Slideluck CoCAShow
September 4 - October 3
Artist Reception: September 4, 5-7pm
CoCA will be hosting the SlideLuck CoCAShow in September in collaboration with the Seattle chapter of SlideLuck PotShow. This art house version of the popular photography slide show will feature 2 events. The first event is an exhibition of photography and artwork by artists.
Featuring Artists:
Stan Raucher, Shannon Welles, Miriam Ginsberg, Kate Sawyer, Thomas Wurst, Wendy Johnson, Jenny Sampson, Heather Passmore, Alexandra Roxo, Erin Sweeny, Owen Richards, Gabrielle Fine, Susanne Peterson
Scott Ezell: Carbon Rings
September 2008
Artist Reception: September 3, 7-9 pm. Above the gallery at Avenue One.
Seattle artist, poet, and musician Scott Ezell combines his poem-cycle "Carbon Rings" with his painted response to the New York Times website coverage commemorating the five year anniversary of the US war in Iraq. The result is a human and humanizing response to the electric information and mechanical destruction which are a substructure of contemporary life.
Spectacle of Improbable Creatures
A Surrealistic Manifesto by Robin Oliver
October 2008
Reception above the gallery at Avenue One.
Robin Oliver has created a world inhabited by creatures simultaneously familiar and enigmatic. Their world is defined by beautifully intricate drawings and paintings, but the creatures themselves have moved beyond the picture plane into our world, and hauntingly peer back at us as we examine them. Speechless as they may be, the stories that they nevertheless tell will make you shiver a little. Just in time for Halloween!
Paul Tonnes: New Work
November 2008
Reception above the gallery at Avenue One.
Seattle photographer Paul Tonnes has ventured into a new media series using giclee, encaustic, metal, and mixed media, exploring the subject of wounds and healing.
Mark Lindsay: New Work
December 2008
Reception above the gallery at Avenue One.
Marc's work travels across all media and ranges from digital photography to sculpture and painting. He often deploys a printing technique to develop lines with texture which he subsequently applies to various surfaces (metal, glass, canvas). With a series of primal images that verges on 'scribbling', he has developed an 'alphabet' of characters which he recently traced back to his earliest childhood drawings.
Marc's work has been widely exhibited in the Seattle area, but not for some time. The artist is currently returning from a hiatus due to blindness. Lindsay has recovered a small percentage of vision in his right eye, and has re-engaged in the creation of art in his Portland studio with much gusto.
