East Shore Gallery The East Shore Gallery, founded in 1967, is the oldest art gallery
on the Eastside. We exhibit rotating shows every six weeks, featuring
fine art work in a variety of mediums by regionally acclaimed professional
artists and new emerging artists.
Our exhibition hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and
Sunday 9 am to
1 pm. We are located in the entry to the Sanctuary building. Proceeds from sales benefit the church.
June 13 - August 29, 2010 - The Family Show
East Shore's annual family show now fills the gallery spaces with a grand array of talent from the East Shore congregation. Over 25 artists have contributed work for the annual exhibit, much of which is for sale. The show ends August 29.
September 12 - November 7, 2010 - Alice Case
The fall exhibit, opening September 12, will feature the the spectacular and vibrant paintings of Alice Case. Jewelers Betsy Resnick and Akemi will also participate in the show.
Alice Case was born in Baton Rouge, LA. She moved to Seattle three years ago, where she received her MFA from the University of Washington. Her abstract paintings deal with the ways in which our memory and our experiences are influenced by our current age of information and technology. Throughout her childhood, Alice’s family moved often, and to vastly different regions of the country. This not only instilled in her a strong appreciation for diverse environments, it also deeply imbedded a sense of impermanence and a desire to hold on to the memory of experiences. Her paintings focus on how we internally negotiate the innately human desire to simply exist, with the constant barrage of images and information we receive daily. At the same time, her work is heavily influenced by the marvels and accomplishment of the human mind. She layers colors, forms, and shapes from art history and architecture, to the Hubble space telescope, to her instincts and impressions of the world around her. Through her work she not only strives to answer these questions for herself, she also hopes to bring strong, thought-provoking paintings into the community and the world of painting.
Alice has shown throughout Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Seattle. She has taught at the University of Washington, and currently teaches at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. She is working towards securing a position as a full-time faculty professor.
Artist Statement:
I grew up in a family that moved often, and to vastly different regions of the country. This instilled in me a strong awareness and appreciation for the diversity and adaptability of humans, as well as a deep sense of impermanence and a desire to hold on to the memory of experiences. My abstract paintings focus on the complexities of human experience as influenced by memory, our environment, and images. We are in the age of information. We have free reign to an almost infinite supply of information on almost any subject conceivable. Furthermore, simply moving through our daily lives makes us constant receptors of audio/visual stimuli of another’s choosing. To varying degrees the human mind wants to pursue knowledge, but how do we categorize and retain the things we perceive? My work grows out of a fascination with the tension that is created when we internally negotiate our innately human and animalistic desire to simply exist, with the barrage of images and information that constantly influence us.
Through reading, research, and making, I study the ways in which our experiences are heavily informed by our visual and physical interaction with our environment, and our pictorial memory. To do this I constantly photograph and draw from my environment using everything from a piece of thread to the cosmos to inspire the forms I use in my work. Through combining and overlapping, I weave the layers together with drawings that range from maps and architecture, to Hubble images and places around the world. Additionally it is very important for me to quote elements of the past because I believe all great achievements are largely informed by the past. I try to take full advantage of the information available to us today, and historical and contemporary artists and art theory, ranging from B.C. sculpture and painting, to Diebenkorn and Rothko, to Julie Mehretu and Alex Kanevsky, heavily influence my work. Ultimately I strive to pictorially weave all of these elements together much in the same way that history and knowledge are woven together. I see these figure/ground complexities, and the constant negotiation between line and form as somewhat of analogies to the complexities of human experience. This serves as the groundwork for my work, which then allows me to interact more intuitively with the paintings. I strive to have my work answer the questions: what about our time and place needs to be answered or investigated through painting? And what is stylistically relevant to the work? My paintings serve as a way of working out this negotiation in a visual, formal and instinctual format.
I have a deep love and faith in painting. My paintings focus on experience, our shifting and elusive emotional states, and the vast range of the indescribable and often unnoticed sensations and emotions that flow through us as we interact with our physical world. Inside of all this is what it means to be human. It is not something we can put on the tip of a pen or even on the tip of our minds. The nature of these experiences is such that they dance around their own answers, and for me it is one of the main reasons we have art. It is why we have artists and art lovers, and it is why I paint. As a painter I rely on the human instinct to read a painted or drawn image, but I also believe that I must locate what is most socially and stylistically relevant to myself, and my work. Paint speaks a language that transcends time, languages, and cultural barriers, and since the beginnings of societies we have seen the need for art. As long there are humans there will be art and there will be paintings.
(425) 747-3780 or email esuc@EastShoreUnitarian.org.