THE HARVEST
A ONE-DAY SHOW OF SMALL, INTIMATE WORKS CURATED BY SEQUOIA DAY O'CONNELL
FEATURING THE ARTWORK OF CHARLIE CROWELL, TAYLOR HANIGOSKY, MARKEL URIU, & KO KIRK YAMAHIRA
PERFORMANCE AND HAPPENINGS BY ALEX MARI, EMMA KATES-SHAW, TUSK, & BBMAGDA PSYCHIC MEDIUM
OFF SITE @ THE FACTORY ON CAPITOL HILL
3 NOVEMBER 2018, 4PM-12AM
As we reach the heart of the Autumn season, we are directed to harvest what we’ve cultivated all spring and summer, as well as contend with the inevitable loss that is inherent to any growth. At this moment, in a time of continuous turmoil, we're especially reminded of how systems of power restrict evolution, silence survivors and marginalized voices, and continue erase cultural and spiritual practices in favor of power and control; we can see how this season has the potential to bring forth our shadow-selves, and regress inward.
The ongoing, strenuous, and sometimes impossible act of healing from such trauma is highlighted in the beautiful death and bounty of Fall. Therefore this show is meant to serve as a celebration, an offering, and a moment to breathe. As a continuation of The Veil, presented at Bridge Productions’ home space in Georgetown in July and August 2018, we intend to highlight a new small works by artists Ko Kirk Yamahira, Markel Uriu, Taylor Hanigosky, and Charlie Crowell. Joining them in the Harvest for a day of happenings are: BBMagda, providing mini-tarot readings; local tattoo artist, printmaker and secret cafe organizer Emma Kates-Shaw, presenting a sweet offering to her communities and loved ones; and performances by TUSK and Alex Mari. Artwork and readings will be available for sale at affordable prices, intended to offer greater approachability, helping break down the assumptions and challenges around art sales and access.
This show is supported by Bridge Productions and resumes a series of special projects in partnership with other spaces, first launched in 2017 with Hoedemaker Pfeiffer. We wish to extend our express gratitude to Timothy Rysdyke for his generosity in collaborating with us at The Factory on Capitol Hill. We look forward to seeing you in a new/old neighborhood, and sharing our offerings with you!
Sequoia Day O'Connell
Curator
October 2018
The ongoing, strenuous, and sometimes impossible act of healing from such trauma is highlighted in the beautiful death and bounty of Fall. Therefore this show is meant to serve as a celebration, an offering, and a moment to breathe. As a continuation of The Veil, presented at Bridge Productions’ home space in Georgetown in July and August 2018, we intend to highlight a new small works by artists Ko Kirk Yamahira, Markel Uriu, Taylor Hanigosky, and Charlie Crowell. Joining them in the Harvest for a day of happenings are: BBMagda, providing mini-tarot readings; local tattoo artist, printmaker and secret cafe organizer Emma Kates-Shaw, presenting a sweet offering to her communities and loved ones; and performances by TUSK and Alex Mari. Artwork and readings will be available for sale at affordable prices, intended to offer greater approachability, helping break down the assumptions and challenges around art sales and access.
This show is supported by Bridge Productions and resumes a series of special projects in partnership with other spaces, first launched in 2017 with Hoedemaker Pfeiffer. We wish to extend our express gratitude to Timothy Rysdyke for his generosity in collaborating with us at The Factory on Capitol Hill. We look forward to seeing you in a new/old neighborhood, and sharing our offerings with you!
Sequoia Day O'Connell
Curator
October 2018
VISUAL ARTS:
Brooklyn-based Charlie Crowell is a largely self-taught artist who has dedicated their work to exploring the toxic love affair between past and present. Their work is most inspired by the natural world, sleep, and end of life care. Working across media, their work takes shape through the collective emotional schema that attempt to cope with time’s passage, and how these processes articulate themselves through the body.
Seattle-based artist Taylor Hanigosky carries rocks in her pockets and thinks about time. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses installation, illustration, photography, writing, and book arts. Currently, she constructs durational installations in which found rocks are suspended by a network of string, tension and their own weight. This work is a meditation on balance, interaction, fragility, and the relationship between human and nature. She has most recently shown at Mount Analogue, BASE Experimental Arts Center, and The Vestibule in Seattle.
