Current Exhibition
Sum of Its Parts
June 6 – July 26, 2026
Artist talks: Saturday, June 6, 4p – 5p
Public reception: Sunday, June 7, 3p – 5p
Artists: Chris Lael Larson, Morgan Rosskopf, and Emily Somoskey
Sum of Its Parts is a three-person show that explores perception and how we synthesize and process information, including sensory engagement with place. Working with varied materials and navigating the intersection between representation and abstraction, the pieces address diverse mechanisms of processing input and the selective process by which we construct personal narratives. The works also touch on conflicting stances and impulses – real and synthetic and micro and macro – and assimilation and personalization within a world whirling with vastly varied information.
Featured in the Niche Market Storefront – Wesley Younie, Stacey Dressen-McQueen, and Lili Todd
Save the dates – July 23 – 26, 2026
Preview some of the art in Assembly
Preview some of the art in The Seattle Art Fair
Future Exhibitions
Self. Reflexive.
August 15 – September 27, 2026
Self. Reflexive. presents a collection of non-narrative paintings that explore inner realms and the collective consciousness. Included artists are from Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, and Los Angeles, CA.
Artists – Ian Brownlee, Gegam Kacherian, Kaoru Mansour, Michael Lazarus
In the front windows: Mae Aur
Past Exhibitions
Ad-Lib
April 4 – May 16, 2026
Improvising with energy and color, Ad-Lib will feature an instinctively culled collection of work from a wide swath of AMcE’s artist and program roster. Works, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, and prints, will be grouped into a non-thematic collection. Ad-Lib is a celebration of AMcE’s fifth year.
Ad-Lib could include artists from the West Coast and Western U.S. and one Canadian:
Julie Liger Belair, Ricky Allman, Barry Anderson, Richard Bruland, Marcus Cain, a.p. gath, Johanna Goodman, Robert Hardgrave, Anne Hieronymus, Jon Huck, Dion Johnson, Gegam Kacherian, Ryan Kelly, Niki Keenan, Chris Lael Larson, Melissa Manful, Vander McClain, Robin McCauley, Hibiki Miyazaki, Lester Monzon, Stas Orlovski, Anne Austin Pearce, Jesse Reno, Morgan Rosskopf, Christopher Russell, Brooks Salzwedel, Dirk Staschke, Cara Tomlinson, Kirsten Tradowsky,Kim Tucker, Jennifer Vanderpool, Grace Weston, and Wesley Younie
Sacred
January 31 – March 15, 2026
Sacred presents individual reflections on the sublime from five women artists living and working in the Pacific Northwest and Western US. Through various media, including wall reliefs, ceramics, painting, mixed media, and a unique photo-based process, the artists offer expressions of the exceptional and ways in which they feel most connected to our world and shared humanity. Themes include the natural world, shared humanity through mythology, and explorations of the concept of belonging.
Artists include: Holly Hudson, Niki Keenan, Kendra Larson, Christine Nguyen, and Io Palmer
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Sacred in The Madison Park Times
Io Palmer & Sacred in Cascade/PBS’s Art x NW
Interview with Io Palmer on Cascade/PBS’s Art x NW
LAnd SEA
November 8th – January 10, 2026
LAnd SEA is a group show co-cuarted by Eleana Del Rio of Koplin Del Rio and McLean Emenegger of AMcE, longtime friends and colleagues from their days in the Los Angeles art scene and now here is Seattle. For the exhibition, pairs of artists will collaborate on a single, newly created artwork, to be exhibited alongside a selection of work from the participating artists.
Artists | Collaborators include:
Daniel Carrillo| Eirik Johnson
Tim Cross | Robert Hardgrave
Einar and Jamex de la Torre | Tommy Gregory
Sarah Gordon | Christine Nguyen
Niki Keenan | Drie Chapek
Chris Lael Larson | Morgan Rosskopf
Melissa Monroe | Jesse Reno
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Press Release
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Seattle Times 9/10/25 – Best Seattle art exhibits to see in fall 2025
Seattle Times10/23/25 – 10 must-see Seattle art markets, events and exhibtions
Preview Art Magazine Hightlight
The Stranger November things to do
Good Form
September 13 – October 26, 2025
Good Form celebrates the work of three PNW ceramicists with very different takes on the medium. Connecting their work is a reverence for the materials and techniques, with each artist exploring observations of the human condition with varying degrees of humor and benevolence.
