Nov
3
to Nov 30

Prime Directors: New Works from Kelly Sorbel and Jessyca Murphy

Prime Directors:

New Works from Kelly Sorbel and Jessyca Murphy

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Pump It Up!
Oct
6
to Oct 31

Pump It Up!

Pump It Up!

Pumpkin-themed art by local artists. The exhibit opens on First Friday Art Walk 10/6/2023 from 6-9pm and will be on display Thurs-Sat 1-6pm until 10/28/2023.

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Chad Yenney: Piercing the Unknown
Jun
2
to Jul 1

Chad Yenney: Piercing the Unknown

Chad Yenney

Piercing the Unknown


Artist Statement:

Focussing primarily on collage based mixed media, I hope to tell the story of a yesterday that never was. To embrace a fictionalized past as seen through the advertisements and idealized narrative laid out in the publications of the past. Utilizing vintage ephemera, I explore how much we have learned, stayed the same, and how much we have to grow as a society.


For art sale inquiries, contact gallery@makeshiftartspace.org

 

Wrecked

Chad Yenney

Mixed media on pale

37.5x 22.5”

$350

 

White Footed Mouse

Chad Yenney

Collage in layered resin

10”x7.5”

$80

 

Wake Me When It’s Over

Chad Yenney

Collage on canvas

36”x48”

$350

 

The Russian Alchemists Telepathy Vacation

Chad Yenney

Three color screen print on panel

12x18”

$85

 

Smile

Chad Yenney

Chompers in resin on panel

11.5x9”

$90

 

Scooter

Chad Yenney

Collage in layered resin

7.5x10”

$45

 

Refreshing Summer Drink

Chad Yenney

Collage in resin

4”x4”

$25

 

Pilgrimage

Chad Yenney

Collage in layered resin

8x13”

$45

 

Nation Mourns

Chad Yenney

Paper collage on panel

16x20”

$80

 

Just Disappear

Chad Yenney

Canvas collage on shaped panel

41”x 43”

$185

 

In my dreams you're as you were

Chad Yenney

Paper collage

10”x10”

$45

 

I love You

Chad Yenney

Mixed media on panel

33.5x24”

$125

 

Grenadine Fizz

Chad Yenney

Collage in resin 4”x4”

$25

 

Golds

Chad Yenney

Found cigarette pack

5x8”

$30

 

Does Not Compute

Chad Yenney

Collage in resin

4”x4”

$20

 

Animal Beer

Chad Yenney

Found can in resin

7x7”

$50

 

After Dinner Coffee

Chad Yenney

Collage in resin

4”x4”

$25

 

A Hesitant Prize Fighter

Chad Yenney

Canvas collage on shaped panel

43.5” x 36”

$185

 

Roy Orbison

Chad Yenney

Mixed media on panel

11”x 15”

$65

 

Blue Blood Bottle

Chad Yenney

Mixed media on canvas

18”x 18”

$100

 

Dangerous Crossing

Chad Yenney

Mixed media in layered resin on panel

12”x12”

$250

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Kids Art Walk 2023: UNDISCOVERED SPECIES
May
5
to May 28

Kids Art Walk 2023: UNDISCOVERED SPECIES

This show is a collaboration with Cedar Tree and Samish Woods. Student artwork is displayed alongside a local community artists’s reinterpretation.

Please email GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG for all sales inquiries.

Rowan Ritchie

This creature is an alien from an unknown place. It can go without food for decades though it needs water often. In order to get food, it needs to travel down to the mountains of Earth and eat rocks because its home planet has different minerals than Earth. This is the reason it has only been seen once, when it flew over Bellingham to get to Mt. Baker. Its pet peeve: volcanos; too hot to eat, though rocks are good with a little bit of spice. It is solitary. 

Karen Hanrahan, she/her

Feasting On Rocks, 2023

Mixed media - magazine and cat calendar photos, collage and stitching

7 ish x 9 ish

$75

Instagram @bestofkarenhanrahan

Artist Statement: “Amber The Alien Cat flies down to Mt Baker for its very rare feasting of rocks. The orange topped rocks are extra spicy.” Bellingham self taught creative Karen Hanrahan is middle-aged and owns a cat named Amber. She makes quilt like art with paper.

Thanks to Rowan for this awesome prompt.


Rowaen Kullas

The Arkins: The predators of the deep. Their talons sink teeth and claw into… love, in this unique and rare photo captured by Arwin Colosh, the diving photographer, in 1986. By now they must’ve raised happy and loving children. How many children? It ranges from 1-10. Their scale colors depict different states like mating is bright so you know not to go near them whenever they’re with their mate or children and if they’re lost, or their family is, they shine, and you should probably run. They mate for life and have complex emotions with an iq of 96 or 110. 

Alison Witwer, she/her

Disco Arkins, 2023

Embroidery on textiles

22” x 9” x 5”

0 (for student)

Instagram @alisonshaye


Myles

My creature once ruled the earth until humans appeared. It hid in a giant mountain for about 100 years. It also has a world inside of it and it has a spiky tail that looks like a tree and has a river going through it. 

Riley Currie, she/her

Untitled, 2023

Fabric and Mixed Media

Free for student


Ava

My creature is really cute. It’s called a Dust Bunny. It’s like a bunny with wings, that can fly. It’s so small you could hold it in your palms. It’s soft and silky. It makes a squeaking sound. It has a home underground, with miniature stuff like furniture and paintings. No one has found it because it’s so adorable that people pass out when they see one. Or it makes its high pitched squealing noise which also makes people pass out. It likes to eat carrots and it also likes to eat grass and lettuce, like a bunny. It lives in groups called a pack of squeakers. 

Emily Campbell, they/she
”Down the dust bunnie hole”
Digital Print
11 x 17
free to student


Conrad

My creature is called a Boose. It is pretty large. It has the body of a bunny and the head of a goose. It likes to run and has a red fluffy tail. It eats oil and gas. It does not have any predators. It reproduces every hundred years. Its lifespan is 200 years. One of its habits is pecking at snow. It lives inside oil and gas pipelines in cold and icy places. Sometimes, it breaks out of the oil and gas pipelines to get to the surface to reproduce. Its eyes are always wide open. The only holiday it celebrates is called the Day of the Birds. On this day, it celebrates by meeting with all the other Beese (plural of Boose) in the biggest gas pipe. They celebrate by taking big oil cans and poking holes to see out of with their beaks and then they wear them over their heads and dance. During the war in Ukraine, when the Russians shut off the gas to Europe, the Beese got angry because they couldn’t drink the gas anymore so they broke out and they went to oil facilities and pecked at the pipes so there was a hole in them and they could drink the oil. They decided to take the oil cans from the Day of the Birds. They patched the eye holes in the cans with tape and they went to another oil facility and put the oil in the cans and went back into the gas pipes and they were savoring the oil for a long, long time until the Russians turned the gas back on. A few people have seen them but no one has told any scientists. 

Rodney Lotter Jr.

The Boose is Loose, 2023

Acrylic and charcoal

11”x14'“

$60

Instagram @illuminaughtybynature


Saige

There’s only one pack of flying pigs. The pack is called the Piggy Pack. They don’t live in one place but they are visiting earth. They have an astronaut helmet so they can breathe in space. They are vegetarian so they eat plants and vegetables. They each have a different personality and mood. Three of them are girls and three of them are boys. They are pigs with wings and helmets and one of them has a bow and dress. They can live in space. Their skin can stand the cold. They each have a power but they don’t use it a lot. The one in the yellow helmet can read minds, the one with the red helmet can teleport, the green one has telekenesis, the pink one can blood-bend pigs, the purple one can manipulate pigs and people, the blue one can talk to people. 

Sarah Lane, she/her

When pigs fly, 2023

Felt, thread, wood, plastic

36”x13”

$100

Instagram @sarahsartlife, @sewlaneembroidery

www.sarahlaneart.com


Charlotte Peterson

My creature is an elemental fox living in the top corner of Washington, USA, near Seattle and Bellingham, with 757 foxes, 121 families, and 5 towns. They have radios to listen to humans and they find it hilarious, but sometimes they are very serious about it. Like wars. They are not found because they kidnap anyone who finds them and keep them hostage and don’t let them go. They have fiery ears and colorful fur. Their unique ability to control the elements makes them able to expand very easily under the ground, which is where they live. Its predators are humans, bears and the most fierce of all: the bunny. 

Steeb Russell, he/him

“HUMANS ARE HILARIOUS, AT BEST”, 2023

Acrylic on found wood

11 3/8” x 10 1/16”

$250

@steebrussellart 


Inés

My creature is called a Spalawat because it can go into space, land and water. Their genders are only girls. They love cheese and live in little meadows covered by trees and with lots of ponds and clouds. They love trees and the sun. They are a mix of a shark, a dog, a bird, and an alien. It is mostly on land and likes sleeping on pine trees. It is never too cold there, and never too hot. They even have a big box of cheese. They have a bad habit of catching little mice but that is very rare! They can also control the weather if they are feeling like it. They are very picky on what they eat and drink (everything needs to look a little like cheese) but at the end of the day they just really love to sit by the fire and relax. (their favorite weather is rain.) 

Cathy Crabtree

Spalawat and Their Love of Cheese, 2023

Watercolor paper mounted on 1/8" foam board, acrylic paint, paper strips, glass beads, wire.

Note from artist: The art of "Quilling" consists of paper strips rolled into coils. The coil can be tight, loose or anywhere in between and then manipulated into shapes. The outline of the trees is referred to as "On Edge" quilling.

8" x 18" 

$0.00 if donated to my Kids Art Walk artist


Zubin

Hello. This creature is named Berry Picker mouse. Its scientific name is Acioius Mus. As the common name states, its main diet is berries. It also eats nuts, seeds & tadpoles. It lives in jungles. It was found Aug. 22, 2022 in the Amazon rainforest. It is unknown if it has been seen before but it has most likely been mistaken for other creatures like it. This is the one photo I captured of it before it scurried off. Its main predators are thought to be snakes that sneak up on it, but it is much faster than its chubby body shows. it is mostly fur. It uses its tail as a safety mechanism and its eyesight is amazing. It can also hear something slithering across the forest floor from up to 100m away. Its lifespan is around 2 years. It nests in holes in the ground. The holes systems are very long and complex. They live in groups of up to 30 creatures. The Berry Picker mouse has very sharp claws and teeth so it can fend off enemies from its home. We estimate that the total population is up to 385 creatures and those numbers are decreasing due to deforestation and climate change related events. The creature is nocturnal and uses its amazing sense of smell to find the berries. This creature is also an amazing swimmer. It has a territorial area of up to 3 sq. miles due to the size of the group. 

Hanna Norris
Moonlit Forage, 2023
Oil on cradled wood panel
$120
18"W x 24"H x 1.5"D
Instagram @hannamarta.art


Jamisen

This is an immortal creature that digs tunnels in the earth slowly until the earth caves in on itself. There is only one in the entire world. When it has eaten all of it, it moves on to other planets, the galaxy, the others, then the universe. 

JaycH

im-mole-tal, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

Free for the student


Chloe

My creature lives in a deep forest near the streaming rivers. It has the ability to walk on water no matter how strong the current is. The colorful trees behind it hold up the planets that are too delicate to float in space. The creature has a confident personality and has a beige body with bright yellow leaves for a mane and tail. It eats plants, leaves and flowers, and the more it eats, the longer its mane and tail grow! 

Cory Lykaina, ki/they

Water Walker, 2023

Colored Pencil on bristol paper

Free for student

Kelly Sorbel, he/him

Confident Creature, 2023

Acrylic ink on paper

Free to student


Halilah

It is a Unipig. It talks in her tunnel with friends. It’s cute and strong. It eats bats and snow and flowers and leaves. It is brave. Fearless. It lives in Mt. Everest. It is beautiful, pretty, and has a happy smile. It is scared of wolves. It turns into a flower. It has a horn and wings. The wings are rainbow, average pig-sized wings with white sparkles. It lives in groups called Pig Packs. 

Amber Sturgis, she/her
Den of the Unipig, 2023
Repurposed Music Box, tea lights and mixed media
11” x 7” x 4”
$100 but $30 for Halilah


Oly

My creature lives in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, where everything is covered in shadows. It lives in a deep, dark cave and only comes out when it’s nighttime. It has a child once every 10 billion years and when the child is two, it eats them. It was alive before the Big Bang and it lived inside of an asteroid. It has a scent that attracts creatures to its cave and has carnivorous plants in the cave that kills them and then spits them out, so the creature can eat them. The reason humans have never discovered is that no human can survive the pressure of the ocean at this depth, even in a submarine. It decorates its home with lots of seashells and sea plants. It takes the light from Anglerfish and hang them at the entrance of their cave. 

Tony Walters, he/him
Deep Sea Devil, 2023
Digital (Procreate)
Print on wood canvas
8”x8”
$75
Instagram @fatlizarddesigns


David

I am writing about a creature that may or may not exist. The name of it is Barn Swallowtail. It has a purple-blue body and a brown head, and swallowtail butterfly wings, and many animals eat it. It’s main predators are barn owls. They eat seeds, bugs, and berries. People have not been studying its behaviors. They also migrate together in certain places in North America. They fly in a group that is called a Flap, and they live in North America. They are also quite rare. There have only been a few glimpses of it and no one has really studied it ever. I hope you enjoyed knowing a little bit about my animal that may or may not exist.  

Micaela Lieseke, she/her

Barn Swallowtail Family, 2023

Watercolor paint, colored pencils, glitter POSCA markers

10.25x8.5”

$50

Instagram @iguanalypse

Artist Statement:

I started my painting alongside my sister, Carly, while spending valuable art time together. I have been creating my entire life, and art really moves me, so to see my little sister fall in love with art has been a rewarding experience. I find therapeutic qualities in painting which is why I love watercolors, but I also enjoy the way it brings people together. Projects such as this one which unites young artists and others who are passionate about creating are so important and I am so thankful for the community Make.Shift cultivates. Thank you.


Emmie

The Geep is a dog-like creature. It lives in the Pacific Northwest. It is strong, cute, tough, and friendly. If in the wild, they will hunt food for themselves. If they are pets they will eat dog food. Its weaknesses are dog treats or food scraps. They have not been discovered yet because they are very rare and very shy. They are also endangered which makes them even more rare. They are great at playing fetch in the water and they are also very good at playing fetch on land. They are very energetic and need at least an hour outside every day. It loves being outdoors. It can shapeshift and become invisible. It can also sprout gills when underwater. 

Ray Sophia Sharpe, they/them

Geep in the Forest of Love, 2023

Chalk pastel

11 3/4” W x 14 3/4” H x 6/8” D (with frame)

$100

Instagram @raycreatesthings


Basil

It lives in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It likes to hide in caves and coves. It eats gum off subway rails in Vancouver because its very nutritious. It only eats other people’s food. It loves chomping on giant wheels of cheese!!! While he parties with his friends he also plays Mariocart 8 deluxe. He calls his friends trash at Mariocart 8 deluxe but they totally beat him. He flies almost everywhere. He sleeps in “empty” hotel rooms and steals extra drinks from conference rooms. But the people can’t punish him because he’s just too cute. He is a hybrid of a guinea pig snake and blue footed booby. 

Jessyca Murphy, she/they

“It only eats other people’s food”, 2023

Craft felt, embroidery floss, PolyFil

Free to student

Instagram @farthousecinema


Alex

My creature is basically a cat. But it changes color and it has wings. It can change any color in the world. It can also change a little bit of its appearance, like the shapes of its ears or the length of its hair. It is a nice pet but loves being outside. It is the size of a medium cat. It loves being social and is great with other pets. It is hard to see this strong creature change color and see its wings. It only shows its color when alone or it has a strong bond with its owner. In my picture it is changing its color because there is a mouse on its head. The wing can match its surroundings but they are always there. My creature is in the window sill looking outside. It does not need a lot of help- it can take care of itself. 

B. Cricket

“can take care of itself“, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

@noizecricket

www.maudetattoo.com


Boran

A cat lying on a keyboard. The cat pressed the letter Z. It showed a picture of an unknown species. The cat is drinking a cup of tea. The microphone starts to crack and fall. The phone starts to buzz. There is a big gust of wind. The gust of wind turns on the microscope. 

Cynthia Hansen, she/her/hers

Press Z, 2023

Acrylic on wood

~6x12”

$100


Linc

My creature’s name is unknown. It kind of looks like a bird but it’s giant. It wears flaming sunglasses. It can be camouflaged like an octopus. It hasn’t been discovered because it lives in a different dimension. My creature is ten feet long. It’s a predator and its main food is cows and other big animals. It can fly. It has razor sharp claws. It likes to live on tall mountains and it likes cold weather. If it gets too warm, it will die. They live on their own and only live in groups while they’re babies so their mothers can keep them safe. When they’re born, they’re as big as a ten year old human kid. 

Benjamin Higgins, he/him/his

Ice Cave Creature, 2023

Vine charcoal on canvas

~10x10”

$60


James

The sandfish is always found in sandy places and likes heat and can sense radar so it can stay hidden. It also has many rows of teeth and its skin is rough for protection, and it has great camouflage. It’s blind so its way of finding things is its hearing, and it does not follow other sandfish, it follows big animals and hunts with them. 

Blake Read, he/him

The Sandfish, 2023

Acrylic on Canvas

24” x 36”

Not for Sale

@smoky_beard_mcread/@maudetattoo

Artist Statement: While traditionally a watercolor painter, this artist took the assignment in a whimsical approach by using acrylic paint to mark the canvas with gestural strokes. The creature being called a “Sandfish” is described to have rough skin and excellent camouflage as a survival mechanism, is blind and relies on sense of hearing, and loves to burrow through sand. While studying the student’s image, the artist draws comparisons to the Pacific Lamprey, a parasitic fish found in the Pacific Northwest, but scaled up to intimidating proportions.

I will not be selling this work as I wish to offer it to the kid I was assigned to if they would like to take it home once the show is over. Do feel free to email or call me if the kid is not interested in keeping the work.


Ben

Their scientific name is Brobonea in Rollow, a language made from 2027 to 2066 and itt means in English “is sneaky.” They also sometimes infect walls and make them gigantic blobs. The first time one of these were found and got on the news was between 2023 and 2024. These creatures have been around for five million, six hundred and twelve thousand years. These creatures are quite extraordinary and now you know of a creature nobody else knows of that will never be discovered so keep it a secret, ok? 

Maya Dam, any pronouns

Brobonea at the Art Museum, 2023

Watercolor, graphite pencil

2’6” by 2’

free to student


Salish

I don’t think it’s that good, like I could have done a lot more! But that’s how it goes. Predator and prey! It doesn’t have any predators that can kill them with ease but they do fight with some types of sharks and orcas. Their prey is mostly fish. Why were they undiscovered?! 93% of water is undiscovered so it’s obvious why it wouldn’t be discovered. Its Latin would be whatever it would be in Latin. 

Esmeralda Olguin, she/her

Untitled, 2023

Black sand, black acrylic paint, black glitter, and broken glass 

Tiktok @pouringwithemy

$500


Emma

Orca-jel-a-bear-opolas: 

The Orca-jel-a-bear-opolas is most commonly known as a Jelly Bear. Yes, a Jelly Bear, not to be confused with a gummy bear that you eat. Oh and a cool fact is that it LOVES to eat trash, it eats around one ton a day. It also drinks around 342 gallons of oil a day. It has a 6 ft. orca fin coming out of its head with a gray body and red splotches. On the bear side it looks a lot like a cartoon. It has rosy cheeks and a cute nose. It lives in Alaska in a boat shed. 

Dai Starrlight

NotSoBrights!, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

30”x40”

Artist Statement:

A N I M A T E R I A N S

Landing in 3... 2... 1... easy, easy, and (sound of metal crushing rock Gentilly) success. You were right!

Polar said to Brown as tha Orca Starr settled gracefully and started to refuel...refueling off another

completely fully abandoned oil drum that has been disregarded and forgotten by tha not so brights.

Tha not so brights are a particular type of human beings that have a totally educated disregard and

dislike for tha little blue planet referred to as earth (we’ll get to that later).

Didn’t think that OS’s (orca starr’s) fuel would have been located in this part of Aqua Quadrant sector

206-564... Polar Bear chimed on as OS’s (pronounced OH’s) system started its systems check. OS ( tha

orca starr) is an interesting vessel or better known to tha travelers as tha zololopop or the

intergalactic inter-aquatic space/time starrship in which frm its outer appearance like a Massive Orca

(that’s right) a Whale.

But this isnt just any ol “Orca” this particular ORCA name is OS and it drinks large amounts of oil and

trasforms that Oil that otherwise pollutes and damages tha oceans on a little blue planet called earth

into new pure salty sea water while reducing tha blue planets pain. This is designed to help heal (what

tha humans call nature) earth restoring balance and harmony.

Now tha other great thing that OS (orca starr) does is that it eats aquatic debris...you know.... trash.

Yeah, that’s right ...trash...like for example empty oil drums old shoes forgotten shipwrecks... things

like that that pollutes tha entire Aqua Quadrant as a whole....

(Computer voice) systems are now fully operational.

Polar are we ready”? Brown bear asked. “Yes Sir” Polar Bear replied

“All systems are fully operational”. “Lets power up and lift off”!

AND SO THA JOURNEY CONTINUES.....


Jacobo

My creature loves cruising around Fairhaven at night so nobody can see him. There is only one on earth but he is immortal so he doesn’t need to worry about dying anytime soon. He loves to sneak into bowling alleys at 2 am and bowl. During the daytime he just suits on his beanbag in his two room house and watches youtube and plays video games. His favorite food is actually nachos. In fact, he likes it so much that it’s the only thing he eats! If people discover him, he’ll simply leave earth and go to another planet in the galaxy… Let’s hope that doesn’t happen though. 

j paige, they/them

Night Nachos!, 2023

Polymer clay, acrylic, and Model Magic

Free to student

Instagram @yogurtybones


Io

My creature typically lives in packs, groups of 3-5. And they love to mess with humans and will hide up in trees and make noises, and hikers will often think they are ghosts. More than that though, they like to dig holes and once they have dug one deep enough, they plop themselves in the holes, then they have a packmate fill the hole back up, only leaving their head and wings exposed. They will do this over and over until they are all buried. They will stay buried for awhile, then all pop out at the same time. After that they fly until they can’t anymore, then they curl up in the trees to sleep and do it all again in the morning. 

They live in forests far from civilization. 

They are nocturnal, but they love to nap. 

They are very funny and love to play tricks.  

There are two kinds, though they often stay in the same pack, despite differences. 

They two types are Cinese Moon Moth (one with skinny wings) and Luna Moth (one with thick wings.) 

Amelia Ireland, she/her

Ghost Friends, 2023
Wood, mixed media
6x5”
$200
Instagram @ameliaanneartarmadillo


Camden

My creature loves to eat garbage and waste. Its name is the E.C. (Earth Cow). It sits on mushrooms and sleeps sitting. He has wild grass hair with leaves in it. His favorite place to sit is right between the forest and the meadow. He loves to play with his friends, when he’s not sleeping. He’s also very helpful and loves to give his advice to travelers. The E.C. lives in the forests of Prince Edward but no one has discovered the E.C. and it stays hidden easily because its very fast and quiet and it’s very stealthy. Well that’s my animal, I hope you liked it. 

Sarah Kindl, she/her

The E.C. Kid’s Art Walk 2023

Screenprint using Black Light and Night-Glow Ink

24in.X19in. 

2023

$250 (4 Available)


Neilan

The painting of life! 

My painting has a creature that has a Seahawk head. 

He lives in the Big Lemon, AKA the woods.

He needs a friend and a family. 

There are many mountains guarding the place. 

It likes football and watching it on the NFL+ app.

The Big Lemon is a forest but it is a forest that is only in Bellingham, WA. It’s like New York. 

It hunts salmon in the Nooksack. 

Kelly Sorbel, he/him

Big Lemon, 2023

Acrylic ink on paper

Free to student


Coolidge

6 foot wing span, sharp beak and claws, Seattle Seahawks on side of body. Eats only fish. Helps wounded animals, races other seahawks as fast as lightning, likes to move the sea with a beat of its wings, also chases tsunamis. They lives in packs of five called Waves, on trees or mountains by the beach. It can fly at the speed of light which makes shopping trips fun. Looks stellar. 

Julius Luciano, he/him

PNW Thunderbird, 2023

Acrylic and gel on canvas

24''x36''

$650

Instagram @lucianofinearts

https://www.redbubble.com/people/lucianofinearts/shop?asc=u

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1348134109012440


Finn

My creature is a spider, monkey, giraffe and ox. It lives in cold places and burns easily in hot places. It is palm sized and an inch thick unless it eats 2x per serving, then it’s two inches. 

Brian Drake

Untitled, 2023

Acrylic on canvas


Chauncey

My creature lives in massive sky cities. The sky cities are actually living creatures they have tamed to do their work. These creatures are much more advanced than humans, are 12 feet tall, have black, leathery, scaly skin, red eyes, and hard masks that they wear for almost everything they do. These masks have horns on them and are required in combat. They spar with small training lances and maces. Although their skills are not needed for all-out wars like humans’ are, they do need their skills to depend against pirate raids, seeing as parts of their species have gone rogue and formed pirate clans. They make clans and sky ships which they use to raid sky ships to gain more territory. Sonar, radar, and many other forms of human detection pass straight through them so they are nearly invisible to most forms of detection. Clouds often form around them so on a very cloudy day, there will be a lot in the sky. 

Paul Manz, he/him
Long Way Away, 2023
Fineliner, graphite
9”x12”
$10
paul.v.manz@gmail.com


Jasper

My creature’s name is a Mini-Plato-Transparentus. It is a Duck-Billed Platypus, but the body of an octopus. The reason why scientists have not discovered it is because the only bones in its body are the feet and pinchers (half of its population is extinct.) My creature eats anything that swims and that is smaller than it. It also lives in a swampy/rainforest/mountain biome. They have a GLOB which has 4-6 Mini-Plato Transparenti. The texture of Jello but like not as moveable. 

Megan Yakavonis, she/her

Gelatinous Platypus!, 2023

Digital Painting

8” x 10”

Free for Jasper!

Instagram @Volcanova_


Ernie

My creature is called a Yellow Spined Otter. It was discovered in 2049 by a French explorer. Ironically, it is not yellow or an otter- it’s not even related to an otter! Its closest living relatives are things like cats, platypi and manatees. It lives in coastal regions and Mangroves in southeast Asia, Indonesia, India, eastern China and eastern Africa. Unfortunately there are very few of them left in the wild; there are only 28 living in the Yellow River right now due to pollution and erosion. There are two main species, the Chinese Yellow Spined Otter and the Indian Yellow Spined Otter. The Chinese Yellow Spined Otter lives in coastal China and Indonesia. It has a sleek body, dark eyes and a huge powerful tail. The most common place to find them is in Mangroves. The second species is the Indian Yellow Spined Otter, it has a stockier body and bigger eyes. It can see all the way around its head. The Indian Yellow Spined Otter is a bit smaller than the Chinese Yellow Spined Otter and primarily lives on the coasts of southeastern Africa. Its main predator is the estuarine crocodile, who devour even the toughest adults. Some other animals, such as birds, may steal their eggs and eat them. A typical Spined Otter diet consists mostly of shellfish, starfish, and small land mammals such as mice. If a bird flies too close to the water they may risk being eaten by a Spined Otter. the Spined Otter has a special gland in their spines which can paralyze prey with bursts of electricity but don’t worry- it is not enough to severely injure a human. Over all, Spined Otters are a beautiful creature that is close to extinction like many other animals in this world today.

Ezra Anisman, they/them
Yellow Spined Otter feat. Crocodile, 2023
Vintage National Geographic magazines on bristol 
13" x 16"
$60
Instagram/website: extra.extra.ezra


Solly

My creature is very squid-like and small. It has big eyes and yellow-see-through fins. It is a vegetarian animal and only feeds on seaweed. But there is a plant that’s disguised as seaweed and it’s a predator of the Vamprosquidious… which is its name. One other predator is the pajama shark. The Vamprosquidious is a freshwater animal. They can survive extreme environments too. 

