Along with an array of new paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture acquired for the Microsoft Art Collection in the last year is a new wall drawing created by American artist Sol Lewitt. On view in Café 34, this 20 foot high and 50 foot long multicolor drawing is painted directly on the wall. In the same cafeteria are new works on paper by Laurie Reid and a very large scale woodblock print by Jonathan Borofsky.
As the physical plan of the campus has expanded, so too has the demand and need for works of art, which has expanded to the WTC offices in downtown Seattle, the new sales office in downtown Bellevue, and Buildings 34 and 35 set to be occupied by early spring 2002.
Always looking to expand the contemporary Northwest school represented in the collection, we have acquired three works on paper by George Johanson, a watercolor by Henk Pander, and two works by the late Jay Steensma. Along with these two-dimensional works are three-dimensional works in wood and ceramic respectively by David French and Beth Lo.
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In the area of contemporary prints we acquired work by Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Caio Fonseca, Alex Katz, Gwen Knight, Elizabeth Murray, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud and Terry Winters. In the area of painting, several members of the Chicago school: Nicholas Africano, Roger Brown, Jeff McMahon and Neil Whitacre. And in the area of photography, works by Allan Sekula, Didier Ben Loulou, David George, Eva Schlegel and Louis Stettner. Finally, in the area of mixed media one will find on view on campus a white on white Formica diptych by Charles Goldman and two painted wood constructions by Minoru Ohira.
The collection continues to add artists from different parts of the world and this year we have acquired works by Tunga (Brazil), Trini (Mexico), Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Chen Lin (China) and Tatsuo Miyajima (Japan).
Michael Klein
Curator
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