why are you here?

September 29th, 2011

It’s funny how we live. Maybe it’s just me.
So full of answers, when what matters are the questions.
Like do I matter to the people in my neighborhood? In my
town? Do they matter to me? Should they?
Now ask the same things about those living halfway across
the world.
My short time in Ethiopia brought me face to face with
THE question: “Why are you here?”
I invite you to ask your own questions.

Photography & installation by Jim Van Gundy

Opening || Oct 7, 2011 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Clearstory is a Friday night destination!

Enjoy fantastic hors d’oeuvres and music with us

bitter | sweet video

July 28th, 2011

Summer 2011: bitter | sweet

June 2nd, 2011

Habitual consumption finds its way into everyday life — causing a curious kind of liturgy.
Stefani Rossi explores these acts of petition, recollection, and utter devotion.

From coffee to chocolate, Rossi’s images at once entice and slightly disquiet. They offer a sensual paradox, inviting viewers to celebrate beauty, and then to realize the unlovely we would rather disregard.

Artworks by Stefani Rossi

Opening || June 3, 2011 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Clearstory is a Friday night destination!

Enjoy fantastic hors d’oeuvres with us and live music

September 2010 Updates

September 13th, 2010

We have finally added virtual tours for our last two shows, “Hope Reflected in Long Standing Water” and “Forging Nature, Tracing the Spark”. Check out the “shows” section above.

Also, we are announcing our upcoming Fall Show, “The Fourth Scroll” featuring the Photographs of award winning photographer, Suwanee Lennon.

Mark your calendars for the Opening on October 1st from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.

Hope to see you there!

Our Fall 2010 Show: “The Fourth Scroll”

September 12th, 2010

2010 Fall Show

Suwanee Lennon grew up as the only half-Thai child in a rural leprosy village of 300. The daughter of three successive “mothers”, Suwanee eventually came to the US and has become an award winning photographer. Recently, she returned to her village with her camera to bring twenty-first century visuals to a curable disease, to bring redemption to people still shunned. A Friday night destination, there will be live music and food, as only Clearstory can do, to complete Suwanee’s story. 

Photography by Suwanee Lennon

Opening || June 4, 2010 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Clearstory is a Friday night destination and is part of Spokane’s Visual Art Tour 

Enjoy outrageous hors d’oeuvres with us and live music

Clearstory’s 2010 Summer Show

May 27th, 2010
Forging Nature, Tracing the Spark

Jason and Deb Sheldon see the world as created. With the eyes and hands given to them and with a deep sense of the need to do so, they the created, also create. In so doing, Deb and Jason strive to proclaim their Maker by fashioning works which imitate and capture the spirit of this world. They hope He likes what He sees.

Paintings by Deb Sheldon

Three Dimensional Works by Jason Sheldon

Opening || June 4, 2010 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Clearstory is a Friday night destination and is part of Spokane’s Visual Art Tour 

Enjoy outrageous hors d’oeuvres with us and live music: Keisha Brown on Celtic Harp and Rachel Capezza on violin.

Clearstory’s Winter Show: “Hope Reflected in Clear Standing Water”

January 6th, 2010
Hope Reflected Promo Card

Winds of up to 175 mph, a death count of 1,836 with 705 still unaccounted for. People swam for their lives or became prisoner to 15 feet of water. That was five years ago. Today it looks as if hurricane Katrina just struck. Tragedy can happen anywhere despite the fact that God is everywhere. Living inside that conundrum, those who remain in New Orleans will tell you hope is their home. Come and see what remains from disaster—temporary treasures and permanent scars—odd symbols of hope for us these five years later.

Photographs by Miranda Clott

Opening || February 5, 2010 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Part of the Spokane Visual Arts Tour

hors d’oeuvres & live music – featuring Greg “Lightning Boy” Juran & Scott “Smokehouse” Brown

Clearstory’s Fall Show: “Job & Paul: The Enigma of Faith”

November 5th, 2009

beneath the surface Promo Card  - Front 1

Enigma is a word artists love. Caught in the draft between the spirit and flesh, West Coast artist Glen LaMar probes the lives of Paul and Job. A consummate colorist, LaMar’s work is both gesture and vivid abstraction. Brilliant patterns resound with light and emotion having woven the paradoxes of faith in between the canvas and paint.

Opening    ||    October 2, 2009    ||    5:00-9:00 pm

Updates

August 31st, 2009

We have a major update finished. In the process of updating our software, the slideshows of gallery images were not working. That is now fixed.

Also, we have loaded up some images from the last two shows, “broke” and “Beaneath the Surface”. Check out the “shows” page.

Beneath the Surface runs to late September.

Clearstory’s Summer Show – “beneath the surface”

June 2nd, 2009

beneath the surface Promo Card  - Front 1

We trust our eyes. Usually. We see what we see and act accordingly. Or not. But what happens as we skirt the apparent to imagine what God sees — risk knowing and being known. Clearstory Gallery’s newest interactive installation wrestles with poverty and redemption in a barrio in Mexico, where you just might find that beneath the surface we are them and they are us.

Clearstory Gallery is honored to present a photographic installation by artist and photographer Jim Van Gundy.

Opening    ||    June 5, 2009    ||    5:00-9:00 pm