Seattle cellist Lori Goldston and NYC-turned-Portland guitarist Mike Gamble have been periodic collaborators since making friends on a 2011 Europe tour Earth and Sabbath Assembly. They share a blurry sense of genre and a breadth of interests and professional experiences.
This latest incarnation draws a wiggly line between corny old songs and jagged, psychedelic improvisation.
At The Grocery Studios 3001 21st Ave S 98144 on North Beacon Hill Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Doors: 7:00p, show: 7:30p
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose work with electronic modes of composition are integrated endlessly into his setup. Gamble has spent the last 15 years immersed in the creative jazz, experimental rock and improvised music scene primarily in NYC, with close ties to New Orleans, Burlington, Boston, San Francisco and now in Portland OR, where he currently lives.
Kim Collmer, Eröffnung, 2020, Music video, 02:40 Minutes
Join The Seattle Art Fair at The Grocery Studios for an immersive art experience with visuals and audio in a spacious private art studio on Beacon Hill. You’ll have the opportunity to hear artist talks and engage with artists Kim Collmer and Saya Moriyasu while enjoying light appetizers and beverages.
Kim Collmer is an interdisciplinary artist working with animation, film and visual arts. Currently living in Cologne, she grew up in both the US and Germany. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Sculpture, where she developed her first animations combined with installation. Since then, she has expanded her work to include experimental video, collage and painting. Prior to receiving her MFA she earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees at the University of Washington in Art History and German Area Studies. Collmer has taught at the School of the Art Institute, the University of Arts Berlin and the University of Arts Bremen, and was Guest Professor at the University of Applied Arts Schwäbisch Hall, and has taught and lectured at various other schools. She has screened her films worldwide including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Arsenal Cinema in Berlin, Tricky Women Animation Festival in Vienna, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin and many more. She curated screenings at the Directors Lounge Film Festival in Berlin for many years. Her animations have been described as having “an epic sweep” by the New York Times and she has been compared to Alexander Calder for her films’ childlike charm by the New Yorker.
Saya Moriyasu has exhibited at venues including the Deitch Art Parade (New York), Aqua Art Miami (Florida), Montserrat College of Art (Massachusetts), Henry Art Gallery Gift Shop Project, Bellevue Arts Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and Wing Luke Museum for the Asian American Experience. After graduating with a BFA from the University of Washington, Moriyasu was awarded residencies at Skowhegan and at Pilchuck Glass School. An alumnus member of SOIL Artist-Run Gallery and represented by J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Moriyasu’s Inspirations include Americana, consumerism, humor, the decorative arts, class, history, Buddhism and a love of beauty. Her work is often comprised of many small pieces that make up a larger piece, in clay, wood, prints, and other materials. Saya Moriyasu’s works can be found in the collections of the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Wing Luke Museum, Whatcom Museum, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, NW Museum of Arts and Culture, and Washington State University and more.
The Grocery Studios is the private home and art studio of Demi Raven and Janet Galore on North Beacon Hill in Seattle. The studio is a creative space where they host occasional pop-up art exhibitions, workshops, lectures, music performances, and other creative activities. Demi Raven is an oil painter, literature scholar, and firmware engineer. Janet Galore is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director, and user experience design leader working on AI at Google.
Street parking is limited: consider public transit or a ride share. The Grocery is a 7-minute walk from the Beacon Ave bus lines and Beacon Hill light rail station.
Curator to Artist: A Conversation is the second installment of Ramona Lee’s thoughtful gathering of creative minds building a creative ecosystem.
The evening brings together curators, artists, and community to talk about the roles of curator and artist, what curators look for in choosing artists to work with, the business of selling artworks in a gallery, connecting with potential buyers. Walk away with a toolkit on how to build a sustainable art practice.
Panelists include Ramona Lee, Beverly Aarons, Jinji Amen, and Nick Ferderer.
Monday, June 24 2024 7 – 9:30pm The Grocery Studios, 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144
Light refreshments provided
Please consider using light rail, ride share, or carpool
About Ramona Lee Ramona Lee is an American artist, working in Afro expression and surrealism. She is also a curator, art agent, advocate, and culture maker based in Seattle, founder of Differ Studios and Gallery. She has shown and curated work at Base Camp Studios, Onyx Finearts, and The Grocery Studios, among other venues.
