West Seattle Art Walk

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Come spend a fun filled evening wandering through this month’s art walk. The art walk keeps expanding and we now have showings in the Admiral district, the Alaska and Morgan Junctions as well as Alki. So it may be rainy or cold outside, or it may be lovely and springlike, anything goes in the Northwest this time of year, but it will be warm and inviting at all the businesses that support our artists. Plus they usually have something nice to drink and nosh on! So, mark your calendars to join us Thursday April 9th! Also, make sure to enjoy a wide variety of “Art Walk Specials” at 20 cozy bars, restaurants and cafes (see map below) while viewing the evening art walk.

This post’s hero artwork is by Sarah McMahon. Sarah’s art is showing this month at WEND Jewelry .

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Please note: We will be updating the businesses and their artists as the week goes on. Please check back before Second Thursday evening!

Can’t join on April 9th? Check out the social accounts of your favorite exhibiting business – as they may post photos or video!

We also want to remind our Art Lovers that this event is powered by our participating artists, businesses, and restaurants. Thank you for all you do to celebrate our vibrant art scene in West Seattle!

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Click here to view the Google map for businesses that are open and exhibiting.

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ALKI AVENUE

West Seattle Arcade

2758 Alki Ave SW

Emilie BUSINESS HOUR DISPLAY ONLY 5pm-late

Emilie, West Seattle resident and owner of Emilie’s Easel, creates paintings and prints that blend realism with colorful surrealism, drawing from local PNW landscapes, wildlife, architecture, and abstracted forms. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she builds layered compositions using bright, playful color.

Learn more about Emilie on her Website. Learn more about West Seattle Arcade’s events on their Facebook.

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Gary’s Place

2820 Alki Ave SW

Marty Gordon ARTIST OPEN STUDIO 5pm-10pm

Marty Gordon is a visual artist residing in the PNW. His art contains multitudes, drawing on a background as a collagist, printmaker, cartoonist, writer and actor. He is the co-founder of Microverse Press and teaches art classes at Push/Pull in Ballard.

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Log House Museum

3003 61st Ave SW

Denise Brooks INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

Denise Brooks is a Believer, devoted wife of over 45 years, proud mother of 4 children and “Mima” to twelve grandchildren. She grew up in Alaska but has lived all over the USA. Denise is new to watercolor painting. A self-taught watercolor artist, she finds joy in painting flowers, gardens, seascapes and landscapes inspired by her travels around the world. Her bright, cheerful colors reflect her love of life and desire to share happiness through art. Denise paints for fun and joy. After more than 45 years with a company that lets her travel and paint, she has no plans to retire – only to keep exploring and painting. Her paintings hang in private homes in Washington, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Arizona, Washington DC, and West Virginia. She lives in Kent with her husband and cat in the forest.

Learn more about Denise’s work on her Instagram. Learn more about Log House Museum’s events on their Website.

The Log House Museum is a City of Seattle Historic Landmark. It is owned and operated by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society. The Log House Museum is currently showing the exhibit Seattle’s Forest, on the geological, indigenous, industrial, and political history of the West Duwamish Greenbelt.

Learn more about the Log House Museum on their Website.

Art Walk Food and Beverage Specials in Alki

Happy Lemon Alki Beach 9025 25th Ave SW: 10% discount on all selections during Art Walk

Pegasus 2820 Alki Ave SW: $5 glasses of wine and wells and $7 drafts

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ADMIRAL JUNCTION

Brought to you by the Admiral Neighborhood Association

Be sure to check out food and beverage Art Walk participants in the Admiral Junction!

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West Seattle Grounds

2141 California Ave SW

Jenna Brechbiel INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

Learn more about Jenna’s work on her Instagram and Website.

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Hawthorne Massage and self care

2237 California Ave SW

Hawthorne Massage and Self Care will not be participating in Art Walk this quarter.

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Columbia Bank

2620 California Ave

INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

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The good society Brewery

2701 California SW

Andy Wakefield INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm – 8pm

This body of work includes 8 new acrylic paintings that reimagine found educational materials, flashcards, diagrams, test, and learning tools, as handmade artworks that feel familiar but don’t quite function as intended. What appears orderly and instructional at first begins to reveal subtle errors and gaps, reflecting how systems often reward completion and performance while leaving deeper emotional and relational skills unaddressed.

