Space is always the issue at Suyama Space,
the Seattle art center thinly disguised as an architect’s waiting room.
Big, raw and barn-like, it overpowers artists who fail to take its
personality and proportions into account. Failures are rare, because Beth Sellars is in charge of the lineup.
Thanks to the global consciousness of her curatorial vision and to
architect George Suyama, who runs his firm around the gallery he
donates to the public, Suyama Space has become one of the top art
venues in the region.
The price is right (free admission), but the hours (Monday-Friday) are
tough for anybody with a standard-issue job. Even though weekends are
out, the lengths of the exhibits are a saving grace. Most run for three
months. Few people lack a spare lunch hour during that wide a time
frame.
Currently on view, Dan Corson‘s Grotesque Arabesque is a thrill.
Instead of a room, it’s a electric light cave, a Northern lights spectacle that hangs in the air and glowers from the ground, reflected in a pond. With indigo skylights and a 25-foot wide mirror to multiple the distortions, the bent, electroluminescent strips appear to be drawn in the air.
Through Dec. 18. Free admission
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