From The Frye: Join curator Amanda Donnan for a free, informal tour of the current exhibition Ko Kirk Yamahira. No registration is required. For Seattle-based artist Ko Kirk Yamahira, the finished painting is a beginning rather than an end. Painstakingly removing individual threads from the weave of the canvas, Yamahira deconstructs his paintings, turning surface into form. He often disrupts the geometry of the canvas’s hidden support structure as well, cutting out sections of the wooden stretcher bars to create detached segments bound by loose thread. Opening his practice to a form of shared authorship, Yamahira does not prescribe a fixed orientation for these pieces, preferring that they remain free to be reconfigured by others each time they are installed. Each of Yamahira’s individual (untitled) works functions as a facet of a single project that can never be finished, part of what he sees as a continuous, daily process of becoming through undoing. This exhibition, Yamahira’s first solo museum presentation, samples the artist’s recent output—including several pieces made for the occasion—to offer a meditation on duality and the relativity of perception. Several works in the exhibition are obverse pairs, such as two pieces with the same image repeatedly silk-screened in a... Read more »