About that same time, another artist walked through my door, explaining that she had an appointment to show her paintings with another gallery in Pioneer Square but had spotted this and decided to check it out. She was from Portland and with a prominent gallery there but looking for representation in Seattle. She showed me a few small abstract paintings, the composition filled with lines and spirals scored along the colorful, topographically sculpted surface. She spoke of the sciences – cartography, physics, astronomy, etc as the basis of her artistic inspiration, and brought in a few more, even larger paintings, and as an uneducated but always curious science nerd, I was sold.

The New Jersey-based Rothman and Oregon-based Wagner were the first of the nationally recognized, emerging contemporary artists the gallery began representing in Seattle nearly twelve years ago and remain vital contributors to the gallery’s identity and highly valued by our collectors today. It’s truly been an honor to have watched their careers continue to flourish and receive critical recognition these last dozen years – from prestigious national awards, international teaching residencies, and important museum exhibitions.

For the first time ever, after each has been the subject of multiple successful solo shows with FH&Co, these two extraordinary, accomplished artists – as well as good friends from opposite coasts – working in a “familiar element” but divergent genres, will be exhibiting together in a unique two-person show.