Celebrate and Remember
the art of
Susan Lockwood

Join us for a reception
Friday, May 7, from 7:00-9:30pm

Free and open to the public

Opens Saturday, May, 1, 2010

Showings also by appointment.  
Contact us at Art@CenturyBallroom.com
or 206-324-7263
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Artists Statement:
I am a painter, originally from Michigan, currently living and working in Seattle.  I have been an active artist for the past seventeen years, and a full time painter for the past six.  Through my work I seek to express the multiple dimensions of our experience here.  What I see, as well as that which is not physical.  Combining the abstract, the symbolic and the figurative, I consider most of my paintings to be narrative landscapes.  Landscapes which I coax from a base of abstraction, working with the paint and the painting to reveal a story within.  Painting, for me, is not only a visual experience, but one that glides through many senses.  Through my paintings I seek to communicate the poetic, the sense of moving from touch to a scent, or sound to taste, and the memory within that.  Exploring how to take a two-dimensional surface and allowing it to express volume and space.
- Susan Lockwood, July 8th, 1962 - May 16th, 2009

HaLo is a space dedicated to social dance lessons and events.  Exhibitions can be viewed free of charge during any of these events.  If you arrive during a lesson, you are welcome to come in and look around, we ask only that you be respectful of the students.  If you arrive during a dance, please let the door person know that you are just there to look at the art.

Artworks are available for purchase.

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From The Vault:
Century Ballroom Posters

Free and open to the public

Opens Friday, April, 2, 2010

Showings also by appointment.  
Contact us at Art@CenturyBallroom.com
or 206-324-7263
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HaLo is a space dedicated to social dance lessons and events.  Exhibitions can be viewed free of charge during any of these events.  If you arrive during a lesson, you are welcome to come in and look around, we ask only that you be respectful of the students.  If you arrive during a dance, please let the door person know that you are just there to look at the art.

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Belly Dancers of the Northwest
Gene Rivas

Free and open to the public

Opens Friday, February, 12, 2010

Showings also by appointment.  
Contact us at Art@CenturyBallroom.com
or 206-324-7263
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Artists Statement:
Gene Rivas presents the second collection of his paintings of Belly Dancers of the Northwest.  The year and a half long project used six local Belly Dancers as models for the 14 paintings on display.  They are rendered uniquely with crayons, pencils, and oils and are 24 by 18 inches and larger.  The exhibit attempts to capture the passion, dynamics, art form and most importantly, the beauty of Belly Dancing here in the Seattle area.  The paintings are for sale, and Gene will be happy to show and talk about the paintings to anyone interested in the work.

Gene Rivas is the grandson of the master Mexican artist, Candelario Rivas http://www.pgmagallanes.com/CRivas/ and nephew of the great Hollywood artist, Jose Rivas http://www.americanartarchives.com/rivas.htm Gene's website can be viewed at http://www.generivas.com/ and his Youtube video showing the construction of the paintings can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5U8BkIGyXc Never attending a day of art school, Gene Rivas was entirely trained by the Rivas family, and now enjoys early retirement with his wife in Redmond, WA.

HaLo is a space dedicated to social dance lessons and events.  Exhibitions can be viewed free of charge during any of these events.  If you arrive during a lesson, you are welcome to come in and look around, we ask only that you be respectful of the students.  If you arrive during a dance, please let the door person know that you are just there to look at the art.

Artworks are available for purchase.

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Time Streams: Reflections on Life
Holly Cannell

Join us for a reception with the artist
Saturday, December 12, from 6:00-8:00pm

Free and open to the public


Showings also by appointment.  
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Artists Statement:
Past, present, future--the transition of time, place and space.  Baby, child, teenager, middle aged, senior, octogenarian...
 
Changes in ourselves, the world around us, and how we perceive these changes compel me.  Even as I stare, something shifts slightly, people walk past with various expressions.  I perceive many things peripherally and my mood shifts.  My attitude toward my subject is now altered.  A cup of hot coffee on a cold morning tends to make me smile a bit more at the people I pass.  Rude treatment affects my feelings for the rest of the day, at least.  Memories passed long ago into storage are stirred by a single whiff of nutmeg.
 
Contemplating with the sincerity of a philosopher, I have not yet unraveled the mysteries of this universe.  The deeper I look, the more questions I uncover.  My inquires are lost in a world that is always moving.  society shifts, tectonic plates shift, Grandma's good china shifts, falling off the table, breaking not just the cup, but affecting the entire set.  And the world will not stop changing no matter how content I find myself in a given moment.  I will not be permitted to rest there long.
 
My health is broken, but I am still me--a different me, but myself unmistakably.  So the self that I am has changed.  The world around me is reconstructed, my views move over the years, my attitude is altered.  I know who I am from day-to-day, but less so week-to-week.  And I am barely recognizable after a mere decade.  What is it that I am working on that can withstand the great passage of time through which I am journeying?  Time itself is my companion.
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Holly Cannell was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1970.  After eighteen short months, her parents returned to their native Texas where she was raised.  She drew before she talked.  It has always been natural for the artist to think in pictures.  This visual intensity and the concentration she put into her early drawings led her parents to enroll her in an art class at the age of eight.  The lessons didn't last long because she preferred to work on her own and learn through experiment.  During her teen years, Holly made many colored pencil drawings with increasing levels of abstraction.
 
In February of 1990, Holly decided to switch from works on paper to works on canvas.  This change was abrupt and came from a desire to make more powerful statements.  She abandoned all pencil work and devoted herself to acrylics.  Learning to use a paintbrush was as difficult as learning how to write, but it was worthwhile because paint afforded her the freedom to create glazes, texture, and color she could have never made with pencils.
 
Holly moved to Seattle in December of 1990.  She lived and painted here for two years, enjoying the mountains, trees, and water.  The artist became obsessed with the game of chess.  After reading and playing over the moves in many chess books, she decided to move to New York.  There she rented an apartment in the East Village, joined the Marshall Chess Club, and spent the next two years absorbing chess encyclopedias.  Yes, Holly did continue painting.  She had a solo exhibit at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.  Nine paintings of abstracted chess figures appeared at the Chess in Education Conference in January of 1995.
 
In February of the same year, the artist returned to her adopted home in Seattle.  By April, she was showing her work at the Art/ Not Terminal Gallery.  She has been the featured artist at the gallery three times: February of 1998, March of 2001, and December of 2008.  Holly Cannell continues to exhibit her work at A/NT where she enjoys the rich diversity this all-volunteer arts organization offers.

HaLo is a space dedicated to social dance lessons and events.  Exhibitions can be viewed free of charge during any of these events.  If you arrive during a lesson, you are welcome to come in and look around, we ask only that you be respectful of the students.  If you arrive during a dance, please let the door person know that you are just there to look at the art.

Artworks are available for purchase.

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