Gregory Kammer, Between Seasons: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest

March 5 – August 28, 2020

The Jansen Art Center is pleased to welcome Gregory Kammer to the Fine Arts Gallery for an exhibit of his work this Spring. The exhibit, Between Seasons: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest, opens with a reception from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM on Thursday, March 5. Kammer will be giving an artist talk at 6:30 PM during the reception. Enjoy Live Music in the Piano Lounge, meet the artists and explore all of our Spring Exhibits.

Gregory Kammer is a painter and sculptor who works from his studio on Marrowstone Island near Port Townsend, Washington. He received a BA and MFA from the University of Washington, and a MA in Art History from the University of New Mexico.

His work has been featured in one-person shows at the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; the University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA; the Russell Day Gallery, Everett, WA and group shows at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA.

His work is in private, public, institutional, and international collections, most notably at Aichi Toho University, Nagoya, Japan (2013), and Otemae University, Osaka, Japan (2015).

ARTIST STATEMENT

The artwork in this exhibition represents times of the year when seasons seem to teeter between letting go and beginning.

As you look at the paintings you’ll find the in-between. It’s there, in an empty street scene where a young woman walks her dog while focused on her cell phone. It’s in a gentle ocean breeze through a patch of Meadow Mallow against a weathered oyster house, the red monolithic buildings of the Ilwaco Fish Company surrounding tuna fishermen on their boats icing up before heading out to sea, where cathedral-like silos tower over spring wheat, and in the cool shadow that gently falls over a rooftop beekeeper tending to his bees.

One season letting go and while another begins.