Last week we told you about a thief who stole a small painting off the wall at Tasty art gallery, 7513 Greenwood Ave. N. The painting was one of three in a series.
Well, Tasty owner Sheri Hauser tells us that a PhinneyWood reader who saw the story attended the Friday night Greenwood-Phinney Artwalk and bought the remaining two paintings by artist Joel Scholten, and commissioned Scholten to create a new painting to take the place of the stolen art.
Peter purchased the two yellow bird paintings in the background that were created by artist Joel Scholten.
Below is the stolen painting, titled “Heartless.” It is still missing.
The big annual Greenwood-Phinney Artwalk kicked off Friday night with a ton of art, live music and other entertainment as hundreds of people strolled Greenwood and Phinney avenues. The artwalk continues from 12-5 p.m. Saturday.
The Bubbleman entertained the kids outside of Metropolis at Greenwood and 74th.
The Greenwood Library put out a huge bucket of chalk so people’s imaginations could run wild.
Lisa Geertsen of Firelight Forge makes a marshmallow holder in the front yard of The Yard Cafe at 8313 Greenwood Ave. N., which is set to open next Thursday.
Broadview Thomson K-8 school, just north of Greenwood, is hosting its third annual student artwalk from 6-8 p.m. Thursday. The artwalk celebrates Seattle artists Jacob Lawrence and Jimi Hendrix.
This school year all classes participated in experiences supporting the study of our featured artists. Broadview Thomson K-8 partnered with both the Experience Music Project and Seattle Art Museum to create innovative arts experiences for our students.
As a result our Artwalk will offer a variety of projects inspired by Jacob Lawrence and Jimi Hendrix. Student performances will include drama, dance, music and poetry. Visual arts created by our students will be displayed throughout the halls.
Please come join our celebration of the arts!!!
Broadview-Thomson K-8 is at 13052 Greenwood Ave N.
Nearly three dozen art galleries and businesses are participating in Friday night’s monthly Art Up art walk in Greenwood-Phinney. The art walk is officially open from 6-9 p.m., but some businesses stay open later.
Click here for a full list of participating businesses and artists. Here are a few highlights:
At Gainsbourg, 8550 Greenwood Ave. N., meet Seattle artist Jose Rodriquez III, who paints landscapes, animals, and the female form, ranging from fantasy to realism (below).
“Monsters & Aliens” at Bherd Studios Gallery, inside the Greenwood Collective, 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., Suite 1, was curated by 7-year-old art lover Zinn Bellevie.
Monkey Grind Espresso, 518 N. 85th St., features artist and illustrator Celia Baker, showing a collection of portraits and stylistic letters painted on recycled wood.
The Phinney Art Gallery at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., is showcasing the Gage Academy of Art Atelier Exhibition, featuring students of the Drawing and Painting, Still Life, and Classical Ateliers (below).
At Rockwell Realty, 8315 Greenwood Ave. N., neighborhood minister-turned-artist Marty Gordon tries to answer the question, “What would Jesus glue?” with his collages of retro imagery and comic book commentary.
Top Ten Toys at 104 N. 85th St. joins the art walk with an open arts and crafts table from 6-8 p.m. They’ll have paper, glue, feathers, sparkles, clay and fabric for kids to create their own art. And they’ll give you 15 percent off arts and crafts supplies during the art walk.
Time again for the monthly Greenwood-Phinney Art Up Artwalk, from 6-9 p.m. Friday. Dozens of local art galleries and other businesses will be open late with all kinds of different mediums of art to help fill your Christmas wish lists.
Here’s a very small sampling. For the full list of participating businesses, check out the Artwalk website.
Echo Echo Gallery, inside the Greenwood Collective at 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., Suite 1, features artists Jeremiah Hammer (dear earthling), Andy Kline, and Chris Olson in the urban contemporary genre.
Assembly Gallery & Studio at 7406 Greenwood Ave. N. celebrates its one-year anniversary with art by Jessica Swift and cupcakes from Trophy Cupcakes.
Tasty at 7513 Greenwood Ave. N. presents opening night of “Gifted,” with original art and gifts from $1-$200 from more than 50 NW designers. Plus, Santa will be there for photos from 6-8 p.m. Tasty will be open late until 10 p.m.
Phinney Ridge Cabinet Company at 8003 Greenwood Ave. N. is hosting artists Gaege Erickson and Carter Herrington, who are selling off a huge inventory before moving to California.
