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See you tomorrow 2009, Crawl Space Gallery, Gretchen Bennett, Jeffry Mitchell, Seattle, the adventure school

at Crawl Space Gallery for their new show Call and Response curated by Jeffry Mitchell.

The show will be showing you many dudes:
Gretchen Bennett, Jamey Braden, Matthew Cox, Dorian Dyer, Sol Hashemi, Jeffry Mitchell
Jenevive Nykolak, Chauney Peck, Jack Ryan, Sonya Stockton, Brett Walker

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday 28 March, 6-9pm
Talk by curator Jeffry Mitchell at 7:30pm

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 CALL AND RESPONSE features five selected couplings that challenge, answer or echo each other through subject matter, historical reference or material.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?