ART MARKET | SAN FRANCISCO
BOOTH #E05
APRIL 20 - 23, 2023
J. Rinehart Gallery is making our way 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.
Visit J. Rinehart Gallery at Booth #E05 for an exhibition of process and materials from working artists in the Pacific Northwest, featuring Kelly Bjork, Jaq Chartier, Jan Hoy, Meggan Joy, Kelda Martensen, Cathy McClure, Daisy Patton, Kate Protage, Katy Stone, and David Willis.
View their Exhibitor list here and check out their website for more information! Contact the Gallery if you are meeting us in SF. We look forward to seeing you!
The Gallery will be closed April 19 - 20, 2023 for our trip to Art Market San Francisco, although we will be closed, our website remains open. Check in with our Instagram for live updates while we are at the Fair!
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Thursday, April 20, 2023: 5—6pm
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Opening Evening
Thursday, April 20, 2023: 6— 9pm
Exclusive Entry for Fair Pass Holders and Select VIPs
Public Hours
Friday, April 21, 2023: 11am—7pm
Saturday, April 22, 2023: 11am—7pm
Sunday, April 23, 2023 – 11am—6pm
FEATURED ARTISTS
KELLY BJÖRK
Kelly Björk grew up in Tacoma, Washington and graduated with a B.F.A. in drawing and printmaking from Western Washington University in 2009 and has been exhibiting their work regularly from Seattle to New York to France and in between ever since. Their paintings have been featured in numerous online and in print publications, including New American Paintings, McSweeney’s, No Man's Land, The Stranger, and The Washington Post.
Kelly Björk's work focuses on portraiture and intimacy between loved ones and objects. They show the tenderness that can be experienced in this world through selective simplicity and tiny details. With our current socio-political climate, it is important to recognize these often-unnoticed moments in our daily lives, and to remember that they exist. Bjork’s paintings help them move forward openly, by presenting what is good in our world.
They have received numerous awards and residencies, including the Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center, the Facebook Artist in Residence Program, and The Fellowship Artist Residency in Guemes Island, WA.
JAQ CHARTIER
Jaq Chartier attended Syracuse University for film, and then obtained her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MFA in painting from the University of Washington, Seattle.
She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award nominee, a Creative Capital Grant finalist, and a finalist for the 2011 Contemporary Northwest Art Award at the Portland Art Museum. She has numerous awards, including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, a Purchase Award from the Portable Works Collection of Seattle Public Utilities, and a PONCHO Special Recognition Award from the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Committee.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Microsoft, The Allen Institute, Google Cloud Collection, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and most recently collected by the Esberg Museum in Denmark.
KELDA MARTENSEN
Kelda Martensen is a visual artist working in printmaking, collage, book arts and murals. She is a tenured faculty of art at North Seattle College teaching drawing, printmaking, book arts and mural art. Martensen earned a BA in Studio Art from Willamette University and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Martensen has been an Artist-in-Residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France and at Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle, and is a continuing participant in the Artist Residency in Motherhood, a project organized by social practice artist Lenka Clayton.
Her prints and artist books are in private and public collections including King County, City of Tacoma, Google, Special Collections Library at Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Graphics Council International Archive, Bokartas Contemporary Art Center, Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book, University of Missouri and Willamette University.
JAN HOY
Jan Hoy's work lies in the realm of abstraction. Using water-based clay, bronze, and stainless and Corten steel, she configures her sculptures to move in a continuous curving motion. Rooted in curvilinear abstraction, these parameters give these sculptures a hefty and yet graceful appearance.
Hoy has been exhibiting her work regularly since the early 2000s with large-scale installations at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA.
Her public sculptures are in the collections of the Sutter Hill Cathedral Hospital, San Francisco, CA, Youngstown Flats in Seattle, WA and in the permanent collections of the City Auburn, WA, Lake Oswego, OR, Anacortes, WA, Walla Walla, WA, and Bellevue, WA
MEGGAN JOY
Meggan Joy is a self-taught photographic artist primarily focused on digital collage. Joy combines fragments of the natural sciences with her narratives and allegories; often weaving in symbols and motifs from art history to create a new surreal vision.