Artists include: Dirk Staschke, Ryan Kelly, and Sonja Peterson
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Constructs
July 26 – August 31, 2025
Constructs features a collection of West Coast artists who, through various expressions and media, reconsider, reshape, and break down conceptions of process and physical form. Ideas around transformation and shifting states of being are explored. The show will introduce Seattle to new artists from Los Angeles and new bodies of work from some familiar artists.
Artists include: Anne Hieronymus, David McDonald, Barbara Robertson, Christopher Russell, Brooks Salzwedel, and Cara Tomlinson
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Show review in ARCADE.
Read the press release here.
Seattle Art Fair
July 17 – July 20, 2024
AMcE was pleased to participate in the 2025 Seattle Art Fair, Booth B-10.
WoP
May 30 – July 6, 2025
WoP showcases varied expressions of works on paper by an international collection of artists. Equipped with different materials and techniques, the artists explore individual themes of memory and migration, surreal whimsy, adolescent anxiety, transformation, and the perhaps unavoidable tug-of-war between control and unpredictability. The visually diverse works share a commonality of individual reflections on existential themes that stray more into the terrain of delight than melancholy.
Artists include: Hibiki Miyazaki, Vander McClain, Stas Orlovski, Julie Liger Belair
Force of Nature
March 29 – May 11
Force of Nature features nine women artists whose work pays homage to the beauty and power of the natural world. With an admiring nod towards the feminine and the glorious power of Mother Nature herself, the works include imaginative representations of nature in ceramic, painting, collage, textile, and unconventional takes on traditional processes.
Artists include: Sophia Allison, Maija Fiebig, Johanna Goodman, Sarah Gordon, Holly Hudson, Niki Keenan, Christine Nguyen, Anne Austin Pearce, Morgan Rosskopf.
As We Imagined
February 1 – March 16, 2025
As We Imagined is a group show exploring the potency and dichotomies of perception, memory, and the imagined. The paintings, photographs, and textile work portray romanticized myths, intuitive orations, prophetic posits, and idealized interiors. The compelling stories they share can be borrowed, revelatory, and occasionally remembered.
Ricky Allman, a.p. gath, Bean Gilsdorf, Melissa Monroe, Jesse Reno and Grace Weston.
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As We Imagined in Preview Magazine.
As We Imagined in The Stranger.
AMcE in The Seattle Times.
The Take Away
November 16 – January 5, 2025
Artists/artworks include: Sophia Allison, Debra Broz, Robert Hardgrave, Anne Hieronymus, Jon Huck, Niki Keenan, Jacob McLean, Anne Austin Pearce, Sonja Peterson, Kirsten Tradowsky, Brandon Vosika, Jan Waldon, and Wesley Younie
The Take Away features smaller works from local and national artists that can be taken home at purchase. The show’s aim is for everyone to give the gift of art for the Holidays. When a purchase is made, the piece is replaced by a Polaroid of the purchaser with their work. Artwork will also be featured online.
Work viewing rooms available on the exhibtion page.
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Figure. Heads.
September 14 – November 3, 2024
Figure. Heads. features heads, figures, and forms made from varied materials, including ceramics, paint, paper mache, textiles, and wood, by local, West Coast, and national artists. The works are playful and quirky, nonconformist renderings of the human visage and form. Fun and off-kilter, the exhibition is intended to delight and disconcert.
Exhibiting Artists include Blake Blanco, Johanna Goodman, Robert Hardgrave, Jon Huck, Ryan Kelly, Kim Tucker, and Brandon Vosika.
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Seattle Art Fair 2024
July 25 – July 28, 2024
AMcE was pleased to participate in the 2024 Seattle Art Fair, Booth B-10. Fair information here.
