Opening reception First Friday January 3rd from 5pm-8pm
Show is open Saturdays noon-4pm through February 1st, 2025
FEATURING ARTISTS: Andrea Cope, Robin Mayberry, Tim Fowler, Colleen Monette, Ken Johnson, Kyle Wyatt, Jeannie Johnson. Mary Deifenbach Duke, Joanna Thomas, Christine Texiera, Janice Baker, Cynthia Martin, Tabitha Klucking, Beckey Parmenter, Lydia Huber, & Danney Parkins.
Show is open Saturdays noon-4pm through February 1st, 2025
FEATURING ARTISTS: Andrea Cope, Robin Mayberry, Tim Fowler, Colleen Monette, Ken Johnson, Kyle Wyatt, Jeannie Johnson. Mary Deifenbach Duke, Joanna Thomas, Christine Texiera, Janice Baker, Cynthia Martin, Tabitha Klucking, Beckey Parmenter, Lydia Huber, & Danney Parkins.
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"Art-making is native to humans. We’ve been leaving our mark since Cro-Magnon Man loitered in Lascaux, sketching bison with ochre. Toddlers are so art-prone that they’ll turn every blank wall into a mural if given the chance. Humans everywhere are gifted with creative impulses, and many of us channel those impulses into painting, drawing, sculpture and other expressions of our unfurling minds.
And yet there persists an idea that artists are an exclusive club with secret handshakes and lineages. An artist is influenced by a particular school of thought and studies under respected mentors. An artist has been credentialed through formal education, an impressive CV, and gallery representation. An artist makes a living with their art. This perception of who can call themselves an artist is a narrow path that limits those who have arrived at the art life through other channels. If an artist is a formally trained, professionally recognized expert, then who are the people who create work quietly, through trial and error, in their back bedrooms, having never been formally mentored or trained? How does an art-maker identify as an artist if they’re not stamped with the formative experience of art school? Who gets to decide if someone is an artist, and when does a maker of art get to claim the title for themselves? It is these questions that led to the collection shown here in The Outsiders. The artists in this collection have not, for a variety of reasons, attended formal art training. Yet each of them has a long-term and disciplined practice, working through the discoveries that reveal themselves in the process of art-making itself. If it is possible for an artist to attend formal training then of course that can be a huge benefit, providing artists the opportunity to hone their craft, to make connections and to commit to their creative voice. But this collection seeks to encourage those who have not had that opportunity; or those who pursued other academic pathways in their college years; or those who started in formal art training and had their hearts thoroughly broken by the process; or those who never knew their hands were made to hold a paintbrush until later in their lives. The Outsiders is a celebration of the alternate path: the unconventional, unexpected, under-recognized journey into the life of visual creativity. May it light your fire. " -ROBIN MAYBERRY 
Collage and poetry by Joanna Thomas will be a feature of The Outsiders exhibit.
Artwork by Lydia Huber
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Artwork by Cindy Martin, and her work such as "Last Call", will be featured, along with other artists, at The Outsiders exhibition this January.
The encaustic artwork of Robin Mayberry will also be featured in The Outsiders this January 2025.
Assemblage by Tim Fowler
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The Palace Gallery is free and open to the public 12pm-4pm Saturdays and First Fridays of every month from 5-8pm.
We're also open for special events throughout the month.
Come join us downtown at 210 W. 4th Ave, Suite X!
We're also open for special events throughout the month.
Come join us downtown at 210 W. 4th Ave, Suite X!
THE GREEN BOAT
February 7th- March 1st, 2025
an exhibit by
Karl Schwiesow
Opening reception is First Friday February 7th from 5-8pm
“Hello, Karl Schwiesow here, I live and create art in Ellensburg WA. I work at Dick and Jane’s Spot and operate The Palace Gallery, also in Ellensburg. As an artist my creative output aims to create conversation about objects and the language used to define them. I create artwork which leverages everything from installation-like mixed media sculptures and altered objects of utilitarian purpose, to large ceramic abstractions and paintings. The art can operate as a visual and aesthetic experience, or even technical learning experience or tool (sometimes they are!) and engage a willing audience in the larger conversation about the mechanisms of meaning, identity, and place.
The Green Boat exhibit includes sculptural, found object, installation works, and paintings which seek to expand the relationship between handmade art objects and objects of utility and leisure. The Green Boat showcases select works which have only recently mingled through a flurry of wonder, humor, and panic.”
-KS
The Green Boat exhibit includes sculptural, found object, installation works, and paintings which seek to expand the relationship between handmade art objects and objects of utility and leisure. The Green Boat showcases select works which have only recently mingled through a flurry of wonder, humor, and panic.”
-KS
The Palace Gallery / Art Is Fine LLC / 2024