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Image Transfer - Remix Culture at the Henry ABOUT AJ BLOGS Another Bouncing Ball AJBlogCentral | rss Humans see, humans do: After the first horse drawn on the first cave and the first This blog continues Art To Go, pot incised with a decorative line, everything became imitation. You don't need a which I wrote as the art critic for culture weatherman to know which way that wind blows, or that in the contemporary period, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, About Last Night beginning at the end of 2007 it blows harder. Terry Teachout on the arts in and continuing through March New York City 15, 2009. ABB is an exploration Artful Manager of art in Seattle that extends In selecting the 12 artists featured in Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, Andrew Taylor on the outward, both geographically associate Henry curator Sara Krajewski looked for those whose engagements with business of arts & culture and by topic, touching on art, image recycling make them visual mix masters of note, those who aren't just riding politics, literature, dance and blog riley the currents but helping to steer them. whatever it is that the cat drags rock culture approximately in. Its title comes from a poem critical difference On the whole, she succeeded. Image Transfer is exactly the kind of exhibit the Henry by Delmore Schwartz, The Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, Ballad of the Children of the culture and coverage should be doing. It has wit, depth and subtlety with an undertow of numbed tragedy. Czar, specifically, "The ground Dewey21C Image Transfer describes a trash world that constricts rather than enlarges upon the on which the ball bounces/ Is Richard Kessler on arts idea of possibility, as if we all live in a snow globe filled with images raining down on another bouncing ball." education more our indifferent heads, except that we too contribute to the glut. diacritical Douglas McLennan's blog Regina Hackett ... is the former What does the glut bring? Just as God told Moses not to look directly at the Burning art critic for the former Seattle Dog Days Bush, Jordan Kantor suggests we refrain from direct engagement with the image P-I. I loved that job every day, Dalouge Smith advocates for but it's gone and I've moved on. the Arts world, for the same reason. Circuits will be blown, eyes burned. As they say in the movies, to Flyover infinity and beyond. Art from the American Jordan Kantor Eclipse, 2009 screenprint on clear polycarbonate and silver myler more Outback sheet, and Eclipse (color inversion) oil on canvas 2009 lies like truth Contact me Click here to send Chloe Veltman on how culture me an email, or email me will save the world directly at anotherbb(at)gmail.com. My Life's a Pitch mailing address is 300 Queen For immediate release: the Anne Ave. N. Seattle, WA arts are marketable 98109 Mind the Gap more No genre is the new genre Performance Monkey David Jays on theatre and Subscribe to this blog's feed dance Plain English Paul Levy measures the Angles Search Real Clear Arts Judith H. Dobrzynski on ARCHIVES Culture Rockwell Matters Select a Month... John Rockwell on the arts State of the Art innovations and impediments Archives: 1554 entries and in not-for-profit arts counting Straight Up | Jan Herman - arts, media & RECENT culture with 'tude COMMENTS

Anonymous in Seattle dance commented on Image Foot in Mouth Apollinaire Scherr talks about Transfer - Remix Culture dance at the Henry: I have to Seeing Things be anonymous because Tobi Tobias on dance et al... I'm an artist and I know the curator and wan jazz Max commented on Jazz Beyond Jazz Image Transfer - Remix Howard Mandel's freelance Culture at the Henry: Urban Improvisation Thanks for this! After ListenGood reading other accounts, Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds I'd decided to give this sho Rifftides Doug Ramsey on Jazz and Sara Krajewski

