“Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints” is the latest exhibition on display from April 1 to July 4 at Seattle Art Museum.
This exhibition brings together prints from the most renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, along with some of the most well-known prints, “Great Wave off Kanagawa” and “Red Fuji.”
These Japanese woodblock prints demonstrate an evocative play between delicate ink lines and rich blocks of color in portraits of beautiful women, kabuki actors and others in jewel-like landscapes of famous places, according to press material on the show.
Drawn from the Mary and Allan Kollar Collection, this installation introduces the region to a collection of prints, all taken from early impressions and in excellent condition.
Seattle Art Museum is at 1300 First Ave., Seattle. Tickets are $15, $12 and $9 and children 12 and under are free. For more information call 206-654-3100 or go to www.seattleartmuseum.org.
“The Best of Seasons”: The names are different but the artistic talent shows a genetic link.
Islander’s Restaurant is presenting a collection of art by mother and son Ann Cory and Jed Dorsey.
Sponsored by Seagrass Gallery, the exhibition comprises 12 original acrylic paintings and one archival giclee reproduction. It’s the first time Cory has shown with her son.
Dorsey was inspired to start serious painting while visiting art galleries on vacation with his wife in Whistler, British Columbia.
Dorsey was so fired up, he said, that he purchased acrylic paints in Whistler and started immediately.
Today, his work can be seen in collections across the Northwest.
Dorsey inspired his mother to restart the art career she postponed to raise her family. Cory said she took her first lesson in acrylics from her son outside on a warm June day in 2005 and she has been painting in acrylics ever since.
Cory was selected as the poster artist for the 2009 Camano Island Mother’s Day Studio Art tour and the 2010 Port Susan Snow Goose Festival.
Cory paints in the kitchen of her own mother, who is 102 and who reads aloud to her while she paints.
“The Best of Seasons” is on view through April at Islander’s Restaurant, 848 N. Sunrise Blvd., Camano Island.
Childlike enthusiasm: Issaquah artist Rita Gesinger has a childlike love of exploring how spots of color advance and recede to produce tension and life in a painting.
Gesinger’s canvases display her enthusiasm as her paintings pop with simple elegance and warmth.
In discovering oil bars — oil paint in stick form, like big crayons — Gesinger’s artistic world has opened up more to new forms of expression, helping her produce paintings that are intense and vibrant.
Gesinger’s work has been selected for juried exhibits and she has paintings, murals and sculpture in a number of churches and schools in Washington and Alaska.
Gesinger’s paintings are on view through April 30 at the Edmonds Library, 650 Main St., Edmonds.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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