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Galleries: | @specialist_sea | @soilart | Seattle, WA
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🎉💫Please join us on Friday, 10/2, 4:30-7PM, for the opening reception of our first exhibition, “underhand, overhand, backstops, treetops, zaps” by Christopher Paul Jordan (@cpauljordan)!🎊✨   🌈Exhibition Run: 10/2 – 30, 2026    💁Opening Reception: Fri, 10/2, 2026, 4:30-7pm 🎤Artist Lecture: Fri, 9/25, 2026, 11:30AM-12:30PM at the Raisbeck Auditorium From Philippe Hyojung Kim (@philippepirrip), Behnke Family Gallery Curator: “This exhibition is a window through memories—memories of our shared stories and experiences, personal and collective, that are ever present, never lost, and often quietly linger throughout our lives, only becoming noticeable, palpable, and real to us when we allow ourselves a moment to peer into their depth. Christopher Paul Jordan works with the fractured remnants of peeled, dislocated paintings, reassembling their remains using window screens and salvaged canvases to explore questions around community, history, and home. Jordan’s work traces these varied back-and-forth paths of memories and their trajectories, transforming the gallery exhibition space into an interactive time capsule, pulling from coloring books, playgrounds, murals and neighborhood artifacts to pictured histories of Hilltop and the greater Puget Sound. The centerpiece of this exhibition, therefore, is essentially participatory, drawing on childhood rituals to usher forsaken memories back into circulation. The exhibition instigates embodied recollection, where images and community heirlooms steeped in history offer touchstones to renegotiate present and future possibilities.” by @philippepirrip
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👀🫛🌿Sneak Peek of “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME: Part Two” in progress!🌱🍓👀 Excited to share the second part of my ongoing painting series at a group show @ffttnw with my fellow @recologyair_kc former and current artist residents during @seattleartfair week! Show info: “A Matter of Ghosts: Material Never Dies” July 23 - Sept. 18, 2026 Railspur Studios (@railspur.seattle) Level 4 419 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA Opening Reception: July 23, 5-9pm “In a landscape of infinite waste, there is infinite possibility. A Matter of Ghosts brings together the work of 13 current and former artists-in-residence from the Recology King County AIR program. Using materials salvaged from the waste stream, each artist reimagines the discarded and overlooked, revealing the latent histories and possibilities embedded within everyday objects. Artists include Janelle Abbott, Colleen Louise Barry, Lee Davignon, Eirik Johnson, Haein Kang, Philippe Hyojung Kim, Margie Livingston, Amanda Manitach, Julia Monté, Hernan Paganini, Maria Phillips, Susan Robb, and Kalina Winska.” taken in RailSpur Seattle by @philippepirrip
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3 months ago
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🙌I am so elated and grateful to make this announcement!🙌 Starting this fall, I will be serving as a full-time Curator/Associate Teaching Professor at the Behnke Family Gallery (@thebehnkegallery), our main university gallery at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University (@cornishcollegeofthearts)! Thank you to my Cornish art department colleagues @cablegriffithstudio @gayleclemans @kevingoodrich @erinelyseburns @robertcampbellstudio @benjamite1061 @ksl.studio and our dean Brian Harlan for recommending me for this incredible opportunity to teach and curate alongside a brilliant group of artists, faculty, students, and staff! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Photo credit: 2024 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition opening reception documentations by @winifredwestergardphoto taken in Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University by @philippepirrip
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3 months ago
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🌈🌳🎊THANK YOU to everyone who came out last Thursday for the opening reception of my show, “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME,” @soilart !!!🌿🎉🌲 If you missed the opening, you can still stop by the gallery between 12-5pm on FRI-SUN, every weekend until end of the month! (Or DM me and I’d be happy to set up a time to meet you!) SPECIAL THANKS to @ryanwarnerphotography for documenting my show! 👁️CHECK OUT THESE GORGEOUS PHOTOS!👀 taken in SOIL Artist-Run Gallery by @philippepirrip
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4 months ago
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🌲🌿Good Morning-!🌱🌳 I am so looking forward to sharing my new work this evening @soilart after 160+ hours of layering dots, dashes, lines of paint. Hope to see many of you out and about for the First Thursday Art Walk today! 🙌Special thanks to @colleenrjcbratton for shepherding the show and @marigoldandmintbotanicals for collaborating with me on making a beautiful arrangement for the opening reception!🙏 Title: “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME: Part One” Medium: Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas Dimensions: 72”x96” Year: 2026 “This exhibition, WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME, is Part One of the painting series within my ongoing project, dxʷdəw (Duwamish River), started in 2024. The previous 3 iterations of dxʷdəw project took form as installations with a sculptural/material/ecological approach. They focused on the Duwamish River and its vital role in shaping our past, present, and future lives in and around the Puget Sound region. Expanding on these initial research and studies over the years, I will present a series of paintings at various locations throughout Seattle and beyond in 2026-27. Part Two of WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME will be shown at the @railspur.seattle / @ffttnw , Seattle, WA in July 2026. The culmination of this multi-part project will be presented at the @tacomaartmuseum Triennial in June 2027.” taken in SOIL Artist-Run Gallery by @philippepirrip
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4 months ago
