BUMBERSHOOT OUT OF SIGHT EXHIBITION
“SEATTLE, WA - June 15, 2023 - Today, Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Arts & Music Festival, shares the details of this year’s renewed and ambitious visual arts programming for Out of Sight. Founded in 2015 as a response to the Seattle Art Fair, Out of Sight once occupied the top floor of King Street Station and presented over 120 artists working in visual arts, new media, and performance. Today, Out of Sight has become one of the state’s largest surveys of contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest and Bumbershoot is proud to announce the incorporation of Out of Sight as part of the 50th anniversary of the festival, taking place at the Seattle Center this Sept 2 and 3.
Curators Emily Zimmerman, Jaleesa Johnston, Rana San, and Roya Amirsoleymani comprise this year's selection team, populating the Fisher Pavilion for the indoor portion of the exhibit, and transforming the Pacific Science Center courtyard into an outdoor sculpture garden. Out of Sight will showcase the works of over 80 artists in painting, photography, video, sculpture, new media, and installation.
The curatorial team is thrilled to bring together a broadly multidisciplinary group of artists from across the Pacific Northwest to Out of Sight as part of Bumbershoot. They focus primarily on artists from non-dominant cultures, whose practices span media and form, and many whom have not previously been part of Out of Sight. Exhibiting within the charged grounds of the 1962 World’s Fair, these artists actively make space for shifting constellations of meaning in their work, offering counter-cosmologies, and inquiries that move away from the totalizing arguments made through exhibitions…”
Full 2023 Out of Sight Lineup
Adetola Abatan, Alla Goniodsky, Amanda Morgan / The Seattle Project, Anastasia Babenko, Anh Nguyen, Anida Yoeu Ali, Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi, ariella tai, Berette S Macaulay, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, CHARI, Christine Miller, Corrie Befort, Dez’Mon Omega Fair, Ella Ray, Erica Meryl Thomas, Fernanda D’Agostino, Francesca Lohmann, Humaira Abid, jade wong, James Reed, Jeffrey Heiman, Jia Jia, Jo Cosme, Julia Freeman, Kalimah Abioto (Dr. Woodchopper), Kamari Bright, Katy Stone, Kelly Bjork, Laura Hart Newlon, Leon Finley, Leslie Vigeant, Maria Zamora, Mary Ann Peters, Maura Campbell-Shun, maximiliano, Mel Carter, Melanie Stevens, Molly Alloy, Neely Goniodsky, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Reese Bowes, K̲aachgóon Rochelle Smallwood, Roger Peet, Romina Del Castillo, Romson Regarde Bustillo, Rubin Quarcoopome, Sa’rah Farahat, Satpreet Kahlon, Schona Christie, Sharyll Burroughs, [sic][redacted] Alan Page, Stefan Gonzales, Stephanie Simek, Susanō Surface, Tannaz Farsi, Taravat Talepasand, Timothy White Eagle, Travis Johnson