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Sue Perry - Paintings

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ABANDONED COUCHES and URBAN SPRAWL

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2013-12-23T00:00:00-08:00

The two months in Paris this year yielded six new Seattle paintings now in process and still in the studio. This strange spread of paint over the globe began last year, 2012. The results of that initial effort can be seen at the Sisko Gallery beginning January 2, 2014, where John Sisko, its proprietor, is hanging an exhibit titled “Seattle: Changing Times.” It focuses on my work dated 1998 and 2012/13 and is therefore a backward look with a gap omitting the Paris years.

It also divides its focus between Seattle’s iconic downtown Pioneer Square, especially the Smith Tower, celebrating its 100th birthday in 2014, and my own neighborhood, Seattle’s “Central District,” one of the many local communities under pressure to up-grade, up-date, up-scale, and “fill-in,” shifting from the relaxed, comfortable environment which existed when we came here in 1989 toward a scene marked by tight, box-like structures exploiting a recent climb in real estate values. This growing accumulation of slick plastic “modern” seems inexorable. I do not, however, need to include such creeping blight in my paintings, and have chosen instead to look at the intricate very particular forms which have shaped a world different from any other, distinctly our own, and (I think) worth preserving in their unique, if ultimately only “virtual” form.

Please come to The Show!

SEATTLE: CHANGING TIMES
SISKO GALLERY
Address: 3126 Elliott Avenue, Seattle 98121
(100 yards north of the SAM Olympic Sculpture Park
January 2 – February 2, 2014

Opening Reception January 2, from 5:00 to 8:00

Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11¬ – 5:00 and by appointment
staff@siskoworks.com / 206-283-2998

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