Shows all around the Sound

You can view my work in several venues this summer -- Bainbridge, Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma!  Here are the two shows that open in June:

June 29 - August 18:  21st Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition at the Tacoma Community College Gallery. This attractive building (Building 4) is in the southern part of the TCC Tacoma campus:  enter off S. 12th St., across from S. Whitman St., park in Lot G.  The gallery is open Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm.  If you live in or near Tacoma, it's a treat to see some of the best art by local artists.  

June 30 - August 10:  BIMA Spotlight, at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.  If you haven't seen this beautiful, modern museum (photo below), you owe it to yourself to take the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge and walk just up the hill from the ferry terminal to Winslow Way.  The museum is right there, at 550 Winslow Way E.  For these six weeks, the entire museum will feature pieces selected from 3400 submissions, including two of paintings in The Impossibility of Knowing series.  Open 10-5 every day;  admission is free.  Linger and have bite in the cafe, or walk down the street to the restaurants, wine bars, brew pubs, and shops along Winslow Way.

Recent work

Just before and after our trip to Italy, I've been painting up a storm.  Below are two new pieces, each in oil on canvas, 24"x 18", and available for $450, framed.  At left, Exit right and at right, The final touch.  

Venice

We've just returned from three weeks in Italy, including time in Venice, which has got to be my favorite place to visit.  Among many other treats, we spent an afternoon with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of twentieth-century art.  In addition to a special exhibit of Italian modernist Edmondo Bacci (which I hope to blog about), I was really happy to see works by two Russian contemporaries:  Kazimir Malevich and El Lassitzky.  I've written about each of them (see this blog post for a synopsis).  I had not seen these paintings before, even in photos.  Below: Malevich, Untitled (1916) and Lissitzky, Untitled (1919).