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Feb 5 2008 - 3:45pm Feb 5 2008 - 5:00pm
Blake Haygood is an artist, curator and co-director of Platform Gallery and has lived in Seattle since 1992. His current paintings and prints involve machinery parts of undeterminable scale floating in space without a horizon and in constant states of decomposition and regeneration. “I think of my art as a way of telling stories. Referencing a combination of organic and mechanical imagery filtered through my imperfect memory, I've imagined a vocabulary of forms to populate a fictional world and to build a kind of contemporary mythology,” says the artist. In the catalog for Blake’s 2007 one-person show at the Missoula Art Museum, curator Stephen Glueckert wrote: “Haygood’s machines are organic and evolving. He depicts their decomposition with a fine, rusty, incised line and refined color. Each machine seems to fall apart even as it almost functions. In these works there is a subtle paradox. On one hand, we experience the refinement of an artist working with a surgeon’s precision; on the other hand, we are exposed to the absurdity of machines operating although damaged and disintegrating.” In 2006, Blake received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. Prior to that, he was nominated for the Neddy Artist Fellowship for Printmaking, received a Seattle Arts Commission Sustaining Award, and was a finalist for the Betty Bowen Award (1996). Blake will speak about his artistic practice and how he came to be co-director of Platform Gallery. Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1 Contact: Gallery Director, Ann Friedman |