Recology King County’s Artist In Residence Show
Recology King County’s 2023 Artist in Residence exhibition, featuring Alchemy by Haein Kang and Semiotics of a Box by Amanda Manitach.
Opening reception at Mutuus Studio, September 8th, 6 PM – 9 PM.
Georgetown Art Attack, September 9th, 1 PM – 6 PM and September 16th, 1 PM – 5 PM.
To visit on weekdays, make an appointment by contacting [email protected]
Recology’s 2023 Artists –
Amanda Manitach: A self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a background in literature and writing, Amanda Manitach merges an affinity for drawing and language in large-scale works on paper. Drawings are laboriously built from fine marks made with a mechanical pencil, and austere block statements emerge from a froth of decadent pattern, interweaving aspects of the visceral, dirty, and hysterical with the delicate and sublime. Texts vary from screamingly profane to defiant, at one turn brimming with ache, the next bubbling with crude humor or dreaminess.
Haein Kang: Through the lens of art, Haein Kang scrutinizes contemporary technologies closely intertwined with politics, the economy, and culture. Human aspirations for a better future often drive technological progress to deliver bigger and faster outcomes. However, this increase in economic efficiency provides only momentary gratification, not ultimate fulfillment. Kang’s art practice challenges that niche, by creating machines that engage in poetic beauty. Digital technology, the driving force of a data-driven society, is the subject and means of her art practice. Kang devises algorithms and electronics that make the invisible visible and the intangible tangible.
During the four-month residency, artists scavenge at the Recology Material Recovery Facility, the North Seattle Transfer Station, and the Recology Stores for materials to make their art. The exhibition of completed work will be held at Mutuus Studio in Georgetown, opening on September 8th – 16th. To see more of the artist’s artwork, visit and follow haeinkang.com and amandamanitach.com @amandamanitach
For more information about the program contact Maria Phillips at [email protected]
Recology King County Artists in Residence Program 2023 Call for Artists!
The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program at Recology is a unique art and education program that provides King County artists with access to discarded materials, a stipend, and a exhibition and reception at the end of the residency. Modeled after the Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco, Recology hopes to encourage people to conserve natural resources and promote new ways of thinking about art and the environment, by supporting artists who work with recycled materials.
During their residencies, artists have scavenging privileges at the Recology MRF. At the conclusion of their residency, Recology hosts a public exhibition and reception for the artists featuring the artwork made during their residency. When the residency ends, artists contribute artwork to the program’s permanent collection and these pieces continue to be shown in off-site exhibitions that promote recycling and reuse.
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