Past Exhibitions

Senior Thesis Exhibition: Kate Clyde, Bait and Switch

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 31, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: June 1-8, and Super Saturday June 16, 2007

Kate Clyde

Bait and Switch

Kate Clyde's mixed media sculpture and installation transform the gallery space

Miranda Currie: The Three Little Birds Who Became Wealthy Wandering the World

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 10, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: May 11-24, 2007

Miranda Currie, If you Indeed Possessed This Bird, You could Consider Yourself Lucky(detail),2007, multiple plate eetching, 14" x 14"

 Miranda Currie

The Three Little Birds Who Became Wealthy Wandering the World

Miranda Currie imbues her series, The Three Little Birds Who Wandered the World and Became Wealthy, with a timeless feel, achieving this through content and technique. Inspired by her readings of 16th to 19th century European fairy tales and reminiscent of book illustrations, Miranda's dreamlike prints combine fairy tale imagery with scenes from her everyday world. The artist creates the images using the time-consuming, centuries-old traditional process of etching images into multiple copper plates and then printing with multiple colors.

Katy Ellis O'Brien: Letters from Underwood

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 10, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: May 11-24, 2007

Katy Ellis O'Brien:

Letters from Underwood

Assuming the role of both painter and storyteller, Katy Ellis O'Brien has created a series of acrylic-on-panel renditions of the emotional journey of three animal characters who discover a pair of human foundlings. In her colorful cartoon style, the artist shows her characters reaching heights of trauma and ecstasy against the idyllic backdrop of a rural village. The result is a mix of peculiarity and pathos, as with each image the viewer learns more about the characters and their situation.

Chernobyl: Twenty Years - Twenty Lives

Concrete "sarcophagus" surrounding the ruined nuclea
reactor at Chernobyl

Exhibition continues through Wednesday, May 2

On 26 April 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former USSR had a catastrophic accident.  A test of its emergency shut-down devices led to an explosion that destroyed the reactor and blew its radioactive contents over large areas of what are now the independent countries of Ukraine , Belarus , and Russia . Additional areas in Western Europe were also badly contaminated.  Mads Eskesen, a Danish journalist, has developed an emotionally gripping remembrance of these terrible events.  Photographs and texts explore the meaning of the Chernobyl accident to individuals involved directly and indirectly.  This exhibit is a powerful reminder that technology can have unfortunate and long-lasting consequences.

Robin Meacham-Harlow, Go Ask Alice

Chasing Rabbits, 2007, collage on wood,
18" x 24"

Opening Reception: Friday, April 6, 5-7pm
Exhibition Dates: April 9-18, 2007

For her senior thesis exhibition, Robin explores themes related to her emotionally-charged childhood. By juxtaposing disparate elements - "the more awkward and implausible the better" - she creates contradictory wholes to express the emotions, fears, and ambiguities.

Mike Moran: Survey, 1982-2007

Stretched Horse, 2004, concrete and steel,
48"" x 50" x 7"

Opening Reception: Friday, February 23, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: February 23 - March 16th, 2007

This exhibition surveys the artwork of Mike Moran, created during the time that he has been managing the ceramics studio and teaching art at The Evergreen State College. His influence on students over the decades has been profound, and his own non-stop art-making has flourished. He paints, sculpts, draws, and prints with free-flowing, instinctive color, line, marks, and shapes. His images and sculptures of female figures, horses, birds, and landscape elements dance lyrically, stride forcefully, give form to myriad expressive states: joyfulness, pensiveness, contemplation, anguish, rest, and more.

Shifting Gears

Isaac Powell, Growthplate, 2005, acrylic,
graphite, and ink on panel, 60" x 60"

Exhibition dates:  January 18 - February 16, 2007

This nationally-touring exhibition showcases the art of 15 young artists with disabilities. In their artworks they explore a pivotal moment – when life turned a corner, when reflection resulted in a new path to creative expression.

Exhibition organized by VSAarts with sponsorship from Volkswagen of America, Inc.

