Peggy Washburn

Precisely Now

All things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

In school I was taught to write with my right hand. I was more comfortable with my left. We had big sheets of paper and were instructed to make lines, then circles using our whole arm. I made hundreds, maybe thousands of circles. During that time I would sit in my first art studio (my bedroom closet) and paste these circles, along with found objects into books, later adding drawings and eventually my photographs. Doing so allowed me to record my thoughts and create visual order.

Combining images satisfies my compulsion to place the random into a narrative; to mix past with present and form an imagined world inside of an existing one. My work explores ideas surrounding balance, memory and time. It carries with it a variety of influences, which constantly evolve based on the relevance I apply to particular happenings in my life, and the world at large.

I begin with a drawing or a painting, sometime a photograph. The pieces are fused together onto canvas, boa...

Sept 2023 Rose Lehrman Art Center Gallery, HACC, Harrisburg, PA, Precisely Now

June 2023 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Woodmere Museum 81st Annual Juried Exhibition

March 2022 Dab Art, Los Angeles, CA, Group exhibition WAIT GAIN

March 2022 The Print Center, Philadelphia PA, 96th Annual

Summer 2021 Dab Art, Art In The Time Of Corona

August 2019 Harris Harvey Gallery, Seattle, Studies In Nature

Spring 2019 Aperture Gallery, NYC, Beyond Boundaries

June 2018 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Let’s Connect

Oct 2017 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Notions of Home

July 2016 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Resident Artist Group Show

April 2016 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, RIFFS

Nov 2015 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Learning To Write

Feb 2014 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Filtered

July 2014 Silvia White Gallery, Ventura CA Entropy

Aug 2013 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Passion and Reason

Mar 2013 Linda Hodges Gallery,

Mar 2013 Seattle Art Museum, SAM Gallery Seattle, 2013

Oct 2011 Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Entropy

Oct 2008 The Benham Gallery, Seattle WA, Tangential Relations

May 2008 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland Oregon, Resurrection

Apr 2008 Friesen Gallery Seattle WA, Seeds of Chan...