Auction Artist Spotlight : The Notables
VCA's Notable Artists are our Auction Features artists 2021. Victoria Adams, Morgan Brig, Brian Fisher, Pam Ingalls, Kristen Reitz-Green, Cathy Sarkowsky, and Erin Schulz have all donated a unique piece of their work for the auction.
Victoria Adams has exhibited her contemporary American luminist landscape painting throughout her career across the US and Canada, including the Tacoma Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Paul Allen Foundation for the Arts and more. Her work has been featured several times in publications such as American Art Collector, Luxe, Traditional Home and more. Her use of lighting, color and depiction of clouds in her landscapes are what make her work a collector items. For VCA’s auction she offers a new work “Pinnacle”, a landscape with mountain the distance in a perfect size for any home, 6”x12”. Auction Item #1
Morgan Brig’s “Someone to Watch Over Me & My Creativity”, is made of clay, copper, hand. The bear figure is the guardian and all there little people/creatures hanging represent the artists not-quite-formed creative ideas yet to be expressed. It so fits for the artist that those little guys have a distinct weirdness about them. All etched brass charms are done by the artist using an acid-free etching method that utilizes an electric current run through a salt water bath and highly detailed design block-outs. Auction Item #2.
Brian Fisher uses mythology as his inspiration. Talk with him and you get to hear fabulous stories of gods, battles, victories and lessons learned from myths. His auction donation “Mystras” is a colorful oil on canvas, named after the archaeological site and Byzantine city in Greece, built on a steep mountain slope. Look closely to the painting and see his unique brush stroke technique that gifts depth and vibrancy to the painting. Brian Fisher’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the Pacific Northwest. He is a member of Seattle Print Arts and of the print studio Quartermaster Press, and President of the Board of Vashon Island Visual Artists (VIVA). Auction Item #3
“In Good Time” by Pam Ingalls is an oil painting of the large clock in our historical building, now The Hardware Store restaurant. “I’ve been donating paintings to the annual auction for Vashon Center for the Arts for decades, but I’ve never given something I was so emotionally connected to before. This painting of an interior at The Hardware Store Restaurant reminds me how warm my heart feels every time I’ve been there. The welcoming atmosphere (and the delicious food) has delighted me for 15 years! I’m hoping whoever ends up with this painting feels the same way, so I know they love the subject as much as they do the painting.” Auction Item #4
When people see Kristen Reitz-Green’s food paintings, they always say, “Now I’m hungry!” And nothing says yummy better than a stack of pancakes with strawberries. “I love capturing the happy moments of life, like breakfast on a Sunday morning with family.” Kristen Reitz-Green lives and works on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest. She spent the majority of her life working in the field of classical music performance before making a shift into the visual arts. A graduate from the Juilliard School in New York and the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Conneticut, Kristen performed throughout the US and Europe. “Sunday Morning Pancakes”, Auction item #5
"Quilt", by Cathy Sarkowsky, is made of nine separate pieces, each created with colored pencil, printed and painted paper, and then mounted on paper. All elements are drawn, painted, printed, cut, glued and assembled by hand. Cathy is a prominent Northwest painter and is the founder of Vashon Artist Residency."Art is the foundation of my life. I am a painter, a collector, a seeker of vivid expressions of humanity. I see curiosity as an impetus to go deeper creatively, to explore ideas and investigate meaning." Auction Items #6
Like most of us, Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of others. Families forage in agricultural fields and make their migratory way across North America. In this painting, a maternal escort joins the flock in the warm fields and marshes as they head onward. Artist Erin Schulz started studying art at an early age in Yakima, WA and continued studying with a focus on classical realism in oil (portrait, figure, and still life) at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing China ('88-'89) and the Gage Academy in Seattle. Auction item #7
About the Notable Collection: In January 2020, VCA launched the Collection as a way to represent and sell art online throughout the year. The Collection complements VCA's monthly gallery shows and is a natural progression in our visual art representation and sales. Through social media, digital marketing and the virtual gallery the Notable Collection has a consistent online presence which offers the opportunity for collectors to get to know these artists on a more personal level, through stories of their development as artists, their work, their techniques, their vision. See more of their collection HERE.