Speaking of Scott, who is from Whitworth College, the BFA Senior show is on at Saranac through the end of the month. Good show. Always interesting to see what is happening with emerging artists.
Speaking of Scott, who is from Whitworth College, the BFA Senior show is on at Saranac through the end of the month. Good show. Always interesting to see what is happening with emerging artists.
Check out the Peter Pan show, if you can (I think I'll be showing a piece in it, actually).
Wow, has it really been 5 months since my last post? It goes in spurts, I guess. I overcome the notion that no one is reading this stuff and get really ambitious about putting out a lot of posts. And maybe I'm not so busy that I can't spare some time to actually go view other people's art. But then...after awhile...I begin to lag behind. Other things happen:
- The start of third quarter grading and so lots of student projects to attend to.
- The sudden (albeit fleeting) appearance of the sun, prompting me to spend inordinate amounts of time contemplating my garden and attempting to get several dozen varieties of vegetables started in the indoor greenhouse.
- The realization that I will be showing work at Saranac in October and haven't done a dang thing for it yet.
- The surprising invitation to show at two other places before the Saranac show in October...for which I haven't done a dang thing...and thus now have several shows for which I need to do something.
- The death of a best friend, which set me on my haunches for awhile. Jeez that hurt. I miss you Melanie.
And so, here I am late in the evening when I ought to be sleeping. Finally, after 6 months, a new post. Maybe it will be the start of a new phase in posting. Too soon to tell...
I'm happy to know at least a few of the instructors, however, both through Saranac Art Projects and writing for Inlander. And I always have the best intentions to get out to the gallery in the hinterlands of Cheney, Washington (ok, not the hinterlands but in the winter the drive from North Idaho seems especially long). Maybe I'll get out there over winter break!In the meantime, here is a taste of Faculty Exhibition 2010, featuring:
Tom Askman
Mindy Breen
Greg DuMonthier
Adrian Freuen (shown above)
Jamie Hahn
Jenny Hyde (shown at right)
Lisa Nappa
Roger Ralston
James Scarcello
Garric Simonsen
Chris Tyllia
LocationThe Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is located in the Art building, situated in the center of the fine and performing arts complex on the south end of the EWU campus.
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Closed weekends and holidays.
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| Matt Frieburghaus |
Dave Beck
Jessica Westbrook
Adam Hinterlang
Richard O'Sullivan
Michal Brzinkski
Julian Palacz
Jason Bolte
Martins Rokis
Ron Lambert
Matt Frieburghaus
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| Richard O'Sullivan |
Jenny Hyde will present the works in the exhibition as well as discuss the use of digital media within fine art at Saranac Art Projects on Thursday Dec 9 at 6:30 pm.
About the Curator:
Jenny Hyde holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University in New York and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. Her work has been part of numerous Media Art Festivals and exhibitions nationally and abroad. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Eastern Washington University.
About Saranac Art Projects:
Hours: Thursdays & Fridays 12- 5 pm, Saturdays 12 – 8 pm
Located in the Community Building at 25 W. Main Street
I still remember my first glimpse at a Timothy Ely manuscript. It looked like an ancient artifact, perfectly preserved, as if from a time capsule. The pages--hand-tooled and bound--were covered in enigmatic characters and illustrations, flowing throughout the book like a river. Images spilled over the margins and into one another, not chaotically but intelligent-design like, secret code meant to direct us to another place, perhaps even another time.
This is the work of Tim Ely, whose Line of Sight exhibition caps a series of smaller exhibitions this year at Gonzaga University and Coeur d'Alene's The Art Spirit Gallery.
At the Museum of Arts and Culture, you can expect the unfurling of the widest range of Ely ephemera to date. From the MAC's Ben Mitchell:
- Nearly 50 unique, hand-made manuscripts (he doesn’t call them “books”) covering over 35 years of his work, and, a 1957 work, his earliest unique book mad when he was a youngster. We have borrowed works from over two dozen public and private collections for the show, (but not any of those major names above because those intuitional loans are prohibitively expensive).
- The centerpiece of the exhibition is an enormous graphic work—up to 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall—that Tim Ely will paint and draw directly onto the gallery’s south wall with a variety of projected forms, and with pigments, beautiful metal armatures, wire, and thread. This work, in essence an animated, open book, will exist only for the life of the exhibition.
- A selection of the artist’s sketchbooks which he has been working in daily since he was an undergraduate student.
- Over a dozen preliminary models for projects.
- A selection of his book-making studio tools, many of which are antiques.
