celebrate ART
A H UGE THA N K YOU TO A L L O F OU R WON DERF UL A R TISTS !
T RACEY A DA M S
M A RIA N N E KOL B
SUZ Y B A RNA RD
JIM K RA F T
MAR K B E C K
F RED LISA IUS
B I L L B RAU N
PATRICK LOCICERO
PAUL B R I G H A M RACHEL BRUM E R P HO EB E BRU N N E R SUZ I E BUC H H O L Z A L L EN C OX I SA B EL L E DU TO I T SUSA N F RE DA
LYN DA LOWE JOS EPH M A RUS K A K AURO M A NS OUR K ATIE M ET Z STEPHEN PEN TA K RICHA RD ROYA L A N N E S IEM S
DAVI D F RE NC H
K EL LIE TA LB OT
JOYCE GE H L
A L ICIA TORM EY
T YS O N G RUM M R O B I N & JO H N GUM A E L I US K A R EN H AC K E N BE RG J D H A NS E N
LIZ TRA N TERRY TURRELL TA L WA LTON DELOSS WEB B ER
I V Y JAC O BS E N
Z . Z . WEI
K AT HY JO N E S
L E S LIE WU
S HER RY K A RV E R
K ENSUK E YA M A DA
C E L E B R AT I N G 2 8 Y E A R S
Patricia Rovzar Gallery is honored to present Celebrate Art. This year the gallery celebrates its 28th anniversary and while 2020 has proven to be one of our most interesting journeys to date, we have adapted and are looking forward to celebrating with each of you. Celebrate Art features new work from over 30 of our gallery artists and work for the exhibition focuses on a wide range of subject matter and composition from figurative and abstract to landscape and still life. The many mediums include oil, acrylic, encaustic, mixed media with collage, photography with mixed media, ceramic, woven fiber on stone and hand-carved wood. While our lives continue to be altered by the chaos, PRG believes the power and healing aspects of art to be more important than ever and to that, we are proud to continue our Celebrate Art tradition with each of you.
TRACEY ADAMS
Whether working in collage, monotype or painting, for Tracey Adams it is all about the process. She has dedicated over 34 years honing her skills working in different media, and yet her unique marks and gestures are essential elements that distinguish her work. She is influenced mostly by geometry in respect to structures such as music or natural sci ences, and seeks to discover the hidden patterns and divine order that organize nature, despite its seemingly random or accidental beauty. Her current work uses a random and not-so-obviou s grid, creating an ambi guity between figure and ground. These are the first attempts at experimenting with possible outcomes from integrating the serial and inde terminate, and geometric with organic.
Originally trained as a musician, Adams completed her master’s degree at the New Eng land Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1980. Concurrently, she studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has exhibited at the Andy Warhol Mu seum in Medzilaborce, and her work is included in the collections of the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Crocker Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
Tracey Adams Shifting Perspective collage, charcoal, encaustic and ink on panel 14 x 11 in. $1,500.00
Tracey Adams Welcoming the Unwelcome collage, charcoal, encaustic and ink on panel 14 x 11 in. $1,500.00
SUZY BARNARD
Suzy Barnard does not have to search far for her inspiration. Providing ample opportunity for exploration and a constant supply of inspiration, her studio is located off Pier 70 in San Francisco and just out her window is a panoramic view of the bay. Her paintings are informed by t he endlessly changing weather, its dramatic light, and the constant parade of cargo ships in the vast harbor. Hundreds of ships have passed by her windows. Quite fa miliar with all the ways they can appear and disappear, Barnard imagines that her process of mixing and layering paints is akin to playing with particles of water and air, traveling in her mind’s eye between sea, sky, and shore, completely immersed in colorscape.
Born in England, Suzy Barnard earned her BFA (Painting) in 1980 from Bristol Polyte chnic and moved to the Bay Area in 1981. She obtained her MFA at the San Francisco Art Insti tute in 1984 and has been exhibiting steadily since that time. Her works can be found in many private, and public collections, including the Federal Maritime Commission, Wash ington DC; Zuckerberg General Hospital, San Francisco; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation; Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco; The County of Alameda; the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School West; the City of Lafayette.
Suzy Barnard Brisk oil on panel 36 x 72 in. $9,000.00
Suzy Barnard Velvet Morning oil on panel 44 x 60 in. $9,000.00
Suzy Barnard Verity oil on panel 38 x 44 in. $6,200.00
MARK BECK
Mark Beck’s paintings are rich in artistic tradition and often rely on landscape genre to reveal their narrative. A common thread in many of Beck’s paintings is the inclusion of small, simple structures often juxtaposed against the beauty (and sometimes fury) of the sea. He describes his paintings as representations of his ideas and thoughts on the Ameri can experience and although nature features prominently in his work, his art is very much about human interaction with the natural world. Beck’s work is inspired also by the more sober Hopper and Ben Shahn. in the methods he uses
by the beautiful works of the Hudson River School of painters and visions of American life as presented by work from artists Edward Beauty is important to Beck, both in the materials he selects and in applying the paint.
Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Beck studied at the Portland School of Art in Maine . For four years, Beck worked teaching inmates to paint at the maximum security prison The California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. “I’ve always credited that experience with be ing a continuing and fascinating source of inspiration for my paintings,” said Beck. “Many aspects of the prison system and the people incarcerated there can teach us a lot about our life here in America.”
Mark Beck
Mark Beck
Back East
Up North
acrylic on panel
acrylic on panel
11 x 14 in.
11 x 14 in.
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
Mark Beck
Mark Beck
Out West
Down South
acrylic on panel
acrylic on panel
11 x 14 in.
11 x 14 in.
