Rick Bartow: Origin of Song

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Personal experiences, cultural engagement and transformation stories animate Rick Bartow's wood sculpture, monotypes and paintings. Bartow’s work swings effortlessly from humorous and surprising to dark and challenging—and are often both simultaneously. Pulling from his tempestuous life experiences and the mythology of his Native heritage, Bartow’s work has one foot in our reality and the other in the swirling cauldron of the spirit world. He pours pure, instinctual gesture into each work, leaving fingerprints, smudges, strings of epoxy and cryptic words in his final works—evidence of his passage and process.

Mr. Bartow recently completed We Were Always Here, a large-scale sculpture commissioned by The Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian. Solo exhibitions include Dog's Journey: A 20 Year Survey, at The A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, and Missoula Art Museum, (2011-2012); a mid-career exhibit My Eye, at the Hallie Ford Museum (2002-04).

Duane Pasco: Life As Art

Book Release Party & Artist Talk

A small body of new work will be available to purchase, a sneak peek of his solo exhibition in September!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19th

6pm - Reception & Light Refreshments

7pm - Lecture & Book Signing

Stonington Gallery hosts the book release and signing party for Duane Pasco’s autobiographical art book, Life As Art, published by University of Washington Press.

 A master carver and scholar of the Native art and languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Duane Pasco has been a central contributor to the renaissance of formline artwork over the past fifty years.

Life As Art is a full-color, hard-cover book that celebrates seven decades of artwork and stories. This is an opportunity to meet one of the most influential artists on the NWC in the last half century. Few people encapsulate all that is remarkable about the Northwest Coast, but Pasco’s life embodies this region perhaps more than any other Stonington Gallery artist. Pasco’s gift for the great anecdote will make this an evening of rare insight, education and entertainment.

Pasco, who is not Native, is perhaps best known in Seattle as the sculptor behind the four totemic sculptures standing in Occidental Mall in Pioneer Square: a house post, totem pole, Bear figure and woman figure. He is one of the foremost carvers working today, and continues to create exquisitely detailed masks, totem poles, canoes and rattles.  

A new body of Pasco’s work will debut in a solo exhibition at Stonington in September, 2013.

Barry Herem :

A Solo Exhibition

*Note: In July, Opening Reception will be second Thursday, July 11th. Artist will be in attendance. See you there!

Barry Herem (Non-Indigenous) returns with a new body of work inspired by formline design and the environment of the Pacific Northwest. Herem’s formidable sense of design and passion for experimentation shine in media as varied as Corten steel, glass, wood and limited edition prints.

Drawing upon a rich lifetime of experience and knowledge, Herem’s artwork is surprising, challenging and respectful of its roots. Select pieces in this exhibition will trace the evolution of Herem’s work, a small retrospective look at his long career.

Digital catalog will be available first week in July.

Courtney Lipson:

To Life

Fresh off of two ambitious private commissions, Courtney Lipson returns to the gallery with a new body of wearable art. Lipson continues to experiment with patterns in her pioneering micro-mosaic technique and exploring new directions in shaping silver.

Thomas Stream:

New Works

Thomas Stream celebrates summertime with a new collection of original gouache paintings featuring the bird-life of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Stream’s paintings portray wildlife as we’ve never seen it: stylized creatures in brilliant flat-color hues, set against a white backdrop that illuminates their elegant curves and lines. Working with the tiniest of brushes to achieve the minute dots, spirals and hair-thin lines, Stream creates worlds within a single wing.

Duane Pasco:

Life As Art, A Solo Exhibition

Stonington Gallery is honored to present Duane Pasco- Life As Art; A Solo Exhibition by master carver Duane Pasco in connection with the release of his autobiographical art book, Life As Art (University of Washington Press). A master scholar of the Native cultures, art and languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Pasco has been a central contributor to the renaissance of formline artwork over the past fifty years.

Pasco, who is not Native, is perhaps best known in Seattle as the sculptor behind the four totemic sculptures standing in Occidental Mall in Pioneer Square: a house post, totem pole, Bear figure and woman figure.

One of the most accomplished carvers of masks, totem poles and canoes in the Northwest working today, Pasco celebrates five decades of artwork with this exhibition of both new and older pieces. This will be a rare opportunity to see a wide collection of works by one of the most renowned artists working in the formline tradition today.

Dave Franklin:

David Franklin returns to Stonington Gallery for his second solo exhibition, bringing a host of exquisite sculpture. Works in this show were produced during Franklin’s John Michael Kohler Artist in Residence at the Kohler Foundry, where Franklin experimented in casting ceramics. Coming off of a host of public and private commissions, Franklin presents a cohesive body of work in the gallery for the first time since 2008.