Between Departures Exhibition

Seattle Marriott Redmond

Curated by Genea M of Black Omi Art Co.

Featuring Artists:

Jacoby Hinton Art, Elliot Grace Harvey, Kurt Creates, Rebecca Garcia, Ryan Hill

Between Departures is a curated exhibition exploring the quiet architecture of transition. Each work reflects a suspended moment — emotionally, physically, or spiritually — inviting viewers to slow down and sit within the subtle shifts that shape us.


In a world defined by movement, this exhibition centers stillness. It asks what exists in the pause — the breath before change, the reflection before momentum returns.

Meet the Artists

  • Genea Morrow

    CURATOR & ARTIST

    Genea Morrow is a self-taught artist and creative entrepreneur based out of Seattle. Her interest in art began in 2012 but it wasn’t until 2021 when Genea launched Black Omi Art Co. Though her journey wasn’t always easy, she often opens up about her struggles with imposter syndrome and how she continuously works on her insecurities surrounding her late start to painting. She now creates paintings that tell her story, a story heavily influenced by her history with religion and spirituality, overshadowed by her exploration of her sensuality. Her work is centered around creating the feeling of familiarity, power, and freedom through promoting body positivity within our communities. To highlight the internal battles of feminine and masculine energies women may feel. 

  • A man with curly hair and a beard sitting in his art studio, wearing a paint-splattered hoodie, surrounded by paintings, flowers, and art supplies.

    Jacoby Hinton

    ARTIST

    Jacoby Hinton is an artist working out of the Artist Wharf in Seattle, WA. His work is multidisciplinary, ranging from woodworking to painting to illustration. Jacoby graduated from College of Charleston with Bachelors in Studio Art and a focus on figurative drawing. Jacoby uses his base in drawing to inform every other medium he uses. Jacoby is known for his expressive palette knife textures as a painter, his innovative epoxy techniques as a woodworker and his colorful and playful dragons as an illustrator.

  • A woman smiling outdoors with vibrant orange and pink flowers behind her.

    Rebecca Garcia

    ARTIST

    Rebecca N. Garcia is a Seattle-based painter, vocalist, and multidisciplinary artist whose work illuminates themes of identity, femininity, and ancestral connection. Influenced by her Black and Mexican heritage, Garcia’s visual art brings together symbolism, portraiture, and elements of nature—often portraying women adorned with or emerging from botanicals. Through this imagery, she explores transformation, resilience, and the quiet authority of the divine feminine.

    Working primarily in watercolor and acrylic, Garcia balances realism with surreal and emotive undertones. Her flower-women and female portraits act as both self-reflection and cultural storytelling—offering viewers a space to witness beauty, vulnerability, and strength in equal measure.

  • Person with short dark hair styled with bright red curly top, wearing black glasses, red swirl earrings, a nose septum ring, and a black shirt, smiling in front of a neutral wall.

    Elliott Grace Harvey

    ARTIST

    Elliott Grace Harvey is a disabled artist based in Capitol Hill, Seattle. Grace employs adaptive methods for creating art, and they have carved out a personally significant artistic path, capturing the essence of their beloved neighborhood through vibrant representations of portraits and urban scenes.

  • A woman with short dark hair with blue and green highlights, wearing blue glasses and a black shirt, smiling in front of colorful painting displays.

    Lisa Jordan

    ARTIST

    Watercolors by Lisa Jordan of Kyr Creates subvert the expectations of the medium, showing how vibrant, saturated, and precise the watermedia can be, while also still embracing the unpredictable flow of water over paper. Lisa’s paintings explore cities in dreams, the cozy intimacy of a shared cocktail, conversations with sly local crows, and Seattle's reality-defying sunsets. Presence, attentive observation, and gratitude are core pillars of their creative practice; Lisa holds those sweet and soft feelings close while also indulging the fierce glory of unexpected outcomes & denying perfectionism.

  • A man with dark hair, a beard, and a mustache, looking into the camera with a slight smile, outdoors near a body of water with trees in the background under a blue sky.

    Ryan Hill

    ARTIST

    My name is Ryan Hill, an oil painter born and raised in the Seattle area. My area of interest is in plein air painting local scenery, urban and natural. As a child I took every opportunity to express my creativity, usually with colored pencils or clay. When I received my first oil paint set at age 12 I was transfixed and set out to fulfill my vision through this medium.

    My focus as I paint falls towards capturing natural light and the essence of a particular place. Each painting becomes a love letter, a meditation on seeing the plain truth of the familiar in a fresh and exciting fashion. The street corner you've driven by hundreds of times, the mountain view from your hometown, or the shape of a shoreline one might've walked along over the years. Faithful rendering of scenery with rich color and emotive brushwork are central to my efforts. My hope is to faithfully depict the unique time and space of the chosen subject.