See our booth installation views here and the artwork here.
Secret Garden
July 13 – August 25, 2024
Maija Fiebig, Kendra Larson, Robin McCauley, Brooks Shane Salzwedel, Martha Shade, and Wesley Younie.
Secret Garden features the work of six West Coast artists exploring the mystery and magic of the natural world. For some, nature is a respite from life’s insistent noise, and for others, it holds mystical power and allure in which they feel most comfortable in their own skin. Through the show’s paintings, drawings, and textile pieces nature is honored and humans simply serve as silent witnesses.
Embodiment
May 18 – June 30, 2024
Artists include: Alfred Harris, Rachel Maxi, Vander McClain, Stas Orlovski, Megan Prince, Brooks Salzwedel, and Cara Tomlinson
The works in Embodiment contend with personal and collective histories, relationships, and memory. Through varying media, the six featured artists reflect on the past’s influence on our present modalities and whether it offers confluence or opposition. Our human connection to the intricacies of external and internal systems and environments are also considered. The work’s elements and imagery serve as puzzle pieces of a bigger picture perspective.
Oh So Rosy
March 23 – May 6, 2024
Oh So Rosy presents lovely and alluring works from five west coast artists. While the works are distinct, there’s a collective grit behind the beauty that speaks with a mindful and determined voice. The works contain allegories and allusions that exceed the pleasantries of our immediate look. Their bold energy, color, and patterning embrace a sober realism in response to life’s intrinsically erratic rhythms.
Featured artists Sophia Allison, Anne Hieronymus, Anne Austin Pearce, Jennifer Vanderpool, and Kalina Wińska with a vinyl window installation from Jennifer Vanderpool and Lester Monzon behind the front desk.
Press:
Crosscut 4/4
The Seattle Times for The Candy Show in the Niche Market 3/19
Au Natural
January 27 – March 3, 2023
Artists include: Michael Doyle, Trisha Gilmore, Niki Keenan, Christine Nguyen, and Wesley Younie
Au Natural featured a collection of paintings and mixed media work that celebrates the magic and majesty of the natural world. Featuring artists mainly from the PNW, the show will be a breath of fresh air in the wintry season and a warm embrace of spring come the thaw. Rejuvenation, joy, and beauty are prevailing themes.
Also on view, Roni Feldman in the gallery front.
As I Saw It
November 11 – January 14, 2024
The works in As I Saw It recreate memories both borrowed and personal. With nods towards an assumed idealism, stories are modified and memorialized through their reinterpretation. Some works denote vulnerability tempered by a gentle touch of longing and tenderness, while others blatantly pose fiction as fact with an offbeat charm that reminds us that life’s best salve is humor.
Artists include: Diane Meyer, Daphne Minkoff, Kirsten Tradowsky, Grace Weston and Jan Waldon.
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The Seattle Times staff pick 11/24/23
Crosscut 12/7/24
Preview Nov – Jan 2024 issue
Pattern, Form, and Figure
September 9 – October 22, 2023
Pattern, Form, and Figure features two- and three-dimensional work from regional and national artists exploring figuration through varying systems, mechanisms, and media. The included artists play with expressions of reinvention and experimentation through diverse materials, forms, and patterning. The works range from wild and quirky, charming, and playful, maximalist and sweetly subdued. Color and freedom of expression rule the day.
Artists include: Sophia Allison, Debra Broz, Marcus Cain, Johanna Goodman, Robert Hardgrave, Jon Huck, Melissa Kagerer, Melissa Manfull, and Kim Tucker
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2023 Seattle Art Fair
July 27 – July 30, 2023
Artists include: Ricky Allman, Anne Austin Pearce, Debra Broz, Richard Bruland, Roni Feldman, Johanna Goodman, Sarah Gordon, Robert Hardgrave, Alfred Harris, Dion Johnson, Gegam Kacherian, Weston Lambert, Kendra Larson, Morgan Madison, Vander McClain, Lester Monzon, Christine Nguyen, Kim Tucker, and Jennifer Vanderpool
States of Being
July 9 – August 20, 2023
Through composition and varied media, the works in States of Being explore the coalescence and harmonization of concepts traditionally held in opposition and the beauty and regeneration that can be wrought from disruption. The collection of paintings, collage, ceramics, digital, and mixed media works include a blend of abstraction and surreal figuration. They are bold, brightly colored, and abuzz with energy.
