Paintings by Susie Wind on display through July
Published 1:35 pm Thursday, July 12, 2007
The paintings of local artist Susie Wind have been compared to those of American artists Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, and are now on display in Mountlake Terrace.
The show runs through July 31 at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W.
Like her famous contemporaries, Wind presents scenes that are familiar and haunting, that capture a sense of loneliness and solitary moments. Wind has exhibited her oil and acrylic paintings in various shows, including the Women’s National Juried Competition.
Artistic survival: Everett native Melyssa A. Harmon took up art after a series of occipital strokes led her to find a new form of self-expression.
Her work will be shown throughout July at Meyer’s Cafe, 1700 W. Marine View Drive, Everett.
Harmon presents a unique use of swirls and uses acrylic paint on textured linen paper or stretched canvas to display interesting characters as well as colorful, earthy florals, trees and suns. Last June, Harmon created and contributed a large nautical-themed piece for Dawson Place, a new children’s advocacy center, through a partnership with Leadership Snohomish County and the Everett YWCA.
A tapestry of art: The Edmonds Arts Commission is presenting an exhibit of tapestries by Gloria Mae Campbell in the commission’s display case at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., through July.
Campbell, raised in the canoe country of northern Minnesota, was taught to knit at an early age by an aunt, instilling in her a life-long interest in fibers and design. Another aunt gave her a toy loom on which she wove small mats for her family.
After college, she worked as an interior designer with Glass-Huebner Associates, a Chicago architecture and industrial design firm, and she later designed textiles for Cannon Mills in New York City. Campbell married and moved to the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s and set up a weaving studio.
Pouring out the art: ARTSplash in Edmonds is drenching the public in art with a show and sale, artists in action and an auction, all in downtown Edmonds.
The main event takes place from Thursday through July 22 at ArtWorks, 201 Second Ave., Edmonds. Hours are noon to 8 p.m. Thursday during Edmonds’ Art Walk and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 20-22. Details are available at www.artsplash-edmonds.com.
More than 50 local members of ArtistsConnect will display their work – oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, prints, photography, clay, fiber and jewelry – at ARTSplash. During the four-day show, display artists will be on hand to answer questions, discuss their work and explain their techniques. Live demonstrations also will take place under canopies in front of the ArtWorks building. A silent auction of smaller works will take place during the show.
The “Salmon Run” takes visitors to 20 merchants’ shops in downtown Edmonds where stoneware salmon decorated by ArtistsConnect members will be on display.
What’s your impression: This exhibition promises to push the limits of landscape painting by featuring 40 new oil paintings by impressionist artist and Women Painters of Washington member Linda Bean, who showcases a deep color palette with fresh views of the Northwest.
The show begins with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Kaewyn Gallery, 10101 Main St., Bothell. It runs through Aug. 8.
Bask in art: Whidbey Allied Artists is holding its annual art show and sale featuring original works by Whidbey Island artists working in media such as watercolors, oil, collage, sculpture, basketry, photography, mixed media, ceramics and stained glass.
The opening reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Coupeville Recreation Center, 901 NW Alexander St., Coupeville. The reception will feature vocalist Brenda Pike, and refreshments will be served. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through July 22.
Artists will be present during the show to answer questions. Demonstrations in different media are scheduled daily. Admission and parking are free.
Affect/Effect: A new show presents the artistic grouping of six artists who had a unique opportunity to work together over a two-week period in May 2006 through the Hauberg Residency Program at Pilchuck International Glass School. The installation explores the optical properties of glass and the relationship between image and glass that is created through fusing, embedding or projecting.
The exhibit will run though the summer at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Admission is $5, $4 seniors, $2 students.
Artists in the installation are Mark Zirpel, who will present an aquatic optical device; Brian Boldon, whose interests focus on our evolving experience with digital media; Ben Wright, whose work explores time-lapse photography and moving 3-D glass forms; Rebecca Cummins, who explores the sculptural, experiential and sometimes humorous possibilities of light and natural phenomena; Robert Campbell, who combines glass and video, and Jim Butler, whose approach to 2-D glass schematic forms has an innovative use of color and scale.
Home is where the stone is: Foster/White Gallery is presenting a new series of stone sculpture by Will Robinson titled “Home,” which unveils the curves of nature in solid columnar basalt.
Robinson’s work is featured in many public collections, including the Bellevue Botanical Gardens and Seattle’s Harbor Steps.
Along with Robinson’s show, Jamie Evrard will depict the fragility of life through the metaphor of wilting flowers.
The show will run through July 21 at Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., Suite 100, Seattle.
Egret tapestry, Gloria Mae Campbell
C.B. Bell III photo
“Leaf,” Mark Zirpel
C.B. Bell III photo
“A reflection on the persistence of fruitless labors,” Ben Wright