- A selection of formative texts the artist has been referencing throughout his career, from as early as a mid-1950s pulp science fiction title that a teacher confiscated from him when he was a young student, to Tom Swift titles, comics, games, Isaac Asimov, Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, etc
- Our Solarium, adjacent to the gallery, will contain a graphic introduction to the extraordinary array of the subjects of his inquiry and art (see the attached Master List of Influences and Subjects), and photographs of the artist working in his studio. This component of the show will serve as a kind of map to Tim Ely’s unique mind.
Kota Ezawa has made a name for himself by taking the names...and images...of others and digitially remixing them, much like the early rappers. The result is comic, but not comical; often the images are wry commentaries on such things as race, social justice, stereotypes, and pop culture.
If this exhbition, which runs through December 5 at University of Idaho's Prichard Gallery, were just the digital pieces for which Ezawa is best known, then a drive to Moscow might be a little much. However, this display includes watercolor, digital projections and film. Unfortunatley, no etchings.
From University of Idaho's press room:
“Kota Ezawa is very adept at sorting through the accumulation of images and selecting particular moments that speak to the place media holds in society,” said Roger Rowley, director of the Prichard Art Gallery. “The way he transforms source images into their presentation format highlights the process by which images become part of our collective history.”
Ezawa focuses on the contrasting streams of information and media, and weaves together coherent and cohesive statements on the impact of media fragmentation. Images and videos become part of our consciousness through a continual sifting process. These images shape society's view of history and the importance of people or events in a given time period. Ezawa strips away the density of media information through a process of digital animation, heightening the importance of what remains.
This exhibition showcases the use of technology in parallel with traditional imaging techniques. It suggests there are alternative possibilities for the future, as long as the viewer can move beyond the blind submission of a surface reading of the images that bombard society every day and pay more attention to underlying content.
“There is a vapor-ish sense to all the images that swirl around us every day,” said Rowley. “A celebrity breakup, miraculous rescue or the latest crisis are kind of there, even when we aren’t looking. What Kota does gives significance to that presence and also accentuates the distance between us as receivers of images and the many forms of media producing those images.”
In addition to the exhibit, an artist talk will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in the University of Idaho Teaching and Learning Center, room 040. Ezawa will discuss his previous work and his current projects.
Ezawa was born in Cologne, Germany. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and his master’s of fine arts degree from Stanford University. His solo shows include Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, Murray Guy in New York, N.Y., and the Hayward Gallery in London, England. Group exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art in New York, N.Y., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif., Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France, as well as a showing in the Fifth Seoul International Biennale of Media Art in South Korea and the 2004 Shanghai Biennale in China. Ezawa received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003. Ezawa lives and works in San Francisco, Calif.
The Prichard Art Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The gallery is closed Monday. The gallery, an outreach facility of the University of Idaho, is located at 414/416 S. Main St., on the corner of Fifth and Main streets in downtown Moscow.
Admission is free. Additional information is available at www.uidaho.edu/galleries
And then there's that rare species capable of doing it in a way that seems effortless, so confident in every mark, every line and, in the case of Elaine Green, ever her erasures and rubbed out suggestions of shape and form.
There's something about Picasso that just knocks me out. Maybe it's the bit of trivia I still remember from high school days about his prolific output: "Adding up all the works he'd made in his lifetime equated to more than 1 per day of his artist career." Whether or not this is true is another matter entirely; what impressed me most was the truth to the adage about the WORK in artwork.
I also have come to appreciate just how inventive Picasso was/is. He was able to converse fluently in numerous different, parallel and yet equally fascinating visual languages. Exceptionally skilled at realism, he nonetheless delved into the esoterics of abstraction, excelling the artform to a standard that has held up in modern times like few others.
And Picasso was also fluent in multiple media, which suits my style of artmaking (no, I'm not comparing myself to a Picasso) in that an artist does not have to/should not have to be defined by what they "do," meaning paint, sculpt, photograph, etc. The media is not the message or the measure of the man; an artist can (and I believe should) explore things from multiple vantage points.
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Third Street Gallery is located at 206 E. Third Street, Moscow ID hours are M-F 8-5 pm.
For more information contact us at kbruns@ci.moscow.id.us or dscallorn@ci.moscow.id.us or call us at 208-883-7036.
Roger Ralston: I am investigating the line between implicit and explicitly created. I have looked through a number of lenses to find and to search out the possibilities of seeing, and looking.
One way I search out possibilities is walking. I am documenting my experience of the walks, and have assembled these as meditations on the experience. Many times the walks include reflections, and wanderings into memory. In videos I am working on, I am searching for a method to enable these experiences to be viewed.
ground (the environment). In four dimensions, time meets the moment to integrate with tactile and visual perceptual systems, shifting the figure to ground rhythm into a moment of difference within similarity.
