KIPPI LEONARD | 1965
KIPPI LEONARD
1965
APRIL 27 - MAY 25, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION - FIRST THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2024 FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024 at 2:00PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce exhibition, 1965, from artist Kippi Leonard. Her exhibition, 1965, is a tribute to the aesthetics of the 60’s paying homage to the decade, and year the artist was born.
1965 will be on view online and in the Gallery April 27 – May 25, 2024. A Public Opening Reception will be held, First Thursday, May 2, 2024, from 5-8pm. An artist talk will be held, Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:00pm
1965 initiates a conversation with the past, blending the vibrant hues of the era's fashion, industry color palettes, and interior design with shapes characteristic of mid-century modern design.
Leonard’s textured and bold compositional paintings reveal subtle nuances of unearthed moments. As one studies the work, the generous depth of layers within her paintings are revealed.
Washington native, Kippi Leonard, is known for elements of tension, tranquility, and depth. Now working from her studio in Cathedral City, California, Leonard works with a diverse palette of materials including oil paints, desert sand she gathers, cold wax, graphite, charcoal, oil sticks, and pastels.
She was a recipient of La Jolla Fine Art Festival, CA, First Place Painting Award, and Indian Wells Fine Art Festival, CA, Second Place Mixed Media Painting Award.
Leonard’s work can be found in numerous private collections across the US, Hong Kong, London, UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Dublin Ireland, and Switzerland.
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AVAILABLE ARTWORK
KIMBERLY TROWBRIDGE | Field and Figure
KIMBERLY TROWBRIDGE
FIELD AND FIGURE
JUNE 1 - JUNE 26, 2024
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2024, FROM 2-4PM (Register here to attend Kimberly Trowbridge’s Exhibition Preview)
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2024, FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, JUNE 22, AT 1:00PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce the exhibition, Field and Figure, from artist Kimberly Trowbridge. Her exhibition, Field and Figure, approaches nature through the lens of Renaissance painting: the construction of characters interacting on a stage.
Field and Figure will be on view online and in the Gallery June 1 – June 26, 2024. A Preview Reception will be held Saturday, June 1, 2024, from 2-4pm. A Public Opening Reception will be held First Thursday, June 6, 2024, from 5-8pm. The artist will join us for a discussion about her work on Saturday, June 22, at 1:00pm
Within Field and Figure, Trowbridge combines color, shape, and rhythm to leap into the unknown, into the present relationships building on our surface. Field and Figure exists right in front of us, an observation of the figure as an invented construction.
Working plein air, Trowbridge unearths images that challenge perception and reveal structures describing the artist’s experience. The boundaries of the self are blurred and the connection to our environment is revealed as deeply intertwined.
Of her work, Trowbridge states: “Painting is a way of life, a continued effort to translate experience into a meaningful, visual document. Looking to the past gives us wonderful nuggets of wisdom, attitudes for entering, clues on the path through the deep forest of our own consciousness.”
Kimberly Trowbridge is a painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She received her MFA from the University of Washington (2006). Her first solo museum show at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2021) was developed during her time as Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve (2018-2020), a 150-acre garden amid an old growth forest.She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She is the Director of the Modern Color Atelier, a multi-year painting program at Gage Academy of Art, Seattle. Her work can be found in various private and public collections throughout the US, including Facebook (Meta), Microsoft Art Collection, and the King County Public Art Collection.
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CLYDE PETERSEN | Naïve Melody
CLYDE PETERSEN
NAÏVE MELODY
JUNE 29 - JULY 24, 2024
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2024 2-4PM
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, JULY 11, FROM 5-8PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce exhibition, Naïve Melody, a collection of new work from Northwest artist Clyde Petersen. This collection of limited-edition serigraphs features lyrics, poems, and prose accompanying hand-drawn images and photographs by Petersen and local collaborators. In Naïve Melody, Petersen searches for a home, hidden somewhere between collective queer history and individual memory.
Naïve Melody will be on view online and in the Gallery June 29 – July 24, 2024. A Preview Reception will be held Saturday, June 29, from 2-4pm accompanied by a live performance by Petersen’s band, Your Heart Breaks, with special guest, Lori Goldston. A Public Opening Reception will be held First Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 5-8pm.
