CORE 2025
Exhibiting compelling art created by local artists!
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6
and by appointment
CORE Solo Exhibitions on view
through August 31st, 2025
Pioneer Square Art Walk & Artist
Reception:
August 7th from 6-8pm
CORE is thrilled to participate in the second annual
Art + Culture Week from September 20 - 27, 2025
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With generous support from 4Culture, CORE gallery has weathered the challenges of the pandemic. Our door remains open and walls filled with innovative art created by local artists! Thank you 4Culture!
CORE Gallery Artists
EXPIREMENTS
Lynn Schirmer
Experiments is a double entendre. Although I love oil paint, I have a terrible reaction to any kind of solvent, so I experimented with open acrylics. I also love to draw at life size scale, but the media I prefer is temperamental and prone to buckling. I found and experimented with a new paper that doesn't wrinkle.
Discovering the other meaning of "Experiments" is wholly up to you, the viewer. This is visual communication. The work either does its job, or not, or somewhere in between. The meaning lies in whatever it evokes in you, and that is up to you and your experience.
If you are curious as to my inspiration for the blended figure imagery, there is extensive biographical information on my website(s). Suffering is part of the human condition. It’s what we do with it that counts. I hope my work also evidences resilience and love, and touches on other universal truths.
The choice is yours. Enjoy the show.
Image: Indexing, oil on canvas, 28x22 inches, 2025
GHOST IN THE MACHINE
Jessica Dodge
Many years ago, for several years, I was part of an annual residency of artists visiting the Duwamish River basin to create art in response to, and learn more about, this fascinating area in our own backyard. One thing we often incorporated into our time there each year was making art in the decommissioned Georgetown Steam Plant.
Whenever I was working in the GSP, I was struck by a feeling of the lingering presence of the people who had built that brilliant grid of pipe, stoked the furnaces, and kept the steam flowing through those enormous generators to produce power for the homes and businesses of the region.
In 2014/2015 I conceived, with the invaluable help of the marvelous photographer Steven Miller, a short film I called "Ghost in the Machine" to evoke those unknown workers' spirits that seem to still inhabit that arcane facility; it has never been shown anywhere, till now.
Recently, I recalled this little film, and it wove together with thoughts I was already having about the hidden forces behind the winds of influence and habit, comfort and anxiety, that permeate our modern existence and so, in addition to the short film, there are a variety of my free-wheelin' visual takes on the subject.
Most of the paintings in this show were created over the last couple of months, a few are from earlier eras of my work, but the underlying thread that connects them is the exploration of an unseen, but often keenly felt, animating spirit behind seemingly ordinary occurrences, and whatever shared sense of reality we still retain.
Image: I Am What You Get When, reverse oil painting on glass, 23" x 19", 2025