Photography at Evergreen – Celebrating 35 Years

Molly Quan, untitled, 2005, C-print,
22" x 22"

Opening Reception and Panel discussion:  Friday, November 3
Exhibition dates:  November 6 - December 7, 2006

Since its beginning, Evergreen has nurtured creativity in photography, and the recently-opened Photography Center expands these opportunities. In recognition of the photographic art that has been and continues to be created here, Evergreen instructors Steve Davis and Hugh Lentz have curated an exhibition of photos by former Evergreen students for Gallery 4. An online gallery - http://photo.evergreen.edu - invites all alumni to participate.

Artists include: Daniel Barron, Bert Bergen, Dennis DeHart, Kerry Loewen, Reuben Lorch-Miller,  Mark Noble, Robin Paris, Molly Quan, Christopher Rauschenberg, Margaret Stratton, Thin Ice, Dan Weisser & Ciel Mahoney, Alice Wheeler.

The Art of Louise Williams

In the Pink, 2000, pastel. 9" x 11"

OPENING RECEPTION:  Friday, September 29, 5-7 p.m
Exhibition continues through October 19, 2006

During three decades of intense art making, Louise Williams explored the expressionistic rendering of the human figure. Subject matter ranged from dark and macabre to endearing and sweet, from deploring crimes against humanity and oppression of women to celebrating family and the realm of fantasy. The original Collected Stories folding books created by Louise Williams and Tacoma artist Becky Frehse are also on display in the Library.

Eclectic - Art from the College Collection

Exhibition continues through August 29

The College's art collection has developed over the past 35 years, through purchase, donation, and loans from the Washington State Arts Commission's Art in Public Places Program.  This exhibition features paintings, prints, sculpture, and ceramics from the collection. Subject matter and style varies widely, ranging from pure abstraction to highly representational, and including expressionistic, funk, political, surrealist

Tina Wirihana

Exhibition dates: June 26 - July 21, 2006

Tina Wirihana transforms traditional Maori weaving techniques and forms by using 21 st century materials and infusing them with her unique warmth and joyful love of life. The artist, who lives in Rotorua, Aotearoa/New Zealand, created these works during her Spring Quarter residency, which was sponsored by the Longhouse Educational and Cultural Center and Te Waka Toi Creative NZ.

Bryan Rainey & Sara Spink

Bryan Rainey, The Imaged Word, and Other
Works

June 2 - 9 and 17, 2006

Bryan Rainey, The Imaged Word, and Other Works
Bryan interprets visual responses to language in his print series, The Imaged Word, exploring how words evoke emotions, memories, and images. He uses varying content, scale, and printmaking techniques (lithography, relief, intaglio, silk-screen) to express his reactions to the "word of the week."

Sara Spink, One Dog Walking

Sara Spink, One Dog Walking
For One Dog Walking, Sara Spink was inspired by research into Mexican art and culture.  The idea of dogs as guides, both in life and in the afterlife, is found in Mexican and other cultures the world over.  To explore her own journey through life, Sara created a skeleton dog character as mixed-media sculpture, which she then used in short, experimental animations, combining stop motion animation, time lapse photography, and pixilation.

Paul Sparks: Friends, Cronies, and Colleagues

Paul Sparks, Fish Head, 1986,
graphite on wood, 60"x 60"

Opening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6-9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: April 28 - May 18, 2006

This exhibition honors Paul Sparks, an innovative artist and teacher who recently retired after 32 years of teaching at The Evergreen State College. To highlight his creative work as an artist and as a teacher, Sparks' artworks will be shown alongside works by long-time friends and colleagues and by some of his most recent students. Participating artists include: Caroline Anderson, Vann Cantin, Anthony Cotham, Shawn Ferris, Bob Haft, Claire Johnson, Michael Kohlmeier, Michael Leavitt, Christopher Nelson, Chauney Peck, Tim Roberts, Eve Shaw, Darin Shuler, Nathan Smith, Sarah Utter, Sharon Warden, Ed Wicklander.

Senior Thesis Exhibition:  Mellington Cartwright, Memoria Technica

Home to... Home? 2006 bronze, silver,
paper

April 6 - 21, 2006

In titling her exhibition Memoria Technica , the artist refers to devices that aid in preserving memory.  Working primarily in bronze and sterling, Mellington creates sculptures that explore the sentimentality that lies within our memories.  Her art draws the focus away from the psychological and scientific properties of a memory, towards a magical sense of nostalgia.

