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10.-22.-38 Astoria* 2
a celebration of the art of xerography (photocopying)
October 25 – November 17th at The Lab in SF
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Interlife Crisis show
Work that addresses the divide, if one can be said to exist, between internet and life – the “inter-life crisis” – (re)locates it, bridges or widens it, inhabits it, disrupts it, or ignores it. Work that brings the online offline or offline online in interesting ways, explores new notions of public/private, examines the utopian/dystopian futures and histories of the internet, or work that otherwise speaks to the changes in everyday life that widespread connectivity has engendered.
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Collections
FICTILIS collects collections. Especially collections that are interesting, unusual, unique, obscure, and so on. Collections that required some kind of creative categorization or idiosyncratic taxonomy, that draw attention to the processes and politics of collecting. Collections that impart aesthetic value into everyday things, rather than collections of things that are already recognized as valuable. Not just collections of rare things, but collections of things that are rarely collected.
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Cat Faces show
Work that results in a cat face, but has an interesting way of getting there. That’s right, a cat face. The face of a cat.
Work in unusual media, on an unusual scale, work
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10-22-38 Astoria
a xerography exhibition opening November 3rd 2011 at FICTILIS in Seattle, WA
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HERE WE ARE: OCT 6th @ 1T
For October’s First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square (Oct 6, 6-9pm), FICTILIS presents Here We Are, an open studio exhibition. The show will feature a displa… More…
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Colors of Commerce exhibition
exhibition focused on the colors of shipping containers in Seattle and other port cities
September 1st – September 30th 2011
FICTILIS, 210 S Washington St, Seattle WA[featured image is Seattle artist Therese Buchmiller’s installation “Ideal X”.
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signmaker’s accidental masterpieces
A collection of backing boards used again and again by one local signmaker, featured in our Byproducts show.
Some of these can be seen and purchased in the Goods section … More…
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Not For Sale
an exhibition of work that is literally Not For Sale, for various reasons
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Byproducts
This exhibition (Seattle, 2011) featured a collection of salvaged backing boards that had been used by one local signmaker over the course of several years. The large … More…
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Not For Sale
an exhibition (Seattle 2011) and ongoing curatorial initiative focused on work that is, literally, not for sale, for a variety of reasons
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Opening
May 5 – June 2 2011 at FICTILIS
an installation/performance