We are pleased to announce Gleanings, an exhibition of work created by 2024 Artists in Residence Margie Livingston and Kalina Winska. Please join us to celebrate:
Opening reception at Mutuus Studio, September 6th, 6 PM – 9 PM.
Closing reception on September 14th, 1 PM – 5 PM, artist talk at 2 PM
Additional exhibition hours on September 7th, 11 AM – 4 PM
Open by appointment from September 9th – September 13th
To visit on weekdays, make an appointment by contacting mphillips@recology.com
Artist in Residence Program
The Recology King County AIR Program is a four-month art and educational residency that provides King County artists administrative support, a stipend, and access to discarded materials from the waste stream to create artwork.
During the four-month residency, artists scavenge at the Recology Material Recovery Facility, the North Seattle Transfer Station, and the Recology Stores for materials to make their art. The exhibition of completed work will be held at Mutuus Studio in Georgetown, September 6th – 14th.
Read more about the Recology AIR program here. For more information contact: Maria Phillips at mphillips@recology.com or Amanda Manitach at amanitach@recology.com
This year’s artists
Kalina Winska (@kalinawinska)
Kalina Winska is a Seattle-based artist whose paintings, created on canvas, wood panels, and paper, present speculative landscapes in which the artist blurs reality and representation, the environment and its technological translations, with imagery taken from weather patterns, climate models, and futuristic landscapes. Winska grew up in Poland and has actively exhibited her works in the US, Poland, Germany, Canada, and Japan. Her recent commissions include a three-dimensional installation for San Juan Island Museum Atrium and large murals for Meta Open Arts and Google’s Artist in Residence Programs. She is represented by AMcE Creative Arts Gallery in Seattle, WA.
“A certain beauty and fragility emerges in these otherwise rigid forms, when they have been crumpled and flattened. Everything here has been mistreated and discarded because it is no longer needed, yet in this abandonment the materials take on new meanings. Working with these objects inspires profound feelings of interconnectedness. I mean here a deep connection to people and objects through the intimate work-sometimes quite intensive physically, psychologically, and emotionally work-with discarded material.” -Kalina Winska
Margie Livingston (@margie.livingston)
Margie Livingston is a visual artist who calls herself a “painting nerd.” Based in Seattle, she earned her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in 1999. The reinvention of her artistic practice and experimentation with materials are integral to her work. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholarship in Berlin; the Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award; the Neddy Fellowship and the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Annual Memorial Award. Livingston’s work resides in the permanent collections of the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Frye Art Museum, King County, and the City of Seattle. She is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
“Confronted by a pile of material taller than a house, I found myself searching for items that connected to my own personal life. Cookie sheets and tins were threads to childhood and baking, which in turn became surfaces for painting. A discarded shirt evokes memories of ironing for my father. The linen begs for paint. Plastic produce bags become an unexpected glaze, adding a sheen and color to a surface. For several years, I’ve used chance procedures to begin paintings. At Recology, chance took an even more prominent role in the process, determining the very materials with which I work.” -Margie Livingston