Current Exhibition

Gary Faigin - Smoke and Mirrors

April 4 - 27, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, April 4, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, April 6, 2-4 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 13, 1 PM

In Smoke and Mirrors, Pacific Northwest artist Gary Faigin, continues his series of allegorical paintings using trains as the central character.  At times sinister, heroic, or completely incongruous, Faigin’s trains dominate their surroundings, whether it be urban, pastoral, or the High Arctic.  Steam engines puff across the frozen ocean or fragile ice bridges, inescapably reminding us of the role of industrial civilization in the increasing threat to such landscapes.  A black engine racing like the Batmobile emerges from a tunnel, it’s energy and drama tempered by the ominous red smoke belching from its stack.  An approaching train catches a lone figure in its beam, while strange skyscrapers of the future loom in the distance. 

Faigin’s paintings use the seduction of chiaroscuro and heightened color to engage us in his troubling narratives; beauty coexisting with the mechanical beast calling out a unwelcome future. 

Upcoming Exhibition

Kim Osgood - Live in the Sunshine

May 2 - June 1, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, May 4, 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 6, 2 PM

Live in the Sunshine is a new body of work by Portland-based artist Kim Osgood. Osgood’s vibrant paintings and monotypes celebrate the abundance of beauty found in the natural world. Her pieces are infused with energetic color and fleeting moments of time. Mountains, trees, birds, insects, flora, and fauna are often the subjects of her works; either created in her studio, or observed while painting outdoors en plein-air. Osgood frequently adds symbolic objects to her pieces such as ropes, keys, lanterns, and doors, which further enrich her narratives.

Previous Exhibitions

Wendy Thon - Silence & Song

March 7 - 30, 2024

Artist's Reception: First Thursday, March 7, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, March 9, 2-4 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 16, 2 PM

Silence & Song, by Seattle-based artist Wendy Thon is a new collection of acrylic paintings, which springs from the Japanese concept of Forest Bathing; a practice of mindful time spent in nature paying attention to the sights, sounds, smells of nature as a peaceful antidote to the stress of modern life and inspiration for forest stewardship. 

Thon’s work expands these ideas through a broad spectrum of intimate encounters, taking the viewer on a journey from the Hoh rainforest to stands of cedars in Seattle parks; Hawaiian beaches to red rock deserts; backyard gardens to deep dives in small ponds. The work is personal yet universal, charged with emotional energy through her varied palette and the combination of the real and the imagined.

Daphne Minkoff - Façades

February 1 - March 2, 2024
Artist's Reception: First Thursday, February 1, 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 24, 2 PM

In the exhibition Façades, Daphne Minkoff explores unconventional beauty in her mixed media paintings of vacant houses and buildings in the ever-changing landscape of Seattle. Many of the boarded-up structures the artist has captured have since been demolished and replaced by sleek, multi-use facilities and condominiums, all in the pursuit of urban density. This transformation raises questions about whether what is being lost surpasses what is being built.

The artist shares, “I reflect on the duality of the meaning ‘Facade,’ as both the front of a building but also as something false or superficial. The idea that a home or structure is fleeting, and merely provides the illusion of safety and protection, is something I think about a lot - all things in life are in a constant state of flux-there are only moments of stability.” In her paintings, Minkoff examines an awareness of what it means to wait, to confront change, and perhaps even a tangible sense of hope for what changes may bring once the waiting is over.

John Cole - Paintings and Drawings

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Peter de Lory - Forces Unseen

January 4 - 27, 2024
Reception: First Thursday, January 4, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, January 6, 3-5 PM

Winter Offerings
A Group Exhibition

December 7 - 30, 2023
Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, December 7, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, December 9, 3-5 PM

Winter Offerings is a group exhibition by Northwest & West Coast artists. Featured are recent works and a variety of fresh perspectives, styles and mediums including: painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media works.

Hiroshi Sato - The Water Series

November 2 - December 2, 2023
Artist Talk: December 2, 5 PM
Opening Reception: First Thursday, November 2, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, November 4, 3-5 PM

The Water Series is a new body of work by California-based artist Hiroshi Sato. Sato portrays figurative scenes with isolation and estrangement in the San Francisco of today. In this body of work the artist explores a practice revolving around the water based medium on raw canvas pointed more towards Japanese traditional art.

