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with Jennifer and Matthew Offenbacher |
Last night was Seattle Art Museum's annual fundraiser, Set the Table for SAM. It's always such a fun event (I think the free alcohol helps!). This year, instead of doing a solo table, Jeffry Mitchell and I collaborated and did a double table (24 guests). The event itself got way bigger and I think there were almost 50 tables this year!
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our table |
For our table, we decided to abandon our signature styles (but stuck with our favorite materials of clay and drawing) and focus on Austrian artist/designer
Dagobert Peche.
"Contradiction, playfulness, even irritation-Peche offered all of these as an alternative to purely utilitarian solutions. Garden sculptures made of sheet metal; jewelry boxes in the shape of cardboard pyramids; ceramics that look as though they were made of folded paper-such freedom was a rejection of the idea that the decorative arts should always be practical and conform with the materials from which they are made. Peche developed ideas of interior decoration that owed a great deal to Roman Catholic traditions, and very little to Anglo-American pragmatism. His oeuvre is also informed by the ideal of the gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art." via
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our table |
It was also
Ann Wykoff's 85th birthday (a key player in getting OSP built) and she selected our table to host her celebration so it was an especially festive evening.
Also, a huge out shout-out to our "studio assistant" Tony Sonnenberg who does amazing things with clay and is really fun to hang out with all day making ceramics.
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our table |
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a tablecloth panel |
For our tablecloth, we each drew 3d artworks by Peche and then created a digital tablecloth that extended our black & white motif.