Learn more about Andy’s work on his Instagram.

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West Seattle Realty (Art walk Partner)

2715 California Ave SW

West Seattle Realty will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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Dragonfly Yoga and Pilates

3270 California Ave sw

Dragonfly Yoga and Pilates will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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WEND Jewelry

3278 California Ave SW

Sara McMahon INDOOR SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm. Sara is teaching a class at WEND Jewelry on April 13. learn to make your own beginner papercut portrait. Seats are still available!
Register here: https://wendjewelry.com/collections/sara-mcmahon-1/products/intro-to-papercutting-monday-april13 

I start every piece with a single sheet of black paper, cutting away bit by bit with a sharp blade until the design emerges. I find deep satisfaction in this process as it allows me to look at the world around me with an eye for shadows and light. The trickiest cuts to do are the ones where the two overlap, forcing me to rethink where each begins and ends.

This collection is made up of pieces old and new, inspired by my garden, my journaling practice, my beliefs, my friends.  In essence, the world I live in every day.

Learn more about Sara’s work on her Instagram and Website. Learn more this show on Wend’s Facebook and Website.

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JETT Landscape Architecture + Design

3445 California Ave SW

Stuart Kleiger, painter, and Brian Atkinson, designer, at Nook Studios WINDOW SHOW ONLY Artists will not be in attendance.

Nook Studio’s Limited Collection 01 explores material, structure, permanence and scarcity. Each piece is produced in small numbers, built with raw mater. Alongside each object, we design a garment — exploring the connection between personal style and interior space, between what we wear and what we live with. This is an ongoing study of simplicity, weight, and quiet presence — across both body and room.

Learn more about Nook Studio’s on their Instagram and Website. Learn more about Stuart Kleiger’s work on his Instagram and Website.

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ALASKA JUNCTION

Brought to you by the West Seattle Junction Association

Be sure to check out food and beverage Art Walk participants in the Alaska Junction!

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John L. Scott West Seattle (ART WALK PARTNER)

4445 California Ave SW

Taylor De Lano, Rachel Guiterrez, Rachel P., and Bee INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8:30 pm. 

Four Separate artists will have their work on display.

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Verity Credit Union

4505 California Ave SW

Rachel Bender INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

Rachel Bender is a contemporary abstract artist who believes life should embrace the bold and the whimsical. She creates brightly colored geometric paintings, and landscapes with prismatic elements often inspired by her travels.

Learn more about Rachel’s work on her Instagram, Facebook, and Website.

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Snip It’s Haircuts for Kids

4506 California Ave SWf

Whitney Weigum INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm – 8pm

Whitney Weigum is a West Seattle children’s book author and illustrator. Her book, “Bennett’s Alphabet Adventures,” features watercolor illustrations and colorful design elements to support early learning engagement among kids ages 2-6. Whitney will be reading the book and signing copies from 5-8 pm.

Learn more about Whitney’s work on her Instagram and Website.

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Capers Home

4525 California Ave SW

Rachael Engell, Colleen Monette, and Diane Kappa INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm. Rachael Engell will be in attendance at Art Walk this month.

Learn more about Rachael’s work on her Instagram and Website. Learn more about Colleen’s work on her Instagram, Facebook, and Website. Learn more about Diane Kappa’s work on her Instagram and Website. Learn more about Caper’s show on their Website.

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COMPASS West Seattle REAL ESTATE

4531 CALIFORNIA AVE SW

Greg Goudey INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm – 8pm

Greg Goudey is a published photographer based in West Seattle. He began his photography journey as a teenager and has spent nearly forty years capturing landscape images around the world. After living in Finland for four years, Greg taught himself how to photograph the Aurora Borealis—now his area of expertise.

This collection of Aurora Borealis photos, titled Celestial Spectacle, features images from May 10, 2024, when the Aurora made a rare appearance over Seattle. It also includes photos taken in Fairbanks, Alaska, where Greg and his wife Tiffany own two log cabins. They purchased the Moonlight Forest Property in 2022 to create a peaceful retreat away from city lights. The secluded location just outside of town offers stunning Aurora views—just steps from the warmth of their cabins. Guests are welcome to experience the magic of the northern lights for themselves. Booking details are available on Greg’s website (scan the QR code below).
The most recent additions to the collection were captured on March 25, 2025, in Lapland, Finland, where Greg now works as a trip leader for the Dressler Detours Northern Lights tour.

