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Fall 2025 exhibitions opening at the Museum of Northwest Art |
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Margie Livingston, Crumpled Siral, 2016, Acrylic paint on wooden stand, 5.5 x 7 x 6, Courtesy of the artist and Greg Kucera Gallery.
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LA CONNER, WA.- Fall 2025 launches an exciting selection of fresh programs including two new contemporary art exhibitions celebrating painting in the Pacific Northwest. Both exhibitions offer a look into the current state of painting in the region. The diverse selection of work demonstrate how current artists are engaging this storied medium in ways which tie in investigations of art history, examinations of the self, society, and nature, and the formal and material potentials of paint.
Vitamin P:NW Recent Painting in the Pacific Northwest
October 11, 2025 - January 11, 2026
In much the same way that the body requires a diverse variety of vitamins to remain healthy, function properly, and to grow, the visual arts rely on a regimen of media and practices that are integral to its well-being. Steadfast among those visual and material supplements is Vitamin P- Painting.
A central pillar of Western art, over the past century the practice of painting has undergone seismic transformations, been declared dead, revived, and been used as an ideological battleground for artistic and cultural discourse. Today the power and relevance of painting remains as strong as ever, as artists continue to turn to brush and canvas as the chosen tools to brave investigations of their natural and cultural environments, the self, and the material aspects of their chosen medium.
Vitamin P: NW offers a birds-eye-view of recent trends in painting in the Pacific Northwest. Surveying the thematic landscape of current painting in the region, the exhibition features artists fresh takes on the environment, themes of introspection and cultural critique, and pushing the physical boundaries of painting past two dimensional space.
William Turner: Conversations with the Elders
William Turners work is defined by bold plains of color, energetic brushwork, and a sharp sense of humor. As an artist, Turner was a careful observer and passionate student of art history, translating lessons from past masters into his own vibrant visual language. William Turner: Conversations with the Elders, and the accompanying catalogue, explore how Turner enters into conversation with El Greco's painting 'Vincenzo Anastagi' which he first encountered during a impactful visit to the Frick Collection, New York. Turner reimagines Anastagi in a variety of situations, some humorous, others more serious, but all alive with color and vigor.
Turner is an artist with deep roots in the Northwest. A native of Tacoma, he attended the University of Puget Sound in 1965 and earned his Master of Arts degree from the University of Washington in 1973. His vision is informed by thoughtful observation of the world around him, with inspiration pulled from a deep engagement with art history with echoes of the past masters manifesting in Turners form and content, and a lifelong appreciation for jazz music, translated into his paintings through dynamic rhythm, energy, and an openness to improvisation.
Outside In Gallery: Energy Transitions
The Skagit Valley Clean Energy Alliance is pleased to present Energy Transitions, a multimedia display about transitions of energy supply and technologies, from prehistory through today. Did you know that the first time a politician suggested that coal could be phased out was in the late 1840s?
And that coal has mostly been phased out already? We dont have steam trains, sternwheel paddle boats, coke furnaces or town gas street lights anymore. Todays declining use of coal as an electric generation fuel is just the most recent part of a long story. Todays controversies arent very different from whats happened throughout history.
The systems used to provide and use energy have changed in major ways over thousands of years. These changes are energy transitions. Major energy transitions dont happen often: the last one was when the electric grid was introduced in the 1880s. The energy crises of the 1970s stimulated research and development on supply technologies, and on systems that use energy, like lighting, heating and transportation. The resulting innovations are driving a new set of major energy transitions in the present day. Energy Transitions tells that story.
The stone age didnt end because we ran out of stones. The oil age will end long before we run out of oil. Come, explore and find out how its happening.
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