POP SHOP
HOEDEMAKER PFEIFFER GALLERY
1 DECEMBER - 31 DECEMBER
6109 13TH AVE S SEATTLE WA 98108 (NEW LOCATION)
We're excited to feature several artworks by our represented and guest artists at Hoedemaker Pfeiffer's December Pop sHoP! This month-long market and showroom presents a limited opportunity to shop the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer collection and assorted goods from local makers and artists including paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture, and rugs. Please join us on the first, and check out the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details.
KAT LARSON
HOEDEMAKER PFEIFFER
10 OCTOBER - 31 DECEMBER
OPENING RECEPTION 14 OCTOBER 6-9PM
6113 13TH AVE S SEATTLE WA 98108
Program developed by Hoedemaker Pfeiffer and curated by Bridge Productions
In Kat Larson's latest series of photographs and video, she continues the story of a being from another planet who crash lands on Earth. Intrigued by our world, the visitor begins to explore it only to find their strength weakened by the deficit of love and compassion, and begins to slowly fade away. Over time, they become a ghost with no means to return home. This intimate, tender story serves as a parable to the power of connection, perseverance, and strength of the spirit. Larson weaves this story into the viewer’s ability to empathize through her compelling and empathetic storytelling.
Larson talks about the importance of critically investigating the self, to guide our understanding of each other and the collective human experience. She is guiding us through an investigative space in which we understand our place in a larger universe. Her pursuit of inquiry is philosophical, centered around personal and collective growth. Creating experiences that beckon the viewer to look more closely, and even participate, Larson hones in on themes of timeless moments to heighten the sensory, emotional, and mystical narratives that are analogous between humans. The slowness and simplicity of these themes belies the complexity of her intent, but lends a gravity and focus to the moment of emphasis; the power of these moments arriving in narratives which convey, as Larson says, “a terroir of self”. They are stories of sexuality, spirituality, ancestry, death, and the the ways humans stand in awe of that which is bigger than us — the Sublime.
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details!
In Kat Larson's latest series of photographs and video, she continues the story of a being from another planet who crash lands on Earth. Intrigued by our world, the visitor begins to explore it only to find their strength weakened by the deficit of love and compassion, and begins to slowly fade away. Over time, they become a ghost with no means to return home. This intimate, tender story serves as a parable to the power of connection, perseverance, and strength of the spirit. Larson weaves this story into the viewer’s ability to empathize through her compelling and empathetic storytelling.
Larson talks about the importance of critically investigating the self, to guide our understanding of each other and the collective human experience. She is guiding us through an investigative space in which we understand our place in a larger universe. Her pursuit of inquiry is philosophical, centered around personal and collective growth. Creating experiences that beckon the viewer to look more closely, and even participate, Larson hones in on themes of timeless moments to heighten the sensory, emotional, and mystical narratives that are analogous between humans. The slowness and simplicity of these themes belies the complexity of her intent, but lends a gravity and focus to the moment of emphasis; the power of these moments arriving in narratives which convey, as Larson says, “a terroir of self”. They are stories of sexuality, spirituality, ancestry, death, and the the ways humans stand in awe of that which is bigger than us — the Sublime.
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details!
KIM VAN SOMEREN & ELLEN ZIEGLER \ ADJUNCT APPENDAGES
SPACEFILLER \ ALGOPLEX II (Alexander Nagy, Alexander Miller)
HOEDEMAKER PFEIFFER GALLERY
10 OCTOBER - 25 NOVEMBER
OPENING RECEPTION 14 OCTOBER 6-9PM
6109 13TH AVE S SEATTLE WA 98108 (NEW LOCATION)
Program developed by Hoedemaker Pfeiffer and curated by Bridge Productions
ADJUNCT APPENDAGES
In this group show, Adjunct Appendages, artists use drawing, intaglio, and collage to question the arbitrary functions of bodies, structures, machinery, and limbs.
The characteristics of form shared between Ellen Ziegler and Kim Van Someren, rooted deeply in a tradition of draftsmanship, present organic masses and architectural objects as bodies with needs, functions, and absurdities. Extraneous limbs protrude from gargantuan figures, balancing precariously in motion. Cantilevered beams stretch out tentatively, impossibly long, searching the foreground like feelers. And strange polyps of excessive growth belie the form; their flesh extended and branching out like dendrils on synapses. Whether lesion, organ, fortress, or tool; these bodies toil and grow without end towards some designated function beyond the limits of our imagination.
SPACEFILLER \ ALGOPLEX II (Alexander Nagy, Alexander Miller)
SPACEFILLER, a collaborative duo formed by Alex Miller and Alex Nagy presents an interactive video and digital installation. This piece incorporates a geometrical grid lattice on which a video display is projected and a control panel on which viewers will play. Rather than creating a circumstance in which the algorithm dictates our behavior, we are invited to find all the flaws and glitches in the program by way of exploration. In doing so, Spacefiller creates an algorithmic playground for viewers to explore the transitions between order and chaos in simulations of nature.