She fabricates this staged imagery from the ground up, growing most of her subject matter in her garden, documenting the growth, beauty, and decay. Each piece is created by assembling thousands of individual photographs of botanicals, insects, and other wildlife - resulting in a final image that is bursting with life and layered with hidden details and anecdotes.
Joy has been awarded a 2023 Amazon Artist in Residence, was finalist for the 2019 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, was accepted into the Trierenberg Super Circuit 2018 - Experimental Section; one of 25 photographers worldwide personally invited to participate by the TSC Exhibition Committee and received the bronze award at the Moscow International Foto Awards in the Fine Art – Collage category in 2017.
DAISY PATTON
Daisy Patton earned her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program, and has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History and Art History and an Honors degree.
Born in Los Angeles, CA, she spent her childhood moving between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by conflicting cultural landscapes and the ambiguous absences within her family. Influenced by collective and political histories, Patton explores storytelling and story-carrying, the meaning and social conventions of families, and what shapes living memory.
Patton’s work has been exhibited nationally, including a solo at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado, the Chautauqua Institution, NY, theCenter for Bioethics at the Anschutz Medical Campus, CO. She has paintings held in public and private collections such as the Denver Art Museum, Tampa Bay Art Museum, Fidelity Investments Art Collection, Seattle University, and in international airport Hartsfield-Jackson with Delta Airlines.
KATE PROTAGE
Of her work, Kate Protage says: “I have a love/hate relationship with the cities in which I’ve lived. Depending on the time of day, there are two worlds that exist in the same physical space: streets that appear gritty, dirty, and depressing by day turn into an environment infused with a strange kind of lush, dark beauty and romance at night. These are the moments that remind me to take a breath, look closer, and recognize that there is still beauty in the world despite all the chaos that surrounds us. Painting these moments is, in a strange way, my minor act of rebellion.”
Kate Protage studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before receiving her MFA in Painting with Academic Distinction from Pratt Institute in 2005. She has been creating and showing her work regularly with nearly sold-out exhibitions since 2001 from Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Princeton, New York and in between.
KATY STONE
Stone received her BFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from Iowa State University, and her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington.
Her work explores materiality, phenomena, and beauty. Using industrial materials that are light, that call attention to themselves as surfaces. Choosing thin materials which the surfaces can be painted, cut, and layered into construction that blur the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture.
She has exhibited at Boise Art Museum; Boston University Art Gallery; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Kansas City Art Institute; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Mass Art, Boston; McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio; Missoula Art Museum; Schneider Museum, Ashland; Sun Valley Center, Ketchum; University of Akron; University of Richmond; Washington State Convention Center; and Watcom Museum of Art. Her commissioned public artworks include projects for the GSA's Art in Architecture Program, Washington State Arts Commission, The City of Seattle, Cleveland Clinic, Michigan State University, and corporate clients including ConocoPhillips and Microsoft.
DAVID WILLIS
David Willis earned a BA in Interdepartmental Field Studies from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on Social Change, and a Minor in Conservation and Resources Studies. He began flameworking glass in 1994. Drawing heavily from nature he enjoys a cross-disciplinary approach to glass focusing around universal aspects of life.
In addition to his personal artistic practice, Willis has acted as a lead assistant to some of the world’s blue-chip contemporary artists who wish to broaden their sculptural work in the media of glass. He has worked internationally as an assistant and fabricator to artists such as Jim Hodges, Kiki Smith, and Urs Fischer. Additionally, Willis serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pilchuck School and was past Director of the Glass Art Society.
His work is included in public, private, and museum collections nationally and internationally, also published in books and magazines including ARTnews, New Glass Review, Contemporary Flameworking Vol III, Lampworking the 20th Century to the Present and Studio Craft as Career.