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Show Title: “Essence of Light/Essence of Life”

Show Duration: August 19-September 5, 2010

Vernissage: August 19, 6PM

Essence of Light/Essence of Life are new drawings and photos mostly inspired by a journey to the Peruvian Amazon. This exhibit is Mick Lorusso’s first solo exhibit at Form/Space Atelier, his third overall. Lorusso participated in 2008’s An Exhibit Of Robert Storr’s Autograph And Other Work at Form/Space Atelier, also 2007’s Countdown/Build To Destroy at Form/Space Atelier.

How is energy transferred through seeing, ingesting, thinking, and believing?

How can a strange or absurd situation spark the imagination and an interest in one’s surroundings?

Where does the breakdown of established systems allow for the growth of new ones?

What are the interconnections between the mind, the body, the land, and the cosmos?

For more info and artist bio visit >http://www.formspaceatelier.com

www.belltownartwalk.com

Come on down, grab some cake and sit down to one of the games we have set up and play. Different game featured each Saturday. Games get going around 9pm, and run till close…which is Midnight on Saturdays. For This weeks featured game text 206-910-2300

also check out Radio Bedlam, our open mic Tuesdays

September 8th at 6:45pm

“Conversations that matter” can take place anywhere: between friends, colleagues, even complete strangers. The conversation can be as fleeting as a mutual observation while waiting for the bus, or a lengthy discussion about making changes in our lifestyle, school, community, workplace, society, and the world. Through these conversations, we create a connection with others.

I host monthly conversation ’salons’ to help make sense of our place in the world - locally, nationally, and globally. Each month sees a different topic. Each salon lasts two hours.

During Conversations That Matter, we acknowledge one another as equals, and that everyone speaks from their own perspective. Everyone comes to a salon willing to listen, and to be curious about the diversity of experiences and ideas. We are intrigued by the differences we hear, we expect to be surprised, and we treasure curiosity more than certainty. We ask “what’s possible?” not “what’s wrong?” It’s not unusual to discover that creative solutions come from new connections or that listening without judgment moves us closer to each other.

There is no charge, although a $5 donation to cover admin costs and facilitator’s time is appreciated; you won’t be turned away for lack of funds.

http://www.meetup.com/Conversations-That-Matter-Seattle/

artists bio- … what once started as a project, has morphed itself into my artistic identity… I like to make pictures, I don’t know how I would explain them… Very layered pieces, I’ve become very interested in the process of making the end result… Exploring new techniques, new mediums, mixes, variations, it’s endless. Thanks for taking the time to check out what’s happening in my world, and how things are taking shape…

Contact me at: Papermarbles@gmail.com

http://papermarbles.blogspot.com/

Gary Manuel Salon, 2123 1st Avenue

“Solitary Transcendence” (images of people alone)
Artist Statement;
Through random circumstance some years ago, I found myself in relationships with Filipiino or Pinay (the Tagalog term) cam girls alone in their rooms some 6500 miles away. Over time their lives and images combined with those of local people and graffiti to become the focus of this project.
Themes of distant emptiness, longing and survival naturally course through many of the images here, often with some Seattle graffiti overlaid on top.
All flashes of color came about from natural malfunctions in a very stressed printer. The images are collage on wood under epoxy resin with steel closet supports as the frames.
I have been doing art in Seattle for 15 years, used to live in SE Asia and in the recent past ran ERAC Galleria, an art collective for homeless/mentally ill in Belltown.

Early Performance confirmations for the Seattle Founders Day Festival

Shenandoah Davis, http://shenandoahdavis.com/

Feral Children, http://www.myspace.com/feralchildrenseattle

Love Markets (the) http://www.thelovemarkets.com/

Mark Pickerel, http://www.myspace.com/markpickerelandhisprayinghands

Ramona The Band, http://www.myspace.com/ramonatheband

Redwood Plan, http://www.theredwoodplan.com/

Ryan Purcell and the Last Round, http://www.ryanpurcell.net/

Smoke Shack Orkiestra,

Snowman Plan, http://www.myspace.com/snowmanplan

Strong Killing, http://www.myspace.com/strongkillings

Vince Mira, http://www.vincemira.com/

Witness (the)

With Special performances by

Sage, http://www.sagealicious.info/

Toy Box Trio, http://www.toyboxtrio.com/

And MORE!

This week RadioBedlam will actually not be an open mic night, but a conversation night. Conversation that Matter will be holding their second Bedlam event. The poster below gives all the details, see ya there!

RadioBedlam will return to it’s normal OpenMic format next Tuesday, thanks

http://thepotentialcenter.com/

California artist Obi Kaufmann is coming to Seattle for a very special engagement and show of his new paintings and drawings. Obi has a rich collector base in the Northwest and because of it, the new work will be offered at Collector’s only prices. The engagement will coincide with Seattle’s Belltown Art Walk that occurs every third Thursday of the Month.

This is Obi’s second trip to Seattle to show at Bedlam. The first happened in November of 2009 and the paintings sold out. So come and and bring a beer and check out the work.

Obi’s paintings reflect a style he calls “Gothic Nouveau”. A dark style of neutral colors that invoke Romantic poetry and figurative expressionism. Raw and sprited, the work has been called by the SFChronicle “an apt mix of illustration and street art.” Obi would add Cave Art to that formula.

http://obikaufmann.wordpress.com/

–UPDATE
if you missed Obi, you missed big time…it was another complete sell out, every single piece he brought up flew out the door. Course that meant nothing was left on the walls at Bedlam, so I gathered up most of my Obi pieces from home and brought them down. So if you missed his show, you can still “see” some of his stuff here. None of which is for sale.

>RadioBedlam, an Open Mic night at Bedlam, every Tuesday starting June 8th
7pm-10pm
Come on down and share your unique voice.

During this month’s Belltown Art Walk, the Cook Group is excited to be hosting the art work of Tracy Wallschlaeger in our listing at 81 Clay St. Tracy is a Washington native whose posters for the Seattle Animal Shelter are recognizable to most downtown residents. Other public work includes a mural for Shoreline Community College and a prize winning poster for the United Way’s Combined Fund Drive. Tracy’s oil paintings will be featured Thursday night, including a number of new pieces from her vibrant flower series. Stop by from 6-8:30 pm.

More information is available at www.reddogimages.com and www.cookgroup.net.