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Friday, August 8, 2008

Two Small Terriblenesses

posted by on August 8 at 14:57 PM

1. Last year’s Stranger Genius Award winner for visual art, Alex Schweder, has decamped to Berlin for the time being. He’s still keeping his studio here, and he’ll be traveling back and forth for the next year, “mostly forth.” In an email, he wrote, “There are many like minded thinkers here and heaps of opportunities. Mostly, though, I like being incognito for a while. There was no frustration with Seattle at all, I just needed to expand the reach of my practice.”

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2. Cat Clifford, one of five recipients of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards this year, is moving to Houston. Her husband is going to graduate school at Rice. They may be back when he’s finished: “We are hoping to come back to Seattle,” Clifford emailed. “The Pacific Northwest is really our home.”

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The truth is, an artist’s work can really only improve in the context of a new metropolis rich with art. Which doesn’t keep me from crossing my fingers in both cases.

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1. berlin is played - are there any Germans left?
2. houston SUCKS - you can't live in the Rothko Chapel.

Posted by max solomon | August 8, 2008 3:41 PM
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Ian Fairweather would have disagreed with you. Plenty of great art has been and is produced outside of cities. And conversely, cities produce oceans of terrible work; look at New York since the seventies.

Posted by Fnarf | August 8, 2008 5:13 PM
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Although Cat is leaving for Houston, she continues to be represented by Howard House here in Seattle.

Posted by Billy | August 9, 2008 10:42 AM

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