Opening today in Seattle the 2nd Annual Seattle Art Fair. The fair will kick off with the Beneficiary Preview,
proceeds benefitting the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), on Thursday, August 4 at 5:30pm, followed
by the official Opening Night Preview starting at 8:30pm. The fair continues August 5-7, with a
diverse schedule of projects, talks and events happening both on and off site.
Projects
The Seattle Art Fair Projects will debut a new series of special activities, performances, and
installations to engage the fair’s public spaces, organized by Artistic Director Laura Fried.
Spanning sculpture, performance, and installation, the Projects will take place both at the fair
and in adjacent neighborhoods, reaching a wide and diverse audience, and spotlighting
Seattle’s position as a vital cultural capital.
On-site at the fair:
An ambitious lineup of solo projects by an intergenerational group of emerging and established
artists will be on view at the CenturyLink Field Event Center during fair hours. Timothy “Speed”
Levitch will lead uncanny fair tours conceived by Glenn Kaino, while Dawn Kasper will present a
sculptural performance environment and improvised sound composition, including motionactivated
motors attached directly to a field of cymbals on their stands. The exhibition platform
Public Fiction will trace the roots of artists who used new technologies—like early video art and
public access television—at their inception. The Projects will also spotlight large-scale sculpture
by artists who examine the relationship between materiality, craft, and technology—such as
Roxy Paine’s ominous diorama of a CIA observation room and Adam McEwen’s full-scale
sculptures of supercomputers made of graphite—and will explore the simple but powerful way a
line can take shape in space, from Claire Falkenstein’s nested orbs to Kishio Suga’s singular,
large-scale sculpture. Projects include:
• Adam McEwen, Blue Gene 1 and Blue Gene 2, 2016
• Brenna Murphy, SequenceSource_Array, 2016
• Claire Falkenstein, Never a Full Circle: Selection of Works
• Dawn Kasper, Star Formation, 2016
• Glenn Kaino, Aspiration, 2016; Twice daily tours August 5-7, 2016 during fair hours
• Selection of new works by Jeffry Mitchell
• Kishio Suga, Correspondence, 2006
• Public Fiction, A Witness and a Weapon: Middle grays, Color Bars and the comma in
between* In two venues: The Seattle Art Fair and the Henry Art Gallery
• Roxy Paine, Experiment, 2015
• teamLab, Sketch Aquarium; As part of its youth program, the fair presents a kid-friendly
space in collaboration with the collective teamLab
For more information vist the Seattle Art Fair website.
http://seattleartfair.com/
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