May 9-May 22 2012

Show Opening is May 10 @6pm

Ghost Ghost Teeth aka Simon Tran is a Long Beach Born artist.  He is a self taught artist whose paintings have a wildly colorful and playful appeal on the surface.  But on closer inspection, the color is a thin shell subduing a turbulent ebb and flow of chaos and tranquility.  Ghost Ghost Teeth’s influences are his daughter, Punk, and children’s illustrations from the 1960’s. 
Ghost Ghost Teeth has done several murals around Los Angeles including Pehrspace, Home Room Gallery, and The Strange Gallery. He also works as a freelance illustrator who’s clients include Culdesac Kids Records, KPFK 90.7 fm, and Galleano Winery.  “Swimming Through Fevered Dreams” is an attempt to connect to the unconsciousness. This collection of paintings takes the viewer for a dive into the dark ends of anxiety and childhood repression that lurks in the mind, but submerges through cathartic revelation.  Ghost Ghost Teeth illustrates these dreamlike environments through cryptic imagery alongside whimsical characters.

For more info please check out:  www.ghostghostteeth.com

April 4-April 28 2012

Take a fun stroll through the candy-colored mind of the youthful artist.  This month at Vera, Seattle Girls’ School 8th grade artists present a sparkling range of work featuring bold prints, wild colors, and experimental outfits to brighten the spirits.  The 8th Grade art experience at SGS is unlike most 8th grade art curricula.  After three years of building foundational skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, etc., the girls are given absolute freedom to develop an independent body of work.  Resident Artist, Kyle Cook, says “the girls were extremely joyful learners. There was rarely a class without laughter and an exuberant energy.”  They dug deeply within themselves as they articulated their vision…and a beautiful vision it is! Show is through the end of the April.

Mar 8-April 2 2012

This March at Vera, city grit and discrete objects provided the common theme for an unusually diverse group of recent works by Sabe Lewellyn and Joseph Steininger.

February 7, 2012-March 7, 2012

Opening Reception is February 8, 2012 from 6-8pm. 

Instinctual is a selection of very raw expressive figure drawings and paintings from the mind of Sonya Stockton. They are produced instinctively with no models, no erasing, no real planning of any sort. For Stockton the process is a way to most accurately express that inner condition which seems to defy explanation.

Jan 8 - Feb 3 2012

Dec 6 - Dec 28 2011

Art by Brandon Vosika and Glenn Tramantano

Oct. 4 - Oct. 27 2011

Upcoming Shows
NOV: 206 Zulu for HipHop History Month!
DEC: Brandon Vosika & Glenn Tramantano

Sept 9-28, 2011

Upcoming Shows
OCT: Tory & Eroyn Franklin
NOV: 206 Zulu for HipHop History Month!
DEC: Brandon Vosika & Glenn Tramantano

Feb 10-Mar 3, 2011

This is a group show featuring the art of Max Berkes, Noah Collins, and Jeremy Depreist.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, Feb. 11th, 6-8pm, which will include a live musical performance by Jeremy Depreist.

January 27, 2011

Our birthday week kicks off with a gallery opening January 27 (our actual birthday!) 7pm at The Vera Project. We will have a photo exhibit chronicling the last decade of Vera shows, events, and past locations shot by classic Vera photographers including Paula Kieko, Tom Heuser, Curt Doughty, Morgan Keuler, Chona Kassinger, Victoria Holt, Tammy Cartwright and perhaps more. Also – an interactive time-line of Vera’s history which you are all encouraged to add on to, and a listening station of past Vera live shows. There will be cake. All ages and free.

December 14th, 2010

Please join us for the opening of A Poem Is Nothing, an irreducible poet show. Reacting to Laura Riding Jackson’s endless returns to nothing as an ethic and an engine on the virge of, and wholeheartedly opposed to, social reality. For Jackson, nothing was the poem, opposed entirely to music and art, exploding out of an unreal self, unmaking the tools and words it finds along the way, only to be realized, regrettably, by tenacious acts of criticism.

With this in mind, 4 poets were asked to show work to spatialize such a poetry of or from nothing.

The show will feature performances by James Yeary, Nico Vassilakis, and a Gaburo Ensemble from Olympia (performing Lingua II: Maledetto; performers include David Wolach, Arun Chandra, and Elizabeth Williamson)

The show features works by

Bethany Ides (NY)

Urban Subjects: Jeff Derksen, Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber (Vancouver)

Donato Mancini (Vancouver)

Nico Vassilakis (Seattle)

November 2- 27, 2010

November 2nd - 27th.
Featuring work by Jennifer Ament, Whitney Ballen and Alison Kreitzberg.

