Check out our new exhibit!
Ars Gratia Artis – Tom Quinn
February 4 – 26, 2021
Hours: Thursdays and Friday 10 am – 2 pm
This year, I’m finishing a large painting of a lion that I have been working on for the last five years. In between sessions on the big one, I work on smaller pictures. The most recent series have that same leonine theme. There may be many more to come.
Originally from Great Falls, Montana, Tom Quinn grew up surrounded by art — mostly nostalgic celebrations of the Old West by the likes of Charles M. Russell and Fredrick Remington. He found there was more to art by the time he attended Gonzaga University and spent his junior year in Florence, the home of Michelangelo and Botticelli. There he became enamored of the serene beauty of Renaissance painting. After receiving a degree in art history, he went to the Art Institute of Seattle to pursue a career as an illustrator. At the time– the mid-eighties — there was a whole school of illustrators whose work was semi-primitive and had an ironic twist. The style died out by the nineties but Quinn considers it well worth reviving. Now living in Spokane, Quinn has done several murals in addition to his easel painting, his illustrated four books and several magazine articles, draws caricatures at parties and conventions, and teaches drawing and painting at the Spokane Art School, Corbin Art Center and the Institute for Extended Learning. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Spokane, Seattle, and Portland. He works mostly in acrylic and oil with hard edges, intense colors, and finicky detail. He likes to show what’s absurd but not impossible, to take the ordinary out of context, and to turn the familiar into the strange. For more information about Tom Quinn and his work visit: Tom Quinn Artist
Upcoming Exhibit
Owen McAuley
March 4 – 26, 2021
Past Exhibits
Ornament and Small Works Show 2020
November – December 2020
Mother Daughter: Hannah Pomante – Spokane Art School Artist in Residence
October 2 – 30, 2020
Short Story: Works by Mary Farrell Opening at the Spokane Art School
August 7 through September 26, 2020
Spokane Watercolor Society: Alternative Finishes
July 10 – 31, 2020
Long Shadowz Fade to Black & White – Robert Charloe
February 7 – March 25, 2020
Annual Ornament and Small Work Show – 2019
November 8 – December 23, 2019
Oh Heavens! – T Kurtz
October 4 – 25, 2019
An Extended View – Laura Truitt
August 2 – September 27, 2019
Current II – Mariah Boyle
August 2 – September 27, 2019
2019 Area High School Show
Juried by Jamie Nadherny
June 5 – July 26, 2019
Charlotte Bigelow – Cheney High School
Cora Cashmere – Freeman High School
Teyonia Craft – On Track Academy
Jasmine Daily – Cheney High School
Christopher Dawson – Cheney High School – Honorable Mention
Erin Dougherty – Gonzaga Prep
Kaila Emtman – Mount Spokane High School
Gillian Janda – Mount Spokane High School
Bailey Johnson – Mount Spokane High School
Candence Keller – Mount Spokane High School
Kitana Klingback – Mount Spokane High School – 1st Place Winner
Michael Legkobit – Freeman High School- Honorable Mention
Caitlin Martin – Gonzaga Prep
Bella Mazza – Gonzaga Prep
Moira McLaughlin – Cheney High School
Tyler Mosset – Freeman High School
Mary Neale – Freeman High School
Shonto A. Pete – Cheney High School – 2nd Place Winner
Ceinwyn Phipps – Gonzaga Prep
Sarah Schlegel – Gonzaga Prep – 3rd Place Winner
Brandon Shaffer – Cheney High School
Tegan Shipman – On Track Academy
Grace Thompson – Mount Spokane High School
Eva Ulrichsen – Gonzaga Prep
Jaiden Wagner – Gonzaga Prep
Integration – Jamie N. Nadherny
April 5 – May 31, 2019
My Delicate Flower – Daniel Lopez
February 1 – March 29, 2019
Ornament and Small Works Show 2018
November 9 – December 22, 2019
Aesthetic Contraption – Larry Ellingson
October 5 – 26, 2018
Avoid the Struggle, (a book of fear) – Dan McCann
September 7 – 28, 2018
Area High School Exhibition
July 6 – August 31, 2018
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Juried Show by Robert Fifield
Keenan Avery-Carpenter – Honorable mention
Eleanora Becherini
Athayla C. Begay – 1st Place
Katelyn Bumbeck
Ada Cashmere
Chloe Daniels
Donna Finger
Ericka Flory
Emily Freeman
Stuart Gibbs
Xzandre Jean-Francois
Ashley Jensen – Honorable Mention
Bailey Johnson
Hope Johnson
Laura Jones
Namida Amy Kangvanwanich
Hunter Koss
Halle Kuhar-Pitters
Hailey Landkammer
Jamie LeMieux
Savannah Lindsley – Honorable Mention
Avery Matson
Teigan Mikkelsen
Alexa Miller – 2nd Place
Andrew Nordhagen
Mia Puzzo
Annika Readel – 3rd Place
Ashley Runge
Rachel Schupp
Katelyn Tippett
Reluctant Compromise – Joseph Tomlinson
May 4 – April 27, 2018
Alchemy for Cells and Other Beasts – Maya Zeller and Carrie DeBaker
March 2 – April 27, 2018
The Art of the Darkroom: film photography with Bill and Kathy Kostelec
January 12 February 23, 2018
Ornament and Small Works Show
November 3 – December 23, 2018
Crawl Space – Karen Kaiser
October 6 – 27, 2017
Dreamscapes : Sketchy Memories – Ken Spiering
August 4 – September 29, 2017
Water Color; Between the Cascades and the Rockies
June 2 – July 28, 2017
Cleave, Stick and Split – Lenora J. Lopez Schindler & Richard J. Schindler
April 17 – May 26, 2017
