The Behnke Family Gallery is a new exhibition venue at Cornish College of the Arts which includes a ground-level gallery space and an outdoor exhibition space, the Ivey Art Wall, currently featuring the work of Professor Emeritus Preston Wadley. The inaugural show in the gallery was the 2022 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition. The 2023-24 exhibition season was curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell and featured the work of Mary Sheldon Scott, Gary Hill, Preston Wadley, Gala Bent, and Laura Hart Newlon. The 2024-25 exhibition season, also curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell, will feature the work of Design Faculty Susan Boye, the Cornish Art Faculty, Seattle artist Brent Watanabe and Cornish Design alum Victor Melendez.
The Behnke Family Gallery
The Behnke at Cornish
1077 Lenora Street (corner of Lenora and Boren)
Seattle, WA 98121
Gallery hours: Thursdays & Fridays, 12 – 7 PM | Saturdays, 12 – 6 PM
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2024-2025 Exhibit Calendar
Susan Boye: The Shape of Decay | Friday, September 27, 2024 – Friday, November 1, 2024
Art Faculty Exhibition | Friday, November 8, 2024 – Friday, December 13, 2024
Brent Watanabe: One Tethered Bird | Friday, January 17, 2025 – Friday, February 21, 2025
Victor Meléndez | Friday, February 28, 2025 – Friday, April 4, 2025
Oh, To Return | Friday, April 18, 2025 – Thursday, May 1, 2025
Coming Soon
Oh, To Return
Opening Reception
Friday, April 18, 2025 – 5:00 – 7:00 PM
On View
Friday, April 18, 2025 – Thursday, May 1, 2025
Gallery Hours
Thursdays & Fridays, noon – 7pm / Saturdays, noon – 6pm
Oh, To Return is a collaborative group exhibition of work by junior art students from Cornish College of the Arts, as part of the course Platforms of Exchange. Through individual and group research, the artists identified thematic connections and overlap while developing their individual voices with a collaborative spirit through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. This show is the result of a semester of planning, discussion and work that necessitated the artists to balance their own curiosities and experimentations with those of their peers, while addressing the complex expectations of exhibiting in the public realm. This collection of work addresses a range of themes that are distinct, yet share common concerns, creating a narrative that explores complex weavings of ideas around home, memory, and childhood, while holding tensions in the space between reality and surreality, between representation and abstraction, between digital and analog processes.
Exhibiting Artists: Webb Akamine-Rogers, Matthes Boyd, Kyla Crockett, Christy Gibson, Jed Judt, Kaila Macaluso, Madeline McKinney, Sean Minchak, Cloe Short, Selena Tacazon, Mason Webb, Logan Worth
Featured image: Christy Gibson
