celebrate ART
A H UGE T HA N K YOU TO A L L O F OU R WON DERFU L A R T I STS ! T RACEY A DA M S
F RED LISA IUS
SUZ Y B A RNA RD
PATRICK LOCICERO
MAR K B E C K
LYN DA LOWE
B I L L B RAU N
JOS EPH M A RUS K A
PAUL B R I G H A M RACHEL BRUM E R P HO EB E BRU N N E R
K AURO M A NS OUR K ATIE M ET Z RICHA RD ROYA L
SUZ I E BUC H H O L Z
JA M E S S HAY
I SA B EL L E DU TO I T
A N N E S IEM S
SUSA N F RE DA
K ELL IE TA L B OT
DAVI D F RE NC H
A L ICIA TORM EY
JOYCE GE H L T YS O N G RUM M K A R EN H AC K E N BE RG J D H A NS E N
LIZ TRA N TERRY TURREL L TA L WA LTON AUDRA WE A S ER
I V Y JAC O BS E N
DELOSS WEB B ER
K AT HY JO N E S
Z . Z . WEI
S HER RY K A RV E R
L E S LIE WU
MAR I A N N E KO L B
K ENSUK E YA M A DA
J I M KRA F T
C E L E B R AT I N G 2 9 Y E A R S
Patricia Rovzar Gallery is honored to present Celebrate Art, our 29th Annual Group Exhibition. There is nothing more important to us than celebrating the arts with our many collectors, colleagues, friends and artists. While the way we celebrate has changed over the past two years, we think it is more important than ever to honor those whose paths have intersected with our own in a meaningful way by presenting new offerings from our extraordinary stable of artists. PRG is proud to represent these creatives and hopes that you can join us at our Holiday Open House to celebrate 29 years of sharing art with you. Wishing you happy holidays, Patricia Rovzar & Leah Marlow
TRACEY ADAMS
Adams’ lifelong interests in music, science, mathematics and art are constantly being woven and re-woven into her encaustic paintings, collage pieces, and works on paper. Influenced by her time with John Cage during graduate school, Adams is drawn to intersections– intentional and happenstance, metered and asymmetric, organic and geometric. Her background as a musician can be seen especially in terms of the visual intervals and gestural line work in her paintings, as well as the physical engagement and sense of performance that is a part of her studio practice. Her works attempt to create environments that she searches to find within herself and serve as a type of visual diary exploring life’s impermanence. She applies a sense of simplicity and experimentation to her practice, expressing beauty through a feeling of calm, inside and out, a sense that she identifies as an enormous challenge in these times.
Adams completed her Master’s degree at the New England 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 Museum 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 The Timeless Present collage, encaustic and ink on panel 42 x 42 in. $9,000.00
Tracey Adams The Roots Are Riotous collage, charcoal, encaustic and ink on panel 36 x 36 in. $6,500.00
Tracey Adams Inspiration Point 6 collage, charcoal, encaustic and ink on panel 16 x 12 in. $1,800.00
Tracey Adams Inspiration Point 7 collage, charcoal, encaustic and ink on panel 16 x 12 in. $1,800.00
SUZY BARNARD
Suzy Barnard does not have to search far for her inspiration. Providing ample opportunity for exploration and a constant supp ly 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 the endlessly changing weather, its dramatic light, and the constant parade of cargo ships in the vast har bor. Hundreds of ships have passed by her windows. Quite familiar with all the ways the y can appear and disappear, Barnard imagines that her process of mixing and layering p aints 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 Institute 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, Washington 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 Mulling Over oil on panel 38 x 58 in. $8,800.00
Suzy Barnard Four O’Clock Turquoise oil on panel 32 x 72 in. $10,000.00
Suzy Barnard Slate & Lilac-Grey oil on panel 16 x 19 in. $2,100.00
Suzy Barnard Calm Encounter oil on panel 16 x 19 in. $2,100.00
Suzy Barnard Blurred Lines oil on panel 44 x 38 in. $6,800.00
Suzy Barnard Off the Charts oil on panel 44 x 60 in. $10,000.00
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 American 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 being a continuing and fascinating source of inspiration for my paintings,” said Beck. “Many aspects of the prison system a nd the people incarcerated there can teach us a lot about our life here in America.”
