It’s installation weekend for my site-specific work, Spinning Lines, which will be put together by a team of community volunteers this Saturday and Sunday! Installation for HOWL is underway as are all of these expansive exhibitions on all seven floors at the RailSpur location for Forest For The Trees.
Here are some of the artists, curators and organizers of Forest For The Trees, a multi-exhibition art event that will fill a newly renovated historic building in Pioneer Square with art and installations July 21-24. They include, from left, Dominic Nieri, Amanda Manitach, Christopher Derek Bruno, Julianne Johnson, Austin Bellamy Hicks, Moses Sun, Jordan West Monez, rubén garcía marrufo, Yuliya (Julia) Bruk, Lele Barnett, Joe Zaczyk, maximiliano, Erik Molano and Gage Hamilton. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
Read this great article from The Seattle Times by Gayle Clemans and Erika Shultz
AND this great article from Crosscut
And this great article from NW Asian Weekly
Forest For The Trees runs next week.
Thursday, July 21 - Sunday, July 24
12noon to 9pm daily.
Things continue to pick up as we near the opening of the four day run of this huge group exhibition. I am incredibly honored to be included in HOWL by curators Lele Barnett and Amanda Manitach.
Find us on floor 5!
At RailSpur in Pioneer Square; 419 Occidental Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104
Free and open to the public, this event is 21+
Spinning Lines
Both transparent and solid, this site-specific string installation addresses the circular nature of life while toeing the line between drawing and sculpture. Why is it that we make the same choices and walk the same paths? Sometimes we get stuck and forget we have a choice. The truth comes out in the saying "We are creatures of habit." The seemingly simplistic aesthetic evokes a personal search for each viewer leading toward introspection and our human tendency to repeat ourselves.
For HOWL I'm recreating my site-specific installation, Spinning Lines, with a community of non-binary and female-identifying people and allies. The corresponding durational performance Ruts of Repetition, performed by Bryon Carr, will happen daily. In addition there will be three performance events; during HOWL’S opening reception 7/21 and closing the show 7/24 from 7-9pm featuring arealists Amy Funbuttons and Rebekah Bastian dancing suspended in the installation for the last hour or until collapse. Visit my videos and perofmance page for more information on Spinning Lines (including process videos and how to join the flash mob on Friday). This summer is the 12 year anniversary of Spinning Lines and I am so excited to be revisiting it on the West Coast!