Review | Seattle Art Fair, pr...

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Result #1

Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center this July 21–24 for the fair's celebrated weekend, bringing 85 top local, national, and international galleries together with the region's strong collector base. Seattle Art Fair's anticipated sixth edition will also highlight the region's museums and institutions while featuring an array of innovative installations, events, talks, and performances. Curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, Seattle Art Fair's public projects program will speak to the many layers and facets of creativity that inspire and define the Seattle arts community. Greg Lundgren's Museum of Museums will feature an installation by Orly Anon, Wa Na Wari will present a project space by Inye Wokoma, and J. Rinehart Gallery will show a large scale installation by Clyde Petersen. They will not only critique the economy of great art and manage its resourcefulness, but also reflect the vision of a community which is both open-minded and accessible. The exhibition will also show the work of artists who have been continuously questioning the borders between their craft and the purview of art and technology, and which have used community and other forms of participation to challenge art's status as the exclusive property of a single entity.While they have come to consider art as a social body, the youth in Seattle now face two other problems: one is a young adult who might learn how to skate, or be completely lost in a supermarket parking lot. Or they might be sad to discover that, as Lundgren points out in the press release, the exhibition is being held at an incredibly stressful time in Seattle's art scene, but instead of making a statement about change, they simply see it as a way to get some airtime.Or is the exhibition itself just a means to an end? Is it really about change or is it a political statement? Is the process of finding a job, of living in a permanent location, about a condition of growth? What role do city officials play in this process?What can art say to these questions? To this end, Lundgren proposes the exhibition's title: That those who look to art for a possible future are currently in the midst of the worst possible moment. But what do these words have to do with questions like, Why a museum? Lundgren's words are empty. They only make a suggestion. What an art show would really do is only expose the museum's complicity in this situation. Where they should show art, they could place a skateboard in the museum lobby or a guitar case in the artist's studio, and ask the audience to look at the painting from the artist's studio window—that is Lundgren's idea. No need to "preserve art as art.

Result #2

Frequently the installations will be performed or designed by art professionals. The goal of the Seattle Art Fair is to build connections between artists and audiences, to engage and impact the critical public understanding of art and creative processes. The public will be invited to participate in these activities, and in return receive presentations by some of the venues. The project includes a competing installation by Joe Catoni; a picture of a man looking at an airplane as it breaks up; and an installation by Laurie Simmons, Creative Cities, Seattle. The Museum of Museums presence is exemplary; in order to be effective, it must emphasize diversity of points of view, to provide a critical forum for the exchange of ideas and ideas.The Museum of art's preoccupation with art-as-object has resulted in several experiments in this direction. There is a section devoted to poetry, curated by Keith Schindler, which is notable for its inclusion of some artists whose work has been largely ignored or marginalized. There is a section that includes diverse voices, which includes Paul McCarthy, Richard Artschwager, Sean Scully, and Eugene Frank; and an exhibition that presents critical accounts of the community around Seattle. In addition, the Museum of Art's equipment is specialized in photography. The Museum of Art is unique in that it is one of only three U.S. museums that provide a place for free, public public events. Its location in a middle-class enclave is attracting and presenting a diverse group of artists. Moreover, there are four new public art spaces, one of which is a public art center. This in itself is encouraging. Three have created focal points for experiential activities and the fourth has created a space for public information. A little more information will help future generations learn about art and public life.

Result #3

Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center this July 21–24 for the fair's celebrated weekend, bringing 85 top local, national, and international galleries together with the region's strong collector base. Seattle Art Fair's anticipated sixth edition will also highlight the region's museums and institutions while featuring an array of innovative installations, events, talks, and performances. Curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, Seattle Art Fair's public projects program will speak to the many layers and facets of creativity that inspire and define the Seattle arts community. Greg Lundgren's Museum of Museums will feature an installation by Orly Anon, Wa Na Wari will present a project space by Inye Wokoma, and J. Rinehart Gallery will show a large scale installation by Clyde Petersen. The City of Seattle's Office of the Arts will collaborate with the School of the Arts and Crafts to provide a sliding exhibition of work by eight local artists with city- and school-sponsored participation. The show's title, Art for Everyone, proposes a vision for art as a collaborative endeavor that embraces a multitude of approaches to curating and research. This exhibition will be the Seattle equivalent of the New York subsoil—a subject which brings to mind the sound of a tree and the smell of fresh earth.This show will open at 8:00 am this Thursday, June 21, and then operate from noon July 4 through midnight July 21. The idea is to bring together artists with the aim of creating works that will be permanent and impactful in their reception, and will be read and remembered as the work of an entire generation. Lifting questions about the relationship between art and the environment, the idea is to revive a concept of art as a collaborative and urban endeavor. While the exhibition will focus on themes of environmental impact and power in the arts, it will also provide a more reflective, participatory experience. The organizers want to encourage participation and engage the public as representatives of their views and experiences on art. As curator Tina Ballard explains in the press release, it's about showing your vision for how the environment, a society made up of many voices, should be. But that's an impossible task when the arts are often so busy making do with a place or creating art that nothing is left to chance.In the meantime, L.A. No. 2: Art for Everyone will continue to operate in its current location, where it will be open to the public during normal business hours. The Museum of Modern Art, which hosts this exhibition, intends to investigate the effectiveness of art-as-community-building and has launched an extensive cultural-research program.

