Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

LONGVIEW
Broadway Gallery
1418 Commerce St ✆(360)577-0544
www.the-broadway-gallery.com
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm. We are a cooperative
gallery featuring original artwork
and crafts produced by SW
Washington artists. A wide range of
media is represented including oils,
watercolours, acrylics, mixed media,
photographs, decorative and functional
pottery, fused glass, Intaglio prints,
handwoven rugs, quilling, wearable art
and jewellery. A featured artist display
from the membership is presented
monthly.
MONROE
Art Merchant International
17161 Beaton Rd SE
(in the Research International Bldg)
✆(360)794-7844
www.art-merchant-intl.com
tues-fri 10am-5pm 1st and 3rd sat
10am-4pm Opening Apr 19 Meet
local artists from the Sky Valley area
and see their latest works, many of
which were represented in the recent
Arty Gras event sponsored by the
Monroe Arts Council. Media represented
includes photography, mixed
media, pottery, sculpture, paintings
and glass works by artists including
Jerry Gay, Karen Amanda, Olivier
Peter Contesse, Vince Cavenaugh,
Julie Minnick, Robert Michell, and
many others.
OLYMPIA
Northwest Contemporary
3011 Pacific Ave SE
✆(360)352-6817
www.northwestcontemporary.com
wed-sat 10am-5:30pm Opening
receptions: fri 5:30-7pm Ongoing
Naomi Zentmyer, “Portraits of the
Nisqually”; Ken Leap, refractive glass
and metal sculpture; Apr-May Contact
the gallery for exhibition information.
Large single-handled pitcher, Roman, 1st to
3rd century AD, free-blown glass, pinched
ribs, applied coil neck and handle [Hallie
Ford Museum, Salem OR, through May 20]
OROVILLE
Gallery Central
702 Central Ave ✆(509)476-2404
skyriver@msn.com
tues-sat 11am-5pm Apr 7-Jun 2 Jim
Weaver, “New Works”, watercolours.
PORT ANGELES
Port Angeles Fine Arts
Center
1203 E Lauridsen Blvd
✆(360)457-3532 www.pafac.org
tues-sun 11am-5pm WEBSTER'S
WOODS: open daylight hours year
round Thru May 11 Strait Art 2007:
Home is Where the HeArt is, the pulse
of north Olympic Peninsula contemporary
art features the work of 39 artists
in a wide range of media and aesthetics
in the annual curated exhibition of
artists from Juan de Fuca country. May
11-13 Art in Bloom, features 10 North
Olympic Peninsula floral designers
with refreshing juxtapositions of floral
arrangements that mirror and/or complement
specific works in the "Strait
Art" exhibition; May 20-Jun 18 Art-
Paths: Portfolio, featuring work by
North Olympic Peninsula's student
artists; IN WEBSTER'S WOODS Art Outside,
offers more than 100 artworks
seamlessly integrated into a charming
topography laced with five acres of
discovery trails.
SEATTLE
★ Billy King Showroom
1935 1st Ave ✆(206)448-6906
Studio: (206)340-8881
www.billyking.com
Winter-Spring hours: by appt Billy
King is on a winter-spring sabbatical
at his new painting studio in Chapala,
Jalisco Mexico.
★ Burke Museum
University of Washington
17th Aven NE and NE 45th St
✆(206)543-5590
daily 10am-5pm Thru May 28 Our
People, Our Land, Our Images, contemporary
indigenous photography;
Thru Sep 3 In the Spirit of the Ancestors:
Contemporary Northwest Coast
Native Art, nearly 100 works drawn
from the museum’s permanent collection
made within the last 50 years.
★ Canlis Glass Gallery
3131 Western Ave, Suite 329
✆(206)282-4428
www.canlisglass.com
tues-sat 11am-7pm and by appt Apr-
May Canlis Glass exhibits an array of
artwork by glass artist Jean-Pierre
Canlis. The gallery is currently focusing
on the artist’s “Ocean Studies
Series”, a body of work that translates
the simple, clean forms of the ocean
into organic, abstract glass artwork.
Also on display are Canlis’ towering,
solid glass bamboo installations and
blown glass bamboo wall scullptures.
★ Foster/White Gallery,
Pioneer Square
220 3rd Ave S, Suite 100
✆(206)622-2833
www.fosterwhite.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm Apr
5-28 Lloyd Blakley, “Parallels”, paint-
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