Vignettes

How to Hide an Elephant (a cover)

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:00 -0400

By Klara Glosova

Thursday, July 14th

6-9pm

This show is poetry

not prose,

but then again I’m like America -

full of Grand Canyons and contradictions.

www.pictureband.com

Amanda Manitach - City Arts Blog Flaneurie and Floriography

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:18:24 -0400

Amanda Manitach - City Arts Blog Flaneurie and Floriography

MAY BREAK

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:55:00 -0400

Vignettes will be taking the month of May off.

I am creating a publication which is due to launch in June at Family Business Gallery in NYC. Therefor I am turning my home into a workspace for the month of May.

June 14th we will return with a solo exhibition How to Hide an Elephant (A Cover) featuring Klara Glosova’s new creations. Klara is an amazing artist and the founder and curator of Nepo House and Nepo 5K Dont Run.

Cheers,

Sierra Stinson

Moral Floral by O'Keeffe

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:04:00 -0400

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.’

liquidcrystaldisplayground.tumblr.com

Brokedown Palace

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:40:00 -0500

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

www.dianafalchuk.com

Embedded

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:43:00 -0500

by Lauren Klenow

Wednesday

February 22nd

6-9pm

What we now consider to be the most western part of Washington State, is actually the remaining eastern edge of the world’s smallest tectonic plate. The Olympic Peninsula was once part of the ocean floor on the plate of Juan de Fuca until it crashed into the larger continental plate of North America, shifting landmasses and creating the Olympic Mountain Range.

Grappling to understand these vast geological shifts and the scale of their movement, Lauren Klenow spent a month exploring the Olympic Peninsula between Port Townsend and Neah Bay. Responding to these mountain peaks and waterways. Embedded is a collection of works created amidst time spent traipsing among Sitka spruces and westward excursions along coastal bluffs, mountain ridges, and beaches.

www.laurenklenow.com

Creation of this work was made possible in part by Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Program and Centrum Residency.

ArtDish - Sean McElroy “We Are Happy To Serve You” by Amanda Manitach

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:01:00 -0500

ArtDish - Sean McElroy “We Are Happy To Serve You” by Amanda Manitach

An Evening of Bill Clinton Love Poetry, in Celebration of Eros

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:00 -0500

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

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:12:00 -0500

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.

onnof.us

Just a few highlights….

Graham Downing

Justin Lytle

The Bran Flakes

We Are Happy to Serve You

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:28:00 -0500

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

goldensplinter.com

City Arts Magazine - The Curator: Sierra Stinson

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:58:00 -0500

City Arts Magazine - The Curator: Sierra Stinson

Insatiable

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:22:00 -0500

by Victoria Yee Howe

December 23rd

7-10pm

an edible installation

of all-consuming consumption

during one night of disintegration

yeehowe.com

also read What Galleries to Visit Over the Holidays

Swan Song

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:42:00 -0500

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.

vital5productions.com

More images/text here

Sentimental

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:38:00 -0400

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

zackbent.com

Willie Fitzgerald -MSN Postbox Home Show

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Willie Fitzgerald -MSN Postbox Home Show

MittWit

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:54:00 -0400

a collaboration with Leanne Grimes and Rodrigo Valenzuela

Opening/Closing Reception

October 13th

6-9pm

MittWit combines making with being. The making of the objects involves a narrative journey. The fabrics used in it’s construction have had previous lives – old friends’ clothing, safety workers vests, rescued scraps from the Filson’s dumpster. These memories have been pieced together with a visible path inlaid by the violent but necessary act of sewing. The purpose of MittWit is to provide a space for two people to occupy over an extended period of time. This forced communion negotiates between private intentions and public display with the purpose of becoming present with another in a way that is patient and supportive.MittWits build relationships, while also calling attention to the nature of them.

www.leannegrimes.com
www.rodrigovalenzuela.com

Memes

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:12:00 -0400

A group exhibition featuring the creations of the following artists:

Michael Fettig

Erin Toale

at an off-site location

Monday, September 19th

7-10pm

A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.

Troy Gua
même chose
16x16” each
resin coated, digitally manipulated photography on metallic photo paper mounted to panel, battery powered led’s.

Mike Simi

Meat Tray Dartboard

cast plastic, darts, 2010

Klara Glosova

From 2D to 3D

youtube video, porcelain, 2010

Joey Veltkamp

Hang in There Bear

Ink on Paper, 2011

This Vignettes exhibition will occur off site at the Aguilar/Fettig residence.

Sequoia's Lusting Night

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:50:00 -0400

by Frank Correa

Wednesday, September 7th

7-10pm

Frank Correa presents a girl’s last teen night under the bare full moon.
A night of colors and freedom.

Adriana Grant - Seattle Met Open House

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:57:27 -0400

Adriana Grant - Seattle Met Open House

sleeping with my contacts in: close to home, close to work

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:22:00 -0400

By Graham Downing

Thursday, August 25th

7-11pm

‘I’ve been sleeping with my contacts in for the last four months.
Sometimes if they hurt in the morning I’ll take them out and wear my glasses for the day.
I’ve had these glasses since high school and people always say I don’t look like myself when i wear them.

I also don’t know my social security number.
And i always buy gas 5 dollars at a time.’

Image:

fog machines found in abandoned halloween shop

iphone photo, 2011

http://grahamdowning.tumblr.com/

Celebrity Deaths
painted white lighters
2011

Man in Park Failing to Throw Boomerang

Video Projection

2011

Surface to Area

Styrofoam, nails, string, tape

2011