Opening just yesterday at Lawrimore Project in Seattle is “Anne Mathern — Moses Lake,” new photographs, film and a live installation. Along with the opening, Mathern presented a live installation and performance, featuring fantasy metal band DOOMHAWK. “Moses Lake” is the first solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project for the

Seattle-based artist, and the show is centered on a cluster of small farm towns in Eastern Washington that have Greek and Hebrew-derived names but were originally inhabited and eventually stolen from Native Americans. The exhibition investigates the imposition of the cultural values embodied by one set of people upon another. Mathern received her BFA in photography from the University of Washington in 2004 and received several awards during her study, including the Marsh Scholarship and the UW Undergraduate Research Award for special projects. The artist also co-founded and currently acts as the managing director of Crawl Space, an artist-run gallery in Seattle. The artist has also exhibited with the King County Gallery 4 Culture in Seattle.

The work of Dan Attoe is often rooted in painting, but through recent projects and exhibits such as “Loaded, Nailed, Short on Cash,” Attoe has expanded his artistic vocabulary to encompass neon- and light box-based works created from his paintings. Attoe’s work employs a blue-collar, working man’s aesthetic, often featuring humorous text with serious undertones. Attoe, along with fellow artists Jamie Boling and Bill Donovan, founded and currently direct the collective Paintallica, with a proclaimed manifesto, “Don’t be fooled though, we don’t give a shit about your art, your politics or your whiny, black-horn rimmed, Prada-wearing ass. We are Paintallica.” The group usually begins their work with a drawing session, led by unstructured all-nighters of work, easily resulting in a completed exhibition by the morning. Attoe currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and has had several international solo exhibitions, including works with Peres Projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, Denmark, and with 404 Arte Contemporanea in Naples, Italy.

Artist Nathan Baker creates large-format photographs often depicting multiples of the same figure within a single space. Baker constructs these images digitally, allowing greater narrative possibilities to emerge and offering insight into contemporary American life. In his recent series “Rupture,” the artist photographs moments directly following spills or knock-overs. Referencing Martin Heidegger‘s idea of the “Present at Hand,” the artist’s new series attempts to capture the small moments in a person’s life where things temporarily break down and the routine of life stops. Baker attended Columbia College in Chicago and the Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year, the artist has presented work with the Houston Center for Photography‘s 25th Anniversary Juried Membership Exhibition, curated by Anne Tucker, Curator of Photography of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The artist has also exhibited his body of work “Occupation” at the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va., and with Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, this year. You can also find Baker at the Randall Scott Gallery in Washington DC from September 15 through October.

Opening Sept. 7, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago will present new works by photographer Charles LaBelle. LaBelle has been developing an ongoing series of works that feature hundreds of one-inch square photographs complied into a single, large and intricately compounded work. The artist acts as both a tourist and artist, traveling to cities all over the world, taking snapshots that are then brought back to his studio and arranged as a mosaic, from cut proof sheets, drawing connections and developing narratives, purely out of image association. The density of information and the fragmented depiction of each city are strikingly similar to how a viewer would take in a new city when walking around. The presentation of each piece allows for a collective understanding of a place through the observation of multiple fragments rather than a single establishing view. LaBelle received both his BA and Graduate Studies Degree from UCLA in California. The artist currently lives and works in New York City and has produced exhibitions, including “Miami Drift” at Lemon Sky Projects in Miami and “Intervals + Intensities” with the Ten in One Gallery in NYC. The artist has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation (2003) and the Getty Trust (2000).

Curator and arts writer Carrie E.A. Scott has recently developed as a prominent force within the Seattle arts community. Scott is currently the director of the James Harris Gallery, having brought recent shows to the space such as the Rashid Johnson exhibition “Dark Matters” and recent paintings by Seattle-based artist Scott Foldesi. In addition to her duties at the James Harris Gallery, Scott is the curator for the Hedreen Gallery, a non-profit arts space housed in the Lee Center for the Arts at the Seattle University. Scott has produced numerous exhibitions within that space, including “Screen Shots: Selected works on screen by Justin Beckman, James Coupe and Tivon Rice“, “Intricate Matter: Sculpture by Artist Eric Eley,” and works by Jon Huck pictured below. Seattle Weekly, Seattle Magazine and Visual Codec regularly feature her selected writings and reviews, and Scott has a forthcoming article with Sculpture Magazine, “Sculpting Technology: The Monumental Art of Shawn Brixey and James Coupe.” DailyServing recently caught up with the young curator to discuss more of her ideas, read the full interview below.

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Bay Area artist, entrepreneur and organizer Marc Horowitz gained national attention when he wrote “Dinner w/ Marc 510-872-7326,” his actual name and cell number, on a dry-erase board, which was published in a Crate & Barrel catalog. Soon after, calls poured in, and Horowitz began “The National Dinner Tour,” a traveling, dinner-eating, cross-country adventure. Since, the artist has produced several projects, including “The Errand Feasibility Study,” featuring Horowitz riding a mule in downtown San Francisco while doing various tasks such as making a bank deposit. After a short stint at the San Francisco Art Institute, Horowitz and long-time collaborator, Jon Brumit founded Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, a conceptual company dedicated to solving problems by creating products such as the “office in a tent” and services such as the fog removal initiative for the Golden Gate Bridge.

The dynamic site-specific installations of German artist Felix Schramm deconstruct pre-existing architectural elements while bringing outside structural fragments into the gallery. Schramm creates illusion and physical tension within the space, conjuring ideas of disaster and destruction by using structural fragments that are almost indiscernible. The artist will often cut into the gallery, twisting and breaking the walls, ceilings and floors, referencing artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) are new works by Schramm, including “Misfit,” which features the intersection of multiple rooms within a building, completely removed and placed in the gallery. The artist was born in Hamburg and received his MFA from the Kunstakademier in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he currently lives and works. In 2003, Schramm received a Northrhein-Westfalia’s art and culture prize and, in 2000, a DAAD fellowship for study in Tokyo, Japan.