawing and painting at Whatcom Community College (Bellingham, WA) from 1992 until 2015, when she retired from teaching to focus solely on her studio work.

View more of Friedlander's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/caryn-friedlander

✨🎨 Art & Culture Week: Cultural Connections Happy Hour 🥂✨
Join us at the gallery on Friday, September 13th, 4-6pm for a happy hour with poetry and music!

Artist and writer Alan Lau will perform original poetry accompanied by jazz saxophonist Bob Antolin. Then enjoy an intimate performance on Lute & Guitar by renowned musician August Denhard.

We are proud to be participating in the inaugural Art & Culture Week, an event-driven celebration of Seattle’s visual arts, performing arts, and cultural communities! Learn about other events happening around the city:

View the full event details here: Cultural Connections Happy Hour! Alan Lau, Bob Antolin, August Denhard

🖼 "Sampad (A Falling Together)" by Donald Cole
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 50 in

🎨 For Vashon Island artist Donald Cole "the appearance and the content of my work comes from several sources: the joy of painting and creating, and my own social, psychological and ethical responses to the world as I live and view it." Inspired by the angular forms of Sanskrit and the rounder forms of Malayalam (the language of Kerala) that he saw while traveling through India, Cole created texts of his own design. In this painting, Cole has created shapes that mimic language, but whose meanings lie somewhere in the emotive qualities of the painting itself.

View more of Cole's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/donald-cole

"From Flight to Form: Hand-Carved Feathers" by Chris Maynard ()
September 5 - October 12, 2024

🕊 ArtX Contemporary is proud to announce our first solo exhibition featuring Chris Maynard! Maynard celebrates the patterns and colors of birds’ feathers by hand-carving and assembling them into detailed sculptures. In this exhibition, Maynard debuts a new large-scale installation alongside framed pieces, inviting viewers to appreciate the intricacies of the natural world.

🥂 Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, September 5th 5-8pm! The artist will present an informal artist talk to walk guests through the exhibition at 6 PM.
📍 Learn more about the exhibition on our website https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-chris-maynard-from-flight-to-form-hand-carved-feathers

Chris Maynard, "From Flight to Form: Hand-Carved Feathers" - https://mailchi.mp/5ae30cdb9b38/upcoming-events-jeremy-g-bell-17877570

🖼 "Grey Shift No. 3" by William Song
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 in

🎨 William Song’s passion for painting emerges from the unusual arc of his life in seemingly divergent realms. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Song became a nationally recognized lawyer, but a rare medical condition forced a shift in his life. Song’s journey toward healing lead him to re-focus on his lifelong love of painting and he began exploring the ways that his art could affect environments and the people within them. Grounded in research about the capacity of visual information to effect change in the mind and body, Song's paintings are energetic portals attuned to express connection, contemplation, spontaneity, and freedom.

View more of Song's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/william-song

SOLD 🔴 All of these pieces are about to go off to their new homes or are already on the way!

🖼 Juan Alonso-Rodríguez’s "WATER/EARTH/SKY" has evolved over the summer with several pieces added as others went off to new homes, so stop by the gallery this weekend - whether it’s for the first time or one last time - before it ends.

📍 Visit the gallery Friday & Saturday, 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
🖇 View the exhibition online at artxcontemporary.com

🖼 "The Impermanence of Life: Bauhinia Leaf VI" by Tiao Nithakhong Somsanith
Gold, silver and copper hand-embroidered leaf
3.25 x 2.5 inches

✨ As a child of royal lineage in 1960’s Luang Prabang, Laos, Somsanith grew up surrounded by courtly arts. He watched his grandmother and mother patiently practice the aristocratic art of embroidery with metal threads, making traditional triangular pillows, royal sashes and sabai, jackets, collars and dowry pieces. Exiled in France in the 1980’s, Somsanith returned to Laos in 2005 where he now devotes his time to art and education programs for the community with the mission to preserve, promote, and transmit the cultural heritage of Laos.

