ABOUT XO

EXHIBITION INFO

XO Seattle is a curatorial series that welcomes creatives and artists into

vibrant, experimental spaces. We activate buildings in transition with

diverse visual and performing arts programming, transforming underused

spaces into temporary, contemporary art museums and gathering places.

XO23 will be open Friday-Sunday from July 14-July 30, 2023. Friday Art Party

programming tickets are $33 and include immersive art experiences, live

music, DJs, and a subterranean bar. Saturday and Sunday general admission to

the art exhibition is $11. Exhibiting artists +1 guest receive free entry to

all event parties and gallery days. We offer a limited number of Zero Cost

Tickets that can be individually requested. Proceeds from admission are

channeled to performers, musicians and organizers.

EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

XO Seattle presents: XO23 in the historic Coliseum Theater at 500 Pike

Street, Seattle WA 98101.

Featuring a substantial roster of emerging and established contemporary

artists working in a range of media, XO23 is designed and curated by

founders Austin Bellamy Hicks and Julianne Johnson, with co-curation by

Anthony White, barry johnson, Erik Molano, Jackson O’Rourke, Jim Kent,

Katelyn Norris, Kate Quamma, Nicholas Galanin, and Seth Sexton.

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Our curatorial theme for our XO23 Summer Exhibition is ANCIENT TECH + FUTURE

RELICS. Playing with past, present and future, this theme is directly influenced by the historic Coliseum Theater, our home for 2023. Built as a “photo picture palace” in 1916, it was a house of technology and creative culture downtown Seattle for 74 years before being converted to retail space In the ‘90s, and ultimately boarded up in 2019. What stands as a relic today was yesterday’s advanced technology.

The Oxford Language definition of technology is: the application of

scientific knowledge for practical purposes.

How does technology affect our idea of time? How does this show up in our

art practices of the moment? What do we draw from, and what are we looking

towards? What moment are we actually in now? How can artwork serve as a portal?

DATES OF SHOW

XO23 Summer will be open Friday through Sunday from July 14 - July 30, 2023.

Closing weekend will run in tandem with the 2023 Seattle Art Fair, July 28-30.

Show Type: Group

• Show Title: Preventative Maintenance

• Show Prompt: Preventive maintenance (PM) is the regular and routine maintenance of equipment and assets in order to keep them running and prevent any costly unplanned downtime from unexpected equipment failure. Work from home, live at work. Too many ways to communicate. Life can start to feel like an endless to do list. Dissociation. With the singularity on the horizon and the blurring of what is expected of us at both work and home, dehumanization begins and we as people can start to feel as if we are equipment or assets. How do we as artists and people take time to recover from the stresses of modern life? How can we maintain an artistic life or career in the face of constant competition and unlimited output on social media.

• Invited Artists: Laura Collins, Seth Sexton and Alexis De Chaunac
  

• Run dates: End of October 2021-mid December2021

About Patient Info: 

• Patient Info is an artist run space located at 902 N Western Ave in the Ukrainian Village/East Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, operated by Brian Jucas (SAIC MFA Painting and Drawing 2022). The space inhabits Brian’s father’s (now retired) old dermatology office where he practiced medicine for 30 years. To date, Patient Info has had six shows (“Zentangle Disco” in December 2019, “Oaths” in March 2020, "Confluence" in August 2020, "Niche Partitioning in February 2021, "Pareidolia" in May 2021 and "To Make Progress I Gotta Get Out of this State" in August 2021). A goal of the space is to have 4 shows per year. Click here to see photos of the space. Instagram: @patientinfo | website: https://www.patientinfo.club/

The Seattle Universal Math Museum, in collaboration with Suzanne Zahr Gallery and visual artist and curator Timea Tihanyi, is delighted to invite you to participate in the group exhibition For the Love of Math. 
For the Love of Math is going to be held at the Suzanne Zahr Gallery, Mercer Island, October-November, 2021. The exhibition explores various art forms influenced by math ideas and/or mathematical processes of making.

The exhibition’s goal is to call attention to the playfulness, beauty and joy of math, and show how much it is part of our daily lives, from traditional to contemporary research and creative making practices.

Invited artists' work demonstrate the vital connection that has always existed between art and math. 

The show opens on October 1st  2021, and is part of the Mercer Island First Friday Art Walk.

The Codex is an intensive project and exhibition of 19 artists, who are annually invited to create authentic, open-ended artwork individually within a bound book over the course of a year. 

Organized and founded by artists Kaitlyn Basta and Mostafa Darwish in 2018, the Codex Project is a long-term project, with the first of what will be an annual exhibition in January of 2020. In partnership with lead fabricator Bryan DeProspero and gallerist Evan Slepian of Works on Paper Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, the Codex Project seeks to support a community of artists with innovative ideas and who are recognized as having a strong sense of authenticity in their work.

