The Office has been a year-long curatorial project which began in April 2017. Our final exhibition for this series will be Elation Station by Seattle artist Liz Tran.
The shapes in Elation Station illustrate a rollercoaster of emotions, with each peak representing the highest high and each valley the lowest low. Bright in color and loose in application, these mixed media works, bordering on the psychedelic, function for the artist as year-end visual graphs of a tumultuous 2017. Tran has completed multiple projects and installations, including work at the Seattle Art Museum, VH1 Save the Music Foundation, and the Brain Project Toronto.
With its high-keyed chromaticism and semi-abstract imagery, Liz Tran’s “Elation Station” is a Fellini-esque carnivàle. A riot of bubblegum hues, pearlescent paints, glitter, and circus-tent iconography, the Seattle-based artist’s suite of new paintings closes out a highly successful series, “The Office,” in the eponymous office of the gallery’s late owner, Laura Russo.