Above : Princess Warrior 2’x6′ Acrylic on Canvas – Maconart 2024

What’s Trending in Style & Content : Seattle 

• A strong push toward gestural abstraction, layered textures, and material experimentation. Think surfaces you want to touch, layers you want to probe.
• Artists connecting abstraction with identity, site, geography—for example, Helen O’Toole’s abstract paintings evoke landscape or internal space rather than literal depiction.
• A revival of the Pacific-Northwest legacy (big skies, water, forest) but filtered through global abstraction—so it feels both local and cosmopolitan.
• Galleries embracing cross-disciplinary media: mixed media, sculpture-painting hybrids, installations where abstraction spills into environment.

For you, as someone keen on visuals and design: this is a chance to track not only what’s new in art, but what’s new in aesthetic—which can feed into your morning-routine visuals, restaurant interior cues, even how you think of “upselling” as an aesthetic experience.