WHAT'S HAPPENING
November-Gallery Presentation
This November, join us at our Kirkland gallery for a dynamic exploration of form, color, and material through the works of John Dempcy. Joan Stuart Ross, Laura Viola Preciado, Michelle Williams, and Eric Boyer. Joan Stuart Ross infuses her layered compositions with vibrant color dynamics and a sense of joyful celebration, creating paintings that radiate energy and depth. Laura Viola Preciado delves into the tension between refinement and rawness, allowing paint, ink, and pigment to move and merge naturally, revealing the beauty within imperfection and process. And, John Dempcy’s artistic practice is defined by process. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, his work reflects the rhythms, patterns, and structures found in nature
Complementing these painterly explorations, Michelle Williams’ wall-mounted ceramic sculptures evoke rhythmic gradients of color and texture, transforming spikes and surfaces into meditations on movement and form. Eric Boyer’s wire mesh sculptures, by contrast, capture organic grace in metallic translucence, giving shape to the unseen balance between strength and softness. Together, these four artists weave a conversation between material, gesture, and perception—an invitation to experience the layered beauty of transformation.
Gallery Night Saturday 15th
October-Gallery Presentation
This October, join us at our Kirkland gallery as the gallery features a presentation that reflects on the healing, sustaining, and connective forces of the natural world. Kimberly Balla’s Cure Series brings forward luminous portraits of herbs, each painting infused with the essence of their restorative power. Esther Loopstra’s work expands this exploration, delving into the living structures that hold us together—biological frameworks and energetic pathways that echo the unseen yet essential systems of life.
Sherry Yung Ruden draws from the philosophy of Zì-Rán, or "Nature," embracing rice paper as a delicate yet surprisingly versatile medium. Her work speaks to the interconnectedness of all things, finding balance between fragility and resilience. Guest artist Enid Smith Becker contributes semi-abstracted landscapes inspired by the Pacific Northwest, where ocean, mountain, field, and grassland emerge as both memory and invitation, serving as a bridge between human experience and the environment.
Completing the presentation is a collaborative series by ceramicist David Traylor and photographer James Gill, merging cyanotype nature collages with sculptural ceramic forms. Together, their work captures the imprint of the natural world in tactile and visual harmony.
Gallery Night Saturday 18th
October-The MOD
The first weekend in October join us at our Kirkland Urban for The MOD a contemporary art market. Featuring 25 local artists, including Gallery Artists; Sijae Byun, Raili Janese, maery lanahan and Hannah Seki. The MOD is part of the inaugural year for the Kirkland Umbrella Fringe Festival. Fringe is raw, unfiltered, and immersive—a platform where artists push boundaries, challenge norms, and bring cutting-edge theater, dance, comedy, music, and multimedia art to life. It’s where emerging and established artists alike take creative risks, inviting audiences into worlds of imagination, innovation, and spontaneity.
The MOD Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th
September-Gallery Presentation
This September, join us at our Kirkland gallery, experience a bold mix of energy, rhythm, and play. Mark Fuller’s Endless Beginnings pushes chaos to the edge with unstable panel works, while Jeffrey Glossip’s Structure Series grounds us in color and geometry. Brenda Loukes brings the spirit of live jazz to canvas with her Call and Response series, Jan Koutsky expresses energy through the fast motion of color pencil, and Cara Jung’s ceramics balance rounded, bulbous forms with playful contrast. Finishing with delight, Uckiood’s vibrant sculptures burst with bold shapes, shimmering color and textures. A presentation curated to make you smile.
Gallery Night Saturday 13th
August - Gallery Presentation
This August, join us as our Kirkland gallery presents four contemporary artists whose practices reflect a deep engagement with place, process, and presence. Nino Yuniardi’s Pit Stop series transforms the nostalgia of road trips between Seattle and Pasadena into vivid abstract landscapes. With each canvas, Yuniardi fuses the expansiveness of the West Coast terrain with personal moments of discovery—often culinary—in compositions that celebrate the spontaneity and spirit of travel. Kevin Cosley’s Charged series investigates the unseen. His paintings are meditative studies in perception, tracing invisible systems and natural patterns that silently govern our surroundings. Guest Artist Neha Panicker offers The Shape of Change, a visual journal of transformation. Her work is grounded in mindful creation—acts of making that mirror the journey of self-awareness and spiritual inquiry. Completing the exhibition is Sculptor John Strohbehn, whose direct carving methods in wood and stone serve as a conversation between material and maker. His intuitive forms reflect both the artist’s hand and the natural histories embedded in the medium, resulting in work that feels both timeless and deeply personal. Together, these artists offer a resonant experience, where movement, energy, and introspection converge through modern and abstract expression.
