Vitamin P:NW
Recent Painting in the Pacific Northwest

October 11, 2025 - January 11, 2026

An ellipsoid sculpture cut in half to reveal several colorful layers coming out from a core.

Margie Livingston, Large Wrap Over Organic Shape, White to Black, 2010, acrylic paint, 6.5 x 3 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Greg Kucera Gallery

In much the same way that the body requires a diverse variety of vitamins to remain healthy, function properly, and to grow, the visual arts rely on a regimen of media and practices that are integral to its well-being. Steadfast among those visual and material supplements is “Vitamin P”- Painting.

A central pillar of Western art, over the past century the practice of painting has undergone seismic transformations, been declared dead, revived, and been used as an ideological battleground for artistic and cultural discourse. Today the power and relevance of painting remains as strong as ever, as artists continue to turn to brush and canvas as the chosen tools to brave investigations of their natural and cultural environments, the self, and the material aspects of their chosen medium.

Vitamin P:NW offers a bird’s-eye-view of recent trends in painting in the Pacific Northwest. Surveying the thematic landscape of current painting in the region, the exhibition features artist’s fresh takes on the environment, themes of introspection and cultural critique, and pushing the physical boundaries of painting past two-dimensional space.