La Familia Goes to Finland!

Last week, 16+ La Familia Artists packed up a series of works and bid them farewell.
From April 20 - May 22, 2010, these works will exhibit as a group show at Gallery Golden Point in Nummela, Finland. Curated by La Familia artist, Mirka Hokkanen, this show is an extension of La Familia Gallery's recent international exposition initiative, which also includes a show exhibition at Arte Monaco from April 29 - May 2, 2010.

Our Finnish-speaking readers can read the Golden Point show announcement for the La Familia Gallery show here.

We wish Mirka "good luck" as she represents La Familia halfway around the world!

Profile: Arte Monaco

From April 29th to May 2nd, 2010 Monaco's 35,000 square foot Diaghilev Exhibition Hall of the renowned Grimaldi Forum will be transformed into a giant art gallery for Arte Monaco, 2010 Special Edition. Hosting 100 exhibitors from around the globe, the four day festival will kick off with a VIP reception on April 29th will kick off the event, followed by three full days of vernissage-style exhibits open to the public.

Art Monaco 2010 - Special Edition is a fine arts exhibit and will showcase pieces from a variety of artistic forms of expression, including acrylic painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media. The Selection Committee is comprised of esteemed figures from the international cultural scene, and will be responsible for the selection of all pieces to be displayed.

The Grimaldi Forum Monaco is built on Monaco's waterfront, adjacent to the Japanese Garden is located in the Larvotto (east of the Principality). Vast yet intimate, spectacular and modern, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco gives life to a new generation of cultural events - pushing out walls, overcoming constraints, imagining spaces to be modeled, that is the primary “raison d’être” of a unique place where each day everything can be reinvented anew.

La Familia to Attend Arte Monaco

From April 29 - May 2, several La Familia Gallery artists are looking forward to attending Arte Monaco, 2010, Special Edition. This opportunity comes after La Familia's attendance at Aqua Art Miami in December, where the organizers of Arte Monaco visited our booth and took an interest in the exhibiting artists.

We anxiously look forward to representing the Northwest Arts to the international art community.

Latitude x Longitude with Toy Box Trio

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at La Familia Gallery on March 19th! The Gallery's band, Latitude x Longitude will be opening for Toy Box Trio as they serenade us with "New Classical Music with a Carnival Flair."


Toy Box Trio recently earned some well-placed top-hat-tipping from Sepiachord, who describe them as, "intimate retro-future circus music, transforming baroque sounds into a stranger version of 'The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy'."

We can hardly wait to see what the evening will bring. Gentlemen, start your accordions!

March Second Opening

Stop by La Familia on March 18th from 6pm-9pm to catch the March Second Art opening for Weston Jandacka, Teresa Morani and Thomas Krueger.

Trash Wars!

Be sure to stop by the North Seattle Community College between February 17, 2010 - March 12, 2011 to check out this show consisting of art made from at least 80% recycled and repurposed materials.

It includes La Familia artist, Angela Scott's mixed media painting, Contained, which took first place in the show!

Artwalk: March 2010

Cut & Paste

Before Henry Darger.....

Before John Heartfield.....

Before "Une semaine de bonté " by Max Ernst.....

There were Victorian Ladies with pots of glue.....

In her Slate article, The Dark Art of Cut and Paste, Sarah Boxer explores the lurid history of the photo collage. We recommend the read:

A year or so after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), English ladies started cutting up photos of their friends and relations and pasting bits and pieces of them (particularly their heads) into alien landscapes and onto foreign bodies. Was it just a new pastime, like staging parties or playing the piano–yet another way for Victorian women to show off their class and their wits? Or was it more? Read more...

Waking the Dead: the color of music

by David Hodge. Opens Thursday, April 1, 2010

La Familia Presenting at Art Monaco '10

After returning from Aqua Art Miami, La Familia received a phone call requesting our presence at Arte Monaco which will be held in the Grimaldi Forum during the Grand Prix April 29th - May 2nd. This boutique international art fair will host only 100 privately invited galleries from around the world and La Familia is one of about 5 from the US.

