Author Archives: Shaw
Ellen Lesperance: Wednesday, May 18, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Female heroism is undersung, but Ellen Lesperance is determined to sing it—not only so it’s not forgotten, but with the hope that it might be catching. Go to her web site, and you immeditely hear the chants of the Women’s … Continue reading
Brian Murphy: Wednesday, May 4, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Seattle artist Brian Murphy uses watercolor to create introspective self-portraits. Using fleshy, bold colors, Murphy creates invisible and reductive areas, which allude to the mass and solidity of the human form. Murphy’s work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions … Continue reading
Vic Haven: Wednesday, April 20, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1
Victoria Haven lives and works in Seattle. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Goldsmiths College/University of London. She was the 2004 recipient of ‘The Stranger’ Genius Award as well as the Betty Bowen … Continue reading
Thom Andersen: Wednesday, March 30, 11:30-1:00, Recital Hall
Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an … Continue reading
Carolina Silva: Wednesday, February 23, 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1
Carolina Silva (b. 1975, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Seattle. She uses installation, drawing, animation and film to contemplate the body and the passage of time through both figurative and abstract work. Her last show at Lawrimore Project entitled, … Continue reading
Deborah Stratman: Wednesday, February 9, 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1.
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions … Continue reading
Marilyn Freeman: Wednesday, January 26, 12:15-1:30-Lecture Hall 1
Marilyn Freeman is an interdisciplinary, process- and time-based artist living in Olympia, Washington. Her work is characterized by themes of identity, tolerance, faith and alienation. Baptism is the first in a series of autobiographic essays and installations about growing up … Continue reading
Eric Eley: Wednesday, January 12, 12:15-1:30-Lecture Hall 1
Eric Eley’s resin drawings, works on paper, and sculptures are informed by his fascination with the rational language used in physics and higher mathematics. His analytical use of lines and points allows him to arrange elements in space in order … Continue reading
Susie Lee: Wednesday, December 1, 11:30-1 Lecture Hall 1
Susie Lee was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania and grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She was awarded a Bachelors of Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and a Masters in Education at Columbia University. She received … Continue reading
Matt Browning: Wednesday November 3, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
The work of Matt Browning calls attention to the ways ritual, conquest and competition inform identity. Activated by observation and collection, Browning confronts the complexities of tradition and material expectation, generating pieces that operate somewhere between devotional objects and performative … Continue reading