Chase Gallery
The Chase Gallery is located on the lower level of City Hall, adjacent to the Council Chambers. The Gallery features monthly exhibits of local and regionally known artists. The Gallery is open free to the public during normal building hours, Mondays - Fridays, 8 AM - 5:50 PM, and through City Council's evening meetings on Mondays. If you would like to be on the Gallery's mailing list for notification of upcoming exhibits, contact the Arts Commission or email us at arts@spokanecity.org.
Artists interested in exhibiting should submit 10-15 slides of recent work and a resume. Our Exhibiting Committee reviews work quarterly to make selections for our exhibition schedule. Exhibits are booked 18 - 24 months in advance. Send materials to: Exhibiting Committee, Spokane Arts Commission, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane, WA 99201.
Currently showing at the Chase Gallery
Palouse: Katherine Nelson and William Turner, 5/2/2008 to 6/27/2008
Artist Reception: Friday, May 2, 5-8 p.m.
The Palouse-influenced art of Katherine Nelson and William Turner will be featured from May 2-June 27, 2008 at City Hall's Chase Gallery. The Chase Gallery is located in the basement of City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. The artist reception is scheduled for Friday, May 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. in conjunction with First Friday, the monthly festival showcasing arts in the Spokane area. Gallery hours are Monday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. & Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Katherine Nelson works with charcoal to recreate the organic forms and curves of the Palouse. William Turner uses oil on canvas in his “Valley” series, influenced by fragment farmland, seen as an undergrad attending Washington State University. “A sense of harmony, radiance and optimism are trademarks of my work and these qualities in turn project to the viewer in a very positive way,” Turner says.
Katherine Nelson is a Colbert, Washington resident born in The Hague, The Netherlands and lived abroad for twelve years in Holland, Germany, Turkey and Belgium. She holds an MA in Drawing from State University of New York, Albany, NY and a BS in Art Education from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Katherine Nelson has had exhibitions at the Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d'Alene, ID, North Idaho College, Jennings Galleries, Davidson, NC, Art Vivant Gallery, Charlotte, NC, and Bethlehem Education Center, Delmar, NY. Katherine Nelson’s work was also featured on a 2005 episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” when the design team selected pieces of her work from The Art Spirit Gallery for the home makeover in Sandpoint, ID.
William Turner holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Puget Sound and a MFA in Painting from University of Washington. He has had solo exhibitions at many galleries throughout Washington, Oregon, New York, Nevada, and Arizona, and has had many awards and honors. Turner feels he could “make a significant contribution to the Art Project for the Spokane international airport,” based on his works with the landscape.
Upcoming Chase Gallery exhibitions
The City of Spokane Arts Department and the Exhibiting Committee of the Spokane Arts Commission are proud to announce the upcoming Chase Gallery exhibition schedule. Chase Gallery is located at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., lower level of Spokane City Hall. Gallery hours are from 8am-9pm Mondays, 8am-5pm Tuesdays-Fridays. Chase Gallery is free and open to the public.
Sally Machlis and Todd Volz. 7/1/2008 to 8/29/2008. Artist reception: Friday, August 1, 5-8 p.m.
Stephen Chalmers. 9/3/2008 to 10/31/2008. Artist reception: Friday, October 3, 5-9 p.m.
Painting: Rick Garcia, Robert Kraut, Charlie Schmidt, Marvin Smith. 11/4/2008 to 12/31/2008. Artist reception: Friday, November 7, 5 to 8 p.m.
A House Divided: The Legacy of Lincoln. 1/6/2009 to 2/27/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, February 6, 5- 9 p.m. A group exhibition in conjunction with the Spokane Symphony's festival celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Explorations XI. 3/3/2009 to 4/24/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, March 6, 5-8 p.m. Group exhibition of artwork by students from Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, North Idaho College, Spokane Falls Community College, and Whitworth University.
Weaving Invitational: Mary Burks, Lia Cook, James Koehler, Rebecca Laurence, Barbara Setsu Pickett, and Sarah Swett. 4/28/2009 to 7/3/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, May 1, 5-8 p.m. A group exhibition in conjunction with the 2009 Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds Conference being held May 28 – May 31, 2009 in Spokane, WA.
