If you’re not in Greenwood this Friday night, people are gonna talk!

In case you didn’t know, we thought we should inform you that the official Seattle Urban Art Mecca is located in Greenwood. And we like to think that the catalyst is located in a unique historical building called The Greenwood Collective (8537 Greenwood Ave N). This Friday, there are more urban artists packed into The GC than you can shake a stick at!

Plus it’s “The Big One” – a 2-dayer artwalk that was instituted 16 years ago as the “Annual Art Walk”. Here is the run-down, plus some must-sees while you are in the neighborhood. Fri, May 13th from 6-10pm & Sat, May 14 from 12-5pm.




“Potluck” at Urban Light Studios, curated by one of our fav artists Solace and co-curated by one of our fav gallery neighbors Kevin Law. Equal parts group art show and food drive benefit all blended together and served HOT for a night to remember. A feast for the eyes, this food themed art show is sure to satisfy any appetite!

Featuring a diverse mix of paintings, photography and installations featuring iconic food related imagery from artists like 179, Quincy Quigg, Sensei 23, EGO, PGee13, Rob Ripley, Xavier Lopez, Kali Meadows, Carlos Aguilar, John Osgood, Joey Nix, Joe Vollan, Joseph “2h” McSween and more.

Donate $1 or bring a non-perishable food item for the Greenwood Food Bank. Raffle drawings will take place on Friday, May 13th at 8:00pm, 9:00pm and 10:00pm in the MainSpa@ce at URBAN LIGHT STUDIOS. Win prizes from sponsors like Vans Shoes, Boundary Bay Brewery (Bellingham), Snowboard Connection, Mighty-O-Donuts, Nectar Lounge, Scream Salon, Family Fortune Clothing, Electric Coffin, Paper Diamonds Clothing as well as featured art work from participating artists.





(sub)Urban at Bherd Studios Gallery. Seattle artists Greg Boudreau, Kate Protage and Kellie Talbot’s work explores the urban landscapes throughout the Seattle area and beyond. Each artist uses photography as the starting point to their paintings, but come to a very different conclusion with their finished pieces. Talbot’s work deftly captures and documents the lost craftsmanship of American artifacts and signage and meticulously replicates the deterioration and faded glory of past times. Boudreau utilizes an excruciatingly long process of photographing and separating out the multiple layers of his photographs and hand cuts each of them into a stencil, using aerosols to recreate the scene. While Protage takes the best pieces of her photographs, melds them together and uses them to create evening cityscapes that give the viewer a hauntingly familiar feel.





GRAND OPENING of The Showroom @Bherd Gallery. Featuring Zach Bohnenkamp, Justin Kane Elder, Jesse Link, Siolo Thompson and John Osgood. The Showroom seeks to assist promising emerging artists in growing and strengthening their creative process and further promoting their work to a wider audience on a regular basis. The Showroom affiliate program features PNW urban contemporary artists in a new space located across from Bherd Gallery inside The Greenwood Collective. This months exhibit will be a salon style show introducing all the new affiliates for The Showroom. So please stop by and check out the brand new venue and meet the artists.


Also @The GC:

Echo Echo Gallery: featuring new work from Dear Earthling, Chris Olson, Andy Kline & Xavier Lopez, Jr.

Band Vibes x Better Friends: featuring work from Seattle illustrator and designer, Derek Sullivan.



MUST SEES while you are in the neighborhood:

Across the street from The GC, Bherd Gallery curates at Gainsbourg. This month’s featured artist is Thomas Krueger.


"Twins" by Thomas Krueger
Limited Ed. Lith Photo Print

Thomas uses a very difficult and laborious process to develop his photographs called Lith printing. This process limits the number of prints that can be developed and also makes each print just slightly different. He believes his photography is a way to visually reveal what truly lies within the refuse of the world. And he attempts to expose the hidden beauty of the forgotten; as well as communicating a yearning for order within this chaotic and corruptible world. His work captures a feel of long lost memories, ones that percolate up in a flash from some deep cavern in your brain.


Heading South up Greenwood Ave N

Stop by Terra Bella Flowers (8417 Greenwood Avenue N.) and see the nature inspired work of Debbie Bianchi (also a Bherd Gallery artist currently showing at Gene Juarez in downtown).

You can’t miss stopping in and saying hello to our friends at THE YARD (8313 Greenwood Avenue N). They are having an open house so you can check out their new digs, soon to be opening. (Same owners as The Dray – yes, they are clever wordsmiths too!) And we heard they are showing some work from metal artists (no, not headbangers, silly!).


And of course we save the best for the last…
We love TASTY! (7513 Greenwood Avenue N)



Tasty will feature encaustic paintings by Joel Scholten and a group exhibition to include 12 *lucky* local artists. Take Flight artists are: Narboo, Chris Sheridan, Deviant Décor, Gina Nash, Jennevieve Schlemmer, Jesse Link, John Osgood, Krista Jefferson, Larry Stauffer, Lisa Lamoreaux, Pam Man, Rebecca Dickenson and Sylvie-marie Drescher.


