May 3 - June 16, 2007

Rome-Prized (2007), Stranger-Geniused (2006), Creative-Capitalized (2005), Architectural-League-of-NY Emerging-Voiced (2006), Lead Pencil Studio (Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo) will take over all five exhibition spaces of Lawrimore Project with sculptural and architecturally-inspired interventions, photographs, video and drawings in the artist’s first major gallery exhibition, Drawing Space.

Main Space

Two interventions survey where architecture, sculpture and drawing meet to requite their unique attributes. The first—Arrival at 2am, 2007—two Palladian windows with blue monofilament limning paths of moonlight onto the floor— effectively alter the existing architecture while conveying sculpturally what a drawing of this intervention might look like.  Opposing these ‘false’ windows on the other side of the room, two hanging sculptures (yet to be titled), roughly the scale of door frames, continue the artist’s interest in inverting traditional sculptural practice by articulating the space around a given shape with welded wire acting as ‘drawn’ lines that give form to what would normally be the negative space.

In the White Cube

1. Take an image of a room—a white cube, say.  2. Sketch a series of columns in the space with vertical lines.  3. Build a life-size model of the sketch. This intervention consists of a colonnade made of hanging Government Grey© nylon strands exploring how sculpture can be as ‘slight’ as a sketch yet still function as architecture in terms of effecting our perception of a given space.

In the Black Box

Maryhill Double - Walking Tour, 2006, a video based on Lead Pencil Studio’s most ambitious project to date— Maryhill Double, 2006.  Last summer, the artists assembled a full-scale architectural double of the Maryhill Museum of Art made entirely out of scaffolding and construction netting.  The Creative Capital funded project was built on private ranch land one mile due South of its namesake and across the deep chasm of the Columbia River Gorge. The 6,000 square foot temporary monument resided in the stark Oregon grassland for three months. Viewers were able to transpose themselves mentally from the original museum enclosure to its double and back again in a contemplative exercise that focuses attention on the intangibles of contained space, scale perception, land use, authorship and institutional history.

In the Hall

Photographs and video documentation relating to Maryhill Double, 2006.

In the Back Room

To round out this ambitious exhibition of new work, and to give a broader overview of the artist’s practices and inquiries to date, Lead Pencil Studio will present a series of earlier drawings, videos, photographs and sculpture produced over the last five years.

Biography

Annie Han (b. 1966) and Daniel Mihalyo (b.1970) founded Lead Pencil Studio in 1997 for collaborative projects in architecture and installation art. Drawing equally from architecture and the studio arts, their work is an exploration of the history and memory of occupied sites and spatial gestures at the architectural scale. In 2006, Lead Pencil Studio was selected as an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, received an Artist Trust Fellowship from the city of Seattle, a Genius Award from The Stranger, and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Center for Land Use Interpretation.  In 2007 they received the Rome Prize for architecture.  In 2005 they had their first one-person exhibition in a museum with MINUS SPACE at the Henry Art Gallery.  That same year they were asked to design the exhibit for 150 WORKS OF ART also at The Henry. They currently have an installation at The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (March-July 2007); and upcoming one-person exhibitions at Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (2008) and the Boise Art Museum, ID (2008).   Both live and work in Seattle.

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