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[using Jedi mind trick] This is the gallery which you seek. 

On Thursday night -- this Thursday! -- you'll see my artwork at the Fraker/Scott Gallery's ICON exhibit. It's my first show in a Seattle gallery!

I'm warning you, this kind of thing is bound to happen when you're only two degrees of separation away from a gallery owner.

Tracy Fraker (above, on the left) had a piece on display by Lisa JonesMoore...

and through a series of blog hops, I found out Tracy, Lisa and a few other artists I'm familiar with are all instructors at the Schack Art Center.

Lisa is also the center's art classes coordinator... where I just exhibited "The Plumber's Jealousy" in July and August.

Fraker/Scott also sells jewelry by Manya Vee -- the artist and gallery owner who runs the Edmonds Art Walk, which I participated in twice last year. And there you go.

I'm excited both to show my work here and to see more by like-minded artists who create our kind of mixed-media... you know, assemblage, dimensional canvas works... whimsy, weird and whoa-that's-awesome co-existing side by side. How thrilling is this?!

ICON opens September first, from 5pm to 9pm at 121 Prefontaine Pl. S., Seattle during the First Thursday art walk in Pioneer Square. The show runs through September. If you're within an hour's drive, please come see -- it's gonna be beyond brilliant!

Fresh Paint!

That's Steve Nowicki of Shock-n-Awe, working hard (at sassing me) at Fresh Paint, the festival of artists at work.

This is the first year I've gone to Fresh Paint by myself. (Look, ma -- no little people dashing away into the crowd, on a mission to seek and destroy someone's art!)

But I did find an artist who brought one of her kids.

Melana Bontrager was kind enough to allow me these pictures of her son Culver (age 8) as they worked. Note to self: eight-year-old artists can keep themselves sufficiently occupied with their own art to hang with mom at an art show. I can see myself and The Boy perhaps doing something similar, but I don't think this would really work for TwoBoo. Fire is more his style.

I didn't stay long, but here are a few more booths I found interesting (thanks for the photos, Latitude Studios and Jennifer Lommers). Enjoy!

 

 

Coming in September...

I have just enough time for a quick bit of news, and a work-in-progress update:

Got the body and dress the way I want them for my current project (more later). Also... [trumpet sounds announcement] my artwork will soon be making its Seattle debut!

"The Plumber's Jealousy" and "Our Lady of Georgetown" have been accepted into the Fraker/Scott Gallery's September show, ICON. Again, more later... gotta run!