Future Fair NY

Cappy Thompson & Joe Feddersen

MAY 7-10, 2025

Booth U2
Chelsea Industrial, 535 W 28th St, New York City︎



Seattle-based studio e gallery is delighted to introduce New York to the work of celebrated Northwest artists Joe Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) and Cappy Thompson at Future Fair 2025.

Highlighting the gallery’s focus on the intersection of art, craft and design, our booth features a luminous display of monoprints, enamel paintings, glass vessels and woven baskets. Thompson presents recent indigo-toned paintings in enamel and reverse-painted on glass vessels with dreamlike scenes of harpies, night skies, and flora and fauna informed by her lifelong study of ancient art and spirituality. As in the Persian miniatures and Indian Warli paintings that inspire her, Thompson's imagery balances the authenticity of simple, flat rendering with the elegance and polish of sure, sinuous line drawing. Feddersen's imagery, like Thompson's, meditates on the life of millenia-old cultures in the present day; however, Feddersen's is grounded in the traditions of his people, the Plateau of northeastern Washington, known for bold geometric patterns symbolizing their legends and landscapes. At the same time the pictographic forms manifest in his woven baskets, prints and painted vessels recall the geometries of the modern world--whether hard-edge abstraction or electrical towers and other features of industrial society.

In the crowded field of Northwest glass making beginning with the work of Dale Chihuly, Thompson stands out for her deep engagement with the history of art, folk art and esoteric religion. Admired for major commissions at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA--Thompson was recently profiled in The Seattle Times and her work--along with Feddersen's-- was featured in "Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds of the Pacific Northwest," a major traveling exhibition guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman and organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Msueum of Art, Pullman WA.  Seattle Times critic Gayle Clemens remarked:“Known for her mythical-spiritual works of art in glass, a medium that’s “mysterious and full of magic,” Thompson describes herself as a painter. As is typical for Thompson and her work, multiple things can be true at once.”

With his colleagues Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith and Kay Walkingstick, Feddersen is part of the generation that brought contemporary indigenous art into the mainstream.  Feddersen is the subject of a current traveling retrospective, Joe Feddersen: Earth Water Sky, curated by heather ahtone and Rachel Allen at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane WA. His work also appeared in recent group exhibitions at Make Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, and in Washington D.C. at the Renwick Invitational 2023 curated by Lara M. Evans and at the National Gallery of Art's The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans curated by Quick-To-See-Smith.  New York Times critic Holland Cotter remarked: "I've been writing about art for more than 40 years. So I've seen a lot, . . .  And I do still find surprises. Just yesterday, I was at a Manhattan gallery group show, and I came across an extraordinary monumental glass sculpture made this year by a Native American artist named Joe Feddersen, who's been showing for years, but whose work is new to me. And it stopped me in my tracks..."