Markel Uriu is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores impermanence, maintenance, growth, and decay. Drawing from narrative, ritual, and her Japanese-American heritage, she explores these concepts through ephemeral botanical narratives and two-dimensional work. She received her BA from Whitman College in 2011 and has shown nationally, most recently at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York City. She is the recipient of the 2016 Artbridge Fellow at Pratt Fine Arts Center, and is a member of Lion's Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists and SOIL Gallery, Seattle.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo and London, Ko Kirk Yamahira moved to Seattle from New York in 2015. His practice involves the painstaking removal of individual threads from the weave of the canvas to deconstruct his paintings, converting surface into form. The result is a sculptural wall hanging that reveals the armature of the original painting, while creating softer, elegantly draping forms. He has exhibited in galleries across the United States and Japan, is a member of the artist collectives Art Beasties and SOIL; and was most recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in 2018.
PERFORMANCE:
Alex Mari
Alex Mari is a conceptual performance artist currently living in Seattle. Her interdisciplinary work explores the cramped spaces of social identity, otherness, and liminality through writing/conceptual art, body-based performance, video, installation, and social intervention. She focused on performance art during her MFA studio practice at the Savannah College of Art and Design and has read and shown work in galleries around Atlanta including Whitespace Gallery and Mason Murer Fine Art. She's shown internationally in Berlin, London, Fes, Monrovia and participated in a residency in Puri, India. She has performed in the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and most recently in Seattle's Yelllow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival at LoveCityLove in 2018.
Emma Kates-Shaw
Emma Kates-Shaw is a multidisciplinary tattoo, visual, and experiential artist whose work focuses on intimacy, trust, and the impermanent beauty of being human. She is captivated by spontaneity, magic, and the way the world arranges itself around and for us. Emma is the co-founder of Constant Hands, a QTPOC tattoo shop and art space, and is a tattoo artist with Valentines Tattoo in Seattle, WA. She has a BA from Swarthmore college, and is a member of Lions Mane Art Collective. Her work has been featured in shows at Party Hat Gallery and Gay City in Seattle, WA, as well as Ori Art Gallery in Portland, OR.
TUSK
Jack Tusk is an artist and musician based in Seattle. They use their voice and electronic sounds to explore emotional worlds. They have also composed scores for two modern dance pieces, and are a member of Lion’s Mane Art Collective.
BBMAGDA PSYCHIC MEDIUM
“Gratefully based on Duwamish territory & land of Seattle, Wa. Specializing in trance mediumship and channeling. Additionally, she is a highly attuned empathic spiritual healer, Intuitive counselor, life coach, Reiki Master, herbalist, and teacher. She's Latina, Russian & Ukrainian, American working with honor and respect by the influence, inspiration, and teachings from her culture's faith in magic and spirituality. She has been teaching & providing psychic services all over the U.S. for over 15 years. Her purpose here in his time space reality is to provide healing assistance, education, activation, witness, and community to all who desire to engage in the art and practice of the personal and collective metaphysical, magical, and self empowering path.”
BBMAGDA will be offering mini-readings centered around the topics of The Harvest show.
Sequoia Day O’Connell is a Seattle curator and photographer, as well as a birth and abortion doula. They received a BA in Visual Arts and Psychology from Hampshire College in 2015, and was an organizer with Lions Main Art Collective in 2016-2017, as well as an organizer and member of the Board of Directors at The Vera Project, 2008-2013. Sequoia curated and organized the Blue Lady shows in Northampton, MA, an inclusive art and performance show that highlighted voices in the queer community, using artwork as a foundational element to build and strengthen community relationships. Intimacy is a common thread in their personal, curatorial, and professional work—their photography touches the personal and vulnerable boundaries between body and space, while their work as a birth doula offers support to pregnant people and their families during a pivotal and vulnerable moment.
Brooklyn-based Charlie Crowell is a largely self-taught artist who has dedicated their work to exploring the toxic love affair between past and present. Their work is most inspired by the natural world, sleep, and end of life care. Working across media, their work takes shape through the collective emotional schema that attempt to cope with time’s passage, and how these processes articulate themselves through the body.
