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Group Exhibition for Month of May!

Under the Wire: Saranac Art Projects Group Exhibit

Under the Wire: Press Release

Group Exhibition:  Scott Kolbo, Meagan Stirling, Jenny Hyde, Greg Dumontheir, and Lance Sinnema

Saranac Art Projects invites you to the opening of our seventh exhibition, featuring the works of five Spokane artists; Scott Kolbo, Meagan Stirling, Jenny Hyde, Greg DuMonthier, and Lance Sinnema. This is the first of two group exhibitions of artists participating in Saranac Art Projects.    Recently Saranac Art Projects changed its format from a curated space to an artist's cooperative.  This change in direction was to work with artists living and making work locally. 

All of the artists in this exhibition are professors at different Universities.  Both Greg DuMontheir and Jenny Hyde are professors at Eastern Washington University while Scott Kolbo, Meagan Stirling, and Lance Sinnema are professors at Whitworth University.  Each artist works differently from video installation to photography, to traditional printmaking methods.  The exhibition will run through the month of April with an opening celebration the first Friday of April from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Saranac Art Projects is a non-profit artist's cooperative open and free to the public to establish, explore, and support contemporary visual art and culture.  Join us the first Friday of every month for first Friday or visit us Thursday through Saturday twelve to five p.m.  Saranac Art Projects is located at 25 W. Main Street, Spokane, Washington.  99201. 

Saranac Art Projects
25 West Main Street
Spokane, Washington 99201
12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and private appointment.
www.saranacartprojects.org

Harrell Fletcher: Video at Saranac

Harrell Fletcher

A window on aspects of community, two of Harrell Fletcher’s videos will be on exhibition at the  space. The Problem of Possible Redemption which is a video adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses shot at the Parkville Senior Center, Connecticut, with the seniors reading the lines from cue cards. The piece addresses society, war, and personal mortality.  The other piece, Blot out the Sun, is a reworking of James Joyce's Ulysses. The garage owner, Jay, mechanics and neighborhood denizens serve as narrators, reading lines from the novel that focus on death, love, social inequality and the relationship between individuals and the universe. 

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over fifteen years. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. A book version LTLYM was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles among other locations. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Art to Go by Regina Hackett

 
Harrell Fletcher, Video Still, Blot out the Sun.

I've never been to Spokane, but when I go, I'm looking up Megan Murphy. Not only does she run a successful online art site called Artocracy, providing a link between artists and an audience looking for modestly priced but still credible work (such as 20 x 20), she runs Saranac Art Projects. Saranac would be ambitious in any context. It's not just good for Spokane -- it's good, period.

Its sixth exhibition, Art Feeds the Homeless, runs through Dec. 27. Curated by Jennifer A. Gately, formerly associate curator at the Portland Art Museum, it features the relational aesthetics of Portland's Harrell Fletcher (performance, video and James Joyce) and Seattle's Marc Dombrosky (embroidered found notes).

Harrell Fletcher and Marc Dombrosky

Harrell Fletcher, Blot Out the Sun.

Installation Shot, Food Drive and Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Marc Dombrosky

Installation Shot, Tom O'Day

Installation Shot, Tom O'Day

Installation Shot, Tom O'Day

Art Feeds the Homeless: Harrell Fletcher and Marc Dombrosky

Harrell Fletcher and Marc Dombrosky

ART FEEDS THE HOMELESS
Saranac Art Projects invites you to the opening of our sixth exhibition, featuring the works of Harrell Fletcher and Marc Dombrosky, November 7thh through December 27th, 2008. Expertly curated by Jennifer A. Gately, formerly of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, this exhibition features two artists practicing different forms of social engagement by exploring conflicting ideas of place and marginalized communities as diverse as retirement homes and the streets. To reach out to our own community in this season of giving and actively demonstrate the content of the artworks on display, which relate to requests for food and people helping one another, Saranac Art Projects and Main Market Co-op collaborate to host this installation, called Art Feeds the Homeless. A spin off SAP’s Art Feeds the Soul promotion with participating Spokane restaurants, SAP and Main Market ask Spokane residents to bring a canned food donation as a citywide response to Governor Christine Gregoire's recently announced “Feeding Washington” initiative to help stock the food banks of Washington State. As shared in the release, “Many Washington families are struggling during this time of national economic uncertainty,” Gregoire said. “With winter around the corner and more families facing the prospect of higher heating bills, I don’t want anyone to have to choose among paying for a warm home, a healthy meal or quality health care.” A collection container will be available in the exhibition space for convenient contributions as visitors view the show. 

THE ARTISTS
A window on aspects of community, two of Harrell Fletcher’s videos will be on exhibition at the space.  The Problem of Possible Redemption which is a video adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses shot at the Parkville Senior Center, Connecticut, with the seniors reading the lines from cue cards. The piece addresses society, war, and personal mortality.  The other piece, Blot out the Sun, is a reworking of James Joyce's Ulysses. The garage owner, Jay, mechanics and neighborhood denizens serve as narrators, reading lines from the novel that focus on death, love, social inequality and the relationship between individuals and the universe.  Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over fifteen years. His work has been shown internationally at some of the worlds leading art institutions including SF Moma, The Drawing Center in New York, The Seattle Art Museum, while a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Marc Dombrosky’s latest hand-embroidered collection of cardboard homeless signs found in the streets of Tacoma and Seattle where recently featured in  the APEX exhibition series at the Portland Art Museum co-curated by Ms. Gately and Marnie P. Stark.  .  “Dombrosky uses found papers salvaged during street forages or given to the artist — letters, lists, directions, diagrams, and other handwritten scraps — Dombrosky provides random glimpses into the lives of strangers in his community. Each hand-drawn line on the often sun- or rain-worn paper is thoughtfully hand-embroidered with thread that matches the mark’s color and weight. The collective result is a tantalizing patchwork of transient expression and partial stories that reveal as much about language and place as human relationships and individual psychology.” state the curators. “Unlike Fletcher, who personally interacts with distinct and chosen communities, the subject of Dombrosky’s work remain strangers, soley engaged by his physical interplay with his chance discoveries says Gately.  Marc Dombrosky received a BFA in painting from University of Florida, Gainesville, and a MFA from Ohio State University. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Icebox Contemporary Art, Tacoma; Solomon Fine Art, Seattle; and ACME, Columbus, Ohio.

Saranac Art Projects also hosts Thomas O’Day, a professor at Spokane Falls Community College, with an exhibition in our adjunct viewing space.  O’Day has shown both locally and nationally for the past twenty-five years.  He focuses on the creation of works through the destruction of objects.  Mr. O’Day has contributed extensively to the Inland Northwest’s arts community while nurturing numerous students in their education.  During the exhibition Mr. O’Day releases his new book, December 11th at Saranac Art Projects, Actions - Disposals-Transitions-Transformations, a reflection on his work of the past twenty years.

THE HOSTS
Saranac Art Projects is a non-profit gallery open and free to the public to establish, explore, and support contemporary visual art and culture.  Join us the first Friday of every month for first Friday or visit us Wednesday through Saturday eleven-thirty to five-thirty.  Saranac Art Projects is located at 25 W. Main Street, Spokane, Washington.  99201. 

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