CURRENT EXHIBIT • JOURNEY GALLERY
AshaAung Helmstetter’s Recognition, Love, and Healing
A series of paintings honoring Black Americans; emphasizing liberation and resilience, through a lens of love.
OPENING ON KING DAY
AshaAung Helmstetter originally started the series to develop a deeper connection to her own roots. This series honors our history, our presence, and individuality, by uplifting others through her own lense of what liberation means to her.
About the Exhibit
AshaAung Helmstetter (She/Her) is an oil painter and mixed media artist who was born and brought up in Seattle’s Central District, where she is still based today. Through her work, she amplifies community-connection and finding freedom from within; which she also explores through teaching and participating in community spaces. Her paintings reflect her imagination, and perseverance: two things that are difficult to miss when encountering her person, or any of her creations.
Learn More about AshaAung Helmstetter’s work at www.artsyasha.com.
About AshaAung Helmstetter
AshaAung Helmstetter created this series for educational and healing purposes, and to deepen her connection with her Black American identity, as she’s both Black and multiracial. This series has three parts: paintings inspired by unidentified Black Americans in history, abstract as a form of processing, and paintings inspired by Black Americans now. Portraits inspired by unidentified ancestors were all chosen from black and white photographs. This series was created for viewers to feel vibrant and beautiful. It was created through the lens of only one human being, living and connecting as authentically as possible. Helmstetter’s own uniqueness, which cannot be related to by everyone, is exactly an added point to this series: Blackness is vast, and great strength comes with celebrating our differences while still uplifting one another.