Christopher Rico: “Cartograpy.”

Crisper Rico, formerly a southern artist, makes his Seattle debut with a solo exhibition at “L’il Red Shack Gallery.” Rico’s controlled oxidation painting on sheet copper, fuse together techniques of both metalsmithing and expressionist painting. The metaphor of map making is an apt one, with the works taking the viewer on a journey to imagined landscapes of depth and mystery, as if directing us to a place we have known somewhere inside ourselves from long ago.

Raymond Kempe: “One Was Lost.”

Raymond Kempe is a self taught Seattle artist who combines found objects and mixed media into compelling sculptural forms. His works often incorporate objects, which evoke the notions of decay, and the cycles of life and death. With these objects, he creates compositions and forms that give a sense of order and understanding to these cycles, that everyone must inevitably face.

Opening Reception: Thursday February 8th, 6- 9pm.

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