Clyde Petersen (they/he) is a transgender Northwest artist, working in film, animation, music, installation, and fabulous spectacle. He re-creates lost worlds and documents queer culture that has been largely erased by AIDS, capitalism and gentrification. He works to offer alternate, more equitable realities and futures through the reexamination of overlooked histories of queer communities. His work is slow and patient, gathering new oral histories and building scale-model worlds to tell stories in.
In 2019, Clyde founded The Fellow Ship Artist Residency, a paid residency for queer and BIPOC artists to spend a week on Guemes Island in the Salish Sea. He lives in a wooden boat on land on Guemes Island, works on films, and runs the residency space.
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Naïve Melody
Exhibition Statement
Naïve Melody is a collection of new work from Northwest artist Clyde Petersen. This collection of limited-edition serigraphs features lyrics, poems, and prose accompanying hand-drawn images and photographs by Petersen and local collaborators. In Naïve Melody, Petersen searches for a home, hidden somewhere between collective queer history and individual memory.
AVAILABLE ARTWORK COMING SOON
SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR | 2024
SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR
BOOTH #C14
APRIL 25 - 28, 2024
J. Rinehart Gallery is visiting the Bay Area again for the 2024 San Francisco Art Fair!
We are thrilled to attend San Francisco Art Fair, an Art Fair that designs, builds, promotes and produces important cultural experiences worldwide. San Francisco Art Fair exhibits vibrant and experimental Art Galleries who define the West Coast’s thriving Arts Community.
Visit us at Booth C14 for an exhibition of vibrant delights and mastery of material featuring installations by Julie Alpert, Maggie Jiang, Katy Stone, and guest artist Catherine McMillan.
Contact the Gallery for complimentary fair passes if you are meeting us in San Francisco.
Check out their website for more information.
J. Rinehart Gallery will operate under normal opening hours Thursday April 25 - Saturday April 27, 2024.
Select VIP Preview
Thursday, April 25, 2024: 5—6pm
Exclusive Entry for Select VIPs
Opening Evening
Thursday, April 25, 2024: 6— 9pm
Exclusive Entry for Fair Pass Holders and Select VIPs
Public Hours
Friday, April 26, 2024: 11am—7pm
Saturday, April 27, 2024: 11am—7pm
Sunday, April 28, 2024 – 11am—6pm
AVAILABLE ARTWORK
CATHERINE McMILLAN
J. Rinehart Gallery is honored to include a special selection of ceramic works by guest Artist, Catherine McMillan. McMillan’s ceramic donuts are for purchase in person only at San Francisco Art Fair!
Catherine McMillan is a full-time, self-taught artist from Ancaster, Ontario currently residing in Seattle, Washington. She holds a BSc in Nutritional Sciences, a MSc in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, and has been pursuing a career in the arts since 2017.
Catherine was primarily focused on painting, exhibiting her hyper realistic airbrushed stencil works locally and internationally before becoming a full-blown ceramics addict. She has an interest in capturing the nuanced and often unarticulated elements that somehow cue a strong emotional response in viewers. She also has a passion for creating exhibits using an overwhelming number of smaller pieces to amplify that strong emotional response.
Her methods and process are both heavily influenced by her academic and research background. When Catherine isn’t working on her art, she is running the ceramics studio she co-owns. She is a social introvert, a published author, and enjoys the psychology of art.
JAN HOY | Fluidity
JAN HOY
FLUIDITY
MARCH 30 - APRIL 24, 2024
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 2-4PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024, at 1:00PM
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, APRIL 4, FROM 5-8PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce exhibition, Fluidity, from long time sculptor, Jan Hoy. Hoy’s exhibition, Fluidity, combines the hard edged and the organic, celebrating form in the simplest possible way.
Fluidity will be on view online and in the Gallery March 30 – April 24, 2024. Collectors Preview Reception will be held in the gallery Saturday, March 30 from 2 - 4pm. Public Opening will be held First Thursday, April 4 from 5- 8pm.
Fluidity lies in the realm of curvilinear abstraction. The clay is stretched and molded to hold the measurements of a square, moving through space in a continuous curving motion.
Hoy’s forms appear strong and heavy, while graceful and engaging. They exist fluidly through their pathways of circular direction.
Of her work Hoy states: “The joy of experimenting with a new idea is at the core of the exhibition. The work adheres to my love of keeping it simple, at least they appear simple. Making these forms in clay is very complex and labor of love, each piece taking months to create.”
