A show featuring the illustrative and painting talents of Seattle artist RK Post and our local gallery member, Cj Lane, with her new photographic figurative works
A farmboy from Illinois with a gift for sketching, rk post was planning on a career as a veterinarian until illustration finally took over in his extensive college experience. By his graduation from Northern Illinois University in 1994, rk post was freelancing for the fantasy gaming industry doing interior illustration for several major game compa nies, gradually teaching himself how to paint with acrylics and eventually oils. rk garnered a staff illustration position at TSR and after its acquisition, continued in this capacity with new parent company Wizards of the Coast painting cover illustrations for games and novels. Passionate about expanding his skill set, rk moved into 2D and 3D art for videogames in addition to his ongoing freelance illustrations for Magic the Gathering and other franchises. He currently works full time as a senior artist for Big Fish Games. Rk's freelance career continues to flourish, with clients including White Wolf, WizKids, Fanpro, Microsoft (Mythica, X Box), LucasFilm, 20th Century Fox (both Aliens VS Predator), Sega (Dreamcast), Nintendo, Ballantine Books, Science Fiction Book Club, Hasbro (televsion and animation), Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, the History Channel, and Blizzard Entertainment (Daiblo 2, Worlds of Warcraft) and SOE (The Agency). rk post published his first volume of collected works in the hard cover release, Postmortem: the Art of rk post. Though this first edition has completely sold out, it still appears on amazon.com <http://amazon.com> as one of the more valuable fantasy art books in trade. A second volume continues to be in the works.
A farmgirl from Iowa, Cj Lane has a gift with the camera lens. She started out after graduating from high school with honors and moving on through college, where she became interested in journalistic photography. This passion was furthered when she moved to Korea to work as a military staff photographer for the newspaper. Since then Cj has continued her path and took a turn to fine art photography. Her unique perspective and edge give her work a painterly quality. Cj is currently a member of the Red Raven Gallery co-op and is working at her photography while raising a family here in PT.
