Fall 2010
SEASON is proud to present PARTY AND PARTY AND PARTY AND FUCK AND PARTY featuring drawings and watercolors by Natalie Häusler and sculpture by Jesse Sugarmann.
Natalie Häusler works in painting, sculpture, and installation, but “PARTY…” focuses attention on the artist’s small-scale drawings, which she considers to be at the core of her diverse practice. For Häusler, the drawing process is a mode of communication—wordless and silent, it nonetheless speaks. In delicate gouache and watercolor compositions, Häusler explores the structural relationships that exist between single elements within one work and beautifully evokes the three-dimensional space that becomes a reality in her sculptural works. Natalie Häusler lives and works in New York City. This is her first American show of drawings since moving here from her native Germany.
Natalie Häusler, Untitled (Fold No. 6), 2010, gouache and watercolor on paper, 13 x 10 inches
Jesse Sugarmann investigates the automobile as a physical index of American ideology and cultural history. His videos and sculpture position automobiles as icons of generational idealism. Sugarmann’s interest lies specifically in their aesthetic language; this allows him to compellingly isolate the elements of their design that have been exploited to abstractly represent our selves and our ambitions. Whether using entire cars in large-scale installations or reducing them to specific parts, his works reveal an approach that is both documentary and romantic, and acknowledges the many roles that the automobile takes on, from object of nostalgia to that of Jungian angst. Jesse Sugarmann lives in Eugene Oregon, this is his first show in Seattle.
Jesse Sugarmann, GM Unity Structure II, 2010, windshields, clamp, 56 x 56 x 30 inches