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
BILL BRAUN
Bill Braun’s paintings are impressive feats of hyper-realism. At first glance what appears to be the ingredients for a child’s art project of crumpled craft paper, masking tape, staples and cut out construction paper, in reality is a tight and precise implementation of acrylic paint on canvas. The end result is a brilliant execution of trompe l’oeil painting.
Trompe l’oeil (French for “to deceive the eye”), is a type of painting by which various techniques persuade the viewer that he or she is looking at three-dimensional objects, rather than objects or scenes that are actually painted on a two-dimensional plane. Braun’s work is an unusual example of trompe l’oeil. His straightforward landscapes or still lives take on a playful quality in part due to the brilliant color palette, but also from his childlike compositions and subjects. For over 25 years, Bill Braun has honed his technique of distinctive trompe l’oeil painting and has enjoyed extraordinary success not only in the Northwest, but in art environments all over the world.
Bill Braun Berry Breakfast acrylic on canvas 32 x 24 in. $3,900.00
Bill Braun End of Winter acrylic on canvas 34 x 48 in. $6,200.00
Bill Braun Hungry Octopus acrylic on canvas 36 x 42 in. $6,100.00
PAUL BRIGHAM
A keen observer, Paul Brigham’s paintings find a restful balance between abstraction and expressive interpretations of nature. His mixed media technique creates a tactile surface that helps support the emotion of his colors. Brigham’s interest in Eastern philosophy and art began at an early age and has continued into his adult life. Most recently, Brigham has shifted his subject matter from more purely abstract work to depicting various birds in high realism. Though they do not appear in a realistic habitat, they seem to be exactly where they belong in his backgrounds. Brigham’s ability to layer leaves and branches into the depths of his surface, and bring them forward again creates a scene that hints at re ality, but remains a contemporary surface. From the intimate realism of the birds to his potent colors, Brigham’s work is both pensive and peaceful.
Paul Brigham Welcoming Return mixed media on canvas 40 x 40 in, $4,800.00
Paul Brigham Welcoming Return mixed media on canvas 30 x 30 in, $3,000.00
RACHEL BRUMER
Rachel Brumer’s creative life began as a professional modern dancer. After an additional degree she became an interpreter for American Sign Language, and has been working as a visual artist for the past 20 years. These two “non-verbal” career paths may seem an unlikely form of training for a visual artist, but the ideas in the disciplines are handled in surprisingly similar ways. Working with performance luminaries like Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, and Mark Morris had a profound influence on Brumer’s visual work. Her current work is fiber based, exploring the experience of cloth as universal. We are in constant contact with cloth, whether it is covering our bodies, used in sacred ritual, or looking at a flag. Brumer is interested in challenging and expanding the boundaries of what has existed before in the sphere of quilt making through the use of different materi als such as installation art, mixed media, photography, printmaking, embroidery, collage, light, and community based art. The source material for her “Enhanced Sunspots After Galileo” series were the drawings of sunspots made by Galileo in 1613.
“I continue to be passionate about tr anslating ideas of life into visual representations. I want to create work with a personal vocabulary of images that has a strong metaphoric potential for all people.” -Rachel Brumer
Rachel Brumer Cradle walnut ink, silk paint, Vandyke print, wax and acrylic mounted canvas 47 x 37.25 in $4,800.00
Rachel Brumer Side Sticks hand-dyed fabric, Vandyke print mounted canvas on board 42 x 60 in $6,500.00
Rachel Brumer Thin Crust walnut ink, silk paint, Vandyke print, wax and acrylic mounted canvas 45 x 40 in $4,800.00
PHOEBE BRUNNER
Phoebe Brunner’s landscapes take us on a magical journey to places we may recognize from the natural world, and also to the places of our dreams. Surreal landscapes pulse with rhythm and motion, where the swirling forms and lyrical brushwork combine with wet-looking surfaces to create a painting that seems particularly alive. Brunner’s work is filled with the unexpected. Un-peopled places, and often-monumental size canvases invite viewers to step into them, and become a human part of each story. Infusing each piece with dramatic light, the paintings have a simplicity and ease that offers the viewer a sense of tangibility and a connection to the landscape. Phoebe Brunner earned a BFA from UC Santa Barbara, and also trained at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard, and the Uni versity of Guadalajara. She has been exhibiting her work in both solo and group shows throughout the West Coast for over forty years.
Phoebe Brunner First Kiss oil on canvas 36 x 36 in $9,500.00
SUZIE BUCHHOLZ
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter bringing a playful and rebellious ap proach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical, building and scraping layers of paint, while driven by an instinct for harmony of color and form. Inspired by the tangled and fragile moments of daily life, her work combines a painterly process and street-wise sensibility with an uncanny tenderness. Buchholz holds a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004) and Certificat from the Aterlier du Solie l, Aix en Provence, France (1998). She is the recipient of several residencies, including Djerassi Artists Program (2015), the Bay Area Discovery Museum (2014), and Sant Anna, Camprena Pienza, Italy (2004). She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including di Rosa Museum (Napa, CA), the Headlands Cen ter for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), and Catherine Clark Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and the Zero1 biennial.
Suzie Buchholz Orange Crush oil on canvas 48 x 48 in $7,000.00
Suzie Buchholz Simple Pleasures oil on canvas 14 x 11 in $1,700.00
Suzie Buchholz Blue Lagoon oil on panel 11 x 19 in $1,800.00
Suzie Buchholz Falling For You oil on canvas 40 x 32 in $5,000.00
ALLEN COX
Allen Cox paints with both passion and intelligence. His well crafted and engaging paint ings are spon taneous and intuitively generated from a wide variety of sources, though most composi tions draw on the artists own life experiences and interests. Avoiding for malism, the images are grounded in abstraction and in many ways are commentaries on contemporary life. As such, they reflect the intent to both connect with the natural world and negotiate the constructed world; to illuminate the interior through an examination of the exterior; to reveal the unseen ar chitecture of everyday life. Mystery and revelation, history and myth, intuition and logic, dream and memory‌ these are the polarities that compel and inform the heart and soul of his work.
