Exhibitions

Studio Series: Survey of Drawings 1958 - 2020

Ed Bereal Nov 5, 2020 - Jan 2, 2021 The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Ed Bereal: Studio Studies - Survey of Drawings 1958 - 2020, featuring small and large scale drawings and collage created over six decades. The show highlights Ed Bereal 's work on paper from early figurative and abstract artworks to recent drawings that... Read more

Phalanxes

Mark R. Smith Oct 1 - Nov 21, 2020 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Phalanxes featuring graphic textile wall works by Mark. R. Smith from October 1 - November 28, 2020. Mark R. Smith's new intricately collaged paintings convey contemporary and historical narratives through an abstract visual language. Dome, diamond, circle and starburst shapes emerge from linear... Read more

Black Wood

Jeremy Okai Davis Oct 1 - 31, 2020 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present the Jeremy Okai Davis exhibition Black Wood , which marks the gallery's first exhibition with the artist and presents new paintings featuring actors and models from Jet magazines in the 1950s - 60s. Davis' stylistic figuration employs a kind of pixelation/pointillist hybridization that... Read more

Eremocene

Malia Jensen Aug 6 - 28, 2020 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Eremocene, recent works by Malia Jensen including kiln cast glass sculpture, video installation and digital photographs. Join us online for a preview and artist talk with Daniel Peabody and Malia Jensen at 6pm on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 via Facebook Live. Malia Jensen... Read more

In the Vacuum, Outside the Atmosphere

Claire Cowie Aug 6 - 28, 2020 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present In the Vacuum, Outside the Atmosphere , new paintings, collage, textiles and multilayered paper sculptures by Claire Cowie . Claire Cowie ’s exhibition In the Vacuum, Outside the Atmosphere explores loss, death and undefined spaces beyond our understanding. Cowie says the work investigates,... Read more

Are you animal - vegetable - or mineral?

Melody Owen Jul 2 - Aug 1, 2020 New artworks from Melody Owen 's collage series, Are you animal – vegetable – or mineral? will be presented in our backroom gallery. In these intimate works, Owens considers how we, as humans, differentiate ourselves from the rest of the natural world. Using the medium of collage to create fantastical... Read more

Eschatologies

Matthew Picton Jul 2 - Aug 1, 2020 In Eschatologies , Matthew Picton exhibits new three-dimensional framed paper sculptures that interweave historical and contemporary images from paintings, photographs, books and film. Eschatology is defined as a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world, and the plural version in the exhibition title... Read more

Nature and Other Relationships

Anna Von Mertens Jul 2 - Aug 1, 2020 Anna Von Mertens is renowned for her painstakingly detailed textiles and drawings that traverse enigmatic intersections of space through auras, star mapping and pictorial symbology. In Nature and Other Relationships , Von Mertens explores the virtual and the real through vibrantly colored, large-scale drawings of emoji ideograms. Her new works... Read more

SunTests

Jaq Chartier May 7 - Jun 27, 2020 Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Seattle-based painter Jaq Chartier 's SunTests . This new series of dye sublimation prints on aluminum are time-based 'image captures' of the artist's ongoing explorations of material phenomena. Chartier's unique process-based practice shares a visual language with Color Field painting and combines her... Read more