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Posts Tagged "Crawl Space Gallery"
As promised here is another installment of who is TARL and why is TARL. A very smart and beautiful young woman named Jessica Powers is a founding member of this up-and-coming-sure-to-stretch-your-brainz art collective. Read her profile and get to know her, you might be lucky enough to love her as much as we do. If you want to check out what Jessica and TARL are up to and whet your appetite for their New Year’s Eve hi-jinx then you should definitely attend an exhibition they are hosting this Saturday! I will include all the info at the end of this profile. JESSICA POWERS TO-THE-MAX What skill do you want to learn? Food and drink you don’t want to live without? The scariest thing you can think of? Your favorite party supply? Your favorite book of the moment? Describe your dream party place. What is the evil version of you like? What gives you confidence? Name four essential elements of a good party. What do you appreciate most about a party host? Favorite adventure supply? Describe the best party you ever attended. Hotel room or campsite? Do you have a style icon? Where is your next adventure destination? If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what Your motto? What is your spirit animal?
P.S. “TARL hosts an exhibition by Vancouver artists Raymond Boisjoly and Ryan Peter, on view at 1447 21st Ave in Seattle, with an artist talk at Western Bridge preceding the opening.
Using a specious art historical reference as their starting point, Raymond + Ryan have created a wooden dinosaur sculpture with a sound component, a text piece, and a series of collages for their exhibition, THIS IS THE FUTURE, the Rest is History. Mistaking the part for the whole, they have replaced the idea with its realization–the work itself. Indexing the creative possibilities of misreading, Raymond + Ryan seek to find what was never there in the first place. Raymond Boisjoly + Ryan Peter have been working together on their sometimes nameless collaboration since 2008. Their practice concerns the various guises of objects and materials within contemporary art and popular culture and has included works in sculpture, video, and installation. Artist Talk Opening Reception Exhibition
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Go to Crawl Space Gallery for a totally excellent gallery experience. Makes a great date! NO CHASM, NO CLEFT 12 September – 11 October 2009 OPENING RECEPTION Saturday 12 September, 6-9pm
The opening will be the first solo show by new-ish artist member Brendan Jansen, see his video works and chalk drawings. “For his solo at Crawl Space, Jansen explores the space between pre-mediated experience and the choices that presuppose modes of depiction. As his title alludes—referring by way of negation to the location where ancient Greek oracles tapped into the unseen, mysterious, and infinite—Jansen is searching for new ways of conceiving or understanding the world by breaking down the photograph, the most prevalent archetype of representation in the present day. Although the work in the show makes use of several photographic processes such as recording, scanning, slicing, editing and projecting, combined together in several unique techniques, Jansen captures not only the flat appearances of the picture plane but also structural information from multiple and fixed viewpoints. The work is also premised on the notion that how we choose to represent what engages us in the world is inextricably linked to how we understand our place in reference to it, conscious of the limitations of our points of view. Brendan Jansen was born in the Los Angeles area and grew up in the suburbs outside of Seattle. He studied art at the University of Washington and received an MFA in painting at Indiana University. Crawl Space is a nonprofit artist-run exhibition space dedicated to cultivating innovative artwork by early career artists. Since opening our doors in 2003, Crawl Space has presented new works by more than 150 artists, at no charge to a public audience of over 5,000″. Booyah! AND as always . . . it’s FREE!
Everyone knows that we are huge fans of Crawl Space Artist-Run gallery on Capitol Hill. SO this weekend in between praying for sun and seeing Wolverine and buying SIFF ticket packages, make sure to head there for the opening this weekend. They are generally ruckus affairs with some good fashion and possible faux tattoo application opportunities. We will see you there at High Living! More information below straight from the horse’s mouth . . . HIGH LIVING Buddy Bunting’s work has been shown widely in Seattle including exhibitions at Soil Gallery, Consolidated Works, and Lawrimore Project, as well as, PS122 and Artists Space in New York. He has received grants from 4culture, Artist Trust, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 504 E Denny Way #1
at Crawl Space Gallery for their new show Call and Response curated by Jeffry Mitchell. The show will be showing you many dudes: OPENING RECEPTION Saturday 28 March, 6-9pm It will be reallllly ruling. Jeffry Mitchell is very nice and so is Crawl Space, so it’s like BFF-chic. But don’t take my werd for it, check out what Crawl Space has to say . . . “Crawl Space is pleased to present its third annual Centennial Exhibition, juried and curated by renowned artist Jeffry Mitchell. The exhibition features ten artists from the Pacific North West working in a variety of mediums, as well as a piece by the juror himself. Mitchell is therefore acting as both artist and curator, and we were interested to see how these roles might influence the composition of the show. Instead of an overall theme emerging from the submissions, Mitchell saw relationships forming between pairs of works or between two artists’ practices. CALL AND RESPONSE features five selected couplings that challenge, answer or echo each other through subject matter, historical reference or material. The concept of the exhibition is revealed further as Jeffry Mitchell recounts his thoughts as he selected the works: A feather, a skull, the moon and stars, a man (?) and half a lady, crystals and sequins and the grandchildren of Piero Manzoni and Allan Kaprow. There’s something about magic, Hippie magic, and the way the LOVE CHILDREN freed them selves from the cross and sought spiritual expression through ancient forms other than the Christian one that resonates through this show for me. It’s very much my story, and the story I look for. It’s the story that I can’t help but see and although I claim that each pair of works in this show found each other on their own, the instant I see these works I bring stories to each of them, helplessly, naturally. Jeffry Mitchell is a sculptor, printmaker, painter and conceptual artist who references a wide spectrum of art history and decorative arts. Jeffry Mitchell has had solo shows at the Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Diverseworks, Houston, TX, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC and the Seattle Art Museum. His works are in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Seattle Art Museum among others”. In sum, see you tomorrow. Everybody get free. Also, do you guys want to shotgun some beers in the courtyard?
On November 17, 2007 influential art collectors, curators, artists and art celebrities gathered together for a night of sequined and feathered debauchery including art, food, drinks and dancing to benefit Crawl Space Gallery. DJs Sam Rousso Soundsystem and DJ Glitterpants and played enthusiastic tunes as Monika MoSure applied psychedelic glam warrior face paint to all those interested. Attendees sipped on 15 years worth of exquisite wines from a private wine cellar and documented their looks in a photo booth constructed by Crawl Space Gallery Director, Anne Mathern. The girls of Shimmy Deluxe served ‘cockatiels’ and Hors d’Å“uvres to such Seattle notables as Jim Harris, Greg Lundgren, and John Behnke. This fundraiser was hosted by Seattle Art Museum Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary art Michael Darling, internationally recognized video art pioneer Gary Hill, and The Crawl Space Booster Club Kids Jim and Molly O’Donnell, Betsey Brock, Eric Frederickson and Greg Kucera. The Adventure School helped raise over $10,000 for Crawl Space Gallery from internationally known arts philathropists Bill and Ruth True, John and Charlotte Behnke, Jon and Mary Shirley.
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