Visit Whatcom Museum's Shifting Views of Space and Place: Collection Selections /One.  Curator of Art, Barbara Matilsky, presents the first instalment of the Collection Selections Series.

Setting the stage for a series of thematic exhibitions that showcase the Whatcom Museum’s growing art collection, Shifting Views of Space and Place: Collection Selections/One offers a kaleidoscopic view of art and a peek at the Whatcom Museum’s treasures, featuring 60 artists from Bellingham to Paris and many points in between.  

Shifting Views of Space and Place presents both abstract and realistic depictions of life and landscape in paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture. Glaciated mountains, the changing seasons, light and atmosphere are a few of the subjects interpreted by artists such as James Everett Stuart, Mark Tobey, Vija Celmins,  David Ireland, Elizabeth Colborne, and John Cole. Artworks will be displayed to suggest changes in style and feelings about place, beginning with artworks dating from 1885 through contemporary times.

The figure is also prominently highlighted in the exhibition by artists such as Jay Steensma, Louise Dahl Wolfe, and Don Suggs who depict up close and personal portraits of friends and movie stars. Relationships between people and animals find both playful and symbolic expression in artworks by Kenneth Callahan, Ambrose Patterson, and Morris Graves.
In other thematic sections of the exhibition, architecture, domestic interiors, and still life are interpreted in a wide range of media by artists with contrasting styles and points of view. A final section of the exhibition is devoted to abstract art, featuring  the mystic symbolism of artists, Leo Kenny and Charles Stokes.