Imna Arroyo - Ancestors of the Passage

El Legado / Legacy, installation
detail,relief print on cast cotton
fiber

Exhibition Dates: February 21 - March 17, 2006 Artist Talk: Wednesday, March 1, 6:30pm, Recital Hall in the Communications Building.

Imna Arroyo draws on her African, Hispanic, and Taino descent in creating this mixed-media installation. Filling the gallery with prints on a myriad of surfaces, both 2-D and 3-D, Arroyo explores the Middle Passage and the spirit of her ancestors

Richard Scholtz - Changing Spaces

Opening: Thursday January 19, 5-7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: January 20 - February 10, 2006

In his installation, Changing Spaces,  Richard Scholtz explores how sound creates a sense of place and space.  He states, "You see what is in front of your eyes but you hear what is all around you."  In the installation, real-time recordings create the musical frame of beginning and end.  Ordinary sounds take on a different meaning; a succession of sounds gives rise to harmony and rhythm and emotion.

Essential Abstraction

Karen Kunc, Whole and Hollow,
1998, woodcut, 20" x 15

Exhibition Dates: November 1 - December 9, 2005

Paintings, prints, and sculpture by six artists who explore the expressive and perceptual qualities of abstraction in visual art. Artists whose work will be exhibited: Anne Appleby, Karen Kunc, Alan Lau, Robert Maki, Benjamin Moore, Darlene Nguyen-Ely.

Combination: Artworks by Morgan Peck, Suzanne E. Reed, and Kensuke Yamada

Kensuke Yamada, untitled
ceramic sculpture, 2005

Suzanne E. Reed, Untitled (Library Ladder),
detail, 2005, paper, steel, book

Exhibition Dates: through October 28, 2005

Art by three Evergreen students: Morgan, a recent graduate, works with photo-montage; Suzanne, a current student, creates sculpture with paper, steel, steel screen, and found objects; Kensuke, another recent graduate, hand-builds sculptural ceramic forms using multiple glazes, firings, textures, and shapes.

Gail Tremblay, Iókste Akweriá:ne / It Is Heavy on My Heart

Iókste Akweriá:ne /
It Is Heavy on My Heart

Exhibition Dates: October 3-20, 2005
Reception for the Artist on Thursday, October 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

In her multi-media installation, Gail Tremblay addresses the effects of nuclear pollution and testing on reservations. Tremblay, an Evergreen faculty member, states: "This installation is meant to educate about these issues and give voice to indigenous people who are struggling for environmental justice."

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Himalayan Odyssey: A Visual Journey Across the Great Range

Chain Gate. Tangbe Gompa. Jakar, Bhutan. 1997

Exhibition Dates: June 20 - August 22, 2005
Artist slide presentation and book signing: Monday June 27, noon, Lecture hall 2

An exhibition of color photographs excerpted from Robbins' ten-year book project on Himalayan landscape and culture. Robbins trekked more than two thousand miles through Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and North India, compiling a unique body of work that is equal parts fine art, photo-documentary, and ethnographic study.

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Jenna Fettig: Victoriana! The Rise of an Empire, the Fall of a Kingdom

Jenna Fettig, "Memento: Photograph,"
2004-2005, oil on masonite, 24" x 41"

Exhibition Dates: through June 11
Opening reception: Thursday May 26, 5-8 p.m.

Jenna Fettig's paintings explore our relationships with nature and animals, giving form to the sense of distance and nostalgia felt by many in contemporary society and examining the roots of those feelings in Victorian England.

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Dane Herrin: And Sometimes People Get Better Faster in Bright Rooms Than They do in Drab Ones

Exhibition Dates: through June 11
Opening reception: Thursday May 26, 5-8 p.m., Closed during Evaluation Week, June 6-9

Dane Herrin has been exploring themes of transactional behavior and creative communication. He writes: "These works are born through both transgressive behavior and uplifting impulses. They, like most people, are raw and complicated. I want to reflect the tragedy and beauty of interaction and communication.

