How to Hide an Elephant (a cover)
By Klara Glosova
Thursday, June 14th
6-9pm
This show is poetry
not prose,
but then again I’m like America -
full of Grand Canyons and contradictions.

Jako slon v porcelánu (Like a bull in a china shop)
Porcelain, green shrubbery, 2012
Amanda Manitach - City Arts Blog Flaneurie and Floriography
Sun Worshipers Book Launch Party
Vignettes will be taking the month of May off.
I am creating a publication which is due to launch on July 3rd at Family Business Gallery in NYC.
It is called Sun Worshipers and consists of 25 Seattle based contributors. My theory is that everyone who lives in Seattle is a Sun Worshiper, these are their creations.
cheers,
Sierra Stinson
Moral Floral by O’Keeffe
Vignettes is pleased to present the one day only exhibition featuring a large scale photographic installation.
Sunday April 29th
4-7pm
‘I obsessively scan the landscape searching for beauty in a grey world. Flowers provide me with a sense of purpose and power. Temporary and unique each petal and each stem grounds my senses both delighting and liberating.’
Brokedown Palace
The body that remains, and what you do with it, is most beautiful.
By Diana Falchuk
Saturday
March 24th
7-10pm
‘This show is inspired by the tiny relics I love to find and make, the middle class, and the unavoidable somatic self.’

Untitled, 2012, Assemblage

Untitled 2012. (Mwwahhh) Sculpture
An Evening of Bill Clinton Love Poetry, in Celebration of Eros
Join us for the closing reception of Sean McElroy’s current Vignettes exhibition ‘We are Happy to Serve You’
February 14th
6-9pm
Reading will begin promptly at 6:30pm
We have limited capacity so please arrive at 6pm for this event.
The readers will be:
Bond Huberman
Shannon Tharp
Nicole Burgund
Adam Boehmer
Bill Carty
Plus a dramatic reading from the Starr Report.
Including a genuine Clinton-era Kinko’s publication.
Also a lovely article written about Sean’s exhibit by Amanda Manitach for ArtDish - Sean McElroy “We Are Happy To Serve You”
ONN/OF a light festival
January 28th - 29th
A Vignettes Off-Site Production
While January brings Seattle a 26% chance of sun and rain turning to showers with a chance of drizzle later in the day, Susan Robb, Sierra Stinson and Jim Demetre are creating and curating ONN/OF an art exhibition and “light festival” that forecasts a weekend of illumination, warmth, and gloom-banishing engagement.
Housed in The Sweater Factory, an 11,000 Sq Ft warehouse in Ballard, ONN/OF was born from 2011’s isolation-inducing, La Niña-drenched winter weather. This year, instead of hiding away on what has been scientifically proven to be the worst, most depressing day of the year, Susan, Sierra, and Jim invite you to engage with a weekend of visual art, performance, installation, projection, music, food and drink, and workshops that in some way use “light”.
Their aim is to create an environment that not only lets people escape the cold and solitude that comes with Seattle’s winter season but to build a warm and energizing experience that might produce enough radiance to help see Seattle through the rest of the winter.
Just a few highlights….
Graham Downing
Justin Lytle
The Bran Flakes
We Are Happy to Serve You
by Sean McElroy
January 14th - February 14th
Vignettes will kick off the new year with an opening of a large scale painted installation by Seattle based artist Sean McElroy. Since this piece will be painted directly on the walls of our apartment we will have the exhibition open until February 14th by appointment only. Our first month long exhibition!
We Are Happy to Serve You is a map of the internal and external world.
Its axis is brain - tongue - stomach - genitals.
Its deity is Bill Clinton.
Its currency is the dollar.

O.M.G.B.R.B.
tempera wall painting, 120 x 100”
2011
City Arts Magazine - The Curator: Sierra Stinson
Insatiable
by Victoria Yee Howe
December 23rd
7-10pm
an edible installation
of all-consuming consumption
during one night of disintegration



Swan Song
By Greg Lundgren
December 10th
7-10pm
It will make people break laws and protect the poor and fuck complete strangers and do terrible things. This sculpture will make people take care of each other, but not all the time. This sculpture will recalibrate us all - turn us into the things we have been all along.

Sculpture #3
This sculpture didn’t change the world in any substantial way, nor did it sell for a million dollars. It wasn’t even created by a “professional” sculptor, just someone who had an idea that couldn’t quite be expressed with writing or music or painting. It had to be expressed as a three dimensional sculpture, and even with limited talent, that is what he set off to do.
This sculpture took a very long time to create. There were weeks when the artist just walked around his creation, studied it from every angle, puzzled, frustrated, uncertain. He read books, he took classes, this was that important to him – a critical operation – his life depended upon it. And for an entire year, this sculpture just wasn’t quite right. There were parts that were interesting, but it failed to capture his voice, it failed to capture the ideas that his vocal cords and his keyboard were ill-equipped to fabricate.
This sculpture was painstaking. This sculpture was a pain in the ass. This sculpture caused countless sleepless nights. But three years later, the artist (drunk) had his eureka moment, raced out to his garage and spent the next 134 hours frantically capturing the answer that he feared would disappear like the memory of a dream. And one day, this sculpture was finished.
Other people did not appreciate this sculpture. Certainly his friends and family applauded the tenacity of his summit, but strangers – curators, dealers, artists – it just failed to resonate with them. You could say that this sculpture was rather ignored by the world at large.
The artist, elated by his breakthrough, was taken back that others did not see the clarity of his expression or applaud his great feat. He was frustrated that this sculpture did not sway the dealers or the critics or the curators who guarded the gates of contemporary art. This sculpture was shown briefly in the record store his friend Carl owned. This sculpture was donated to an auction for a very good cause but failed to garner a single bid. Years past and the artist maintained his conviction – this was the greatest achievement of his life – this embodied something greater than himself, it defied words and explanation – it was his swan song. He never created another sculpture in his life.
This sculpture was given as a gift to an old girlfriend who bought a big house and had all of this room but no money to purchase furniture or art or much of anything else. For a few days this sculpture looked good in this big, clean, empty house, but as other stuff came in, as rugs and couches and track lighting were installed, this sculpture sank back into unassuming mediocrity. It gathered dust. It was moved into the office. It was moved outside next to the pond. And one day her interior designer put his foot down and had this sculpture taken to a local Goodwill, where it was priced very reasonably. And on half price pink tag day, a local book dealer purchased this sculpture for $15.49, took it home and wrapped it in carpet remnants. His four cats absolutely adored it.


Sentimental
New Creations by Zack Bent
featuring a poem by D.W. Burnam
November 10th
7-10pm

I’ve taken to a happiness invested in nagging reserve. Hopefully in time it counters this vicious entanglement of labor and expectations. I read it in de Silentio:
“At this point men leap aside, they cannot bear the martyrdom of being uncomprehended, and instead of this they choose conveniently enough the worldly admiration of their proficiency.”
-D.W. Burnam

Willie Fitzgerald -MSN Postbox Home Show










