Crawl Space is pleased to present its first-ever Centennial juried
exhibition, featuring the work of five artists selected from a
nationwide call for submissions. Juried by Elizabeth Brown, Chief
Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, and Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator
at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Featuring the work of Mike
Calway-Fagen, Justin Gibbens, Christoph Gielen, Janet Lee, and Storm
Tharp.

The shifty and surreal characters of Storm Tharp's drawings and
paintings make significant the obscure air surrounding the source
subject, rather than the subject itself. Janet Lee pulls out the
elaborate detail of a "blank" wall with intricate and painstakingly
observant drawings of and on the wall. The photographs of Christoph
Gielen's Proliferation series form a visual paradigm for failed public
policy, measuring people's quality of life against continual
deregulation of their surroundings. Imitating the stylistic formulas
of 18th and 19th century zoological illustration, Justin Gibbens'
drawings and watercolors target the curious balance between biological
fact and the imagined world. Mike Calway-Fagen uses the interaction
inherent in public art to develop ideas surrounding community, power
relations, and individualism.