Drie Chapek
In the Quiet
February 21 - March 30, 2019
Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” March 7, 6-8pm
Artist talk: “Saturday After”, March 9 at noon
We are pleased to announce our first one-person exhibition by Seattle artist, Drie Chapek. The artist's deeply personal approach to oil painting incorporates abstracted natural imagery and movement to explore universal concepts of pain, acceptance and transformation. Thick impasto brush strokes are built up or scraped away to reveal the primed canvas alongside thin washes of color. All combine into a luscious, textured and ambiguous space of exploration.
press release paragraphThis series is based on the scientific process of a solid mass transforming into a light veil of gas. As wood transforms through fire into smoke so does pain transform through acceptance into compassion. This process begins with looking at what is present. Through breath and observance in the body, the pain is allowed to complete its cycle and transform into a past experience that rises and billows. Eventually the experience disperses into tiny particles that connects to all the particles of other shared experiences in humanity. . – Drie Chapek
“This series is based on the scientific process of a solid mass transforming into a light veil of gas. As wood transforms through fire into smoke so does pain transform through acceptance into compassion. This process begins with looking at what is present. Through breath and observance in the body, the pain is allowed to complete its cycle and transform into a past experience that rises and billows. Eventually the experience disperses into tiny particles that connects to all the particles of other shared experiences in humanity. ”
