MENU
Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour are excited to use Shift as a stage for their newest collaboration: Menu. Appropriating nostalgic imagery of restaurants, kitchens, and table settings, Amundson and Gour explore the perceptions and politics surrounding food. The artists superimposed patterns of various geometric shapes onto images from antiquated cookbooks and culinary magazines, with each pattern's shape mirroring contours within the primary image. To give the prints a subtle depth, they were perforated by hand to create a lace-like grid. Highly saturated colors allude to a romanticized era that has passed, but is indeterminable.

Amundson holds an MFA from Syracuse University and Gour from the University of New Mexico. Menu builds on numerous past projects and collaborations, and focuses on the artists' common interest in examining domesticity, food, and culture.  

Shift is a collaborative artists' studio that opened in the fall of 2004 in the 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 are Crystal Anderson, Stephen Chalmers, Michelle Forsyth, Kevin Haas, Cara Jaye, Andrew Kaufman, Elise Richman, Donna Stack, and Carolyn Zick.

The opening reception on Thursday, September 7 will provide an opportunity for the artists to meet the public and discuss their work. In addition to its regular hours, Shift welcomes visitors by appointment.

Garth Amundson's Resume
Pierre Gour's Resume

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Telephone: (206) 547-1215
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