My disciplines range as do my projects. I have been an illustrator since I could hold a pen, and I often create conceptual works using paint, collage, and digital media. I employ the Afro Surrealism movement to connect and encourage my peers and clients as an Artist/ Art Agent/ Advocate/ Curator/ Public Arts Coordinator. To know more about me please schedule a visit to my @differ_studio_gallery at the 5555 Outpost in Sodo District and follow me on Instagram @ramonalee.us
About Beverly Aarons Beverly Aarons is a writer, artist, and game developer. She works across disciplines exploring the intersections of history, hidden current realities, and imagined future worlds. She specializes in making unseen perspectives visible and aims to infuse all of her creative work with a deep sense of emotionality. She’s won the Guy A. Hanks, Marvin H. Miller Screenwriting Award, Community 4Culture Fellowship, Artist Trust GAP Award, 4Culture Creative Consultancies Award, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture smART Ventures grant. She’s currently publishing in-depth artist profiles at Artists Up Close on Substack.
About Jinji Amen I am a creative and financial professional. One day I might be designing a new recipe, the next day I’m moving across the city to meet with clients. Through my artistic journey, I’ve learned where there are gaps in support and knowledge for artists, families and entrepreneurs in the practice of financial literacy. I specialize in the cultivation and distribution of wealth in BIPOC communities, families, and businesses. Therefore, it is my mission to fuse the worlds of art, community and finance, and most importantly erase the idea of scarcity mindset or “starving artist” mentality.
About Nick Ferderer Nick Ferderer is the Founder and Creative Director of Base Camp Studios, which at capacity is the creative home to over 45 artists-in-residence and boasts over 6000 square feet of exhibit space across two galleries in Belltown. Nick’s current creative practice primarily involves framing walls, pounding nails, and generally renovating the formerly vacant Bergman Luggage building to accommodate 30 affordable artists studios. Though, lately, he has also been enjoying ripe Pike Place Market plums, blooming lavender, and shades of fading sunsets. He invites you to ponder the hues at his Purple Table.
We are overjoyed to present animated paintings by the fabulous Stefan Gruber @stefangruber in the windows of Walk Up Gallery, with large works on view inside during the opening reception and film night.
Animated Paintings features artworks that have embedded animations. When activated, the animations bring the artwork to life. The hidden animations extend the implied looping nature of the images into time
Come see Stefan’s paintings come to life before your eyes, while listening to their immersive soundscapes in the studio.
The exhibition is on view May 18 – June 21, 2024.
Opening reception: Sat May 18, 6-9p – FREE Also on view during the opening: Installation by Hana Shiozaki !
Join us for the opening of ENCHANTED, a joint group exhibition at Fresh Mochi and the WUG (Walk Up Gallery) at The Grocery.
Enchanted artist sampler: Bob Jordan, Brandon Vosika, Deborah Baker, Stefan Gruber
Opening receptions Saturday May 18, 6 – 9:00p At Fresh Mochi and The Grocery FREE!
At Fresh Mochi Works by Mary Anne Carter, Deborah Baker, Brandon Vosika, Crystal Barbre, Elizabeth Jameson, Greg Lowe, Timothy Siciliano, and Bob Jordan Beverages and light snacks, music.
At The Grocery Studios Animated Paintings by Stefan Gruber In the windows of WUG, paintings that move, and for the opening, inside the studio we’ll have larger animated paintings, soundscapes by Stefan, light snacks and beverages.
Enchanted runs May 18 – June 21, 2024
Other Enchanted events:
An Evening of Analog Animation hosted by Stefan Gruber At The Grocery, date and details TBA
Closing reception At Fresh Mochi, June 21, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Fresh Mochi is at 2900 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144 The Grocery Studios is across the street at 3001 21st Ave S
Join Degenerate Art Ensemble for an exclusive experientialevent in support of their newest work Anima Mundi. The event will feature the San Francisco based perfumer Mauricio Garcia of Herb Craft Perfumery. Through his alchemical practices, Mauricio will work with each attendee to blend their own scent choosing from more than 35 ingredients, which they will be able to take a bottle of home with them. It will be facilitated by Ministry of Scent founder Antonia Kohl. There will also be catered food, live performance by Degenerate Art Ensemble and poetry by Seattle’s Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai.
The number of tickets at each donation level are EXTREMELY limited. Please choose the level that suits your capacity to donate so that those less resourced can afford to attend.
NOTE: If you wish your donation to be tax deductible, please write to twodegenerates@gmail.com for a 501(c)3 donation link
SENSITIVITY NOTE: The evening is centered around working with fragrances, so this event may not be a good match for those with sensitivity to fragrances and smells.
Saturday February 24, 6 – 9:00pm For the opening reception, we will have animations in the WUG windows and projected inside The Grocery. Fresh Mochi will have art on view, refreshments, and more.
Frosty is a joint exhibition between our sister art space Fresh Mochi and WUG at The Grocery Studios.