Jan Hoy was raised in the Puget Sound area, and it is where she calls home. She received her degree in Fine Arts from the University of Washington and has pursued a career in art to this date. Her large-scale works have found homes in both private and public collections including the Sutter Hill Cathedral Hospital in San Francisco, CA, Lake Oswego, Oregon, The City of La Conner, WA, and The Permanent Collection of the city of Bainbridge Island, WA. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of NW Art, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
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Exhibition Statement
Fluidity
The joy of experimenting with a new idea is at the core of the exhibit, “Fluidity”. I have a fascination with combining the hard edged and the organic in one form. I always keep it simple, as though at the very heart of my work I take pleasure from expressing form in the simplest possible way.In this exhibit my experiment involves the task of holding the measurements of a square form constant while moving it through space in a fluid, curving motion. Somehow, these forms turn out strong, while graceful and engaging. They adhere to my love of keeping it simple. At least they appear simple. Making these forms in clay is very complex and labor of love, each piece taking months to create.
AVAILABLE ARTWORK
SAYA MORIYASU | Ozekitachi 尾石達- Stone Tails
SAYA MORIYASU
OZEKITACHI 尾石達- STONE TAILS
MARCH 2 - MARCH 27, 2024
COLLECTORS PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024 3-5PM
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, MARCH 7, FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024 at 2:00PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce exhibition of long-time Seattle artist, Saya Moriyasu. Moriyasu’s exhibition, Ozekitachi 尾石達- Stone Tails, brings together the heightened awareness of Japanese spirits escaping from the depths of oozing hot water, basking in their first daylight, and encountering humans within their thermal wonders.
Ozekitachi 尾石達- Stone Tails will be on view online and in the Gallery March 2 - 27, 2024. Collectors Preview Reception will be held in the gallery Saturday, March 2 from 3-5pm. Public Opening will be held First Thursday, March 7 from 5-8pm. An Artist Talk will be held Saturday March 16 at 2:00pm.
The term "Ozekitachi" (尾石達) combines "Ozeki" (尾石), which can be interpreted as "tail of the stone,” and "tachi" (達), a suffix often used to pluralize or indicate a group of individuals. In Japanese, adding "tachi" to a noun or name can suggest a plural form or indicate a group. The family is comprised of Onsen (hot springs), creatures, members of the Ozeki.
The indigenous Japanese Shinto religion, Kami (gods), or spirits inhabit every facet of existence. Moriyasu highlights ancient geology and origin of life through her depictions of thermal creatures. They break through the mineral deposits of the Onsen, imbuing them with unadorned simplicity.
Moriyasu’s creatures communicate by expelling their minerals upon awakening beneath the surface. Using clay sourced from the earth, Moriyasu encapsulates these entities through their mineral dried mouths and eyes.
Of her work Moriyasu states: “During the road trip to my September 2023 residency at Mission Street Arts in New Mexico, a transformative journey unfolded, where the hot springs (onsen ♨ in Japanese) became a profound source of inspiration. I found myself enveloped in the wordless communication of the waters. Though incomprehensible in language, I felt the energy and presence of deities within the depths.”
Working in clay, wood, ink, and many other materials, Moriyasu’s work is often comprised of many small pieces that make up a larger piece. Her work can be found in the collections of the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Wing Luke Museum, Whatcom Museum, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, NW Museum of Arts and Culture, and Washington State University, as well as countless private collections throughout the U.S.
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Exhibition Statement
Ozekitachi 尾石達- Stone TailsDuring the road trip to my September 2023 residency at Mission Street Arts in New Mexico, a transformative journey unfolded, where the hot springs (Onsen ♨ in Japanese) became a profound source of inspiration. Immersing myself in the ancient geology and origins of life on Earth through these natural thermal wonders left an indelible mark on me.
From the onset, the sensation of oozing hot water, seeping from the depths, enthralled me. Floating serenely on my back at Pagosa Springs in Colorado, I found myself enveloped in the wordless communication of the waters. Though incomprehensible in language, I felt the energy and presence of deities within the depths. Jemez Springs, in contrast, revealed water trickling from small, mineral-dyed mouths, forming captivating layers formed by the springs. The emergence of their gentle voices from the depths of the earth enchanted me.
