In “Being and Becoming,” Northwest landscape painter Christine Gedye captures ephemeral moments of light and atmosphere in translucent layers of oil rendered over collaged surfaces. The serene stillness of the compositions—a marsh in morning mist, Mount Rainier mirrored in a lake, a Skagit slough at dusk—may be the thing that captures your gaze, but the rich textures of overlapping book pages floating underneath will draw you close and keep you looking.
Vintage sheet music, Edo period Kanji book pages, and 50s-era National Park guidebooks lay the foundation for her surfaces. Broad swathes of untroubled sky and water leave plenty of opportunities to notice these hidden treasures. Regardless of whether you can read them (and that’s really not the point), the texture and quiet conversation going on just beneath the surface hint at the influences at work here—travel, nostalgia, music and poetry, and Japanese art and aesthetics.
The show will be up from May 2nd- June 2nd, with an opening reception on Saturday May 4, from 4-6pm.
