Shift Gallery

We are excited to welcome you to Shift Gallery May 7-30 for Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s new show Always-and-continuously opening this first Thursday, May 7th at 5pm. Please join us for the following events: Saturday, May 23, 11-4: Small works ceramics pop-up sale Saturday, May 30, 2-4 pm: Artists’ Talk with Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante. Moderator Stephanie Krimmel/Closing Event Shift Gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays, 11am-4pm, plus extended hours on First Thursdays and for special events. In order of carousel: Anna Macrae, recollections, plaster, chair, ceramic, mixed media, 13 x 8 x 2 inches, 2026 Flora Ramirez-Bustamante, Castalia, 2025-2026, oil on canvas, 48” x 24” x 0.75” #pioneersquareartwalk #floraramirezbustamante #shiftgalleryseattle #annamacrae

Greece on my mind… Europa and the Bull, 2026 Oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches Aphrodite Anadyomene (Rising from the sea), 2026 Oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches both at @shiftgallery.seattle through May 30 🌀 Always-and-continuously is an exhibit in cooperation with @annamacrae_art 🍃 Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s work plays with ambiguities that reference interiority, accumulation, history, and humor. Whether through painting, vessels, or sculptural forms, each piece in this exhibition contributes to a broader, fragmented narrative—sometimes chaotic, always eclectic —that shapes the personal imaginary of these two European artists. Their work invites us into a lyrical and symbolic conversation with the domestic and the memories that are embedded within the surface. 📍SHIFT GALLERY, 312 S. Washington Street, Seattle. Open Friday and Saturday, 11 am - 4 pm #floraramirezbustamante #takeover #greekmythology #alwaysandcontinously #seattleart

. here at the gallery cloudy, quiet day the vase that @stephaniehargrave3757 brought is still here … bells will be announcing happy moments soon outside sirens, some people running my still life paintings are at the Shift Gallery through May 30… colorful, brilliant things in our lives… they are company, light, hope, connection, life 📍Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St., Seattle. Opens Friday & Saturday, 11 am - 4 pm #stilllife #seattleart #artisttakeover #alwaysandcontinously #floraramirezbustamante

. here is the poem Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara. I think of this poem as revealing a particular style of painting—a process that is always changing, at times chaotic and at times serene—while also exposing the irony behind the creative process: a work built on layers upon layers, perhaps incomprehensible or invisible to the viewer or the reader… and here is my work, ‘Blessed’, oil on canvas a couple and a fractured young girl at a table, watched over by two small horses, loving love (the true one)… I read this painting, on its last layer, as an image on the relationship of mental illness and family—a continuing conversation about a situation with no winners, where all of us lose… where all of us are blessed, innocents… it is @shifgallery.seattle in Seattle until Saturday 30th May so please do drop in… . 📍Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St., Seattle. Opens Friday & Sat, 11am-4pm #floraramirezbustamante #alwaysandcontinously #seattleart #FrankOHara #mentalillness

. … continuing my previos takeover, some of you asked about the materials I use to deconstruct. . … and I am thinking that my deconstructions are not always exactly physical or purposeful, but a long process happening overtime…. . In my still life practice, I preserve the forms of vessels and vases as they emerge on the canvas. I translate these shapes onto paper, where they are archived and carried forward. While they may not remain within a single painting, they reappear across others, forming a continuous visual language…. . … these paper forms are then cut into wood or plywood. I retain the offcuts—the remnants of each gesture—and work them further, primarily through sanding. Once painted, they become part of the installation, which brings together only a selection of these evolving forms, that include vases, sides of imaginary frames, handles… . The ceramic elements originate from my work in a ceramic studio. Like the wooden pieces, they are fragments of something unresolved, traces of an absent whole. I approach them as relics, recomposing them in a manner akin to an archaeological site, where meaning is assembled through fragments, absence, and time. And rather random images of vessels in different formats, on different times… . 📍Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St., Seattle. Opens Friday & Sat, 11am-4pm #floraramirezbustamante #alwaysandcontinously #seattleart #artisttakeover #installationart

