Latest exhibitions now open at BIMA

The latest round of exhibitions on display at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art runs the gamut from stately furniture and graceful still lifes to elegant photographic scenes and deceptively delicate metal works.

The latest round of exhibitions on display at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art runs the gamut from stately furniture and graceful still lifes to elegant photographic scenes and deceptively delicate metal works.

The spring shows are on display through early June.

As the main solo exhibition of the season, the upstairs Rachel Feferman Gallery will display the delicate floral still-lifes of Bainbridge Island artist Rosalyn Gale Powell.

Powell, who passed away in 2007, was represented by Foster/White Gallery for many years. Her work is in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Bainbridge Public Library and hangs in homes throughout the Northwest and beyond.

Also on display in the upstairs gallery is “The Art of Furniture 1,” the first in a series of planned craft furniture exhibitions.

Adorning the walls of both the John Kenyon Ellis Bistro and the second floor Classroom Galleries will be a sampling of images by island-based photographer Raymond Gendreau (see the accompanying profile of the artist on page 30).

In the MESA gallery, BIMA will present the tin metal works of Jenny Fillius, Nia Michaels, Ross Palmer Beecher, Deborah Paul, Kathy Ross, Loran Scruggs and Nan Wonderly as part of the “Cut & Bent” group exhibition.

A second group show, “Small Worlds,” will highlight artists who work on a very small scale, including Denise Harris, Drew Thomes, Sandrajean Wainright and Margot E. Amestoy in the Steve and Harriet Davis Community Gallery.

More private treasures from the personal art book collection of Cynthia Sears will be available for viewing in the upstairs Sherry Grover Gallery as part of “Artist’s Book: Chapter Four.”

BIMA is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at 550 Winslow Way East. Admission is free; donations are accepted.