Chase Gallery
The Chase Gallery is located on the lower level of City Hall, adjacent to the Council Chambers. The Gallery features monthly exhibits of local and regionally known artists. The Gallery is open free to the public during normal building hours, Mondays - Fridays, 8 AM - 4:50 PM, and during City Council's evening meetings on Mondays. For entrance during the daytime, enter through City Hall either through the Spokane Falls Boulevard entrance or the Post Street entrance which is closest to Spokane Falls Boulevard. For evening events, enter through the sliding glass doors on the Post Street.
If you would like to be on the Gallery's mailing list for notification of upcoming exhibits, contact the Arts Commission or email us at arts@spokanecity.org.
Artists interested in exhibiting should submit 10-15 digital images on a CD, a list of your works and a resume. You are welcome to include an artist statement, if you wish. Our Exhibiting Committee reviews work quarterly to make selections for our exhibition schedule. Exhibits are booked 18 - 24 months in advance. Send materials to: Exhibiting Committee, Spokane Arts Commission, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane, WA 99201. Please do not email digital images and submission materials.
Currently showing at the Chase Gallery
Metal, 2/26/2010 to 4/30/2010
Artist Reception: Friday, March 5, 5-8pm. Furniture by artists Tim Biggs, Peter Jagoda, Karma Lloyd, David Saling, Jason Sheldon, Bill Simmons, Sean Smith, Steffan Wachholtz, and Rick Willmering.
The work of local metal artists will be featured at the Chase Gallery, March 2nd through April 30th, 2010 in an exhibition of metal furniture and architecturally related objects. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held on Friday, March 5th, 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday from 5:30 p.m. through the City Council meeting.
The Metal exhibit will feature works by artists Tim Biggs, Peter Jagoda, Karma Lloyd, Jason Sheldon, Bill Simmons, Sean Smith, Steffan Wachholtz and Rik Willmering.
Tim Biggs came back to his hometown, Spokane, after working in Los Angeles for two years. He started a company, Biggs Metal Art, and makes custom furniture, business signs and architectural features. Biggs uses salvaged metal, chunky hinges and industrial-worthy rivets to create his trademark style of blending modern edginess with an antique flair.
Peter Jagoda is from Arizona, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Arizona State University. Now he lives in Spokane, and works as a studio artist and teacher of sculpture, metalsmithing and bladesmithing. Jagoda currently teaches at Spokane Falls Community College and creates limited edition and one-of-a-kind knives, custom jewelry and metalwork.
Jason Sheldon is resident of Spokane. He recently created a new sculpture for the Shadle Aquatic Center with his wife, Deborah Sheldon. He uses recycled metal from scrap yards for his sculptures. Sheldon’s sculptures reflect the twists and spirals of objects in nature.
Bill Simmons studied at Colorado State University. He has 25 years of experience as a sculptor. He creates and builds artwork for Lloyd Simmons Design with his wife, Karma Lloyd. She is an entirely self-taught designer and artist. She builds outdoor sculptures and showers from tile and exotic stone. They created a new sculpture for the Comstock Aquatic Center.
Sean Smith creates metal furniture with a contemporary, urban, industrial look at Fox N Bear Furniture with his mother who creates tiles for the table tops. He has his own company, Bear Industries, where he creates and installs custom cement counter tops.
Steffan Wachholtz is a Spokane native. He received a bachelor of fine arts from Fort Wright College of the Holy Names, and a master of fine arts in design at the University of California at Los Angeles. Currently he is the owner of Wachholtz Designs. In his sculptures, Wachholtz redesigns discarded objects to give them new life, beauty and vitality.
Rik Willmering is the owner of Moderna, a custom architectural and decorative metal arts company in Spokane. He studied the history of design and architecture at Spokane Falls Community College. His goal is to create unique, inspirational and though provoking art that promotes cultural diversity and interconnectivity.
Upcoming Chase Gallery exhibitions
The City of Spokane Arts Department and the Exhibiting Committee of the Spokane Arts Commission are proud to announce the upcoming Chase Gallery exhibition schedule. Chase Gallery is located at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., lower level of Spokane City Hall. Gallery hours are from 8am-9pm Mondays, 8am-5pm Tuesdays-Fridays. Chase Gallery is free and open to the public.
Nan Drye, Mary Wheeler, Dirk Parsons, and Bruce Hormann.. 5/1/2010 to 6/30/2010. Artist reception: Friday, May 7, 5-8pm.