Hiroshi Sato was born in Japan in 1987. He spent his childhood in Tanzania but returned to Japan for secondary school. His work has been featured in Visual Art Source and Juxtapoz Magazine. Sato was most recently Artist in Residence at the Cheekwood in Nashville, TN. His work is in public collections including Cheekwood and Ionis Pharmaceuticals. The artist has shown extensively across the US and UK.

Emily Wood - Four Seasons

October 5 - 28, 2023
Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, October 5, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, October 7, 4-6 PM

The exhibition Four Seasons, is a collection of new oil paintings by Tacoma native Emily Wood. Wood is an established painter known for her expertise in harmonizing color, from subtle value shifts to intense hues, creating landscapes that flatter the region's varied geography. 


Wood’s colorist explorations focus on regions near and afar; from fields, lakes and mountains in Oregon, Washington and Montana to the beautiful gardens and ponds of Giverny, France. She interprets them with varied brush skills, and thoughtful compositions. Wood’s oil paintings are characterized by a saturated palette, simplified shapes and deep hardening shadows.

Richard Morhous - Fiat Lux

September 7 - 30, 2023
Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, September 7, 6-8 PM

In the exhibition Fiat Lux, Richard Morhous examines the nuances of light, color and emotion. His acrylic paintings are often depictions of informal moments with people in urban environments, vibrant cityscapes, sublime landscapes, coastal beauty, or engaging window scenes. His painterly compositions pull the viewer in to examine the artist’s brushwork, experimental line drawing and interlocking shapes, often transforming the work to provocative abstractions. His selection of colors and attention to light enables the work to pop and come to life. The phrase fiat lux is latin for “let there be light.”

Michael Kenna - Fifty Years

Presented in partnership with G.Gibson Projects

August 3 - September 2, 2023
Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, August 3, 6-8 PM
Book Signing: Saturday, August 26, 2-4 PM

2023 marks 50 years of photography by British artist Michael Kenna. The Harris Harvey Gallery exhibit will highlight works from the last 3 decades, with the following countries represented in Kenna’s travels – France, Japan, China, Italy, Myanmar, South Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the U.S.

Michael Kenna’s photographs have been shown in over five hundred one-person gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world, and are included in over a hundred permanent institutional collections, including; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Michael Kenna received the prestigious Officer des Arts et des Lettres medal in Paris in 2022.

Hart James - Songs of the Earth

July 6 - 29, 2023

Opening Reception: First Thursday, July 6, 6-8 PM

In Songs of the Earth, Hart James expresses the energy of nature in her abstract landscape paintings that is tamed by her stylized organization of rocks, water and sky. Through her visceral depictions, the artist tantalizes the viewer with glimpses of lush greenery intertwined with elongated trees and wispy branches, or flowing rivers and cascading waterfalls. With her appreciation and knowledge of the organic world, having grown up on a farm in Kentucky, she channels her artistic pulse into the movement of the paint.  

Lisa Snow Lady - Patterns and Light

June 1 - July 1, 2023

Opening Reception: First Thursday, June 1, 6-8 PM

In the exhibition Patterns and Light, Lisa Snow Lady uses her colorful palette of acrylic paint and layers of cut and torn paper to explore nuances of light that enliven floral and botanical scenes around architecture, gardens and in still lifes. Sunlight catching a petal’s edge, dramatic shadows dancing on structures, reflections bouncing around objects surrounded by glass, ignite a complex visual theme woven through Snow Lady’s paintings and mixed media works. Through her artistic practices, Snow Lady portrays seasonal changes, expresses emotion, and captures warmth even in winter.  

Terry Furchgott - The Light Shines Through

May 4-27, 2023

Opening Reception: First Thursday, May 4, 6-8 PM

Artist Talk: Saturday, May 13, 2 PM

In the exhibition The Light Shines Through, figurative painter Terry Furchgott's new work is diverse in its subject matter, yet connected through a sense of light, intimacy and beauty. Her works, in acrylic and pastel are notable for their masterful use of color and pattern.

Furchgott’s scenes evoke the luminous wonder of intimate moments in quiet settings: where the tenderness and trust between a father and daughter transform a morning ritual, where the kitchen reclaims its magical form as an archetypal space of nurture and creativity, where a simple vase of flowers can light up not only a room but our hearts with its beauty.  

Robert Schlegel - All Around

April 6 - 29, 2023

Reception: Saturday, April 8, 2-4 PM

The exhibition All Around is a showcase of works made by Robert Schlegel (1947-2021) in the later part of his career. Schlegel transformed landscapes, structures, people, animals and familiar objects with an abstract flair. His paintings, collages, and prints alternate between buoyant humor and deep mood. Schlegel’s work explores the tension between the representational and the abstract of subjects he observed in the natural world. 

