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We’re so excited to introduce Junko Yamamoto for April’s artwalk. Junko is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based artist who creates light, lovely oil paintings exploring the “voids and fullness of pictorial spaces.” She describes her paintings as being based on “shunyata”, meaning emptiness in Sanskrit.
West Seattle’s Art Walk is this Thursday night, from 6-9. Come out and enjoy the lingering twilight, snacks and refreshments, and a fantastic collection of local art.
As recently announced on the West Seattle Blog and the Click! Facebook page, we are packing up shop and moving to the West Seattle Junction at the end of this month. That makes tonight’s Alena Hennessy opening the final party at Click! Original Location™, and it promises to be a good one.
Alena arrived yesterday with some of the sweetest artwork ever, and she priced it to be nicely accessible: about half the show consists of pieces that are under or around $100. She also brought several dozen of her adorable super-soft cotton screen-printed t-shirts and scarves, so we have a better selection than ever.
Party details: Saturday September 11, 5pm to 8pm, at Click! Design That Fits 2210 California Ave SW in West Seattle’s Admiral District. Alena’s work will be up through the end of the month, and will come with us to our new space at 4540 California Ave SW where it will remain on the walls through early November.
Several months ago, Frances went to one of our local indie craft fairs to look for artists who might be a good fit for the store. She hit the jackpot with Rachel Austin, a full time artist living just a three hour drive south of us in Portland, Oregon. Rachel brought us a nice collection of her paintings for our 5 year anniversary last month, and we’ve sold most of them. She was nice enough to box up a few more pieces that just arrived:
Ralph 5x5 $70
Brenton 8x8 $90
Rachel’s paintings begin with a wood block frame (that she builds herself) and a map. She then layers her paints on top of the map; usually sweet depictions of birds and paper airplanes. Her paintings have a beauty and a simplicity that has been resonating with us and almost everyone who walks in the door.
Saturday, November 21 from 6 to 9 PM, she will be joining us for an artist reception and promises to bring more new work, including some larger pieces and some based on Northwest maps. Mark your calendar! Art makes a great gift, and her work is very accessibly priced.
Stephanie Hargrave was the first 2D artist we featured at Click! and people still regularly ask about her encaustic paintings. Thursday evening, January 10 from 6 to 8pm she will have an opening in Kirkland at the Patricia Rovzar gallery. She wrote the following about her new work:
Chrysanthemum, A Series will be in the back portion of the gallery, and is, essentially, one very lengthy encaustic painting. 32 feet to be exact! It is a concept I’ve been working on for quite a while, and is finally complete.
The painting is broken up, of course, into sections. Each of the 12 paintings is framed and available separately, and while each one stands alone, each one feeds visually into the next, and the last into the first. Oh, if only I had a round room!
It’s pretty hard to get us out of West Seattle these days, let alone Kirkland, but this is not to be missed.
UPDATE 1/12/08 changed image below to one from the show, which was stunning, and will remain up at Rovzar Gallery until Feb. 11.
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