{"id":1941,"date":"2010-11-16T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/11\/a_seattle_artist_innovators_aw\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:22:48","slug":"a_seattle_artist_innovators_aw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/11\/a_seattle_artist_innovators_aw.html","title":{"rendered":"Good picks for Seattle artist innovator&#8217;s award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrust.org\/\">Artist Trust<\/a> announced the finalists for its new Arts Innovator Award, which delivers $25,000 to two Washington State artists each year, the first three years funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chihuly.com\/\">Dale and Leslie Chihuly<\/a>. Early in October, the Artist Trust panel picked its winners: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/leo-saul-berk-caves-mines-and.html\">Leo Saul Berk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/margie-livingston---paint-in-t.html\">Margie Livingston<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jen Graves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/in-art-news\/Content?oid=5142775\">decried these choices<\/a>, calling them &#8220;devastatingly conservative.&#8221; I&#8217;m tempted to say that by her reasoning, the fascinating people at parties are the ones who wear lamp shades and dance on tables, but I want to take the question of innovation more seriously.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, neither Berk nor Livingston is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/nauman\/\">Bruce Nauman<\/a>. Neither has redrawn the map of contemporary art practice. But doing so is not any artist&#8217;s job. Impact is determined by others, by their own dim or bright lights. Collectively, based on a necessarily incomplete idea of who&#8217;s out there doing what, art history is made and remade.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What artist choose is the arena of their engagement. Innovators are those who make their visual thinking tangible and extend it, each piece a part of an internal symposium brought to light. In a consumer culture, where the new is not a shock but an economic imperative, the most innovative act might be steadfast loyalty to the depths and nuances of a single point of view. <\/p>\n<p>Leo Saul Berk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Exhibitions\/Entries\/2009\/9\/16_LEO_SAUL_BERK_%E2%80%A2_Deep,_Dark.html\">Spider Hole<\/a>, detail, at Lawrimore Project<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"leosaulberkspider.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/leosaulberkspider.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/livingston.htm\">Margie Livingston<\/a> at Greg Kucera<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"margielivinghands.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/margielivinghands.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"354\" width=\"455\" \/>Congratulations to both artists, the Chihulys for their generosity to other artists, and to Artist Trust. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, Artist Trust announced the finalists for its new Arts Innovator Award, which delivers $25,000 to two Washington State artists each year, the first three years funded by Dale and Leslie Chihuly. 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