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Featured Artist | Seiko Tachibana
Featured Artist | Seiko Tachibana
by Collections Department
Davidson Galleries is pleased to share a new series of intaglio prints from California-based, Japanese artist Seiko Tachibana, titled Cosmos-Scene (2023). Tachibana’s work emphasizes connection, dissection and relationships in elements such as water droplets, ferns, and constellations. The artist seeks structures and patterns under the microscope and finds their image again through the telescope. Her work frequently develops into large series that demonstrate her determination to explore phenomena from every angle.
December Staff Recommendations
December Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
'...Takeda’s depiction of the death card is filled with eyes wide open, including on the intense central figure with their hands gracefully crossed, staring straight back at the viewer. In tarot, drawing the death card isn’t always a bad thing. ...'
Featured Artist | Keisei Kobayashi
Featured Artist | Keisei Kobayashi
by Collections Department
Kobayashi’s new works from the Eden series continue to place mankind securely in the background and emphasize the beauty and harmony of nature. Trees, vines, flowers, and coral overtake buildings which are often the last elements to be seen, far in the distance or high in the sky. Our attention is instead drawn to the animals, the otters who join birds in the sky, or the birds who join otters in the sea –it’s difficult to say where they are – whose elegant movements mirror each other’s. Kobayashi expresses a balance amongst life that goes beyond even ecosystems’ self-regulation. There is a seamless flow from land to sea to sky and back to land; we rise from the soil to the sea’s edge at the horizon, only to find we’re already back in the sky or back in the tree’s roots and the forest has begun to grow again.
November Staff Recommendations
November Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
"...This piece captures the simple, non-space of a woman in limbo. While the imagery is simple, the mood is so rich. The wife's apathy is palpable, from her upward gaze and straight mouth to the cigarette and remote in her elegant fingers..."
Print of girl looking up at a badger in a tree. Illustration.
Featured Artist | Andy Farkas
by Collections Department
Farkas’s new works focus on joy, hope, and the present — on the enjoyment of growth with life’s challenges, not in spite of them. The peace within his statements are married with the harmony of his images, the beautiful color gradients, the delicate outlines, and compositional balance. There is a quiet, intimate experience for the viewer when entering his fable world. While entirely imagined, it all feels perfectly natural. We can sense the artist’s hand in the exacting, traditional process of mokuhanga, just as we can see the careful construction of the image and the love for the natural world. As Farkas describes, “My work rises from a quiet mind, without censorship. I simply follow it towards its natural conclusion.”
October Staff Recommendations
October Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
"I am so captivated by Rob Connell's less-is-more, no-nonsense, it-is-what-it-is ink and gouache paintings. There is plenty of texture where there should be, plenty of contrast throughout, and nothing else to get in the way."
Featured Artist | Théo Tobiasse
Featured Artist | Théo Tobiasse
by Collections Department
Davidson Galleries is pleased to share available works from Théo Tobiasse including original lithographs, etchings, and carborundum prints; the complete L'Opéra Des Saltimbanques portfolio and Shavuot portfolio; and period exhibition posters. Known for his paintings, prints, and stained glass work, this selection showcases the brilliance of color, energy, and emotion in Tobiasse’s work. The Davidson Galleries collection includes several pieces created by Tobiasse with lithographer Pierre Chave in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, featuring up to twenty layers of color.
September Staff Recommendations
September Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
Don Paulson, Butterfly  Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher): Don Paulson grew up in Auburn, WA; was a contributor to Seattle Gay news; wrote about historic Seattle cabaret night clubs; and was a part of many LGBTQ+ advocacy...
Featured Artist | Artemio Rodriguez
Featured Artist | Artemio Rodriguez
by Collections Department
FEATURE STATEMENT Davidson Galleries is pleased to share new work from Mexican artist Artemio Rodríguez. Featured are nine new linocuts from 2022 and 2023. Rodríguez balances complexity and simplicity to assemble striking scenes, figures, and stories in bold linocuts. The...
Featured Artist | Ben Beres
Featured Artist | Ben Beres
by Collections Department
FEATURE STATEMENT Davidson Galleries is pleased to share new work from Seattle artist Ben Beres. Featured are seven new marbled monoprints from 2022. A master of words, Beres has long worked with text as both impossibly small, scratchy scribbles, and...
August Staff Recommendations
August Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
Lee Chul Soo, Go Out Together 동반외출 Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager): For me, ‘Go Out Together’ is about how individuals make up a community. While I sometimes feel like a nonentity walking around my city, artists like Lee Chul...
Featured Artist | Juan Alcázar Méndez
Featured Artist | Juan Alcázar Méndez
by Collections Department
FEATURE STATEMENT Davidson Galleries is pleased to feature prints from Oaxacan artist Juan Alcázar Méndez. Alcázar is known for his aquatints, etchings, and lithographs that explore the mythological relationships between humans, animals, interiors, and nature. Influenced by indigenous culture, the...
July Staff Recommendations
July Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
The lively leaves and vines in the foreground wind over an intricate web of dark branches, which resembles tracery on a gothic window.
Featured Artist | Moon Lee
Featured Artist | Moon Lee
by Collections Department
Her work often utilizes overlapping layers to reveal harmonies and conflicts within complex human experiences. Layers of people, architecture, pattern, and more are directed by streaks of color, especially the artist’s signature red lines.
Featured Artist | Ryohei Tanaka
Featured Artist | Ryohei Tanaka
by Collections Department
Tanaka is known for his etchings that capture the slow suburban life and landscape of Japan in exquisite detail. Though human figures rarely appear in Tanaka’s work, he explored the meeting of humans and nature, implying the presence of people amongst their landscape through their homes, tools, paths traveled, etc.
Featured Artist | Sean Caulfield
Featured Artist | Sean Caulfield
by Collections Department
Focusing on broader themes of mutation, metamorphosis, and regeneration involving both the landscape and the individuals that inhabit it, I aim to raise challenging questions for viewers about the role they play.
June Staff Recommendations
June Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
"There is so much nostalgia for quiet places and times in this piece, and private moments in the middle of the night, depicted in sharp beautiful contrast like a scene from a movie."
May Staff Recommendations
May Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
In her rendition of Venus, Ho’s playful personality shines through this European traditional space. She brings the statue to life with her rendition of arms, hands, and even a cell phone on the famous woman’s armless body. 
April Staff Recommendations
April Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
"...What keeps me looking is the regal, precious treatment of a humble apple. It strikes me as a perfectly lit, staged scene of a play with an apple as the protagonist. It's a scene that we'd never quite catch in our daily life either because it vanishes when we turn the lights on or because we don't revere the apple on our table as maybe we should."
Eunice Kim | Currents & Tides
Eunice Kim | Currents & Tides
by Collections Department
Eunice Kim | Currents & Tides will be on exhibition from April 7 - May 27 2023.  ARTIST STATEMENT "This exhibition, Currents & Tides, presents all-new body of work from Nature Stories series finding material and inspiration in reclaimed wood. Printed...
March Staff Recommendations
March Staff Recommendations
by Collections Department
"In the same way that her etchings breathe life and movement into the paper, “Fragile Security” is an end to breath, stillness, rustling in the wind and slowly turning to dust. The haunting image tells a quiet story of life and death, ending in peace and rest."