Local children’s authors and illustrators will be at Greenwood Sip & Ship, 8560 Greenwood Ave. N. for readings and signings from 6:30-8:30 p.m. “Larry Gets Lost” and “Washington Doodles” author/illustrator John Skewes will be there, along with the two Seattle dads who created “Edsel McFarlan’s New Car,” author Max Holechek and illustrator Darrell Toland. Book reading and signing.
This month’s Art Up Artwalk on Friday evening will be a little bigger than usual, as several local venues are participating in a month-long, Puget Sound region-wide arts festival called Arts Crush (see yesterday’s post for more on Arts Crush participants and dates).
Thirty-six Phinney-Greenwood businesses are participating in the Artwalk from 6-9 p.m. (a few are celebrating until 10 p.m.) Here is a small sample of participants. For the complete list, see the Art Up website with artist descriptions and a map.
Oliver’s Twist, 6822 Greenwood Ave. N., features acrylic and graphite on wood art by Cheryl Robinson (below).
Avanti Art & Design, 7317 Greenwood Ave. N., features photography by Doug Rosenoff, Shelly Cohen and Dewain Gauntett, multi-media by Wendy Keen, printmaking & multi-media by Emmalee Bozek, illuminated sculpture by Leo Schmidt, and glass and painting by Nancy Fiala.
Assemble Gallery & Studio, 7406 Greenwood Ave. N., is hosting artist Elizabeth Soule’s exhibition, “The Little Zoo,” of Polaroid images shot with an SX-70 camera, which shows toy animals in staged environments (below).
The Chocolate Shoe Box, 7410 Greenwood Ave. N., has mixed-media patterned and nature-oriented pieces by vegan painter Angela Scott.
Couth Buzzard Books, 8310 Greenwood Ave. N., features paintings, photography and sculpture by Stacy Schonhardt, Roger Willsie, TV-TommyVision, Kelly Davis, Sylvia Stout, Joseph Sturm and Ann Burglund.
In The Red Wine Bar & Café, 6510 Phinney Ave. N., has “stark, tortured, primal color portraitures” by Emily Cadwell (below).
Gainsbourg, 8550 Greenwood Ave. N., features Portland photographer Lloyd Kimeldorf.
Drawn to the Surrealist movement at an early age, Kimeldorf developed a visual curiosity which still influences his way of seeing. While taking classes in film making, he became intrigued with his current medium, still photography. He creates and captures singular frames, each describing a fully formed moment within a story … explicit, but leaving the rest up to the viewer to decide. His body of work consists of three collections: portraits, nudes, and concept pieces. Sometimes surreal, or comical, and often dramatic, Lloyd’s work is inspired by a cast of ground-breaking photographers, such as Man Ray and Helmut Newton.
Makeda Coffee, 153 N. 78th St., has photography by Keith Slawson and live Brazilian music by Choro Loco.
Rockwell Realty, 8315 Greenwood Ave. N., has “large-scale atmospheric oil paintings inspired by travel” by Jeremy Kronbach (below).
Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., is showcasing juror’s picks from The Northwest Fine Arts Competition, an annual competition find innovative and talented local emerging artists working in all media. Featured artists include: Paul McKee (the competition winner), John Armstrong, Jo Braun, Minh Carrico, Monika Dalkin, Sue Danielson, Shannon Durbin, Julia Haack, Tyler Kimball, Thomas Krueger, David McCrae, Jean Miller, Stan Raucher, Todd Smith, Tamara Stephas, Betty Udesen, and Suze Woolf.
Several businesses are offering specials during the Artwalk.
Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., is offering a two-for-one Date Night at “Wedding Belles”
Bleacher’s Pub, 8118 Greenwood Ave. N., offers a discounted appetizer or entrée.
Carmelita, 7314 Greenwood Ave. N., has a $5 happy hour menu all night.
Emma Jean’s Consignments & Antiques, 8554 ½ Greenwood Ave. N., offers 30-50 percent off during every art wal.!
Gaspare Ristorante and Bar, 6705 Greenwood Ave. N., offers a three-course Italian meal for $22, plus Fresh Mint Mojitos and Bellinis for $5 each all night.
The Olive & Grape, 8516 Greenwood Ave. N., will have olive oil tastings all night.
Friday was a nice night for the monthly Greenwood-Phinney Artwalk (until that brief rain shower about 8:15 that soaked us as we were walking home). Here are some highlights, but since we only made it to a few places, if you’ve got nice photos of other artists and their work, please email them to us and we’ll post them.
