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"I seem to have made it my life’s work to explore the hole inside my heart from which everything I’ve ever made has been chipped away and brought to light, where it can be examined and interpreted by myself and others.”

Brandon Vosika is a self taught, multidisciplinary artist living and working in Seattle, WA. His primary artistic focus is storytelling through ethereal, figurative paintings, poetic text based artworks, and colorful sculpture. He is an accomplished illustrator, has self-published over 25 small press books, and has created numerous print editions for himself and local artists. He maintains meaningful creative connections with his community and artists around the country with his mail club, through which he has sent over 2,800 personal, art-focused physical letters over the past five years.

Brandon has participated in over 100 group and solo shows with galleries and museums in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He has been featured on the covers of The Stranger and Relish Magazine, as well as in print and online publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The Seattle Times, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose, and City Arts Magazine.

See Vosika's painting "Apple Mask Jug at Sunrise" in our current show Shifting Light, on view until tomorrow.

Pictured:
1. Brandon Vosika
Apple Mask Jug at Sunrise, 2026
18" x 14"
Acrylic and pastel on canvas board in wood frame by @chatwinarts

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"My work approaches the sensation of figures, spaces, and moments in time before they are fully named. Through paintings and drawings, I position the viewer at the edge of legibility, where meaning is unstable and unresolved. This instability reflects both the slipperiness of perception and the difficulty of holding belief with certainty as the reliability of authority and truth continues to break down.

I work between figuration and abstraction with the intention of addressing the desire for truth alongside its impossibility. Imagery in the form of cropped figures, invented environments, and fleeting gestures, acts as a starting point for constructing fragmented moments. My paintings offer a visual experience that feels potentially knowable, only to disrupt that expectation, encouraging sustained looking rather than passive consumption."

Jordan Horton's paintings seem to occupy in a world that one might not quite understand. I believe this lends itself to more complex, engaging work. Since the painting's scene or subject can be unrecognizable or something more abstracted, we must confront what we are seeing as it is. Horton's expressionistic paintings are ultimately about new experiences and ways of seeing over easily recognizable imagery.

Horton's paintings are in Shifting Light, which will be up today and tomorrow from 11:30-5:30pm.

Jordan Horton (b. Kansas City, MO) is a painter living in Seattle, WA. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Washington in 2025. Horton has exhibited nationally in Chicago, Kansas City, and Seattle, and internationally in Singapore. He is the recipient of two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.

Pictured:
1. Jordan Horton
New Legs 2, 2026
48" x 42"
Oil on canvas
2. Photo of Jordan Horton, courtesy of the artist
3. Jordan Horton
Poor Connection, 2025
14" x 11"
Oil on canvas by @chatwinarts

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"As a PhD researcher I am interested in technologies of sensing and observation. I am particularly concerned with operational images (after Harun Farocki, Trevor Paglen, Jussi Parikka); which have emerged from the imbroglio of military, industrial, and scientific-academic power; of which satellite images are one example, and computer-vision depth maps and point clouds are another. In our world, viewing is not only undertaken by prosthetic sensors, but interpreted by algorithms; these operational images structure the world and our own seeing, being the currency of exchange within my chosen scientific disciplines.

These are the subjects of recent paintings of ‘standard test objects’, including the Stanford Bunny, a 3D model produced at Stanford University in 1994 by 3D scanning a ceramic figurine of a rabbit, which is still commonly used to demonstrate the performance of computer-graphics and signal processing algorithms.

I am interested in these objects’ and images’ formal visual qualities. I believe that painting and computer vision research have many things to tell each other."

Zhanpei Fang applies computer-vision methods to satellite imagery for areas of humanitarian and conflict concern as a PhD student in AI and Geography at Oregon State University. She is also a classically trained oil painter and writes critical investigations of technology through philosophy, art history and media theory. Her painting concerns the places where human and machine vision meet; she is interested in understanding how contemporary technologies such as machine learning and Earth observation operate within the world.

See Zhanpei Fang's Stanford Bunny paintings and more in our group show Shifting Light, which is on view until September 26, 2026.

