October 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
This Saturday, October 6th, the Henry invites you to the opening of two new exhibitions: Pipilotti Rist: A la belle étoile and En Plein Air.
Rist’s immersive installation, which is in collaboration with Seattle Art Museum and the exhibition Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, will transform the gallery space by projecting moving images onto the floor and setting a confusion of perspectives into motion. Rist’s work is known to be optically exuberant and engage viewers’ bodies and senses.
En Plein Air presents work culled from the Henry’s permanent collection along with the work of the young French Algerian contemporary artist Neïl Beloufa. The exhibition broadly addresses how the practice of en plein air painting richly influenced the early years of photography and the subsequent practice of the arts. The role of the artist as flâneur is crucial to the thesis of this focused exhibition which includes paintings by Boudin and Corot, and photographs from the Henry’s important holdings of French photography, including the work of Eugene Atget, Henri Lartigue, Charles Marville, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others.
Don’t miss the openings of these two fantastic shows at the Henry!
September 14, 2012 – 11:00 am
Hello Henry fans! This week I will be profiling artist Dave Muller, whose works, Jake’s Top Ten (Nostalgia) 2003 and Dave’s Top Ten (03/23/09: Muller Family Favorites) 2009 are in the Henry’s current exhibition, The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl.
Get a sneak peek into Muller’s studio in this video made by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles:
Read this article from T Magazine, in which Muller describes what it was like to create permanent artworks for the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, of all places.
Muller discusses the music-inspired mural he created for the lobby of the Boston ICA in this article from the Boston Globe.
You can view a large selection of his works here on the Gladstone Gallery site.
Come check out Dave Muller’s works at Henry for the Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, on view until October 7th, 2012. Thanks!
Marian
September 13, 2012 – 7:53 pm
In conjunction with The Richard Hugo House, the Henry recently finished up a writing workshop series emphasizing visual arts as inspiration for writing. This entailed gathering media such as photographs, paintings, sculpture, and textiles to provide stimulus for new prose projects. Students were able to workshop one short story or essay as well as take part in a variety of exercises, discussions, and readings.
We are happy to announce that two of the writings completed by students as a result of this fantastic workshop will be posted on our blog! Thanks again to our wonderful students and our instructor, Anca Szilágyi.
Scroll down to read stories written by Lauren Shea and Judith Yarrow.
September 13, 2012 – 7:52 pm
A hypertext by Lauren Shea
Click here to view the story.
Christian Dior (Boutique).Woman’s coat.1957. Plain weave. Heavy fulled wool with medium weight plain silk lining. Mrs. Theodore Plestcheeff Collection, 87.4-18
This short piece was written by a student of the Richard Hugo House who attended the writing workshop at the Henry.
September 13, 2012 – 7:52 pm
John Divola. Zuma #4. 1978, reprinted 2012. Pigment print on rag paper. Monsen Study Collection of Photography, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen, replacement print by the artist, 2012.6
Fragment
by Judith Yarrow
An old friend sent me a photo of the room I lived in back then. There’d been a fire in it. Charred rubbish was piled in the center of the room. The window panes of the two big windows in the corner of the room were shattered— by the fire or the firefighters.
In that corner had been a table and two chairs. The view was wonderful at all times but especially at sunset when the dark ultramarine of the sea slowly swallowed the rose and peach of the sky. A glass of wine, the distant sound of children playing in the street, the fragrance of frangipani. The very hint of frangipani can bring it all back to me And the dreams I dreamt then, so rich. Every night the waves lapping on the shore filled my dreams, and in the morning the roosters crowed all over the village. It was a dreamtime in my life. I was so young and hopeful and trusting. Of course it couldn’t last. The burnt husk of a relationship eventually sent me running, but that table in the corner looking out at the sea is still an icon of that time when I thought I could learn the meaning of life and capture it in poems.
This short piece was written by a student of the Richard Hugo House who attended the writing workshop at the Henry.
September 11, 2012 – 9:49 pm
King FM’s Arts Channel has featured our very own Henry Art Gallery on their radio show in an engaging interview with the Henry’s Executive Director Sylvia Wolf and Deputy Director of Art and Education Luis Croquer.
The interview starts off with a brief synopsis of the Henry’s unique history from Sylvia Wolf and continues with a description of the upcoming Fall 2012-Spring 2013 season as told by Luis Croquer. Projects discussed by Luis include an installation from artist Pipilotti Rist that is in conjunction with the SAMs, Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, a special presentation from Laurie Anderson, and an exhibition centered around Seattle’s beloved artist, Jeffry Mitchell, just to name a few.
Listen in to hear more about what the Henry has cooking for the upcoming year!
