Photographer Andrea Comsky specializes in color photography of remote and isolated locations, including the haunting moors and islands of Great Britain and the outposts of Antarctica. She works exclusively with film and the images are not digitally manipulated.
Comsky is also a concert cellist, and the intersection of music and art has been a defining influence in her work.
“Capture … A Cellist’s Perspective,” an exhibit of Comsky’s fine art photography, runs Thursday through July 6 at the Bayview Cash Store Front Room, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley.
Full of color, texture and mood: Artists Yanshu Hsu and Karen Fox have a way of evoking the French Impressionists in their paintings. Hsu and Fox offer diverse perspectives from the classical to the whimsical. Fox is known for her playful depictions of animals as well as her Northwest seascapes. Hsu brings the reminders of spring to life with her florals as well as her marina-themed paintings.
The two artists will be on display through July 13 at Cole Gallery &Artists’ Supplies, 107 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds.
Through the lens: The students in photography instructor Michael Wewer’s ArtsNow class are ready to display the Northwest scenes they’ve captured on camera.
The photographs are on display through July 3 at the ArtsNow Gallery at the Edmonds Conference Center, 201 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds.
Flowers and fairies: Christine Meshew paints watercolor flowers and fairies playfully posing in yoga positions, which brings energy and visual excitement and a challenge to viewers who try to find the fairies among the blossoms.
Meshew’s paintings are on display at Gallery North, 508 Main St., Edmonds. She has been featured in shows throughout Washington and Oregon as well as at her own gallery in the Greenlake district of Seattle.
The river runs next to it: Artist Cheri O’Brien has a view of the Snohomish River from the window of her new studio in Lowell. Her new locale, including the bend in the river, has inspired a new series of landscape art.
O’Brien’s new landscapes can be seen starting at 6 tonight and also from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Lowell Art Works, 5205 S. Second Ave., Everett.
Through the eyes of a child: This year’s Art Walk in Old Town Mukilteo celebrates art as seen through children’s eyes as each display will include artwork from the town’s youth.
The Art Walk takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. the last Wednesday of each month in the summer: June 25, July 30 and Aug. 27. The artwork will be in various locations throughout Old Town including Rosehill Community Center, Whidbey Coffee and Cafe, and the Art Workshop Studio. Maps are available at The Art Building, 724 First St.
The ages of the children participating range from 4 to 14 and offer a reminder of the spontaneity and colorful simplicity of the world that we sometimes forget.
“The Violet Hour”: Borrowing a phrase from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” this exhibition presents the artists’ view of alternative realities that could emerge from the socio-political strife and environmental degradation now accumulating on the global stage.
That’s according to the Web site at Henry Art Gallery where “The Violet Hour” exhibition is on display through Oct. 12. The opening reception is at 8 tonight at the gallery on the University of Washington campus, 15th Avenue NE and NE 41st Street, Seattle.
“The Violet Hour” features video, sculpture and two-dimensional works. Featured artists are:
Matthew Day Jackson, who debuts three new works, including a sculpture consisting of a crashed race car frame lit with low rider effects and an immense wood panel “painting” depicting the constellations of the night sky, made from the coin currencies of many nations.
Jen Liu, whose videos and large-scale watercolor drawings feature the “Brethren of the Stone,” a back-to-nature cult that clashes with modern industrial society.
David Maljkovic, a Croatian artist whose videos and collaged photographs “depict his generation as lost and listless souls unmoored from their own heritage by years of warfare,” according to the Web site.
Uncle Elizabeth’s: Snohomish County artists Kathleen “Binky” Bergsman and Karon Leigh are showing at Uncle Elizabeth’s Internet Cafe, 1123 Pike St., on Seattle’s Capitol Hill in Seattle through the end of July.
Leigh is a mixed media artist specializing in printmaking and encaustic work. She said landscapes are most often the imagery of her artwork, noting that “landscapes allow us to see how we fit into the world.”
Bergsman uses a variety of media including encaustic, pastel and print. Because of her encaustic paintings, the sweet smell of beeswax wafts through her home while she paints, scrapes and sculpts her art. In the encaustic work, Bergsman creates the medium itself, with molten beeswax, pigment and other ingredients to ensure it hardens and is durable.
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