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Lea Basile-Lazarus
October 31, 2026 - December 31, 2026
image: “Turbulance”, 2025, monotype, 16 × 17 inches
@ Gary Manuel Salon / Pioneer Square
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My work is a vibrant response to the world around me—reflecting on social justice, community, and the natural environment. I use contemporary printmaking and paper pulp painting to express these ideas, drawn to the physical and intuitive qualities of both processes. Often working on multiple images at once, I layer stencils, shapes, colors, and marks in a rhythmic, responsive flow.
Each process is both mentally and physically demanding, transforming mark-making into a language of nuanced conversation, unspoken emotion, and quiet resistance. Colors may clash or converge, echoing the turbulence of the world I navigate—yet within that tension, moments of stillness and clarity emerge, offering space to pause and breathe.
Paper—whether printed on or formed from hand-shaped fibers—holds the memory of both the natural world and the human touch. I feel most at home working with paper as a foundation or creating images from pulp; it feels organic, unpretentious, and alive. I have always been drawn to artworks in which paper itself becomes part of the story.
Exploring these materials and techniques has allowed me to develop distinctive surfaces that reflect both my immediate community and the wider world. The act of making—the movement, repetition, and tactile engagement—is as meaningful to me as the finished piece. Each gesture is shaped by what I see and feel, allowing the work to carry authenticity, energy, and emotional presence.
Lea Basile-Lazarus:
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Lea Basile-Lazarus
Lea Basile-Lazarus is an intuitive abstract printmaker and papermaker who has been an artist and educator for most of her life. Lea’s passion for printmaking grew in undergraduate school, at The College of New Jersey. She received her MFA with a concentration in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For 25 years she was an art educator in the northern suburbs of Chicago, IL. Lea has been a recipient of a teacher Fulbright to Japan and spent three weeks in Africa visiting Ghanaian schools and villages, in both cases studying their culture and educational system.
Lea has exhibited nationally and is featured in numerous collections. Over the past few years she has participated in one person shows or group exhibitions at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, Mavi Contemporary Gallery, Gig Harbor, WA, Alki Arts, Seattle, WA, CoCA, Seattle, WA, and Gallery 110, Seattle, Wa. In 2026, Lea exhibited in national shows at Slip Stitch Gallery, WA, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA, Brand Library and Art Center, CA, and Remarque Print Workshop, NM.
Lea moved to the Pacific Northwest almost 6 years ago, now living in West Seattle. She is an active member of the Seattle art community and is currently Co-Chair of the West Seattle Art Tour and is chair of the hanging committee at the Women Painters of Washington Gallery in Columbia Towers, Seattle, WA. Most recently, Lea was awarded a residency at the Remarque Print Workshop. She is also a member of Seattle Print Arts, California Society of Printmakers, Women Painters of Washington, Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA), and Center of Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle WA.
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