HEDREEN GALLERY

The Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for the Arts is dedicated to the vibrancy of Seattle’s artistic community. Our mission is to support the work of emerging artists and exhibit new work by established artists: local, national, international. We strive to catalyze artistic process and dialogue; to connect artists, audiences, and resources; and to engage the community in the arts.

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NOW SHOWING

Matthew Green: Hand a face a feeling
Exhibit: April 4 – June 1, 2012

The Hedreen Gallery is pleased to announce a public event and exhibition by Matthew Green. His work ranges from painting to performance and artistic urges used to stimulate real disruptions, in galleries and outside of them. On March 29th, the artist invites the public as well as National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference participants to join him in glazing several hundred circular eyes before they are kiln fired and displayed in the gallery.

This project develops in two phases; with an initial interactive experience that uses the natural reaction to the human eye and the therapeutic effect of making art to produce a body of objects. These objects will then be fixed at eye level to gaze out of the Hedreen Gallery’s large windows. The aim of the first phase is exhibitionist – part a performance, part a not-for-profit simulation of the pottery painting stores that have sprung up in strip malls over the past twenty years. As much process based as results focused, Green’s residency will capture the cacophonous nature of viewership of art and people through clay and glaze, using the unpredictability and potential for surprise that these mediums naturally possess.

The transmission of perception from the artist to the public and the de-professionalization of art will be engaged and critiqued by Green as he fuses the various visions of participants into a watching wall that will look out on 12th avenue, adding just a few more pairs to the constant glances and furtive looks that fill daily life.


About the Artist

Green received his BFA from Washington State University, Pullman in 2007 and his MFA from Pacific Northwest College Of Art, Portland in 2009. He has held solo exhibitions at Lawrimore Project, Seattle; Ditch Projects, Springfield; ROCKS BOX CONTEMPORARY FINE ART, Portland; Allied Works Architecture, Portland; and Appendix Gallery, Portland. He has been included in group exhibitions at LACMA, Los Angeles; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Columbia College, Chicago; Fourteen30, Portland; and the Mauel Izquerdo Sculpture Gallery, Portland. His performances and screenings have been hosted by the Hedreen Gallery, Seattle; Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland; Allied Works, Portland; and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland. Green lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

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