Much of Schlegel’s work reflects the environment in which the artist lived—Banks, Oregon. Creating a narrative with a sense of place was an important practice for Schlegel, and for many years the far northwest corner of Oregon was an open- ended inspiration for the artist. He often composed landscapes clustered with boxlike houses and barns that revealed the artist's unique interpretation of his hometown. He also enjoyed making playful portraits of horses, cows, goats, birds, and alluring flowers. 

Charles Emerson - Lunar Poetics,
Falling Angels and Meanderings

March 2 - April 1, 2023

Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, March 2, 6-8 PM

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 11, 2:00 PM

In Lunar Poetics, Falling Angels and Meanderings, Pacific Northwest artist Charles Emerson shares richly hued abstract paintings that describe ethereal and atmospheric spaces. Embracing color as the foundation of his work, Emerson builds his compositions by applying layers of subtly varied tones that shift with light and harmoniously transcend. His paintings contain terrestrial forms, celestial shapes, and painterly marks, each depicting emotive cosmos with every varying palette.

Joy - Floral and Botanical Studies

January 19 – February 25, 2023

Artists’ Reception: Saturday, January 21, 2-4 PM

& First Thursday, February 2, 6-8 PM

Joy – Floral and Botanical Studies is an invitational exhibition by Northwest and West Coast artists. The exhibition includes works celebrating the enjoyment of nature focusing on floral and botanical studies and scenes. This gathering of works includes a variety of styles and mediums including: painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media works.

Artists Include: Daniel Carrillo, Mel Curtis, Kathleen Faulkner, Amy Ferron, Terry Furchgott, Richard Hutter, Erin Kendig, Sally Kim-Miller, Harini Krishnamurthy, Gregg Laananen, Rebecca Luncan, Tara McDermott, Richard Morhous, Royal Nebeker, Kim Osgood, Kristan Parks, Ron Reeder, Jenny Sampson, Michelle Smith-Lewis, Ellen Sollod, Lisa Snow Lady, Jenny Vorwaller, and Thomas Wood

Lois Silver - 36 Paintings for 36 Years

December 1, 2022 - January 14 2023

Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, December 1, 6-8 PM

In 36 Paintings for 36 Years, Lois Silver shares new oil paintings as she nods to 36 years of exhibiting with Harris Harvey Gallery, formerly known as the Lisa Harris Gallery. Celebrating this special long-term partnership between artist and gallery as well as the longevity of her professional career, Silver shares recent compositions in the signature blend of mirth and mood that have made her a beloved artist in Seattle’s art scene. Silver creates vibrant narrative paintings that often depict evocative social encounters between interactive characters at parties, musical performances, diners, and in outdoor environments. At times cheerful, other times subdued or curious, her paintings portray cognitive entanglements that create tension between her characters. Other scenes are focused on solitary figures engrossed in highly personal moments of triumph, deep thought or isolation. Sharing her light-hearted sense of humor, many of Silver’s characters can be observed in awkward or unusual circumstances.

Linda Jo Nazarenus - Sanctuary

November 3 - 26

Opening Reception: First Thursday, November 3, 6-8 PM

In Sanctuary, painter Linda Jo Nazarenus shares vivid paintings of vast, untouched terrain and the wildlife that inhabits it. “Sanctuary” is explored through native animals, natural elements and manmade ironies. Influenced by painters of the Northern Renaissance, Nazarenus’ technique entails layering many thin oil glazes on panel to achieve a high level of depth and detail. Inspired by the American Southwest’s dramatic topography and weather, she creates images that communicate a reverence for Nature with theatrical portraits of birds, foxes and raccoons in enigmatic narratives.

John Lysak - Memories and Musings

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Eduardo Fausti - Reflections on Sound

October 6 - 29, 2022

Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, October 6, 6-8 PM

Karen Kosoglad - Simultaneity

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Gregg Laananen - Shorthand

September 1 - October 1, 2022

Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, September 1, 6-8 PM

Summer Visions - A Group Exhibition

August 4 - 27, 2022

Artists’ Reception: First Thursday, August 4, 6-8 PM

Summer Visions is a group exhibition exploring a myriad of artistic visions, featuring Northwest and West Coast artists. This gathering of works includes a multitude of unconventional viewpoints, styles and mediums including: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media works.