Artists attending art Robroy Chalmers, Chris Sheridan, Kate Protage, Harry Woods, Lanae Rivers-Woods, James Caudle, Gordon Nealy, Allan Rodewald, Liz Maxfield, Zanteka Gawronski, Mirka Hokkanen, Sara Everett, Misha Van de Veire and Weston Jandacka.

Artist Aschely Cone has Arrived at the Artist Residence

On Art Walk - while Weston Jandacka, Teresa Morani and Thomas Krueger were opening shows at La Familia in Seattle - far away in Alaska the first artist of the season checked into the Artist Residence.

Painter Aschely Cone is now getting settled into her multi-week residence in Talkeenta Alaska where she will retreat from the maddening crowd have experience a life lived with less.

Gallery Band video by Scared of Genre Films

During the February, 2010 Artwalk if you wandered through the 619 Western Building near the Johnny O'Brady studio you may have heard the mercurial sounds of the La Familia Gallery band, Latitude x Longitude. Even better than that, if you poked your head in to be hypnotized by our Steampunk tales of murder, escape and mayhem you would have seen Brad Strain of Scared of Genre Films shooting video of the performance. Strain's filming and editing work beautifully combines gritty and polished, and the impeccable sounds, as captured by Travis M. Anderson fall in the category of "stunning."



You can catch the next Latitude x Longitude show on March 19th, when we'll be sharing La Familia Gallery with Toy Box Trio, which is definitely a lineup worth winding your clock for. Gentlemen - start your accordions!

10 and Change

In a time when many people are scaling back on luxuries, how do we keep the momentum and interest in collecting art going? How about by making it so irresistible that it’s a necessity?

Kate Protage is on a mission: to give people more opportunities to collect art that speaks to them, that’s also affordable and accessible. She challenged ten notable Seattle artists to “think big by creating small.” How do their concepts and styles translate to a small-scale format? Come see the results in March at the Twilight Artist Collective in West Seattle.

10 and Change features a 10" x 10" piece plus other brand new work by Michelle Anderst, Sharon Arnold, James Caudle, RobRoy Chalmers, Chris Crites, Cristin Ford, Zanetka Gawronski, Ryan Molenkamp, Cheryl Robinson and Chris Sheridan.
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 11th from 6-9pm
Show runs from Thursday, 3/11 to Monday, 4/05

Twilight Artist Collective
4306 SW Alaska Street, (West Seattle Junction)
Seattle, WA
Regular operating hours: M-F 11am-7pm, Sa 10am-6pm, Su 10am-5pm

Gallery Director takes the stage with music legends

This past Sunday La Familia Gallery Music Director, Rebeqa Rivers, took to the Showbox in the Market stage to join an epically star-studded lineup for the Hootenanny For Haiti benefit concert. Jam-packed with shredding solos from greats like Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) and Duff McKagen (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded) the concert was set up living-room style, giving the feel of a cozy family jam. Check out the full show review from Ear Candy:

Some of Seattle's finest put on one helluva hootenanny at Showbox at the Market to help victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January.

A hootenanny by definition is pretty much an informal participatory musical gathering of friends and family where everyone either plays instrument or sings along to their favorite songs. And that's exactly what was delivered Sunday night right down to the stage decor, which included several couches and votive candles for lighting.

The show had a very casual down home feel but this was no family jamboree. The musicians on stage were some of the biggest stars Seattle has contributed to rock 'n' roll including Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Matt Cameron and Kim Warnick to name a few. It was like you were being invited into a living room of local legends for a jam session in the form of a near three-hour concert that contained so many major players from the local music scene, both past and present, that all of them couldn't be contained on the stage. It was an awesome mix of the old guard teaming up with some of the city's fastest-rising talent for an unforgettable night.
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