Sopheap Pich: Compound
Material and Document: Experiments in Photography during the 1970s
Test Site: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture
Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries
Wolfgang Tillmans
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises
Between Two Worlds
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Polaroids by Andy Warhol
David Herbert and the Mystery of the Holy Mountain
Shelf Life
2011 University of Washington MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Talent Show
“Landscape as Real Estate”: Lewis Baltz Photographs in the Henry Art Gallery Collections
Lucy Pullen: The Cloud Chamber and Related Works
Inspiring Vision
Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and Seattle Camera Club
Uta Barth
A Fire In My Belly, A Work in Progress
Joe Deal and Views of the Altered Landscape
Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber
Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos
Vortexhibition PolyphonicaThe Talent Show
Stroum Gallery
May 7, 2011 – August 21, 2011
In recent years, television’s “reality” shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting “participants” on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both with and without their knowledge.