“A Special Show” features new work by Christian French, Sean Vale, Jennifer Mills, Owen Connell, Liz Walsh, Norma Straw, Angela Dickenson, Leslie Clague, Jenny Pacheco, Katrina Santore, Laura Jean Cronin, Jennifer McNeeley and other favorite friends. Christian French will continue exploring bottles and light, continuing to develop a body of work that has been very
successful in the past. Jennifer Mills, a newcomer to the arts scene, creates interesting and disturbing ceramic sculpture using fabric and rubber. Jenny Pacheco, more commonly known as a fabulous hairstylist influencing style in Seattle, will include her distinctive photographs.

EIGHT IS GREAT : CAROL BOLT

© 2002 Carol Bolt

The Pound Gallery is very pleased to feature new drawings by Carol Bolt. “Eight is Great: New Drawings” stems from Bolt’s history of creating sculptural installations, but in this case the three-dimensional world is compressed into layers of drawings separated by glass. These drawings exist in space the way sculpture does, and for that reason the viewer must move physically around the drawings to fully view them. What you see is akin to a Rorshach inkblot test. In addition, the use of red and blue ink in the pieces sparks the association of 3D effects. But here there is no need for > special glasses.

Bolt is the artist who brought us thousands of starlight mints for her
installation at the King County Art Gallery in 2001, entitled More. Now she brings us eight pieces of art composed of layered drawings on acetate. This compression in volume and number is a distillation of the same ideas. But instead of mining the exterior world for the parts she is mining her own subconscious for imagery. The Pound Gallery is a venue to see fresh and exciting work in a non-commercial setting, perfect for viewing Carol's view of the world as she sees it.

Carol Bolt has exhibited extensively and published works in Seattle and
throughout the United States. She has published the first three volumes in the Book of Answers series with Hyperion and nine international publishing houses; the fourth in the series, Love’s Book of Answers, is due out in the fall published by Abrams. Exhibition locations include HorseHead,
Bumbershoot, CoCA, Soil, The Bellevue Art Museum, and Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Bolt was a founding member of Soil Artists Cooperative and founded the collaborative art making team Dehesive with Jaq Chartier and Martha Parrish Bush. She has given her time to ArtSpace, The Henry Art Museum, CoCA, Streetlife Gallery and Pratt Fine Arts Center.