Larry Bob Phillips
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 19:56 — 0 Comments
It is difficult to visually depict memory. It’s not until sleep that our brains siphon through the massive amount of information that fills our heads in a waking day. And, even after the cataloging efforts of sense-making we are left with multi-layered snapshots which evoke in most part emotional reactions to sights, smells and sounds. A memory of a street corner can contain an overall sense of space, mixed perspectives, tear outs and clippings, of figures, shadows, smells, colors, lines, animals or trash all of which seem to be scattered on top of each other. Memory is not linear. The […]
Cynthia Brinich-Langlois
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 17:27 — 0 Comments
The concept of the undisturbed landscape is foreign to most in Western culture. Yet it is our human desire to find and conquer space, to claim land. With so little left to fence and flag we currently find ourselves looking to outer space, reaching out to discover and ultimately claim that which is outside our earthly boundaries. In Sanguine Estates, a series of mixed media prints, Cynthia Brinich-Langlois explores aspects of this concept. In particular she invites us to imagine our life on Mars, quite possibly our closest hope. Crater Neighbors Serigraph and Color Pencil 22″ x 30″ Bubble House […]
The Way Thought Moves
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 15:59 — 1 Comment
I recently had a conversation with the poet Caleb Thompson about the difficulty of “following a thought,†of moving logically from a preposition to a conclusion. He had been reading quite a few essays and was perhaps feeling awed by the talent these writers possessed of cutting through the static of daily “thought.†I replied that good essays are not an accurate record of a mind in motion—the literary equivalent of Muybridge’s photographs might be the Surrealists’ practice of automatic writing—the mind works through tangents, association, gaps, false memory, distraction. An essay that is well-structured, revelatory, and dense with meaning […]
Colette-Yasi Naraghi
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 19:57 — 0 Comments
Chicago 2008, Silver Gelatin Print St. Louis 2008, Silver Gelatin Print Berlin 2010, Silver Gelatin Print Berlin 2010, Silver Gelatin Print Berlin 2010, Silver Gelatin Print Montréal 2011, Silver Gelatin Print
Façade: Paintings by Andrew D. Moeller
Monday, January 9, 2012 20:31 — 1 Comment
Who doesn’t love staring at a brick wall? I do it every day as I’m trying to write. I look out my window at the apartment building across the street, which is laughably similar to a couple of Andrew Moeller’s paintings below. The ubiquity of mid-level, block apartments in my neighborhood in Seattle drew me to these paintings, which at first seem like a stark presentation of conventionality, an updated version of the white picket fence, etc. But then I got to thinking about the characters who populate the bland buildings in my neighborhood: hoarders, students, bros, barflies, creeps, debutantes. […]
Monarch in Glorious Physicality
Sunday, November 6, 2011 23:23 — 2 Comments
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our debut print edition! Soon it will be available in bookstores all across Seattle, but for now you can order through our home page. If you want the full physical effect (free from digital mediation of any sort), please join us for our release party, November 20th, 8:00-11:00pm at The Pub at 3rd Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE (on the corner of 65th and 20th). We’ll have plenty of copies waiting (sans shipping charges). Jim Brantingham, Rebecca Hoogs, Rebecca Bridge, Jed Myers, Zac Hill, Jason Whitmarsh and Julie Larios will read their inspiring […]
Mary Laube
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 23:14 — 0 Comments
When I first saw Mary Laube’s paintings in Studio Visit (volume fourteen), they felt familiar in a way that I couldn’t put my finger on. At first they seemed occupied with formal explorations of depth and deception, geometric space, and intricate patterning. They are hard edged or “emotionally distant,” as Laube puts it, so they obliquely delve into their subject: home, or the complex of emotion, memory, and daydreaming that pervade the architecture of home. The void of narrative is filled by your own memory or daydreaming, because, as Gaston Bachelard mused in The Poetics of Space: “There exists for each one […]
Mad About Mad: Why Mad Homes Disappoints – Lauren Klenow
Monday, August 1, 2011 13:39 — 5 Comments
During a recent discussion at Gage Academy of Art, executive director Pamela Belyea guided students through the daunting task of how to price their artwork. One of Belyea’s primary points is that Seattle is a third-tier art market; behind New York and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Miami, our collector base just can’t compete with the deep pockets of our neighbors to the east and south.
Residence
Saturday, July 30, 2011 21:42 — 0 Comments
Seattle artists Chris Engman and Chauney Peck are moving to LA, and having a farewell show at Tim Cross‘s residence (522 Valley St. Seattle, WA 98109) from 5-11pm. Jason Hirata and Rumi Koshino will also present work, although they will stay right here in Seattle.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