Cox has been showing his work since 1982. He holds an MFA in painting from the Univer sity of Oregon, where he studied with the highly regarded Pacific Northwest abstract painter Frank Okada. His paintings can be found in both public and private collections internationally.
Allen Cox Akkad oil & wax on canvas 24 x 30 in $3,750.00
Allen Cox Helio oil & wax on canvas 30 x 40 in $5,000.00
Allen Cox Azilien IV oil & wax on canvas 24 x 30 in $3,750.00
ISABELLE DUTOIT
Isabelle duToit’s approach to painting is both sensitive and expressive. The artist’s me ticulous depictions of mostly solitary animals and birds challenge us to consider the plight of nature in t he face of man’s encroachment on nature’s habitats. Combining nuances of chiaroscuro with a unique and exquisitely detailed handling of paint, the artist creates a look and feel that is unique to realism. Although her work addresses serious contemporary concerns, she is also hopeful that it conveys humor, hope and optimism. The emptiness in most of her backgrounds is a reflection on the increasingly isolated and selfish life that modern society has created and portrays loneliness as a human condition as well as our ‘disconnect’ with nature.
“My aim is not to harass the viewer, nor do I want to state the obvious threat to the ani mal’s habitat destruction too blatantly. I prefer to make my point subtly and quietly in the hope that the lack of aggression that is normally linked to that subject will give pause fo r a deeper kind of reflection on the problem.” –Isabelle duToit-
Isabelle duToit HOPE SERIES - Blue Bridled Titmouse oil on canvas 9 x 12 in $3,400.00
Isabelle duToit HOPE SERIES - Blue Kinglet on Branch oil on canvas 9 x 12 in $3,400.00
Isabelle duToit HOPE SERIES - Blue Mouse with Mushrooms oil on canvas 9 x 12 in $3,400.00
Isabelle duToit HOPE SERIES - Blue Dumpy Frog oil on canvas 9 x 12 in $3,400.00
SUSAN FREDA
Susan Freda’s love of the dress form began while she was a student at the Rhode I sland School of Design. Her studies explored armor and body coverings as well as traditionally feminine weaving techniques such as crochet and knit. Over time she developed a sys tem of loopin g, similar to crochet, and began building installations, sculpture and jew elry. Working from a spool of wire, F reda weaves continuously from a single strand. This method is efficient and minimal and leaves room for her organic and ephemeral design. Her close attention to line and form give her sculptures the ability to function as threedimensional drawings. Shadow and light are an integral part of the experience of the work that often incorporates glass, resin, and handmade paper. Freda has been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, A De Young Museum Residency, and a Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School. Her work is in many public and private collections, including Medi tech, Stuart Weitzman, Neiman Marcus, Fidelity, and Cirque Du Soleil.
Susan Freda Gemina Pluvia Argenti Forma woven wire 47 x 9 x 9 in $4,200.00
Susan Freda Aeris Extenta Forma woven wire 64 x 8 x 8 in $3,800.00
Susan Freda Forma 2 woven wire 44 x 12 x 12 in $3,800.00
DAVID FRENCH
French creates unconventional paintings with colors and forms that are energized and interactive. Using instinctual methods like play and trial-and-error, French’s shapes are inspired by both natural and man-made sources. Previously known for three-dimensional wall sculptures, French’s current body of work focuses on the painted surface. He works with shaped wood panels and uses oil paint to find a balanced and coherent composition. Whether dimensional or flattened, French’s forms are dynamic, evocative and somehow familiar, even if abstracted. He twists geometric structures and pays incredible care to the textural surface, giving his work an organic quality that dramatizes an otherwise organized roadmap.
David French Storyboard Mixed Media on panel 23 x 21 in. $2,600.00
David French Interior Landscape Mixed Media on panel 18 x 20 x 3 in. $2,200.00
David French Elevation Mixed Media on shaped panel 60 x 44 x 3 in. $6,500.00
JOYCE GEHL
Working in mixed media, Joyce Gehl begins her process with digital concepts she has care fully composed. Gehl bends the boundaries of photography and the resulting composition is then covered by many layers of pigment and wax. The work is complex, lyrical, and rhythmic and is informed not only by her Northwest environment, but by keen observation of the simple beauty she finds in common elements, whether they be plant, human or ob ject. She delights in a most basic way to her subject and through her subject back to her environment. Just as the beauty of the flower is shaped by the environment as it grows, Gehl’s paintings emerge from a complex history. The layers of textured wax and pigment are testimony to both the finished product and the process of creating it. Her goal is to create work that is simultaneously sensual and contemplative.
Joyce Gehl Through Glass Ribbon Swirls Mixed Media with resin on panel 44 x 44 in. $7,900.00
Joyce Gehl Hope Rises Mixed Media with resin on panel 50 x 40 in. $8,200.00
Joyce Gehl What Will Summer Bring Mixed Media with resin on panel 44 x 36 in. $6,500.00
T YSON GRUMM
Grumm’s paintings invite us into a unique and often times, nostalgic world of imaginative imagery. The artist relies on common objects from his surroundings to provide a certain degree of familiarity in his work. These common objects emerge as icons and allow Grumm to feel a connection with the imaginary places he develops in his paintings. His figures appear to both characters and caricatures, distinctive and unusual. Where else would you find a painting featuring Donald Featherspoon, the inventor of the pink flamingo yard ornament?