At Fresh Mochi: Alfred Harris Connie Jones Ostrowski Christian French Katy Stone Harold Nelson
A special Lovers’ Rock listening session and exploration with Maiden Voyage and Kid Hops
Join us as Maiden Voyage celebrates their one-year anniversary and Valentine’s Day with a special listening session.
Our guest host, Kid Hops (Positive Vibrations, KEXP 90.3FM), presents a Lover’s Rock selection, including cornerstone artists Carroll Thompson, Louisa Mark, and more. He will guide us through the history and classic cuts that make up the romantic sound of this unique UK genre.
Doors will open at 6:00pm and music will start promptly at 7:00pm. At that time we ask all attendees to keep conversations hushed so everyone can focus on the music and enjoy the evening.
Event is 21+ only, limited capacity.
Cantina Sauvage will be on hand to pour wine and will have bottles available for purchase. Other beverages and light snacks courtesy of The Grocery.
Saturday, February 10th, 7 – 10:00pm Music starts at 7:00pm sharp Doors at 6:00pm
Location: The Grocery Studios 3001 21st Ave S, Seattle 98144 Beacon Hill
Maiden Voyage is a Japanese-inspired, traveling hi-fi listening experience. Our popup events focus on intentional listening to vinyl on our audiophile stereo system in a communal setting. Learn more at:
Please join us! Catch this special live performance of Briggan Krauss and Wayne Horvitz as a duo, Saturday, December 30, 2023. Show begins at 7:30pm, doors at 7:00
Alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss (NYC) and keyboardist/composer Wayne Horvitz (Seattle) have worked together in a wide variety of contexts for more than 30 years. This evening’s concert is a rare and special opportunity to hear them perform as a duo. It will be an evening of exciting, intense, and joyful improvised music. With live projected visuals by Janet Galore.
Saxophonist Briggan Krauss has been an internationally recognized key player in New York City’s creative music scene for more than twenty-five years. He connects the extreme edges of technique with the unexplored tonal possibilities of the instrument while making his work as much about shape as it is about his unique signature sound.
He has released several critically acclaimed recordings as a leader and has appeared on over fifty other recordings as a sideman. He has worked with a diverse range of artists such as John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Steven Bernstein, Wayne Horvitz, Levon Helm, Skerik, Butch Morris, Eyvind Kang, Robin Holcomb, Norah Jones, Medeski Martin and Wood, Hal Willner, Skuli Sverrisson, Jim Black, Ikue Mori, Joey Baron, Kato Hideki, Satoko Fuji, Dave Harrington, The New York Composer’s Orchestra,Elysian Fields, Iron & Wine, Fey Victor, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah Manning, Trey Anastasio, Joan Wasser, Mary Halvorsen, Jessie Harris, Bernie Worrell, Beth Fleenor, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Marc Ribot, Antony, U2, and many others.
Briggan’s voice has been a part of Steven Bernstein’s iconic quartet Sexmob from its inception more than twenty-five years ago. Sexmob earned a Grammy Award nomination for their 2006 recording titled Sexotica and Briggan also recorded with guitarist Bill Frisell on his Grammy Award winning 2007 album Unspeakable.
Besides his work as a saxophonist and composer, Briggan is a guitarist and he also makes wide-ranging use of Max/MSP for digital audio and video in the areas of sound art, electronic music, and interdisciplinary performance. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts [PIMA] MFA program at Brooklyn College, NYU, and at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
About Wayne Horvitz
Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, composer Wayne Horvitz performs extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and North America. In addition to creating work for his own ensembles, he has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Berlin Jazz, Nocco, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum, and ACT among others. He has received awards from, MAP, McKnight Foundation, the NEA, Meet the Composer, and The Shifting Foundation. among others. Narrative works include pieces centered around the life of Joe Hill, the story of the Everett Massacre, and the poems of Richard Hugo. Installation work has been presented at Ft. Worden, SAM and Arizona State Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.
Collaborators include Robin Holcomb, Bill Frisell, Reggie Watts, Butch Morris, Alex Guy, Ikue Mori, George Lewis, Steve Swallow, Yukio Suzuki, Billy Bang, Carla Bley, Eyvind Kang, John Zorn (Naked City etc.), Bill Irwin, Gus Van Sant, Paul Taylor, Beth Fleenor, Rinde Eckert, Yohei Saito, Barbara Earl Thomas, David Moss, Carey Perloff, Paul Taylor, Dayna Hanson, and Gus Van Sant. He has produced recordings for the WorldSaxophone Quartet, Human Feel, Fontella Bass, Marty Ehrlich, John Adams, Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, and Eddie Palmieri.
