The first thing that often strikes viewers of artwork by Joan Wortis is her impeccable sense of compositional balance, as well as her unusual and striking color choices. It is no surprise to learn that her extensive creative background includes time spent as a dancer and choreographer, as well as professional work as a designer…
ArtXchange Gallery is pleased to announce our partnership with Seattle Public Theater, at the Bathhouse Theater on Greenlake. Throughout their 2016/2017 season, ArtXchange Gallery will be curating collections of artwork in the lobby that will reflect and enhance each production. “We admire and support SPT’s commitment to community dialogue and integrating the arts into daily…
Humaira Abid’s ‘Self Portrait’ speaks bluntly about gender inequality By Michael Upchurch, in the Seattle Times “Exquisite craft and barbed wit blend perfectly in the work of Humaira Abid. Her medium is wood. Her focus is on social inequities. Her feelings, particularly, about the roles that women are expected to play in her native Pakistan…
Pacific Northwest artist Elaine Hanowell has been perfecting her lighted sculptures of fish since 1986. After a large commission in 1989 by Tom Douglas for his restaurant, the Dahlia Lounge, Hanowell’s lighted fish became a signature style of the restaurant and her work. 30 years later, her work is now in homes and public collections…
Read “Dialogue of the Unsent,” an article about Deborah Kapoor in Surface Design Journal.
The Dreaming, or ‘Tjukurrpa’, also means to ‘see and understand the law’ as it is translated from the Arrernte language (Frank Gillen with Baldwin Spencer, translating an Arrernte word Altyerrenge). Dreaming stories pass on important knowledge, cultural values and belief systems to later generations. Through song, dance, painting and storytelling which express the dreaming stories,…
Stacked Tetradecagons (14 sided polyhedrons) were made in honor of Sekiguchi’s father, a mathematician who favored geometry as the most elegant form of math. In the original installation after her father passed, she made 12 sets of the tetradecagons for a total of 168 panels, an auspicious number in Chinese numerology. Each set had a…
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