Macstravic Gallery / Loft 303

Regan Macstravic, Photography
If you've lived in Seattle for long, you've probably seen some of Regan's work -- his photographs have been featured in publications from the Seattle Weekly and The Seattle Times to the Washington Athletic Club members' magazine and the now-defunct Northwest On Stage, as well as on posters and flyers pitching the musical and theatrical exploits of groups all over town for years. If you've been to the Red Stripe Art Walk before, you'll be pleased to find a couple of new pieces gracing Regan's walls this month, as well as some newly-matted and framed pieces that you may have only seen unmounted before. If you've never been, you should make a point to mark it in your calendar from now on -- what better way to spend the first thursday of every month?

Polyrealism Studios / Loft 308

New paintings, live music,
bellydancing, food, wine, party!

Paintings:

Poul Costinsky
http://www.polyrealism.com/deck/

An-Magrith Erlandsen
http://www.tarotofthepomegranate.com



Live Music:Hellahalal - http://www.myspace.com/hellahalal
Abe: Percussion/HandSonic (electronic percussion)
Joel: Violin/Keys
Kyle: Guitar/Vocals
Jeff: Didgeridoo/Percussion
Bellydancing by members of Hands of Kali http://www.handsofkali.com

Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401

Mike Mullins - Paintings
Painting allows me to travel through time, to explore the past and the future in colors as vibrant as dreams. It allows me to find myself in others and allows them to find themselves in me. When we come together to enjoy art, those connections are made manifest by the interpretations we each have.
- Mike Mullins

Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401

Smash Coffins - Paintings
Art of any medium, having always been and continuing to be open for interpretation, will remain the production of any variable i offer to connect with the on looker. With the exclusion of any possible way for misrepresentation of the final product, painting remains ideally the most appealing way to reinforce connections between myself and others. The real beauty with any final piece is with having no rights or wrongs allows anyone to be a part of my work.
- Smash Coffins

Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401

Ryan John McKenney - Paintings
Sometimes you wonder whether there's more to life than loud music and sleepless nights. You find yourself desperately looking for something to call your own. Something that makes you feel, at least for a brief moment, that things are alright and will continue to be so. This is how i feel while holding a brush with a large blank canvas staring back at me. When the paint dries, and I can step back, cigarette in hand, and see how my heart and mind have been spread onto an open forum I can breathe just a little bit easier. This is punk by way of artistic expression and it's the life's blood of this manic mind.
- Ryan John McKenney