New show at the Garde Rail Gallery in Seattle! - Marcus Mårtenson, Rebecca Shapiro, Frank Zeni

April 2 - May 30, 2009

OPENING FIRST THURSDAY: Thursday April 2, 2009 - 6pm-8pm
OPEN DAILY: Wednesday thru Saturday 11am-5pm
CLOSING: Saturday May 30, 2008
WHERE: Garde Rail Gallery - 110 Third Avenue South - Tel.206.621.1055

 

Swedish artist Marcus Mårtenson was first introduced to Garde Rail Gallery by the travelling Internal Guidance Systems exhibit, an international collection of artists on the fringes of the mainstream, curated by Anne Grgich. His bright and colorful works on wood are influenced by the traditional religious art found in medieval churches in Sweden, yet his imagery draws from urban contemporary subject matter.

Seattle artist Rebecca Shapiro was a hit at the recent Outsider Art Fair in New York City. Garde Rail Gallery first met Rebecca in late 2008, and where well impressed enough with her delicate yet odd embroideries on muslin, that her work was taken straight to the Fair, where they were well received and well purchased by collectors. In many ways, Rebecca’s artwork is intended as a collection of oddities; a celebration of human cleverness that stands regardless of any eventual scientific disproof.

Frank Zeni was born in a small village in Italy, and moved to the US when he was 14. Now living in Houston, Frank Zeni is an unconventional architect, whose home in is an architectural wonder. Frank is also an artist, whose works on paper result in fantastical “places”, where “environment has the power to return you to all that makes us idealistic, noble, and human” and where “Disney meets modernism”.