Blake Irwin, she\they

Vamprosquidious In Pursuit, 2023

Digital Media

11" x 17"

Free to student


Lucita

The Gelatinous Fuzz is a hybrid of a moon jellyfish and a chipmunk. It lives in Northern Alaska and in Siberia. There are only ten of them in the world, and they are very shy creatures, so humans have never seen them. They make nests in trees and their only mating season is one week in June, so they do not reproduce very much. These creatures will live around Birch trees and thrive off of eating the sap from these trees. These creatures sometimes befriend squirrels, and they help each other find food. They are very sanitary and will bathe themselves in the frigid North Pacific Ocean. Like squirrels, they can survive a fall from almost any height by spreading out their body and acting like a kite. These creatures can also burrow, and a select few of them make their homes underground. The Gelatinous Fuzz have very good hearing and like the chickadee can warn the forest from predators. Their bushy tails are surprisingly a very good defense because when in danger they with puff up their tail and it will grow twice as large. These creatures can grow up to one and a half feet tall, and up to five pounds. Normally their tails are one foot butt when enlarged they can grow up to two feet! The papery bark of the birch tree can serve as a brush for their tails to prevent knots. Because they are part moon jelly they have a mild sting and can injure predators enough to escape and if that does not work they can use their tail thwack. Next time your walking in the woods, take a look around you, there might be more secrets unfound.     

Kade Grossarth, he/they

Gelatinous Fuzz in Action, 2023

Soft Pastel, Colored Pencil, Oil Pastel, Alcohol Marker, Paint Marker

Each card is 5.25" by 3.25"

Not for sale

Instagram @clownincursive


Liam

Krylinds are genetically related to humans and are a genetic offshoot of humans. After humans began enslaving them, their species completely vanished from humanity’s knowledge. Luckily I have been among the Krylinds for long enough for me to tell you about them. Krylinds have green skin, cat like eyes, pointy ears, and small horns. Most Krylinds have black hair, though some have green or blue hair. The Krylinds live in clans of up to 100 people not including children. Krylinds use medieval weapons like swords and bows. Another interesting fact about Krylinds is their massive tree villages and their beautiful music and songs. Their songs are filled with such purity that you will lose track of time completely when listening. All Krylinds have psychic abilities such as levitating things or telepathy. No one knows about how they do it and they’re not about to to tell you. They all are hiding in the Amazon Rain Forest. Generally, Krylinds are led by a matriarch that are the smartest and most loyal in the clan. To test this, all old enough to and wish to face a series of trials every seen years. That’s all I’ve figured out so far. 

Brooke Eolande, she/her

“The Secret World of the Krylinds”, 2023

Mixed Media

12” circle

$200

https://www.instagram.com/jewelhouseart/


Malcolm

My animal is a tortoise. Its shell is a mud and bark color. It’s legs and head is the color of a very wet pine tree. They like to swim. The tortoise can hide in the forest with ease. They live in groups and are very social. 

Veronica Major

Hide and Speak Turtles, 2023

Mixed media

$40


Isabel

Shreck Sharks: Shrek Sharks are sharks that live in the land of Shreck. They are an undiscovered species because when a human finds them, they eat that person. They are extremely endangered- there are only five left. Every morning they come to the surface and grab an unsuspecting human’s leg, no mercy for the kids, and if they are seen, they have food for the next day. 

Charlie Sullivan

Shark Frenzy, 2023

Mixed media

$80


Samara

Rainbow Sea Mice! :) My creatures are mice… that are rainbow! They live in an underwater town called Squeakville . The town is in the middle of the ocean and everything in it floats. The mice live pretty much like humans. They go to school, they have restaurants, they live in houses. They eat cheese. The reason they haven’t been discovered is because everytime a human comes near their town, they capture them and put them in what they call the aquarium. The aquarium is a big tank that is full of oxygen. One of the mice’s favorite activities is to go to the aquarium and watch the humans. Once the humans are captured, they then live in Squeakville for the rest of their lives. They can’t get out of the tank because they then couldn’t breathe. So they either die of old age, or if the mice working therre forget to refill their oxygen tank. I just love happy endings, don’t you? 

Aireekah Laudert, she/her

“The Mayor & Their Aquarium”, 2023

Laser cut acrylic; mirror for viewing yourself in the aquarium, since you found Squeakville. 

9”x11”

Gift to young artist, reproduction available for $99.99

www.glitt3rlyfe.com / Etsy, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @ Glitt3r Lyfe


Felix

A fascinating reptilian sky-dweller. Its wings do not fly, but rather, it launches itself into the air and glides at a controlled pace before reaching the ground and launching again. It is born with 8-10 food pods on its stomach that it eats every 1-2 weeks when it takes a ground break (it can stay in the air for 1-2 weeks). A group of these is called a Fawlou (pronounced like “follow”) The reason it has not been discovered is that it spends most of its time slightly above the sky’s cirrus clouds (they’re the highest clouds). It dies when it runs out of food pods. When it dies, it drops 2 million teensy weensy tiny tiny tiny eggs. But only an average of 3-4 eggs actually hatch. The eggs start growing inside the parents’ body when it hatches. This animal can live in very hot climates like Death Valley, even though it mostly stays up in cold areas of the sky. Its extreme colors fade very quickly as its life progresses. Due to the lack of both food and population, it never fights its neighbors. I call it Coloratus Skyre. 

Tom Yost, he/him

Alebrije Americano, 2015-2023

Materials: steel, wood plank, cardboard, clay made of house paint and paper fiber, acrylic paint, xerox copy of original photograph.

10”x8.5”x5”

NFS

www.tomyostontheweb.com

Artist Statement:

Indigenous people in Mexico have been making alebrijes (ah lay BREE hays) since before the Spanish arrived. Alebrijes are imaginary creatures that in modern times combine 3 kinds of animals: one part from an animal that lives in the water, a part from a land animal, and a part from an animal that lives in the air.

Often alebrijes are constructed from cardboard, paper, and papier mache although they have also been made of wood and ceramic materials. This alebrije was constructed from cardboard and. aclay made from left-over paint and papar fiber. All materials were either recycled materials or materials that would have been thrown away.

This alebrije follows the tradition of using parts from 3 different creatures. In this case, the 3 creatures are: a lizard (the body and tail); a chiton (the shell); and. a human swimmer (arms and legs).

The artist likes to draw on arts from other cultures and put them in a U.S. context to bring out hidden attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs of Americans.


Noah

This creature is a mix of an Axylotl and an Anglerfish. Its prey is attracted to the light on its head, like an angler fish. Its predators are anything that can fit in its mouth. My creature travels in packs called bubbles. To trap their prey, they shoot out bubbles, drowning them! The way these creatures stay hidden is that it changes color like an octopus. Its diet is plankton and small fish. Its habitats are lakes in Japan.

Brian Nolan

"Angler-lotl", 2023

Acrylic on paper

12x18in

instagram.com/bnolanart/


Jane

My creature has a fox-like body and cat-like ears. It has a lamp-post tail and light bulb antennae, and bright blue body. It lives in the Whimsey Woods, a forest of pure terror. Everywhere you look there is panic. No one goes to the whimsy woods but if they do, a mysterious creature will appear (AKA my creature) and will lead the way out. But the fog is so strong you can’t see the creature. But that’s only if you’re good. As you see it will lead you to the underworld where demons and monsters live and you’ll be stuck there til death do us part. But that’s only when you’re bad. Other spirits and ghosts live in the forest. And some control the deepest parts of the terrorizing torture of the underworld. Sending you to murder. But the normal side isn’t controlled by demons. But instead my creature controls the forest. 

Jennifer Adamson, she/her/hers

"Panic", 2023

Acrylic paint on canvas 

30x40 inches 

$245 

Instagram @emeraldsun01


Otto

Name: Ignis Avis (latin for flame bird) 

Group name: Sunder (thunder, but sun) 

My creature is a giant bird with a wing span of 14 feet. It has a rounded head with strict narrow eyes that can detect living things. The eyes can also see super far and the bird doesn’t have to blink. It’s beak is like a vulture in the sense that its nose has a hole and it has great smell. Its wings have many different colors, even some that humans can’t see. The wings also can reflect sunlight so thats a reason that no one has found them. The talons are as sharp as the sharpest knife. Their tail is basically a big fan that helps cool it off. Its entire body looks like a giant flying flame. Its eggs are the color of a robin’s egg. When born, the babies are as small as a baby robin. The life span of the birds can be 50-250 years old. The babies are abandoned at 5 years old and are fully grown at 12 years. The babies’ colors are dulled compared to the adults. The bird lays eggs around the end of their life and they do it at night alone in a big nest. The bird lives in a desert. Sometimes it moves around but it normally stays in one place unless abandoning the kids. The sand dunes are huge so they can accommodate the big bird. The area usually has an oasis nearby so humans don’t pay attention to the bird. If humans see the bird, they think they’re hallucinating. The sand is a perfect yellow with a lovely temperature. The cacti are giant and very sharp with a dark green color. Its prey arre mini mice that live under the sand where it is cool and where it has mini food that they eat. The mice have an underground tunnel system with holes to the surface to get special food. The bird is the biggest in the world and you better believe it!!! -Otto 

Clare Casey, they/them

Ignis Avis and It's Shadow, 2023

Paper, found object, chalk pastel, acrylic, digital drawing

17"x 11"

IG: @clare_phoria

Artist Statement: Hot sand cradles hatching eggs and contrasts shadows, stark and intricate. A shrill screech of Ignis Avis echoes like fire-light off of each grain of sand. Small mice dart to and fro. Their shadows are just behind them. A crescent moon in the eyes of the mother eagle, bringing both night and day with the fiery flap of wings. 

Some desert wanderers whom stray from the oasis gaze skyward to catch a glimpse, hoping to not blind their vision and be dazzled by the blazing, flying myth. It is said that if one can catch a look at the blue flame eyes or the curve of the moon in Ignis Avis' sharp talons, you can live to be as old as the ancient creature itself. Then again... no one ever returns after seeing the Flame. Maybe, they, too, catch flight and become the bird of flame and light? 


Ash

Scopulum Incarnationis (reef incarnation) is a large sea creature that lives in shallow water off the coasts of tropical places such as the Hawaiian islands. It is shiny and scaly but it spends most of its time covered in sand, disguised from snorkelers and mariners. Its diet is not balanced on krill, yett somehow it can sustain itself for up to 300 years. They have no predators, but they reproduce by themselves roughly every 200 years, rarely twice. They live solitary lives, swimming around at night and eating krill. In the morning they slowly shuffle into the sand, activating their disguise. They resemble a quartermile stingray, with an ornate coral reef on its back. It has a long, glowing tail that fades away when the morning comes. It has a large mouth on its bottom side, in between two rows of gills. Thank you for reading! 

Cherlynn Faith

Untitled, 2023

Mixed media


Iker

My creature is a snake-like creature with wings, a sharp tail, and a spiny back with little sharp fins. When they’re born, they’re about 3 inches long but they can get up to about 4 feet. They like to live in the Himalayan mountains or any mountains with a lake nearby. You might see little rock creatures on my piece. Those are the rock creatures. They collect the food for the snakes. If you ever run into one of the rock creatures, don’t fight them. In 1917, explorer Rebecca Albatross found them. She grabbed a truck, went back to her village, filled the truck with resources, went back and studied the snakes for the rest of her life. She died at age 94, surrounded by the snakes. No one else has ever discovered these creatures. 

Ripley Whiteside

Don't Fight the Rock Creatures, 2023

Acrylic on panel

2023


Skyler

This is a Wolflion. It is a combination of a wolf and a lion. It has a shaggy brown mane and gray fur. They also have intense ears. It has strong, built legs for running. It lives in the Caribbean. It eats giant Elk and they live inside caves. These animals live up to 15 years in age then die either of age or protecting their babies. They also have infrared vision. The reason people have not found them is because if humans come close, the Wolflion dashes away (they can run up tot 30 mph.) 

AmyM5000

WolfLion in Paradise, 2023

Acrylic on Canvas

36”w X24”t x 2”d

$850

amym5000.com


Jude

My creature is sort of like a lizard. It is grayish-black and it lives in volcanoes so that’s really why the world hasn’t discovered it yet. The only time it goes outside is to hunt and get water. Why it can live in volcanoes is because its scales are fire and lava resistant and it has spikes on its back so if somebody attacked it, it could get hurt by them. It hunts with a venomous thing at the tip of its tail. It has very big hand talon things to grab onto stuff and eat it. They sometimes get attacked by bears because they hunt and get water in forests with no people so they are not seen and if you did see one (not that you will) it would probably be alone hunting in a forest. 

Sarjé Haynes, she/they
Volcano Lizard, 2023
Mixed media
10”x11.5”x4”
NFS/Free to student
Instagram @sarje.haynes

https://sarje.art

Artist Statement: I had a wonderful time creating Jude’s Volcano Lizard! While I usually create abstract mixed-media work, I had a ball stretching my skills with a representation of this lovely creature. The lizard’s design is inspired by the Galápagos marine iguana. I wanted this creature to really live, so I took a sculptural approach, inviting Jude’s lizard to break the 2D plane and join us in 3D.

The lizard’s head and right arm were constructed with a 3D printing pen, EVA foam clay, and painted marbles. The entire creature is textured with crackle and glass bead gel media.

It was my hope that this creature could be enjoyed by both sighted and blind audiences. I believe art is for everyone!

I gift this completed work to Jude, without whose imagination I would not have made a delightful new friend.


Benicio

My creature is called a Pampas cat. It is a nocturnal cat. They can be any color. It lives in a bamboo forest. It loves to eat mice, rats and it likes to stalk birds. It is very secretive and it lives high up in bamboo forests but also can swim. In the winter, it can puff up its fur to help it stay warm. It lives a solitary life. Its predators are the common Bald Eagle, Vulture and Hawk, if it gets caught by surprise. It has very sharp claws, so it can defend itself against other animals that might try to eat it. It has very pointy ears to help it hear quiet sounds. It really likes to pounce from tree to tree or from bamboo stalk to bamboo stalk. It lives in a hole in a big bamboo stalk during the daytime. No one has discovered it because it is nocturnal and very secretive. The pupils of its eyes sprout lines that look like a spiderweb. 

Carly Brynne Schmitt, she/her

The Wild Cat, 2023

11x8.5”

$25

Artist Statement:

My name is Carly Brynne Schmitt and I am Micaela Lieseke’s sister. I am 9 years old and go to Sheridan Elementary in Tacoma. I drew this with my sister and she made her own artwork of birds for this show. This took me about 5 hours to do, I did a sketch first, chose colors, and planned it out. It took me a long time to figure out what the paws should be doing, but I decided to have them eat a mouse. If this Pampas cat was my pet, I would name it either Ela or Spike. My sister printed this out for me so it is on glossy professional paper like she does for her art. I love to draw mainly people and landscapes. Drawing is my favorite thing ever!! Thank you.

Cynthia French, she/her

Bambi, the Pompas Cat, 2023

Fabric, thread, and stuffing, plastic eyes

Free to student


Will

My creature lives in the upper stratosphere and feeds on all available gasses up there, including methane, ozone, hydrogen, nitrogen and helium. When it eats that, it excretes around 50 times the amount it eats and helps with pollution by eating the carbon dioxide molecules. It also helps holes in the ozone like little engineers by eating ozone, flying over to a hole and pooping on it to fill it up again. Its poop is made up of the gasses it eats. Sadly, it is being endangered by the holes in the ozone because when they try to fly to it to fix it, they get fried by the sun, in the hundreds of thousands. Luckily, they reproduce much faster than they get fried. They do not have any gender. They can automatically produce their offspring after they’ve eaten enough gasses. They eat about 100 pounds a second. They make millions of new ones to start a new life. Some of them get fried but trillions more survive, thus they have survived the holes in the ozone…. so far. They’re also becoming endangered because of rockets flying through the stratosphere. When they try to eat the gas coming out of the engine, they get fried by the exhaust and those that don’t get sucked into the engine get shredded. They also have a tendency to fly onto clouds and eat the high amounts of oxygen there. Clouds that appear stretched out have been exhausted by their constant eating. High flying planes come down with colonies of quadrillions of them living in colonies all over the plane. The exhaust from the plane is not as volatile as rocket exhaust so they don’t get fried, they just eat it. Birds have also returned with millions of them living on their feathers, feeding on bits of fish or food that fly out of their beaks and bits of their excretion. They also eat germs and parasites that are on the baby birds, that might make them sick. They congregate in septillions above freeways, as the exhaust is not as volatile as rocket fuel so they won’t get shredded. Their colonies there greatly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that gets to the atmosphere. They also congregate in massive numbers above neighborhoods, feeding on worms, fumes from cars, parasites, smoke from chimneys and some of them have managed to even find their way underground, forming large colonies as they go, feeding on bat guano and sulphur, plus all sorts of other rock minerals found down there. They thus have contributed a ton to the earth’s health and they constantly work to slow down climate change and prevent that awful smell from car exhaust from reaching your nose. 

Yin Dwyer

Monster Mash, 2023

Fabric, embroidery floss, and sequoia branch

28”x10”

@youcancallmeyin

$350


Charlotte Powell

My creature can live in the air and on land and also it can live wherever demons live, and underwater. It can transform into a mermaid, a devil and some sort of thing that has wings. Their diet changes depending on what form they’re in. The devil eats deviled eggs, the mermaid eats coral and seaweed, and the thing with wings eats jalapeños and hot sauce. They travel in groups. Humans are their main enemies- they know about humans but humans don’t know about them. They hide from humans because they pollute and because they look weird (in their opinion.) 

Guinevere Johnson, she/her

Feast of Three, 2023

Mixed media - collage, acrylic, ink, ModPodge

9x12"

$75

Instagram @cherryflavoredpaint


Leeya

You will find this underwater cactus in shallow salt water with warm water surrounded by other seaweed and coral. This plant is two inches tall. It communicates with other plants by blowing bubbles of different sizes and shapes. They have long roots that go 7-8 feet deep. The way it protects itself is by blowing bubbles in its predators’ face. They’re the right size and shape, when they pop they reproduce. Also other seaweeds and corals know when there’s that type of bubble it means there’s danger around. Now remember, don’t go near too many bubbles in your face. 

Anony Mouse

"The Bubble Cactus", 2023

Plastic, Fabric, Yarn, Wood

8"x8"

$20

anonymouseart.weebly.com/

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MOUTHFULS OF ASH // TOMORROW YOU WILL BE STRONG
Apr
7
to Apr 29

MOUTHFULS OF ASH // TOMORROW YOU WILL BE STRONG

Painting, collage and photography express the bad, the ugly and what comes out of it. By using art as a means to work through traumas, artists that may otherwise not be expressed. Finding strength in being vulnerable together.

This content deals with personal and potentially triggering issues, viewer discretion advised.

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ELLIE WEAVER

Artist name/Pronouns: Ellie Weaver (she/her/hers)

Title: Mouthfuls of Ash (1)

Materials: Fuji X Pro 2 35mm F1.4

Dimensions: 20x30"

Year Made: 2023

Price: $666 for the set of three

Social Media/ website: http://www.instagram.com/coldhandsofgod

Artist name/Pronouns: Ellie Weaver (she/her/hers)

Title: Mouthfuls of Ash (2)

Materials: Fuji X Pro 2 35mm F1.4

Dimensions: 20x30"

Year Made: 2023

Price: $666 for the set of three

Social Media/ website: http://www.instagram.com/coldhandsofgod

Artist name/Pronouns: Ellie Weaver (she/her/hers)

Title: Mouthfuls of Ash (3)

Materials: Fuji X Pro 2 35mm F1.4

Dimensions: 20x30"

Year Made: 2023

Price: $666 for the set of three

Social Media/ website: http://www.instagram.com/coldhandsofgod

Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Death Throes

Materials: Lifted Emulsion on Glass

Dimensions: 4x4"

Year Made: 2022

Price: $111

Artist Statement:

I was born in 1987 in Sarasota, Florida. My parents were into cocaine, but that was the '80s, wasnt it?

The first time I was sexually assaulted I was too young to remember it.  The last time I was sexually assaulted I was an adult and I still have trouble remembering it. I don't know why.  My mom used to burn me with cigarette butts, but I remember that. When I was in my early 20s my uncle murdered my step mother. She taught me to drive stick. He almost cut her head off according to testimony at the trial. My dad was never the same after that. We don't talk anymore. I am transgender and now nobody in my family talks to me anymore either. I say I don't miss them, but I do. In the future there's an ambulance coming for me. When you hear sirens will you wonder if it's that one?

Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Masticated in the Jaws of Heaven

Materials: Lifted Emulsions on Paper

Dimensions: 6x4"

Year Made: 2022

SOLD

Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Dysphoria

Materials: Ricoh GRIII

Dimensions: 20x30"

Year Made: 2022

Price: $222 

Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Artist Self Portrait 

Materials: Lifted Emulsion on Paper

Dimensions: 4x4"

Year Made: 2021

Price: $111 

Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Hissing 

Materials: Photo Negative on Glass

Dimensions: 4x4"

Year Made: 2021

Price: $111


Artist Name: Ellie Weaver

Title: Phantom Pain

Materials: Double Lifted Emulsion on Paper

Dimensions: 6x5"

Year Made: 2021

SOLD

SAMANTHA RUIZ

Samantha Ruiz

“Through the Woods”

18x24

Mixed media on poster paper

NFS

Artist Statement:

Back in 2015 I chose to attend rehab in an attempt to recover from an eating disorder and the disease of addiction. On the weekend when we had no groups to attend, I sat down with another patient who was decorating her binder with magazine clippings she glued on. We made a mess! Paper EVERYWHERE, stickers and glue in our hair, and for that bit of time we forgot how messed up we felt inside. This series brought me back to that time when I first got sober and made friends with other women who were in recovery. We could not change our past, or erase it, but by sharing our stories with each other we created connection. Together we stayed accountable, encouraged each other and learned new healthy coping skills, art being one of them! During this art process I found collage to be much like dealing with my past. In life, there are things that I have no control over. The only thing I can control is how I respond, and what thoughts I choose to dwell on. In collage, I take existing images and decide how they fit together. Some pieces work, and others I have to let go of. My living room floor is full of books, magazines and paper cut outs. Life is messy, but so is art! I’m learning to enjoy the process.

Samantha Ruiz

“Champagne Suicide”

11X14’’

Mixed media on canvas board

NFS

Samantha Ruiz

“The Search for Peace”

10x10’’

Mixed media on canvas

NFS

DESTINY WORMLIGHT

Destiny Wormlight

“Echochamber”

Acrylic on unstretched canvas 

$350

Destiny Wormlight

“Wild country”

Acrylic on unstretched canvas 

$350

Destiny Wormlight

“Gloomy Junie”

Acrylic on unstretched canvas 

$150

Destiny Wormlight

“Ha! Sucker”

Acrylic on unstretched canvas 

$300

Destiny Wormlight

“Obligatory self portrait”

Acrylic on unstretched canvas

$250

Artist Statement/Bio:

My ex deleted all the files from my computer including my art I originally planned for this show but i have these large goopy monster paintings so I hope you like them. My name is Destiny and I have a pretty intense coffee addiction and one day I spilled some in my sketchbook and decided to trace it and find cool stuff. Then I decided it’d be cool to paint the coolest things I found. Then, when I painted the little monsters I found in the coffee I realized I was just painting about shit I really hate. Like how much I hate people who just shit out the same stuff they hear without thinking about it, how fucked up and caught in the past religion is, and how we suck the life out of each other. This work helped me move through a lot of shit while also being really fun to make and look at. I really don’t like writing about myself or my art all, but I live in Port Townsend and that’s all I have to say.


BARRETT LIZZA

Artist Barrett Lizza/ He Man

Title. Stat

Materials, Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas.

Dimensions 50”x 28”

Year Made 2022

Price $650

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/

Artist Barrett Lizza / He Man

Title. High Notes

Materials Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas

Dimensions 30”X 24”

Year Made 2022

Price $250

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/

Artist Bio/Statement:

Down in the basement of an old building exists a creator of sorts, a man of mystery perhaps? Down in the studio Barrett creates multimedia art of all variations but mainly with a darker edge. Ok I’m done with this 3rd person stuff. Yeah I have tried making happy colorful art and it happens once and a while, but it mostly turns out a little ominous. I make all sorts of art from sculptures to interesting lighting creations with antique items. I used to work for a company flying around making art installations for music festivals that was really fun, as well as vip room set ups. But I have children now and just want to be closer to them instead of watching Phish fans high on lsd move around like zombies. 

My art before you was made with emotion, the creation process is very therapeutic in many ways to me. Since this exhibit is about emotion, I will tell you my root feelings going on at this time. I was down like most of us during the pandemic and worried of the future. I also on my span of life have just been surrounded by death at a early age and to now. From my father at 12 to my grandparents and before covid a friend to suicide and another during the pandemic as well. And my son getting type 1 diabetes.

 What a load of stuff but I honestly don’t want a pity party. But what contemplations comes from this is the value of life and how special it is. We have this life to live and what a special thing that is even though the hardships. To be able to experience all the emotions is a gift, without sadness or grief we would not know what true happiness really is.  My artwork is truly feeling based, I feel the imprints are a solid ground, the basics of life, and the lines around it like the maps of life with all its avenues and turns, never perfect and chaotic but in the end a work of art.

You are a work of art my friend.


Artist Barrett Lizza/ He Man

Title. Da Cross

Materials, Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas.

Dimensions 30”x24”

Year Made 2022

Price $250

Social Media/ website 

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/


Artist Barrett Lizza/ He Man

Title. Eh Er

Materials, Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas.

Dimensions 12”x11”

Year Made 2022

Price $100

Social Media/ website 

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/

Artist Barrett Lizza/ He Man

Title. R.22

Materials, Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas.

Dimensions 12”x11”

Year Made 2022

Price $65

Social Media/ website 

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/

Artist Barrett Lizza/ He Man

Title. Oklahoma

Materials, Oil plot map, acrylics and ink on canvas.

Dimensions 30”x24”

Year Made 2022

Price $250

Social Media/ website 

Instagram @barrettlizza

barrettlizzadesign.com/


QUIKDRAW

QuikDraw

"Out to See"

Recycled canvas, eraser dolphin, acrylic paint, mod podge

18x24"

$Free to a good home$

@m3di4b0i

Artist Statement/Bio:

"The joy of going to the movie theater as a home-schooled child who was allowed television only at certain times."

"The pain of getting a newly bought grocery store toy taken away forever after talking back to arguing parents."

"Mom asking why I don't like her clearly, disgusting chicken noodle soup."

I haven't seen my parents since I was 26. When I goofily tell my mom I'll be 30 soon, she says, "Don't remind me.” It’s not that she isn’t excited for me, she just doesn’t want to think about how she will be older, too. It’s very exciting for my teenage self that couldn’t really fathom getting here.

 Sometimes we talk about visits. My mother is unvaccinated and has cancer. I don't know how to navigate it. When I ask her about these logistics, she says, "Right. You're so smart" about being nervous about picking something up at the airport. We awkwardly agree I probably shouldn't visit and try to schedule a video chat lunch. 

When I tell my dad I wish we talked more often, he says he was just about to call me. I haven't heard his voice since. When he sends me money "for fun" I use it to buy groceries or pay rent. He was my best friend growing up. We’d tear apart 90’s science kits. Feed hotdogs to the praying mantis that lived on the window sill in the Los Angeles sun. Then I became a woman, even though I didn’t really want to. I think it freaked both us out. He didn’t know how to talk anymore, only yell. Silence meant more sips of beer. He’d tell me I needed to meditate or incense the room, really I was just going through the emotions of a puberty in the wrong direction. He told me flat out I wasn’t a lesbian. I’m not sure why. He chased the guy I lost my virginity to down the block.

You're maybe wondering now; how such depth and vaguity can happen at the same time. And I am too. 


BROOKE EOLANDE

Brooke Eolande

“I’m Bigger on the Inside”

$400

24”x30”

acrylic and mixed media art piece on stretched canvas.

2022

It’s so confusing to be completely empty and also ready to explode.

Brooke Eolande

“I’m Not Real”

$150

Acrylic on stretched canvas.

10”x10”

2022

Sometimes it’s such a relief that I don’t exist.

Artist Statement:

I’ve been living with mental illness and trauma for as long as I can remember. I feel unmoored and unsure of who I really am. For years I’ve been desperate to figure out what is wrong with me because if I know what it is, maybe I can fix it. Art has helped me to express the feelings I don’t have words for. When people experience my art, I feel seen. It feels like I’ll never exist if I’m never made real in another person’s mind. It’s comforting to think that a long time from now, maybe somewhere far away, someone might connect with my art and for that moment I won’t be entirely alone.

Brooke Eolande

“Domestic Violence”

$75

Acrylic on stretched canvas.

11”x14”

2021

You’re not allowed to buy this if you think it’s funny.

Brooke Eolande

“Vacation”

$150

Acrylic on stretched canvas.

12”x12”

2022

No matter where you go, you’ll always be there.


