SEATTLE TIMES

7 art shows to see in Seattle in June 2023

BY Margo Vansynghel | Seattle Times staff reporter

“Anne Hirondelle: In the Layers” 

While longtime Port Townsend-based artist Anne Hirondelle is renowned for her colorfully coiled and organically abstract ceramics, drawing has also become an integral part of her practice. Hirondelle’s geometric drawings feel like a departure from, and complement to, her ceramics. She makes these drawings using graphite, paint and colored pencils to draw on various layers of softly folded, semi-translucent tracing paper. 

The result are abstract, almost suprematist compositions of repeating shapes and lines, a see-through peekaboo of paper layers. Like ethereal origami made two-dimensional, they are tricky in their simplicity. 

June 17-July 15; J. Rinehart Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S., Seattle; free; 206-467-4508, jrinehartgallery.com 

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