Art Up in Seattle
Welcome to our online gallery of LAC work up around town.
“Support artists while they are alive”, our show at Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange - Magnuson Park Gallery, ran from September 7th-October 14th, 2023. On this page is a catalog of all 23 works by 21 artists in the show. Please inquire with us if you are interested in purchasing a piece.
Consolation for the Despairing, 2022, 14" x 17", Graphite, Colored Pencil, and Marker on Archival Paper
$830.
The Happening: A Speculative Voyeur, 2021, 17" x 14", Graphite, Colored Pencil, and Marker on Archival Paper
$1,000.
Amelia Shipman
Artist Statement: I try to create unique and out-of-the-box symbolic artwork that takes on a different shape/form each time I create a new piece. I gain inspiration from the human condition, our struggles and what we overcome. I have observed that my art is a bridge between my conscious and unconscious mind, exposing my deepest feelings. At the same time, I feel like my work often is not 'of' me, it comes 'through' me. I am a sort of conduit.
Emily Wamsley
@emily_wamsley . www.emilywamsley.com
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker, 2023, 8" x 12", Tin collage
$580.
Artist Statement: This call "Support artists while they are alive" instantly triggered the thought of things that are no longer alive, extinct in fact. I looked at some animals that were extinct and decided to create the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. I loved making this piece using different patterns for the dark wing feathers. I also used a new technique where I scratched the surface of the tin and rubbed black paint into the scratches to highlight the details. Since creating this piece I learned that this woodpecker is not actually extinct! I was contacted by a zoologist who informed me of this information. What a nice surprise!
Artist Bio: I am a tin collage artist. I use the images on decorative tin containers for my collage medium. I have been working with tin in this way for the past 6 years. I have a studio full of tins to work with. The inspiration for my work can come from the tins themselves or just any ideas in my head. Either way it takes a volume of tins to pull from to bring something to fruition. I love working with colors and patterns on the tins to create beautiful works if art. Once I lay out a piece I use half inch brads to nail it to a wood. All my work is framed with tin too.
Mean Reds II, 2020, 8” x 10”, Cyanotype
$250.
Mean Reds III, 2020, 8” x 10”, Cyanotype
$250.
Alana Skye Crawley
@alanacrawley . www.alanacrawley.com
Artist Statement: “How do you avoid being drowned by the raw waves of fear, anger, anxiety, and vulnerability of the “Mean Reds”?
How do you identify the evil plaguing you today when it all starts to blend together? How do you fix it when it all feels so out of your control? How do you combat the overwhelm of these feeling that make you want to just shut down and turn off? How do you move past these “Mean Reds”? How do you get back to the “Blues”?
Created during COVID when I was an unemployed artist, this series documents the sense of panic felt during an incredibly tumultuous time, but also a feeling that has continued ever since - the "Mean Reds." Not quite anger, and not quite sadness, it comes out of feeling out of control and not knowing how to stabilize and find safety again. It poses the question of how one not only survives, but also is able to be their raw, authentic, vulnerable self, when the weight of the world comes crashing down."
Artist Bio: Alana Skye Crawley is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Seattle, WA. She is inspired by the human condition, with particular focus on the unique roll that struggle plays in each of our lives. Though it may manifest differently for each of us, struggle is a shared experience that connects us all. It is Alana’s hope that her work will remind us all that as we move through this world, there are so many more things that make us the same than make us different.
Irene Wilde
The Blackest Bile, 2022, 36” x 48”, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Not for sale.
Artist Bio: I am a painter of nudes and self-produce avante-garde pop ballads that speak to living with a mental health condition as a woman. I frequently explore the concept of self-worth despite having these experiences / being a woman that is always "too." I have exhibited in galleries back home in Indiana but currently trying to lay a framework for connection here in Seattle.
Andrew R. Tomingas
AGONY & ECSTACY, 2023, 28" x 40", Acrylic Airbrush
$1,700.
Artist Bio: While music is probably my first love, drawing and painting have always been closely intertwined with the need to explore and expand consciousness. Poetry, photography, painting and music all tap into the creativity spectrum that inspire and bleed into one another, helping transform a chaotic mind into a garden. Creating art has been important since I was young. As to why art is meaningful is an ever unfolding mystery but suffice to say, it feels good and seems to tap into the very essence of being. I’m interested in themes of transcendence thru the beauty of nature. I’m a self-taught artist and Seattle native living in Ballard.
Dinah J
Good enough, 2022, 11" x 14", Framed Giclée Print
$370.
