Artists for 2006-07 Exhibition Season
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Jessica Balsam
Jessica Balsam's drawings examine our complex relationship with microorganisms. With greatly enlarged drawings of microorganisms, installations of bacteria-resistant materials, and drawn representations of anti-microbial consumer products, she creates new landscapes that examine the terrain where bacteria, viruses, and humans interact. Jessica is a Tacoma-based artist who has exhibited most recently at Soil Gallery in Seattle, Kirkland Arts Center, and Bh6 Gallery in Portland.
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Laurie Cinotto
Laurie Cinotto's visual vocabulary pulls from craft items, trinkets, old photos, and aged personal possessions that are collaged, assembled or recontextualized in ways that expose the dark or sad side of decoration, ornamentation, and kitsch. Her work questions how we create memories and consider the passage of time, and often incorporates themes of sentimentality, domesticity, and women's work. Cinotto is a co-founder of Soil. She has also exhibited at the King County Art Gallery, at Tacoma Contemporary in Tacoma Washington, and at the John Erickson Museum of Art, now located in Gainesville, Florida.
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Mark Dombrosky
Marc Dombrosky's current practice involves embroidering found and salvaged papers, envelopes, cardboard boxes and signs. Dombrosky meticulously mimics the marks on these objects using thread that closely approximates the line quality of the object, creating a new "topography" of and on the object. He holds an MFA from The Ohio State University, and has instructed for Cornish College of the Arts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, The Ohio State University, and Academie Voor Beeldende Vorming (Tilburg, Netherlands).
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Shannon Eakins
Shannon Eakins lives and works as a visual artist, educator, and dog trainer in Tacoma. Her work investigates animal movements and stimuli through drawings, prints, and kinetic sculpture. She is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Trust GAP Grant and a 2005 Tacoma Artist Initiative Grant. Her recent exhibitions include Soil gallery (Seattle, WA), Bh6 gallery (Portland, OR), and a solo exhibition at Metro Coffee (Tacoma).
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Justin Gorman
Justin Gorman is a musciain, video artist, producer and performer who creates art that melds low-tech production values with high quality performances in environments that redefine the relationships between the performer, audience, consumer and product. The Justin Show draws from the simple idea that people want to be entertained, and the naive hope that we haven't forgot to how to laugh at ourselves.
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Janet Marcavage
Janet Marcavage's prints and installations addresses how scientific advancements change the culture of how we look at ourselves. She holds a BFA from the University of The Arts and an MFA from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marcavage is Assistant Professor of Printmaking, Photography and Digital Imaging at The University of Puget Sound in Washington.
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Craig Miller
Craig Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background of Architecture and Urban Design. He is a co-founder of SOIL Gallery in Seattle and has produced several installations there including Inside the Lining of the Erikson Building (1997), 6 Really Great Round Beakers (2001) and Hardline Organics (2006). He has also produced installations at Sand Point Naval Station and at Bumbershoot.
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Joseph Miller
Rooted in the industrial practices of metal fabrication and glass production, Joseph Miller's sculpture focuses on the interaction of people with the environment and ultimately, how people mediate the landscape. With an acute reverence for nature, Miller sets up meetings between specific viewers and landscapes created for them. Joe holds an MFA from Alfred University and is the owner of M-Space, a public glassblowing facility and metal fabrication shop in Tacoma.
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Yuki Nakamura
Yuki Nakamura is a Japanese-born sculptor working to create sculptural and installation pieces relating to physical spaces. She is interested in combining conventional and new materials towards the creation of dynamic installation: cross-cultural, multi-faceted contemporary sculptural forms that reflect and challenge our specific time, place, culture, and social environment. She is represented by Howard House Contemporary Art in Seattle.
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Eugene Parnell
Eugene Parnell is currently exploring the link between animal imagery and early childhood experience. He creates installations and interactive works that navigate the mental geographies of childhood and the politics of Natural History displays. He holds an MFA from the University of Hawaii. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Bellevue Art Museum, Soil Gallery in Seattle, and the University of Wisconsin.
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