{Timea Tihanyi, Chauney Peck, Susanna Bluhm}
The Seattle Design Center is its own planet. It is vast and strange, a land of furniture showrooms and interior designers. Do you wonder what SOIL is doing there?
Once upon a few months ago, the previous tenant of this 11,000 square foot space within the Center removed himself and all of his furniture in the middle of the night, so as to exit his rent contract. The SDC had several big Interior Design World events coming up (complete with Interior Design celebrities) which they did not want to host in a hugely empty, depressing space. So they asked SOIL to fill it with art. We had only a few weeks to mount this show, which will be up through the end of May. It is truly a vast museum-like space, with furniture store quirks and cubbies. Our residence there is an opportunity for SOIL to blossom in a way that is not normally possible in our tiny gallery in Pioneer Square.
{Ben Hirschkoff, Saya Moriyasu, Cable Griffith}
Most members have work included, some of which has not yet been shown. The grandness of the space, and the quantity and diversity of work, allows for gentle connections to be made. Sometimes there’s an echo of something across the way, or the sense of an improvisational response, that’s allowed to just be in the open space without being forced.
{Randy Wood, Joey Veltkamp}
Also, we are engaged in an ongoing drawing project near the front of the exhibition space. We’re drawing together and assembling stuff on the walls. It is messy and fun. This Saturday (April 24th) Saya Moriyasu and I will be drawing together from 2-6pm. Please stop by and say hello! Then from 6-9pm is the opening reception, where we will have light-colored wine and foods that will not stain the carpet.
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Seattle Design Center (in Georgetown)
5701 Sixth Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
Enter the “Plaza Building” on Orcas between 5th and 6th under the skybridge. Take the elevator to the first floor main lobby. Then go to the second floor, Suite 288.
Show runs through May 28th 2010.
Reception April 24th 6-9pm (music by the Phantom Sons at 8pm)
open hours: Monday – Friday 9-5pm
SOIL members present on Thursdays 11-4pm and on April 24th 10-9pm
Participating artists: Iole Alessandrini, Nola Avienne, Susanna Bluhm, Christopher Buening, Chris Engman, Curtis Erlinger, Cable Griffith, Ben Hirschkoff, Claire Johnson, Derrick Jefferies, Kirk Lang, Margie Livingston, Kiki MacInnis, Philip Miner, Saya Moriyasu, Nicholas Nyland, Chauney Peck, Adam Satushek, Timea Tihanyi, Joey Veltkamp, Randy Wood, Ellen Ziegler, Jennifer Zwick.
I wrote about my paintings here.
