Gallery 110 is delighted to showcase six new members in our East Gallery for the month of February. This group exhibition features a variety of 2D and 3D works added to our inventory in the past year-paintings, photography, and wire sculpture-from an exciting cohort of emerging and established PNW artists:

Layomi Akinrinade is a self-taught painter and photographer living in Seattle. Born and raised in Ife, Nigeria, he moved to the US in 2013 to study computer science. He makes art to assess the world around him, drawing inspiration from intergalactic space dreams, comparative history, human anatomy, post-COVID sociology, and explorations of his subconscious mind. Artists like Basquiat, Twombly, and Rothko influence his visual composition, while aspects of his childhood, the mystery of love, and the complicated reality of mental health awareness add personality.

Rowan Eriksson is a contemporary painter with an intersectional practice informed by their gender identity and auditory disorder. Their art explores how the current political landscape in America-characterized by a surge in attacks targeting queer and women’s bodies-influences our vision of ourselves. Eriksson’s own body finds itself under constant scrutiny, its performance of gender continually assessed and tested, which has affected their paintings’ imagery. Now there exists within them a shifting mass of bodies, asking the viewer questions about perceived identity.

Photographer Devin Elle Gaan was raised in Hong Kong before their family immigrated to Seattle in 1992. An art school dropout that turned to business, their passion for art was rekindled while attending courses at their local community college. As a trans/non-binary person of color growing up in the MTV generation, mainstream society rarely offered anything that they saw in themselves, and they found an affinity for creating art that gives voice to under-appreciated aspects of the world while reinventing conventional processes to achieve unique results.

Lin-Lin Mao Mollitor is a Chinese-American painter and installation artist living in Seattle. Through making art, she explores the nature of the human condition, which we try to control, and the nature of the universe, which we cannot. Her works are informed by her experience as an immigrant who arrived in the US as a young child with her parents from Taiwan. Themes in her work include: the celebration of women, questions about aggression and war, and contemplations on the nature of reality. She adapts symbols and metaphors from both traditional Chinese and contemporary culture to communicate ideas.

Alethea Robbins is a trans-disciplinary artist born in Mississippi in 1984. She received her BFA in photography in 2008, then an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts from Maine College of Art in 2010. She works in diverse media such as clothing construction, quilting, embroidery, photography, painting, and installation. Her work is rooted in research-based methods including concepts of health, spirituality, economics, and accessibility. Her photographs and installations have been showcased in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces across the
nation.

Rebecca Woodhouse is a Seattle-based abstract artist exploring the connections that bind us. Working primarily in collage and mixed media, her art reflects an evolution prompted by the introspective nature of recent times. Her work has been featured in publications like Spectrum (NW Art Alliance) and PMA Magazine. When you see her work, especially in person, you are struck by the texture and depth-the layers reveal colors from the multitude of steps taken, and you can spot almost every color in each piece.