Tyson Grumm Forward Thinking Backward Thinking Acrylic on panel 14 x 13 in. $2,700.00
Tyson Grumm King’s Jester Acrylic on panel 13 x 16 in. $2,900.00
Tyson Grumm The Amazing Henry Penguini & His Fischbacher Truncation Effect Acrylic on panel 13 x 15 in. $4,000.00
JOHN & ROBIN GUMAELIUS
Collaborating artists and husband and wife, Robin and John Gumaelius incorporate steel, ceramic and wood to create animated human and birdlike sculptures. Their works are comical, bizarre and highly inventive. Each piece begins by Robin creating colorfu l ce ramic surface imagery and complex decorative glazes; next John intercedes adding the exquisite met al armatures and wood appendages that bring the sculptures to life. In their highly unusual working relationship, Robin and John combine both skill and imagination together as an artistic team to build a singularly unusual world out of clay and mixed media.
John & Robin Gumaelius Backbends for the Tax Colector Ceramic & metal 19 x 10 x 9 in. $1,900.00
K AREN HACKENBERG
Karen Hackenberg earned her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, and now lives and works on a quiet bay near Port Townsend, WA. She takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the serious subject of ocean degradation, painting meticu lous seascapes of beach trash with oil and gouache.
Hackenberg’s paintings are inspired by the incongruity of the manmade detritus found washed up on the otherwise pristine beach below her studio—plastic shards, bottles, toy animals, shot gun shells, and consumer product packages. With her ear to the sand for a close view, and in a semi-documentary style, she poses and photographs the flotsam on the beach, and uses these photos as reference for her hyper-realistic paintings. Beach trash is made monolithic in the seascape and provides visual metaphor for the over whelming magnitude and impact of marine debris.
Her work is influenced by Pop Art of the 1960s: Claes Oldenburg’s monumental everyday objects, as well as Ed Ruscha’s paintings combining marketing graphics with images of nature. Her works are included in numerous private and public collections, including the Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State Public Art Collection, New York State Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, among others.
Karen Hackenberg Primordial Pete oil on canvas 54 x 72 in. $15,000.00
Karen Hackenberg Baby Squids lithograph 30 x 22 in. $1,200.00
Karen Hackenberg Kraken - suite of 4 prints lithograph 14 x 11 in. ea. $1,500.00 set
JD HANSEN
JD Hansen creates art that explores the juxtaposition of vulnerability and strength us ing the human and animal form. Her work excavates the intricacies of human psychology, nonverbal communication and theories of quantum physics through elongated figures, subtleuse of body language, and most recently, the addition of welded copper handwrit ing to herwork.The inclusion of copper handwriting in jd’s art adds conceptual depth and meaning to the solidity of the bronze. The handwriting flows around the sculptures like nebulous thoughts caught in a moment in time, and the blankets of type conjoin with the bronze forms to become an integral part of the overall form. The combination of singular bronze forms and flowing blankets of type is meant to reconstruct the way communication happens...not by specific words, but by small gestures, by sounds and cadence, and by an aura of emotion and intellect that all mesh together to create the whole.
JD Hansen Is Forever Enough? bronze 55 x 16 x 15 in. $33,000.00
JD Hansen Greystreet bronze 40 x 28 x 8 in. $11,200.00
JD Hansen Solo bronze 28 x 34 x 11 in. $13,500.00
IV Y JACOBSEN
Ivy Jacobsen’s pieces create a place of magical realism through landscapes, balancing magical elements with rendering of flora and fauna found in nature. She is inspired by studying plants she encounters on daily walks through neighborhood, botanical illustra tions, or the processes of plants and their life cycles. Her paintings are composed of many thin layers of oil paint, bronzing powder, acrylic paint, resin, and other mixed medias on panel. The multiple semi-transparent layers create the illusion of depth while the trees and plant forms occupy various spaces in the foreground and background. This creates the illusion that the viewer is looking into the painting, allowing him or her to fully explore the whimsical environment.
Ivy Jacobsen received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in painting and printmaking from the San Francisco State University in 2000, and her artwork is featured in galleries and collections across the united states.
Ivy Jacobsen Festive oil, resin & collage on panel 24 x 24 in. $2,950.00
Ivy Jacobsen Garden Spirits oil, resin & collage on panel 24 x 24 in. $2,950.00
Kathy Jones
Interested in unexpected juxtapositions, Kathy Jones sets up a dialogue between her col or relationshi ps which pulsate and buzz with energy, and her subjects themselves which are quite restful and still. Her figures are often seen suspended in a moment of waiting or transition that challenges the viewer to bring their own narration into each painting. As you might guess by looking at her work, Kathy Jones was born in California. She was educated at Stanford University, where she studied drawing and printmaking. After gradu ation, she spent time in Cairo, Egypt teaching art and science. Following her successful career in academics, Kathy returned to California with a wealth of information, experi ence and wisdom to contribute to her paintings which she began to invest in full-time. Jones is influenced by the Bay Area Figurative painters, and by the work of Edward Hopper and Fairfield Porter. The artist sets herself apart through her beautifully textured sur faces in which she manipulates every layer of paint until each contributes to the exotic blend of radiant color.
