Associate Professor of Art at Western Washington University, Garth Amundson, exhibits innovative installations of photography and lenses at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, September 2-25. Amundson recently attended workshops and worked in a studio at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway.
Garth Amundson works with both traditional photographic media and alternative processes/mixed media installation. After completing several residency programs, he started experimenting by manipulating images with lenses made from recycled water bottles. This process allows for the combination of the crude, expressive mark of the stitch with an imitated representational image. He interprets these distorted photographs as cultural and political signs.
On Thursday, September 22 at 7:00 pm Amundson will hold a lecture, where he will speak about his stay in Trondheim, Norway, and its influence on his work.