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Bakery Nouveau
August Art Walk
The next West Seattle Art Walk is August 12th, and we are happy to announce our artist will be a familiar face to many of you:
That’s right, our own cafe manager, Chris Kim, will be showing some of her favorite Bakery Nouveau photos she’s shot over the years. Some of you may not know that before becoming a barista, Chris was a professional photographer focusing on swimsuits and surfboards. She still enjoys the art and challenge of good photography, and finds a wealth of subject matter here at the bakery.
Her exhibition “Beyond the Ovens…” unveils moments and details of the bakery’s production. Many customers ask Chris, “Can we go back there?” wanting to see what really goes on behind the scenes and how things are made. The bakers notice many of you, standing near the deck oven looking back curiously. As the title suggests, this exhibition is based on that curiosity. We think you’ll enjoy the view.
This month’s Art Walk artist is John Fleming. From his bio:
‘John Fleming has spent 30 years developing a broad portfolio of art, architecture, and conceptual / environmental projects. Two well-known examples of his work – The Grass Blades at Seattle Center and the conceptual project CUA / Center for Urban Agriculture in downtown Seattle blur the boundaries between all three.
John studied ceramics in the late 70’s at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, and Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff before pursuing a Masters in Architecture at the University of New Mexico. John has taught design and ceramics in Ahmedabad, India and has worked with noted architects Anant Raje in India, Antoine Predock in New Mexico, and George Suyama in Seattle. John founded rbf architecture with Andrew Borges and Tim Rohleder in the late 90’s.
India, New Mexico, and for the last 20 years, living in the Northwest have profoundly influenced how he works:
“Respect the natural world - We humans have a tremendous capacity for changing things but very rarely improving on the natural world around us.”
In John Fleming’s Table Saw Sketches for Bakery Nouveau, he attempts to, if not improve on nature, at least transform some of the man-made material he has collected. Here he cuts old traffic signs into 2” squares. The squares are in turn scrambled and re-ordered into two and three-dimensional pieces. Each piece has a new story to tell.’
John’s work will be up all month, with the offical open tomorrow, from 6 pm until 9 pm.
June Art Walk
The West Seattle Art Walk is coming up again this Thursday (http://westseattleartwalk.blogspot.com/ for details). We’re continuing with the work of Wyn Bielaska, a local artist and architect.
His work is interesting to me (I like color and texture work), and it took me just a bit to figure out what I was looking at. His statement below explains the subject matter and goals of the project:
“I have been photographing SHIP HULLS for the past 15 years on weekends…..after working 40-60 hours a week as an architect. These ship hulls were found in Vancouver BC, Seattle and Tacoma Washington. These photographs are part of an ongoing exploration utilizing large steel ship hulls as the central subject matter in the study of man-made materials and the impact of natural forces upon them. As an Architect, these explorations become very important to attaining a deeper understanding of the nature of materials. They are also important exercises for me as a visual designer in the evolution of my visual perception that serves my daily pursuit of spatial and form composition.
Some of the original images from these shoots are included in this show. Some of the “composite” photographs are the result of many digital manipulations of original images to a level of abstraction. The composite is, in fact, a more minimal, 2 dimensional representation that detaches the meaning of the original object from space and time and opens the reading of the composition to a multiplicity of interpretation. The intent here is to mystify rather than clarify what I have observed.”
As with several of our previous artists, the photographs are for sale! So if you have an interest in a piece (I believe that reproductions in Small through Extra-large are available as well), please let us know, or contact Mr. Bielaska directly through his website.
It looks like the sun is out today, so get out there and enjoy if you have the chance! Have a happy Tuesday all!
Art Walks
So, I’ve been remiss and need to catch up on the Art Walk listings. For those of you who don’t know, the bakery participates in the West Seattle Art Walk, with business staying open until 9 pm the second Thursday of each month (http://westseattleartwalk.blogspot.com/). We host the works of local artists, and have had paintings and photos and mixed media works from some of our customers, employees as well as outside friends and artists who happen to find us. For April, our artist was our barista, Ashley Leffler. If you enjoy her work, let her know, or e-mail her at Lady_Lazarus7@yahoo.com.
