Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present our premier solo exhibition with sculptor Mielle Riggie. Riggie is recognized for her innovative bronze and glass work, combining lyrical forms with contemporary exploration of the glass medium. Riggie strives to create sculpture that inspires emotion and taps into themes of memory, adolescence and the human experience.

Riggie is attracted to the strength and delicacy inherent in the glass medium and combines it with bronze in this newest exhibition of work. Riggie explains, “I work with glass because it is very strong but simultaneously can impart a sense of fragility, weightlessness and light. These seemingly competing elements make glass captivating and also reflect the tensions of daily life.”

Riggie creates elegantly molded and refined cast glass and bronze sculptures, imbued with a sense of timelessness. Simultaneously, the subjects of her forms, such as leaves, homes, nests, or dresses, stand in for intangible emotions and youthful memories that are inherently delicate and ephemeral. These transient experiences are captured and frozen for the viewer to admire the impermanence and beauty of the moment, as well as revisit the sentiment of past experience with each encounter.

In this new body of work, Riggie sites her recent return to her childhood homeland as a strong influence. As the title suggests, this change in geography to the rural landscape of her past has lead Riggie to visually explore the feelings of “home” specifically as it relates to childhood memory.

For more information, contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652 5855.















Allegorical narratives have had a strong place in art of all eras as artists seek to present certain “truths” of human nature. Multiple eras are represented in this whimsical figurative exhibition, speaking to vices and virtues of all generations. While the artists approach allegory from different directions, there is a common thread of storytelling, providing insightful commentaries relevant to contemporary life. These visual narratives suggest a combination of foreboding, sorrow, and satire.

For more information, contact Megan Des Jardins at (206) 652 5855.