At Yvonne Palermo Gallery inside the Greenwood Collective at 8537 Greenwood Ave. N. Suite 1, artist Nick Beery had an interesting take on one of our favorite Muppets.
Inside Urban Light Studios at the Greenwood Collective, Breanne Boland drew “historical pickles” for $1 (one man asked her to sketch Marie Antoinette as a pickle).
And Sean Michael Robinson quickly sketched anyone who asked. (He and Boland were part of The Bureau of Drawers, a collection of cartoonists and illustrators, who were also selling mini comics.)
At GC’s Bherd Studios, artist Troy Gua combined two faces to create a unique picture: such as David Bowie and Michaelangelo’s David; Jim Morrison and Jesus; and the Mona Lisa and Lady Gaga.
At Art on the Ridge at 8005 Greenwood Ave. N., these kids couldn’t keep away from the marble and metal sculpture.
And it was opening night for The Olive and Grape at 8516 Greenwood Ave. N., which had a good crowd of diners during the Artwalk. Breadmaker Reykhan Khasanova brought her dough-making skills out into the restaurant for diners to watch.
The monthly Greenwood-Phinney Art Up Artwalk is from 6-9 p.m. Friday night with plenty of artist openings at local galleries and specials at businesses (some of the galleries and businesses are open past 9 p.m.) Here are a few highlights, but you can check out the full list of participating businesses and artists here.
Palermo Art Gallery, which held its grand opening inside the Greenwood Collective at 8537 Greenwood Ave. N. last month, has its first group show, with gallery owner Yvonne Palermo and featured guest artist Nick Beery.
Yvonne Palermo’s paintings promote social awareness of chronic pain as a legitimate health condition through emotionally charged portrayals of haggard female figures paired with twisted spinal imagery and layers of abstract strokes of paint. Palermo works in a series layers incorporating her training in surface design, medical diagrams and words to create patchwork-quilt-like paintings that parallel her experiences on the operating table and in American medical environment. Her innovative paintings convey the horrors of our current healthcare system from the perspective of a woman who is well acquainted with the negative attitude towards chronic physical pain in American hospitals.
Black & Blue by Nick Beery.
Nick Beery’s work has been described as edgy-pop-surrealism. The body of work included is a mash up of various styles and media that has earned the handle ‘pop-fiction’. Screen-printed zombie rappers bring a darkly decayed appeal to hip-hop related art. Oil paintings of melting landscapes with metal/steam-punk infused animals and creatures vibrantly stand out amongst smaller pieces of original artwork. Twisted muppets and sexy female illustrations are also featured as part of the ‘tri-fect’ ménage of mayhem which are exceedingly familiar cult parodies and odes to the bad-ass, chic women who bleed mythologies of today.
Assemble Gallery & Studio at 7406 Greenwood Ave. N. features avant-garde quilter Boo Davis, who is releasing her first book, “Dare to be Square.” (See today’s Seattle Times’ article about Davis.)
Davis reinterprets traditional quilt patterns with bold pictorial representations, limiting her designs to simple-to-sew squares and rectangles. A deviation from her heavy metal-inspired quilts under the studio name Quiltsrÿche, Dare to Be Square features images of owls, robots and wiener dogs. The show runs through October 6, 2010.
Tasty art gallery at 7513 Greenwood Ave. N. opens its surrealist “Dreams & Visions” on Friday.
Tasty is thrilled to be showing new works by artists Don DeLeva and Dara Harvey.
Don works in an intuitive style using “free flowing ideas that crystallize over time into image”. He starts by painting a texture into the primer and adds lines or shapes that he’s visualized in his head. Reading between the abstract lines, he brings out imagery using elements of traditional painting.
In her own words, Dara’s art is “largely a process of inspired scribbling, deliberate interpretations of bizarre mark making and intuition of form to create deconstructed characters that are then stitched back together, often in ambiguous or fanciful environments.”
At Balderdash Books & Art at 8536 Greenwood Ave. N., see the urban contemporary artwork of John Lodholz (below).
Bherd Studios, inside the Greenwood Collective, 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., presents “You’re So Vain (you probably think this art is about you),” featuring 10 different artists’ interpretations of portraiture in the modern art world: Daniel Carrillo, Jonathan Collis, Chris Crites, Troy Gua, Lucien Knuteson, Wyatt Landis, Mary McIntyre, John Osgood, Brian Thies, Joey Veltkamp, Redd Walitzki, Daniel John Williams.
