Slog - Comments on Seattle Art Museum, You Thrill Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me This year, Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award will go to a wild-card artist: Oscar Tuazon. Tuazon is based in Tacoma. He hasn't shown in Seattle. He's young. He's promising. He's getting the $11,000 prize. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled to be surprised by an announcement that in past years has often been predictable and staid. I'm thrilled that this is a Tacoma-based artist (and that he also appears to be Paris-based: Tacoma and Paris, sitting in a tree ...). And I'm thrilled insofar as I feel the way I feel during a thriller: I'm not entirely sure what's going to... Copyright 2008 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:42:26 -0800 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:23:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by adam A side note about Portland artist Vanessa Renwick. She'll be in town presenting work and serving as a juror at Northwest Film Forum's Local Sightings Film Festival.


Come out to her program on October 6th. here's the details:


Saturday, Oct. 6, 7pm
Spotlight on Portland
STUMPTOWN SAP

A lot of trees were cut down to make Portland, but the sap still glistens fresh with new creations. Tonight, visiting filmmaker Vanessa Renwick presents a sampling of great short films by Portland artists. The program features the first two films in Renwick's ongoing CASCADIA series of Northwest portraits, Gus Van Sant's new short FIRST KISS, made for the Cannes Film Festival's 60th Anniversary, and work by Jon Raymond (writer of OLD JOY), animator Karl Lind, Marc Moscato, Gretchen Hogue and many others. Don't miss this impressive survey of Portland's cinematic lifeblood.

]]> adam http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812685 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812685 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:48:13 -0800 Comment by gdfather Hm... I'd describe his work as "boxy but good."

]]> gdfather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812686 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:50:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Nifty!

On a related note, I was talking with some friends of mine who are donors to SIFF and who used to be members of SAM, and we were all thinking of rejoining SAM at some point, but had all let our memberships run out while the museum seemed to be going out into left field (or whatever).

Glad to see free admission days are back - those are essential for a public museum to have any popular support. Or donor support, quite frankly.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812697 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812697 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:00:38 -0800 Comment by chris the standard is a great gallery:
http://www.standardoslo.no/v1/
but it's in NORWAY, not SWEDEN. oslo is the capitol of norway.

]]> chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812732 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:30:49 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Adam: Thanks for the tip! I'm adding it to the post.

Chris: You mean you haven't been to Oslo, Sweden? Great town. Duh. Thanks. All fixed.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812749 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:53:21 -0800 Comment by Eric F I met Oscar through Matthew Stadler, who gave me a copy of Metronome No. 10, a super-interesting zine-like publication about nomadic and off-the-grid practices that Oscar made with Clementine Deliss, available for download as a pdf here:
http://www.metronomepress.com/documenta12.html

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812860 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:25:54 -0800 Comment by Jay Leno Jen, any ideas on how many artists entered the award? who? who would you have picked?

]]> Jay Leno http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c812878 Arts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:35:08 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Jay Leno: The answer to your first question is in the post. There were 462 applicants.

As for who I'd have picked, I don't know what the Betty Bowen's criteria are, but I love this choice at this point in time. The Betty Bowen needed to be rehabilitated into interesting and forward-charging, and this year's choice does that in one fell swoop. So I would pick Oscar Tuazon.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c813067 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c813067 Arts Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:54:31 -0800 Comment by Billy Howard Oscar and Eli will have an exhibition at Howard House in April 2008. They are also doing an exciting project at Aqua in December.

]]> Billy Howard http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c813532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/seattle_art_museum_you_thrill_me#c813532 Arts Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:23:30 -0800