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		Pulp Western
		Robert Anderson's new series of paintings, draws inspiration from the classic pulp fiction images that 
		infiltrated post-war culture. Using the Wild West as his backdrop, Anderson playfully recreates the world 
		of pulp Americana, a unique eye grabbing collection of startling images that breathtakingly seduce and 
		excite.

		Robert Anderson, 2001

		Sook-Jin  Jo 
		Whenever I look at a tree I am amazed at all the different branches and the spaces they create.  I am 
		amazed at how they can create such mystery, beauty and peace. I have had the same experience when 
		I look at mountains, clouds, stones and even people.  There is a law in nature. There is wisdom, beauty 
		and truth. We are all connected.  Knowing this creates well-being in us all. 

		In the new piece “All Things Work Together”, it is my hope that people will experience all the different 
		parts coming together, each one equally important in creating a whole. It is an improvised structure 
		according to intuition. Most of the materials I used were from in and around New York. They were all 
		discarded, individual, and each has its own history; but they are unified as one. The pieces create 
		“form and space” unexpectedly as each one supports the other.

		The Peace Performance creates an opportunity for interaction between the participants and the work, 
		an experience that we are all a part of nature and connected.  Wishing for peace:  In our minds, in our 
		relationships, with nature, and especially now, in the world…. 

		Sook-Jin  Jo, 2004

	
		Mark Abrahamson
		Watershed Investigations

		The images from this series are aerial landscape photographs of North American River watersheds which
		I have photographed since 1990. My focus is water and the impacts of landuse upon it. Included in the 
		exhibition are Cibachromes from rural and coastal watersheds in Washington State; the west side of 
		Vancouver Island; the Lowcountry of Savannah, Georgia; and urban watersheds in Seattle, Chicago, 
		Philadelphia and New York. At low altitude from helicopters and airplanes, I create enigmatic narrative 
		abstractions...documents of point and nonpoint factors that adversely impact our waters. From this 
		perspective one sees a landscape continuously redefined by development and the forces of nature. The 
		subversive formalism of the imagery underscores the deceptive beauty of the land, while the oblique 
		shooting angle adds to the ambiguity of the work. With close inspection, the world below is troubled and 
		complex.

		I've been involved in landuse and the watershed restoration process in Washington State as an 
		environmentalist, citizen activist and artist for more than 20 years. As an ardent recreational fisherman I 
		have observed the decimation of legendary runs of King salmon, Coho, steelhead and cutthroat trout in 
		Puget Sound. Sloppy logging practices have increased sedimentation and exacerbated flooding. Pollution 
		from industry, herbicide and pesticide misuse, fertilizers, household hazardous waster, dairy and equestrian 
		farms, and failing septic systems have fouled the rivers and marine waters of the Sound. Development has 
		increased runoff and destroyed wetlands as we've raced to pave over the countryside.

		Water quality in some urban watersheds has improved during the past 25 years. On the Hudson River, you 
		can now swim or catch 20 pound striped bass (though laced with PCBs). In Seattle's Duwamish River, 
		recreational fishermen catch salmon and steelhead. These improvements are due to Federal environmental 
		laws enacted in the early 1970s; to changes in industry and agriculture; to greater public environmental 
		awareness; and to the leadership of conservation and citizen groups that promote environmentalism and a 
		sense of identity of the local citizenry with their rivers. For example the Puget Sound Keeper Alliance 
		monitors the Duwamish and other regional rivers for industrial polluters and legally pursues violators to 
		compliance. The Hudson River is indelibly etched into the psyche of New Yorkers as a treasure through the 
		work of many such groups and because of the Hudson's long prominence in American history, literature, 
		and the arts.

		We have a long way to go to clean up our nation's marine waters and rivers, but in the long term, I'm 
		optimistic that we can do it. Regulations for industrial discharge of pollutants need to be tightened and 
		existing laws more strictly enforced. Washington State, frequently portrayed as a national leader for 
		environmental concerns, ranks first in the country for the dumping of carcinogenic chemicals into its waters. 
		In a recent New York Times poll, 80% of those Americans asked favored "spending whatever it takes to 
		protect our environment." The right to a safe, healthy environment has become a core American value.

		Mark Abrahamson, January 2001

		Jo Sandman
		I begin work by selecting a found object, usually one of stone, coral or shell which resembles a human or 
		animal face, or has the potential to become one.

		Working with drills, picks and sanders, I shape the object to greater definition, bringing into focus a cogent 
		face or mask with its own identity.

		Using a copier I "photograph" the resultant face onto watercolor paper and also onto a transparency. I layer 
		them into a framing system which provides depth and separation of the two images. These are skewed, 
		producing a shift between the two layers.

		The images create a frisson; they seem to vibrate out of a deep space, like phantoms or beings in the 
		process of mutation.

		Jo Sandman, January 2001