To see all the listings for “The Big One” visit: http://www.greenwoodphinneyartwalk.com/

Bots Vs. Beasts + Good Omens + Heroes, Vixens & Villains = Urban Art Feast in da hood!

The Phinneywood hood that is...

This Friday, March 11 starting at 6pm, in conjunction with Art Up Phinneywood.



Our friends and neighboring gallery, Urban Light Studios at The Greenwoood Collective, are exibiting 30 urban artists in their "Bots Vs. Beasts" show curated by Nick Beery. It's a killer line up of visual artists, plus there will be live music from local 8-bitSci-FiHip-Hop group Supercommuter!



And of course, you don't want to miss Book Club, at Bherd Studios Gallery. Visual art based on the cult classic, "Good Omens, the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch"


"Death" by Mike Capp

17 Seattle urban contemporary artists provide their visual interpretations of the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. This darkly humorous cult classic pokes fun at the end times and nearing apocalypse. We found this a particularly timely piece of literature for a 2011 exhibit, with predictions of the end days right around the corner.

Featured Seattle artists include: Nick Beery, John Belli, Mike Capp, Cris Cook, Duffy, Justin Kane Elder, Eddy Lee, Matt Lewis, Xavier Lopez, Eric Osborne, John Osgood, Augie Pagan, Kate Protage*, Chris Sheridan*, Brian Thies, Siolo Thompson and Brian White.

*Artists who selected the Book Club book.





Our friends at Tasty are coming up on their 1st anniversary...
So stop in and celebrate with them this Friday March 11th from 6-10pm. That same night is the opening party for their next exhibit, a comic book art tribute called:

HEROES VIXENS & VILLAINS. Costumes Encouraged!

Featured artists include:
*Thomas Hurley III, *David Vonderlinn, *Marty Gordon, *Law, Wilky, Augie Pagan, Kim McCarthy, Sarah Chambers, Court Hoffman,
Dave Ryan, Jon Malmstedt and Daniel Schultz.

*These artists are represented on the attached flyer invite above.

On the Radar for the Greenwood-Phinney 15th Annual Artwalk

The Greenwood-Phinney 15th Annual Artwalk is next week. Save the date for the big openings with over 60 venues in the neighborhood participating: Friday, May 14th from 6-9pm and Saturday, May 15th from noon-5pm.

Here's some show card teaser's...

Dude, Where's My Camera? Cereal Killers & Utter Chaos at The GC tomorrow night!

Just the name alone of this exhibit should be enough to get you out tomorrow night to see what Band Vibes is up to!



Presenting the urban contemporary art of Seattle artists Solace, Sensei23, Justin Hillgrove and Phil Petrocelli. Each artists work reminisces about the underoo wearing days of eating Captain Crunch, playing with action figures and watching Saturday morning cartoons. Childhood invokes a litany of whimsical visual pleasures: from ethereal memories of PeeWee Herman depicted in Solace's work, and Justin Hillgrove's cartoonish villians "party crashing" to Petrocelli's haunting photos of days lost, you won’t be disappointed with the work that these artists offer. Plus a couple of "Tasty" treats from special guest artist Wilky.




UTTER CHAOS at URBAN LIGHT STUDIOS
Amazing joint show with 80's pop culture inspired large format paintings by Scot Hasenkamp, illustrations by Bill Brown, Hello Monster plush dolls by Romiette Lindsley and paintings by Nate Stottrup that exagerate the movement in comic books.


The Greenwood Collective
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 1 (located next to Gary's Games)
Seattle, WA 98103
Art Openings in conjunction with Art Up Greenwood-Phinney monthly artwalk - every 2nd Friday from 6-10pm

The Greenwood Collective Highlights for March 12th Art Walk

Hobo Eaters: Agents of Chaos

This show is a collection of Beery's coveted hobo characters that maniacally made their way into Seattle’s streets and the hearts of our NW culture. The collection consists of original pieces that are hand inked and painted with wood stain on various wood panels in a variety of sizes. Besides the originals there will also be limited edition prints, jumbo posters, and a line of limited edition tees that all reflect these grungy agents of chaos. He will be giving away a free print and a free tee randomly to those who sign up at the Band Vibes space. Come join Beery for a night of bad-ass art and mayhem…It’s gonna be an epic event of diabolical debauchery full of twisted 50’s animated style hobos!

The term hobo-eater refers to an entity who, through ritual means, would take on by means garbage and liquor the sins of a deceased bum, thus absolving his or her soul and allowing that person of the street to rest in peace.

