Author Archives: Shaw
Miranda Mellis: Wednesday January 30, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Miranda Mellis is the author of The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian by … Continue reading
Hanneline Rogeberg: Wednesday January, 23, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter who works with the paradoxes of representation and language. She has shown in solo shows at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Henie-Onstad Kunst Center and most recently at Dortmund … Continue reading
Jen Graves: Wednesday January, 16, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get … Continue reading
Seattle Catalog: Wednesday November, 28, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Seattle Catalog is both an art project and a for-profit company. As a for-profit company, Sea-Cat takes the form of a tri-yearly sales catalog with carefully selected artwork by different artists. As an art project, it is a collaboration by … Continue reading
Catharina Manchanda: Wednesday November, 7, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Catharina Manchanda joined the Seattle Art Museum in 2011 as Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Contemporary Art. A native of Germany, she received her Ph.D. at the City University Graduate Center in New York specializing in German conceptual photography … Continue reading
Nicholas Nyland: Wednesday October, 31, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
HANNELINE’S TALK IS CANCELED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY. IN HER STEAD WE HAVE NICHOLAS NYLAND! NICHOLAS NYLAND ARTIST STATEMENT When asked to describe my work, I usually answer, “Abstract.” Unfortunately, I’ve found that answer is a great way to stop … Continue reading
Nikki McClure: Wednesday October,17, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Nikki McClure of Olympia, Washington is known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cuts. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts out her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a bold language that translates the complex … Continue reading
Susan Noyes Platt: Wednesday, May 23, 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
A native of New York City. Susan Noyes Platt is a freelance art historian and art critic, as well as a political activist, based in Seattle, Washington. She has published articles, essays and reviews on the intersections of art and … Continue reading
Storm Tharp: Wednesday, May 9, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Storm Tharp builds his strange and beautiful characters by first drawing contours on the page with water. Before the water has a chance to dry, he applies drops of mineral ink, resulting in unruly and expansive bleeds on the paper. … Continue reading
Molly Landreth: Wednesday, May 2, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Molly Landreth is a Seattle based artist who explores concepts of identity and community through intimate large-format film photography and multi-media collaboration. She is most well known for her series, “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” which she … Continue reading