Work by Bellevue College Art Faculty Dale Lindman is currently on view in the exhibit: “The Landscape: Evoked”, on display at Seattle’s Prographica gallery, June 8 – July 13, 2013.

(Dale Lindman, “Coastal #3″, 2013, mixed media on paper, 8 x 4.75″ image 1/1)

Environmental Portrait: Patrick Whitaker

Artist’s Statement: “One day a friend of mine and I were talking about photography and how fun it would be to spend the day taking photos together.  As the conversation went on the subject of nudes in nature was also discussed.  We both agreed that we would model for each other.  Several days later we spent several hours shooting at a local park.  The process was very relaxed and quite enjoyable.  The following photos were the result of this afternoon.  This was a collaborative piece of work between me, as the photographer and my friend, as the model.  I sincerely believe the comfort shown by the model in the photos reflect our friendship, mutual respect, and love for photography.”

Patrick is a student of Ginny Banks, Photography Instructor at Bellevue College.

Artist Linda Thomas, Bellevue College Art Faculty, installed “De-Composition: Indecent Exposure” on the campus of Bellevue College during Earth Week. The project was viewed from the “C” building breezeway.

Click the image below to view video of the installation filmed by the artist:

Artist Statement

This project was conceived to be part of Earth Week activities when we at Bellevue College acknowledge our responsibility towards our environment on a limited Earth.

Drawing from the figure has been a part of my art practice for over ten years. My habit and ritual is to participate in a drawing session once or twice weekly. In this way I have accumulated stacks of drawing pads filled with drawings. I have been motivated to devise ways to “recycle” the drawings because of the ongoing consumption and accumulation of paper.

The figure drawings serve as a record of the hours and the efforts in my process towards mastery.  Many are quick gesture drawings completed in two to three minutes; others were allotted more time. I consider this my practice rather than my professional “body of work”.

Ideally, Decomposition: Indecent Exposure will speak to issues of the environment and sustainability. My intention is for the environmental effects of weather (wind, rain, and sun) to impact the work in its own way by tearing and dislodging the paper or soaking and diluting the ink. Consequently, the figures may dissolve and the paper will decompose. Human beings in our natural state are subject to environmental effects; like paper, we are simultaneously vulnerable and resilient. We must see ourselves as part of nature rather than an independent agent in the nature/culture dichotomy.

I can trace the origins of this project back twenty years in my tenure as an artist. When I returned from a trip through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania I produced a series of prints inspired by Amish clothes hung out to dry. Hanging “sheets” of paper mimics the Amish way of conserving natural resources.

For more about other work by Linda Thomas, visit Prographica.

Running May 8 – 31 is the exhibit Peter Reiquam: Win or Lose! A Collection of Successful & Failed Public Art Proposals 1985 – Present

This exhibit represents the development of design proposals for a variety of public sites — ranging from sculptural seating installations in parks, transit sites and university campuses to illuminated sculptures, narrative panels, space ships, and giant corn stalks.

Made from a variety of materials including metals, stone, concrete, glass and lighting, these diverse concepts share a desire to create durable, well-crafted and meaningful works that speak to the uniqueness of each one’s site and to do so with a balance of humor, elegance and sophistication.

This is how Reiquam describes the exhibit: “The scale models, drawings and photographs document my thought process as I develop site-specific proposals and offer insight into the fabrication process. The models were created as a tool for communicating my ideas to a selection committee — a way of describing the full-scale sculpture three-dimensionally and to address questions of form, scale, color and materials as well as content and context provided by a given site.

 There are many ways to approach a career in the arts and this is mine, win or lose.”

“Color(ing) Within the Lines: Graphic Works by African American Artists”
FEBRUARY 6 – APRIL 12, 2013

Click on the image below to view a video of the exhibit and interview with Jordan Schnitzer:

Opening Lecture with the collector, Jordan Schnitzer:  4:30 p.m., Carlson Theater

Reception in the Bellevue College Gallery Space:  4 – 8 p.m., Room D271

“I would like to invite all faculty and staff to participate in the opening events of this exhibit featuring works of art from some of the most prominent African American artists from the past 40 years.  Included are: Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Lorna Simpson and many more.  I also hope some of you will consider building a classroom activity or assignment that takes advantage of having these works of art on campus.

I am more than happy to offer class tours of the exhibit as well.  Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or if you would like a PDF of all works to be included.”

Kate Casprowiak
Art History, Bellevue College
katrina.casprowiak@bellevuecollege.edu
(425) 564-2629

Instructor and artist Pat De Caro recently spoke at the opening of Seattle Art Museum’s Elles: Pompidou — a history-making exhibit of art by women artists working in the century from 1907 to 2007. This exhibit comes to SAM from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which is home of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and houses one of the largest collections of modern art in Europe.

To capitalize on the exhibit — which includes artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Diane Arbus, Marina Abramović, Louise Bourgeois, Atsuko Tanaka, Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle — SAM has created nine additional interrelated shows by women artists. The exhibits explore modern pieces, a retrospective, modern U.S. masters, abstract currents and countercurrents, video, and issue-driven conceptual work. Some of the artists featured include Georgia O’Keefe, Imogen Cunningham, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Elizabeth Murray, Agnes Martin, Ellen Gallagher, Ghada Amer, and many others.

For information on the SAM exhibits, visit Women Take Over:   Elles:Pompidou  Elles:SAM  Elles:Seattle

To see work by Pat De Caro, visit http://www.patdecaro.com/index.html