Artist Statement: With climate change, increasing economic inequality, the rise of fascism, and the targeting of "woke" culture, the US is an increasingly inhospitable place to be as a poor and queer person. I spend a lot of time walking through the city considering the meaning and purpose of the objects around me. Why did we build it like this? These pieces are from a series that contemplates the incidental collaboration of built environments as they age. We all contribute to our aesthetic surroundings, whether we mean to or not. By painting functional and defunct details, I am finding beauty in surroundings not necessarily meant to be beautiful, and asserting my own belonging in the city's collaboration of meaning-making.
Hannah Lake
Woodland Park Rose Garden, 2023, 13" x 14" framed, Mixed Media
$340.
Artist Statement: At some point in most of our lives, we humans must make peace with impermanence. I think often about how closely entwined preciousness is with transience. All that we experience — beauty, want, companionship, vivacity, confusion — will one way or another pass away, and quite quickly on the cosmic scale. All that matters to us happens within the thinnest imaginable sliver of time/space, and is all the more exquisite for its brevity.
Artist Bio: My work has always been about trying to hold onto the beauty of my surroundings for a little while longer. I paint my various homes — places and people — and the moods and sensations they elicit, as a form of reverence and memorial. I originally hail from Richland, WA, nestled along the Columbia River, but relocated to Seattle in late 2019 and now live directly across from the spectacular Woodland Park Zoo and Rose Garden where I spend much time. Through my work, I aim to communicate not only how I see a place, but also to gently encourage others to pause and be present enough in any place to notice what is beautiful and worth protecting about it.
Scott Coffey
Untitled (The Whole World is Watching, We Must Be Nothing Less Than Fabulous), 2022, 30" x 40", Acrylic on Canvas
$3,000.
Artist Statement: As an artist, I am extremely interested in narrative, storytelling, and how stories affect our lives. They are an extremely primal part of who we are as people. This painting is from my show Self-Portraits and Other Stories, in which I used surrealist sci-fi and fantasy as a metaphor to talk about my religious upbringing, queerness, and sense of self. Untitled is a dual self-portrait about my complex relationship with gender.
Artist Bio: Scott Coffey is a painter, printmaker, graphic designer, and collage artist from Seattle, Washington. His lifelong interest in books, comics, and mythology has translated itself into an art practice of narrative work centered around stories, beliefs, and the intersection between the two. His work is imbued with color, celebrating the visual power and strong emotions pigments provide. His work also often involves words, either in descriptive narratives alongside a piece, or in writing directly on a panel. The combination of words and images has a unique power neither element can provide on its own, and Scott values and attempts to channel that combination to tell stories, personal, political, and queer.
Anamika Venkatesh
@anamikavenkateshart . www.anamikavenkatesh.com
Corners of Home - Backyard, 2020, 8” x 10", Acrylic on Canvas
$225.
Artist Statement: I am fascinated by the intersection of art and architecture. In my work, I explore the beauty and design of architectural structures, and how they shape our lives and experiences. I am particularly drawn to the formal elements of architecture, such as line, shape, texture, and form. My goal is to create work that inspires viewers to look at architecture in new ways, and to appreciate its impact on our lives.
Artist Bio: Anamika Venkatesh, hailing from Bangalore, India, is an artist who primarily works with acrylics. Her passion for painting, coloring, and drawing emerged at a young age. While pursuing architecture in school, she discovered the realms of painting, sculpture-making, and photography, marking her formal entry into the creative sphere. Despite a nearly two-decade-long career as an architect, her move to the US gave her the chance to fully immerse herself in the art world.
Nico Inzerella
@chicanoart206 . nico-gallery.com
Churito, 2021, 30" x 24", Mixed Media - Collage
$2,200.
Artist Bio: I'm a Mexican-American artist and preserving my family culture is important to me and I do this through my artwork. My family has been in the US (California and Washington) for 4-5 generations. The first small chunk of my life I grew up in Ventura, California but my family moved up to the Seattle area in the early 1980's. Today, I am a web developer for Seattle Colleges (North Seattle, Seattle Central and South Seattle Colleges) and I also teach printmaking/ multimedia classes at North Seattle College through Continuing Education. Over the past 20 years I've traveled extensively throughout Mexico and Central America taking thousands of photos. I combine photography, painting, and graphic design to create my final pieces.
Raili Jänese
@railijanese . www.railijanese.art
Same T-shirt, 2023, 30" x 22", Acrylic on paper
$670.