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Selected participants for the Codex Project work by hand in distinctive styles and methods. The exhibition will display books as pieces in themselves, rather than as supplements or preliminary studies to larger work. 

The book's use as a composition is a deliberate choice. 

The project’s organizers encouraged participants to treat the pages as finished works, to utilize all their books’ pages, and to expand their own sense of quality in their work in whatever sense that means to them. It is an intensive project with only these limitations. The project is meant to encourage artists to question what drives and challenges them, inviting proactive change and potential in as many ways as possible.

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By showing the artists' books together in the same format, we hope to strengthen the idea that the pursuit of quality work is equal, and the differences between the pieces inside them shows how quality is self-defined. 

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Dear friends,

We hope you are well!

We are reaching out to invite you to the "Proximity. Pop Up Performance Festival" happening on Friday, August 6th, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM in High Concept Labs (Mana contemporary, 4 floor. 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608).

This Pop-up festival will be a free in-person event and streamed on the High Concept Labs Instagram (@highconceptlabs).

To attend in person, you will have to RSVP on the HCL Website or on the Proximity Eventbrite Page

Proximity does not mean the same anymore; being in isolation has changed our perception, sense of reality, and interactions; we transformed, we are still transitioning.

Proximity. Pop Up Performance Festival features eight Chicago-based artists from diverse backgrounds and practices who will perform live and next to each other again.

Dear Seth,

Thanks for your interest in the 15th Edition of LandEscape. We have been very impressed with your artistic production and we are glad to inform you that Pink Skull Shroud, Shroud (Nuclear) and Anahata have been selected for publication in the next Special edition of LandEscape Art Review.

In particular, we have been impressed with the way you create such unconventional combination between visual and performance arts, to shed a whole new light on the concept of meditation, providing the viewers with such multilayered experience.

Moreover, we really appreciate the way your artistic approach goes beyond any traditional classification, subverting the unwritten rule that divides artists from the viewers, as well as the way you sapiently combine aesthetic engagement with the need of inviting your audience to elaborate personal interpretations: so we'll be pleased to submit you a personal interview that will be published in the next special issue of our art review.

to read the full article check out the following link: https://issuu.com/landescapeartpress/docs/vol-60

Residency Overview

Ox-Bow’s residency program offers artists and writers, at various stages in their career, the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice. The Arts Faculty and MFA residences are held during the summer while our core classes and community programs are in session. The small group of residents is a part of Ox-Bow’s artist community of students, faculty, and Visiting Artists. The Fall Artist and Writers' Residencies are held for five weeks in September and October. This larger group of residents enjoy a more intimate community. If you are a current Undergraduate or MFA student, we also offer a 13-week summer fellowship.

Dear Seth,

We are excited to welcome you to our community of emerging artists, designers, and visual scholars. As you finalize your decision to enroll in graduate school, we wanted to share some departmental news and happenings with you. It is an exciting time at SAIC and we look forward to you joining our community officially this fall.

Great News Everyone! I accepted, and will be moving to Chicago in August 2019 to pursue an MFA in Performance and Art and Technology. I feel so Honored to be a part of such a vibrant arts community

Im so excited to be included in the 2019 City Arts Roster to promote and implement their cultural initiatives. Check out Lynwood City Arts Council’s mission below":

Promote Artists & Arts Opportunities

• Connect with artists, and serve as resource for artists to local opportunities and events.

• Provide and encourage interactive public art displays on City properties and throughout Lynnwood.

• Increase public awareness of the role and work of the Arts Commission.

• Increase public awareness of cultural arts programs and services through media, use of new technology, City publications, community partnerships, and increased accessibility to public art.

• Encourage City investments in arts and provide incentives to business to fund and collaborate on art projects and programs.

• Encourage planning, review and oversight to provide su cient opportunities and facilities which encourage and support local artists in developing and presenting their work.

• Increase access and exposure to a variety of cultural arts by activating used spaces and encouraging businesses to host art programs.

• Maintain and expand the public art purchasing and maintenance program, including increasing the number of pieces publicly displayed throughout Lynnwood.

• Provide free art activities for all ages at public events.

Artist-in-Residence

• Storefronts

Storefronts

ABOUT THE STOREFRONTS PROGRAM

In 2010, an innovative consortium of city and neighborhood organizations inaugurated the Storefronts program in Seattle’s Pioneer Square and International District neighborhoods. The initiative sought to address high vacancy rates  and vanishing artist spaces in these neighborhoods by activating empty storefronts with vibrant local art and creative projects.

Now a core program of Shunpike, Storefronts continues to support our creative community and our urban neighborhoods and businesses by providing opportunities for artists to do what they do best – create dynamic, engaging works that reach out to passersby, activate our built environment, and function as an incubator for our arts ecology, entrepreneurial projects, and urban revitalization.

