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Anne Siems : Playground
February 1-23, 2025
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.
preview show
Joyce Howell: Solo Show
March 1-30, 2025
Opening reception on Saturday, March 1 from 6 to 8pm
On March 1st, 2025, Wally Workman Gallery is pleased to present a solo show with abstract painter Joyce Howell. Howell’s palette is informed by nature and its flux between calm and chaos, creating what she describes as loose landscapes. She describes the process as an ongoing conversation. An intuitive painter, each color and mark applied to the canvas informs the next; colors give the impression of physical weight and become instruments, much as in a musical composition. As the work progresses, the painting becomes a collaboration, a dialogue between Howell and the canvas.
Joyce Howell lives and works in the Austin, Texas area.