Learn more about Greg’s work on his Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Website.

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therapeutic associates West Seattle Physical Therapy

4532 42nd SW

Therapeutic Associates will not be participating in this quarter.

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Emerald water anglers

4707 california ave sw

Emerald Water Anglers will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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Easy Street Records & Cafe

4559 California Ave SW

Easy Street Records & Cafe will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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ARTSWEST (Art Walk Partner)

4711 CALIFORNIA AVE SW

Julissa Quezada Rosales INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 2pm -7pm Artist will not be in attendance.

Forms of Story

Artist Statement
In Forms of Story, Julissa explores painting as a way of understanding how energy moves through space and form. Working with an intuitive yet deliberate process, she treats the canvas as an active field where layers are built, softened, and revealed over time. Influenced by her background in architecture, her work is guided by a sensitivity to spatial relationships, allowing each painting to develop as a lived experience rather than a fixed image. Through the interplay of color, light, and shadow, forms emerge and dissolve, carrying traces of memory and emotion. Light directs attention, color creates structure and feeling, and shadow introduces depth and stillness—together unfolding quiet, open-ended narratives. Her paintings become vessels that hold these subtle shifts, inviting viewers into a space of reflection where meaning is felt as much as it is seen.

Artist Biography
Julissa Quezada Rosales is a multidisciplinary artist, and architectural designer born in a small town in Honduras and raised in New York. She began her artistic practice with a focus in realism working with graphite and charcoal before transitioning to oil painting in 2018; expanding her exploration of form, atmosphere, and emotional resonance through color. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Marywood University in 2019, and her background in architecture continues to inform her sensitivity to space and composition. Since 2024, she has exhibited her work throughout the Seattle area and has participated in live painting at multiple music events, extending her practice into immersive and performative environments.

jaqra-studio.com
@julissaaquezada

Learn more about Julissa’s work on her Instagram and Website. Learn more about this exhibit on ArtsWest’s Events page.

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Windermere West Metro Real Estate (Art walk partner)

4526 California Ave SW

Jeffrey Starkes INDOOR SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm.

Artist Jeffrey Starkes has recently relocated to Seattle, Washington, after living and working in Connecticut for most of his life. Following a long career as an art director and graphic designer, Jeff has developed a new vocation as an emerging abstract artist. Working primarily in oils, his paintings have been featured at numerous art galleries in both solo and group shows.

Jeff’s abstract paintings are inspired by the interactions and battles between our heads and hearts in the course of human affairs. Sometimes hard, cold logic overrules our heartfelt emotions. At other times, our passions overwhelm common sense. Jeff transposes these ever-shifting arguments into a visual language. His paintings depict emotions through color, amorphous shapes and spontaneous brush strokes. The presence of logic is indicated by elements such as geometric shapes, straight lines and hard edges. When all these things interact and compete in one of Jeff’s compositions, we get a glimpse of the art of being human.

Learn more about Jeffrey’s work on his Website.

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Jet City Labs (art walk Partner)

4547 California Avenue

Jet City will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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Be sure to check out food and beverage Art Walk participants in the Morgan Junction!

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west seattle Salon

5416 California Ave SW

Andrew Rinke INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

We will still be offering 15% off all our retail products during the Art Walk and 20% off of facial services that are booked during the Art Walk event.

Enjoy food, beverages, music, raffles, sales, art, and much more on March 12 from 5pm to 8pm at The West Seattle Salon. Follow us on Instagram for all the details @thewestseattlesalon

The Stars Align

Andrew Rinke is a spray-paint artist based in Seattle, WA. He spray paints dramatic skies and creates scenes in nature using acrylic paints, newspaper, and wood veneer. He’s motivated to make art based on the belief in the healing power of nature and our universal connection to it. Learn more at artwithaprinke.com

“The Stars Align”” centers around the 12 zodiacs and their elements Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. Artist Andrew Rinke spent a year creating this series based on our cosmic identities and the mysteries of our unique celestial alignment.

Learn more about Andrew’s work on his Instagram and Website. Learn more about this show on The West Seattle Salon’s Instagram.