Kathy Jones Trying to Make Sense of it All oil on panel 40 x 36 in. $6,000.00
SHER RY K ARVER
Sherry Karver’s current series of photo-based work originates from photographs she has taken on city streets and public spaces from around the world. Her work expand s the parameters of traditional painting and photography by combining them with digital tech nology, narrative text and resin surface on wood panels. By blending these mediums, she can push beyond conventional bound aries and create a new hybrid. Karver’s work is in formed by her own life experiences, tackling themes of alienation and loneliness in our fast-paced society, the concept of p ersonal identity, and the loss of it, the passage of time, and the individual, both in solitude, and as part of a crowd. Through her interest in identity and anonymity, Karver began writing text over some of the figures in her photos, not only to personalize the individual, but to also make them stand out from the people around them. Sherry Karver received her M.F.A. from Tulane University, & B.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and can be found in numerous private and corporate collections. In 2018, her exhibition “Collective My thologies” wa s featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Sherry Karver Expectations Photography, oil, & resin on wood panel with narrative text 12 x 9 in. $1,500.00
Sherry Karver Internal Observations Photography, oil, & resin on wood panel with narrative text 12 x 12 in. $1,800.00
MARIANNE KOLB
Marianne Kolb’s work focuses on the human figure in a raw and emotive style. Her ap proach to painting is spontaneous, mixing color directly on the canvas, pushing paint around with her hands, welcoming the accidental, and letting the image emerge as it will. With her curiosity driving her, Kolb’s paintings are a result of daily observations and a zealous interest in what it means to be alive and navigating the world. By relinquishing control and submitting to her materials and process, Kolb’s figures contain a powerful vulnerability and courage. Her paintings are nuanced, complex, and suggestive, ev oking many of the same dualities as that of the human spirit itself.
Kolb was born in a small farming town in Switzerland and moved to the Berkley area in her mid-twenties, where she connected to the East Bay arts community. Largely self-taught, Kolb’s work is widely collected and her work has appeared in numerous publications.
Marianne Kolb Sway mixed media on canvas 44 x 30 in. $8,500.00
JIM KRAF T
Jim Kraft has been creating ceramic pieces out of earthenware for over thirty years. Each collection of work he creates builds upon what has come before and certain elements from one series are often incorporated into the next series based on those elements. Kraft’s contemporary lattice-worked vessels resonate with Northwest basketry. In contrast to solid vessels of containment, the openness suggests an inside-outside exchange. The grid patterns hint at enclosures — wa ter wells, gates and fences — at attempts to pr otect a core that cannot hide. The general aim of Kraft’s work is to extract the great potential from the elements involved in ceramic art and bring those elements into mind, heart and hands exploring this mystery of man and material. The work is manifested principa lly in the vessel form. Kraft believes the vessel is probably the purest sculptural form, but his attraction to it is visceral and spiritual, not conceptual or academic.” Jim Kraft received his BA in Ceramics from Northern Michigan University in Marquette in 1973. He earned his BFA in Ceramics in 1979 from the University of Washington. He has been the recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation and his work is included in public and private collections throughout the US.
Jim Kraft Menhir #1 ceramic 29 x 13 x 14 in. $3,500.00
Jim Kraft Menhir #2 & #3 ceramic 27 x 13 x 11 in.& 28 x 12 x 11 $3,200.00 each
FRED LISAIUS
Fred Lisaius’s painted works represent his personal journey to explore man’s relationship to the natural world, and to one another. His work explores topics like community, di versity, harmony and change all withi n a single composition. Lisaius often relies on iconic and symbolic imagery like trees, birds and flowers to convey his message, while keeping the imagery simple and naïve. Fred Lisaius received a B.F.A. with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (Provi dence, R.I.) in 1981 and also studied at the Pratt Institute in New York. He has been a Northwest artist for over 20 years and his work can be found in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
Fred Lisaius Confluence acrylic on panel 48 x 60 in. $8,900.00
Fred Lisaius Spinning acrylic on panel 30 x 40 in. $3,400.00
Fred Lisaius Garden Song acrylic on panel 20 x 30 in. $2,000.00
PATRICK L oCICERO
Patrick LoCicero’s paintings represent his ongoing interest in combining overlap and col lage, with painting. His compositions reference and explore the idea of traveling in time and space and refer to this as a metaphor for moving through memories and their associa tions. The overlap and collage elements relate directly to the images he depicts, guid ing him in his choice of subjects, and come from a variety of sources including the Kama Sutra, antique children’s books, letters and journals. His still life paintings resonate due to the contrast the artist sets up between the collaged surface and the painted sur face, as well as the play between the actual shallow space and implied deep space. LoCicero’s collage paintings inventively reinterpret the collage technique that developed during the Cubist era, and he reinvigorates one of the most important modes of expression in the art of the 20th Century.
LoCicero received his BFA at Ohio State University and took his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown in galler ies all across the US and his works can be fou nd in many distinguished public and private collections.
Patrick LoCicero Golf Game oil & collage on paper 20 x 16 in. $1,500.00
Patrick LoCicero Song & Dance Man oil & collage on paper 20 x 16 in. $1,500.00
Patrick LoCicero Time Keeper oil & collage on paper 22 x 14 in. $1,500.00
Patrick LoCicero The Lecturer oil & collage on paper 22 x 14 in. $1,500.00
LYNDA LOWE
Lowe’s practi ce often starts with research. Her current work shows a deep interest in the relationships between science and art, the psyche, and studies of human conscious ness. The many-layered paintings incorporate an interplay of text fragments, intuitive marks, diagrammatic figures, open areas of eroded color, and recognizable images. This combination i s intended to engage various mechanics of perception – empirical, rational, relational, intuitive, abstract, and symbolic. Lowe has a cultivated interest in archetypal and metaphorical associations and offers images that invite opportunities for engagement at many levels. Some inclusions are so small and subtle as to be seen only with closest ex amination and suggest the quantum world underlying all experience. Lowe’s body of work ranges from recognizable likenesses to entirely abstract terrains. Consistent through all of her work is a meditative aspect proposing that no thought or thing is utterly passive or inert but charged with complex content and a sentient presence. After receiving her MFA at Indiana U niversity, Lowe taught university and graduate stu dents for fifteen years in Illinois. She left her academic position, moved from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, and began full-time studio work. Lynda Lowe’s artwork has been widely exhibited in over forty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across the coun try. She was the recipient of two Artist Fellowships, and several assistance grants from the Illinois Arts Council, named a Distinguished Resident of Ragdale Foundation’s arts colony, received a Ford Foundation research grant, and was a finalist of the Neddy Award. Her work can be found in many private and public collections and museums, most notably Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Art and Embassy program in Bern, Switzer land, the Illinois State Museum of Art, the St. George Museum of Art, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and Seattle University.