What was once a ritual performed by beggars and vagabonds in certain villages of bygone years is now performed in a reverse of roles by animated entities who take on the form of the hobo whose diabolical lifestyle is reflected upon the appearance of the hobo-eater. The hobo-eater would be brought to the dying vagrant’s curbside or stoop, where a neighborhood drifter would place a crust of dumpster pizza on the chest of the dying and pass a 40 oz. of malt liquor to him over the corpse. After reciting the ritual, he would then drink and remove the crust from the derelict tramp and eat it, the act of which would remove the sins and deadbeat-scars from the dying transient and take it into himself.

Often times hobo-eaters are not only filled with the sins and scars of the deceased but take on a ghostly appearance, ragged with the lines of deceit and chemical abuse of the former vessel. The result is a vaporous apparition whose tattered clothes and grungy attitude is forever portrayed among the urban environment. Thus the ethereal term Agents of Chaos has come as a contemporary descriptor for these aeon old hobo-eaters who are destined to drift the streets perpetually consuming fiendish souls.




Presenting the urban contemporary work of Jeremy Gregory, PaperMarbleS and John Osgood. Although each artist has their own distinct style, they have many common elements that they use throughout their work, including their odd sense of humor, strange character portraits and twisted sensibilities. The artists did not talk about what themes they were going to create for the show ahead of time. As you'll see there are some uncanny correlations in their artwork, almost as if they were psychically picking up on each others thoughts (kind of creepy!).




Contemporary artwork by Tessa Hulls.Plus live music by Decateur Buff, NW Twang & Grove Band from 8-9pm.

Friday Night at The Greenwood Collective: Feb 12, 6-10pm

We have a great line-up for the Art Up G-P 2nd Friday Artwalk at The Greenwood Collective tomorrow night. Also featuring on the main floor - the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics on the Big Screen, courtesy of Urban Light Studios.


At Bherd Studios Gallery, the 2nd Annual All Female Urban Art Exhibit features the freshest ladies of Seattle: Ninjagrl, Soule, Soopajdelux, Michelle Smith-Lewis, Siolo Thompson and Coco Howard of Softlife industries. Due to Valentines Day being a couple days away and we know that you're going to be shopping for your sweetheart you will be able to take your purchase home with you that evening.



Urban Light Studios features robotic paper sculpture art paired with the an original painting inpired by the sculpture. Presenting some of the top Urban Artists in Seattle: Boohi, Charms, Trevor Bassett, Anton Bogaty, Jamie Burton, Dear EArthling, Dain, ninjagrl, Aaron Jasinski, Brian Kupr, Bryan Mandronico, Jonathan Morris, 179, Parskid, Augie Pagan, Edward Pun, John Raftery, Joe Vollan, Weirdo, Solace and Many More...


Band Vibes Studios presents: artwork by Lem & Duffy. After party Karaoke at the Baranoff next door. Not to be missed show.


Killah Kate Studios presents:
Fill My Frame
Group Art showcase

Including works by:
Corina Bakker, Carina Wayman, Therese Rose, Kate Tesch, Kate Branom, Ursula Rose, and musical guests "Says"


The Greenwood Collective
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 1
Seattle, WA 98103

The Greenwood Collective: Greenwood Monthly Art Walk Fri. Oct 9 from 6-9pm

We've got a great line-up at The Greenwood Collective tomorrow evening, you won't want to miss out!

At Bherd Studios Gallery we have John Osgood "In Character"


Osgood paints to express human emotion whether it is humorous, depressing or inspiring. He's very process oriented: he throws, drips, blocks and layers paint - never knowing what he's going to get when he begins. He uses vibrant contrasting color palettes to illicit a "pop" factor. He believes that colors pull people into his paintings and often juxtaposes bright vivid color with depressing emotions to provide balance and to surprise the viewer.

Artist-in-Residence and co-owner of Bherd Studios, John Osgood, brings the heat with fresh urban contemporary paintings. Stop in for the Artist Reception and see John in progress creating a new painting. Plus enjoy refreshments and good company!



Next door to our gallery at Urban Light Studios "Music Rocks"...



· ART AXES by Doug Keith - Artist painted guitars from award-winning Seattle illustrator

· Ax Man Performance - A rare solo performance by the ax man himself, legendary session player and accompanist Joel Tepp.

· Rock Posters by Tom DeWar - Seattle-based rock poster designer, screen printer, illustrator and graphic designer for bands including The Decemberists. All posters are screen printed, mounted and ready to hang.



Across the hall at Brand Vibes check out SNAPS by Rabid Child Images...




A photographic exhibition featuring portraits of Seattle hip hop artists on display in Brand Vides in association with Out for Stardom.

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The Greenwood Collective is a shared creative work space with seven working artist studios and galleries. We are located at: 8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1, Seattle, WA 98103. (The GC is next to Gary's Games & Hobby in the same building)