News: Threshold
Threshold Presents Anna-Mária Vág
04.04.2012 Threshold
Anna-Mária Vág is a Hungarian-American fine art photographer and filmmaker originally trained as a painter. Her show, Mossitative, strives to “capture the essential spirit of moss and lichens on trees to inspire an interactive meditative experience.” The series draws on a wide breadth of Asian art forms, including Ananda yoga and zen garden design, to represent yin-yang theory and the Chinese and Japanese philosophies.
With this work, Anna-Mária encourages us to “place mindful attention on this unexpected color palette,” since we typically associate moss with vibrant emerald green. She intends to have the viewer consider the duality of expectation and actual experience.
For more information about Anna-Mária Vág’s work, visit www.Mossitative.com.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 5
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Show Dates:
April 3 – May 8
Threshold Presents Ceramics from Noah Riedel, Adam Helenske and John Taylor
03.23.2012 Threshold
Threshold is currently featuring work from three artists as part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 46th Annual Conference, taking place in Seattle from March 28 to March 30.
Noah Riedel is a potter from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The guiding principal to his design approach is function – making pots that perform well, but are still unique. His background and training is in traditional methods and his influences come mostly from the organic-modern movement.
To view a gallery of Noah’s pottery, visit www.biloya.com.
Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Adam Helenske discovered a passion for sculpture and clay while in college. With a goal of becoming a studio potter, Adam moved to Seattle in 2010 where he enrolled in classes and worked as a studio technician at Pottery Northwest. Eight months later he secured a role as a resident artist at same studio.
More information about Adam’s work can be found at www.helenskeclayworks.com.
John Taylor started his career in ceramics 25 years ago and now owns Taylor & Tile Pottery studio in Seattle. His focus is wheel and hand thrown pottery, decorated with images of people and plants native to the Northwest.
More information about John’s work can be found at www.johntaylor.com.
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 23
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Show Dates:
March 23 – March 30
Threshold Presents Anita H. Lehmann
02.15.2012 Threshold
Anita H. Lehmann is a registered architect, illustrator and long-time resident of the Pacific Northwest. She received training in architectural drawing at the University of Washington and currently gives drawing and painting lessons at her studio on the edge of downtown Seattle. Anita has also provided architectural renderings for several Mithun projects including the Polyclinic, Costa Ladera and Google Experience Center.
Anita’s show is focused on edges and places of transition, “where the agrarian and the utilitarian speak a similar vernacular, in architecture and in landscape.” She describes the use of pencil and crayon in her work as capturing the “loose realism of the edge place which then dissolves toward abstraction:”
“My natural tool is the pencil or the crayon; the single line and the limited palette require the artist to tell the story of that place with a crisp economy. Color, temperature, movement, and character are evoked in a few, swift strokes. For me as an architect and illustrator, the drawn line evokes the honest nature of a place, expressing—literally—weight, value, and tone.”
Opening Reception:
Thursday, February 16th
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Show Dates:
February 15 – March 20
Threshold Presents Slab Art and Yoko Murao
04.28.2011 Threshold
Slab Art, a woodworking company that creates artisanal furniture from salvaged wood, teams up with Japanese calligraphy artist Yoko Murao to explore the primary elements—earth, air, fire, and water—and reveal unexpected connections therein.
Slab Art’s pieces range from functional furniture to dramatic sculptural pieces, each with an elemental narrative—a torched live edge of red cedar; spalting that evokes the spattering of water; a twelve-foot grounded slab reaching skyward. Sometimes monolithic, sometimes playful, always with a strong organic presence that incorporates the original tree.
Yoko Murao, artist, choreographer and dancer, has explored the transient nature of the human condition by focusing on our mortality. With her Japanese Calligraphy, Yoko will focus on earth and air, including an interactive installation dedicated to the people of Japan. The piece acknowledges the quaking of the earth while also acting as dynamic witness—via leaf-like messages hanging in bamboo branches – of the support that continues to arrive daily from all corners of the world.
Opening Reception:
Thurs…..May 5….5-7pm
1201 Alaskan Way Suite 200
206.623.3344
Show Dates:
May 5 – June 21
M-F 8am-5pm
www.slabart.com
yokomurao@hotmail.com
Threshold Presents Todd Smith
03.18.2011 Threshold
Syndicate: An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business
Syndicate Smith LLC, was created by owner Todd Smith in May of 2010. Todd wished to create a truly service driven, full spectrum design shop, encompassing all of his design & artistic passions. After eight great years at Johnston Architects PLLC, a small architectural firm in Seattle, Todd decided to leave his principal position to create his own company. Taking from his experience designing projects for clients ranging from real estate developers to prospective home owners, and combining them with other design/artistic interests, Todd decided to seek different project opportunities and collaborations. Photography is just one of those many opportunities.
Blocks: They were what we used to play with. Worlds created and destroyed with friends or by one’s self. Such simple assemblies.
Todd Smith’s latest exhibition, Blocks, includes (75) 20“x20” photos, taken in a single session as an exercise to capture the purest of forms created by the assemblies of classic wooden blocks. His goal is not to convince importance of the imagery, because quite frankly they may not be that important or intriguing to others as they are to him. His goal is to show the purest imagery of a classic toy, a spatial and formal learning tool and a memory perhaps of all of our childhoods.
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 24 from 5-7pm
Show Dates: March 24 – May 3, 2011
Threshold Presents RobRoy Chalmers
12.14.2010 Threshold
RobRoy Chalmers has been making art for over 20 years. His primary focus has been 2-D but he has been know to dabble in 3-D and performance.
His current project The Sporozoan Cavities Suite of prints has spawned a number of side projects most notably The Sporozoan Swarm. This object with a projected 500,000 components is a free floating modular piece made up of torn and cut Intaglio and lithographic prints that are pinned to surfaces with stick pins. Like topography, they describe an unknown space that draws viewers into its patterns and details.
For more information on this project please visit: http://www.printtroll.com/a-swarm-to-build-on-2/
RobRoy Chalmers will create his largest install of The Sporozoan Swarm, to date, at Mithun’s Threshold Gallery. This install will guide viewers through a visually complex and exciting vision. It will delve into the artists ideas on art object and its relationship with modifying space and decoration. Chalmers will be at Mithun’s offices for the opening on December 16th (time here) and will give a short talk followed by Q & A.
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 16th from 5-7pm
Show Dates: December 16th – February 9th, 2011
Threshold Presents Jo Braun
11.02.2010 Threshold
Artist Jo Braun‘s show is titled 69 Insecurities: A Miseducation in Contemporary Fine Art Mosaic. Composed of miniature art objects and handwritten commentary, Jo Braun’s work explores the self-teaching of a fine art medium that, despite its ancient roots, one cannot study in North American fine arts programs.
For more information about the artist visit http://www.jo-braun.com.