Mark Beck Everybody Quiet Now oil on canvas 28 x 34 in. $9,000.00
Mark Beck Homer’s House (After Winslow Homer) acrylic on panel 18 x 24 in. $4,500.00
Mark Beck Spring Wind oil on linen 56 x 75 in. $40,000.00
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 Forest Feast acrylic on canvas 24 x 28 in. $3,700.00
Bill Braun Home Building acrylic on canvas 24 x 31 in. $3,700.00
PAUL BRIGHAM
Paul Brigham balances the expressive and gestural qualities of abstraction with the serene stillness that can be found during careful time in nature. Brigham’s interest in Eastern philosophy and art began at an early age and is reflected in his sense of composition. His mixed media process layers emotive color and mark making with rich textural surf aces, upon which he paints birds, flowers, and branches in careful realism. Though emerging from an abstract environment, Brigham’s avian subjects are always at home in his lush backgrounds.
Brigham was born and raised in rural New England. At age four he was exposed to art classes through the local museum and continued to enjoy drawing and painting throughout his formative years. Early inspiration was found helping maintain a Japanese garden that his father designed and created. Brigham is primarily self-taught, preferring the learning derived from direct observation and experience in the natural world. He has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and his work is in collections worldwide.
Paul Brigham Reunited (Orchard Orioles) mixed media on canvas 30 x 40 in, $4,000.00
Paul Brigham Rediscovering Refuge (Blue Jays) mixed media on canvas 30 x 40 in, $4,000.00
RACHEL BRUMER
“About four years ago I moved to Lopez Island in Washington State, a 14 mile long island in the Pacific Northwest. I see the edge of the earth here. I started to work on imagined landscape. Many landscapes refer to particular geographic locations- these do not. Rath er, they are fragments of nature and human existence, recomposed as scenes that reveal the layers of association that mind and memory build. Thus, an arc of earth may hold continents of flowers, rich soil, and an extended hand. In these works I cover continents with gold paint and then scratch the gilded surfaces. The marks suggest scars, migration paths, and the routes that humans and animals trace as part of their everyday activities. The collage elements are made using a variety of surface design techniques, material, and mark making, to create tension a mong the elements. I use walnut ink, dried pigment, paints and dyes, Vandyke printing, and the reverse printmaking technique of discharge. By altering the scale of elements, I want to illuminate the complex relationships between humans and the earth and the ways in which we are reshaping nature. I also hope to en courage us all to see, understand, and act to protect the earth.” - Rachel Brumer
Rachel Brumer That Old Pajama Moon Vandyke print, wax and acrylic on canvas mounted board 44 x 44 in $5,400.00
Rachel Brumer Blue Ooh Moon Vandyke print, wax and acrylic on canvas mounted board 44 x 35 in $4,300.00
Rachel Brumer Cloud Parachuting Vandyke print, wax and acrylic on canvas mounted board 55 x 48 in $7,300.00
Rachel Brumer Cliff Footprint Vandyke print, wax and acrylic on canvas mounted board 36 x 49 in $4,900.00
Rachel Brumer Met The Moon Vandyke print, wax and acrylic on canvas mounted board 47 x 58 in $7,600.00
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 w ith rhythm and motion, where the swirling forms and lyrical brushwork combine with w et-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 University of Guadalajara. She has been exhibiting her work in both solo and group shows throughout the West Coast for over forty years.
Phoebe Brunner Storm and Light oil on panel 12 x 12 in $1,750.00
SUZIE BUCHHOLZ
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter bringing a playful and rebellious approach 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 Soliel, 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 Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), and Catherine Clark Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and the Z ero1 biennial.
Suzie Buchholz Flight of Fancy oil on canvas over panel 40 x 60 in $8,000.00
Suzie Buchholz Wonderland oil on canvas over panel 40 x 70 in $8,500.00
ISABELLE DUTOIT
Isabelle duToit’s approach to painting is both sensitive and expressive. The artist’s meticulous depictions of mostly solitary animals and birds challenge us to consider the plight of nature in the 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 c reated 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 animal’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 Blue, Yellow, Red oil on canvas 20 x 24 in $7,000.00
Isabelle duToit Cardinals oil on canvas 16 x 20 in $7,200.00
Isabelle duToit Purple Finch oil on canvas 9 x 12 in $3,400.00
Isabelle duToit Little Chorus (Diversity Series) oil on canvas 12 x 16 in $6,400.00
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 system of looping, similar to crochet, and began building installations, sculpture and jewelry. Working from a spool of wire, Freda w eaves 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 sc ulptures the ability to function as three-dimensional drawings. Sha dow 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 PollockKrasner Foundation Award, A De Young Museum Residency, and a Scholarship Pilchuck Glass School. Her work is in many public and private collections, including Meditech, Stuart Weitzman, Neiman Marcus, Fidelity, and Cirque Du Soleil.
