SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC ARTWORKS + PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2013:
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS + HONORS
2012:
PRESS LINKS:
2013:
2012:
SPONSORS:
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2013:
- "The Artist as Entrepreneur" panelists, John Boylan’s Conversation Series (Seattle, WA)
- SlideLuck10, featured artists (Seattle, WA)
- Microsoft “Gigapixel ArtZoom”, featured artists (Seattle, WA)
- Multimedia Installation. (Goddard College. Port Townsend, WA)
- "I made you. I loved you. I destroyed you." solo exhibition. The Belltown Collective. (Seattle, WA)
- Olson Kundig Architects, Artist Lecture, (Seattle, WA)
- “Art as Adventure, a Conversation with KeseyPollock”, Artist Lecture, John Boylan’s Conversation Series (Seattle, WA)
- KeseyPollock at Sugar Pill, solo exhibition (Seattle, WA)
- Southeast Seattle Senior Center, Artist Lecture (Seattle, WA)
- “Set the Table”, temporary installation (Seattle Art Museum/Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA)
- “Your Dreams Are Our Burden”, Collaboration with PDL (City Arts Festival, Seattle, WA)
- Fiberlay International Composite Materials Exposition. (Renton, WA.)
- “Neighborhoods USA Conference," guest presenters (Anchorage, AK)
- “The Artists Have Left the Building", invitational group exhibition (MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK)
- ”Wrangelia: The Art of Breakup”, invitational group exhibition (MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK)
- Urban ArtWorks Mural Project (2nd + Vine, Seattle, WA)
- "52 Faces”, permanent outdoor public commission (Municipality of Anchorage)
- “Alaskan Women in Art”, Panel discussion guest artists (University of Alaska, Anchorage)
- “Sexta Mutacion”, (Neomutatis Gallery, Lima, Peru)
- "National Association of Social Workers -AK Chapter- Annual Conference”, instaIlation/presentation
- "367 lbs of wax.”, solo exhibition (MTS Gallery, Anchorage, AK)
- Untitled video installation,“The Berth” invitational (International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK)
- "The Green Bench”, video installation (Public Transit Station, Anchorage, AK)
- Untitled video installation/performance for “Monolodge IV”, (Unicycle Collective, Seattle,WA)
- Untitled video installation (Blank Space Gallery, Seattle, WA)
- “The Pact”, video screened at: Cannes Short Film Corner (Cannes, France), Bumbershoot
- One Reel Film Festival (Seattle, WA), Northwest Film Forum Local Sightings Film Festival (Seattle, WA), Post Alley Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
- “Piano Piano”, group exhibition (Galeria La Corte, Florence, ltaly)
- Artist Studio Tour (International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK)
- “Untitled”, (collaboration with DJ Mathematix), live video installation (Chop Suey, Seattle, WA)
- "Benvenuti a Casa 1", invitational group exhibition (Galeria Borgo Allegri, Florence, Italy)
- "La Fuga Jurasica”, video screening (Museo Argentine de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- “Rayo-x", video screening (911 Media Arts, Seattle, WA)
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS + HONORS
2012:
- Featured on Kickstarter's “Top most funded visual art projects" list
- 1st place, Fiberlay International Composite Materials Expo Project Competition. (Renton, WA.)