Seattle-based artist Taylor Hanigosky carries rocks in her pockets and thinks about time. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses installation, illustration, photography, writing, and book arts. Currently, she constructs durational installations in which found rocks are suspended by a network of string, tension and their own weight. This work is a meditation on balance, interaction, fragility, and the relationship between human and nature. She has most recently shown at Mount Analogue, BASE Experimental Arts Center, and The Vestibule in Seattle.
Markel Uriu is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores impermanence, maintenance, growth, and decay. Drawing from narrative, ritual, and her Japanese-American heritage, she explores these concepts through ephemeral botanical narratives and two-dimensional work. She received her BA from Whitman College in 2011 and has shown nationally, most recently at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York City. She is the recipient of the 2016 Artbridge Fellow at Pratt Fine Arts Center, and is a member of Lion's Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists and SOIL Gallery, Seattle.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Tokyo and London, Ko Kirk Yamahira moved to Seattle from New York in 2015. His practice involves the painstaking removal of individual threads from the weave of the canvas to deconstruct his paintings, converting surface into form. The result is a sculptural wall hanging that reveals the armature of the original painting, while creating softer, elegantly draping forms. He has exhibited in galleries across the United States and Japan, is a member of the artist collectives Art Beasties and SOIL; and was most recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in 2018.
PERFORMANCE:
Alex Mari
Alex Mari is a conceptual performance artist currently living in Seattle. Her interdisciplinary work explores the cramped spaces of social identity, otherness, and liminality through writing/conceptual art, body-based performance, video, installation, and social intervention. She focused on performance art during her MFA studio practice at the Savannah College of Art and Design and has read and shown work in galleries around Atlanta including Whitespace Gallery and Mason Murer Fine Art. She's shown internationally in Berlin, London, Fes, Monrovia and participated in a residency in Puri, India. She has performed in the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and most recently in Seattle's Yelllow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival at LoveCityLove in 2018.
Emma Kates-Shaw
Emma Kates-Shaw is a multidisciplinary tattoo, visual, and experiential artist whose work focuses on intimacy, trust, and the impermanent beauty of being human. She is captivated by spontaneity, magic, and the way the world arranges itself around and for us. Emma is the co-founder of Constant Hands, a QTPOC tattoo shop and art space, and is a tattoo artist with Valentines Tattoo in Seattle, WA. She has a BA from Swarthmore college, and is a member of Lions Mane Art Collective. Her work has been featured in shows at Party Hat Gallery and Gay City in Seattle, WA, as well as Ori Art Gallery in Portland, OR.
TUSK
Jack Tusk is an artist and musician based in Seattle. They use their voice and electronic sounds to explore emotional worlds. They have also composed scores for two modern dance pieces, and are a member of Lion’s Mane Art Collective.
BBMAGDA PSYCHIC MEDIUM
“Gratefully based on Duwamish territory & land of Seattle, Wa. Specializing in trance mediumship and channeling. Additionally, she is a highly attuned empathic spiritual healer, Intuitive counselor, life coach, Reiki Master, herbalist, and teacher. She's Latina, Russian & Ukrainian, American working with honor and respect by the influence, inspiration, and teachings from her culture's faith in magic and spirituality. She has been teaching & providing psychic services all over the U.S. for over 15 years. Her purpose here in his time space reality is to provide healing assistance, education, activation, witness, and community to all who desire to engage in the art and practice of the personal and collective metaphysical, magical, and self empowering path.”
BBMAGDA will be offering mini-readings centered around the topics of The Harvest show.
Sequoia Day O’Connell is a Seattle curator and photographer, as well as a birth and abortion doula. They received a BA in Visual Arts and Psychology from Hampshire College in 2015, and was an organizer with Lions Main Art Collective in 2016-2017, as well as an organizer and member of the Board of Directors at The Vera Project, 2008-2013. Sequoia curated and organized the Blue Lady shows in Northampton, MA, an inclusive art and performance show that highlighted voices in the queer community, using artwork as a foundational element to build and strengthen community relationships. Intimacy is a common thread in their personal, curatorial, and professional work—their photography touches the personal and vulnerable boundaries between body and space, while their work as a birth doula offers support to pregnant people and their families during a pivotal and vulnerable moment.