At 8:00 pm on Friday December 5, 2003 the intrepid trio of artists unveiled to Seattle their latest exhibition entitled "Residence" at Consolidated Works. This interdisciplinary arts venue is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm
At 8:00 pm on Friday December 5, 2003 the intrepid trio of artists unveiled to Seattle their latest exhibition entitled "Residence" at Consolidated Works. This interdisciplinary arts venue is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm.
The local art critics rave about their work. Their piece in the Cornish Alumni show met with this observation; "The recently graduated team of John Sutton, Zac Culler and Ben Beres has exploded out of the gate with installations that are interactive, warm and weird. Art for them is a new kind of game. Their work has the absurdist quality of Dada without its inherent elitism. This show features their series of three photographs taken in a red-lit room. In one, the artists are hanging out in a box dressed in white, like surgeons poised to dissect the visual experience" Regina Hackett, Seattle PI Art Critic
Their impact on Seattle's alternative venues has been described as; "Three smart boys with a lot of good ideas. The Sutton/Beres/Culler trio has done a lot to refresh Seattle's notion of performance and conceptual art, such as Trailer Park (which cruised the city this summer), spontaneous performances along Broadway (such as Beres encasing himself in plaster and letting passersby chip him out), and hiring day laborers, Santiago Sierra-style, to make art objects during this show's opening" Emily Hall Stranger Art Critic
Consolidated Works launched its first formal Artist in Residence program. The program, new in 2003, keeps an artist (or in this case an ensemble of artists) in any arts discipline in residence in the new 1,300 square foot residency studio, and provides a living stipend, a materials budget, a month-long show in the main gallery, and a catalogue documenting the year's work.
The program is two-fold, in that it supports both the development process and the ultimate formal presentation of new work. Artists in all disciplines will be considered for residencies from visual art, film, music and performance. The residency is open to individual artists, groups of artists and ensembles. ConWorks' Artist-in Residence Program is multidisciplinary in nature and includes a research and development process that may result in temporal works (such as performances, films and videos, workshop, or public presentation) as well as artworks and installations.
"The three most important things, the time, the space and the money, have been handed to us and that's freed us up to concentrate and work on ideas, to explore whatever interests us." Ben Beres
"The sense of support has made the whole process so much more sustainable and with the December show, we've had to think for the first time on the level of exhibition over just installation" John Sutton
"They're not just buying paint or clay and producing an "abstraction" or the "reduction of form," these guys are doing something . This trio doesn't hesitate, doesn't flinch to rock it out, to extend the boundaries of materials and their meanings" Dylan Neuwirth, ConWorks Director of Visual Art
Highlights of the Residence show included an opening night performance installation wherein an assembly-line team of day-laborers (hired on the street the day of the opening) create a room full of artist-designed objects from pre-cut pieces. The team will also debut the Sears Portrait Studio project, a display of portraits the trio has been shooting weekly for the past year. Also on display is documentation from their performance work over the course of the last year.
Ben, Zac and John met while studying at Cornish College of the Arts in 1998. Each was creating work separately but exploring common themes of space use and performance. Soon they began casually lending one another a friendly hand on installations, and through this process of literally building work together realized the potential for working on a far greater scale collaboratively than they could individually. “We all had these huge ideas,” says Zac Culler, “and working together made these big things more feasible.”
Establishing a small work and presentation space at Cornish, John, Ben and Zac began mounting bi-weekly exhibitions. These presentations conceptually referred to the loose notions of a Happening, yet were also grounded by rigorous technical prowess (all three are master builders). This series of installations got them noticed by both Meg Shiffler, former Director of Visual Art for ConWorks, and Beth Sellars, curator of Suyama Space. The group was commissioned to create New Installationat Consolidated in September 2002, and Open House at Suyama in October 2002.
They became the Consolidated Works Artists in Residence in early 2003, and also received support from Artist Trust in 2003 for the creation of new work (specifically, the Trailer Park Project). Dust off some holiday cheer and make every effort to see this exhibition.
