blue and green spraypainted mural on boarded up gallery windows featuring phoenix and the words Rise Again

Rise Again Mural by Jonathan Wakuda Fischer

“We are like the phoenix… Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.” ~ Pam Muñoz Ryan Thank you so much to Jonathan Wakuda Fischer (Wakuda Studio) for bringing this message of joy and hope to the gallery windows! As difficult as it was to board up our gallery windows during the COVID-19 crisis,…

Jonathan Wakuda Fischer to work on Hirabayashi Place project

ArtXchange artist Jonathan Wakuda Fischer will creating a series of outdoor panels for Hirabayahi Place, a building honoring civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi and the Japanese Americans struggles for justice. More information can be found on their website here, or in Alan Lau’s article for the International Examiner here.

Digital Superstitions reviewed by Jen Graves in The Stranger

Scared? Jonathan Wakuda Fischer’s Shape-Shifting Digital Superstitions by Jen Graves THE OLD PLUM AND THE NEW ROBOT Jonathan Wakuda Fischer’s homage to 16th-century painter Kano Sansetsu. In Digital Superstitions, his newest series, Seattle artist Jonathan Wakuda Fischer responds to the unexplainable with engineering. On one wall of ArtXchange Gallery, there are a handful of simple paintings….