Curated by Diana Falchuk and featuring work by
VAUGHN BELL, PETER BONNELL, ELIZABETH CONNER, EZRA DICKINSON, DIANA FALCHUK,PETER GAUCYS, SARAH KAVAGE, NICOLE KISTLER, RON LAMBERT, KRISTEN RAMIREZ,SUTTON-BERES-CULLER, ASHLEY THORNER, and ROBERT ZVERINA.

Crawl Space is pleased to present "Personally Public," new public
projects that explore the personal, interpersonal and intimate face of
public art. Eleven artists and artist teams investigate diverse,
personal engagements in public spaces including impersonation, poling,
personifying public objects, placing the action or constructive act in
the hands of the audience and creating surprising discoveries for
individuals.

Works in public have been occurring throughout Seattle since January,
2006 and will be presented, re-examined or expanded in the gallery in
the form of video, photography, written and numerical "data," and
artifactual objects.

While artist team SUTTON-BERES-CULLER tour zoos and museums as old men
impersonators, Peter BONNELL attaches tiny human heads cast to match
the brick, concrete and stone urban architecture to which he secretly
attaches them. In her performance and video "Mailboxes Are People
Too," Diana FALCHUK lovingly clothes all four legs of various blue
USPS mailboxes with legwarmers made from old red sweaters. Robert
ZVERINA returns inside-out cereal boxes inside-out to the supermarket
shelves. Sarah KAVAGE and Nicole KISTLER survey juxtaposing
audiences—a crowded Bainbridge ferry and a packed Tashiro Kaplan
building on First Thursday—about the kind of art they like and how
often they view it.
In a series of choreographed "planting" activities designed to detour
the flow of pedestrian traffic, Elizabeth CONNER and Ezra DICKINSON
plant elaborate cardboard flowers in ignored green spaces within a one
block radius of the gallery. Ron LAMBERT offers pedestrians a
sheltered walk in the rain under his two-person umbrella and Vaughn
BELL wheels a miniature Mt. Rainier on a leash around the city,
offering strangers the chance to take it for a walk.
Kristen RAMIREZ constructs a map of Seattle made from hand-printed
postcards mailed back to her with senders' personal feelings about the
city. Ashley THORNER lays out her sewn, vibrant plastic and vinyl
Rapid Air Pods, for people to assemble like Tinker Toys, in parks and
plazas and on rooftops. While sitting in varied public spaces in the
US and Europe, some familiar (a friend's front stoop), some anonymous
(an airplane cabin), Peter GAUCYS knots red acrylic thread into Cherry
Red, an ever-growing, airy and hefty accumulation