10 inches x 12 inches, collage, mixed media on paper.

2009 , Seattle.

The Fountain, 40′
Final Cut Pro Slide Show with Digital Drawings, Untitled, 2000.

Suite 02 -30″-

Suite 03 -30″-
Digital Drawings-Dinosaur Studies.
Copyright Vanessa Briggs.

Suite 01 -1′-
Digital Drawings-Dinosaur Studies.
Copyright Vanessa Briggs.

Summer Roadtrip 2006

July 28-August 12 2006

Opening Night Reception:
Friday July 28th
5-8pm in Seattle.

Ballard Fetherston Gallery presents the third installment of the One Night Stand Series.
The series is a sequence of one night only events, showcasing emerging artists, scheduled throughout the year. The Summer Roadtrip 2006 exhibit will remain
showing in the Gallery through August 12.

Highway 101 / As I row, Emily Leonard.
oil, 2006.

U.S. 160 / I met a lion heart
Tyne and Hillsboro / I will dream this dream of you
Emily Leonard.
oil. 2006

Hammered Again, Chris McMullen

Hammered Again, Chris McMullen

Motorworks II, Chris McMullen
105 x 75 inch, 2006

Motorworks II, Chris McMullen
105 x 75 inch, 2006

Motorworks II, Chris McMullen
105 x 75 inch, 2006
Chris McMullen(http://www.chrismcmullenproductions.com), a south of Georgetown welder, will be showing dramatically large-scale kinetic welded metal sculptures. The 105 x 75 inch Motorworks II is a conceptual V8 engine, metaphorically “powering” the
entire show, with its moving pistons, and sheer massive size. The piece, which will show at Bumbershoot this summer was part of a roadtrip to MARFA, and was shown in the Art Outside show in Austin Texas. McMullen makes a living as a designer and fabricator of custom metal work, both artistic and architectural. His main influences are Marcel Duchamp. Jean Tinguely, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder and Industry. He has shown with Vital 5 Productions, Secludes Alley Works and in the Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition.
Vanessa Briggs(http://www.vanessabriggs.com) and Francois Aleta, transplants from Paris, France, will show two video/mixed media installations that each explore the themes of movement as well as things that really go nowhere.

Sorrow: an allegory on vanity, Vanessa Briggs.
Mixed Media, 2006

Sorrow: an allegory on vanity, Vanessa Briggs.
Mixed Media, 2006
In Sorrow: an allegory on vanity, Briggs shows footage from her recent roadtrip to Nevada, aboard a Greyhound bus, while musing on her own trip to America. Using a non-narrative-emotional/narrative format, Briggs mounts three framed pieces; one contains video of her Road Movie, a loop of film capturing an inflatable roadside advertising balloon. The repetitive, pathetic image corresponds to two empty frames indicative of her experience of viewers often being more concerned with the frame, than the image. Briggs was born in London, and studied architecture in the south of France, and Fine Arts at the Beaux-Arts of Paris. She holds a MFA from the Fresnoy, National studio for contemporary Arts in Lille, France. She initially came to Seattle to complete a year long residency at Gary Hills studio.

Sorrow: an allegory on vanity, Vanessa Briggs.
Mixed Media, 2006

Francois Aleta (http://www.francoisaleta.com) will show a screen containing his latest essay Pondre, which he wrote, and transposed into a visual/pictorial font which he created. The black and white images are moving drawings, representing the alphabet, as a complete font which he calls Textimage. Each letter overlaps one another; each word and sentence becomes a new drawing and gives the rhythm to the video…a moving image, which is a drawing of the text.
Aleta was born in Paris France, and studied painting, medieval tapestry, and art history at the National Gobelins School of Paris. He left painting for other mediums. and now writes, produces video, digital drawing and sound composition. He has shown his work in Paris, Lille, Belgium and Los Angeles.

Untitled, by Francois Aleta.
F.A created a font where each letter is redrawn.
The text written by himself in French (Pondre)
scrolls in his own font on the screen.

Untitled, by Francois Aleta.

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One Night Stand Series is curated by Sheila Strobel for Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle.
Text by Sheila Strobel, Copyright Ballard Fetherston Gallery and Here Grow The Trees.

The Shaman, digital drawing on Paint.
8.5 x 11 inches. Dallas, Texas. August 2000.

Untitled, Digital drawing.
Tourcoing, France, July 2000. 7.5 x 12.5 inches

La pleureuse (Chicken!) The Weeper (Chicken!)
Intervention, 1997.
1 hour, taped on video (non available).
VIA festival