MATHEW SCOTT

Artist name/Pronouns: Matthew Scott He/Him

Title: ‘Tomorrow I Will Be Strong’ #4

Materials: digital photography, 35mm, photo paper luster, distressed wood frame painted black,

Dimensions: 20 x 14

Year Made 2023

SOLD

Artist name/Pronouns: Matthew Scott He/Him

Title: ‘Tomorrow You Will Be Strong’ # 1

Materials: digital photography, 35mm, photo paper luster, distressed wood frame painted black,

Dimensions: 19 x 13

Year Made 2023

Price $300

Artist name/Pronouns: Matthew Scott He/Him

Title: ‘Tomorrow You Will Be Strong’ # 2

Materials: digital photography, 35mm, photo paper luster, distressed wood frame painted black,

Dimensions: 19 x 13

Year Made 2023

Price $300

Bio:

Matthew Scott is a photographer and multimedia artist currently based in Bellingham, WA. Matthew has a background in freelance videography and media production, where his work has previously appeared on television and in local film festivals and screenings. His photography has been displayed in the greater Seattle area, most recently at the Pancakes and Booze pop up show.

Artist Statement:

The series of photos displayed are titled ‘Tomorrow You Will Be Strong’ This work focuses on finding contrast within the frame to tell a story: the contradiction of celebration and sadness, the conflict between the internalized emotion and the outward action. What are the differences between the outward and inward perception of self? Which is more true?

Website: www.MScottphotovideo.com

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/mscottphotovideo/

Artist name/Pronouns: Matthew Scott He/Him

Title: ‘Tomorrow You Will Be Strong’ #3

Materials: digital photography, 35mm, photo paper luster, distressed wood frame painted black,

Dimensions: 15 x 12

Year Made 2023

Price $275

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SOUR CHERRIES: FRANKIE KRUPA VAHDANI
Mar
3
to Mar 25

SOUR CHERRIES: FRANKIE KRUPA VAHDANI

GALLERY HOURS:

THURS - SAT 1 PM-6 PM

SHOW IS UP THROUGH THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

Please email Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org for all sales inquiries


"Alchemically Recycled"

flashe, wax pastel and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400

Artist Statement:

Phosphorescent, color soaked paintings and drawings are a placeholder for communicating ideas on what it means to be first generation American. The work comes from an inability to define the artist in terms of personhood, as Iranian Polish American. Through science fiction and mythology, works are created that acknowledge and process being a child of diaspora in America. 


Thoughts on “Women’s Work” - the emotional labor silently demanded across social, political and economic embodiments of life are woven together with the experiences of being a child of immigrants. The quiet cultural balancing acts that go unnoticed in a predominately white homogeneous landscape. The kid in the cafeteria with the "weird lunch", the child of diaspora.


There is little space in this ecosystem for Middle Eastern communities, especially women. My work is offered as a meeting ground for those isolated.


In recent months this meeting place has turned into a rallying cry in support of the Feminist Revolution happening in Iran. Fighting for basic human rights; freedom of choice, freedom to dance in public, freedom to feel the wind in your hair, the freedom to be. Countless people have lost their lives. Kidnapped, tortured, wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death without trial if not already killed. A regime suffocating and silencing some of the world's most talented minds. To bring awareness and solidarity to those stolen, and killed by the Islamic Republic haunting Iran. To show gratitude and give power to the women of Iran leading a revolution that is burning white hot like the sun. A kind of strength and determination that is rare to see. A strength that is hoped will spread to all who take a moment to learn about the movement; for bodily sovereignty and human liberty. 

ZAN ZANDEGHI AZADI 

WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM

"Neon Quilt Rug"

watercolor, acrylic, wax pastel and pencil on paper

6x5"

2021-2022

$250.00

"Women, Life, Freedom"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$250.00

The news and large media corporations have failed us. Not reporting the daily abuses, murders, kidnappings and generational traumas being inflicted by the morality police and Iranian military. Too wrapped up in capitalist politics and oil fueled money games, instead they further vilify Iran and Islam. Look beyond what major news outlets are saying. Research. Critical thinking. Look back for context so Iran can move forward and reclaim herself.

"Keeping Hope for My Daughter"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$250.00

Our sisters across Iran and Kurdistan are held hostage, their bodies and lives are not their own. 

Here in the States, we watch as old white men strip back the undeniable rights we have to our own bodies. 

What world will she inherit? 

God fuckin bless the women and young people protesting in Iran.

"Familiar Family Drama"

acrylic, wax pastel and pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400.00

Bio:

Frankie Krupa Vahdani (b. 1990, she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Skagit Valley. Krupa Vahdani graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in Studio Art. Krupa Vahdani has been a resident at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA and has exhibited work at Public Pool Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, The Vestibule in Seattle, WA, Fuller Rosen Gallery in Portland, OR and Schack Art Center in Everett, WA.


@FrankieWeirdLastName

fkv-art.com

"Untitled"

pencil on paper

12x9"

2021

$250.00

"Women’s Work 2”

yarn

5x8"

2022

SOLD

"Cultural Appropriation Station"

yarn

5x8"

2022

$50

"Calm and Bliss"

flashe and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400.00

"Quiet Strength"

pencil and vinyl on wood

24x18"

2023

$750.00

"Cultural Brokeheartedness"

pencil and acrylic on wood

20x16"

2023

"Untitled"

ink and flashe on canvas,

10x8.5"

2023

$200

"Persian Boots on a Cowboy Rug"

acrylic on paper

15x10"

2020

SOLD

"Untitled"

pencil and acrylic on wood

14x11"

2023

$500

"Paradise or Perdition"

flashe, ink and acrylic on wood

24x18"

2023

$1,000.00

"Clearance"

acrylic and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$250.00

"Farr"

flashe and acrylic on wood

24x18’’

2023

$1,000.00

"Untitled"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2023

$100

"The West Doesn't Care"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$100

"They've Lit It On Fire"

pencil and vinyl on paper

30x23"

2023

$500

"Persepolis"

pencil and acrylic on wood,

24x18"

2023

$1000

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REVOLUTIONARY MINDS
Feb
3
to Feb 25

REVOLUTIONARY MINDS

Lawrence “L” Jenkins Artist Statement: Creativity cannot be confined by bars, concrete, or barbed wire. Creativity is the channel that imagination, ideas, and energy can flow fluidly above, underneath, and around the structures [prisons] that are built to contain the human being psychologically, physically, and metaphysically. I have found, in the depths of solitude -- in the pit of oppression, there is a creative outlet for thought and practice to manifest freely. Creativity -- helps us (re)possess mind, body, and soul. And when this is geared to liberation and emancipation... revolutionary things happen. This is why I'm so inspired by revolutionary visionaries, thinkers, strategists, and tacticians. Those who weren't afraid to become the tool, the resource, the opportunity, the solution to making material existence around them better. Not being afraid to imagine, to struggle, to overcome... I recently became a visual artist (in 2015). Before that, I was a creative writer, poet, and musician until my writings were used against me by the state after being accused of crimes against the police... I had a choice to self-censor and never write or voice my thoughts again, or find different forms of creative expression through different mediums on and off the canvas. The Revolutionary Minds series is my first attempt at abstract / ink portraits. And this very work has reached and moved people internationally. Typed on the bottom of each piece are titles of the individual's work that transformed my life.



Pricing Info:

Portraits - Sliding scale $30-$50 each or $150 for the set of four

Calendars - $15 (profits go to Liberation Media NW)

Martin Sostre posters - donate to LMNW and take one as a gift 


Please email Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org for all pricing inquiries.

James Baldwin raised societal questions that many were afraid to question within themselves as individuals. Now, these same questions are being raised by the masses against the societal conditions we are being forced to live in. The flames I drew in his facial features and shirt represent the fire burning around us right now. 

"Who's law, one is compelled to ask, and what order?" - James Baldwin


Lawrence Jenkins (he/him/his)

"The Fire Next Time" James Baldwin

Sharpie Ink Pen on Smooth Bristol Paper (framed print)

Original 9"x 12" ( selling 11"x 14.5" print)

2022

Sliding scale $30-$50

@liberationmedia_nw

liberationmedianw.org 


Lawrence "L" Jenkins Bio:
currently incarcerated, farmer, self taught artist, horticulture and art educator/program director, community organizer, and abolitionist. Lawrence is a co-founder/executive director of Liberation Media Northwest, an online multimedia platform founded by prisoners for prisoners and communities they are absent from but still belong to.


Martin Sostre was a lesser known leader whose work has impacted over 3 million prisoners' lives and those who are fighting for the human rights and freedom of all prisoners. I chose a more refined, serious, precise style to bring out Martin's sharpness, intensity, and radical resistance.

"The struggle for liberation begins with the individual whenever or wherever he or she is oppressed" - Martin Sostre 

Lawrence Jenkins (he/him/his)

"The New Prisoner" Martin Sostre

Sharpie Ink Pen on Smooth Bristol Paper (framed print)

Original 9"x 12" ( selling 11"x 14.5" print)

2022

Sliding scale $30-$50

@liberationmedia_nw

liberationmedianw.org 

Visit liberationmedianw.org and sign-up for the newsletter to stay updated with the latest efforts.

All donations can be sent to Venmo @liberationmedianw

Liberation Media Northwest (LMNW) operates as a non-profit organization, centering the work and voices of prisoners through a network of organizers working both inside and outside of prison. LMNW provides a platform for prisoners to share their writings, art, lectures, podcasts and other media. LMNW aims to create change through educating the masses and working toward the abolition of penal systems and the establishment of transformative justice practices. All donations will be used to further these goals by supporting current mutual aid efforts to support prisoners. These efforts include but aren't limited to helping prisoners access basic needs (commissary, phone time and stamps for communication), legal defense funds, re-entry support, and organizing legislative coalition meetings.

George Jackson was politicized after coming to prison. Through self education, he became a revolutionary theorist, writer, and organizer whose work has influenced major social movements around the world even till this day. I emphasized the eyes and incorporated elongated and enlarged shapes to symbolize the spilling of blood and sacrifice.

"We are faced with two choices: to continue as we have done for 40 years fanning our pamphlets against the hurricane, or starting to build a new revolutionary culture that we will be able to turn on the old culture." - George Jackson

Lawrence Jenkins (he/him/his)

"Blood In My Eye" George Jackson

Sharpie Ink Pen on Smooth Bristol Paper (framed print)

Original 9"x 12" ( selling 11"x 14.5" print)

2022

Sliding scale $30-$50

@liberationmedia_nw

liberationmedianw.org 


Malcolm X was a very critical thinker, listener, and observer. I added critical lines and shapes to bring out this famous pose and compliment these qualities.

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X

Lawrence Jenkins (he/him/his)

"By Any Means Necessary" Malcolm X

Sharpie Ink Pen on Smooth Bristol Paper (framed print)

Original 9"x 12" ( selling 11"x 14.5" print)

2022

Sliding scale $30-$50

@liberationmedia_nw

liberationmedianw.org 

Maya Angelou was a dynamic woman who followed many of her passions. A writer, actress, dancer, singer, poet, and civil rights activist, Angelou lived a vibrant life and is recognized for her contributions to literature and for her work during the civil rights movement. 

"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself."


Lawrence Jenkins (he/him/his)

“Maya Angelou”

Graphite on Smooth Bristol Paper

11"x 14"

2023

Not for sale

@liberationmedia_nw

liberationmedianw.org 

Proceeds from the sales of Revolutionary Minds Ink Portraits will go toward Lawrence's post-secondary education, legal fees, and his re-entry fund. Lawrence's re-entry plan is to start a small-scale no-till farm, continue creating art and engaging in grassroots organizing and community building.

Lawrence is hoping to build connections with people in the state of Washington who share similar interests and values. He is seeking to build relationships and establish community support systems around his re-entry goals.

To write to Lawrence via email, download the Securus Mobile app, create an account, and purchase stamps.

You can find Lawrence in the Securus system by looking up "Lawrence Jenkins 306665 Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Aberdeen, WA.

Pieces in this show are confronting racism and racial violence and some content may be unsettling.

Viewer discretion advised.

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“It’s a Beautiful Mind”

Oil/ Acrylic / Soul Energy

35.5 x 45

Year Made: 2023

NFS

#daitravelslight

A flume label in the iris represents the misjudgment and labels we cast on each other.

"Before one judges me to remove the speck out of my eye, they must first remove the plank out of their own."

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“Planet of Tha Apez Vol.1”

Acrylic's/ wire and plastic / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 20 x 16

Year Made: 2021

Price: $2000, -0 this month in Honor of Black History Month= $200

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“This IS Amerika / Tha Fabric of Our Lives”

Materials Acrylics / Cotton / Soul Energy

18.1 x 24

Year Made: 2021

Price: $3000, -0 this month in Honor of Black History Month = $300

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight Bio:

Us Artists, we are the cornerstones of modern-day society in motion. I am a Neo-Artist expressing Neo - Expressionism exuberantly.

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“Tears Of Starrlight”

Oil/ Acrylic / Soul Energy

35.5 x 45

Year Made: 2022

$2000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month = $200

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“This Iz Amerikkka”

Acrylic/ oil / Soul Energy

45 x 35.5

Year Made: 2022

$4000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month = $400

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT”

Acrylic/ oil / Soul Energy

45 x 35.5

Year Made: 2022

NFS

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“Strange Fruit 1920”

Acrylics/ Spray Paint / Oils / Soul Energy

30 x 42

Year Made: 2021

$8000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month = $800

#daitravelslight

"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century and the great majority of victims were black.[2] The song has been called "a declaration" and "the beginning of the civil rights movement".[3] -Wikipedia

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“#FckYou”

Graphite/ Acrylic / Oil/ Spray paint / Soul Energy

45 x 35.5

Year Made: 2022

Price: NFS

#daitravelslight

(left to right)

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title Tha Man That Sold Tha World

Materials Acrylics / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 21 x 16

Year Made: 2022

Price $400

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title Strange Fruit 1920

Materials Acrylics/ Spray Paint / Oils / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 30 x 42

Year Made: 2021

Price $8000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month =$800

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title Still Ah N**** (4)

Materials Acrylics / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 24.5 x 18

Year Made: 2022

Price $1000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month =$100

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title: StrangeFruit (3)

Materials: Acrylic/ Oil / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 16 x 20

Year Made: 2021

Price: $1100 -0, in Honor of Black History Month = $1100

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

Title: A God Amongst Gods”

Acrylics / Spirit Energy

40 x 20

Year Made: 2022

$8000, -0 in Honor of Black History Month = $800

#daitravelslight

Dai Starrlight (WE, US, OUR)

“#FckYou2”

Graphite/ Acrylic / Oil/ Spray paint / Soul Energy

45 x 35.5

Year Made: 2022

Price: $4000, -0 in-0 in Honor of Black History Month = $400

#daitravelslight

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title: EarthDrip 5G

Materials Acrylics / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 12.5 x 12.5

Year Made: 2022

Price $500

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title: Neo Champion

Materials Acrylics / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 13 x 12.8

Year Made: 2022

Price NFS

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE,US,OUR

Title: EarthDrip 9G

Materials Acrylics / Spirit Energy

Dimensions: 16 x 20

Year Made: 2021

Price NFS

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title: ThisIsAmerika2

Materials: Acrylic/ Spray paint / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 40 x 30

Year Made: 2022

Price: NFS

Tag info: #daitravelslight

Artist name/Pronouns Daistar Tha Great / WE, US, OUR

Title: #ThisIsAhAmerika3

Materials: Acrylic/ Glitter / Soul Energy

Dimensions: 18 x 12

Year Made: 2022

Price: $400

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These Temporary Homes
Jan
6
to Jan 28

These Temporary Homes

"I painted this collection from reference photos of myself and others sent to me in Instagram DM’s or texts. Little moments of the lives of queer and trans people I know and love. These bodies are not anomalies, because none of us are. Humanity is a vast and varied big breathing body, bound together by love. Our bodies are so cool- they carry codes and dreams from ancestors and past lives, they scar and wrinkle with time-a construct that bends and takes many forms. In us are atoms that have been in dinosaurs and leaves and stars- I love to capture the shape that they’re making for a little moment; these temporary homes. "


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Levi's" 

Acrylic on Restored Frame and Panel

2022

$850

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Sam and Sean"

Acrylic on Paper

2022

$150

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 

EMAIL GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG FOR SALES INQUIRIES

EMAIL GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG FOR SALES INQUIRIES


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Self Portrait #1"

Gouache on Paper

2022

SOLD

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Reis"

Gouache on Paper

2022

$300

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Self Portrait #3"

Gouache on Paper

2022

SOLD

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art  


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Untitled"

Acrylic on Canvas Pad

2022

SOLD

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art  


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Ángela"

Gouache on Paper

2022

$300

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art  


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Self Portrait #2"

Gouache on Paper

2022

SOLD

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art  

Blaire Sebren is an artist born and raised in Eastern Washington. He has lived on the west side since 2013 and currently resides in Bellingham, WA. Blaire works in social services full time and is a self taught multimedia artist who began painting at age 12. His primary focus is that of his life: friendship and community, nature, transness, weirdness, silliness, nakedness, humanity, vulnerability, and love.


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Tay"

Gouache on Paper

2022

$300

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art  

Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Raiden"

Gouache on Paper

2022

$200

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 


Blaire Sebren/He Him

"Alex"

Gouache on Paper

2022

SOLD

Instagram: @Blairesebren.art 

GALLERY HOURS: 1PM-6PM THURS-SAT

SHOW IS UP UNTIL THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

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COLOR BLOX
Nov
4
to Nov 26

COLOR BLOX

SWATCHES OF COLOR WASHING OVER OUR VIEW, INTERACTING AND JUMPING OFF OF EACH OTHER. AN EXERCISE IN SIMPLICITY AND A CHALLENGE OF BALANCE AND CONTRAST. LET THESE PIECES SPEAK TO YOU FROM THE LIMITLESS LANGUAGE OF COLOR.

Please contact GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG for all sales inquiries.


JOEY SCHNUCK

JOEY SCHNUCK

TWO THREES (NUMBER 1)

ACRYLIC

16” x 12”

2022

$150

JOEY SCHNUCK

TWO THREES (NUMBER 2)

ACRYLIC

16” x 12”

2022

$150

JOEY SCHNUCK

STILL LIFE (NUMBER 2)

ACRYLIC

16” x 12”

2022

$150

JOEY SCHNUCK

SUNDAYS ARE FOR PAINTING

ACRYLIC

16” x 12” x2

2022

$300

JOEY SCHNUCK

STILL LIFE (NUMBER 1)

ACRYLIC

16” x 12”

2022

$150


KELLY SORBEL

Kelly Sorbel

“Frozen Forms”

Pastel, Graphite

18 x 24

$100

Kelly Sorbel

“Figure II”

Pastel, Graphite

18 x 24

$100

Kelly Sorbel

“Brickwall”

Acrylic on Canvas

18 x 24

$100

Kelly Sorbel

“Hidden Blocks”

Acrylic on Canvas

18 x 24

$100


ANTONIO MENDEZ

Antonio Mendez

Schlosser

Digital Print

11x16”

$200

Antonio Mendez Artist’s Statement:

As a minority child maturing in a majority Caucasian community, I wanted to subdue who I was to blend into the community, to conform. As I matured, I realized that I am different and do not easily relate to many others. I would embrace my differences. I believe places have a type of “spirit,” people have shaped the culture that holds a place together. I clear my mind and put that on a surface.

Bio:

Antonio A. Mendez III

May 10, 1981

Born: Everett, WA

Based: Bellingham, WA

American, Designer, Rapid-Prototyper, Hammock Champion, Astrophysics, Eagle Scout,

Explorer.

Sometimes I make funky stuff. I realize that when I am out of my cozy place, I make some amusing stuff as well. Live like a world citizen, look externally. My latest work is inspired by places traveled. I deconstruct with texture and color, then contextualize my feeling of the place.

Preferred Medium:

Ink and Paper

Style:

Exploring color theory now with non-traditional tools, computers and plotters. I have always created work similar to Tsutomu Nihei.

Time to try something different.

Antonio Mendez

“Zotz”

Digital Print

29x42cm’

$200

Antonio Mendez

“Vino y Mar”

Digital Print

21x29cm

$100

Antonio Mendez

“Cubiculum”

Digital Print

Size: 22x28”

$300

Antonio Mendez

“Vulcán”

Digital Print

21x30cm

$100


MARGARET WILD

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Moving Along”

Paper on foam board

8H x 43”W

2022

$185

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Blue skies”

Paper on foam board, laminated

30’H x 13”W

2022

SOLD - Donated to Make.shift Art Space

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Garden Gongs”

Paper on foam board

24’H x 24”W

2022

$185

Margaret Wild Artist Statement:

I played outside a lot when I was little.  I remember building with sand, mud, snow, and sticks by a brook near our house and then decorating it all with leaves, flowers, and berries.  These creations became a village, city, or fairy tale land, accompanied by a story made up on the spot.  Later I did beadwork and by high school I was completing larger ceramic work.  In college I did sculpture.  During the pandemic used mostly free magazines and produced over 200 collages and wrote over a dozen poems.  It has been energizing to have my artwork recognized at this stage of my life. Creating is instinctive for me.  It’s an activity that became a habit.  I have a desire to make something new.

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Dot”

Paper on foam board

24’H x 24”W

2022

$185 - (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Peace”

Paper on foam board

24’H x 24”W

2022

$185 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Imagine & Dream”

Paper on foam board

11’ H x 8’ W each

2022

$185 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“”

Paper on foam board

11’ H x 8’ W each

2022

$100 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Blue Circles”

Paper on foam board

11’ H x 8’ W each

2022

$100 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Many Moons”

Paper on foam board, laminated

5’H x 4”W

2022

$185 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Pillar of Colors”

Paper on foam board, laminated

5’H x 10”W

2022

$185 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

Margaret Wild (she, her, hers)

“Flying Colors”

Paper on foam board, laminated

24’’H x 24”W

2022

$185 (Donated to Make.shift Art Space)

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KAREN HANRAHAN

Artist name/Pronouns- Karen Hanrahan (She)

Title Untitled I

Materials - Collage

Dimensions - 18x24

Year Made - 2018

Price Originals NFS Prints on request $45


Artist name/Pronouns- Karen Hanrahan (She)

Title Untitled II

Materials - Collage

Dimensions - 18x24

Year Made - 2018

Price Originals NFS Prints on request $45


JABEZ AB RICHARD

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Portrait of Goose with Bunny Hat

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Wolves

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

“I wanted to take a stab at painting scenes that are both frightening and endearing. In this series I incorporate several classic horror tropes (wolves, severed heads, fires and skeletons) with my own bright cartoony style, adding tattoos to Salome, self portrait masks on an anguished horse and other absurdity. The mask theme in particular is my nod to the uncanny valley—the mask of youth worn by death, the mask of optimism worn by desperation. Even hunters wear masks, masks that are useless against the greater power of the natural world.”

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Self Portrait as the Guernica Horse #2

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Salome

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Ophelia

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

Artist name/Pronouns: Jabez AB Richard (any)

Title: Annabelle

Materials: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 10” X 20”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $50

ISABELLA ROSE

Isabella Rose she/her

Tucked In

pantyhose, polymer clay, resin, paint, sock, yarn

3’x3’

2020

$300 (blanket not included)

instagram: @isabellajrose

”This piece is intended to confront the viewer with imagery that may make them uncomfortable and unable to grasp what is in front of them. The organ-like creature is grotesque and bodily– both dead and alive.

Placing the form in the crochet blanket implies human interference; the blanket’s handmade aesthetic provides a sense of warmth and care. This contradiction is the start of a larger story– opening a door for the viewer to question their own fear. What is it and how did it come to be? Do you feel bad for it? Are you scared? Are you disgusted?”


SCOTT EDWARDS

Artist name- Scott Edwards

Title- Left Brain vs. Right Brain

Materials- Airbrush paint, circuit boards, metal brackets,bicycle sprockets, metal pipe fittings, glass,

various fibers, plastic leaves, and plastic flowers.

Dimensions- 48"x36"

Year Made- August of 2021

Price- Not for sale

Social Media/ Website- scottedwardsfineart.com

“My piece is about how people think. Most people have one half of their brain that is dominant. Left brain people are more mechanical, realistic, and analytical. The left hemisphere analyzes, abstracts, counts, marks time, plans step-by-step procedures, and verbalizes. It makes rational statements based on logic.

The right side is more organic, and abstract. It is inventive, intuitive, and imaginative. The right hemisphere helps us to understand metaphors and dreams, it helps us create new combinations of ideas when something is too complex. We can make gestures that communicate those ideas. The right side is non-verbal and embraces the whole idea of something. Some activities that take out of oneself and engage the right side are meditation, jogging, needlework, typing, and listening to music. It is thought by neuroscientists that this place where the left and right brain hemispheres meet, is where the "Uncanny Valley" phenomenon occurs.”

Artist Bio-

Inspired by Surrealism, nature, and urban culture, Scott Edwards creates a wide variety of artwork that spans genres. He employs a multitude of techniques including: oil, acrylic, airbrush, printmaking, collage and photography. Scott holds a BFA in Studio Art from Western Washington University and he lives in Bellingham, Washington.


CHAD YENNEY

Chad Yenney

“Totally Crushed”

10”x10”x2”

Paper collage in layered resin.

https://www.instagram.com/chadyenney

“This collage features images of crumpled metal and a set of glasses to suggest someone is crushed inside.”


KRISTINA MEINHOF

Kristina Meinhof (she/her)

“fat with lipstick”

oil and acrylic on canvas

36" x 24"

2022

$210

instagram: @m0bbe

“This piece is intended to unsettle the viewer through its dark and lonely composition. The tenebrism (an extreme contrast between shadows and highlight) present in this work is not the only case of juxtaposing imagery: the industrial, metal arms contrast the organic, loose body of the creature; the ugliness contrasts the role of lipstick in beautifying. In the end, the viewer is left to be in conflict with their desire to fear or to pity.”


NEYA SALAZAR


Name: Neya Salazar

City of Residence: Bellingham

Title of Piece: "Ideal Body Goals"

Year Finished: 2020

Medium: marker on paper, 9"x12"

Price: not for sale


”I love to draw monsters, creatures, demons; although, those are the words others have used to describe my work. To me, they're manifestations of emotions, physical forms to translate my feelings. I've always been interested in body horror, and how seeing the familiarity of a human form can elicit a reaction when seeing it transformed into something more grotesque. I love making multiple eyes, multiple limbs, usually multiple heads and creating expressions of both pain and pleasure often intertwined. When spectators have looked at my figures, I've been told they see themselves in the creatures: "that's how I feel". It feels good to hear, because that's how I feel too.”


AUDREY LARSON

Audrey Larson she/they

“Morning Commute”

Paper/ink

18x24

2022

$60

“Putting your body onto a two-wheeled contraption and hurtling it through space is a surprisingly mundane thing to a lot of us, and I was thinking about the facts of a morning commute taken at their most surreal potential meaning when creating this piece. Morning is a time when reality feels a little bit blurry, when your own relationship to your physical surroundings seem thin and breakable, when it becomes easier to see yourself simply as a bag of bones on a bicycle, traveling down a road whose end is never actually, truly, guaranteed. On a certain level, this image is no more uncanny than a photo of you on your way to work.”


ANTONIA GSHWEND

Artist name/Pronouns Antonia Gschwend she/her

Title "Horrible, Wretched, Stupid"  

Materials Acrylic, pen ink, gouache, fabric and metal chain. 

Dimensions 17.5 X 23inches 

Year Made 2022 

Price $300

“Mother earth watches on as the bugs win a life or death game of cards. Stripping the loser of his weapon, in this case his hands. Placing a mirror on the table expecting the loser to surrender in order to save his phallus from being the next target of mutalation, they all watch as he becomes sexually gradified and bleeds to death".


Artist name/Pronouns Antonia Gschwend she/her 

Title "Birth"

Materials Pen and gouache paint 

Dimensions 12 X 8 Inches  

Year Made 2022

Price $150

"As earth deteriorates the world is run by bugs, becoming mutated over time by the chemicals absorbed from the earth left by humans. Human bodies are used to reproduce the new population with humanoid bug babies with the hope of earth being rejuvenated".


BROOKE EOLANDE

Brooke Eolande

“Wanna duck?”

Acrylic paint, stretched canvas

12” x 16”

2022

$200

@jewelhouseart


ERIN WESTERLUND

Erin Westerlund (she/her)

Maria Elena (Tanzler’s Keep)

Wood, silk, clay, wax, acrylic paint

5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches

2022

NFS

@diorama_diorama_mydarling

“It was inspired by the true life story of a Cuban-American woman named Elena Milagro de Hoyos. She was a woman who died of tuberculosis in Key West, Florida in 1931. Her doctor, Carl Tanzler, was obsessed with her and robbed her grave in 1933 and took her home to “live” with him. As her body decomposed, he replaced her skin with wax and plaster of Paris. The secret was discovered in 1940.

