Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401

Darin Shuler - Illustrations

The drawings I make illustrate unwritten stories. I have most recently finished "Time Elastic", a series involving time-traveling mummies. The series quietly poses philosophical questions about space and time. Ink and watercolor (being my typical medium) have taken a digital turn in recent months, allowing me a certain depth and complexity that space and time deserve. I continue to ride the digital wave into my next series "Omni".

-Darin Shuler

Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401

Anna Parker, Mixed Media

Born in Portland, ME, Anna Parker earned her BFA at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. While earning her undergraduate degree she interned with studio artist and professor Ric Haynes, the Peabody Essex Museum and the Society of Arts and Crafts.

Originally, Anna studied studio painting before branching out into book art and collage in her final year of college. Recently, Anna has been exploring the use of antique photographs in a mixed media application to create intimate portraits of children isolated in space and time. Her collage work also uses images and representations of children as the focal point within visual stories of personal journey and experience.

Anna has exhibited her work at the J. David Broudo Gallery in Beverly, MA and her work resides in private collections in Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Washington. She has been living in Seattle for the past four years and is a member of the local Book Arts Guild.

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?