Pictured:
1. Zhanpei Fang
Stanford Bunny, 2025
6" x 8" (12.25" x 14.25" framed)
Oil on aluminum, black floating frame
2. Photo of Zhanpei Fang, courtesy of the artist
3. Zhanpei Fang
Redwoods, 2026
18" x 24"
Acrylic and oil on cradled wood board
4. Zhanpei Fang
Stanford Bunnies, 2026
18" x 24"
Oil and acrylic on cradled wood board by @chatwinarts

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"My paintings and drawings orbit around a shifting cast of surreal creatures, apparitions, and personifications engaged in morally ambiguous hijinks. These characters contain multitudes: sometimes they appear benevolent, other times they are engaged in destruction. Some of these characters and motifs do represent, or at least resemble, aspects of myself or others, but I do not consider my work to be biographical. That said, the absurd escapades these characters find themselves in are inevitably inspired by personal or universal human pitfalls that I want to analyze and interpret through the act of painting.

My most current work utilizes the compositional structures of history painting as visual starting points for automatic drawings that turn into paintings. I have always been fascinated by the phenomenon of paradeolia, the human ability to see images and patterns in abstract phenomenon like clouds, tree bark, burnt toast…"

Dana's paintings can be seen at Chatwin Arts this month in our current exhibition Shifting Light, which will be on view until this Saturday, September 26th.

Dana Blume (b. 1993) is a Seattle-based artist working primarily in drawing and painting. He received his BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2019, and an MFA in the same discipline from the University of Washington in 2023. His work explores themes of morality, myth, and the subconscious through a surreal cast of humorous creatures, apparitions, and personifications, often hinting at connections between art history, popular culture, aesthetic criticism and philosophy.

Pictured:
1. Dana Blume, photo courtesy of the artist
2. Dana Blume,
Fool's Goal, 2026
24" x 30"
Acrylic and oil on panel in white frame by @chatwinarts

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Chatwin Arts is pleased to present Laura Hamje’s solo exhibition, Return to Romanticism, the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery.

In the summer of 2026, Hamje attended a workshop in the Italian countryside of Umbria working under renowned landscape painter Stanley Lewis. Hamje worked only on-site, a departure from working primarily from photos, expanding her practice by approaching her subject with greater intimacy and understanding through intense in-person observation. The workshop in Italy was an experience that Hamje says “has changed my understanding of painting forever, and shown me a path towards uncovering the depth in painting I had been seeking.”

Laura Hamje (b. 1986, Austin, TX) is a painter living and working in the Pacific Northwest. Hamje's work has been shown nationally in Seattle, Astoria (Oregon), Los Angeles and NYC. Her work is in the corporate collections of Perkins Coie, Weyerhaeuser, and F5 Networks. Hamje received her BFA from the University of Washington in 2008.

Return to Romanticism will be on view October 1 – 31, 2026, with an opening reception Thursday, October 1 from 5–9pm. Chatwin Arts is open Wednesday – Saturday from 11:30am – 5:30pm or by appointment. Hamje will lead an artist talk at the gallery on Saturday, October 10th at 2pm. by @chatwinarts

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Guinevere Johnson is a Seattle-based artist with a focus on oil painting.

Her painting style revels in the emotional power of color and the mystical symbolism of garden flowers and landscape. Unifying the representational and abstract, she builds richly layered applications to make the materiality of oil paint a part of her subject. Since turning to studio work full time in 2009, Guinevere has collaborated with a broad range of designers and creatives drawn to her playful enthusiasm for beauty and the fantasy world she nurtures.

"In David Crosby’s song “Guinnevere,” seagulls circle endlessly over the bay, moving through an open landscape of wind and water. Written in the late 1960s, the song feels connected to a larger cultural fascination with freedom, transcendence, and breaking beyond the boundaries of ordinary life. The gulls’ endless circling suggests a different sense of time, not the straight, linear timeline of everyday existence, but something continuous and eternal.

As someone with the given name Guinevere, I feel a personal connection to the song. I painted this gull as a reflection of what that same sense of freedom means to me: stepping outside of ordinary time and finding a place where I feel completely unbound. For me, that place is art, a kind of silent harmony." - Guinevere Johnson

Silent Harmony is featured in our current show Shifting Light, which will be on view until September 26. The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 11:30am - 5:30pm.

