Past Awardees
2009 CGG Recipient - Sheri Brown
Sheri Brown in a Diego Pinon butoh workshop performance. © Briana Jones
Congratulations Sheri Borwn!
Sheri Brown has lived in Pioneer Square since 2002, teaching, making work, living in art-focused communities, and producing shows for First Thursday. Brown’s artistic practice revolves around butoh, a Japanese art form she discovered in 2001, after 11 years practicing theater and street performance. Butoh evolved from student rebellions after World War II, as a method to challenge social norms and established ideals in search of a purer force beyond westernization and modernization. Brown felt the history and practice of the form satisfied her need to explore and express her interdisciplinary practice and ideals.
“As a conscientious objector to mass media,” explains Brown, “my work with butoh stands up in stark contrast to consumer culture. It begs to look beyond society’s surface to the darker, undercurrent root of authentic creative process, and the initial impetus for the creative act. With increasing intentionality, my work in butoh strives to reconnect the lives of everyday people through radical performance art.”
Inaugural Recipient - Johnathan Heath Lambe
Congratulations to Heath, winner of the first Conductive Garboil Grant!
At the June 11th Grant Launch Event (left to right): Cath Brunner of 4Culture, Inaugural CGG winner Johnathan Heath Lambe, and Lynn Schirmer for the Estate of Su Job.
Johnathan Heath Lambe AKA Maxx Lexington received his BFA in Sculpture and Video from Cornish College of the Arts in 2008. He has exhibited his work around the city in galleries and alternative venues including the Erotic Art Festival at Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, Blue Vertical Studio, X17 Gallery, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Gallery 154, Marcus' Martini Bar, and Secluded Alley Works among others. His video work has been screened at Reeling LGBT International Film Festival in Chicago, IL and Shriveled Eyeballs Video Festival here in Seattle. His media installation "This Is What Democracy Building Looks Like" caught the eye of Su Job when it was exhibited in 2006 at Blue Vertical Studios in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in Pioneer Square.
Video of "This Is What Democracy Building Looks Like" by Johnathan Heath Lambe
"This Is What Democracy Building Looks Like"
Dimensions: Variable
Media: Art Installation (video, music, paper, ammo box)
Year: 2006
Description: This exhibit encompassed the entire 1000+sf interior galley space of BVS in the TK building, with 2284 white index each printed with the name, rank, branch of service and date of death of U.S soldiers that have giving their life for their country in the Iraq war as of March 2006. At the same time a video of images of war and war statistics all edited to music of Prez. George W. Bush quotes was projected on my person as I stood on a soap box, tape over my mouth while pulling white index cards out of an ammo box and tossing them to the ground. This video was then projected over two 20’ glass windowws that punched through the gallery space to the streets-cape below. On the street below a matching set of red cards bled out from under the windows into the street. 2284 red index cards laid on the sidewalk and the roadway demanding attention. People could walk over the cards with out noticing them, if they did not wish to walk over the red cards then they had to cross the street where they could not help but look at the video that was projected through the windows.