My permanent public artwork installation, We Are All Immigrants, located at the Downtown Redmond Link Light Rail Station in Redmond, Washington. The project is through STart: Sound Transit Art Program. Each panel of the five panels is six feet x 12 feet, created in porcelain on steel, and elevated on a ~15-foot pillar. The station opened on May 10, 2025.
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Below is a sample of my designs for permanent public artwork at the Link Light Rail Station in downtown Redmond. The project is through STart: Sound Transit Art Program. Each panel was made by Winsor Fireform, and is six feet x 12 feet, created in porcelain on steel, and elevated on a ~15-foot pillar. The station opened on May 10, 2025.
Planned installation for five, 6-foot x 12-foot porcelain on steel panel for the downtown Redmond Link Light Rail Station.
Design for a 6-foot x 12-foot porcelain steel panel for the downtown Redmond Link Light Rail Station. Pictured here are two members of the organization Ethiopian Community in Seattle.
Design for a 6-foot x 12-foot porcelain steel panel for the downtown Redmond Link Light Rail Station. Pictured here are two members of the Ethiopian Community organization in Seattle. Pictured here are a mother and daughter who participate in a classical Indian troupe.
“My portrait of an immigrant mother and her children coming through Ellis Island in the 1900s, and my portrait of a reunion of members of the Ethiopian Community in Seattle were selected by U.S. Ambassador Nathalie Rayes for inclusion in Made in America—An Immigrant Story, a 2024 exhibition at the U.S. Embassy in Croatia, located in Zagreb, Croatia, through the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department. A PDF version of the catalog is here.
Mother and Children at Ellis Island, early 1900s, 2022, ink, watercolor, gouache on paper, 30” x 22”.
From the Portraits of Immigrant Women series.
Reunion of Members of the Ethiopian Community in Seattle, 2020, ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper
“Inherit the Whirlwind, a two-person show from Malaya & Tom Gormally storms into Kirkland Arts Center May 16-June 25, 2025. Addressing our current zeitgeist, the exhibit features drawings and largescale sculptures from Tom done in his pointed, sometimes humorous socio-political commentary, and pairs them with Malayka’s touching and poignant paintings of immigrants both past and present.”
A terrific 14-minute video about Into the Whirlwind created by Jeremy Hurd, Kirkland Art Center Gallery Manager
Drawings of the Ethiopian immigrant community (left), French-speaking West African community (center), and the Indian immigrant community (right) in the Puget Sound region. Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Malayka’s drawings are made possible, in part, by an Art Projects Grant from 4Culture, King County, Washington. Photo: Mark Woods.
Drawings of immigrants applying for United States citizenship at the International Rescue Center office in Seattle (center wall). Paintings of street protests (left wall) and drawings of immigrants participating in protests against the immigration ban (right wall). Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Malayka’s drawings are made possible, in part, by an Art Projects Grant from 4Culture, King County, Washington. Photo: Mark Woods.
Drawings of immigrants applying for United States citizenship at the International Rescue Center office in Seattle (detail). Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Malayka’s drawings are made possible, in part, by an Art Projects Grant from 4Culture, King County, Washington. Photo: Mark Woods.
(Left) Immigrant drawings. (Center) Don’t Tread on Me, 2017, oil on canvas, 48” x 48”. (Right) Signs, 2017, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”. Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Photo: Mark Woods.
From left to right on the wall, Women/Mujeres, Collaborators, Last Summer, Summer Travels, Young Couple, and Sleepwalking. Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art.
Drawings of immigrants participating in protests against the immigration ban. Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Photo: Mark Woods.
(Left) Barriers, 2017, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”. (Right) May Day, 2017, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”. Part of the 2021 exhibition Present/Tense: Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings by Tom and Malayka Gormally at the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. Photo: Mark Woods.
Now available for purchase: the exhibition catalog for the 2019 two-person exhibit Present / Tense at the Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA. Click here to purchase the catalog.