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JOHN GRADE - After the Wawona

Gallery Exhibition: MAY 3 - JUNE 1, 2013

Acclaimed Seattle artist John Grade’s perennial focus remains on environmentally related works, often inspired and extracted from microscopic points of view, that range from monumental (interior and exterior) installations to a more moderate scale. His recent installations for The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, WA, and The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, will be followed by several multi-location projects in Portland, OR.

In May 2013, Davidson Galleries will present JOHN GRADE: After the Wawona. This series marks a pivotal transition couched between the larger works and will feature new sculpture in wood and resin (example: Core) as well as two in iron, cast at the Kohler facility during Grades installation of Capacitor. For Grade, the human scale pieces are especially important as “they act as fertile ground – allowing time to reflect, experiment and explore alternative directions and sub themes that cannot be hit within the larger works.”

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  Perch
  Douglas fir from the Wawona Schooner.
  9.5 x 19.5 x 15 inches.
  SOLD
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  Parse
  Oak and trunnels from Wawona Schooner.
  13. 5 x 49 x 25 inches.
  $18,000
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  Brine
  Cast iron.
  5 x 3 x 1.15 inches.
  $1200
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  Fit
  Cast iron.
  6.5 x 8 x 7 inches.
  SOLD
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  Case
  Douglas Fir from the Wawona Schooner.
  30 x 24 x 18 inches.
  $14,000
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  Core
  Wood and resin.
  41H x 43W x 27D inches.
  SOLD

LINKS TO ARTICLES AND VIDEO

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» John Grade's "Wawona" sculpture installed at MOHAI (10/27 Seattle Times)
» John Grade, the Man Who’ll Make MOHAI Soar (9/19 Seattle Met)
» John Grade builds a soaring sculpture from the remains of a 1897 schooner (07/25 Seattle Times)
» John Grade and his assistants build a sculpture for MOHAI (VIDEO Seattle Times)
» Restless native | Sculptor John Grade (VIDEO Seattle Times)

Recent Inventory on Consignment Added May 2013

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  Costa, 2003
  Wood, rubber, steel.
  25 x 15 x 12 inches.
  $10,000
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  Costa, 2003. (back view)
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  Rind (Flood Route), 2003
  Electro-chrome-plated cast brass.
  26 x 24 x 11 inches.
  $30,000
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  Shoal, 2003
  Wood.
  40 x 29 x 13 inches.
  $20,000

Channel

Exhibition from December 2- 24, 2011

Channel - an exhibition by internationally-recognized environmental sculptor John Grade, opens December 1, 2011 at Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA. The latest work was inspired by drainage architecture and timbers salvaged from the historic Northwest schooner Wawona, a lumber carrier and fishing vessel based in the Puget Sound from 1897 to 1947. Wawona, one of the largest three-masted ships of its kind built in North America, sailed routinely from Washington State to California.

This body of work relates directly to Grade's monumental sculpture installation for the Museum of History & Industry's new museum at the Armory Building in Lake Union Park, Seattle, which opened late fall of 2012.

Grade, who has become renown for his exploration of the natural process of decomposition, turns the tables in this recent series, sculpting with materials that have already seen the effects of time. In addition to numerous accolades, international awards, grants, reviews and national museum recognition, Grade was most recently awarded the 2011 Arlene Schnitzer Prize and Contemporary Northwest Art Award at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.

• Recent exhibitions: Circuit, September 2010; New Works, May 2009; Cleave, May/June 2007; Underset: Small Drawings & Sculpture, November/December 2004

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  Blackwall Hitch, 2011
  Wood and resin.
  18 x 20 x 16 inches.
  SOLD
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  Blackwall Hitch (back view)
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  Chute, 2011
  Wood (salvaged from the historic schooner Wawona, built in 1897).
  35 x 25 x 12 inches.
  SOLD
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  Chute (side views)
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  Choke, 2011
  Wood (salvaged from the historic schooner Wawona, built in 1897).
  35 x 25 x 12 inches.
  SOLD
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  Choke (side view and detail)
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  Channel, 2011
  Wood (salvaged from the historic schooner Wawona, built in 1897).
  40h x 51w x 28d inches.
  SOLD
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  Channel (side view and detail)

Additional work

Installations

• For pricing and availability, please contact our department.

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  Seeps of Winter, 2008
  Cast paper pulp, glassine, fumed silica.
  10 x 50 x 30 feet.
  
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  Meridian, 2008
  Cast polyurethane rubber, rigid submersible foam, cables and filament.
  12 x 16 x 16 feet.
  
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  Meridian (details)
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  Meridian (detail, bird’s eye view)
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  Fold, 2008
  Wood and resin.
  8 x 8 x 5 feet.
  
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  Fold (detail)
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  Fold (alternate view)
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  Cleave (installation view), 2006
  Cast resin grafted with goat hair and clay, video projections.
  11 x 16 x 45 feet.
  
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  Cleave (detail)
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  Ring, 2006
  Resin cast in clay, multiple channels of light.
  Dimensions variable.
  
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  Ring (detail)

Publications

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John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape
Hardcover exhibition catalog. 80 pages. 62 color illus.
Published by Bellevue Arts Museum. 9 x 13 inches.
$40 + tax.

John Grade: Seeps of Winter
Softcover exhibition catalog. 9 pages. 10 color illus.
Published by Suyama Space, Seattle, WA. 9 x 9 inches.
$7 + tax.

John Grade: Sculpture and Drawings
Softcover exhibition catalog. 64 pages. 47 color and 10 black & white illus.
Published by Boise Art Museum. 11 x 8-1/2 inches.
$20 + tax.