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SZ: Paper (one-year) Anniversary Party!
Apr
6
5:00 PM17:00

SZ: Paper (one-year) Anniversary Party!

Suzanne Zahr, Mercer Island Architect and General Contractor, invites you to celebrate the one year (paper!) anniversary of her design/build firm and art gallery on Thursday, April 6th. Over the last year, the SZ Art Gallery has featured the work of thirteen local and international artists, helped re-launch the first Thursday Mercer Island Art Walk, and hosted events for community organizations such as MICA, SJCC, FASPS, Art With Heart, and Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman’s election campaign.

Her firm has also kept busy working on homes, apartments, retail spaces, and corporate interiors, often handling the full lifecycle from design through construction (not to mention the creation of Business Plans, Style Guides, and Marketing Strategies).

The event will be catered by one such lifecycle client, Caruccio’s, which will open its culinary event center in August of 2017. 

Join the SZ Team, featured Artists & Lisa Caruccio to learn more!

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Art & Wine {Alternate Views}
Mar
2
5:00 PM17:00

Art & Wine {Alternate Views}

Laurent Bourscheidt.

"You can't take a great picture if you aren't in love with the subject you are trying to capture"
- LB

Joe Iano.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form...
- Heart Sutra

Donatella Lombardini.

"There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but darling,
What if you fly?
- Erin Hanson

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Art with Heart - Founder's Celebration! {STEFFANIE LORIG}
Feb
2
5:00 PM17:00

Art with Heart - Founder's Celebration! {STEFFANIE LORIG}

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The SZ Gallery on Mercer Island is thrilled to be featuring (49) mixed media works (starting at $495) by Steffanie Lorig. 10% of all art sales will be donated to Art with Heart. I'd like to set a fundraising goal of $1,000 for our upcoming First Thursday: Founder's Celebration event, in honor of Steffanie. Join us for this heartfelt, feel-good event

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Art & Wine {featuring STEFFANIE LORIG}
Jan
5
4:30 PM16:30

Art & Wine {featuring STEFFANIE LORIG}

Steffanie spent her childhood drawing, doodling, and painting on any surface available. When she went to college, she was able to combine her interests through a Visual Communications degree. Steffanie spent the next decade in the graphic design field working for both corporate and private design studios, and enjoying every moment of it.

Steffanie founded Art with Heart, a nonprofit social enterprise organization dedicated to helping kids through creativity. She led a small but mighty team that eventually grew to become a $1 million organization. Through the years, she has produced a portfolio of therapeutic activity books and developed supporting curricula, workshops, and professional development trainings that taught therapists how to use art to engage reticent children. Steffanie has made change internationally for over 150,000 children during her tenure

10% of art sales donated to

 
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Art & Wine {featuring ANNA SKIBSKA}
Nov
3
4:30 PM16:30

Art & Wine {featuring ANNA SKIBSKA}

Suzanne Zahr Presents Anna Skibska
 

Join us this First Thursday, November 3rd, for our monthly Art & Wine Tasting event, hosted at the SZ Gallery on Mercer Island. The Islander will be pouring wine tastings paired with seasonal bites.

ART: 
by ANNA SKIBSKA
Since 1984 Skibska has presented 54 individual exhibitions all over the world. Her glass filigree explorations integrate her virtuosity as a fine artist with her love of architecture. Skibska's jewelry is equally stunning, as she transforms gems and stones into wearable art.

"...designing my jewelry following my mood…my moods, my whims, commemorating the beauty of everyday life".

(5% of all art & jewelry sales goes to Art with Heart)

WINE:
The Islander - Stock Your Cellar Event & Wine Tasting
Taste 20+ wines, all 10% above cost! Check out the Featured Wines On Sale

A feast for all senses - Join us!

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Art & Wine {featuring KOSTA KULUNDZIC}
Oct
6
5:00 PM17:00

Art & Wine {featuring KOSTA KULUNDZIC}

Suzanne Zahr and L+B Design Presents Kosta Kulundzic’s
“Bloody Icons!” new Exhibit in the Pacific Northwest

French-Serbian Artist Returns to the United States

Three Tech Moguls cringe and cower in the frightful shadow of a furious dragon! Kim Kardashian hobnobs with St. Sebastian and an apocalyptic abomination as a bound and perplexed Kanye West looks on! Judith stands ready to behead the hell out of Holofernes, Tarantino-style, Grand Guignol, without the slightest remorse (and more than a little Grindhouse flair)! Buckle-up, because you’ve entered the world of Kosta Kulundzic - a deeply spiritual yet profanely B-movie realm where angelic figures coexist with bare-knuckled brawlers, hulking monstrosities stalk the same earth as tattooed, scantily-clad muses, and pas-sion and attitude are always the order of the day! Part and parcel of the lowbrow art school and deeply pious Christian imagery, Kulundzic somehow manages to enter a new level of the soulfully obscene, the salaciously reverent!

