Michael Ferguson’s show, “Small Adventures,” opens Thursday, May 31 at the Fountainhead Gallery on upper Queen Anne. Ferguson grew up in West Seattle and spent many a day on Alki Beach. His love of the outdoors would expand to the rest of the Northwest. A graduate of the Burnley School of Professional Art, Ferguson used his creative skills at Battell Labs in Richland and Boeing Co. in Renton. He left Boeing in 1988 to focus full time on painting. His work has been exhibited here and around the country, and has been acquired by the U.S. State Department, Frye Art Museum, Nordstrom, the cities of Seattle, Kent and Lake Oswego, Ore.
Ferguson has drawn inspiration from the Northwest landscape. About a decade ago, after some life-changing events, he enlarged his vision to focus on some of the more ordinary things in life, which he calls “Story Paintings.”
“I’ve always thought about peeking into an artist’s life through his work,” Ferguson writes in his artist’s statement. “But who would care about an artist indulgently painting his tedious personal life? We all have tedious regular lives comprised of things like cooking, conversing, game playing, laundry, aloneness, television and watching the wildlife in our yards. This is the kind of stuff that defines much of our days and nights. These simple tasks become very precious and important as our time fills up with them.”
“Small Adventures,” Fountainhead Gallery, 625 W. McGraw St. May 31-June 24. The opening reception is Saturday, June 2, 5-7 p.m. www.fountainheadgallery.com
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