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Lawrimore Project
What!? You haven’t heard of LAWRIMORE project!? You didn’t see the smoke signals from Seattle!?

Ok, It's a straight-up, commercial gallery teepeed in that overlooked outpost of the Pacific Northwest. Utilizing Chelsea logic, the gallery trailblazed to the International District in 2006 where the spaces were Super-Sized though Value-Menu priced. What was formerly a neglected, mid-century-modern, 6,500 square-foot sign shop was transformed by Rome-Prized, STRANGER-Geniused, Creative-Capitalized, Architectural-League-of-NY-Emerging-Voiced, Lead Pencil Studio [Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo] into what one critic has called “already the most distinctive and original gallery in the city’s history.”

Speaking of history, It's only been open since June of 2006. Something like 30 reviews and profiles in the local dailies (Seattle Times, Seattle PI) and weeklies (The Stranger, Seattle Weekly), profiles in monthlies like Seattle Magazine and Seattle Metropolitan, shout-outs and reviews in national magazines like Art in America, ArtLtd., ArtWeek, a full profile of the gallery in an upcoming CONTEMPORARY magazine, and nice mentions in online journals like ArtKrush, ArtInfo, and Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes.

For nearly a year prior to opening the ‘buzz’ swelled, one arts writer stating, “Lawrimore project was nearly reaching the status of urban legend...[its] seven inimitable rooms that almost no one has seen yet but which for months have been the subject of gossip.” The space itself has been called: “grand and hot, with stylish separate rooms for large-scale sculpture, white-box contemplation, video presentation, and cozy socialization,” and, “radically chic,” and “the gallery feels as spacious and diverse as a small museum—L.P. is by far the sexiest place to experience art locally.”

The gallery’s quick rise to prominence both in Seattle and on the national scene is entirely due to the ambitions and pluck of our artists. We could go into the gazillion accolades the artists have garnered recently but, again, one critic sums it up best when she stated, “[LAWRIMORE project’s] artists are the strongest lineup since DONALD YOUNG GALLERY opened here in the 1990s.”

The Gallery was awarded “Best Opening of a New Gallery” by SEATTLE MAGAZINE in 2006, and THE STRANGER shorlisted us for their 2006 “Genius Award” for arts organizations—the first ‘commercial’ space to be so recognized.

LAWRIMORE project is a sole-proprietorship, owned and operated by Scott Lawrimore, an art historian who is in a 12-step program to shake his addiction to Duchamp.

GALLERY PROGRAM

LAWRIMOREproject supports ambitious projects by contemporary artists working in video, digital and new media, installations, works on paper, photography and sculpture. The exhibition program balances the aims of all commercial galleries with the attitudes of a Kunsthalle or a project space—the trade of art vs. the trade of ideas— by championing radical interventions in its large Main Space, and encouraging collecting with its series of traditional galleries in back.

The gallery hopes to contribute to the discourse of contemporary art by promoting a critical dialogue between emerging and mid-career artists from the northwest and nationally and internationally recognized artists.

LAWRIMOREproject represents or has had exhibitions with the following artists:

ANNE MATHERN (Seattle) CHRIS JORDAN (Seattle) CRIS BRUCH (Seattle) TIVON RICE (Seattle) LEAD PENCIL STUDIO (Seattle) SUTTONBERESCULLER (Seattle) SAMI BEN LARBI (Seattle) SUSAN ROBB (Seattle) SUSIE J. LEE (Seattle) ISAAC LAYMAN (Seattle) ERWIN WURM (Vienna) CHARLES LABELLE (New York) SABRINA RAAF (Chicago) LIZ COHEN (Arizona) KERRY SKARBAKKA (New York) MICHAEL D. LINARES (Puerto Rico) JOSH AZZARELLA (Columbus, OH) CLAUDIA X. VALDES (New Mexico)