Mar
4
Exhibitions
Charles Spitzack: Cut Against the Grain
Opens Thursday, March 4, 6-8pm
About the Exhibition
Spitzack’s woodcut prints and custom, hand-built ornate frames celebrate the joy of making things slowly and by hand. By the same measure, his prints draw inspiration from architecture, ornamentation and the skilled trades, paying close attention to details that give older buildings their character while gently questioning the value of efficiency.
A carpenter as well as a printmaker based in Seattle, Spitzack developed several of the works on display during his artist residency at The Studios, where Key West’s architecture provided both subject and inspiration.
First Thursday Open House
Thursday, March 4, 6-8pm
About the Artist
Charles Spitzack (American, Pacific Northwest) was born in 1987 in Minnesota and raised in the Twin Cities. He fell in love with print at Highpoint Center for Printmaking while attending Perpich Arts High School in Minneapolis, and continued his studies at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, receiving a BFA in 2010. His work is represented Mesh Art Gallery, published by Pomegranate Communications, and can be found in the Microsoft Art Collection, Mary Alice Cooley Collection, and the Southern Graphics Printmaking Archive. He has shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, Cascadia Art Museum, and the Museum of Northwest Art. In 2024 he won the “Kobaien Prize” at the International Mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock) Conference in Echizen Japan. He currently balances life between working as a carpenter, creating art, teaching art, and serving as Board President for Seattle Print Arts, a Seattle-based arts non-profit focusing on printmaking.
