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12/1/2001

Luminous

Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue

Light as material, medium and metaphor.

Bellevue Art Museum opens the doors to its new home on January 13, 2001 with a public dedication ceremony.

Visually connecting museum activities to the surrounding community by means of large windows, the glass, aluminum and textured concrete structure designed by architect Steven Holl supports the Museum's mission of providing opportunities not only to see art, but also to explore and make art.

Holl's design - incorporating an elliptical Court of Light on the rooftop and a north courtyard wall which follows the curve of the 48th parallel and allows people to watch the sun trace the arc of the wall during the summer solstice - also reflects the architect's interest in changes in the light throughout the day and the seasons.

According to the museum, the move to the three-story 36,000 square-foot building, on the corner of Bellevue Way and NE Sixth Street, gives the Museum a presence in downtown Bellevue's pedestrian corridor. It also allows the Museum to expand its visual arts exhibitions and educational programming.

The new museum has exhibition galleries which are wired in every possible way, giving the Museum the capacity to show art utilizing new and emerging technologies. It also has four classrooms for its Museum School, including a ceramic studio with two kilns and twelve potters wheels; an interactive Explore Gallery which reflects the Museums emphasis on experiential learning; an artist-in-residence program; an auditorium equipped with state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment and moveable seating; a multimedia library; and a Museum store and cafe.

It opens with exhibition thematically linked to the design of the new building. "Luminous: light as material, medium and metaphor" is an international exhibition of media art, painting, design, photography, sculpture and site-specific art focusing on artists use of light.

A selective, international exhibition of media art, painting, design, photography, sculpture, and site-specific art, luminous will emphasize contemporary art practice while including a number of artworks from the past fifty years drawn from regional and national collections.

Integrating curatorial and educational strategies, the exhibition will be selected, installed, and interpreted in ways designed to support individual viewers' experiences of and responses to the new museum building. Indeed, it may be provocatively difficult, at times, to distinguish exhibition from building. Exhibiting artists include: Iole Alessandrini, James Carl, Dan Flavin, Rodney Graham, Morris Graves, Joseph Kosuth, Bonnie Porter, Tokihiro Sato, Hap Tivey, Mark Tobey, Bill Viola, and Dan Webb.

The museum's newly established Artist-in-Residence Program will engage visitors through collaborative creative projects, demonstrations, informal discussions, lectures, classes, workshops and community outreach activities. In keeping with the building's emphasis on perception and collaboration, the first artists to use the studio in the new building are a team led by Washington-based artist and educator Donald Fels. Fels is working with optic lens designer Ed Mannery, sound artists Robert Millis and Jeffrey Taylor, and performance theater artist Warner Blake on a project that responds to Steven Holl's design of the new Museum.

Gallery Hours - Open Tuesday and Saturday - 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. - Sunday 12 noon - 5.00 p.m. - Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 12 noon - 8.00 p.m. - Closed Monday - Closed on Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and Fourth of July

Bellevue Art Museum - 510 Bellevue Way - Bellevue, WA - Tel. 425 4543322 - Fax. 425 6371799

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