Now open · First Friday Art Walk
Tamera Abaté · Alpenglow · Encaustic on panel
The exhibition
Every gallery program is defined as much by what it adds as by what it holds. Additions names the act explicitly: two artists joining the permanent JG roster after years of conversation, studio visits, and certainty that their work belongs here.
Ross Collado paints semi-abstract landscapes in acrylic — atmospheric skies over scraped, dragged horizons, set with small flat shapes that rest on the surface like cut paper. Tamera Abaté's encaustic surfaces require a kind of looking that slows the viewer down: thirty layers of beeswax fused with fire, each one altering what came before. Both practices reward the kind of sustained attention that distinguishes a collector from a buyer. And, invited for this show: Julie Devine — Seattle-based, oil on canvas — whose North Cascades landscapes bring a third voice into the room.
The artists
Acrylic on canvas · Semi-abstract
Collado paints minimalist compositions built on stark contrasts of depth and color — acrylic on canvas, the surface scraped and dragged, foregrounds worked until atmosphere and structure hold the same weight. Into that compression he sets small, flat shapes that rest like placed tokens.
Joining the JG roster with Additions. Self-taught, based in Seattle; the work holds a tension between atmosphere and the small placed token.
Encaustic · Beeswax · Fire
Abaté builds encaustic panels in thirty or more layers, fusing each with a propane torch before the next goes down. The result holds depth that photographs cannot capture — surfaces that change with the light and with the angle of viewing.
Joining the JG roster with Additions. Practice grounded in the slow, additive logic of encaustic — material set on top of material until the panel becomes its own record.
Invited artist · Oil on canvas · Pacific Northwest landscape
Devine paints from the landscape, combining gestural brushwork and palette knife into a distinctive, semi-abstract style. In her own words: “my work is about heightened emotional and spiritual experience in landscape.” The North Cascades and Diablo Lake recur across years of her practice. The botanical work turns the same eye toward abstract — color and gesture,rbascum plant as silent reference.
Seattle. MA in English Literature, University of Washington. Trained at Gage Academy of Art — Best of Gage 2010 (figure), 2012 (landscape). Represented by SAM Gallery, Perry + Carlson Gallery, Smith & Vallee Gallery, JDS Gallery, Yuan Ru Gallery. Collected by the Gates Archive at UW, Fairmont Olympic Hotel, JW Marriott Buckhead Atlanta. Six works in Additions: Diablo Lake Overlook, Cascades Glow With Larches, Little Diablo in Green, Spring Verbascum, Nude Verbascum, Summer Plum Verbascum.
Where to see it
Opens First Friday, June 5. The full installation in the Bainbridge gallery rooms. Weekend hours expand for the opening week.
2780 Prospector Avenuenue. Selected works traveling with the show. Park City rooms hold the installation through July 1.
The full show in the Viewing Rooms — every work documented, both artists' statements in their own voice, available to collectors anywhere.
Additions opens First Friday, June 5, and runs through July 1. Visiting in person is the strongest way to meet the work — Collado's surfaces, Abaté's depth, both in the same room for the first time. If a visit isn't possible, every artist's full statement and the documentation are online. Inquiries about specific pieces, availability, or holds are answered personally and usually same business day.