Kirkland Arts Center Announces 'Inventing an Illusive Space'

Curated by Chad Wasser
July 9 - August 13, 2011 at Kirkland Arts Center

Kirkland Artwalk Preview: Friday, July 8, 6 - 8:30 PM at Kirkland Arts Center

Opening Reception: Friday, July 15, 6 - 8:30 PM at Kirkland Arts Center.

Inventing an Illusive Space is a five-person exhibition comprised of paintings that examine the element of space, as well as the studio as a site of experimentation and habitual action. The studio serves as a creative shelter for most painters. This protected space is also a construct of the artist, existing half in reality and half in his/her mind. It represents a place specifically set aside for a purpose and thus carries importance that is not always obvious to the casual visitor. The paintings included in this exhibition depict spaces on the verge of collapse. Likewise, each work portrays a liminal space that conflates reality with memories. Within these paintings, an odd sense of time and scale prevail.

Inventing an Illusive Space investigates the transitive, seductive, and deceptive nature of spatial constructions in painting. Eric Elliot, Preston Graves, Grant Hottle, Michael Lorefice, and Kimberly Trowbridge each use the artist's studio as a departure point for this investigation.

ARTISTS
Eric Elliot, Preston Graves, Grant Hottle, Michael Lorefice, Kimberly Trowbridge

NOW ON VIEW AT THE KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER SATELLITE SPACES
On view through early September at the Kirkland Public Library and the Kirkland Performance Center are photographs of Rome by Design students in the School of Art at the University of Washington.