Seeing Place

07/24/2023

I made it into the Arts Innovator Cohort this year! I always try and apply. To all the applicants who throw themselves at this wall year after year, I am grateful I made it to the interview we all hope for. Stressed and clarified with 7 more artists now, whose work I get to see appearing around me with significance, I got to work through what I am doing, define and deliver it to my peers and superiors, in the biggest opportunity to cultivate the ideas I love.

Thank you Artist Trust for being supportive throughout this process, and the legacy of the Chihuly Foundation for continuing to provide this award. Congratulations to everyone got a solid application in, the cohort, and the two top dogs, Kassa Overall, who also received a Creative Capital award in 2023, and the baddass Tariqa Waters who installs her completed ideas at the highest level in our city.

🏆Kamari Bright, Jade Solomon Curtis, Sonora Jha, Troy Osaki, and Yixuan Pan.

03/10/2023

I would like to invite you to my gallery opening at the Paramount Theater on Thursday evening, March 16, to celebrate the spirit of theater and painting as seeing places, in the Greek Theatron.

As long as I have been painting, I have been able to race to the Paramount Theater for perceptions beyond what I was imagining. I modeled this scene in Maya, from the handicap seat where I continually reframe my mind.

The Illuvium paintings rise from an apeiron under structure, through a roiling aphros sea foam of creation, to forms we recognize as we ascribe meaning together in a dialectic propulsion forward.

This last year, I realized my efforts of the past decade, to build a 16 foot painting table for collaborations with strangers. With an Arts in Parks grant, we poured with friends, neighbors and outliers in Cal Anderson park. We also painted for three days with festival goers at the Thing in Port Townsend. After several iterations of the table design with Timothy and Patrick at Dolan Construction, we prepared the table to shoot a video on the Paramount stage, with the Seattle Theater Group crew, in blue anamorphic flares as creators in the arena of action.

We will be showing our video, and the first successful 16 foot collaboration in a frame, among the best I have to offer.

The gallery event begins at 7 PM. At 9 PM, we will move from the gallery to the lobby under the chandeliers, for an hour of ecstatic dance, with smoke, strobes and sound to see your skeleton. As a celebration of being together and offering art to one another, it will be a place to dress up, go beyond and perceive in other ways.

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