Join Seattle Print Arts for a series of online visits with artists whose work was chosen by juror Thea Quiray Tagle to be in the August 6-31, 2020 Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational at Davidson Galleries.
Get to know the artists and click on the their names to see their work in CNPI2020.
My current work is an acknowledgement of the growth happening all around us and is influenced by the dramatic, shifting surroundings of Seattle. I am continually interested in the structure shown in the building process and the ultimately hidden supports and infrastructure that are temporarily exposed as a building goes up. I am excited by the implications and internal machinations of the complicated interiors and intricate supports before the scaffolding comes down and the sheathing covers the internal form.
Most of my work wants to hone in on dissonance, and to somehow convey longing and sadness along with appreciation and wonder. This print came from quarantine, and is a transition of two worlds - from a more representational place, to a place closer to abstraction. When not framed on the wall, the print folds up as a book.
Image: Amanda Knowles, “Duwamish Study I,” Screenprint with Graphite and Acrylic on paper