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Dale Chihuly: Sapphire and Citron Anemone Wall, 2005

Sapphire and Citron Anemone Wall , 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Dale Chihuly, Seattle, WA

Blown glass

Lent by the Artist

Miach , 2004

Julie Speidel, Vashon Island, WA

Sandstone and bronze

Courtesy of Winston Wachter Fine Art, LLC

Fragments #7 , 2005

Christian Burchard, Ashland, Oregon

Pacific madrone, bleached, sandblasted

Lent by the Artist

 

Fragments #7 exploits the multiples concept with intriguing results. Assembling thin slices of warped madrone timber into a grid like composition, Burchard creates works of variety and visual character. The language of the wood, including knots, color grain, texture, warped surface and contour, along with the relationship of individual pieces to each other and to the whole, offer a provocative visual experience.

- Mark Richard Leach

 
Walt Lieberman, Cappy Thompson, Dick Weiss: Muses, 2004

Muses , 2004

Walt Lieberman, Seattle, WA

Cappy Thompson, Seattle, WA

Dick Weiss, Seattle, WA

Paint on Acrylic

 

Muses is the culmination of a collaboration between artists Walt Lieberman, Cappy Thompson and Dick Weiss. Inspired by the Surrealist’s love for random and anti-rational juxtapositions of images, they painted their sections of the human figure unaware of what the others were doing. Each panel is interchangeable allowing for multiple possibilities of surprising and whimsical pairings. Our goal was to make a cool piece of art (Weiss) that was cheerful and would make people curious about the Museum (Thompson) and to remain friends in the process (Lieberman).

 

 

Lake Reflections Diptych

Tim Harding

5.85” X 97” cut silk

 

This is an impressionistic wall piece by Tim Harding are characterized by vibrant, lustrous, colors and richly faceted textures. Large in scale, semi abstract in imagery, they deal with the distortion of light, reflected and refracted by water. The artist creates and illusion of a three-dimensional space on the picture plane, he employs painterly techniques such as light, shadow, figure, ground and perspective.

Guardian

Ron Kent

7’ high

 

Ron Kent's "Guardian" series are seven-foot tall sculptures laminated of Baltic Birch and Marine ply.  Wildly different from his familiar translucent lathed vessels, the "Guardians" are first built-up of many layers, then sculpted, carved, and ground to its desired form.  The resulting surface is a delight with contour-map patterns of the colors, grains, and cross-grains of multiple layers of woods.
Peter Pierobon: Chair Stack, 2005

Chair Stack , 2005

Peter Pierobon, Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada

Bronze

 

Peter Pierobon is a sculptor inspired by the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the art of the Inuit, African, Northwest Coast Indians, and the Aboriginal Australian cultures. His goal is to create objects that are delightfully functional and at the same time sculptural in focus. The chair literally mimics the human form as it offers support to the human body. The chair also departs from this function through exaggeration (four legs) as it engages it metaphorically.

 

 

Zhai , 2004

Julie Speidel, Vashon Island, WA

Encaustic on sandstone, bronze

Courtesy of Winston Wachter Fine Art, LLC

 

My work is strongly influenced by experiencing the vestiges of ancient cultures. From the megaliths of Europe, to the Buddhist Caves of China or the temple ruins of

Turkey - all hold powerful shapes that connect us as human beings and keep us in a state of awe. This work is a tribute to these ancient monuments and their power to link the world of the senses to the worlds of nature, human history and spirit.

-Julie Speidel