Artist Lecture Series
The gallery is closed as part of the Library A-Wing renovation. It will reopen in a new location - on the main floor between the elevators and the deans area - in 2009. During the 2007-08 academic year, the gallery program is sponsoring artist lectures and projects.
Tuesdays in LH1 – new time, 3:30pm, for Evergreen Galleries Artist Lecture Series.
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung | May 13
Michael Magrath | May 20
Washington State Arts Commission | May 27
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung | May 13
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung was raised in Olympia, received her BA from Evergreen in 1998 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. In an interview for her recent exhibition at Rowley Kennerk Gallery in Chicago, she was asked: “How would you consider ‘tradition’ and ‘irreverence’ in relation to your practice? The exhibition title, She-male Guitar Solo, must be related to this?” Zuckerman-Hartung replied: “This is something I think about a lot. I grew up on the west coast in a very permissive atmosphere. My mom was something of a hippy, I went to a hippy college, I was involved in a punk/indie community for 10 plus years. I think by the time I moved to Chicago I was actually longing for a sense of tradition. The idea of a lineage. I read Derrida before I read Plato, so even notions of linearity and one-way-ness in history are somewhat malleable to me. A way to contextualize myself and my actions. I was searching for language. This is a big part of the appeal of painting to me. I find the excess weight of a long tradition exhilarating. I think it has something to do with afeeling of grief about the ‘end of history’ and the flatlands of future-gazing in late capitalism. Looking backward gives weight to language that can begin to seem as though it were invented yesterday. Of course it is a see-saw, and the reference can get too strong all of a sudden, hence the need for queering the title of the show.
Lot Tribe: Salt Witnesses detail of life-sized statues
cast in salt, temporary public art installation in Pioneer
Square, Seattle, 2006
Michael Magrath is a Seattle-basedartist whose sculptures explore the expressiveness of the human form. Magrath’s interest in the figure is ultimately lyrical in nature.Having received an undergraduate degree from Reed College in Literature and History which focused on the nature and development of myth in human societies, Magrath steers toward the symbolic in his work.He states: I perceive something implicit in the body that remains inchoate, relevant, and continuously vibrant with potential… I do not pursue realism for its own sake, but consider clear and direct observation an intense and surprisingly rewarding discipline, a path towards something as yet unknown. For me study of the specific form and attitude of the model is a way of exploring and understanding the deeper structures of the universe.
Primarily self taught, Magrath has nonetheless studied and taught in a number of rich sculptural environments, including Hipbone Studio in Portland, The Seattle Academy of Art, and the Graduate Sculpture Program at the University of Washington. He spent a year studying in Rome and at the Florence Academy of Art, and was a resident artist and instructor at the Art Academy of London.Since receiving his MFA in 2004, Magrath has been teaching at UW and the Gage Academy in Seattle.He has completed sculpture commissions for organizations and sites in Seattle and Portland, including Lot’s Tribe, a temporary public art installation that featured life-sized sculptures cast in salt.Based on news images and dissolving in rainy weather, the figures raised questions about life, death, violence, and the politics of oppression.
http://www.magrathsculpture.com/index.html
Washington State Arts Commission | May 27
Washington State Arts Commission’s Public Artist Roster – What it is and how you can get on it
Janae Huber, Collections Manager for the State Art Collection, will talk about WSAC’s Public Artist Roster – what it is, how it’s used, and how artists can apply for it. Artists in the roster are eligible for the “1/2 of 1%” for art projects through the Washington State Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places program. Every two years, the Art in Public Places program holds a regional open competition to select artists for inclusion on the roster. The upcoming deadline is June 16, 2008.