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E D E N – D E V E L O P M E N T
A R T I S T S – I N – R E S I D E N C E
We started on a quest to include art in our projects because we love it and have a lot of art around us. We thought others would like the same in their dwellings, but then we realized that it was more than that. By primarily focusing on buying local, emerging artists we were able to support their work, thereby helping to get them exposure and hopefully as a result keeping them in our community. Now we were on to something. Please take the time to read about them and check out their work. We would love it if you would buy something from them, too.
Y O R A M – B E R N E T
www.yorambernet.com
Installations:
Photographs from his editorial collection
Jamma Masjid, Fishing in India, and Sailing the Pacific
About the Artist:
Yoram Bernet has been photographing for over thirty years. He specializes in architectural photography, bringing to his work a strong engineering and design background as well as an affinity for an understanding of architecture. In between architectural assignments, Bernet enjoys shooting editorial and fine art work. Bernet is based in Seattle but travels frequently.
D E B – C A S S O
www.debcasso.com
Installation:
Photograph – Dawn Mist
About the Artist:
Deb Casso is a Seattle-based nature and landscape photographer. Born and raised in the coastal town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, Casso’s interest in photography dates back to her high school days when she began photographing Cape Cod seascapes and landscapes.
Casso strives for images that portray the uniqueness and vast natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been displayed in galleries and public spaces in the greater Seattle area. Casso’s portfolio includes landscapes, seascapes, flora, and macro photography of this region. An outdoor enthusiast, Casso especially enjoys exploring and photographing in the early morning light using her Nikon D200 digital camera. Prints are made on fine art paper with archival-quality pigmented inks.
C H R I S T I N E – C H A N E Y
www.christinechaneycreative.com
Installations:
Photographs from her Still Life Show
About the Artist:
Born in the Midwest in 1965, Christine was raised among corn fields and cattle in the small town (pop. 500) of Perrysville, Indiana. This intimacy with the country and its utilitarian architectural forms has strongly informed her artwork and architectural design. After graduating with an architectural degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 1989, she struck out on her own to the furthest corner of the continental US to make her way. She has been practicing architectural design, graphic design, book design and art in Seattle ever since. Over the years in Seattle, her work has become informed by the Pacific Northwestern landscapes, and by the Native American, Scandinavian and Asian art and design, which is prolific in the Pacific Northwest.
J E N E N E – C H E S B R O U G H
www.jenene.org
Installation:
Photograph – Triptych taken by Holga
About the Artist:
Jenene Chesbrough grew up near New Hampshire's 11 miles of coastline. She always had a creative flair and can remember how, at age 9, she gathered all the neighborhood children together to teach them how to make papier-mâché masks.
Chesbrough received her dual photography and design BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in 2003. She was valedictorian and earned the Best of Department award. She had to make a speech at graduation, the fear of which gave her laryngitis for the first and only time in her life.
Chesbrough’s photography has appeared in numerous magazines and books. Her work is in collections in both the United States and Europe. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she continues to work in both fine and journalistic photography and various design mediums. Lately, she fancies pattern making and is trying to learn how to cook.
Her favorite thing is traveling the world and documenting it all on her FLICKR photoblog.
D I A N A – F A L C H U K
www.dianafalchuk.com
Installation:
It Will Call for a Dinosaur Revival
Graphite and Prismacolor on Colored Paper
About the Artist:
Falchuk's work in diverse indoor and outdoor spaces incarnates the pulse and feel of “life continuing” as she observes it in her on-going studies of food, fibers, buildings and public use objects that we call recycled, used, aged or decayed. The artist is interested in the beauty and love we can experience from things that have past their prime, their safe consumption or original utility. Colorful patterns and human references invoke the inherent vitality burrowing inside deformity.
Born and raised in Boston, Diana Falchuk moved to Seattle in 1999 after receiving her B.A. Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her studies included six-months in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she conducted interview-based research on socialized protest street art from the end of the last dictatorship. Her installation, collage, sculpture and video work has been shown at Consolidated Works, SOIL, the Post Alley Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Vain, Secluded Alley Works, the Lower Level, Arts Ballard, Artpatch, Crawl Space and on utility poles and mailboxes throughout Seattle.
G O R D O N – H U E T H E R
www.gordonhuether.com
Installation:
Painted Paper Under Glass Boxes
About the Artist:
Gordon Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959, to German immigrant parents. Having dual citizenship in Germany and the U.S., Huether has spent much time traveling between both places. Huether learned art composition and appreciation at an early age from his father. In the course of his initial artistic explorations Huether resolved to create a lasting impact on the world around him through the creation of large-scale works of art. An early step towards this goal occurred in 1987 when Huether founded his studio in Napa, California with a mission to create site-specific art installations.
Huether began to concentrate on the intellectual and emotional message one can deliver through an artistic creation. His work became about communicating a story, not just creating objects of beauty. The expansion of Huether’s studio into an old tannery complex triggered a movement in Napa to form an art-based community within the compound. Huether created an environment where artists and craftspeople of various media could collaborate as well as inspire one another. With the studio’s expansion, the staff also grew to include a wide range of creative people that shared Huether’s artistic vision and the ability to implement a broad range of ideas. In 1997 Huether became permanent artist-in-residence at Artesa winery.