SPACEFILLER consists of artists Alexander Nagy and Alexander Miller, and is the result of their long time collaboration and pursuit of visual art, music, programming and math. They reside in Seattle, WA. Through the use of generative algorithmic graphics, projection mapping and tactile interaction, SPACEFILLER seeks to establish venues for experimentation, play and discovery. By allowing viewers to manipulate the parameters of simulated natural systems, an opportunity is created to explore the delicate balance between order, chaos and randomness. These abstracted digital models of nature are then cast back into the world through light and projection, rendering something neither completely digital nor natural.
The name SPACEFILLER is a reference to a pattern in Conway's Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical model that displays emergent behavior. The name also relates to the artists' desire to create immersive, disorienting spaces filled with light. Here is what the pattern looks like:
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details on this new location a few doors down from their architectural firm!
ADJUNCT APPENDAGES
In this group show, Adjunct Appendages, artists use drawing, intaglio, and collage to question the arbitrary functions of bodies, structures, machinery, and limbs.
The characteristics of form shared between Ellen Ziegler and Kim Van Someren, rooted deeply in a tradition of draftsmanship, present organic masses and architectural objects as bodies with needs, functions, and absurdities. Extraneous limbs protrude from gargantuan figures, balancing precariously in motion. Cantilevered beams stretch out tentatively, impossibly long, searching the foreground like feelers. And strange polyps of excessive growth belie the form; their flesh extended and branching out like dendrils on synapses. Whether lesion, organ, fortress, or tool; these bodies toil and grow without end towards some designated function beyond the limits of our imagination.
SPACEFILLER \ ALGOPLEX II (Alexander Nagy, Alexander Miller)
SPACEFILLER, a collaborative duo formed by Alex Miller and Alex Nagy presents an interactive video and digital installation. This piece incorporates a geometrical grid lattice on which a video display is projected and a control panel on which viewers will play. Rather than creating a circumstance in which the algorithm dictates our behavior, we are invited to find all the flaws and glitches in the program by way of exploration. In doing so, Spacefiller creates an algorithmic playground for viewers to explore the transitions between order and chaos in simulations of nature.
SPACEFILLER consists of artists Alexander Nagy and Alexander Miller, and is the result of their long time collaboration and pursuit of visual art, music, programming and math. They reside in Seattle, WA. Through the use of generative algorithmic graphics, projection mapping and tactile interaction, SPACEFILLER seeks to establish venues for experimentation, play and discovery. By allowing viewers to manipulate the parameters of simulated natural systems, an opportunity is created to explore the delicate balance between order, chaos and randomness. These abstracted digital models of nature are then cast back into the world through light and projection, rendering something neither completely digital nor natural.
The name SPACEFILLER is a reference to a pattern in Conway's Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical model that displays emergent behavior. The name also relates to the artists' desire to create immersive, disorienting spaces filled with light. Here is what the pattern looks like:
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details on this new location a few doors down from their architectural firm!
DAVE KENNEDY & TIM CROSS \ FRACTURED LANDSCAPES
7 JULY - 1 SEPTEMBER
OPENING RECEPTION 8 JULY 6-9PM
6113 13TH AVE S SEATTLE WA 98108
Produced by Hoedemaker Pfeiffer and curated by Bridge Productions.
In Fractured Landscapes, Seattle-based artists Dave Kennedy and Tim Cross find visual communion through overlapping aesthetics and a rigorous, process-based practice. Their compositions are built by layering, tiling, and kaleidoscoping forms, photographs, and blocks of color to create intricate, prismatic facsimiles of our world. The reality of these new worlds mimics our own, but reveals something surreal or previously unseen. As a result, they gather together to form an analogous and complementary duo.
Using photography and photocopies as the language from which they both begin, each brings with them an expansive array of work and materials, embodying their own unique characteristics and style of storytelling, but share the binding qualities of perception, location, documentation, and identity.
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details!
In Fractured Landscapes, Seattle-based artists Dave Kennedy and Tim Cross find visual communion through overlapping aesthetics and a rigorous, process-based practice. Their compositions are built by layering, tiling, and kaleidoscoping forms, photographs, and blocks of color to create intricate, prismatic facsimiles of our world. The reality of these new worlds mimics our own, but reveals something surreal or previously unseen. As a result, they gather together to form an analogous and complementary duo.
Using photography and photocopies as the language from which they both begin, each brings with them an expansive array of work and materials, embodying their own unique characteristics and style of storytelling, but share the binding qualities of perception, location, documentation, and identity.
Visit the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer website for more details!
