Shift Gallery

Sandra (S.E.) Penney | With Her
June 4 – 27, 2026
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 13, starting at 1pm
Gallery hours 11 AM to 4 PM Fridays and Saturdays or by appointment

With Her presents a collection of reduction linoleum and woodcut prints that honor influential women in my life. Rather than literal likenesses, these works use shape and environment to capture the essence of their subjects. By reducing form to individual essentials, the collection “iconizes” these women, bridging the gap between personal tribute and universal storytelling.

Each print is part of a variable edition, utilizing a single matrix to experiment with how color dictates temperament, perception, and atmosphere. This series is part of a larger 2026 project exploring the intersection of memory, gender, and the printmaking process.

Sandra (S.E.) Penney specializes in reduction and relief printmaking, as well as monoprints and monotypes. She currently teaches printmaking at the Kirkland Arts Center in Kirkland, WA.

Karen Klee-Atlin | Chrysalis
June 4 – 27, 2026
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 13, starting at 1pm
Gallery hours 11am-4pm Fridays and Saturdays or by appointment

In Chrysalis, one half of this new series of reductive relief prints concentrates on the massive scaffolding used to support the often over century-old stone facades of buildings. The contrast is jarring and what once stood there is slowly transformed into another structure.

The second half of the series looks at scaffolding loaded on a truck and the slowly disintegrating skeletons of water towers.

In all of these instances the supports which are usually hidden within a structure come face to face with passers by. They are not only visible, but their prominent geometry is increased by being, in reality, also brightly painted.

Peggy Murphy | Taxonomy of Lost Form
June 4 – 27, 2026
Ope Fridays and Saturdays 11am-4pm or by appointment

Peggy Murphy draws on botanical forms and classification systems in Taxonomy of Lost Form. Whether free floating or placed in a haphazard grid, these not quite familiar forms defy recognition and suggest the possibility of a cryptic system of information.

“Lately I seem to be veering towards dark thinking. Taxonomy of Lost Form was born from the idea of a a world where an apocalyptical future is confronted with incomprehensible, lost information systems and a planet populated with new unnamed plant species. But, as is usually the case, the work became more about painting than this imposed narrative. Discovering new ideas about color, new ways to use tools, and new ways of creating space on a flat surface drove the process. As the paintings progressed I felt myself losing the initial thread of doom and began to work with a lighter approach. My hope is that the viewer can share in my vision of a dark future vision, as well as it’s flip side – of a future with exciting and untold possibilities.”

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight for our first Thursday opening to see artists .e.penney

We are excited to welcome you to Shift Gallery for Karen Klee-Atlin’s Chrysalis, Sandra (S.E.) Penney’s With Her and Peggy Murphy’s Taxonomy of Lost Form opening this first Thursday, June 4th at 5pm.

Please join us for the following events:
Opening/First Thursday Art Walk: June 4, 5-8 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 13, starting at 1pm

Shift Gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays, 11am-4pm, plus extended hours on First Thursdays and for special events.

In order of carousel:

Sandra (S.E.) Penney, She Brings the Sunny V.E. 1/4, reduction linoleum print on Rives BFK, 18” x 24”

Karen Klee-Atlin, Queen Street - Red Sky, 2026, reductive linocut mounted on wood panel, 12” x 12”
Peggy Murphy, detail from Taxonomy of Lost Form #8, 2026, acrylic on paper

Now showing in the gallery for May

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Always-and-Continuously
Anna Macrae’s and Flora Ramirez-Bustamante
May 7 – 30, 2026.

Saturday, May 30, 2-4 pm: Artists’ Talk

There are many small treasures to be found in the gallery this month. Anna often sources her materials from found objects a non precious mediums. She always has a playful approach to her art-making practice, which gives way to a freedom to explore and make perfect mistakes