Hours:
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
closed government holidays; the gallery is open and free to the public

Pictured to the left, BATHTUB DAM, 2004, MIXED MEDIA image courtesy 1506 Projects Seattle. With August comes the dog days of Summer. Amidst the heat and the languor of the season, Neal Bashor takes his puckish sense of humor downtown to the 4CultureGallery, in the historic Smith Tower. The new work created for this show consists of varied, mixed-media pieces, ranging from a claw foot bathtub with an enameled dam partitioning the middle to a series of models referencing larger installations set in various types of private and public pools. Pictured on the left, © Bathtub Dam, Neal Bashor, mixed-media, 2004. Image courtesy of 4Culture.

Influenced by the artist's daytime construction job, the new pieces are a natural progression from the past body of work that dealt with small cast models and paintings. Bashor translates his jobby-job into a land of mythic whimsey with the implied use of large power tools. Imagine the Hoover dam in your back yard as your own private swimming hole. Citizen Kane meets Claus Oldenburg and makes fantasy into reality. Pictured on the right, © Suburban Pool Model, Neal Bashor, mixed-media sculpture, 2004. Image courtesy of 4Culture.

The central theme to these works is based upon Bashor's observations of dams along the Columbia River Basin. Attracted to the scale and engineering of these complex public projects, the artist sees this new work addressing the ambitions of lasting human development in the world and how attitudes have shifted from the conquest of nature to the importance of balance in environmental eco-systems. Pictured on the left, © New Work: Neal Bashor, installation view, Gallery 4Culture, 2004. Image courtesy of 4Culture.

Gallery4Culture is located within the 4Culture offices, at 506 Second Avenue, Suite 200, on the second floor of the Smith Tower Building in downtown Seattle. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., closed government holidays; the gallery is open and free to the public. For more information about this program call 206 296.8674.

Read Nate Lippens blurb in The Stranger Suggests

Read Dam Fine Neal Bashor’s flows and impediments. by Andrew Engelson in the Seattle Weekly