Exhibition Schedule
Exhibitions curated by the Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery can be seen on the third floor of the Seattle Municipal Tower. Learn more on the current exhibit below and take a look at what we have coming in the future. Interested in joining the roster? Visit the Office of Arts and Culture
"Thirteen Ways of Looking" by Tatiana Garmendia (February 2025- April 2025)
Through these dreamlike compositions, I’m reimagining the legacy of remarkable women artists, revealing the alchemy of perspective in shaping their story. A celebration of transformation, I invite you to explore the fluid interplay between art, archetypes, and perception.
BtA 19 (Laura Wheeler Waring)
BtA 33 (Sara Gomez)
Looking 2 (Artemisia)
Looking 3 (Artemisia)
"Thirteen Ways of Looking" by Tatiana Garmendia (February 2025- April 2025)
Through these dreamlike compositions, I’m reimagining the legacy of remarkable women artists, revealing the alchemy of perspective in shaping their story. A celebration of transformation, I invite you to explore the fluid interplay between art, archetypes, and perception.
BtA 19 (Laura Wheeler Waring)
Mixed media on stretched canvas
BtA 33 (Sara Gomez)
Mixed media on stretched canvas
Looking 2 (Artemisia)
Mixed media on cradled wood
Looking 3 (Artemisia)
Mixed media on cradled wood
Inspired by Wallace Stevens's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, this exhibition delves into the transformative power of perspective through portraits of Artemisia Gentileschi and other notable women artists. By inviting viewers to explore her story from multiple angles, my work reveals the complexities of Gentileschi's legacy and highlights how perspective shapes perception. In "Looking 3," for instance, a teenage Artemisia is set against a dreamy tapestry of flowers, blissfully unaware of the red noose coiling behind her reverie. As a visual Jungian, I
employ metaphors to portray the Archetypal Bride as a symbol of liminality and transformation. The compositions, adorned with zigzagging ribbons, flowers, warped mirrors, and butterflies, play with exaggeration and vibrant color to reflect distorted ideations and archetypal possibilities. This celebration of fluid interpretation blurs the lines where art and alchemy meet, inviting deeper engagement with the narratives of these remarkable women.
About the Artist
Tatiana Garmendia was born in Cuba at the height of the Cold War and remembers playing in abandoned missile trenches as a girl. In her interdisciplinary work, history is understood as meditations on national and private mythologies, as the stories we tell others and whisper to ourselves. Garmendia has exhibited her work throughout the US and in many countries including England, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and India. She is the recipient of numerous awards including two Artist Trust Fellowships, the coveted Cintas International Fellowship and Pollock Krasner Grant. Her works are in public collections in Seattle, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Illinois, California, Ohio, and the Dominican Republic.
Garmendia has been teaching at Seattle Central Community College since 1993.
Artist Spotlight- Fiona K. Lau
In addition to the main exhibition showing in the Seattle Municipal Tower, the Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery looks to highlight the works of artists on our roster and in the community with our Artist Spotlight. Click here for this virtual exhibit where we will be highlighting selected works of Fiona K. Lau.
