In Luminous Rhythms, opening November 5, 2020 at ArtXchange Gallery, Vashon Island-based print artist Joan Wortis combines line, light, and visual rhythm to create ethereal monotype collages. Wortis guides delicate sheets of translucent paper through her printing press with a variety of experimental materials and inks, creating unique textures and linear surfaces. She then layers…
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…
June Sekiguchi shares words of encouragement and hope for getting through this historic moment on the Community Voices Series, a public art project hosted by the Future Ancient in collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Office of Arts. This series showcases local API artists’ and cultural workers’ perspectives on this time of unprecedented…
ArtXchange Gallery artist Lauren Iida on the PBS “American Portrait” national storytelling project
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…
Thank you to The Stranger art critics for highlighting our dual exhibitions, “Due Belle Voci” by Deborah Kapoor and “32 Aspects of Daily Life” as part of the Seattle Deconstructed Art ! Check out their guide to the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair.
ArtXchange Gallery is pleased to participate in the new Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair. In an innovative show of collective effort, a group of over 40 Seattle art galleries, nonprofits and art institutions have come together to reconstruct the traditional art fair with a community-led effort.
ArtXchange Gallery presents, Due Belle Voci, a new exhibition of encaustic and mixed-media sculpture by Deborah Kapoor.
ArtXchange Gallery is proud to present 32 Aspects of Daily Life, a new series of mixed-media, paper cut-away portraits by Lauren Iida. In this exhibition, Iida pays homage to a series of the same name, created in the 1880s by Japanese woodblock artist, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). Utilizing watercolor and ink, alongside her distinct paper cut-away technique, Iida depicts female-identifying people that she has connected with during her daily life.