Gallery4Culture
2006-2007 Season

Ruth Marie Tomlinson:
read/un-read
February 1 - 23, 2007

reception FEBRUARY 1, 2006, 6 – 8 p.m.

Gallery4Culture is pleased to present a new installation by Seattle artist Ruth Marie Tomlinson.

This installation investigates a found language not of words, but of the shapes and gestures made with hands and arms as recorded in still news photography. read/un-read brings together more than a year of front pages from Sunday newspapers. Removing the text and scrubbing the photos of most of the visual information leaves a language of body gestures floating over traces of the original photos.

Each gesture is a calligraphic character. Reading the characters requires something other than intellectual deciphering, as these forms are known in our bodies more than in our minds. The accumulation of images offers an opportunity to read the gestures/characters as continuous language, exploring what can be perceived beyond the written news stories, which are filtered through cultural lenses.

A reception will be held on February 1, 2007, the first Thursday of the month, during the Downtown Artwalk, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend. The exhibition is on view from February 1 - 23, 2007.

Gallery4Culture is located within 4Culture offices at 101 Prefontaine PL S, at the corner of Third and Prefontaine, in the Tashiro/Kaplan Building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed government holidays; the gallery is open and free to the public. For more information about this program visit http://www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery/info.htm or call 206.296.8674.