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A Player on the National & International Stage : Seattle’s Woodside/Braseth Celebrates 65 years

I am deeply honored by this feature in The Seattle Times Arts & Entertainment section as Woodside/Braseth Gallery celebrates its 65th anniversary year.

While the article includes my personal story, it is truly a tribute to the remarkable artists, collectors, staff—especially our Co-Director, Anthony Erwin—and friends who have supported our gallery since 1961. It is also an opportunity to remember our founder, Gordon Woodside, whose vision, dedication, and unwavering belief in artists established the foundation upon which we continue to build today.

I am grateful to The Seattle Times for recognizing this milestone and thankful to everyone who has been part of our journey over the past six and a half decades.

With sincere gratitude,
John Braseth
Woodside/Braseth Gallery

The Art of Seeing Nature Through Gaylen Hansen’s Eyes

Hansen has a long and extremely productive career, he is now 104, born in 1921, has been painting since 1939, and has focused on the life and character of this region of America. – by Michael Klein

Gerard Tsutakawa sculpture unveiled at Lumen Field ahead of World Cup

On Monday, SeattleFWC26, the city’s World Cup organizing committee, and the Washington State Public Stadium authority unveiled “Vital Spirit,” a sculpture by Seattle artist Gerard Tsutakawa that commemorates Lumen Field — which rebranded to Seattle Stadium for the World Cup — as a host venue for six matches this summer – by Angela Lim (Seattle Times features reporter)

Seattle Art Museum considers influences of celebrated Northwest Mystics

And offers a glimpse at a wide breadth of abstract, social realist and surreal artwork made in Washington state by artists who worked in the same time period as the “Big Four.”  – by Jas Keimig (Special to The Seattle Times)

Painting a legacy: South Whidbey artist still going at age 104

Whidbey is home to many artists but few have been creating art for as long as Gaylen Hansen.  Although Whidbey Island is home to hundreds of artists, likely few have been creating art for as long as the painter Gaylen Hansen.  

The 104-year-old South Whidbey artist recently celebrated his birthday and the opening of a new exhibition at Woodside/Braseth Gallery in Seattle, where he has displayed his work over the past couple of years. 

–By Kira Erickson – Whidbey News Times

Seattle Art Fair 2025 provides a meeting ground for art lovers

“This summer’s Seattle Art Fair, returning to the Lumen Field Event Center from July 17-20 for its ninth year, will also be a meeting ground for two worlds that are sometimes, oddly, separated: the world of glass art and the larger sphere of contemporary art.” – Gayle Clemans

“Michael Stasinos: Capturing the Ineffable” on view at Bainbridge Island Museum

Michael Stasinos (Seattle) seems to capture quick moments in time. But Stasinos’ plein air (“open air” or “outdoors”) painting process can take weeks, months, or even years to complete one scene. He paints directly on location, as opposed to using photographs for reference. Natural light, weather, colors, and surrounding activities change in the moment, by the minute—or certainly by the following week.

Exhibition runs from June 25th – September 28th, 2025

  • 07/10/2025

Seattle painter Michael Stasinos captures city on canvas

Like a sentinel of the city, Michael Stasinos keeps watch on street corners, armed with a brush and an easel and various little blobs of pigment suspended in oil on a worn palette. – by Vonnai Phair

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence: Black Arts Legacies

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence as a direct connection to the Harlem Renaissance, this often overlooked painter inspired generations of Seattle movers and shakers. – by Jas Keimig

Art Zone with Nancy Guppy: Featuring Artist, Michael Stasinos

Michael Stasinos paints Seattle’s soul in breathtaking detail.  A self-described representational urban landscape artist, Michael Stasinos spends months, sometimes years, capturing in stunning detail the ineffable essence of streets, buildings, nooks, and crannies, found in and around Seattle.  On Art Zone with Nancy Guppy

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