Kari-Lise Alexander

Kari-Lise Alexander is a multidisciplinary artist working from her home studio on Vashon Island, WA. Initially beginning her career as an oil painter, her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Her paintings are known for their dark, dramatic imagery, including lush female portraits and floral forms. In recent years, Kari-Lise’s artistic journey has evolved through founding Moth & Myth, a paper specimen company with a unique visual style. At Moth & Myth, Kari-Lise developed and created artworks with her team that spanned from elaborate window installations to interactive exhibits in NYC. After selling Moth & Myth in 2024, she has shifted her focus to more personal projects, evolving and expanding upon various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and installation work.

Rick Araluce

Born in Encino, California in 1960, Rick Araluce has been drawing, painting, and creating since a very early age. His interests were wide-ranging; dinosaurs, nature, planes, spacecraft, human anatomy, geology and much more. Two major influences are Max Ernst and Joseph Cornell. Rick began as a painter, attempting to scratch a living from passion, illustrating book and album covers, commissioned artworks, gallery exhibitions, even high-level music videos. Gradually he moved to mixed media created miniature environments, much of Rick’s approach hewing back to when he was a kid building plastic models. Even though Rick has no formal artistic training, he has received numerous awards and grants, including a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. Rick’s work has been exhibited in museums and institutions around the country and Europe including a large-scale site-specific installation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in 2018. In 2019 Rick was brought on to design and create an innovative immersive artistic miniature golf course in Richmond, VA, Hotel Greene.

Kate Jessup

Kate Jessup is a Seattle based visual artist. Her practice includes public and private commissions, studio work and collaborations.

The piece she has created for this show utilizes some of her signature materials and forms. She is a longtime collaborator with Cafe Nordo, and this work speaks to the installation she will build for the Nebula project.

Chris McMullin

Chris McMullen has exhibited sculpture in Venice, Italy as part of the Venice Art Biennale 2019 and the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. He has been included in multiple juried exhibitions at the Bellevue Art Museum in Bellevue WA., as well as mounting solo exhibitions at Gallery 4Culture and Oxbow in Seattle, WA.

Chris has completed commissions of permanent sculpture as part of the Festival Street redevelopment project for Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, the City of Redmond, WA City Hall, and the Science Museum of Oklahoma. He also has many years of experience showing artwork in public at large art and music festivals such as Maker Faire, Coachella, Burning Man, and Bumbershoot.

Alongside sculpture, Chris owns and operates a custom fabrication company that produces extremely custom, structural and sculptural elements and fixtures for restaurants and public houses around Seattle. For 24 years he has worked with architects, engineers, designers, contractors and project managers to design and build anything imaginable, and has also assisted many artists with fabrication and installation of public art projects.

MXT Reality

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Jason Puccinelli

Northwest based artist Jason Puccinelli returns to the gallery with a stunning new series of paintings. For this show “Falling Into Parts” the artist explores his tumultuous childhood, dissecting a life full of struggle, love, and hope. While Jason’s story is singular- his use of classic nostalgia and the feeling they evoke creates touchstones we can all resonate with, be it the weathered vinyl tiles in Grandma’s kitchen, playing toys on a shag carpet, or objects that remind us of our flawed families that we care for anyway. While Jason’s work is a reminiscence, it also looks a nostalgia in a humorous way, (the longer you look the more unusual items you see) creating works that transcend the artists musings into something we can all find kinship with.

Jason has been creating art as both a solo artist, in demand designer, and a member of Seattle conceptual art maverick trio PDL for over 20 years.

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This series reflects a time when the world around me came undone—and the fragments it left behind. As an adult, I find myself returning to that rupture, not to relive it, but to fall into the scattered pieces of memory that still carry meaning.

These paintings emerge from physical remnants: objects, textures, and spaces that once surrounded me. These fragments—once ordinary—have become portals, helping me unearth memories long buried beneath time and emotion.

Each work is its own shard, reaching for a moment, a mood, a truth. I’m not seeking to rebuild what was lost, but to honor the beauty and tension of what’s incomplete.

Stevie Shao

Stevie Shao is a Seattle based, Seattle born-and-raised creative with a range of artistic and technical skills and freelance experience. Stevie is an industrious individual with a love for color, nature, and community that's been fortunate to work as a freelance illustrator and designer creating assets for public and private use with a variety of clients large and small. Stevie is a curious person that's always eager to learn new skills and collaborate with others.

Nicolas Sowers

Nicolas Sowers is an architect and sound director, currently designing the sonic experience for the Nebula installation opening in 2027. He has exhibited internationally and built works of architecture over two decades that focus on sound as a driving force in spatial experience. Buildings are not just containers for human activity; they are musical instruments to be played by the inhabitants within.

W. Scott Trimble

The earliest of inspirations came in the form of discovering contrasting elements in nature; the derelict combine in the tall grass of an old farm, the rusted steam donkey hidden up in the forests of the Sierras, and the flotsam relics washed up on California coasts. The repetition of textures, pattern, and color were so different from the context in which they were found. This is a thread that seems to be ever present in the artwork of W. Scott Trimble.

Most of the sculptures Trimble creates consider site specificity and tend to straddle the worlds between art, object, and architecture. He often explore visuals referencing the natural world, our built environments, and the contrasts between. Trimble strives to make art that is inclusive, integral, and serve as a catalyst for exploration. He sees his work as ephemeral and created specifically for a particular context.

Trimble has largely been influenced by the Central Coast and Sierra Nevada mountains of California, where he is from, as well as the Pacific Northwest, where Trimble has been working since receiving an MFA in sculpture at the University of Washington in 2003. Trimble started out in reductive techniques, bronze casting, and fabricated steel sculpture. Trimble has also delved into coin-operated kinetic works, and most recently, large site specific interactive wooden sculptures. He is most interested in alternative venues that engage the greater public on their own terms and where it is least expected and is the major reason he pursues public facing art opportunities.

Trimble has been recognized through awards and grants by the 4Culture, Seattle Arts & Culture, Artist Trust, and McMillan Foundation, etc. He has also extended his art practice through participation in many reputable artist residencies such as Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Anderson Ranch, Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo, Amazon, Sculpture Space, Jentel, and others.

Ben Zamora

Ben Zamora is an American artist, whose work is primarily based in light and sculpture. He has created large-scale installations and sculptures for the Park Avenue Armory in New York, The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Amsterdam Light Festival, Kunsthalle Krems in Austria, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival, The Frye Art Museum, Suyama Space, as well as a number of other galleries, museums, private art collections, and public art projects.

Zamora’s work moves seamlessly between performance and visual art, where he creates light-based sculptures and art installations for performance-based work, including projects with Kronos Quartet, Saint Genet, Director - Peter Sellars, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Barbican, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Zamora’s projects have been seen at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Brisbane Festival in Australia, the Donau Festival in Austria, Royal Festival Hall in London, Stockholm’s Baltic Sea Festival, the Helsinki Festival, the Berliner Festspiele, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Le Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris, and The Getty Villa in Los Angeles.