Exploring drawing as both action and object, this exhibition transforms the gallery into a hands-on drawing studio, inviting visitors to engage actively with process, function, and meaning through making. Drawing Room highlights more than forty works from the museum’s collection, spanning the late 19th century to 2017, including work by Morris Graves, Akio Takamori, and Lynda Barry, among others.

From his kayak Seattle photographic artist Eirik Johnson captures the massive hulls of trans-oceanic barges as they idle in the polluted waters of Seattle’s Duwamish River. An exploration of oceanic trade, environmental fragility, and the hulking machinery that carries cargo through uncertain waters. Beneath these abstracted hulls, new architectural spaces emerge and a quiet vertigo sets in. The project also includes a series of luminous, silver-plated daguerreotype photograms of Japanese fishing floats, created in ongoing collaboration with artist Daniel Carrillo.

In the vestibule an immersive sound piece composed from aquatic field recordings made underwater in the Duwamish. The twang of ship welding melds with the pulsing heartbeat of a distant propeller—an acoustic map of one more, unseen layer of human impact on the Salish Sea.

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We are living in a highly accelerated digital world where addictive forms of nostalgia and information are readily available to consume at our fingertips.

Thanks to the internet, we have limitless access to content through constantly available online videos, photographs, audios, and records. Search engines, social media platforms, and apps devour our attention and time. Endlessly we scroll, looking for instant gratification as we dive into personalized rabbit holes of information. The connected nature of telecommunications our devices provide us results in the emergence of new ways of seeing and feeling. We might even use this information as a means of arrival and becoming- informing our interactions, expectations, desires and predictions of our worlds.

Internet Speed explores the omnipresence of technological influence through themes of nostalgia, personal identity, futurism, time and space. The works are layered, captivating and thought provoking – demanding the viewer’s time and attention and a closer look to register the information that is to be absorbed. This contrasts with the intake of quick, highly addictive, stimulating content we ingest from the internet. Visualized through references to the internet, and pop and club culture, the artists’ work acts as intimate portals and time machines- inviting us to reflect upon how we have come to know ourselves and others through the information we consume from the internet.

This exhibition showcases the work of five regional contemporary artists:

Anthony White
Chloe King
Christopher Lee Hill
Henry Jackson-Spieker
Tariqa Waters