Spokane Reflections: Paul McKee. 7/1/2010 to 8/31/2010. Artist reception: Friday, August 6, 5-8pm. A portrait of Spokane in paintings based on reflections in downtown windows.
Selene Santucci. 9/1/2010 to 10/31/2010. Artist reception: Friday, October 1, 5-9pm. Pullman, Washington painter.
Greg Sipple, Ian van Collier, Jian Yang and Zach Mazur. 11/1/2010 to 12/31/2010. Artist reception: Friday, November 5, 5-8pm. Group photography exhibition.
Previous Chase Gallery exhibitions
The Art of the Carrousel. 12/23/2009 to 2/26/2010.
The 100 Year Anniversary of the Looff Carrousel will be celebrated with an exhibition of artifacts and artwork at the Chase Gallery, January 5th through February 26th, 2010. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held on Friday, February 5th, 5 to 9 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday from 5:30 p.m. through the City Council meeting.
The Art of the Carrousel will include artwork by Michael Gass, Nona Hengen, Betty Largent, Loraine Krank and Jessie Swanson. The exhibit will also display artifacts from the Looff Carrousel, including several antique horses and figures. Horses and horses under construction by Mark Blomhagen will also be exhibited. A history of the Carrousel will be displayed, and brochures will be available.
Built in 1909, the Looff Carrousel located in Spokane’s Riverfront Park is one of only 154 operating, hand-carved carrousels from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. It is typically in the top 5, and has one of the highest numbers of riders of any carrousel. The Carrousel is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is considered to be the last operating carrousel created by Charles Looff.
ARTOCRACY.ORG : Art for the People. 10/22/2009 to 12/23/2009.
Spokane artist, curator, and entrepreneur, Megan Murphy, created artocracy.org in an effort to address the “disconnect” between people and art. This on-line art source is a way to “democratize” art. What better place to examine the relationship between art and people than in City Hall!
The digital prints of the online art source, artocracy.org, which represents artists from around the world, will be featured at the Chase Gallery, November 3 through December 31, 2009. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held in conjunction with First Friday, on Friday November 6, 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery is also open during the City Council meetings Mondays from approximately 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Artocracy.org is a digital marketplace for visual art. This art only exists digitally. The art objects are not reproductions of one of a kind works but created specifically to use the technology of today. The images in the exhibition were created by artists using digital platforms. “Art need not be expensive and artists do not need to have the word ‘starving’ attached to their profession,” says the website. Art on the site and in the show is inexpensive – mostly in the $20 - $50 range.
The show will feature prints from the website in large format prints with text panels by curator, Megan Murphy. Murphy said, “The most fun part has been communicating with artists in Singapore, South Korea, Chile, England and other parts of the world. Artocracy’s artists are 40% from other countries, 60% North American. Several of the artists are from the region including Gloria De Los Santos from Kettle Falls and Blaine Brownell and Carols Esparza from Seattle.
Rick Singer. 9/8/2009 to 10/21/2009.
The photography of Rick Singer will be featured at the Chase Gallery, September 8th through October 30th, 2009 in an exhibition of photographic portraits titled Spokane Musicians. The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held in conjunction with Fall Visual Arts Tour, on Friday October 2nd, 5 to 9 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rick Singer has been creating photographs in Spokane for over 25 years and is best known as a superb portrait photographer. Spokane Musicians represents another aspect of his work, showing off his terrific sense of humor and generous spirit, which brings out the best in his subjects. This is Singer’s second solo show at the Chase Gallery following his highly acclaimed Spokane Artists and Arts Patrons in 2007.
For this exhibition, Singer has created 182 individual and group portraits involving over 400 Spokane musicians. This is a fantastic portrayal of musical artists in Spokane. Each of these creative people was asked to bring a musical instrument or object to represent their musical passion. These musicians brought diverse musical instruments, chickens, and aliens creating playful and enlightening pictures for the Chase Gallery exhibition.
Singer’s portraits honor Spokane’s incredibly talented musicians in a wide range of genres including classical, rock, folk, country, bluegrass, Irish, swing and vocalists. Spokane virtuosos like Arnie Carruthers, Dennis Carey, and Patrice Munsell share space with contemporary musicians Cary Fly, Joe and Tera Brasch, and Dead Mans Pants.
Rick Singer is a third generation Spokane native. He started his downtown portrait studio, Rick Singer Photography, in 1981. Singer’s work specializes in natural light portraits captured in his unique studio space – a 1906 hotel and rooftop garden.