Christine Sharp - Northwest Aspect

July 7 - 30, 2022

Artist’s Reception: First Thursday, July 7, 6-8 PM

Artist Meet & Greet: Saturday, July 9, 3-5 PM

Northwest Aspect is an exhibition of new oil paintings by Pacific Northwest artist Christine Sharp.Sharp takes an alternative approach to celebrating nature through her art. Throughout the seasons the artist re-envisions and boldly dissects the natural world, translating scenes into vibrant swaths of color and fragmented shapes, all harmoniously balanced. She focuses on the natural elements of mountain tops, valleys, forests and seasides. Organic nuances take form through interlocking shapes, shadow and light. Sharp bridges abstraction and representation thus affording the viewer shifting perspectives on familiar places.

Kim Osgood - Nesting

June 2 - July 2, 2022

Opening Reception with Kim Osgood: First Thursday, June 2, 6-8 PM

Artist Meet & Greet with Kim Osgood:
Saturday, June 4, 2-4 PM

New works by Kim Osgood celebrate abundance with energetic color and joyful depictions of nature. The artist explores the delicacy of organic restoration, renewal, rebirth and growth. The Portland-based printmaker and painter is known for her still life monotypes incorporating flowers, birds, and fruits, which she artistically arranges in her studio according to the flow of the seasons. Her acrylic paintings often depict outdoor environments, weaving narratives with symbolic objects and animating wildlife that populate scenes of mountains, expansive seas, and forests.

Hart James - Nature on the Inside

May 5 - 28, 2022

Reception: First Thursday, May 5, 6-8 PM

Nature on the Inside is an exhibition of energetic new oil paintings by Pacific Northwest artist Hart James, which explore the rugged beauty of our region. James has a long-lived connection to the energy in nature, stemming from her childhood experiences growing up on a farm in Kentucky. She paints in an abstract manner depicting the verve of the organic world in raw scenes — the tumbling current of water over rocks, the wispy flow of air through rustling trees and the fluctuating foundation under our feet.

Lisa Snow Lady - In and Out of the Garden

April 7 - 30, 2022

Reception: First Thursday, April 7, 6-8 PM

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “In and Out of the Garden,” by Seattle-based artist Lisa Snow Lady. From the intimacy of a bud in a vase holding the promise of spring, to an array of flowers blanketing a hillside, to the woven tapestry of the forest floor, Snow Lady uses her colorful palette of acrylic paint and layers of cut and torn paper to portray her relationship to the garden from a variety of vantage points.

Snow Lady captures sunlight on petals, revels in cast shadows on surfaces, and gives dignity to ordinary weeds. Cut flowers are carried inside to brighten up interior spaces, while others are left to linger in the garden to live out their lives, providing habitat for wildlife.

Richard Morhous - Future Light

March 3 - April 2, 2022

Reception: First Thursday, March 3, 6-8 PM

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Future Light,” an exhibition of new paintings by Seattle-based artist Richard Morhous. Emphasizing painterly qualities and expressionistic color, the artist continues to create distinct, contemporary explorations of light and pictorial space. Through interlocking shapes and dappled brushwork his paintings illustrate energetic cityscapes, still life scenes, and landscapes, rendering unconventional transformations of familiar subjects.

Morhous’s works are always a confirmation of the virtue of color and the beauty in abstraction to be found in everyday life. Of his new work the artist shares, “Visually, the images presented derive from an optimistic belief in the future… Stay curious. Move forward.“

Hiroshi Sato - In the Distance

January 22 - February 26, 2022

Reception: Thursday, February 3, 6 - 8 PM

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition In the Distance by California-based artist Hiroshi Sato. Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. Although he is best known for paintings of figures in interior and outdoor environments, he also paints refreshing still lifes. His work is inspired by realist masters of the past and present, including the likes of Cezanne, Hopper and Vermeer. Geometric print and design also fuse with his painterly depictions, underscoring his interest in the illusion of form and flatness of space. Sato aims to better understand the various states of consciousness within ourselves, and the ways in which mind and environment interact, which he explores through the visual medium. Subtle body language, harmonious color palettes and reflective states are emphasized. 

Emily Wood - Visiting the Familiar

December 2 - January 15

In “Visiting the Familiar,” Emily Wood finds solace in re-visiting places most known to her, seeking some sense of normalcy during the past year and a half. The hills of the Palouse, shores of the Oregon coast, and snowy foothills of the North Cascades provide rich subject matter for the artist, which she finds warmly familiar and continuously inspiring. 