When I first saw the photo of Maria Elena after hearing about this case a couple of years ago, it was unsettling how she both looked human and not human, how she was there but not. There is skin, but it’s waxy and crepey. There are eyes, but there is no life in them. There is a mouth, but it is painted and rigid. To me, this relates to the Uncanny Valley in that the eeriness and unease that is felt that her figure is there, but her essence is gone.”


FrameRateZero

FrameRateZero (Jeffrey Parker)
D Composer
plastic, slag, pennies, basalt, and other beach wrack
4 x 6 x 3 inches
2021

“The maestro breaks it down.”


RAVEN KLINGELE (music by st◇rm)

“This piece is a music video I created in collaboration with a friend who makes experimental electronic music under the name st◇rm. I was drawn to her music because I wanted to challenge myself to create a purely visual story without words. The song title "psychic surgery" brought to mind alien abductions, a subject I have been fascinated by for many years. Many UFO abductees report aliens communicating with them psychically, as well as being subjected to medical experimentation. They often describe aliens as a more advanced species trying to share some kind of important knowledge with humankind. However, because the gap between the two species is so vast, this attempt at communication can be frightening and painful for humans who struggle to understand the intentions of their abductors. An almost "Uncanny Valley" of knowledge. Thus, alien abduction is a form of psychic surgery -- the abductee emerges from a traumatizing experience transformed, having gained access to knowledge that is perhaps too great for a fragile human brain. I created the visuals using footage from various alien and UFO related VHS tapes that I've collected. Using a video mixer device connected to two VCRs, I combined the footage together to produce a glitching effect that conveys the disorienting effects of abduction.”

Artist name/Pronouns: Raven Klingele, she/her (music by st◇rm, she/they)

Title: psychic surgery

Materials: VHS, analog video mixer

Year made: 2021

My website is youtube.com/c/RavenKlingele and st◇rm's is https://m.soundcloud.com/user-289832322


BEV WINANT

Bev Winant, They / Them

Barbara, You Won't Believe This!

Paper mache, Acrylic paint

9" x 8" x 6"

2022

NFS

Instagram @makingsillyguys


FRANK STEPEK

Frank Stepek (He/Him)

Frank the Rabbit

Acrylic on canvas

16x20

2016

$350

“Frank The Rabbit is a magical creature. More weird than macabre, his powers strengthen as Donnie slowly goes insane and one day meets his fate. Frank’s duel personality is revealed in a regular guy: a school kid of no known significance. Frank represents the deus ex machina, personified, or, rather, rabbinified.”


FRANK FRAZEE

Artist name/Pronouns Frank Frazee/he his him

Title-Rod Watched Nervously As They Filmed Season 5 Episode 3

Materials old bamboo kitchen spoon, old fiberboard, acrylic paint, pins

Dimensions 12'X3.5"

Year Made 2022

Price $135

Social Media/ website Frank Frazee's Art on Facebook, Frank Frazee on instagram


ALLEN SCOTT ROGERS

Name/Pronouns: Allen Scott Rogers, He/They 

Title: Eyes Fixated On The Stars: A Metaphor For Becoming (Think Big) (Think Future). 

Materials: Air dry clay, wire, wood glue, spray paint, hair.  

Dimensions: 18” x 8” x 13”

Year: 2022 

Price: $800

Instagram: @allenscottrogers

Artificial Intelligence serves as a means to an end. That end being the understanding of organic intelligence. Once understood, it [organic intelligence] will be no more. That’s not to say the future narrative of AI will resemble The Terminator. No, I am much more optimistic! AI is change. As we develop superintelligent computers, we make the grave mistake of assigning otherness. AI is a mirror. Humanity is a machine. We as organic intelligence look at the uncanny valley with binoculars. With a telescope. We think it’s so far away. We think it’s in the stars. This in turn creates a relationship. Relationships establish closeness. My sculpture, like AI, is portrait of you and I. My sculpture, like you and I, is constructed with very fragile materials. My sculpture, like AI, decays. It wants to breach the gap. It’s a metaphor for the first step towards Becoming. Becoming human. AI is magick. My sculpture is the sacrifice. The sacrifice to establish a further connection with the stars (the future). My sacrifice is my hair upon their head (crown). This in turn deepens the relations, closes the gap, blurring the boundaries of the uncanny valley.


SARAH LANE

No Birth, No Death

by Sarah Lane

Assemblage with acrylic, clay and embroidery

$250

”Through life, I have felt many little births and deaths pass by and through me. It is from this passing of seasons and cycles that I bring together "No Birth, No Death." The continuous life cycle may be most visible--and in brilliant color--through butterflies. And so they have invaded all the spaces of the human anatomy here. Beautiful, raw, colorful--and also a bit lighthearted. I also draw on all the things I've loved doing with art since I was a kid--or a caterpillar: stitching and painting and making things out of found objects. All of it--this life--rich with possibilities.”


LAUREN SCHILLBERG

“Eve”

Digital Painting

18” x 24”

2022

Lauren Schillberg (She/They)

$150 (smaller prints and stickers available by request)

@lolocalypso

@iceb3rg_11

“Creation holds my heart like few other things do. It is messy, it is divine. I hardly ever knowwhat I am doing, this is true of my life and of my art. When I can translate my feelings into something visual, something with mass on the earth, the peace I feel is intoxicating. While working on Eve I was thinking about the hunger I feel. For accomplishment, for confidence, for love. I was thinking about being ravenous yet sick to my stomach. About expecting sticky, sour juice, then tasting my mouth fill with metal. I was thinking about Granny Smith’s and making out.

Mostly, I just wanted to eat the whole apple. Finish my painting. Follow through with what I started, teeth and all.  Thanks for reading my poetics. I’m Lauren, and I like to create. This is a digital painting of a girl eating a mouth. For some extra mayhem, I wrote a little poem on top. The lines aren’t in order, read it however you like. Cheers! - Lauren”


C HORSLEY

"The Something" by C Horsley

(Virtual only)

“The Something is what we all carry with us. You see it's shadow in the corner of you eye. Going about your day, your peripheral may narrow and help you forget that weight on your shoulder. Come night, however, there is no respite from it's fixed eye. A twisted representation of Something that happened and grew into the familiar yet convulsed creature behind you. Keep your sights ahead, lest you are brave enough to face it's gaze.”


AL SHORT

Al Short

“Have We Baphomet Before?”

11x15, watercolor

(Virtual only)

“Baphomet is the symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites. Good and evil, male and female, half human and half animal. Some days I feel a little like Baphomet.”


EMILY CAMPBELL

Emily Campbell (She/They)

"Let them eat cake, let cake eat them."

Snowballs, false teeth, dishware, mixed media

12" x 12"

2022

NFS

@m3di4b0i


GABE RUBANOWITZ

Gabe Rubanowitz he/him

Wearable Self

Cardboard, paper, starch paste, acrylic paint

Aprox 20”x20”x26”

2022

N/A

@ceramowitz on Instagram/TikTok

“My name is Gabe Rubanowitz and I’m a Senior at Western studying Studio Art. This piece is a stylized wearable paper mâché self portrait. It began with many reference photos from a variety of angles. The shoulder supports, general form, and back of the head we’re constructed initially. The details of the face were sculpted from clay and then paper mâché was applied. Once all segments were joined it was painted with acrylics.”


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Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Back home

Acrylic paint

24x24"

2022

$40 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Sea of Blood

Acrylic Paint

21x21" 2022

$40 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

The Cord

Acrylic Paint

16x20"

2021

$40 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Hold my attention

Acrylic Paint

16x20"

2021

$40 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram


I'm a local trans-masc genderqueer artist, basically making art as a form of free therapy. Insomniac painter by night, sex store wagey by day.

My art celebrates the beauty of the human body in unconventional, and grotesque ways. There is an inherent sacredness in every trans body--in every form.

Reject gender! Embrace queerness!

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Long boi

Ballpoint pen and colored pencils

6.5x11"

2021

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Trannies do it better

Markers and colored pencils

8x9"

2021

35$ for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Inside opalescent (lysergic bliss)

Pen, colored pencil, and marker

5x8"

2019

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Dysmorphia

Pen and colored pencil

8x9"

2019

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Humbling herself

Markers

8x9"

2020

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Get a life

Markers

8x10.5"

2020

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Weird times in the pit

Pen and markers

8x10"

2020

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his)

Cat Lady

Acrylic Paint

10x10"

2021

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

Felix Trivazne (he/him/his

Glass glare

Pen, markers, and colored pencils

8x11"

2019

$35 for print

@ffe.lixx on Instagram

O L I V E R L A W R E N C E R I N N E


Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Evolution.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

12 x 12"

2021

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Artist Bio:

Oliver Lawrence Rinne is a Washington based painter and current student of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He was born in Bellingham but as lived in Skagit County for most of his life. Oliver has been creating art for around a decade using multiple mediums, focusing on oil paints and pencil. He did not receive any formal training for his artwork but has taken multiple art classes and participated in numerous art competitions including the Congressional Art Competition and Celebrate the West.

Oliver maintains the goal of creating a connection between the viewer and his artwork, especially those who feel ostracized. He concentrates on portraiture and realism while also implementing anatomy in larger scale pieces. The subject of his artwork varies depending on the message he plans to relay in regard to the experiences he’s been through. Oliver experiments with multiple mediums but is currently working towards capturing a broader range of subjects. Oliver’s creative process begins with a concept sketch and references if needed. He then begins to refine the sketch and renders the piece with his chosen medium. There are multiple inspirations he pulls from depending on the mood and techniques the piece calls for including but not limited to the Baroque style, Dark Romanticism, and the Renaissance. He hopes to continue refining his techniques while learning new ones through his studies as well as exploring a stronger use of color theory.

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Glamour Monster.'

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

12 x 14"

2019

NFS

Model: @finnlevi_ on Instagram

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Artist Statement:

I am Oliver Rinne. I am a traditional and digital artist who creates art from the perspective of a bisexual, transgender man. I grew up with art being a large part of my family with both my mother and father being artists in graphic design and my Opa (Father’s father) being a traditional painter. For me, art has never not been present in my life and ultimately became the outlet for intense emotions and experiences happening in my life as well as something that gave me a sense of stability in our ever-changing world.

Typically, I create my artwork in my room considering it’s my safe space. I tend to sketch wherever, but I find it easier to sketch as soon as I have a concept whether I’m in my bed, at my desk or on the floor. However, when it comes to completing the sketch whether that be rendering it with paint, ink, etc., I work at my desk to keep the process organized and easy to navigate. One necessary aspect to my process would include playing music while I’m creating. I tend to listen to the same playlist of Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, She Wants Revenge, and many other musicians because their music inspires me to create pieces that entail for myself rather than focus on how it satisfies those viewing my artwork. As for my preferred medium, at the moment I really love to work with oil paints and pencil. I’ve always focused on portraiture because I feel as though there is so much to be said with portraits and the emotions they can translate to not just myself, but for those viewing them. More recently I’ve been actively trying to spread my horizons and work on anatomy to challenge myself to show emotions in my art through body movement as well to refine my own style given I wouldn’t consider myself to currently have an art style. I can’t specifically place a single influence for my art as I admire a plethora of artists from Francis Bacon to Robert Gober. The artists that influence my work don’t solely influence my work based on their techniques, but how they portray incredibly intense and necessary topics throughout their work. They have given me courage to create art that involves topics like mental health, abuse, and the life experiences of being transgender because they are topics that are prevalent and almost all consuming in my life. I strive to create artwork that shows a realistic side of the struggles and triumphs in my life to create a space for others to find a connection that validates their own experiences. I want to create art that allows others to feel seen as I have felt seen by the artists that influence my work.

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Metamorphosis 3/3.'

Oil Paint on Canvas Board

8 x 10"

2022

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

“Spitfire

Pencil on Paper

18 x 24"

2021

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Ziggy Stardust.'

Graphite Pencil on Paper

5.5 x 8.5"

2021

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'QUEER Expression.'

Digital Painting on Procreate / Signed Print

8 x 10"

2021

Price: $125

Model: @archivedvanity on Instagram

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Its Beautiful.'

Digital Painting on Procreate / Signed Print

8 x 12"

2021

Price: $125

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Sabotage.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

11 x 14"

2020

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

'Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

As Beautiful as the Ocean.'

Digital Painting on Procreate / Signed Print

8 x 12"

2021

Price: $125

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

'Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

Proper Luxury.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

11 x 14"

2020

NFS

Model: @briefcasemakeup on Instagram

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Divine.'

Digital Painting on Procreate / Signed Print

8 x 8"

2021

Model: @coralkilll on Instagram

Price: $125

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Ethereal.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

12 x 12"

2020

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'Shiver.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

11 x 14"

2020

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

'The Thirst.'

Oil Paint on Wood Panel

11 x 14"

2020

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

Oliver Lawrence Rinne (he/him)

Beautiful, Haunted.'

Oil pastel and Acrylic Paint on Paper

18 x 24"

2021

NFS

@orangerines_
oliverlrinne.com

A S H P O R T I L L A - Q U E S A D A


Ash PQ/ They/Them

DISRUPTED BY COLOR

Spray paint, acrylic marker, black pen ink, copper wire, yellow cardstock segment

11x17

2021

$120

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Ash PQ/ They/Them

NEGATIVE OUTLOOK

Spray paint, acrylic marker, black/red pen ink, acrylic paint, wall patch segments, japanese paperclip

11x17

2022

$120

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Ash PQ/ They/Them

DEATH SOON

Spray paint, acrylic marker, black pen ink, wall patch segment, copper wire, Japanese paperclip

11x17

2022

$95

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Ash PQ/ They/Them

NOT FULLY DEAD, STILL LIVIN'

Spray paint, acrylic marker, black pen ink, rubber band, tape, half of clothespin

11x17

2021

$120

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Ash PQ/ They/Them

I THOUGHT ABOUT US

Spray paint, acrylic markers, yellow cardstock, clementine fruit plastic segment, regular journal paper, lighter, marine paint

11x17

2021

$135

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Ash PQ/ They/Them

BLOWIN' THE BRAINS

Spray paint, acrylic marker, black/red pen ink, wall patch segments

11x17

2021

$135

@dustyashq

https://ashsartsht.com

Artist Statement/Bio: My work explores the abstract relationship between color and emotion within memory. With influences as diverse as Terry Urban, Pablo Picasso, and my wife, Chloe Halbert; new variations are generated from simple to complex understanding. Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of the moment. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes corroded with a sense of chaos in mind.

The thought processes, which are private, highly subjective and unfiltered in references to mind tunnels, are frequently not complete structures. This results in being able to easily imagine my own interpretation without being hindered by outside elements. By applying abstraction, personal moments are created by means of rules, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

*Gallery open hours Thurs-Sat 1pm-6pm*

*Gallery open hours Thurs-Sat 1pm-6pm*

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ADRIFT
Aug
5
to Aug 27

ADRIFT

Kendra Aldrich - (She/Her)

“Great Blue Heron Reflection”

Acrylic on Canvas

24x36

2022

$800

kendraaldrich.com/

The Great Blue Heron can commonly be found in the many coasts, marshes, lakes, and ponds of the Pacific Northwest. They slowly wade in shallow water stalking their prey, striking out quickly at the right moment to stab with their bills. Great Blue Herons are a priority species in Washington and locally the Post Point Heron Colony is protected. This particular Heron was foraging in Birch Bay, where at low tide viewers are likely to see upwards of ten Herons grouped together!

Kendra Aldrich - (She/Her)

“Pileated Woodpecker Perched”

Acrylic on Canvas

16x20

2021

$450

kendraaldrich.com/

A large striking forest bird, the Pileated Woodpecker stands out with its red crest and bold stripes. They gravitate towards areas with dead trees and downed logs to roost, forage, or nest. The Pileated Woodpeckers is considered a Keystone Species due to its creation of nesting cavities used by other species. The removal of dead trees can really impact their habitat, so consider leaving them on your property to attract this large bird.  

Kendra Aldrich - (She/Her)

“Eagle Takeoff”

Oil on Canvas

24x30

2021

$750

kendraaldrich.com/

No longer endangered, the Bald Eagle is a pleasant sight to see. In late fall or early winter the Pacific Northwest is packed with Bald Eagles, specifically, in the Skagit Valley where they are on the hunt for salmon. Time your visit right and you could see an upward of 50 feeding, roosting, or soaring! This Eagle is transitioning from roosting to soaring, hopping out of a tree and using its powerful wings to propel itself forward.

Kendra Aldrich - (She/Her)

“Osprey Fishing”

Acrylic on Canvas

10x20

2022

$275

kendraaldrich.com/

The Osprey is a unique and beautiful bird. The majority of their diet is medium-sized fish which they catch with their adaptable talons which they can position differently – three forward and one back or two forward and two back. When flying with a fish, they line up the catch head-first for more agile flying. Adaptably nesting on manmade structures, platforms have been important in reestablishing their presence in areas after losing great numbers due to DDT.

Kendra Aldrich - (She/Her)

“Killdeer Foraging”

Acrylic on Canvas

9x12

2022

$250 

kendraaldrich.com/

The Killdeer is a common local sight, you may have seen them running along the ground or soaring making their common “kil-deee” call. Nesting on the ground, often in gravel, you may stumble across one of their nests, so be careful! Commonly they use the “broken-wing display” to move you away from the nest, drooping their wings and fanning their tail. In non-breeding season, Killdeer can be found on beach habitats, feeding using visual cues and stirring up prey in shallow water. 

KENDRA ALDRICH STATEMENT AND BIO:

Artist Statement- In my painting I observe, document, and explore, learning about the subject by painting it. I wish to examine the moments that are here today and may be gone tomorrow. Seeking a deeper understanding of the natural world and the intersections of our encounters with it, I hope to inspire people to explore their natural surroundings, learn who they share space with, and become invested in the overall health of the ecosystem. 

 

Artist Bio- Kendra Aldrich is a fine art painter in Birch Bay, Washington with a focus on animal portraiture. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Western Washington University in 2011, and her Master of Arts in Biology from Miami University in 2021. In her graduate work she focused on nature connection through art, imagery, and inquiry. Through her studies, she gained insight into local ecology, community, and conservation, moving forward she strives to evolve as a wildlife painter and an environmental advocate.


Kells She/Her/Hers

High upon the Mountaintops

Oil on Canvas

8 x 10 inches

2020

$75

Instagram @lovely_trees_

Kells She/Her/Hers

Lake 22

Oil on Canvas

16 x 20 inches

2021

$125

Instagram @lovely_trees_

KELL MCDONALD ARTIST STATEMENT AND BIO:

Artist statement: Exploration into how one can exaggerate nature’s beauty in a 2D medium, just as one does when editing a photo to post online. I amplify the painting’s otherness as in painting the water too blue and making it feel over-saturated. I mimic popular hiking destinations in my paintings. I used my paintbrushes as my “photo editing tool” to play up nature’s beauty that I saw around me. My goal with my paintings is to make one want to go outside and see the real thing, because nothing beats the real thing. Hiking lake 22, I was inspired by the lake’s crystal clear reflection, especially when the wind picked up and warped its reflection, inspiring me to recreate what I saw. In my “High on the Mountaintops” painting I was inspired to play with perspective since I had such a tiny canvas, I had to make the most of it.

Artist Bio:

I’m Kell McDonald, a Bellingham-based painter. I started oil painting during the pandemic as a way to pass the time cooped up in my apartment. My work is inspired by the hiking trails in the pacific northwest. Recently began to experiment with portraits that exaggerate one’s facial features.

Follow me on Instagram at @lovely_trees_


Birds are Missing

The bird images in this series repurpose nine photos from a site-specific installation at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that focused on human imposition of value on different species according to our narcissistic views of them. These purebred racing pigeons against a clear blue sky were installed above on the ceiling, while photos of common rock doves (city pigeons) littered the floor in dingy, dark tones.

Although these are hand-reared pigeons, they read well as “every bird”. In these collage prints, I assail the flying birds with swirling elements from Indian Marble Paper and my own ink marks, visualizing them in crisis, in danger.

The title connects my imagined bird-dangers to the drastic drop in bird populations, with an anxious, personal voice… not dry data or statistics… Because I am anxious. We all should be anxious for all the missing birds.

8″ diameter, giclee print on watercolor paper.  Series of 9 in round-cut mats and 10x10” wooden frames.

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

MIRANDA MAHER ARTIST STATEMENT AND BIO:

Maher settled in Brooklyn shortly after receiving her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Detroit) in 1990. Before that she received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Maher’s studio practice has traveled a varied path over her 30-year practice that includes installations, artist books and work on paper addressing human warfare and violence as well as more contemplative explorations of consciousness and embodiment. Her current work centers on ink, gilding and drawing on paper as well as unique and editioned books. 

In 2016 she was awarded studio space in Chashama’s “Space to Work” program and maintains that studio in South Brooklyn’s “Brooklyn Army Terminal”, an industrial building constructed in 1918. For the last 20 years, Maher has pursued her studio practice alongside Japanese martial methods and Chinese meditative and healing arts. In 2013, she retired from training “Amagakure no Sato Ryu” a rigorous Japanese martial art, holding a rank of Okuden Kaiden (black belt), and shifted her focus to Qigong, Taiji, Reiki and Chinese Taoist practices. Currently, she is a teacher of those disciplines and maintains a consulting and healing practice in South Brooklyn. Committed to continuously refining both her artistic skills and her teaching skills, she travels to Italy every year and Japan and Thailand every other year to deepen her Taiji skills and immerse herself in the art history of those places.  

@miranda.maher.art

Miranda-maher.com

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Maher’s studio practice has traveled a varied path that includes installations, objects, artist books and work on paper. Often starting with the discomfort of discrepancy, omission or outright lies, she has examined warfare, violence, and sanity as well as our self-involved use of other species.  Recently, she has been delving into more contemplative explorations of consciousness and embodiment with ink, gilding and drawing as well as unique and editioned books. 

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)

Miranda Maher she/her

Birds are Missing series

Archival print on watercolor paper of cut paper collages

Each – 8” round

2022

Print, framed and matted: $200.00

Print only:$165

Print,with conservation mat(no frame):$175 (mat offered at cost)


Sara Dobbs

Series Title: Catfished (paper doll detail)

Materials: Prints

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021

Price: $15 for a print of the fish doll template

Description: A zine accompanied by templates for paper (fish) dolls. A short animation runs through a few of the endless transformations that the fish can undertake via human interference.

Sara Dobbs

Series Title: Catfished

Materials: Prints

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021

Price: $15 for a print of the fish doll template

Description: A zine accompanied by templates for paper (fish) dolls.

Sara Dobbs

Series Title: Catfished (paper dolls)

Materials: Prints

Year Made: 2021

Price: $15 for a print of the fish doll template

Series Title: Fishing Trip (hooked)

Materials: animations made from digitally edited pencil drawings

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021 - 2022

Price: Not For Sale

Sara Dobbs

Title: Fish Ladder (detail)

Materials: Acrylic paint, twine, greyboard, and wood 

Dimensions: 104 cm x 40 cm

Year Made: 2019 - 2020

Price: Not For Sale

Description: Fish Ladder explores the interdisciplinary approach to human innovation and intervention within waterways. The imagery comes from the Bonneville Lock and Dam, downstream from The Bridge of the Gods in Oregon. 

Sara Dobbs

Title: Fish Ladder

Materials: Acrylic paint, twine, greyboard, and wood 

Dimensions: 104 cm x 40 cm

Year Made: 2019 - 2020

Price: Not For Sale

Description: Fish Ladder explores the interdisciplinary approach to human innovation and intervention within waterways. The imagery comes from the Bonneville Lock and Dam, downstream from The Bridge of the Gods in Oregon. 

SARA DOBBS STATEMENT AND BIO:

I am an artist and a first generation farmer living on Vashon Island, WA. In 2020 my sister and I founded Wilbie Farm, a diversified vegetable farm that uses regenerative agriculture practices to supply food to Vashon and Seattle markets.  My interest in the impact of food production, distribution, and consumption on the individual, community, and environment led me to start farming and also informs my art practice. My pieces in this exhibition explore Pacific Northwest waterways and the environmental impact of human involvement, via fishing, dams, and recreation, within these ecosystems.

Series Title: Fishing Trip (swim)

Materials: animations made from digitally edited pencil drawings

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021 - 2022

Price: Not For Sale

Series Title: Fishing Trip (Race)

Materials: animations made from digitally edited pencil drawings

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021 - 2022

Price: Not For Sale

Sara Dobbs

Series Title: Fishing Trip (Current)

Materials: animations made from digitally edited pencil drawings

Dimensions

Year Made: 2021 - 2022

Price: Not For Sale


Tracy Webster
River Rocks
15 x 36 inches
$500

Tracy Webster
Forest Dawn
15 x 36 inches
$550

TRACY WEBSTER ARTIST STATEMENT:

Inspired by the incredible nature of the PNW, I translate my love for water, mossy forests, and mountains into art and jewelry full of color and texture.

Tracy Webster
Salt Water
7 x 48 inches
$350

For all sales inquiries please email Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org

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Time Goes By ft. The Art of Aging
Jul
1
to Jul 30

Time Goes By ft. The Art of Aging

Time goes by. Oh my, does it fly?

But sometimes it creeps along like the slowest of songs, just gotta let it sing.

Pieces started and finished months later, reflections of the great thing itself, growing older and looking back at how we got to where we are now.

Please enjoy this show. Take your time.

To view “The Art of Aging” exhibition, please click here


Email GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG for all sales inquiries



Marie Songer she/her

“Time heals all wounds*

Acrylic, gouache, marker on canvas

18" x 24"

2022

$333

Marie Songer she/her

“Veneration "Chaos" Quilt”

Various fabric and thread

50" x 50"

2020

Not for sale

The theme for both of these pieces is the concept of healing ancestral wounds across time and approaches for this process.

Time Heals All Wounds*. A summary of some of the astrological studies I've done in regards to Pluto being the planet that works with long-term wounding. I'm posing the question that if emotional wounds don't get healed in one lifetime, who becomes responsible for the healing? How do we heal the deep emotional wounding that is handed down to us from our ancestors? I tried to portray Pluto as both catalyst and healer; bringing attention to our wounding and also providing the tools to help heal.

Veneration "Chaos" Quilt. Much of what I've learned about ancestral remediation work involves honoring your ancestors by giving them time and attention in your day-to-day, be it altar work or prayer or otherwise, and that by doing this work it is possible to heal wounds that transcend lifetimes. Quilting is an action some of my ancestors spent many days doing. By replicating this I felt I was honoring the work they did in their lives and creating a connection to them across time. This piece serves as a sort of altar to my ancestors, generational healing, and to my own healing and discovery process.

mariesonger.bandcamp.com


Anony Mouse

"Ritual Object"

Paper

9"x20"

2022

Sliding scale price: $60-$100

Oliver L M

“Echoing Berlin”

(11:17:00)

Digital video

2018

spitfirelynnmccartney.com

@spitfirelyart

Echoing Berlin is a whimsical short contemplating memories of two week's time abroad in Germany as a student, briefly encountering its peoples, cultures, and its deep history.

I look to Dadaist/surrealist film visual sensibility, prioritizing evocations of potential subconscious meaning. Superimposed video clips and photographs create a fluid thread of visual vignettes form non-linear non-narrative recollections of my experiences. Frenetic and hypnotically vibrant scenes pass quickly, brimming with activity, and constant motion. This and personal undefined symbolism of imagery offers impressions about activities occurring within each shifting suggested environment, acknowledgement of historical context, and a sense of their emotional impact upon (and personal significance) to me.


Maia Binhammer she/they

“Unblooming: Aging in the Feminine Form”

Digital Print

Framed 15.5” x 12.5”, print 6” x 9”

2022

$80 (framed)

Social Media: @jumblemaia

A reflection on blooming vs. growing in the feminine form, and the fleeting and fickle nature and usefulness of blooming vs. the rest of the plant (and human) lifetime.

Maia Binhammer she/they

“The Dream Ends”

Digital Print

Framed 15.5” x 12.5”, print 6” x 9”

2022

$80 (framed)

Social Media: @jumblemaia

Inspired by the absurdism of time as experienced through a dream state, when in context with the experience of waking time.