Susan Freda Fios Feram (Wildflowers) woven wire 28 x 28 x 20 in $3,400.00
Susan Freda Noctis Cataractra (Nighttime Waterfall) woven wire 48 x 24 x 12 in $4,600.00
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 shape s 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 wor k an organic quality that dramatizes an otherwise organized roadmap.
David French Tidelands Mixed media on shaped panel 19 x 52 x 7.5 in. $4,500.00
David French Nahcotta Mixed media on shaped panel 14 x 24 x 1.5 in. $2,000.00
David French Willapa Bay Mixed media on panel 9 x 14 x 2 in. $1,500.00 David French Convergence Mixed media on shaped panel 17 x 16 x 2.5 in. $1,800.00
JOYCE GEHL
Joyce Gehl’s paintings are influenced by the art of photo-impressionists and informed by her environment and her life experiences, and lean toward creating a visual exploration of her feelings. Once known strictly as an encaustic painter, Gehl has embarked on a new series of paintings that embrace a new medium of resin. Although still rendering ethereal compositions, the resin surface is hi gh gloss and the resulting paintings are strikingly different than that of encaustic. While nature is often the subject, she does not seek to replicate it, but rather to create an al tered representation of the world that she envisions through her mind’s eye; a place where color, texture, nature and form combine to illicit feelings of calm, rest, joy, love, contemplation.
Her art has been exhibited in galleries in the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Aspen, Vail, Boston and Atlanta and is included in corporate and private collections across the United States and South America. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Gehl works in her studio in the San Juan Islands overlooking the Puget Sound.
Joyce Gehl The Universe Surrenders Mixed media with resin on panel 36 x 36 in. $6,800.00
Joyce Gehl In the Sunlight of Friends Mixed media with resin on panel 34 x 64 in. $10,900.00
Joyce Gehl Solace Mixed media with resin on panel 36 x 22 in. $4,800.00
Joyce Gehl Cradled In Her Branches Mixed media with resin on panel 40 x 60 in. $12,000.00
T YSON GRUMM
Grumm’s pain tings invite us into a parallel world where fantastical animals come alive and eccentricities are born. His images appear as if freeze-framed from a surreal film, so rich and full of narrative, we catch only a moment of a much larger story yet to be told. Grounded in a hint of the commonplace – a recognizable object, a conversant glance between two figures, a charming nostalgia – Grumm uses these familiarities as a point of connection and departure. A boat becomes a backpack, a chair is fit for a bighorn sheep, a ping-pong table hosts a match between an ostrich and a beaver, a rocket ship reveals a rhino. Created entirely in the mind of the artist, his figures often hold historical significance, appearing to be both c haracters and caricatures, distinctive and unusual. These colorfu l and unique works engage our imagination in endless possibilities, le aving behind breadcrumb clues to a path only traveled along by dreamers.
Tyson Grumm was born in Newcastle, Wyoming, in 1972. He studied at Southern Oregon University where he received his Bachelors in Fine Art in 1996.
Tyson Grumm The Bear of Beeing (Finders Keepers) acrylic on panel 37 x 37 in. $10,000.00
Tyson Grumm Hive Mentality acrylic on panel 15 x 19 in. $3,400.00
Tyson Grumm Urban Farmer acrylic on panel 12 x 24 in. $3,500.00
Tyson Grumm Settle Back (The Boxtrich Annals) acrylic on panel 15 x 28 in. $4,500.00
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 tonguein-cheek approach to the serious subject of ocean degradation, painting meticulous 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, shotgun 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 overwhelming 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 Pop Seismology oil on canvas 24 x 24 in. $5,200.00
Karen Hackenberg Fatal If Swallowed oil on canvas 24 x 24 in. $5,200.00
JD HANSEN
JD Hansen creates art that explores the juxtaposition of vulnerability and strength using 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 handwriting 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 Ein Moment bronze 24 x 18 x 18 in. $16,800.00
JD Hansen Solo bronze 27 x 31 x 11 in. $23,500.00
JD Hansen Lovers bronze 55 x 18 x 15 in $36,000.00
IV Y JACOBSEN
Ivy Jacobsen takes daily walks through her neighborhood, studying the plants she encounters along the way, and finding fascination in their life cycles of growth and blooming . Her enchantment with flora and fauna is taken to magical heights in her whimsical paintings, which are composed of many thin layers of oil paint, bronzing powder, acrylic paint, resin, and other mixed medias on panel. With each semitransparent layer, the background recedes, crea ting an illusion of space in the imaginary environment, while revealin g the history within the painting. The depth of surface and the mystical charm of her works allow the viewer to fall into each painting, finding respite in Jacobsen’s warm reveries.
