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C L U S T E R members have started working on a year long project exquisite corps style, which will culminate in an exhibit at Aurora Loop Gallery IN SEPTEMBER 2025 – stay tuned! MORE INFORMATION

Past Exhibits:

CLUSTER: from Stockholm to Seattle

Featuring what we presented in Sweden for Seattle’s September Art Walk, 2024

When: First Thursday September 5, 5-8pm & Second Saturday September 14, Noon-4pm

Location: STEPHANIE HARGRAVE STUDIO, 306 South Washington Street, #104, Seattle

The theme for the entire affair was Dream On. We thoughtfully curated a body of work that addresses ideas surrounding our dream lives, what it is to dream, how dreams are later perceived and remembered, and depictions of dreams both positive and frightening. Our work features a variety of mediums, styles and imagery that overlaps beautifully on the considered theme.

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Our exhibit embodies fragments of what I believe all humans experience in dreams; wonderfully layered images, some fading out, others in focus, with a jostle of the incomprehensible along the way.  Some people dream in color, others in black and white.  Many of us experience humor and narrative in our dreams, the content often possessing a porousness where ideas flow freely and can lead to physical conversions.  The sense of calm in sweet dreams is perhaps experienced with a backdrop of strange beauty or lively animals.  Nightmares are chaos and panic, often with a dramatic palette.  Memories are layered with form, structure with nuance.  It would seem there is no scenario that has not been dreamed, yet we can never see another person’s dreams, sweet or otherwise.

Notice the subtle duality in Carolyn Autenrieth’s delicately rippled porcelain sculptures approximating the obscure moments that hover between dreams and awakening.  Dualism is rendered again with Rosalie Frankel’s work illustrating the sweet dream and the nightmare, articulated with waxed fabric; one clearly a safe space, pretty and calm in its interpretation, the other unsettled, a blood red spot indicating danger.  The sculptural work of June Sekiguchi is pure porousness expressed in form; her mandala-like structures feel brain-like, even cellular in nature.  Theresa Neinas’ block prints bring a touch of the literal with narrative interpretations, expertly carved and printed in stark black and white.  Ellen Hochberg as well offers the literal with embroidered nighties, plus a video element that begs the question: what if we could see another person’s dreams?  If we could, we might be looking at Eliaichi Kimaro’s colorful ‘sketches’ executed first thing in the morning to capture that dreaminess before the coffee hits.  All her work encompasses an organic structure that lends itself to the language-less interpretation of not just dreams but life, much like Dawn Endean’s hand stitched ‘quilt’ that reads as a storyboard telling a most exquisite dream, filled with people, animals and stop-motion video animation expertly expressing the recurring nature of dreams.  Marilyn Charlat Dix displays overlapping transparent ‘skins’ in soft hues that blend memories and people with the wired loops of those same memories and people.  In Stephanie Hargrave’s work, people are missing entirely; a dream of becoming an insect is transposed into imagery that repeats itself right side up and upside down as two slightly different photographs overlap, merged with beeswax.  The transparent, sepia toned arthropods express a complete metamorphosis.

 -Stephanie Hargrave

SUPERMARKET ART FAIR 

Stockholm, Sweden – April 25-28, 2024

The theme for the entire affair is Dream On, and we’ve thoughtfully curated a body of work that addresses ideas surrounding our dream lives, what it is to dream, how dreams are later perceived and remembered, and depictions of dreams both positive and frightening. Our work features a variety of mediums, styles and imagery that overlaps beautifully on the considered theme.

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C L U S T E R

Group Show

Tashiro Kaplan Building Space 101, Seattle

August 1 – September 30, 2023