amy hamblin
diem chau
jennifer mayeda
margie livingston
michael ottersen
robert campbell
sean johnson
tim brown
and a work on loan by vija celmins
the three-dimensional line
Venue to be annouced.
Stay tuned.
"I did have a strong gut feeling from the beginning ... and that was wanting to be able to make sculpture that didn't have an inside."
Fred Sandback
The Three-Dimensional Line presents eight artists who conjure volume, dimension, scale, emotion and illusion with line, either on a page or in the gallery space. The exhibit explores the creation of three-dimensional form in the space of a room or in the mind of a viewer.
In an effort to make sense of the world, the eye and the mind navigate between two and three dimensions, using what are sometimes the barest visual clues. And the humor and mischievous play apparent in this work exemplifies the power that artists can harness to compel and confound the viewer. A perceptual game ensues; we feel our neurons firing.
The show's concept was inspired by the work of Fred Sandback, whose work evoked place or volume in its full materiality without occupying or obscuring it. He spoke of "wanting to be able to make sculpture that didn’t have an inside", to "play with something both existing and not existing at the same time".
Artists exhibiting are Amy Hamblin, Diem Chau, Jennifer Mayeda, Margie Livingston, Michael Ottersen, Robert Campbell, Sean Johnson, and Timothy Brown, and a work on loan by Vija Celmins.
The exhibit is curated by Ellen Ziegler and Susan Zoccola
Crud
{ embodiment, pollution, infestation, decay, metamorphosis, and the transformations of time }
Nola Avienne, Claire Putney, Timea Tihanyi, Ellen Ziegler and Susan Zoccola
Exhibit runs June 7 - July 1 , 2007
Gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5 pm
SOIL Gallery 112 3rd Avenue South, Seattle
206 264 8061
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Seattle Weekly: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-06-20/arts/soil-gallery-s-crud-makes-for-small-conversation.php
Artdish: http://www.artdish.com/blog/default.asp
The Stranger: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=247539
"Dead squirrel in bird feeder. Thought of you."
Email from a friend to artist Susan Zoccola
CRUD assembles work that reaches its formal and emotional power through an evocation of change, decay, infestation, pollution, metamorphosis and the transformations of time. It presents artists who go beyond the seductiveness of material or the mere manipulation of emotions to integrated and powerful work. Often that work references the body and its processes, as the body can be the source of our most intimate ambivalence.
Nola Avienne’s captivating, peculiar and puzzling work has deep emotional content and literal attraction, due to its use of rare earth magnets and iron filings. The internal workings of blood and circulation portrayed in Timea Tihanyi’s Andreas’ Tree are precariously held together by thousands of little threads, stitches and connections, reminiscent of the complex structures of tissues in the body. Drawings of nascent beings from Ellen Ziegler’s Chemistry is the Emotion of Matter series are seared into and from the paper, leaving surfaces that could be decay, disease or erosion.
Susan Zoccola voyages through the nervous system with her webs of ambiguous materials, magnifying the microscopic so we can peer into our neurons. And the hair drawings of Claire Putney epitomize the discomfort and fascination engendered by finding parts of the body in unexpected, perhaps inappropriate places.
As in Joseph Beuys’ use of fat and felt, the hair sculpture of Petah Coyne and Wenda Gu, Kiki Smith’s body meditations, the dropping sunflower seeds of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings, and Tim Hawkinson’s giant digestive system, these works exemplify (sometimes literally) a visceral engagement with ideas, emotion and materials characterized by attraction and revulsion, beauty and creepiness.
Nola Avienne and Claire Putney both graduate from the University of Washington’s MFA program this June. Originally trained as a doctor in Hungary, Timea Tihanyi now teaches in the Art Department at the U.W. Her most recent solo show was at Bellevue Community College’s new gallery. Susan Zoccola balances her studio work with a continued involvement in private and public art commissions, currently at the new Seattle Aquarium. Ellen Ziegler, the show’s curator, is focusing on a year-long series of drawings, Chemistry is the Emotion of Matter, and is showing this month at LIMN Gallery in San Francisco.