CVG awards, diverse visions and a retrospective perspective rooted in Bremerton, while printmaker Lynn Brofsky explores the American industrial landscape on Bainbridge.
IN BREMERTON
Art abounds this week in Bremerton. Both in remembrance and celebration, through diversity of a show featuring top fine artists from around the state and an underground artist working across media.
Contemporary-to-cutting-edge artwork from throughout Washington has been accumulated and assembled by Collective Visions Gallery and juried by curator Gary Faigin, to compete for $8,000 total prize money in the second annual CVG Show downtown.
During tonight’s First Friday Art Walk, they’ll be tallying votes for, and announcing the People’s Choice Award around 7:30 p.m.
In last year’s show, the late Bremerton musician and artist Chuck Smart won Best of Show overall for his digital work “Garden of Eve.” The piece is on the cover of this year’s brochure.
Smart passed away in the final days of 2008 at age 67, but you can see one of his last works, a piece ironically titled “Life and Death” which he’d submitted before he died and was accepted into this year’s CVG Show.
On First Friday, a bevy of Smart’s work will be on display just down the road from the CVG show, at his former studio, Studio 608, which he shared with poet/photographer M. Anne Sweet and CVG artist Alan Newberg.
That night, the studio will be hosting “A Gathering for Chuck and Final First Friday at Gallery 608.”
See more on the life and times, and work of Chuck Smart in our cover story this week, page 6.
And finally, across town in the Charleston District, a new, translative multi-media Bremerton artist will bloom as Arlana Sheppard will be showing in her debut solo exhibit opening First Friday at the Artists for Freedom and Unity Hall, 318 Callow.
ALSO CHECK OUT: The multiple studios at the Amy Burnett Gallery, 296 Fourth St.; Claywerks, 330 Callow Ave.; Cornerstone Coffee, The Manette Saloon and other downtown, Manette and Charleston district businesses.
ON BAINBRIDGE
With no show in January, the Roby King Galleries, 176 Winslow Way, will begin the new year with a newly remodeled gallery space and a solo show of new work from the pragmatically whimsical, realist printmaker Lynn Brofsky.
The show’s called “Road Trip.” All the newness will be on display from 5-8 p.m. First Friday.
Down the street, at 151 Winslow Way, the galleries at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts are filling up this month with a triple exhibit of cubist quilts, cubist platters and its annual handful of Mixed Nuts.
Each year, for the past six, BAC has juried a show of Bainbridge Island K-12 student work, to show the kids what the life of an artist is like, from creation to contract to presentation and commission.
They even get to revel in all the First Friday festivities, except for the wine.
ALSO CHECK OUT: The Island Gallery, 100 Madison Ave.; A is for Artists Gallery, 123 Bjune St.; Blackbird Bakery, Bainbridge Bakers and other downtown Winslow businesses.