In the indigenous Japanese Shinto religion, kami (gods), or spirits, inhabit every facet of existence. The whimsy of animating (tail) what's perceived as an inanimate object (rock) in the Ozeki family name brings a smile to my face. A rock with a tail is a very Shinto way of looking at the world. My encounters with Onsen creatures heightened my awareness of these kami (gods) and spurred me to channel these emotions and sensations into my art.
Envisioning these creatures basking in their first daylight and encountering humans within the waters as they awakened to consciousness. They embody the energy rising from the depths, representing diverse stages of evolution—sometimes akin to gods, other times as unformed entities that aren’t quite “right.” Their creation is steeped in ancient geology, imbuing them with wisdom and unadorned simplicity. While they may lack a voice, they communicate by expelling minerals upon awakening beneath the earth's surface.
The ceramic process includes clay sourced from the earth and minerals for glazes, deepening the connection of my art to our planet and the historical roots of ceramics. I reflected on the whispers from the earth's kami, enriching the spiritual essence of my creations.
This journey—from the hot springs to the studio—has been transformative, allowing me to delve into the depths of our earth’s history and the connections binding us to nature. Through my art, I aspire to convey the encounter with these Onsen creatures and the ancient forces shaping our existence.
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MELANA BONTRAGER | Pentimenti
MELANA BONTRAGER
PENTIMENTI
JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 24, 2024
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024, 3-5PM
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2024, FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2024, FROM 2-4PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is excited to announce exhibition, Pentimenti, from painter Melana Bontrager. Bontrager tells the story of what lies beneath and the marks that remain below the surface. Somewhat familiar and somewhat strange, the landscapes consider passage of time. The curtain is pulled back and the change of direction, the pentimenti, is seen.
Pentimenti will be on view online and in the gallery January 27 – February 24, 2024. A Collectors Preview Reception will be held on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 3-5pm. The Public Opening will be held First Thursday February 1, 2024, 5-8pm.
Pentimenti tells the back-story of the process of creating. Through experimental mark-making, the artist documents the changes, or alters the course of any given painting.
Each piece in Bontrager’s exhibition is created from a well of personal experience, observation, musing, and wonder. These marks are made, covered, reworked, scraped to be revealed, and covered over again: ever-changing.
Bontrager’s hope is that beauty of these in-between places of pentimenti are found.
Of her work Bontrager states: “I’m interested in the fascinating, web-like link between all humanity, the places where we learn from each other when the experiences, choices, and philosophies touch, overlap, inform.”
Melana Bontrager has her BA in fine arts from Taylor University, Indiana and studied painting/drawing at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Her MA in Art Therapy from Hofstra University has contributed to the integration of emotion and intimacy in her creative process. Bontrager is included in numerous private and public collections throughout the US including The City of Everett, WA and The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle WA.
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Exhibition Statement
PentimentiThe concept of Pentimenti has always intrigued me. Pentimenti is a term that derives from the Italian verb “pentirsi” meaning to repent or change ones mind. In painting, this term refers to the marks made during the process of creating that change or alter the course of the painting. The pentimenti are what lie beneath, what tell the back-story, the marks that remain below the surface.
In June of 2023, I traveled to Europe for two weeks with a group of students from a small, Eastside school where I currently teach high school art. The trip is an annual tradition, designed for high school seniors as a culmination to their studies, providing them a chance to visit the locations of stories and art found in their history books. As a result, history has a chance to become a bit more real, ancient characters a bit more human.
The contagion of wonder in this fabulous group of young people was not lost on me. Though I’d done a fair bit of traveling before this trip, I suddenly felt like I was beholding these ancient spaces with new eyes as I walked through them, side by side, with members of the next generation, our observations and responses overlapping, shifting my view of history toward a moving, breathing shared thing rather than a static set of facts and legends.
History is story. It's the story of individuals and groups and cultures and kingdoms. Throughout the course of time, history layers these stories as paint on a canvas: marks are made, covered, reworked, scraped to be revealed, and covered over again: the masterpiece is ever-changing. The really good parts aren’t always the ones with glossy finish; more often they point to pentimento, a visual repent or change of direction.
The relationships between what has changed and what remains throughout history is of particular interest to me. I’m intrigued by the spaces where the curtain is pulled back and the change of direction, the pentimenti, is seen. I’m interested in the fascinating, web-like link between all humanity, the places where we learn from each other when the experiences, choices, and philosophies touch, overlap, inform.
