A GOOD LINE : ARTISTS ON POEMS

Dripping Loblollies
Acrylic Ink and Graphite on Claybord
16" x 20"
Inspired by Joseph Patrick Wood's The Nervous Forest

A GOOD LINE: ARTISTS ON POEMS
MARCH 27TH TO APRIL 30TH
OPENING RECEPTION TUESDAY APRIL 12TH, 6PM TO 9PM
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
SEATTLE, WA

A good poem is much like a good piece of art: it invites you into the artist’s vision while encouraging you to see things that the artist never intended. Time and time again, poets tell stories of readers seeing worlds in their work that the poet did not imagine.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Richard Hugo House chose to play with the expansion of artistic universes by asking some of Seattle’s best artists to create the visual world that they see and feel in their favorite poems. From Wendell Berry to Stéphane Mallarmé, Campbell McGrath to Edgar Allen Poe, the exhibition showcases a rich and varied visual display of poetics. Will you see what Sharon Arnold sees in a nihilistic Tristan Tzara poem? Will Ryan Molenkamp change the way you read David Berman?

The artists at "A Good Line: Artists on Poems" are Gala Bent, Sharon Arnold, Troy Gua, Counsel Langley, Kim Drake, Ryan Molenkamp, Amanda Manitach, Erin Shafkind, Nola Avienne, David Lasky, Liz Tran, Shaun Kardinal, Jed Dunkerley and Ben Beres, each creating new paintings based on poems they love.