Artists include: Ricky Allman, Barry Anderson, Anne Hieronymus, Dion Johnson, Gegam Kacherian, Ryan W. Kelly, Guy Palmer Merrill, Lester Monzon, Christine Nguyen, and Anne Austin Pearce
Stasis
April 29 – June 18, 2023
Stasis features artists working with elements of the natural world as their muse. The paintings, mixed media, and ceramic works in Stasis offer moments of reflection akin to quieted beats between life’s noisy, push-pull thrum. The works provide a resting place, reprieve, or state of equilibrium between divergent ways of being in and moving through the world.
Artists include: Richard Bruland, Casey Curran, Roni Feldman, Kendra Larson, Ryana Lawson, and Vander McClain
Locally Sourced
Saturday, February 11 – Sunday, April 9, 2023
80 Days in August: 10 Years Duwamish River Artist Residency
November 19 – January 15, 2023
80 Days in August: 10 Years Duwamish River Artist Residency is a group exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary and final year of the Duwamish River Artist Residency. The show will highlight the work of 13 of the residency artists, showcasing their unique practices in a variety of media, and will include an interactive, collective installation project.
Artists include: Ethan Bickel, Chris Crites, Sheila Coppola, Tim Cross, Sue Danielson, Linda Davidson, Robert Hardgrave, Amanda Knowles, Steve MacFarlane, Fiona McGuigan, Gene Gentry McMahon, Juliet Shen, and Gillian Theobald.
Robert Hardgrave: Pearl
September 10 – October 30, 2022
Gegam Kacherian, Returning Forward + Weston Lambert in Niche Market Main Space
June 25 – August 28, 2022
Returning Forward is solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based painter Gegam Kacherian. Gegam’s work melds representation and abstraction in atmospheric, dreamlike skyscapes that serve as vivid, otherworldly backdrops for his surreal imagery. Accented by colorful flourishes and cosmic swirls, deftly rendered animals, buildings, automobiles, and humans float, perch, dance, swirl and swim on the canvas like random thoughts drifting by during the stillness of meditation.
HUMAN/ANIMAL
April 16 – June 12, 2022
A group exhibition with local and national artists working in various media exploring what it is to be a human animal. It is a visually alluring exploration and a cheeky and earnest romp.
Matt Adrian, Kim Bagwill, Debra Broz, Johanna Goodman, Sarah Gordon, Jon Huck, Kendra Larson, Robin McCauley, Kirsten Tradowsky, and Kim Tucker
Soo Hong: Metaplay
January 29 – April 3, 2022
Home & Away
November 6 – January 8, 2022
Home & Away speaks to the process of disassembling old stories to make room for newer, better ones. It is through the hero/heroine’s journey of transformation and reinvention that we find our authentic path and place. It may be different from what we thought, but we find our truth along the way.
Magda Baker, Adrian Landon Brooks, Johanna Goodman, Hey Lady Art Studio, Katie McCann, Colleen Monette, Krista Svalbonas, Jennifer Vanderpool
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Christine Nguyen: Cosmic Gardens
August 28 – October 23, 2021
Cosmic Gardens is new series of photo-based paintings and drawings inspired by the cosmos, nature, the sciences and the ocean. The works fluctuate between the micro and macro-worlds while connecting the flora and fauna to the celestial heavens of the stars and planets.
Anne Austin Pearce: Sommerset
June 12 – August 14, 2021
Anne’s show, Sommerset, included her mixed media collage series Path and a site-specific installation Icarus, which formed a wall-sized wave of hundreds of individual paintings on paper.
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