The Stranger Slog

Salavon, Playboy Centerfolds, and Golems…Oh My!

Jason Salavon. Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1970s. 2002. Pigmented inkjet print. Collection of Timothy and Leslie Fichtner. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.

One of the Henry’s own currently-exhibting artists, Jason Salavon, and The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age was featured in a recent Stranger SLOG posting! Click here to read the full article…

You can see Salavon’s Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1970s in The Digital Eye until the exhibition’s closing on September 25th.

“Jason Salavon scanned every Playboy Centerfold from January 1960 to December 1999, and outputted a mean image representing each decade in the form of a 5-foot-tall, ghostly photograph. Over time, the women got skinnier, blonder, and whiter.”

“Salavon makes all kinds of digital images. At the Henry Art Gallery now, in addition to one of these centerfolds, is one of the 100,000 convincingly expressive abstract paintings that Salavon printed out en masse. He calls them Golem. A golem, in Jewish folklore, is a living creature made of inanimate matter.”

And check out henryart.org soon for updates on the Jason Salavon Gallery Talk on September 15th at 7PM. He’ll also be at Photo Center NW the day before, September 14th, for a special workshop.

Last Week to see the MFA show!

Don’t miss out on your last chance to support University of Washington’s Grad students of Fine Arts in the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition going on right now. The show ends its final week this Sunday, June 19th. And just to peak your interests a little more, check out this articles from UW Today, The Daily, and The Stranger Slog about the exhibition and its artists.

Public (f)Art

Comments on this Slog post about public art.are getting pretty stinky!
Today, Stranger Visual Arts Editor Jen Graves spoke with Ross Reyolds on KUOW’s “The Conversation.” The conversation followed a Seattle Times editorial by Senator Steve Hobbs, in which Hobbs calls Brian Tolle’s sculpture for the UW Campus, Stronghold,  “a tree stump.”

I love that sculpture, and Tolle’s lecture here at the Henry was fantastic.

Listen to “The Conversation” here.
Read the editorial here.
Read the Slog post and add your comments, here.

SHAG-ing and Nudge-ing (and Fact-Checking)

Check out Paul Constant’s post on the Stranger’s Slog on SHAG (Student Henry Advisory Group) member Brittany Denison and her suspended blog Aw Hell Yeah.

Edited to ADD:

My apologies at my sudden burst of excitement at this blog post! Here’s what’s really going on with Nudge and Stray as Aw Hell Yeah temporarily rises from the dead to say this:

“Just to clarify, I’m not the editor of Nudge. The brilliant founder, editor, and really only person on the masthead, is my good friend Claire Fox. I’m more of a…devoted aid. Also, Nudge is more documentation of a UW community of artists and writers than a journal, and it’s certainly not restricted to poetry. If you have any questions, or want to know more, you can email nudgearts@gmail.com

What I am in charge of is Stray, a UW poetry collective. If you want to know more about Stray, check out our website at www.stray-poetry.com”

Team Teamwork!