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 Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, a new series of intricate paper cutaways by Lauren Iida incorporating historical scenes from the unjust incarceration of 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the USA during World War II. With the assistance from Seattle-based organization, Densho, Iida was able to dive deeper into her own family’s history and create a narrative…
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…