Highline Heritage Museum

What: Annie Walker: Night Weeds: Collage & Painting

Onview from: July 3rd through October 2nd

Artist Reception: August 7, 5-6:30pm August 7, 5-6:30pm

Location: Highline Heritage Museum 819 SW 152nd St. Burien, WA 98166

Artist Statement:
I draw and paint to understand how I feel and experience the world. When I draw from observation, I am not concerned with making a realistic image. Rather, my loose marks record where my attention goes and the physical feeling of being in a particular world. The marks on the paper are evidence of how my eye moves, as sensations and intuition pull my attention this way and that.

In this series of collages, I combine fast, intuitive mark-making with slow, contemplative observation. A potted plant inspired a series of loose and sloppy ink drawings and monotype prints. These, along with ink-soaked paper towels, became the raw materials for the finished works.

I arrange shapes to make connections and patterns that echo what I see and feel in nature. What emerges is a record of attention, of sensation, and of persistence rather than a description of a potted plant sitting quietly in my studio.

What matters most isn’t the subject, but how it’s made and what that making reveals about us.
-Laurent Proux, artist

Annie Walker is an artist working in Seattle, Washington. She was trained in an atelier-style art program in high school, majored in Fine Arts at Wesleyan University and continued painting and drawing while pursuing a career in other fields. Since 2020, art has become her full-time practice.

Website: AnnieWalkerStudio.com
Instagram: @AnnieWalkerStudio
Facebook: www.facebook.com/anniewalkerstudio

Exhibits are quarterly.

April-July: Nepantla: Painting the Space in-Between (Reception May 1st 2026 5-6:30 PM)

January-March: Anna Sullivan (Reception February 6th 2026 5-6:30 PM)

Exhibits are quarterly.

January-March: Ron Hammond (Reception Jan 10 from 5:00-630 PM

April-June: Trisha Gilmore (Reception April 4 from 5:00-6:30 PM

July-September: John Woodruff (Reception July 11 from 5:00-6:30 PM

October-December: Rachel Bender (Reception October 3 from 5:00-6:30 PM

Exhibits went from bi-monthly to quarterly in 2024.

January-March: Ken DeRoux (Reception January 5 from 5-7 PM)

April-June: Essa Baird (Reception April 5 from 5-7 PM)

July-September: Kelly Lyles (Reception July 12 from 6-7:30 PM)

October-December: Garreth Schuh (Reception October 4 from 6-7:30 PM)

Exhibits were bi-monthly in 2023.

January/February: Naomi Benson (Reception January 6) with online video

March/April: Danny Mansmith (Reception March 3)

May/June: Maureen Hoffman (Reception May 5)

July/August: Daniel Lyons (Reception July 7)

September/October: Laura Bermes (Reception Sept. 1)

November/December: Brandi Reyna (Reception: November 3)

Exhibits were bi-monthly in 2022.

January/February: Antonija Hasanbegovic (Reception February 4 with online video

March/April: Margery Ellsworth (Reception March 4) with online video

May/June: Kelly Lyles (Reception May 6) with online video

July/August: Esther Loopstra (Reception July 1)

September/October: Andrew Woodcock (Reception September 2)

November/December:  EcoThrive – Denise Henrikson & Susan Russell (Reception November 4)

Exhibits were bi-monthly and included an online video.

March/April: Reinhardt Hollstein, in person solo gallery show at the Museum with online video

May/June: Lezlie Jane online show with online video

July/August: Helena Rogers in-person solo gallery show at the Museum with online video.

September/October: Jody Romero in-person solo gallery show at the Museum with online video.

November/December: Arnulfo Ramirez in-person solo gallery show at the Museum with online video.

In January 2020, Burien Arts began hosting bi-monthly art exhibits at the Museum, with opening receptions on the First Friday to coordinate with the First Friday Art Walk (when in operation). Due to the pandemic, our exhibits April-September were online only.

January: Shelia Coppola, in-person exhibit

February-March: Alina Hakim, in-person exhibit

April-May: Rebecca Sayre, virtual gallery show due to pandemic

June-July: Doug Early, virtual gallery show due to pandemic

August: Diane Sarr, virtual gallery show due to pandemic

September: Amaranta Sandys & others, virtual gallery show due to pandemic

November/December: Rebecca Sayre, in person exhibit with online video

Burien Arts has exhibited art around town in several other venues:

• Lobby of Burien City Hall, 400 SW 152nd Street, Burien
• Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Avenue SW, Burien
• Burien Actors Theatre at the Annex, Annex Park, 14549 4th Avenue SW, Burien, when the Theatre operated in that location. (The Annex has since been demolished.)

Burien Arts loves to feature established artists and emerging artists alike, including the work of students.

For information on earlier exhibit venues, see History on the About Us page.