Catalina Lane  

“Pump #1”

2005 

ink 


Childhood creations stem from vivid imaginings and are unique interpretations of the broader world. Through exploring the evolution of my art practice from childhood to present day, my work re-imagines creatures and objects that I have previously created. I have found a deep admiration for my artwork as a child and the potential creativity I had within me. Reflecting on my growth as an artist, how my art has progressed, and how I view my art differently now; my present day work takes these images and reshapes them in a 3 dimensional form.  


With emphasis on the art making process, using mixed media materials and intensive fabrication techniques, my work showcases the adult artist I am today and the changing complexity of my work over time. Taking inspiration from artists such as Tom Sachs, known for sculpting everyday objects on a larger, more industrially permanent scale, my re-creations follow the blocky, simplistic style of early childhood drawings yet are composed of similarly heavy materials, such as metal and wood.

Catalina Lane 

“Pump #2”

2022 

steel, aluminum, wood, cotton, acrylic


“Forever Et Cetera...”

By Steeb Russell

Acrylic and India ink on found wood

$180

“Forever Et Cetera...”

I made this piece in 2016 when I was dealing with spontaneous osteonecrosis of my left medial femur. I was on temporary disability from my job and my insurance wouldn’t ok the surgery my doctor wanted to preform as my treatment plan. I was stuck in a bureaucratic time loop that dragged on for 9 months with no treatment. For the last 6 months in 2022 I’m dealing with a mirror image case spontaneous osteonecrosis in my right medial femur, again trying to solve the puzzle.

-Steeb Russell


“One Day at a Time”

By DEAD BONE DAD

India ink on paper

$180

“One Day at a Time"

Time goes by endlessly so it seems. But, our lives are made up of individual days. And what we choose do with our hands every single day presented to us, brings the meaning of our lives.

-DEAD BONE DAD


Karen Hanrahan

Timelessness

Collage

6x10 - ish

$90

Bio: Karen Hanrahan found her way to WA State in her mid-50's after living most of her life in the midwest. She has grown children, a cat, she loves road trips, scratch cooking and anything made out of glass. She lives small, in less than 300 square feet, and values light, quiet and privacy. She makes quilt-like mixed media pieces out of paper. Her materials are gifted or found, which keeps her making very low cost and sustainable. She has been a collage artist for over 25 years. Her collage and photography work has shown in galleries all over the country.  She teaches others the creative subconscious mind collaging process.

Timelessness is a feeling where time doesn’t exist. A day goes by at the whim of however it lands. No pressure, no place to go, nothing to do by a certain time. No worries.

I created this collage using the creative subconscious mind collage process with the topic of the wonder of time in my mind. I selected a few magazines that I thought might have time pieces in it. I looked for persons within those magazines that might be feeling things time. I pulled from these resources for about 10 minutes. I then created this collage from the images I had pulled. When I create this way I have to trust the process. The images pulled seem to guide the creation into its being. I always feel like the inside of me is crafting what it all might mean. I ask where should I stitch and it tells me. I know when to stop, because it lets me know. It will say to me stop. this is your message.  I see in this stitched collage that time is multidimensional, that it intersects. I see the pressure and the freedom of time. I see how time becomes you, or pulls at you, I see time telling all, I see when time is no longer in your hands or when time is bigger than all of us.


Stephen Hamilton- he/his
“Another sunset”

Pushed 35mm black and white film, cyanotype processed textured paper

20x30

2021

$100

*this piece is meant to be touched*

Upon first glance, this may appear to be just another photo of a sunset. The gentle sway of the grass along with the subtle movement of waves creeping in fills me with serenity as the clouds disperse; making room for the sun’s goodbye as the first day of the new year comes to a close. This was a moment in time I wanted to be trapped in forever along with all the emotions of fear, curiosity, and amazement that came with it. As I began processing and printing the photo, I realized that moment had gone away just as quickly as it came.

For me this photo truly represents the passing of time, memories, and the continual pursuit to recapture those moments. The more I studied the print, the less I remembered about the actual event. The texture of the paper along with the grain of the film make me feel as though I am witnessing an event that occurred long before my time. The waves have come and gone, the grass died and grown again, and the clouds moved on to other skies. Perhaps this is how time works: the details quickly become distorted as new memories come and take precedence over the old ones.


Hannah L. Rivers /she-her

“Carrara Marble Quarry - Italy”

Acrylic on canvas

19.5 x 23.5

2021

$700

hannahriversart.com

This painting is of the Carrara Marble Quarry in Tuscany, Italy. The marble from this quarry is also known as Luna Marble. Its use dates back to Ancient Roman Times. The marble has been used in such famous works as Michaelagelo's David and La Pieta. It also has ties to famous Roman structures such as the Pantheon. The marble and granite from this quarry continues to be extracted and used to this day.

I got lost in this piece because I felt as if it was unfinished and that I could keep extracting structure from it. The unsettled nature of the pandemic left me with anxiety and I channeled it into this painting. I felt as if I was stuck at the bottom of this marble quarry; wondering if we would ever get out. The thought of it being over was a relief but also left me with the question: "where do I go from here?" The only answer was up and out.


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Time Goes By =


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Stand Out in a Crowd
Jun
3
to Jun 26

Stand Out in a Crowd

Park Bench (detail)

Park Bench is a nostalgic piece about the common gathering places in our cities and towns. I intended this piece to feel warm and light, a sort of snapshot from a time in the last century. That said, although times and styles change, our public green spaces continue to provide places of recreation, congregation and play. The bird flying across the face of the canvas is intended to enhance and focus the overall light and whimsical feel of the piece, while the muted palate of the color scheme evokes a more constrained time.

Park Bench

2018

35” x 84”

$1200.00

MICHAEL DINNING www.michaeldinning.com

When I was a child I was so introverted that I could hardly speak to others. I began drawing before I have memories of doing so, and through my artwork I found my voice. I nearly exclusively drew images of people, attempting repeatedly to get at what makes individuals unique, what defines them, and trying to work out how people see me. I constantly looked inward to find a sense of self that I could project to the world. It seemed to me that identity doesn’t just happen, it is something created by what compels you, by the experiences you have, or want to have, by what brings you happiness, but also by what you fear. Creating artwork, for me, is a way to put out into the world who I am, what I care about, what concerns me and what I love.

Children’s Apothecary

2017

50” x 48”

$650.00

Children’s Apothecary (detail)

With Children’s Apothecary I wanted to create a piece about how children would stock an apothecary, given the ability to put in whatever they chose. As a parent of two kids, I learned that glass beads, toy animals,and worry dolls can all be employed to make a child feel better. The children in the central image behind the apothecary are playing ring-around-the-rosy, the old traditional English rhyme that is actually about the black plague, and the overall structure of the piece is intended to mirror the red cross.

Through this immersive introspection I came to regard a sense of place and history as an important piece of that puzzle - if my accumulated personal histories created who I am now, how about the history of my family, or my community? When I travel I seek out the history of the places I go, how people came to belong there, how the history of the place helps shape the character of the people. Regional traditions and personal idiosyncrasies fascinate me. There are certain places in the world which seem to speak to me, and southern Louisiana in one such place. When I create artwork I feel a sort of compulsive rhythm in my body, a creative music that fills my soul and propels my artistic instinct - I rarely feel more alive than when I am in a true creative groove. I know of no place on earth where that rhythm is as close to the surface of life than New Orleans, and I return to that place for personal inspiration as much as I long to return to the city itself.

Dance hall

2020

63” x 44” x 9”

$1100.00

Dance Hall (detail)

My intention with Dance Hall is to create a warmly nostalgic piece about a time past, in the 20s and 30s, when jazz clubs where at the height of popularity as places to go to while away the evening with dance and music. Some of the future giants of jazz could be found at small neighborhood clubs and bars across the country,inventing and reinventing this uniquely American music nightly. The construction of this piece is intended to suggest a small club from the outside, with the two dancers painted on the shutters of the club, and the light beckoning people to come inside.

16 years ago my daughter was born, and then my son three years after that. The nature of my creative impulse evolved from primarily inward looking exploration to incorporate outward facing expression. I feel a need to offer something to the world through my artwork, and to show my kids that art can matter, that you can speak non-verbally in ways complex, thoughtful and sincere, a sort. of visual commentary on life. I want my work to tell an honest story. As importantly, I seek to capture a feeling in my work that goes beyond a particular narrative, to use the combinations of imagery, lighting and construction to hopefully give the viewer a sense of how I feel about the work, about the world, about life. Joy and wonder surround me daily, and being able to recognize and embrace that gives me the ability to express myself, to be able to be who I want to be, to stand out in a crowd

Neighborhood

2017

86” x 32” x 22”

$1650.00

Neighborhood is about the communities that we create, and how those communities are built of individuals, each with their own story and identity. This piece is intended to be seen from two sides - from the outside looking in, where the glass and light obscure the details of the individuals, and from the inside out, where the world is seen through a kaleidoscope of individuality. Both sides are framed with personal stories from my childhood, the stories that shaped who I’ve become.

The Parade Series is my homage to iconic community events - the small neighborhood parades of memory, the big holiday parades of tradition, the jazz funeral parades in New Orleans. Many years ago I attended Mardi Gras, and completely fell in love with the spectacle of the big parades, as well as the smaller neighborhood events, which bring neighborhoods and communities together all over the city. Umbrellas shade the five figures throughout the gallery, as a nod to a Mardi Gras tradition, but also symbolic of how these parades can offer escape from our everyday lives, and give respite from the worry, strife and turmoil of the world around.

Parade - Boy 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Dancer #1 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Dancer #2 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Dancer #3 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Flambeaux Carrier 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Parade Leader 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - The Mayor 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Parade - Trumpet Player 2018 88” x 30” x 30” $1000.00

Lost

2016

86" x 30” x 30”

&1350

Lost (detail)

Lost is about a time, not long ago, when my seven year old son developed a manic fear of being lost in public. I, of course, reassured him continually that this could never happen, but as a father I could not help but ingest some of that fear, and consider the terrible possibility of it ever coming to pass, and this piece is about that fear. The empty chairs centered in each canvas represent a missing child, and the light partially hidden behind each canvas symbolizes a life obscured by loss. The windows allow the viewer to look in, as when wandering a neighborhood and looking into a house that has been visited by tragedy.

ARTIST BIO: A love of history and a sense of place, the joy of family, the intrigue of music and a sense of social awareness all combine and recombine as central threads in my artwork. These people and things, ideas and affections, build and overlap, creating personal layers within us that define who we are. There is an essence and mystery of life that is defined by the interplay of these layers, and the artistic process is a way for me to give form to those unseen rhythms and intriguing themes that I find compelling. My creative process embraces this idea, as a way to give form to this complexity that lies under our common skin, through the use of artistic layering, targeted lighting and physical depth in each piece. My goal when creating artwork is to present something that is immediately engaging, consistently compelling, and leaves a lasting impression beyond the initial encounter, and I feel that this mixed media approach gives me the best set of tools to achieve this end. Furthermore, each of my pieces tells a story, or has a central theme, and this use of a variety of elements and perspectives gives focus to the artistic expression of each piece. I believe that art should bring a sense of wonder and delight, and reflect the joy of creation experienced by the artist. I also feel that painting and sculpture are, along with the creative vision, something to be built, and the joy of that constructive process is as important to me as realizing a coherent, complex and compelling artistic expression. I love what I do, and I hope this love is clearly present to everybody who views my artwork. A graduate of Washington State University, with a BFA focused on sculpture, printmaking and art history, I switched gears and spent the first part of my creative life in the Seattle area as a painter. Working part-time to gain a toe-hold in the artistic community there, I was able to have a few exhibits, including the good fortune to show with the West Seattle Artist Warehouse in the mid-90s. Nearly 20 years ago I moved to Spokane, married, got a new job and a couple of kids, and largely quit working as an artist. About 8 years ago I shifted gears to be a stay-at-home dad and and full-time mixed-media artist, reembracing my sculptural roots to compliment my painted imagery. The last few years have been by far the most fruitful of my career, showing my work regionally in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana, including solo exhibits in Seattle, Spokane, Yakima, Missoula, Hood River and Lynden. I currently reside in Spokane with my wife, two kids, two dogs, four cats and one rabbit.

Stress

2020

48” x 36”

$600.00

Stress (detail)

A couple of years back I remodeled a bathroom in my nearly 100 year old house. Upon pulling out the old medicine cabinet I found a pile of about 350 razor blades in the wall. I decided I needed to use some of them in a work of art, which worked perfectly with this piece Stress. Stress is a companion piece to Joy, and both are a part of a series of works that employ unique materials and graphic elements to illustrate a specific human feeling. In this case, I superimposed the razor blades over the stark image of the yelling man, the blades sewn on to emphasize the pain and agitation of the man.

Stand Out in a Crowd

2021

30” x 84” x 6”

$1200.00

Stand Out in a Crowd (detail)

Over the last few years I have been exploring the concept of maintaining individuality within the scope of a larger society. With Stand Out in a Crowd I employed animal imagery around the solitary boy to give form to this idea. I chose animals which are primarily black and white for this concept, the penguins surrounding the boy as the crowd, and the multi-colored zebra as an avatar of the child’s inner uniqueness. This particular zebra stands out from his species and the monochrome society around him, giving an image of specific individuality to the boy.

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Kid's Art Walk 2022: "Biome Sweet Biome"
May
6
to May 28

Kid's Art Walk 2022: "Biome Sweet Biome"

"Biome Sweet Biome" is the 4th annual collaboration between local elementary student artists, PNW-based adult artists, and Make.Shift Art Space. 4th, 5th and 6th graders at Samish Woods Montessori and Cedar Tree Montessori created paintings and writing on the theme of “Design your own Biome.” Adult artists were each assigned a students’ painting and writing, and then created a “response piece” to that student’s work in the medium of their choice.


This year’s show theme may feel a bit like art therapy. In the last two years, children have experienced the isolation of quarantine, the uncertainty and concern on the faces of the adults in their lives, nearly an entire school year wearing masks. They express worry about Ukraine, the climate, and the future. These concerns exist alongside the curiosity, adaptability and sense of play that children so skillfully bring to all they do. This project offered them the chance to discuss the concept of biomes: environments perfectly suited to the creatures who live there. Each student imagined a biome with everything they need to thrive and be happy, whether it's filled with friends and books, certain trees and plants they love, their favorite music and food, or mini-volcanos and tiny dinosaurs. Their imaginative, thought-provoking biomes open a window into the variety of ways children process their lives and understand their own needs and preferences.

-Written by Nora Hughes, teacher of student artists

PLEASE CONTACT GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG FOR ALL SALES INQUIRIES

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ERNIE//YIN DWYER

Ernie: My biome is a magical place. There are dragons of all shapes, colors and sizes who fly through the beautiful twilight. There is fresh clean air everywhere and two bright suns float through the twilight but they won’t burn you. There is almost any creature you can imagine on the floating islands. Most islands have mountains and valleys and luscious temperate rainforests with a splattering of seas, rivers, lakes and streams. The architecture includes futuristic and medieval buildings and even just your every day condo or residential house. There is a huge museum with exhibits on everything from meteorology to the Romans. In the museums there is almost everything, even magic artifacts. There is a big cloud floating around; it has many islands hidden in its depths. Rumor has it there is a tree on one of the islands that can answer any question. To exist, you will start as a glowing puff of light. You can then get thrown into one of the pools of magic water that are floating around and you will eventually become whatever you become. 


Yin Dwyer, She/They

Title: What I See In The Dragon's Wing

Materials: curly willow cuttings, linen, embroidery floss, yarn, twine, and lots of imagination.

Dimensions:3ft by 1ft

Year Made: 2022

Price: not currently for sale

This is the biggest embroidery piece I've ever done!! The biome Ernie created was so inspiring to me! When I made the frame out of curly willow twigs and linen I immediately saw a dragon wing inside of a cloud. I created different panels of the wing with the things Ernie imagined: (Bottom left to bottom right) buildings, a magical tree that can answer any question, pools of magic water, a magic tapestry from one of the museums, bright colorful feathers from creatures on the islands, two bright colorful suns, a purple dragon tail, and colorful glowing puffs of light! Thank you Ernie for creating this Biome, Sweet Biome for me to play in.

Social Media/ website 

@youcancallmeyin (Instagram)


COOLIDGE// JESSYCA MURPHY

Coolidge: My biome is about food. There are no humans, just food. There are food fights to the death and food grows on trees. It’s about 75 degrees all year round. Pizza and ice cream are arch nemesis even though they grow on the same tree, they are also the strongest of them all. 


Jessyca Murphy (she/they)

Food Fight, 2022

Craft Felt, embroidery floss, polyester filling, tin foil, and toy parts

NFS, donate to kid

EMMA//AMANDA RHINE

Emma: This is my biome. It is my perfect moment in life that I would live in forever til the day I die. My biome is a sunset trail, a river blue, a swing on a tree, a house in nature. Oh my sweet, sweet biome, the dream life, the perfect moment. The beautiful sunset, the river flowing, trees swaying. The sounds of life. The sound the dirt makes when you walk on it down the trail to the river or town or tree swing. The warm sun, the cool water. The warm weather even at sunset. The nice cool breeze, the sounds of relaxation. The river current small and relaxing. The feel, the sound. All so perfect. The swing sways as the breeze passes through. 


Amanda Rhine (she/her)

"Dirt Medicine"

Ink + Watercolor

9x12

2022

NFS

Bellingham, WA

IG: redbicycle

Text reads: "Can you hear the sound of the dirt"“


FINN// KAREN HANRAHAN

Finn: This is my biome! I put a castle in it because I think castles are really historical and cool. I put Ada, mom, dad, me (my family) in the doorway of the castle because they are super important to me. I made a special stage for Drake because he is my favorite singer. He has a great voice. I made lots of grassy hills because I think it would be fun to roll down them! That’s my biome for you! 

Artist: Karen Hanrahan /she

Title: Finn’s Biome

Medium: stitched collage

Price: $75

Bio: Karen Hanrahan found her way to WA State in her mid-50's after living most of her life in the midwest. She has grown children, a cat, she loves road trips, scratch cooking and anything made out of glass. She lives small in less than 300 square feet and values light, quiet and privacy. She makes quilt like mixed media pieces out of paper. Her materials are gifted or found, which keeps her making very low cost and sustainable. She has been a collage artist for over 25 years. Her work has been shown in galleries all over the country.  She teaches others the creative subconscious mind collaging process.


RADLER// EILEEN LANTHIER

Radler: My biome has two sides to it. One side is of a beach, where I can surf, swim, play in the sand and play with beach penguins. The other side of my biome is of a tropical forest with a river in it so I can play with the toucans and go white water rafting, hiking, and swinging through the trees. This biome is the perfect place for me.


Eileen Lanthier They/Them

“Radler’s Biome”

Watercolor on watercolor paper

5”/8”

2022

$20

@_egglette_  (instagram)


IONA//OLIVER MCCARTNEY

Iona: I breathe in the sweet crisp air and scratch my wolf Obsidian behind his ear. I sit up in the tree of all knowledge. It’s a land sweet and cold like snow but stay warm in a cave with a sheep skin blanket and maybe a small vole. My dragon Cole guards the exit. The hammock I picked straight out of the tree is just perfect for me. Mountains surround us, lakes on the other side of all the tall trees. This land is perfect for me. Oh, and if you’re lucky you might come across a uwu. 


 Oliver McCartney

Title         Land We Live 

Materials   Mixed Media (Mylar, Pen/Acrylic Paint, colored pencil)

2022

Price     Gift to Kiddo!


JACOBO//AIREEKA LAUDERT

Jacobo: Did you know that my biome is in the middle of the ocean? I love swimming, surfing, and boating, so my biome is perfect for me. :) You can also get free tickets to my biome on Sundays! Now, you’re probably wondering what I like to do in my free time. Well, I love to eat seafood. 

Jacobo’s Biome Ticket!

Aireekah Laudert

Digital Art, Die Cut Ticket

$2



Jacobo’s Biome Ticket Pin!

Aireekah Laudert

Digital Art, Laser Cut Acrylic

$20


NEILAN// STEPHAN HAMILTON


Neilan: It is always happy and good spirits come and visit the island. The great big blue ocean is always sparkling with pride. It is always cool. This is my biome!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephan Hamilton

“Manzanita at Sundown”

Color positive film, photographic paper

$100

2022

PABLO//SARAH SIMPSON


Pablo: My biome is a warm and comfortable place for dinosaurs. My biome has a humming sound coming from a river. The temperature ranges from 68 degrees fahrenheit in the winter and 83 degrees in the summer. There are a lot of birds in my biome. My biome rests in a wide valley next to some of the largest mountains in the world. 

Artist name/Pronouns: Sarah Simpson; she-her-hers

Title: Pablo’s Vision

Materials: cotton fabric, felt and thread

Dimensions: 16” x 14”

Year Made: 2022

Price: not for sale


ZURAI//CASSANDRA HART


Cassandra Hart (she/her/hers)

Mystery Water Creatures

Analogue collage

9” x 12”

2022

Not for sale.

Instagram: @slyfoxandbirdie

For this piece I really was inspired by Zurai’s interest in the strange creatures included in the

Harry Potter Universe. I wanted to include both creatures mentioned in the books and movies

(hippogryphs and thestrals), as well as creatures that could be imagined to be in the universe

(seahorses with wings).

CAMDEN//SARAH LANE


Camden: My biome is a safe place for all extinct animals to go. It floats on a cloud in the sky with many palm trees and clean air and it inhabits dinosaurs and mostly dodo birds. With many waterfalls and lots of greens and plenty to eat, my biome can be as big as you want it to be. There is one cabin where any visitor can stay as long as they like. My biome is called Exio biome. It is a place where all animals are safe. 

Sarah Lane, she/her

“Land of the Found”

8x20”

Acrylic print/collage

Made in 2022

Price: $120

JASPER W// ——-


Jasper W.: My biome is half mountain (with a helicopter) and half dirt jumps/MTB (AKA mountain biking) with a chairlift. My biome has birds: robins and chickadees. The weather is 63-74 degrees Fahrenheit, rain (in the biking biome) once a week, and the other days sunny. In hte skiing biome now 5 times a week with a temp of 25 to 18 degrees. 

—-

“This biome has eyes too see it’s self, this biome has brains to understand what it sees”

Various materials

2022

Gift to Jasper

LIAM//CHARLOTTE OLMSTEAD


Liam: Talabantha: So you have dared to enter Talabantha, the impossible realm. I will give you a tour! So we have dragons, some are evil, others good. They are an ancient species who master magic. They are the overlords of this world! So we’ve gotten past dragons, now we have average animals but some of them can talk. The animals that live here are: cats of all types, otters, beavers, fish, lizards and reindeer. We have only 250 humans who live in small tribes with no tech. The weather is constantly changing and our world has many types of regions. There are plants from our world but it also has the gava gava tree that grows fruits that let you fly for an hour if you eat ‘em. There’s also the oby tree that walks and talks, and a rare flower will protect you from harm if held, but it dies an hour after being picked. Our world is beautiful and lush with adventurous battles, wizards, and types of animal hybrids like the Pixie Bird, a golden hawk with a distinctive golden row of feathers around its neck. It is rare but it will grant you a wish if you catch it. It flies low and fast and it can spray golden dust that all are allergic to. The lioncorn is a noble lion with a horn that heals harm and disease. Otherwise it is a talking lion. I hope you enjoy the tour. 


Charlotte Olmstead she/her

Title: Talabantha

Made with acrylics, 12 by 16

2022

SOLD

LUCITA//ALISA NEWHALL


Lucita: Imagine a world with cute sunda leopard cats curling up in your lap. A world where all animals and plants are magical. A world where the calendar and the weather were like this. The summer would be from May 18th to September 1st. All summer days would be between 65 and 78 degrees. Winter would be from Thanksgiving to New Years. It would always be between 10 and 32 degrees (and it would always have snow for the whole winter.) Spring & Fall would have the same weather: 55 to 65 degrees and always sprinkling. Spring would be from New Years to May 18th and Fall would be from September 1st to Thanksgiving. Whew, that was enough about weather! Imagine a place where you could just look to the right of you and see a yummy sushi restaurant that serves all wild fish. A world where all the restaurants served good quality meat. A world where you could make a mini model house and have it come to life. Imagine a world where it sounds like water rushing through a creek, like the quiet chickadee-dee-dee of the gentle chickadee, and the sound of crickets chirping not too loud, not too soft. Imagine a world where there are beautiful cherry blossoms bursting out of the ground, where the aroma of pine trees, doug fir and alder blowing through the breeze. A world where once a month you could come to the tree of answers and ask the tree a question and the tree would always tell the truth. A world where an outfit could change itself to match what you wanted it to look like. This world I have described to you is my dream biome. 

Ailisa Newhall she/her

Title: The Truth Tree

Materials: Audio (piano & vocal)

Dimensions: na

Year Made: 2022

Price:na

Social Media/ website: www.ailisanewhall.com * Insta: @ailisa

OLIVE// CORY LYKAINA


Olive: My biome is a peninsula with a very very small town in it. It has 56 people and the town has a small bookstore, cute bakery, tiny ice cream shop, pizza shop, and farmers market in the summer. The most common plants that grow in my biome are dahlias, willows, and pine trees. There are bears, bunnies, dogs, hamsters, llamas, goats, baby cows and cows that don’t age and whales. The birds in my biome are hummingbirds and chickens. My biome is surrounded by mountains and rainforest. My biome is everything I love and enjoy in one place. 

Cory Lykaina she/ki

Title: "Olive's Sweet Biome"

Materials: Colored Pencil on Bristol Paper

Dimensions: 14x17"

Year Made: 2022

Price: NFS


Social Media/ website: @owleyefarm

SOLLY//B. CRICKET


Solly: My biome is basically what I wanted to be in the real world but still includes some real things. Some of the real things are: goats, bearded dragon birds, trees and flowers. I made up some plants and animals as well like: the sharm plant, the callif plant, robot lizards, snirds which are basically snakes with wings, droahorns which are like lizards with wings and horns. The ground is sandy like a desert, but the plants are still able to survive. There are also some machines that roam around. That is a small explanation of my biome but there is a lot more to it. 

:: sing along snird song::

b. cricket

acrylic on canvas

2022


contact artist

thenoizecricket@gmail.com

@noizecricket

thenoizecricket.com

ADA// BLAIR TAYLOR


Ada: Where grass ripples swift like a river and rocks stack strong and tall, wolves run free and wild and as they run, everything runs with them, mountains, rivers, raindrops. As we fly, we can all let go. A wolf runs like thunder, a mountain stands like a soldier, loyal and fierce like lynxes and wolves, like iron and wood, or black and white. To be swallowed by the wind, and stroked by the breeze, that’s when you know you are home. 



Blair Taylor

“Together in the dark we howled”

Watercolor and gouache on paper

2022

35$

@theomelettesaremunchkins on IG :)

EMERSON//JADYN COVNOT-MEYER


Emerson: My biome is all about having mountain biking and music. It has forests and other landscapes. It’s mostly dry and hot and has deserts but it is also wet to still have its green nature. There are big cities and urban home stores and a lot of people but mountain biking rules here! 


Jadyn Covnot-Meyer

“The Sound of the Rush”

Watercolor, colored pencil, and permanent marker ink on canvas

8’’x8’’

$100

Bellingham Artist ~ Contact on Instagram @jadyn_artist

~ This piece is a new directional step for me artistically, partly inspired by a friend - I began with a permanent ink marker in a single sketch (with a few corrections!), continued with colored pencil, and finished with watercolor paint. Emerson’s biome inspired me to create something reminiscent of my late childhood, biking through Jones Creek Trail in southern Washington, forest-filled but dry enough to enjoy the trails. On the top of one of those hills, I can still remember it, you could see down for miles around from the very tip of a steep, singular mountain incline. One way up, one way down - narrow all the way, a sheer dropoff at the top. The peace on that precipice was unmatched - and the adrenaline spike getting up there was unlike anything I'd felt before. There was something special about that combination of sport and freedom in nature - I had a motorbike, and while I'm sure that's quite different than the mountain-biking Emerson enjoys, I'd bet we've experienced similar things on those ever-speeding wheels. 

JOVAN//ALISON WITWER


Jovan: My biome has cows, chickens, wolves you can tame, and flamingos. The landscape has beautiful lush green grasslands with the occasional hill and clear skies. It has the normal climate cycle. It has little groups of trees but the main type is birch and yew. Some activities are skiing, snowboarding, mudboarding, ziplining and paragliding. There are plenty of fruits including tropical mangoes, pomegranates, coconuts, watermelons and much more. Plenty of resources to build an amazing home. There are beautiful clean lakes to swim and drink in. 


