Art at the Center
Now Showing at the Washington State Convention Center
The Center's free public art gallery offers a unique showcase for artists and their works. The program consists of permanent works, objects loaned by museums and corporations as well as rotating exhibitions. Two and three-dimensional works of art are displayed throughout the public areas of the Galleria.
"Sky on Water"
With this show of Sky on Water, the Landscape Painters Northwest’s goal was to create a series of paintings that remind the viewer that part of the beauty of where we live, work and play is due to the constant interaction of sky and water; so often taken for granted. It is when one sees it at once: sky-on-water that one can more easily appreciate this interaction.
These oil paintings by Landscape Painters Northwest remind us of the interplay between sky, light and water. Not your usual Northwest fare.
Participating artists: Ellen Cooper, Ellen Coyle, Heather Cromwell, Karen Dedrickson, Patty Haller, Eden Hopkins, Chi Chi Stewart, Chris Moran, Dolly Sundstrom, and Gage instructor, Suzanne Brooker.
Presented by
Washington State Convention Center
Level 2 North Galleria
October 29th - January 18th, 2012
7:00 AM - 10:00 PM
"Ice Stories"
"Ice Stories" is an art exhibition that explores polar environments and climate change The exhibition presents recent work by three Washington artists, Cynthia Camlin, Maria Coryell-Martin and Anna McKee.
Opening reception and introductory walk-through with the artists - Sunday, November 13th, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., second-floor galleries of the Convention Center.
Sharing an interest in polar landscapes and global climate change, the three artists in "Ice Stories" take different approaches.
- Anna McKee’s new paintings explore the tension between the stability of immense ice sheets and the recession of outlet glaciers, suggesting change and unpredictability. Her suite of etchings of a research field camp in Antarctica (that McKee visited in 2010) portrays this vast space barely disrupted by human activities.
- Maria Coryell-Martin has traveled twice to both Antarctica and Greenland, joining expeditions as an artist and educator. Her field sketches in "Ice Stories" depict the daily life of a walrus research camp in Greenland, and her watercolor paintings contrast atmospheric spaces with vulnerable elements of the polar environment.
- Cynthia Camlin’s work for "Ice Stories" is a new group of oil paintings on paper and canvas that explore ice sheet collapse through abstracted forms, often superimposed on screen-printed map imagery of a glacier. Interpreting weather, erosion, cracking, melting through visual metaphor, her work dramatizes the disintegration of landscapes as if it were a recurrent, disturbing dream.
Presented by
Washington State Convention Center
Level 2 South Galleria
November 9th - January 18th, 2012
7:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Self-Guided Art Tour Brochure
Additional information about the exhibits and their locations along with a self-guided tour of the Center's art collection is available for download here.
