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Earth Sign 🌀 . Last weekend I had a lovely chat with artist and designer @g_stromberg about his latest body of work on exhibit at @studioegallery . . I love talking art with Gabriel because we usually end up talking about so many other things… this time, we got into the division (or not) between art and design, his long history of working with clay and sculpture, the handmade and the AI, astrology (yes, he is an Earth sign), and how the landscapes of our childhoods somehow stay rooted within us always. . Thank you @g_stromberg and @studioegallery for having me, and for everyone who came to our talk and asked such thoughtful questions! 💛

⭐ Artist Talk TOMORROW! ⭐ Saturday, May 9, 3–4pm Join us tomorrow for an artist talk and the final day of Gabriel Stromberg's exhibition, Earth Sign. Free and open to the public! Gabriel will be joined by Lauren Gallow to discuss pairings like these two ceramic works among others, including collages. Lauren Gallow @desert.ren writes about art and the many ways it shapes our experience of the world. A Seattle-based journalist, she covers contemporary art, design and architecture for outlets around the world, including The New York Times, Dwell, Cultured, The Art Newspaper, Artforum and more. She is also an Editorial Advisor for local design journal ARCADE. Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026

Pick up a zine at tomorrow’s Artist Talk! 😍 Made by Gabriel Stromberg, these mementos share a short personal story connected to the works in the exhibition, exploring design, collage clippings and some inspirations behind the show. Join us tomorrow! Saturday, May 8, from 3-4 PM where Gabriel Stromberg will be in conversation with Lauren Gallow @desert.ren

Repost: We had a typo with a previous month listed 😭 Post corrected! *Saturday, May 9, 3–4 PM Join us next week for an artist talk and the final day of Gabriel Stromberg's exhibition, Earth Sign. Free and open to the public! Gabriel will be joined by Lauren Gallow to discuss his ceramic work, collages, and how personal memory has made its way into the work. Lauren Gallow @desert.ren writes about art and the many ways it shapes our experience of the world. A Seattle-based journalist, she covers contemporary art, design and architecture for outlets around the world, including The New York Times, Dwell, Cultured, The Art Newspaper, Artforum and more. She is also an Editorial Advisor for local design journal ARCADE. Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026

Taken from a passage in Gabriel Stromberg’s zine, he recounts a memory tied to the ceramic snake in the show. "Hunting for seashells at the place where the tide breaks. Orange stripes on a scotch bonnet half buried in the sand. Only the most perfect ones are kept-taken home and dried on the windowsill, broken sand dollars and angel wings. Crossing through the talus slopes, we skipped from rock to rock. As you jumped across a stone crevice, a rattler leapt up in midair like a lightning bolt, snapping at your heels. The snake that almost bit you. Walking across the empty lot toward the small shack with the broken door where we lived for almost two years. I always hated that house; yet, it's the only place that I can remember." Artwork: The Snake that Almost Bit You, 2025 Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026 Artist Talk with Lauren Gallow: May 9, 3-4pm

It's bittersweet to say goodbye, but we're excited for what's to come for our vatican curator, Jennifer Fernandez. To honor her tenure we did a short little interview of her experience curating the mini gallery. __ Jennifer Fernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Shoreline, Washington. Fernandez's work includes sculpture, painting, and writing. She is the recipient of various grants and awards for her artwork and in 2021 her creative nonfiction piece "The Cuban Brown Rabbit" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently working towards her MFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. www.jfernandez.art @jfernandez_art

📅 Upcoming Artist Talk! Saturday, May 9, 3-4pm Mark your calendars! Sit in and listen to Gabriel Stromberg @g_stromberg in conversation with Lauren Gallow @desert.ren about his recent body of work, Earth Sign. Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026 If you haven't seen the exhibition yet, stop by for a visit or view the link in our bio. Hours: Thurs-Sat, 11am-5pm Photo Credit: James Arzente @arzentefineartphotographer

Clay is central to the work both materially and conceptually. As a substance drawn from the earth, it carries a direct physical connection to nature. Its transformation through construction and firing—from soft and malleable to solid and permanent—parallels the process of memory itself. Fleeting impressions become fixed over time, taking on lasting permanence. Earth Sign April 9 - extended to and artist talk on May 9, 2026 Artworks: Gabriel Stromberg, Sub Rosa I, II, & III, 2025 Photo Credit for Image 6: James Arzente @arzentefineartphotographer

Exhibiting Artist Highlight, Gabriel Stromberg Gabriel Stromberg is a Seattle-based artist, designer, and educator whose work bridges visual culture, history, and contemporary design practice. In 2008, he co-founded the design firm Civilization, serving as the studio’s creative director and lead designer until 2022. During his tenure, Civilization received numerous honors—including two HOW Design Awards, the Print Magazine Regional Design Award, a Webby, and the 2018 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award for Communication Design. Now working independently, Stromberg collaborates with institutions and organizations such as the Biennale of Sydney, the Museum for Art in Wood, the Newark Museum of Art, and the Gates Foundation. His work is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. He teaches design history at Seattle Central Creative Academy and brand design at the University of Washington. Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026 Stop by for a visit and view the exhibition online with the link in our bio.

✨ New Exhibition Now OPEN ✨ We are pleased to open the doors to our new exhibition Earth Sign, featuring new work from Gabriel Stromberg. Stop in for a visit and get an up close look at the various shapes and colors of ceramics and collages. Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 9, 2026 Hours: Thurs-Sat, 11am-5pm

Rather than depicting subjects directly, Stromberg translates them into elemental forms and abstracted tableaux. A curve suggests a shoreline. Individual pieces resemble objects that might have been found and kept, their significance rooted in a sense of time and location. The works are constructed through a process of assembling, echoing the idea of collecting and preserving. Stromberg’s training as a graphic designer informs this approach. He relies on the basic vocabulary of shape, color, and composition to communicate how experience is reduced, organized, and ultimately remembered. Stop by for a visit, Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April1 9 - May 9, 2026 Artworks: Gabriel Stromberg, Nature Study I, 2024, Collage Gabriel Stromberg, Corsage, 2025, Glazed ceramic, cotton, wood

Opening Reception: Tomorrow! 04/11 5-7pm 😮 Gabriel Stromberg: Earth Sign April 9 - May 2, 2026 @g_stromberg In his latest exhibition Earth Sign, Seattle-based artist and designer Gabriel Stromberg explores how material and form can convey stories of memory, place, and provenance. In a series of ceramic sculptures and accompanying collages, medium serves as testimony—giving physical shape to the process of recollection. Informed in part by his early life growing up in rural communities along the Gulf Coast, the works in Earth Sign evoke elements from these past environments—landscapes, waterways, interiors. Artifacts, objects, and shifting landforms are distilled into simplified sculptural compositions that emphasize pattern, accumulation, erosion, and growth.