"Sundays" is an exhibition of new paintings by Washington artists Michelle Forsyth (Pullman) and Brian Goeltzenleuchter (Seattle).
"Sundays" features 77 watercolors by Forsyth and Goeltzenleuchter that depict images from the Sunday New York Times and of those who read it.
Despite its difficult content - stories detailing the conflict in Iraq, impoverished children, Sudanese genocide, etc. - the Sunday edition of The New York Times is also typical leisure item for the well-educated.
"Sundays" investigates and reflects this paradox, showing actual Sunday Times readers engaging in their weekly rituals as well as the images of war, political intrigue, fashion and sports that the newspaper typically contains.
MICHELLE FORSYTH's "Sundays" paintings consists of 53 watercolor paintings - one from each Sunday in 2006 - painted from three-dimensional collages of images from the Sunday Times. Forsyth had no foresight into the images printed in the Times, and the paintings range in subject matter from violence and disaster to wealth and pleasure.
BRIAN GOELTZENLEUCHTER's "Sunday Portrait" series is a multimedia, multi-sensory engagement with loyal readers of the Sunday New York Times. Goeltzenleuchter posted a classified ad in Seattle newspapers and established a network of Sunday Times readers that he could paint. He met with each participant individually at the location of their choice, conducting recorded interviews to document their Sunday Times rituals.
The end product of this yearlong project features 24 watercolor portraits of Times readers. Goeltzenleuchter also created an audio collage that reflects on those who consume the often horrific stories and images in the Sunday Times and the context in which they do so.
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