IN MATERIAL
MARCH 29 - APRIL 26, 2025
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025 FROM 2-4PM
OPENING RECEPTION - FIRST THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025 FROM 5-8PM
ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2025, at 1:00PM
Celebrating our gallery artists featured in the Bo Bartlett Center exhibition, Women of the Pacific Northwest, J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce, In Material, an exhibition that redefines the boundaries of traditional materials. Jaq Chartier, Emily Gherard, and Katy Stone bring together a collection of work, uncovering the innovation and materiality of contemporary mediums.
In Material will be on view online and in the Gallery March 29 – April 26, 2025. A Collectors Preview Reception will be held Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 2-4pm. A Public Opening Reception will be held First Thursday, April 3, 2024, from 5-8pm. Jaq Chartier, Emily Gherard, and Katy Stone will join us in the gallery for a discussion about their work on Saturday April 19, 2025 at 1:00pm.
In Material brings into sharp focus the unique and innovative ways that artists of the Pacific Northwest harness and adapt materials to create sophisticated and exquisite works of fine art.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Jaq Chartier attended Syracuse University for film, and then obtained her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MFA in painting from the University of Washington, Seattle.
She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award nominee, a Creative Capital Grant finalist, and a finalist for the 2011 Contemporary Northwest Art Award at the Portland Art Museum. Her awards include an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, a Purchase Award from the Portable Works Collection of Seattle Public Utilities, and a Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen PONCHO Special Recognition Award. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Microsoft, The Allen Institute, Google Cloud Collection, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and most recently collected by the Esbjerg Museum in Denmark.
She lives and works in Seattle, WA
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Emily Gherard (b. 1979), is a Seattle-based painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and is best known for her process-based work built from the accumulation of repetitive marks. Gherard earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and an MFA from the University of Washington Seattle, WA. She received the 2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant and the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship and is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
She has participated in exhibitions at The Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, and The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
In addition, her work can be found in numerous collections, such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Swedish Medical Center, and Microsoft Permanent Collection. Gherard currently lives and works in Seattle, WA.
For more on Gherard's work, check out this recent interview through the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
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Stone received her BFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from Iowa State University, and her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington.
She has exhibited at Boise Art Museum; Boston University Art Gallery; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Kansas City Art Institute; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Mass Art, Boston; McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio; Missoula Art Museum; Schneider Museum, Ashland; Sun Valley Center, Ketchum; University of Akron; University of Richmond; Washington State Convention Center; and Watcom Museum of Art. Her commissioned public artworks include projects for the GSA's Art in Architecture Program, Washington State Arts Commission, The City of Seattle, Cleveland Clinic, Michigan State University, and corporate clients including ConocoPhillips and Microsoft.
She lives and works in Seattle, WA
