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Grow Me A Boat With Tessa Hulls.

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:17:23 +0000

Tomorrow night, March 12th, Tessa Hulls has a solo show at the Greenwood Collective’s Gallery, Urban Light Studios! Grow Me A Boat will feature new works by Hulls, which might look dainty from afar, but actually feature some really bold applications of paint, used together with inventive characters and a delicious color palette.

Works That Disturb, At Alphonse Berber Gallery.

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Works That Disturb is an exhibition that continues through March 27th, 2010 at the Alphonse Berber in Berkeley, California. It certainly features some disturbing, wonderful things.

Annie McKnight’s Untitled features bracelets made of… taxidermied mice.

“Kim Ye’s living sculptures connect artist and model, work and world in a collaborative act of animation. Crafted of silk, nylon, latex, wire and wood, Ye’s costume-like constructions appear in two incarnations during the exhibition. At the opening reception, live models step into the sculptures and confront spectators as artifacts from a post-human game of Pygmalion and Galatea. Afterward, like so many snake-skins, the works are displayed without their human centers - a metamorphosis that leaves them “unpeopled” and alterior. Like Yves Klein’s anthropometries or the plaster ghosts of Pompeii’s last inhabitants, Ye’s constructions effect an anthropomorphic apophasis; they invoke the human body only to affirm its impermanence.” - Alphonse Berber Press Release

Other works include Angie Crabtree’s Crucified Comfort, which shows Jesus with um, his penis out, and photographs on death and dying.

This Week In Tumblr: February 28th, 2010!

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:54:11 +0000

Langdon Graves gentle, somewhat off-kilter drawings.

Louie Cordero’s Having Reached Climax at Age 28 … I am a zombie — made of styrofoam, acrylics, and cement, 2006.

Amborama on Flickr.

Michael Kenna’s Quixote’s Giants, Study 2, 1998

Paul Ulrich

Thought Processor Show - Urban Light Studios

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:21:38 +0000

Halogen Gallery has paired up with The Greenwood Collective and Urban Light Studios to put together this really fun toy and paintingfinstallation show featuring some notable locals and non-locals. The show, entitled Thought Processor, is a rotating show. Here’s the Seattle round-up:

Untitled by Aaron Jasinki

Untitled by Augie Pagan

Now through March 4th, 2010!

It’s The Year Of The Tiger; It’s The Thrill Of The Buy…

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:26:33 +0000

Alright, Chinese New Year has come and gone, but on display now at the Munky King are some Chinese New Year-inspired works, including this one, by Martin Hsu!

About it, Hsu says:

“I wanted to show that Tigers bring kids infinite happiness and vice versa.”

Guess that’s what the outstretched arms are for!

Print-Your-Own Christopher Davison Print!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:11:28 +0000

It’s easy for artists to be really sketched out about sending around 300dpi images of their works, because 300dpi is print quality; anyone who gets their hands on a 300dpi image can print a copy of an artist’s work.

Luckily for art lovers, Christopher Davison is not too concerned with this issue. In fact, he welcomes it. As of yesterday, he made this particular piece from his Disasters Are People Too series. Check it:

Sculpture Garden (Study Alone) — DOWNLOAD HERE

And here is an older piece:

Christ’s Descent Into Hell — DOWNLOAD HERE

Davison has 18 new pieces available on his website as well, if you’re down to take a look!

Mark Mulroney’s Murals & Sketches.

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:02:24 +0000

Artist Mark Mulroney can be extremely crude, with fluids and body parts galore, but that only serves to add character to his fascinating murals and sketchbook illustrations. This particular series of murals below interests me because of their atypical use of shape and space. It’s extremely uncomfortable, but that’s what makes it work. (His website is also very uncomfortable. I’m not sure if it works, but I guess it does, since I’m linking it. Here.)

This Week In Tumblr: February 21st, 2010!

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:08:37 +0000

Jonathan Zawada takes some age-old surrealistic influences and adds some mythical creature all up in them.

Fenk’s photography certainly captures the vibrance of life…

Heather Jansch’s horse might look like the Bodies Exhibit gone animal, but it’s actually made out of driftwood! Thank god!

One of Ray Caesar’s common characters seems to give up the ghost in a glowing, gold leaf-lined kind-of-way.

Huskmelk goes nuts with designs for Michael Jackson-related prints, and this might be our favorite from them.

Hannah Stouffer Blik Graphics!

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:56:48 +0000

I dare say this might be bit intense of a graphic to hang on your wall, but that doesn’t mean this Blik Graphic by Hannah Stouffer, entitled Darkest Night, doesn’t really, really rock. It’s almost Escher-ish in its lines… minus the skulls and shadows, of course. Buy that design and more here. (And below is a slightly more commonly appropriate piece available by Stouffer!)

Troy Gua! Fulcrum Gallery! Closing Reception! TONIGHT!

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:52 +0000

Head over to the Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma tonight for the closing night of Monument, Troy Gua’s current amazing show exploring the effects of war on, well, the human body. There’s also an artist talk going on tonight, which should be interesting. Reception starts at 6:00pm, but though it’s the closing reception, closing night isn’t until March 13th! Be confused!

Gua says:

“This installation is my memorial to loss. I’m not a soldier I have never seen war. How do we reconcile this experience? How do we grieve loss?”