Art by Northwest

Impressions of Home: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

Brangien Davis travels east to Spokane, where she meets Venezuelan-born printmaker and muralist Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, aka RGZ. Whether architectural elements carved into large woodblocks or surrealist storytelling painted on walls, Zambrano’s comic-book-influenced artwork blends Latin American and Northwest traditions. In his questioning of borders, he is finding and shaping home.

Impressions of Home: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

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    Impressions of Home: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

    S2 E8 - 8m 42s

    Brangien Davis travels east to Spokane, where she meets Venezuelan-born printmaker and muralist Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, aka RGZ. Whether architectural elements carved into large woodblocks or surrealist storytelling painted on walls, Zambrano’s comic-book-influenced artwork blends Latin American and Northwest traditions. In his questioning of borders, he is finding and shaping home.

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    Revealing What Lies Beneath: Melinda Hurst Frye

    S2 E7 - 8m 48s

    Zooming in on the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Brangien Davis joins Kenmore-based photographer Melinda Hurst Frye, whose work reveals the unseen world beneath our feet. We get a bug’s-eye view of how Hurst Frye employs a flatbed scanner to document tiny ecosystems, highlighting roots, insects and fungi in stunningly high-res images that spotlight and celebrate quiet networks underground.

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    Inks and Oddities: Justin Gibbens

    S2 E6 - 8m 46s

    Down in the valley of Thorp, Washington, Brangien Davis meets Justin Gibbens, an artist creating meticulously composed yet highly imaginative wildlife illustrations. Blending the precision of scientific drawing with unexpected surrealism, Gibbens transforms familiar animals into fantastical hybrids, inviting us to re-experience the natural world with humor and curiosity.

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