Gallery Night Friday 15th
July- Seattle Art Fair
Seattle Art Fair, a one-of-a-kind showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest, and a leading destination for the best in modern and contemporary art, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center for its ninth edition in July 2025. Working alongside Beneficiary Partner Seattle Art Museum, Artistic Director Nato Thompson, and the fair’s dedicated Host Committee, the Seattle Art Fair, founded by the late Paul G. Allen, is a celebrated and productive week bringing together the region’s strong collector base, the Pacific Northwest’s top museums and institutions, and an array of innovative public programming. Join us at Booth # B-16. Featuring works by; Kimberly Balla, Sijae Byun, Blake Carter, Kevin Cosley, Heather Martindale, David Traylor, Uckiood and Michelle Williams.
Seattle Art Fair July 17-20th
July- Visual Impressions
Art, in its infinite forms, often emerges from vastly different origins, each piece from a distinct context, material, and impulse. In this exhibition, we embrace the dissonance and diversity of seemingly unrelated artworks to reveal the desire to make meaning.
This year’s Visual Impressions show brings together pieces that, at first glance, resist cohesion. These works span geographies, styles, and temporalities—but their juxtaposition is deliberate. Rather than seeking harmony through similarity, each work acts as a fragment of a larger conversation—one about memory, material, perception, or transformation.
This curatorial approach is not about resolving differences but celebrating it. The beauty of these artworks lies in their independence—and yet, when viewed in dialogue, they offer surprising resonances.
The result is a show that does not dictate a message -Curator Hannah Seki
Gallery Night Thursday 10th
June- Gallery Presentation
This June, join us as our Kirkland gallery presents four artists whose work explores the complex interplay between internal and external worlds. Lezlie Jane’s Painted Pieces of Paper series invites viewers into the quieter, contemplative spaces of the self. Her painted collage works act as portals, bridging the tangible with the introspective, creating an experience that feels both personal and universal. Elissa Voland’s abstract compositions embrace the tension of shifting elements, resolving chaos into unity. Her art reflects an adventurous approach to abstraction, allowing each piece to evolve organically—like solving a puzzle whose pieces are constantly in flux.
Guest artist Kalina Winska presents speculative landscapes on canvas, wood panels, and paper, where she blurs the lines between reality and its technological echoes. Drawing inspiration from weather patterns, climate models, and virtual realms, Winska’s work offers a vision of our world where nature and technology merge into new forms of representation. Sculptor Dan Freeman’s installation, Bullet Proof First Grader with Botanicals, provides a powerful commentary on gun violence in schools. His poignant juxtaposition of a protective case and backpack with organic materials confronts the unsettling normalcy of violence in spaces meant to be safe, challenging us to reflect on the innocence lost and the urgent need for change. Together, these artists invite us to pause, reflect, and question the world around us.
Gallery Night Friday 20th
May- Geometrica: JW Harrington
This May, join us at our Kirkland art gallery for Geometrica by JW Harrington. Geometric abstraction forms the basis of many of JW Harrington’s compositions. Geometric shapes interact with plain or carefully mottled backgrounds. Their relative slopes, colors, and heft imply movement or stasis, balance or imbalance, and even power
relationships.
Harrington is especially inspired by non-objective “Suprematism” championed by Kazimir Malevich and his contemporaries in pre-Revolutionary Russia, and generally inspired by 20th -century hard-edge and color-field paintings.
Color, in each of its dimensions, is vitally important – even in its absence. Harrington doesn’t rely on any generalized characterization of colors. Rather, he relies on the juxtaposition of colors and values to convey potential impact. “Any color rendered in paint
seems ‘warm’ to me, because of the lusciousness of solidly applied paint.”
Enjoy the lines, bars, rectangles, triangles, circles, and arcs cavorting on color-filled -- or color-less -- grounds. Inspired by Albers, Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian, these compositions maximize viewers' ability to decide what the image and interactions mean to
them.
Gallery Night Saturday 31st
April- Gallery Presentation
This April, join us at our Kirkland art gallery for an exhibition exploring transformation, emotion, and the ephemeral nature of experience through the works of five artists. Hannah Seki’s Mapped Dreams Series navigates the evolving journey of self-identity and discovery, where forms mimic the shifting landscape of personal growth. Kimberly Balla, captivated by an alchemical approach to materials, freezes natural processes in time, revealing the beauty within chemical reactions and the unexpected magic they create. maëry lanahan’s Oscillate Series translates emotions and psychological exchanges into non-representational color and form, inviting viewers to experience the unseen forces.
Complementing these introspective works, sculptor Anne Lindsay breathes life into steel wire mesh, shaping spontaneous and organic forms that emerge as if conjured from the subconscious. Guest Artist Angela Navarro brings a refreshing perspective thematically inspired by the quotidian. Together, these artists weave a narrative of perception and artistic alchemy, transforming material and meaning.
Gallery Night Saturday 5th
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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