Lynda Lowe Renewal watercolor, oil & wax on panel 24 x 42 in. $9,0000.00
Lynda Lowe Ex Libris XIV watercolor, oil & wax on panel 15 x 10 in. $2,300.00
Lynda Lowe Ex Libris XVI watercolor, oil & wax on panel 15 x 10 in. $2,300.00
Lynda Lowe A Poem of Beginning III watercolor, oil & wax on panel 38 x 32 in. $9,500.00
K AURO MANSOUR
For Kaoru Mansour, nature has always occupied center stage. A native of Japan, Mansour began her formal art training at Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles. Her current works are comprised of multiple layers of pigment and collage details built upon wooden panels and canvas. She begins the process by coating the surface with layers of acrylic paint, allowing raku-like crackles to form that resembles an ancient patina. This is over laid with natural scenes, and as a throwback to the centuries old traditional Japanese screen painting, she may also employ gold pigment. In Mansour’s panels, just as in the traditional folding screens, the gold not only serves as a decorative function, but adds a rich & sensuous appearance that tends to elevate the subject — the trees, fruit, leaves, birds — to something revered, sacred and even mystical.
Kaoru Mansour Pomegranate & Fig 101 acrylic with collage on wood panel 10 x 30 in. $2,500.00
Kaoru Mansour Pomegranate & Wild Cucumber 101 acrylic with collage on wood panel 10 x 30 in. $2,500.00
JOSEPH MARUSK A
Joseph Maruska’s abstract paintings tend to read like classical music compositions. His undulating lin es move and ripple across the painting surface and allow the viewer to inter pret and perceive the works with an endless array of imagination and visual interpretation. Maruska’s strong forms and graceful landscapes take shape in an earthen palette of golden ochre’s, velvety browns and an array of blues that often translate into cascading, flowing bodies of water or a fragment of atmospheric sky. His unique style of abstraction begins by covering panels with a thick emulsion of model ing paste giving the effect of a subtle, three-dimensional profile. He then comes back into the surface laying down rich color over the masses and shapes, using the shadows and protrusions as guidelines in which to lay the paint on to the surface. Maruska has a keen awareness of not only what he visualizes, but also of what the viewer might experience. He deliberately organizes the luscious abstract fields of color, giving root to landscape, sky and water.
Joseph Maruska Blue Canyon oil on panel 60 x 60 in. $11,000.00
K ATIE MET Z
Cities are where the action is and it’s their vitality and sizzling energy that inspire paint er Katie Metz. Her visual narration of urban life’s jump and jive, complexity and nonstop cacophony offers an innovative blend of Abstraction and Impressionism. “I don’t want to simply record the ci ty’s physical elements,” Metz says. “I want to paint the feeling of being there — bombard ed daily with noise, traffic, diverse cultures, home lessness, graffiti and crowds of people, simultaneously surrounded by great architecture, world-class art and theater, and the richness that universities bring to the mix. The chal lenge for me is to replicate that dynamism in my paintings.” Looking for something edgy to paint, Metz began hitting the streets day and night, shoot ing photos, sketching and taking notes. Her field experiences led to fresh and original portrayals of what it is to live in the city. Each painting begins with flurries of brush strokes applied in multiple thin layers followed by mark making and scraping. A blizzard of gestural incisions with a razor blade echo structural shapes and glinting lights, and evoke mood and atmosphere that instantly draws viewers into the scenes.
Katie Metz Purple Metropolis acrylic on panel 28 x 33 in. $3,200.00
Katie Metz Urban Portrait acrylic on panel 33 x 60 in. diptych $7,000.00
STEPHEN PENTAK
Stephen Pentak’s landscapes are peaceful and serene. Radiating inner light, his surfaces are built up of many thin layers of oil paint, pulled and crosshatched one over the other. The bright under-layers of paint gleam through the shadowed upper layers, acting as the sun might on the horizon as it finds its way to the other side of the earth. His approach is rigorously consistent, always starting with a base layer of golden yellow, and building his forested landscapes by dragging palette knives and large brushes across a wood- panel surface. The backgrounds are panoramic, while the foregrounds are dotted by sparse col lections of trees — often birches, with their white bark formed by the delicate lines of individual bristles.
Pentak’s paintings are based on his maquettes; drawings inspired by nature, but drafted with a conscious mind to the abstrac t. He is informed by his surroundings, but holds fast to his freedom to create and invent space. The paintings have changed subtly over his expansive career, as he determinedly works in an extended series. This persistent image is a means to discovery; to exploring light and mastering the balance between represen tation and invention.
Stephen Pent ak received his BA from Union College in New York, and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He is Professor Emeritus of Art, and a past Associate Dean of the College of the Arts at Ohio State University.
