IN THE NORTH GALLERY

Winston Wächter is pleased to present our first Seattle exhibition with New Orleans-based artist Nicole Charbonnet.

Nicole Charbonnet’s painting surfaces are extremely textural and built up over long periods of time. The superimposition of textures, images, words, watery washes of paint and veils of translucent fabric or paper create visual threshold in her work, which is something to look at, as well as to look through.  

Her surfaces retain or reveal a “memory“ of preexisting stages or structures - the result being a palimpsest, in which some images, colors, textures are obfuscated, while others remain visible and shaped or shade by previous gestures, images or events.

In her most recent body of work, Charbonnet uses film stills, which reflect only fragments of a narrative, as the basis for her paintings. She uses the textural and layered painting process to explore images from popular culture - more specifically, stills and imagery from the Western and Film Noir genres. Through the use of stereotypical, pop-culture images from American cinema, Charbonnet explores our past and present perceptions of ourselves and of others.












IN THE SOUTH GALLERY

Group Exhibition
Jennifer Balkan
Cassandria Blackmore
Isa D'Arleans
Susan Dory
Lawrence Gipe
Katsumi Hayakawa
Mattie Iverson Vadon
Susan Zoccola



















For more information call the gallery at [206] 652-5855.