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 Greening oil, acrylic & collage on panel 48 x 48 in. $7,350.00
Ivy Jacobsen Intertwined no.2 oil, acrylic & collage on panel 36 x 48 in. $6,100.00
Kathy Jones
Interested in unexpected juxtapositions, Kathy Jones sets up a dialogue between her color relationships which pulsate and buzz with energy, and her subjects themselves which are quite restful and still. He r 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 graduation, she spent time in Cairo, Egypt teaching art and science. Followin g her successful career in academics, Kathy returned to California with a wealth of information, experience and wisdom to contribute to her paintings which she began to invest in fulltime. 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 surfaces in which she manipulates every layer of paint until each contributes to the exotic blend of radiant color.
Kathy Jones Sheltering cold wax on panel 12 x 9 in. $1,000.00
Kathy Jones Red Sky at Sunset oil on canvas 12 x 9 in. $1,000.00
Kathy Jones All Wrapped Up oil on canvas 12 x 9 in. $1,000.00
Kathy Jones Sunlight oil on canvas 58 x 34 in. $8,200.00
Kathy Jones Lighting Up oil on canvas 24 x 24 in. $2,650.00
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones
On the Surface
Encircled
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
36 x 24 in.
48 x 36 in.
$4,000.00
$7,225.00
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones
Stepping Up
Jagged Edges
oil on canvas
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in.
36 x 24 in.
$7,225.00
$4,000.00
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 expands the parameters of traditional painting and photography by combining them with digital technology, narrative text and resin surface on wood panels. By blending these mediums, she can push beyond conventional boundaries and create a new hybrid. Karver’s work is informed 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 Mythologies” was featured at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Sherry Karver In A Perfect World Photography, oil, & resin on panel with narrative text 44 x 24 in. $8,000.00
Sherry Karver The Inner Lives of Shadows Photography, oil, & resin on panel 32 x 32 in. $7,500.00
MARIANNE KOLB
Marianne Kolb’s work focuses on the human figure in a raw and emotive style. Her approach 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 mater ials 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 Pink! mixed media on canvas 18 x 15 in. $4,200.00
Marianne Kolb Siltent Majority mixed media on panel 10 x 10 in. $2,500.00
Marianne Kolb Beholders mixed media on panel 10 x 10 in. $2,500.00
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 Blue Keep V ceramic earthenware 28 x 13 x 13 in. $4,000.00
FRED LISAIUS
Fred Lisaius’ 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 Every Little Thing acrylic on panel 60 x 48 in. $8,900.00
PATRICK L oCICERO
Patrick LoCicero’s paintings represent his ongoing interest in combining overlap and collage, 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 associations. The overlap and collage elements relate directly to the images he depicts, guiding 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 ar tist sets up between the collaged surface and the painted surface, 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
Patrick LoCicero
Muse
Sideshow
oil & collage on canvas
oil & collage on canvas
24 x 20 in.
24 x 20 in.
$1,800.00
$1,800.00
Patrick LoCicero Circus Yogi oil & collage on canvas 24 x 20 in. $1,800.00
Patrick LoCicero Airship Travelers oil & collage on canvas 24 x 20 in. $1,800.00
Patrick LoCicero Strong Hold oil & collage on canvas 24 x 20 in. $1,800.00
LYNDA LOWE
Lowe’s practice often starts with research. Her current work shows a deep interest in the relationships between science and art, the psyche, and studies of human consciousness. 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 examination 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 University, Lowe taught university and graduate students for fifteen years in Illinois. She left her academic position, moved from Ch icago 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 country. 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, Switzerland, the Illinois State Museum of Art, the St. George Museum of Art, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and Seattle University.
