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Monday, January 5, 2009

Visual Art Another Matriarch Gone and Mostly Forgotten

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:07 PM

The artist Doris Chase, who split her life between Seattle and New York and who is most visibly represented here by two bronze abstract sculptures (one at left, atop Queen Anne) that actually don't tell you all that much about her life's work (which was just as focused on video and performance as painting and sculpture), died on December 23 at her apartment at Horizon House.

A public memorial service is scheduled for her at 2 pm January 9 at University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave NE.

A public/online memorial of a sort is represented by this a great essay on her life at HistoryLink. (Deloris Tarzan Ament and Patricia Failing also have books out on her.)

But might we have an actual art exhibition to remember her and to examine her influence?

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I'll bet Matthew has something in the works. He liked to visit her at the Chelsea Hotel when she resided there.

Posted by Paul Arnauti on January 5, 2009 at 9:43 PM

Thats kinda rude to say that when someone died. RIP you need to be more sensitive to other people and understand people for who they are instead of being so ignorant this is Seattle we should accept people of other cultures and beliefs.

Posted by Julie on January 6, 2009 at 12:17 AM