POLITI OSO featuring the works of master artist Faith Ringgold and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson :: B2 gallery explores the “alarm bells of consciousness” through idioms of feminism, race, culture, religion, and the body politic - If there was ever a time for art to talk about race — with Donald Trump on a roll and the Black Lives Matter movement growing — now would be a crucial time. With that backdrop, Tacoma’s B2 Fine Art Gallery speaks with the voices of two elder stateswomen of African American art: Aminah Robinson and Faith Ringgold. With a poetic language of fabric, paint,...

Winter Pop-Up at B2 Fine Art Gallery is a surprisingly rich collection of sculpture, basketry and pottery by (mostly) artists who are new to the Tacoma art scene — the one exception being longtime local favorite Ric Hall, who is showing here totally new work never before seen and a radical departure from what we’re used to seeing from him. Read More

B2 Fine Art Gallery/Studios is currently running a show of boxing-themed art. View pictures of the pugilistic and the pugnacious made pretty with paint. Entitled “Ringside: A Fine Art Boxing Exhibition,” the show runs through Jan. 9. “Ringside” also doubles as an opportunity to support participating regional boxing clubs preparing USA Boxing Team hopefuls for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. “Ringside” features limited editions of work by veteran boxing photographer Chris Farina. The show debuts the Farina collection, exclusive to the B2 Gallery. The collection is comprised of 15 photographs...

The difference between what B2 Gallery is calling it’s “Pop-Up” shows and its regular shows is 1) the Pop-Ups don’t run as long and 2) the art is more reasonably priced. As for the quality of the art, there is little or no difference. The Pop-Up running through Sept. 26 features art by Hiawatha D, Leah Fitts, Francesca Fuller, Joe Gallagher, Hossein Peigahi, Becky Knold, and jeweler Delores Weir. It’s a fun show. Peigahi’s colorful and stylized READ MORE

  By ALEC CLAYTON :: Weekly Volcano :: July 31, 2015 I'm so tempted to make a play on words from the title of this show, but gallery owners Gary and Deborah Boone beat me to the punch.  "Driven to Abstraction" showcases the works of three painters whose common thread is abstraction but whose approaches to art are quite diverse. read more

Dave R. Davison Wednesday, 22 July 2015 __________________ It was not that long ago that abstract art was the dominant trend in painting. Devotees of the so-called New York school taught the tenants of abstraction from positions in the art departments of the universities and a generation of painters was suckled on the milk of abstraction. The arc art of history was seen as the story of how artists came to free themselves from the tyranny of the outer subject and became liberated – able to immerse themselves in a world of pure paint. Painting was pared down to its most basic elements: color,...

Tacoma News Tribune :: July 22, 2015 BY ROSEMARY PONNEKANTI Staff writer _________________ It’s been hard keeping a dedicated private art gallery going in Tacoma over the last few years. Traditional galleries like Traver and Sandpiper have closed and hipster venues like Fulcrum have become sporadic, leaving the scene largely comprised of temporary Spaceworks sites, corporate-gallery-cum-frame shops and artist cooperatives, with a few businesses squeezing in art on the side. Enter B2 Fine Art Gallery, which opened five years ago and has managed to rotate a stable of around 45 national and international...

To celebrate the Seahawks second trip to the Super Bowl, B2 Fine Art Gallery is offering 10% sale off all gallery inventory (excluding current Northwest Mystics exhibition) and framing services! Sale ends on the Jan. 31st. Look for daily artist Spotlights, facebook posts, and tweets. Email, call or visit the gallery about specific interested artwork: View Artwork Here Great deals and available artwork for established, new and corporate collectors! African & Black Art Asian Art Contemporary Art Jewelry Native American Carvings Northwest Art even Chihuly Glass!

Andrea Erickson recently closed her gallery, Flow, which was formerly Lisa Konoshita’s gallery, Mineral. Fulcrum is now open only two days a week. In Tacoma, The Helm, Madera, Art on Center and its various incarnations, and Read More

B2 Fine Art Gallery/Studios supports Spelman College Fine Art Museum's 15 x 15 Acquisitions Inititative by working within their community and beyond to raise funds to acquire the following artwork for the museum's permanent collection: Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953) I Looked and Looked and Failed to See What So Frightened You, 2004 C-print diptych 36⅜ x 24⅜ inches each Carrie Mae Weems has created a remarkable body of work that employs photography, sound, text, installation, and video to examine the complexities of family relationships, gender roles, history, racism,...