05:00 PM : Matt McCormick @ Seattle University

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Seattle University
Fine Arts Department
Lee Center for the Arts
Hedreen Gallery
Hedreen Gallery Mission:
The Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for the Arts is dedicated to the vibrancy of Seattle’s artistic community. Our mission is to
support the work of emerging artists and exhibit new work by established artists: local, national, international. We strive to
catalyze artistic process and dialogue: to connect artists, audiences, and resources: and to engage the community in the arts.
Media Contact: Carrie Scott
scottc@seattleu.edu
206.718.6481
Kill Date: March 30, 2008
Detail from future so bright: western edge
16mm transferred to digital video, 2007.
Image courtesy of the artist and the Elizabeth Leach Gallery



Seattle - The Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for
the Arts is pleased to present videos from Matt
McCormick's future so bright series. Relentlessly
blurring the line between documentary, installation
and experimental film, McCormick has poetically
captured the spirit of the American West in his latest
body of work.

Shot on 16mm film and transferred to digital video,
McCormick’s images of forgotten and disregarded
spaces slowly create large-scale, moving portraits of
America’s contemporary Western landscapes. In
these videos, crumbling barns are positioned against
fading signs and abandoned houses, endless skies
frame vacant farmyards, and windmills turn tirelessly
in the distance.


By examining these forgotten spaces and iconic relics, McCormick creates a record of the decline of the
American Dream. But as a series, the videos act like a powerful landscape drawing of the contemporary
sublime. McCormick’s work is an ode to a falling empire, a swan song to what was, as well as a love song to
what could still be.



MATT McCORMICK:

Exploring the lines between video art and mass culture, Matt McCormick has screened work at film festivals, art
museums, and microcinemas around the globe, appeared on MTV and the Sundance Channel, and has
received positive reviews from Art Forum, The New York Times, and Film Comment magazine. As well as being
included in the traveling group exhibitions Uncertain States of America and Baja to Vancouver, McCormick's film
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal was named as a 'Top 10 Film of 2002' by both The Village Voice and
Art Forum magazine. Currently, McCormick is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR.
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GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 1:30-6:00pm
ADMISSION: open to the public, always free
LOCATION: Seattle University Lee Center for the Arts
901 12th Avenue (at 12th & Marion)
FOR MORE INFO: 206.296.2244


EXHIBIT: Matt McCormick
ARTIST: Matt McCormick
MEDIUM: Film/Video
OPENING: Thursday, January 17th 5:00 - 8:00pm
RUN OF SHOW: January 18th – March 29th 2008