By Alec Clayton
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“Smoking in the Garden” painting by Marilyn Bedford, courtesy the artist
Published in the Weekly Volcano, June 28, 2018
Pop-up galleries are the latest thing all over
the country. Pop-ups feature art exhibitions that are usually of short duration
and often in non-commercial venues such as private homes or vacant storefronts.
In Olympia, the premiere pop-up gallery is Allsorts in the home of artist
Lynette Charters and actor John Serembe, which over the past few years has shown
much of the best art to be seen in Olympia. Now another pop-up has appeared.
Called Front Porch Pop Up Gallery and run by South Puget Sound art appreciation
teacher Nicole Gugliotti, it opens June 29 with its first show, an exhibition
of works on paper by Dory Nies.
Nies’s works on paper
are inspired by cells, seeds,
textiles, and technology and range from
traditionally framed works to installation and sculptural paper works and objects. Seventy
percent of any sales will go to RAICES, a human rights organization working to
reunite immigrant families. The exhibition opening will be Friday, June 29.
Food, wine and house brewed kombucha will be served. There will be music by Dan
Meuse and Elliot Anderson.
Next up will be the 2018 Southwest Washington
Juried Exhibition at South Puget Sound Community College. Many of the South
Sound’s best and most well-known artists will be showing. Tacoma artist Lisa Kinoshita is showing a mixed-media and video
installation called “Visitation” done in collaboration with John Carlton about
Tacoma's true-life mascot, Jack the Tacoma Bear. Jack lived at the grand Tacoma
Hotel during the 1890s and was known for slipping out of his pen and visiting a
tavern where he would drink beer from a mug with his paws. He coexisted well with
and was beloved by local Tacomans but startled a policeman in the financial
district one day, and the policeman shot him. Kinoshita describes the video as “a
montage of surreal images a bear might see as he leaves this world.”
Susan Aurand will show a series of paintings
with related nature images stacked three-up and painted in her signature
photo-realist style. Aurand’s paintings are meditative and marvelous to look
at.
From her popular Missing Woman
series, Lynette Charters will be showing “Three Races Muses” and Gauguin’s
“Muse Holding a Fruit.” In this series, she comments on women’s roles in the
history of art. (As artists, women have historically been overlooked, but are
seen often as models, usually without any clothes). Charters “disappears” the
women in her appropriations of famous paintings by leaving their silhouettes as
unpainted shapes on the wood panels she paints on. She will also be doing a
talk along with other artists during the reception on July
12 from 6-9 p.m.
Other well-respected regional
artists to be included are Doyle Fanning, Mary McCaan, Jason Sobatka and Sharon Styer.
Paintings by Marilyn Bedford will be the next
show at Allsorts. Bedford paints everyday objects such as swimming pools and
pillows with broad, brushy strokes in acrylic on canvas. Many of the paintings
veer toward the abstract to the point at which viewers might need the titles to
hint at recognition of the subject matter. But in reality the subject matter of
these atmospheric paintings is never the pillow or smoke in a garden, but is
color, line and shape.
Dory Nies, opening 6-9 p.m., June 29, Front
Porch Pop Up Gallery, 1916 Washington St. SE, Olympia.
2018 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition
July 9-Aug. 23. South Puget Sound Community College, Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery, 2011 Mottman Rd. SW.
Olympia,
https://spscc.edu/gallery.
Paintings by Marilyn Bedford July 13-14 and
July 19-22 5-7 p.m., reception July 15 4-7 p.m., Allsorts Gallery 2306 Capital
Way S., Olympia.
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