Kulundzic has had shows in Paris, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Brussels, and Honolulu, and his new show, “Bloody Icons!”, opens at the Suzanne Zahr Gallery on October 6th at 2441 76th Ave SE, Suite 160, Mercer Island, WA. Meet the Artist that evening from 5 – 8PM, where he will debut the piece “The Desperate Plea of Modern Technology Fac-ing St George’s Dragon”, featuring Seattle’s very own Bill Gates, Paul Allen & Jeff Bezos.

BID NOW! ONLINE SILENT AUCTION of all the show’s paintings has launched and will officially close at 7:30PM on Thursday, October 6th. A Live Painting Performance will take place at the SZ Gallery at 2PM on Saturday, October 8th. All are welcomed.

Suzanne Zahr and L+B Design, both Mercer Island-based creative studios have teamed up to bring the work of internationally renowned artist, Kosta Kulundzic to the Pacific Northwest. Kulundzic is also an adjunct art professor at both the University of Hawaii and the School of Architecture of Paris Val de Seine.

Suzanne Zahr Gallery
Suzanne Zahr Gallery is dedicated to sourcing and featuring global artists to new audiences in the Pacific Northwest. Located at the confluences of Seattle and The East Side, SZ Gallery features up and coming talents on a monthly basis and serves as an art outpost for Lake Washington and its surrounding areas, bringing a new twist to the local market. For more information, go to www.suzannezahr.com/artists/

L+B Design
L+B Design is a multi-disciplinary branding studio helping organizations of all sizes create memorable visual ex-periences delivered beautifully. With 20 years of experience in Branding and Marketing, L+B design is constantly searching for new ways to tell a compelling brand story. For more info at www.lplusbdesign.com

WINE:
The Islander"s Sommelier, Isaac Schmid, will be introducing Synne Cellars, offering pre-sales to his Reserved 2014 Syrah & Chenin Blanc along side other wonderful reds & whites.

A feast for all senses - Join us!

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Art & Wine {08.04.16}
Aug
4
4:30 PM16:30

Art & Wine {08.04.16}

Join us this First Thursday, August 4th, for our monthly Art & Wine Tasting event, hosted at the SZ Gallery on Mercer Island. The Islander will be pouring wine tastings paired with seasonal bites.

SZ will be offering the following prizes in this month's business card raffle:
*** $200 SZ Gallery Art Credit (valid until 09.01.16) ***
*** (2) Free Day Passes to the 2016 Seattle Art Fair ***

ART: 
Oil Paintings by Elissa Eng, Mercer Island Artist
"Elissa is master of understating her true self. She is a woman of immense depth and complexity beyond her years and training... Owning a piece of Elissa's work is not only a privilege but a rare porthole in to one's own soul, as she shares her own travails through her art."

Oil Paintings by Gitte Peters, European Artist
A gifted artist with the ability to feel and portray images and thoughts beneath the surface. A visionary with the ultimate message of love, peace and happiness.

Live Music by Carla Mory, Harpist
Carla (age 12) has been learning the harp for nearly 5 years.  In Paris, she studied under Isabelle Marie, and since moving to Mercer Island, she's been taking classes with Valerie Muzzolini through Benaroya Hall.  She will perform 'Les Adieux du Menestrel au Pays Natal' by John Thomas. 

(5% of all art sales goes to Art with Heart)

WINE:
Benvolio Prosecco | Donna Olimpia Vermintino  | La Crema Pinot Gris
Jackson Estate Sauv Blanc | Jackson Estate Pinot

A feast for all senses - Join us!

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Art & Wine {07.07.16}
Jul
7
4:30 PM16:30

Art & Wine {07.07.16}

EVENT PHOTOS!

Join us this First Thursday, July 7th, for our monthly Art & Wine Tasting event, hosted at the SZ Gallery on Mercer Island. The Islander will be pouring wine tastings paired with seasonal bites.
ART: 
Select Works by Paul Laws, Mercer Island Artist
Surrounded by the idyllic beauty of Mercer Island and the greater Seattle area, Paul has been inspired to paint the spaces between what is and what may be.
Oil Paintings by Gitte Peters, Artist in Residence
A gifted artist with the ability to feel and portray images and thoughts beneath the surface. A visionary with the ultimate message of love, peace and happiness.
Oil Paintings by MUGGI, Artist in Residence
...atmospheric, full of texture and draw inspiration from the elements of nature.
The Paper Beadery Trunk Show by Mary Herzog, Jewelry
...mixing colors, textures, shapes and sizes to make a dynamic, versatile, and completely unique piece of jewelry.
(5% of all art sales & 10% of all jewelry sales goes to Art with Heart)
WINE:
The Islander Wine Club - Stock Your Cellar Event & Wine Tasting
Taste 20+ wines, all 10% above cost! Check out the Featured Wines On Sale

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