Tonight marks a very bittersweet celebration as the last art opening at Cairo, kicking off a weekend of closing weekend festivities. Our final show features work by Bristol Hayward Hughes, Úna Blue and Baso Fibonacci. We asked each artist some interview questions in advance of the opening reception June 9, 7 to 9 pm during the Capitol Hill Art Walk.
BRISTOL HAYWARD-HUGHES
Bristol Hayward-Hughes is a recent BFA graduate from Cornish College of the Arts. Bristol's work in video, photography and silkscreen alludes to cultural, spiritual and mythological representations of the feminine.
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Tell us about the work in this show! What medium are you working with?
This show is some expanded work for an online gallery I had on the blushroom.com back in May. The images are video stills from heavily edited and manipulated stop motion videos. The series ‘efflorescence’ explores fluid female form, local flora’s radiance and a deep digital motion & emotion.
Where does your inspiration come from?
I was extremely inspired by the floral offerings the Spring had for me this year. I obsessively tried to collect image samples of every tree flower in bloom in Seattle and it was very fulfilling. My other major influence lately has been working in collaboration with other like minded weird women/femmes/non-binary. Joining the TUF collective this year has opened me up to a vast network of people that think more like me, look more like me and move more like me. Watching these people move so freely in their own skin without knowing it inspired me to try to capture this natural, feminine, swagger that dance can release in us.
What other artists are you excited about right now?
Honestly, like every single visual and performing artist that is in TUF, I am super excited after curating and laying out the first addition of the TUF Zine & TUF LUV this past weekend, to see what more we can do together and separate.
ÚNA BLUE
Photographer Úna Blue's distinctive images reflect a fascination with the sublime as well as the intensity and variety of emotion that can be evoked using color.
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Tell us about the work in this show! What medium are you working with?
I'm showing a variety of photographs, but they all center around this idea of a hyper-reality. I try to use color to create these intensified and surreal versions of realities and moments. The idea of the "sublime" or the "void" resonates with me, and I want my works to become mirrors for the viewer, like a way of capturing a viewer's emotion or experience and reflecting it back to them in an intensified and surreal translation.
A number of these works were captured during my trip to Iceland, which was filled with the most harrowing and fucking nauseating despair, in addition to vibrant and serene joy. That trip was such an intense and surreal version of reality for me and I can't shake it and it has permeated through all of my works and goals as an artist.
Where does your inspiration come from?
Every second of absorbing the random chaos
What other artists are you excited about right now?
So many but off the top of my head: Jennifer Mehigan, Neonsaltwater, Sofia Lee, Alan Resnick, DoNormaal, Pleather, YYB, Aeon Fux
BASO FIBONACCI
Baso Fibonacci's vibrant, intricate paintings have been featured at countless venues in Seattle, including Flatcolor Gallery, Joe Bar, and Out of Sight during the Seattle Art Fair, as well as on the street, where he is a prolific mural artist.
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Tell us about the work in this show! What medium are you working with?
My work for this show is mostly floral based paintings. Oil enamel on plexiglass.
Where does your inspiration come from?
I am not sure where my inspiration comes from. I know my paintings focus on aesthetics and playing with color and composition.
What other artists are you excited about right now?
I'm feeling Polina Tereshina's work, Kelly Bjork, Andrea Heimer, Robert Hardgrave are all great. That Noah Davis show at Frye really blew me away as well.