Stephen Pentak IX.II oil on panel 48 x 43 in. $7,800.00
Stephen Pentak X.I oil on panel 34 x 76 in. $9,200.00
RICHARD ROYAL
Richard Royal is recognized internationally as one of the most skilled and talented glass blowers in the studio glass movement. Having spent his early years as a ceramicist, he began working as a glass sculptor in 1978 at the Pilchuck Glass School. The bir th of this new and exciting artistic movement appealed to the young artist, and Royal worked his way through the ranks to become one of Dale Chihuly’s main gaffers. His work with Chihuly lasted for many years and in the 1980’s led to Richard Royal’s emergence as an independent force in the art market. The Geometric Series is Royal’s latest exploration delving into the theory that all things have a geometric significance or a mathematical sequence. If you break objects down, eventually you will find a geometric structure in the essence, and often this sequence builds upon itself. Royal’s vision is to create organic sculpture using rigid components to portray this concept of growth and clarity in form. When he first began this series, it was very direct in the replication of color and form and as it has evolved the sculpture became more dynamic with compositions and surface treatments of the elements. Royal’s work is found in such noteworthy museum collections as The Mint Museum of Art + Design, The High Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Tampa Museum of Art, and the Daiichi Museum (Japan). Royal was one of the first Artists-in-Residences at the Wa terford Crystal Factory and he continues to teach as both a guest artist and faculty mem ber at various universities and the Pilchuck Glass School. His artwork is also included in the SAFECO Collection, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, and the Westinghouse Corporation. Richard Royal Geometric blown glass 39 x 24 x 23 in. $36,000.00
ANNE SIEMS
Celebrated for her explorations of the human spirit through beautifully rendered figures with abstract layered backgrounds, Anne Siems paints with an eloquence and mastery that is a testament to her range as an artist. Known for more ethereal and utopian images, Siems’ latest paintings take on a distinctly more forward, unabashed, and powerful posture. Referencing the lace and applique in her past figurative work, the women Siems’ currently paints explore tattoos as a signal of inner wildness, pronouncing their stories, fables, mythical belonging, and rites of pas sage. Her figures are smart and creative, and they have something to say. They speak of freedom of expression and of the deep connection women have to the universe. They are also political beings with slogans and phrases that are markers of the time we live in. A dedicated activist in her personal life, Siems uses her platform as an artist to highlight the state of the world, how she senses it, understands it, and ultimately, how she cre ates beauty from it. Siems was born in Berlin, spent formative years in Buenos Aires, and later attended the University of the South in Tennessee. After completing her MFA at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Siems settled in Seattle, where she currently lives and works. Anne Siems work has been shown in a myriad of solo exhibitions and her work can be found in collections spanning the globe.
Anne Siems Love’s Devine Furnace II acrylic on panel 36 x 36 in. $7,800.00
Anne Siems Kills Me With Delight watercolor & graphite on paper 26 x 20 in. $1,800.00
Anne Siems One Day You Finally Knew watercolor & graphite on paper 26 x 20 in. $1,800.00
KELLIE TALBOT
Talbot’s work revolves around the landscape of American artifacts, craftsmanship, and history. Signs , typography, architecture, industry, cemeteries and other emblems of so ciety are the inspiration for her oil paintings. Facades, molding, wrenches, signposts become evidence of human perseverance and determination in Talbot’s work. Akin to portraits, the rust and peeling are like the wrinkles and blemishes found on a human subject. These are not negative markings showing neglect, but rather are signs of time, wisdom and experience. They are both an elegy and evidence of hope. Talbot has long roots in Seattle. In 1906 her family left the Abruzzo mountains of Italy and settled in Rainier Valley. Though she was born in Hawaii and lived on both coasts growing up, Seattle has been home since 1990. Talbot and her husband divide their time between the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle and New Orleans. She shares her studio space with a cat and a duck .
Kellie Talbot Kills Me With Delight oil on canvas 36 x 72 in. $6,500.00
Kellie Talbot Loveless oil on panel 12 x 12 in. $900.00
Kellie Talbot Weiss Liquor oil on canvas 60 x 40 in. $6,000.00
ALICIA TORMEY
Alicia Tormey works in encaustic, an ancient painting medium primarily made of beeswax and tree resin. This wax-based mate rial is difficult to manipulate and somewhat unpre dictable which is precisely what captivates Tormey’s imagination and the spontaneity in creating with bee’s wax keeps her wondering what will happen next. “As a painter, I’m driven by curiosity, passion and a deeply creative spirit. I am con stantly experimenting in my studio and pushing the boundaries of my materials, and as a result, I have developed my own unique painting style and techniques. I prefer to work abstractly because it triggers a creative response in the mind. Every work of art becomes personalized to each viewer through a phenomenon known as Pareidolia where you see elements and forms that aren’t actually there much like cloud gazing” Nearly four decades of living in the Pacific Northwest, coupled with a lifelong fascina tion of science and nature, continues to heavily influence and inform Tormey’s work and as a painter, to conjure, capture and express the spontaneity and unpredictability of the natural world.
Alicia Tormey Charm School encaustic with mixed media 10 x 10 in. $900.00
Alicia Tormey Garnet Fields encaustic with mixed media 10 x 10 in. $900.00
Alicia Tormey Teacher’s Pet encaustic with mixed media 10 x 10 in. $900.00
Alicia Tormey Emerald Stream encaustic with mixed media 30 x 40 in. $6,250.00
Alicia Tormey Sapphire Springs encaustic with mixed media 30 x 40 in. $6,250.00
LIZ TRAN
Channeling subjects such as dream imagery, imagined landscapes, geodes, outer space, and The Big Bang, Tran explores the shapes of nature, with the infusion of fantastical, pulsing synthetic hues. The psychedelic visuals are harvested from the place where innerverse meets outer-verse, where optical misfires combine with a vacuum pull moving at the speed of light. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, she creates atmospheres that aim to activate.
Tran’s work is included in private and public collections across the country and int erna tionally, including Vulcan Inc., Baer Art Center in Iceland, Camac Art Centre in France, The El Paso Children’s Hospital, Harborview Medical Center, The King County Public Art Collection and The Child Center, among others. She has completed multiple special proj ects and installations, including work for VH1Save the Music Foundation, The Upstream Music Fest, The Seattle Art Museum, The Brain Project Toronto, and Public Art at The Aqua Art Fair Miami. She has been awarded multiple fellowships, grants, and residencies nationally and internationally. Tran lives and works in Seattle.