Result #4

Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center this July 21–24 for the fair's celebrated weekend, bringing 85 top local, national, and international galleries together with the region's strong collector base. Seattle Art Fair's anticipated sixth edition will also highlight the region's museums and institutions while featuring an array of innovative installations, events, talks, and performances. Curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, Seattle Art Fair's public projects program will speak to the many layers and facets of creativity that inspire and define the Seattle arts community. Greg Lundgren's Museum of Museums will feature an installation by Orly Anon, Wa Na Wari will present a project space by Inye Wokoma, and J. Rinehart Gallery will show a large scale installation by Clyde Petersen. ervinally, on the antiseptic grounds of the Seattle Art Museum, the much-anticipated Metrocart is designed to counter the Air Force-sponsored, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCAs) West Coast pavilion, complete with ostentatious lacquered ceilings, as part of the 51st Space Demonstration Forces in Space and Naval Operations (CAPS) campaign to be undertaken by every American in 2050. The MCAs Transpacific International Pavilion will serve as the inaugration site for a two-week-long, five-country Pacific Rim Forum to be held in conjunction with Pacific Rim summits on the Pacific Coast. To put things in perspective, let me suggest that, as a nonobjective construction, the Pavilion actually accommodates a range of installations, as well as diverse multi-media performance and collaborative cultural programs.The first-ever Washington Area Biennial takes place at the CenturyLink Arena in Seattle this July. Every year since 1968, the Seattle art community has experienced a historic and transformational event in which art, science, and the public space of the street are fused in the image of a new civic landmark. The events are staged by an acclaimed, nonprofit arts organization. The organization incorporates an extensive selection of media and events, including works by artists such as Andres Serrano, Miriam Sabatina, Alfredo Jañ, Raphael Catala, and Paul McCarthy, and is best known for hosting the Centennial Art Fair, held annually in Seattle. The Washington Biennial will be the first in the US to feature performances by a professional group, and the first to be held in a public venue.The programming at the CenturyLink Arena is also timely, as the economy is in a recessionary downturn. A couple of weeks ago, the Arena's production committee announced that the program was being canceled; the possibility of a concert concert had been eliminated.

Result #5

Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center this July 21–24 for the fair's celebrated weekend, bringing 85 top local, national, and international galleries together with the region's strong collector base. Seattle Art Fair's anticipated sixth edition will also highlight the region's museums and institutions while featuring an array of innovative installations, events, talks, and performances. Curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, Seattle Art Fair's public projects program will speak to the many layers and facets of creativity that inspire and define the Seattle arts community. Greg Lundgren's Museum of Museums will feature an installation by Orly Anon, Wa Na Wari will present a project space by Inye Wokoma, and J. Rinehart Gallery will show a large scale installation by Clyde Petersen. Also on display, and intended to reflect the hybridity of Seattle's cultural landscape, will be a show of life-size, three-dimensional sculptures by Phel Steinmetz, Richard Prince, Paul Kos, and George Hockney.These three artists share a love for great craftsmanship, but the show's curator, Ted Bartlett, argues that they are in very different ways exemplary, and that they are also all concerned with issues of scale, form, and attitude. On this score, Lundgren is taken by the works impressive individuality and its lack of feeling-good excess. After all, it is an unusual and perhaps unprecedented achievement to have a work of art presented on a piazza in Piazza del Campidoglio, a traditional Italian city (in fact, the title of Lundgren's work is taken from a Piazza del Campidoglio in the city), and the intention is to evoke an unpretentious atmosphere of contemporary, large-scale exhibition, an atmosphere that will encourage visitors to experience the arts in their different ways.In this sense Lundgren's work will have a strong aesthetic quality. Whether as a work of art or a sculpture, the paintings and constructions included will be imbued with a sense of individual genius, a quality to which is as much a function of the artist's individual sensibilities as is that of the New Museum's edifying execution.One of Lundgren's large works, Pantheon, 1990, a bronze and plaster bronco of a contemplative woman, was given this identity by its association with a representative modernist painting—an important example of that paintings original function, which was to serve as a weapon against stylistic purity. Lundgren's work is also a statement on the tensions and contradictions of modernism. In the works' brash, trivial, and uniform style, this statement will be echoed in their gift-shop context.