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🌿🌱🌲OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT!🌳☘️🍀 Please join me on First Thursday, June 4th, 5-8pm @soilart for the opening reception of my show, “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME.” (There will be an early preview/soft opening on June 3, Wednesday evening, 6-8pm, as well, for the front space opening reception for “floor Sleeping” by @frances_adair & @erin_b_ehren !) This exhibition, “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME,” is Part One of the painting series within my ongoing project, “dxʷdəw” (Duwamish River), started in 2024. The previous 3 iterations of “dxʷdəw” project took form as installations with a sculptural/material/ecological approach. They focused on the Duwamish River and its vital role in shaping our past, present, and future lives in and around the Puget Sound region. Expanding on these initial research and studies over the years, I will present a series of paintings at various locations throughout Seattle and beyond in 2026-27. Part Two of “WHAT THE RIVER GAVE ME” will be shown @railspur.seattle / @ffttnw, Seattle, WA in July 2026. The culmination of this multi-part project will be presented at the @tacomaartmuseum Triennial in June 2027. taken in SOIL Artist-Run Gallery by @philippepirrip
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6 months ago
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✨Meet the Jury | 2026 Pratt Fine Art Auction: Kaleidoscope✨ With less than two weeks left to submit, we’re thrilled to introduce this year’s incredible jury panel—leaders shaping contemporary art across the private, public, and artist-run sectors. Tommy Gregory Tommy is the Senior Manager & Curator of the Public Art Program at the Port of Seattle, overseeing one of the region’s most expansive and visible public art collections across SEA Airport and Port facilities. His work centers artists, equity, and meaningful civic engagement—bringing art into the daily lives of millions of travelers and community members each year. Philippe Hyojung Kim An artist, curator, and educator, Philippe works across painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring materiality, queer identity, and artificiality. He is a member of SOIL Artist-Run Gallery, co-founder of Specialist, and a faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Central College. Philippe also serves as a curator for ARTSWA and on the King County Public Art Advisory Board at 4Culture. Sarah Traver Director of Traver Gallery and Vetri, Sarah has organized over 750 exhibitions and worked with more than 500 artists worldwide during her two decades in the field. Deeply committed to long-term artist support, she brings a collaborative, education-centered approach to curating and community building. Sarah currently serves as President of the Seattle Art Dealers Association and is a longtime advocate for Seattle’s arts ecosystem. We’re excited to see a dynamic, thoughtful lineup of work that reflects the historic and pioneering reach of the Pratt artist community. 📆Submit by January 7 at 11:59 PM PST 🔗Link in bio or visit: pratt.org/annual-auction! by @philippepirrip
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10 months ago
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This is the 3rd iteration of my new project for this year about our ecosystem in, around, and along the Duwamish River, its history, its importance, and my deep appreciation for the river and the tribal land that has provided and continues to provide growth and inspiration for me one project after another. Now showing in @soilart Booth C14 @seattleartfair ! Title: dxʷdəw (Duwamish River) Year: 2025 Medium: Planter box with Clay, Urethane casts, Ground moss, Soil sourced from Duwamish River during low-tide, Native Duwamish Riverbank plants, Laser-cut MDF Dimensions: 55”L x 25”W x 45”H Founded on Coast-Salish/Duwamish Native American ground by White settlers in 1851, Seattle is one of the most dramatically engineered cities in the United States. Its shorelines have been extended, lagoons filled, hills flattened and rivers re-routed. Built on an active geological fault near a large volcano, Seattle has also been jolted by huge earthquakes, washed by tsunamis, covered by volcanic mud and ash, fluted by glaciers and edged by rising seas. (info source: Burke Museum, The Waterlines Project) Reflecting on this colonial and ecological history alongside the similarly entangled and complex past of Mexico City (CDMX) and its waterways, for the first iteration of this installation at @tlaxcalatres , CDMX, soil and water from Xochimilco Canal were gathered to provide silhouetted trace of Duwamish River, dxʷdəw, nested between dried moss ground in the outdoor patio garden at Tlaxcala3. For this iteration, soil was gathered from Duwamish River during low tide to provide the ground cover with ground moss and various native plants, including Tufted Hairgrass, Beach Strawberries, Wood Sorrels, and Ground Ferns, that can be found along the riverbanks to accentuate the trace of the river. This “original” pre-serpentine pattern of the river is in fact still continuing beneath the surface in various parts of South Seattle region along the river. by @philippepirrip
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a year ago
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Now that we are slowly but surely settling in, I feel a little bit more relaxed to make the announcement…My husband and I bought our first home!!! 🏠 🎉🥰 I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to have arrived at this juncture in our lives together. For years, my husband and I saved and saved, working multiple jobs and taking on gigs after gigs, without really even expecting that something like this could even be possible, especially in a time when the world is falling apart into pieces. I cannot help but to hold this deep sense of gratitude and responsibility even closer as we face a new chapter in our lives. Without our friends, our family, and our community, we couldn’t have done this. So, thank you thank you thank you. 😍🥰🥳 by @philippepirrip
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a year ago
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📷 New headshots by @chiemichonga for yearbook photo @actualize.air !!! 🥰 by @philippepirrip
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a year ago
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🌈🎉 I HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!! 🪴🥳 Thanks to my amazing friend, Michael Raka (@artsidersdesign), a fellow queer foodie and a man of many many talents and passions, my website got a major new face lift on par with the infamous K-cosmetics industry. 🤩🤣 Please join my mailing list by signing up for a quarterly newsletter and announcements for future sales! ❤️🧚Go to https://www.philippepirrip.com (link in bio) and check it out! 🦄🪸 by @philippepirrip
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