Location: Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave. N., Seattle, WA
I developed and curated an exhibition program for a 600 sq. ft. project room devoted to local emerging artist’s first solo exhibitions in a major venue. Three exhibitions per season, with on-site funded residency and studio time included.
Project 2: Storytellers, by Chad States, 2003
Project 1: New Installation, by SuttonBeresCuller, 2002
Artists' Statement: We are three collaborative artists exploring site-specific installation through the manipulation of space using traditional building techniques, non-traditional media, and performance. Our goal is to actively involve and challenge the viewer with our inquiry into the format in which art is presented. We approach each individual space as a unique temporal experience that provides both the viewers and ourselves with an opportunity for discovery and dialogue. - John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler.
Project: A maze of spaces was created with triangular shaped columns and walls. As the viewer navigated through the installation he/she came into contact with many elements including: a 10’ working pencil which the viewer could draw on the floor with; a telephone through which the viewer could listen to the artists’ answering machine messages; a conical stack of newspapers; six computers on which visitors could type and read messages; a curved hallway with speakers set in the walls—each pair of speakers played a different language, a locked door with thousands of keys with which the viewer could try and gain access. The installation also included video elements.
Project 2: Storytellers, by Chad States, 2003Emerging artist Chad States spent four months creating a cohesive body of photographs (38” x 50”) with accompanying audio recordings for his first solo exhibition. Storytellers consists of seven photo-documentary style images of couples under the age of 30 who have been together for four years or more and are looking toward the future together. Accompanying the photographs are one-hour recordings of the couples engaged in candid and spontaneous dialogue discussing such topics as work, family, and what interests them in pop culture. This exhibition is about hope, trust and faith from the perspective of those in their mid-twenties.
