The newest gallery in town will be showing Lucy Gentry who is one of the most established artists in town, teamed with Rebecca Figel who is a Vancouver BC artist with roots in Olympia.
Gentry is one of the most present artists in our arts community here. She manages to juggle many projects advocating for artists working with Olympia Artspace Alliance, as well as working tirelessly developing her own artwork. She has a background as a costume/fashion designer in New York as well as in fine arts, this original combination greatly influenced her Biophilia Collection with which many of you are familiar. It will be exciting to see her new direction and progression at CATMA.
22” X 30” | photo credit: Rebecca Figel
Figel graduated from Evergreen in 1997 with a B.A. in Visual Arts and Education focusing on site-specific installation work and a variety of drawing, printmaking, and mixed media techniques. She has lived in Olympia three different times through the years and is happy to reconnect with the local community.
Both artists are extremely proficient and accomplished. Their works have elements in common, the most recognizable being that they are all monochrome. Gentry’s work is more playful and rhythmic, while Figel’s work is darker with more tension. Both artists’ works are abstract and expressive and have a dreamlike quality created with a variety of textures, and a wealth of exciting unpredictable marks and raw fluid gestures. There are suggestions of figurative imagery that provoke our imaginations and make for multiple lively, fleeting, open-ended narratives.
2022, 5″x7″ print, 9″x12″ framed | photo credit: Lucy Gentry
Middle Space is interpreted as the moment between thoughts, actions, shapes, and gestures. When one is reassessing an accepted understanding and a new concept is introduced, when one decides to act or not act on a new perception or is simply the negative space between two gestures.
WHAT
Middle Space fine art show
WHEN
July 20 – Aug. 5. Hours may vary so check website before you go, artist reception Thursday, July 20, 6.m.
WHERE
416 ½ Washington St SE, Olympia
HOW MUCH
Free to enter, all art for sale
LEARN MORE:
www.catma.art