Chase Gallery

The mission of the Chase Gallery is to exhibit works that engage the public, bring people to a new outlook on contemporary issues, feature innovative artwork, and provide space for people of all backgrounds to share their perspective through art. The gallery showcases rotating exhibitions throughout the year, championing local Spokane artists and their work.

The Chase Gallery, located inside Spokane’s City Hall, is currently open for visitors whenever City Hall is open to the public and for First Friday receptions. Stop by and see the gallery Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (gallery access may be limited Tuesday mornings) and the First Friday of each month from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Solitaire At Fox Island

JANUARY’S FIRST FRIDAY OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 2 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM

(Enter City Hall through the sliding doors on N. Post St.. Chase Gallery is on the lower level) This exhibition runs for 2 months.

City Hall, lower level
808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.
Dates: Nov. 7 – Dec. 26, 2025.
Open and free to the Public. Hours 9am – 5pm, M-F

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kristin Robbins paints characters caught in everyday activities – making dinner, playing solitaire over a sugar-cereal breakfast – looking like reluctant subjects interrupted to get their picture taken in maximalist interiors or busy exteriors. The colors and trimmings of the environments evoke the wallpaper or lamp you remember from your grandparent’s house. She painted houses, inside and out, for years before she started making art in 2015, filling sketchbooks with depictions of her dog Stamos in a sailor suit in ironic settings. She has always lived in Washington, and she is a part-time custodian for Spokane Public Schools.

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

Some of the characters and/or scenes from these paintings are inspired from film and television – early documentaries of Errol Morris, the Maysles brothers’ Grey Gardens, the documentary Finding Vivian Maier – where quirky people are celebrated when they might not be otherwise. Others are variations of quirky people I’m celebrating from my personal life. I paint on plywood because it
allows me to securely add the mini-canvases and hinges that create a dollhouse effect that I like; the viewer wants to interact with the hinged panels, and because the raised portions cannot neatly coexist as background and foreground, it throws off the perspective and point of view in a way that is awkward and sometimes trippy, but also interesting and funny (like the mirror in the “Joe in the Salon” painting)