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Louise Kikuchi: Lines and Dots

Exhibition Dates: February 28 - May 13, 2005
Artist Presentation: Wednesday, May 4, 7 p.m., Lecture Hall 3

Louise Kikuchi's lines and dots are concentrated embodiments of energy, time, place, perception, weather, water, sky, plants - and paintings by other artists. Over the last ten years she has created distinct bodies of work that explore one or more of these themes; for this exhibition, select artworks from The Months, Points of Reference, Poems to the Sea, and Spanish Allusions, show how she has developed her marks and colors to express an expanding range of content.

Kikuchi writes, "The lines and dots are my alphabet, because no language is really mine. Because of the circumstances of my life, I have to find my own forms." A Japanese-American who was born in Hawaii but no longer fits completely in that community, nor in Tokyo or Paris, where she has lived for extended periods, Kikuchi has based her connections to these places and people on very basic and fundamental things, such as water, trees, light, time. She describes her art as "the search for the universal, or the human, in a very specific moment or plac

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From Earth to Cyberspace: Contemporary Native American Digital and Clay Art Works

by Artist Jim Jackson

Exhibition Dates: April 11 - May 2, 2005
Artist Presentation: Saturday, April 9, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., Gallery 4

From Earth to Cyberspace features artworks created by artists using clay or digital imagery. The artists participated in workshops at Evergreen State College during summer 2004. Part of the Longhouse's Artist-in-Residence program, these workshops bring master Native artists to work with emerging and established Native artists at Evergreen and reservation sites.

The workshop in clay was under the direction of artists Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs) and Jim Jackson (Klamath). Artists working with Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisga'a) created digital images comprised of original artwork, popular images, and family photographs. The exhibition includes art by Pitt, Jackson, McNeil, and workshop participants.

Lillian Pitt, Jim Jackson, and Larry McNeil will give slide lectures about their artwork during the opening reception.

The Artist-in-Residence program is currently being funded by the Ford Foundation.

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Rachel Brumer, Quire: Book of Findings

Quire: Book of Findings (detail), cloth,
thread, metals, 23 x 29 inches

Exhibition Dates: January 15 - February 4, 2005
Artist Presentation: Friday, March 4, noon, Lecture Hall 3

For the exhibition Quire: Book of Findings, Rachel Brumer has created dozens of open book forms, with line after line of color blocks, stitching, and silhouettes of tiny objects. Arrayed across walls, the folios present a dense interweaving of abstract story lines. For three decades, Brumer has been exploring diverse modes of communication - as a modern dancer, sign language interpreter, and visual artist - and Quire feels like a compendium of these and other pathways to understanding.

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Unveiling the Mother

Opening reception: Friday January 14, 5-7pm
Exhibition Dates: January 15 - February 4, 2005

For her Senior Thesis Exhibition, Phantasmagoria Eve uses common fetish objects such as feathers and lace intermingled with the more serious side of the fetish concept: representation of Deity Herself.  The artist plays within the meaning of her own name to create a dreamlike scape of work in the new series Unveiling the Mother .  This current work combines the religious icon of Mother Mary, imagery from a 40,000 year old Isis ceremony, and Cherokee symbology.

New Year Art Show

Kumar Lama, "White Mahakala," traditional Thangka
WHITE MAHAKALA is a wrathful aspect of
Avalokitesvara (Bodhisattva of Compassion).
White Mahakala eliminates spiritual and
material poverty for all beings, bringing us abundance.

Opening reception: Wednesday, December 15, 6 pm
Exhibition Dates: December 16, 2004 - February 13, 2005

The artworks in the New Year Art Show were intentionally created to celebrate the future and to align ourselves with Heaven and Earth for the New Year. The exhibition includes artworks by children, students, and master artists from local and international communities. Exhibiting artists include: Lucia Harrison, Fumiko Kimura, Kumar Lama, Nicole Langille, Bruce Miller.

The New Year Art Show is partially sponsored by Evergreen State College Arts and the Child Academic Program, the President's Diversity Fund, Chinese Language and Cultural Research Foundation, and Olympia Arts and Frame.

