ArtX Contemporary, located in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, is a space where art crosses borders — geographic, cultural, and conceptual. For thirty years, the gallery has championed artists who challenge dominant narratives, open conversations, and illuminate shared humanity through their work.Celebrating three decades of global art and cultural exchange, ArtX Contemporary presents 30 Years, 1000 Stories,…
Drawn from everyday moments along Kyoto’s Kamo River, Alan Lau’s abstract paintings pulse with birdsong, music, and the shifting energy of the city, expressed through layered ink, watercolor, and pastel on Japanese rice paper.
ArtXchange Gallery presents Elemental Gestures, featuring Caryn Friedlander and Alan Lau, two established Pacific Northwest artists who create dynamic abstractions through experimentation with brush and line.
View Alan Lau’s painting in the current exhibition “Painting Deconstructed: Selections from the Northwest Collection”
ArtXchange Gallery presents Works on Paper, a group exhibition celebrating the wide-ranging possibilities of one of the world’s most accessible art materials. Featured in this exhibition is the work of gallery artists Alan Lau, Gilchun Koh, Donald Cole, Jiyoung Chung, and Elaine Hanowell, who each bring their own distinct sensibility to the idea of “work…
Opening September 3, 2020, quieter days, by painter and poet Alan Lau, showcases a master artist’s reflections on solitude and remembrance. This new series of abstract paintings on paper weaves ink, paint, and pastel into layered, rhythmic patterns. Like a jazz musician, Lau’s compositions are often impromptu dances with a brush. These elegant abstractions are…
By Alan Lau, 2020 Most of the studios I have inhabited in this city have been “glorified closets” that fit my dwindling pocket book more than being ideal choices. And I’ve moved whenever the rent tripled or before the impending doom of a wrecking ball cleared the block for more condos or new, skinny townhouses….
Opening September 3, 2020, quieter days, by painter and poet Alan Lau, showcases a master artist’s reflections on solitude and remembrance. This new series of abstract paintings on paper weaves ink, paint, and pastel into layered, rhythmic patterns. Like a jazz musician, Lau’s compositions are often impromptu dances with a brush. These elegant abstractions are…
If you’re feeling some inter-holiday gloom, your eyes will appreciate the lightness, exuberance, energy, peace, and mystery of these creators’ new pieces.
As the circle of one year closes and the next one begins, ArtXchange Gallery presents a diverse selection of new works by gallery artists showcasing growth, change and experimentation.