Upcoming

Ballard Bike-in Cinema
This Summer, FICTILIS will be hosting a series of bike-in movie screenings at a yet-to-be-disclosed location in Ballard, along the far Western end of [...]
Interlife Crisis
Opening reception Thursday April 5th 6-9pm. Closing reception Friday April 27th 6-9pm.[...]
Signage call for entries
Signs. Actual signage. Or work that incorporates actual signage, references it, or suggests it.... Deadline: May 18th 2012. Exhibition scheduled f[...]
circumtext
a reading group/series Calling all word-lovers, trash-pickers, puzzle-solvers, joke-tellers, linguists, lexicographers, and librarians: We are orga[...]

Byproducts

open through August 28th 2011 at FICTILIS

This exhibition features a collection of large backing boards used by one local signmaker over the course of several years. The boards have acquired layers of vividly colored paint and masking which has peeled off to reveal earlier paint layers. Bold colors swathes are interrupted by ghostly outlines of letters, suggestions of shapes, and nebulous dustings of overspray. Modern artists work hard to contrive the kind of chance operations that these pieces authentically embody. This exhibit represents a body of work – a collection of accidental masterpieces. (See them all here.)

The exhibit also features byproduct-related work by several friends of FICTILIS including a Glowing Sushi Cooking video/display from Zack Denfeld, Filiform, a piece made of reclaimed roofing shingles by Michelle de la Vega, three years worth of musical byproducts by David Kanaga, knife-making scraps from Alex Blue, and a collection of unpaid parking tickets by Seattle artist Graham Downing.