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Shoutout for September 2006: Lawrimore Project

Even though we ran an article by Regina Hackett just last month about the SuttonBeresCuller extravaganza at Lawrimore Project—one of Seattle's newest and most ambitious art venues—we still feel compelled to give LP this month's shout out, largely due to the myriad current events associated with its aggressive aggregate of artists.

To some, SuttonBeresCuller, Lead Pencil Studio, Cris Bruch, Anne Mathern, Chris Jordan, and Liz Cohen (who represent roughly one half of LP's lineup) might be seen as fitting nicely into the ever popular 'emerging artists' category, but Visual Codec asserts that LP artists might in fact belong to a new category we'd like to call 'exploding artists.'

To wit, here's what we've recently seen from these artists in particular:

SuttonBeresCuller not only put on a radically well-received (and lucrative) show at LP, they've also been busy with a new project slated to make its debut at Bumbershoot, and were chosen for inclusion in the Northwest Biennial, as was Cris Bruch.

In another corner, Lead Pencil Studio took the shortest of breathers between their Maryhill Double installation and their current installation at LP, and somewhere in there they were also recognized by The Stranger Genius Awards as the winners in the Visual Arts category (as were SuttonBeresCuller just last year, strangely enough).

In addition, Anne Mathern recently exhibited at Crawl Space Gallery (Seattle), Liz Cohen will be showing at Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris), and last but hardly least, Chris Jordan will be not only be showing his new body of work, "In Katrina's Wake," at Paul Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles), but will also be donating all proceeds from his related book to Gulf Coast hurricane relief charities.

Since opening in June of this year (that's roughly three months, folks) LP and its artists have already enjoyed coverage by regional pubs such as The Seattle P-I, The Oregonian, The Stranger, and our own favorite monthly online visual arts magazine, Visual Codec. National (and International?) coverage can't be far behind.

So hats off to Lawrimore Project and its artists. As proprietor Scott Lawrimore notes in The P-I, "I don't have illusions that Seattle is going to be the next Los Angeles, but we're building to something bigger here, and I want to be part of it."

Our thoughts exactly.