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, featured 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 – Saturdays, 12 – 5 PM
About
2025-2026 Exhibit Calendar
Seattle University at Cornish College of the Arts: A Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition | Sept 26th – Oct 25th
Currents: Cornish Staff Exhibition | Nov. 14th – Dec. 13th
Robert Campbell: Haecceities | Jan. 16th – Feb. 14th
Erin Burns (Sabbatical Exhibition) | Feb. 20th – April 4th
Platforms of Exchange | April 17th – 30th
2026 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition | June 3th – Sept. 12th
Coming Soon
Robert Campbell: Haecceities
Opening Reception
January 16th, 4:30 – 7:00 PM
On View
Jan. 16 – Feb. 15, 2026
Gallery Hours
Thursday, Friday and Saturday – 12pm – 5pm
The Behnke Family Gallery is pleased to announce Haecceities, a solo sabbatical exhibition by Cornish professor and new media artist Robert Campbell; curated by Preston Wadley. Haecceities (heck-SEE-it-eez), refers to the “this-ness” of things: the singular, unrepeatable essence that distinguishes one moment, object, or encounter from another.
Featuring prints, video installation, and assemblage, the exhibition invites viewers to experience work that dissolves traditional boundaries between disciplines. The work traces Campbell’s ongoing inquiry into how technology mediates perception and how art can capture the intangible qualities of the everyday. The exhibition will include an array of video works that blur abstraction and representation through photogrammetry techniques; digital prints that explore color, shape and rhythm; and assemblages that merge analog and digital gestures.
About the Artist:
Robert Campbell is a professor in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts. Since 1984, his single-channel video art work has been exhibited at festivals and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Japan. His new media, installation and digital print work has been featured regionally and nationally at the Frye Art Museum, Whatcom Museum, Kittredge Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, Museum of Northwest Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and twelve of the past fourteen annual Currents Santa Fe International New Media Festivals. His video/dance/music collaborations have been featured at On the Boards, Bumbershoot, Cornish Playhouse, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, MOXSonic Experimental Sonic Arts Festival and Lincoln Center. He has produced documentaries in the U.S., Italy, Ukraine, Cambodia, Zambia and South Africa, with excerpts of his work in Africa selected for the Journey to Planet Earth series on the PBS network. He was the 2016 Astra Zarina Fellow with The Civita Institute in central Italy; Artist-In-Residence at: Pilchuck Glass School (2006, ’07) and Centrum (2000, ’05 and ’09) in Washington State; and Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland (2000).
