GALLERY BIO

Crawl Space was founded by in 2003 by six working artists hoping to further the creation and exhibition of innovative artwork by early career artists in the region. With the current steering of its director and tight-knit base of artist members, Crawl Space has developed a unique system of ownership where member and guest artists plan, fund, and staff their own exhibitions and those of their peers. Focusing on large-scale and interactive installations, and work using experimental processes, exhibition formats, and materials, the gallery challenges early career artists to develop diverse and influential new art.

Crawl Space exhibitions have spanned a wide range of styles and mediums, from the survey of interactive public art in Personally Public, to the new video works of Grown Accustomed, to guest artist installations such as Scott Trimble’s engrossing miniature wood pathways and Shawn Patrick Landis’s collapsing/inflating furniture. Crawl Space has won numerous accolades and awards from local and regional press, including the 2006 Stranger Genius “Shortlist” award for Arts Organization. According to critic Regina Hackett in the July 1, 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “What distinguishes Crawl Space is quality. On a shoestring with only their peers as contacts, these artists have built serious credibility fast.”

MISSION STATEMENT

Crawl Space is a nonprofit artist-run exhibition space dedicated to cultivating influential and inventive artwork by emerging artists and inciting community interest in the visual arts.

We believe that support and proliferation of this vital emerging arts community will not only enrich our local culture but will create a group of talented artists whose dedication to the emerging arts will influence every community to which their careers lead them.