Von Coffin
Residency: October 23- November 17, 2023
Exhibition: November 28- January 18, 2023
Opening Reception: November 28, 4-7 PM
Von Coffin (b. 1983 Kirkland, WA) lives on the Coffin family farm in Redmond, Washington. They are trans, non-binary, and bipolar. Education includes MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2016) and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Galerie Dengyun in Shanghai and group exhibitions with Tops Gallery in Memphis, TN; Foster White Gallery in Seattle, WA; and Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA.
sacoffin.com website
Scott Trimble
Residency: April 22-May 22, 2023
Exhibition: June 15- Sept 22, 2023
W. Scott Trimble is a sculptor whose site responsive artworks and installations consider the intersections between art, architecture, and the participation of humanity within. He has largely been influenced by the central coast of California where he was born and the PNW where he has been working since receiving an MFA in sculpture at the University of Washington in 2003. Starting out in reductive techniques, leading to bronze casting, and fabricated steel sculpture, he has also delved into coin-operated kinetic works and most recently large site specific interactive wooden sculptures. He is most interested in alternative venues that engage the greater public on their own terms and where it is least expected. He is mostly interested in creating artworks that are accessible, interactive, lyrical, and facilitate exploration.
Recognized through awards and grants by the 4Culture, Seattle Arts & Culture, Artist Trust, and McMillan Foundation, he has many public and private art commissions found throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has extended his art practice through his participation in many reputable artist residencies such as Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Anderson Ranch, Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo, Amazon, Sculpture Space, Jentel, and others.
Trimble prefers temporary venues that are more accessible to the greater public such as Bumbershoot Art & Music Festival, Wormfarm Institute Farm/Art Dtour, Hello Tunnel/Good-bye Viaduct, and so forth. He has also exhibited mostly in northwest galleries and sculpture parks that have included Greg Kucera Gallery, Swarm Gallery, Schneider Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Crawl Space Gallery, Method Gallery, 4 Culture Gallery, Olympic Sculpture Park, to name a few.
Bellevue College Faculty Exhibition – Feb 15 – April 7, 2023
2022
Mary Coss
Residency: Oct 4 – 15 & Nov 1 – 17, 2022
Sound the Siren Exhibition: Nov 17 – Dec 30
I explore current topics and memory with a critical eye. I challenge our expectations and social norms in order to analyze their effects on our present state and to consider our future impact. Sound the Siren is artwork examining ideas of social justice. There are tendrils to civil rights, free speech, feminist ideology and a host of other topics. The work has a societal basis and generates conversation about history, empowerment, empathy and integrity.
I will host students both during my residency working stage and during the exhibition period to discuss the ideas behind the work and the methods of fabrication. I will also facilitate voter registration by providing interested students with a QR code, so that they can register to vote online. I welcome collaboration with faculty and am happy to tailor the conversations to related subject matter in the curriculum.
BIO
Mary Coss is an interdisciplinary artist known for her haunting installations that explore the human condition. Born in Detroit and based in Seattle, Coss received her MFA from Syracuse University, Dept. of Experimental Studios. Materials vary and range from cast bronze, fabric and drawing to neon light and sound. Her use of common imagery is often abstracted or put into a new context to create new perspectives to consider. People’s stories, current news cycles and existential questions inspire the artwork.
Recognized through awards and grants by the NEA, Ford and Puffin Foundations, 4Culture, Seattle Arts & Culture and Artist Trust, her numerous public art commissions are found throughout the Northwest.Coss exhibits nationally and in northwest galleries, museums and sculpture parks that include Museum of Northwest Art, Bainbridge and San Juan Museum of Art, The Wing and Webster Sculpture Park. Public Debt to the Suffragette received “Art to Change the World: Inspiring Social Justice” Special Recognition Award from the ACLU at ArtPrize. Critically acclaimed Layers of the Hijab, a three-year social engagement project, received NEA funding. Coss’ Public Art includes commissions and socially engaged practices, project Lead Artist and authorship of Art Plans.
Coss has built international partnerships that include exhibitions, residencies and cultural exchanges in Stockholm, Canada, Ireland, Turkey and Guatemala. Residencies include Willapa Bay, Playa, James Washington Foundation, Cornish Incubator, and Cill Rialaig. She is cofounder of METHOD Gallery, CASA: a rape crisis center that flourishes after 30 years, and Borealis Light Festival.
Sarah Fetterman (residency)- March 15 – June 15
Sarah Fetterman is an artist working in performative sculpture. She utilizes the fluid, organic movement of dancers, either juxtaposing it with the awkward creaking movement of wood and metal sculptures, or having the dancer’s flour-covered body track its movement on large sheets of black tar paper.
Sarah’s interest in durational work gives her art a dream-like quality punctuated with precarious and yet graceful moments. Choreographing her installations and dancers as one, Sarah emphasizes the essence of the work as a total organism.
Since coming to Seattle, she has embraced the interdisciplinary and tech-savvy art culture – collaborating with Code Empathy, a software coding company. Sarah’s work was exhibited at Soil Gallery, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shunpike’s Storefronts, Collective Vision’s Gallery, Hybrid Space, and the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA). She assists world-renowned sculptor John Grade with installation in venues including the Smithsonian.
Francesca Lohmann, Slumber Party – Jan 15 – March 15
I am working to build a language that operates through gesture, imprint, support, mutual formation, through things and processes as they manifest in the world. Everything in this language exists in multiple, as a series, an open edition. There is no singular definitive object.
I’m curious about boundaries and where boundaries become confused.
About the distinction between dead and alive.
I’m looking for certain instances of weight; emotional density.
Like a fairy tale, or a joke, a good meal, a rock.
BIO
Francesca Lohmann (b. 1986 in San Francisco) was raised in the foothills of Northern California, and now lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. Trained in Printmaking, her practice continues to be concerned with material in time, repetitions, affinities, and points of contact. Recent solo exhibitions include “Variants” at Ditch Projects in Eugene, OR; “Taffy X” at the Coffin Farm in Redmond, WA; “Sets” at Veronica in Seattle, WA; “Butter Flavor with Yellow” at Seattle Freezer, and Subspontaneous, a collaboration with Rob Rhee at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
2021
Sung I Chun, Light, Water, Space – Nov 1 – Jan 15, 2022
2020
Chris Oliver, The Pool Zone and Other Zones – Jan 9 – March 6
2019
Carlos Palomares (residency) – Nov 3 – Nov 8
Tiffany Midge Reading and Event – Nov 7
Changing Bodies – Sept 19 – Nov 1
Bellevue College Juried Student Exhibition 2019 – Opening June 19 – Aug 7
Juror – Greg Robinson, Chief Curator, Bainbridge Island Art Museum
Guest Curator Carrie Dedon Exhibition – April 9 – June 9
Yehaw’ – May 28 – June 12
Writer in Residence – Laura Da’
Closing Reception June 12. 4 – 9 p.m. Musical guests “Them Savages,” Readings by writers from “An Indigenous Art Zine”
MOSA- Museum of Special Art
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