Emerging art at SAM
Published 6:31 pm Thursday, April 2, 2009
Emerging artist Corin Hewitt likes to explore certain concepts: memory, decay, preservation and transformation.
Through photography, sculpture and performance, Hewitt explores. This exploration took him to Portland for a week in September 2007 where he created vivid and complex still lifes out of organic and inorganic materials.
He photographed and often re-photographed these still lifes. He wound up with a body of 75 color images. He called the collection, “Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, Oregon).”
That collection goes on display for the first time Saturday at Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle. Hewitt will talk about his work at 6:30 tonight at SAM. The show is on view through Oct. 18.
“Spirits of Earth: Sight and Sound” features the work of artists Laurel Eagle Moon, whose passion is drum-making, and painter Ginny O’Neill, whose realistic landscapes capture the beauty of the Northwest.
Eagle Moon uses drums for music and for healing. She creates them in a Northwest coastal native style of binding the hide to the frame to form a dramatic star. The center of the star is then wrapped with soft deerskin to create a comfortable handle.
O’Neill, a former advertising artist, said she paints by “letting watercolor work its unique, random magic.”
The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 tonight at Raven Rocks Gallery at Greenbank Farm, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. The show is on display through April 30.
Heavy duty art: “Ind-rust-rial,” a new mixed-media collection by artist Paul A. McClintock, is featured during April and kicks off with a reception from 5:30 to 8 tonight at the Open Door Gallery, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley.
McClintock’s creative process employs the transformation and repurposing of ordinary objects into unique, richly worked visual objects.
Art meets function: The 20th annual Functional Art Contest &Show mixes form and functionality and blends fine art, craft and utility.
Artists working in the “green” media will be showcased. The goal of the show is to promote eco-art as a completely viable direction to the world of visual arts, to offer up the use of green products as a logical alternative to traditional media.
An opening reception is planned from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Art/Not Terminal, 2045 Westlake Ave., Seattle. The show closes May 7.