Opening Reception on November 4th, from 6-9pm. With musical performances by Whitney Ballen herself, Generifus, Cap Lori and Gazelle. Snacks are provided.

Seattle artist Jennifer Ament begins her creative process by illustrating an image to a nearly finished state and then deconstructs and reworks the illustration by creating a highly, labor-intensive linoleum cut print,  each of which is usually a 2 or 3 day process…. Finishing each piece with vintage frames, these linocuts are printed in limited editions of 30 or less.(Jennifer has and will also create custom, one-of-a-kind prints. Jennifer’s love of art started at an early age when she was inspired by her art teacher and eccentric relatives… Jennifer created many paintings and sculptures as a child, and even won an award or two. Recently she continued her studies at Pratt Fine Arts Center and Gage Academy Of Art. You can view Jennifer’s work here: http://store.jenniferament.com/

Whitney Ballen has been a spectator of the teenagers and young adults that surround her for the past 18 years. She has collected thoughts, phrases, memories of actions, and ideas of relationships inside of her head and spilled them out onto paper. But all of these things accidentally melted onto the paper in what it looks to be; fine lines of body parts, honestwords, and water-colored fields of space. She likes to capture intimate and personal ideas that each and everyone possess into her work, some but very few her own.
You can check out Whitney’s work here: http://www.whitneyballen.com

Alison Kreitzberg’s photographs are multiple exposure Polaroids taken of landscapes, from places as close as the Cascades and as far away as the Grand Canyon. She has created her very own landscapes, and by using polaroid film has created one of a kind photographs that cannot be reproduced, thus creating moments which exist in their own place, outside of time and space.
You can view Alison’s work at http://greenmenace.deviantart.com/

October 8-31, 2010

Opening Reception Friday, October 8 from 6-9p with DJ Michael J.Olsen and a live dance performance by Diana Garcia. Show runs October 8th through 31st.

Ver(a)rt Gallery is pleased to announce its October show, D.I.S.T.A.N.C.E with selected artists Bo Choi and Hye Young Kim, and supporting artists including Elizabeth Dean and Ross James.

Hye Young Kim received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Washington University in St. Louis and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting from Korea University, South Korea. She has been focusing on presenting physical and psychological human traces to understand human existence, and has exhibited her work in Davis, St. Louis, Berlin and Seoul. The artist states, “I am mapping everyday life, constantly questioning the spiritual existence of humans in contemporary society and creating awakening moment as a spiritual journey of inner-self discovery.”

Bo Choi completed her MFA at UW and her undergraduate degree at University of California, Davis. Choi’s MFA exhibition was at The Henry Art Gallery and she held a residency at Kulturprojekte, Berlin Germany in 2008. She examines the possibility of artistic expression through clothes and develop multiple ways to present through performance, photography, video, weaving, and sculpting. “Clothes are a removable skin, shell, and substance that hold an individual’s desire on social expression and libido,” states Choi.

September 1-25, 2010

Opening Reception Saturday, September 15 from 7-9p with live music. Show runs September 1st through 25th.

Ver(a)rt is pleased to announce its September show, BoomSwaggerBoom: A Visual Interpretation of the Seattle Music Scene with a Vera Flatstock Poster Show, the Seattle Band Map, and Holographic Beast’s Jeff Smith.

Jeff Smith is an artist from the very middle of Washington. He has been creating art as far back as he can remember and has been attempting to make sense of it all ever since

Keith Whiteman performs with three local bands and operates a screen print press and poster/art design company, Real Fake Productions. His poster and design work has been shown at the 2009 Seattle Theater Group Bumbershoot Poster Exhibit at Grey Gallery, the 2009 Stranger’s Poster of the Week Exhibit (five pieces hung) at the Vermillion Gallery, and the Bad Ideas Art Exhibit at the Society and Co. Gallery.

Rachel Ratner is an on-air host on KEXP 90.3FM (2003–present).  She has spent the past 10 years in Seattle working at record stores, booking shows, planning events, and performing with Seattle bands Partman Parthorse and Butts.

August 5-29, 2010

Opening Reception Thursday, August 5 from 7-9p featuring music from DJs Tecumseh and Rayzer.

Ver(a)rt is pleased to announce “Equinox,” a group show presented by 206 Zulu. The Universal Zulu Nation is a pioneering force that has been in effect since the inception of Hip Hop itself (1974) and continues to represent and innovate while striving for worldwide peace, equality and empowerment.

206 Zulu, the Seattle chapter of the UZN, is a community-centered collective of activists and artists who are engaged in promoting local talent as well as mentoring youth.

Equinox is a group show about each artist’s interpretations of what the zodiac means through their different cultures and perspectives.