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Dan Keith: Painting,
Ken Kelly: Painting,
Glenn Rudolph: Photography
November 04 - 29, 2008
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"My engagement with 19th century painting as a specific art historical strategy provides an additional slippage between past and present. I address contemporary issues by leveraging traditional painting themes of leisure like boating, hunting and bathing, referencing American artists Homer, Eakins and Sargent and French painters Manet and Courbet.” Danny Keith
Seattle painter, Ken Kelly, departing his stenciled symmetry has made a shift to the more optical in this newest body of work. Mr. Kelly describes his new work this way, “I am for now keeping the vocabulary as limited as possible--little brush marks, minimal color--in order to concentrate on my fascination with the way patterns, and the physical process of painting them, can metaphorically and analogously (and graphically) reflect the way our world is made.”
“Glenn Rudolph is a poet of the post-apocalypse. He likes to photograph bad news once the news value has faded and people are making the best of their diminished circumstances.... He photographs along the train routes from Portland to Vancouver and finds landscapes that are more like abandoned still lifes, nature damaged by human folly. Other photographers make dirges from such material, but Rudolph's version of the down-and-out has a resilient edge, a zany comeback quality, an exuberance that belies the facts.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 9, 2004
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