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Canna West Seattle (Art Walk Partner) 

5435 California Ave SW

INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

Canna West Seattle is a 21+ retail store.

About Featured Vendor: Healthy Roots® Hemp provides hemp-derived full-spectrum hemp extract oil products that are made to improve health, help ease aches and discomfort, and enhance day-to-day life. Our team believes in and embodies our mission wholeheartedly. We are seasoned in all avenues, from the cultivation of hemp to formulating recipes with extensive knowledge on all forms of cannabinoids, providing an incomparable product for the market. From your pets to your grandmother and everyone in between, we have something for everyone.

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Viscon Cellars

5910 CALIFORNIA AVE SW

Wine Tasting fees are waived for participants in the WS Art Walk at Viscon Cellars

Lea Basile-Lazarus INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-9pm.

My artistic practice is a vibrant response to the world around me—engaging with social justice, exploring community, and reflecting on the natural environment. I work primarily in contemporary printmaking, paper pulp painting, and occasionally painting. Each of these processes offers a visual language through which I can express my ideas.
Paper—whether printed on or formed from hand-shaped fibers—holds the memory of both the natural world and the human touch. I feel most at home working with paper as a foundation or creating images from pulp; it feels organic, unpretentious, and alive. I have always been drawn to artworks in which paper itself becomes part of the story.
While each medium has distinct qualities, they share a physicality that keeps me deeply engaged. I often work on multiple pieces simultaneously, allowing for a dynamic, intuitive process. Layering stencils, shapes, colors, and marks, I respond instinctively as the imagery emerges.
I create textures and marks using brushes, squeeze bottles, stencils, and fabric, guided by the gestural movement of my arm. Many of the same stencils move across all three mediums, visually linking the work. Each process is both mentally and physically demanding, transforming mark-making into a language of nuanced conversation, unspoken emotion, and quiet resistance. Colors may clash or converge, echoing the turbulence of the world I navigate—yet within that tension, moments of stillness and clarity emerge, offering space to pause and breathe.
Exploring these materials and techniques has allowed me to develop distinctive surfaces that reflect both my immediate community and the wider world. The act of making is as vital to me as the finished piece—each gesture shaped by what I see, sense, and feel in the moment.
Though these works come together as a unified body, they were created across different periods of my life. My responses to surface and material continue to shift. Life does not stand still—nor does the way I express the world around me.

Learn more about Lea’s work on her Website. Learn more about Viscon Cellars on their Instagram and Facebook.

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NOR Design (Art walk partner)

5953 California Ave SW

NOR Design will not be participating in Art Walk this month.

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Alki Arts Gallery

6030 California SW

Leon Lowman, Chuck Gumpert, C.A. Pierce, and Arlon Rosenhoff INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm.

Abstract Thoughts

Four fabulous abstract artists showing for the month of April at Alki Arts! For more on this show see Alki Art’s Website.

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Inner Space Designs

6031B California SW

Laura Van Horn WINDOW SHOW ONLY Artist will not be in attendance.

STITCHED VILLAGE

Layered, stitched & fused~ together forming richly textured surfaces that echo the passage of time.

Learn more about Laura’s work on her Instagram, Facebook, and Website. Learn more about Inner Space Design Featured Artists on their Website.

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Upward physical therapy

6040 California ave sw

Hania Marien (Wombat Wisdoms) INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 5pm-8pm

Hania Mariën (Wombat Wisdoms) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is inspired by the natural world and justice movements. Her art is heavily influenced by her work as a social justice educator and researcher, and invites people into conversations about interdependence, community and solidarity. Hania’s bold, whimsical designs are rooted in a strong belief that play and imagination are essential tools to work towards liberation. She calls the Pacific Northwest home, and often highlights native flora and fauna that bring her joy.

She will have prints and other art available for purchase from 5-8pm.

Learn more about Wombat Wisdom’s work on her Instagram and Website.

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The Neighborhood

6503 California Ave SW

Autumn Tranquilino INDOORS SHOW & RECEPTION 3pm-9pm

Autumn Tranquilino is a Seattle-based acrylic painter whose work explores the intersection of nature, mythology, and spirit. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest, her paintings often feature animals, birds, and symbolic figures that carry a sense of story and presence. Through layered color and expressive form, she creates pieces that feel both grounded in the natural world and connected to something more mystical. The works on view at this Art Walk focus on spirit animals, nature, and mythical beings—images that invite viewers to reflect on the deeper relationship between the human spirit and the living world around us.