Once again Consolidated Works is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm.
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At 8:00 pm on Friday December 5, 2003 the intrepid trio of artists unveiled to Seattle their latest exhibition entitled "Residence" at Consolidated Works. This interdisciplinary arts venue is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm
At 8:00 pm on Friday December 5, 2003 the intrepid trio of artists unveiled to Seattle their latest exhibition entitled "Residence" at Consolidated Works. This interdisciplinary arts venue is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm.
The local art critics rave about their work. Their piece in the Cornish Alumni show met with this observation; "The recently graduated team of John Sutton, Zac Culler and Ben Beres has exploded out of the gate with installations that are interactive, warm and weird. Art for them is a new kind of game. Their work has the absurdist quality of Dada without its inherent elitism. This show features their series of three photographs taken in a red-lit room. In one, the artists are hanging out in a box dressed in white, like surgeons poised to dissect the visual experience"
Their impact on Seattle's alternative venues has been described as; "Three smart boys with a lot of good ideas. The Sutton/Beres/Culler trio has done a lot to refresh Seattle's notion of performance and conceptual art, such as Trailer Park (which cruised the city this summer), spontaneous performances along Broadway (such as Beres encasing himself in plaster and letting passersby chip him out), and hiring day laborers, Santiago Sierra-style, to make art objects during this show's opening"
Consolidated Works launched its first formal Artist in Residence program. The program, new in 2003, keeps an artist (or in this case an ensemble of artists) in any arts discipline in residence in the new 1,300 square foot residency studio, and provides a living stipend, a materials budget, a month-long show in the main gallery, and a catalogue documenting the year's work.
The program is two-fold, in that it supports both the development process and the ultimate formal presentation of new work. Artists in all disciplines will be considered for residencies from visual art, film, music and performance. The residency is open to individual artists, groups of artists and ensembles. ConWorks' Artist-in Residence Program is multidisciplinary in nature and includes a research and development process that may result in temporal works (such as performances, films and videos, workshop, or public presentation) as well as artworks and installations.
"The three most important things, the time, the space and the money, have been handed to us and that's freed us up to concentrate and work on ideas, to explore whatever interests us." Ben Beres
"The sense of support has made the whole process so much more sustainable and with the December show, we've had to think for the first time on the level of exhibition over just installation" John Sutton
"They're not just buying paint or clay and producing an "abstraction" or the "reduction of form," these guys are doing something . This trio doesn't hesitate, doesn't flinch to rock it out, to extend the boundaries of materials and their meanings" 
Highlights of the Residence show included an opening night performance installation wherein an assembly-line team of day-laborers (hired on the street the day of the opening) create a room full of artist-designed objects from pre-cut pieces. The team will also debut the Sears Portrait Studio project, a display of portraits the trio has been shooting weekly for the past year. Also on display is documentation from their performance work over the course of the last year.
Ben, Zac and John met while studying at Cornish College of the Arts in 1998. Each was creating work separately but exploring common themes of space use and performance. Soon they began casually lending one another a friendly hand on installations, and through this process of literally building work together realized the potential for working on a far greater scale collaboratively than they could individually. “We all had these huge ideas,” says Zac Culler, “and working together made these big things more feasible.”
Establishing a small work and presentation space at Cornish, John, Ben and Zac began mounting bi-weekly exhibitions. These presentations conceptually referred to the loose notions of a Happening, yet were also grounded by rigorous technical prowess (all three are master builders). This series of installations got them noticed by both Meg Shiffler, former Director of Visual Art for ConWorks, and Beth Sellars, curator of Suyama Space. The group was commissioned to create New Installationat Consolidated in September 2002, and Open House at Suyama in October 2002.
They became the Consolidated Works Artists in Residence in early 2003, and also received support from Artist Trust in 2003 for the creation of new work (specifically, the Trailer Park Project). Dust off some holiday cheer and make every effort to see this exhibition.
Once again Consolidated Works is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm.
