Kris Ekstrand Molesworth

KRIS EKSTRAND MOLESWORTH
"From the Flats - New Monotypes"
April 7 - 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7th (5-8pm)

Like many, Kris Ekstand Moleworth’s artwork is inexorably linked to where she lives and what she has learned there. In her solo debut at Smith & Vallee Gallery Ekstrand Molesworth’s artwork combines the aching beauty of a landscape with its invisible, often darker, narrative.

This exhibition will feature a new series of Skagit based monotypes with reoccurring imagery of aging granaries, barns, sheds, and the edge of the land where the river infiltrates the bay. Each unique monotype has been printed using a hand-cranked etching press on handmade rag paper. Ekstrand Molesworth pulls each monotype through the press several times, giving her work ethereal and ghostly qualities.

"Gazing Shed", Monotype and oil, 19" x 20"

"Barn During Supermoon", Monotype and oil, 35" x 28"

"Clearing by the South Fork", Monotype, 28" x 35"

"Skagit Estuary I", Monotype, 19" x 20"

"Skagit Poplars II", Monotype and oil, 35" x 28"

"Spring Barn", Monotype and oil, 35" x 28"

"Sheds, Fir Island", Monotype and oil, 19" x 20"

One After Another: More New Furniture!

Five Drawer Maple Dresser

Five Drawer Maple Dresser

Single Slab Spalted Maple Table with Metal Base

Single Slab Spalted Maple Table with Metal Base

Butterfly Key Detail - Single Slab Spalted Maple Table with Metal Base

Craftsman Style Black Walnut Bed and Nightstand Set

Craftsman Style Black Walnut Bed and Nightstand Set

Craftsman Style Nightstand Set

Craftsman Style Nightstand Set

Black Walnut Mitered Joint Mirror with Wenge Detail

Black Walnut Mitered Joint Mirror with Wenge Detail


Local Cherry Four Sided Live Edge Mirror


Reclaimed Fir Thru-Tenon Benches

Reclaimed Fir Thru-Tenon Bench


Reclaimed Fir Thru-Tenon Benches


Reclaimed Fir Thru-Tenon Bench

Vertical Grain Fir Long Bench

Vertical Grain Fir Desk with File Cabinets and Long Bench

Vertical Grain Fir Desk

Vertical Grain Fir Desk

Vertical Grain Fir Desk

English Walnut Nightstand with Live Edge Detail

English Walnut Nightstand with Live Edge Detail

English Walnut Bookmatched Live Edge Table


English Walnut Bookmatched Live Edge Table

Before & After!

Bookmatched Local Maple Live Edge Table completed just in time for our client's Christmas dinner.

Edison For The Holidays

The holiday season always reminds us why we love our town of Edison, Washington. The Edison Women's Society, who are also in charge of the street light system in the town and run an annual bingo fundraiser, put up handpainted snowmen, candy canes, and Christmas trees throughout all of our main streets. Local residents and businesses deck their halls with lights and lush garlands.

Not a place to miss during this time of year and the perfect place to take visitors and out of town holiday guests! Take in some shopping, get some great food, and do a stroll about town. Nothing like this place and no where we would rather be!

"objectification 4"

Opening Saturday, December 3rd with an Artist Reception from 5-8pm!

Our 4th Annual 3-dimensional art invitational, "Objectification 4" surveys and explores art objects in a variety of media from over 20 local and regional artists. If you buy it, you get to take it out of the gallery with you and the show is constantly reworked over the course of the exhibition.

Artists include:

Margaret Davidson
Kathleen Faulkner
Tina Finneran
Kathryn Glowen
Aaron Haba
Jeffrey Hanks
Jan Hoy
Chelsea Jepson
Charles Krafft
Jim Kraft
Tom Lindsay
Kristin Loffer Theiss
Ann Morris
Ries Niemi
Peregrine O'Gormley
Brian O'Neill
Chris Theiss
Andrew Vallee
Arno Zielke
Barbara Zielke
John Zylstra


Look forward to seeing you there!

Robert McCauley, "Refusing to Only Paint"

"Stop Making Sense," 41"x29," 2011

Robert McCauley, “Refusing to Only Paint”

October 1 - 30, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1st (5-8pm)

This exhibition is a homecoming for Robert McCauley, who recently returned to his beloved Skagit Valley. Constantly colliding different worlds, such as land and sea, man and beast, wildlife and machine, McCauley draws on larger themes of humankind's impact on nature.

McCauley has had a long and successful career with shows at galleries and museums in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle. He received his bachelor of arts from Western Washington University where he was heavily influenced by R. Allen Jensen, a Smith & Vallee Gallery artist well-known for his mixed media assemblages. After that he went on to receive a master of fine arts from Washington State University where he studied with another influential Northwest artist, Gaylen Hansen. Before his return to Skagit, McCauley was a professor and chairman of the art department at Rockford College in Illinois. McCauley currently resides in Mount Vernon.

Images courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery

"If You Go Down to the Woods Today," 53"x37," 2011

"Atomic Man Slips in Undetected," 41"x28," 2011

Smith & Vallee Woodworks Catalogue

IT'S HERE!

We've been working on this catalogue of Smith & Vallee Woodworks' projects for about a year now and are finally finished! This 250 page volume can be flipped through on the web and in the gallery. If you're a past or present client, take a look! You might even see your own project!

Smith & Vallee Woodworks | Make Your Own Book