Shift at 20 Years - July 2024 - Group Exhibition

Shift Gallery announces our 20 year Anniversary Show – Shift At 20, a celebration of the original founders and past members.

Twenty years ago, a band of Bellingham artists wanting to show their work in Seattle reached down from the northland to make their dream happen. Bypassing commercial galleries, Garth Amundson, Stephen Chalmers, Cara Jaye, Pierre Gour and Joni Papp rented space amid the burgeoning art scene here in the Tashiro Kaplan building and created their own artist-run gallery. They were transporting their vision, changing things up. They called the gallery Shift.

Fast forward twenty years and Shift still thrives as a high-quality, independent artist-run art space where freedom of expression and innovation flourish. More than 150 well-regarded member artists and guests have passed through Shift’s portals over the years—a well-loved representation of whom we celebrate in our 20-year Anniversary Show.

Shift at 20 will feature current and former members pairing work in a dialogue between past and present.

Guest Artists include Carmi Weingrod, Eric Chamberlain, Dawn Endean, Ken Burns, June Sekiguchi, Colleen Maloney, Mary Coss, Stephanie Hargrave, Patrice Donohue, Joseph Pentheroudakis, Barbara Shaiman, Leah Gerrard, Pam Galvani, David Traylor, Scott Coffey, Emma Jane Royer and others.