The focus of the work in this show is an exploration of these interests and heavily influenced by my travels this past spring. Each piece is created from a combination of personal experience, observation, musing, and wonder. Somewhat familiar and somewhat strange, the landscapes are full of layers that consider the passage of time as well as the physical and emotional effects of its passage. My hope is that beauty be found in the places of pentimenti.
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JAZZ BROWN | the calm before the song
JAZZ BROWN
the calm before the song
JANUARY 4 - 24, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION - FIRST THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2024 FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK | IN CONVERSATION Q&A with THE ARTIST - JANUARY 20, 2024, FROM 2 - 4PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce exhibition, the calm before the song, from painter, Jazz Brown. Brown’s exhibition, the calm before the song, shines a light on the intangible and the tangible, the absolute and the relative.
the calm before the song will be on view online and in the gallery January 4 - 24, 2024. An opening reception will be held on First Thursday, January 4, 2024, from 5 - 8pm. An Artist Talk will be held in the Gallery, Saturday, January 20, 2024, from 2 - 4 pm.
the calm before the song showcases the immeasurable and the interconnected dance. Inspired by the expression of yin and yang, the collection uses shape and song as metaphor, encapsulating the sum of the spectrum of visible light and the totality of material. Black is used to convey the absence of light and form, ebb. White signifies the unicity of vibration, flow. Brown’s geometric abstractions are made up of interconnected cycles effortlessly unfolding.
Jazz Brown is an autodidact who uses acrylic paint to create vivid, expressive compositions. His artistic approach presents intense vibration through contrasting hues, shapes, and textures. He is inspired by both the Minimalism art movement and the Bebop jazz offspring from the 1960s. Brown describes his technique as "consciousnesses on canvas." The simplicity of Minimalism and the improvisation of Bebop birthed a style now known as "cosmic decomposition." Themes of oneness in a world obsessed with duality became the motif. What started as angular in nature morphed into curvaceous interconnected silhouettes. His work is included in several collections including Microsoft, Facebook (Meta), The Seattle Convention Center, and SEATAC Airport.
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Exhibition Statement
the calm before the songThe survey showcases the immeasurable and the interconnected dance. Inspired by the expression of yin and yang, the collection uses shape and song as metaphor, encapsulating the sum of the spectrum of visible light and the totality of material.
Black is used to convey the absence of light and form, ebb. White signifies the unicity of vibration, flow. The exhibition shines a light on the intangible and the tangible, the absolute and the relative.
AVAILABLE ARTWORK
EMILY GHERARD | Closer to the Bone
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our second exhibition of new work by Seattle-based painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, Emily Gherard. Gherard’s exhibition, Closer to the Bone, continues the artist’s work in response to Käthe Kollwitz’s drawing, The Mothers.
Within Closer to the Bone, a powerful emotional narrative is conveyed through off-balance compositions. A collection of monochromatic paintings on transparent fabric stretched over shaped frames, Gherard’s contrast use of mark-making and materials evoke a unique narrative. Continuing her tradition of deriving compositions and forms from historical figurative paintings, in this new work, Gherard draws inspiration from historical works by Edward Vuillard, Kathe Kollwitz, and Victorian Hidden Mother photos.
SUSANNA BLUHM | Country Painting with Ghosts
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our second solo exhibition from painter, Susanna Bluhm. Bluhm’s exhibition, Country Painting with Ghosts, continues to explore experiences the artist had in “red” states in the U.S. Bluhm’s semi abstract landscape paintings provide opportunities to have emotions, other than anger and fear, as an American.
Country Painting with Ghosts experiments with creating new environments. An individual painting can become a new place in and of itself. Sensations of things that might happen within a landscape, such as weather, touch, temperature, sex, or noise. Semi-abstract “characters” show up in the paintings and suggest meanings with their repetition and associations with each other.
ART ON PAPER | New York City, NY 2023
J. Rinehart Gallery is making our way across the country and heading to New York City! We are thrilled to join Art On Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art.
KIM VAN SOMEREN | Mistaken for Measure
J. Rinehart Gallery announces our second solo exhibition by artist and educator, Kim Van Someren. Van Someren’s exhibition, Mistaken for Measure, brings together an intense body of work understanding that metaphorical gender and intentness of structure can be altered through mark making.
