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Mystic Tree
Valerie Washington
36 x 24 x 2
Eggshell Base Enamel and Latex Enamel
Introducing her beautiful messy life; the idea and belief not to let the trajectory of her life be too easy! Untrained, untamed, unscripted, and unapologetically free-flowing into emerging moods and imagination. As a young girl growing up on Long Island, NY Valerie watched her parents, aunts, and uncles enjoying their Sunday afternoon painting socials. A collection of musicians, performing, and visual artist with unique voices announcing their creative urges. Decades and a composite of careers have taken her full-circle to this place in time - she is calling up her ancestors. During the COVID lockdown a familiar yearning surfaced. While reflecting on the pleasures and diversity of her work and life experiences, including lingering scar tissue, she found that creative expressions through paint medium will always assert its demand. Valerie began creating works of art to open hearts and self-soothe; to breathe in the joys of life. Valerie has lived across the United States, resided in the USVI, and traveled abroad. Her supporters and collectors are as wide-ranged and varied as her artistic expressions. Her artworks can" in their lives. Reminds them what is possible and energizes them to inspired action. Driven by a deep-seated belief in the potential of art to effect positive change, Valerie's work is imbued with a sense of purpose and intentionality. Valerie is an emerging talent and through her art, she seeks to evoke emotions and provoke thought, ultimately fostering a greater harmony, understanding, empathy, and unity among humanity.
Value: $1,875.00
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Possibilities - Is It Spring Yet
Sheryl Pickering 24 x 30 x 2 Acrylic on canvas
Nature, wildlife, and the landscapes of the Yakima Valley play a major role in my creative process. To look past the obvious, and discover the unexpected beauty that resides within the tiniest details, and the spaces between. Much of my inspiration is drawn from that which isn't seen, but instead felt, heard and experienced. Each painting is a journey that seeks to capture the emotion contained in a single moment spent in the magic of the natural world
Value: $500.00
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Floating
David Johansson
Acrylic on repurposed formerly printed canvas.
36x24
Long time artist in the northwest since 1981 who’s residencies included Pike lace market, Fremont Market center on contemporary art Cornish university of Sound, Fairhaven college, Seward Park, studio, Don Foster of Foster, White Gallery, (responsible for private collection 89-92), producer and Musician, of experimental and world, music, and many many many more life experiences, which include Broadway market Capitol Hill purveyor of art, Fremont Market, Larson Gallery solo and group exhibits , Murals Harbor freight tools Michigan Street mural project on Harbor Freight Tools 100 foot long wall. Seattle Art museum collection, Fogue Studio and Gallery resident artist, flower, Power paintbrush, Various team building workshops, experiences donated many paintings,to low income housing institute, various auctions, collections local and international.
David Johansson has also donated this experience:
Experience Art Making in the heart of Georgetown, Seattle’s oldest neighborhood. Let David Johansson’s enthusiastic creativity take you on a fun adventure which will include some wine, hors d’oeuvres, and an introduction to his patented Flower Power Paintbrush system, which will be seen on *SHARKTANK, in the near future. This is a one of a kind, making ART happen, event.
I support the belief that art is the main cultural tether that attaches us to the here and now, to the past, and to the future. I will do whatever I can to help promote Art. Be it locally, regionally or internationally.
*David's main objective is to make art. The business side, is not his best attribute, so, until a staff of willing volunteers (at least at first), supports this paintbrush company, he is happy to remain artist first, inventor second.
Value: $1,400.00
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Roslyn Fields 2
Nina O'Neil
24x24x1.5
Oil on canvas
I paint predominately with oils on canvas, often incorporating line drawn with charcoal or china marker. There is a strong emphasis on design and composition within my pieces, a result of my formal education and career in graphic design.
I love to portray narratives through a cast of characters in unexpected contexts, and to create the worlds they inhabit with graphic blocks of color, something now known as Ninaland. I find intrigue in translating traditional landscapes and backgrounds into fractured geometric fields, using color to communicate temperature and mood.
Painting as a form of storytelling is my passion, and ultimately what inspires me to continue studying the masters while guarding the original style that beats within my soul.
Value: $1,450.00
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Trois Poires
Lori Vanderhorst
10"x8"x1.5"
Acrylic on panel
I grew up in a house of stone in northern New Jersey. I landed in Seattle in 1979 and was immediately drawn to the Northwest's mystic landscape; the lush forests and stormy tides. Influenced by my surroundings, my drawings and paintings focus in on the immediate and intimate: feathers, stones and nests; narrative compositions that invite the viewer to imagine the before and after; the moment a feather falls, a stone tumbles or a flower turns to seed.
A self-taught artist, I worked in graphic design for 45 years. Now retired, I spend my days in the studio amid, stones, shells, objects and artifacts collected throughout the years. Whether drawing, painting or creating assemblages, my work is an intimate visual response to experience, emotions and memory.
