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March- Gallery Presentation

This March, Join us at our Kirkland art gallery for a presentation exploring harmony through structure and spontaneity. Sijae Byun’s layered silk paintings merge nature and architecture into dreamlike landscapes. Lezlie Jane’s Painted Paper series evolves intuitively, each piece finding balance through layering. Guest artist Kalina Winska’s Atmospheric Gaze series translates vast environmental shifts into intimate, human-scale works. Ceramicist Anne Lindsay’s Cut Top Vases and Wild Ones series bring a joyful, fluidity to form. Together, these artists offer a compelling dialogue on transformation and equilibrium. 

Gallery Night Saturday 15th

 

February- Gallery Presentation

This February, join us at our Kirkland art gallery for a dynamic presentation featuring four artists whose distinct styles and mediums explore form, process, and perception in compelling ways. Together, these artists present a compelling study of structure, movement, and transformation. Blake Carter’s All of Us series captures the essence of human connection through expressive scribble sketches, distilling well-known figures and everyday people into raw, layered impressions. Similarly, Kimberly Balla’s Conciseness and Recurrence series immerses viewers in a world of alchemical transformation, where her process-driven works freeze organic movement in time, mirroring the cyclical patterns of nature and existence.

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Dan Good’s Polycurve series of sculptural forms through the precision of 3D printing, merging digital fabrication with organic curvature to create fluid, futuristic works. Marc Ross’ Luminous Meditations series explores the interplay of light, color, and atmosphere, inviting introspection through radiant layers of pigment. Each artist brings a unique lens to materiality and expression, offering viewers a multi-faceted exploration of art’s ability to capture both tangible and ephemeral moments.

Gallery Night Saturday 22nd

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January- Rainbow Ramble

This January join us at our Kirkland art gallery for an exploration of art’s dynamic intersections with Flower & A New Day by Adrian Pacheco and the Seattle Design Nerds’ light installation, Rainbow Ramble. Together, these works transform our gallery into a space where light and digital innovation converge to inspire introspection and joy.

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Adrian Pacheco: Flower & A New Day
Adrian Pacheco’s hybrid creation merges the tactile and digital realms, inviting viewers to reconsider the evolving landscape of art in public spaces. Hand-shaped wooden cutouts act as portals to an augmented reality (AR) experience, accessed by scanning QR codes. This interaction brings the pieces to life with vibrant animations, immersing viewers in a dynamic dialogue between physical and virtual worlds. Part of Adrian’s ongoing exploration of location-based AR, this work imagines a future where AR seamlessly integrates into daily life, enriching our understanding of space and art’s possibilities.

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Seattle Design Nerds: Rainbow Ramble
Winter brings a palette of rain, gray skies, and occasional snow. Yet within this seasonal starkness lies the promise of rainbows—fleeting moments of hope and color. Rainbow Ramble, a sweeping light installation, captures this duality, juxtaposing the gloom of winter with bursts of radiance. Its interplay of structure and light evokes resilience and renewal, reminding us that beauty often emerges from life’s stormiest moments.

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Together, Pacheco’s digital portals and the Seattle Design Nerds’ luminous expanse create an environment that celebrates transformation and discovery. These works reflect our ability to find moments of brightness and connection. We invite you to experience this inspiring convergence of innovation, light, and creativity this January.

Gallery Night Friday 17th

 

Dec- wərd·klā: Lois Harbaugh

Lois Harbaugh is a maker of vessels in every sense of the word. Like a collage artist or builder, she assembles her forms from an eclectic toolbox of techniques: wheel-throwing, hand-building, slip casting, press molding, extruding, and even the delightfully low-tech cardboard “drop mold.” These diverse approaches allow her to construct shapes that are as inventive as they are evocative.

 

For Lois, vessels transcend their functional origins. They are symbols—iconic shapes with boundless potential to carry not just objects, but also meaning. Whether expressing a narrative or indulging in playful word associations, her work thrives on a verbal undercurrent, where form meets language and sparks fly.

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The vessel has become Lois’ voice, a medium through which she shapes not only clay but also ideas. Her work invites us to consider what a vessel holds—physically, conceptually, and emotionally—making each piece a story, a question, or a clever turn of phrase in its own right. For Lois, joy is not just in making; it’s in making meaning.

Gallery Night Thursday 12th

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November- Gallery Presentation

This November, join us at our Kirkland art gallery to experience a collection of works exploring form and thought. Dan Good’s 3D-printed Polycurve Series presents abstract sculptures that juxtapose seemingly simple shapes with complex configurations, creating a balance between simplicity and intricacy. Marble sculptor Evgeniya Plotnikova channels her creative energy into captivating forms, embracing the material’s natural beauty and timeless strength. Through each sculpture, she explores her fascination with the creative force inherent in marble itself.

 

Complementing the sculptural works, we feature Amanda Hood’s abstracts, which capture light and atmosphere in ethereal compositions. And, Jeanette Jones’s paintings delve into themes of self-reflection, bringing an intimate look into the journey of inner thought, while Joan Stuart Ross’ art celebrates color dynamics and layered visual meaning. Each piece from Ross bursts with a sense of joy and complexity. Join us this month for a presentation where artistic expressions of form, material, and reflection converge.

Gallery Night Saturday 9th

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October- RECALL: Sijae Byun

Recall from Aritst Sijae Byun relates the seed, plant, and star with reality, imagination, and fantasy. This is a story of particles traveling between sky and land. The particles transform into seeds, plants and stars during travel. In the process of transformation, these are mixing, waving, moving, vibrating, creating rhythm and patterns. These forms are recalled memories from the atmosphere, colors, senses and times.

 

Sijae Byun is focused on layered silk paintings using ink, acrylic, pigment, and oil. Using layered silk is the layered of time for her. Overlapping Transparent silk obscures and shows the image in memories.

 

Her work has been shown in Korea, the United States, and Singapore. In the past few years, her work has been shown in Singapore, Chan-Hori Contemporary, Korean Cultural Center (Korean Embassy) in Washington DC, and at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea. her work was also at Scope, Miami and the LA Art Show. These past several years she had success with her paintings, having won several awards including the Emerging Artist prize winner from The Phillips Collection, the Bethesda Painting Award Finalist and the 2017 UOB Silver Prize award. The Raffles hotel in Singapore, United Overseas Bank (UOB), and The Philips Collection all acquired one of her paintings into their collection.

Gallery Night Friday 18th