December 2022 / Living Room

Living Room

Connie Fu / Enereph
Sophia Anderson
Anne Marie Wald

December 01 - 31, 2022
Opening Reception / Thursday, December 01, 5–8pm

Winter/Covid-19 Gallery Hours:
Friday–Sunday, 11am–4pm
*Gallery closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

There have been endless portraits painted of people, but there is rarely attention given to the chairs they are seated on. Living Room is like an exclusive party that only chairs are invited to. We spend half of our lives in chairs: sitting, lounging, and curling up, without giving a thought to these 3500 year old companions of the human race.

Chairs are a living document of society's trends in style and engineering, but they are also portraits of the people that sit on them. This show will investigate and sacralize chairs through the creation of an immersive, interdisciplinary environment. Living Room is a double entendre: it's a show about the room designated for humans to "live in", and yet it is also a room that is alive in its own right. 

Paintings of chairs line one wall and there are three to four life-size sculptures of chairs in the center of the room – each made of a different material, spread out with enough room around each to see them from every viewpoint. The wall opposite the paintings is occupied by a projection and sound element.

ARTIST BIOS /

Anne Marie Wald grew up in Seattle, WA and received a BA from the Evergreen State College where she graduated with an emphasis in sustainable design and architecture. Since then, she has focused her interests on making work surrounding the built environment and how it relates to our physical and bodily experiences. Most recently those ideas have manifested themselves into a series of sculptural chairs, or what she considers "a structural metaphor to the human body". 

She has had the opportunity to exhibit work both locally and internationally with organizations like Penland School of Craft, Museum of Craft and Design and 33 Officina Creativa. 

Sophia Anderson is a painter that grew up on a rural coast of the Olympic Peninsula on the Shoalwater Bay Tribal reservation. Her tribe's connection to the land and water around them inspired her from an early age to pay close attention to her environment. 

Her work is driven by obsession; finding a subject and then painting it over and over again to understand what ties her to it. She currently resides in Seattle, WA. 

Connie Fu // Enereph creates spaces for introspection, reflection, and deep absorption through sound. [@_enereph]