Tim Portlock, an Artblog favorite, is MLAC’s first Digital Artist in Residence, and on Oct. 24, 5 to 9 pm, Portlock will “light up the night with a presentation of site-specific work,” according to the Center (I think that may mean outdoor video projections). Other activities that night include music, food trucks, art-making, digital demos, and more.
Read MoreThe turnout for opening night was quite impressive. The entry line stretched for more than a block. The venue was a bit odd: the CenturyLink Field Event Center, which sits in the shadow of CenturyLink Field, where a Seattle Mariners evening game was in progress, literally over our heads.
Read MoreWe may think we know what we mean by the term “contemporary art,” forgetting that all art of the past was contemporary to its own time.
Read MoreIt’s over. We can all relax. Finallllly. Eminent proof of our societal decline, genetic free-fall, artistic spinny-wheel of death, etc. is easily observed.
Read MoreIvey’s work leaves a lasting impression of concern for the true victims left to suffer following nuclear warfare. Amid the sculptures depicting skeletal remains and an overturned tricycle at the center of the room, it is safe to say that Ivey sees the negative impacts of these events as all-encompassing.
Read MoreThe monochromatic, intricate world that Fensterstock created in “Colorless Field” with thousands of strips of cut paper, polished plexiglass, and crushed charcoal suggests that creation of the universe was an immense, complex, laborious evolutionary task if it was not accomplished with a magic wand.
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