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Gallery Hours: By appointment only and open during
ARTwalk, May through December, 6pm to 9pm on Second Saturdays
in Ballard. http://www.ballardchamber.com
Sev
Shoon Arts Center the center for the aspiring
and experienced artists
Sev Shoon Arts Center was started in 1991 by Swiss artist, Dionne Haroutunian. Sev Shoon is an environment dedicated to the art of printmaking. We offer studio rental, quarterly classes, host demonstrations of fine art printmaking, and also host monthly exhibitions, which serve as an outlet for our renters, students, and instructors to show their work.
OFF TO NIGERIA!
Dionne Haroutunian, the founder of Sev Shoon, has been invited to go teach printmaking at the University of Nigeria/Nsukka.
Read more.
A very special opportunity to meet and study with very accomplished out of town artists.
SPRING 2009 CLASSES
NOW ENROLLING FOR SPRING AND SUMMER CLASSES
2009 FUNDRAISER
OUR 2nd ANNUAL AUCTION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS, THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!
Our Auction this year consisted of our usual Art Dash, the new Balloon Raffle and a very small (4 items!) Live Auction. The evening events were conducted by our wonderful Auctioneer, Eric Mamroth, who kept us going at a nice pace that allowed for plenty of social time, without keeping us until the wee hours of the morning! This is a unique opportunity to collect high quality artwork at a very affordable price of $100. Our Auction is by invitation only, however you are more than welcome to email us and ask to be added to our list of invitees for next year!
GALLERY NEWS
- The Sev Shoon gallery participates in the Ballard ARTwalk from May through December. Please join us on the 2nd Saturday of the month, 6-9PM for the opening receptions. To view images from our gallery program, please see the Soon at the Shoon page.
- Gallery hours are by appointment only.
- Directions to Sev Shoon
Gift Certificates available... for the artist and/or art lover! Can be
applied to art, classes or rental.
(Visa and Master card accepted as well as cash and checks!)
FEATURED ARTIST
James Reed |
Earth Cleft, Woodcut, 10" x 15", artist proof
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I don’t remember a period in my life when I wasn’t making an idea into something
tangible, consciously or unconsciously translating desire and perception into an artistic language. In a spectrum of representation— ranging from what the eye actually sees and reports, to that originating from within the mind as an abstract construct— I have chosen to reconstruct the world I perceive.
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Inland Sea, Linocut, 10" x 15", artist proof |
I work in a minimal language of essential questions and economical means, but I have always been drawn to the interaction of materials and tools and the possibilities and happy accidents that arise from “working by hand”— the common hinge in a common language that is essentially undependable. |
Scarce Beauty, woodcut, 10" x 15", artist proof |
I am increasingly interested in memory as a source of inspiration— not in a nostalgic sense, but as a “tool” for reconstructing the visual world— for interpreting rather than replicating a landscape, for example. It is in the awareness of imperfect memory and imperfect means of interpreting memory that my inquiry begins, with a sense that a mystery lies beneath the world I perceive and lies hidden in my way of remembering it,
a mystery I seek to unravel in my work, knowing full well I’ll never find the end of it.
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House in Bamboo, Shellac Plate, 15" x 20", artist proof |
Marshland, Shellac Plate, 15" x 20", artist proof |
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