ArtX Contemporary

05/28/2026

"I dragged them across the ocean with me (No. 2)" by Samantha Yun Wall
Conté crayon, charcoal, and ink on Dura-Lar
30 x 40 x 1.5 inches

Samantha Yun Wall, recipient of the Seattle Art Museum’s 2024 Betty Bowen Award, explores identity through richly rendered figures inspired by Korean mythology and personal history. Working in ink, charcoal, and conté crayon, Wall creates striking black-and-white compositions in which silhouetted and fragmented figures visualize the tensions between visibility and erasure, intimacy and distance.

View Wall's work on our website and at the gallery!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-samantha-yun-wall-north-gallery-feature

05/26/2026

Perri Lynch Howard | "Mapping the Invisible"
June 4 - July 25, 2026

ArtX Contemporary presents "Mapping the Invisible," a solo exhibition of new paintings by Perri Lynch Howard. Known for her multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sound, and installation, Howard brings a distinctive approach to contemporary landscape through sustained engagement with remote and ecologically sensitive environments.

Join us for one of our events with Howard!
🖼 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 5-8pm (Artist in attendance.)
🎙 Artist Talk: Saturday, July 11, 1pm

https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-perri-lynch-howard-mapping-the-invisible

05/23/2026

"At 95, Cole still works for hours a day in his free-standing studio just across the lawn from the former church he and his wife, artist Joan Wortis, turned into a home after arriving on Vashon in the 1990s. The pair had never before heard of the island when they came and didn’t know a soul.

But the church’s walls were big enough to hold Cole’s canvases, so they made an offer and their bid was accepted.

“It happened by magic,” Cole said."

Thank you to Scarlet Hansen at the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber for this wonderful article about Donald Cole! Read the full article here:

Inside a sunlit Vashon studio, Donald Cole opens drawer after drawer crammed full of paintings and drawings.

05/20/2026

This artwork is in the Museum of Northwest Art's auction. Bidding is open now: https://e.givesmart.com/events/Okf/

05/20/2026

Have you ever swam in a cenote? At once refreshing and warm, Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's painting "Cenote" evokes the luminous waters of these natural underground pools illuminated by the sun.

🖼 "Cenote" by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez ()
Acrylic on unprimed canvas
36 x 36 x 2 inches

View Juan Alonso-Rodríguez's work at the gallery and online:
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104 | Tuesday - Saturday 11am-5:30pm
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/artist/juan-alonso-rodriguez

05/19/2026

It is the last week to see Donald Cole's exhibition "Throughlines," which brings together Cole's paintings from 1972 to 2026!

From the large-scale to the miniature, Cole's paintings are a lush with bold colors, expressive gestures, and richly layered surfaces. Visit the gallery 11am - 5:30pm through Saturday, May 23 to view the exhibition in person.
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104

05/16/2026

"From my earliest days to this moment, I have reacted to and remembered the things I experience by drawing, painting and making art. When I wake in the morning, I know what I must do in the studio.

My work is abstract but always tied to an impression, belief, outrage or other strong feeling... I tend to work quickly and intensely. I have never felt bound to having a single, successful style. For me, the style of a painting reflects my need to communicate the concerns I feel at that time. Why paint yourself into a corner? Not being bound by a methodology leaves me free to create and try new ideas." ~ Donald Cole

🖼 Born in New York City in 1930, Donald Cole studied engineering at Bucknell University and later earned his MFA in painting from the University of Iowa. As his art career gained momentum in the 1970s amidst the Pop Art and Minimalist movements, Cole built a career that included teaching at Auburn University and Parsons School of Design. After extensive travel through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 90s, Cole settled on Vashon Island, WA where he still lives and works, painting in his studio daily.

View Cole's exhibition "Throughlines" online and at the gallery through May 23, 2026.

📸 Image 1: Donald Cole at ArtX Contemporary, 2026. Courtesy of Mark Milroy and Mary Milroy
📸 Image 2: Donald Cole, 1970s. Courtesy of the artist.

05/13/2026

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, Samantha Yun Wall investigates migration, belonging, and the construction of self. Working in ink, charcoal, and conté crayon, she creates striking black-and-white compositions in which silhouetted, doubled, and fragmented figures visualize the tensions between visibility and erasure, intimacy and distance. Centering the body as a site of negotiation, her figures face, mirror, and touch - suggesting both connection and division - while probing how identity is shaped through perception, memory, mythology, and inherited histories.

View more of 's work at the gallery and on our website!

05/12/2026

Following extensive travel throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the the 1990s, Donald Cole’s work absorbed visual influences drawn from architecture, calligraphic scripts, weathered walls, textiles, and landscapes encountered around the world. These experiences expanded his approach to surface and composition, producing paintings that feel both ancient and contemporary, where traces of gesture, pattern, and color accumulate like fragments of memory.

🖼 Donald Cole
"Acha," 2006
Acrylic on canvas
28 x 27 in

View more of Cole's work in his solo exhibition "Throughlines" through May 23!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104
🔗 artxcontemporary.com

05/09/2026

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, Samantha Yun Wall draws on her multiracial background and East Asian and Western storytelling traditions to investigate migration, belonging, and the construction of self in her work. Her figures face, mirror, and touch, suggesting both connection and division.

Samantha Yun Wall
"Reunion 5 (Edition 5)," 2020
Copper plate etching (hard ground and aquatint)
21 x 23 in

View more of Wall's work at the gallery and on our website!
📍 512 1st Ave S, Seattle WA 98104
🔗 https://artxcontemporary.com/show/artx-contemporary-samantha-yun-wall-north-gallery-feature

05/06/2026

It's almost Art Walk! Join us tomorrow for 's May First Thursday from 5pm to 8pm. View Donald Cole's exhibition "Throughlines," work from Betty Bowen Award winner Samantha Yun Wall, and more 🖼✨