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The Gallery at Towne Centre Presents:
Artwork by
Amy Pleasant and
Betsy Best-Spadaro
March 4 - April 12, 2010
Artist Open House Thursday, March 11, 5-7 p.m.
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
Spring is coming! The days are getting longer and March announces the end of winter. Come celebrate with us and drink in some bright, colorful
artwork by Amy Pleasant and Besty Best-Spadaro from March 4 - April 12, 2010 at The Gallery at Towne Centre. Join us on Thursday, March 11 from 5-7 for a special artist open house. This is your opportunity to meet the artists, ask questions about their art and enjoy some refreshments.
From the Artists' Statements:
Amy Pleasant
The journey to painter has been a crooked path. Although I have filled my life with art, both admiring it and producing it, I did not start painting until 2000. My vocation as a middle school teacher was interrupted with a faint call in the direction of my dreams. My paintings became my own language; a visual language, surely influenced by those who came before, but sill uniquely me. For the painter this expression becomes as much a part of life as talking and listening. It is all the more rewarding if others share in the emotion which brought about the work in the first place. www.amypleasantseattle.com
Betsy Best-Spadaro
I've spent 20 years raising children, all the while fitting "artist" into the mix of diapers, housework, bedtime stories and the PTA. Even my medium, relief printmaking, was chosen for the ease with which it blended into domestic life. I learned early on that while supervising homework it is much easier to stand at the kitchen counter and carve a block than to be out in the garage working on a canvas.
My artist work reflects what I have experienced and observed in my every day life. In my relief prints I've explored the balance between obligation and desire, power struggles in intimate relationships, the lengths to which one will go to create security or suppress guilt, the joyous uncertainly of raising children. In my work I hope to leave a viewer with a sense of shared experience as well as a heightened awareness of the roles we play. www.betsybestspadaro.com
The Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 12-5 on the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre. We also have a large selection of smaller works by local artists. For a complete listing click here. The address is 17171 Bothell Way NE, Suite A-141, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155.
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. Proceeds from the Gallery at Towne Centre help fund these programs and events. For more information please contact the Arts Council at 206-417-4645 or visit us online at www.shorelinearts.net.
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