KELDA MARTENSEN | Groundwork
J. Rinehart Gallery announces our second solo exhibition by collage artist, printmaker and educator, Kelda Martensen. Martensen’s exhibition, Groundwork, showcases a series of innovations in printmaking while calling attention to the foundational techniques themselves – a move to place craft, process, and the artist’s hand in plain sight.
JUNKO YAMAMOTO | Cosmic Web
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce our first solo exhibition with Seattle based painter and soft sculpture installation artist, Junko Yamamoto. Her exhibition, Cosmic Web, brings together a collection of abstract paintings that contemplate the energy that binds together all of existence, from the vast — the air, the universe — to the microscopic — molecules, cells — to make it one.
SEATTLE ART FAIR | 2023
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to attend our third year at Seattle Art Fair, a one-of-a-kind showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest.
Visit J. Rinehart Gallery at Booth C09 to see a collection of emotionally expressive, abstracted landscapes from working women artists in the Pacific Northwest, featuring Susanna Bluhm, Jaq Chartier, Sue Danielson, Lesley Frenz, Eva Funderburgh, Jan Hoy, Maggie Jiang, Saya Moriyasu, Kate Protage, and announcing new Gallery Artist, Kimberly Trowbridge.
Additionally, we are honored to include the works of Gallery guest Artist, Catherine McMillan.
SHAUN KARDINAL | This Is How We Learn
J. Rinehart Gallery announces our second solo exhibition from artist Shaun Kardinal. His exhibition, This is How We Learn, continues his work in embroidery and weaving to simultaneously destroy and fortify paper ephemera, extending the temporal dimension with intentional exposure to sunlight.
ANNE HIRONDELLE | In the Layers
J. Rinehart Gallery is honored to announce our first solo exhibition with expert ceramicist, Anne Hirondelle. Hirondelle’s exhibition, In the Layers, transforms three-dimensional works in two-dimensions. Flattened behind glass, folds, lines, and shadows combine to form geometric drawings.
JOSEPH STEININGER | Coping Mechanisms
J. Rinehart Gallery announces our second solo exhibition with artist and innovator, Joseph Steininger. His exhibition, Coping Mechanisms groups together the effects of motivation, distraction, and wait caused by unavoidable isolation. Steininger guides the viewers through his coping mechanism, using raw imagery of stillness found in cities.
ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO | 2023
J. Rinehart Gallery is driving down the West Coast and heading to San Francisco! We are thrilled to join Art Market San Francisco, an Art Fair that designs, builds, promotes and produces important cultural experiences worldwide. Art Market San Francisco exhibits vibrant and experimental Art Galleries who define the West Coast’s thriving Arts Community.
SUE DANIELSON | Lost and Found
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce our first solo exhibition with Seattle based painter and multimedia installation artist, Sue Danielson. Her exhibition, Lost and Found, brings together a group of abstract paintings rich with ecological patterns of urban forests and watersheds. Using an array of materials, Danielson finds what was not lost, but hidden.
LESLEY FRENZ | The Longing is the Return
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our second solo exhibition with acrylic painter and watercolorist, Lesley Frenz. Her exhibition, The Longing is the Return, brings together a collection of emotionally expressive landscape paintings that recall moments of loss and the forever existing connections, still fresh, through longing.
GALA BENT | The Garden at Night
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our first exhibition from multidisciplinary artist, painter, and illustrator, Gala Bent. Her exhibition, The Garden at Night, explores the limits of our understandings through development and decomposition. Meditation on the brevity and preciousness of life lies within the realm of Bent’s exhibition. Dig your hands into the dirt and join us in The Garden at Night.
LAKSHMI MUIRHEAD | As If
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our second Exhibition of large-scale mixed media paintings by artist Lakshmi Muirhead. Her exhibition, As If, groups together a display of paintings that embody the exploration of art without limitations or bounds. As If satisfies an audience of one—the artist themself—to revel in the process of making.
KATE PROTAGE | Home and Away
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce Home and Away, our first exhibition of long-time Seattle artist, Kate Protage, and her first solo exhibition in over 6 years.
Best known for her details of individual shape and expressive brush stroke, Home and Away lives in the realm of a series of value changes and textural rhythms. The farther back you step away from the work, the clearer it becomes.
