ELEMENTS / JULY 2 - AUG 28

Clay, Paint, Wood

SUMMER GROUP SHOW

The ARTIST/PATRON Project at LEICHT Seattle is delighted to announce the first annual Summer Group Show!

Jazz Brown, Courtesy of J.Rinehart Gallery
Emily Counts, Courtesy of studio e gallery
Jesse Edwards
Heidi Koontz
Made by Skateboarding
John Sarkis
Joe Shlichta

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This summer group exhibition gives space to seven exceptional West Coast artists who work across multiple disciplines incorporating the mediums of clay, paint and wood. The ARTIST/PATRON Project at LEICHT Seattle seeks out artists whose work integrates into and defines the built environment. This show includes the intricate and thoughtful acrylic paintings of Jazz Brown, oil on canvas studies in abstraction by Joe Shlichta, realist oil on linen paintings by Jesse Edwards, and oil on board figurative works by John Sarkis.

Made By Skateboarding is showing a wall hanging, cutting boards and bowls made entirely from upcycled skateboards. Ceramicist Emily Counts will exhibit three ceramic and mixed media sculptures, and Heidi Koontz will exhibit abstract oil on board paintings.

These seven artists are each showing multiple pieces that will be available for sale, and each artist is poised for further engagement with custom projects and commissions.

Featured

Impersonal Space

36 x 24"
acrylic on canvas
2019
courtesy jreinhartgallery.com

Jazz Brown, is an autodidact who uses acrylic paint to create vivid, expressive compositions, with references to imagined geometry and pattern. Described as a philosophical painter, Jazz Brown’s exhibition list includes CoCA, Bellevue Art Museum, Out of Sight, Martyr Sauce and he was featured in the 2018 City Arts Future List in City Arts Magazine.

https://www.instagram.com/beingjazzbrown
https://www.jrinehartgallery.com/artists#/jazz-brown

Summer Child with toy

Oil and cold wax on board

Heidi Koontz
Painting is my preferred way of expressing the relationship I have to the world and with others. Over 25 years I have used autodidactic methods of education, locating the people and resources needed to gain skills necessary for progression in my art. I apprenticed with an artist in Indiana during college and participated in my first group show at a short-lived Pioneer Square gallery in 1992. Since then I’ve had many group and solo shows, completed many commissioned works and enjoyed competition wins. My artistic goal is to do more and say less.

heidikoontz@mac.com
IG Heidi Koontz (@esmehart)

51”x51”
Oil on panel

John Sarkis is a West Coast artist based on Whidby Island Washington. With a background steeped in graffiti and street art, Sarkis is largely self taught, an oil painter whose work feels like it is both from another time, and also speaks for the immediate moment. John Sarkis is regarded for his street art murals and for his large scale oil paintings. Sarkis is a painters muse, and many Seattle artists regard him as one of the regions most interesting voices in painting. Combining a moody Northwest palette with pops of neon and pastel, Sarkis paints characters and settings that look as he feels they do, not as they exist in reality. In this way he carries on the lineage of Picasso, Gaugin, Basquiat and other artists who interpret realism with emotion.

Vessel C

2018
Glazed stoneware
17 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches
courtesy of studio e gallery

Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA, where she currently lives and works. Drawing on craft traditions Emily creates ceramic and mixed media sculptures that combine abstraction with representational elements suggestive of the human form, architecture, plants and everyday objects. Her work focuses on connectivity and merging a sense of the past with the futuristic. Many of her recent pieces are interactive and incorporate electrical components and illumination.

http://emilycounts.com/

Revival

51x51”
oil on panel

Joe Shlicta is a formally trained oil painter based in Seattle. Shlichta studied at Otis College of Art and Design, received a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts and is a MFA candidate at the University of Washington. Painting imagined or reinterpretated landscapes in a process informed by realism, his paintings use the classic elements of color, texture, perspective and subject to create modern paintings that reference the long history of oil painting. Recently, Joe spent weeks painting his immediate landscape near his home in Seattle Beacon Hill neighborhood. Shlicta parsed his attention to include color as the subject, and the results are a series of small oil painting on board that carry the torch for Post Impressionist painters with color providing the composition and the subject.

Joe Shlicta has shown at The Fetherston Gallery, Out of Sight Seattle, The Kastler Gallery Los Angeles and the Goethe Institute Seattle and was a featured artist in City Arts Magazine.

Made by Skateboarding presents a collection of art objects for everyday use, handcrafted from recycled skateboards and other materials. A skateboarder since 1985, building ramps and other obstacles as a kid led to working various jobs in the construction and remodeling trades. Working on antiques, as well as building concrete skateparks, Made by Skateboarding developed studio techniques that produce entirely unique household ephemera, bowls, bottle stoppers, pocket knives, razor shavers, pens, and screwturners. Made by Skateboarding presses upcycled skateboards, creating a colorful patterned pressed wood material that is used as the basis for limitless design opportunities. Custom projects are welcomed, shelving, drawer pulls and casegoods take on vibrant new personality when created from skateboards.

Madebyskateboarding@weebly.com

@madebyskateboarding

Netra NeiJune 30, 2020