June Photography Show

Featuring Katherine Dyke and Shaun Kardinal Select works by Jesse Delira, Aaron Morris and Joey Velazquez.

Opening: Thurs. June 11, 2009 6-11pm Show runs through 7/5/9

Katherine Dyke's fantastical studio-constructed landscapes create a sense of soothing wonder and attract curiosity. Shaun Kardinal's meditations on the mundane invite intimate contemplation.

Katherine Dyke works with a variety of materials and media including photography, video, painting and book arts. Her photographs are based on narrative and explore the line between reality and artificiality.

Katherine lives in Seattle with her husband. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago where she taught courses in Experimental Techniques in Photography. Katherine grew up in Eugene, OR and lived in Portland, OR for a number of years where she received her undergraduate degree in art from Lewis and Clark College.

Katherine's work has been exhibited in galleries, as large-scale public art and in print and online magazines. http://www.katherinedyke.com

Shaun Kardinal is a self-taught photographer, web-designer and -developer. Born and raised in California, he moved to Seattle when he was eighteen. For five years, he managed Gallery Frames, a frame shop in the heart of the gallery district, where he got to know artists, gallerists and collectors alike.

In 2006, utilizing his knowledge of the many aspects of the community, he co-founded Some Space Gallery, where he continued to co-curate through its first few years. Since the fall of 2007, he has been the designer and web developer for Davidson Galleries, Seattle's premier print gallery. He is also a contributing member to Crawl Space, an artist-run gallery on Capitol Hill. He has exhibited work in and around Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, including exhibitions at SAM Gallery, SOIL and Howard House. http://www.unkardinal.com/work/

Jesse Delira uses chalk to create sweeping patterns on natural surfaces as a sort of “conceptual graffiti”. The work references satellite imagery and plays with depth of field. Jesse is the featured artist at 4Culture Gallery in January of 2010. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghidra777/sets/72157611330150686/

Aaron Morris is a self-taught photographer living in Seattle. He specializes in street photography, and also has a strong interest in exploring and photographing abandoned places. He has an equal love for both film and digital, and never leaves home without a camera. His photography was recently featured on the cover of The Stranger. http://www.flickr.com/photos/amorris/3562502396/in/set-72157618988941868/

Joseph Anthony Velazquez currently lives and works in Seattle as a preschool teacher. He also works as a freelance photographer for Full Circle Farms and their CSA program, in Carnation WA. After graduating from WWU with a BA in Gender and Media studies he traveled to several countries in Western Europe and Iceland, living in the Czech Republic twice, and briefly in Paris. In addition, he feeds an enthusiasm for oil painting and is in the middle of creating a new body of work from shots taken in the last year. www.somethinglikepearl.com