Joan Engelmeyer
"Conversations"
At CoCA Belltown
November - December, 2007
Joan Engelmeyer's painting are familiar to Seattle art-lovers, but
here is something you haven't seen before. A few years ago, Joan got interested
in encaustic, and transitioned to a new media. Since then, her work has
gradually become both more abstract and more sculptural. In this collection of
new work, Joan's chairs grow right out of the wax, each one with a personality,
a history, and a story to tell.
Artist's Statement:
"I paint
life with an eye for the underlying nerve that makes experience powerful and
personal. Through minimal detail and stylized human forms, I hope to catch the
viewer unaware. They see a simple scene but feel a richer drama, one they've
witnessed, or been apart of. I choose my subjects for their levels of meaning
and expression. Encaustic and oil painting allow for the depth of the subject.
I use my subjects as metaphors for larger themes, reinforcing them through the
use of different surfaces, materials, and design elements. In the series,
"Conversations", chairs represent the human form. Painting in wax gives them an
organic, skeletal structure. Aerial compositions challenge the viewer to
realize and accept objectivity. In each scene there are infinite perspectives
and in no way are we able to say which is correct. We can only observe and
wonder. By producing a series of paintings on specific subjects, I attempt to
sift down to the basic elements of experience-the conflicting core of emotions
that make life complex and compelling. In the end, I hope the viewers see a
refracted glimmer of their own lives through my work. "
-Joan Engelmeyer
www.engelmeyerpaintings.com/
15th Annual CoCA Painting Marathon and
Auction
At the Shilshole Bay Beach Club
November 8th and 9th, 2008
Marathon 9am Friday, November 8
- 9am Saturday, November 9
A 24 hour non stop art marathon, featuring 25
emerging and established artists.
Participating artists included Claudia
Fitch, Noah Overby, Joe Reno, Marcie Myrick, Mattie Iverson, Brynda Glazier,
James Hilbourne, Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley, David Chula Tupper, Lisa Collins,
Sean Hurley, Jesse Edwards, Piper Hopkins, Patricia Hagen, Tom Cieciorka, Becky
Shapiro, Randy McCoy, Patrice Tullai, Diem Chau, William Kupinse, Lara Conley,
Robert Hargrave, Geoff Garza, Leslie Stoner, Doug Jeck, David Francis, Peter
Bill, Amy Harris, Keenoy, and Sam Day.
Auction 5:30pm Saturday,
November 9, 2007
Proceeds benefitting CoCA
Click here to view pdf of Live
Auction catalog
John Schuh
Photo Collages
At CoCA Belltown
September - October, 2007
John Schuh is a photographer who creates images in two steps,
first by photographing his subject or thematic content from hundreds of
different angles, and then cutting and assembling small prints of these images
into a larger image at a much larger scale. The relationship between the larger
and smaller images can be compared to a fractal, as the images are often
self-similar at multiple scales.
Holly A. Senn
"Textural"
At CoCA Belltown
July - August, 2007
Textural, a site-specific installation, challenges viewers
traversing an urban landscape to contemplate the life of the mind. Senn uses
pages from discarded library books to create textures; the abstract forms are
metaphors for the ways in which we gather and experience knowledge — the
organic, non-linear process in which thoughts have a genesis and then are
adopted, refuted, or discarded. Freeing viewers from literal reading, the
reconfigured texts enable contemplation of the larger influences of a textural
landscape.
Miguel Edwards
"Someplaces I Went Last Summer"
At CoCA Belltown
April - June, 2007
The CoCA Belltown Gallery presents a single large mural by Seattle
Artist, Photographer, and Sculptor Miguel Edwards.
It was originally
commissioned by Debra. Media is Acrylic on Panel with Sequenced LEDs. This
installation is dedicated to Blyss.
For more of Miguel Edwards' work,
visit www.migueledwards.com
This
was the inaugural show of the CoCA Belltown Gallery.