July 2025 / Seattle Art Fair
SOIL x Tlaxcala3
SEATTLE ART FAIR 2025
Meander // Serpentina
July 17 — 20 | 2025
VIP Preview
Thursday, July 17, 2025: 5—6pm
Opening Evening presented by RBC Wealth Management
Thursday, July 17, 2025: 6— 9pm
Public Hours
Friday, July 18, 2025: 11am—7pm
Saturday, July 19, 2025: 11am—7pm
Sunday, July 20, 2025:11am—6pm
Location:
Lumen Field Event Center
802 Occidental Ave S
Seattle, WA
98134
For its 30th anniversary, SOIL Artist-Run Gallery presents a cross border exhibition in collaboration with Tlaxcala3 (Ciudad Mexico) during the 2025 Seattle Art Fair.
Founded in 1995 in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, SOIL is a nonprofit collective committed to exhibiting and cleebrating art by artists of diverse backgrounds, media, and content.
SOIL’S booth at the Seattle Art Fair features works from Meander // Serpentina, first presented at Tlaxcala3 during Mexico City Art week, along with new ecological works by Tlaxcala3 artists.
Steps from the Seattle Art Fair, Latin American Land/Escapes is on view at SOIL’s storefront gallery, continuing the dialogue between Mexico City and Seattle.
Tlaxcala3 is a self-run art space known for its dedication to supporting artistic practices that approach the concept of the archive in innovative ways, as well as for its commitment to promoting Latin American practices.
In Meander // Serpentina SOIL artists respond to the shared histories of violent engineering and empire upon the natural watersheds in Seattle and Mexico City. Included works look towards the influence of water upon earth for future shaping and reshaping. Its fluid nature performs a certain gesture – a meandering that breaks away from the grip of efficiency’s mantra, “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Yet, this short distance flattens out the qualitative details of the curving path. Lost is the journey that affords more steps and more opportunities for discovery. In the case of water it must meander to be healthy. Its flow communes with its neighbors and they mutually nourish one another. Last century’s snaking Duwamish was dredged and diverted for a shipping port and filled in as industrial land for capitalist exploitation. Both Seattle and Mexico City’s landscapes bear the marks of massive amounts of earth and water moved by humans. The echoes of these choices reverberate indefinitely. Earthquakes cause these young foundations to shift from solid ground to liquid quicksand. Like the edge of the ocean under one’s feet, a sinking occurs. Yesterday’s haste has created the present day’s muck. Tomorrow’s path lies formless with bated breath.
Participating SOIL Artists | Iole Alessandrini, Sophia Anderson, Warren Armando Pope, Nola Avienne, Tania Colette B., Colleen Louise Barry, Sofya Belinskaya, Colleen RJC Bratton, Erin Elyse Burns, Lee Davignon, Parisa Ghaderi, James Hartunian, Ben Hirschkoff, Jia Jia, Philippe Hyojung Kim, Margie Livingston, quinn mcnichol, Quinton Merada, Julia Monté, Cameron Day O’Connell, Forrest Perrine, Tim Roda, Tara Tamaribuchi, Genevieve Tremblay, Ellen Ziegler