Ed Essex Print Retrospective / City of SL Employees Art Show Feb 3

Ed Essex: A Sixty Year Print Retrospective

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The City of Shoreline Employees Art Show

February 3 to April 29, 2011

Open House - Meet the Artists

Tuesday, February 15, 5-6:30 p.m.

Shoreline City Hall – N 175th St and Midvale Ave N

Open Monday-Friday 9 - 5

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council and the City of Shoreline present a new exhibit featuring Ed Essex: A Sixty-year Print Retrospective of linoleum block prints, and a collection of diverse work in the first City of Shoreline Employees Art Show. 

Please join us for an open house Tuesday, February 15 from 5-6:30 p.m. for a chance to meet the artists and enjoy some refreshments.

Ed Essex, Cascade 1960 linoleum block print.

The retrospective exhibition reflects the vision of Ed Essex, a long-time area resident, and his many years as artist, printmaker and art educator. His prints convey the poetic allure of the Pacific Northwest’s natural environment and celebrate the influence of the Seattle area’s culturally diverse population on his art and ideas. His images, simultaneously lyrical and forceful, speak dynamically of time and place. The definitive black and whites of his linoleum block prints become forces of nature: light, sound, wind and water. Marine, landscape, garden, still life and figurative images appear and reappear in a continuum across six decades of prints representing Ed Essex’s creative life.

The Shoreline Employee Art Show includes paintings, photographs, wood carvings and fiber arts by staff in the City Clerks, Finance, Parks, Planning and Public Works Departments. This is a unique opportunity to see the creative side of some of the engineers, techies, planners and managers who serve the city well in their day jobs.

The Gallery at City Hall may be viewed any time during regular hours, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm except holidays.

Shoreline City Hall is located at 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133. For more information please contact the Arts Council at 206-417- 4645.

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture all of the arts in the community through programs and events, arts education, advocacy, and support for artists and arts organizations.