Lynda Lowe Offerings IV watercolor, oil & wax on panel 48 x 20 in. $9,500.00
Lynda Lowe Book of Commons: Elements watercolor, oil & wax on panel 18 x 24 x 3 in. $5,500.00
Lynda Lowe Book of Commons: Ornithology watercolor, oil & wax on panel 18 x 24 x 3 in. $5,500.00
Lynda Lowe Temenos II watercolor, oil & wax on panel 38 x 32 in. $10,500.00
Lynda Lowe Beyond the Senses - Erhebung watercolor, oil & wax on panel 38 x 32 in. $10,500.00
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 p anels 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 overlaid 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 Hummingbird & Berries acrylic, charcoal, color pencil & paper on canvas 60 x 24 in. $5,000.00
JOSEPH MARUSK A
Joseph Maruska’s abstract paintings tend to read like classical music compositions. His undulating lines move and ripple across the painting surface and allow the viewer to interpret 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 modeling 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 Search Light oil on panel 36 x 36 in. $4,300.00
Joseph Maruska Never Too Much oil on panel 36 x 72 in. $9,500.00
Joseph Maruska As Far As The Night oil on panel 24 x 24 in. $2,500.00
K ATIE MET Z
Cities are where the action is and it’s their vitality and sizzling energy that inspire painter 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 city’s physical elements,” Metz says. “I want to paint the feeling of being there — bombarded daily with noise, traffic, diverse cultures, homelessness, graffiti and crowds of people, simultaneously surrounded by great architecture, world-class art and theater, and the richness that universities bring t o the mix. The challenge for me is to replicate that dynamism in my paintings.” Looking for something edgy to paint, Metz began hitting the streets day and night, shooting photos, sketching and taking notes. Her field experiences led to fresh and original portrayals of what it is to li ve in the city. Each painting begins with flurries of brushstrokes applied in multiple thi n 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 Skyline 2 acrylic on panel 32 x 32 in. $3,600.00
Katie Metz Skyline 7 acrylic on panel 16 x 37 in $2,100.00
Katie Metz Skyline 6 acrylic on panel 32 x 32 in $3,600.00
Katie Metz Skyline 4 acrylic on panel 18 x 30 in $1,900.00
Katie Metz Skyline 3 acrylic on panel 9 x 42 in $1,300.00
Katie Metz Skyline 5 acrylic on panel 18 x 48 in $3,000.00
RICHARD ROYAL
Richard Royal is recognized internationally as one of the most skilled and talented glassblowers 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.
Richard Royal Lapis Blue Exclamation (Diamond Cut Series) blown and cut glass 17 x 10 x 22 in. $20,000.00
JAME S SHAY
The paintings of James Shay bridge the gap between abstraction and landscape. Shay employs evocative, simple shapes and textured layers of strong color capturing the sensuous nature of rolling, oak-studded hills of the western landscape. His signature palette owes itself to a mastery of casein and tempera, giving the paintings a satisfying fresco-like matte finish. James Shay was born in South Dakota. He received his Bachelor Degree in Architecture from Arizona State University in 1971. In addition he has studied with Jay DeFeo, Hassel Smith, Jack Jefferson and David Hannah at the San Francisco Art Institute. Shay has enjoyed continuous representation in art galleries in the central and western US. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
James Shay Autumn casein on panel 29 x 22 in. $4,600.00
James Shay Into casein on panel 37 x 55 in. $7,800.00
James Shay Lone Oak casein on panel 29 x 17 in. $3,700.00
James Shay August casein on panel 18 x 29 in. $4,000.00
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 thei r stories, fables, mythical belonging, and rites of passage. 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 creates 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 Over & Over watercolor on paper 38.5 x 38.5 in. $4,600.00
KELLIE TALBOT
Talbot’s work revolves around the landscape of American artifacts, craftsmanship, and history. Signs, typography, architecture, industry, cemeteries and other emblems of society 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 Pegasus oil on canvas 48 x 48 in. $6,900.00
ALICIA TORMEY
Alicia Tormey works in encaustic, an ancient painting medium primarily made of beeswax and tree resin. This wax-based material is difficult to manipulate and some what unpredictable 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 constantly experimenting in my studio and pushi ng 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 persona lized 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 fascination 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 Aria encaustic, shellac and ink on wood 16 x 16 in. $1,600.00
Alicia Tormey Dreamscape encaustic & shellac on wood 12 x 24 in. $1,700.00
Alicia Tormey Prairie (diptych) encaustic & shellac on wood 40 x 60 in $12,800.00
Alicia Tormey Confluence encaustic & shellac on wood 30 x 40 in. $6,400.00
Alicia Tormey Blue Drift encaustic & shellac on wood 48 x 36 in. $9,000.00
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 opti cal 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 internationally, 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 projects 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
Liz Tran
Mirror 54
Mirror 56
mixed media on panel
mixed media on panel
12 x 12 in.
12 x 12 in.
$800.00
$800.00
Liz Tran
Liz Tran
Mirror 59
Mirror 58
mixed media on panel
mixed media on panel
12 x 12 in.
12 x 12 in.