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commented on Image other matters... Transfer - Remix Culture at the Henry: Hi Regina, media I'd like to clarify how Out There Matt Keegan's mother Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology used the flashcard Serious Popcorn heide commented on Martha Bayles on Film... Using flash cards, Matt Keegan's mother teaches brain-damaged children non-English Image Transfer - Remix speakers how to pick the right word for the right emotion. In a video that's part of his Culture at the Henry: i classical music am very happy that you installation titled Images are Words (2010), she looks at situations featured in photos Creative Destruction and decodes their central meaning with a single word. Because there rarely is such a did mention the fact of Fresh ideas on building arts thing as one meaning, her answers diverge from the life's experience of any given the missing seattle artist communities viewer. The rest of the gallery is filled with heaps of laminated images hand Another Bouncing Ball The Future of Classical assembled by her, a deluge. The distance between the simplicity of her goal and the commented on Image Music? Transfer - Remix Culture Greg Sandow performs a complexity of the result endlessly multiplies. Like her slowest students, we do not book-in-progress at the Henry: Hi Jenny. understand. Overflow Yes I have and you're Harvey Sachs on music, and right. Thom Heileson's Pried from their original context, glamorous prints of dead stars move freely from various digressions sunsets fit well int screen to screen, both present and elusive, even with a rock on their heads. PianoMorphosis jenny zwick commented Bruce Brubaker on all things on Image Transfer - Piano Marlo Pascual Untitled, 2009, Digital print and rock Remix Culture at the PostClassic Henry: I wish there was Kyle Gann on music after the a link to it on his site, fact but have you seen Thom Sandow Greg Sandow on the future of Heileson' Classical Music

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. Freese visual . Getting to Know You Better Aesthetic Grounds Siebren Versteeg's color-coded flags imprinted with viral pictures celebrate the Public Art, Public Space . Go See Art dominance of unstable sign over solid sense. Karl Haendel draws a dead flow, a Another Bouncing Ball · Hank Regina Hackett takes her Art condensed, cluttered verison of James Rosenquist without the color or early David To Go . jouissance Salle without the S&M overtones. Sean Dack works with processing mistakes, Artopia allowing his figures to hover on the point of disintegration. (Seattle's Norie Sato did . Meaning in Art John Perreault's art diary something similar in the 1970s, with paintings and videos inspired by electronic CultureGrrl . My heroes died of syphilis snow.) Carter Mull blurs his consumables and taints them with electronic rot. Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural . O My God Seattle Commentary Lisa Oppenheimer drives a stake through the timid heart of exhausted metaphor. . Oregon Art Live · Olympia Dumpster Divers The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else (detail) 2006 Slide projection This weblog is licensed under . Pacific Standard a Creative Commons License.

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· Wall of Sound Once the image stream becomes art, there is hierarchy. . Winston Wachter In her excellent catalog essay, Krajewski enlarges upon Oppenheim's enterprise, · Woodside/Braseth saying she "seeks out representations of significant historical moments" but views them from the edges of their meaning. Tom Stoppard's version of this theme - REGIONAL ART SPACES Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead from 1966, has nothing to fear from Oppenheim. He still owns it, across all art disciplines. On the other hand, Image Transfer might not be doing Oppenheim justice, judging from other work available · Center on Contemporary Art online. . Ditch Projects

· Gallery 4Culture This show carries itself without a lot of wall text, but I think a brief note explaining that Amanda Ross-Ho's Camera 1, Camera 2 derives from a magazine reproduction of · Hedreen Gallery Jeff Koons' stainless steel Rabbit from 1986. is in order. Ross-Ho shot into the shiny · Kirkland Arts Center belly of Koons' sleek beast and played with its reflections. If you don't know that and · Open Satellite there's no reason to suspect anyone would, the piece is a mystery. · Photographic Center Camera 2, digital Chromgenic print. 2007 Northwest · Suyama Space

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I admire how each of these artists echo and expand on each other's work, which · Aaron Bagley makes the exhibit more than the sum of its parts. Many hours can be spent mulling · Crystal Barbre through it. Because it is co-organized by the Henry and Independent Curators International, it is likely to travel. As such, it is an opportunity missed for the · Grant Barnhart Northwest artists who could have shined in this context. · Bo Bartlett · Debra Baxter As usual, the Henry is in violation of the bloom-where-you're-planted rule. Nobody's · Linda Beaumont asking for a mercy hook up, but there are at least half-a-dozen artists who could have added significantly to this show's consequence, such as Margot Quan Knight, · Justin Colt Beckman Mike Simi, Sol Hashemi, Claude Zervas, Vanessa Renwick and Jason Hirata. It is . Jessica Bender

crucial for NW artists to be seen in a larger context. By excluding them from a · Gala Bent perfect opportunity, the Henry is missing a chance to mean more. I know that the · Zack Bent Henry would hesitate to mount an exhibit of 12 male-only artists, even less male-only white artists. Race and sex are factors. Recognizing the artists who live here needs · Gretchen Bennett to be one too. · Mark Bennion

