Invited
Artists.
The gallery program begins with the 52 represented artists. Alongside that roster, JG invites selected emerging and regional practitioners for one or two exhibitions — enough time to see whether the work holds in the room, and whether the room responds.
One or two shows.
No strings.
The invited artist program is not a residency and not a competition. It is a deliberate opening in the roster for work that does not yet have a category here but belongs on these walls. The gallery invites emerging and regional practitioners to exhibit for a single show or a two-show run — enough context for the work to make its case, not enough to force a relationship before it is ready.
Patricia Dalton and Erica Nordean both came through the invited program. So did Zuzana Korba, whose mixed-media panels brought a material intelligence the permanent program had not addressed. The question in each case was the same: does the work hold the room?
Submit Your Work →The Standard.
The invited program uses the same standard as the permanent roster: does this work hold the room? Not the artist's statement, not the CV, not the biography — the work on the wall. Specifically:
- A practice with its own material logic, not borrowed from another artist
- Work that operates at exhibition scale — pieces that speak to each other
- A point of view that is present in the paint or the material, not the caption
- Pacific Northwest connection: based in the region or in sustained dialogue with its landscape and light
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Contact the gallery directly if you would like to discuss your work before submitting.
Contact the Gallery →On the Walls Now & Recently.
A native Chicagoan now settled in the Pacific Northwest. Studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Her career as Art Director informs a compositional precision in her paintings that is structural without being cold.
Native to the Pacific Northwest. Internationally recognized for horse paintings and landscape work. Her paintings hold the specific quality of morning light at elevation — the kind that changes while you are looking at it.
Mixed-media panel work that builds surface through accumulation rather than stroke. Each piece holds evidence of its process — material decisions that remain visible in the finished work. Introduced a material language new to this program.
The submission process is direct: a portfolio of recent work, a statement about the practice rather than the biography, and an understanding of how your work relates to a group show context. The gallery responds to all submissions. Work that does not fit the current program receives specific feedback.