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Ed Essex: A Sixty Year Print Retrospective has traveled to a third venue…
ED ESSEX: A Sixty Year Print Retrospective
Shoreline City Hall Gallery
February 3, 2011 – April 29, 2011
Shoreline City Hall – N 175th St & Midvale Ave N
Open Monday-Friday 9 – 5
This retrospective exhibition reflects the vision of Ed Essex and his many years as artist, printmaker, and art educator. Ed Essex’s 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.
Photo by June McKiernan
Photo by June McKiernan
Ed is a treasured senior community member who is 86 years old. Ed taught art in Seattle Public Schools for over 25 years and remains a force of inspiration, pragmatism, and humanity in the lives of Seattle’s youth, teachers, and community.
“A good print sparkles and jumps off the page.” — E. Essex
This project has received an Individual Artist Project grant award from King County’s 4culture organization supporting, in part, this retrospective exhibition, publication of an illustrated catalog, and a Seattle Public Schools sponsored educator workshop on September 18th, 2010.
ED ESSEX: A Sixty Year Print Retrospective exhibition catalogues are available upon request.
Both framed and unframed prints are currently available for purchase: please click Print Price List for more information.
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