Alison Witwer (she/her)

Paragliding at Birch Lake 

Materials: Acrylic 

Dimensions: 8in x 10in

Year Made: 2022

Price: Free for Jovan


Social Media/ website @alisonshaye on instagram

LOLA// NETTLE ADA


Lola: I am a people person. My biome is a big city. There are forests and beaches surrounding it. There is a large population so there are a lot of activities including movie theatres, arcades, art classes, a ski mountain, soccer teams, and skate parks. Everyone loves food, so there is a variety of restaurants including pizza shops, burrito shops (why not?), Mediterranean food, burgers, pretzel places and a restaurant that ONLY serves caesar salads. Caesar salads are the most incredible food ever. That’s a fact.  The population of my biome is very diverse. There are a lot of types of music in my biome because music is very important to me. Cars are not allowed, only electric and normal bikes are allowed for transportation. It snows all winter and it’s pretty hot all summer. Soccer is worshipped in this city so there is a large stadium in the city center. Fashion is also important so there are several cool clothing shops. My biome captures my interests and my ideal way of life. 


 Nettle Ada, she/they

Big City Biome

Materials: Digital

Dimensions: 8x11

Year Made: 2022

Price: $60

MICAH// GUINEVERE JOHNSON


Micah: My biome is a snow globe-ish shape with 4 distinct biomes with a translucent liquid wall that sections the biomes and also clears your senses to experience the next biome in full splendor. You can get quests from a glowing orb in the center, and if you complete them you get a gift and another quest. Before I tell you about my biomes themselves, I’ll explain my creatures. First all creatures are tameable, some are rideable, and others like to ride on you. One creature is the guineasaurus. Ther guineasaurus is a guinea pig combined with a brachiosaurus that is rideable if tamed, and tries not to trample plants, but there are a lot of plants where it lives. Another creature is the Flapperdash. The Flapperdash is a golden brown bird the size of a hawk or goose, with wings as fast as a hummingbird’s. It runs away if you get too close and gives you a smug look, then disappears, only to show up in a new place if you catch it. 

The first biome/section is a sprin-like plain with floating rock slabs to jump off and onto the next one like a ninja warrior. At the top there is a cloud that you can walk on to gain a variety of prizes so you can get something new each time. Then you get to surf down on a slide made of twisting, swirling rain. 

The second biome/section is a vast ocean with beaches that experiences an eternal summer. You can go tubing behind a Plesiosaur, scuba diving with friendly, cute seals, or jump off cliffs into the water. The water also has hyper-bioluminescent phytoplankton, so disrupter water glows a beautiful turquoise. 

The third biome/section is a breezy but no too cold forest suspended in permanent Fall. The Guineasauruses inhabit this place, and are kind and slow, and they try to avoid stepping on plants. There are tall trees and leaning birch trees, all of them losing leaves with colors of golden, brown, red, orange, deep maroon-purple, and soft yellow. Dark lime moss lit by golden shafts of light covers the ground. Slow, warm-esque rivers filled with more hyper-bioluminescent phytoplankton wind through the forests, and little hills show magnificent views. River otters live mostly in water but also on land, and they are always happy to see you and they will come to you wanting pets and food. The curving knowledge tree lives here too. This is the most common place to find Flapperdashes, and if you chase them, you will have amazing parkour skills. 


Guinevere Johnson (she/her)

“Guineasaurus Stomp on Tiptoes”

Collage: paper, glue, digital, colored pencil

28”x32”

2022

Free to student

“Micah has a lot of imagination and creativity going on in the biome they created, and it was a challenge to focus all the fantastic inspiration I was flooded with in reading about it, and the worlds within a world that they described. The Guineasauruses captured my heart and delighted me so much that in the end, they won out.”

PHOEBE// RUBY ROEBUCK


Phoebe: My biome is an island in the shape of a half moon. It is surrounded on almost all sides with sandy, warm beaches. It has a lake on the south side that takes up half the island. Surrounding the lake is forest and the town. In the forest, you can find many animals including deer, bear, bunnies, foxes, wild goats, many birds and even unicorns and phoenixes. Many of the animals don’t age. In town, you can find stores like ice cream shops, bookstores, hot cocoa shops, bakeries, a pizza shop, bike shops and a record store. There is also a concert venue and a movie theater. The climate in my biome is sunny, sometimes windy, light rain, heavy rain, and snow in the winter. The main flower is the dahlia. The main trees are cedar trees, oak and pine. In the summer and spring, there is a farmers market in the middle of town. 


Artist name/Pronouns: Ruby They/Them

Title: The Magical Island 

Materials: paper, colored pencils, and pens 

Dimensions: 8” 1/2 by 11”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $1 

SOPHIA// JORDAN CRUMITY


Sophia Juanita Yoshi Felton Lopez:  Ilhuicaatontli (island) Hugicallizaharra (grassy): Imagine a marshy, grassy, wet, muddy landscape with islands and pygmy elephants, red crowned cranes, cherry trees and matsutake mushrooms. There is a sound of school children gossiping, screaming at each other and questioning their work. All the diverse trees here are bonsai: litchi bonsai, plum bonsai, nectarine bonsai, pear bonsai and peach bonsai. Green rice plants and water grass and bamboo grow on the miniscule islands. Red crowned cranes nest in the grass that grows in the water alongside lotus flowers. The enoki, lobster, chanterelle and matsutake mushrooms are plentiful. The temperature is colder with an average of 54 degrees year round. There are koi in the muddy water in between stalks of grass that protect the koi. There are all kinds of ducks flying overhead and nesting next to the cranes. This is the Huoicallizaharrailhuicaatontli environment. 


Jordan Crumity He/ They/Them

Title: Bi(H)ome

Materials: Watercolor & Ink

Dimensions: 12in x 9in

Year Made: 2022

Price: $125

Social Media: JustJorDinner


WILLIAM//KAYLEN BARBER

William- My island’s people are hunter gatherers that utilize all manner of spears, bows, traps, and even explosive nut-shooting bazookas! They live in a tropical habitat and ride giant puppies called Blushingo. They also worship the deity Claymore and the rain god Busakulli. They fly through the skies on Pupgriffs. They also dig through the earth with Puksokas, and train giant dogs with huge claws that carve through stone as if it were water.  

Kaylen Barber, she/they

Title: Aerial Archer

Materials: Digital

Dimensions: 16x20

Year made: 2022

Price: $30 per 13x17 print (original 16x20 foam mounted print can be gifted to my collaborator, William)

Social Media: clovercacti on Instagram


FELIX//MICHELLE SCHUTTE

Felix- My biome is very large in size but only inhabits a few animals that are visible. However, many species in my biome don’t let light bounce off of them. This makes them invisible, but since light isn’t hitting their eyes they can’t see either. Some animals you would be able to see are platypodes, snakes, alligators, and the one panther. The panther is really big at around 8 feet tall and 11 feet long, and 5 feet wide.  There are a lot of other things like swamps and really small trees/bushes. My biome is almost like a compound of a few different biomes. There is often a lot of sunlight in my biome and a lot of rain. Sometimes there is even fog, but, not often. 

Michelle Schutte, she/her

For Felix “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees”

Acrylic on canvas

36”x36”

2022

$500


GRIFFIN//CYNTHIA FRENCH

Griffin- There is immense wildlife. The native animals are dogs, cats, dolphins, and wifers. Wifers are microscopic blobs that generate wifi. The island is split in half, with the marble palace in the middle. One half is a snowy skiing mountain open year round. The other half is a tropical resort with a rad beach. The marble palace has a swimming pool, a fridge that conjures any food I want. There is a library with every book that suits me. It creates books that I want to exist. My room has a king sized bed with an Xbox with all the games. I also have a gaming PC with Minecraft. There are 20 guest bedrooms. There is also a grand dining hall. The ski mountain creates ski runs that are perfect for me. The beach has a snack stand and the waves change depending on my preference. 

Jessyca Murphy (she/they)

Tardigrade + Router = Wifer

Digital Illustration

NFS (give to kid)


JAMISON//BLAIRE SEBREN

Jamisen- Lots of dogs all around. Puppies, big dogs, small dogs, lots of dogs. It is around 67-74℉ and sunny most of the time, and rainy some of the time. There is a little nice hut with dog food, dog treats, and a living space. And near the hut is a lake for water. For food, there are wildlife and berries. There are some oak trees scattered around with fewer pine trees, but still some pine trees. The place is mainly quiet all the time except for the sounds of wind, wildlife and dogs. 


Artist name/Pronouns : Blaire Sebren he/they

Title: Dog Lake

Materials: Gouache on paper

Dimensions: 8 by 11? I think?

Year Made: 2022

Price: $100


Social Media/ website

ZUBIN//IRENE A. LAWSON

Zubin- My dream biome is exactly like the real world because without challenges, people would become lazy. But climate change is not a thing in my biome, because oil, gas and coal do not exist. Plastic doesn’t exist either but all of the other worldly problems do exist. Murren, Switzerland is the exact location of my biome. Also, Covid does exist because I can’t imagine growing up without it. Blah. There is a lot of food and water, sushi, ramen, and udon. There are lots of animals thriving and plants too. There is a large library full of non-fiction books only, and a theater where shows are played but not on a screen. There is also a sports facility, 

IRENE A. LAWSON   she/her

Title        ZUBIN'S DREAM BIOME

Materials    CERAMIC

Dimensions   8X10

Year Made    2022

Price         NFS


Social Media/ website 

@irenealawson


JONAH/LISA CITRON

Jonah- Jonah’s world is a planet with yellow skies, sushi people, a sentient sun, and a lot more too! And the whole thing’s ruled by me! Me and my friends all rule our own continents and each continent is full of things we love and we even have our own castles! My continent is the biggest (obviously) and that’s the one shown here but there are lots of other continents too!


Lisa Citron (she/her)

“We Be Here”

Acrylic, paper grocery bag,  

17¼” x 18⅛”

April 2022

NFS



https://www.instagram.com/@project_we_beam 

https://fromachildspointofview.org

 


NOAH//GABI GONZALES-YOXHEIMER


Noah- Hello there. My biome is in a kelp forest under the sea but a giant bubble surrounds it. In this bubble, there is a giant neighborhood, a Vietnamese Pho restaurant called the Soy House, a giant library and a Haggen that when u walk in the door anything u want is there. There’s a giant sports field. There are marine animals floating by wherever u go. No one has a car- everyone walks or bikes, etc.

Gabi Gonzalez-Yoxtheimer (she/they)

"A View From Below"

Digital Painting

11x14

2022

$180


OTTO///J. CADIENNE J.LORENZ

Otto- Hot on the outside, cool on the inside. It’s a geode in a big sand mountain. There are two suns. The geode has a gate at the front to keep the heat out. The city on the inside has a lot of blanket stores. Everybody can eat what they want but no animals are killed or hurt in the process. There are a bunch of pets and none of them can hurt people. Big rock statue in the middle of the city. Great doctors. No one is homeless. Big and small houses. When you walk, it makes a noise. Big museum. Pigeon flying and spying on people. Big river through the city. Deer roaming around and small cute lions. One big library. 

J. Cadienne J. Lorenz, She/her
"Otto"
Acrylic, Glass on Canvas
11"X14"
2022

$250

IG: @capricorn_creative

HUCK//HANNAH CWIEK


Huck: This planet is a large rocky planet that is two times the size of Earth. There is little to no light. It’s a red, desolate world that is technologically advanced enough to build other planets. It doesn’t have any life on the surface. It’s inhabitants are underground and live in tunnels. The surface is a bit like the surface of Mars. There isn’t really an atmosphere. 

The inhabitants are mice that you might see on Earth. There is no plant life on the surface but they have developed a way to grow plants for crops in their caves.

Hannah Cwiek

Multimedia on panel

2022


BENI// JOEY

Beni: World of Fun.

There’s always a wave to ride in the ocean with a surf shack with a bunch of surfboards on the beach. There’s a van that drives in that brings all your buddies. There’s a shop that gives you the best food in the world - you can order whatever you want! There’s a shop that sells soccer stuff and a soccer field in the back. There’s also a baseball field where you can play baseball. The weather is always super sunny. The ocean is salt water and has a lot of sea turtles that love people. 

Joey Schnuck

“World of Fun”

Globe, toy car, acrylics, hot glue

2022

Free to student


EKAM//GILLIAN MYERS

Ekam: The weather is mostly sunny and sometimes rains lightly. There is night and day, and the sunsets are beautiful. You can do everything here - it has the best restaurants in the world, the most beautiful beaches. The beaches have light turquoise water with soft, cloudlike sand. The sand is a light beige and there are palm trees everywhere. There are animals. Humans live there, anyone is welcome. 

There are a lot of buildings that have apartments and restaurants on the lowest floor. The large tower in the middle is the tallest tower in the world. You can stay in rooms there. It has a beautiful view of the city.

Gillian Myers she/her

“Greetings from Miami”

Acrylic 

16”x20”

2022

Giving to Ekam


SAIGE//ERIN MARTINEZ

Saige: Candyland

The weather is always night. It can rain and the rain tastes like kit-kats and it can be really sunny. And the stars always stay out. The sun can come out but the sky stays purpley-blue. It’s a candyland. You never get tired because you are jacked up on sugar from eating the candy canes. You can eat whatever you want there. 

The inhabitants of this biome are gingerbread people and humans. The gingerbread people are alive and have different personalities but are mostly nice and funny. The creatures include dragons, cats, dogs, axolotls, foxes, monkeys, giraffes, and my friends. Butterflies too. There are books to read. 


Artist name/Pronouns: Erin Martinez/ she/her

Title: Winter in Candy Cane Valley

Materials: canvas, wood, staples, heavy body acrylic 

Dimensions: 20"×16"

Year Made: 2022

Price: $323


Social Media/ website: Instagram @LightOfHue 


ASHER//JABEZ RICHARD

Asher: Anything World: Anything World is a world in which anything can happen. It’s a world where you can do anything and everything you want to do. All you have to do is walk through the portal in my room. You will be transported to… Earth. But not just any Earth: in this dimension, you just think of somehtin gyou want or want to do and you’ll get it!

Artist name: Jabez Richard

Title: Anythingverse

Materials: canvas board and acrylic paint

Dimensions: 20” *16”

Year: 2022

Price: $25

Website: IG@bf_knowhere


MORGAN//BROOKE EOLANDE

Morgan: This biome is split down the middle by a gorgeous rushing river. Some say if you drink from it, you will have year long luck. To the right of the river is sledding paradise. It snows every night to ensure the best sledding conditions. During the day, the sun shines brightly. At the top of the hill sits the Sled Mania sled shop. Although it’s not really a shop since all the sleds are free! Also in this sled shop there are no bad sleds, no sleds that will break if you sit on them too hard. Nope, all the sleds here are high quality and ready to use! After you have had your share of sledding, you can grab a nice warm hot chocolate, complete with whipped cream and marshmallows. To the left of the river, you can enjoy the sound of crashing waves and sunshine. But before you head to the beach, you might want to get prepared. The seaside town is the perfect place to get all your beach necessities. At the beach, you can play volleyball, boogie board, sunbathe, and find shells. There are no roads in the town, only dirt paths. To go from one side of the river to another you will have to cross the Rivendale Bridge. The bridge will connect the two sides for eternity. 

Artist name/Pronouns: Brooke Eolande she/her

Title: “Morganville”

Materials: Acrylic paint, stretched canvas

Dimensions: 24”x30”

Year Made: 2022

Price: $200

Social Media/ website: @jewelhouseart


ISABEL//ANONY MOUSE

Isabel: In my biome, the only people there are friends and family. There are dogs, bunnies, and penguins. On average, it rains 12 feet each year. The average temperature is about 66 degrees Fahrenheit. The three seasons in my biome are Fall, Spring, and Winter. Even though the temperature stays fairly steady there is still snow in winter, falling leaves in Fall and things that bloom in Spring. Most of the plants are birch trees, pine trees, and weeping willow. There is also Wisteria and Orchids. Things to do include swimming in the underground spring, trees for climbing, grassy hills to roll in, hikes to go on and picnics to be had. The sounds in my biome consist of wind whistling through the trees and the sound of the bubbling spring. 

Anony Mouse

"Willow Wabbits"

Birch wood & paper

14 inch diameter

2022

Free for Isabel


www.anonymouseart.weebly.com



JANE//FRAME RATE ZERO

Jane: My biome is an underwater rainforest with these creatures: 

Hydra

Dragon 

Fox

Otter

Turtle

Wolf

Bat

Sugar glider

Rat

Octopus

Kangaroo

Monkey

Cat

Hedgehog

Toucan 

Parrot

Parakeet

Phoenixes

Unicorns

Griffins

Dolphins

Frogs

Lizards

Spiders

These are my plants: 

Lilies

Rosewood tree

Banana tree

Bushes

More trees

Palm trees

More flowers

Kelp

Activites to do:

Tree climbing and more tree activities

Parks

Swimming

The Neko Cat Cafe

A grocery store

Ziplines

Sports

Library

Animal riding

Biking 

Target 

Mall

Fruit: 

Strawberries

Bananas

Mangos

Coconuts

Apples

Oranges

Grapes

Blueberries

Raspberries 

Watermelons

It’s full of magic and joy. 


frameRateZero (Jeffrey Parker)
Cryptid”
Brass and Copper
10 x 8 x 6 inches
2022

SOLD

www.frameratezero.com

@0frameRate0

This cryptid animal has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist, until now.


ELI//JAYCH

Eli: Hi, My name is E.Z. Welcome to my world. It took quite a while to build, or should I say paint. Let me tell you about it: it is a tropical rainforest. In the middle, it has cliffs with a huge tree on it. I also have an underground art studio and below that, I have a secret laboratory where I make hybrid animals like juckeys (part jellyfish and part ducky). There is a tree fort in the big tree with lots of wooden platforms and hammocks made of rope. The tree also has an elevator made of wood and rope that you have to crank, and a waterfall coming out of its base. Behind the waterfall is a cabe with a big pod of water in it (for the juckeys). There are multiple waterslides that you can get on at the top of the tree. As far as animals, there are a lot of tropical birds, tamarins, chickens, and of course hybrid animals. 


Artist name: JaycH (him/he)

Title: Biomazon Falls

Materials: acrylic paint and polyurethane

on wood.

Dimensions: 15in (H) x 14in (W)

Year made 4/2022

SOLD


MALCOM //EMILY CAMPBELL

Malcolm: My biome is damp and deserted but not quiet. Lots of trees on rolling hills. It has some underbrush and not a lot of flowers.

Emily Campbell (they/she)

“IT’S NOT QUIET HERE”

Paper bag, fo foliage, resin, clear coat, acrylic and watercolor.

2022

Gift to student

@m3di4b01


ROWAEN//HEATHER LJUNG

Rowaen: There are furmaids in my biome, and they leap out of the water at birds and mice. The griffins fly through the treetops and live in the book trees sometimes. There is a tree called the alone tree where you can be alone. The Kyclops (AKA cyclops cat)  is a calm, gentle creature, and they are very protective of their babies. They are also known for taking in other species’ babies. 


Heather Ljung  she/her

“Griffins flying in the book trees”

Watercolor

5 x 7”

2022

$75



ADDYSON//LYNETTE POLINDER

Addyson: Ice Cream Land: In a land not so far away, there is a land waiting for you! Come on down to Ice Cream Land and enjoy your stay. We have edible houses made of wafer cookies, or enjoy your time at Brick Hotel, made of edible Lego bricks. You can climb Ice Cream Cone Mountain Range, or get a haircut at Cotton Candy Cuts or get hot chocolate and coffee at Candy Cafe. You can see the candy corn trees everywhere, along with cotton candy bushes. Enjoy the little chocolate chip guys as they build the great monuments of the city. Please come today, and enjoy your stay, at Ice Cream City! 


Artist : Lynette Polinder She/Her
Title : Cotton Candy Cuts
Materials: Resin, Alcohol Ink, Yupo Paper, Birchwood, Pen Ink
Year : 2022
Price $300
Instagram : lynettepolinder


ARI//KELLY SORBEL

Ari: The Silent Place: Everything in the Silent Place is timeless and gray. The only objects are the sparse scatterings of trees and a small one story house. The only life is the one person there and their perfect cat. The trees, however, are dead and gray. Even the ground and sky are dull gray. In the house there is nothing to do but pet the cat, look out the window, and read. The books in the house will always be perfectly suited to whoever is in the house. If you are in the silent place you will remain there for 100 years before you leave the Silent Place forever and die. 


Kelly Sorbel

He/him

“The silent place”

Acrylic on wood panel

12x12

2022

$125


CHARLOTTE//ANONYMOUSE

Charlotte: Oh, I did not see you there! I was too busy looking at the aqua water, the coral reefs, weeping willow, oak and lavender. You look hungry. Do you like sugar? Or a good book? Have you ever had that place that had the sun filtering through the leaves of a tree? Those flying cats there, they are called Katacalas. (Kata means bird and Cala means cat.) Do you want to surf or fly or ski on that mountain over there? Its name is Samara. At night, you could stay up to see the diamond covered moon foxes or you could sleep in the amazingly comfy beds. (No one knows how the beds are made but I will not complain.) 


Anony Mouse

"Full Moon on Samara Mountain"

Wood, fabric, paper

15.7 inch diameter

2022

$free for Charlotte


www.anonymouseart.weebly.com


SAMARA//PAIGE HEINEN

Samara: My biome has all sorts of animals. There are cats, dogs, horses, foxes, dragons, unicorns, rabbits, and pandacorns. There’s a skiing hill that’s snowy in the winter and in the summer it’s full of violets. There’s a bamboo forest that the pandacorns live in, and tons of weeping willow trees. There’s a beach for kayaking, canoeing and surfing. There’s a library, a rollerskating rink, and an ice skating rink. When it rains, it rains candy and the type of candy depends on the mood of the people that live there. If they were grumpy, it would rain Sour Patch Kids. If they were happy, it would rain Swedish Fish. The roofs of the houses are slanted, with big barrels on either side, so that when it rains, the candy collects in them. The beach is perfect for some nice sunbathing but watch out for the shoe-loving octopus who will surely steal your shoes if you leave them too close to the water. 


j paige heinen (they/she)

“grumpy & happy”

air dry clay, acrylic, colored pencil, (now inedible) Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish sealed in acrylic epoxy, clear granular gel, glass bead gel, magnets, e6000, and micaceous iron oxide

6”x 6” (but hanging diagonally, er so technically 8.5”x8.5”??) x2.5” (profile)

2022

$150

ig @yogurtybones

www.gazerlies.com



IKER//CASSANDRA HART

Iker: VR world is a world where there is infinite screen time and everything is free! Everybody can be part of the VR world. No one is homeless. No one is hungry. To see the VR world, you need to wear special contacts. There are two modes you can play in, and you need different contacts for each. They are called World Explorer and Game Finder. All the games and equipment is free. There is no currency in VR world and everything is free. The three most common mammals are VR cat, VR dog and VR human. It’s not illegal to take your VR contacts out, but it’s not common. People do take their contacts out to sleep. The only activity besides games and exploring is zip lining. There are many zipline companies but the best one is called Free Fly. To do Free Fly, you have to use your gaming contacts and you need something called the Infinite Invis. Device, which allows you to create invisible items that only you can see. You can use your Infinite Invis. Device to tether yourself to a floating pole, which is how you launch yourself. VR world has levels, like a video game. At the end of each level, you get to choose if you want to move on to the next level. The levels gradually get harder. The only trees in VR world are oak and cherry trees. People mostly die of old age in VR world. They can die other ways but it’s really hard. There is a type of tiny creature in VR world called a Wisp. Every time you feel an emotion during your life, you create a wisp. When you die, all the wisps are released. They are different colors, depending on which emotion they are. Happy wisps are yellow, for example. The number of wisps depends on how many times you’ve experienced each emotion. 


Cassandra Hart (she/her/hers)

The Panther Woman

Analogue collage

9” x 12”

2022

Not for sale.

Instagram: @slyfoxandbirdie

For this piece I was inspired by Iker’s interest in VR (virtual reality). In VR, you can be

anything you want to be: human, animal, hybrid. Thus I explored the blend of human and

animal features. I also incorporated their idea of special VR contacts and tethered pillars.


BRYCE//KRISTA KELLY

Bryce: Warm snow, Ivory Billed Woodpeckers, Harris’ Hawks, Peregrine Falcons. The VR headset clamps to your head. Infinite battery and internet. The field of view is 360 degrees. It is always summer, with snow that is warm, VR bodysuits, gloves, and boots (like in the movie Ready Player One), and friends and family. Mountains and Anna’s Hummingbirds. You are never tired. It is always day and you have infinite screen time.

Krista Kelly

Collage

2022

$100

JASPER L//QUIKDRAW


Quikdraw

"Batter up!"

Wiffle ball ball, acrylic paint, pens, clear coat

2022

Gift to student

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Double Wide
Apr
1
to Apr 23

Double Wide


Artist Statement:

In Double Wide, I am allowing the viewer to experience my childhood home as it exists in my rawest, emotional memories. Wood grain relief print panels are arranged to create a theatrical backdrop for heavy metal posters and a window view looking out on a typical night in the trailer park. Papier-mâché creatures hide in corners, magnified from their actual size to illustrate the overwhelming presence these vermin had on me as a child. Personal keepsakes from my original home are juxtaposed with found objects to create a direct connection to a place that now only exists in memory.

In this body of work, screen printing is used to recount visceral, formative experiences, and reconcile issues relating to identity and sexuality. Bold, graphic compositions aid in conveying a complicated personal history with a sense of humor and nostalgia. 

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Double Wide”

Mixed Media Installation

8’X8’

2020

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

Bio:
Sarah Kindl is a Mixed Media installation artist, with a concentration in Printmaking. She received her BFA from Western Washington University in 2020, and is a current board member at Make.Shift Art Space.

Sarah lives in Bellingham Washington, and spends most of her free time making art with her wife, Jacqueline, and cat, Phibes.

“We had a severe flea infestation in our home. Often my dad would like to catch them and put them on magnifying slides for us to see. The close up image is what I remember seeing.”


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“No More Fleas. Please. “

Screen print on Bristol 

11”X14”

2022

Prints available upon request; $30

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

“Growing up in Southern California one of the most striking things are the neon signs. I was often taken to convenience stores and these signs are a reminder those times.”

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Neon”

Screen print on Bristol 

8 1/2”X 11”

2022

Prints available upon request; $30

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

“My pet rat ended up getting an enormous tumor on her chest at the end of her life she was holding on and I could remember staring and her and crying. My dad tried to help by giving her sleeping pills hidden in cheese. While she ate some of it it took her a very long time to die. This is what I remember.”

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Dad Couldn’t Ease Her Pain'"

Screen print on Bristol 

22”X14”

2019

Prints available upon request; $80

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

“I wasn't taken to the dentist frequently as a child and it lead to my back molars to be taken out, which were then extracted.”

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Imagined Extraction”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X13”

2019

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Imagined Extraction”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X13”

2019

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

“Bar S hot dogs and Country Crock were always in our fridge. No matter what. I see them as symbols of working class americana.”


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Household Staples”

Screen print on Bristol 

11”X14”

2022

Prints available upon request; $40

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Dad’s Usual”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X20”

2022

Prints available upon request; $40

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

“Dad would take me for donuts every Saturday morning and frequently when we brought them home, if they were left unattended, there would be cockroaches munching on them.”


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Yum”

Screen print on Bristol 

18”X15”

2019

Prints available upon request; $60

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Pool Party”

Mixed Media Installation

4’X6’

2021

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“The Say He Drowned in That Pool”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X10”

2019

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

“My dad kept girly magazines in the bathroom drawer and one of the earliest times I remember being aroused was finding these magazines. I would hide in the bathrooms for long periods of time reflecting on how girls could actually like each other.”

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“The First Time so Felt Desire”

Screen print on Bristol 

11X14”

2022

Prints available upon request; $40

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Trailer Trash”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X20”

2019

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove


Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Only Sad Girls Like Lisa Frank”

Screen print on Bristol 

11”X14”

2022

Prints available upon request; $30

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

“My mothers wooden crucifix that hung on our wall next to our kitchen that for the longest time had his arm broken off. Instead of gluing it back on we would just put it behind his head.”

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“It was like that when I got here”

Screen print on Bristol 

15”X20”

2022

Prints available upon request; $60

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Grandma Griselda”

Screen print on Bristol 

22”X15”

2019

Not For Sale 

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove

Sarah Kindl (She/Her)

“Girls are Over Flowers”

Screen print on Bristol 

11”X14”

2022

Prints available upon request; $40

www.instagram.com/msfoxglove 

For all sales inquiries please email Emily at Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org This exhibition can be seen in-person at 306 Flora st in Bellingham, WA. 1PM-6PM Thursday- Saturday.

