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I like the miniamalist treatment of covering up graffiti in the work hood.

Michael Leigh

Michael Leigh has a show of landscape paintings up at the Tree House Cafe on Bainbridge Island. He captures the patterns and essence of the Northwest landscape in his paintings through bold and simple brushwork.

Robert Motherwell 1960

DAVID SYLVESTER How clear an idea do you have before you start to paint of what the painting is going to be like?

ROBERT MOTHERWELL Usually not much. More simply, I begin from an impulse, an intense irrational desire that takes you over, prompting you to start moving. And from experience, with some knowledge of what moves oneself, I think it's not altogether arbitrary what one begins with. I mean, I think that any painter would instinctively begin with forms, colors, spatial areas, kinds of format, that in general have been more sympathetic to him that others have been. But certainly implicit partially is the feeling, not the 'I'm going to paint something that I know' but 'through the act of painting I'm going to find out exactly how I feel, both generally and about whatever is specific'.

From "Interviews with American Artists" by David Sylvester

Rectangles

The new neighborhood is filled with warehouses and industrial remnants that will one day be developed into office towers and condos.

New Neighborhood

I've been exploring the new office neighborhood and have been intrigued by the graffiti paint overs.

Maureen Gallace

She fits all the pieces together like a tightly fitting puzzle. It makes your eye dance around looking for where it might fall apart. Hmm, interesting way of putting tension into such a tranquil scene. More of her work can be seen at the Michael Kohn Gallery.

Kate Shepherd

Whimsy or serious Minimalism? I think both are a in the work of New York City artist's Kate Shepherd's work. More can be viewed at B. Krakow Gallery.