Forest, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive). Joy Garnett: Forest, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 inches, 2007. Courtesy of Winkleman Gallery, New York
DECEMBER 3 - 31, 2009
THE THERE
Platform Gallery114 Third Avenue SouthSeattle, WA 98104206-323-2808Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 5:30pm
[Images from the exhibition]
A group show of work by Jesse Burke, Adam Ekberg, Joy Garnett, Stephen Hilyard, Patte Loper, Melissa Pokorny, William Powhida, Adam Satushek, and Matt Sellars. Focusing on contemporary artists' views of landscape, this exhibition features individual works of art chosen in order to bring the outside indoors. Unpeopled photographs by Burke, Satushek, Hilyard, and Ekberg come into dialog with haunting drawings and paintings of imagined landscapes, both physical and mental, by Loper, Garnett, and Powhida. Sculptures by Sellars and Pokorny investigate our often mediated relationship with the land. Coinciding with one of the wettest and darkest months of the year, this exhibit invites the viewer to come inside to look out at the there...