- 4Culture, Project Grant (Seattle, WA)
- MacDowell Colony Fellowship, (New Hampshire)
- Robert Maxwell Foundation, Fellowship
- Concordia Foundation, Fellowship
- Curator of Public Art in Alaska Docent Tour, Featured artists (Anchorage Museum at The Rasmuson Center)
- Alaska State Council on the Arts, Career Opportunity Travel Grant (Alaska)
- Sheila Wyne Studio Project Award, Grand prize (Anchorage, AK)
- Rasmuson Foundation, Project Grant (Alaska)
- International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, "The Berth”, invitational residency/project grant
- Municipality of Anchorage, “Art-in-Parks”, residency/ teaching grant (Anchorage, AK)
- 911 Media Arts, “Seattle Women in Film” DVD, featured artist (Seattle, WA)
PRESS LINKS:
2013:
- The Stranger: "The Bodies' Demise, Making People, Then Melting Them Down" by Jen Graves
- Crosscut: "Melting Bodies: 340 crowdfunders, one developer & 3,000 pounds of wax How snowboard gear created space for KeseyPollock, a pair of Seattle's most visionary artists" by Jeremy Buben
- Seattle Met: "Melting Bodies: The Ephemeral Wax Art of KeseyPollock" by Laura Dannen
- CityArts: "The new hunger artists: making it in Seattle" byt Amanda Manitach
- Vanguard Seattle: "The Transformative Art of KeseyPollock" by Jeremy Buben
- ARCADE | Dialogue on Design: KeseyPollock
- GRAY Magazine: "KESEYPOLLOCK Opening Night Celebration"
- Cornichon: "New Belltown Collective showcases art by KeseyPollock" by Ronald Holden
- Boylan Conversations: "Art as Adventure, a Conversation with KeseyPollock" by John Boylan
- Art Nerd: "A Conversation with KeseyPollock Tonight!" by Jeremy Buben
- Artist Trust: "KeseyPollock: Melting Bodies"
- SACI: "KeseyPollock installation opens in Seattle: June 29"
- Frequency: "One of the top most funded visual art projects in Kickstarter history" by Patrick Richardson Wright
- Le Dandysme: "KeseyPollock for 2 Weeks ONLY" by Jeremy Buben
- My Belltown Blog: "New Belltown Collective Shows Art by KeseyPollock" by Ronald Holden
- Seattle Art Blog: KeseyPollock opens June 29 at the Belltown Collective by Brenda Tipton
2012:
- American Hipster Presents: KeseyPollock, featured artists for Seattle WA (Documentary Series by Seedwell, SF)
- Best Of: "American Hipster Presents / Seattle" by Joey Veltkamp
- Art Sponge: Melting Wax Faces & Bodies by Erin Pollock and Steph Kese by Patrick Cairo
- "Art Beat: Anchorage art duo's next meltdown project a hit on Kickstarter", (Anchorage Daily News)
- HaikuDeck Blog: "Case Study: How KeseyPollock Revved Up Their Kickstarter Campaign with Haiku Deck"
- Round About Seattle: KESEY/POLLOCK Studio Visit by Robert Wade
- Anchorage Daily News: "Frosty Faces Sculpture" Photo Essay
- The Moment: "Melting Bodies | KeseyPollock"
- Redux: "KeseyPollock & Melting Bodies"
- "MTS Gallery goes out with a party" (M Lester, Anchorage Daily News)
- "Exeunt: MTS Gallery goes out with a bang” (D. Smith, Anchorage Press)
- "Life mask sculpture records the faces of Alaskans" (MSNBC)
- "Mountain View Mask Sculpture" (B. Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News)
- "52 Faces Installed and Unveiled" (M. Lester, Anchorage Daily News)
- "Residents in Resin" (D. Smith, Anchorage Press)
- "New Sculpture Installations Appear" (C. Yerrington, Mt. View Forum)
- "Artists unveil new sculpture in Mountain View" (KTVA, TV News)
- Rasmuson Foundation Blog, "Mt. View Mask Sculpture" (The News Tribune)
- "Alaska Face Masks" (S. Y. Long, The Oregonian)
- "Art As Process" (M. Dunham, Anchorage Daily News)
- "ls it art, or a party?" (D. Smith, Anchorage Press)
- "The Street Art Beat: Mt. View Community Project" (J. Bowman, F Zine)
- "Artists Pollock and Kese Photo Essay" (B. Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News)
- "367 lbs of wax." More Dust Than Digital
- "Mt. View Artists Create Unique Melting Face Art" (video), KTUU
- "Mt. View Artists Create Unique Melting Face Art" (print), KTUU
- "Masks" (D. Smith, Anchorage Press)
- "Mask Artists, Bob Hallinen" (Anchorage Daily News)
- "Madame Tussaud Meets Mt View" (M. Dunham, Anchorage Daily News)
- "Wax Poetic" (The Warren Report)
- "Wax, Faces, Video and maybe a Boob or Two" (J. Berg, Juxtapoz)
- "Masked Collaborators" (T. Ballas, FZine)
- “Meaning in the Making" (K. Hecker, Anchorage Press)
SPONSORS:
- Glazers Camera
- Western Safety Products
- The Bait Shop
- Hilliards
- Sun Liquor
- Rachel's Ginger Beer
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association
- Municipality of Anchorage
- Rasmuson Foundation
- MacDowell Colony Library Collection