Home The Films Tickets Press Volunteers Extra Stuff Archives Submissions Contact		Brian Bress, The Portrait Room, still from color video, 4 minutes 10 seconds, 2006 Vertical Hold An International Exhibition of Experimental Video and Sound October 5-25, 2007 Opening Reception: October 5, 2007 from 5-7pm Gallery One's Eveleth Green Gallery 408 N. Pearl Street, Ellensburg, WA 98926 Gallery One Visual Arts Center presents Vertical Hold, an international video exhibition, which seeks to highlight the experimental and resolutely unique. Sponsored by the Ellensburg Film Festival, Vertical Hold brings together artists navigating complex and divergent issues in both visually compelling and intellectually challenging forms. Concepts of memory, interaction, politics and culture are explored through innovative sound and video pieces that have been created using processes such as animation, performance, play and photography. Artists Include: Pedro Bicchieri Brian Bress Jan Descartes Lauren Garber-Lake + Tate Bunker Gerald Habarth Luciana Lamothe Adriane Little Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand John O’Donnell Stefanos Pavlakis James Sham Mary Simpson + Fionn Meade The Dozens (Denise Burge and Jenny Ustick) About the curators: Andrew Kaufman is a convergent artist and teaches in the Department of Art at Central Washington University. He was recently awarded an Artist Trust GAP grant and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Justin Colt Beckman is a founding member and board president for PUNCH Gallery in Seattle, WA. In 1998, he received his BFA in Fine Art with emphasis in photography and film/video from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He currently lives and works in the unincorporated town of Thorp.