IN BAINBRIDGE
• Alan Rudolph at Gallery Fraga — 166 Winslow Way E.
Alan Rudolph, the painter and filmmaker, is featured this month at Fraga.
Bringing decades of experience with the motion picture — Rudolph’s paintings are full of movement without ever moving at all. Impressionistic and figurative.
Studying a piece’s composition, it’s easily comparable to the elements of film — characters sought in faceless figures, plot in the drastically colored settings and action in the brush strokes.
Also this month, another painter with a cinematic style, Michael Ponteiri, returns to Fraga with his intriguing acrylics. And Josie Gray, an Irishman and Fraga artist with ties to National Poetry Month (this month) and Northwest Poet Tess Gallagher, will show his landscapes as well.
• Carrie Goller on the walls at Blackbird Bakery — 210 Winslow Way E.
A Bainbridge born-and-raised artist with a cadre of vibrant and vivid realistic still lifes fills the confines of Blackbird Bakery with “Bittersweet” — a show featuring both birds and baked goods and a considerably wide array of both subject and media.
ALSO CHECK OUT: An annual tax break at the Roby King Galleries, 176 Winlsow Way E.; Portfolios from five talented young artists about to graduate from West Sound Academy at the Island Gallery, 106 Madison Ave.; A is for Artists Gallery, 123 Bjune Dr.; and other local businesses.
IN BREMERTON
• Environmentally conscious art at the Artists for Freedom and Unity — 318 N. Callow Ave.
In a quirky nod to environmentalism and sustainability in honor of Earth Day (April 22), the Artists for Freedom and Unity gallery hosts recycled or found object art. The AFU puts the creativity back into environmental activism.
• Lesley Kabelac’s life story at Collective Visions — 331 Pacific Ave.
In a retrospective that reaches back four decades, Lesley Kabelac, 75, a co-founding member of the CVG, examines and exhibits her story told through her art.
It spans years and media, from her earliest watercolors, innocent and vibrant in the 1970s, to the darker paintings of struggles and maturely intricate prints made with delicate detail.
ALSO CHECK OUT: The last First Friday function ever at the Wesley, 1210 Pacific Ave. near Evergreen Park; Ploy Studios, 609 Fourth St.; Chuck Smart and M. Anne Sweet at Studio 68, 608 Fourth St.; The Amy Burnett Gallery, 296 Fourth St., The Alan Posner Studio, 255 Fourth St., Claywerks ceramic studio and gifts, 330 N. Callow Ave.; and other downtown Bremerton businesses. WU
(E-mail your First Friday events and shindigs to bmickelson@northkitsapherald.com)