(Fashion Monster Chanel by Redd Walitzki.)
A number of restaurants, bars and other businesses run specials during the Artwalk, including Carmelita, Bleacher’s Pub, Emma Jean’s Consignments, and Gaspare Ristorante and Bar. See the artwalk website for the full list.
The Olive and Grape – a new Mediterranean restaurant in the space formerly occupied by Olive You at 8516 Greenwood Ave. N. – officially opens its doors at 4 p.m. Friday with olive oil tastings and other specials. Check out the wall murals by local artist Chrystine Westphal.
In less than 3 minutes, you’ll see how people took over Greenwood Avenue for a few hours to do everything from high-speed skateboard slalom racing, to knitting, to blowing bubbles and seranading passers by with everything from Hip-Hop to Ravel’s Bolero.
And, of course, kids of all ages drawing with chalk on a canvas stretching from curb to curb.
Friday night’s annual Seattle Summer Streets, combined with the monthly Art Up Artwalk, brought thousands of people to the neighborhood for a stroll down Greenwood Avenue, which was closed to cars for 22 blocks.
For a suggested donation of $2, you could enter the Kitten Kissin’ Booth in front of PAWS Cat City and pet some kitties.
Artist Yvonne Palermo just opened her new studio inside the Greenwood Collective. Her art expresses her struggle with chronic pain and the healthcare system.
This month’s Art Up Artwalk will be much bigger than usual, since it’s paired with the annual Seattle Summer Streets program. Phinney/Greenwood Avenue will be closed to traffic from North 65th Street all the way to North 87th Street from 6-9 p.m. Friday (the cross streets of North 65th, North 80th and North 85th streets will remain open.)
More than three dozen businesses are participating in the Artwalk, with artist showings, live painting, and other special events. Summer Streets is adding dancing in the streets, a whiffle ball game, two Bubbleman performances, fire safety education and fire truck tours by the firefighters at Station 21, and a host of other fun stuff. Plus, Mayor Mike McGinn will be giving out awards for last month’s Walk Bike Ride challenge in front of Metropolis and Rising Stars at 7 p.m.
Here’s a short selection of Artwalk happenings. For a complete list, see the Artwalk website.
Inside the Greenwood Collective at 8537 Greenwood Ave. N., Suite 1, a number of art studios are participating. The folks at Bherd Studios will have muralists painting in the street outside. Urban Light Studios features “Venus Unveiled,” a “group show of female artists unveiling honesty and substance of strength. Plus “Wildlife Watch” in the Main Sp@ce featuring Barbara Fugate’s paintings & drawings of nature and wildlife.”
Also at Greenwood Collective, artist Yvonne Palermo celebrates the grand opening of her new studio with urban and surreal art by herself and visiting artist Larkin Surreal, plus live painting.
This month’s exhibition features a series of paintings, which seek to promote awareness of chronic pain as a legitimate health condition by drawing on my own experiences with it.
“Inside of Me” by Yvonne Palermo.
The Green Bean Coffeehouse celebrates its grand opening at 8533 Greenwood Ave. N. The Green Bean officially opened last month, but they’re celebrating Friday with a gala and silent auction.
Even though Greenwood Avenue opens up again to cars past North 87th Street, walk up a few blocks more to the Volunteers of America Community Resource Center (home of the Greenwood Food Bank) at 9041 Greenwood Ave. N. for their artwalk show, Art with Heart. They’ll have a special children’s volunteer opportunity, where kids can create greeting cards for their senior clients. Proceeds from photography and other art sales benefit Volunteers of America.
Tasty “delectable collectibles” at 7513 Greenwood Ave. N. is hosting a “Garden of Earthly Delights” art show inside, and a tea party outside.
You can make a free craft project at A Muse, 7107 Greenwood Ave. N., from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Avanti Art & Design, 7317 Greenwood Ave. N., collaborated with Greenwood’s 826 Seattle, a free writing and tutoring program for kids, on a “Masquerade” exhibit. There’s also live painting by Dave Varbioff.
Balderdash Books & Art, 8536 Greenwood Ave. N., has original paintings and sketches of wildlife, sports, land and space by Grant Perry, plus six local authors: Bree Coven Brown, author of “Weird and Wacky Washington,” Anne Fitzgerald, author of “Kishin,” Brenda Walls, author of “Ari: The Punk Rock Girl,” Bruce Taylor, author of “The Mountains of the Night,” Tyler Burgess, author of “Seattle Townscape Walks,” and Rebecca Agiewich, author of “Breakup Babe.”
