CORE 2025
Exhibiting compelling art created by local artists!
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6
and by appointment
CORE Solo Exhibitions on view
through May 31st, 2025
Pioneer Square Art Walk & Artist
Reception:
May 1st from 6-8pm
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
DON’T LOOK
Ann-Marie Stillion
"Revising history is one of the hallmarks of a dictatorship." - M H
I can see that as a woman, I was never really in the timeline of history—perhaps tangentially, but nothing more. I can help, give birth, play with lovely things, cook and clean. But I was never meant to lead or rule or be anything significant due to my gender. The recent move by the Trump administration to eliminate the words "women" and “female” in its writings makes this clear.
Simply taking charge of the male body, as I do when I photograph men, has been very satisfying. My work puts something in the world that wasn't there before. I don't render men as real. They are projections of a world I would prefer to live in.
One of the works in the exhibit, “DON’T LOOK” uses a photograph I made years ago at Eagle Falls. It was a gorgeous setting, and I recalled the photographer Edward Weston in its original title. When I posted it on social media, it was censored immediately. Placing words over the man's genitals made it acceptable when I reposted it later.
Women's bodies are shared in every imaginable way, but return the favor and you will find out immediately that men don't want to be seen and everyone has an objection of some kind. So I have continued.
All images © 2025 Ann-Marie Stillion / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
DAILY GLIMMERS
Lynne Conrad Marvet
I am attracted to and emotionally moved by the things that I photograph. What is see nourishes and replenishes me. It is different from mundane visual perception of the world, There is some kind of spark, shimmer or glimmer of inspiration. I often experience a sense of amazement, wonder, and stillness beyond words, concepts, and thoughts. I know that what I see is fleeting, temporary, and can never be seen in the same way again. That light, time of day, and atmosphere are in constant flux.
Some days I may experience one or more "glimmers". At other times, I do not see "glimmers" at all. Perhaps daily glimmers are offered by the phenomenal world as reminders that everything changes. "Nothing endures but change." (Heraclitus)
Abstract photographs and mixed media offering glimmers -- brief moments that interrupt discursiveness, attract attention, and offer delight, curiosity, ease.
