UN-SEEN
An exhibit focusing on hidden elements of life and nature, capturing reverence for beauty in their different forms
Featuring: Kim Brayman • Alisha Dall’osto • Karen Lewis • Mary Browne Peterson • Nadine Marie Smith
July 7 - September 20, 2024
Edmonds Waterfront Center Art Gallery
220 Railroad Ave, Edmonds, WA 98020
Exhibit Opening: Thursday, August 15 • 5-8pm
For more information or to purchase artworks, please connect with the individual artist below:
Kim Brayman
As a teacher, Kim has studied and practiced every medium she could get her hands on. This has influenced the way she paints on canvas, synthesizing various materials, techniques and aesthetics. She delights in the botanical, organic shapes and lines, and color. Most of her painted surfaces are highly textured mixed media and explore the interaction between texture, color, shape, and line to create a mood and convey a theme. Her paintings are expressive representations of beauty, joyful ambience, and relationship.
She has been teaching and showing her art in the Puget Sound area for 15 years.
Artist Statement
My “negative space” or “over/under” paintings portray the depth of the natural environment in a whimsical, joyful way. They hint at all of the hidden things growing and moving beyond the initial visual plane.
Alisha Dall’osto
Seattle-based artist Alisha Dall’Osto creates expressive landscape and figure paintings. Her process begins with sketching, painting, and photographing the natural world, then returning to her studio to build up layers of color and visual texture to reflect the light, form, and energy of a particular subject or place. She works primarily in oil on panel. Dall’Osto grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied Fine Art at Kenyon College in Ohio and later with painters Mark Kang O’Higgins and Terry Furchgott at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. She has also taught classes in Foundation Drawing, Portrait Drawing, and Painting at the Gage Academy of Fine Art, Winslow Art Center, and in youth and teen art programs throughout Seattle.
Artist Statement
I returned to landscape painting this year after an inspiring trip to Big Sur, California. In some of these scenes, I was first struck by the way the light played off the subjects or filled their shadows with unexpected color. In others, the contrast in patterns between orderly human structures and the tangle of thriving plant life called my attention. I paint to connect more with the living world around- a process I find both joyful and humbling.
Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis is a seattle-based artist and illustrator, who draws on her experience as rower, sailer, diver and swimmer in Northwest waters.
Artist Statement
This series features humans at play in nature, with water as a metaphor for unseen forces and unfathomable depths. Setting aside worry and fear, they prescribe a giddy, playful ecstasy in face of the unknowable.
Mary Browne Peterson
Mary is a local mixed media artist. Her journey began with fiber arts and soon morphed into mixed media. Her whimsical style and colorful drawings inspire hope and courage. She exhibits her work in local galleries in the Puget sound area. She is mother to Jessica, a young woman with disabilities. She also has 33 years of nursing experience. She has been teaching art for over 20 years in the Edmonds Special Education classrooms and at local art venues. She is passionate about the empowering benefits of the arts and has worked tirelessly with local art venues building relationships that enable artists with disabilities to be seen and heard. She co-founded the nonprofit Art For All in 2015. Mary received the City of Everett’s Wendt and Mayors Arts Changing Lives award in 2018 for her work with youth at risk and artists with disabilities.
Artist Statement
These works are loosely based on my list poem, Morning Prayers which captures the unseen world of early morning risings and simple pleasures. I find that as I get older, I am able to truly see the beauty in the simple rhythms of life. I am fascinated by the obscure and the unnoticed. My color palette captures my joy in relishing the Un-Seen.
Nadine Marie Smith
Nadine Smith was born in Louisville, KY. She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and a Masters in Creative Arts and Learning from Lesley University and has exhibited in Seattle since 2014. Selected exhibits include Plumage at the Audubon Gallery, The Deep at the Lynn Hanson Scott Gallery, featured small works at the Columbia City Gallery and multiple solo shows at private businesses. She has also been awarded numerous grants to create mosaic and water color murals at Seattle schools, and local non-profits. Nadine lives and works in Seattle, Washington, with her family of 5.
Artist Statement
When I Iook around the world, I see color. In my work, I want to create a landscape that captures these layers of bright undulating shades through iconic objects- looming trees, wide-eyed animals, urban landscapes. I paint pieces with dripping paint, hidden words and burst of imagery to reflect the feeling of being alive. I do not want my pieces to be a photograph of a place or a thing, but instead a feeling- a remembering of what it felt like to be fully present and immersed in a moment.