Liz Tran
Ann Chadwick Reid
Angela Behrends
Susan Hahn
June 13 – July 26, 2025
First Friday Opening Reception June 6, 5:00-7:00PM
Awards for Kittitas County Open Show announced June 6, 6:00PM
Exhibit Sponsors: Cashmere Valley Bank & Cashmere Valley Mortgage
Main Gallery:
Liz Tran – Mycophilia
Liz Tran is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Pacific Northwest, working between Seattle, Oregon’s Willamette Valley and wherever else her work takes her. Tran’s work draws inspiration from dreams, the natural world, outer space, and the human psyche, reimagining natural forms through vibrant, synthetic hues that serve as a joyful antidote to the mundane. While painting is central to her practice, she embraces a wide range of creative mediums, including sculpture, large-scale installations, projection mapping, art direction for music videos, and fashion collaborations. Her work aims to stretch boundaries and bring joy through innovative, impactful projects.
Public collections of Tran’s work include the City of Seattle’s Portable Works Collection, Capital One, Vulcan Inc., Baer Art Center, Camac Art Centre, The El Paso Children’s Hospital, Harborview Medical Center, The King County Public Art Collection and The Child Center. Tran has completed multiple special projects and installations, including work for VH1 Save the Music Foundation, The Upstream Music Fest, The Seattle Art Museum, The Brain Project Toronto, Public Art at The Aqua Art Fair Miami and Vulcan Inc.
She has been awarded multiple fellowships and grants; including a Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) from Artist Trust, Clowes Fellowship for residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the Nellie Cornish Scholarship and residency at The Camac Art Centre in France, Babayan Culture House in Turkey, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, The Baer Art Center in Iceland, Jentel, Millay Colony for the Arts and The Center for Contemporary Printmaking.
Mezzanine:
Ann Chadwick Reid – Solastalgia
Daily weather reports reveal the impact of climate change across our nation and the world. Month after month we witness reports of hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires and floods. Communities are destroyed by loss of life and property and we follow the destruction of forest, plain, desert and ocean habitats. Despite efforts of individuals and organizations working to protect our earth, little is accomplished on a scale needed to stem the warming of the planet. Rarely do we hear about the emotional consequences of anticipated environmental change. Solastalgia is the mourning of lost ecosystems, landscapes, species and ways of life as described by the Australian philosopher Albert Brecht. Brecht described it as the homesickness you have when you are
still at home. It is likely this form of ecological distress will become more common as our seasons and landscapes change.
My hand cut paper is as fragile as the environment and celebrates the special nature and remarkable diversity of my intertidal home on Samish Island and other regions in the Pacific Northwest. By using cut paper techniques I invite viewers into the work to consider the complexity of whole ecosystems as well as individual species. The loss of earth’s biodiversity is of paramount importance. It’s
time to initiate and support conversations that lead to cooperation and sustainable solutions. Art can contribute by sparking interest to discover and conserve the remarkable places where we live.
Where can you volunteer, support or add your voice?
• Kittitas Environmental Education Network
• Kittitas Conservation Trust
• Yakima Interpretive Center
• Yakama Nation
• Columbia Land Trust
• Methow Conservancy
• Mount Adams Resource Stewards
• Environmental Commission, City of Ellensburg
• Conservation Northwest
• Methow Conservancy
• Mount Adams Resource Stewards
Eveleth Green Community Gallery
Angela Behrends – Finding Center
My world is full of dichotomies:
OLD/NEW
LOVE/FEAR
HARD/SOFT
LIGHT/DARK
Finding Center, my mixed-media art exhibition at Gallery One, is my way of exploring dichotomies, building a conceptual bridge between one polarized idea and its antithesis. My intention is to find greater balance and peace somewhere in the middle, making room for a new joyful paradigm—where cranes dance in the light (Blissed), quail tumble across WA State (Come Together), a manhole cover generates portals, and Cheese Rock in the Teanaway shows its navel (Origin.)
Oh, and about the birds:
My feathered friends assist the unraveling of my geographic dichotomy—South Dakota/Washington.
Birds soothe, and connect me to place. These ubiquitous and magical beings, whether heard or seen, lift my spirits as they dart across the ground, stand in a wetland, or soar high above.
I invite you to experience Finding Center. May it lift your spirits and encourage a smile.
Community & Hallway Gallery:
Susan Hahn – Emotional Hues: The Power of Color in Art