ArtXchange Gallery is currently accepting submissions for an October/November group exhibition exploring the perpetuation of one’s cultural heritage in today’s globalized, post-modern society. How do artists express the intersecting elements of their identity, from DNA to familial tradition to contemporary daily life? How do individuals who are immigrants and/or diasporic children claim and preserve their…
Matsuba – Giant Cut Paper (2012) 20’ x 6’3” Hand-cut paper $800 The natural world and serendipitous circumstances come into play for Matsuba (pine needles in Japanese). A giant roll of paper was given to the artist when she was working on a project of hand knotted twine that mimicked pine needles. She used that…
ArtXchange Gallery is proud to announce that we are a 2016 Friends of Folklife Program Partner! ArtXchange Gallery is an intercultural art space that brings the community together to experience artwork, learn, and be inspired by diverse local and international artists. Northwest Folklife, well known for the annual Northwest Folklife Festival every summer, creates opportunities…
The Namaste Story and how it led ArtXchange Gallery Director Cora Edmonds to found the non-profit Namaste Children’s Fund has always been part of the foundation of ArtXchange’s charitable endeavors. A portion of the proceeds from Cora Edmonds’ photography is donated annually to NCF to support various projects. In 2010, NCF was able to build…
The Sense Us 2010 exhibit generated an amazing amount of press, community interest, and discussion in our Seattle community. Thank you to everyone who supported this timely exhibition. Thank you to our partner La Sala, a collective formed to coalesce and mobilize the growing Latino-Hispanic arts community of the Seattle/Bellevue and surrounding districts – we…
April 15 – June 14Opening & Artist Reception: April 22, 4-6pm Featuring MalPina Chan, Carina A. del Rosario, Jonathan Wakuda Fischer, Deborah Kapoor, Chiyo Sanada with Barbara McConkey, William Song, Joseph Songco, Arun Sharma, June Sekiguchi, Barry Wong, Dean Wong, Frederic Wong, and Mia Yoshihara-Bradshaw Heritage, identity, history, memory, coexistence, and freedom – these are…
“!Sense Us!” group show at Seattle’s ArtXchange, includes Latino and Latina painters and photographers whose work ranges from photorealism to shadowy abstraction.
The punning title of “!Sense Us!” — ArtXchange and La Sala’s new group show — refers to the upcoming 2010 census and the need for Latino and Latina artists to register their presence in our local arts scene.
But the show itself, far from presenting a unified voice, has a 10-fold resonance. The quality of the work generally is high. Preferences for one artist over another will depend entirely on whether your taste inclines toward reportage or reverie, the colorful or the somber, the mysterious or the whimsical.
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