 Featured Artists include: Iole Allesandrini, Brad Ewing, Sean Frego, Joseph Gray, Thom Heileson, David Herbert, Jamisen Ogg, Keith Tilford, Tony Weathers, and John Wells
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or
For appointments call (206) 948-2308
1506 Projects Gallery
1506 Olive Way
Seattle, WA 98122
 Once again 1506 projects ventures into new territory where few commercial galleries would dare to tread. This exhibition features video work by Seattle-based artists including Iole Alessandrini, Brad Ewing, Sean Frego, Joseph Gray, Thom Heileson, David Herbert, Jamisen Ogg, Keith Tilford, Tony Weathers, and John Wells. An opening reception was held on Saturday, Sept 18, 6-9 pm. Tucked into this shoe box space is an amazing survey of the vibrant young video artists that Seattle seems to be home to. With the outstanding resources of non-profits like Jack Straw Production, 911 Media Arts Center and the Video Program of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts, it is about time some work started bubbling through the streets.
Curators Neal Bashor and Joseph Gray serve up a veritable feast for the eyes. The cross-over diptych prints My City is Essential/Small House with a Big Garage by Brad Ewing & Jamisen Ogg, AP print 2004, represent an ongoing dialog between two artists. After meeting at the Print Lab at Cornish, they went to different graduate schools,{RISDI & The School of the Art Institute Chicago}. Yet despite the geographic distance, they have worked together to create a wry commentary on materialism and medicine.
Iole Allesandrini, shows documentation from the video installation she created in the Water Tower at Volunteer Park. Sean Frego contributes the documentation from the Walking Zero project. Click on this link to view the video. This fragment from the highly popular Superflat Exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery has all the sensuousness in composition, color and style of Gig Toland with a little bit of Fritz Lang.
Joseph Gray has been performing live video mixing with the Monktail Creative Music Concern at various venues, including: the Baltic Room, the Crocodile Cafe, Lo_Fi, and the Jewel Box Theater at the Rendezvous. The selection entitled Prograta was entirely created by using an old school Macintosh G 3 laptop. Thom Heileson offers 101 sunsets and 101 love songs compressed in time. The strobe like effect causes your visual cortex to go into overload.
David Herbert, a new graduate student at VCU captures child like animations combined with manic clowning to create a new video opera-buffo. This dynamic style of play will just about stun any viewer into wonder and amazement. Keith Tilford replicates an endless task and morphs it into an endless causality loop. Shown on a small monitor, it really deserves to be projected on the side of a building.
Tony Weathers Lean Over Fat 2004 represents another humorous take on an extreme situation. The sound of the chair scraping while vegetable matter is plopped on the floor is only one example of his unique vision. John Wells teams with musician Justin Gerardy to create Purpose of Waves a surreal video of Brazil. The video was shot on location using a Canon GL1 video camera.. Click on this link to view the video.
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or
For appointments call (206) 948-2308
1506 Projects Gallery
1506 Olive Way
Seattle, WA 98122
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