"ENTROPY" Opening Reception

Opening Reception: Tue, Jun 3 at 6pm
Exhibition Run: Jun 3-Sep 13, 2025

The Neddy Artist Award is one of the most generous and longest-running awards for visual artists in the State of Washington, providing two annual gifts of $25,000, and six awards of $2,000, to artists living and working in the Puget Sound region. The program began in 1996 and is funded by the Behnke Foundation as a tribute to the life and work of Seattle painter and teacher Robert E. [Ned] Behnke (1948-1989).

This year’s exhibition is curated by Berette S Macaulay. “In a time marked by daily tumult—social, political, environmental—ENTROPY gathers artists who navigate fragmentation with clarity and poetic force. Their work speaks urgently from what James Baldwin called the artist’s struggle for integrity, with a refusal to sleep through rupture or conform to silence as a substitute for peace. These artists are not retreating; rather they dream awake, attuned to the unstable rhythms of the present – bearing witness, offering litanies of fellowship, care, and becoming”, said Macaulay in their curatorial statement.

In Painting: Craig Cundiff*, Andy Cash DeLapp, Dierdre Patterson, Lauren Boilini
In Open Medium: Hanako O’Leary*, Romson Regarde Bustillo, Jordan Monloire, Bri Chesler

*Grand Prize Award Recipient