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gW3dZa'dad "The teaching of ancestral knowledge"

November 18 - December 10, 2004

"gW3dZa'dad" is a Twana term from the Pacific Northwest that describes "the teaching of ancestral knowledge," according to renowned cultural leader Bruce Subiyay Miller of the Skokomish tribe, a recent recipient of the National Heritage Award through the National Endowment for the Arts.

This is the first of three exhibitions in Evergreen Galleries that will feature work created through the Longhouse's artist-in-residence program, which brings master Native artists to work with emerging and established Native artists at Evergreen and reservation sites. Pete Peterson, Sr., a master carver and elder from the Skokomish tribe, instructed five artists on the traditional cultural art form of bent wood box making. Susan Pavel, who apprenticed under Bruce Miller, instructed 18 pairs of adults and youth apprentices in an ancient weaving technique of the Coast Salish people. The regalia that was created by the weavers will be on exhibit and will also be featured in a regalia fashion show at the Longhouse during Super Saturday, June 11, 2005.

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Mining the Media: Paintings by Michael Kohlmeier and James Eisenhart

October 25 - December 10, 2004

In their recent paintings, Michael Kohlmeier and James Eisenhart question the media and the stories it tells by reinterpreting pervasive images.

Kohlmeier states, "I feel that we live in a day and age where communication has broken down. It seems that political correctness has overshadowed human interaction and as a result, people no longer communicate with each other on a personal level for fear of offending each other." Wanting to provoke thought and communication through his paintings, Kohlmeier chooses media images that carry strong associations. He brings together several images in a collage-like arrangement, so that meanings created by their relationships are not linear and precise, but suggestive and layered. Kohlmeier carefully renders the magazine images in monochromatic tones, with the result that they are like the media photographs in their realism, but unlike them in their lack of color.

Eisenhart exhibits work from two series of paintings. In the first, his interpretation of magazine and television images is more poetic; he finds in them suggestions of the past, the continuum of life and death, the muses. Rather than the glossy bright color of contemporary media though, Eisenhart's paintings are done in earth tones, with figures emerging out of the shadows, as if from dreams and memory. The second series reinterprets horrific images from current events in Iraq, with characters from children's books in place of innocent civilians, blindfolded hostages, and hooded insurgents. The artist raises questions about the intrusion of horrific events into the innocence of a child's world, about the tendency to dehumanize enemies, and whether the reality of some images is so potent that any reinterpretation looks like sacrilege.

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Art & Social Commentary

October 11 - November 6, 2004

Regional, national, and international artists explore contemporary issues, creating artworks that question, comment, critique. 

Artists include:
Paul Berger, Corwin Clairmont, Sue Coe, Jack Daws, Richard Glazer-Danay, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Holzer, David Ireland, Brian Jungen, Jerry Kearns, William Kentridge, Oldrich Kulhánek, Jean LaMarr, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Suzanne McClelland, Deborah Mersky, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Lezley Saar, Roger Shimomura, Kiki Smith.

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Art in The Evergreen State College Collection

August - October 15, 2004

Displays in the library feature artworks that entered the Evergreen State College art collection decades ago and others that will come to campus over the next two years. In Gallery II, works on paper that the College collected during the '70s and '80s survey the creative energy of printmaking in the Northwest. In the entry area display cases, artworks that will be coming to Evergreen through the Washington State Arts Commission's Art in Public Places program are previewed through sketches, maquettes, and written descriptions.

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Sewa Singh Khalsa

January 9 - March 1, 2004
Public reception for the artist in the gallery on January 9^th at 5 to 7 p.m.

An art exhibit at The Evergreen State College Gallery features Seattle visionary artist Sewa Singh Khalsa. The exhibition will showcase miniature porcelain sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings.

Khalsa’s work comes from a deep interest in organic form and spirit. He is a master of clay and pushes the material beyond normal limits and expectations. Some of the delicate porcelains are delightful little worlds by themselves while the single pieces are interesting and full of good-natured humor. His paintings and drawings show a playfulness that is both childlike and fearless.

Tina Wirihana, mixed media sculpture, detail