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seeMagazine is dedicated to showcasing established and emerging fine artists in the greater Puget Sound area. Issue 1, Spring 2013 seemagazine.net
seeMagazine presents: FEATURES
6 Cory Verellen 18 Liz Maxfield 26 Paul Butzi SELECTED WORKS
16 Jenny Vorwaller 24 Justin Mata 36 Jaq Chartier EMERGING ARTISTS
38 Alex King 41 Jacqueline Hom 42 Vanessa Kent 43 Zoha Syed 44 Julia List 46 Joy Twentyman
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Want a chance for your art to be published? You can be a part of Morgan Cadigan’s senior project: seeMagazine, an art publication that features artists in the greater Puget Sound area.
Submit up to two pieces of your art at http://www.morgancadigan.com/ under the Submissions page
Contest ends May 24, 2013 Artists will be notified by June 7, 2013 if their artwork has been selected for publication.
Photography Painting Drawing Sculpture Printmaking Graphic Design
Open to Ages 15+ living in the greater Puget Sound area Monique Mural Project photo by Morgan Cadigan
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Untitled Alex King Stadium High School Silkscreen
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Oblivion Jacqueline Hom The Bear Creek School Digital photograph
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Untitled Vanessa Kent The Overlake School Ink
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A Skull in the Darkness Zoha Syed Redmond High School Charcoal
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Portals Joy Twentyman Washington University Digital photograph New Delhi, India 2009
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May 4
Interview w/Cory Verellen “I think I’m most interested in what is intangible - things that I can’t control... it causes me to have to recalculate how I view something”
A regular display case inside Rare Medium. This particular dispaly shows the Polaroid One Step models and accessories.
Cory’s work station. Notice the hardware and tools in the background, the test shots in the foreground, and of course the Land Camera that is being repaired.
In the Age of Knights Cory Verellen Polaroid 180 ID-UV film (exp. 2007) 2009
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JUSTIN MATA justinmata.com I hope that my work provides an opportunity to look at something slowly and deliberately. Bryan Memorial Town Hall is based on a huge building in Connecticut, but the sculpture is small and distorted in comparison. The scale of the sculpture makes it easy to get up close to the piece and examine all the folds, bends and splatters of paint in a way that could not be done with a giant building.
Bryan Memorial Town Hall Justin Mata Xerox transfer on acrylic medium, black acrylic paint 2008
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Becca Gherardini is an artist who showed at the Ballard Station. Her artwork is in the background.
May 11 Ballard Art Walk
JENNY VORWALLER jennyvorwaller.com In my abstract pieces, I’m seeking to find that viewers experience a departure from reality. It’s powerful to me that I can communicate so much using just color, texture and space for others to find a place to respond to their emotions.
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Into the Blue Jenny Vorwaller Mixed water based media on canvas 2012
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Reflections Julia List Ballard High School Black and white film photograph
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May 23 Interview w/Paul Butzi “Photography is a way of figuring things out”
The Angus Bowmer Theatre, 11, Paul Butzi, Canon EOS 5d mk II, 2010
Anatomy of Melancholy Liz Maxfield Oil on canvas 2010
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Received interview from Liz Maxfield “I also paint for those who appreciate my work and what I am doing... Art is a form of communication and when I have communicated something special and unique without using any words, it’s a great feeling”
Jaq Chartier jaqbox.com Each of my paintings begins as an actual “test” to explore some aspect of my materials – deeply saturated inks, stains and dyes which migrate and seep through creamy white paint films and layers of acrylic resin. Inspired in part by scientific images of gel electrophoresis, the paintings feature intimate views of materials and document how they react to each other, to light, and to the passage of time. Beautiful, but also sort of bizarre – inflamed, infectious-looking, suggestive of energies that we can’t see.
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Density Tests (11 Whites) Jaq Chartier Acrylic, stains and spray paint on wood panel 2011
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Color Study
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2013.
In order to study “Interaction of Color� effectively, as suggested per the book, I went through magazines and scraps to then cut out pieces of paper of various colors. I used these to experiment with the relativity of color.
A graphic I generated myself while studying Albers’ examples. The two gray squares are of the same color, but because color is relative and because it is interactive, it appears as two different shades of gray while on top of two distinct colors, blue and yellow.
“Color is the most relative medium in art� Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
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Series of a Polaroid. Polaroid scanned every three minutes from the start of development. Photo taken by Morgan Cadigan. Polaroid OneStep, PX 680 Color Protection film made by the Impossible Project. Cover photo by Morgan Cadigan.
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR June 7, 2013
“Sight is... all knowledge obtained through intellect” Thomas Aquinas, (Summa Theologica, Q. 67, Art. 1). Dear Reader, Within the following pages, you will find eleven artists who strive and actively engage to identify and articulate beauty itself, as its own form. Much like the Polaroid photograph pictured in its ascending stages of development, I pray that you may gain an intimate insight from these artists and that their shared perspectives will lead you onto a similar step-wise journey in pursuit of beauty. To “see”, according to Plato, is the first rung of a ladder to understanding beauty that is constant, eternal, the one from which all other beautiful things commune: the truth. I am thankful to all the artists who have participated in this project, for allowing us all to see through their collective lens, for making a complex pursuit an exciting and tangible one. Sincerely,
Morgan Cadigan
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