Artist Statement: My work is a combination of captured moments, simplified postures, and vibrant colors. The main source of inspiration comes from the behavior of living creatures, both animals and humans. My latest paintigs explore social formulas. They are polaroids that have captured moments where we deal with assumptions, biases, manners, and expectations. While trying to fit into the bigger picture, we navigate between our inner fulfillment and the need for external validation.
Artist Bio: I am a visual art and design fanatic, a self-taught artist from Estonia. After moving to Seattle in 2018, I started creating artwork about the subject I am deeply interested in - a living creature. I capture simplified animal postures with clean lines and vibrant colors, creating different compositions and patterns.
Dawn Hubbard
Everything is Temporary, 2023, 18" x 9" x 7", Epoxy Clay and Resin
$1,700.
Artist Statement: I feel like this piece fits the theme “Support artists while they are alive”, because it is based around my inner darkness that tries to take over during times of deep hurt and sadness. It tries to tell me that I don't want to exist, but that is always temporary and there are so many beautiful reasons to exist. Each of them should be treasured. At the same time I know this monster is always lurking so I must always be careful to remember that everything is temporary.
Marina San Miguel
@colorofthevoid . www.sanmiguelart.site
Inner Strength, 2022, 24" x 24", Oil on canvas
$2,300.
Artist Statement: Every single aspect of our lives can be reflected in art, and I want to embrace this endless possibility. My work covers a wide variety of topics, from surrealist figurative scenes and figures, to traditional figurative art, to portraits and landscapes. Sometimes I want to capture the quiet tranquility of a mountain hike, or the endless variation of individual trees. Sometimes I find myself frustrated with life, and I want to create paintings that reflect the failings of our society, or the inner turmoil that we all deal with from time to time. Regardless of subject, my paintings have thick, expressive brushstrokes, and bold colors and lighting. Much of my art is representational, but often I like to step beyond the confinement of realism and experiment with surrealism and abstraction in combination with a more realistic approach.
Artist Bio: Marina San Miguel is a Washington-based painter who works primarily in oil paint, although she also experiments in acrylic, gouache, and mixed media. Originally from Pennsylvania, she moved in search of a more welcoming community. She finds inspiration from all aspects of daily life, the good and the bad. In her art, she seeks to give voice to emotions and feelings which are often unspoken, and she also aims to provide representation for women and LGBTQ+ people.
Sung I Chun
Pomal II, 2023, 16” x 20", Acrylic on Canvas
$2,000.
Artist Bio: Sung I Chun received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. She is an artist member at Shift Gallery at Pioneer Square and the online platform gallery of The Artling. Chun recently showed her works at Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, IL; SML in Seattle, WA; and Shift Gallery in Seattle, WA. She is currently based in Seattle, Washington.
Joselyn Narvaez
Untitled, 2023, 9” x 12", Acrylic on Paper
$400.
Artist Statement: I am an artist who is inspired by the mystery of human emotion and behavior most of all. In the past year, my life has changed and my mindset has changed dramatically with it. Through the portraits I paint— or any of my works— I express ideas and emotions I experience first hand and the energy I perceive in others. I work mainly in acrylic and oil paint but sometimes like to draw when I am limited in my supplies or space.
I moved to Seattle a year ago this month and through my works, especially portraits, I reflect on my experience. My personal growth and independence but also my struggles in finding the right path for myself as an individual. While my portraits do not represent my physical appearance, they all contain some emotional aspect that reflects my own as I learn to live my life to the fullest.
Kati Simek
Bay Leaves 2, 2022, 5.5” x 5.5”, Monotype with ink-additives
$210.
Artist Bio: Kati Simek is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and advocate currently based in Seattle. An MFA candidate in Arts Leadership, their research centers marginalized voices, and they promote conservation and camaraderie through parkpunks.org.
Lee Marker Marion
Breathe, 2021, 17" x 11", Copic Marker on Paper
$1,080.
Artist Statement: I am a trans artist living and working in Seattle. Though my work varies in medium, it’s all created through a similar playfully intuitive process. I find that humor, silliness, and wonder can be powerful conduits to stumbling on compositions that would have remained otherwise hidden to my more analytical half. If I can make myself laugh, scoff, or even roll my eyes, I know I’m on the right path. My work focuses on my current life experience and will often depict thematic arcs from my own life that I’m only aware of after the fact.
Jo Cosme
El Caribe (in)visible / The (In)visible Caribbean, 2017, 27"x39" framed, Photography
$1,700.