Learn more about Autumn’s work on her Instagram, Facebook, and Website.

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Mailbox West

6523 California Ave SW

10% off all shipping that day from 6-7 PM

Glenda Weibel and Pamela Benetti BUSINESS HOUR DISPLAY ONLY 5:00pm-7:30pm

Glenda Weibel

Glenda is a West Seattle based watercolor artist. She loves the immediacy and fluidity of watercolor, but uses different techniques to finish the pieces as both framed and unframed.  She also has original greeting cards available at the store for purchase.

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Pamela Benetti

I am a local artist here in West Seattle.

Learn more about Pamela’s work on her Website.

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THE BUILDING

4316 SW Othello Street

The Building is a consortium of artists who show in the same studio space. Check them out!

Flora Carlile Kovacs ARTIST OPEN STUDIO 5pm-8pm

The award winner of several wearable art shows, Flóra Carlile-Kovács (she/her) is a professional felt artist born in Szeged, Hungary, now living and working in Seattle, WA. In her work she incorporates two bodies of knowledge, the nomadic traditions and the urban, modern style of feltmaking. Coming from the European tradition of craftsmanship and quality, she is constantly experimenting with ways to improve not only the visual artistic aspect of her work, but also its physical integrity as a functional object appropriate for everyday use. Her enthusiasm spans the miles as she leads two Felt Tours to Hungary each year. florafelts.com

Learn more about Flora’s work on her Instagram, Facebook and Website.

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Shelley Irish ARTIST OPEN STUDIO 5pm-8pm

Shelley Irish is a teaching artist and founder of the Art Garden. Her paintings act as bridges between the beauty of the natural world and the rawness of feeling and healing. Her choice of subject matter comes from being emotionally moved by scenes in meditations, through shamanic journeying and tapping into the healing needed for the collective. She chooses subjects that honor transcendental experiences, the connection of nature to healing, and the purity and strength of women. She offers originals, prints and art gifts for sale. Art Garden is her art school, where mastery meets medicine. Learn to paint like DaVinci or scribble your blues away. During November’s Art Walk, Shelley will have an open studio where the community can play with paint and explore different facets of creativity. It is free and all supplies are provided. 

Learn more about Shelley’s work on her Instagram, Facebook, and Website.

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Suzie Mulligan ARTIST OPEN STUDIO 5pm-8pm

Suzie Mulligan is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist, working in photography, oils and encaustic. Through layering, she allows each piece to evolve from the events of the process, revealing representations of the natural world –simplicity, harmony, imperfection, serene beauty.

Learn more about Suzie’s work on her Instagram and Website.

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Mae Aur ARTIST OPEN STUDIO 5pm-8pm

Moon Mode + Human Suit

Mae Aur’s hand cut wood sculptures blur the boundary between painting and object, softness and structure. Using plywood as both surface and skeleton, she cuts, shapes, and paints figures that feel tender yet unyielding. Her characters are often masked. They embrace, pull apart, or quietly confront unseen forces. Her work grapples with love, loss, alienation, connection, and the unknown.
Through exaggerated form, symbolic gesture, and vivid color, Aur transforms rigid wood into something soft, bodily, and animated. Intuition precedes language while playful palettes carry difficult truths.

Born in 1988 in the American South and raised in a Brazilian-Lebanese and British household, Aur has made art her entire life and began creating her signature hand cut wood works in 2010. Her multidisciplinary practice has included metal, clay, costume, and performance, though she now focuses primarily on painted wood sculptures that function as three dimensional paintings.

After years working in somatic healing and massage therapy, she transitioned to a full-time studio practice in January 2025. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Marrow Gallery in San Francisco (Moon Mode, 2025) and Glitch Gallery in Memphis (Sweet Creams, 2015), and group exhibitions at Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans and Jay Etkin Gallery in Memphis, as well as the 2021 State of the Art exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, where her work is held in the permanent collection. In 2025 she presented a solo booth with Marrow Gallery at The Armory Show in New York. Aur relocated from Memphis to Seattle in 2021 and works from her studio in West Seattle.

Learn more about Mae’s work on her Instagram and Website.

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