The Koch Gallery at VCA offers new gallery exhibits every other month, from two or three artists to group shows and solo exhibits. The Koch (pronounced “kah-sh”) Gallery shows work in a wide range of media and subject matter including paintings, sculpture, mixed media, photography, wood, glass, ceramics and fiber. Artists exhibiting in the Gallery hail from Vashon Island and throughout the Northwest. VCA shows work by professional artists and once a year showcases emerging artist/artists.

The City of Auburn Art Galleries offer a look at the diverse work created by outstanding artists who live and work in the region. The galleries offer artworks in various mediums such as collage, watercolor, acrylic, marquetry, mixed media, encaustic, textiles and photography.

Auburn City Hall Gallery

The Auburn City Hall Gallery, located in the lobby of the main floor of Auburn City Hall (25 W Main ST) displays rotating shows throughout the year featuring two-dimensional works by emerging and established artists from all around the Puget Sound region. The exhibits are rotated every six weeks. The works featured each year are selected to highlight an array of artists and art works that demonstrate vitality, technique and diversity in medium and subject. Open Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

"The Vermont Studio Center was founded by artists in 1984. Our location--situated along the banks of the Gihon River in the historic village of Johnson, Vermont--was chosen with the intention of fostering creativity through community, collaboration, and quiet reflection supported by the unspoiled beauty of the northern Green Mountains."

"Over the last 30 years, VSC has grown to become the largest international artists' and writers' residency program in the United States. Our mission is to provide studio residencies in an inclusive, international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form."

                                          courtesy https://vermontstudiocenter.org/history

I am honored to accept a 1 month residency and receive a VSC Merit Grant of 1000$

I look forward to the time and space to create deeply and think wildly...          

SETH SEXTON

DYBBUK

A contemporary dance film short, DYBBUK is a compelling ghostlike love story that shows the creation of a painting through film, dance, and performance.

Screening Launch: Thursday, May 3, 6:00 — 8:00 pm

DYBBUK is Loosely based on the play written by the Russian playwright S. Ansky and also inspired by an adapted film by Michal Waszynski and a production made by Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet.

Sexton’s interests in the intersection of movement and visual art-making transformed the original narrative of DYBBUK into a mixed-media cinematic painting. He is moved by creative spirits in his dance and when he makes visual art. DYBBUK is, in part, about the complexity of possession. Sexton is also concerned with the divinity of form, the power of gesture and the transformation of space through installation. He uses DYBBUK as a means to explore the veil in the thresholds between artistic media, highlighting overarching aspects of texture, opacity, allegories of seeing, specters and their garments, the karmic wheel, the construct of order and disorder, life and death, and most importantly the disintegration of boundaries.

The Purpose

Held every other year, ryan james fine arts utilizes Visual Impressions 

to source new artists to represent in the WA area. 

Jury Panel

Patricia Cameron- Art Consultant, Founder Patricia Cameron Gallery

Laura Dillaway- Arts Advocate, Bellevue Arts Museum Board of Trustees 

Kerry Itami- Artist and Arts Educator

Ryan James- Gallery Director, Founder ryan james fine arts

Milan Heger- Artist, Principal Heger Architects

Jessica Lambert- Arts Non-Profit Director, Founder VALA Arts

Dawn Laurant- Art Appraiser, Principal Laurant Fine Arts Appraisal 

Philly Marsh- City of Kirkland 

Rand Perez- Corporate Art Curator, Nytec Inc. 

Nancy Whittaker- Cultural Arts Commission

Awards

The First Place Winner will receive a 1 year gallery contract with ryan james fine arts, 

in addition to a gallery solo show in 2021

2nd and 3rd place artists will receive a cash prize

**I have been Selected as a Finalist!

**final awards will be presented May 21st

DESCRIPTION

A performance exhibition with a 30+ year history, 12 Minutes Max @ Base provides a platform for artists to showcase 12 minutes of material supported by limited technical elements. Co-presented by Base and On the Boards. Curated by Donald Byrd and Megan Murphy.

Sun. - Mon., Feb. 18 - 19, 2018 | 7pm
Tickets $10
Base
6520 5th Ave S #122 (Factory Building @ Equinox Studios)
Seattle, WA 98108

ARTIST LINEUP:

Seth Sexton
Carl Lawrence
Poisonous Toy Theatre
Jocelyn Beausire
Mike Gebhart
Fenja Abrams
Christopher Petersen

Check out a completed drawing "Dementia" from 2017 included in the upcoming issue.

Studio Visit is a series of juried artist books. Since 2008 we have offered artists a new and effective venue through which to introduce their work to a serious national audience of art world professionals.

Studio Visit presents all two- and three- dimensional media and is now working on its 41st and 42nd volumes. Each high quality volume of Studio Visit features approximately 150 artists, who have been selected by professional curators.

Selected artists are given one full color page that includes an image, contact information and a brief artist statement. Studio Visit will be received by two thousand curators and gallerists throughout the country as well as a growing base of collectors and enthusiasts.

http://studiovisitmagazine.com/volume-thirty-nine