SEATTLE MAGAZINE
DATEBOOK: FALL ARTS FINDS
A look at some of the upcoming season’s hottest works
BY RACHEL GALLAHER SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
“..I have always been interested in artwork that is process-oriented, and maybe not always as straightforward in how it is created,” says Judith Rinehart, the owner and director of Pioneer Square’s J. Rinehart Gallery. “I want to visually pick apart a piece of art and wrap my mind around how something was created.” With that in mind, it’s easy to see why Rinehart chose two Northwest printmakers, Kim Van Someren and Kelda Martensen, as the focus of the gallery’s upcoming show.
“Printmakers tend to be incredibly technical, precise, and proficient in their mark-making,” she notes, “so I am drawn to the craft of it through that process. Both Kim and Kelda work in printmaking and collage and are masters of their craft.”
Martensen’s work draws from many techniques — woodblock prints, solvent transfers, polyester plate lithography — and features imagery from the natural world, while Van Someren focuses on the man-made, using negative space to define structures both architectural and mechanical…”