Nine Gallery

April 2024

OBSERVATIONS

Trude Parkinson

Apr 4 - 27, 2024

The centerpiece of the exhibition, Observations, is the tangible remains of the star, Capella, a tiny pile of oxidized silver on a silver halide surface. The photograph, taken at Goldendale Observatory, Goldendale, Washington, is the result of a collaboration between Dennis Bromka, Ray Beidegan, Troy Carpenter, and Trude Parkinson. Parkinson’s paintings of Nebula that surround the photograph, are arrived at through a process of oxidizing silver leaf on paper.

Nine Gallery was founded in 1987 by nine artists interested in working periodically outside the context of the commercial gallery. It is an artist-run cooperative and is administratively and financially independent from Blue Sky, funded solely by its members. Each member of Nine Gallery is in charge of the gallery for one month each year. Usually members show their own work, however, they are also welcome to curate shows of other artists’ work. Periodically the members of Nine Gallery, present work together in group exhibitions, and at other times they collectively invite other artists to show. Beyond the general interest in creating a largely non-commercial exhibition environment with a minimum of bureaucratic and institutional structure, the members of Nine Gallery have no collective ideological program or philosophy.

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Nine Gallery shares the same hours as Blue Sky.