Seattle artist Enid Groves will be the featured artist for the month of January at Gallery North in Edmonds. Groves will present pen, ink and watercolor prints of animal subjects.
“I particularly enjoy illustrating the body language of animals. Those subtle movements of head and eyes, ears and tails communicate their stories to us. I try to capture that in my artwork,” she says.
Groves is experienced with a variety of animal subjects. As a preparator at the Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York, she labored for five years reconstructing the fossilized skeleton of an Allosaurus. When the museum exhibit was completed, the Jurassic era creature was 30 feet long and 15 feet high. I saw it as a gigantic line drawing in fossilized bone. Now my artwork is a little more modest in scale, about 8 inches by 25 inches,” she says.
The Enid Groves exhibit will run through Jan. 31 at Gallery North in Edmonds. For information call Gallery North at 425-774-0946.
The Edmonds Arts Commission presents work by Laura Vasyutynskaya through Jan. 31 in the Edmonds Public Library, 650 Main St. The work may be viewed during Library hours Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m.
Although Vasyutynskaya often paints from life, she has always had a fascination with the fantasy world of her imagination. Her paintings draw their inspiration from many sources — memories of her childhood, dream imagery, Ukrainian folk tales — often combining these elements in individual paintings. The resulting images do not necessarily attempt to communicate specific ideas, so much as to evoke a world in which she escapes the problems of everyday life.
Vasyutynskaya’s fantasy paintings also allow her to experiment with different styles, incorporating impressionistic and representational elements. Her earlier works exhibit a flattened, dinaYve” quality.
Vasyutynskaya began her formal artistic training in Zhitormir, Ukraine, where she was born. In addition to painting, she has also worked as part of an animation production team in Kiev, helping to produce artwork using traditional uncomputerized techniques for TV cartoons. She moved to the U.S. in 2001 and lives in Seattle.
Each January for the past six years, a group of men and women who work with iron have collaborated with Kaewyn Gallery in Bothell to present a collection of unique works of art created in the forge. On Friday. Jan. 17, the group will open it’s 7th exhibit with an opening reception from 5-8 p.m.
Each year brings a new variety of work in all sizes. Items often include iron furniture ranging from chairs, tables, and lamps to coat racks; shimmering bowls; ornate fireplace andirons, garden gates; and objects created as sculptures solely for visual delight.
This year’s artist/blacksmiths include: Phil Baldwin, Paul Casey, Maria Cristalli, Christa Fairbrother, Laura Goemaat, Erica Gordon, Kris Ketchum, Patrick Maher, Reis Neimi, Corky Storer, Scott Szloch, Paul Thome, and David Tuthill.
The exhibit will be open through Saturday, Feb. 15. Kaewyn Gallery is located at 18104 102nd Ave. NE, just south of Main St. in downtown Bothell. For further information call 425-483-7385.
The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council Gallery at the Shoreline Center kicks off the new year with an exhibit of vibrant quilts by Katherine Jewett and bold acrylic paintings by Kathleen Coyle. An artists reception is planned from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23.
Jewett’s work is full of rich texture that invites the viewer to come close to the piece and study its surface. Each piece is created with multiple levels of detail and meaning that encourage the viewer to consider a variety of messages.
Many of Coyle’s paintings involve crows. She finds their striking image, boldness and individuality a good metaphor for a variety of emotions, relationships and experiences. She is inspired by dreams, history and the seasons.
The show will run through March 5 at the Shoreline Center, 18560 First Ave. NE. For more information call 206-417-4645.
The unique sculpted work of Kathy Ross is currently being shown in the Shoreline Community College Gallery through March 4. Ross, a Seattle artist known for her surreal figurative sculptures in clay, bronze, and found objects, presents a topical, thought provoking show entitled, “War, Peace, Etc.”
Imagery in this show includes war and peace, light and shadow themes where guns, flowers, doves and other unexpected objects form the heads of three-inch baby dolls cast in bronze. In a more humorous vein, down the center of the gallery, is the “Personality Quiz,” a series of four-foot-high clay sculptures with interchangeable human and animal heads and torsos.
An artist talk is planned from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, with an artist reception following 3 to 4 p.m. The College Gallery is located in the Administration Building (1000) of the main campus at 16101 Greenwood Ave. N. in Shoreline. For more information call 206-546-4101, ext. 4433.
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