Arts Council and City of Shoreline present Vistas at City Hall Gallery

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council and the City of Shoreline present: Vistas, with artwork by:

• Karen Frank - Photography
• Kathy Frugé-Brown - Painting
• Dorene Steggell - Painting
• Meredith Thompson - Painting
• Kristin Tollefson – Sculpture
• Shoreline City Hall Gallery

The show will run November 1, 2011 to January 27, 2012 on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Shoreline City Hall - N 175th St and Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133 - Open Monday-Friday 9 am – 5 pm

Open House- Meet the Artists on Thursday, November 3, 5:30-7 pm

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council and the Shoreline City Hall Gallery present a fascinating new exhibit, Vistas, showcasing artwork that explores the surfaces, depths and entanglements of landscape. Light, color and form all influence the photography by Karen Frank, paintings by Kathy Frugé-Brown, Dorene Steggell and Meredith Thompson and sculpture by Kristin Tollefson. Join us for a special after-hours reception on Thursday, November 3, 5-7 pm. Refreshments will be served.

More from the Artists:

Kathy Frugé-Brown

I am a painter and printmaker with a long-standing interest in landscape. The river and forest surrounding my Pacific Northwest studio are a constant source of imagery and spiritual nourishment to me, and for the last several years have been the major subject of my work. My landscape paintings are all done outdoors from life, usually in oil on canvas, though I often do smaller pieces in oil on paper. This past year I designed the Aurora Town Center banners based on my original linoleum block prints.

Karen Frank

All of my work deals with nature--abstract realism that sometimes pushes toward the completely abstract. I'm interested in the transformation of objects by natural processes or the interaction of objects/water/light. I want people to do a double-take, take a second look because they're not quite sure what they are seeing. The metamorphosis of the ordinary into the mysterious helps us view things in a new way.

Steggell "Green Water Island"

Dorene Steggell

“The concepts of place and space are primary to my work and my experience of the world. I have lived west of the Cascade Mountains for several decades and the experience of this place, as manifest in the open spaces of its fields and waters, inspires many of my paintings.”

Meredith Thompson

What makes color vibrate? The paintings I'll be showing in November play with how to make colors push and pull each other in a two dimensional space. In this painting, "Forest Feathers," I'm capturing the mystical feel of light brushing the tree canopy and dangling down through branches and moss to rest on the forest floor. Painting on-site and outdoors has allowed me to use color and light to create a depth of time. Within one painting, including this one, there is a range of warm soft glows to cool hues of a midday sun. I love working mostly outdoors, allowing the natural elements to employ a very fresh and raw feeling to my work.

Tollefson "Strange Fruit"

Kristin Tollefson

I am drawn to the sweetness of the grove and the sustained contradictions it holds. A rigorous twenty-foot square planting grid begets sprawling trees with rare fruit and baroque names: Wealthy, King, Gravenstein, Dutch Mignone, Red Astrachan, Rhode Island Greening, Bietigheimer, and Esopus Spitzenberg. A snag punctuates the edge of the planted hill; an unruly mound of blackberry cane encroaches. I propose a celebratory mediation: the snag serves as a structure around which to weave the thorny cane studded with fantastical fruit evocative of the fruits of the orchard. As light and color enliven the tree trunk, its clustered adornment alludes to the bees whose home adorns the snag, busy caretakers of this fruit forest.

Exhibit times

This exhibit runs from November 1 - January 27 at the Shoreline City Hall Gallery and may be viewed any time during regular hours, Monday - Friday, 9am - 5 pm except holidays. The Shoreline City Hall is located at 17500 Midvale Ave. N, Shoreline, WA 98133. For more information please contact the Arts Council at 206-417- 4645 or by email.

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture all of the arts in the community through programs and events, arts education, advocacy, and support for artists and arts organizations.