New Contemporary Works - A Group Show

Davidson Galleries
Seattle, Washington
January 6 - 28, 2012

Susan Bennerstrom, Soap Lake (detail), 2011. Oil on canvas, 19.5 x 23.5 inches. "'Soap Lake' brings together several threads of my painting life: the Eastern Washington landscape, man-made structures, and the effects of light and shadow, which hint at both comfort and a sense of foreboding," writes Bennerstrom. Currently on view in the group exhibition New Contemporary Works - A Group Show at Davidson Galleries. Image courtesy of the Artist and the Gallery.

George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher

Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue, Washington
October 29 - February 12, 2012

George Nelson (1908 - 1986): Two staff members in Nelson's office with a model for the American National Exhibition "Jungle Gym," Moscow. Photo: Vitra Design Museum Archiv. Currently on view as part of the retrospective George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher in a survey of the American designer's career in modern office and home furniture design, film, graphic work and a full-scale partial reconstruction of the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. Image courtesy of the Museum.

Sean McFarland: Recent Work

Greg Kucera Gallery
Seattle, Washington
January 5 - February 18, 2012

Sean McFarland, Pack Ice (detail), 2011. Silver gelatin print, 3 x 4 inches, Edition of 2. Currently on view in the solo exhibition Scott McFarland: Recent Work. Photo credit: Sean McFarland. Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery.

Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura

SAAM Tateuchi Galleries
Seattle, Washington
On view through February 19, 2012

Kenjiro Nomura American (born in Japan), 1896-1956, Street (detail), ca. 1932. Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.(60.33 x 73.03 cm). Gift of West Seattle Art Club, Katherine B. Baker Memorial Purchase Award, Photo: Paul Macapia. Currently on view through February 19, 2012, as part of the exhibition Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura. Both Tokita and Nomura were the most prominent of a group of first-generation Japanese-American painters in the 1920s and '30s in Seattle and offer urban perspectives from Seattle's Japantown and downtown in a series of realist painting. Image courtesy of the Museum.

Gosia Wlodarczak: Between Wander & Settlement

Western Gallery, WWU
Bellingham, Washington
January 16 - March 3, 2012

Australian artist Gosia Wlodarczak, in residence at the Western Gallery, will create an immersive, multi-disciplinary drawing installation titled Between Wander & Settlement. Her site-specific installation work includes Skin of the Wall (pictured), a large drawing installation focusing on the tension between private and public spaces. Photograph: Longin Sarnecki. Image courtesy the artist, Western Gallery, WWU, Bellingham, and Fehily Contemporary Melbourne.

Winter Group Exhibit

Froelick Gallery
Portland, Oregon
December 14, 2011 - January 28, 2012

Matthew Dennison, Encroachment (Of The Grey Rabbit) (detail), 2011. Painting oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches. Photo credit: Wilder Schmaltz. Currently on view at the Froelick Gallery's Winter Group Exhibit featuring recent work in a wide variety of media by a selection of gallery artists. Image courtesy of the Gallery.

Dawn of 2012 (Emerging Artists of 2012)

Fulcrum Gallery
Tacoma, Washington
January 26 - March 10, 2012

Julian Peña, Self - Portrait: Nirvana (detail), 2010, 20" x 20", acrylic enamel on canvas. Fulcrum Gallery ushers in 2012 with a prime selection of Tacoma artists including Julian Peña, Kelsi Finney, Gabriel Brown, Kirsten Marie Pisto, Meghan Mitchell and Branden Urban. Image courtesy the Gallery.