Portrait and Figure Artist Aron Hart Showing at Art & Soul During June Artwalk

Art & Soul is pleased to show artwork by Aron Hart for the month of June. Aron is a gifted and award-winning Puget Sound portrait and figure artist, specializing in both traditional and non-traditional portraits. 

Aron developed his skills by studying locally and abroad, most recently graduating from Gage Academy's Drawing and Painting Atelier, where he is now an instructor. Much of the allure of Aron's work comes from his strong grasp of light and shadow and, whether painted in oil or drawn, his pieces always demonstrate his passion for contrast - on the canvas, in the artist, and in the subject.

Art & Soul
2860 NW Market St

Subtle Beauty by Christy Kruse At Filthy Rich For May Artwalk

Christy Kruse has been studying classical art, traditional and digital photography and videography locally and around the world for more than a decade. She is recognized as an intuitive artist who is able to capture emotion and subtle beauty.

After the sudden passing of her father, she dedicated her work to capture the beauty of life and its most precious moments. Moments that are treasured and cherished—as seen through her eyes and heart and lend an appreciation to the miracles around us.

Portrait of a Flower:
“Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”
Henry Ward Beecher

Christy is available for portraiture, video and fine art commission.
425 445 4122

Filthy Rich of Seattle
5402 22nd Ave NW

In July, Maron Resur is the Featured Artist at Annie's Art and Frame

"Maron Resur grew up in a haunted hollow of a forest down the road from a psychotic park ranger under an abandoned train trestle. Classically trained as a printmaker, Maron has honed her drawing skills and developed a Rembrandt-esque painting style. She has a proclivity for portraiture, often times of herself, friends, and family. Her work is best when her academic training melds with her intuition."
---Research & Development

 "Born in 1979 in Bloomington, Indiana to two artist parents, Maron Resur has spent her whole life closely linked to the art world. During Maron’s childhood, her family home was in the “Kentucky Bottoms” of rural, southern Indiana where she grew up playing with her parents’ old paints and frequently accompanying her father as he traveled for exhibitions and shows throughout the eastern United States. Having done well academically through high school, Maron received full scholarships to several universities. She chose Ball State for the hands-on quality of their Arts program. There, she completed her degree with a major in both Drawing and Printmaking and also completed a minor in Art History, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Since college, Maron has moved away from printmaking and has experimented with bookmaking, woodcuts, and painting. In 2005, she moved to Chicago where she met with a number of successes in her artistic career. In 2006, she was accepted into 15 juried exhibitions, took part in a number of group shows both in Chicago and Washington, DC, and won seven different awards for her work."

After finishing my BFA in Drawing and Printmaking, I found myself without a press and so began teaching myself to paint. The first paintings I did were very large-scale faces, conceived as a group with the intent to show them together. I had a lot of success with that series. It led to some portrait commissions, which I enjoy, but I felt like I always relied too much on “luck” or “talent.” I realized later that this was intuition.
While academic technique and training is indispensable to the illusionary aspects of my work, I don’t feel that a painting is truly complete until I’ve reached the point where academic training leaves off and instinct takes over. My best work is characterized by a harmony between my academic training and intuition; these paintings paint themselves.
My goal is to tell my own story using the most classic and understandable of techniques. I paint with my fingers, feeling out the fleshy contours of familiar faces. My portraits are often dark and moody, rarely facing the viewer eye-to-eye. My self-portraits, however, confront the viewer as the “iconic heroine” of the body of work. While each painting is essentially a reflection of myself, I hope to connect the studio and the soul in a way that speaks honestly of what it is to be human. 



Annie's Art and Frame
2212 NW Market Street
 

More July ArtWalk Participants

Cupcake Royale/Verite Coffee
2052 NW Market St, Seattle
Featuring In The Year of The Rabbit, a collection of paintings and portraits by E.A Davidson.

E.A. Davidson

Venue
5408 22nd Avenue Northwest

Tiffany Thiele works in her Pioneer Square studio making kiln-formed glass plates, platters and votive candle holders. Each piece of glass is layered with subtle colors and textures, including lamp-worked twisted cane, stringers and intentional bubble inclusions. Tiffany spends her time creating in her studio as well as teaching art as a means of relaxation at Swedish's Cancer Institute. She believes in the value of having beautiful, affordable and functional art in the home and is pleased to be able to offer individually unique pieces at Venue.

July ArtWalk Participants

Annie's Art & Frame
2212 Northwest Market Street
Joey Bates often focuses on portraiture with an emphasis on facial expression. "In my down time I turn to figure studies. The pieces exhibited here are the result of several drawing sessions over the course of the past two years."

Bates received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in 2005. His work has been shown in over 40 exhibitions along the west coast and appears in several private collections. To view more art and information check out the artist's website.

Haven Salon
5810 24th Avenue NW
Artist Jenifer Rees has long worked in watercolor to create beautiful blends of color through repeated overlays in her landscape paintings. In recent years, she has experimented with using the medium more gesturally, through both wet and dry techniques, to create vivid and expressive images. Jenifer is drawn to outdoor subjects that reveal something about how they have been formed, and/or those subjects that create strong juxtapositions to their settings. Her current show, Gestures, features both scenes from her travels and studies of the beautiful madrone tree found here in the Pacific Northwest.

Cliffhanger Madrone

Santorini Belfry

Kiss Cafe
2817 NW Market Street
Dave Bloomfield, aka "Starheadboy", is a super prolific artist born and raised in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest. He flows his vibrant art through pure stream of conscious and relies on raw instinct, unlimited imagination, and constant inspiration to create his work.

Habitude Salon & Spa
2801 NW Market Street
Monica Frisell grew up in Seattle and began photographing while in high school. Moving to New York City in 2005, there she photographed musicians both in live concerts and at recording sessions. Frisell's work has been published in national magazines such as Jazz Time and Fretboard Journal. Most recently, she publishes a photo essay entitled Sign of Life Recordings, documenting Bill Frisell's 858 Quartet recordings at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.

In the last five years, Frisell has also traveled extensively around Europe and America to explore her interest in modern decay. Her photo essay on post-Katrina New Orleans lead to her most recent project American Archeology, showing here in July. This show also includes photographs taken during a two-month road trip around the United States last winter. Frisell works predominately in black and while with a Leica M-6 camera, developing and printing all her photographs in her Ballard studio.