Upcoming · opens Friday June 5
Tamera Abaté · Encaustic on panel · 2025
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 brings a figurative practice rooted in psychological weight — paintings that hold the evidence of people who have just left the room. 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 and Verbascum series bring a third voice into the room.
The artists
Oil on canvas · Figurative · Narrative
Collado paints scenes that hold more than they show — figures mid-gesture, rooms emptied of their occupants, objects that carry the weight of interrupted activity. His work is figurative in structure and psychological in effect.
Joining the JG roster with Additions. Practice rooted in figurative painting and the psychology of the implied narrative — what the viewer assembles from what is and is not in the room.
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 · Verbascum
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 Verbascum series turns the same eye toward abstract — color and gesture with the verbascum 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.
2870 Prospector Avenue. Selected works traveling with the show. Park City rooms hold the installation through the end of June.
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 the end of June. 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.