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Will Klemm: Elevations
December 7-29, 2024

Wally Workman will notably open Will Klemm's 25th show at the gallery. A decades-long relationship, Klemm was one of the first painters to show with the gallery, which will celebrate its 45th anniversary next year. In this show, Klemm’s large scale, richly textured canvases illustrate his travels with poetic evocations of the Southwestern landscape, from Texas to California. Klemm is known for his ethereal and light-focused landscapes. An admirer of nineteenth century Impressionist painters, Klemm continually explores how the art of the past communicates with the art of today.

Will Klemm received his BFA from The University of Texas and maintains a studio in Austin as well as in Taos, New Mexico. His work is in private and public collections around the world.

preview show

Ellen Heck: Prints
January 4-26, 2025

Closing Reception and Artist Talk Saturday, January 25th 4 to 7pm, talk at 5pm

In this exhibition, both figurative and abstract works explore a panorama of perspectives. Life-size monochromatic aquatint portraits of children in the process of having their faces painted hone in on varying expressions of almost religious deliverance at known and unknown hands holding tools of transformation. In this series of varied editions, Being Painted, each child's face is individually painted in different familiar motifs. Of these, the show features masked adventurers, clowns, and starry-eyed dreamers. Heck is interested in the variety of expressions and levels of self-consciousness of children being painted, and conversely, the focus and lack of self-consciousness of children who are painting themselves.


Another on-going series included in the exhibition are Heck's large abstract works from the Color Wheels series. Multiple panels from a single origin accumulate to resemble kaleidoscopic landscapes, each one repeatedly referencing an image that no longer exists in its original form. The resultant composite piece explores self-similarity and collective growth. 

In concurrence with Print Austin, the show as a whole uses the repetition and variation of printmaking to tell stories of transformation.

Anne Siems : Playground
February 1-23, 2025

Opening reception on Saturday, February 1 from 6 to 8pm

Wally Workman Gallery is pleased to present Anne Siems show Playground. The work for this new exhibit was inspired by a recent extended stay with her family, when she had plenty of time to meander  the woods of her childhood hometown outside Berlin, Germany. Keenly interested in childhood memory as well as Family Systems theory in psychology, her familiar stomping grounds began to appear in her work and take on new meaning along with elements of dreams and fairy tales. Her piece 'Playground Fire" references not only our environmental emergencies but also a crisis of childhood in society. However, in the same way that fires can be destructive as well as restorative, they can also be viewed as purifying, metaphorical flames burning away thoughts based in fantasy, old beliefs and behavior patterns. Siems' work stems from a visceral process, and is meant to leave room for the viewer”s individual experience. 

Anne Siems is a German artist living and working in Seattle, WA.