Current Artist
Between Chaos and Clarity
Hector Rodriguez
December 5th - January 1st, 2025
Artist Statement
My work explores the internal landscapes we navigate when life grows loud—moments of reflection, conflict, reconnection, and personal transformation. Through abstract forms, expressive color, and surreal symbolic elements, each piece functions as a visual diary, capturing the emotional impressions left behind by thoughts, experiences, relationships, and the internal conversations that shape us.
Across this body of work, I examine how we relate to one another through energetic exchange, how we repair and evolve, and how our inner worlds reorganize themselves after disruption. Whether through layered atmospheres, emotional movement, or the abstract-surreal symbolism that represents inner states, my paintings invite viewers into the same introspective process that fuels their creation: pausing, looking inward, and uncovering meaning within the beautiful chaos of our modern lives.
At its core, this exhibition is a celebration of healing, curiosity, and the unexpected beauty that emerges when we allow ourselves to learn from and be transformed by our unique experiences.
Past Artists
They Came in Peace
Kevin Ducoing
Artist Statement
"'They Came in Peace' can be spoken as plain fact, a question, or as a wry commentary of our interaction with the land on which we live.
Imagining our most obvious legacy -our homes, our neighborhoods, our towns and villages, and our ongoing engineering of the land- as experienced from the landscape's point of view, what if the land itself could tell the tale of us, the people. Are we just part of the overall surrounding landscape, just another animal making its way?
In this collection, our presence in the world can be examined, questioned, or imagined as a flying house moving through the landscape, as from a ghost story, or a science fiction movie."
Title piece: “Types of Existing Entities”
Face book: The Art of Kevin Ducoing
@pleasecallmekev on instagram
Down by the Tracks
Kyler Martz
Artist Statement:
“Growing up, my grandpa used to play "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" for us on guitar, among many other hobo songs, and after his passing in 2018 I began working on an illustrated version of the lyrics in his honor. I had always planned to have an art show of the original drawings when the book was finished in 2021, but the timing was bad with covid and they never saw the light of day until now.
I reprinted the book this year, and you can find it, along with some of my other work at kylermartz.com”
@kylermartz on instagram
Out of Frame
A group show centering women, femmes, nonbinary, and genderqueer photographers in Seattle. the show features work across film, digital, instant, and mixed media.
Featuring Thien-Kim Dinh, Lila Tyler, Sarah La Tour, Alissa Jean Montaie, Tina Ballew, Kamari Carroll, Rue Casablancas, Holly Shane, Samantha Alvarez, Hailey Machado, Kc J, Mo Harrell, Ariel Rotz
Title Piece by Korinne Alcala Bisig
@korrinealcalabisig on instagram
Extend
Betty Putnam
Extend is my look at a longer life. At the age of 35, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although treatment and recovery are brutal, they have extended my life. I have spread, layered, and molded my experiences using natural specimens as the main medium, supplemented with cold porcelain flowers in the sculptural designs displayed in shadow boxes. By using the remains of creatures that walk, crawl, flutter, and fly within the atmosphere of earth, I am able to share the magic of life. Extend highlights the precious gift of waking up each morning alongside the challenge of living one day at a time. All while holding -ever so softly- the grand responsibility we have to each other, and nature.
www.eputnamstudio.com
@Eputnamstudio on instagram
Voltage
Wendy Gable Collins
Artist Statement
“With Voltage, I explore the relationship between human-made electrical systems and the natural world.
The unexpected beauty of electrical infrastructure often goes unnoticed in our daily lives, despite our deep reliance on the power grid. My work reflects on the invisible forces we’ve harnessed to power our existence and examines how this technology reshapes the environments we inhabit. Generation facilities, transmission lines, and transformers serve both as subjects and as symbols of our evolving connection to nature.
Using watercolor, ink, and gelli-printed collage, I create visual contrasts between organic forms and the bold, mechanical structures of the modern world.”
www.wendygablecollins.com
@wendybird_art on instagram
French Things
Toni Santos
Toni Santos is an artist that works in a little cottage studio in Seattle.
When she was a tiny baby she contracted the chickenpox and cried and cried. Her father cradled and rocked her for hours to console her,
“Don’t cry baby buddha, don’t cry”
Baby Buddha (Toni) illustrates and paints in a whimsical and loose style with pencil and watercolor.
Storefronts, portraits, and beloved images of everyday ordinary life are the subjects for her art.
Listen to the podcast “Windowsill Chats with Margo Tantau” to learn more about Toni Santos and Baby Buddha Studio.
Find more of her work at www.babybuddhastudio.com
@babybuddhastudio on instagram
Second Place Theory
Online hiding behind the pseudonym Second Place Theory, Haley's creative work is a reflection of the world we navigate-gritty, emotional, and filled with captivating chaos.
Drawn to the fleeting glow of life's quiet moments, Haley finds beauty in the transient, her heart on her sleeve. Whether it's the golden shimmer of a firefly in a glass jar, or the streak of a sunbeam on an old wooden floor, she captures these experiences beforefloor, she their light slips away. Using digital art, acrylic, mixed media collage, found materials, and written word, each composition is a reflection of the modern world's complexity, both harsh andilluminating, and the quiet beauty found within it.
@secondplacetheory on instagram
Figurative Abstractions
Christopher Stearns
Artist Statement
"These works are my personal attempts to reconcile the disorder within our culture over the last year. Tensions between architectural imagery and natural phenomena reference the pressing dualities I have observed, materializing a cognitive search."
Title piece: “Jerusalem Artichoke”
@christopher2100 on instagram