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Since 1999, Microsoft employees and their guests have attended the Artist Lecture Series where they hear local, national, and internationally recognized artists and professionals from the contemporary art world speak about their work. From October through April, these lively discussions focus on career highlights, artistic techniques, and personal stories, as well as issues addressed through contemporary visual art. Please register for the lecture series by sending an e-mail message to artevent@microsoft.com.
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| Gail Tremblay
Friday, October 9, 2009
Through her visual works, poetry, installations, and critical writing, Gail Tremblay engages the mind and the eye with issues of gender and identity. Born in Buffalo, New York, Tremblay is a member of the Onondaga and Micmac Nations of upstate New York—which has been instrumental in shaping her work. Tremblay’s multi-media “baskets” weave together modern materials, including 35mm film, into traditional Native-American forms. By combining traditional weaving techniques with modern materials, her basketry reveals a contemporary nature with a strong link to the past. Gail Tremblay teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and has been working in the visual arts community of the Pacific Northwest for more than 20 years. She has had exhibitions at the Archer Gallery, Clark Community College in Vancouver, Washington, and at the Portland International Airport. Gail Tremblay is represented by Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her artwork is on display as part of the photography exhibition, Through the Lens: 23 Years of Collecting Photography. The exhibition is in the gallery space at The Commons on the Microsoft Redmond, Washington, campus from August 24 to December 31, 2009.
Mark Newport
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Mark Newport uses textile arts, such as knitting and embroidery, as symbols for understanding masculinity and brute strength. Though these methods have been traditionally associated with female cultural identity, Newport's art expresses his own ideas about male identity in American society. Strongly connected to his materials, Newport’s images and work process seem to contradict each other, but only in relation to cultural standards of maleness. Newport’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is included in numerous private and museum collections. His work has been recognized with grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council. Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, Washington, represents his work, and he has a solo exhibition opening in January 2010.
Mark Takamichi Miller
Friday, March 19, 2010
Mark Takamichi Miller's starting point for each painting is photography. All the figures represented in his paintings are anonymous, originating from packets of film abandoned at the film store or photographs from discarded family albums. Each painting reveals clues about the individuals who are represented, but leave the viewer with many questions. Working largely without the use of brushes, he applies and spreads paint onto the canvas, allowing chemical and other reactions to occur between paint and surface. This method is highly mechanical, yet still allows room for expressiveness and individuality. While the image is founded on a photograph, the resulting painting is not an illustration or likeness; rather, it is allowed to breathe a life of its own. Miller’s work is included in numerous private and corporate collections. Mark Takamichi Miller is represented by Howard House Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
Doug Keyes
Friday, April 2, 2010
As an artist and graphic designer, Doug Keyes is hyperaware of the ways in which information and images are conveyed to the public. He is equally aware of the way knowledge stacks upon itself over time, leaving an impression or collective memory. Keyes' color photographs of art books, works of fiction, poetry books, and books on scientific theory reveal (or conceal) the pleasure of leafing through a text and the memory of that experience. Produced with multiple exposures of the pertinent pages from these books, the resulting images represent a condensed document of the ideas contained within, as well as the physical identity of the book itself. Doug Keyes is represented by G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
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|  |  | Redmond, Washington, campus installation view of Charles Goldman, Distance Painting 48', Distance Painting 80', Distance Painting 96', Distance Painting 64', 2002, ink on aluminum, 40 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches, Microsoft Art Collection, photograph © Adam L. Weintraub. |  | To subscribe to the Microsoft Art Collection Program Mailing List for Redmond, Washington, send an e-mail message to artevent@microsoft.com, with "subscribe REDMOND" in the subject line.
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