Wait for it…A peek at a few of the works showing at The Greg Kucera Gallery til March 30th. Gallery hours at Tuesday-Saturday 10:30am-5:30pm
I am so grateful that the show has been so widely received. It’s rejuvenated to see our community light up! Fellow artists are sending me remarkable responses. Here is one from @soohongartist
“You make ghostly effect with heavy load of paint. That is quite a mystery. I feel you love a somewhere/space that people don’t seem to pay attention to(abandoned?). Then you point out this space with colors that need love and care. Your paint is a touch of care? I saw transitions and morphs of figures. Almost like they are spirits…in that no name space that there is still love. You have love for this place/earth. It made me ponder a day after. I didn’t feel it right away when I saw it. The feeling is lingering and still does. “
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You want some paint? I do! “Then is Now” @gregkuceragallery will run this Thursday to end of June. Opening first Thursday June 4th 6-8 Pioneer Square Art Walk, Seattle. Artist talk is Saturday June 6th at 12:00.
Thank you @amandamanitach@thestrangerseattle for the perceptive write up!
Link to the show is in my profile 🎨🎨
“Then is Now” Oil Paintings by Drie Chapek opens at the @gregkuceragallery June 4th 6-8 for Pioneer Square first Thursday. The work is up May 21-June 27th
One overarching truth I’m often reminded of throughout this series of photographing artists is that this community is teeming with fantastically vulnerable people who are gritty and resolute. As small business owners, there is an inherent self-containment associated with each of them, a silo of method, production, and self-promotion. And yet this supportive unity is resounding. There is mentorship. There is solicited peer directness and advice. There is empathetic commiseration. There is a collective celebration of works completed and unfinished. There is a natural rooting interest in one another that you don’t often find in any given industry of labor or lifestyle. I was reminded of that in speaking with @drie_chapek about her journey as an artist and her role in the greater PNW art community.
I was greeted warmly and shown to her spacious garage studio in Edmonds. There’s a perceptible ease when conversing with certain people, and that definitely applies to Drie. Wood racks hold a collection of her previous works, while those still in progress hang on the adjacent wall. I look upon the layered abstractions, the permissible dreamscapes she constructs. Impasto billows stretching across one another. Discernible shapes that then intersperse and dissolve into color. They could be biographical landmarks, forms of classic works that inspire. I have questions about her method, but more so about their meaning. Enfolded within the swaths of pigment are unraveled memories, clashings of pain and of joy, shifting crests that restore and haunt. And Drie can speak to each marking and its place, its affect. An intimate account of her world lies within the archives of her paintings.
She then showed me into her home, where the walls are carefully bestrewn with works from artists, local and widespread. Friends. Mentors. Peers. She has invested in them. Drie envelops herself and her household in the embrace of artists that she knows and supports. It is an uplifting and inspiring opportunity to meet individuals, like Drie, whose work and lives are so entwined and imbued with this rich spirit of community.
2019, My first solo show with @gregkuceragallery . I’m in the last weeks of preparing work for my fourth solo exhibition in this space of culture and creativity. I hope to see you at the opening June first Thursday art walk or at the artist talk Saturday June 6th at noon. If you haven’t been to one of my talks yet, I’d love to encourage you to join us. I’ve been told that speaking about my work is a skill of mine. I’d be honored to share it with you. Show runs May 21-June 25
Seattle, the Butoh festival is this weekend! Powerful dance with artist creativity. @ahava_somatics , remarkable healer and performer will be working with the power of the female body in relationship to my paintings as well as @khadoma_colomby painting on Sunday at 8:00. Grateful to have my work brought into this powerful art form. Tickets through @daipanbutoh
This is a creative, inspiring show conceived of and brought to you by our brilliant Gallerists of @amce.creative.arts and @koplindelrio . They wanted to work together in a collaboration, and so they offered for Artist pairs to work together on collaborations as well. There are so many great works of art that just would not exist if it weren’t for this goal. Cooperative work in a world that is working on cooperation. Such good medicine. And really Outstanding pieces in this show. I will see you for the opening next Sunday 3-5 at AMCE in Capitol Hill.
My daughter is trying to learn how to make a song. I texted her this message and thought maybe others will find it helpful as well.
These works are all 52” x 48” oil paint and acrylic pain on canvas 2017-2024.
Self and the Whole Dawn
Oil paint on Canvas
60” x 78”
2022-2025
I work from a space of curiosity. Laying out images of my current experiences, coexisting with historical art references. I never know how they will turn out or what the lesson is. This one has come to show the pleasure in the space of self sacrifice. Giving of myself to the demands of supporting others has gifted me experiences of play and exploration of Washington state with a childlike innocence of discovery of place.