The Chocolate Shoe Box, 7410 Greenwood Ave. N. has vegan & animal rights oriented photography by Rebecca Bolte.
Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave. N., features ink & graphite on clayboard paintings by Juan Alonso and “Babies & Baskets” made of glass and recycled materials by Marita Dingus.
Makeda Coffee, 153 N. 78th St., has digitally painted giclee prints on canvas by Aaron Panagos, plus live music.
Metropolis and neighbor Rising Stars at 7321 Greenwood Ave. N. feature wood block prints with a “Day of the Dead” theme by Zanetka Kralova Gawronski, and ReBots, original signed art sculptures created individually from recycled and found objects by Susan Wiegardt, plus metal & gemstone jewelry by Maria LaFrance.
Strut, 7511 Greenwood Ave. N., features paintings by Elizabeth Desiree Torbet and face painting in front of the store by Kelly Hughes of Tangerine Tales.
Two Birds Tattoo, 7408 Greenwood Ave. N., features “Morbid Anatomy,” ghastly shadowboxes featuring archaic medical tools, vials, and more by Anita Arora.
And several businesses are offering specials:
Bleacher’s Pub, 8118 Greenwood Ave. N., offers a discounted appetizer or entrée during the art walk.
Carmelita, 7314 Greenwood Ave. N., has a $5 happy hour menu all night.
Gaspare Ristorante and Bar, 6705 Greenwood Ave. N., is offering a three-course Italian meal for $22, plus Fresh Mint Mojitos and Bellinis for $5 during the artwalk.
Emma Jeans Consignment, 8554 ½ Greenwood Ave. N., offers 30-50 percent off during every art walk.
Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., is giving two-for-one tickets for “Man of La Mancha” on Friday night. Ask for the “Art Walk Discount” when calling the box office, 206-781-9707.
This month’s Art Up Artwalk features a record 38 participating businesses, in conjunction with the annual Seattle Summer Streets program. Greenwood Avenue will be closed to vehicles from North 65th Street to North 87th Street from 6-9 p.m. Friday (65th, 80th and 85th streets will remain open to traffic).
Businesses are sponsoring a variety of fun things for everyone of all ages to do, from the always popular Bubbleman to dancing in the streets.
(Photo of last year’s Summer Streets by Brian Hart.)
The idea behind Summer Streets is for pedestrians and cyclists to better connect with one another and shop at their neighborhood businesses. Last year’s inaugural Summer Streets in Greenwood-Phinney drew plenty of people who drew with chalk in the middle of the street, held a guerrilla knitting party, played a wiffleball game and browsed neighborhood shops. Summer Streets is sponsored by the City of Seattle’s Department of Transportation and the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce.
(Novice and experienced knitters created a “river of yarn” at last year’s Summer Streets.)
Here’s a selection of fun happenings scheduled:
Metropolis & Rising Stars at 7321 Greenwood Ave. N. are hosting the Bubbleman from 6-7 p.m. and again from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Kids can get their face painted inside of Rising Stars from 6-8 p.m. And Greenwood resident Mayor Mike McGinn will be in front of the building at 7 p.m. to hand out prizes to those who participated in July’s Walk Bike Ride Challenge.
(The Bubbleman draws a crowd at last year’s event.)
The American Dance Institute at 8001 Greenwood Ave. N. is hosting Ballroom, Flamenco and Hip Hop Dance Classes in the street.
Tasty art gallery at 7513 Greenwood Ave. N. is hosting an outdoor tea party and live art.
The Defenders of Greenwood will let children (and excited parents) sit in their fire engine and learn more about fire safety at the temporary Fire Station 21 at 6801 Greenwood Ave. N.
Also, Maryhill Rats is sponsoring a skateboard slalom, and Seattle Children’s Hospital will have a kids’ obstacle course.
Friday is also the kick-off for the 5th annual Gumshoe 5K Walk, a fundraiser for the Greenwood Senior Center. Purchase an entry form for $20, then follow the clues on a three-mile walk around the neighborhood, discovering quirky garden art and interesting houses and businesses. Turn in your completed entry form and be eligible for a drawing for gift cards from Fred Meyer. (Stay tuned for a more detailed Gumshoe post in the next day or two.)
And stay tuned for a separate post on the Artwalk, with a list of participating businesses, artists, etc.