Huether has developed an innate sensitivity to and mastery of a variety of media. Inspired by material qualities and how they effect an environment, Huether often chooses, but is not limited to using glass, neon, metal, paint, acrylic, water, light, found objects, and recycled materials. His studio is skilled at overcoming technical obstacles associated with any project, regardless of scale or materials. Gordon Huether is constantly pursuing the realization of his dream to have a lasting and positive influence through the creation of large scale projects all over the world.
D O R I S – M O S L E R
www.dorismosler.com
Installations:
Several different works are shown by Doris including encaustic, collage and floral studies
About the Artist:
Rich color, unique forms, and layered textures continue to draw Doris Mosler into her collage experiments. She is influenced by antique textiles with their generous use of patterned colors and designs reflecting natural shapes. Collage and overprinting allow Mosler to combine abstract elements with images derived from nature. The overall harmony and composition of the final work are never known at the start of a piece. In fact, all collaged pieces are printed and layered with overprinting to first create a varied ‘library’ of print materials. These are then cut, reworked, combined and recombined to create a final composition.
After attending workshops in monotype Mosler knew she had found a medium that offered the versatility and spontaneity she loves and that would satisfy her inner sense of adventure. When Mosler’s working, the edge of what is ‘given’ and what is 'unknown' presents a unique space of aliveness, curiosity about outcome, and finally satisfaction that, for her, is rarely found in such potent and pleasurable form anywhere else in life.
J I M – S T O C C A R D O
www.jimstoccardo.com
Installations:
Several paintings from Jim’s fantasy series as well as sketches from his naturalist series
About the Artist:
Jim Stoccardo is deeply influenced by the mysterious and often magical qualities of the northwest sky. With its many subtle shades of grey Stoccardo finds an endless pallet of moody settings to work with. The variety of the landscape also plays into his work and drawing, color, form and line being the cornerstone of my process. In the studio Stoccardo utilizes a large number of sketches and drawings for each painting or sculptural object where he then mixes and matches a variety of media including paper, wood and canvas. Many layers of pencil and paint are intermingled to achieve the end result. Originally from the east coast Stoccardo was educated in New York City at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. In 1997 he moved to Seattle, Washington where he currently lives and works.
T I M – T I C E H U R S T
www.timticehurst.com
tim@homeopathyseattle.com
Installation:
Drawing
About the Artist:
Ticehurst’s work is a symbolic gesture to filmmaking, Islamic calligraphy, architecture and influenced by the artwork of Miro, Picasso, Motherwell and Basquiat.
After leaving the film business in 1996 Ticehurst focused his efforts on his personal art work. He began an artistic study that launched that a new focus. Beginning at the top left corner he wanted to see how much a character would change, in a given amount of space. The characters became orderly in rows and columns while transforming at each step. Finally, at the bottom right corner of the page the last character would be drawn. After years of creating these exercises, it dawned on Ticehurst that he was drawing in film. Each line represented a sequence. In film there are 24 frames per second and each character was a frame. Each character was an individual in a community of characters, so within each large piece were many pieces. In essence, the micro in the macro, the sum of all parts, the totality – wholism
“For me this is meditation. A very relaxed state comes over me. It is very much about flow, letting and allowing. Images come and are incorporated without bias or prejudice. It is a very simple process of just being.”
Ticehurst studied filmmaking at Emerson College in Boston and printmaking at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC.
J O S E P H – W A C K E R M A N
Installation:
Encaustic from show called Innocence Lost called Rabbit 3
About the Artist:
Joseph Wackerman was born on Long Island, New York in 1963. He relocated to Seattle 24 years ago and now considers it home. Over this time he has worked in the construction trade as a drywall finisher.
Looking for an outlet for his creative nature, he began making assemblages out of found objects and scrap materials lying around job sites. About 8 years ago he decided to paint his creations. Using house paints and whatever was at hand, he began teaching himself to paint. Wackerman was primarily influenced by the bold primary colors of Mexican folk art and the simplistic forms of self taught Southern artists. Over time he has been developing his own artistic style, always experimenting and challenging himself. He thinks of himself as a storyteller, with each new painting giving us a glimpse of the story line. The past two years he has been using encaustic, mixing oil paints with liquefied beeswax. Wackerman thinks this medium has much to teach him, and he loves how the wax helps him spin his tales.
Wackerman shares a life and studio space with his equally creative wife Louise in their tiny Beacon Hill home.
J U N K O – Y A M A M O T O
www.junkoyamamoto.com
Installation:
Oil painting
About the Artist:
Junko Yamamoto was born in Tokyo Japan 1973. She has drawn since the age of 3 and learned to paint at 6 years old. She came to USA on her own for study at age 16 and has lived in Seattle ever since. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Cum Laude from Cornish College of the Arts in 1999.
Yamamoto has had solo exhibitions at King County Art Gallery (now called 4 Culture), At31 Gallery, Seattle IT Gallery, Boise, Idaho, Gallery Lotus Root, Osaka, Japan, J Trip Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and has participated in group shows at the Bellevue Art Museum, SAM Gallery, the Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington and GAS Gallery, Torino, Italy.
Her works are in the collections of Swedish Cancer Institute, Mulvanny G2 Architecture, Idaho Trust National Bank and Harborview Medical Center.
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