Since 2008, the Storefront Media Gallery (formerly known as e4c) has given artists the opportunity to present dynamic electronic works of art that enliven Seattle’s urban core. Selected through a national call, video works are exhibited on four monitors with exterior directional speakers. Located adjacent to Gallery 4Culture, this street-level gallery is visible by foot, bike, car or bus to more than 20,000 people each day.

Panelists Tess Martin and Sri Prabha selected 12 artists from across the U.S. to display their work.

Julius Brown, Seattle WA
Solarjul
April 2018
In 2017, Julius Brown traveled to Illinois to witness the totality of the August solar eclipse. The remote location provided a magical, solitary experience, inspiring Brown to create Solarjul, an archival interpretation of the cosmic event. Each screen in this 4-channel video represents a time zone of the continental U.S. and its total length—2 minutes and 40 seconds—parallels the duration of the eclipse.

Barbara Robertson, Seattle WA
Architectonic 2
April 2018
Architectonic is a series of animations created from scans of drawings, exploring the theme of shifting perspectives in our built environment of constant change. The videos incorporate digitally-generated imagery with traditional methods of drawing, painting, and printmaking.

Seth Sexton, Seattle WA
DYBBUK
May 2018
Seth Sexton presents a reimagined version of DYBBUK, a dance art film loosely based on a play written by S. Anskey and adapted to film in 1937 by Mical Waszynski. The films draw inspiration from artists William Kentridge, Jackson Pollack and John Cage.

Michelle Lassaline, Seattle WA
Pelican
June 2018
Michelle Lassaline’s new work is based on a series of masked performances in specific settings. Pelican, filmed in historic Seattle parks that represent the city’s unique maritime geography, addresses history through humor, calling attention to the past through a contemporary lens.

Carson Rennekamp, Seattle WA
Aequalis, Northern Home II, and Saralia
June 2018
Inspired by kaleidoscopic imagery, Carson Rennekamp’s videos present excerpts from an infinite journey into an unknown atmosphere. They slowly evolve and organically create new patterns that envelop the viewer into an ethereal state. Each video is created from a single image.

Alyse Delaney, Lafayette NJ
Santa Clara, Cuba
July 2018
Alyse Delaney recorded slow-motion footage out a tour bus window as it drove through Cuba’s urban streets. The result is a multi-channel video portrait of a city and its inhabitants, but also an examination of the outsider’s perspective on Cuban culture. It calls attention to and questions boundaries between resident and visitor, insider and outsider, the observed and the observer.

Emmeri Bock, Seattle WA
July 2018
Emmeri Bock’s video brings light to the displacement of Seattle artists due to the rise in the cost of rent and studio space brought about by unprecedented growth. The piece is a meditation on moving out–the acts of sorting through, disposing of, and packing up possessions and memories.

Clyde Petersen, Seattle WA
Torrey Pines
August 2018
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film based on a true queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990’s. Clyde Petersen shows segments of the film on all four screens simultaneously.

Ellen Garvens, Kenmore WA
Newton Yellow String, Milk, and Olives
September 2018
Ellen Garvens’ three videos explore the movement of objects associated with touch—pins, threads, fabric and clay—set up in ways that defy logic and gravity. They move by their own volition, suggesting the nature of the artist’s fleeting memories.

Matthew Keff, Brooklyn NY
Air Castle
September 2018
Matthew Keff’s Air Castle is an original art game that plays itself. Using game engine software, characters and objects bounce from screen to screen creating a seamless panoramic dreamscape.

Aubrey Nehring, Seattle WA
Botanical Geometry
October 2018
Aubrey Nehring’s new animated short film focuses on the theme of botanical geometry. A visual poem dedicated to the lush green life force that surrounds and sustains us, 2 and 3-D animation techniques create moving patterns inspired by the natural world.

Neely Goniodsky, Bellevue WA
Vacuum
Fall 2018
Vacuum is a video installation about suburban boredom and isolation, designed to allow those who pass by to interact with it. Neely Goniodsky’s animated vignettes move viewers through scenes—for example, one can get lost in a field of tall carpet or scrutinized by a bored kid in an aquarium.