Group Show: Aspects of Being
July 3-August 2, 2025
Aspects of Being is a group show curated by George Brandt that includes the work of 7 photographers who are based in the Pacific Northwest, encompassing various aspects of existence and experience—the physical, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual.
The Photographers
David Beckley is a photographer and musician in Seattle who uses long exposure and multiple exposures to achieve his effects. The connecting thread throughout is of animated presences in dynamic tension with their surroundings.
Quinn Hallenbeck creates analog photography, performance, and thought in Seattle. Her work depicts abstracted forms of place and person and reimagines the self-portrait from a trans-feminine perspective. In a world increasingly mediated by the digital, her work encourages celebrating the experience of physicality in all its effort, confusion, and bliss.
Marcus Lelle is a photographer and mixed media artist based in Everett, Washington, who studied photography at Montana State University. His goal as a photographer is to bring some physical dimension into experiencing his work—something to feel or walk around like a sculpture.
Alethea Robbins is a Bellingham, Washington artist born in Mississippi who received her BFA in photography and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts from Maine College of Art. She works in clothing construction, quilting, embroidery, photography, painting, and installation—tackling concepts from health and spirituality to economics to accessibility.
K. Taka is an Indigenous freelance photographer descended from the Makah Tribe who grew up in Alaska. Taka is a self-taught photographer specializing in documentary work, collections, and portraiture. Connections from their personal and professional experiences around trauma, poverty, resilience, and healing deeply inform their work.
Nathan Vass is a photographer, filmmaker, and author by day and a Metro bus driver by night. A Korean-American born in South Central Los Angeles, Nathan holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Washington and has been featured in the Seattle Art Museum, Wing Luke, Henry Art Gallery, and other venues in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His photographic work is exclusively analogue.
Dorothy Anderson Wasserman is a visual artist, photographer, art educator, tap dancer, and choreographer. These professional careers have crisscrossed for five decades, informing and enlivening the artistic directions she has pursued. Wasserman has been showing her work in galleries and varied art venues on both coasts of the United States since the 1970s.