Gregg Laananen |Opening the Mountain

November 4 - 27, 2021

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Opening the Mountain,” new paintings by Pacific Northwest artist Gregg Laananen. The work encapsulates a record of a soul's journey through a year of personal loss and grief. The images are not specifically about grieving, yet they are unified by the sensibilities of this emotional state. “Opening the Mountain,” refers to the richness, abundance, and creative perspective during this reflective time.

5 / 37
An Anniversary Show

October 7 - 30, 2021

Celebrating our 5th year as Harris Harvey Gallery and 37 years since
the gallery’s founding with a selection of favorites from our artists

Gary Faigin | The Age of Steam

September 2 - October 2, 2021

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Gary Faigin in the exhibition, “The Age of Steam.” Faigin, a Northwest artist and leading proponent of realist painting, focuses on the steam engine as the quintessential symbol of the Industrial Revolution. He depicts trains in a myriad of landscapes and fictional narratives, that beckon the train’s history as a fearsome and immensely powerful agent of change that linked coasts, devastated forests and buffalo herds, and even standardized time. Faigin’s paintings explore the two sides of this critical machine – its identity as a giant, mechanical sculpture which we cannot help but admire, and its capacity to forever alter the landscapes and people it encounters.

Terry Furchgott

Rebecca Luncan

Noelle Phares

New Paintings

July 1 - August 14, 2021

First Thursday Artists’ Reception - August 5th, 6 - 8pm

In the months of July and August, Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Terry Furchgott, Rebecca Luncan and Noelle Phares. Furchgott creates intimate narrative works and intricate still life paintings, notable for their depth of color and patterns. Luncan is a classically trained painter known for her eloquent, realist still lifes painted in miniature. Phares examines the tension between organic and synthetic elements in her contemporary landscapes.

Robert Schlegel | Around Town

Richard Hutter | Bokblomma

June 3 - 26, 2021

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions of new works by Robert Schlegel and Richard Hutter. “Around Town,’ is an exhibition of recent works by artist Robert Schlegel. Schlegel’s vibrant paintings and collages explore the tension between the representational and the abstract of subjects he sees in the natural world. "Bokblomma,” is a series of recent mixed media works by Seattle-based artist Richard Hutter. Hutter creates abstract works with a bold graphic sensibility often incorporating found imagery and technical diagrams.

New Views - A Group Exhibition

May 6 - 29, 2021

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present New Views - A Group Exhibition by Northwest and West Coast artists. The exhibition includes works created during times of change and rejuvenation for many artists. This gathering of works includes a multitude of unconventional viewpoints, styles and mediums.

Hart James

Peace of the Wild

April 1 - May 1, 2021

New oil paintings by Olympia-based artist Hart James imbue the spirit and energy of nature through her bold depictions—defining a sense of place. She captures reflections seen on still waters, dramatic landforms, cascading waterfalls amongst rugged rocks, and draping limbs in dark lush forests. A dynamic use of paint, applied with immediacy and without fuss, charges James' paintings with a balance of chaotic energy and orderly qualities mimicking that of the natural world.

Kathryn Altus

Wide Angle

 March 4-27, 2021

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Wide Angle,” an exhibition of new paintings by Seattle-area artist Kathryn Altus. The artist notes—If the day is clear, the human eye is capable of seeing very far into the distance. Altus is drawn to a vast landscape, taking in miles of land and water. The scale sets up a dramatic metaphor between the natural surroundings and human experience. Working mostly from memory, Altus uses the grandeur of Northwest topography as a point of departure to create landscapes and seascapes with a sense of near-infinite space. These ethereal works are rendered in strong, minimalist shapes and a contemporary palette of unexpected colors.

Into the Landscape

John Cole, Peter de Lory, John Lysak, Tara McDermott

February 4-27, 2021

In the month of February, Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Into the Landscape.” This exhibition focuses on the grandeur of nature and nature as a site of interaction, celebrating human presence in the landscape and the outdoors as a place of exploration for artists. Artworks by four Northwest artists - John Cole, Peter de Lory, John Lysak, and Tara McDermott – include mixed approaches of painting, printmaking and photography.

Christine Sharp | Revive

Carole Barrer | Transforming Light

January 7 - 30, 2021

New paintings by Christine Sharp interpret the landscape through the exploration of pattern, abstraction, and shape. Sharp observes and regenerates the natural world, translating scenes into vibrant swaths of color and fragmented shapes, all harmoniously blended.

