Purchasing

Contemporary printmaker Barbara Robertson is included in the panel for the upcoming TRUST YOUR EYE: How to Acquire Art in Seattle.

Barbara Robertson. Bang, 2008. Mixed media on paper on panel. 44 x 40 inches

Curious, new and practicing art collectors alike will be inspired and delighted as this lively panel explores diverse perspectives on looking at art, the joy of collecting, and developing a personal vision­—while regaling the audience with stories of Northwest art and artists.

September 24, 2009 :: 6-8:30pm
Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave South, Seattle
Tickets: $50 (includes local gallery tour and refreshments)

All proceeds benefit Artist Trust’s grants and resources for Washington State artists of all disciplines.

Barbara Robertson is an artist, educator, conservator and curator. She is the founder of Seattle Print Arts, an association of artists, arts professionals and collectors who have an avid interest in the expanding field of print arts and an appreciation of the print media

For complete details, visit Artist Trust’s website.

Join us for a special midsummer gallery walk!

Eighteen SADA member galleries located throughout the city will each spotlight the work of emerging artists or artists new to their galleries. Many of the artists will be present and special events are planned.

Hilary Brace. Untitled (#Oct. 06), 2006. Charcoal on polyester film.

Special Event
July 18th at 2pm: Norman Lundin, curator of the West Coast Drawings VIII exhibition, will talk about the Seattle half of the show as well as the considerations that went into the selection process in general. Lundin, an exhibiting artist and Professor of Art, Emeritus at the University of Washington, gained attention for Perceptual Experience: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawings, a show he curated for the Frye Art Museum in 2000.

A Special Evening with Susan Bennerstrom

Thursday, August 20th, 6 - 8:30 pm

This is a one-night-only exhibition of Susan’s most recent work. She will discuss the exciting new direction her work is taking. For an invitation to this special event please contact Cara at cara@davidsongalleries.com, 206-624-1324.

• View previous works by Bennerstrom

This afternoon, Davidson Galleries’ Emily Pothast will be giving a tour of Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949-1978 as part of the Seattle Art Museum’s “My Favorite Things” program.  The tour begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 10 at SAM.  More information about the tour may be found here.

Parallel Lines, featuring works by eight Seattle artists, including recent paintings by Davidson Galleries artist Tram Bui, opens tonight at the (New!) Wing Luke Asian Museum, from 6:30-8:30pm. The opening reception is free and open to the public.

The exhibition also features Mark Takamichi Miller, Jason Huff, Akio Takamori, Pattatti Warashina, Saya Moriyasu, Thúy-Vân Vu and Joseph Park. The artists are paired to accentuate thematic or biographic similarities within their work and lives.

Please join us this Saturday afternoon at 1pm for an artist-talk and walk-through with Eunice Kim and her exhibition, Collagraphs. The artist will discuss early influences and answer questions about her work.

• View the exhibition online

Arturo García Bustos and Rina Lazo: Sixty Years of Political Printmaking in Mexico

Tacoma, WA –Sixty Years of Political Printmaking in Mexico presents the politically and socially dynamic works of partners Arturo García Bustos and Rina Lazo while highlighting the technical breadth of their printmaking. Art and politics are intertwined from the outset as the show is centered around portraits of political and artistic icons, including Benito Juárez, Emiliano Zapata, Fidel Castro, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera. Bustos and Lazo have been vital to the political art scene in Mexico since they first met and married in the late 1940s. Bustos was a disciple of Frida Kahlo in the decade before her death in 1954, and Lazo was the primary assistant of Frida’s husband, Diego Rivera, in the decade before his death in 1957. The couple have been centrally involved in the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Workshop).

The exhibition will present images treating political struggles on one side of the gallery and Mexican identity on the other side of the gallery.  The two themes progress until they meet on either side of the exhibition entrance.  This structure underscores the formative artistic and political genealogy of the artists, whose graphic work has reflected and shaped Mexican cultural and political identity during those 60 years.

Read more at the Kittredge website…

Exhibition continues through April 17, 2009.

Artists’ Reception and Print Demonstration:
Wednesday, April 8, 5 p.m., Kittredge Gallery

Kittredge Gallery
University of Puget Sound
N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St.
Tacoma, WA
253.879.2806.

SAM Gallery presents Form and Space, an exhibit of mixed media works at TASTE Restaurant by two Davidson artists, Barbara Robertson and Amanda Knowles.

Barbara Robertson and Amanda Knowles work with the ephemera of science. As artists, they express the content in different ways: Robertson uses ideas related to space, motion and light, inspired by current scientific inquiry in the fields of physics, astronomy and biology; Knowles is interested in structure, and her practice expresses a way of thinking and composing related to math, physics and engineering.

Both artists create intricate systems of visual information whose roots touch the original idea but which spin-off quickly into a personal poetic abstraction.

The exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Tuesday, March 17th from 5-6pm (space is limited, please RSVP to 206 903.5291 or tasterestaurant@tastesam.com), and continues through June 14th.

SAM TASTE is located at 1300 First Ave in Downtown Seattle.

Join exhibiting artist Etsuko Ichikawa this Thursday, February 12 at 6pm for an artist talk and walk-through of her current show, Pyrograph.

Last fall, the Antique Print Department at Davidson Galleries presented a 40th anniversary exhibition of SMS: A Portfolio of Multiples.  SMS was a series of six portfolios of multiples released in 1968 by the surrealist William Copley.  It included works by a diverse body of artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Christo, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenberg, John Cage, and Yoko Ono.  Davidson Galleries produced a full-color catalog of the exhibition (available here) and mounted a comprehensive exhibition of all the works.

Six of the works in the SMS portfolios are sound pieces.  These include phonograph records by Marcel Duchamp, Bernar Venet, and Diane Wakowski, as well as tape pieces by Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Bruce Nauman.  Davidson Galleries is partnering with local experimental music store Dissonant Plane to present a full program of all six audio pieces.

The event will be hosted by Eric Lanzillotta of Dissonant Plane and presented by Emily Pothast of Davidson Galleries.  It will begin at 7 pm sharp on Friday, February 20 at Resolution Audio, downstairs from Dissonant Plane in Ballard, and will last approximately three hours.

Dissonant Plane
5459 Leary Avenue NW
Seattle, WA  98107-4011
(206) 784-5163
http://www.dissonantplane.com/