"Chuck Gumpert’s bold abstract works and unique figurative paintings are at once expressive, energetic and thought provoking — inviting viewers to explore and process their own internal & personal narrative"

About the Artist

Celebrating 20 years as a professional fine artist, exhibiting throughout Washington, Oregon, and California — Chuck Gumpert’s bold abstract works and unique figurative paintings have enticed fine art collectors nationally and internationally.  His art has complimented the work of designers and architects in significant public projects around Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. 

Lush, varied, mixed media layers of oil, acrylic, ink, graphite, and collage commingle to create organic elements and mystical forms — giving Gumpert’s provocative and gestural works texture, depth and energy.  Chuck enjoys when diverse media and materials coalesce on a complex surface in a harmony of “intentional happy accidents” — abstraction which can awaken subjective memories or unconscious associations.  The work invites viewers and collectors to creatively experience whatever flows to them through the art.

“I’ve continually strived to be experimental in composition and technique. Yet without confining myself to formula or habit, I have produced a sophisticated and cohesive body of work which continues to culminate in a common thread: exploring color, light, energy, and emotion in a way that communicates! I don’t think of myself as a poet or philosopher — I’m a visual artist.  My ‘story’ is on the canvas, and the canvas invites you to explore your own internal and personal narrative!”

Selected Résumé

Selected Exhibitions:

DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — featured artist, group show, "Stormy Weather"— Nov, 2024
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Earth & Ocean" — Sept, 2024
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Being Human" — May, 2024
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA — group show, “Understory” — June/July, 2023
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA — group show, “Sea Level” — Oct/Nov, 2022
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — featured artist, group show, "Spring Unveiling" — May, 2022
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA — group show, “50th Anniversary” — Oct/Nov, 2021
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Earth & Ocean Arts Festival" — Sept, 2021
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA — group show, “Compliments” — July/Aug, 2020
Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA — group show, “pARTners” — Oct/Nov, 2020
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Spring Unveiling" — June, 2020
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA — invitational, "Earth: An Abstract" — April/June, 2020
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Spring Unveiling" — May, 2019
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Woodinville, WA — group show, "Contemporary Showcase" — Mar, 2019
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Imagine" — Nov, 2018
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — solo exhibition, "Beneath The Surface" — June/July, 2018
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — group show, "Contemporary Showcase" — Feb, 2018
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — featurette, "Luminescence By Degrees" —July, 2017
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Spring Unveiling" — May, 2017
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — group show, "Contemporary Showcase" — March, 2017
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — group show, "Contemporary Showcase" — Aug, 2016
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Wild Spirit, Conservation for Life" — May, 2016
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — group show, "Colorworks" — March, 2016
Brian Marki Gallery, Palm Springs, CA — three person show, “Contemporary Abstraction” — Feb 24 - Mar 16, 2016
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Inspiration Point" — Nov, 2015
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — group show, "Mixed Moods" — Sept, 2015
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — two-man show, "Organic Tendency" — July 18, 2015
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — group show, "25th Anniversary Exhibition" — May, 2015
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Spring Unveiling" — May, 2015
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — two-man show, "Particular Space" — March, 2015
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA — two-man show, "One Path – Two Visions" — Aug 16 -Sept 7, 2014
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Spring Unveiling: Garden Party" — May, 2014
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — solo exhibition, "Internal & Personal" — Sept/Oct, 2013
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "Chinese New Year: Year of the Snake" — Feb, 2013
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — group show, "The Space Between the Notes" — Nov, 2012
Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA — two person show, July 6 – Sept 3, 2012
DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR — featured artist, group show, "Stormy Weather", Nov, 2011
Gallery 903, Portland, OR — two person show, "One Path, Two Visions" — June 2 – July 31, 2011
Swenson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA — group show, "Small Works" Dec 2 – 31, 2010
Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, WA — group show, "BIG: An exploration" — Sept 23 – Nov 6, 2010
Art On The Boulevard, Vancouver, WA — solo exhibition, "Urbanology: Exploring the Contemporary Figure" Oct, 2010
Two Vaults Gallery, Tacoma, WA — solo exhibition, "Engage" — May-June, 2009
Marion Meyer Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA — two person show — "Expansive Viewpoints" Aug, 2008
Art On The Boulevard, Vancouver, WA — solo exhibition, "Negotiating Vision" May, 2008
Two Vaults Gallery, Tacoma, WA — two person show, "Prevail" July—Sept, 2007
Art On The Boulevard, Vancouver, WA — two person show, "Imagination in the Abstract" May, 2007
Two Vaults Gallery, Tacoma, WA — solo exhibition, "Inescapable" Sept–Oct, 2006
Art On The Boulevard, Vancouver, WA — three person show, "Abstract!" July, 2006
Two Vaults Gallery, Tacoma, WA — solo exhibition, Feb–March, 2006

Selected Public Work:

Broadway Tower , Portland, OR (images)

Prism Luxury Apartments, Seattle, WA (images)

Sitka Seattle Apartment Community, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA

Portland International Airport Exhibition, Portland, OR

The Station at Othello Park, Seattle, WA

Vulcan Real Estate | South Lake Union Discovery Center, Seattle, WA

Citizen of the Pike Pine Apartments, Seattle, WA

733 Lake Street Condominium, Kirkland, WA

Saito's Japanese Restaurant, Seattle, WA

Bridge Condominium, Tacoma, WA 

Selected Private Collections and Commissions:

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” 
— Pablo Picasso

"The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract.”
— Wassily Kandinsky

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
— Albert Einstein