Gallery4Culture
2007-2008 Season

Ross Sawyers
Clear Blue, Sky
January 3 - February 3, 2008

reception JANUARY 3 2008, 6 – 8 p.m.

Gallery4Culture is pleased to new photographs by Seattle artist Ross Sawyers.

The spaces in these large scale photographs reflect our sense of compacted living in smaller spaces in increasingly dense neighborhoods and developments. Sawyers constructs models of houses to challenge his understanding of his surroundings. The models are deliberately not accurate copies of architecture or the real world. However, as the space in the photographs become more abstract, Sawyers has found it important to incorporate familiar details to ground the images in a sort of reality while at the same proposing situations outside the expected.

A reception will be held on January 3, 2008, the first Thursday of the month, during the Downtown Artwalk, from 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. The public is encouraged to attend. The exhibition will run from January 3 - February 3, 2008.

Gallery4Culture is located within 4Culture offices at 101 Prefontaine PL S, at the corner of Third and Prefontaine, in the Tashiro/Kaplan Building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed government holidays; the gallery is open and free to the public. For more information about this program call 206. 296.8674.

In 1979, King County Arts Commission's visual arts coordinator, Mickey Gustin Hardman, began a gallery with little more than some foam core and linen and a visionary spirit. Sadly, Mickey died this year. Her legacy continues through the Gallery 4Culture program which provides artists not represented by commercial galleries with opportunities for one-person shows. She will be remembered as a fierce advocate for artists and a pivotal figure in shaping the Seattle arts community.