LIBERTY GALLERY

MARCH 2025

“Two Views of Spokane” - Paintings by Local artists

 Featuring artwork by Melissa Dingfield and Megan Perkins – each portraying Spokane scenes in their own unique styles.

 February 23, 2025 – March 29, 2025

First Friday Reception to Meet the Artists:

March 7, 2025, 5:00-8:30 pm

The world is a beautiful place that artists Megan Perkins and Melissa Dingfield portray in their unique styles. 

Megan uses flowing watercolor to depict the long views of eye-catching scenery surrounding Spokane and iconic buildings that make up Spokane’s heart.  She wants her work to inspire people to look at the world with childlike wonder and to be reminded that there are opportunities everywhere to be grateful, to be alive, and to witness the day unfolding.

Melissa’s oil paintings explore in exquisite detail local gathering places and the people passing through them.  Her work is relatable and authentic, capturing everyday events drawn from her own experiences and telling the stories of the places she’s been. Melissa creates an intimate three-way conversation between the maker, the art, and the audience, hoping to empower viewers to know that their stories matter enough to become a work of art.

Megan Perkins

About the Artist: Megan Perkins is an artist, teacher, and native of the Pacific Northwest. She works primarily in watercolor with a love of color and expressive line. She has exhibited at the Chase Gallery, Terrain, The Confluence, Gallery One, and the Jundt Art Museum among others. She teaches at the Spokane Art School, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, and the Corbin Art Center. She is most well known for her Artist’s Eye on Spokane series, which was started during a year-long project of painting at a new location in Spokane every week for 52 weeks. She loves to travel to new places and paint their landmarks and landscapes for fun. Most recently her work has been featured in Trending Northwest magazine and on PBS’s Northwest Profiles. Her work is in private and public collections across the United States.

Artist Statement: The world is a beautiful place, but most people don’t notice that beauty. I use my artist’s eye to capture what I see so I can share the loveliness of daily life with others. I want my work to make people wonder at the world like they did as a child and to remind them that there are opportunities everywhere to be grateful that you alive and a witness to the day unfolding, even in quotidian things.

Melissa Dingfield

My paintings explore the stories of places and the people passing through them. I am interested in creating a three-way conversation between the maker, the art, and the audience. I begin my work with live sketches, usually in gouache, capturing moments in time and space. Back in the studio, I use a combination of sketches and photographs to create oil paintings that tell the stories of the places I have been. My work is relatable and authentic, as I draw from my own experiences to create a visual language that tells a story. I capture everyday experiences, but elevate those experiences by creating detailed, high quality paintings. By elevating those experiences, I hope to empower the viewers that find the stories relatable. I see you, and your story matters enough to become a work of art.

Email:

artist@melissadingfield.com

Social Media:

www.facebook.com/ArtistNotebook

APRIL 2025

“Duality – How Opposites Attract”

Showcasing works by members of Spokane Print and Publishing Center

March 30, 2025 – April 26, 2025

In April 2025, the Liberty Gallery features artwork by the yearly members of Spokane Print and Publishing Center, using the medium of printmaking to explore the concept of Duality – How Opposites Attract.

First Friday Reception to Meet the Artists:

April 4, 2025, 5:00-8:30 pm

Duality consists of two concepts that exist in contrast with each other. The boundaries of one are defined by the rugged edges of the other, and yet the two must exist for the idea to be real.

Light and dark, good and evil, black and white are most often described with their opposites, yet does one truly exist without the other?

Printmakers dance in the middle between white paper and black ink, forming spaces and angles with carved strokes and rolls of ink. We make negative space positive, turn shadows into light, and blend the two until they are greater than the sum of their parts.

Join us as the Spokane Print and Publishing crew explore the theme of Duality in both concept and technique.

SPPC is an immersive learning space dedicated to print, publishing, and creative play. We provide access to equipment, resources, and expertise to empower our students to execute their own print, book, writing, fabrication, and printing projects.