Our February exhibit will feature new work by Erin Kendig! Opening Reception is Friday, Feb. 14th 5-8pm. On view through early March, 2025.
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Artist statement:
The paintings in Not Every Season Is a Summer are meditations on the seasons as transitions. Surreal watercolors show landscapes across time, populated by Pacific Northwest “characters” such as water, moss, clouds, plants, and flames. The imagery, both familiar and alien, is a collection of impressions from a life lived in this region, snapshots of past, present and future drawn from majestic hikes as well as long city walks. Medieval manuscripts, tarot, astrology, the wheel of the year, and illustrative traditions provide influences for the pieces’ visual storytelling.
The title Not Every Season Is a Summer alludes to the complicated nature of summer in the Pacific Northwest in our current time. Our region is not known as a summery, sun drenched place, but many of us here yearn for the light—for the ease summer represents, brief as it is, especially during these dark, grey months. At the same time, summer is a season of violence here—particularly late summer, particularly now—as climate change fuels raging mega-fires beneath an uncanny red sun.
As I created this work, I was reminded of the multitude of life’s experiences, of the diversity of time’s moments, as well as how much I love this specific region. The constants in the imagined world of these paintings is water and blankets of moss—moments of persistence amid death, rebirth, and change.
image: Late Summer 2, 16 x 22", Watercolor and gouache on paper
