Slog - Comments on Painters: Seattle Has An Opening http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting This weekend, I stopped by Crawl Space for the absurdly titled exhibition Centennial (the gallery's been open three years) and met the painter Ori Ornstein, a newish member of the artist-run space having his first show this month. He's a painter, and a transplant from the East Coast, and he claims there's not much painting in Seattle. We are about to see a bunch of it: the contemporary Leipzig school written about so fascinatingly in today's Guardian at the Frye Art Museum opening February 17, Mary Henry at Howard House opening tonight, and Ten Painters at Francine Seders opening February... Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:20:23 -0800 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:25:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by osh-jay With the advent of the digi camera and photoshop anyone can become a photographer and a lot of them are. Some better than others obviously. It does seem there are little to no 'classical' style painters here. This is a tech town, and tech towns people like techy art. I'm sure a lot of people paint in seattle, I know I do, but from what I've seen they are all sort of abstract in nature.

Am I a painty-painter?

]]> osh-jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606204 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:03:43 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist Here's a reclusive (in the sense that he doesn't tell people he paints and just insists on having a website) Seattle artist:

http://www.nathan-art.net/gallery

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606229 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606229 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:32:59 -0800 Comment by Art What do you think of James Waterman? He's represented by Foster-White and while his work has this unusual beauty and luminosity to it.

But then, I'm just a cheap bastard who wouldn't consider buying art...or carving my initials in it for that matter a la Wave.

]]> Art http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606280 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:27:32 -0800 Comment by Josh glass man. glass is where it's at yo!

chi hoo lee!

]]> Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606281 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:27:45 -0800 Comment by but Patte Loper lives in New York.

]]> but http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606310 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c606310 Arts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:06:01 -0800 Comment by cody Patte Loper does live in New York, but she is represented I believe by a Seattle gallery: Platform. And Jen wrote ". . . I can think of a lot of artists represented in Seattle who fall under the category . . ."

]]> cody http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c608125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c608125 Arts Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:26:13 -0800 Comment by Andrea No painters? I bust ass at painting! I have been painting 7 months and sold over 70 paintings. I have two shows in March running at non-art venues and am running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get someone to notice. New blood over here!

]]> Andrea http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c615836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c615836 Arts Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:24:01 -0800 Comment by marcie No painters.
That's rubbish.

You guys just don't know about us yet.

we're too freakin' poor to get our slides duped.

how about 5 to 10 years--
then you'll be inserting foot into mouth

]]> marcie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c640949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c640949 Arts Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:25:11 -0800 Comment by marcie No painters.
That's rubbish.

You guys just don't know about us yet.

we're too freakin' poor to get our slides duped.

how about 5 to 10 years--
then you'll be inserting foot into mouth

]]> marcie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c640952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/paint_painters_painting#c640952 Arts Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:25:28 -0800