BLURRED
Architectural Possibilities August 3 - September 13 2002 COCA, Seattle
The title of this project is “Mock-Up.” It was done in collaboration with SHED Design Build. Over the course of a day, plaster was poured in courses between a form and an existing L-shaped wall. Once the plaster had set the ‘new wall’ was rotated 180 degrees to enclose a room between it and the existing wall. The plaster was then sawn into panels from the inside of the room. The panels were passed over the top of the wall until the room had vanished. I documented the entire process in photographs which were mounted above the stacked plaster slabs to tell the story.
Exhibition Dates: August 3 - September 13, 2002
Location: 1420 Eleventh Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood
Curators: John N Bohn & Kai-Uwe Bergamann, architects
Artists: ABBP.M (Daniel Ayars, Joseph Bausano, Blaine Brownell Eric Phillip, Craig Matheny), Iole Alessandrini, Michelle Arab, Mike Barrette, Michael Culpepper, Marc Dombrosky, James Harrison, John Jenkins III, Mark Johnson, Lead Pencil Studio (Annie Han, Daniel Mihalyo), r-b-f Architecture (Ziad Shebab, Tristin Pagenkopf, Tim Rohleder, Mark Adams, Kent Greene, Andrew Borges, Julia Egonolf, Eric Baldwin, John Fleming), Alex Schweder, SHED (Prentis Hale, Thomas Schaer, Scott Carr, Damon Smith), and Philip Thiel.
Curated by John Bohn and Kai-Uwe Bergmann, two architects interested in the cross-over with contemporary art (see Hal Foster’s The Art-Architecture Complex, Verso 2011), Blurred showcased the work of artists working in teams with an experimental approach to site specificity and installation. Writing for the Seattle Times, former Henry Art Gallery curator (and later Chair of Visual Art at Washington State U) Chris Bruce raved that he could not “remember when I have seen a show that excited me this much.” (Seattle Times, September 6, 2002)
In conjunction with the exhibition, Marlow Harris of Seattle Dream Homes led architectural toursaround Seattle.
Images of SHED's Installation