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WE ARE ALL LINKED
Mar
4
to Mar 26

WE ARE ALL LINKED


An ode to oneself and others, healing runs through us in times of quiet, motion, humor, expression. Connecting to each other, sharing similarities and differences in the experiences we take on or the pain we leave behind. Together we find ourselves.

Please email Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org for all sales inquiries

Karen Wallen
“We are all linked”
Acrylic on canvas
16x20
$450
2019

Karen Wallen
”Harmony”
Acrylic on paper
12x12
SOLD

2021

KAREN WALLEN Biographical Statement

About

As a working artist, I paint using various media, including Acrylic, Inks and Collage. I am very excited to present my work to you!

Employing many brilliant hues on Canvas, Paper and Wood, I create in abstract and figurative styles, often with humor or poetry, I explore the issues of daily life with humanity and care.

Working in my home studio, I'm inspired by the colorful hues of relationships between friends and lovers, along the labyrinthine paths of their lives.

Early Career

Literally from early childhood, Karen had pencils, crayons and paint, with pap, glue and scissors handy— (when she wasn’t out exploring in her family’s creek—or climbing trees…). Drew her family, horses, and her natural surroundings incessantly.

As a student and young adult, Karen studied Egypt and envisioned those Ancient eras. Later, during High School years, she hit her stride in Arlington, Virginia emerging herself in the Arts atmosphere of Washington, D.C., visiting the National Museums of History and Art weekly, falling in love with painting and sculpture! Finally, her major in Penn State University’s School of Art and Education, continued her longing to experiment on canvas, as well as in the

classrooms from Pre-School through High School, in Los Angeles, Seoul and Taegu, Korea, then, in Seattle and, finally, ending in Los Angeles, where she now resides. Her concentration, at this time, is Abstract Expressionism with Acrylics and Mixed Media.

Work Process

Donning her blue non-latex gloves, Karen spreads out floor (or porch) coverings throws out canvases or paper of all sorts, and a multitude of hues in acrylic paints! 

She employs her hands, her brushes—and even sticks from her yard to apply her brilliant splashes! Then, as the layers solidify, the images of her figures emerge into clearer pictures of a scene in their lives. Often playful or thought provoking, her style is unique and very human.

www.artworkarchive.com/profile/karenkwallenart

@karenkwallenart

Karen Wallen
“Sail Away”
Acrylic on canvas
48x60
$3000
2018

XIN XIN
“Don't Close Up the World”
Painting on paper
24 x 19”
$1300

XIN XIN Artist statement: My works capture the healing experiences from personal and cultural traumas. I focus on the loss of identity, generational trauma, depression, and anxiety. In this midst of experiencing trauma, we continue to move forward. That is the beauty of human resilience and perseverance.
I want my art to be a peaceful healing space. I hope viewers can engage with it and realize, “I know that feeling and I am not alone!” Together, we are experiencing these special human emotions. In some ways, we are all looking for some comfort to feel ok.

Bio: Xin Xin is a visual artist who explores healing traumatic emotions through watercolor abstraction. Xin was born in Beijing, China, and emigrated to Washington with her family when she was twelve years old. Xin graduated from the University of Washington with B.A. in Communication and Sales. After 2 years of working in corporate, Xin decided to solo travel the world for four years. Art has been a consistent theme in Xin’s life since she was 3 years old. She continued to explore her artistic skills and pursued art as a way of self-healing.

artxinxin.com/

@artxinxin_

Karen Wallen
“Family in Red”
Acrylic on canvas
14x14
$275
2020

XIN XIN
“Unpredictable Life”
Painting on paper
24 x 19”
$1300

XIN XIN
“Ever-Changing”
Painting on premium watercolor paper
10x 8"
$250

Karen Wallen
”What’s your story?”
Acrylic on wood
8x8
$125
2019

Karen Wallen
“Together we can do it”
Acrylic on wood
8x8
$125
2020

XIN XIN
“Faded Homes”
Painting on paper
24 x 19
$1300

Karen Wallen
“Multiple Personalities”
Acrylic on canvas
18x24
$600
2019

Karen Wallen
“Open Arms”
Acrylic on paper
8x10
$125
2021

Karen Wallen
“In My Dreams We Fly”
Acrylic on canvas
11x14
$250

Karen Wallen
”Ain’t Life Grand”
Acrylic on canvas
16x30
$450
2019

Katie Sherman

“Mulch”

Acrylic on Canvas

24X30”

2021

$1100

Sarah Lane

“THYROID, MOTHERWORT, SIBERIAN GINSENG, LICORICE”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

Katie Sherman

“Our Lady of Property Taxes”

Acrylic on canvas

16x20”

2021

$600

XIN XIN
”Taking Up Space”
Painting on premium watercolor paper
12 x 9"
$350

Sarah Lane

“KIDNEYS, TURMERIC, DANDELION, BEANS”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

SARAH LANE Artist Statement: As an artist, I follow the call to honor and illuminate life through art.  Whether creating portraits, painting landscapes or rendering anatomical-botanicals in mixed media, I offer gratitude for life and the natural world all around me. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio in a family of artists, and I spent most of my childhood either outdoors, building relationships with plants and animals, or indoors, drawing worlds on mat board beneath my father’s large printing press. Always an idealist, my first goal in life was to “save the world.” I went to West Point and studied English and engineering (and drew in the margins of my textbooks).   Through many careers, self-expressions and life changes, I concluded that perhaps the best way to “save the world” was by bringing beauty into it. I live in Bellingham with my husband, children, dog and chickens. We love the PNW, where our yard has become a garden, and the world has become a studio.  I live in vibrant color and seek to share the beauty of this world and all of its creatures, great and small, through art.

(All pieces are protected by Dorland’s wax medium and are water resistant.)

https://www.sarahlaneart.com/

@sarahsartlife

Sarah Lane

“UTERUS, OVARIES, LUNA MOTH, PERSIMMONS, RED CLOVER.”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

Katie Sherman

“Free Gift”

Mixed media on canvas

24x20”

2021

$850

KATIE SHERMAN Artist Statement:


This series was painted as I was processing my father’s long time battle with cancer and his eventual passing. I watched my dad use humor as his strength left him, laughing at the silliness of life. Being faced so directly with death, I obsessed with my own value and contribution on earth. I painted these to memorialize my dad, my previous selves and move forward in my life. I will often use religious themes to highlight the sinner/savior or madonna/whore juxtaposition that many women grapple with. I don't take myself or my work too seriously. These works are meant to be about rebirth, reflection and growth, while throwing a wink and poke at death.


Bio:

I grew up in the woods of Alaska, learning under my printmaker mother as I experimented with mediums and subject matter. As I developed my skill and foothold, I found focus in recreating emotional human moments with acrylic paint, canvas and a sense of humor. Pop art, religious iconography, and gender roles are consistent themes across my work.  Recently I was commissioned to create a label for the upcoming release of a beer for the art and music venue, The Bobby Motel, in Nashville, Tennessee and was a featured artist of the week on the Teaching Artist Podcast. I feel that choosing a patently uncreative, safe career path has allowed the need to paint and create simmer inside me, continuing my growth through art.

@poorguapo

Sarah Lane

“PELVIS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

Sarah Lane

“BLEEDING HEART”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

SOLD

Katie Sherman

“Bomb Shelter”

Acrylic on canvas

16x20”

2021

NFS

Sarah Lane

“LUNGS, MULLEIN, MARSH MALLOW”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

Katie Sherman

“Vacation”

Acrylic, oil and epoxy on canvas

40x30”

2021

$1250

Sarah Lane

“BRAIN, FORGET-ME-NOT, MYRTLE, YARROW.”

9X12”

Mixed media on watercolor paper, mounted on birch panel, wax medium

$150

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The Parts That Make The Whole
Feb
4
to Feb 25

The Parts That Make The Whole

The parts that make the whole. Individual pieces coming together to make something impossible as stand alone entities. Bits, bobbles, dashes and lines, each holding their own while reaching out to one another. A complete composition fulfilled by multiples. Building off of what was placed before, creating layers of collage these artists find the culmination of fragments.

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SUE ELLER

Sue Eller
Collared
Assemblage
$825
13”h x 18”w x 5”d
2017

Sue Eller
Shoe-Fly
Assemblage
$575
7”h x 6”w x 4”
2017

Artist Statement

I am intrigued by objects discarded and forgotten, perhaps because of their untold stories.  A rusty tool can spark an image of a fully formed piece in my mind, then transform as I bring other elements into the mix. I integrate masculine and feminine objects into my work by juxtaposing rusty tools, vintage collectibles, driftwood, costume jewelry, beach glass and textiles into sculptures and I primarily use rusty wire to connect the parts together. Ranging from obliquely political, to whimsical, to forlorn, my work provides a catalyst for interesting conversation and has been described by others as having the ability to combine humor and; whimsy with the macabre. My hope is that through my work, others will be inspired to see the value in the discards of everyday life so that collectively we can begin the process of unraveling our compulsion to throw away what we perceive to be no longer of use.

Sue Eller
Squall
Assemblage
$1050
18”h x 30”w x 18”
2019

Sue Eller
Sharp Shooter
Assemblage
$825
9”h x 17”w x 5”d
2016

Sue Eller
Zika
Assemblage
$925
11”h x 38”w x 13”
2018

Sue Eller
Duck and Cover
Assemblage
$850
19”h x 27”w x 15”
2017

Sue Eller
Fluke
Assemblage
$825
14”h x 17”w x 16”
2021

Sue Eller
“A Hug From 6 Feet”
Assemblage
$1325
15”h x 46”w x 15”d
2021

Sue Eller
“The Great Unraveling”
Assemblage
$995
24” x 14” x 18”W
2020

Sue Eller
“Feral House #4-Rooted”
Assemblage
$925
24” x 2”x 24”
2021

Sue Eller
”Elephant Apnea Dreams”
Assemblage
$875
18” x 24”x 18”d
2019

Artist Bio:

Suzanne Eller is an award-winning artist who spent her childhood exploring the Pacific Northwest beaches and forests. Summers with her grandparents in Northern California’s mountainous rural gold country were occupied with collecting, crafting and roaming the great outdoors. While Sue has no formal education in Fine Arts, she has always been creative. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts. She then lived for 30 years in the highly urban environment of Los Angeles, working in the television industry as a music editor. Returning to her rural roots has reconnected her with the land and sea and been the impetus for her self-taught artistic expression as an Assemblage artist, combining found objects, organic elements, vintage items, beach glass, textiles and rusty tools into sculptures. Her affinity for antiquing, collecting and crafting are the building blocks for her work. Suzanne resides on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Her work has been included in several online shows throughout the country and has also been exhibited in a number of juried shows on the West Coast, including the Anacortes Art Festival, Edmonds Art Festival, Collective Visions Gallery (CVG) Show, Northwind Arts Center and the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Additional information can be found at www.suzanneellerart.com.

Sue Eller
"Self-Isolate"
Assemblage
$795
16"h x 9"w x 9"d
2020

Sue Eller
”Emerging”
Assemblage
$845
22” x 13” x 7”
2021

Sue Eller
“Migration Time”
Assemblage
$825
27” x 11” x 17”d
2016

Sue Eller
“Seeing Red”
Assemblage
$795
6” x 21” x 8”d
2016

Sue Eller
”Buzzed”
Assemblage
$800
13” x 7” x 8”d
2018

LISA HASEGAWA


Kaleidomicroscopics were created during the summer of 2020 when I suddenly found myself with more free time than I’ve had in over 20 years. I spent several days a week in my studio working spontaneously, and began typing patterns onto various transparent papers using different typewriters and colored carbon paper in my collection. I created an artist’s book using these papers for collage, and decided to start a series of small works using a similar concept.

I created a template for the image area on a 5.5 x 5 sheet of cotton paper, then randomly sewed overlapping lines in grey thread to create organic shapes. Using a general palette of three colors, I filled in some of the shapes with watercolor and collaged typewritten papers. I completed one before beginning the next, and changed the color palette for each set of five.

This series is a new beginning for me and has continued to inspire new work. My traditional color choices have mostly been subtle grey tones with bits of red or pink. The Kaleidomicroscopics are richly colorful and perfectly express my creative re-awakening found in listening to the materials during meditative play.

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics i”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics ii”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics iii”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics iv-viii”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450

2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics x-xiii”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Artist Bio:

Lisa Hasegawa is a proud print nerd whose work varies between letterpress, artist’s books, and works on paper. These works on paper combine various media such as collage, watercolor, sewing, and typewriter art. She has over 25 typewriters in her growing collection which allow her to type different fonts, sizes, colors, and alphabets.

Lisa lives in Tacoma, Washington with her partner, turtle, step-dog, and cat. She received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and teaches letterpress printing at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. Her artist’s books and prints are collected nationally in both public and private collections. Her work has been published in several books.

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics xiv”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics xv”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Kaleidomicroscopics xvi-xx”
Machine stitching, watercolor, typewriter collage
5.5” x 5”
$450
2020

Lisa Hasegawa
“Four Towers – IV”
Collage on paper (various papers), hand-sewn thread
10” x 7”
$500
2021

The Four Towers collages were created during a two-week artist residency at In Cahoots Residency in February 2021. Most days I began working on these collages as a sort of warm up session to clear my mind and focus on what needed to be done that day. All materials used are those I brought with me, created work, or a byproduct of something created during the residency. Sewing and sashiko thread, typewritten patterns on colored tracing paper, print proofs, used teabags with typing, and sketches are some of the various items used. There are currently five collages in this series. I will continue making these collages from time to time while working on new projects, incorporating materials as a sort of abstract coded documentation.

Lisa Hasegawa
“Four Towers – V”
Collage on paper (various papers), hand-sewn thread
10” x 7”
$500
2021

Lisa Hasegawa
“Four Towers – I”
Collage on paper (various papers), hand-sewn thread
10” x 7”
$500
2021

Lisa Hasegawa
“i”.
Letterpress, typewriter, collage
variable edition of 10
8.5” x 6.5”
$380
2021

i. and ii. were the main focus of my 2021 residency; I wanted to explore the combination of letterpress printing and typewriter art. Using the residency’s unique collection of wood type, I printed shapes using all or just portions of letters, numbers, and punctuation. Once each run was completed, I printed the wood type onto sekishu, creating two additional editions of letterpress printing to later be used as collage for the final prints. Dashed and dotted lines were typed using various typewriters, creating new spaces for collaged pieces to reside.

Lisa Hasegawa
“iI”.
Letterpress, typewriter, collage
variable edition of 10
8.5” x 6.5”
$380
2021

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Times of Uncertainty with Brightness Peeking In
Jan
7
to Jan 28

Times of Uncertainty with Brightness Peeking In

A time of great uncertainty punctuated by more uncertainty.

Artists plunge into work with new questions, stirred by isolation, a confrontation of our humanness, foggy memories of what came before.

Coming into the second year of vast communal separation, we find subtle connections between a dispersed but synonymous experience. 

May we look for any brightness peeking in, whether it a glimpse or a clear cascade. 


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Lee Sawyer


Lee Sawyer (she/her)

“Self Portrait”

Acrylic, glass, and glue on canvas 

24" by 36" 

2020

$500

@lunar.lee.art & lunarlee.art 

Lee Sawyer (she/her)

“Self Portrait” (detail)

Acrylic, glass, and glue on canvas 

24" by 36" 

2020

$500

@lunar.lee.art & lunarlee.art 

Artist Statement/Bio:

My art is focused on the oft-contradictory feelings of being perceived by oneself and others.

A desire to be seen, loved, and supported. A fear of being inadequate, seen through, or misconstrued. Our masks, used to hide from perception obscure ourselves and sometimes they become so multi-layered that even self reflection feels like looking through clouded windows. Masks reveal just as much about ourselves and what we think our place in society should be.

My aim with these pieces is to examine a dichotomy of desiring and abhorring perception of the self. Whether it is an act of self reflection or opening oneself up to be viewed by others, there is a fear laced craving in being seen. That fear arises partially from a past year of physical and often emotional isolation from the pandemic. It also may seep from the dissonance experienced in the various layers of masks worn by ourselves to function in different versions of ourself online, at work, with our loved ones, and alone.

Lee is a Bellingham based artist and full time case manager for disabled adults facing housing instability/homelessness.  She is a primarily self taught artist with an insatiable urge to draw the human form. Painting her loved ones and herself helps the artist to better comprehend her feelings surrounding them. Her most recent art pieces capture Lee's anxiety around isolation, self-sabotage, and death- with a disarrayed mixed media of glass, glue, and acrylic. 

Lee Sawyer (she/her)

“Her fear of death and higher powers”

Acrylic, glass, glitter, and glue on canvas 

15" by 29.5" 

2021

$100

@lunar.lee.art & lunarlee.art 

Lee Sawyer (she/her)

“Her fear of death and higher powers” (detail)

Acrylic, glass, glitter, and glue on canvas 

15" by 29.5" 

2021

$100

@lunar.lee.art & lunarlee.art 

This piece has lights embedded in the canvas. Lights “off”

Lights “on”


Sophia Lindstrom

Sophia Lindstrom

“People tend to place past events into existing representations of the world, their world.”

Acrylic paint, resin, posca pen

16 x 24

2021

NFS

Artist Bio/Statement:

I'm a female, Neurodivergent artist based in Bellingham, Washington. My work focuses on visual thoughts: that I have thought through-out the day. Thoughts I have from walking home after long days in the Western Washington University art studios too trying to fall asleep at night while my brain will not turn off. These thoughts include questions about human connection, society’s reactions to death, and the natural world we are connected to. I am traditionally more of a painter, thanks to my artistic grandmother who inspired me to paint. Currently, I have been painting and using mix media elements to create various narratives about my thoughts. I’m leaning into making more graphic details to depict my thoughts.

My current work explores ideas of changed memories, especially due to covid. In recent times, the way I have interacted with society during the pandemic has affected the way I have been looking at the past. Since covid has started, I have been looking into the recent past (1970-2000) a lot more than normal. Reflecting on my new worldview has been affecting my views of the past, where we did not social distance or wear masks. The ways we interact as society has totally shifted. Yet, I change them as I think about them over and over, changing the memory. The current work is based on found photos of families and people I do not know. I have drawn on top of photographs, to place my thoughts and my reaction to them in the past with the current world view. Then I take these changed imagines and paint them. I want to react to situations while keeping them anonymous. Looking at these images strikes me in the way life used to be, with having Christmas as family's or the type of gathering, with lack of face covering. To illustrate my thoughts and my reaction to them in the past with the current world view.

@sophial.lindstrom.art

Sophia Lindstrom

“Recalling a memory more often makes that memory less accurate, and that every time you take a memory off the shelf in your brain, you put it back just a tiny bit different”

Acrylic paint, resin, posca pen

16 x 24

2021

NFS

Sophia Lindstrom

“False memory changes us”

Acrylic paint, resin, posca pen

16 x 24

2021

NFS


Matthew James Manowski

Matthew James Manowski (he/his)

"Our Collective Energy Made Us Whole, Again. (Resonate World Micro-Charting Tomorrow 6.0)” (Video still)

Video, Camera(s), Trumpet, Birds, Synthesizer, Voice, Plants, Bells, Guitar, Wood Objects, Fresh Air

Duration - 33m 12s

2020 & 2021

NFS

Matthew James Manowski (he/his)

"Our Collective Energy Made Us Whole, Again. (Version Chemistry 01001110)” (Video still)

Video, Camera(s), Trumpet, Birds, Synthesizer, Voice, Plants, Bells, Guitar, Wood Objects, Fresh Air

Duration - 33m 12s

2020 & 2021

NFS

Artist Statement:

What I’ve realized, in my concerns with art making, is the way spontaneity blooms or emerges when the ingredients and or/conditions are just so. The process never changes; I collect images or sounds and arrange them in a way without a single idea of the entirety or whole. Cameras are helpful, recording are devices essential. And, this method feels to me like the most authentic way to express a feeling or place a signpost along my path. Even in regards to changing mediums, I let the piece emerge from it’s origin, someplace, that we can never know. This last sentence is the most important for artists: a place we cannot know, though it exists.

About the works featured:

The videos are a culmination and group-led effort from the EchoFluxx Ensemble.

Three videos continuously looped:

1.) Resonate World Micro-Charting Tomorrow 6.0

2.) Version Chemistry 01001110

3.) Zu_Zebalon Remix Vol 3.

These pieces were recorded as the pandemic took hold in the early months of 2021 and into the subsequent summer. They feature: instrumentation, images, voice, and movement that was almost entirely executed without predetermination or arrangement. The post-editing was done by Matthew Manowski. The impetus behind these works was the untimely cancelation of the annual EchoFluxx Experimental Media Festival located in Prague, CZ. It was with due diligence and accord to continue the work that may have been featured if not for a global pandemic. Though the festival resumed in 2021. Given unique circumstances innovative and unique works were possible, using ingenuity and technology.

My thanks to: David Means, Mary Garvie, Michael Karman, Georgia Stephens, Jon Spayde, John Franzen, Gil Gragert, Oskar Kubica, Dan Senn and Tom Kanthak for their contributions. These pieces would not have been possible without them.

Matthew James Manowski (he/his)

"Our Collective Energy Made Us Whole, Again. (Zu_Zebalon Remix Vol 3.)” (Video still)

Video, Camera(s), Trumpet, Birds, Synthesizer, Voice, Plants, Bells, Guitar, Wood Objects, Fresh Air

Duration - 33m 12s

2020 & 2021

NFS

Bio:

Matthew James Manowski (b. Wisconsin, 1981) is currently a Seattle-based artist working with painting, video, photography, performance, sound and installation. Manowski’s work focuses in on a variety of topics ranging from ecology, to surrealism, history, memory, sociology and the abstract in forms that are just as varied. These forms may include but are not limited to: modular (remote) collaborations, public performances, painting and sound art experiments.

Manowski performed individually, presenting the piece “Object 2” at the 12th Century Castello de Evoramonte in Portugal in 2017. Manowski has also been exhibited internationally, performing the piece “Light Matter While I’m Here” (2019) at Kvaka 22 in Belgrade, Serbia. He has collaborated with the French print maker Gäelle Pellachaud for exhibition in Portugal for the piece “Áureas (Refleçcoes duma Segonha)” (2018). Manowski was also a contributing artist for the Strange Attractor’s Festival (founded by composer David Means) combining performance and installation for the piece “Medicine Plants/Medicine People” (2012) and “All Souls Day” (2012) with Johnny Rodruiguez. He is the founder of the national, Sources of Light Festival featuring experimental composers and has been exhibited in Seattle, Chicago and Denver. In addition, Manowski was a key contributor for the Mozawa piece (directed by Matthew Ozawa) “A Dream Play” (2017) after securing a High Concept Laboratories sponsorship. He was both a performing artist and the Sound Director for the piece.

Manowski currently works with the international EchoFluxx Ensemble as both the Technical Editor and musical collaborator. Recently he remixed both the video and audio for Georgia Stephen’s piece “Zu Zebalon” (2020-2021) with numerous variations. The work of the EchoFluxx Ensemble has been exhibited in Prague for the Echofluxx Festival and in 2019, the EchoFluxx Ensemble premiered the experimental opera, “Perfect”. The piece was directed and performed by David Means (and cohort), libretto written by Michael Karman. In 2021 Manowski will have two video pieces exhibited for the EchoFluxx festival, featuring works that span collaborative sound experiments and the narrative-driven piece(s) Zu_Zebalon 3.

Matthew Manowski earned his B.A. in Sociology and Intermedia Arts from Metropolitan State University (Saint Paul, MN) in 2010 and earned his MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University in 2015. He has since has worked in numerous cultural and art administrative positions including: Development Associate (2014) Henry Art Gallery, Director of Development (2015-2017) Mozawa, Director of Programs (2018) Zeppelin Station. He is the sole organizer behind the Sources of Light Festivals (2015-current), planning for the 4th installment in summer 2022. He has also held numerous art-residencies including: Chicago-based Comfort Station (2017) where he produced the month-long series Abstr/Action and Senses I-V, Belgrade, Serbia and Estremoz, Portugal.

Matthew Manowski has been a hospitality professional for numerous years, working in restaurants and bars across the U.S. serving the public and remaining connected to the food and beverage scene. He is currently the Bar Manager at Herb and Bitter on Capital Hill, Seattle.

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ROOTED
Nov
5
to Dec 3

ROOTED

The artists in this show create work that explores their heritage and ancestry. 


By sifting through their cultural traditions these artists find grounding in the roots of their identities.

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Nico Inzerella

Nico Inzerella

“al Mercado”

Wheatpaste on a wood panel with oil paint, latex paint and gold leaf.

30 x 24"

Original photo taken in San Cristobal de las casas, Chiapas México

$500

Nico Inzerella

“Pared Xela”

Wheatpaste on a wood panel with oil paint, latex paint and gold leaf.

30 x 24"

Original photo taken on Xela, Guatemala

$400

Nico Inzerella

“Hidalgo”

Wheatpaste on wood panel. Block Print, oil, latex

30" x 26"

Original photo taken in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico

$400

Nico Inzerella

“Red Fox”

Gomuban Block with red water-based printmaking ink. On "Vintage" writing paper in an 8x10 black frame.

8 x 10"

$50

Artist Statement:
I'm a Mexican-American/ Jewish American Artist. 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. We moved to a small town named Carnation, a community built of farmers and loggers.. It wasn't until college in Bellingham where I grew and started to find myself. After college, I moved to Mexico for 6 months and after that I started to identify as Mexican-American or Chicano. Although I'm not fluent in Spanish I connected with my culture through my art. I started getting into art in high school because my mom was an Arts and Crafts instructor and I used to get into her craft supplies. In college, I initially wanted to major in Painting but I ended up majoring in Graphic Design with an emphasis on New Media (web/ video). 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.

Artist Bio:
Nico Inzerella is a Mexican-American/ Jewish-American multimedia artist, born and raised between Southern California and Seattle by a single parent. The themes and images of Nico’s art often reflect Indigenous life and immigration throughout the Americas. He received his B.F.A. from Western Washington University - School or Art. He is a faculty art instructor at North Seattle College through their Continuing Education program. He is also a full-time web developer for the college. His art has been exhibited throughout Washington State and has art on permanent collection with the City of Seattle, Daybreak Star Cultural Center, ArtsWa, RACC City of Portland (Oregon), and the City of Shoreline. He has been recognized by Crosscut Magazine, Schack Art Gallery and Columbia City Gallery. Nico spent a year in Latin America, primarily Mexico, researching fine art, street art, printmaking and artisan crafts.

http://nicoidesign.com/


J D Trejo-Maya

J D Trejo-Maya

“So this was weaved from dreams “

Plastic transparency

8.5 x 11

$77.77

2020

J D Trejo-Maya

“Transparent thoughts “

Plastic transparency

8.5 x 11

$77.77

2020

J D Trejo-Maya

“Oxomoco ”

Plastic transparency

8.5 x 11

$77.77

2020

J D Trejo-Maya

“Tonatiuh”

Plastic transparency

8.5 x 11

$77.77

2020

J D Trejo-Maya

“Uixticihuatl”

Plastic transparency

8.5 x 11

$77.77

2020

Artist statement/bio:

He is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands from a time and place that no longer exists. Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where he spent his childhood in the small rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom he immigrated in 1988.  His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, James Welch and Juan Rulfo.  Published in various journals/sites in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. Pushcart Prize nominee in 2015; awarded Tercer Premio from El Centro Canario Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el Certamen Internacional de Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 2016. New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Finalist 2018, 2020 Jack Straw Writers Fellow, Exhibitions at Amador County Arts Council, Museum of Dead Words, Main Street Arts, amongst others. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy…




Macie Matthews

Macie Matthews

“Japan: Tradition, History, and Culture”

Ink prints on mulberry and kozo paper

9.5” x 9.5” x 2”

$60 for book or individual 7x7 prints for $7

2020

Macie Matthews

“Endurance”

Rope, Wood

40”x 42”x 6” (length x height x depth)

$450

2021

Artist Statement/bio:

I focus on the continuous dialogue between the past and the present through the coexistence of intergenerational communities within Japanese-American culture. I’ve felt separate from both identities, American and Asian, whether it be in student clubs, classes, or demographic surveys. My work has been influenced by my studies in Japan where I was able to explore the other half of my heritage, knowledge which had been mediated by Americanized appropriation. My fascination with Japanese society stems from my newfound understanding of the complexities within myself; through my practice I can further explore who I am -- as an individual, as part of a community, and as part of my culture as a whole.


