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The Latest...

• NEW April Art
• Pictures from Greg Lundgren's "Cell Everything" and Rob Zverina's "Projector Project"

Headwaters of Industry
Sarah Kavage & Erin Morrison.

Also, In The Hall: Drawings by Jessixa Bagley, from the "Grew" series.

Opening Reception: Thursday April 9, 2009
6-11pm, FREE

(Show runs through 5/10/09)

Vermillion presents two artists who study and reinterpret our collective landscape for subjective meaning. Both compare the construct of nature and urban ecosystems with our concept of reality to develop an allegory that draws us into the truth of our own being.

"Easy Being Green" © 2008 Sarah Kavage

Sarah Kavage explores the grand narrative of our country’s settlement, and the effect of that story on our modern worldview. "These paintings are about that point in history where the forest gives way to a city; a tree becomes an industrial product." Based on logging images by legendary Pacific Northwest photographer Darius Kinsey, Kavage’s oil on salvaged wood paintings combine a symbolic use of color with "found" patterns and visual wit to play with the idea of how an image's meaning changes over time.

"The Long Road West" © 2008 Sarah Kavage

Sarah strives for a synthesis between art & urban planning. Among her other projects are: Living Barge, an experiment to see how art can be used to bring a community together & increase awareness citywide about the issues surrounding the Duwamish River. Watermark Seattle watermarkseattle.org, a collaborative/performance project about climate change in Seattle. Sarah Kavage Website.

"Untitled" © 2008 Erin Morrison

Erin Morrison negotiates the line between natural and man-made and how our surroundings reflect the way we view ourselves. Influenced by photography, Morrison employs crushed pigment, mixed media and resist techniques to represent realistic, manufactured frameworks with dreamlike overtones. These structures appear to be at their most compromised points of existence. Erin is currently represented by the William Bennett Gallery in Soho, NY. Erin Morrison.com

Busss © Jessixa Bagley

Jessixa Bagley's fine art work often plays with the theme of portraiture and frequently uses cartoon imagery. We have some works from her "Grew" series this month. Arrrt by Jessixa.com

Rob Z calling/answering.

Last Weekend: Cell Everything & Projector Project

Greg Lundgren rounded up 50+ participants for a one-night only interactive performance. More pictures HERE. Phone numbers pornographically blocked to protect the innocent. The next night, Rob Zverina and a group of pals filled the white walls of the gallery with a mosaic of light and sound - everything from home movies to anti-nazi propoganda cartoons. See pics of that hard-to-document event and others in our Flickr photostream HERE.