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December 7, 2010 2:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (6) | ShareThis . Zalman Berkowtiz · John Berry 6 Comments · Evan Blackwell . Warner Blake By Anonymous in Seattle on December 9, 2010 6:30 PM · Jim Blanchard

I have to be anonymous because I'm an artist and I know the curator and . Sonja Blomdahl want to continue to know the curator. Hell yes, this is a missed opportunity! . Susanna Bluhm Curators at the major museums in Seattle act as if they're missionaries, · Scott Bokma bringing art to the ignorant. Shouldn't it be more about integration than · Gloria Bornstein exclusion? The Henry has no idea how much damage it does to the NW community by leaving us out of something at least one of us or even two · Andrew Breen could have been included in. Come on! Is the Henry saying nobody in the . Jana Brevick region deserves to be in this show? Wow. Then it wants us to support it! · Sally Brock There are teeny marginal opportunities the Henry makes a big fuss about on . Jesse Brown Hank Blog! Put us in the ring, coach, or play for another team. Judging from this show, I think Sara wants to live in LA. Go to LA, alright already. Can't the · Nicholas Brown Henry find one curator with global awareness and regional depth? We. Want. · Matt Browning To. Be. In. This. Kind. Of. Important. Show. Stop throwing scraps and serve · Brims (Brian Sims) dinner. . Christopher Buening

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· Jennifer Campbell Thanks for this! After reading other accounts, I'd decided to give this show a miss, but you make it sound fun. A show that takes the pulse of the present . Daniel A. Carrillo moment doesn't have to be shallow. I usually associate you with old painters. · Jenny Zoe Casey Thanks for surprising me. . Laura Castellanos

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By Sara Krajewski on December 9, 2010 9:13 AM · Dawn Cerny

· Laura Chamberlin Hi Regina, I'd like to clarify how Matt Keegan's mother used the flashcard images - she · Lauri Chambers was an ESL instructor and the images were used in teaching Spanish speakers · Art Chantry

vocabulary. That's just the starting point for this work about shifting meaning . Jaq Chartier and context, stock photography and language. · Diem Chau Sara · Dale Chihuly

· Close Enough Engineering By heide on December 9, 2010 2:42 AM · Catherine Cook

i am very happy that you did mention the fact of the missing seattle artists in . Laura Corsiglia

this show - a fact that one could observe not for the first time. this is also . Claire Cowie one of the significant differences that would have to be named as another · Chris Crites reason for the so very different recognition of vancouver and seattle artists outside of the region, vancouver's institutions stay in for their artists and · Tim Cross probably this is the case in most other places of the world - to recognize, · Clayton Cusak

value and to place in a broader context and perspective what is happening · Michael Dailey locally is a job that belongs to an institution. no-one else will do this if this is · Drew Daly not happening in the place itself. · Steve Davis

. Jack Daws By Another Bouncing Ball on December 9, 2010 12:52 AM · Gloria DeArcangelis Hi Jenny. Yes I have and you're right. Thom Heileson's sunsets fit well into the · Pat De Caro theme, as well as being straight-up amazing. . Jeff DeGolier

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By jenny zwick on December 8, 2010 10:41 PM . Susan Dory

. Eric Elliott I wish there was a link to it on his site, but have you seen Thom Heileson's . Chris Engman "101 Sunsets/101 Love Songs"? It fits right in with this group - it's 101 photographs of sunsets, taken from the internet - I think he even lined the . Curtis Erlinge sun up in all of them - coupled with 101 love songs, played all at once. It's . Kathleen Faulkner

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