Value: $425.00
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Chaos Garden
Lisa Berkman
30x40x1.5
Oil on canvas
I work primarily in abstracts - both painting and ceramics. I am always excited to see how odd color combinations can come together and make excitement. Texture is integral to my process, and serves to add an additional layer of interest for my work. Lines and shapes, scribbles and scratches are often part of my work - a seemingly random action, that often is not unplanned at all. I took classes at KAC for many years, and am currently working out of my own studio in Seattle with my dog and my cat.
Value: $1,200.00
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The Departure
Kimberly Balla
36 x 24 inches
Oil, metallic pigment, on panel
I am interested in experimentation in order to get patterns and textures that are unusual to me. Thinking about paint in a chemical way allows me to create these unfamiliar textures. By mixing various painting mediums I have developed a blend of liquids that chemically react with each other to create unique patterns and contours. Over the past ten years of working with my found technique; I have come to know and harness the mysterious process as my own. I use a new approach to the old medium of oil paint; I mix materials from the modern era with the timeless oils of the past. I am entrapped by my alchemical obsession with this magic-like chemical approach, which captures a natural process, freezing it in time. Continually drawn to a process that seems to touch on the endless cycle of nature and existence. The cycle of building and breaking down materials to form textures which eternally exist in the universal reality of nature and consciousness. I focus on these patterns and textures which seem oddly familiar with the intent to create an other worldly intimacy. I strive to create hypnagogic lands of ethereal figures free floating in a space which the viewer can dive into and escape the noise of everyday life. I wish for my work to create a void into a world which seems familiar yet unfamiliar, and encourages the discussion of the micro macro make-up of life and distant realities. An invitation to see the world beyond in wonder.
Value: $2,000.00
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Fading Paradise
Charles Spitzak
7x9
woodcut
Charles Spitzack (b 1987) is a visual artist, educator, and carpenter living and working in the Pacific Northwest USA. Committed to communal aspirations, equality, labor rights, environmentalism, and leveling the playing field – Spitzack has found woodblock printmaking to be an excellent way to express his thoughts and feelings. Drawn to this medium by its practical process, boldness, and direct mark making – he has found freedom within its walls, and aspires to share this with others through education and art sharing.
Working from sketchbook drawings based off everyday experiences, the process of print allows for ideas to be worked and reworked over time, often taking months to materialize as a finished piece. His technique is strongly influenced by Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock), but combines western materials and inks into the process. When not developing his own private practice, he also teaches printmaking to youth and adults in Seattle WA. Designing his classes to be practical and accessible, Spitzack pushes for his students to create and learn by doing, rather than purely focusing on technique. Discovery is within the action of creation.
Value: $650.00
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Until the Light Leaves
Kate Flores
13 3/8" x 13 3/8" x 2"
Oil paint
I grew up in the northwest corner of Indiana, a heavily industrial area between Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana. "I was a dreamy, serious kid with not much access to the worlds of art and poetry. On my kindergarten report card, an astute teacher noted, 'this little girl understands the world through her hands.' I drew a lot through my youth, took as many art classes as I could, then received a B.A. in Fine Art from Indiana University.
In 1982 while applying to MFA programs, I saw Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” at the Chicago Art Institute. I wrote to Ms. Chicago to express my interest in working with her. Six months later I found myself driving across the country to Benicia, CA to begin work as graphics production assistant on her next body of work, The Birth Project.
Since 1983, I’ve had an eclectic professional life as an artist, educator, graphic designer and communications manager. I have shown work in numerous regional exhibitions, and was represented by Monika Gabriel Fine Art in Sonoma, CA. My work is in the collections of Kaiser Health Plan and Hospitals, Providence St. John’s Health, and Vallejo Zen Center.
In 2012, my family and I relocated to the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest where I now dedicate myself full time to studio practice.
Value: $325.00
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Sweet Territory
Kate Flores
13 3/8" x 13 3/8" x 2"
Oil paint
I grew up in the northwest corner of Indiana, a heavily industrial area between Chicago, Illinois and Gary, Indiana. "I was a dreamy, serious kid with not much access to the worlds of art and poetry. On my kindergarten report card, an astute teacher noted, 'this little girl understands the world through her hands.' I drew a lot through my youth, took as many art classes as I could, then received a B.A. in Fine Art from Indiana University.
In 1982 while applying to MFA programs, I saw Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” at the Chicago Art Institute. I wrote to Ms. Chicago to express my interest in working with her. Six months later I found myself driving across the country to Benicia, CA to begin work as graphics production assistant on her next body of work, The Birth Project.
Since 1983, I’ve had an eclectic professional life as an artist, educator, graphic designer and communications manager. I have shown work in numerous regional exhibitions, and was represented by Monika Gabriel Fine Art in Sonoma, CA. My work is in the collections of Kaiser Health Plan and Hospitals, Providence St. John’s Health, and Vallejo Zen Center.
In 2012, my family and I relocated to the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest where I now dedicate myself full time to studio practice.
Value: $325.00
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