View Somsanith's work at the gallery and online:
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/tiao-nithakhong-somsanith

✨ WATER/EARTH/SKY by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez ✨
On view through August 24, the exhibition brings together Juan Alonso-Rodríguez’s beloved series, “Strata” and “Horizon.” With textural works on panel and minimalist color-field paintings on canvas, the artist pays homage to the PNW landscapes and Cuban vistas that have influenced his artistic journey. Be sure to stop by the gallery before it closes!

📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

🖼 "Sediment" by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez
Acrylic & moulding paste on wood panel
40 x 40 x 2 inches

There's one week left to see Juan Alonso Studio's solo exhibition WATER/EARTH/SKY! Visit the gallery or our website to view the show before it closes.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

"Cambrian" & "Ordovician" by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez ()
Acrylic on Arches paper
43.5 x 29.5 inches framed

Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a Cuban-born, self-taught artist whose transition from music to visual arts coincided with his move to Seattle in 1982. Working in a variety of visual mediums, Alonso-Rodríguez’s work is an ongoing exploration of abstraction inspired by landscapes, botanical forms, architecture, and his Caribbean upbringing.

View Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's solo exhibition WATER/EARTH/SKY online and at the gallery through August 24:
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

🖼 "Sandhills 1710" by Abie Loy Kemarre
Acrylic on linen
48 x 48 x 2 in

🎨 Abie Loy Kemarre (b. 1972) is a significant contemporary Central Australia artist, and a third generation Utopia painter who comes from an outstanding painting family. Abie started painting in 1994 under the guidance of her grandmother, renowned artist Kathleen Petyarre. Abie's paintings show the detailed designs of her stories using fine dot-work and contemporary designs.

View more of Abie's work on our website and at the gallery!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/abie-loy-kemarre

🖼 "22. Thirsty: The Habits of a Phnom Penh Fabric Seller" by Lauren Iida Studio
Hand-cut paper, watercolor and ink
22 x 17 in

🎨 This piece is from Iida's series, "32 Aspects of Daily Life," in which she depicts female-identifying people that she connected with when she lived in Cambodia. In this series, Iida pays homage to a series of the same name, created in the 1880s by Japanese woodblock artist, Tsukioka Yosh*toshi (1839-1892). Much of Iida's work is influenced by Cambodia, where she lived for 13 years; her family's Japanese American heritage and their incarceration during WWII; and her experience becoming a mother.

🖼 Lauren Iida was born in Seattle, Washington and holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. Iida specializes in intricately hand-cut paper, often incorporating watercolor, ink wash and shadow play. Iida's work has been exhibited internationally and at venues throughout the Pacific Northwest, Galerie Lee (Paris), King Street Station (Seattle), the Mayor’s Gallery at Seattle City Hall, and Tacoma Spaceworks.

View more of Iida's work at the gallery and online!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/lauren-iida

"I lived in the Pacific Northwest from 1982 to 2022. With this being my first solo exhibit since I moved away, I wanted to give a nod to the place that gave me the opportunity to begin my life as a visual artist. Though the themes are universal, and the images will be interpreted differently by each viewer, some of the titles are specific to places that inspired me to create." ~ Juan Alonso-Rodríguez

🖼 "Palouse" by Juan Alonso Studio
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
48 x 48 in

👁 View Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's solo exhibition WATER/EARTH/SKY through Saturday, August 24!
https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

🖌 Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a Cuban-born, self-taught artist whose transition from music to visual arts coincided with his move to Seattle in 1982. Working in a variety of visual mediums - from acrylic on unprimed canvas, to modeling paste on panel, to cut steel - Alonso-Rodríguez’s work is an ongoing exploration of abstraction inspired by landscapes, botanical forms, architecture, and his Caribbean upbringing.

View Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's work in his solo exhibition WATER/EARTH/SKY through August 24!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

🖼 "Sage Bronze" by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez
¼” powder-coated steel
18.50 x 14.75 x 4 inches

🖼 "Majesty Untamed" by Jeremy G. Bell
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
36 x 36 inches
🔴 Sold

🎨 Painter Jeremy G. Bell is drawn to portraiture for its power to express the human experience, and the connection and understanding that we can find within it. Using charcoal, acrylic, oil paint, spray paint, ink, wax and more, Bell's work seeks to challenge and reclaim the narrative of what it means to be a Black American.

🖌 Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Jeremy G. Bell holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the University of Tampa and a Master of Fine Arts from Montclair State University. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including the 2019 exhibition “Utopian Blackness” at the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM), and is held in private and public collections, including the City of Seattle and Nelson Mandela Elementary in Omaha, NE.

View Bell's work at the gallery and on our website.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-jeremy-g-bell

🖼 "Contemplate" by Alla Goniodsky
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches

🎨 Alla Goniodsky is a Russian-born stage designer, puppet-maker, painter and sculptor. After studying at the State Academy of Art and the St. Petersburg Theatrical Academy, she enjoyed a successful career as a theatrical designer. Now residing in the Pacific Northwest, she is a full-time artist and private art instructor. Her work blends an antique, almost Victorian sensibility, with hints of dramatic Russian theatre, quirky humor, and the misty aesthetic of memory.

View more of Goniodsky's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/alla-goniodsky

"Whether we look out to the horizon in awe of earth’s grandeur or focus on the most minute particles that have formed our planet over centuries, I hope to bring attention to the fragile, everyday beauty that surrounds us all." ~ Juan Alonso-Rodríguez

🖼 "Paradisum" by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez
Acrylic & moulding paste on wood panel (diptych)
48 x 73 in

View Juan Alonso Studio's work during the Pioneer Square Seattle Art Walk tonight 5-8pm!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez

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August Art Walk, Thurs. 8/1, 5-8pm Join us for the Pioneer Square Art Walk and immerse yourself in Juan Alonso-Rodríguez’s stunning new series; the surface and details of these works must be seen in person! There are also two new paintings on paper that have arrived for the second month of the exhibition.

What are you doing Thursday night? 🌇✨
Join us 5-8pm for the Pioneer Square Art Walk! See new work by Alonso Studio in his solo exhibition WATER/EARTH/SKY, and selected works by Lauren Iida, Jeremy G. Bell, Gilchun Koh, Jiyoung Chung, and Elaine Hanowell

📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/

We had so much fun at the opening of the Seattle Art Fair last night! Stop by our "satellite booth" on your way to the fair to see Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's solo show WATER/EARTH/SKY 😉

📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/

🖼 "Community Series 20" by William Song
Oil and wax on canvas
48 x 30 inches

🎨 William Song’s passion for painting emerges from the unusual arc of his life in seemingly divergent realms. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Song became a nationally recognized lawyer, but a rare medical condition forced a shift in his life. Song’s journey toward healing lead him to re-focus on his lifelong love of painting and he began exploring the ways that his art could affect environments and the people within them. Grounded in research about the capacity of visual information to effect change in the mind and body, Song's paintings are energetic portals attuned to express connection, contemplation, spontaneity, and freedom.

View more of Song's work on our website and at the gallery.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/william-song

Joan Wortis's artwork is influenced by her previous careers as a modern dancer and textile designer in addition to her deep appreciation for global fiber traditions. In many works, Wortis choreographs abstract lines drawn from calligraphy and script, exploring how different qualities of line become imbued with meaning.

🖼 Artwork details:
"Hurried Speech" by Joan Wortis
Monotype collage on panel (framed)
17.25 x 22.5 in

View more about Wortis' work at the gallery and on our website: https://artxcontemporary.com/found-forms-celebrating-a-lifetime-of-art

Thank you to everyone that could join us last week for Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's Opening Reception and Artist Talk!

Juan Alonso Studio's solo exhibition "WATER/EARTH/SKY" will be up through August 24. Visit the gallery 11am-5:30pm Tuesday - Saturday, or visit our website to see it!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-waterearthsky-by-juan-alonso-rodriguez