The Seattle Art Museum Celebrates a
Northwest Summer
Northwest Summer at the Seattle Asian Art Museum May 4 – Oct. 15, 2006
This summer the Seattle Asian Art Museum
will present a series of six exhibitions which pay tribute
to the museum’s history of presenting Asian and
Northwest art at the original Seattle Art Museum, which
opened in 1933. The exhibitions will feature glass,
the photography of Northwest artist Johsel Namkung, Trimpin,
contemporary works in the museum’s collection from
the past 30 years, American Art Deco and the works of
Mark Tobey and Morris Graves from the 1940s.
Elegant Earth: Photographs by Johsel
Namkung (May 4-Aug. 6, 2006). Korean artist and Northwest
resident Namkung’s 20 large format photographs will
transcend traditional landscape composition and capture
the abstract, rhythmic and elegant beauty inherent in
nature.
American Art Deco and the Seattle Art
Museum (May 4 – Oct. 15, 2006). Important sculpture
by many of the leading figures in America’s Art
Deco Movement including Hunt Diederich, Boris Lovet-Lorski
will be on view in this look back at the style behind
the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s architecture.
Transparent Legacy: Studio Glass Gifted
to SAM from the Collection of Jon and Mary Shirley (May
4 – Oct. 15, 2006). This exhibition features a selection
of works from the Shirley’s collection and highlights
a range of glass making techniques including blown, cast,
flameworked, sandblasted and zanfrico glass by artists
including Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Preston
Singltary and Ginny Ruffner.
Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark
Tobey and Morris Graves (May 4 – Oct. 15, 2006).
This exhibition explores 14 works from what proved to
be a period of intense creativity for both artists in
the early 1940s.
Contemporary Art: Made in Seattle (May
4 – July 23, 2006). The exhibition will present
15 contemporary works, which includes painting, sculpture,
photography, and video and recent acquisitions on view
for the first time.
Trimpin: Picnics, Rhythms and Vacations
(Aug. 5 – Oct. 15, 2006). This is a new installation
by internationally-acclaimed sound artist and sculptor
Trimpin. The installation utilizes slide projectors stacked
from floor to ceiling and filled with hundreds of found
slides collected by the artist from flea markets around
the world to create a percussive sound and visual composition. |
