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Recent in Origin: a visual anthem for the wet frontier
(wet: refers to the human organism, i.e. wetware vs. hardware or software)
Includes:
Mary Gross-paintings
Meghan Trainor-paintings/installation
Chris Putnam-text anthem
Joseph Dierker-sound
Ben Beres-installation
Opening:
Saturday, May 4, 2002
6-10pm
secluded alley works
113 12th avenue (12th & Yesler)
www.secludedalleyworks.org
206.839.0880
Statement:
Using traditional forms, we will explore contemporary objects/themes
that carry
specific insinuatory power for each of us. These will act as
guideposts for each of us in our need to absorb and transmit the
emerging elements that make up the contemporary world and range from the
mundane, like tea kettles, street noise and iv stands, to the delicate,
like chromosomes and cells, to the technological, like machines and
robots. Tools will include abstraction and disembodiment of visual,
aural, and semantic archetypes, as well as the presentation of an iconic
vocabulary which creates a sense of familiarity with forms of the modern
world, meaning, for the most part, the 20th century, and invoking the
idea modern as it occurs today as well as in the past. The result is the
breakdown of iconic forms, through repetition and sterilization, and
creation of the word anthem, which will define "wet frontier" as a
celebratory moniker that intends to regain hope for the word progress
and our understanding of the possible trajectories of our constantly
evolving world.
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