Social Media/ Website:

IG: @maciematthewsstudio

Tiktok: @mmillustrated

Website: www.maciematthews.com


Olalekan Oyewole

Olalekan Oyewole.

“Conservation”

Rubber Gum,Silk Thread,Canvas.

20'' by 28''

2017

$159,000

Olalekan Oyewole

“Golden Apple”

Canvas, Rubber Gum, Silk Thread.

21'' by 23''

2019

$246,000

Olalekan Oyewole

“Reminiscence: 1”

Canvas, Rubber Gum, Silk Thread.

20'' by 31''

2014.

$250,000

Olalekan Oyewole.

“Reminiscence: 2”

Rubber Gum,Silk Thread,canvas.

22'' by 26''

2016

$300,000

Olalekan Oyewole.

“Beach House”

Rubber Gum, Silk Threads, Canvas.

26'' by 36''

2014.

$244,000

Artist Statement:

I create the past. The receding glorious past of Africa its people and their way of life.

I am particularly awed by its landscape, the colorful mountains, the lush vegetation to the tropical west, the semi-arid and the arid regions of the Sahara, the beauty and diversity of its culture, the rotund thatched mud huts, the quite slow-moving streams, and the rapid waterfalls.

 

Artist Bio:

 I am a self-taught artist. and a proud participant at the 2012 Art And Artifacts  Exhibition held at the M.A Odeyemi Museum of Antiquities and Contemporary African Arts, Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.


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THE SPOOKY MASK SHOW
Oct
1
to Oct 30

THE SPOOKY MASK SHOW

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Boogy Boogy Boogy! It’s the Spooky Mask Show. Artists of all experience levels have created their version of a spooky mask. In-person viewing appointments can be made by emailing Gallery@makeshiftproject.com Enjoy th-2.png

ALL SALES INQUIRIES: GALLERY@MAKESHIFTARTSPACE.ORG


Thayne Yazzie


Thayne Yazzie

“The Antelope”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

8" x 10"

$500

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie

Thayne Yazzie

“Lady Cthulhu”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

12" X 18"

$900

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie

Thayne Yazzie

“The Octopus / Cthulhu”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

12" x 18"

$1000

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie


Thayne Yazzie

“The Fox”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

8" x 10"

$500

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie


Thayne Yazzie

“The Lion”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

8" x 10"

$500

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie


Thayne Yazzie

“The Wolf”

Mixed Media/Leather/Acrylic Paint

8" x 10"

$500

www.thayneyazzie.com

instagram.com/thayneyazzie


Jessyca Murphy

Jessyca Murphy

“Shame Mask 1: Warts”

Craft felt, starched craft felt, polyester filling, thread, embroidery floss, wire, velcro, and wood

2021

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Artist Statement:

“According to [Simon] Critchley, your ideal self is the source of your conscience, but it’s also your internal critic. [...] Critchley says the demands of the ideal self can never be fully satisfied. You can never completely live up to it because having that ideal there is part of what gives your mind a structure. He says we are most acutely aware of this split when we feel shame.”
-- Abigail Thorne @PhilosophyTube


This piece is the first in a series of works inspired by medieval shame masks. Shame masks were tools of public humiliation imposed on people convicted of crimes and to warn the general public about their wrongdoings. The design of the mask was also meant to resemble the crime itself. For example, “bad” musicians who refused to stop playing in public were fastened with a flute connected to their nose and mouth, so that they could not breathe without making an annoying sound. There were also spiked metal contraptions that “gossiping” women were forced to place in their mouths, so they would be impaled when attempting to speak. 
While this practice may seem tortuous today, shame (both in its public and private forms) still plays a significant role in our lives and relationships. The shame we’ve been taught to feel about our bodies, our feelings, and our urges, has become a point of fascination for many researchers and commentators. Especially when it comes to public shaming on social media as a means of enforcing morality. 

With the popularization (and capitalist appropriation) of “body positivity,” many people express feeling shame about feeling shame. This is what Sonya Renee Taylor calls “meta-shame.” Even when we try to eliminate shame, it somehow manages to creep back into our minds. It’s almost like we don’t need masks any longer. We’ve learned how to humiliate ourselves all on our own.

This particular mask was inspired by my earliest memory of shame. When I was six years old, I had a classmate who always had warts on her fingers. She also wore the same cheap witch costume for two Halloweens in a row. I remember making fun of her to my friends for both of these social transgressions, pointing out the obvious connection. Then one day, I got a wart on my own chin. The doctor gave my mother a painful cream that we used to freeze off the wart and I spent days at home from school. I spent that time tortured by my contradictory feelings of shame. I not only felt shame for my blemish, but also for my moral failings -- that I mocked and judged someone else, especially now that I was experiencing the same affliction. You would think the second might cancel out the first, but it did not.

With this series, I’m not concerned with defining shame as good or bad, but rather I hope to illustrate how shame feels. For as gruesome as those shame masks were, I think there is some weird power in externalizing abstract sensations.




Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse

”Anubis”

Paper

21.5"x10

2021

Price: NFS

https://anonymouseart.weebly.com/


Artist Statement: Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead, escorts our souls into the beyond. Anubis judges departed souls by weighing hearts versus the feather of truth and justice. Souls of hearts weighing less than the feather are guided towards a heavenly afterlife. How will your heart fare?

Anony Mouse

“Allure”

Paper

14 x 8"

2021

NFS

Social Media/ website: https://anonymouseart.weebly.com/

Artist Statement: Sometimes the light at the end of a tunnel is a train. Sometimes it's salvation. Sometimes it's a bioluminescent lure. What if going towards the light is a trap?


frameRateZero

frameRateZero (Jeffrey Parker)

“Cast From the Same Mold 1”

Cast paper on metal-framed wood

6” x 7 ½” x 2 ½”

2021

$25

frameratezero.com

@0framerate0 (Instagram)

frameRateZero (Jeffrey Parker)

“Cast From the Same Mold 2”

Cast paper on metal-framed wood

6” x 7 ½” x 2 ½”

2021

$25

frameratezero.com

@0framerate0 (Instagram)


Alli Willis

Alli Willis (she/her)
”Nightmare Yak Eats Your Dreams”
Paper mache, acrylic paint, window film
20" x 22"
2021
Price: NFS
Instagram: @alli_willis

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Christian Anne Smith

Christian Anne Smith

“Bridge Troll” Mask

Wood and Shell Mixed Media

May be an indoor or outdoor piece

$85

2021

http://www.christianannesmith.com

Christian Anne Smith

"Mountain Troll" Mask

Wood and Shell Mixed Media

May be an indoor or outdoor piece.

NFS

2021

http://www.christianannesmith.com

Artist statement:

I like to tell stories through art. I love garish and fantastical characters. I enjoy human beings, and my art explores stories of human emotion as well as my passion for costumes, colors, textures and intriguing environments.

Growing up on the coast of Maine, I was surrounded by stories and images of the region's folklore. Seilkies, Mermaids, Ghosts and Pirates were all believably real entities to me. My childhood fascination with monsters and supernatural beings continues and influences the way I choose to portray people.

I also have a need to express with my art. I become inspired, and have worked hard to train myself to go into a sort of a trance that allows what's inside to come out. It's only later that I can look with any objectivity on something that I've created and perhaps get a glimpse of what I was feeling or thinking.

It is akin to the way one might analyze a dream. 

I may start a painting or puppet with a certain image in mind, but I allow the original image to change or even get completely painted over whenever I start to see new things. I am often quite confused about how I am feeling until after I paint, draw, or build things and the truth comes to the surface. This is the way I best communicate with myself.

In this way, I suppose nearly all my paintings are also portraits of my life.

Thank you for your interest in my work. I hope that the world I have created sparks your own imagination and provokes many hours of daydream in the years to come.

Christian Smith grew up in the coastal town of Cushing, Maine. As a child she was fascinated by the region’s folklore. She was also blessed with a creative family that read to her every night and provided lots of crayons to encourage her art.

She learned early in life how much she loved to draw and tell stories through her artworks.

Christian Anne Smith studied illustration at Parson’s School of Design, NYC and has a B.A. in Studio Arts from Western Washington University.

Christian currently lives in Bellingham, Washington where she paints and teaches.

She is a member of the Waterfront Artist’s Collective, The Allied Arts Education Project, and is involved in various projects throughout the community that mix art and people.


Sarah Lane

Sarah Lane, she/her/hers

“Mouse Mask”

Air dry clay, acrylic paint, wire, satin cord, birch wood

6" diameter

2021

$40


Corinna Healey-Smith

Corinna Healey-Smith“I’ve got my eyes on you”Mixed media$1002021

Corinna Healey-Smith

“I’ve got my eyes on you”

Mixed media

$100

2021


Frank Belzek

Frank Belzek, he/him“Mask with Feathers and Bloody Eyes”Cardboard and Magic Marker (outline) and colored pencil7.5 inches wide and 4 inches tall (in the middle)2021$5.00

Frank Belzek, he/him

“Mask with Feathers and Bloody Eyes”

Cardboard and Magic Marker (outline) and colored pencil

7.5 inches wide and 4 inches tall (in the middle)

2021

$5.00


Veronica Major

Veronica Major“Masquerade Mask”Hot glue$25

Veronica Major

“Masquerade Mask”

Hot glue

$25


Tom Yost

Tom Yost “Who Do You Think You Are 1: Selfie”Clay composed of latex and paper fiber; cloth; aluminum; resin; acrylic paint. 5’9”x4’x4’ $400.00 2009 www.TomYostOnTheWeb.com

Tom Yost 

“Who Do You Think You Are 1: Selfie”

Clay composed of latex and paper fiber; cloth; aluminum; resin; acrylic paint. 

5’9”x4’x4’ 

$400.00 

2009 

www.TomYostOnTheWeb.com

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Frank Frazee

Frank Frazee he/him/his

“Victor’s Boy”

Re-Store latex and garage sale acrylic paint on recycled wood panel 

2021 

$98.50 

Social Media/ website-Frank Frazee’s Art on Facebook, Frank Frazee on Instagram


Charlie Sullivan

Charlie Sullivan

“Cave Dweller”

Foam, hot glue, synthetic hair and spray paint

$50

2021

Charlie Sullivan

“King Tut”

Foam and spray paint

$35

2021


Veronica Major

Veronica Major

“Tales of the Crypt”

Foam, hot glue, synthetic hair, spray paint and contact cement

$50

2021


That’s all, folks! Thank you to the artists for all your hard work and our community for your engagement and support. Happy Halloween~

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Sep
24
8:00 PM20:00

Bellingham Youth Suicide Prevention Benefit ~ MetaPhysical, Eda Lovelace, Eleusis

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Join us for a night of music and live artist painting to benefit youth suicide prevention and wellness.

**115 Limited in-person tickets!!**

$10-30 Sliding Scale Donation - all funds will support local youth suicide prevention and wellness services!

All Ages! ~No Booze, No Drugs, No Jerks~
Doors at 8:00pm - Music at 8:30pm
Proceeds will go to: M.A.D. H.O.P.E. Youth Suicide Prevention & Wellness

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The MakeShift Mantra: ~No Booze, No Drugs, No Jerks~ We want this to be a positive, uplifting, inclusive space that provides the best atmosphere for fun and connection with our fellow humans. We thank you for your help in creating and maintaining this Good Vibe Space!

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To learn more about accessibility at Make.Shift or to request an accommodation, visit: makeshiftproject.com/accessibility

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Get your tickets early, all funds support the cause! If you want to support and can't attend, mark "GUEST" in your ticket purchase and someone at the door who is unable to pay will be given a gifted ticket in your name! Getting to help when you can't be there in person? How cool!
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Donate directly to the cause at https://gofund.me/5e8fd914

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In order to keep our community safe, we will be following the precedent set forth by other venues in town. We will be requiring that all attendees mask up and show ID and proof of vaccination at the door (or a negative COVID test from the last 48 hours).

Capacity will also be limited to 115 people in the venue (including staff and performers). If you have any questions about this, feel free to reach out to Jessyca Murphy, Make.Shift Executive Director, director@makeshiftproject.com.

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I Am (Still) Here For You
Aug
6
to Sep 3

I Am (Still) Here For You

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I Am Here for You is an ongoing project where I created three sculptures representative of 'hugs' and gave them to four participants to film themselves playing with, materializing in three separate short video clips.-6.png

INTERVIEW-

1- How did you come up with your idea for creating a representative hug?

So much of how I show love is through giving and receiving physical affection. When covid first started I immediately wanted to think of an adaptor that could be representative of a hug.

2- What patterns or contrast did you notice in how participants interacted with your sculptures?

Everyone interacted with the object really differently! Each video feels like a collaborative journal entry, and in that way, each video is really unique to the participant. It was interesting for me to see how friends that have a dance practice move with the object differently than friends that don't. This project was a lovely way to check in on my friends.

3- Do you find that certain qualities make interactive sculptures more inviting?

I find that the plush nature of the objects makes them really inviting and that the hands also give a small hint of how you can interact with them, that they are slightly human.

4- What surprised you about this project?

Video in general is very new for me! It was a learning curve having so much of the video and sound elements outside of my control. I would mail my participants the object and a flash drive and have them film and record themselves with the project. Once they were done I would assemble the videos.

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RECKLESS ABANDON
Jul
2
to Aug 6

RECKLESS ABANDON

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Make.shift's virtual gallery is proud to present "RECKLESS ABANDON", a collection of artists whose work visually indulges us in movement and full-swing, free rein paintings.

Join us in viewing work from:

Kyle Confehr: Kyle is an ambidextrous artist, designer and friend based in Philadelphia, PA. He grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and spent most of his childhood on a skateboard, playing video games or drawing. As a product of the 90’s, Kyle creates work that blurs the lines between graffiti and doodles, weaving nostalgia and satire together.

Estelle Kael: I am a disabled agender artist and musician, currently living in auburn, WA. I front a noise pop band called BLOOM, and play my own songs under HARMONY CHLORINE, and I live and breathe art. it is all I am here for, and I would like to share it with the world and encourage every single person to create with a reckless abandon, to look at the world with a child's eyes, and to believe that anything is possible, no matter the barriers, no matter the boundaries, no matter who you are. Art makes the world go round, and I'm just trying to make a living with it.

Athena Rigas: Athena is a painter and mixed media artist born and raised in New York City. A synesthetic, the artist’s senses overlap and even the most mundane of activities can become a sensory overload. She is obsessed with patterns and is drawn to the same folk patterns on textiles and objects that she absorbed in domestic spaces growing up first-generation Greek American. Painting and drawing are very physical and bodily processes for the artist. Athena translates the different colors, sounds, energies, and patterns she has visions of: from her head to her hands, and from her hands to her work. Different energies have different effects even on the ways on which the artist's application of paint to the surface, some make her hands start to tremble.

Garric Simonsen: Simonsen’s artwork captures situations both strange and poetic. Content serves a semiotic function and is obtained through actual events or scouring a large collection of turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest photography left by his Swedish maternal grandparents.

Garric’s artistic research is rooted in Pacific Northwest history, yet it pulls away from realism, using abstraction to focus on artifact and the qualities of object and image.

Emily Somoskey: My work gives form to the complexity, instability, and enigmatic nature of our lived experiences. Through these mixed media paintings, I explore the simultaneity between the actual and the psychological, the material and the immaterial, the visible and that which lies beyond sight. These works take a look at the connections between play and risk, joy and anxiety, and how we navigate the familiar, respond to the unknown, as well as how these feelings speak more broadly about the complexity of what it means to be human.

Garric Simonsen

“Clothes Line”

Oil based media on wood panel

24”x24”

2017

NFS

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

“Fortify”

Mixed media on canvas

42” x 42”

NFS

2020

Garric Simonsen

“The Wind Storm”

Acrylic on wood panel

30”x32”

2020

NFS

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

“Out of Reach”

Graphite, acrylic, oil and collaged digital prints on paper

30” x 22”

NFS

2021

Garric Simonsen

“Snoglobe”

Oil based media and wax on wood panel

4’x4’

2019

$2500 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

Kyle Confehr (He/Him)

“Pineapple Face”

Mixed media, spray paint, and, paint markers on Bristol.

9” x 12"

$200 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

2021

Athena Rigas

"Burning Down The House"

18 in x 24 in

Acrylic on paper

2021

$400 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

Athena Rigas

“Two And A Half Men"

Markers on paper

12 in x 18 in

$400 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

2020

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

“Separation

Graphite, acrylic, oil and collaged digital prints on paper,

30” x 22”

NFS

2021

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

Plunge

Mixed media on canvas

42” x 42”

$600 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

 2020

Kyle Confehr (He/Him)

“Rainbow Tongue”

Mixed media, spray paint, and, paint markers on Bristol.

9” x 12"

$200 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

2021

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

“Balancing Act”

Mixed media on canvas

24” x 24”

2020

NFS

Kyle Confehr (He/Him)

“Sword Mouth”

Mixed media, spray paint, and, paint markers on Bristol.

9” x 12"

$200 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

2021

-CONTENT WARNING: THE IMAGE BELOW CONTAINS AND CONFRONTS HOMOPHOBIC SLURS.

Estelle Kael (They/them)

"Untitled work #1: whats on tv tonight?"

Acrylic/spraypaint/squeezer

3ft x 2ft aluminum sheeting. (has holes for easy mounting, no frame)

$350 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

2020-2021 1:1, however, first in a series.

Emily Somoskey (she/her)

“Chrysalis”

Mixed media on canvas

24” x 36”

NFS

2020

Garric Simonsen

“Rainbows Last Forever”

Oil and wax with Copic marker on wood panel

28’x34’

Year 2020

NFS

Athena Rigas

“One Big Room Full Of Bad Itches"

Oil on canvas

60 in x 48 in total (60 in x 24 in each half)

2021

$5,000 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

Garric Simonsen

“Darlin’”

Oil based media and wax on wood panel

40”X30”

2019

NFS

Athena Rigas

“Why Is It So Hard To Accept the Pool Party is Over?"

Oil on canvas

16 in x 20 in

2021

NFS


ARTIST BIOS and STATEMENTS

Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist and painter from Northeast Ohio. She pursued a BA in Art Education/Painting at The University of Akron in Akron, OH (2013) and her MFA at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, MI (2020).  Emily is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting at Whitman College, in Walla Walla, WA.

Emily’s mixed-media paintings use representational and abstract methods to explore the ways we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. On a material level, her work is largely built through layering paint and various forms of photographic imagery.  These disparate mediums collectively create a complex and nuanced language that weave together moments of clarity and ambiguity. Through her work she references the shifting and overlapping nature of our experience with the sensate and psychological realms; giving form to the complexity, instability, and enigmatic nature of our lived experiences.

Artist Statement: At its core, my work examines liminality and periods of transition: physical or metaphorical spaces that don’t quite feel settled. Through the use of recognizable structures and symbols, my work offers the illusion of security, using playfulness, novelty and imagination to subvert, or even generate, feelings of tension. Recognizable subject matter surfaces amidst an expanse of abstraction, alluding to both the banality and mystery of the day-to-day.  These works take a look at how we navigate the familiar, respond to the unknown, as well as how these feelings speak more broadly about the complexity of what it means to be human. 

Social Media:
www.emilysomoskey.com
IG: @emsomoskey

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Kyle Confehr is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Philadelphia, PA. Kyle’s work blends illustration and graffiti into images evoking positivity, nostalgia and spontaneity.

Kyle primarily works with high saturating inks and aerosols to create incredibly dense compositions made from iconography that’s been absorbed over Kyle’s time in the creative industry.

Kyle’s work has been all over the US in various forms; exhibitions, designs and public installations.

He lives with his boston terrier Oswald and his partner Meaghan in a small apartment in West Philadelphia where he creates the majority of his

Artist Statement: Kyle is an ambidextrous artist, designer and friend based out of Philadelphia, PA. His work blurs the lines between art and graffiti by weaving nostalgia, humor, and personal experience into densely ornate pieces. Kyle’s work can be seen around Philadelphia at the Philadelphia International Airport, Neighborhood Ramen, The Fillmore and HoneyGrow to name a few.

Growing up in Northeast Philadelphia, Kyle spent most of his days on a skateboard, in art classes or playing video games.

Social Media:
IG: @kyle_confehr
Twitter: @kconfehr

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Athena Rigas is a maker born and raised in New York City. A synesthetic, the artist’s senses overlap and even the most mundane of activities can become a rich sensory overload. The artist is obsessed with patterns, and is drawn to the same folk patterns, textiles, and objects that she absorbed in domestic spaces growing up first-generation American in a family of Greek immigrants. By bringing together so many different cultural signifiers, Athena Rigas's vision digests the spectator into domestic chaos. This notion of “in-between” manifests into the artist's use of objectification and how a painting can be both human and object.

Artist Statement: A synesthetic, Athena Rigas taps into the rich world of the vernacular and turns it into a bodily regurgitation of domestic expectations and rituals. When painting people, the artist channels all of her senses; what the person tastes, feels, sounds, or smells like, instead of relying solely on sight. Where there are no patterns she seeks them out and manifests them. Patterns repeat themselves. The artist uses patterns to illustrate the repetitive nature of both domestic settings and the behaviors of her subjects. Patterns in behavior within domestic settings are formed around our rituals with objects in domestic spaces. The artist works with found objects to create both paintings of people on, and also paints directly on domestic objects to create a sense of home wherever she is.

Social Media:
IG @THATSSORIGAS
https://www.ATHENARIGAS.com

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Estelle Kael : I am a disabled agender artist and musician, currently living in auburn, WA. I front a noise pop band called BLOOM, and play my own songs under HARMONY CHLORINE, and I live breathe art. it is all I am here for, and I would like to share it with the world and encourage every single person to create with a reckless abandon, to look at the world with a child's eyes, and to believe that anything is possible, no matter the barriers, no matter the boundaries, no matter who you are. Art makes the world go round, and I'm just trying to make a living with it.

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Garric Simonsen (b. 1975, Spokane, WA) has shown at Bellevue Arts Museum, Jundt Art Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, Platform Gallery, Seattle University, Eastern Washington University, University of Wisconsin Madison and the 2010 Brucennial (NY, NY). 

Other achievements include 2012 and 2014 nominations for Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. 

Reviews and publications of Simonsen’s work are included in; The New Yorker, The Stranger, Seattle Weekly and Art Collector Magazine. Simonsen has also guest written for Hyperallergic art blog in Brooklyn, NY. Projects have been funded and awarded grants from the Vermont Studio Center and The James and Janie Washington Foundation. 

Garric has two child age girls. He is tenured art faculty at Spokane Falls Community College teaching drawing, painting and art history. In addition, he and his partner manage rehabilitation projects at the family's properties in Spokane's historic South Hill neighborhoods.

https://www.antipainter.com

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Marc Jordan: Dances with Dogs
Jun
4
to Jul 2

Marc Jordan: Dances with Dogs

Quick moments of joy are what I take the most pleasure in painting. Joy can mean anything to anybody, and come from anywhere on Earth. Optimism and the human spirit are found within my artworks. I wish to express ide-8.png

Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Not Mushroom in the Pot II”

Sumi ink on Bristol Vellum Paper

46 x 72 cm

2021

$2000 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNs0in2hHnJ/

I envision this colony of mushrooms as one growing community who are all thriving together in one little pot that has become much too small to contain them all.

Some of the mushrooms are growing beyond the bounds of the pot and are spilling off the sides. The tallest mushroom is the oldest and most weathered, it has the same limits that an umbrella has when shielding you from the rain, yet it still tries its best to protect the others below. The mushroom beside the tallest has large shiny spots that resemble sparkling trusting eyes. The outermost mushroom is shot with multiple arrows. It has taken the most hits because it puts itself further out there than the others, yet it continues to grow tall.

There are many unique mushrooms within this seemingly small pot, all beautiful in their own ways who are continuing to grow together as a loving community despite their circumstances or flaws.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Mariana Flavored“

Calligraphy ink on Bristol Paper

43 x 28 cm

2021

$400 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwuRkFBLzs/

Painted for the Draw This in Your Style challenge hosted by San Francisco artist @mar1ana_5798.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Pop Star “

Calligraphy ink on Cream Drawing Paper

23 x 30.5 cm

2020

$450 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGo-7imhzUZ/

I own a custom Jimmy’z screen-printed long- sleeve that lets me feel like a pop star every time I put it on. I can be myself. It’s so oversized and comfy, I tell them

“it’s real velour.”

It acts as a second skin that I can count on to be comfortable in.

All and all, The painting Pop Star tells the story of an article of clothing that empowers the wearer. When I wear this specific shirt I know nothing can bother me. I feel like a pop star. I can dance and point and command the anguish of the world to ooze underground out of sight.

The pop star shirt was designed by my younger brother during his college years, and gifted to me during my college years.

It’s real velour.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Dances with Dogs“

Sumi ink on Thai Garden Orange Flower Paper

56 x 25.5 cm

2021

$2000 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/COOjNTyhm7S/

Based on season 7, episode 5 of King of the Hill

Some time ago my brother expressed to me that he found a moment within this particular episode of King of the Hill to be quite beautiful. Meanwhile, as I began to paint daily, I gained an appreciation for working on beautifully crafted paper. Thai Garden Orange Flower paper is pleasing to the touch, and elegant in it’s imperfections and earthly beauty. It is the only material I saw fit to portray the captivating nature found within King of the Hill’s “Dances With Dogs.”


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“My Brother“

Sumi ink on Bristol Vellum Paper

56 x 40.5 cm

2021

NFS

https://www.instagram.com/p/COJKIzvhFdu/

I often feel right at home inside my Mustang driving on the open road. Peering out my rear view mirror I can see nothing more than the road I have traveled. Peering out my front windshield I can see the vast changing landscape that is the West Coast and mountains of North America. I can see with my own eyes how the landscape gradually changes from town to town.

Freedom from all worry engulfs me I am reminded just how much more life goes on living out here on Earth compared to my hometown.

In this painting it is not myself who is driving, but instead my Brother, Justin Sitting in the passenger seat right beside him is our family dog, Long Legs, I love them both so much. A small LED screen is giving a happy face diagnostic on the A-pillar of the car, and on the entertainment screen it reads R. E. Villageman’s “Soul Stone” is playing on the radio.

There are many small details hidden within the interior of my Mustang that are all extremely meaningful to me, and this includes the Mustang itself. I wanted to paint one of my favorite moments of joy that also contained the family and things that I hold dearest to my heart.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Masks“

Calligraphy ink on Cream Drawing Paper

23 x 30.5 cm

2020

$500 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGByQUchuw5/

Masks is a painting of a man with a rockabilly haircut who is seen wearing a couple of masks that are false smiles.

He does not welcome changes in the world that he has come to know with a smile of his own.

The rockabilly man feels that putting on the masks is the best action he can take for the world around him, but really the best he can do for the world around him is to be his unique rockabilly self.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Lucky Day”

Calligraphy ink & colored pencil on Cream Drawing Paper

23 x 30.5 cm

2020

$450 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGriYRKh-ED/

A person who touched a rainbow would certainly be taken by warmth and bliss. Ideas will form and multiply from the point of contact and spread all throughout the body and mind.

Lucky Day was painted to capture the happiness found in optimism. More specifically it is the happiness felt by an individual in the moment they realize that their luck is starting to turn around.

The sensation of reaching through a rainbow and into a pot of gold is compared with feelings of optimism that come hand in hand with gaining new opportunity in life, and reaching set goals.


Marc Jordan - He/Him

“Corporate Ladder“

Sumi ink on Bristol Vellum Paper

26.5 x 36 cm

2021

$1500 (Contact: Gallery@Makeshiftproject.com) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvQQaWBUuP/

Representation of the illusion of climbing the corporate ladder to achieve happiness. A bigger hand stretches out the ladder for you to climb between its index finger and little finger while simultaneously stretching its big thumb out in order to give the hand sign for I love you.

There is no reward depicted at the top of the ladder, just the top of the bigger hand. All it takes is for this hand to turn itself over for you to feel like you’re at the bottom again.

The thought that sparked the creation of this painting was to express how malleable an individual human can seem in the eyes of another who possesses influence over any large group of people.


Marc Jordan is a surrealist artist who grew up in Spokane, WA, USA. He graduated from Spokane Falls Community College in 2020 with an AAS in Graphic Design. His artwork puts into practice elements of Design with an emphasis on balancing both the ink used and the paper’s white space.

The subject of Marc’s art deals with his personal experiences in everyday life growing up on the West Coast of the United States. In essence, Marc’s paintings are a visual collection of his feelings and memories.

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