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May 3 - May 27
Opening Reception: May 3, 6-10PM
Form/Space Atelier Lecture Series with Rebecca Albiani, May 5, 6PM.
Contributing Artists: This Is Nocturne, Donald Daedalus, Zach Carver, Mick Lorusso, Abby Martin, Ben Alberg.
Musicians perform 8:30 PM May 3:
Pianist Chris Blacker - Seattle Times article
Guitarist Bob Limbocker - bio at kaleidoscopeschoolofmusic.com
Guitarist Lonnie Mardis
Drummer Glenn Thilman
Temporary site-specific architectural installation. To gain an appreciation and awareness for our changing urban environments, an investigation of proportion and space will be conducted at gallery Form /Space Atelier in one of Seattle's emerging downtown neighborhoods. Located at 1907 Second Avenue, the building is scheduled for demolition this summer and will be transformed into a high-rise condominium complex. An early multi-story parking garage, built in 1926 is now a dispensable typology of utilitarian building. Redevelopment of urban downtown centers tears down such structures to make way for higher density living to promote walkable streets. In turn, structures like the parking garage are candidates for new sites for construction. However, through these processes of redeveloping spaces, there provides an opportunity, in all its vacancy to sustain a moment of life, energy, and "collective memory" through temporary architectural installations.
Site Specific Installation Curated By Anna Koosman and Paul Pauper
Figure drawing sessions every 15th of the month in the atelier.
Brad Biancardi, Carolyn Polk, Joanna Stokrotka
Curated by Paul Pauper
April 1 - April 30
First Thurday artist reception: April 5, 6-10PM
Child Care Resources Art Auction to benefit homeless children April 28th. http://www.childcare.org/donors/artsale.htm
Brad Biancardi: Bradley Biancardi explores the architectural and psychological interaction between people and interior spaces through his work in drawing and painting.
Bradley received his MFA from the University of Washington and his BFA from Indiana University. He has exhibited his paintings and drawings throughout the country, and has taught at the University of Washington, the Northern Indiana Artists Association, and at the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Carolyn Polk: My encaustic paintings are created using a small travel iron to apply pigmented wax to paper. The work is also kept at very intimate size no bigger than 8x10 inches. I seek to create imagery that is both calming and compelling, invoking feelings and a desire to look deeper into the image. For several reasons, I am drawn to painting scarabs: the intoxicating quality of color they possess; how it can be represented in a wax medium, with the undulating layers and transparencies of colors. I also appreciate the symbolism attached to that of scarabs. They take a variety of meanings from many different cultures. I am personally drawn to the meaning of good luck.
Also exhibiting:
Toni Bigby, Fred Betz, and Joanna Salska, polish-born non-objective realist painter.
B, As In Blue/ An Extraordinary Violence/Sustainable Image Profile
March 1 - March 31
Opening Reception: Thursday March 1, 6-10PM
Curated by Paul Pauper
B, As In Blue: Cyanotype prints of ghost-like images by Wanda Pelayo provokes thought about the civic environment and lingering presence of monuments and effluvium alike. Pelayo also assents the engineering marvels of metropolis with the Bones Series, a multimedia masterstroke.
An Extraordinary Violence: Sub-Mason-Dixon Line Wunderkind Amjad Faur plays with obfuscation in selenium prints imported from Lebanon.
Sustainable Image Profile: Earth Mother Signe Drake returns to Form/Space Atelier with her new series of images of metaphysical spectres. Form/Space Atelier Lecture Series March 13 with experts in sustainability, 6PM.
Designated Landmarks/ Venerable Upstarts/ Day Shove You
February 1 - February 25
Opening Reception: Thursday February 1, 6-10PM
Curated by Paul Pauper and Caroline Majors
Designated Landmarks: Sculpture installation by Stephanie Robison and Paula Rebsom gives pause to reflect on architectural paradigms in the South Salon of the Atelier.
Venerable Upstarts: A group show of the Cult Of Youth Artists Collective will exhibit in the North Salon of the Atelier. Cult Of Youth counts among it's adherents the talented expression of urban artists Julia Gfrorer and Davis Limbach, in the matrix of twenty or so members.
Day Shove You: Vladmaster, an artist who constructs her own veiwmaster slide veiwers to accompany a multimedia presentation will show at the opening reception February 1.
CONSTRUCT EXPRESSIONISM/FIVE ALIVE
January 4-January 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan 4th, 6-10pm
Curated by Paul Pauper
This exhibit of five abstract expressionist painters Barry Connolly, Jeff Jacobsen, Steven Schrock, Shai Steiner and Kenneth Susynski fills the senses with 1980-era goodness. Schrock will paint live in the atelier for the opening reception January 4 using a paintball gun and a suit constructed of sponges soaked with paint.
Can you resist this awe-inspiring spectacle? Can you? Can you honestly?
Of course you can't!
December 7-December 30
Opening Reception: Thursday, Dec 7th, 6-10pm
Curated by Paul Pauper
form/space atelier is proud to present retablos by the family of Alfredo Vilchis Roque as seen in Infinitas Gracias: Contemporary Mexican Votive Painting.
Also for December, we bring you a wall of art featuring pieces from many Seattle-based artists, designers, photographers, architects and more. Everything is priced at $400 or less.
Be sure to register for the form/space atelier mailing list for your chance to win a piece of local art! Register online here or come by in person to the gallery. Drawing will be held on Monday, December 18.
Reception: Nov 2nd, 6-10pm
Show runs until Dec. 3rd
The title for November's show of four painters is "Portrait Sprawl/Canvas Hardscape". The show focuses on the small scale two-dimensional aspect of built environment through painting. The artists chosen are either collaborative, complimentary or enmeshing dichotomy of representation through scale, materials used or message.
Lauren Grosskopf
Jaki Martin
Betty Hageman
October 5-October 30
Opening Reception Thursday October 5
Photography by Signe Drake and Jonelle R. Lind
Curated by Paul Pauper
form/space atelier presents photography by Signe Drake and Jonelle Lind. Micro/Macro delves into dichotomy... nature/built environment... twin daughters of different mothers. Drake uses macro focus to investigate flowers, Lind is wide-angle wise to the urban landscape.
Signe Drake has a BS in Zoology from the University of Michigan and is a retired court reporter. She has studied at the Photographic Center Northwest and is a graduate of the Commercial Photography Program at Seattle Central. She has an ever-growing collection of cameras and is particularly fond of an old Speed Graphic. Signe was born in Seattle where she has lived most of her life.
Jonelle R. Lind is a Northwest photographer who spent many years studying photography and design in Seattle and Australia. She has a love of architectural form and the contradiction between nature and man-made objects. Her images reflect a sense of timeless beauty, consequence and transformation.
Paul Pauper, form/space atelier curator and former Smith Tower Gallery Curator, has been formally trained in art and design at the University of Washington, SSC College, Vashon Allied Arts and Centrum, Port Townsend. His paintings have been exhibited in the 2006 London Biennale, at the Seattle Art Museum and numerous non-mainstream Seattle spaces.
