Claudia Fitch

Models and Messengers

July 5 - August 24, 2024

Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” July 11, 6-8pm
Artist talk: “Saturday After”, July 13 at noon

The Gallery is excited to present our ninth one-person exhibition by Washington artist Claudia Fitch. The show’s title, Models and Messengers, refers to how we choose to present ourselves in our public life. We are models, walking the city streets like a runway, wearing our chosen patterns and designs. We are also messengers, using the clothes we wear to convey information about ourselves.

“As if in an imaginary city center, stepping out on the street with bright plumage and sartorial flair, they are bearing messages, both personal and public.

The figures are also shaped by selected images from the media stream. Human life on the street can be simultaneously ubiquitous and monumental, contemporary and ancient.”

–Claudia Fitch

The exhibition’s centerpiece is a 10 foot by 10 foot neon hummingbird, a prototype for a public sculpture commissioned for the Lynnwood City Center Rail Station. Based on the beautiful Anna’s Hummingbird, common to the Pacific Northwest, the sculpture’s neon lights mimic the bird’s iridescent feathers and jewel-like appearance.

Work in exhibition