Exterior surfaces merge with internal spaces of contemplation in an attempt to re-identify and reveal the transformative effect of moment-to-moment perception through still and moving imagery.
Dates: November 5-27, 2010
Reception: November 5, 5-8pm
Saranac Art Projects
25 W. Main Ave
Spokane, WA
Hours:
12-5 Thursday
12-8 Friday
12-5 Saturday
Reception: November 5, 5-8pm
Saranac Art Projects
25 W. Main Ave
Spokane, WA
Hours:
12-5 Thursday
12-8 Friday
12-5 Saturday
From his plein air experiences painting in Venice and Southern France, these are more exuberant, saturated, gooey with color and joy.
Artist's Reception: 5-9pm
TINMAN GALLERY LLC
811 West Garland Ave
Spokane WA 99205
509-325-1500
The Ninth Annual "Archie Bray" show at Kolva-Sullivan was definitely worth the slog through sooty, torn-up streets resulting from Spokane's current reinvention of the Second Avenue area. What these exceptional artists do with clay is nothing short of amazing, and a testimony to the necessity and vitality of structured or critical review of one's work.
ON TO TERRAIN
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| Austin Stiegemeyer |
I knew a fellow educator's son had work there (shown at right) but wasn't prepared for how strong his work was. Way to go Austin. I'd be thrilled to think he learned at least some of that from his high school art teacher, the incredibly-talented and so-much-more-even-tempered-than-myself, Mary Maxam.
And, following in no particular order, are other works that struck me. I could kick myself for not having a pen to write down names. But the images made an impression.
Saranac Symposium podcast PART ONE
Saranac Symposium podcast PART TWO
Click here to listen to the podcast of the Visual Arts Symposium from Saranac organized by our own Scott Kolbo. Good conversations.
You might not think watching someone draw is all that exciting, but it is. It's the creative process unfolding, stroke by stroke. It's the sound of creativity, in exhalations, sighs, pauses and the scuffing and sliding across the page that results in the final image. It's the feel of creativity, and even more so, of technique, a kind of tension that exists in the delicate balance between artist and subject, and even the onlooking audience.
Art in the Making will take place in the Cda Resort Plaza and features artists like Victoria Brace, Terry Lee and Pat Parsons. 1-4pm, free admission. Sponsored by our friends at The Art Spirit Gallery.
And part of the overall arts festivities for Art from the Heart. For more info, click here.
Normally I don't go to Spokane for First Friday but the weather was fine and it was time. Glad I did. What a weekend of art!
Last night the Saranac Arts Project cooperative gallery (25 W. Main) was host to the first-ever panel discussion on the state of the arts in Spokane. Great questions, probably more than answers, and great conversations about what is working and what still can be done to improve the visibility and viability of the visual arts in Spokane,
The panel consisted of Kolva-Sullivan owner, Jim Kolva, artist Chris Dreyer, artist/professor and KYRS Readymade Radio host, Bernadette Vielbig, and myself. It was moderated by Whitworth professor and fellow Saranac artist, Scott Kolbo.
We had no idea how many would show and were pleasantly surprised to find both gallery sections filled with people who came to listen and contribute to the overall conversation. Even though I live in Idaho, I enjoy being part of the Spokane arts scene and continue to be impressed with how many varied avenues there are for artists:
- Spokane Arts Commission, so ably commanded on a shoestring budget by Karen Mobley
- RiverSpeak and other digital/online forums like it
- Terrain, now in its third year and, judging by this year's work, a growing force in the emerging artist scene
- Colleges and Universities, including Whitworth, WSU, EWU and definitely SFCC/SCC
- A lot of spaces--both formal galleries and arts-supporting businesses--that encourage the arts
- And the artists themselves, resilient as ever, doing everything from creating their own exhibition opportunities, to writing grants, to working with kids, to participating in events like the panel discussion.
Wish North Idaho had something similar...
If you haven't seen Drawn to the Wall at Gonzaga yet, where have you been? Great exhibition. All interesting and powerful work.
And central to the space is Michael Horswill's mind-blowing stark charcoal "Earth Machines" image, part of ongoing work that will be shown in October at The Art Spirit Gallery.
There is something powerful that happens when a sculptor unleashes form in a two-dimensional way and that potency is exactly what Horswill's work brings. The tension in the line is like finely twisted wire, the density of charcoal is the cool weight of steel in your hand.
Through November 6.
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