![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapman's paintings and mixed-media work have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Puget Sound region and nationwide, including AT.31 Gallery in Seattle, the Lisa Harris Gallery at Pike Place Market, the Tacoma Art Museum and the Paulo Salvador Gallery in New York City. Years later he would work with dance luminaries Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham and pursue dance professionally in New York, before moving back to Seattle.Īs an artist, Mr. Chapman pursued his other passion - dance. When he was in high school, it blossomed." "Brian had always had an interest in drawing and doing creative activities. "My grandmother was a weaver, and my mother had been very talented in sewing," she said. Chapman as a child growing up in an artistic family, sister Vicki Minter said. Most recently he lived in LaConner in Skagit County.Ī love of the arts was planted in Mr. Chapman graduated from Bellevue High School and later Bellevue Community College and the University of Washington, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts in art and dance. Chapman died suddenly March 27, following a brief illness. Friends and family remember Seattle-area artist and teacher Brian Chapman as a gifted painter, an accomplished dancer and a compassionate confidant who radiated warmth and put others at ease. ![]()
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