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Fine Arts Department
Seattle University
901 12th Avenue
PO Box 222000
Seattle, WA 98122

Tel: 206.296.5360
Fax: 206.296.5433

Main Contacts:

Katie Manteca
Administrative Assistant
Fine Arts Bldg #202
(206) 296-5360
mantecak@seattleu.edu

Steve Galatro
Operations Manager
Fine Arts Bldg #201
(206) 296-2340
galatros@seattleu.edu

Josef Venker, SJ
Chair
Fine Arts Bldg #215
(206) 296-5364
venker@seattleu.edu

The Hedreen Gallery

The Hedreen Gallery is open to the public Wednesday – Saturday 1:30-6pm. Admission is always free. 206.296.2244

NOW SHOWING:

Intellectual Property
A curatorial project organized by Matthew Offenbacher and Yoko Ott January 14 - March 20, 2010

Inspired by projects such as Martha Rosler Library and The Atlas Group which seamlessly fuse education, social practice and curatorial practice, artist Matthew Offenbacher and curator Yoko Ott with the assistance of a group of artists will convert the Hedreen Gallery into a physical database of material collected from the work spaces of select academic professionals. A goal: To provide an open archive mineable by students and the community-at-large and to aestheticize the academic. Another goal: To learn what else is possible.

Each week participating artists will visit their assigned academic professional, learn about their work, and select material to add to Intellectual Property. In total fourteen artists will pair up with fourteen academic professionals over the course of seven weeks. Updates announcing artist-professional pairings and items accumulating in the collection will be disseminated regularly. To begin:

Week One
Matthew Offenbacher and Yoko Ott, Curator, Hedreen Gallery and Director, Open Satellite
Isaac Layman and Ken Allan, Assistant Professor Art History, Seattle University

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Week Two
Susie J. Lee and Robin Held, Deputy Director Exhibitions and Collections, Frye Art Museum
Wynne Greenwood and Philip Thurtle, Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington

We will hold a celebration in March, at the completion of this project, with conversation, drink and who knows what else.

“As a curator, I feel I operate in the space between artist and audience. With this in mind, I wanted the final exhibition I curated for the Hedreen Gallery to be a project that underscores the gallery's position within the community and the institutional setting of a university campus. It is an experiment in attempting to collapse the academic distancing that oftentimes happens with scholarship, and to question what it means to aestheticize the academic.

It is also an attempt to scrutinize notions of collecting associated with institutions. At the conclusion of Intellectual Property we will possess a catalog of all the objects collected over the duration of this project. What is a short-lived collection in the physical form (loaned work for a temporary exhibition) will live beyond the conclusion of the exhibition as an ad-hoc permanent collection in data format, .xls and .jpeg in this instance. It will be a searchable, sort-able, Google-able, archive of a Hedreen Gallery inspired collection.

Matthew Offenbacher was the ideal choice of an artist to work with. His practice is not static. His ‘studio’ extends far beyond the four walls housing his painting environment, including a set of annexes of coffee shops, libraries, abandoned spaces, and friends' homes. His recent contributions to the conversations taking place around contemporary practices in art-making, art-presentation, and art-experiencing have not gone unnoticed. Excerpts from our on-going dialogue have crept into my thinking and taken root--they are infectious and have made me excited, anticipating the upcoming conversations with every participant.” --Yoko Ott

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COMING SOON:

Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape
March 31 - May 29, 2010

During the 1994 genocide, more than 100,000 Rwandan women were subjected to massive sexual violence. Among the survivors, the most isolated are the women who have borne children as a result of being raped. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik made repeated visits to these women and their children, and recorded their heart-wrenching stories.

"Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape" brings together Torgovnik's powerful documentation of these women. The exhibition, on view in both the Kinsey and Hedreen Gallery, is comprised of twenty-five stunning individual portraits of the women with their children accompanied by their testimonies intensely personal accounts of the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured.

The exhibition will be featured in the Hedreen Gallery in the Lee Center for the Arts March 29 through May 29, 2010. A portion of the exhibition will also be on display in the Kinsey Gallery in the Admissions building.

Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publication.

This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Open Society Institute, Amnesty International and Foundation Rwanda. Additional support for Intended Consequences was provided by Henry Buhl; SanDisk; Artists Contemporary Israeli Art Fund; Kodak; and the Consulate General of Israel, Office of Cultural Affairs, in New York.

MFA Exhibition
Curated by Tina Lee, MFA Student
June 10 - August 21

An exhibition of selected artworks by candidates from Seattle University's MFA program which focus on sustainable practices communicating ideas through art.