CORE 2026
Exhibiting contemporary art created by local artists!
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6
and by appointment
CORE Solo Exhibitions on view
through July 25th, 2026
Pioneer Square Art Walk & Artist
Reception:
July 2nd from 6-8pm
Additional Artist Reception with Nancy Edelstein :
July 12th, 12-2pm, presentation at 1pm
With generous support from 4Culture, CORE gallery weathered the challenges of the pandemic. Our doors remain open and walls filled with innovative art created by local artists! Thank you 4Culture !
CORE Gallery Artists
THE AMBIGUITY OF LIGHT
Nancy Edelstein
Light is both the subject and the substance of my work. With simple materials and shifting methods, I explore and photograph light’s changing properties as it bends and moves through space. Rather than documenting objects, I am interested in capturing visual encounters with light’s unique qualities all around us.
I begin with a simple intention: To make light visible. I place interruptions in light’s path in attempts to expose moments of light’s interactions that are unable to be seen directly with our own eyes. The reflection, refraction and distortion that the camera lens captures is the result of strategically placed reflective surfaces redirecting light’s trajectories.
The images present a new vocabulary of unfamiliar forms, shapes, and spaces that exist between abstraction and reality. Together, they offer a visual challenge, questioning if what we see is real, and a perceptual challenge to what we know as true.
No manipulation or AI has been used in the making of this work.
NASA Girl
Lynn Schirmer
The work in NASA Girl is a series of self and nature portraits making meaning of my childhood experiences in a US human experimentation program that ran during the 1960s and 1970s. I was among a number of children subjected to testing related to both space medicine research and psychological conditioning in the Huntsville, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee areas.
In the wake of the Epstein scandal, this exhibition asks viewers to consider the deeper history of US covert programs, and human trafficking, as well as the resilience of the human spirit. Its most revelatory take away may be that during the height of Apollo, children were also tested for space flight.
Hypoxia
oil on canvas, 56" x 33"
2026,