Pictured:
1. Guinevere Johnson
Silent Harmony, 2025
30" x 30"
Mixed media on stretched upcycled canvas
2. Photo of Guinevere, courtesy of the artist by @chatwinarts

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Galen Ballinger is a self taught artist and musician working in Portland, Oregon. In both realms his work explores the possibilities of using simple tools and materials to uncover both their limitations and potential, as well as his own. Paintings are often worked on simultaneously and sometimes layered upon and manipulated for years before a final image appears.

When something catches his attention, he draws it further into focus, building outward from it with new figures, objects, and environments. The paintings move freely between abstraction and representation, often arriving somewhere unexpected—familiar yet strange, playful yet uneasy. His work embraces the tension between accident and intention, allowing each painting to develop its own internal logic and visual language.

Ballinger has exhibited throughout the United States and the Pacific Northwest, where he lives and works.

See Ballinger's paintings in our group show, Shifting Light, on view September 3 - 26, Wednesday - Saturday from 11:30am - 5:30pm or by appointment.

Pictured:
1. Photo of Galen Ballinger, courtesy of the artist.
2. Galen Ballinger
Lilies, 2023
24" x 16"
Oil on canvas in wood frame
3. Galen Ballinger
Windy Candles, 2025
24" x 48"
Oil on canvas in wood frame

#galenballinger by @chatwinarts

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Shifting Light is still on view until September 26. See the show in person Wednesday - Saturday, 11:30am - 5:30pm.

Pictured (left to right):

Jordan Horton
Poor Connection, 2025
14" x 11"
Oil on canvas

Zhanpei Fang
Stanford Bunny, 2025
6" x 8" (12.25" x 14.25")
Oil on aluminum, black floating frame

#Zhanpeifang #jordanhorton by @chatwinarts

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"In my work, I create structures that might have been, or approach becoming, something identifiable, but now leave you to work out their existence for yourself. In the deeper looking required by the absence of comfortable identity, noticing and creating become a personal adventure and discovery. Beauty and meaning can relax back into the still, wordless place from which they arise. This experience is what I cherish most about making art and what I hope to share with viewers.
I try to enter that same wordless place in the making, responding intuitively to materials, processes, and what emerges. I'm drawn to rough, discarded, ordinary media, casual connections, and structures growing, changing, or falling apart." - Matthew Harkleroad

Harkleroad's paintings, both playful and colorful, maintain an air of quiet mystery to them. While remaining confident in the depiction of his subject, Harkleroad paints what we don't know or easily recognize. This defiance of identity and recognition allows us to experience the painting as it is, a new world to encounter and explore, in all of its mystery.

Matthew Harkleroad's paintings are currently featured in our group show Shifting Light, which will be on view until September 26. The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 11:30am - 5:30pm or by appointment.

Arizona native Matthew Harkleroad earned his BFA in sculpture from Arizona State University. This sculptural foundation in materials combined with an abiding love of drawing and painting continue to inform and inspire his surfaces, textures, and use of color. After moving to Seattle, Harkleroad earned his Masters in Teaching from Seattle University. He has been teaching art in Seattle ever since. Harkleroad shows his work regionally and nationally, with work included in the city of Bellevue, Washington's portable art collection.

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1. Studio Photo courtesy of Ryan Warner @ryanwarnerphotography
2.Matthew Harkleroad
Lost Monument, 2026
20" x 16"
Mixed media on panel
3. Matthew Harkleroad
Between States, 2023
10" x 8"
Mixed Media on panel
4. Studio photo courtesy of Ryan Warner @ryanwarnerphotography by @chatwinarts

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Jordan Horton's New Legs 2 is currently featured in our group show Shifting Light, which will be on view until Saturday, September 26.

Pictured:
Jordan Horton
New Legs 2, 2026
48" x 42"
Oil on canvas

#jordanhorton by @chatwinarts

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Chatwin Arts will be participating in Walk Don't Run, an event fully run by volunteers where over 20 blocks of sidewalks are open for the public to walk through for this cultural arts event.

Walk Don't Run will be in your local seattle neighborhood September 19 from 11:00am - 7:30pm, with Chatwin Arts open from 11:30am - 6:00pm. See our current show Shifting Light as you pass through.

#walkdontrun by @chatwinarts

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Shifting Light is now open. The group exhibition will be on view until September 26.

The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 11:30am - 5:30pm or by appointment. by @chatwinarts

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