Bologna Blues Series comes to The Island Gallery

Published 12:56 pm Friday, October 7, 2016

The Island Gallery presents the Bologna Blues Series, watercolor and collage by artist Virginia Paquette, in the gallery through Oct. 31.

The show opens with an artist’s reception on First Friday at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. Music will be provided by the Anne Pell Jazz Trio with a guest performance by clarinetist and composer Bill Smith.

For a residency at the Conservatorio di Musica in Bologna this year,

Paquette painted the exhibition’s mixed-media works as part of a collaboration with Bill Smith. They are her visual responses to his works of music, influenced by their years together in Italy. Paquette responds to Smith’s music with color, line, rhythm, gesture, and collage of found images, salvaged from the streets of Italy.

An MFA graduate in painting from the University of Washington, Paquette has worked and exhibited internationally. Her art responds to motion and memory, and is inspired by natural forms and phenomena.

The Island Gallery is at 400 Winslow Way East, Suite 120.

For more information, call 206-780-9500 or visit www.theislandgallery.net.