This Friday 1 July is Bremerton’s first Friday art walk, (4:30 - 7:30PM) and the Collective Visions Gallery has several shows on view (331 Pacific Ave., two blocks from the ferry terminal). Shirley Sakatani takes center stage with “Exploring My Japanese-American Heritage.” Her website has the heading “Raw, Vibrant, Unapologetic,” and the pieces on display are just that. Downstairs features “CVG Artists & Friends”; I'm a "friend," and my painting Le nuvole di Como is featured (it's one of my favorites). Live music on Friday evening – but the show is open through July, Wednesdays – Saturdays, 11AM – 4PM. Take a trip to Bremerton!
Collective Visions Gallery
Five upcoming shows! /
Greetings! I’ve been busily painting and documenting, and haven’t written in a while. I’ll be brief with some great news, and will follow up later with more details and thoughts.
I’ve got two solo shows soon in the South Sound (as we call Pierce, Thurston, and southern King Counties). Tacoma Community College’s Gig Harbor campus (3993 Hunt Street NW, Gig Harbor – near the Wollochet Dr. exit from SR 16) has a building with a bright, airy atrium, white walls, and high windows, perfect for showing artwork. I’ll be exhibiting a dozen paintings in “The Impossibility of Knowing” series from 20 June to 11 August. I’ll be there to greet visitors and ask your thoughts on at least two late afternoons or early evenings – dates and times in my next correspondence. The space is open to visitors Mondays-Thursdays 9AM-6PM.
The Tahoma Center Gallery is housed on the second floor of the Tahoma Family Center at 1323 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma. This is the former St. Leo High School, and the second floor hall is a very wide, very long space lit to show off artworks. Twenty of my “MBTW” paintings will be on display in July and August. These are 3-foot square abstractions that I produced joyously in 2021-22. I’ll have an evening opening event in early July, and the space is open during business hours.
Bremerton is at the same latitude as and a breathtaking ferry ride from downtown Seattle, or a 35-minute trip up SR 16 from Tacoma. The Collective Visions Gallery (331 Pacific Avenue) is two blocks from the ferry terminal. In July, it’s featuring works from local artists in a wide range of styles: I’ll be displaying Le Nuvole di Como there. The gallery is open 11-4 on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and 11-7:30 on Fridays.
Back in Seattle, the Berkano Gallery has opened within the re-developed Seattle Labour Temple (2800 First Avenue). Gallery director Trevor Doak has selected a dozen of my paintings to join those of several other artists. It’s worth a trip to see how beautifully this historic building has been redeveloped. These pieces will be on display through the summer, during business hours – and during the Belltown First Friday artwalks.
Finally, Gallery 110 will have a booth at the Seattle Art Fair, 21-24 July at 800 Occidental Avenue S. The gallery’s curator will select 1-2 of my works to show. If you love visual art and have not been to the SAF before, please go! I’ll be at the booth through most of the show. Buy tickets in advance and allot some quality time to see artworks from around the world.
If you’re in the greater Seattle region this summer, I hope you can find time to view some art and purchase something from (especially) local artists! Every piece tells at least two stories – within the composition and about the person who created it.