Our Visiting Artist Program dedicates gallery walls for solo shows to our community of West Coast Artists.
Currently Showing: STONED by Patti O
A collection of thrifted and gifted objects drowned in anything that sparkles. Born in New Jersey, raised in Miami and Atlanta, Patti O has lived in Seattle since 1990. She has spent most of her life dedicated to art in one form or another with emphasis on visual, musical and culinary arts. With a wide variety of interests and a penchant for misbehaving in school settings she did not take the path of higher education and has no formal training. She is self-taught and disciplined, dedicated to creating art that speaks to her life experiences and unique perspective. Her subject matter ranges from whimsical to political, always with a sparkling flare and a focus on the use of “previously enjoyed” objects.
Visit stonedpattio.com to inquire about purchasing works.
Currently Showing: UNO by Andrea Joyce Heimer
These autobiographical narrative paintings are a departure from my highly populated, maximalist compositions. However, the subject matter remains focused on my experience of loneliness and isolation growing up as an adopted child in 1980’s Montana. Each painting is a portrait of someone I was connected with during my childhood, however briefly, whom I am now estranged from. The figures are shown in their own moments of isolation, as I remember them.
Andrea Joyce Heimer (b. 1981, Billings, Montana) lives in Bellingham, Washington. Heimer’s narrative painting and drawing practice investigates the subject of loneliness—largely informed by autobiographical stories such as her own adoption—in order to examine how humans experience feeling alone. Her work has been covered in outlets including Art in America, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The New Yorker, New American Paintings, and Huffington Post. She received an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art.
To inquire about purchasing an item, contact andreaheimer@yahoo.com
Currently Showing: The transformation of Seattle’s Central District – enduring and chronicling gentrification by Sue Perry (1935 – 2023)
Sue Perry (1935 – 2023), born in small-town Indiana, traveled the world. She engaged the Great Depression, World War II, civil rights movements, the American war in Vietnam, revolutions in communication technology, and the 2020 uprising against police violence. She sided with the downtrodden, a critic of the wealthy and powerful. Her passion for colors, the motions of a city, the cruelties of social hierarchy, and dramatic landscapes produced social narrative art that challenges war and inequality.
Originally built in 1900 by Considine theater family, Sue and John Perry’s Seattle Central District home was purchased in 1919 by Immaculate Conception Church for nuns who taught at the school two blocks away. When Immaculate tried to sell the Convent in 1972, redlining and lingering racist attitudes about the Central District made finding a buyer impossible. The house sat empty for six years, though kept lively by neighborhood children roller-skating through the vacant rooms, and musicians – including Jimi Hendrix—who met for practices.
When the Perrys settled there in 1988, the neighborhood was still largely populated by long-term Black residents and homeowners who had been denied occupancy in other parts of the city. As people finally realized the suburbs were vast wastelands of cars and segregated schools, they were drawn back to the city and enticed by depressed real estate prices in the Central District. Gentrification ensued. Sue Perry realized she herself was a gentrifier, sadly, but also applied herself to documenting the phenomenon through her art. The paintings on display here are a small part of a larger “My neighborhood” collection, illustrating the destruction of historic buildings and the erection of pretty bland generic boxes in their place.
Previous shows have included:
- Biophilia by Laurie Hogin (Presented by KOPLIN DEL RIO)
- The Royals by Adair Freeman Rutledge
- Natural Households by Kalina Winska showing with Method Gallery
- Robert Hardgrave x AMcE Gallery
- THE POLITICS OF VULNERABILITY: THE TENDER BRUTALITIES OF BEING SEEN by Luciano Ratto, Sierra Ayers, Rachel Crane, Victoria Luna
We’re always looking for new artists to highlight in our visiting artist spaces. Please reach out for consideration: proposals@cannonballarts.com