All Media Juried Show. 7/7/2009 to 8/28/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 p.m.
Rick Singer. 9/8/2009 to 10/30/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, October 2, 5-9 p.m. Photography portraits of Spokane musicians, artists, and authors.
Artocracy. 11/3/2009 to 12/31/2009. Artist reception: Artist reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 p.m. Prints from online art source Autocracy, founded by Megan Murphy.
Previous Chase Gallery exhibitions
Sculpture: Miles Pepper. 3/4/2008 to 4/30/2008.
The kinetic sculpture of Miles Pepper will be featured at the Chase Gallery, March 4 through April 30, 2008. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held in conjunction with First Friday, on Friday March 7, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Miles Pepper creates large scale public works fabricated from aluminum and stainless steel. His exhibition in the Chase Gallery will be a rare opportunity to see twelve pieces of his sculpture representing Pepper’s twelve years in public art. The exhibition will show scale models, reproductions of projects both finished and while under construction, fabrication test samples, and various presentation materials and drawings. Pepper says, "My sculptures are precisely balanced, hand-built machines, brought to life by the chaotic flow of the wind."
Sally Chang and Debbie Mumm. 1/4/2008 to 2/29/2008.
The Chase Gallery presents "Fabric," featuring artists who make things from fabric Sally Chang and Debbie Mumm, January 4 through February 29, 2008. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held in conjunction with Visual Arts Tour on Friday, February 1, 5 to 9 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sally Chang's fabric art is intrigued and inspired by things that are built by hand one piece at a time. Stonework, brickwork, and mosaics combine cohesive pattern and structural integrity with infinite variability. The same can be said of textiles. Sally Chang holds Bachelor Degrees in Arts and Fine Arts from the University of Idaho and a MFA from the University of Washington. She also attended University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, and Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID. Sally has a public art installation in Kooskia, ID and her work has been exhibited at: Reflections Gallery, University of Idaho (Moscow, ID); Wellington Gray Gallery, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC); Surface Design Conference (Kansas City, KS); American Institute of Architects Invitational Exhibit (Seattle, WA); Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA); and Kaewyn Gallery (Bothell, WA).
Debbie Mumm is a quilt designer and the CEO and Creative Director of the company that bears her name. She is the author of more than fifty books on quilting and home decorating and began her business twenty years ago as a quilt designer. She soon branched out to fabric design in partnership with a fabric manufacturer. That partnership was the first of many agreements with companies that loved her designs and recognized the huge marketing potential of combining Debbie’s art with their products. Today, more than thirty companies have licensing agreements with Debbie Mumm, Inc. and her designs can be seen on everything from dinnerware to stationery and fabric to greeting cards. Debbie loves the thrill of creating new artwork and is committed to seeing her art translated into beautiful, high quality finished products. Besides characters and scenes, Debbie designs patterns, textures, and borders so that her artwork can be used in a broad range of products.
Jane Orleman. 11/2/2007 to 12/28/2007.
The primary focus of Jane Orleman's painting process is the exploration of psychological reality through symbolic narrative imagery. Whether painting household interiors, archetypal images, or deeply personal feelings, the work expresses Jane’s distinctly feminine worldview. This intuitive process, her choice of symbols and colors and the inner world that she explores, all combine to express her physical, emotional and spiritual life experiences. Openness to this inner dialogue has created the visual evidence detailing a journey of self-discovery.
Her most recent body of work "Beneath the Canopy of Heaven," features vibrant dreamscapes filled with goddesses, potent symbols of the feminine and masculine, and Asian religious icons. These new works are reflections of the artist’s current spiritual and psychological journey. The fourteen large-scale paintings that range in size from 42" H. x 38" W. through 92" H. x 356" W. were created between 2004 and 2007.
Orleman has exhibited widely throughout the Northwest since the 1970s, including solo exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, Boise State University, Portland State University, the University of Montana, Washington State University, and Whitman College, among others. In addition her artwork has been selected for juried invitational exhibits at venues including the Tacoma Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, ARC Gallery in Chicago, and Matrix Gallery in Sacramento.
A current resident of Ellensburg, WA, Jane Orleman grew up in the state of New York and attended universities in New York, Florida, Oregon and Washington before receiving a BA in Art from Central Washington University.
