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COLOR MANIFESTO
Welcome to an exuberant celebration of color, form, and artistic voice from three dynamic Seattle-based creators — Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Jeremy Rise, and Jennah Ward Bentley.
Color Manifesto explores color as both material and message — a force that shapes perception, emotion, and spatial experience.
The exhibition reflects Seattle’s vibrant artistic community and its openness to experimentation across media and disciplines. Though each artist approaches color through a distinct visual language, their works collectively reveal how color can function as gesture, structure, and narrative.
The exhibition invites viewers to slow down, engage sensorially, and consider color not as decoration, but as an intentional act — a statement of presence and individuality within a shared creative landscape.
Exhibition Hours: Open during Ballard ArtWalks or by appointment
February 14th and March 14th from 6 to 9pm
Judy Chia Hui Hsu
A visual artist whose abstract work reveals the hidden beauty of the natural world. She transforms organic patterns and forms into vibrant compositions, using color gradients to heighten their energy and vitality. Dramatic hues and dynamic structures infuse her work with a sense of joy that she seeks to share with viewers. Travel has been a major source of inspiration.
Her work, informed by extensive travel and a deep curiosity about the world’s visual rhythms, celebrates color as a language of discovery and wonder.
Jeremy Rise
Driven by a desire to protect the natural world he once studied through the lens of biochemistry, Jeremy transforms discarded textiles into organic soft sculptures that echo Earth’s beauty.
His work reimagines waste as wonder—honoring nature while keeping materials out of landfills and oceans. Each piece carries a whimsical touch, inviting viewers to see the world not just as it is, but as it could be.
Jennah Ward Bentley
Seattle-based photographer and artist. Her work, which chronicles public and private spaces over time has been the subject of solo exhibitions at California Museum of Photography, Riverside (2016); Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles (2015); and George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco (2013), among elsewhere.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally, including at Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe; Gallery H29, Brussels, and elsewhere.
Her works reside in private and public collections, including at the California Museum of Photography, Albright Knox Art Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Art, Houston. Ward Bentley earned her BA at San Francisco State University in 1999, and her MFA at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, in 2011