October 2010 / Repercussions: Tides & Time
Jason Urban
Desktop Mountaintop, 2010
Digital output on cardboard
70" x 64" x 12"
Leslie Mutchler
Green Space / Outer Space (Space Junk) 2010
Somerset Digital Print
40" x 80"
Shawn Records
Untitled - from the series Harbor, 2008
Archival Inkjet Print
18" x 22.5"
Curator / Alex Emmons
Repercussions: Tides & Time
Rebecca Cummins, Amze Emmons, Mark Klett, John Mann, Kevin Miyazaki, Leslie Mutchler, M. Alexis Pike, Shawn Records, Margaret Stratton, Filippo Tagliati, Jason Urban, Ian van Coller, Angela Franks Wells, Byron Wolfe
October 06 – 31, 2010
Reception / Thursday, October 07, 6–8pm
Curator’s Talk / Saturday, October 16, 2–3pm
Repercussions: Tides & Time is a travelling curated exhibition which surveys the ways contemporary artists document place and time. Incorporating video, print, painting, installation, sculpture, and photography, this exhibition highlights the various approaches by 14 different artists that utilize locative and temporal concepts. Working closely with each artist, I have selected a few key pieces from their larger bodies of work to survey how these artists are recording elements that best embodies a generative, reflective gaze on their surroundings.
Filippo Tagliatti's Tokyo: River City is a video that presents multiple, beehive like views of a present-day apartment complex in Japan, creating a mosaic of multithreaded juxtapositions. From Austin, Texas, Leslie Mutchler exhibits a large-scale digital print from her Green Space series that insinuates and draws the viewer to the mystery present in the cosmic and microcosmic. From his project Camp Home, Kevin J. Miyazaki retraces his father's family history through a myopic view, fusing the details from a housing development in Tule Lake, California that alludes to its personal relevance as a former Japanese interment campsite. Rebecca Cummins presents a new sculptural time piece, Dog Dial, which traces moments through three-dimensional space. Jason Urban's piece Desktop Mountaintop, is a unique office box installation that will forever alter how you view office supplies. Each artist addresses how art can both expand and puzzle our perceptions of our surroundings and temporal experiences.
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Repercussions: Tides & Time
Article by Brian Miller. Seattle Weekly, October 2010. 2010