$800.00
$800.00
Liz Tran Mirror 57 mixed media on panel 12 x 12 in. $800.00
Liz Tran Worlds Within Worlds mixed media on panel 24 x 24 in. $2,000.00
Liz Tran Perseid Two mixed media on panel 24 x 30 in. $2,500.00
Mirror 52 mixed media on panel 36 x 48 in. $5,400.00
Liz Tran Mirror 48 mixed media on panel 36 x 36 in. $4,000.00
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 creates 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 surf aces, 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, often working within the two mediums simultaneously.
Terry Turrell Party Hat oil & enamel on board 24 x 18 in. $2,500.00
Terry Turrell Garden Music oil & enamel on wood 30 x 40 in. $5,500.00
Terry Turrell Still Life #2 acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 in. $2,500.00
Terry Turrell Ruby & Pearl oil & enamel on board 12 x 9 in. $1,800.00
Terry Turrell Above the Sky, Below the Moon oil & enamel on board 11 x 14 in. $1,900.00
TAL WALTON
Tal Walton’s brilliantly luminous paintings are structured with a logical and even spiritual 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, conv eying the feeling of variant memories and realities. Recognizing that each individual brings their own experience into the inte rpretation of art, Walton embraces the collective and universal qualities of landscape that speak to us all. Working in a complex process involving 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 bachelor’s degree in painting and sculpture.
Tal Walton Moon Dance oil, gold leaf & marble ground on panel 49 x 49 in $15,500.00
Tal Walton Sky Frost oil & marble ground on panel 40 x 50 in. $13,500.00
Tal Walton Along the Horizon oil, gold leaf & marble ground on panel 49 x 49 in. $15,500.00
AUDRA WE A SER
Audra Weaser is an American painter and sculptor living in Los Angeles, CA. She was r aised in Southern California and was inspired early on by the vast seascapes and landscapes sug gestive of endless possibility. Nature in an abstracted or reflected state has always been an inspiration for Weaser—from the play of light on oceans or streams to mystical forests. Such scenes often evoke power ful, emotionally charged memories that she aims to elicit in the viewer. Weaser starts by intuitively building layers of paint over loose charcoal sketches. Once the composition emerges, the artist refines it to a certain point, then obscures it with a veil of white until the initial colors disappear. She then excavates through the layers of paint in a physically intense sanding process that ultimately reveals a dynamic contrast between color and composition; physical form and poetic experience. Weaser earned her B.F.A. from Laguna College of Art and Design and her M.F.A in painting from Claremont Graduate University. Since then, she has exhibited extensively and her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world—from New York and San Francisco to Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.
Audra Weaser Warm Light acrylic, plaster & metalic pigments on panel 48 x 48 in $9,500.00
Audra Weaser Sea Dreams acrylic, plaster & metalic pigments on panel 40 x 60 in $9,500.00
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 Mistress 1 stone & fiber 6 x 6 x 16 in (approx) $3,000.00
Deloss Webber Vanity Series 1-9 stone & fiber 3 x 3 x 13 in each (varies) $1,250.00 each
Deloss Webber Mistress 2 stone & fiber 6 x 6 x 16 in (approx) $3,000.00
Deloss Webber Mistress 3 stone & fiber 6 x 6 x 16 in (approx) $3,000.00
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 complex, 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 lo ok beyond the mundane to experience a unique and timeless look at life.
Z.Z. Wei Deep Winter oil on canvas 36 x 48 in. $17,000.00
LE SLIE WU
The paintings of Leslie Wu are gleaned from memory, experience, and observation reflecting 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 Custodians of Silence oil on canvas 36 x 36 in. $6,200.00
Leslie Wu The Refrain oil on canvas 36 x 36 in. $6,200.00
Leslie Wu Morning Benediction oil on canvas 24 x 48 in. $5,500.00
Leslie Wu Untouched oil on canvas 24 x 48 in. $5,500.00
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 Bird Rider 4 ceramic 23 x 11 x 12 in. $4,200.00
Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada
Head 2
Head 4
ceramic
ceramic
11 x 9 x 8 in.
9.5 x 11 x 10 in.
$950.00
$950.00
Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada
Head 5
Head 6
ceramic
ceramic
11 x 11 x 8 in.
13 x 8 x 8 in.
$950.00
$950.00
Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada
Head 3
Head 7
ceramic
ceramic
11 x 8 x 7 in.
9.5 x 9 x 8 in.
$950.00
$950.00
Kensuke Yamada Head 1 ceramic 11 x 9 x 9 in. $950.00
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