solas inaugural group show
4th May 2023 - 3rd June 2023
Lisa Ahlberg
Brennan Cavanaugh
Selena Kearney
Sarah Dawn King
Jody Poorwill
Solas is delighted to announce our inaugural exhibition, a group show highlighting artists who will have solo exhibitions at Solas in the coming year.
Opening 4th May 6pm.
Artist meet & greet, and reception 13th May 2pm-4pm.
Gallery opening press release.
Image credit: Untitled, October 2018, Jody Poorwill
lisa ahlberg
Lisa Ahlberg is a Seattle based portrait and documentary photographer interested in people’s relationship to place.
Lisa has spent more than 20 years photographing in the White Center neighborhood, making portraits reflecting the rich diversity of the neighborhood’s residents. Her work documents how the urban landscape shifts over time as Seattle’s gentrification encroaches on the neighborhood.
She is a graduate of the Photographic Center Northwest, a center for the photographic arts in the Pacific Northwest. From 2009 - 2015, she was a member of its Board of Directors, then its president. She remains an active member of the community of photographers it serves.
Instagram: @lisa.ahlberg
John, Bao and Houston, 2018
Lisa Ahlberg
brennan cavanaugh
Brennan Cavanaugh was born in Rochester, MN, moved to Omaha, NB, and was then finally settled, by his parents, in Western Massachusetts by the age of 3. In this boyhood he started photographing the neighborhood and its kids with a Kodak Instamatic, and later, in high school, joined yearbook and darkroom. Studying at Bard College under Stephen Shore and Ben Lifson opened him to the vastness of photographic language and its specific possibilities as a poetic recorder and forensic reporter of our lives. These studies showed him how photography, as a documentary medium, can also serve as an allegorical story-teller, spotlighting signifiers and isolating cultural gestures for our inspection and potential enlightenment. In New York City he has turned his lens towards a professional career in editorial and advertising photography, while continuing still to create and exhibit photographs in a more artistic vein. He also teaches strategies in photography and visual language in the public schools, elder care homes, and family shelters.
He participated in PCNW's annual Chase The Light exhibition between 2016 and 2018.
https://www.brennancavanaugh.com
Instagram: @brennan_cavanaugh
From SLOW APOCALYPSE (North Adams, MA, May 20 2006)
Brennan Cavanaugh
selena kearney
Raised on the Chehalis Reservation in Washington State, Selena Kearney uses photography as a tool to be of service to her community and as a vehicle for artistic expression. Her work includes portraiture and documentary practice as well as constructed conceptual works. Selena creates images that are rooted in a sense of place and culture. She is the skipper for the elder-led canoe family from Suquamish, Spirit of the Raven. Kearney holds a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from Photographic Center Northwest, a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Evergreen State College, and is a graduate student (beginning in fall 2023) at The School of Art Institute Chicago in the Photography Program.
https://www.selenakearney.com/
Instagram: @latchselena
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Selena Kearney
sarah dawn king
Sarah Dawn King (b.1976), is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of photography and movement. She integrates her background as a dancer in her process, allowing her work to center around the roles of embodiment and physicality in creative agency, and the cultivation of empathy.
Sarah’s work has been exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions throughout WA, including Golden Hour and Reverberations (PCNW, 2022), Interconnection: finding connection in our siloed times (Columbia City Gallery, 2022), Collective Visions 2022 juried exhibition (Collective Visions Gallery, 2022) and Certificate in Fine Art Photography Thesis Exhibition (PCNW, 2019). In 2022, she was a guest lecturer at The Besant School, in Ojai, CA, and she presented her series Imminent Proximity for the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s lecture series: Untold Stories: Matters of Life and Death. She has been a guest artist at Inscape Arts (Seattle, 2018) and created work for the Shunpike Storefronts Program (Seattle, 2020).
Sarah holds a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW, 2019). Sarah is on the faculty at the Bainbridge Dance Center on Bainbridge Island, WA. She holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Columbia University, and attended the Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española Amor de Dios, (Madrid, Spain), as well as the dance department at Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA).
Sarah lives on Bainbridge Island, WA, the ancestral land of the Suquamish People.
Sarah would like to thank Leah Crosby, Hendri Walujo, Maia Veague, Jessica Jobaris and Jason Franklin for participating in the Imminent Proximity project.
https://www.sarahdawnking.com/
Instagram: @sarahdawnking
Encountering Dissonance, 2021
Sarah Dawn King
jody poorwill
Jody Poorwill grew up in the suburbs of NYC. Jody received their BFA with a concentration in Photography in 2001 from The State University of New York, Purchase College. Their work has been featured in VICE, NPR, Don’t Take Pictures, Humble Art Foundation, Too Tired Projects, A New Nothing, Weekly Volcano, Cumulus Photo, Streit House, and The Stranger.
Jody’s book ‘LOST Seattle’ (Kris Graves Projects, 2018) is in the Publication Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Duke University, and Amon Carter Museum of Art.
Their work has been exhibited at Spaceworks, Velouria, Photographic Center Northwest, Purchase College, Rockland Community College, Mad Arts, Artswest, ALMA Tacoma, Texas Tech University School of Art, and Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC)
Instagram: @jody_poorwill
Untitled, January 2019
Jody Poorwill