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Form/Space Atelier Program For October 2008

Show Title: Crossing Boundaries

Show Duration: October 10- November 9, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday October 10, 6PM (Belltown Art Dealers Assn. Second Friday Art Walk)

Second Chance Opening Reception Tuesday October 14, 6PM

Crossing Boundaries is an exhibit of acrylic paintings on canvas, each canvas 18x24 inches. The scale of the paintings was chosen creatively and intentionally by curator Paul Pauper, who, with his own hand grounded each canvas with a gesso tinted a pale yellow.

Yuriko Miyamoto creates paintings, illustrations and graphic design, characterized by a child-like playfulness and strong use of characters. Yuriko is an employee of the Frye Art Museum.

Form/Space Atelier Program For September 2008

Show Title: Play: Intuitively Altered Spaces

Show Duration: September 12- October 5

Opening Reception: September 12, 6PM

Exhibit is free.

Julie Alpert exhibits at Form/Space Atelier September 2008, addressing illusionism in collage,
painting, and installation as a metaphor for the way we suspend belief as a form of escapism. Her
process holds as much importance as her finished pieces. It begins with an intuitive response to the
architectural space the work will inhabit using found objects and building materials to distort the
space and create a loose narrative. She then manipulates photographs of the installation in collages,drawings, and paintings, distorting the already altered space. The work is an homage to German Expressionist film, contemporaries such as Jessica Stockholder and Lisa Sigal, and the tromp l’oeil artists of the 1600’s – early 20th century.

Form/Space Atelier Program For August 2008

Curated By Paul Pauper

Show Title: Clouds

Show Duration: August 8- September 7, 2008

Opening Reception: August 8, 2008 6PM

Clouds is an exhibit of large-scale abstract oil paintings by Shannon Barry. The exhibit is inspired by children’s drawings, brightly colored and with cartoon-like elements.

Shannon Barry studied at Gage Academy of Art, in the drawing and painting atelier of Mark Kang-O’Higgins.

Form/Space Atelier Program For July 2008

Curated by: Paul Pauper

Show title: Findings

Show duration: July 11- August 3

Opening reception: July 11, 6PM

Findings, Britta Johnson’s first site-specific video installation, is composed of several video elements installed throughout Form/Space Atelier’s dramatic architectural spaces. Johnson’s imagery is mysterious and beautiful, a thought-provoking spectacle of sensuous frivloity. One element, titled Séance for Descartes, employs sculptural means to creatively alter the exhibit space. Johnson’s newest work, 2008’s 21 Landings, gift-wraps beautifully the futlity of repetition. The exhibit is free, a limited number of copies of the video elements are for sale.

Form/Space Atelier June 2008

Show Title: Resurfacing

Show Duration: June 13-July 6

Opening Reception: June 13, 6PM

Carolyn Polk’s exhibit ‘Resurfacing’; scarab images in acrylic paint and mediums, paper, recovered barn wood, recovered washers, resin, metallic pigment, coasters, image transfer, and print are rooted in her ardent appeal of the symbolic meaning that the scarab holds, that of renewal, good luck, and protection.

Carolyn Polk received her BFA in 2001 from Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. Exhibitions of her work have been shown in galleries in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Georgia, and Washington.

Form/Space Atelier Program for May 2008

Show Title: Mentor: The Unknown Work of Nancy Lee

Show Duration: May 9-June 8

Opening Reception: May 9, 6-10PM

Seattle artist and much-loved middle-school art teacher Nancy Lee died in 1990, leaving behind a fascinating but virtually unknown body of work. Following the death of her widower, Dr. Robert C. Lee, in 2006, a large number of pieces by the artist were discovered while the Lees’ home of many years was being cleared of their belongings. Mentor: The Unknown Work of Nancy Lee represents a journey by a living artist, Paul D. Natkin, into the work of a deceased artist, Lee, who was his long-time family friend and early mentor. The several works by Lee presented in this show exemplify her passion for a wide variety of materials, from the durable to the ephemeral—including canvas, watercolor paper, paper towels, scrap metal, gauze, cellophane, plywood, watercolor, oil paint, house paint, sticks, clay and mud—and her very intuitive, stream-of-consciousness approach to image-making. The pieces by Lee are shown side by side with copies of biographical documentation and written ruminations on her work by Natkin.

Form/Space Atelier Program for May 2008

Show Title: Mentor: The Unknown Work of Nancy Lee

Show Duration: May 9-June 8

Opening Reception: May 9, 6-10PM

Seattle artist and much-loved middle-school art teacher Nancy Lee died in 1990, leaving behind a fascinating but virtually unknown body of work. Following the death of her widower, Dr. Robert C. Lee, in 2006, a large number of pieces by the artist were discovered while the Lees’ home of many years was being cleared of their belongings. Mentor: The Unknown Work of Nancy Lee represents a journey by a living artist, Paul D. Natkin, into the work of a deceased artist, Lee, who was his long-time family friend and early mentor. The several works by Lee presented in this show exemplify her passion for a wide variety of materials, from the durable to the ephemeral—including canvas, watercolor paper, paper towels, scrap metal, gauze, cellophane, plywood, watercolor, oil paint, house paint, sticks, clay and mud—and her very intuitive, stream-of-consciousness approach to image-making. The pieces by Lee are shown side by side with copies of biographical documentation and written ruminations on her work by Natkin.

Paul Pauper Working On A Commission Of Art For The Dalai Lama, April 14, 2008, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

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Contact: Paul Pauper 206-349-2509

UW Professor David Brody lectures on his work Friday April 18, 6PM at Form/Space Atelier, 2407 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121-1311 . Wine and bread will be served, admission is free.

David Brody was born in New York City. He did undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College and received an MFA in painting from Yale University. In addition to solo exhibitions at Gallery NAGA in Boston, Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle, Gescheidle in Chicago, and Galeria Gilde in Portugal his work has been featured in over 70 group shows including those at the Chicago Center for the Print, the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, The Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Florida, Tallahassee, and at The Painting Center, Alternative Museum, and Bridgewater Gallery in New York City. His work has also been shown at the Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporàneo (ARCO Art Fair) in Madrid, the RipArte Art Fair in Rome, the Trevi Flash Art Museum, in Trevi , Italy, the FAC Art Fair in Lisbon and at Art Chicago in the US.

Form/Space Atelier Program For April 2008

Show Title: An Exhibit Of Robert Storr's Autograph And Other Work

Show Duration: April 11-May 4

Opening Reception Friday, April 11, 6PM

An Exhibit Of Robert Storr's Autograph And Other Work is the century mark in terms of the number of exhibits of fine art that have been curated by Paul Pauper. This exhibit pays homage to the legacy Paul Pauper established with regard to assembling massive group shows during the early part of his curatorial career. An Exhibit Of Robert Storr's Autograph And Other Work features sculpture by John Hawkley, photographs by Dan Hawkins, paintings by Stacey Chapelle and the rare and precious autograph of Robert Storr, the Dean of the Yale School of Art, critic, painter and one of the most influential people in the history of art. Bread and wine will be served at this reception, placed site-specifically on a twenty-foot-long table, covered with a solemn black cloth, intentionally representing a sacred feast. Non-alcoholic beverages, Bibi Cafe, will also be served for those unable to take the sacramental offering. Conversely, cheerful balloons will be attached to the Form/Space Atelier A-Board, site-specifically representing the profusion of balloons attached to local-area condominium sales office A-Boards. Visitors to the exhibit are encouraged to "speculate" on the meaning of both the sacramental installation and the balloon installation.