BREW | A Pop Up Exhibition of Ceramic Mugs, Curated by Marge Levy
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our pop up Exhibition of ceramic mugs, BREW, curated by Marge Levy.BREW is a functional exhibition of over 150 pieces of original ceramic vessels by nearly 60 PNW Ceramic Artists.
During the Opening Reception, visitors are invited to take the piece they purchase off of the shelf, and enjoy some BREWed coffee and tea in their new mug.
The ceramic artworks included in this exhibition will not be for sale online! Visitors must come in and view the works in person. The majority of mugs are priced at $100 and under, with few gems by well known Artists.
With over 60 unique ceramic artists participating, you are bound to find something you love to put your beverage in!
A portion of Gallery sales will be donated to Pottery Northwest, as a welcome to the Pioneer Square neighborhood.
KELLY BJORK | Swimming Naked
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our first solo exhibition with illustrator, painter, and muralist Kelly Björk. Her Exhibition, Swimming Naked is a collection of intimate vignettes illustrating moments of queer joy and self-expression/identity.
Swimming Naked shares the sensations of self-discovery and queer identity, all depicting quiet moments of emotional wellbeing. Narratives of intimate relationships reveal a world of tenderness within the realm of Kelly Björk’s Exhibition. Jump in, swim naked, the water is fine.
MOSES SUN | 21 Chambers: A New Beginning
J. Rinehart Gallery announces our first solo exhibition with multi-media artist, muralist, and curator, Moses Sun. 21 Chambers: A New Beginning is a collection of large-scale digital and analog paintings based on the artists own memories and experiences.
SCALE
We are thrilled to announce SCALE, an exhibition of large scale works by our Gallery Artists.
Work by Susanna Bluhm, Sue Danielson, Emily Gherard, Kelda Martensen, Guy Palmer Merrill, Lakshmi Muirhead, and guest artist Jan Hoy come together for an impactful and comprehensive exhibition of grandeur.
SCALE will be on view from August 4 - September August 27, 2022.
Join us for the Opening Reception of SCALE, First Thursday August 4, 2022 from 5 - 8pm!
SEATTLE ART FAIR
J. Rinehart Gallery will be at Booth C13! Join us for a show stopping exhibition featuring BRAND NEW WORK by Emily Gherard, Meggan Joy, and Shaun Kardinal and Moses Sun.
J. Rinehart Gallery is bringing our Emerald City Sofa, and amazing artists to Lumen Field! We are thrilled to be back at Seattle Art Fair, as we officially launched the Gallery at the 2019 Seattle Art Fair. Featuring one of a kind artworks from our vibrant art community of the Pacific Northwest, and Beyond, Seattle Art Fair is a destination for the best in modern and contemporary art.
Visit J. Rinehart Gallery at Booth C13 for an exhibition of color and process from Jaq Chartier, Emily Gherard, Ariana Heinzman, Shaun Kardinal, Meggan Joy, Daisy Patton, Katy Stone, and Moses Sun.
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MAGGIE JIANG | I-CHING THROUGH THICK & THIN
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce our first solo exhibition with Chinese American artist Maggie Jiang. In I-Ching Through Thick and Thin, Jiang incorporates the visual vocabulary of the sixty-four hexagrams found in the I-Ching into her work, exploring universality and fluid concepts of the I-Ching within modern geometric abstraction.
ARIANA HEINZMAN | IT’S GOOD TO BE HERE
J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce It’s Good to be Here, an immersive ceramic garden of hand build vessels and wall mounted tiles by Vashon Island based ceramicist, Ariana Heinzman. Grounded in the artist's relationship with nature, bold color and botanical patterns cover the otherwise naked ceramic forms.
MELINA HURST FRYE | THE WORKERS (OF THE FOREST FLOOR)
J. Rinehart Gallery announces The Workers (of the Forest Floor) the much-anticipated solo exhibition of new work by Seattle-based Photographer, Melinda Hurst Frye. Based on the unique ecology of the forest understory of the Pacific Northwest, The Workers references the found characters, fungal and other, and their partnerships within the forest floor.
JAQ CHARTIER | REMAIN IN LIGHT
J. Rinehart Gallery is honored to announce Remain in Light the much-anticipated solo exhibition of new work by Seattle-based painter, Jaq Chartier.