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CORE 2025 
Exhibiting compelling art created by local artists!
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturd
ay 12 - 6
and by appointment

CORE Solo Exhibitions on view

through July 26th, 2025

Pioneer Square Art Walk & Artist

Reception:

July 3rd from 6-8pm

Art Fair CORE Gallery Hours:

Friday, July 18th 12-9pm

Open to the public at CORE: Artist Talk and Live Music:

July 26th 2-5pm

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

SYNERGIA

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Artist talk & live music July 26th, 2-5

Andrea K. Lawson and Nancy Lawson Carcione, will discuss Synergia, Andrea’s artistic process, journey and the evolution of her new lichen inspired series, with Q and A.

Followed by Live music! WB Reid and Bonnie Zahnow’s traditional fiddle tunes and songs!

Andrea K. Lawson

A solo exhibition of new work inspired by lichen and symbiosis

 

Before my family retreated from the flood prone tidelands of the Tsetsibus shoreline in Port Hadlock to the woodlands of Marrowstone Island, my paintings series Light Hours focused on changing light on sea and sky over seasons of time. Now, in the woods, the green light of the forest fills my eyes and my attention. I have turned from the horizon to focus on the microcosm of plants and minutiae of forest lichen.

 

Thousands of species of lichen can be  found in the Northwest on twigs, logs, rocks, walls, and statues, in an amazing variety of forms and colors. Neither plant nor animal, lichen are a unique life form, a reciprocal community of algae and fungi. Mesmerized by these communities, I began transforming minute observations of lichen into layers of vibrant gestures using paint, mixed media, and my own abstract visual language. My prints are etched with ferric chloride on copper plates. I experiment with non-toxic techniques to create texture using household ingredients like coffee, sand paper, sugar, and snack chip bags. Often, I purposely let the edges of my plates corrode, yielding an organic edge. While traditionally the etched metal plates can withstand the pressure of multiple printings to create editions of identical numbered prints, I enjoy playing with colored ink in combination with monotypes, stencils, or mixed media, more often producing one of a kind original prints.

 

In my new exhibition, Synergia, I’m compelled to express the profound symbiotic relationship that I feel is missing in our human world, which has been expressed for eons in the microworld of lichen.

Lichen are beings who are more than the sum of their parts, a comingling of wonder living in community. Might they teach us about an imaginable un-hierarchical world of peace and beauty? Could we humans dare to turn our darkness into an epiphany? Can we venture into a world where we live together and find solutions to harmonize with each other and our planet?

 BECOMING

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Michelle Smith-Lewis

A continuation of the "Be Well" series. This new work represents the next phase of my personal journey, focusing on self-reflection, healing, and redefining my sense of self.

 

Similar to the "Be Well" works, my primary inspiration for "Becoming" stems from my garden. Through this new series of images, I aim to visually express my thoughts, dreams, and personal growth.

 

The intentional smaller size of the pieces invites viewers to engage with them intimately, as if they are private moments for quiet contemplation and close examination.

 

Ultimately, "Becoming" represents the transitional phase between who I am in this present moment and the person I am evolving into.

117 Prefontaine Place South

Seattle WA 98104

 

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Wednesday – Saturday 

12:00 – 6:00 P.M.

206-467-4444


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Duwamish Land Acknowledgement:

CORE Gallery would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present and honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.

CORE is an Associated Program of 

 

Shunpike is a 501(c)(3) non-profit art service organization whose mission is to strengthen the Seattle arts community by partnering with small and mid-size arts groups to develop the business tools they need to succeed. 

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