Spring 2008 brings to Bellevue Arts Museum the new ongoing series of internally organized exhibitions, Material Evidence.

Material Evidence addresses the fertile convergence of materials and ideas in giving both form and meaning to the artwork. The Northwest artists featured in this series share an intense dialogue with the material, which in their hands is celebrated as both physical means to an imagery and, at the same time, the very subject matter of the often labor intensive process of creation.

At the core of these artists’ poetics of the handmade, there is the constant investigation and reassessment of the mutual influence among concepts, materials and processes. During the creative process, these artists are often open to the new ways of thinking, feeling and creating as suggested by the material growth of the work. Touching, shaping, cutting, burning, sewing, carving, accumulating, removing are not simply ways to define the volumetric and formal aspects of the artwork, but also participate in shaping and giving substance to the meaning of it.

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Featured Material Evidence exhibitions:

Mandy Greer: Dare alla Luce
May 6 - August 3, 2008

John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape
August 26 - November 30, 2008

Etsuko Ichikawa: Traces of the Molten State
October 4, 2008 - March 8, 2009

The Book Borrowers: Contemporary Artists Transforming the Book
February 24 - June 14, 2009