Liz Tran I’ll Be Your Mirror 33 mixed media on panel 32 x 24 in. $1,900.00
Liz Tran I’ll Be Your Mirror 17 mixed media on panel 12 x 12 in. $700.00
Liz Tran I’ll Be Your Mirror 19 mixed media on panel 12 x 12 in. $700.00
TERRY TURRELL
Terry Turrell is an artist of delicate hand using unconventional, often recycled materials to create a beautiful edginess indicative of his Northwest roots. Drawn to art his entire life, Turrell’s innate ability to transform the ordinary or overlooked is as unique as his style. Working intuitively, Turrell cre ates work that is both innocent and confrontational. His work can easily be defined as the perfect imperfect. A self taught artist, Turrell’s work is distinguished not only by his highly textural surfaces, but by his remarkable range of subject matter and materials. Creating imagery that is most often figurative in nature, the artist favors both painting and sculpting equally, of ten working within the two mediums simultaneously.
Terry Turrell Migration oil & enamel on board 38 x 38 in. $6,500.00
Terry Turrell It’s Time to Sing oil & enamel on paper 9 x 11 in. $1,800.00
Terry Turrell Dove oil & enamel on paper 8 x 5 in. $950.00
TAL WALTON
Tal Walton’s brilliantly luminous paintings are structured with a logical and even spiri tual geometry which he believes composes our universe. Walton believes in the Platonic teaching that all ideas came from a larger place. This concept of different spheres of existence, of past and present and future, represents itself visually in each piece with the division of the scene into three parts. The middle and clearest section represents the viewer in the present, while the adjacent sections are darker and more cloudy, conveying the feeling of variant memories and realities. Recognizing that each individual brings their own experience into the interpretation of art, Walton embraces the collective and universal qualities of landscape that speak to us all. Working in a complex process involv ing materials like gold leaf, ground marble, resin, oils and sometimes more than twenty glazes, Walton’s paintings are both reverent and ethereal.
Tal Walton was born in 1965. He attended Brigham Young University receiving a bach elor’s degree in painting and sculpture.
Tal Walton Wind Rivers First Snow oil & gold leaf & marble ground on panel 25 x 33 in. $5,100.00
Tal Walton Silence in the Snow oil & gold leaf & marble ground on panel 24 x 24 in. $4,300.00
Tal Walton Seven Days oil & gold leaf & marble ground on panel 20 x 24 in. $4,700.00
DELOSS WEBBER
Deloss Webber’s connection to his art begins first with his deep connection to the envi ronment. His sculptural works sometimes conceptual, sometimes abstract, are always immediate reminders of the beauty that is inherent in the natural world. Webber collects rocks of varying sizes and types choosing each one for its individual color, texture and markings. He then adds to the stone’s character by manipulating its surface and enhances it further by intricately weaving it in fibers such as cane, bamboo and reed. The fiber fits SO seamlessly onto the body of the stone that it seems to have always been there. The language of the stone and the fiber thus becomes one.
Webber has had an ongoing interest in Japanese basketry. He learned rattan weaving from his mother wh ile growing up in Northern Africa and Spain, and throughout his life has found constant nourishment in cultures and places beyond his own boundaries.
Deloss Webber Flemenco stone & fiber 22 x 14 x 14 in. $4,000.00
Deloss Webber The Moment of Epiphany stone & fiber 20 x 11 x 7 in. $4,000.00
Deloss Webber Lichen stone & fiber 20 x 11 x 10 in. $4,000.00
Z . Z . W EI
Z.Z. Wei’ s paintings transport us to a place where time stands still. His compositions portray quiet, yet powerful images reminiscent of a whimsical, rural America. Richly com plex, they are filled with humor and loneliness, peacefulness and pain. They balance on the knife-edge of meaning, half in shadow, half in light, tempting those who choose to look beyond the mundane to experienc e a unique and timeless look at life.
Z.Z. Wei Rail Line in Winter oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. $12,500.00
Z.Z. Wei Autumn Color oil on canvas 30 x 24 in. $8,500.00
Z.Z. Wei R&R oil on canvas 48 x 36 in. $16,500.00
Z.Z. Wei West Seattle Bridge oil on canvas 40 x 40 in. $15,500.00
Z.Z. Wei Climate Change oil on canvas 36 x 24 in. $9,500.00
Z.Z. Wei Rural Route oil on canvas 30 x 48 in. $14,500.00
LE SLIE WU
The paintings of Leslie Wu are gleaned from memory, experience, and observation reflect ing a deep inquiry into how landscape effects our psyche. The work is influenced by the subtle landscape paintings of the 19th century “Luminists” who focused on the effects of light and atmosphere within a composition. Wu’s paintings are a visual autobiography, one that recalls generations of her central New York family that embraced the beauty of the land they farmed, and more recently informed by her surroundings in the Pacific Northwest.
Leslie Wu received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since that time, she has worked as an art director & in 1983 launched her career in painting. She has had one person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and her work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Rockford Museum, IL, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY, Harborview Medical Center, and the King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA.
Leslie Wu Glacial Interplay oil on canvas 24 x48 in. $4,800.00
KENSUKE YAMADA
Kensuke Yamada emigrated from Japan to attend college in America. To overcome the huge language barrier and assimilate into his new life, he discovered early on that he could communicate most effectively through his sculptures. Yamada’s ceramic figures embody enchantment and are inspired by universal experiences. He uses gestures, textures and patterns to relate simple, yet meaningful body language and facial expressions, all the while creating a rhythm that literally brings his figures to life.. His work begs us to think about the moment, not the movement of time, and by cutting past complexities it leaves the viewer wi th an almost otherworldly experience, not typically felt in our daily lives .
Kensuke Yamada Head #2 bronze 4 x 4 x 2 in. $650.00
Kensuke Yamada Head #3 bronze 4 x 4 x 2 in. $650.00