Caleb Larsen

One of my prints, "Visualization of the inherent connections amongst friends. Geographically located iTunes Libraries. " will be in a show at the Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery. There is an opening on Tuesday, Feb 13 from 4:30-6:00pm. This print was purchased by the Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection.
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Seattle, February 1, 2007
The Artists Reformation Project is pleased to present Caleb Larsen and Brett Walker's new collaborative installation, This is/not a Room Full of Peanuts. The two Seattle artists will be creating a work centered around the age-old question of "physical reality." Employing tongue-in-cheek metaphors, the artists will transform the gallery space into an active work of art, directly engaging the viewers both in terms of the function of art and of the metaphysical debate.

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So I went to the opening of the Olympic Sculpture Park (it was dark so most of my pictures are blurry). I have been anticipating this for months. I am a firm believer that Seattle needs more art spaces that look beyond the city's almost painful provincial artistic mentality and embrace national and international artists. I
may just be being snobbish or naive.

The opening was a complete success, if by success you mean a lot of people, I mean really a lot of people, wondering around. They had "live music and dancing" and "art projects for the kids". Two things that I generally don't like.

The "music tent" was set up right next too Richard Serra's Wake. So that the generators were almost touching the steel. It was a beyond tasteless placement of the tent. The music was of the typically safe and upbeat type. The singer was wearing one of those hats people make from balloons. And about hand draw "do not touch" signs were arranged throughout the piece. Couldn't they at least run up to Kinko's and printed something out?

I am terribly excited to go and see the park when it is not filled with buskers, strollers, sub-par family-friendly hip-hop bands, and strange fellows waving around Technicolor scarves.

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Today Marci and I will be going to the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. I first saw the project at the Landscape Architecture show at MoMA a couple of years ago. From what I have seen as they have been building it, it looks very neat. It is certainly beautiful and does a lot for the area that it is in (the lot used to be a couple of terrible parking/vacant lots). I am curious, however it will fall into more the "park" category than the "sculpture," i.e. acting primarily as a green space than an art venue.
I am a bit nervous of the opening days. From their website "Two full days of free festivities will kick off this historic occasion in grand style. Events and activities will include two stages of live music and dance, art making for kids and adults, artist demonstrations, self-guided park tours, and more! " Not really my cup of tea.

Pictures to come.

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I went an opening at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle last night. I went for two reasons: 1) the Lawrimore Project is one of the few Seattle galleries that I have actually heard mentioned in the non-Seattle art press, 2) Josh Azzarella is Tiffany Calvert's significant other. I know Tiffany from a residency that we did at I-Park (which is a completely weird place, but extremely nice).

I think I like Josh's work. I had heard about it and seen bits online, but this was my first encounter with in person. It strikes me as Paul Pfeiffer meets Bill Viola meets USA Today. A bait and switch of mezmorizingly beautiful imagery and truly horrific content. I didn't like the projectors that Lawrimore used, I though the very visible light bleeds was distracting from the images, but I might just be nit-picking.

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