Seattle-based artist Carole Barrer explores space and color through abstract meditations on nature. Alternating applications of complementary hues she increases the perceptual luminescence and complexity of each piece.

 RICHARD MORHOUS  |  Ode

December 3 – January 2

“Ode,” is an exhibition of new paintings by Seattle-based artist Richard Morhous. Emphasizing painterly qualities and expressionistic color, Morhous creates palpable, new explorations of pictorial space. Through interlocking shapes and dappled brushwork his paintings illustrate dynamic cityscapes, still life, and landscapes, rendering unordinary transformations of familiar subjects. The artist reveals, “This exhibition is an ode to shared experiences. Some transient, some forever gone, some eternal. The ephemeral beauty of life.”

Lois Silver | Topsy Turvy

October 1 – 31, 2020

Lois Silver creates vibrant narrative paintings that often depict emotive social encounters between animated characters at parties, musical performances, diners, and in outdoor environments.  At times jubilant, other times subdued or curious, her paintings portray private and personal entanglements that create visual tension between her characters. Other scenes are focused on solitary figures engrossed in highly personal moments of triumph, deep thought or isolation. Lois Silver’s signature sense of humor is well represented. Many of her characters can be observed in humorous cheeky acts, such as feeding the dog under the table, in “No Dogs Allowed.”

These dynamic, yet personal tableaux are influenced by the artist’s love of cinema. She often captures her figures in a specific moment of drama, mid-pose as if they are in a frame still of a movie. Silver is a master of capturing gestural mannerisms, a practice that is informed by her professional experience as a courtroom artist. Silver states, “This causes me to look at people differently and focus my attention on how character is revealed through body language and the quick gesture.”

WENDY THON | India – Dreaming the World

September 3 – 26

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “India – Dreaming the World,” an exhibition of new paintings and etchings by Seattle-based artist Wendy Thon. Thon explores daily rhythms and captivating environments found in India, evoking a rich visual reserve from her travels there. For the artist, India offers a vibrant experience; immersed in culture, history, architecture, art and bountiful color. In Thon’s paintings, various elements: people, animals, and birds in concert with sculpture, architecture, trees, and flowers— are enmeshed in lively conversation.

Influenced by her physical surroundings as well as an intense personal vision Thon creates a feeling of intimacy in her work. She is known for her imaginative narrative paintings that are often based on her travel experiences. The artist portrays human and animal figures in architectural scenes or landscapes that strongly emit the ambience and culture of the locale.

LISA SNOW LADY| Quiet Spaces

HIROSHI SATO | Flattening and Form

August 6 – 29

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present “Quiet Spaces,” new paintings by Seattle-based artist Lisa Snow Lady. Snow Lady’s paintings reflect the quiet charm in everyday spaces and elevate the ordinary into the sublime. She finds inspiration in taking daily neighborhood walks that inform her paintings depicting urban life, local parks, and abundant gardens. Architectural elements frequently make their way into her works serving as backdrops for the drama of the play of light. In seeking out these quieter places she respites from the busyness of urban life.

Also featured in the gallery is the exhibition “Flattening and Form,” new paintings by Hiroshi Sato, a California-based artist. Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. He draws influence from past and present artists including Vermeer, Degas, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper and Chuck Close. His work reveals his interest in geometric design principles of the old masters. Sato embodies a fragmented perception of cultural references as he was born in Japan, and grew up in Tanzania, East Africa. His personal knowledge of Japanese culture is like a book – only read underwater, while his memory of African culture appears somewhat like a hologram. Rather than attempting to discern order of the two in clear fragments, he is interested in the vagueness.

KAREN KOSOGLAD | Abstraction in the Real World

July 2 – August 1. 2020

Harris Harvey Gallery is pleased to present Abstraction in the Real World, new works by Karen Kosoglad. Re-examining her roots as a painter, Kosoglad explores gestural abstractions based on observations of the landscape and studio still lifes, while merging her long-standing focus on the human figure into a new body of work. Her expressive style, which employs contour lines, painterly marks, and a moody color palette of bright, warm colors mixed with dark hues, exudes a mysterious harmony and contemplative attitude. Regardless of subject matter, her bold compositions show a dynamic pulling and pushing between representation and pure abstraction, induced with unexpected syncopated rhythms of form and weight. Kosoglad meets abstraction in the real world—layers of complexity and emotion are revealed in her work. The artist directly observes her real-life subjects, yet unravels that reality into visceral relationships between organic shapes and gestures.