Rick Garcia and Aylee Cody Showing At Camelion Design For June Artwalk

Rick Garcia has been an artist and composer for over 25 years. Much of his work as a visual artist explores polyphony. His painting, primarily oils on wood panel, contain many layers of color, symbols and textured brush strokes in different tempo relationships. To Rick, painting, much like music, is a generative process that pulls him along. He takes cues from his materials and views his work as growing organically and directly from his tactile approach to color and texture. 

Rick attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met and worked with the Artist Trimpin for 12 years. He has recieved awards and grants from the Art at Work program, Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington Composers Forum, Jack Straw Foundation and The Tacoma Art Museum.

Aylee Cody has been making jewelry her entire life. As a little girl she made pieces out of torn, hand painted paper garnished with sequins and beads. Today she uses precious gems and metals. Aylee studied Metals at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, OR. Aylee is inspired by the Art Deco period and enjoys the juxtaposition of opposing forces such as old/new and masculine/feminine. Her passion is in the intricate details of each piece whether it be the rough cut stone, the filigree setting, the hand forged texture or the meticulous finish of the surface. Aylee employs traditional metalsmith techniques, uses repurposed metals when possible and is committed to purchasing materials from socially responsible vendors.

Camelion Design
5330 Ballard Ave NW

Sophie Gardner At Venue For May Artwalk

This month at Venue come meet the newest studio tenant - jeweler Sophie Gardner. Sophie Gardner’s jewelry creates an aesthetic bridge between ancient and modern worlds. 

She incorporates the intricate details of Spain's Moorish architecture, tiles, arabesques, and portals; the repetitive beauty of East Indian textiles; and the strength and simplicity of Japanese illustration and stencil design. Most recently she has been working with Fossilized Wooly Mammoth ivory and ancient scrimshaw techniques, applying an innovative and a modern approach to prehistoric material.

Venue
5408 22nd Ave NW

Patina Resin Collection Showcased At Venue For February

At Venue this month we are featuring jewelry artist Erika Laureano. With her current Patina Resin Collection, her focus is on texture, color and found objects captured with resin. Within the line there is an array of necklaces, earrings, statement cuffs and rings.

Copper, brass, sterling and gold are embossed for texture then married with color, which is created through various patina recipes that Erika has experimented with over the years. Finally, it's all captured with clear resin and sometimes you might find tiny objects suspended in the process (glass balls, bronze cast coral, plastic tiny bubble balls.). The organic colors that surface through the patina process, combined with Erika's bold cutting edge designs allow for a unique one-of-a-kind style of jewelry.

Venue
5408 22nd Ave NW

Artists' Showcase at Blowing Sands For December Artwalk

An arts show that showcases the sparkle of glass in the winter—with glasswork by David Smith, Lon Clark, and Karen Sutherland.  The warmth of hand built pottery has been shaped by local artists Larry Halvorsen, with his high contrast black and white ceramics, and work in nature’s green in pottery by Julie deRouche. 

For a bit of brightness outdoors we can thank artist sooze bloom deLeon grossman for her fused glass garden pieces.  And glittering jewelry--wire work by Marilyn Moore!  All local artists!

Blowing Sands Glass Studio
5805 14th Ave NW

Cheri A. Ellis + Woven Gloaming Present New Work for the August ArtWalk

"Cheri A. Ellis is a self-taught artist, a cross disciplined artist who chose to learn the development of different mediums through a series of constant, self-created challenges."

"In 2003, Cheri began to make dresses.  A lifetime passion for art on paper, art on fabric, along with the intertwining of the female form and its metaphoric voice of feminine wisdom, inspired Cheri's desire to begin this new medium.  The designing and making of skirts, dresses, and coats, has become more than a personal expression.  In this medium came the idea of women taking back the connection to their own bodies by the wearing of hand-made art."

GOLD DRESS

series of constant,  self created challenge

Eclectic artisan jewelry and artifacts by Julia E. Sterkovsky of Woven Gloaming

BLACK ABALONE

Cheri A. Ellis + Woven Gloaming
5227 Leary Avenue NW (enter around the corner on 20th Avenue NW)