Artist Statement: This photo was taken a few weeks after Hurricane María in 2017. Wealthier United Statesians flock to Puerto Rico as a tax haven and Caribbean paradise. Meanwhile, the mass destruction of Hurricane María and economic instability has caused forced displacement and worsening living conditions for its Native Peoples.
Puerto Rico doesn’t have a thing as “Seasons”. It’s pretty much Summer all year round. When we went outside to see what was left of our archipelago, it was extremely shocking. Like seeing all the palm trees dead, on the floor or ravaged. The once lush scenery was now completely devastated from shore to shore. This is a glimpse of what we live with day by day while visitors only see their romantic ideas of Caribbean paradise while we’re left with blackouts, austerity, displacement and death.
Artist Bio: Jo Cosme is a Native Boricua multidisciplinary artist who uses photo, digital art and installations to address social issues surrounding the ongoing colonization of her Homeland, Borikén (colonially known as Puerto Rico). A year after Hurricane María, she was displaced to Seattle, WA and was shocked by how little United Statesians know about the exploitative relationship their Country has with hers. This inspired her to create works that would provoke reflections on the effects of disaster capitalism and colonialism in what textbooks call the World’s oldest Colony.
Cosme’s working on her first solo show: Welcome to Paradise. This project is an immersive multimedia installation exploring the contrasting relationship between North Americans’ widespread voyeurist perception of Borikén as a Caribbean paradise compared to the reality of what Native Boricuas have endured for generations. Her goal with this new body of work is to have North American audiences come out thinking about who they are in relation to what they have experienced through the show. To have them deeply reflect on what it’s like to be a Native inhabitant in the places they vacation to and take land from. What role are they playing in regard to neocolonialism and settler mindsets? She aims to provoke conversations on the effects of disaster capitalism, neocolonialism and displacement in Borikén (colonially known as Puerto Rico). Showing this project in the continental US will serve as a call to action to raise awareness on US Imperialism and how its people unknowingly are perpetuating neocolonialism in places such as the Caribbean.
Jess Ray
@wobblefincharts . jessrayart.com
Portents, 2023, 11" x 14", Watercolor Collage
$170.
Artist Statement: This piece is about the conflict between the joy of creation and the often painful experience of trying to make art into a career. It's an extremely vulnerable position, made more so by the idea that art becomes more valuable after the artist's death.
Artist Bio: Jess Ray is an artist and illustrator from Seattle, Washington. She has been obsessed with art from a young age and carries a sense of wonder and playfulness into her art, along with horror elements picked up later in life. Jess has previously illustrated a children's book called "Braving Bedtime," created posters for local bands, and shown art locally and online at Push/Pull, Slip Gallery, Greenwood Art Collective, Side Rail Collective and others.
Jess’ pieces are typically rendered in watercolor and acrylic marker in an illustrative style characterized by bright, punchy colors, and dreamy atmosphere that feed into whimsical, mysterious, and often humorous themes. She often strives to create a sense of mystery or tension, allowing the viewer to imagine for themselves what events have led up to the scene or what might come after it.
Alaina Stocker
@gobbeldigook . alainaarts.com
Remember This, 2023, 35" x 40", Assembly
Not for sale.
Artist Statement: This piece talks about collection of memories. In making it I processed a difficult time when life seemed to be only happening to me. The experience taught me how recalling something painful can be a salve and a reminder that so much can change quickly. And that I am fully in charge of how I want things to change for me.
Artist Bio: Alaina is a Seattle artist who studied at Cornish College of the Arts (class of 2015). There, a fascination with intricacy led to investigating mediums like oil painting, installation, and methods like embroidery historically labeled 'women’s work'. She started Living Artists Collective in 2020, a nonprofit dedicated to providing opportunities and funding that make it easier for practicing artists to remain in the increasingly-expensive Seattle area. Her time is spent organizing these programs, curating gallery-style shows, scrambling around in the nuances of her art practice, and reading contemporary fiction.
Moon Pelton
(My) Last good egg, 2022, 2' x 4', Oil on Birch Panel
$3,150.
Artist Statement: This work deals with the ideas of dying and legacy, both in a human body that could bear a child but has chosen not to, and as a painter dedicated to producing the work I need to see.
Artist Bio: I am always seeking emotional truth over representational truth. My paintings convey a feeling or feelings that have no name, no real boundary to draw up against, no other way to be explored or explained.
I have been painting and sculpting for the last fifteen years, with the last four being completely dedicated to oil painting. I have shown all over the United States, participated in open studios and art talks. My work has sold to both public and private collectors worldwide.