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December 2011- Happy Holidays from the TK

Sara Gettys

     In The Garden

In The Garden features wood carvings by artist Sara Gettys. Inspired by wood block prints and the tactile nature of the carvings used to create them, Gettys creates her work by painting the surface of wood then carving away to reveal shape and line. Her work focuses mainly on natural forms, inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, from the dry grasses and delicate sage of Central Washington to the lush ferns and looming pines that mark the transition to west side of the state.

Bio:  Sara Gettys moved to Yakima, Washington in 2005, where she works full-time as a photojournalist. She has shown her work throughout the Yakima community, including a solo show at Oak Hollow Gallery. When she’s not a work, she’s creating art, working on her house, building things in the back yard, petting her cats, cooking, and exploring Seattle with her partner.

bluesparrowart@wordpress.com

Opening Reception, Thursday December 1, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through December 30th.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

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November

Jay Mason

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Since 2008 we have seen an increase in poverty levels across the nation with no real end in sight. People have lost their jobs, their homes, and their confidence creating a very volatile situation on the streets of America. With unemployment on the rise and the foreclosures of homes across the nation, people have been forced to take refuge wherever they can to survive. Places like the Union Gospel Mission and the Bread of Life Mission help with housing the homeless here in Seattle, but they are at over capacity every night and are forced to turn hundreds away every night into the cold to find shelter on their own.

Jay Mason has stepped back, and taken a closer look at the people who occupy his neighborhood here in Pioneer Square. This is the beginning of a series that steps in and takes a closer look at the people who occupy park benches, building entry ways, and city streets looking for a place to rest. I encourage you all to take some time and help out a homeless person who occupies your neighborhood. Point them in the direction of help and resources that are out there to help people who are in need.

Stable housing provides the foundation for stable living. The city of Seattle funds a variety of shelter transitional housing and housing support services for homeless and low-income individuals and families. I hope that this will encourage you to do something in your neighborhood to help with this grave and growing epidemic.

Opening Reception, Thursday November 3, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through November 26th.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- December 2011: Sara Gettys

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September 2011

Patti Bowman

Irresolution

STATEMENT:

I am not sure if there is any unifying theme or purpose in my paintings For many artists, the process of painting is intuitive, but for me, it’s the choice of what to  paint that is intuitive and subconscious. I know that I wanted to create a feeling of movement, and a feeling of uncertainty—of not knowing what is solid and permanent and real, as opposed to what is reflected and temporary. A lot of this work stems from uncertainty about what is real and what is fake. Television-real or fake? Mortgages? Yardwork? Driving? The Big Black Rat at the Seattle Art Museum?  Economics? The Grocery Store? Ambivalence, bewilderment, conjecture, doubtfulness, dubiety and guesswork.  I am also distrustful of artist statements.

“I have no favorite themes…, I have no program, no style, no direction…I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive. …. I like the indefinite, the boundless. I like continual uncertainty….”

-       Gerhard Richter, German painter

 “I have nothing to say, and I’m saying it,’

-       John Cage, American composer

BIO:

Patti Bowman studied painting and printmaking at the University of Calgary in Alberta and at Emily Carr College of Art and design in Vancouver, BC. She has continued to study and experiment with different techniques in some really great classes at Pratt Fine Art Center and Gage Academy in Seattle, and currently works at Inscape in Seattle, while living in Bellevue.  She has participated in group and solo shows in galleries, city halls, libraries, a brewery and hot beverage establishments in cities scattered throughout the US and Canada, and is represented by Stratus Gallery in Banff, and Elevation Gallery in Canmore, Alberta.

www.psbowman.com

Opening Reception, Thursday September 1, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through October 1st.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- October 2011: Jill Young

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August 2011

Serrah Russell

Gasping Breaths for Beating Hearts

We spend our days under low ceilings, held up by whitewashed walls. We sleep our nights away on lumpy mattresses, cold with longing. We are safe from the elements, protected from the sharp bite of the wind, the cold cutting rain and the air that penetrates layers of warm clothing to induce gasping breaths and beating hearts.

And yet still we ache.

We yearn for stars, dream of rough waters, and ache to adventure. Whether the journey should prove to be tempestuous or serene, the idea of the foreign sea has become alluring in our understanding. We hunger for that magic; for an odyssey that once engulfed in, will enlighten our circumstances back home, making the reality become clearer somehow.

Gasping Breaths for Beating Hearts is a photographic exploration of the magnetism for adventure on the sea, danger on the mountain, freedom in the sky. With images, borrowed and captured, a spell is cast to summon lust and fervor, knowing that we will continue to live in comfort and consistency though ever enticed by the volatile shifts and sways of the sky and the sea.

