Lines & Community: Sculpture by Warren Pope

March 17–April 26, 2025

Warren Pople, Incarcerated in My Own Skin

Families and homes. Inequity and intolerance. The characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun face racism head on as they seek their own home and the illusive American Dream. The impact of redlining on their lives is a powerful exploration of how we separate each other in ways that counter the very idea of community.

Seattle artist Warren Pope has explored the topic of redlining frequently in his sculptural work that combines “visual narratives utilizing a minimalist style of directness for various complex cultural commentaries.” His exhibition, Blood Lines, Time Lines, Red Lines, opened at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle in 2019, telling the story of the impact of redlining on the neighborhoods of Seattle.

Warren was born in Munich, Germany to a Czech mother and an African American father. He and his two brothers were both “ridiculed and beloved by their communities for their art and outward connection to social equality and justice.” Like many military children, Warren was “exposed to cultural differences, social customs, and awkward experiences of acceptance and domestic indifference” as they moved their home around the country and the world.

Warren’s mother, Ann Pope, sparked his artistic interests while his father’s family educated him on his American and African ancestry.

Instead of bedtime stories, my mother would draw illustrations with wild imaginative plots that began the foundation of my creative, conceptual, and artistic thinking. 

Warren Pope is an alum of the University of Puget Sound and has lived in Seattle for over 30 years. His career has involved 20 years of graphic art dealership associated with the Mack Gallery and environmental design landscaping. His art has been shown by galleries including the American Art Company, Gallery Mack, Koch Gallery, Whitman College Stevens Gallery, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seagull Gallery, and Fogue Gallery. His motto has always been, “it’s not what you do, but the company that you do it with”.

All items are for sale unless marked by a red dot or NFS. To contact the artist, visit his instagram page for purchase inquiries and to view more of his work.

­— Gina Cavallo, Curator & Director of Development, Taproot Theatre