The Behnke Family Gallery is a new exhibition venue at Cornish College of the Arts which includes a ground-level gallery space and an outdoor exhibition space, the Ivey Art Wall, currently featuring the work of Professor Emeritus Preston Wadley. The inaugural show in the gallery was the 2022 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition. The 2023-24 exhibition season was curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell and featured the work of Mary Sheldon Scott, Gary Hill, Preston Wadley, Gala Bent, and Laura Hart Newlon. The 2024-25 exhibition season, also curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell, will feature the work of Design Faculty Susan Boye, the Cornish Art Faculty, Seattle artist Brent Watanabe and Cornish Design alum Victor Melendez.
The Behnke Family Gallery
The Behnke at Cornish
1077 Lenora Street (corner of Lenora and Boren)
Seattle, WA 98121
Gallery hours: Thursdays & Fridays, 12 – 7 PM | Saturdays, 12 – 6 PM
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2024-2025 Exhibit Calendar
Susan Boye: The Shape of Decay | Friday, September 27, 2024 – Friday, November 1, 2024
Art Faculty Exhibition | Friday, November 8, 2024 – Friday, December 13, 2024
Brent Watanabe: One Tethered Bird | Friday, January 17, 2025 – Friday, February 21, 2025
Victor Meléndez | Friday, February 28, 2025 – Friday, April 4, 2025
Oh, To Return | Friday, April 18, 2025 – Thursday, May 1, 2025
ENTROPY: for those who dream awake before dawns | Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – Saturday, September 13, 2025
Coming Soon
Oh, To Return
Opening Reception
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – 6:00 – 9:00 PM
On View
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – Saturday, September 13, 2025
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 PM
ENTROPY: for those who dream awake before dawns, the 2025 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition celebrates the work 8 incredible Washington-based artists. 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
Artwork by 2025 Neddy Open Medium Finalist, Romson Regarde Bustillo. Fatima of Yesler Terrace, 2016. Collagraph and stencil monoprint. Courtesy of the artist and J. Rinehart Gallery.
