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A collection of 16 posts

The Landscape Tale

The Landscape Tale

Excerpts from the quotation essay, The Landscape Tale ...To think about distant places, to colonize them, to populate or depopulate them: all of this occurs on, about, or because of land. The actual geographical possession of land is what Empire in the final analysis is all about. At

Four images: historic hand colored map of Paris, commerical landscape with letterpress map

contemporary art

The Landscape Tale, update

Exhibition includes the original 1993 installation exhibited at 911 media arts, Seattle, newly revised with exquisite giclée reproductions on prepared canvas, and Visions and Revisions of Mt. Rainier at Seafirst Gallery installation in 1998.

Landscape, revived

colonialism Featured

Landscape, revived

exhibition in Seatttle opening September 1, 2024..."This exhibition was about how land use in the Euro-American tradition informs landscape painting...."

Deep Water: Fossils in the Book of Shadows

Deep Water: Fossils in the Book of Shadows

The works draw from images of fossil diatoms and crinoids, and evoke the profound changes to our oceans and bodies of water with climate change.... I'm titling these from deep water and storm imagery of Shakespeare's The Tempest....

Emotional Numbness: curators after my own heart

Emotional Numbness: curators after my own heart

I am so in awe of the curators Atefeh Khas and Minoosh Zomorodinia of this exhibition. Their thoroughness and dedication to accessibility of these works deserves all of our gratitude and appreciation.

Statement for exhibition, Emotional Numbness

JBLM, one of several US military installations surrounding my home in Puget Sound, Salish Sea, dominates the landscape in Western Washington state: there are always traffic jams on Interstate 5 and the social costs of war are constantly present.

Planet Art in the region

Planet Art in the region

Glacier Peak, The Lay of The Land installation shown in La Conner, WA, part of MoNA SURGE in 2018.... upcoming in the WEAD exhibition, Feat to Fire, Sanchez Art Gallery, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, CA

Layers of Ancient Texts: mixed media printmaking for a new landscape language

Layers of Ancient Texts: mixed media printmaking for a new landscape language

Opening today in downtown Seattle, I'm showing 10 prints at Columbia Tower in "Fresh Pressed" WPW Gallery, 701 5th Avenue, Suite 310, Seattle 98104

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis--intellectual resources

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis--intellectual resources

Some resources to support Surge and The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis are updated in this post which includes my bibliography/sources, link to a Soundcloud podcast of a museum arts panel discussion on November 17.

Texts for Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis

Texts for Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis

Heading photo: installation process with the assistance of Rachel Long. Installation view: The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis, 2018

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis [update]

Planet Art Featured

The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis [update]

Encased in ice are secrets, minerals: mica, iron, phosphorus fossilized bodies of ferns and microbes, megafauna, mysteries of life, the living planet. We read these as charts, maps and stories to guide us

Sandow Birk in Seattle at Prographica Gallery

There is a terrific exhibition up until Saturday 2.24 at Prographica Gallery in Pioneer Square (same doors as Davidson Gallery on Occidental. > Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles artist who works large and small using art historical drawing and printmaking techniques to comment and explore social issues and

Thunder and Lightning Press Fall events

Thunder and Lightning Press Fall events

In studio workshop: Introduction to digital photograph manipulation for printmaking: chine collé and polyester lithograph applications $65, includes materials; one day October 22, 12:30-3:30pm Alice Dubiel Open Studio, for the press and Planet Art October 22, 4-6pm. Join Barbara Bruch and me for refreshments, and some demonstrations of

Survival skills: Climate is Changing

Survival skills: Climate is Changing

Late August 2017 Summer has been dry and hot in the Pacific northwest: we have had 55 consecutive days without rain, and the land is dry. The overly wet springs, although mild, allowed vegetation to grow profusely; then with the hot, dry days, the overgrown vegetation turned to tinder encouraging

The Lay of the Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes

Museum of Northwest Art

The Lay of the Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes

The Lay of The Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes, installation view, Museum of Northwest Art, Surge, September 17-25, 2016 acrylic and mixed media on paper, wood, glass, water (from Skagit River delta), lights. This work is part of a continuing series and is in a current stage of its

Living in mudslide country

Since Fall 2006 when I did a residency in North Cascades National Park, I've realized how powerful, in an especially visceral way, water works on erosion. The Skagit River was powerfully surging in early November and washed out Highway 20 east of Marblemount, effectively marooning me and my