*AND see many more paintings under the
ABSTRACT and FIGURATIVE portfolio sections

 

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  Chicane – Saltwater

Today's thought: By Christopher Mathie, April 29, 2009

Painting, to me, is a practice... kind of like meditation or prayer.
Some days you get somewhere... some days it is just the act of painting, moving, mixing, being.
The results are not important... it is the act of doing that matters.
The rewards will come in spirit, in strength, in healing.
And sometimes you will have a good painting too, the rest get painted over.

 

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Gallery Mack
2003 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98121

206-448-1616
www.gallerymack.com

 

"Harmonic Motion"
Acrylic -- 12" x 48"

"Vibration Sequence"
Acrylic -- 12" x 48"

"Still & Silent II"
Acrylic -- 30" x 30"

"Sailing XII" (12)
Acrylic -- 18" x 36"

"Sailing XIV" (14)
Acrylic -- 36" x 18"

 

"Art Guide, The Big Six: Seattle's Longest-Lasting Art Dealers"
By Matthew Kangas

A television salesman, a department store executive, a lawyer-turned-librarian, a former graduate student in American art history, a psychologist, and an interior designer: these are the people who became Seattle's longest-lasting art dealers, respectively, Gordon Woodside, Donald Foster, Francine Seders, Sam Davidson, Barbara Mack, and William Traver. As the Seattle art scene reaches an uneasy maturity in the midst of a troubled economy, various social and political crises, and shifting collector demographics, it is worth talking to the stalwarts who became the establishment and who saw the transition from a coterie of wealthy people directly supporting artists to a wide-open art community with many galleries and several hundred practicing and exhibiting artists.

They have witnessed the rise and fall of the Northwest School and its replacement by a far bigger, younger and more diverse group of artists. Today's Big Six dealers concentrate on a mixture of emerging and well-known artists, a broad variety of media including the crafts, and high standards for presentation, display, publications and lighting, along with the hard-won assumptions of honesty, integrity and reliable advice.

 

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Two Vaults Gallery
602 S. Fawcett
Tacoma, WA 98402

253-759-6233
www.twovaults.com

 

This is part of the Christopher Mathie collection currently on display at Two Vaults Gallery

"The Magnificent Unknown"
Acrylic -- 48" x 48"

 

 

"At Peace with My Angst"
Acrylic -- 30" x 48"

 

 

"High Tide" (triptych)
Acrylic -- 36" x 108"

 

 

"What You See"
Acrylic -- 30" x 48"

 

 

Visit Tacoma's new ART BLOG:
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/arts/

 

 

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TRAMMELL-GAGNÉ
Seattle Design Center
5701 6th Ave South, Suites 105, 117
Seattle, WA 98108

206-762-1511
www.tgshowroom.com

 

Current installation at Trammell-Gagne'— first room as you enter Seattle Design Center
"Two Passions," Acrylic — 48"h x 72"w (Diptych)

 

(New) "Two Passions"
Acrylic — 48"h x 72"w (Diptych)

 

"Vivid Dream"
Acrylic -- 30" x 30"

 

"Something About Trees"
Acrylic -- 60" x 18"

 

"Emotional Tone of the Ocean"
Acrylic -- 30" x 40"

"Monolith for the Changing Season"
Acrylic -- 120" x 30"

 

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*Click here to read a newspaper interview regarding Mathie's
creative process.
Written by Bill Mickelson, Reporter

Bainbridge Arts & Crafts
151 Winslow Way East
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

206-842-3132
www.bainbridgeartscrafts.org

 

"Sailing XVII"
Acrylic — 12" x 36"

 

"Sailing XVI"
Acrylic — 12" x 36"

"Rocks & Water I"
Acrylic — 48" x 72"

 

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