Renowned Northwest Painter, Alden Mason, Passed Away
Alden Mason, 93, lived, painted with a flourish…
Alden Mason, 93, lived, painted with a flourish…
Seattle painter Jared Rue infuses scenes from nature with troubled family resonances in his new show, “Broken Line” at the Woodside Braseth Gallery.
Known for his intricate metal spheres and monumental spires, Hosey used industrial welding equipment and plasma cutting torches to shape pieces that reviewers called “mysterious” and “complex.”
At the time of his death, Hosey had just completed a commission for the Yakima Giving Circle in Yakima, Wash. It is a sphere he titled “Transcendence,” and is to be installed in front of the Larsen Building in downtown Yakima
The career of Seattle photographer Johsel Namkung will be celebrated with the publication of a sumptuous new book surveying his career.
“Paul Havas, the prolific painter of serene Northwest scenes, died Feb. 16th 2012”, An Appreciation in the Seattle Times by Gayle Clemans
“Seattle photographer Joshel Namkung, now in his 90s, has an instinctive eye for the insistent shapes in nature: a sandbar’s ripples, a fir forest’s verticals, a grass field’s breeze-combed swilrs.”
A review of “Masters Behind the Lens: Works by Johsel Namkung and Ansel Adams at the Woodside Braseth Gallery.
A review of “Masters Behind the Lens: the Works of Ansel Adams and Johsel Namkung” at the Woodside Braseth Gallery
“As Woodside/Braseth Gallery marks 50 years, owner John Braseth says money isn’t key to success with art….”
The most basic disjunction in Nathan DiPietro’s new series of egg-tempera-on-panel paintings is right on the surface: The paintings are dry. (This is an effect of the tempera.) Their surfaces have zero shine, bury all memory of moisture. But they depict the rainy town of Seabrook, Washington: its edges of ocean, its curving creeks, its chubby clouds, its canopies of mist, its proximity to the rain forest of the Olympic National Park.