We have decided to use the relaxed atmosphere of a summer exhibition to bring together works by five artists related only by the fact that we were bowled over by each of the individual pieces – none of them large or definitive, yet each representing a sure step by an interesting artist. Two of the artists have shown regularly with the gallery, three are brand new to it, two are painters contributing paintings, one is a sculptor, one is a filmmaker presenting digital film stills, and one is a painter whose photographs illuminate his process.

Vaughn Bell, Portable Desert, installation view
Seattle-based sculptor Vaughn Bell is interested in individual relationships with the natural environment, in a culture in which many of our richest experiences with nature live only in our memory or fantasy, and in which our longing for contact with earth and the things that grow in it is often thwarted by concrete and plastic. These concerns have