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Jared Rue’s ‘Broken Line’ fuses family discord, nature scenes, a review

Seattle painter Jared Rue infuses scenes from nature with troubled family resonances in his new show, “Broken Line” at the Woodside Braseth Gallery.

Sculptor Bernard Hosey, whose artworks stand at sites across North Central Washington & the world, Passed Away

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.”

Internationally Known Metal Sculptor, Bernard Hosey, Passed Away

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

A New Book Surveys the Career of Seattle Photographer, Johsel Namkung

The career of Seattle photographer Johsel Namkung will be celebrated with the publication of a sumptuous new book surveying his career.

A tribute to Paul Havas, Skilled NW landscape painter

“Paul Havas, the prolific painter of serene Northwest scenes, died Feb. 16th 2012”, An Appreciation in the Seattle Times by Gayle Clemans

Nature, Through Lenses of Two Masters: Adams & Namkung

“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.

Local Photographer Upstages Ansel Adams at South Lake Union Gallery

A review of “Masters Behind the Lens: the Works of Ansel Adams and Johsel Namkung” at the Woodside Braseth Gallery

“Art’s Sake”

“As Woodside/Braseth Gallery marks 50 years, owner John Braseth says money isn’t key to success with art….”

Places That Are Real, Nathan DiPietro’s New Paintings Reviewed

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.

John Braseth guides art gallery as it marks 50 years

As Seattle’s Woodside/Braseth Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary, John Braseth shares his perspective on the business of art.

At the opening night of two new exhibitions at his downtown art gallery last month, John Braseth, silver-haired and elegantly gray-suited, wandered from group to group, talking to artists and collectors in his charming, gregarious way.

It’s something he’s done for many years now, as director and owner of Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle’s oldest major fine-art gallery, known for carrying high-caliber works by painters and sculptors working in the Northwest tradition.

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