Opening Reception, Thursday August 4, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through August 27th.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- August 2011: Patti Bowman

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July 2011

Women Painters

Driven To Abstraction

Susan Flora Glendenning, Elder Council Wood

Driven to Abstraction is an exhibition showing passionate abstractions in pastel by four award winning artists:

Barbara Noonan     www.MorninNoonanNight.com

Patricia Kling           www.patriciacatherine.com

Kare Schroeder     www.whidbeyworkingartists.com

Susan Flora Glendenning     www.susanglendenning.com

Opening Reception, Thursday July 6, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through July 30th.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- August 2011: Serrah Russell

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June 2011

Christen Mattix

Entanglement

Knitting Meditation for Peace, Installation View

Christen Mattix is proud to present her latest body of work exploring the complexity of relating to self and other–  the hurt, the beauty and the entanglements.  Using familiar materials in unfamiliar ways, she creates impossible, charged images such as a bone cozy or a tree full of chairs.  The work is honest, difficult and, at times, downright ludicrous.

Mattix is fascinated by “tactile vision,” a visual art that evokes the primary sense of touch, thereby eliciting a physical, even involuntary reaction in the viewer.  

Despite the wide range of media, her new work is unified by recurring tactile (stringy, sticky or sharp) motifs such as honey, thorns, yarn, netting, and tangled trees.

www.christenmattix.com

Opening Reception, Thursday June 2, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through July 2nd.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- JULY 2011: Women Painters

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May 2011

Teresa Grasseschi and Megan Harmon

The Grand Disappearing Act

Featuring artists Teresa Grasseschi and Megan Harmon’s most recent bodies of work created during their year of BFA study at Western Washington University. The photographic and mixed media exhibition explores the value placed on common physical objects within American society.

Teresa Grassechi,  Home Series: Two

Teresa Grasseschi is a Bellingham based artist working in mixed media with a concentration in printmaking and photography.

STATEMENT: A photograph can all at once confirm and explore our identity in an incomparable way, freezing the relentless motion of time, to trap our life fragments on the surface of sensitized paper. What makes a photograph so powerful is its ability to state the vulnerability of a life heading toward its own destruction–here is death presented to us in a single frame. My work seeks to explore what life is left inside of a “dead” photograph. I am interested in the blurring and blending of time; the combination of photographic fragments; the emptiness of nostalgia; the reminders that, after all, it is the image that bids to outlast us all.

www.teresagrasseschi.com

Megan Harmon, Knife.

Megan Harmon is a Bellingham based artist concentrating in photography, printmaking and mixed media.

STATEMENT: I have become increasingly interested in paper currency over the last year and have begun collecting shredded US currency from both the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and EBay. I find shredded paper money to be virtually worthless while still symbolizing the power it once held. I am interested in how I assign worth or value to material objects, while realizing that money is a tool I use to do so.

www.meganharmon.dphoto.com

Opening Reception, Thursday May 5, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through May 28.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

Next Month- JUNE 2011: Christen Mattix

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April 2011

Matt Calcavecchia

Reconstructions

Two and a Half- Self Portrait

STATEMENT and BIO:  I am a figure and portrait artist who has an affinity for size and spectacle. I am constantly trying to push a portrait beyond convention without overextending the work and eliminating the individual character and qualities of the subject or the moment represented. I am still compelled by the traditional power of figure and its ability communicate and in fact, I am trying to create a more honest painting. An image that reveals the truth of a moment, how we experience time, and how we struggle to hold on to a moment that is already lost

Time, memory, and even our own personalities, are mutable and fleeting.  Traditional portraits aren’t robust enough to capture a wholistic appraisal of the individual.  In many ways, portraiture is false, offering up a romantic and idealized version of an individual that often no longer exists, if it ever did.  My work mirrors me in that it is direct and honest.  My figures are often engaged directly with the viewer.  They recognize that they are being viewed and present themselves unapologetically; breaking the artificial nature of the fourth wall.  I find the viewer to be as interesting as the work itself and am striving to challenge and communicate with them.

I do not have formal training and suffer from a very costly art book addiction.  My most recent favorites being Eric Fischl “1970-2007” and Chuck Close “Work”.  I live in Seattle, WA with my wife and two young boys.  When I’m not painting or at my day job, you’ll find me doing dishes, mowing the lawn, paying bills, and managing my children’s bodily functions.

www.mattcalcavecchia.com

Opening Reception, Thursday April 7, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through April 30th.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

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March 2011

Tyson Anthony Roberts

Fresh Paint

The Grounds  2011

FRESH PAINT will feature Roberts’s newest paintings and marks the largest exhibition of work the artist has produced to date. With these fresh paintings, I have taken my pixelated style to the (nth) degree.

STATEMENT: As I visualize the world around me morphing into fragments of digitized color, the abstract harmony of our environment simultaneously resists. Our ecosystems change, our environments change and we change. I believe my job as a painter is to capture this change as it is occurring. In my work, elements of abstract layering, color theory and spontaneity are merged to form rural and urban scenes that appear to be in constant transition, taking the viewer from what was to what may be. It is through this idea of continual movement that my paintings suggest the places we know are always changing, whether we are ready for them to or not…

Opening Reception, Thursday March 3, 2011- 5:00 to 9:00pm.

On view through April 2nd.  Hours Friday and Saturdays- Noon to 5:00pm

And by appointment.

The Corridor Gallery is located at 306 S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.  98104

www.tysonanthonyroberts.com