Matzke Fine Art and Design
35th Annual Small Art
At The Gallery
Gift Gallery – Local Artists – Great “HOLIDAY” GIFTS
More artworks available
Artworks available @ special price, less than value.
Mitso Saiki, Sculptures
RAKU Workshops (3 hours)
Sculptures
Stone Carving Workshop 2025
The Great Annual NW Art Show
The Sculpture Park
Location – Places to Stay
Karla Matzke
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Past Shows
” Little Bit Of Americana”
“14th Annual Art Auction”
“A Tribute To The Written Word”
“BACKSTORY” – show
“Honey I Shrunk The Art”
“Honey, I Shrunk The Art”
“Small Works Show”
“Taming The Spring Muse”
12th Annual Art Auction
13th Annual Art Auction
2021″The Pilchuck Glass Show”
2022″Puget Sound Group NW Artists Show”
2022″Spring has Sprung” May 8 – June 27
2022″Summer Moments”
2022″Women Painters of Washington”
2023″A Spring Awakening”
2023″Honey, I Shrunk The Art”
2023″International NWWS” Show
2023″Summer Moments”
2024 “Summer Moments”
2024 “Taming The Spring Muse”
2024 – 38th NW International Pastel Show
2024 -15th Annual Art Auction
2024-Women Painters of Washington Show
Lin Rebolini-McJunkin
Lori Vonderhorst – paintings
Marjorie Thompson – paintings
Richard Nash – paintings and sculptures
Sculpture Northwest March 12 – April 25
Sharon Kingston
2020″Woman Painters of Wash”
Artists Represented
Aaron Haba
Requiem for Mercy by Aaron Haba
Aaron Loveitt, sculptures
Alisa Looney
Artists
Andy Eccleshall, Paintings
Anne Martin McCool, paintings
Arno Zielke
Barbara De Pirro
Barbara Noonan – Pastels
Byron Bratt, Mezzotint Artist Information:
Chris Theiss, Clay
Christen Mattix, Paintings
Dan Freeman – Sculptures
Danielle Bodine
Deb McCunn – Clay
Debbi Rhodes
Dee Doyle, paintings
Dinah Steveni
Don Anderson
Dona Reed – assemblages and lino
Donna Watson
Doug Randall
Erika Bass
Erin Bradshaw, Cast Glass
Fatima Young, paintings
Francie Allen – Sculptures
Gary Giovane – Paintings
Gene Jaress
Gina Holt – clay
Jack Gunter, Paintings
Jan Hoy – Sculptures
Janet Hamilton – Pastels
Janie Olsen – Paintings
Janie Olsen
Jeanne Levasseur
Jerry Finn, sculptor/painter
Joan Enslin, paintings
John Wilmot
Jon Schmidt, Stone Carver
Josh Henrie, Sculptures
Judith Heim – Collage
Jyoti Duwadi
Karen Walsh Roe, Sculpture and mixed media
Kari Bishay, sculptures
Kathleen Secrest, abstracts and landscapes paintings
Kathy Kimball, Paintings
Ken Turner, Sculptures
Kentaro Kojima
Kim Simonelli, Sculptures
Knut Hueneke
Lance Carleton
Lane Tompkins – Sculptures
Laurie Baars, Paintings
Leo E. Osborne
Leon White
Liana Bennett
Lloyd Whannell
Marcel Schwarb
Maria Wickwire, Sculptor
Merrilee Moore
Micajah Bienvenu
Michael Bradshaw, Photos
MIGUEL EDWARDS
Mike Adams
Mike Adams
Mitch Yockey, paintings
Molly LeMasters, Paintings
Patricia Resseguie
Penelope Crittenden – Sculptures
Phillip Levine
R. Allen Jensen, artist
Randal Leek, Sculptures
Ria Harboe
Richard Bulman, engraving/etchings
Robert Gigliotti and Dedrian Clark – Sculptures & Paintings
Rod Sylvester – paintings
Roger Small, painter and sculptures
Russel Frost, painter
RUTH WESTRA
Sabah Al-Dhaher
Salyna Gracie – Encaustic Paintings
Sarah Denby – paintings
Stephanie Hargrave
Steve Jensen
Sue Bloomfield, Paintings
Sue Roberts
Sue Taves
Susan Cohen Thompson
Suzanne Averre
Suzanne Powers, paintings
Teresa Smith, paintings
Tia Whitney Kurtz, Sculptures
Tracy Powell
Wayne Kangas
William Weissinger
Els Vanden Ende
Matzke Art Gallery and Sculpture Park
William Weissinger
William Weissinger
“Flightâ€
basalt on limestone base
& 3.5†granite paver
80†h x 18.5†w x 8†d
$3,600
SOLD
William Weissinger
“Haloâ€Â
71″ x 19″ x 6″Â
granite
$3,400
SOLD
The Artist
I’m an attorney-turned-sculptor. The tension between Bill-the-artist and Bill-the-intellectual influences my art in a unique way. Sometimes I find myself pushed by the intellectual side of my brain to over-think what I’m doing. But then the right side of my brain draws my art back to the balance I seek.
This same tension is played out between Bill-as-realist (a lawyer is the ultimate realist) and Bill-the-artist. Back in 1911, Freud in his work “Two Principles of Mental Functioning†described this tension:
The artist is originally a man [sic] who turns from reality …, and who then in phantasy-life allows full play to his erotic and ambitious wishes. But … with his special gifts he moulds his phantasies into a new kind of reality, and men concede them a justification as valuable reflections of actual life. Thus by a certain path he actually becomes the hero, king, creator, favorite he desired to be, without pursuing the circuitous path of creating real alterations in the outer world. But this he can only attain because other men feel the same dissatisfaction as he with the renunciation demanded by reality.
While no one has yet elected me “hero, king, creator, favorite,†I love the power of the artist-as-creator.
William Weissinger
“Towerâ€
limestone
& cedar plinth
70†h x 18.5†w x 8†d
$1,800
William Weissinger
Surge
Alabaster
12.5†tall x 12†x 9â€
$2,200
Surge
Perhaps you’ve seen the cartoon of Michelangelo finishing a sculpture of a figure with a final chisel-tap at a nostril – and the whole nose falls off. This sort of disaster is rare for sculptors, but it happens sometimes if one is careless – as I was in using a power tool to polish a sculpture of two salmon. When I was nearly finished, the sanding pad caught on the sculpture, and the head of the tool jumped. The metal head struck the adjacent fish tail – which broke off. Eighty hours gone.
After the passage of time and some Scotch, I realized that an even better sculpture lay inside the remnants, and you see that now as Surge. If you take a good look, maybe you can see what was originally the head of one of the salmon. I’ve changed the configuration, though: the original salmon-nose is now the point at which the pinned sculpture meets the base of black granite.
Though Surge is nonrepresentational, in it I see growth from destruction, order from chaos, a wave’s power, or the surge of spring growth. The sculpture may have a different message for you.
Two Salmon
Fish, because of their phallic shape, have a metaphoric meaning that includes sexuality and fertility, while at the same time they are a Latin Christian symbol for resurrection and immortality. And for me, salmon have an additional meaning: they can go where they want, when they want, until their genes force them home – an ironic twist that speaks to me because we think of ourselves as free but we live in a society where we struggle to define the appropriate limits on that freedom.