. starting out… I moved from Madrid (Spain) to the Seattle area in February 2001. I was 41 and started working at an IT company for the first time after being at the university in Madrid for many years. I knew no one here. I thought this would help me build a more financially stable life. . I rented an apartment in Kirkland and started attending oil painting classes at the Kirkland Arts Center @kirklandartscenter for many years. My father was a painter and an art maker. From him, I was given permission to be fearless, audacious, resilient—an artist. I worked and painted alone for many years, and I also made wonderful friends. . And this is how I started painting and expanding my creative wonder as a maker: figurative art, abstract art, 3D objects. . 🌀 Always—and continuously—making, practicing, painting, thinking, seeing art, reading art, beginning. 🌀 🏺I came across Betty Woodman many years ago through her daughter, Francesca Woodman. Betty was an American ceramic artist known for turning pottery into bold contemporary art. To me, she transformed ceramics into bold paintings. Here is Betty in front of her Il Giardino Dipinto, 1993 (glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, paint, 108 x 420 inches.) @woodmanfoundation I started deconstructing still lifes last year with this red vase on a pedestal (last picture.) Her influence in my installation ✨The Vase Garden✨, now on view at Shift Gallery @shiftgallery.seattle , is clear. My way is the other way around: I go from painting still lifes to deconstructing them—not only the objects that are represented, but also the object of still life itself: frame and descriptive elements, using the wall as a white canvas. . The Vase Garden, 2026. Plywood, wood, oils, ceramic, 5 feet. . 🍃Always-and-continuously is at Shift Gallery through May 30. . 📌 Saturday, May 30, 2-4pm: Artists talk. . This exhibit is showed in collaboration with Anna Macrae @annamacrae_art . . 📍Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St., Seattle. Opens Friday & Sat, 11am-4pm #floraramirezbustamante #alwaysandcontinously #seattleart #artisttakeover #installationart

. Seattle Shift Gallery’s Monday Montage 🍃 Celebrating artists’ collaborations . 📍 Stephanie Krimmel & Amanda Triplett, Larry Calkins & Becky Street, Anna Macrae & Flora Ramirez-Bustamante . #shiftgalleryseattle #pnwartists #seattleartgallery #contemporaryart #shiftgallerymondaymontage

@floraramirezbustamante gallery sitting on this beautiful Saturday. Stop by Shift Gallery next weekend Friday and Saturday 11am-4pm or by appointment to see her two person show with @annamacrae_art ✨ @pioneersquare #shiftgalleryseattle #pioneersquare #seattleart

Always-and-Continuously Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante May 7 – 30, 2026. Saturday, May 23, 11-4: Small works pop-up sale Saturday, May 30, 2-4 pm: Artists’ Talk with Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante. Moderator Stephanie Krimmel/Closing Event We are open Fridays and Saturdays from 11am - 4pm and by appointment. Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s work plays with ambiguities that reference interiority, accumulation, history, and humor. Whether through painting, vessels, or sculptural forms, each piece in this exhibition contributes to a broader, fragmented narrative—sometimes chaotic, always eclectic —that shapes the personal imaginary of these two European artists. Their work invites us into a lyrical and symbolic conversation with the domestic and the memories that are embedded within the surface. Anna Macrae, recollections, plaster, chair, ceramic, mixed media, 13 x 8 x 2 inches, 2026 @floraramirezbustamante @annamacrae_art @pioneersquare @allianceforpioneersquare @shiftgallery.seattle #pioneersquareartwalk #pioneersquare @seattleartsource

Always-and-Continuously Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante May 7 – 30, 2026. Saturday, May 23, 11-4: Small works pop-up sale Saturday, May 30, 2-4 pm: Artists’ Talk with Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante. Moderator Stephanie Krimmel/Closing Event We are open Fridays and Saturdays from 11am - 4pm and by appointment. Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s work plays with ambiguities that reference interiority, accumulation, history, and humor. Whether through painting, vessels, or sculptural forms, each piece in this exhibition contributes to a broader, fragmented narrative—sometimes chaotic, always eclectic —that shapes the personal imaginary of these two European artists. Their work invites us into a lyrical and symbolic conversation with the domestic and the memories that are embedded within the surface. Flora Ramirez-Bustamante, Window, 2023-2025, oil on canvas, 20.5” x 16.5” x 0.75” @floraramirezbustamante @annamacrae_art @pioneersquare @allianceforpioneersquare @shiftgallery.seattle #pioneersquareartwalk #pioneersquare @seattleartsource

Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante | Always-and-continuously May 7 – 30, 2026 Opening/First Thursday Art Walk: May 7, 5-8 pm Saturday, May 23, 11-4: Small works ceramics pop-up sale Saturday, May 30, 2-4 pm: Artists’ Talk with Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante. Moderator Stephanie Krimmel/Closing Event @Shiftgallery.seattle 312 S Washington St, Seattle Shift is in the Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex in Pioneer Sq Hours: Fri & Sat 11-4p or by appointment #pioneersquareseattle #pnwartist #seattleart #contemporaryart #artgallery

Join us next Thursday for the opening of Anna Macrae and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s Always-and-continuously! See you there!