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| | 1st Annual Pacific NW Abstract Show
Gallery by the Bay is proud to present the first annual Pacific NW Abstract show. The juried show features more than 70 pieces of artwork by 50 Northwest artists from the greater Puget Sound area.
Please join us for the Artist Reception!
Saturday, January 8th
5 pm to 8 pm
at Gallery by the Bay
The show runs through January 30th, 2011. Groups and students are welcome. Call 360.629.4297 to arrange a docent-led tour for your group. View the artwork here.
| Why Abstract Art?
Many people believe that all art is abstract in some way, because the artist does not paint reality completely, exactly. Not even a camera does that! Every artist, whether a novelist, painter, composer, photographer abstracts: which means that that artist chooses what to put into her/his art; chooses what to emphasize and how to
emphasize it.
Abstract artists can start from something perceived in nature;or they can start from a chance mark, or sound, or idea. Artists then can work toward a representation of their reality; or their work can be totally non-representational. Most abstract artists delight in their mediums--moving the paint or clay around; combining new sounds or colors. | What about the viewer--you!
You get to enjoy the shapes, compositions and colors of abstract art. But you also get to complete the art. That means that you can decide what a work means, and how it makes you feel.
Abstract art can entertain a long time because the viewers will constantly see new aspects of and in the art. | Artists in the show:
Jacqui Beck, Seattle
Yonnah Ben Levy, Stanwood
Chaim Bezalel, Stanwood
Ned Block, Camano Island
Melana Bontrager, Everett
Jeanine Borree, (* juror) Camano Island
Dotti Burton, (* juror) Camano Island
Charlotte Slade Decker, La Conner
Marie-Claire Dole, Mount Vernon
John D'Onofrio, Bellingham
Donna-lee Elke, Blaine
Mark Ellinger, Stanwood
Joan Enslin, (* juror) Camano Island
Paula Maratea Fuld, Bellevue
Lynn A. Guttmann, Seattle
Kathy Hastings, Snohomish
Diane Hill, Camano Island
Yvonne Hodges, Issaquah
Lloyd Houston, La Conner
Christie Houston, La Conner
Wendy Lee Lynds, Greenbank
John Lossee, Camano Island
Lee Mann, Sedro Woolley
Janet Marshall-McConnell, Greenbank
Jim Matthew, Des Moines
Yvonne McClure, Stanwood
Irina Milton, Everett
Ted Morrison, Camano Island
Melody Ojala, Lake Stevens
Bob Paczkowski, Camano Island
Flora Ramirez-Bustamante, Lake Stevens
Sue Robertson, Edmonds
Helen Saunders, Camano Island
Katherine Schneider, Bellingham
Pamela Searcy, Bothell
Andi Shannon, Mount Vernon
Fred Sherman, Silvana
Barbara Silverman Summers, La Conner
Sue Simpson, Camano Island
Roger Small, Burlington
Denise M. Snyder, Bellingham
Ann Sperry, Everett
Char Terry, Camano Island
Susan Cohen Thompson, Camano Island
Jessamyn Tuttle, Mount Vernon
Gretchen Van Dyke, Issaquah
Camille Vonnegut, Issaquah
Barbara Wyatt, Edmonds
Diana Yakowitz, Camano Island
Arno Zielke, Mount Vernon
You can preview the artwork here!
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