Pale Sun features Carolyn Zick's works on canvas, paper and in polymer clay based on the patterns of microscopic protozoa known as radiolaria. Originally attracted to these repetitive yet diversely complex organisms for their sheer elegance, Zick learned the water dwelling organisms serve an environmental metric as well. When found in abundance, radiolaria indicate a body of water's health, their scarcity an alert to declining imbalance. The duality of function within the form was an important anchor while executing the finished pieces.

A majority of the work in Pale Sun was made while Zick was an artist in residence at the Listagili• Center in Akureyri, Iceland this past winter. The challenging environment heavily influenced an uncharacteristic body of work devoid of both color and warmth.

Carolyn Zick holds an MFA from State University at Albany in New York. She lives in Seattle and works at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Shift is a collaborative artist's studio that opened in the fall of 2004 in the newly renovated Tashiro-Kaplan Arts Complex.
Shift was established as an artist run space with the primary goal of supporting emergent, practicing Northwest area artists.
Additional Shift members include Garth Amundson, Crystal Anderson, Stephen Chalmers, Michelle Forsyth, Pierre Gour, Kevin Haas, Cara Jaye, Andrew Kaufman & Donna Stack, and Elise Richman.

Carolyn Zick's resume
Carolyn Zick's website

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