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In Remembrance 2024
Remembering the artists in Washington's State Art Collection who left us in 2024.
In celebration of their lives and their dedication to art, we present selected artworks by these artists, in Washington's State Art Collection. To learn more about the artists and their artworks, click on any of the names or images.
Gloria Bornstein’s (1937-2024) artworks and public art are tied together by her listening to stories and interacting with communities. She calls her art “visual poetry where textual and visual elements are interwoven”. Bornstein’s artworks range from performance art and installations, to artist books, to sculptures and public art. Bornstein taught performance at Cornish College and sculpture and public art at the University of Washington (both in Seattle).
Terrance Buckendorf (1942-2024) was a Spokane-based muralist and art director. His birthdate and further biographical information is not known to us. If you can add to this info, please contact us at collections@arts.wa.gov.
Ken Lundemo (1931-2024) created sculptures combining wood, metal, stone, and ceramics. Raised and educated in Tacoma and Bremerton, Lundemo attended Olympic College (in Bremerton) after serving four years in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s. His home and studio were located on twenty acres of woodlands in South Puget Sound, where he also kept a Japanese-style anagama (wood-fired) kiln.
Tuan Nguyen (1972-2024) took the traditional materials of picture making and rearranged them in new ways to challenge meaning and reset expectations. His last artworks explore themes related to his own mortality, the cancer that weakened his body, and the afterlife. Nguyen was born in Vietnam, and his art was informed by his experience and identity as a refugee, and the awareness of not belonging in either his homeland or the U.S. He lived and worked in Seattle.
Seattle-based painter and printmaker Elizabeth Sandvig (1937-2024) created expressive artworks inspired by dreams and imagination. In her own words "I am always looking for some mysterious in-between place where ideas and images come together to show me a new exciting path to follow."
Jeffrey Veregge (Port Gamble S’Klallam) (1974-2024) called his art style “Salish Geek.” He blended his love of comic books, toys, TV, and film with his Native perspective. “My origins are not supernatural, nor have they been enhanced by radioactive spiders. I am simply a Native American artist whose creative mantra is best summed up with a word from my tribe’s own language as: “taʔčaʔx̣ʷéʔtəŋ”, which means 'get into trouble'." His art has appeared in over 100 comic books for Marvel and other comics.
To see more artworks by each artist, click on their artist name below.
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