OPENING RECEPTION: OCT 1 6-8 PM

ARTIST TALK W/ LISA AHLBERG: OCT 10 1 PM

ARTIST TALK W/ DEBBIE ESPINOSA: OCT 24 1 PM

We are pleased to present a retrospective of Marcia Glover’s work titled I Had to Leave to Find Myself. The show includes collections of photography, collage and oil paintings

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, July 2nd, 6-8pm

In Spectral Lineage: Parlor of Shadows Ann Pallesen and Jenny Riffle transform the domestic parlor into a space where memory, history, and the unseen converge. Pallesen’s silhouettes and lith prints evoke lineage and intimate pasts, while Riffle’s spectral photography captures ghostly impressions and the traces of time

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 5th, 6-8pm

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, June 13th, 1pm
A conversation with Ellen Sollod and Elizabeth Brown, Independent scholar/art historian

In La Flanêuse, Le Jardin et Les Fleurs, Ellen Sollod evokes the spirit of place, memory, history and the passage of time, evoking a quintessentially French milieu. She invites us to experience Lyon, France, as a flanêuse or urban wanderer. Using analogue and digital photography, her ghostly avatar haunts Lyon's rich archeological past and captures its quotidian allure. 

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 8th, 6-8pm

In Gifts from the tide, Eva Sköld Westerlind transforms her photographs of natural seaweeds found at the edge of Salish Sea into abstract, often narrative or surreal images. This body of work is a playful celebration of form, color and movement from our local seaside landscape.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 10th, 6-8pm

In Trails this way, Harini Krishnamurthy creates analog photographs exploring trails and landscapes layered with cartographic maps. Her work examines movement, place and human connection through material processes. By employing layering techniques, the images invite viewers to consider navigation, time, and the ways people interact with the environment.

OPENING RECEPTION: Fri Mar 20, 6 - 8 pm
RELOCATED TO:
4406 #C 50TH AVE S (Corner of 50th & Genesee)

The Seattle Light Room is excited to announce it’s second annual teen only juried group show. Home, will feature the work of over 20 extremely talented teen artists. Home means many things to many people and finding home - a place to feel safe, comfortable, and accepted - is especially important to not only teenagers, but to all of us right now.

OPENING RECEPTION: FRI, JAN 16TH 6-8 pm

We are so proud of our members and the art they create! Our very own darkroom members will be presenting their analog based work. Images range from traditional black and white darkroom prints to alternative processes to color film used in a 3D printed camera.

RUNNING FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER

Featuring over 20 local artists, you will find tons of great photography based gift ideas for under $100.

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOV 8TH, 12-2 PM

How do you raise children while raising your voice as an artist? The exhibition Nurturance & Ambition: Motherhood in Photography at The Seattle Light Room explores this question. The show brings together work from students of Anna Ream and Annabel Clark’s class at the Photographic Center Northwest, featuring artists who are shaping their practices while navigating the daily realities of care.

The show is part of an ongoing conversation about what it takes to make meaningful work while caring for others — a reminder that art made in the midst of daily life can be as urgent and necessary as any.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 10, 6-8 pm

In Layers of Terri Pittman uses the multiple drop monotype printmaking technique to explore the notion of what grief might look like. With multiple passes (50 - 100 times), colors layer on a single sheet of paper…just as in grieving, complex layered emotions are experienced at the same time.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6-8 pm

SOUTH SEATTLE LOVE - JURIED SHOW

South Seattle Love showcases photographs that reflect the pride, quirks, and spirit of the South End. From well-known streets to surprising moments, the images offer many perspectives on a place that is rooted in community and full of character.

ARTIST TALKS
THU, AUGUST 21, 6 - 8 PM
SAT, AUGUST 30, 11 AM - 1 PM

Finding Positive in the Negatives

As dementia dims my father’s light, I uncover his legacy through his 35mm photojournalism. In enlarging his old negatives, I see truth, empathy, and humanity. This project began as a final darkroom collaboration—now it’s a tribute to seeing the world through his eyes, before memories slip away.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 20, 6-8 pm

In Exposure, Sara May draws on the photographic principle of exposure to explore the layered meanings embedded in the act of being exposed. May’s images invite viewers to consider how exposure, in its many forms, can deepen empathy and expand our appreciation of the fragile, interwoven systems we inhabit.

OPENING RECEPTION, Friday, May 16th, 6 - 8 pm

In A Continuation of Good Neighbor, an Ongoing Series mixed media artist and photographer Gwen Emminger examines the complexities of shared space through photographic portraits of crows, using an alternative photo transfer process to print images on fabric

OVERLAND

OPENING RECEPTION, Friday, April 18th, 6 - 8 pm

Benjamin Malay’s photographs and monotypes capture the quiet of deserted landscapes, terrain lost to time and reclaimed by nature; places where horizons, vistas and vantage points merge and connect him to his childhood.

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, Mar 15, 1-3

The Woods is a solo show by artist Hannah Salia, featuring her well known, iconic, light-filled forest paintings and new work exploring illuminated driftwood vistas.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, February 7, 6-8 pm

Using a toy camera and a professional medium-format camera, Chris Villiers memorializes what awaits around the next bend of rural back roads and two-lane highways in Oregon and Washington. This collection consists of limited-edition gelatin silver fiber prints.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, January 10, 6-8 pm

Fading Away is a series of large-scale photo transfers exploring the beauty and complexity of change. Blurred and obscured images reflect the experience of personal transformation and the fading of familiar structures in our shifting world. Through imperfect, textured layers, the work alludes to transition as both a loss and a beginning.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, November 15, 6 - 9

Community means many things to many people. This photography exhibition celebrates the many ways community brings us together—through play, shared traditions, family gatherings, and spontaneous moments of joy. It is a celebration of those connections that transform places into home, strangers into friends, and moments into memories.

OPENING RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING Saturday, October 19, 6-9pm

The Precipice explores the delicate boundary between life and death through the lens of a hospital photographer. Capturing the dramatic yet ordinary scenes of surgery, this project highlights the vulnerability of the human body and the profound process of healing.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, September 13, 5-8pm

Dancing with My Shadow is a photographic journey celebrating the growth and wisdom that comes with age, and the bravery to reject society's expectations, particularly around women's body image and aging. This project captures the graceful movements of self-discovery and empowerment, where each photograph reflects the elegant dance of light and shadow, symbolizing the contrast between societal norms and personal authenticity.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, August 16, 5-8 pm

South Seattle Love is a curated group show featuring photographs from Seattle South End. The images included capture the beauty, soul, and love for our neighborhood.

Image: Nina Willow

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday July 13, 5 - 8 pm

Collateral Beauty is a collection of photographs taken in Death Valley. After the last Ice Age (128,000 years ago), Death Valley was a large lake teaming with life. However, due to climate change, the area saw temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, causing the lake and ecosystem to collapse (~10,000 years ago). This created an arid desert that we now know as Death Valley. Some may see it as damaged, but beauty is found as a result of the collapse. Even when all appears lost, if you look past tragedy, you will always find a positive point to start the healing process.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, June 14 5-8pm

THROUGH A TRAIN WINDOW: A TRANSCONTINENTAL LOVE AFFAIR Riding the Amtrak train from New York to Seattle, Judith was unexpectedly smitten by the intimate views of the modest towns, the rough and secluded settlements smattered on the land, the empty back roads, working farms and ranches, slow moving waters, wide open fields and neglected urban backsides.