I am excited to have a painting in this show!
City of Seattle has a lot of great arts programming and ways they support local artists.
They already own one of my paintings in their public collection and I am happy that my painting “FLYING” is included in the group show at the new Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery in King Street Station in Seattle, WA.
Curatorial Inquiry
The Ethnic Heritage Gallery Board invites artists to submit artworks reflecting on Freedom. At a time when it can feel impossible to move forward; to move beyond isolationism and mistrust of the “other” and into a new way of engaging with one another and into an era of respectful discourse/openness /liberty/and expansion of the human spirit; EHAG asks artist to contemplate what I means to be heard, to be seen, and to be free.
My response
I am always interested in individual freedom, the freedom within an individual mind.
The kind of freedom that allows to question inherited beliefs and patterns, that does not need to ask permission to step outside societal norms. This is a freedom to assert one’s self in the face of pre-arranged, passed down, limiting circumstances and to choose which traditions are worth keeping and which are long overdue for reinvention.
Flying
11x14 inches
oil on canvas
2018
